Chapter 100: Everything is in preparation

In the Zhuangzi near the Wulou Mountain, to be precise, it is now Jiang Feng's manor, but now it seems to be a hell on earth, the village does not have a name, because there are five watchtowers nearby, the mountain is called Wulou Mountain, although the distance between the village is more than ten miles, but it has also been changed to Wulouzhuang by Jiang Feng, who wants to save time.

This Zhuangzi originally had more than a dozen families, most of whom made a living from hunting, and although it was close to the official road, it was located on a platform halfway up the mountain. However, there were no tax collectors who came to harass them, and neither the bandits nor the horse bandits would pay attention to such a place where there was no oil or water at all.

Therefore, when Zhao Xiucai came here to buy the whole Zhuangzi, a total of more than a dozen families were merged into Jiang Feng's family after getting the promise that Zhao Xiucai would not collect more than 20% of the rent and not buy and sell the population in the village, anyway, each family still had a dozen taels of silver to take.

And there is also the protection of the official, why not do it.

It is getting closer and closer to the end of the year, and the men in the Zhuangzi are all going into the mountains to hunt, and the game at this time is particularly easy to sell, and there is no need to keep people guarding the Zhuangzi at this time, because at this time, dozens of officers and soldiers of the Imperial Horse Prison lived in the fifth floor of the village, and there were one hundred and thirty young people from the Tianjin Guard.

After they began to settle down, the villagers heard that these young people were all bought to farm, who would have thought that a few days later, dozens of officers and soldiers from the Beijing camp would come immediately, and for these young people they were now the children of military households, and they also sent them papers.

The young men were all mad with joy, and some cried out with tears:

"I can finally eat the emperor's food!"

The people in the fifth-floor village are all wondering, why are these people so happy, but the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp who came are not as evil as the legend, on the contrary, they are honestly set up tents outside, if they want to eat and drink, they are all bought with regular money.

But what could be stranger?

"Fuck you, haven't you had enough to eat, and you've only moved a few rocks? Prepare for the old boys to be frozen outside all the time! ”

With an angry curse, several officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion gathered together, holding whips and sticks in their hands against the unlucky man, slashing his head and covering his face, and screaming continuously, on the flat ground around the fifth floor village, more than a hundred young men who had been bought, or recruits, were moving stones to build houses.

It's just that this house is so big that it almost encloses the whole Zhuangzi, and what materials will be there in the village halfway up the mountainside, so that all the things need to be carried by these recruits from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, and the fifty officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion who came to claim to "receive" them do not do any work at all, and what they do is to supervise the work, and the methods are extremely cruel, if anyone is one step slower.

Immediately surrounded a few people and beat them up, these recruits were still thinking there, it was not easy to eat an imperial grain, maybe patience would pass, I didn't think that moving stones and repairing houses were just trivial things, and the beating was not a big deal, and they couldn't even eat enough.

The officers and soldiers of the guard station spent money to hire the women in the village to cook for them, and the money was full of money, naturally good wine and meat, and some people regularly sent some cured meat, lo-mei or something from the city, as well as a jar of good wine, every noon and evening, the aroma of wine and meat really overflowed.

But these recruits, not to mention wine and meat, it is good to be able to eat chaff and vegetables, and they are all confined in a few broken grass houses, they are really cold and hungry, and they are either beaten or scolded during the day, which is completely different from the idle situation of the Tianjin Guards they have seen.

On the night of the seventh day of coming to the village, these young men ran out together in the middle of the night, but before they reached the bottom of the mountain, the officers and soldiers behind them chased after them on horseback.

This time it was even more tragic, the next day only gave a bowl of cabbage soup to drink, everyone was almost severely whipped dozens of times, and by the tenth day, these young people who were happily preparing to join the guard house have learned an idiom, and deeply understand the meaning of this idiom - life is better than death.

Can't run, in the hell on earth, there are a few weak-willed people who are looking for death, but they didn't expect that it is not easy to die, they are hungry to death, hunger strike is absolutely impossible, if they hang, not to mention that the rope is not easy to find, and it is not easy to find a tree with a crooked neck, and before they can hang it, the soldiers who oversee it touched it like ghosts, and they were beaten again.

You can't survive, you can't die, that's the effect.

Since the fifth floor village was bought, the villagers are quite surprised to find that not only do they not have to pay any fees, but there are a lot of more inputs, first of all, the game that their own men hunt will be bought at a price one or two percent higher than the market price, and then in the past, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar had to be bought from the town under the mountain, at this time someone sent over, and there are some officers and soldiers on the mountain who pay for wine and meat to eat and drink every day, and never disturb the people, this day is a lot of ironing.

