Chapter 34: Slaves
"Throw away your weapon, hold your head in your hands, lie on the ground, and if you resist, kill immediately." After annihilating the bandits who resisted and fled, Yang Wenli and the other teenagers walked out of the woods where they were hiding, and came to the bandits who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and commanded loudly.
"Adults spare their lives", "Adults spare their lives", "I was forced to join", "I just ......" The bandits kneeling on the ground were terrified and desperately begged for mercy.
"Shut up, whoever dares not listen to my orders, and if you make any loud noise, you will be killed immediately." Yang Wenli scolded sharply, and at the same time gave an order to the family members.
"Yes," the ten teenagers immediately responded. They had bows and arrows in their hands, and if anyone dared to scream again, they would be killed immediately.
Yang Wenli's loud shout finally woke up a group of bandits who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, they obediently threw away the weapons in their hands, lay on the ground, held their heads in their hands, and didn't dare to make a sound anymore, even if their teeth chattered with fright, they only bit their lips.
This is not to scare people, the people who have just been killed, they still remember it vividly! They had no doubt that if one of the unlucky people dared to disobey, they would be shot immediately.
"Renxuan Renhuang, take them over there one by one, and I'll interrogate them individually." Seeing that the bandits were honestly lying on their stomachs, Yang Wenli pointed to a big tree about a hundred meters away and ordered.
"Yes," Ren Xuan, Ren and Huang immediately responded by hitting their chests.
After the young master left, Ren Xuan, Ren and Huang grabbed the shoulders of a bandit, lifted him up effortlessly, and walked under the big tree instructed by the young master.
It was only at this time that the bandits really saw who had captured them.
They are not very old, there are only a dozen of them, but they are all born with big shoulders and round waists, tall figures, and between words and deeds, they are full of military spirit, like officers and soldiers, but they are not officers and soldiers, and they may be the family members of any general. No wonder they are so powerful, there are no false examples, killing people is as simple as killing chickens.
"Bah" The bandit was thrown to the ground by Ren Xuan Ren Huang, and at the same time ordered sharply: "Get down"
The bandits did not dare to resist and obediently lay on their stomachs. He had just seen the leader of this group, the same dress, the same toughness, the same youth, but more majestic, as if he was the head of a family.
"What hill are you from? What is the name of the big boss? How many people are left behind in the cottage? Quickly recruit from the truth, if there is deception, you will not be spared. Yang Wenli asked sharply.
"Adults, the small ones must know that they are speechless, they believe everything, the small ones are in Happy Valley, there are still twenty miles of mountain roads from here, the big boss is called the winged tiger, and there are more than 100 old and young people left behind in the cottage." The bandits answered honestly one by one, but they were born to be articulate.
Yang Wenli didn't know anything about these bandits, and he couldn't judge the truth of the bandits' words, so he asked him again: "Among your surviving bandits, who is full of evil?" Or who else is the leader? You'll identify them one by one. Remember, I will interrogate you one by one, and if you lie, you will die on the spot. ”
"The little ones don't dare, the small ones don't dare to deceive the adults, I will definitely report and make meritorious contributions." When the bandit saw that he didn't want to kill him, he could avoid death by reporting it, so he immediately swore an oath.
In this way, Yang Wenli interrogated them one by one individually, so as to judge the truth of the bandits' confessions, and as long as there were more than three people who were jointly identified by the bandits, they would be immediately killed on the spot.
Now the bandits are even more afraid, the family who wielded the knife and killed, that one is fast! I saw a flash of silver light like lightning, and the bandit was dressed in a different place, and the knife was put into the sheath, and the bandit spurted blood on his neck, which shows how fast the speed is?
These people are like killing gods from hell, their kung fu is amazing, and their strength is amazing, as if they were born for killing, and the remaining bandits who were lucky to survive were scared and trembled like chaff, and they did not dare to disobey in the slightest.
There are not many real backbones and leaders of the bandits, and most of the rest of the minions are coerced, and there are still nearly 200 bandits after the inspection.
These bandits are what Yang Wenli really needs, they don't do much evil, and they still have a chance to reform.
"Those of you who are lucky to have survived, although you have not done much evil, but you have always been bandits and accomplices, and the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime is unforgivable.
Now I have reduced you to slavery, and I have chosen fifty of them to give to my servants, and you must obey your master's commands with faith, and if you disobey, you will live or die.
However, God has the virtue of a good life, and I also give you the opportunity to make meritorious deeds, and if the slaves have been trained by your masters, they have assiduously practiced the ability to kill the enemy, and if they have made meritorious service in future battles and killed more than 10 enemies, they can be turned into ordinary privates, and ordinary privates can make new meritorious deeds, and if they kill or capture more than 30 people, they can be turned into honorable soldiers.
My family is now a soldier, and a soldier can have five more slaves, and a soldier can also have a salary and divide the land.
Above the soldiers are the non-commissioned officers, and the non-commissioned officers can command up to ten ten soldiers, and the non-commissioned officers are divided into seven levels......"
Yang Wenli preached the military merit promotion system and the extremely important non-commissioned officer system in public, so that these bandits understood that slaves were not for life, and could be promoted to ordinary privates, that is, the civilian class, by virtue of military merit.
In the future, the troubled times will affect the world, and pure farming only exists in the ideal, so he will learn from the system of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and establish the Tuntian system.
Under his rule, there were no pure peasant households, and each household had to have one or more men as soldiers, otherwise they could only be tenants, that is, he divided all the fields among his soldiers or non-commissioned officers. A soldier is a soldier in peacetime and a soldier in wartime, so that he can reserve a large number of soldiers.
There is nothing wrong with the tuntian system itself, Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty and Taizu of this dynasty have implemented it, and they have played a great role at that time, and both of them have won the world, but they were later abolished by corrupt officials.
Yang Wenli will learn from the methods of Yongye Tian in later generations, and the legislation strictly prohibits the sale and purchase of land, and makes exceptions to urban expansion and road construction approved by the central government. In other words, it is only allowed for public use. This greatly limited the opportunities for later officials to encroach on the land, ensuring the long-term implementation of the tuntian system.
These slave soldiers, usually help their masters farm, and accept the master's training in their spare time, and when there is a war, they must accompany their masters to the battlefield and help their masters fight, which is similar to Houjin's Ahha, except that they are not lifelong and can be promoted by military merit.
"Thank you, Lord for not killing" A group of bandits kneeling on the ground, after listening to Yang Wenli's preaching, immediately shook their heads and thanked them.
Yang Wenli only had ten family members, each of them was given five slaves, only fifty people, and there were about 200 bandits on the scene, and the remaining 150 people, Yang Wenli planned to organize them into a slave tuntian army, mainly farming, and also practicing in their spare time, but only when there was a major war, they were recruited to fight.
The income from their farming is returned to the public, and they only keep basic food rations, and they cannot own property, marry wives and have children. Only by making military exploits can one have the opportunity to become a civilian.
…… To be continued