Qingzhou County is composed of one workshop after another, each workshop has different functions, is divided into categories, and is responsible for different production, and they form the foundation of the entire Qingzhou County. In the city, no one is outside the system, everyone is a small part of the system, and they play their part in the system. So in Qingzhou City, you can't see the homeless, because the homeless people will all be expelled from the city, either go to the military camp outside the city to farm, or you will be left to fend for yourself.

This is the basis of Lu Ding's rule in Qingzhou for several years. At first glance, the county town is safe and secure, and the people are in peace and do their own thing, but these are the results of those accumulated bones far away from the county town.

Around the county are large farms, all of which are military camps, and the people in charge of farming here are all people who have been driven from all over the country. And the people who are not included in this system will not be humane because their lives are miserable.

Qingzhou covers a vast area, but in addition to the county seat and the surrounding dozens of miles, it can be described as a hundred miles of smoke, those villages that were originally lined with forests have long been occupied by wild grasses, and have become the home of birds and beasts.

Lu must have exchanged the desolation of the entire state and county for the deformed prosperity within dozens of kilometers around the county town, and exchanged the blood and tears of hundreds of people for the strength and strength of the army under his command. But no matter what he does, he can't reverse the general trend of the world after all, and when the people have a second choice, the result is beyond doubt.

Qingzhou changed hands in silence.

Ying Bo is a blacksmith who lives in Wuyi Lane, and the people who live in the market of Wuyi Lane are all related to iron smelting and iron fighting, and they are responsible for the production of weapons and armor of the entire Qingzhou soldiers. As blacksmiths, their status in Qingzhoufang City is slightly higher, and their treatment is a little better, but during this period of time, Ying Bo has been hungry for a long time.

There are five people in his family, he and his father are blacksmiths, his daughter-in-law also has a job sewing nail leaves together in the weapons workshop, and then there are two children, five people, three people work, but they can barely mix one to fill their stomachs, but a month ago, the old father was overworked and suddenly collapsed. In these markets, those who do not work are not allowed to eat, and when the father falls, he has less income and more mouth. How can he and his wife feed a family of five?

In the market, private fire is not allowed. This is also a means for Lu to save food and control everyone, when it comes to the meal, Ying Bo and his family took their own food home at their respective opening points, the food of the two people, the five people share the food, after a period of time, Ying Bo has lost a lot of weight.

Even so, it's because the father and daughter-in-law of the family try to save a little food for him, he is a blacksmith, and that is a hard work, how can he work if he is not full?

But how is it possible to be full? Since yesterday, my father has been lying on the bed without opening his mouth, even if the two of them kneel in front of the bed and beg the old man to eat, the old man should not close his eyes, he is actually going on a hunger strike to die.

Got up early in the morning, Ying Bo staggered a little and walked to the opening point with a rice basin, even if he knelt down today, he had to beg the chief who was in charge of the rice there, give a little more, Dad is also an old man in this city, who doesn't know that he is a good iron hand?

When he got up early in the morning, he was so hungry and panicked that he poured a stomach of cold water, and when he walked, he could almost hear the water in his stomach rattle. Their gang is not far from Fang City, and what makes him a little strange is that the fierce soldiers who stand at the entrance of Fang Market on weekdays have no shadows.

These soldiers are guarding the city, and they are not allowed to go out of this area, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and they have never seen anyone stationed here, but now, why can't anyone see it?

Ying Bo is not the only one who has the same doubts, there are more and more people in the entire Fang Market, and like Ying Bo, everyone is holding a rice bowl, but everyone's eyes are on the entrance of the Fang Market.

If something goes wrong, it is a demon, something must have happened, otherwise how could these soldiers stationed in Fang City disappear?

Ying Bo just glanced at it a few times, then turned his head and ran towards the opening point, now what he needs is a life-saving meal, whether there are soldiers stationed in Fang City or not, it has nothing to do with him. Grab the front, maybe you can scoop yourself a little more, if you get to the end, the rice bucket is gone, and it's impossible to get yourself a little.

The other residents in the city only looked at it curiously, and then they didn't pay attention to it, they were used to being detained here, even if there were no soldiers guarding it, none of them thought of getting out of the city.

In the market, there is at least one bite of food to eat, and when you walk out of here, you are afraid that you will starve to death.

Ying Bo rushed into the opening point, but the situation inside surprised him, the layout inside was very different from yesterday, an officer sat behind a table, with a thin sheet spread out in front, and behind him stood four guards standing with swords, these people were not Qingzhou soldiers, their armor styles were completely different.

