Wang Lang felt a lot of emotion when he revisited the old place, this simple little cave sheltered the helpless self at the beginning, if he hadn't found this shelter at the beginning, he estimated that he would probably have died in the wild.

Wang Lang raised this place to the height of the Holy Land, as a neighboring Holy Land of Dingbei City, it is conceivable that the status in the Xia Kingdom in the future is absolutely extraordinary.

The officials of the North City were full of pride and a sense of mission at the moment.

Leaving this small cave, Wang Lang led people along the road they had traveled to review the past, and the small salt mine on the river beach has now been used and has become the main source of salt for the people nearby.

After a busy day, it was not until the evening that Wang Lang and everyone returned to Dingbei City.

In the next few days, Wang Lang, who rarely had a little leisure, spent most of his time playing with his family, during which Wang Lang also visited the local school palace and met with only a dozen students here.

Since the selection examination a few years ago, the imperial examination, which was originally scheduled to be held every three years, has also been delayed due to the threat of the enemy, Wang Lang feels that it is time to hold another imperial examination, and with the increase in population, the number of officials at the bottom is far from enough.

When Wang Lang took his family to play in the north, in Yancheng at this time, those dinosaur captives were ushering in their miserable careers.

The Ministry of Rites allowed Fang Shaoshi to select three females from among these captives, and as a special case, he was also allowed to select an entourage of dinosaur people, and naturally the very observant Fang Wanglong was chosen.

At this moment, with the courage of a human soldier, Fang Shaoshi took Fang Wanglong, who had an arrogant face, and stood majestically in front of the captives to lecture them.

"You filthy fellows, your good life is coming to an end from today, you must start working from now on, there is no extra food in Great Xia to feed you idlers, listen well, if you don't want to die, be honest and obedient, see that those protruding stakes on the city wall are not, you dare to make trouble, you will be hanged there."

After Fang Shaoshi finished speaking, all the captives looked at the high city head, and their bodies trembled subconsciously.

At this time, Fang Wanglong on the side roared: "Do you understand, you have to listen to the words of the human commander and answer loudly." ”

"Humph!"

These captives looked at this dog-fighting guy without cutting down, their eyes were full of contempt, anyone who fell to such a point, his mood would not be much better, and naturally he would not give it any good looks.

"I think you're just underwhelming!"

Seeing that these guys were so faceless, Fang Wanglong became angry, raised the whip in his hand and was about to whip at these people.

This is Fang Shaoshi who stopped it and said, "Stand down!" ”

When Fang Wanglong heard this, he hurriedly put down the whip that had been raised.

"Don't think I'm joking, the human commander said, if you behave well and get the recommendation of the human race, you may regain your freedom, I hope you will behave well, now you will be divided into groups, one person will be killed in the same group, you must remember this, I hope you will supervise each other, don't lose your name for nothing." Fang Shaoshi said loudly.

The captives were shocked when they heard this, this trick of humans is too vicious, so who can trust their companions around them.

When the captives were panicking, Fang Shaoshi turned around and respectfully said to an official behind him: "Sir, I have finished explaining, can I be grouped now?" ”

Lieutenant Zhao Lang on the side translated these words.

The officer nodded and motioned for a start.

Fang Shaoshi realized and shouted at these captives: "Now every group of ten people, each captive will be branded with a mark, this is your number, if you deliberately destroy the number, you will be executed according to the chaos." ”

While the dinosaur people were puzzled, they saw human soldiers carrying a cylindrical thing made of iron sheets, and these human soldiers lit the coal inside and put soldering irons of different shapes into it.

The captives immediately understood what they were going to do, and immediately retreated in fright.

Seeing signs of a revolt by the dinosaur people, the human soldiers who surrounded the captive camp rattled in their armor, and their bed crossbows and arrows were all aimed at these captives, and if they dared to move, they would be mercilessly shot.

Seeing this, Fang Shaoshi hurriedly shouted: "If you don't want to die now, just endure the pain and imprint this mark on your body." ”

The captives looked at the cold glowing weapons, and their hearts sank, knowing that if they resisted, they would soon become a corpse.

Seeing that the commotion of the captives had subsided, the soldiers lowered their bows and arrows.

The flames in the tin furnace became more and more intense, and soon the soldering irons of different shapes were burned red.

"Let's get started!"

