Chapter Seventy-Four: Swords Rise Everywhere
"I don't have any secrets, I just think that these children should learn to cultivate their original qi, otherwise they will never be able to avenge the blood feud of their parents and relatives. "www.biquge.info Li Deyi swallowed the meat in his mouth first, touched his oily mouth, and replied.
Old Medical Officer Sun thought that Li Deyi would say something amazing, but he didn't expect this simple sentence. The medical officer next to Xiao Liu couldn't believe it: "What about down there?" Li Deyi shook his head: "It's gone down there." Old Doctor Sun touched the gray beard under his chin and groaned, nodded and said, "Okay, you can actually enlighten these children a second time, and you have succeeded in five of them, so you won't say anything more as a teacher." If any famous teacher came today, I am afraid it would be difficult to do it like you. Let's talk about another thing first, your senior brother has already told me about what you mentioned, about the subdivision of labor and the reward and punishment system for the displaced people under our rule. As a teacher, I've been thinking about this these days, and I've already thought of some regulations. Since you mentioned this matter, you should also study it together. ”
After that, the old doctor Sun took out a thin piece of white paper, on which were written the regulations that the old doctor Sun had come up with these days. Li Deyi took it and looked at it carefully, looked up and said, "After I went back these days, I thought about it carefully, if I do it according to the charter I said, there are still a lot of problems." Just like this section that determines the amount of grain that needs to be handed over per mu of land every year, if it is set low, we may not have enough food in Weibei Camp, but if it is set high, some barren lands will not be able to produce so much grain. This requires us to subdivide the thickness of those fields, which is good. Take the land as an example, near the Xiaoqing River in the north of Dingbei County, there is a small piece of irrigated land, which is the upper field for drought and flood protection, and the grain that is beaten every year is the highest in our county. We still have a lot of land in the mountains, because the mountain roads are rugged and difficult to walk, if there is a drought, we rely on manpower to carry water to water the ground, and how much grain is fetched in the field every year depends on the sky. These have to be divided one by one, and it takes a lot of manpower and time to draw them one by one. As soon as Li Deyi said this, he paused and glanced up at his master.
Old Medical Officer Sun didn't expect the little apprentice to think so much, and he was a little distracted for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he found that Li Deyi was looking at him with inquiring eyes, so he nodded and motioned for him to continue. "There used to be yellow books of land in this county, but that thing was completely uncountable, and there were too many falsehoods in it. When I was a child, I was in the village, and I saw the county officials come down to determine the thickness of the fields. If you give him enough money, he will record your family's Ueda as a subfield, and the amount of grain you need to hand over each year will be greatly reduced. If you can't give enough money, you have to record all your family as Ueda, even if it is the lowest inferior land, and the extra grain you harvest every year can kill you. The villagers in the village are miserable, but they have no way to ask for help, so they can only let them pinch and rub the round. Now that we want to redefine the acres of land in Dingbei County, we must no longer appoint these small officials, and we can no longer hand over this authority to them, lest they take the opportunity to deceive the superiors and subordinates, and prey on the people. I've seen enough of the ugliness of these. ”
Old Medical Officer Sun frowned and said, "As a teacher, I also know the remnants of the lowly officials. These small officials and assistants in the yamen are the most able to take the opportunity of doing their hands on the yellow book, and they are very harmful. But now, if we don't use these lowly officials, we really can't find so many people in Weibeiying who are literate and familiar with these matters. Barely find one or two, and in a year or two I can sort out the fields in incomplete counties. Li Deyi answered: "Master, I don't think this matter can be hasty. This is the key to whether our Weibei Battalion can gain a foothold in Dingbei County in the future, whether it can expand the situation in the future, and survive in this turbulent era full of swords. If our Weibei Camp also appoints these lowly officials in the fish and meat township, wouldn't we be following the old path of the destroyed Pingzhou court? ”
When Old Medical Officer Sun first heard Li Deyi's words, he just felt that the apprentice had grown up and finally began to be sensible, and he knew that he was worried about the master. But after listening to the words of the little apprentice, he suddenly found that his apprentice had not only grown up, but also showed a bit of talent for governing the world, and the old man began to feel sincerely gratified.