Ying Bo was suddenly stupid. Looking up, in front of the rice buckets and vegetable buckets, there were not familiar rice heads, but soldiers wearing the same armor.

"Go there to register first, and then you can come and get the food after you register." The soldier behind the bucket banged on the edge of the bucket and yelled loudly.

Just hesitated for a moment, Ying Bo walked to the table, he smelled the smell of meat, there was meat today, when was the last time he ate meat, he didn't remember it at all.

"Name!" The officer picked up his pen.

"Ying Bo!"

…….

The officer asked in detail, what is the surname, who is best at making what, how many people in the family, what can they do, and they are registered one by one.

"Alright, let's go get food!" The officer waved his hand, and Ying Bo hurriedly walked to the rice bucket with the rice bowl.

"Sir, I also have a sick father at home, and two little dolls, both of whom are dying of hunger, can you give me more food?" Ying Bo begged the fierce-looking soldier with the hope of what happened, and the soldier in front of him had a striking scar on his face, which looked really scary.

The soldier glanced at him, and began to put rice into his rice bowl, one spoonful, two spoonfuls, three spoonfuls, Ying Bo was pleasantly surprised to see that the fierce-looking guy actually filled him with half a pot of rice, and then scooped up a spoonful of vegetables from another vegetable bucket and put it into the pot, it was a piece of big fat meat stewed yam.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, my dad is saved, and he won't starve to death." Looking at the full pot of food, Ying Bo bowed again and again, tears flowed for a long time.

"Let's go, let's go, next, next!" The Scar Soldier impatiently knocked on the rice bucket and drove him away. Ying Bo bowed again, then turned around and hurriedly ran in the direction of home, Dad hadn't eaten for a few days, only drank a little water, and if he didn't eat anything, he was afraid that he would really starve to death.

All the residents of the market who came to the meal this morning were very happy, because they all received much more food than before, and more importantly, meat. Usually they can barely eat enough, even if they receive enough food, they don't dare to eat it all at once, but carefully stay a little, such a good thing, I'm afraid it's just this one.

After the meal, the opening point was deserted, and the officer at the door flipped through the booklet in his hand, carefully put it into his arms, turned to look at the scar soldier, shook his head and said: "It's really pitiful, these are all craftsmen, in our Daming, these people are all treasures, here, they are not as good as dogs, alas."

The scar soldier looked at a row of empty rice buckets, and nodded again and again: "Yes, if it is in our Daming, these people are the objects of competition from the government, and it will be too miserable here, but their good days are coming, the general asked us to come in early to count the roster of these craftsmen, isn't it just to get them back, and when they get to Daming, they will turn over Luo, Lao Fang, don't look at your current dog-like appearance, after you retire, you will definitely not earn as much as them."

The officer agreed: "Yes, yes, who told us that we don't have a skill, except to cut people with knives."

"Lao Fang, you are still literate, unlike me, you can't read a basket of words, and in the future, you can only dig in the soil." Scar Soldier said. I'm about to retire."

"You can go to Taoyuan, I've heard that a fierce guy like you is most welcome there. Now where there are many Qin people, there are many barbarians, and the government there is recruiting retired soldiers to settle down there, and I heard that as soon as you go, you can be the head of a tun, specifically responsible for managing those Qin people, barbarians. Ordinary people can't stop them. As long as you are willing to go, the house, the land, and the cattle will be prepared for you, and you will receive another monthly salary."

"Old Fang, where did you hear this from?"

"I can read!" The old man said triumphantly: "I saw this official document a few days ago in the chief's place, but it has not been made public yet, you have to hurry up Luo, there are many people who retired this time. After this battle, your group will be retired, and it will be announced at that time. You're alone, it doesn't matter where you go, don't you?"

"It's a really good place to go." The scar soldier said happily: "I heard that those barbarians have more women and fewer men, where do they go, maybe they can still ask for a wife, I look like this, in Kaiping, no one wants to marry me."

"It's not bad to find a woman from the Qin Kingdom! is very hard-working, unlike our Ming lady, who is now more and more delicate, marrying a wife, and most of the little wealth saved is gone." The old party has palpitations in his heart.

The scar soldier laughed, the old man in front of him had just married a short time ago, and he was married to the lady of the Ming Dynasty.

Qingzhou has surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, their group of people is the advance soldiers sent out by Kaiping County to count the craftsmen of Qingzhou County in advance, these craftsmen, Kaiping County is determined to win, and they are ready to get them away and hide them first, lest the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court come to fight the autumn wind again. And the same scene is being staged in various markets in Qingzhou at the moment.

But anyone who has a skill is the object that Kaiping County wants to rob.