The mother-in-law of the fifth-floor village is now also shiny on her face, and they are all characters who can go up the mountain to hunt with rough hands and feet, and they are all very open, and the officers and soldiers who come are also very well-behaved, so whenever they have leisure, they take their children or go to the neighbors for a walk. Or it is sometimes quite interesting to watch the 'recruits' work as coolies outside the Zhuangzi, and to watch others suffer.

On the side, there was a child wearing a thick cotton jacket looking at the young people who were desperately carrying the stone wall not far away, of course, he didn't know what it was, but he just looked at the big brothers who were working hard there in the distance and were very miserable, and couldn't help but wonder and asked the mother standing on the side:

"Mother, why don't these big brothers wear padded jackets."

"Child, my mother told you, when you grow up, don't go to the army......"

These people in Wulouzhuang seem to have been forgotten, the hottest news in Beijing is the so-called "Han and Mongolian Quanxi", Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is from the hands of Meng Yuan to seize the world, although it shows that the dynasty is indeed the orthodoxy of the Han family, but after all, the Yuan Dynasty has ruled in China for nearly a hundred years. Some dietary customs have been used, such as the imperial diet of the Ming Dynasty, or beef and mutton as the main force, so at that time, among the Ming people, the living standard of Mongolia in the north was still quite high.

It turned out to be ethereal, and the ring that everyone had speculated about had become a real thing, and the buying eunuch of Shang Shan Jian said to people he knew that when he was waiting for the chief eunuch Chen Gou'er and a few old Hanlin to drink wine that day, he had already begun to agree on the regulations, saying that he would first select a qualified restaurant restaurant, and then gather together to make good dishes for people to taste.

All the restaurants with a high level of relationship have already taken action, looking for a relationship to find a relationship, and spending money that has nothing to do with it, you must inquire clearly, in case your own business is not within the scope of selection, then you can't do business.

"As long as you enter the primary selection of the competition, you need to pay two hundred taels of silver as the entry fee, and those who directly enter the second selection will pay five hundred taels, as long as you pay the silver, you will pay a small plaque made of brass, and find a famous person to write 'Hanmeng full participants', if it is the winner, write 'Daming Cuisine', and then let Chen Gonggong sign Shang Chef, and must also let those Hanlin sign."

Zhao Xiucai, who was sitting on the side, wrote with a dragon flying and phoenix, and he just finished writing after Jiang Feng finished speaking, but raised his head and said:

"Owner, isn't this too expensive, will anyone participate?"

"Most of these restaurants rely on official noodles to eat, if you don't participate in this ring, whether anyone goes to them to eat is a problem, this money not only has to be taken out, it must still be rushed out, you don't have to feel sorry for them, as long as you enter this ring, it is difficult not to make money!?

Seeing the puzzled expression on Zhao Xiucai's face, Jiang Feng picked up the tea and took a sip, not wanting to explain too much, this is a modern marketing method, the restaurant cried and shouted to send money to the TV station, for fear that the other party would not accept it. In order to get on the "X Han Quanxi", the restaurant where I worked at that time also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to go once, but I won the last place, but the business volume jumped a few steps, which made the restaurant owner shout that it was worth it.

On the table was a letter from Chen Dahu from the village on the fifth floor, which said that more than a dozen of the 100 young people had fallen ill, and dozens of others wanted to make a riot, but they had nothing to eat, and they suffered a great loss under the close supervision of the officers and soldiers.

After thinking about the days, and also tossing those young people for almost a month, Jiang Feng smiled secretly and said:

"Lao Zhao, wait a minute, write a letter to Dahu and bring it to Dahu, let them say, those who are sick should find a Langzhong for treatment, and let Chen Dahu spread the news in private, saying that he wants to sell these young people and go to the north to guard the beacon tower."

As soon as he heard this, Zhao Xiucai also laughed along, at this time, someone outside ran over, and both of them heard Zhang Liang's footsteps, and sure enough, as soon as the cotton curtain in the wing room was opened, Zhang Liang walked in with a long burden under his arm.

After Zhang Liang entered the house, he pretended to be mysterious and said:

"Master, the fire gun is here."

Jiang Feng stared at the long and thick burden rather suspiciously, and hesitated for a long time before asking:

"Are you sure you didn't bring artillery?"