A brilliant fireworks, rising into the sky, with a slip of flame, exploded in the clear sky, and the crisp sound spread far away, leaving a cloud of green smoke that did not disperse for a long time.

The guy was still in a panic just now, but when he saw the fireworks rising, he let out a long breath, and Shi Shiran actually found a sunny place to sit, hugged his shoulders and took a nap. Seeing this situation, the spies who don't get mud are even more confused, at this time, you don't go to defend the city, but you have the heart to doze here, this is too much dragging, being urged by this spy, the guy is a little impatient, "Look at it, where is it still so noisy?" ”

The spy shut up in amusement, waiting uncertainly for the result.

The pole outside also seemed to feel something, and the shouting was not as loud as before, and the two times were temporarily deadlocked.

The spy looked through the crack in the door of the manor, and when he looked closely, there were only three or five hundred homeless people outside, dragging their families and mouths, and they were squatting or standing and shouting, no matter how they looked like thieves.

After a while, the team leader standing on the top of the ladder shouted to the people below, "Come on, come on." ”

The spy craned his neck and looked in the direction of the captain's finger, and there was a lot of smoke and dust billowing in the distance, but there were a few people, and there were some people in better clothes, as if they were from the courtyard of the family, shouting and running here with knives and guns

Seeing that the rogue did not attack the manor, the villagers who came to help were still some distance away from the rogue, so they stood tightly together according to the units of each village, and were cautious and vigilant against the outside world.

At this time, the member also had confidence in his heart, climbed the ladder calmly, opened his throat and asked, "Which village is the neighbor outside to rescue?" Reporting the name is good and the king is rewarded. ”

So one of the people in that group came out and put his name on it.

A certain team from Zhang Cun came, how many came.

A certain team from Zhao Village came, how many came.

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In this way, in less than an hour, seven or eight hundred villages came, seven or eight hundred young and strong, and there were shadowy figures in the distance still gathering here, which made the spies' back tingle, and they trembled.

When did this happen? What kind of watchman is this? Originally, they were all sweeping the snow in front of the door, where is they so united? If every village and town is like this, then isn't the arrival of his army like a mud cow into the sea, and there is no return?

At this time, the village chief confidently said to those rogues: "Well, listen to the pole below, where is there a rampant place for you and others under the Lang Lang Qiankun?" Do you see it? This is the neighbors of the neighboring villages to help the war, and there will be the reincarnation of the king of heaven at a moment, and the main force of the king army will come to take your life and wait for the night, and you will not kneel down and beg for a while? The tone was similar to that of a great general in battle.

It's no wonder, the rogues no longer shouted killing, just stood together, surrounded the old people and children in the middle and confronted everyone.

"It's coming, it's coming, the main force of King Chuang has arrived." A lookout standing on a high place suddenly cheered. Everyone cheered together, even those rogues, which made everyone look at each other, how could there be people in this world who cheered for enemy reinforcements.

Here, not far away in the col, a hula black flag, flying around, a group of people and horses shouted the trumpet, stepping on the drum stride, the snow bright spear, the puff of blood-red red cherry, the black rattan armor, the strong heroic posture is on display, this is a real strong army.

The village militia cheered loudly, but it was the rogues who cheered even louder, and they were crying and cheering at the same time. This startled the other cheerers into silence.

There are only a hundred people in the army, but the momentum of this hundred people is definitely not less than a thousand, the hundred soldiers ran to the center of the battlefield, and immediately opened a three-column large array like a machine, a sound of killing in the sky, all the guns were aimed at the rogue in the middle of the battlefield, no one made noise, only the hunting battle flag fluttered in the wind.

A strong man stepped forward and shouted, "Where did the rogue come from? Don't you know that this is the base of King Chuang? But seeking death for no reason? Register your name. ”

When a man in the Liukou saw the army coming, he ran out of the crowd happily, and knelt on the ground from a distance, shouting: "You can hope that the army of King Chuang is coming, and our villagers will be saved——。 After that, they wept with joy, and the rogues fell to their knees and wept together. It made everyone on the battlefield at a loss.

The soldier stepped forward vigilantly and said, "This man has the right to get up and talk back, what's going on?" ”

"General—"

When the soldier heard this, he hurriedly shook his hand and said: "But you can't call it that, I am the second military commander of the Chuang Army, Li Heizi, call me Heizi." ”

The man hurriedly changed his words and said, "General Heizi, we are not rogues, and we have no choice but to do this." ”

"What's going on?"

"We are all the people in the west of Yichuan, because of the drought, can not live in the local area, I heard that this rich county Ganquan Luochuan and other places came out of the reincarnation of the king of the king, so that everyone has food to eat, there is a way to live, so that secretly dragged the family to come, but also know that the rules of the king are strict, such as us in groups can not go to the old camp of the king of Chuang, and it is easy to see, so he was instructed by a kind brother under the rule of the king of Chuang, pretending to be a rogue, in order to attract the attention of the king of Chuang, general, for the sake of me and the village of the old and young have no food and clothing, please be clear to the king of Chuang, Please take it in from King Chuang. He wept bitterly.

Not only the strong men around, but also the spies were moved to tears by this situation, in fact, they were all farmers who couldn't eat, they were all from the same bitter background, and their situation was only worse than them.

The martial chief saw that the man said miserably, and the man really didn't have any knives and guns, and what he was originally bluffing was just a few hoes and shovels, so he really believed everyone.

