In the evening, the group of displaced people stopped at a pick-up point, and Bagan finally remembered that he had something to do, said hello, and took the soldiers to the surrounding guards, and the common people asked for a bowl of hot porridge to drink, and felt a little more at ease, and each sat in a circle and lit a bonfire to keep warm.

"You taste what it is, it's delicious!" Su He threw a few steaming round lumps from the fire and stuffed them to his companions, and everyone was very embarrassed, but their stomachs rumbled and they took it with a red face, and the two children immediately devoured them.

"This is a yam egg, the chief soldier sent someone to teach us to plant it in Baode, a good thing, the yield is high and I am hungry." Li Mao took two bites and gave the remaining half to his son.

"Have you four brothers figured it out? Come to our hundred households, we don't have a rich lord there, and the officials are also good people who can be trusted by the common people, and no one will bully you. Su He was bent on pulling his companions into his village - the two blacksmiths were rare talents, and the two eighteen or nineteen-year-old Suide were strong and strong, and they were also capable of working, and the villagers would like them.

The four of them glanced at each other and agreed with a smile, but the little girl interjected: "However, the eldest brother said that their thousands of households are adjacent to the Yellow River, and some of them are fertile river beaches, and they are also close to their hometown, so I think he is not bad there." ”

Hao Heizi glared at her sister, and the little girl blushed and stopped talking.

At dawn, Bagan came again, followed by a woman and a ten-year-old boy, who looked like mother and son, with sad faces, tears in the corners of their eyes, and white cloth wrapped around their heads, as if someone had died in the family.

Bagen said that the mother and son are from Fugu, a large family came out to escape the famine, the relatives died on the road, scattered, and the man was also killed by the official army, leaving the mother-in-law and the mother and son to rely on each other, and the mother-in-law also died of illness last night, and there was no way to do the funeral in the wilderness, he found a few people to dig a pit and buried the old man, but the mother and son had nowhere to go, and they still had to follow the team out of the customs, he wanted to ask Su and the eldest brother to bring people with him.

Su He looked at the mother and son, nodded and said, "It's no problem to bring people, but the livestock can't bear it." ”

"This is easy to do, I can still take a ride on this horse, I can walk by myself," Bagan pulled the horse over and shouted to the little girl in the car, "Chuncao girl, you get on my horse, I will lead you, and it will be okay to keep it." ”

Chuncao agreed and got out of the car, Hao Heizi pushed Bagen away, "I'll take the reins" said and hugged his sister on the horse, Bagen found a hole to grab Hao Heizi, and said in a low voice: "Heizi, when you get to the place, go to the twenty-four thousand households, follow me, remember?" ”

A day later, the team went out of the customs to the camp outside the customs, Su He took his companions and went to the scribe to report, the scribe quickly registered the names and places of origin of these people, and said vigorously that they had chosen a good place, Baita Village was the hometown of the great commander, and the land was fertile, and the water and grass were abundant, but when the mother and son were registered, he shook his head.

"Your mother and son are considered Wuding's family, and the work of the guard is too heavy for you to bear, so the Great Commander's Mansion ordered that the Wuding family will not be guarded for the time being, but will be settled in the Barbarian Mountain first, and then assigned to each guard as appropriate, which is also a good thing for you." The scribe explained.

"Who brought you here? Come with me right away, everyone said okay! Bagen suddenly rushed in, picked up the Hao Heizi brothers and sisters and left, and shouted to the scribe, "You don't count, they are from my twenty-four thousand households." ”

The scribe changed the register with a smile, Bagen is the person who came out of the commander's side, and no one has to give some face, Liu Erhu was about to chase after Su He and stopped him-"Bagen is an orphan who grew up in Bansheng, and he has a good heart!" The Kuroko brothers and sisters can't afford to lose anything from him. ”

"Sister-in-law of the Zhou family, I will send you to Barbarian Mountain, you and Zhuzi, mother and son can't work, and they will be punished if they are assigned to the guard, and the Great Commander's Mansion is for your sake!" Su He said to the mother and son again.

In mid-September, Zhao Ji and Wang Ziyong led Zhang Ding and Qiu Xian's subordinates to escort the last batch of displaced people out of the customs, so far all 150,000 displaced people entered Fengzhou.

