The "Nongsang Order" is a law-changing measure implemented by Gongsun Yue, the prime minister of Xianguo, in order to restore agricultural production and revitalize commerce.

The government reduces the amount of grain levied by half every year, so that the common people will be able to have a large surplus of grain in their hands, and the common people will have the enthusiasm to work and the motivation to give birth.

However, at the same time, Gongsun Yue also expanded the minting of coins and bought grain from merchants, haoqiang, and powerful individuals with food and fiefdoms, so as to alleviate the deficit caused by the reduction of grain requisition, completely ignoring the harm caused by inflation.

At the same time, there is one thing that is no longer completely monopolized by the imperial court, and that is cloth.

At present, salt, iron, copper, tin, and coal are state monopolies, grain is a semi-monopoly, and cloth is an open market, while the merchant and elite control most of the weaving cloth. As a result, while the merchants obtained copper money by selling grain to the state, they also raised the price of cloth, and the price of cloth increased, which in disguised led to an increase in the price of grain in the market.

Because the productivity is not high, the cloth is precious, and if it rises again, the surplus grain in the hands of the people will be diluted by the cloth.

This is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that a large number of princes and merchants poured into the Xian country, sold foreign grain to the Xian country, and after obtaining copper coins, used foreign cloth to obtain the grain of the local grain farmers of the Xian country, and then sold the grain of the grain farmers at a low price to the Xian country.

In this way, the huge profits in the middle were eaten by the merchants and magnates, and the part eaten was the treasury of the Xianguo and the life-saving food of the common people.

Although the treasury nominally seems to have received a large amount of stored grain, in fact the treasury also needs to purchase large quantities of cloth, leather, tung oil, animal fat, pine oil, wax, etc., which are open markets.

Due to the disguised rise in grain prices and cloth prices, merchants began to refuse to accept copper coins, or refused to accept them in disguise, and instead used grain as a measure of trade, and exchanged grain for other goods, so that the grain in the treasury of Xianguo was exchanged.

In addition, this year's drought and poor harvest, the price of cloth and cotton have risen, the price of animal products has skyrocketed, and countless people have starved to death in winter.

"These bastards, they should be killed!"

Bai Liyan gritted her teeth in her heart, and then the old man lamented:

"Alas...... Where do we ordinary people understand the great principles of governing the country, but it is a great luxury to be able to live. When the old man said this, he suddenly changed his words and asked, "Child, you have to have eighteen or nineteen this year." Look at your figure, you must be from a big family. ”

"In the next sixteenth year, I have practiced some boxing and kicking since I was a child, so I ......"

Without waiting for Baili Yan's voice to fall, the dilapidated gate kicked open from the outside with a loud noise, and a military attache of the Xian Army rushed in, shouting loudly:

"Wang Laohan, didn't you run away from the wilderness, who is this!"

"Liu Juntou, you can take it away!"

As soon as Wang Laohan said his word, Bailiyan's brain exploded, and he thought, it's over.

For the sake of stuttering, he actually got into this old man properly and was arrested. Thinking of this, Bai Liyan changed her accent and said:

"I'm a Qi person, you don't have the right to join the army as me!"

"Humph!" Where does the military attache of Xianguo care about this: "Just because you eat the grain of my Xianguo, you deserve to be in the army!" Someone, take it for me! ”

Without waiting for Bailiyan to get up, seven or eight soldiers rushed into the house, rushed up and detained him, where would there be a chance to return the phone. Stunned, he dragged Baili Yan out of the grass hut alive, tied a rope and dragged out of the village.

"I'm a Qi person, I'm a Qi person!"

"Damn, be honest with me!"

The soldier kicked his abdomen, and Baili Yan's eyes turned to the ground in the dark. At this time, there were more than ten people who were arrested at the entrance of the village, like grasshoppers, strung together with ropes, and under the reprimand of the military attache of Xianguo, they went all the way to the west.

Not long after Bailiyan was arrested, the old man and his wife secretly came to the firewood room, and the fourteen-year-old boy hid under the grass and trembled:

"Son, come out, someone will go to the army for you."

"Daddy, what will I do in the future."

"There is a way to go in the future, first pass this year's pass, and next year my father will tell you a daughter-in-law, so that we can pass on the lineage to our family."

"But I'm hungry......"

The old man surnamed Wang wanted to pass on the family as soon as possible next year, so he sold Bailiyan with an idea. It really fulfills the old saying: people die for money, birds die for food.

For the sake of stuttering, Bailiyan finally put herself in.

Soon after being arrested, a company walked west for two days and two nights, passing through several villages along the way, and arrested more than a dozen people, some old and young, the older ones were more than forty, and the younger ones were only thirteen or fourteen, and the group was tied to the rope.

Whoever dares to flee will kill them, so that before you can escape, they will kill you. Even if his fists and feet are not bad, but with his bare hands, he can't beat dozens of people, not to mention that there are more than a hundred Xian troops, with all bows and crossbows, and they can't run away at all.

After a few days of eating and sleeping in the open, we arrived at a large camp in a hidden forest. Bai Liyan and the others were driven to the baggage camp like pigs, and the soldiers along the way were like thieves, watching every young man who was arrested.

"Come here!" A military attache of the Xian army scolded, stood on the baggage cart and looked down at everyone and said: "From today on, as long as you sell your life, the Xian army will control your food, drink and Lasa, and someone will collect the corpse if you die." But if you don't follow, do you see there? ”

The military attache pointed with his whip at the distance, where there were deserters and prisoners who had been caught, and slaves and prisoners had organized themselves into servitude and men.

"They are your fate, who dares to disobey military orders, now there is a shortage of people, you can't kill your head, but you can also be born like this. Okay, I'll go get food, let me understand, don't want to escape. ”

At the end of the lecture, the group was driven to the quartermaster office and lined up to register for today's rations and uniforms.

