Bao Yayu got the letter and immediately returned to the group to announce the news. The toothymen were overjoyed, discussed a few words, each cut the cake, and then quickly disappeared, found their own good merchants, negotiated the price, and then announced the buyer's conditions, and picked out the required draft label.

The news announced by the traffickers quickly set off a storm in the human market. Pay money for food and clothing, and you can also settle your family! Just be a slave for ten years, and then let them go! Hearing such good conditions, the grass labels could hardly believe their ears. Many people have doubts, afraid that it is not the money to buy their lives? But the straw labels on the unkempt heads, the empty stomachs, and the hungry fathers, mothers, wives and dolls in the pile of people next to them made these straw labels have no choice. Take a gamble! Even if it's risking your life, you have to gamble! While thinking like this, many grass labels stood up calmly, let the traffickers drive them away, but firmly grasped the hands of their parents, wives and dolls, and walked towards the empty dam that would forever change their future fate.

There is a large empty dam in the southwest corner of the city, and the tables and chairs are ready-made. There are ditches and ridges on the dam ground, and it may have been farmland not long ago. The bodyguards of the traffickers, armed with bamboo sticks and willow whips, scolded and beat at the same time, trying to separate the men, women and children in the grass labels, and let them line up in long lines to pass the inspection one by one.

The first level is a physical examination, and the protagonist is Luo Jingyun, a medical examiner. Luo Jingyun was originally forced by his sister to study, and when he saw that his sister was taken out by the prince every day to go out to play in the mountains and rivers, go shopping, he was not angry, and insisted on following the prince out to do things and see the world. When his sister didn't do it, he took the matter to his father. Luo Yuhong saw her father come forward, and felt that the current situation was indeed not the time to take the Xiucai test, and Zhu Pingjin assured that Luo Jingyun could learn more with him, so Luo Yuhong was relieved. The Luo family is originally a family of Xinglin, and Luo Jingyun is the only male in the family, and he will inherit the family business in the future. His father taught medicine since he was a child, so it was easy to be a medical examiner. Seeing Luo Jingyun's appearance as a little adult, he first shouted loudly and ordered the grass labels to take off their shirts, open their eyes and mouth and stick out their tongues, and poke their fingers around them. After putting on their clothes, the straw labels reached out one by one and put them on the table. Luo Jingyun took the pulse with his left hand, asked a few more words, and with a slight mistake, he waved his right hand outward, and the person was eliminated. Even if the man shouted, Luo Jingyun also turned a deaf ear.

The first level is checked by a professional like my brother-in-law, so Zhu Pingjin focused on the second level. The selection criteria for the second level cannot be explained to outsiders, and the protagonist is Song Zhenzong, the only professional soldier in the team. Cao Sanbao never forgot his duty, and found a table and chair for Zhu Pingjin early. Zhu Pingjin didn't want to interfere with Song Zhenzong, so he sat not far away and quietly observed Song Zhenzong's every move.

Song Zhenzong walked around the field, glancing at him from time to time, obviously hoping that the crowd would come quickly. That guy usually seems to be very honest, and the last time Zhu Pingjin questioned him in the palace, he could also dismiss them one by one in an orderly manner. However, Zhu Pingjin noticed today that since Zhu Pingjin was instructed to select people according to the criteria of soldiers, although he forcibly suppressed his emotions, his excitement of eagerness to try could not be concealed at all.

The grass labels came from the physical examination pass with trepidation, and subconsciously followed the flow of people forward, but they encountered a strong man blocking the way. The strong man split his legs and crossed his waist, did not say a word, stared at him with a calm face and remained motionless. The straw labels didn't know what to do, so they had to stop in front of the strong man, standing with their hands not hands and feet not feet. There were about 100 people waiting to stop in front of the grass marker, and Song Zhenzong, who had never spoken, suddenly shouted at the chaotic crowd in front of him: "It's all for the general to stand up straight, no one is allowed to speak!" ”

The chaotic grass markers were blown up by a thunderbolt from the sky, and most of them immediately stayed in place. A very small number of people lost their attention and continued to talk to each other, but soon realized that the atmosphere around them was not right, and they stopped talking. There was an eerie silence throughout the procession.

Zhu Pingjin had been trained by others for two weeks when he graduated from university. After serving as the S Committee, Zhu Pingjin served as a deputy instructor in an antiaircraft artillery battalion of the reserve antiaircraft artillery division of the military region. So, he knows some simple queue passwords and queue requirements, and as for the deeper things, he only knows a little about them. When Song Zhenzong shouted the first password, Zhu Pingjin also smiled. It can be seen that Song Zhenzong suppressed a large group of grass labels with only one sentence, and Zhu Pingjin immediately admired it. He put away his contempt and observed carefully.

Song Zhenzong said a word and did not speak again. The whole team stood withered with him. After estimating the time of standing for half a pillar of incense, he pinned his hands behind his back, pinched a thin bamboo pole that he picked up from nowhere, and walked back and forth in the grass mark team with fierce eyes, and clicked on a certain grass mark from time to time. Song Zhenzong walked through the team two or three times, returned to the front of the team and stood still, and shouted: "The people who were going to be ordered with bamboo poles just now are standing here!" ”

There was a commotion in the crowd, and the grass markers who were pointed out didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing to stand out, so they all looked at each other and hesitated. Finally, when I saw someone go out, I reluctantly walked to the designated place.

