Chapter 24: The Townsman and the Silver

On the way to the local tyrant Dazhai, a man in his twenties cried loudly: "Shaodong, Shaodongjia is really you?" Young owner, how are you? ”

Yang Xuan raised his eyes and looked over, and saw a man in his twenties standing up and waving to Yang Xuan despite everyone's dissuasion, his eyes full of infinite joy. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

I saw that the man's face was full of smiles, and he shouted continuously: "Shaodong, I am the four dogs, and the Shaodong, I am the four dogs Wang Gao." ”

I remember that this Yang Xuan's family lives in Xiangru County, and his family has more than 100 acres of thin fields, but he can't cultivate when he reads, so he rents all of them to tenant farmers for cultivation and collects land rent to live.

The caretaker Xiaoqi reported that after being captured, this man kept inquiring about Yang Xuan's situation, and kept saying that he was a tenant farmer in the past.

After thinking about it, there seemed to be a little impression in his mind, and he immediately waved his hand, and the soldiers brought this man over.

The man pointed to a scar on his face and said, "Shaodong, the small one is four dogs, why did you forget?"

Don't forget, do you remember this scar, the young owner still remembers, he was injured five years ago when he hit a rabbit with the young owner. ”

Yang Xuan shook his head blankly and said with a smile: "You, your appearance has changed a lot, your hair is unkempt, and the light is very dim, and you really haven't seen it from afar." ”

The man pouted and looked quite dissatisfied, and shouted while answering: "Young owner, you noble people forget things, of course you won't remember the small ones."

But now it's okay, the old lady is very good to us poor people, and she helps us when we are not in good hands, and the young owner has become a general, and there is a lot of interest. ”

Yang Xuan smiled, patted Wang Gao's shoulder and said, "Four dogs, of course I still remember these."

It's just that a lot has changed in the past few years, and I'm afraid to admit my mistakes. ”

Wang Gao looked quite excited, pointed to an old man in his fifties next to him, and said with a smile: "Shaodong, this, this is my father, remember?"

Shaodongjia, my father has always been thinking about the benevolence of the owner, and has been thinking about when to find the young owner and kowtow to the young lady? ”

Yang Xuan smiled awkwardly, and the appearance of several familiar people appeared in his mind, among which there seemed to be this Wang Gao, but the appearance changed slightly.

Seeing Yang Xuan dressed as a general, Uncle Wang was quite happy, grabbed Yang Xuan's arm and said, "Young owner, now that it's out, I expect that the old owner will definitely smile at Jiuquan."

Two days ago, I heard that there was a general with the same name and surname as the young owner, and I kept muttering whether it was the young owner.

My in-laws shook their heads again and again, saying that there was such a coincidence in the world, and I couldn't imagine that it was really a young owner. ”

Yang Xuan smiled awkwardly, and said to the little flag chief who was guarding next to him: "These people are my fellow villagers, I'll take them away first." ”

Hearing Yang Xuan say this, the pot was overturned next to him, and several men shouted Yang Xuan's name loudly, claiming that this is from that village, that is from that village, anyway, most of them are from the villagers, there are hundreds of people.

Chinese pay special attention to local origins, and those in the same township are their own people, just like working in other places in the 21st century, and people from the same township and village like to gather together.

Yang Xuan had to remember it all, and everyone was willing to vouch for each other, and in the end, most of the captives claimed to be from the nearby villagers, which made Yang Xuan at a loss.

Yang Xuan let go of more than 20 strong men first, and then bowed his hand to everyone again and again: "Fellow countrymen, everyone should be wronged first, I will guarantee these things I know first, and let them go first."

For the rest, I will have people register immediately, and as long as there is no murder and prevention, as long as you truly realize your mistakes and sincerely repent, I can forgive them. ”

Everyone had heard that Yang Xuan was the deputy leader, and now he was a guard in the army, and he was a villager in the township, so of course it was difficult to say anything.

Let the orderlies arrange for Uncle Wang's family to stay, while Yang Xuan hurried to the hall to transfer the seized money.

It is not easy to transfer big things such as grain, grass and baggage, and Yang Xuan is most concerned about silver taels.

More than ten boxes of silver taels were collected from Dazhai, and the initial estimated value was above 10,000 taels of silver, so that Fan Mingshan, a Wuju man who had just rushed to the front line as an assistant, led people to transfer six large boxes, and was pondering how to deal with the remaining silver taels When the soldiers came to report, and the general Wang Chaoyang hurried over.

Yang Xuan was shocked in his heart, and then returned to normal, personally welcomed Wang Chaoyang into the treasure room, pointed to the four boxes of treasures in front of him and said, "My lord, the last general is tracking down the stolen money of the soil tyrant, but I didn't expect the adults to come."

In addition to the remaining large amount of food and baggage, the soil tyrant is these four boxes of treasures, and the last general is thinking about how to deal with it.

Wang Chaoyang was overjoyed, walked to the side of the cargo box in three steps and two steps, opened the box with a sword, took a silver ingot of white flowers in his hand and played with it, and took the huge pearls to his eyes to take a closer look, and the whole person looked very excited.

