Chapter 30: Recruiting Displaced People
The father and son discussed for a long time, and at Wu Yi's insistence, his father Wu Ke also made up his mind to give it a go. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoIf Wu Yi's rebel army can block the attack of the Yellow Turban Army, not only will he be able to kill the thieves, but he will also keep the family property in the county from losing. If he loses, it will just be a mess of trapping Chen Liucheng and losing most of his family business, and it is a big deal that he will give up the position of patriarch to Wu Kuang's kid. Anyway, with the ability of his son Wu Yi, Wu Ke believes that in a few decades, his son will be able to become the leader of the next generation of the Wu family, and even if Wu Kuang refuses to abdicate and make way for Xian, he can take Wu Yi to set up another door.
With the support of his father, Wu Yi went to the camp outside the city to recruit the strong, and in order to prevent and ensure Wu Yi's safety, Dian Wei followed Wu Yi with fifty family guards.
When I came to the camp of the homeless camp, a sour smell came to my nose, and the homeless people here were all dressed with vegetables, although there were men and women, they were not old and weak. Their garments were stained with stains and dust, but they turned a blind eye, huddled together in groups in the east and west, relying on the bodies of their companions to resist each other's cold in late winter and early spring.
Wu Yi shook his head, these people are too miserable, but Wu Yi has no ability to save everyone: "Divide half of the people to the camp to spread the news that our Wu clan is going to select the elite and strong righteous army, if you are willing to join and be selected, our Wu clan will bear his daily rations, and if he kills thieves and makes meritorious contributions in the future battle array, he will also have a reward from the imperial court." Well, if the selected homeless people still have their families, we will build another camp outside the east gate of Chenliucheng, and these families will live there, and there will be a daily supply of porridge and rice, but they need to do some sewing work to supplement the military. ā
The guards behind him answered, and more than 20 people entered the depths of the camp camp.
The surrounding homeless people watched with numb eyes as these guards in leather armor approached him, they had lost their old fathers and mothers, their young children, and even the land inherited from the times. They begged all the way for their lives, but they were rejected and driven away too much, and when they were really hungry, they found some wild vegetables and tree fruits on the road to satisfy their hunger.
A few days ago, during the New Year's Festival, ordinary people hid in sheltered houses and ate hot food, but they could not even find the wild vegetables and trees and fruits that they had relied on for their livelihood. They have not seen such a strong child like Wu Yi, and most of them occasionally come here to send their guards to find some young and beautiful homeless women for them to bring back to the mansion to enjoy, and in addition, they have hardly distributed a grain of food or a cold shirt. But the women who were chosen were able to be clothed and fed, while the rest needed to continue to struggle and hope that they would be able to wait until the day when the imperial court would distribute relief food.
However, these sword-wielding guards did not choose women, but scattered and loudly announced the news of the Wu family's recruitment of rebels. Rebel? Begging for thieves? These homeless people didn't care who they were dealing with after becoming a rebel, nor did they care if they would be in danger if they were a rebel, the only thing that attracted them was that they would receive daily rations from the Wu clan after becoming a rebel.
Grain! What could be more appealing to these displaced people today than food? Maybe if you put a piece of gold and a pot of hot porridge in front of them, they will definitely pounce on the pot of porridge and rice first, and it won't be the piece of gold. This is not to say that they do not understand that the gold is more valuable, but because of the instinctive choices made by a person who is extremely hungry.
Countless homeless people who were originally numb all gathered around those guards at this moment, using their last strength to shout loudly that they were strong and that they were not afraid of death, and only hoped that these guards could take a fancy to them and make them a rebel.
The guards were originally frightened by the swarming homeless people, but seeing the anticipation and pleading in their eyes, they put the half-drawn sword back into the sheath and began to pick it one by one according to Wu Yi's request.
If he could have a huge family business like the Yuan family, maybe Wu Yi would not hesitate to accept the more than 10,000 homeless people in front of him. But the Wu family is at most the number one in the Chenliu realm, and compared with the Yuan family, a big family that is spread all over the world, it is like a firefly compared to Haoyue, which is not worth mentioning at all. Therefore, Wu Yi could only select the strongest of these exiles to serve as the rebels. Among them, those who are over 40 years old do not want to, those who have mutilated limbs or hands that are difficult to hold knives and guns should not be, and those who are as thin as wood and are seriously ill and cannot be used.
The homeless ones who were selected were ecstatic, but those who were eliminated had dead faces, and their eyes had lost all sparkle as if they had become walking dead. Wu Yi couldn't look directly at the desperate homeless, and seeing that the selection of these guards was completed smoothly, he left a dozen or so guards to help, and he returned to the Wu Mansion with Dian Wei and a few guards.
On the way, Wu Yi was in a heavy mood, although he put the interests of the family first when he opened and closed his mouth, but after all, the real soul came from the twenty-first century. In those days, in addition to TV, you could occasionally see the tragic scene of poor areas in Africa without food and clothing, and most people in other places could ensure the most basic food and clothing. But now, Wu Yi has seen too many hungry and cold people, but he has no ability to help everyone.
Dian Wei behind him seemed to feel the abnormality of his lord, so he comforted him: "Those homeless people are so depressed now mainly because God is not long-sighted, these years have been either drought or flood, and the plague has ravaged the world, and millions of people's corpses are scattered all over the field, even if the son and the Manchu Dynasty can't save it, let alone the power of the lord alone?" ā
Wu Yi couldn't help but wonder, listening to Xu Shu say that Dian Wei was like a mad demon when he was fighting, like a demon descending into the world, but he didn't expect that he was very murderous, and he also had a time to comfort others: "I know that with my current strength, I can't change much, but if I have the opportunity in the future, I hope to make these poor people at least cold, clothed, hungry, hungry, and old." There is still a long way to go to accomplish this, and it may be ten times more difficult than it is now, but this may be the true meaning of my existence. ā
"Dian is willing to follow the lord and go to the soup and fire!" Dian Wei didn't understand how far away and difficult Wu Yi's ideals were, or maybe he didn't need to know them at all. It is enough for him to follow the lord with this pair of iron halberds, protect the lord's safety, and remove all obstacles in front of the lord.
Wu Yi patted Dian Wei's strong arm and reorganized his mood: "It's getting dark, we still have a lot to do." Since you're going to go all the way with me, let's get ready for a big fight. ā