Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Mountain Man's Dilemma

After Ying Xu and his party entered the mountain trail, they would always see people coming out of the mountain from time to time on the road, these people stood on the top of the mountain and looked at it from afar, if Ying Xu sent someone to climb the mountain to find it, these people who looked far away would rush away, and so Ying Xu's people climbed the mountain and could not find a figure. Pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info after trying a few times, everyone is not interested, is it strange that people in the mountains like to play hide and seek?

"Childe, these people are all mountain people, they don't have a household register, if they are caught by us, they can only be slaves!" Han Sui explained.

It turns out that these people are people without household registration, they have no obligation to pay taxes and serve servitude, and they also have no right to be a person, if they are caught by the official uniform, they are official slaves, and after being caught by the peasants and reported to the government for registration, they are private slaves, their lives are not as important as a cow, and when the cattle die, they must be reported to the government for inspection, and these private slaves die and report to the government to eliminate the register. Every year, the county, the big households and the government organize people to catch the mountain people in the surrounding mountainous areas. If it is a slave who escapes, it will be beheaded in accordance with the Qin law, and if there is no criminal record, it will become an official slave and be sold. Slaves have been slaves for generations, and the children born to slaves are like the calves of a sow, and the master has the right to buy and sell. Unless the state pardons them or the slave owner pays for them to be registered. Ruyu thrush and the others belonged to slaves, but after Ying Xu arrived in Qinweizhuang, they were registered in the household register. But where is the state and the slave owners willing to give such free labor? During the reign of Qin Xiaogong, slavery was abolished on a large scale, but small-scale slavery gradually emerged. In the Qin Dynasty, the lowest military merit was given a slave. The Shang Dynasty restricts slavery by expanding the number of yeoman farmers and recovering the control of slaves into the hands of the state. Now slaves have become a minority relative to yeoman farmers, but this group has begun to expand in the face of strict Qin laws and wars over the years. Ying Xu glanced at the heads popping up on these hills, and felt that these people looked similar to himself anyway, but human beings deceived themselves into treating these of their own kind as cattle, horses, pigs and dogs for the sake of exploitation. It's sad. The mountain people who are guarding the hill may think that Ying Xu and the others are the army of people who have come to arrest them.

Han Sui saw that Ying Xu's face changed several times with his words, with anger, sadness, and finally revealed an impassioned atmosphere.

"Childe look there!"

Ying Xu looked in the direction of Han Sui's finger and saw a large puff of smoke rising behind the mountain on the side of the road, the smoke spread everywhere, and the mountain was also shrouded in black smoke.

"Wang Xin, you send someone to crawl over to see what happened." Ying Xu had a sense of foreboding in his heart.

Yitun rode up along the rugged mountain road, Ying Xu and the others also stopped and began to rest, and with a cup of tea, a soldier rushed down.

"Yu Gongzi and Lang Zhong ordered, there are bandits killing and setting fire under the mountain, about 200 people, and the formation is chaotic. Our army can break it. ”

Ying Xu had to admire this scout's meticulous observation and put forward his own opinions. What is your name.

"Tun Chang Shima."

"These bandits, what does Wang Langzhong think should be?"

"Kill!"

"Good! My son went up the mountain to cheer for my soldiers. "Ying Xu thinks that the bandits who kill people and set fires are as hateful as the terrorists who smash and loot for nonsense in the later generations, and the common people have any enmity with you, you have to seize other people's property and kill people.

Under Wang Xin's arrangement, Ying Xu and the others climbed towards the mountain, and the seven people of Wufeng were not willing to be lonely and followed. Ying Xu saw that Wang Xin divided the light cavalry into three teams, one part stood by, and the other two went around from both sides of the mountain, and most of the bandits were stabbed to death by the halberd without reacting. The light cavalry that rushed into the crowd quickly dispersed the formation organized by the bandits in the middle. But one of the bandits walked quickly through the scattered bandits, marching towards the woods next to Zhuangzi, and a light horse was dragged off his horse with a halberd. The bandits dragged off the light horse, rolled a few times, and fled into the forest. Shibuma took a knife and chased after the bandit. On a mound of dirt, a dozen bandits leaned on each other and seemed intent on fighting to the death, but the light horsemen stopped pulling their bows and shattered their hopes. After eliminating the last wave of bandits, most of the light horsemen dismounted and began to cut off the bandits' heads, except for a few wearing long crowns of skis to patrol the battlefield.

"Why do you cut off people's heads when they are killed?" A girl in Tsing Yi obviously saw the Qin army fighting for the first time, and muttered quietly. Ying Xu is also the first time to see the Qin army kill people so closely, and the historical record says: "Qin, the army of tigers and wolves." "It's ruthless. There was not a single living mouth left, the halberd was deadly, and there was no chance to interrogate, so I could only wait for the room. But Ying Xu felt that a question appeared in his heart after seeing a light horse being dragged off the horse just now, but now he can't remember it.

The people in the smoky village thought that they would not survive, but the people who suddenly appeared and killed the bandits cleanly, and at this moment they were all smiling and ready to open the door of the village to comfort these heroes, but an old man took advantage of the smoke to disperse and saw the Qin Dynasty flag below, and his legs were weak and he collapsed on the ground.

As soon as Ying Xu and the others came down the mountain to the village, they saw Shibuya walking back with a person's head, they were really a group of reckless men, and they didn't know how to leave a mouth. But you can't blame them, the head is the title. Ying Xu couldn't bear to look at the dead body on the ground, his eyes stared ahead, and he suppressed the feeling of vomiting. And asked Wang Xin to order people to extinguish the fire, and looked up to see that everyone in the village was holding farm tools, looking like they were going home. knew that this kind person had done it in vain.

After Wang Xin and the others cleaned up the bandits' heads, they looked at the people on the Zhuangzi longingly, as if it was not people standing on the Zhuangzi, but delicious food. Everyone is waiting for Ying Xu's military order.

"You go and ask where these bandits come from." Ying Xu said to Shiruma on the side.

Shiruma rode up on his horse, and asked in a loud voice:

"Hurry up, where do the bandits come from?"

"Big Father", a tiger-headed boy, helped the old man on the ground up.

"My lord, these bandits belong to Cuiyun Peak, more than a hundred miles away from here." The old man replied in a loud voice.

"Let's go! Let's go to Cuiyun Peak. Ying Xu left these people in the village and walked back.

"Father, Qin Ren, is gone," the boy shouted as he jumped to his feet.

"Hehe, Zhao Zhuang, my good grandson, the Qin people are gone." The old man touched the boy's head, and a smile appeared on his face.

When Ying Xu and his party marched towards Cuiyun Peak. Cuiyun Peak's bandit nest also exploded, some were arguing in the hall, and some slipped out of the wall, and among these people there was also a woman with a limp and a veil, this person was Xianwu, Xianwu wanted to recuperate here for a while before making plans. I didn't think that the Qin army would enter Bishan and kill the second master who listened to him. If you don't go now, wait for when.

Ying Xu took the light horse to advance quickly towards Cuiyun Peak, and caught several groups of bandits who ran out of Cuiyun Peak along the way, and interrogated and learned that the person who Shima killed was their second master, and Ying Xu wanted to kill a second master. Don't you still have a big boss? When I asked again, I learned that their big boss died in Sima Zhuang some time ago. Now the second master is in charge, and there is a veil woman in the cottage, who was also injured by Sima Zhuang and is still recuperating in the village, Ying Xu thought that it could be a string dance, and she was injured with her martial arts. Sima Zhuang should not be underestimated. It would be better if the string dance, we are enemies with narrow roads! Ying Xu even asked Wang Xin and others to speed up.