The official in charge of the matter spoke.

A dozen armored soldiers lined up, standing in several columns, without any expression on their faces.

In order to alleviate the pain of the dinosaur people, the Ministry of Industry specially asked the craftsmen to make the soldering iron very small, because there are more than 20,000 captives, in order to facilitate the distinction and management, these captives will be distributed to various places in the Xia Kingdom, each group of ten people, can be divided into about two thousand rents, each city can be divided into more than 100 captives, the number of these captives is composed of the name of the city plus three numbers, such as the captives of Yancheng, that is, salt 001, salt 002, and so on, each person's number can be said to be unique.

Each captive had to endure pain four times, and those who had not yet taken their turn, listening to the screams of their companions, were so frightened that their bodies were already fighting like chaff, but with the threat of human soldiers beside them, they did not dare to resist at all, and compared to the pain and death, the forbearance may have passed.

Since these captives were of special use to Wang Lang, the undead had specially explained that the brand was best placed in an inconspicuous position, and the location chosen by these soldiers was on the outside of their thighs.

It's a place where it's usually hard to spot these imprints as long as you wear pants.

The captives, who had experienced pain, limped down to the waiting doctor, and were grouped by the soldiers according to their numbers after a simple sterilization and bandage.

The work lasted for a week, and after a week of recuperation, the first group of men were successively transferred out of the camp and escorted by dozens of soldiers to their places of service.

And the small leaders of the previous captives, because of Fang Shaoshi's care, although they were not exempted from the punishment of the soldering iron, they were also given some rights among these captives, responsible for managing the local prisoners, and these people would have more freedom than ordinary prisoners.

A large number of captives were distributed in half a month, and there was no need for captives to do the work of farming, these tall races, but labor was rare, and mines and construction sites were good places for them.

Only 200 captives were left in Yancheng, and these captives were assigned to work in the nearby iron mines, and from this day on, I don't know when the captives had a new name, "Labor Prisoners!" ”

After dealing with these captives, Fang Shaoshi can be said to be extremely relaxed, he only needs to manage the captives on the Yancheng side, with Fang Wanglong's diligent dog legs to help with things, its daily work is to be on the side of the iron mine, leisurely drinking cool and delicious juice, watching those fellow clansmen bow over and carry baskets of ore in the hanging basket, this kind of life is simply not too comfortable.

As the veterans gradually returned to their hometowns, these veterans were wealthy people, and their return soon led to the growth of the local economy, especially cloth and wine.

Although most of the soldiers and their long-separated wives and children were full of joy when they saw each other, anything could happen when the forest was big, and some unpleasant things happened in many cities.

The soldiers who have been away from home for many years, after returning home, found that they have become a father, this sudden thing, suddenly increased a lot of life cases, but according to the laws of Great Xia, after investigation, these soldiers were acquitted, and those men who destroyed the relationship between the soldiers' families during their service were arrested.

In order to appease the anger of these soldiers and their comrades, the local government confiscated all the property of these captured prisoners, and after beheading mortals, they hung their heads on the city walls as an example.

Soldiers risk their lives to serve their country in the army, and if they fail to properly handle the emotions of these soldiers, then these officials also know that this will greatly affect their political performance.

Such a harsh punishment eased the emotions of those angry soldiers a lot.

Of course, these things are just some small episodes, and they do not have much impact on the overall national conditions of the Xia Kingdom, and the return of the soldiers is mainly to greatly increase the planting area of cultivated land.

The implementation of the collective farm system during the Xia War also came to an end, and the land belonging to the people returned to their own hands.

Officials are not as high as gods, especially those agricultural officials in the household department, who are the most popular with the peasants, these officials not only guide the people to cultivate, but more importantly, through these low-level officials, the people can understand what kind of grain can be planted and sold at a good price after harvest.

Guiyu three villages in the north.

Since the dinosaur people retreated, the nearby villagers have returned to their homes one after another.

The villages that had been slaughtered by the dinosaurs gradually came back to life with the arrival of the newly relocated people.

Due to Chen Bai's performance in recent years, these villages without village chiefs were temporarily handed over to Chen Bai to be responsible.

Today, Chen Bai is in charge of nearly 500 people in three villages, and after the return of the soldiers, the village has returned to its former state of prosperity.

