Chapter 17 The house is built
Liu Zheng is a little embarrassed, this is really left and right, it is impossible to return it if you accept it, and even these women will find it difficult to see their families in the future, and even can't survive in this area, after all, gossip can force people to death. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
If you don't accept it, there will also be a lot of gossip, after all, the people from the inspection department have already taken people away from home, what happened on the night they were taken away from home? Someone can weave flowers for you in three minutes!
Suddenly, Liu Zheng's brain lit up, he had an excellent idea, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he laughed twice and said: "No matter how many women they send tomorrow, they will accept it, damn these bastards, a hundred people for a stone of rice, they don't bargain, they really agree!" If you want to play, I'll play you to death! ”
"Someone is coming, call me the old craftsman Xu from Xiema Village......
After the day turned, the rooster crowed all over the place, Liu Zheng asked people to transport bags of rice and grain to the vicinity of the city gate, and when the sky was completely bright, the grain piled up at the city gate was already as high as a hill, except for an account room and a dozen rough envoys, the rest of the people were far away from the city gate, and even the people who built houses were withdrawn to a far place.
At the end of the day, the city gate slowly opened, and the first to come out was a team of soldiers of the inspection department, about 100 people, these people immediately formed a defensive formation after they came out, followed by rows of wheelbarrows, on the cars put a piece of silk cloth, about 20 cars or so, the convoy was finished, out of the line was a long line of men and women, these men were mostly wearing tattered jackets, but the women were different, although most of them were plainly dressed, but the few who walked in front were obviously not ordinary women.
When everyone left the city, the gates slowly closed with a creaking sound.
The people of Wuyangyang were piled up at the gate of the city, Liu Zheng sat on a horse in the distance and watched, there were at least three or four thousand people, of which about one-third were women, which means that there were at least more than a thousand women.
Liu Zheng sighed, greeted a few henchmen around him, lifted the reins, and slowly walked towards the city gate.
When this group of people appeared not far from the city gate, the soldiers of the inspection department saw it, and these people immediately became nervous, don't look at the less than ten people on horseback, but who knows if there is still an ambush behind these people, more than 30 archers pointed their arrows at Liu Zheng.
Liu Zheng's face was fearless, and when he came to the place where the grain was piled up, he sat on the horse and shouted to the soldiers of the Inspection Division: "Go, call Yu Tongzhi, I have something to say to him!" ”
At this time, in fact, Wang Jiabin, Yu Zheng and other officials were watching from the city tower, Liu Zheng was shouting, these people on the city tower heard it very clearly, Yu Zheng's face was black at the moment, don't look at him playing with intrigue and tricks, but if you really want to drag him to the surface, he will be strained accurately, after all, he is not a responsible material.
Yu Zheng really can't wait to scold Liu Zheng's ancestors for eighteen generations, I'm the first and second in command, what do you call me out to say? What do you think of your name Wang Jiabin? Will this person secretly remember my black materials, and then hand them over to someone, and when the matter is over, someone will secretly go to Beijing to play and shout a complaint?
But at this time, he was not allowed to think about it at all, Liu Zheng shouted again below, and the people on the city tower looked at Yu Zheng, Yu Zheng didn't dare to really go down to talk to Liu Zheng, gritted his teeth and shouted on the city tower.
"The traitor Liu Zheng, this official is Yu Zheng, the same governor of Qingzhou Mansion, this official is the official of the imperial court, this official tells you, you had better surrender quickly, this official can save your life, otherwise when the imperial army comes, you will die without a place to be buried!"
I'll go, Liu Zheng said in his heart, okay, life is like a drama all depends on acting skills, you are definitely a graduate of the Drama Academy.
I'll go, the officials on the city tower said in their hearts, okay, Lord Yu is really loyal to the court, I can't wait for it.
I'll go, the prefect Wang Jiabin said in his heart, this old boy is too bastard, and he always wants to create an image for himself that is not afraid of death and is inseparable from the traitor. Nima came to the court to ask for the guilt, and he really had to bear it all by himself.
"Dog officer, you are so rampant, a certain family will take your dog's head......"
Nima, who is this? Liu Zheng turned his head and found that it was Yuboda! Sighed softly, Nima, are you the old boy who invited you? Did you get a boxed lunch from him or from me?
Sure enough, I heard Yu Zheng shouting at the head of the city: "How can this official be afraid of you and other traitors, this official is an official of the imperial court, and this official is full of righteousness......"
Yu Zhengzheng's acting was cool, and he didn't want Liu Zheng to be in the city anymore, so he directly cut off his speech.
shouted to the city: "Okay, okay, don't pretend, I don't have time to come and see you give a speech, if you really want to give a speech, wait for us to leave, you can perform in the city until tomorrow!" ”
"I called you out to do business with you, not to hear you show loyalty to the court here, and how you show your loyalty, the emperor can't hear it!"