The quartermaster order is responsible for the management of all men, baggage, logistics, labor, and men in the army, as well as food, grass, ordnance, and clothing, and supplies, and enjoys the treatment of middle and high-level military attachés.

Temporary recruits came to the battalion, to be precise, captured strong men, who needed to be retained and reported to the quartermaster order after registration to adjust the supply of rations and clothing.

"Next next, next." The quartermaster urged impatiently: "Who is the surname, where is the person's name, and where does the family live." ”

"Xiaomin's name is Kui, a villager of Hexi Village under the rule of Yacheng, and today Chinese New Year's Eve and two."

"Don't you have a last name!" The quartermaster asked, glancing at the unkempt and ragged man in front of him, who looked like a beggar, and then wrote down his name.

"No, Xiaomin has no surname."

"Well, take the clay bowl and get the rice. Next. ”

The quartermaster order was long-winded, and the next turn was Bailiyan:

"Who is the surname, where is the name, and where does the family live."

Bai Liyan didn't dare to say her real name, so she used the name of her previous life to prevaricate:

"Wei Xian, a native of Xiaqi, the head of the family, Hantun, Yuetian Village."

When the quartermaster raised his eyes when he heard the news, he was stunned. Obedient, with a tall body, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, although the clothes are a little sloppy, they are not ordinary people's dress. Seeing this, the quartermaster hurriedly asked:

"Since you are a discerning person, how did you get arrested."

"I'll have to ask you about this."

"If you do it, you will be safe when you come, and if you serve in the Xian Army, you will also be well fed if you can become famous. Take it, this is your clay bowl, go and wait for dinner. ”

"Wait!" Baili Yan Road.

The quartermaster didn't bother to look at it and said:

"And why?"

"I am literate and can count, can I make the military order an adult."

"Hey, I can't tell you, you're not very old, and you can still read and write. Then let me ask you, 13,720 stone of grain, 7,537 denier grain was transported, how much is there? ”

Bailiyan thought for a moment and said:

"Twenty-one thousand two hundred and twenty-seven stones, can there be any fault?"

"Well, that's right."

Speaking of this, the quartermaster took out a book and spread it out for Bailiyan to recognize. Where is this difficult to defeat him, read through ten articles in one go.

"Yes, yes, you are literate and know how to count, and you will use it under my account in the future. Come here, you come and register and make a book. ”

"No!" Bailiyan breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that there is still a way to live in literacy.

But then again, Bailiyan is not Langzhong, wouldn't it be better to report to his family, or go straight to the point, showing the aura of the prince of the country, and he can't eat anywhere.

In fact, Bailiyan also wants to ah, but this person is not familiar with the place, you are fifteen or sixteen years old and you are a langzhong, who will believe you when you say it.

To say that you are the son of the country is even worse.

Let's not talk about what Xianguo thinks of you, after Jin Guo found out, he had an excuse to attack Xianguo with confidence. Then Xianguo was bound to use himself as a bargaining chip to make peace and compromise with the Jin State. This is not the worst, in case his own brother knows that he is in Xianguo, he may not be able to be chased and killed.

At this time, the military quartermaster ordered the table to leave the case, and ordered Bailiyan to write on his behalf, and from time to time he would look twice to confirm that Bailiyan did not write the words wrong.

This time, more than 300 people were arrested one after another, all of them were strong men who were arrested and replenished everywhere, most of them were from Xianguo, as well as Zhiguo, Sun Guo, and Changsun Guo, mainly professional farmers, and there were also craftsmen and relatives who were arrested for no reason.

Especially the princes who are short of soldiers, they catch Ding very well, and if they meet the Jin people, they will be directly pulled into the people to do hard labor.

After the registration was over, the quartermaster picked up the roster and looked at it again:

"Not bad, not bad, every word is good, and this word is also delicately written. Let's go, come with me to the baggage camp, and I'll have an errand for you at once." ”

"No!"

Bai Liyan did not dare to slack off, and followed the quartermaster order to the baggage camp. On the way, the quartermaster said:

"You remember clearly, the official's surname is Ding, his name is Su, and I am in charge of the eating, drinking, and Lazar consumption of this battalion, follow me, first, you are not allowed to steal from the guards, and second, you are not allowed to release grain at will, otherwise the official will not be able to spare you, and most of the governors will not be able to spare you, you know."

"It's clear under that. It's just that I don't know what position Lord Ding assigned. ”

"What's the job?" Ding Su looked sideways coldly: "You just came, and you still want to serve." Do you know that a radish and a pit, just your sixteen or seventeen, at most eighteen or nineteen, also want to serve. Wait, wait another ten years. Whether there will be a life or not, no one knows. ”

What Ding Su said was very realistic, and poured a basin of cold water on Bailiyan.

When he came to the baggage camp when he was young, Ding Su asked people to get a set of Xianjun leather armor, but the hair bun and crown were matched with the crown under the command of the quartermaster of the baggage camp to show the difference.

"Go, freshen up with water, don't be like a beggar."

"My lord, can you get another gun?"

"Why, you don't know how to use a sword?"

"No, use the gun well."

"Okay, you can get it yourself."

"Thank you, sir!"

No matter who is in the army, civilian officials are no exception, even if they are recruits, as long as they are fully equipped, they are uniformly armed. Men with swords, long soldiers with guns, halberds, or bows and arrows. Bai Liyan received a bronze sword, and it could be seen that this sword had been fiercely slashed, and there were many gaps. In addition, the logistics could not keep up, and the reopening and new weapons had not yet been supplied.

Bai Liyan has followed Sai Qian to practice martial arts for many years, and is accustomed to using guns, but now he is subject to tactical constraints, and the use of guns is more ordinary than the use of swords.