With his outstanding performance in Jiangnan, Fang Weiliang has won Li Xiang's high trust.

In addition to studying the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, Fang Weiliang also took over Li Xiang's oral task, a task that was very unpleasant, very unsightly, and was spit on when it was passed out.

Fang Weiliang was very unhappy in his heart, and he couldn't accept it. But Fang Weiliang faced Li Xiang's expectant gaze, but he couldn't say anything to refuse, so he gritted his teeth and agreed.

Li Xiang has no moral cleanliness and only values the ability to deal with practical matters, which is the consensus of the people in the village. Fang Weiliang was convinced of this, so he was relieved to start doing dirty work, without worrying about being disliked by Li Xiang in the future.

Therefore, it is passed down from generation to generation, and everyone knows it. The lord, the lord or the official, if they hand over confidential matters that are not good for themselves to come forward, they already regard them as confidants.

May 16, on the south bank of Taihu Lake.

Nanxun Town is still a dilapidated and desolate scene, which is in stark contrast to the scenery of Taihu Lake, green mountains and green waters not far away.

Fang Weiliang folded his hands and looked at the sky, closed his eyes, and did not look at the faces of all beings at the corner of the river. But it was too close, and the cries and cries still reached his ears.

"Third daughter-in-law, my old man begs you, come with them. If you stay, you will only be arrested and used as a prostitute! When you get to the north, as long as the old man's two grandchildren have something to eat and don't starve to death, the old man is underground, thank you! ”

The unclothed, scrawny old farmer stood among the dug up ridges, begging for his third son's Hun family.

In order to protect herself, the young woman smeared her face black. At this moment, his expression was sluggish, and the two tear stains on his face looked so dazzling, "Father-in-law, mother-in-law." The husband of the slave family was captured by Fang Lajun as a soldier and died in the city behind him. ”

"The slave family thinks that she is not a chaste martyr, but she is not a slut. In order to ensure that the eldest brother and the second brother's family are complete, you two are going to sell me to the people in the north? ”

"If the soldiers come to arrest me, the slave family will throw themselves into the well and not embarrass the old Fan family. The soldiers broke into the house, and they just wanted to die together, what are they afraid of?! ”

The old farmer and the lame old woman just shook their heads and cried.

The two old men suddenly knelt down, startling everyone present.

The old peasant grabbed the land with his head and cried out:

"The old man has embarrassed his ancestors, and he will not enter the ancestral grave after death!"

"The third daughter-in-law, the old man hasn't begged for anyone a few times in his life, and this time I'm really sorry. The army of the official family came again, and the food at home was robbed by Fang Lajun, and the small families in the ten miles and eight townships suffered at both ends, and they didn't know how many would survive. ”

"Old man, please. For the sake of a few nephews and nieces, come with them! ”

The young woman lifted her sideburns, looked at her nephew and niece, who were so hungry that she was out of shape, choked and closed her eyes, her lips trembling rapidly.

"From today on, I have nothing to do with the old Fan family!" The young woman picked up her favorite little nephew, kissed her forehead twice, and said in a hoarse voice, "Would you like to go with your aunt?" ”

"Where is Auntie going?" Children are not sensible, adults cry and cry, and adults don't cry if they don't cry. The little boy hung tears and timidly asked the aunt who loved him the most.

"Go far away. There's no one to bully your aunt, no one to bully you, and you're still well fed. ”

"Dad, mother, and grandparents, are they going too?"

"We'll be back soon......"

The young woman took out two silver ornaments from her bandeau and threw them on the ground. Then he picked up his little nephew, grabbed the youngest niece, and walked to a table without looking back.

Fang Weiliang went around in a big circle in Jiangnan, connecting the villagers who came to Jiangnan, and the "big thing" he did was human trafficking.

The Qinling area controlled by Mingyuezhuang is getting bigger and bigger, and the Qinling mountain people, whose lives have improved a lot, have begun to consider personal problems. In the deep mountains and old forests, it is very cruel that there is an extreme shortage of women of appropriate age.

