Chapter Seventy-Six: The Yellow River Bursts

Early the next morning, Zhang Taiji couldn't wait to come to the village and meet the villagers here, the people in the village should have known that they had changed their masters, and this master was the child in front of him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The three elders of the info village took the lead, and the men, women and children of the entire village knelt down to Zhang Taiji to confess their master.

Zhang Taiji looked at these people, their eyes were numb, their faces were yellow and thin, and they felt sad in their hearts, cleared their throats, and shouted to everyone:

"From now on, you are all free from slavery, and you are all good people!"

There was no imaginary cheer, no expected gratitude, and everyone was silent. Zhang Taiji thought they didn't hear it, or didn't understand it.

"You are free, from now on you can go wherever you want and do whatever you want"

There was still silence, only the three old men knelt down tremblingly and asked:

"Don't you want us, sir? Are we not diligent enough? ”

Zhang Taiji was stunned for a long time and didn't know how to answer, and muttered to himself: "Don't you want to leave here?" ”

Zhang Fu stood behind Zhang Taiji and whispered, "If they leave here, where can they go?" ”

Zhang Taiji suddenly woke up, he hadn't slept all night, he was really confused, they were born here for generations, grew up here, and this is their home!

Could it be that the murderous aura I felt last night should be an illusion?

Nodding stupidly, he looked at these people and asked, "Do you have any ideas?" ”

Still no one spoke, everyone was still looking at Zhang Taiji numbly, only those untouched children, who occasionally made a little noise, and then they would be stopped by their parents.

It seems that these people have not been domesticated for a long time, and they are now nothing more than ignorant and obedient laborers. Or maybe they hide their inner dissatisfaction deeply and dare not show it in front of this new master.

Or to put it this way, their current performance is reasonable, and what Zhang Taiji did just now seems strange and incomprehensible!

Zhang Taiji smiled self-deprecatingly, touched his face, adjusted his mentality, and said to the three old men

"Get up, tell me about the farm."

The three old people said that they were old people, but in fact, they were only in their fifties, but among these people, they were already considered to be long-lived, and the three people had their surnames, Lu, Lu and Liu, and all the people in the village were one of the three surnames, all of whom were their descendants.

According to the law of the Yuan Dynasty, the people who drove the mouth belonged to the "sluts" and could not intermarry with the "beloved", but could only marry between the people, so it was impossible for a village to have only one surname.

The third elder first asked all the adult men to come over to greet Zhang Taiji, and then took Zhang Taiji to visit all the facilities in the farm.

When the farm was first established, it was afraid that the Walkers would run away, so a very high wall was built around it, a bit like a castle, except that the Walkers could move freely in it, and then after several generations, after these people lived a stable life, no one thought of escaping, so the wall was broken.

The homes of the people in the village, most of them are grass huts and wooden sheds, they wear linen clothes and straw shoes, and they eat the grain grown in the field, but most of them have to be handed over, and some people still raise pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks and other domestic animals, of course, cattle, sheep, donkeys and horses, these big animals, all belong to the main family, and they are typical villages under the farming society, and they can basically be self-sufficient.

The place where the waiter lives is a courtyard with two entrances, and the main house is a tiled house, since he only gave everything here to Zhang Taiji, it naturally includes this house.

Walking into the courtyard, the courtyard seemed to be uninhabited, Zhang Taiji asked the reason curiously, and an old man told him that the waiter's family had moved away.

It turned out that there were only a lot of fields, and he didn't manage them personally, and he didn't know that there was a farm of his own here, until this time when he went to Qianfoshan to make incense, Liu Wenzhong only combed the fields for him, and looked through the previous account books to find that there was a farm of the King of Jinan, so he sent someone to ask.

The chief waiter here has not handed over money and grain to the Jinan palace for many years, and he has swallowed it all, and he is afraid that he will only blame it, so he simply packed up his valuable things and went away.

According to the three old men, the waiter was not bad to them. When the year is good, they can also eat meat several times during the New Year's holidays, and they are also allowed to marry each other with other villages.

Zhang Taiji wanted to ask him about the right to the first night, but he couldn't help but ask. Hearing that there were other farms, he curiously asked about the specific location, and the old man replied that it would take about half a day to walk along the small river, and there would be about thirty miles of land, and the situation there was similar to here, and it was said that the field belonged to the Duke of Jinan.

This place is sparsely populated and few people come, and it is not too far from Licheng, Zhang Taiji pondered that he could build this place into a stronghold, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the idea was feasible, and Zhang Fu said to Zhang Fu around him, Zhang Fu also agreed, and volunteered to manage this farm for Zhang Taiji.

After roughly looking at the basic situation of the farm, Zhang Taiji decided to select a few teenagers here to take with him to cultivate, adults are basically stereotyped in both body and personality, and it is more difficult to change it.

Tell the three elders about this, the three elders all agree very much, after all, they still have some knowledge, but the children's parents are a little reluctant, in fact, Zhang Taiji could have forcibly taken the children away, but he did not do this, but personally assured them repeatedly that he wanted to teach them to become talents. Among the dozen or so children, five of them seemed to be better in all aspects.

After doing this, the weather was almost noon, and when he returned to the camp, he had just woken up, because last night was the first time he drank after Zhang Taiji persuaded him to quit drinking, so it was not surprising that he drank too much.

After a hasty meal, the guards packed up their tents, pulled out the camp and returned to Licheng.

Zhang Taiji said goodbye and only returned home, told Zhang Baili about the farm in detail, and got a large piece of land for nothing, Zhang Baili was naturally happy, and even praised his son for his ability and ability. I plan to stop studying tomorrow and take someone to take over the farm in person.

In ancient times, the Han people had an innate affection for the field, but the first choice that came to mind when they had money was to buy land, not to mention that Zhang Taiji was given away for free.

Zhang Taiji didn't sleep well last night, so he just lay in bed and planned to sleep as soon as it was dark.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he lay down, Zhang Mi's housekeeper came in a hurry, called him up, and said that Zong Mi was in a hurry to find him.

Zhang Taiji followed the housekeeper to the Jinan Mansion, and was taken directly to Zhang Mi's study, as soon as he entered the door, Zhang Mi was pacing back and forth in the house, looking very serious.

Seeing Zhang Taiji coming in, he didn't speak, pointed to the letter on the table, and asked Zhang Taiji to read it himself.

Zhang Taiji took the letter, unfolded it and looked at it, there were only a few words on it, "The Yellow River bursts its embankment and Baimaokou, and the people of Shouzhang and other places are scattered." ”

"The revelation of the ancestors has indeed been fulfilled!"

Zhang Taiji said in a flat tone, but he thought in his heart, he remembered clearly, the disaster of the Yellow River breach in history was very serious! How did you see that it was written in the Di newspaper that only a few small places were affected? Has history changed?