Zhao Ji saw Li Yu, opened his mouth to scold the Ming court and the government, he was in Baode during this period, both soft and hard to force the government to pay for food, the Chahar Khan blackmailed the Ming State that all the routines, and even put on a posture to forcibly go out of Datong, but the effect was not great, before and after only three or four thousand stone grains, to the end of the Ming State government saw them coming, immediately closed the city gate, with them to make trouble is to ignore, Zhao Ji is now very sympathetic to Chahar Khan, want to ask for some food from the Ming State is really difficult!

"We lost, not only did we not reap the benefits, but the nearly 10,000 acres of land reclaimed by Baode and Hequ were also cheaper for the government." Zhao Ji said distressedly.

"Forget it, you're nothing, I'm in trouble!" Li Yu lowered his head in frustration, pointed to a letter on the table and said, "The debt collector is coming." ”

Zhao Ji noticed that not only Li Yu was listless, but Li Huai and Du Hongtai in the big tent were also pale, he hurriedly opened the letter to read, the letter was written by Li Fugui, the two creditors who lent us 40,000 taels of silver arrived in Datong, and sent someone to inform us to repay 80,000 taels of silver with interest, but the sum of the silver in the treasury is not enough to this amount, he has invited the two creditors to come to Barbarian Mountain to discuss, and the other party has also agreed, and it will be there in a few days, please ask the commander and the prime minister to make an idea as soon as possible.

"Loan sharks dare to come to my house to ask for it, these two guys are too bold, they are not afraid that we will hack them," Zhao Ji shouted in a fuss, seeing that Li Yu ignored it, he carefully proposed to Li Yu, "Otherwise, we are thick-skinned, why don't I hide with you for a while." ”

"Let's go back to Manhan Mountain." Li Yu looked at Zhao Ji for a while and said.

Barbarian Mountain, Li Yu returned to the Great Commander's Mansion, and anxiously brought the officials to discuss, everyone's opinion is that there is no way to repay the money, and if there is money, they will not pay it back, who called them so black-hearted, Li Yu listened to it like a pins and needles, his name was written on the IOU, and his face was lost.

"Second brother, Brother Meng Qing, the three of us are the handlers, there must be an explanation," Li Yu looked at Li Huai and Du Hongtai, and when he saw that the two of them lowered their heads and did not speak, he turned his face and asked Li Fugui, "Brother Nianfeng, you have the most ideas, what do you say?" ”

"It's not a big deal, I'll leave this matter to me," Li Fugui yawned and explained to everyone, "You haven't dealt with businessmen, you don't understand their minds, in fact, people have other plans from the beginning, have you ever seen someone ask the poor for usury?" I discussed it with March, and it was nothing more than a matter of bargaining, otherwise they would never have dared to come to the door. ”

Li Yu felt a little relieved, and immediately asked about the training and hiring of the leaders of the displaced people--there is a serious shortage of officials in various health centers, so they are waiting for these people to take up their posts. Yun Rong silently put a stack of thick paperwork on Li Yu's desk at this time, Li Yu flipped through it, his face quickly turned blue, and beckoned Wang Ziyong to come and see, Wang Ziyong only glanced at it a few times, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Grand Commander, I admit my mistakes, I repent, I want to be a new man, I have let go of those two concubines." Zhao Sheng, who took the first step back to Barbarian Mountain, cried bitterly and said.

"Sven sweeps the floor, the Great Commander give me a chance, I don't dare anymore." Bai Yuzhu also shouted.

The whole room burst into laughter, Zhang Mengcun and Zhang Miao's cheeks twitched a few times, and they also laughed dryly, Wang Ziyong wiped a handful of cold sweat, and said to Li Yu with a wry smile: "Our group of people started out of recklessness and did a lot of bad things, if the commander wants to be punished, we have nothing to say, but please the commander for the sake of us defecting to Fengzhou and sincerely reforming our ways, give us another chance to be a new person." ”