With Li Xiang's acquiescence, Renyazi secretly sent women to Qinling, but there were more wolves and less meat, and some people even raised the price. This move did not solve the problem, but made many young and middle-aged men with strong blood even more red-eyed.

Illegal prostitutes spread diseases in the Qinling Mountains, and the phenomenon of robbing women at night is endless. In Xunyang and Shiyan and other places, every time the armed caravan of Mingyuezhuang crosses, it is like facing a great enemy, for fear that the women on the ground will be taken captive.

Li Xiang, Li Mengkong, Zhang Wanli and others received letters from the prefect of Lin and Shiyan Zhizhou more than once. The wording in the letter was harsh, asking the people of Mingyuezhuang to manage the people in the mountains, otherwise the official army would send troops to suppress the Qinling Mountains.

Li Xiang was speechless, annoyed, and felt ashamed, and lost his temper several times.

In the final analysis, the privateering of women by the people of the Qinling Mountains was due to the fact that they were too poor in the past, and there were more men than women. Li Xiang brainstormed in the village, and after coming to Jiangnan, he continued to discuss with dozens of people in the public through letters, but did not come up with any good solutions.

Forcibly prohibiting the people of the Qinling Mountains from leaving the mountains will only lead to dissatisfaction and resistance, and add variables to the excellent situation of attacking the Qinling Mountains.

In Jiangnan, he received a warning from Lord Shiyan Zhizhou again, and Li Xiang's head was as big as a fight.

Wang San, who secretly attached to Mingyuezhuang and firmly controlled Mingyueji, heard about this, and combined the experience of maintaining the village in Qinling with the Jiangnan battle situation in which hundreds of thousands of people came and went, and offered the first strategy:

Taking advantage of the war in Jiangnan, the suffering of the small people, and the withering of the people's livelihood, women were recruited in Jiangnan and transported back to Qinling. Fill the Qinling Mountains with the south of the Yangtze River!

In late April, after Li Xiang received Wang San's secret letter, he was simply stunned.

Immediately afterwards, Li Xiang complained that Wang San's stomach was bad, and at the same time sent Fang Weiliang to secretly manage the matter.

Fang Weiliang first arrived in Guangde County, and then went to Wuhu to take a boat down the river, and when he saw the boat of Mingyuezhuang, he showed the order stamped with the owner's seal. Then Fang Weiliang took the waterway, through Zhenjiang-Changzhou-Wuxi, and reached Taihu Lake.

As soon as Wang Yu led his army to leave Nanxun Town and go south, Fang Weiliang impatiently came to the south bank of Taihu Lake and diligently carried out his "top-secret mission".

Behind the table stood a lewd man with a crooked mouth, looking at the daughter-in-law of the Fan family who took the initiative to sell herself, drooling, and stammering a little, "What's your name?" How old is it? How old are both dolls? ”

The third daughter-in-law of the Fan family made a blessing, "The slave family has six out of twenty, the male baby is three years old, and the female baby is seven years old." ”

"Oh good, leave the rest to this little gentleman, and listen to Yuan Renyu's arrangement after pressing the handprint."

The person in charge of registration is a few young people in Mingyuezhuang who have collapsed and have no love. One of them was so bruised that he couldn't wait to kick the crooked mouth of the demon.

crooked his mouth and laughed twice, not daring to make trouble again, and catching up with the eldest brother of his group: Chen Jiaxing.

Chen Jiaxing pulled his crooked mouth aside and scolded:

"Lao Tzu just got the news that Master Fang is a person valued by Master Li Zhuang."

"It's easy for people to borrow from us, whether the family can gain a foothold in Mingyuezhuang may depend on the performance this time."

"You kid be honest, don't anger the little gentleman of Mingyue Village!"

Crooked mouth, nodded again and again in apology, and asked nervously: "This Master Fang, can you really send us a household registration?" ”

Chen Jiaxing touched his chin and nodded:

"Household registration is not necessarily, but at least it can be established on the edge of the Han River. Lao Tzu also has some savings, and he built two workshops, which are enough to house the brothers' families, don't make trouble for Lao Tzu! ”

Chen Jiaxing put on a smiling face and walked towards Fang Weiliang's location.

