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Crying, screaming and smashing kept coming, and after a while, several puppet soldiers laughed wildly and carried a few grain bags, tied up a man in his forties and walked out, and saluted Peng Weiyi, who was sitting lazily on horseback: "Deputy captain, it's done, this group of Diao people actually dig a pit under the bed to bury the grain, if we don't search carefully, we can't find it at all!" ”

"Sir, sir......"

A woman rushed out with her hair scattered, hugged her husband's leg and cried and begged: "Sir, you just let my man go, those grains are all the rations left over from our family, if this family has no men and food, how can we live......

"Get out of the way, don't get in the way of our military duties!"

Several puppet soldiers kicked the woman and several half-grown children away, dragging the beaten man with a wounded face and a bloody face to leave.

"Stop!"

Peng Weiyi snorted coldly, looked at the woman who was crying and shook the sky, and said indifferently: "Don't cry with me, it's useless, I've seen a lot - our Lai Anwei advance brigade recruits soldiers, it is the order of the imperial army, and the people under your rule contribute money and effort to our advance brigade, as well as the imperial army, it is your duty to do your duty, understand?" ”

"Hmph, none of the four sons of the village head Wang's family need to be soldiers, why do you have to force me to go because my family is only one man?" The man scolded hatefully.

"Master Wang's family is rich, his four sons have traveled to four hundred oceans, if you can afford to go out of the ocean, you don't have to go - do you have one?" Peng Weiyi sneered.

The man and the woman were suddenly suffocated, their family couldn't even afford to eat, where was the ocean to work hard?

"You traitor, lackey, you only know how to oppress the people, you can't die well!"

The two and a half children who followed the woman suddenly burst into a loud scolding, and the older girl stared at her angry eyes, full of tears, frightened and desperate, but quite a bit of a gesture.

"Stinky girl, you dare to scold our deputy captain, I think you are looking for death!"

Several puppet soldiers roared angrily, and one of them flew up and kicked at the girl, and in the terrible scream, the girl suddenly fell to the ground like a shrimp, convulsing and unable to even get up.

"Daughter, ......"

The man and the woman wailed and cried, wanting to rush over to see the situation of their daughter, but suddenly they attracted several puppet soldiers to wave the butts of their guns fiercely, and smashed them with a miserable howl.

"Stop!"

However, when Peng Weiyi saw the girl's appearance, his eyes lit up, he jumped off the horse to stop a few puppet soldiers, squatted in front of the woman and the man, and said with a smile: "Actually, I look at the situation of your family, it is indeed very difficult, and I can't bear it-if I don't arrest you to be a soldier, it's okay, and even return this food to you, it's not impossible......"

Speaking of this, he stopped talking, but several puppet soldiers who were traveling with him laughed.

"You, what do you want?" The man and the woman said in a trembling voice, they didn't really think that the guy in front of them would really be kind.

"Your girl looks good, is she fourteen?"

Peng Weiyi smiled and said to the man and woman who were trembling all over: "Before dark, wash her and send her to my house, and I will send her back to you after two days of playing-don't want to run, as long as you dare to run, none of your family wants to live!" ”

After speaking, he got up, smiled evilly at the girl, threw out a piece of ocean and said beside the man: "Give her a beautiful dress for politics, remember, before dark, my patience is not very good, don't let me wait!" ”

After speaking, he waved his hand to let the soldiers let go of the man and the woman, and walked away proudly, behind him, the woman and the man's family of four hugged each other, howling and crying, only hating why they didn't open their eyes on this day, and killed the bastard surnamed Peng with a thunderbolt.

In the Laiyuan Headquarters, dozens of recruits with loaded guns and ammunition were stationed in front of the door, and in the house, the heads of famous big families in Laiyuan, Anyang, Anyuan, Wei County and other places were all gathered together.

"I, Zhou Biao, was stationed on one side by the emperor's order, and now is a time of war, and the army is fighting, in fact, it is making money!"

Zhou Biao said: "You are all famous and rich people in my advance brigade, so this military expenses, you families, must have more, 50,000 oceans per family, and hand it over to me within three days!" ”

"Fifty thousand oceans? Zhou Dashao, how can we get so much money? The Wang family said.

The people of the Luo family also cried and said: "Yes, speaking of which, our family has a big business, but who knows that there are many people who eat with us, we just look beautiful, and we really can't afford it......"

"A few days ago, our Sun family only paid 20,000 oceans and 10,000 catties of grain in the conscription tax, and now we are paying it, what is the matter?" The Sun family also said.

The rest of the families also complained one after another, saying that at most 5,000 oceans, and some people didn't even mention the matter of money, for them, these money are all saved by how many generations have worked hard, and every penny spent, they all have a piece of flesh in their hearts, where to give up.

Not to mention, they have to pay for two ends in three days, and they don't know how much they have to pay to pay enough.

Ahem!

Zhou Biao was just about to speak, but he heard two light coughs, and Koizumi Saburo, who had been sitting on the side and didn't speak, stood up with a gloomy face, and sneered: "Everyone may be mistaken, Captain Zhou is not discussing with you now, but informing you - three days, pay 50,000 oceans within three days, then there is nothing, if you can't see the money within three days, then you are ready to bring your life and hand it over together!" ”

As soon as these words came out, all the voices of complaining and bargaining came to an abrupt end, and many family members looked at each other, their expressions more bitter than Coptis chinensis.

"Captain Zhou, I know that you feel that you are fellow villagers with them and want to have a good relationship with everyone, but you don't know that you Chinese have a natural inferiority, and the more polite you are, the more they kick your nose and face with you!"

Koizumi Saburo looked at Zhou Biao unhappily and said: "Sometimes, if you give them face, not only will you not win their respect, but they will say bad things about you behind your back, why bother?" If you want to achieve a career, there are some things that you must let go! ”

After saying that, he didn't look at the room full of people, and walked out with a gloomy face.

The people of many families retreated silently, Zhou Biao sat on the chair with a gloomy face, he didn't know what he was thinking, the weather was very cold, but he felt that his heart was ten times colder than this weather, a hundred times.

Defecting to the Japanese, he has already carried a lot of infamy, and now, he is still forced to offend all his neighbors, and he doesn't know whether what he has done is right or wrong.

However, it is not completely without benefits, these days, whether it is paying taxes and paying grain, or catching strong men, all the big families have made a lot of money, and their Zhou family not only did not pay a penny, but also made a lot of money.

It's just that he was born in a family like him, and he has never been short of money since he was a child, and how much money he has made is just a bunch of numbers for him.

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