Thinking so in his heart, Old Doctor Sun didn't show it on his face, but asked lightly: "If it depends on you, what should I do?" Li Deyi obviously thought about this matter, and opened his mouth to reply: "I plan to choose a few honest farmers who are proficient in agricultural affairs to bring with me, and then take those students with me to handle this matter together, this matter is handed over to others, I really don't feel at ease." Now that my students are also literate, I can still make up for it as a copywriter. Besides, although we control a lot of land, there are too few displaced people under our rule to cultivate so much land. So I can record the watered land and large flat land first, and the mountainous land and small scattered land, I can wait for it to be slowly picked up later. Master, now that the troubled times are coming, if our Weibei Camp wants to develop for a long time, we must occupy a piece of land and organize people to cultivate it ourselves. If you run around like those grass bandits, and don't care about the lives of the people, sooner or later you will be destroyed. The old doctor Sun said approvingly: "The three words 'base area' are well said! The division also plans to occupy this Dingbei County and take root here. Although the small county of Dingbei is barren and remote, this is a benefit in troubled times. When those prosperous cities reach troubled times, they are all battleground for soldiers. Our Weibei battalion now has less than 10,000 soldiers, and there are only a few generals who can fight, so they can't compete with others at all. Only this small county in Dingbei, a remote place in the northwest, that others look down on, is our place to settle down. ”
Li Deyi continued: "If we want to take root in Dingbei County, we must first grasp the hearts and minds of the people here. Although our Weibei Camp has also killed many rich and unkind families in the county before, the people are mostly afraid of us, and few have the heart to belong. Now that the Pingzhou court has collapsed, swords and soldiers are everywhere in this troubled era, and food is the heart of the people. As long as we can hold on to the grain and let the people have enough to eat, we will not worry about the people's hearts and not being able to return. This food is now the top priority of our Weibei camp, so I plan to handle this matter myself, and by the way, I also take those students to see for a long time, so that they don't have to get in touch with the world all day in the camp and become idiots. ”
As soon as he finished saying this, Old Medical Officer Sun looked at his little apprentice again, and suddenly felt a sense of relief, and couldn't help but smile: "Okay, wow, you're thinking so thoroughly, then let go and deal with this matter, and everything will be supported by a promising teacher." ”
Doctor Xiao Liu also looked at Li Deyi with a smile, until his cheeks turned red, and then he said: "Okay, junior brother, I have really grown up this year and have a future." Are you all coming up with these things alone? Well, it's amazing, I didn't expect my junior brother to have a bit of a capable minister, hahaha......"
was praised by his senior brother and master in person, Li Deyi was also a little happy in his heart, but he was a little weak-hearted. What he said today was not all his own idea, and the fact that the lowly officials harmed the people was what he saw with his own eyes in the village when he was a child. As for the base area and the clinging to the grain, he did not come up with it, but learned it in his dreams. Since he was injured in Zhihai, he would often dream at night, and he would always dream of some strange people and things in his dreams, although it was strange, but Li Deyi always felt that he had lived in that dream. There are many things in the dream that are beyond people's imagination, and Li Deyi does not dare to mention them to others at all, such as the court in the dream stipulates that children must go to school when they reach their age, and there are thousands of children in a school. The scene in the dream, even Li Deyi himself felt incredible. The Pingzhou court ruled the world for more than 600 years, and sending children to school was still an unattainable thing for ordinary people. A child who goes to school often needs to be supported by the family of a civilian family in order to barely get to school. For those who are a little worse, the children can't afford to study, not because they don't want to, but because they can't afford to study. In their entire Li Quanzhuang, there is not a single child who has ever gone to school.
That afternoon, Li Deyi did not go to the sword camp to pick up the hammer, but gathered the children together and announced that there would be a practical class in the next few days, and the specific content would be announced later. After announcing the news to the children, and without explaining to them what the name of this lesson was, Li Deyi hurried to the thatched hut camp in Weibei Camp to temporarily house the homeless, the houses here were all built temporarily, and in order to be completed before the arrival of winter, the roofs were all thatched, so it was called the thatched hut camp.
