It is said that the ancient Chinese peasants were the most kind and hard-working people, and the old cattle were like the wind and rain and perseverance, allowing the wind and frost disasters and the power of the ruling class, but in fact, the peasants of any country in this era were not so bitter and bitter.

The same is true of the peasants of the Li Dynasty, and even they are more unfortunate than the peasants of the Ming Dynasty, the identity of the peasants is at least very noble in China, but in the Li Dynasty, Li Chenggui divided the people into four classes, and the vast majority of the peasants were just lowly slaves who did not even deserve their names.

But these lowly people like weeds, but they are also tenacious like weeds, last year's extremely tragic invasion of the Japanese invaders, Li Chaodongnan was full of beacons, but this year, a small village composed of simple broken grass houses and mushrooms grew on this land.

This is the case with the Pak Ah family, who fled from Hwanghae Road last year, and the difficult Gyeongsang Road actually had idle land, and the family happily settled down, and after ploughing for half a month, they knew that they were still lowly, and they were tenants for others, but they just changed the family owner.

Just paid the rent a few days ago, the government's tax is now very high, a full tenth, but this is not the most, to hand over the rent to the house has to have a fifty percent, the last bit of rice planted is not a grain left, but these days, Park Adaa is still happy, the tattered thatched mud wall hung a few huge dried fish, and while the old men have left after collecting the rent, he is struggling to brush some red things with a brush in the big basin.

Sweet potato!

Leaning on the seaside, a few days ago I touched a few fish, and finally had a little meat during the New Year's Festival, and these guys in my hand were sent to him by relatives who worked in Xiongjin, it is said that it is a unique crop of the Ming Dynasty, and it rose exceptionally vigorously, hiding from the Fang family He secretly planted a few acres of wasteland, and the autumn harvest was dug out and there was a big warehouse, and it was sweet to eat, relying on these and there was still a little coarse grain left, and it should be no problem to eat until next year's autumn harvest.

Just like in "Collected Three or Five Buckets Over", rich and noble desire to think about lewdness, and collected more sweet potatoes, this Pu Ada's brushing while still humming in a hurry, he is almost forty years old, if it was in previous years, he didn't want to find a daughter-in-law at all, but this year he has something to eat, maybe when he waits for the spring famine next year, he can still pick up a daughter-in-law, his old Pu family is six, five are either starved to death or lost in the military disaster, and the continuation of the bloodline may only fall on him.

But just when Park Ah Da was humming happily, a burst of unusual water sound faintly came into his ears, driven by curiosity, Park Ah Da dropped the sweet potato, climbed up along the elm pimple at the head of the house, and only looked at it for the first time, this old bachelor in his early forties almost fell from the tree in front of his eyes.

The towering and fat ship, the grinning Hachiman Bodhisattva flag, for the coastal dwellers of the East, the Wako is as fearsome as the Viking pirates in the West, sliding down the tree in despair, this old bachelor is just running away.

However, after running for two steps, he stopped again, reluctantly glanced at the small broken adobe house where he had lived for a year, gritted his teeth, reached out and plucked a dried fish, stuffed a few freshly washed sweet potatoes into his pocket, and finally bit one in his mouth.

He was lucky, and it wasn't long before the whole peaceful little fishing village was plunged into a terrifying chaos, with the fire blazing, the women screaming desperately, the men running away, and the children crying, the sound was like hell on earth.

After a year, the terror of the Japanese invaders once again swept the coast of the Li Dynasty, and the messengers rushing to Wang Jing were like carps crossing the river, in an endless stream.

Early November, Wangjing, Gyeongbokgung Palace.

Compared with the high-rise hall of the Ming Dynasty, this place is really small, not as high as the lobby of Mao Jue's Officer Club, and even Li Chao's own officials can't fit it, only the six chief officials and senior officials of the parliamentary government are qualified to pout their butts and kneel here, and the rest can only kneel outside, and they also have a unique title.

Cabinet Officer.

It's just that unlike the grand scene when Smecta came to Smecta in the past, this big guy is like a dumb man, dumbfounded, so that the angry old face of King Renzu, who is in his early forties, turns red, and two pairs of fists hammer the deputy and roar.

"I, Li Chao, have two classes of civil and military! At the moment of the great enemy, is there no second Yi Sunsin? ”

But even so, it is still a dead silence, this year's Japanese are menacing, according to the observation of envoys from all over the country, no less than 20,000 people, or even more, according to the previous combat effectiveness to average, 20,000 Japanese soldiers are almost worth 50,000 Li Chaojun, and this time people are from the group, and they drive straight in, who dares to say that I will win if I go up.