Fang Weiliang frowned, full of thoughts, thinking about his next move.

Fang Weiliang has been in contact with all kinds of people for a long time, and he knows very well what Xiaomin is thinking, and he has a fight with the officials in this regard.

Compared with the experience of a clerk, Fang Weiliang's own advantage is that he has a wider range of knowledge.

In less than 20 days, Fang Weiliang sorted out a set of rules. He knew very well that if he wanted to do a good job of winning over women, he must make people as voluntary as possible, reduce expenses as much as possible, and third, not let people have the mouth to attack the owner.

If most of the Jiangnan women who were taken to the north were reluctant, they might have an accident on the way, and they would not be able to live in peace when they arrived in Qinling.

Some time ago, Li Xiang paid for the medicines, lime and charcoal used by 20,000 people, and his financial resources were very tight. Fang Weiliang wants to leave a good impression on the owner of the village and those in the public middle school, and it is very important to spend less money.

It is certainly not a glorious thing to take advantage of the war season to recruit women to settle in the north. Li Xiang also gave Fang Weiliang a vague order because of this, and the rest of the things were not asked, and Fang Weiliang could only bear the problem if there was a problem.

After careful consideration of the complex situations he saw on the ground, Fang Weiliang temporarily divided the recruited women into three situations:

The first is to recruit women directly from the hungry in places west of Lake Taihu.

The lives of small people are cheap, and the phenomenon of drowning of baby girls on Jiangnan West Road, Fujian Road and Lingnan Road is very serious. Once many families are affected, they want to sell female dolls to Qinglou, especially girls around the age of ten are the most valuable. Food, copper coins, clothes and medicines are the prices that Fang Weiliang has offered to hundreds of thousands of hungry people.

The second is to sign contracts to recruit women in the vicinity of the areas of war.

Fang Weiliang relied on the friendship between Li Xiang and the front-line warriors, and he could shelter many families and save Xiaomin's wives and daughters from being humiliated and played, on the condition that someone in the family signed a deed of sale and "voluntarily" went to the north. In order to protect more of their families, the in-laws of the Fan family could only beg the widow of the third daughter-in-law to leave the country.

The third is to see the displaced small people and woo the women.

In the place guarded by the officials and soldiers, of course Fang Weiliang can't pull people casually. However, when you see people fleeing for their lives on the way, you can "show kindness". Jiangnan doesn't know how long it will take, and the helpless people don't know how long they will live, so of course they will seize every straw and exchange their girls and wives and concubines for the opportunity to live.

It's brutal, but it's real.

The commander of the Xiang military camp closest to this place got the news and did not stop Fang Weiliang and the others. Just send someone over and collect "donations" at the price of ten times for a little girl and thirty times for a school-age woman.

The boat was full of copper coins, fine salt, and jiaozi. The lanky-faced vans all waved goodbye to Chen Jiaxing, the trafficker, the leader of the ostensible trade in women.

Chen Jiaxing's "vest" waved his hand stiffly, and the black hair on his face trembled. Then he turned around and saluted, and asked respectfully:

"Mr. Fang, there is a place in the southeast of Nanxun Town, called Taoyuan Town."

"The villain heard from the other caravans, that it was a gathering place for grain and grass for a hundred thousand troops. Women captured by the officers and soldiers...... Most of them are there for the entertainment of the military masters, does Mr. Fang have any intentions? ”

Fang Weiliang touched his two sparse black beards, raised his eyebrows and said:

"I broke the news that the people in the village joined forces in twos and threes and sent people and boats to recruit women around Taihu Lake. I don't know what's going on in other places, so let's go to Taoyuan Town. ”

"Qinling has always been a place of hard work. I think those mountain people don't care if the woman is chaste or not, it's good to have a daughter-in-law to cook and have a baby......"

Chen Jiaxing hurriedly echoed: "What Mr. said is very true. Besides, let's not talk about it, if we don't talk about it, if we don't talk about the women involved, who can know what women have experienced? ”