"I didn't expect that they were all born in ordinary people, and they were all forced to rebel and beg for a way out, why are they so ruthless to the people, and the poorer the people, the more ruthless they are, look at it, Zhang Ding was born as an officer but has the best character, no one sued him, Zhang Mengcun's rich family was born in addition to forcing the people to follow the thief, there is no bad deeds, Zhang Miaoshou is also an honest person, Bai Yuzhu and Zhao Sheng robbing women as concubines are also light, your king uses himself to rob the people of life food, and coerce the people to take the lead, I don't care about these, anyone who kills, robs, and rapes, I will give him a chance, but what about these people? Do they still have a human touch on them? Slaughtering every village and village, arresting groups of women from good families into the camp and gang-raping and killing, cooking people for food and drinking for fun, what is the difference between these people and Lao Zhang Fei and Youlili, can I still give him a chance? You still want to rebel, you are worse than the Ming dog officials, and you are a tyrant in the world! ”

Li Yu jumped like thunder and yelled, Wang Ziyong and the others were so frightened that their faces turned pale and sweated like rain, and the tension in the lobby was suffocating for a while.

"Hanmes, calm down, the mob will start from ****, the Ming Kingdom is the founding of the country with tyranny, there are countless outrageous things, today's things are inevitable, what is the use of you being angry with them, now is the time for me to employ people in Fengzhou, or to train them." Li Fugui said softly.

"That's right, it's all the evil of the Ming Kingdom that makes the people tyrannical, this is for a reason, and we can't be blamed entirely." Bai Yuzhu said immediately.

"Mingguo Dog Official is too bad, we all did bad things when we were dizzy, we will never come to Fengzhou again." Zhao Sheng followed to help.

Zhang Mengcun and Zhang Miaoshou also hurriedly said good things, and by the way, they also scolded the Ming Kingdom, in short, the thieves did bad things and the Ming court taught them. Li Yu glanced at a few of them, thought for a while, took out a few pieces of paper from the official document, and said to Wang Ziyong solemnly: "I'll give you another chance, but these dozen people can't use it, give them two ways, or stay in Fengzhou and start from scratch to start a new leaf, or give them the money to go back to the customs to find a way to survive, you go and do this." ”

Li Yu said to everyone again: "This matter is over, no one will mention it in the future, burn all these official documents, I feel disgusted, I don't want to read it anymore, and let Wang Fang's discipline stop immediately, and the Great Commander's Office will arrange the errand of the leader of the displaced people at its discretion." ”

Ortai said with a smile: "It should be so, but the Great Commander should still take a look, they are training in the Inspection Division, what Wang Fang did is really unheard of!" ”

Wang Fang proposed to discipline and train the leaders of the homeless people, Li Huai of course agreed, and handed over the errand to him casually, Wang Fang proudly took the leaders to the Barbarian Mountain to start training, at first it was relatively relaxed, good food and drink, and went casually when you wanted to say hello, Li Fugui and Ortai came to teach just to talk about the situation and rules of Fengzhou, and the leaders felt that the days were so mixed, and the hearts they were carrying were also put down. The turning point of the matter appeared in the evaluation of virtue and talent, Wang Fang clearly told them that the evaluation results are the main basis for awarding officials, but Fengzhou cannot know their details, so they are invited to evaluate by themselves, and who will not praise each other, and the evaluation result is naturally that everyone is a good talent. Wang Fang is in trouble, everyone can't open the gap, this big official and small official can't be separated, since everyone is the same, it will definitely not be the same bad, let's just not evaluate the praise and disadvantage, the leaders also have a headache, after all, everyone wants to step on others to be a big official, at this time, there will be small reports and bad things about others. Wang Fang was very dissatisfied with this kind of individual behavior, telling everyone to do things upright and bright, not to engage in conspiracy and tricks, he asked everyone to reflect on the bad things they had done in public, and others were responsible for supervising and exposing them, and everyone must pass the test, until the person who did the least bad things, that is, those who have good ability and political integrity to be a big official are evaluated. Since then, the so-called discipline has gone out of shape, the leaders first casually said something that doesn't matter the pain, but gradually dug deeper and deeper, everyone's ugly things can no longer be hidden, and each other has changed from small quarrels to big fights, and in the end it is simply to the death, not only do they expose each other, but even Wang Ziyong, Zhao Sheng, Bai Yuzhu, Zhang Mengcun and others who have gone ashore have also been dragged into the water. Wang Fang was taken aback, thinking that they were deeply sinful and must reflect from the depths of their souls in order to redeem themselves, and called on everyone to continue to dig deep and criticize fiercely, and at the same time invited a few virtuous lamas to teach them the Dharma, which was even more chaotic, and the leaders of the displaced people wept bitterly every day to confess to the Buddha, and then gritted their teeth to expose their companions, and taught for half a month, and none of them passed.