"The official ......"
"Ben your mother will listen to me first, from tomorrow onwards, the cloth is no longer needed, as long as people, a hundred women for a stone of rice, I think you are too losing, in this way, I will raise the price for you, a hundred women for ten stone of grain, the same conditions will be relaxed for you, the age of eight to twenty-five years old, after all, we have such unmarried women in Qingzhou City, you can't exchange much food if you are caught!"
"Oh yes, and my father's business, my father's body is not good, now in this winter, I am not used to living in prison, please let my father go home to live, by the way, you didn't copy my house, right? If you copy it, it will be really difficult for us to talk at that time, after all, I asked someone to pass a message to you last time, whether it is my father or those subordinates in my family, if there is not a single hair, I will kill Lord Qian alive. I am a man of faith, and I have to be trustworthy, and what I say must be counted. ”
"Okay, I'm not going to be an eyesore here, let's go!"
Liu Zheng turned his head and rode away, the horse kicked and trampled, and spread far away, but the city was very quiet, no one squeaked, the nominal boss Wang Jiabin's face was gloomy, and the actual boss Yu Zheng's face was about to turn into black charcoal, and no one wanted to touch the two mildews at this time.
After a long time, Qian You said with a gloomy face: "Lord Yu, what should I do now?" ”
Yu Zheng snorted with a dark face: "What else can I do?" Do as he says! ”
Flicked his sleeves, didn't say hello, Yu Zheng turned his head and left, Yu Zheng left, Qian You also followed, Qian You left, Shi Junda also left, others are not easy to go, after all, the nominal boss is still here, fortunately, Wang Jiabin didn't care about anything at this time, and waved his sleeves to let everyone leave first.
When everyone left, Wang Jiabin stood alone on the city tower and looked at the hot construction site below, sighing silently, if he wasn't in a state of friend or foe, he really wanted to find Liu Zheng to ask for advice.
However, in ten days, this 'town' outside the city has become quite large-scale, and there are more than a dozen large chimneys that are constantly smoking in the distance, which is one of the things he really wants to ask Liu Zheng for, what is this for?
The neatly arranged homesteads, which stretch from near the city wall along the pipeline to two or three miles away, so many houses are built at the same time, and the cost of silver must be huge, where did he Liu Zheng get the silver?
In a vacant lot behind the house on the east side of the official road, a three-sided high stand was built with bricks and stones, and in the middle of the open space, some people were drawing lines with lime, and some people were piling up wood on the open space.
Behind the courtyard on the west side of the pipe, there were countless people busy, and his eyesight was so good that he could see that some of them were striking iron, some were doing carpentry, some were weaving straw mats and baskets.
Seeing that these people were still dressed in shabby rags, but everyone had a smile on their faces, he could see that it was a smile from the heart, not a forced pretense, ten days ago they were still a group of disaster victims and homeless people who were about to starve to death, but now they are all ruddy and smiling.
How did Liu Zheng do this?
If Liu Zheng is here, he can hear Wang Jiabin's heart, and he will definitely tell him a simple truth: "The people's requirements are very simple, just let them eat enough!" ”
It's a pity that Liu Zheng is not here, and no one can hear his heart, so no one can give him an answer, he can only look at the happy and busy people outside the city in such a daze, casting iron paste into farm tools, beating wood into beams and furniture, transporting bricks and stones to the house one by one, and then building brand new houses one by one.
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Liu Zheng allocated all the new 2,000 strong laborers to the old craftsman Xu, and asked him to screen the craftsmen among them, and those who had the skills were distributed to each workshop according to their skills, and those who did not have the skills were all arranged to move bricks on the construction site, and the women temporarily let the dozen old mothers take the bachelors on the construction site to wash their clothes.
Don't look at this huge construction site, people come and go, but it is not messy at all, not dirty, before the construction site starts, the first thing to build is the toilet, followed by the garbage pool, and even Liu Zheng also according to the method in the later generations, the city has a red armband aunt and uncle rectification team, patrolling the construction site all day long, littering the first time criticized, reoffend, sorry, report to those who patrol with knives, first beat and then say.
For several days in a row, food was exchanged for people, and the makeshift straw huts were full of people, of course, all women. Strong man, I'm sorry, sleep outside!
The days passed quickly, and after more labor was obtained, the construction of the houses soared, and the day before the winter solstice, hundreds of houses were completed.
At night, a list was sent to Liu Zheng's big tent, and Liu Zheng invited several craftsmen from Xiema Village and the villagers among the victims to the big tent, and after the hot tea was served, Liu Zheng opened his mouth.
"Now there are about 11,000 victims outside the city, more than 17,000 of the strong people in the city who have exchanged food for food, and nearly 6,000 women, and a total of 428 mansions have been built!"
"These houses are definitely not enough, so my principle is to give priority to the old, weak, sick and disabled in the families of artisan households and disaster victims in various townships.