As soon as Li De arrived, the people arranged by the master began to classify and register the displaced people, asking them to report their respective crafts and names, and then press their fingerprints to make a count and record them in the book, so that they could arrange their work later. At present, there are 50,000 displaced people under the control of Weibei Ying, all of whom have come from the east and southeast, which have been most ravaged by the Tuliao people. Li Deyi pressed the registered crowd, and quickly picked two honest farmers in their forties, and after a little inquiry, these two people were really old farmers who had grown old land, and when it came to the crops in the field, they were very familiar. After asking, Li Deyi nodded with satisfaction and told the two of them that they would go out with him tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to run an errand, and if they did it well, they would give them the official establishment of the Weibei camp at that time, and they would be able to eat enough every day, not to mention, and a reward of silver coins. These two old villagers never thought that there would be such a good thing in the world, it can be seen that the soldiers around them are very respectful of this young man, so they believe it, the two of them nodded and agreed, and asked if they would leave immediately, and the other said on the spot that he only needs to eat one meal a day, and he will never be lazy when he works. Li Deyi led the two of them to have a full meal first, and then found a small tent for them to settle down, and told them to prepare early tomorrow morning, set off at dawn, and come to them again when the time came.
After picking a good person, Li Deyi picked up the things he needed to bring tomorrow, and deliberately went to the Huotou camp to ask Wang Zhuangbiao to bake a three-day amount of light cake 1. There is a round hole in the middle of this cake, and it is very convenient to wear it on your back with a rope through the hole in the middle. According to oral tradition in the army, this cake was also invented by the founding Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, with this thing, the soldiers can bring their own rations for three or five days, and it is very convenient for the army to dispatch.
At dawn the next day, Li Deyi took the children to call the two old villagers, carrying light cakes and things that must be used, and went out of the city gate of Dingbei County, and began to go around Dingbei County to inspect the fields controlled by the Weibei camp.
This month's work, Li De took the children out at dawn every day, and only came back after dark, and the whole person was tanned. The hard work paid off, and finally the land controlled by Weibei Camp was clearly divided. The children he brought with him performed well, after all, they were the babies of the Zhuang family, and they had suffered a big crime, although they walked dozens of miles over the mountains and mountains every day, but none of the children said they were tired. In the past month, Li Deyi also had a general understanding of the situation of the fields currently controlled by the Weibei camp, and the situation was not optimistic. Due to the brutality and murder of the Tuliao people, the entire villages near Dingbei County were basically slaughtered, the people died, and the land was naturally uncared for, so a lot of fields were abandoned, and many of the fields that had been cultivated were also deserted. At present, the only land that is actually still being cultivated in Weibeiying is the fields near the county seat. Due to the lack of manpower in Weibei Camp, it was unable to spare people to take care of the fields that had been abandoned, so it could only concentrate on cultivating the good land that had not been destroyed.
At present, in this remote place in the northwest, among the six counties of the entire Zong'an Prefecture, Dingbei County is the only one that has not been attacked by the Tuliao people, just because Dingbei County is in the northwesternmost corner of this Zong'an Prefecture and is located in a remote area. After the Tuliao people plundered Zong'an Mansion and several other county seats, this group of hungry wolves had already eaten enough, and the Weibei camp was desperately defending the city, and the Tuliao people, who had already looted enough, felt that there was no need to die more people for this small city, and Dingbei County was able to be preserved. Although Dingbei County was saved, the Zhuangzi and fields outside the city were basically ruined, even if the old doctor Sun went all out to organize people to pick up the fields, that is, to pick up the large flat fields near the county seat. Therefore, the current situation in Weibei Camp is that although there is a lot of land under control, there is little arable land, and there is a shortage of people who can cultivate it.