After half a pillar of incense like this, Wang Chaoyang suddenly stopped, looked up at Yang Xuan who was standing on the side, and said, "Zi Xiu, these, the local tyrant only has this money?" ”

Yang Xuan nodded and said, "My lord, I will search for a long time, only these four boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, as for the weight of other grains, I am currently counting." ”

Wang Chaoyang nodded, suddenly patted Yang Xuan on the shoulder, and said, "Zixiu, the old man is not mistaken, you are both civil and military, and you are a rare talent.

After defeating the local tyrants, the old man will promote you well, and don't bury talents like you. ”

Yang Xuan's heart was full of disgust, but he repeatedly bowed his hand to express his gratitude.

Wang Chaoyang waved his hand, and the personal soldiers of the General's Mansion rushed in, put on the ropes and were about to carry these belongings.

Yang Xuan was shocked in his heart, and arched his hand: "My lord, the brothers have not been paid for two months, the soldiers of my left division have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield this time, can you allocate a little money and two rewards to the meritorious soldiers?" ”

Wang Chaoyang snorted coldly, glared at Yang Xuan, and said with a rather dissatisfied appearance: "Zixiu, it has been ten days since you were promoted to general, right?"

According to the rules of our camp, we always need to pay 500 taels of money, and you gave 100 taels last month, and there is still a difference of 400 taels.

Although you have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, my family must also eat, and I also have to send money to my boss.

I don't care what I do, this time I will give the four hundred taels of silver as a reward to everyone. ”

Although Yang Xuan was extremely dissatisfied, he didn't dare to show it, and said yes again and again, sending Wang Chaoyang to leave with these four boxes of treasures and return to his big tent of the Chinese army set up in Erdaokan.

Since the main force of the official army is attacking the position of Longjiao Mountain, according to the plan, after capturing the ancient city of Yunshan, it will be moved to Longjiao Mountain, and after sending Wang Chaoyang away, Yang Xuan ordered to kill pigs and sheep, and treat everyone well.

At the banquet, Yang Xuan announced that the battle had captured two thousand taels of silver, and according to the level of military exploits, the highest one could be rewarded with five taels, the general one had three taels, and the worst one had two taels of silver.

This was a big surprise to everyone, in front of everyone's eyes, everyone saw the general leading his own soldiers to carry four boxes of gold, silver and jewelry away, there were rumors in the army that there was no reward for this battle, and I didn't expect to take out more than 800 taels of silver as a reward for the trick.

After the banquet, I found Uncle Wang and other villagers to talk about their lives in the past few years.

Although everyone is a villager, Yang Xuan used to be a young owner, a showman, and a deputy leader, while the others were all strong in the village, and now seeing Yang Xuan bring food, everyone chatted while drinking, and many people kowtowed again and again to express their gratitude.

In the past few years, natural disasters have continued, the harvest in the field is limited, the government has expropriated violently, and everyone has lived a hard life, but there is still a way to live.

However, since the disturbance in Yao Huang in northern Sichuan a few years ago, local thugs have infiltrated the mountain village every now and then to kidnap the big families in the village and extort ransom, which has caused panic and the place is not peaceful.

Since last year, the power of the local rioters has increased greatly, and they have taken control of the villages, and everyone has no day of peace.

When the farming is busy, the local tyrants will also release everyone back to cultivate the crops, but when the farming is slack, they will coerce the local people to become homeless, and when they rob large families and attack prefectures and counties, they will strengthen their momentum and entangle the officials and soldiers on the battlefield.

The father and son of the Wang family used to be tenant farmers, working in the fields all the year round, and working for a short time when the farm was slack.

This time the official army is menacing, except for the three thousand old thieves brought out from Bazhou and Dazhou,

The vast majority of them were villagers from the surrounding areas, and one by one they were forcibly conscripted into the army and used as hard labor.

Talking about what happened to the local rioters this month, everyone couldn't help but burst into tears, claiming that they would basically walk in hell.

In the army, in addition to doing all kinds of coolies, everyone drank a bowl of porridge at every meal, and from time to time their lives were in danger.

In order to confuse the officers and soldiers, the local tyrants often let a young and strong man run in front of him with a banner, while the others were dressed in colorful clothes, wielding hoes, steel drills, axes, shovels, etc., and if they ran or could not keep up, they would be severely beaten at least and hacked to death on the spot.

Ten days ago, the formation was arranged, Uncle Wang was old and weak, and if it weren't for Wang Gao's desperate protection, he would have almost been killed by a leader.

In addition to thanking everyone for rescuing everyone from the sea of suffering, some even inquired about whether the army was recruiting.

Now that natural disasters are continuous, the soldiers are in chaos, and now Yang Xuan is the general manager in the army, if he can enlist in the army, he can not only take care of each other, but also may have a good background.

Yang Xuan originally had this intention, just like everyone went out to work after the reform and opening up, if that one became famous in other places, the surrounding villagers would inevitably flock to it.

At present, control over the army is limited, and if there are a large number of villagers in the army, absolute control over the army can be strengthened.

However, if it is not used well, there are still many drawbacks, such as Yan Xishan to Wutai Mountain villagers during the Republic of China, and ****** to Zhejiang villagers are bad demonstrations.

Now the audience mentioned that in addition to expressing his welcome, Yang Xuan was telling everyone about the enlistment procedures and those tests needed, and hoped that everyone would start from the grassroots level and not engage in specialization in the army.

Although everyone has such and such thoughts in their hearts, they still seem very simple on the surface, swearing by swearing, and claiming that they will never embarrass people, so Yang Xuan is a little relieved.