Li Yu, Ortai, and Bai Yuzhu accompanied by Han Dagong, the inspection envoy, arrived at the inspection department not far from the Great Commander's Mansion, and a personal review was being carried out in the compound, which was presided over by Wang Fang, the director of the mission department, more than 200 big and small leaders sat honestly on the ground, and a group of people from the inspection department watched the excitement on the side, Bai Yuzhu walked further and more frightened, and found a place to sit down outside the courtyard and did not leave, Han Dagong waved his hand to the patrol who stood guard, and led Li Yu and Ortai into the gatehouse.

Now standing in front of the review is the scorpion block Tuoyangkun, this is his third time, the first two times did not pass, the scorpion block while crying while explaining his own problems, he said that he has been lazy since he was a child, refused to do farm work, and bullied children younger than him, when he grew up, he did not do his job, idle, stole things from people in the same village, became a soldier and did not do good things, stole the ordnance of the military camp in exchange for wine and meat, gambled and cheated with colleagues, robbed the people's property, sent troops to the king as a deserter, and after the rebellion, he did all the bad things, robbery, murder, He has done all the things that he has done to rape women and forced the people to fight, and he has also secretly hidden the looted property, swallowed up other people's young and strong, and he is not honest during the training, often complains and confronts the teaching, and does not dare to comment on others openly but makes small reports.

Tuoyangkun said with tears in his eyes: "Brothers, I used to think that I was not bad, but after the teaching, I realized that I was not a good person at all. ”

After Tuo Yangkun finished speaking, he bowed to Wang Fang and the people who were sitting, and then stood aside and waited for everyone's comments, Wang Fang said to everyone kindly: "Brother Tuo said very well today, he has done a deep reflection on himself, and he does have a heart of repentance, everyone said that he can pass the test?" ”

"Can't!" Almost unanimously responded.

"Scorpion block, you stole the neighbor's chicken when you were a child, you taught you a big lesson, not only did you not listen, but you also snatched the stick in your big hand and threw it into the ditch, you are not filial, why don't you confess such a big thing, you are still not honest!" People from the same village exposed.

"Scorpion block, you are still avoiding the important and light, why don't you say that you gave the robbed woman to Gao Yingxiang, Gao Yingxiang dares to fight against my Fengzhou army is a thief, you shield the thief is a thief, do you still want to be a thief?" Former colleagues exposed.

Tuo Yangkun wiped his tears and went down to sit in the sound of revelation, he still didn't pass this time, the next one to appear was Guo Tianxing Hui Dengxiang, this guy howled and cried as soon as he stood in front, bowing vigorously to everyone, Wang Fang handed him a bowl of water, let him calm down.

"Brothers, spare me, I even confessed to peeking at a woman taking a bath, I really can't think of anything else, give me a chance to be a new person!" Whitden wept and pleaded.

"No, this is a confrontation with the instructor, and he can't be let through." Immediately someone shouted.

"Put him in a dark room and reflect." More and more people shouted.

Hui Dengxiang cried even more, and Wang Fang came over to comfort him softly: "Brother Hui, you go and reflect for a day, I will send you food and drink, think about it, why can't you pass the test?" ”

At this time, Li Yu's personal guard Wu Xian suddenly appeared and whispered a few words in Wang Fang's ear, Wang Fang excitedly shouted to everyone: "The Great Commander has come to visit everyone, please give a lecture!" ”

The leaders of the displaced people stood up at the same time and raised their arms to Li Yu who came over: "Great Commander Shenwu, Great Commander LinkedIn Ming!" ”……

Li Yu listened in the porter for a while, and the more he listened, the more he felt that he had to end this farce as soon as possible, so he walked out with Ortai.

Li Yu waved his hand, the neat slogan stopped immediately, and he said slowly to everyone: "Everyone has worked hard during this time, from now on the end of the training, everyone has a good rest, and the day after tomorrow to the Grand Commander's Mansion on an errand, it is still the same sentence, as long as he does good things for the people and does practical things, Fengzhou will not be able to treat him badly." ”

"Swear to be a Fengzhou person, not a Mingguo dog!" "Where there is freedom, there is home", and some people took the lead in shouting slogans.