Since coming to this village, Chen Bai has been working diligently for nearly five years, according to the system, a low-level official like him, five years should be the time to judge the political performance, he is sure that he has not made any mistakes, even if the political performance is not the best, but it is certainly not the worst, which not only makes him look forward to his future appointment.

In five years, the once childish young man has become an angular man, and now Chen Bai has also married a local woman here, his wife is a Caucasian woman, and the two gave birth to a healthy son.

Chen Bai sat in the courtyard, looking at the books he bought from Guiyucheng, enjoying the warm sunshine.

Chen Bai's wife is busy taking care of a few small wild boars in the animal pen, and these little wild boars can be sold for a good price as long as they grow up and bring them to the market in the county town.

Putting down the book, Chen Bai looked at his wife's busy figure, and was very satisfied, although his wife was just an ordinary woman with a simple mind, but she was very neat in her work, much better than him, a clumsy rough man.

"Father, father, what do you think this is?" A little brown-haired boy grabbed a small snake and shook it at Chen Bai.

Seeing this, Chen Bai was immediately startled, jumped up from the stool at once, knocked off the little snake in the little boy's hand, and trampled it to death with his feet.

When the little boy saw Chen Bai stepping on his toys, he immediately cried "wow".

Chen Bai was angry at the moment, and shouted: "Hold back, cry again, and you are not allowed to eat today." ”

The little boy looked at his mother aggrievedly, and saw that his mother didn't pay any attention to his meaning, tears rolled in his eyes, and he really didn't dare to stay.

Chen Bai picked up those palm-sized little snakes and said to his son: "This thing is poisonous, stay away from this thing in the future, you will die if you are bitten." ”

I don't know if the little boy didn't understand Chen Bai's words, he just lowered his head at this time and didn't dare to look at Chen Bai's eyes, his shoulders shrugged slightly, and he sobbed quietly.

Chen Bai was about to teach his naughty son a lesson, when a cry of "da-da" suddenly came from outside the village.

Surprised, he looked towards the entrance of the village, only to see a sentry running quickly in this direction.

"Village Chief! Chief! ”

Chen Bai hurriedly walked out and said, "What's the matter!" ”

"Village Chief, someone from Fucheng is here!" Sentinel reports.

"Someone from Fucheng!" Chen Bai frowned slightly and said, "I know, you go down, I'll come later." ”

"Yes!"

The sentry hurried away.

Chen Bai's wife nervously put down the work in her hand, pulled her child aside, and looked at Chen Bai with some concern.

"You take care of the children at home, I'll go see what's going on."

After speaking, he returned to the house, hurriedly changed into his official uniform, and walked towards the entrance of the village.

Through the wooden gate at the entrance of the village, Chen Bai saw that there were indeed several officials wearing official uniforms outside the door.

Opening the wooden door, Chen Bai arched his hand and said, "I don't know what to call a few people, what is the matter with coming here." ”

"You're Chen Bai." An official said.

"It's Chen Bai!" Chen Bai said in a deep voice.

"The imperial court has a decree, and Chen Bai, the head of Yusan Village, will receive the decree!" The official said loudly.

Chen Bai was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly tidied up his clothes and bowed to obey the order.

"Chen Bai, the head of Guiyu Village, performed well during his tenure, and after discussion, his political performance in office was rated as middle and upper, and his five-year term has expired, and now he has changed his name to Yusan Village as a town, renamed as Yunan Town, and ordered Chen Bai to be the mayor of the town, with a grade of six grades, and is in charge of Guiyu four villages, six villages, and eight villages."

After the official general finished speaking, Chen Bai was pleasantly surprised in his heart, and said secretly: "Is this a promotion?" ”

"Chen Bai will take the order!"

"Chen Bai takes the order!"

After respectfully taking the document and putting it away, he said to several officials: "A few people have come from afar, why don't you go into the village to rest, eat your stomach and leave." ”

The official shook his head and said, "No need, thank you Mayor Chen for your kindness, we have to go to other villages." After speaking, he signaled to the people around him, and the other person understood, handed a booklet from the pocket on the deer's back to Chen Bai, and said: "Mayor Chen, this is the request from the above for you to return to Yunan Town, you can see for yourself!" We took our leave. ”

Chen Bai took the pamphlet, bid farewell to a few officials, and turned around to startle him, only to see these villagers gathered together and look at him.