Letting down his guard, he hurriedly stepped forward to help the man, and said with a choked voice: "Get up quickly, it's all ordinary hard work, why do you want to be like this." He picked up the man and said to the others: "Folks, get up, come to your own house under the rule of the king, as long as you do not violate the rules set by the king, a good day awaits you." ”

The homeless people couldn't help but hug each other and shout, and then wept bitterly.

"Folks, everyone is here, according to the rules of the army, the young and strong will be temporarily arranged to be trained and screened in the original Black Tiger Village, and the old and weak will be arranged in the old camp of Huluyu, and the fields and mountains will be arranged.

Everyone has heard about the policy of breaking into the old army camp for a long time, and of course they are happy.

The martial chief said with a whole expression: "But let's make it clear in advance, that is the rule of the old camp, that is, your village is going to be dispersed, are you willing?" ”

Along the way, the big hometown has taken care of each other to get here, but it is unbearable to be separated for a while, but everyone knows the rules, and they still nod in agreement.

"Okay, I'll make a decision for Ganquan Zheng Hao, let's rest for a while, I'll take some military rations and give them to the fathers and elders, and then we'll rush to the Black Tiger Village."

After appeasing everyone, the military commander walked to the team of the villages that rushed to help, met with the captains one by one, and encouraged them to encourage them.

Seeing that there was no danger, Wang Yuan hurriedly opened the courtyard door and hurried out to meet the martial chief, and the spy also followed closely around him, in order to listen carefully.

When the king saw the military chief, he bowed again and again, and sent a New Year's greeting into a basket, and when he heard the result, he asked the military chief to be accommodating with the king of Chuang, and left these homeless people to come down and be his own tenants.

Also, after several years of natural disasters, a large number of people have been displaced, have been displaced to other places, a large area of good land abandoned, but now it is different from the past, rent reduction and interest reduction make the people willing to farm again, after all, this is fundamental, at the same time the base mobilized the people to build water conservancy, set up windmills, this king alone outside the family on their own pocket to build five windmills, seeing that next year is a drought and flood harvest year, although the landlord reduced rent and interest, but each additional tenant is to recultivate a batch of abandoned land, It is to increase some production, and now the most lacking in Zhuangzi is manpower, not only is there a shortage here, but the entire base area of Zhuangzi is short of manpower, so the competition for manpower has become the first priority of the landlord now, and now I see hundreds of people, such a good opportunity, how can Wang Yuanwai let go.

The king said countless good things, so he sent the military chief to kneel, but fortunately, the king also knew the rules of the cottage and did not use bribes, or it would be counterproductive.

The military chief pondered for a long time and said, "It's not impossible for you to keep these people, but do you have enough land for them to cultivate?" ”

"Yes, yes, last time the neighboring village's family transferred his land to me before his death, it was thousands of acres of good land along the river, but my family was destroyed by thieves, and his tenants were also coerced up the mountain by poles, and now they are abandoned there, which is a good place to settle these villages, isn't this also to reduce the burden on King Chuang? It is also to share some things for the base area, so please fulfill my heart of caring for the base area. ”

The landlord surnamed Wang of the neighboring village was indeed destroyed by a pole a year ago, and the old and young in the village were also coerced up the mountain, and a lot of fields were really abandoned.

"The rent—"

"According to the rules of the cottage, only 100 catties per mu will be collected in the first year." Wang Yuanwai immediately followed. This is the rule that Lu Shi set for those landlords in order to recruit manpower, only 100 catties of grain are allowed to be collected per mu in the first year, and only 55 catties can be divided in the second year, and the landlords are now happy to accept it.

"But the winter food of these folks—"

"I'll borrow it first, don't make money, and pay it back after the autumn harvest." Wang Yuanwai gritted his teeth and said, he could have collected 20% of the profits, but in order to keep these people, he had to make some money, as long as these people stayed, then after next year, until his children and grandchildren will be his own money strings.

"What about the protection money—"

"I know, according to the ground, there is a lot of grain."

"Okay, I'll ask the villagers now." When everything was settled, the commander turned and asked the leader of the outcasts.

In fact, the leader was listening beside him, and after listening to the two people's answers, he was already very happy, and there was no such condition even with a lantern, so he nodded again and again.

When the military commander saw that the man was like this, he also agreed to report to the administrative officer, and the king almost jumped three feet when he saw that it was done, and he no longer had the dignity of the gentry, nor did he have a relationship with the shopkeeper, and ordered the housekeeper of the accounting room to take people to implement the grain of the acres of land.

It wasn't until the end that I remembered the words to the shopkeeper: 'I'm sorry brother, I'm busy here, I can't entertain you, but when you come next month, I will have good herbs and mountain goods for you, don't you see that I have one more village, five or six hundred tenants?' Hahahaha. Then he hurried away.

Zhang's shopkeeper also said goodbye to him with a smile, packed up his things and prepared to go back to Xi'an, after all, he had gained a lot, and the front seemed to have been searched by old customers in Henan, and there could be no anything.

The spy also found an excuse to calculate the salary and go back to the mountain, the shopkeeper seemed to see something, and persuaded with a smile when he parted: "I said brother, feel at ease to find a living in this base of the king, this is more reliable than anything else in the troubled times, what is the future of others?" ”

The spy was also tempted, but when he remembered the kindness of not touching the mud, he laughed and promised not to say anything, and the shopkeeper didn't say much, so the two groups went their separate ways.