After Song Zhenzong saw all the people he ordered come out, he yelled again: "All stretch out your hands flat, palms up!" Then he stepped forward with a bamboo pole, checked his palms one by one, and from time to time tapped on a certain grass marker, but he still left the queue and stood aside.

In the end, Song Zhenzong finally announced that except for the people he had just ordered, the rest would go to the next table. If you get it, continue to stand here.

The fears in the hearts of those who were ordered became reality, and the team immediately blew up.

"General, please! Okay, good! Let us go, and we'll make you cows and horses! We have no way to live, I beg you ......" kowtow to the ground and the mountain sounded.

"My brother has passed, you can let me go! When my father died, he confessed that we brothers were not allowed to separate...... hugging his thighs with tears on his face.

"General, you don't want us, but you have to give a reason. Zhang Sanwa who went over just now, I'm not as good as him there! The general didn't believe it, so he asked the third baby to come out and fight with me, and see who ...... "patted his chest and showed his muscles."

Cao Sanbao cast an inquiring glance at Zhu Pingjin, but Zhu Pingjin sat still and did not move.

Song Zhenzong's voice rolled like thunder again: "What are you calling!" Stand up straight, don't move! The main family has to come and choose it personally! If you scream and move around, you can call it back! ”

It turns out that there is still hope! The shouting from the crowd came to an abrupt end.

The third level is the identity registration link, and the main knife is undoubtedly the scholar Sun Hong, Wang Sizhong, who can write, and a few tooth nephews to assist. Name, gender, what year you were born, where you live, what did you do at home before, how many people are still in the family, why did you come out to escape the famine, and how were you sold to the market? Okay, press the mudra, not five fingers, just the big finger...... After the fright of the previous level, the grass labels suddenly felt that the amiable gentleman in this level was really a good person!

The man is a family team after the pass, which is much more chaotic than just now, but the inspection method is simpler. The men's team passed from beginning to end, and for almost an hour, the family team had been standing on the empty dam. Some people fell down while standing - naturally they were eliminated, and the rest all went to the third level of registration. Except for those who do not match the registration information of the men, the rest have passed smoothly.

Zhu Pingjin observed the changes in the team, and there were about three or four hundred men selected, and one or two hundred people were left. There were probably more family members, six or seven hundred.

"Lord Shizi, is there more women and children in that group, where is the princess and Niangniang...... I'm afraid it's hard to explain. Cao Sanbao whispered in his ear.

Zhu Pingjin did not answer. It's not that there is no place to settle, and he is not worried about the reaction of the prince and the princess. In recent years, due to wars and natural disasters, Sichuan's population has suffered a great loss, and many Zhuangzi near Chengdu Mansion are short of people. It only takes about two or three Zhuangzi, and a team of six or seven hundred people can digest it all. Besides, the palace originally had a lot of fields, and in the Dujiangyan irrigation area around Chengdu Mansion alone, the palace owned and donated nearly 2 million acres of land, how many people do you need to cultivate? A few years ago, the palace bought hundreds of people. So it's not a big problem to get into this little person. The key is that after entering the people, we must allocate resources reasonably, so that these people can support themselves, and the palace can still have benefits.

Looking at a large group of family members, as well as the group of men who were eliminated by Song Zhenzong, Zhu Pingjin sighed and stood up from the chair.

The first problem is to solve the problem of eating! He thought.

He turned his head and instructed Cao Sanbao: "Cao Banban, immediately notify Mr. Li Chongwen and ask him to immediately cancel his leave and report to the Shizi Mansion!"

He then instructed Song Zhenzong, who came to report: All the people, pull out the grass mark on their heads! The men eliminated in the second level will be sent to the village together with their families, the old and weak!

The sun is setting in the west, and the smoke is curling. A team of more than 1,000 people is marching to the southwest of Chengdu with difficulty. They did not enter the city, but walked around the city from east to south along the banks of the Jinjiang and Namhe rivers. They carried their baggage, baskets, and burdens, which contained the last of their personal possessions. Three hundred and fifty-one selected sturdy men walked in front, followed by a large group of men, women, and children with dishes on their faces.

In the evening, the men had already passed the south gate of Chengdu Mansion and walked towards the big Zhuangzi of a royal mansion outside Shuangliu County. Wang Sizhong rode a horse and informed the head of the village in advance to prepare meals and shacks. Today is the last day for the men to be reunited with their families. By tomorrow morning, the two teams will go their separate ways. The able-bodied men will go to a tea house in Mengding Mountain for training; Their families, including the eliminated men, will head south of Chengdu to Renshou County, 200 miles away. There, they will be scattered and placed in several royal estates.

In the men's team, Chen Youfu, who was half a head taller than others, walked while beckoning the brothers behind him to follow closely. Some of these brothers are his fellow villagers, some are colleagues on the way to escape, and some are squatting in the human city with the same fate. He originally did not meet Zhu Pingjin's selection conditions, because he was married, had children, had a mother and sister-in-law, and was the eldest brother among men. Fortunately, Mr. Sun's advice made the benevolent prince relax his conditions.

In the long family line behind the men's team, two girls with cat-like faces also followed the team, and their real ages could not be seen. They held each other's hands and looked very intimate, but they didn't speak to each other, just quietly made eye contact. If you look closely, you can see that although their clothes are in tatters, unlike the others, their heads are clean and there are no crumbs left by the grass mark.