Seeing that the king of his family was getting more and more irritable, and the scene was becoming more and more unbearable, he finally sighed secretly, and Li Shanhai pouted his ass and kowtowed.

"Your Highness, the Japanese are menacing, poisoning the East China Sea, quickly gather the troops of the Southern Four Provinces to attack, and at the same time ask for help from the Ming Dynasty."

"There is no shortage of elite troops composed of Japanese warriors among the Japanese Invaders, and only the Dongjiang Ming Army can deal with them!"

"However, the rice in the middle of the court is no longer supported by the main one, and last time, the money and grain were spent in Dongfu Palace......"

Halfway through the words, Hu Ju Cui Mingji swallowed his words back, because the face of the King of Renzu above, Li Liang, had become bad.

People have dreams, the minister can repair the house, the king can also, last year thanks to Li Shanhai, Li Chao also overcharged three or five buckets, as soon as he was happy, Li Liang ordered the Dongfu Palace to be repaired well.

But the Li Dynasty official family is really in the same vein as today's Ming Dynasty, for the royal family to take refuge in the South Han Mountain City refuge for nearly 20 years has not been repaired, the imperial court has no money to repair, and finally it is actually in the way of issuing monks and monks to become monks, encouraging monks to repair, to this day, it is still not completed, the Dongfu Palace project that was originally planned for one year has now been dragged to two years, and the large-scale project that is regarded as a financial source by the scholars is simply a bottomless pit, and Li Shanhai brought back that extra financial income is not enough, not to mention, I also posted a lot of it inside.

This is the reason why Jin Zidian dared to ask Dongjiang for help last year, but he did not dare to do so this year.

Since Li Shanhai proposed, the big guys are relieved, even if there are more sentences, they don't plan to say more, only the same as Daming, the royal history who doesn't need to find fault with anything to say.

"Your Royal Highness, Dongjiang extorts too much salary, if you don't have enough food, I'm afraid you won't send troops, even if you are forced by the order of the Ming Emperor, when you return to the division, you will plunder our dynasty, and the gains outweigh the losses."

Yushi Li Zhongqing's words almost made the Manchu Dynasty civil and military jump, whether to grab the place or not, it was a matter of the battle, what do you care so much about? What if the king changes his mind and asks us to lead the troops?

Fortunately, Li Shanhai gave his strength, and before the imperial history finished speaking, he had already kowtowed categorically.

"Qingshang is the main supply area of Maomi, the Li Dynasty and the Dongjiang River are dependent on each other, if the Qingshang Dao is plundered by the Japanese invaders, the Dongjiang River will also starve next year, and the old minister is sure to persuade the big and small Mao Shuai to send troops!"

Just kidding, it was Mao Jue who proposed to fight the Japanese country, and dragged Li Chao into the water, he still has the face to ask for food? o

Who knew that Li Liang, the king of Renzu, was still a kind person, after Li Shanhai finished speaking, Li Liang hesitated for a few seconds before waving his sleeves.

"Don't be too embarrassed by the military judgment, in this way, he Xiao Mao will open up the land outside the Great Wall of my dynasty, let the household judge directly allocate it to him, and next year Mao rice will be added by 20%, General Xiao Mao is also a reasonable person, and he will not embarrass my dynasty again!"

Li Shanhai almost didn't vomit blood, he was already out of the ordinary, he didn't need to add any conditions at all, Mao Jue couldn't wait to send troops, but he didn't dare to say it clearly to arouse suspicion, and after a long time of sorrow, he finally bowed down as hard as eating.

"The old minister obeys!"

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Time turned, and another five or six days passed, Dongjiang.

The time approaching the New Year's Festival was supposed to be the time when the various markets were flourishing, but these days, both the carts rushing to the markets and the teams of mules and horses transporting goods and minerals had to give way to the main roads and let the galloping military vehicles pass first.

Unlike the lightly armed troops of the Ming Dynasty who carried guns and left, at most with a bag of food, now the Dongjiang Iron Righteous Army is a real heavy army, and the small tiger squat artillery is basically eliminated to the third-line militia to guard the village.

In the past, the number of auxiliary regiments was sufficient, but this time a regiment of Mao Jue had to be equipped with two auxiliary regiments, and this time the second, fourth, sixth, eighth, and ninth regiments of five regiments gathered more than 4,000 people, and Mao Jue recruited more than 8,000 reserve troops.

So many troops, gathered in Tieshan Port at this time of the New Year, if it were other Ming army towns, this time should be sighing and resentful, but these soldiers who were selected to serve the conscription were all red and red-faced, especially the second regiment of the huge sea, the second expedition this year, Le's mouth was about to open, and they didn't even need Mao Jue to shout the slogan, they shouted the slogan first.