When Li Deyi was busy cleaning up the fields here in Dingbei County, the whole world outside had been turned upside down. After the beginning of spring, the local heroes, the big families, and the envoys from all over the country who had soldiers and horses in their hands finally couldn't help it and took action one after another. First of all, the king of the west Songcheng supported the thirteen princes in Luodu, and the five-year-old king of Dong succeeded to the new monarch, and the country name is still Pingzhou, and everyone in the world is called "Xiping Zhou". Immediately after that, someone in the east supported the six-year-old twelve princes, and the Ming King succeeded to the throne, and the people in the world called it "Dongping Zhou". There are countless other places who call themselves emperors or kings. For a while, the emperors in the world sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and there were even more kings. The names of these grassroots emperors are also very interesting, for example, there is a butcher who kills pigs, and out of nowhere he gathered 5,000 displaced people, he immediately proclaimed himself the emperor, and the first thing he did after ascending the throne was to make the little widow who had been bleached in the next village for a long time the queen of the queen, and after three days he tasted enough, and then sealed the four palaces of the southeast, northwest, and northwest. Less than seven days after the fat emperor ascended the throne, he was pacified by the local garrison, leaving a joke. Just like this, there are countless emperors who take the opportunity to make a fool of themselves, which shows that the people's enthusiasm for being an emperor is still very high. This matter has to start from the root, when the Taizu of the Ping Zhou Dynasty raised the three-foot Qingfeng to level the world, he shouted "The prince will Xiangning have a kind?!" More than 600 years have passed, and the common people have faithfully followed this slogan of Taizu, and whenever they have the opportunity, they desperately want to be an official.
Most of these new emperors and new princes are under the banner of avenging the last son of heaven of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, Dou Bi. While shouting to avenge their father, they took the opportunity to break through the city, plunder the place, and busily pulled money and grain to their own homes, and were busy recruiting soldiers into their own ranks. These so-called heroes and heroes who called the kings and emperors on the corpses of the Ping Zhou Dynasty harmed the people more violently than the Tuliao people.
In this chaotic situation, there are also several different forces. One of them is the garrison Li Si Nai 2 of Ho'an City in the Shangjin region, and when he raised the army, he issued a notice: At this time, the world was in turmoil, and in order to protect his father and fellow villagers from the suffering of war, he had to raise troops as a last resort, just to protect the land and the people. His army was indeed disciplined and rarely invaded the people.
The other is a person named Liu Lai 3 in Peixiong County, who is a local official in Peixiong County. He was just a scoundrel in the market, but later his father-in-law donated him a small official to eat. As soon as the spring world was in chaos, he didn't want to be an official anymore, so he returned to his old job as a gangster again, tangled up with a group of brothers who followed him around all day long, pinned his head to the waistband of his pants, and began to mix around. This Liu Lai's best brother is the most delicious Fan Tu made of dog meat, known as Fan Kuaidao.
There is also a team of centaurs, which is more interesting. Their leader was a strange man who had spared cattle and later went to the temple to become a monk boy in order to make ends meet. said that he was a strange person, and his appearance was also very peculiar, typical of the earth, with a pointed chin, and he stood out to the elder. This man fought bravely, was good at judging the situation, and led the troops without offending the people, so he quickly established his own power. This strange man is Zhu Luchen.
These rebel armies did not dare to attack the Tuliao people, but would only fight each other, or each of them would fight for territory, making the world full of flames, and the people were displaced and had nowhere to live.
Medical Officer Xiao Liu came to Li Xiuming's residence that day and knocked on the door. Li Xiuming didn't let him in, opened the door and walked out of the house by himself. Medical Officer Xiao Liu knew that he was afraid of inviting himself into the house, and it was inconvenient for lonely men and widows to be in the same room, so Li Xiuming had to come out to speak.
"The news is that your father has raised an army." Doctor Xiao Liu said straight to the point. After Li Xiuming heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and he finally came. Li Xiuming was silent for a while, and asked, "Is there any news about my eldest brother and second brother?" Medical Officer Xiao Liu shook his head: "I haven't heard of it, your father has been preparing for so long, and the beginning of the army must have been smooth and smooth, and the place in Shangjin has been peaceful for a long time, and no one is his opponent, so don't worry." I estimate that my father-in-law and his old man will soon be able to capture the entire Shangjin, and where the soldiers will point next depends on how his old man chooses. Li Xiuming's face was flushed by these words, and he had the heart to refute "Who do you call father-in-law" but he was too ashamed to speak, so he could only snort coldly, turned his head and entered the house and closed the door heavily.
Doctor Xiao Liu smiled and said loudly outside the door: "My father-in-law has raised troops, when he hits the city of Luodu, you will officially be my daughter-in-law!" "We'll talk about it later!" There was a brief thud in the room, and then there was no movement.
"Senior brother, senior brother, where are you? I'm looking for you in a hurry! Li Deyi's eager shouts came from outside.