I boarded the huge sail battleship along the ladder and listened to the shouts of the GIs.

"Get on board! Thousands of miles to conquer the domain, follow the general! Have a fat year!"

"Back then, the Qin army was nothing more than this, angry when he heard the gold, happy when he heard the drums, he could be called the Qin of the tiger and wolf, this is the first emperor to unify the six countries, the division of the Dongjiang River, and it was so strong!"

Although he retreated into the background, when Mao Jue was not there, Mao Wenlong was still the leader of the Dongjiang River, he came to see him off, Shen Guangzuo also put down his studies at the academy, and followed him to see him off, looking at the soldiers who swept on the ship, Shen Guangzuo couldn't help but admire.

It's a pity that the two fathers and sons of the Mao family don't seem to give much face today, only Fan Wenju of Dongjiang Tuntian nodded approvingly.

In Mao Jue's sad expression, he was dragged aside by Mao Wenlong, and the old guy had a solemn face and stared at Mao Jue very grimly.

"This expedition is such a warehouse, what trouble did you make for the old man?"

It's really hard to hide from the old guy's eyes, however, if you can't hide it, you have to hide it, haven't you heard that sentence, confess leniently, sit in prison, resist strictly, and go home for the New Year? Mao Jue was full of innocence, shaking his head seriously.

"Daddy! It's not the moth that Li Chao made a fuss about, and the child doesn't want to go, he wants to serve his parents at home for the New Year, but he can't go! The family and the country can't be both, the child is not filial, please take care of it! ”

"Fart! As soon as you kid pouted his ass, Lao Tzu knew that you were going to dry and strain, these two months, don't think Lao Tzu didn't know, your boat to the south ran three times, you kid ......"

His fingers trembled, and he took a breath, and finally in Mao Jue's sad eyes, Mao Wenlong put down his arm.

"Forget it, let it be, boy!"

"This time I went to Jeju to pass by, if I can, I will mention Shen Shikui, although he is ambitious, he is also a good man, and there is absolutely no ambiguity in fighting! There are also five brothers of the Liu family, although they are unruly and selfish, as long as you hold it down, these people are also good dogs who bite people!"

This is the last bit of Dongjiang's family background, Mao Wenlong is really paving the way for himself, Mao Jue doesn't know when, he actually sent the five brothers of the Liu family and Shen Shikui, the deputy chief soldier, to Jeju Island, the wicked man is what he does, if Mao Jue uses it, he will be this good person, no, continue to throw people to Jeju Island and not delay him in taking charge of the Dongjiang River.

was really moved inexplicably, stunned for a moment, Mao Jue straightened his helmet, and immediately bowed heavily.

"Farewell to my father, child!"

The general didn't shed tears, didn't look back, the salty sea breeze blew on his face, Mao Jue's eyes were a little red, looking down, I don't know when, Mao Wenlong's hair was a lot white, and he stood with Shen Guangzuo, like two white-headed old men, and plain clothes, this time he was going to war, as a confidential secretary, Adriana could accompany her, but she couldn't, she couldn't see her expression clearly, but Mao Jue could still see her standing at the front, waving a handkerchief.

Finally relentless, turned around, Mao Jue went back to the captain's room of his Black Pearl, no longer looking, as soon as he entered the room, leaning against the corner of the wall, he first rubbed his eyes, took a few breaths, and then put his face down, just turned around, Mao Jue almost didn't go back.

"Why are you here?"

Wearing a set of maid's goose yellow clothes, with a helmet on her little brain, Yu Leer was actually sitting in front of his desk bored, if it weren't for the lack of a mobile phone this year, this girl would definitely be happy to take a selfie, looking at Mao Jue and asking, this girl couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"I don't want to come either, my lord told me to come! He said that the general can't be without someone around him!"

"Loving fathers are many defeated children!"

Mao Jue was almost confused.

He understands Mao Wenlong's approach, after marrying a famous family in these years, it is extremely important for a man, what happened to Chen Jiao The old guy must know, he naturally doesn't like this daughter-in-law, Mao Jue brought back this Yu Leer and became a substitute, changed the plain clothes, and gave them a chance to enhance their relationship and be alone.

The question is, this Yu Le'er is an authentic lady, what will she do, this is going out to fight! Do you want Mao Jue to take care of her, Her Royal Highness the Princess?

The corners of his mouth twitched, and Mao Jue pointed to the door and ordered.

"Isn't it serving General Ben? Go out and make me some tea!"

"The slave family won't!"

A pair of big eyes looked at him cutely, and Mao Jue covered his head sadly.

"Come, prepare the boat, send Mrs. Yu back to Tieshan ......, no, send her back to Shandong!!"

(End of chapter)