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Hearing that there was a job, the government wanted to hire people, and outside the county government of Ji County, a large group of people gathered around early in the morning.

There is no influx of refugees, so there are few servants here, but the autumn harvest is over, and many civilians who are busy with farm work are willing to contribute to get more money and food.

After a few months of Ji County Order, Zhao Ang understood the things within the scope of his duties, and at this time, standing on the steps in front of the county office, he listened to the young lord of the county and shouted: "This time is different from the past, in order to carry the ashes of the martyrs, it takes 300 people to go to Luoyang." Livestock vehicles on the way to eat the government has its own preparation, after returning to each give six stones of grain, willing to go to the clerk to show the waist card self-report! ”

From this place to Luoyang, a long journey, it takes a lot of time to say that it will take nearly a month, the wage of six stone grains, there are probably no migrant workers willing to do it in later generations, but this era is a rare high salary, at least Zhao Ang, who has not fully adapted to it, is a little painful - when he was the commander of Qiangdao County before, labor has always been levied for free.

After listening to his wife's persuasion, the lord who defected despite the opposition of his clan knew that his actions were incompatible with this world, but now he is in it, and he feels even more. The various methods he did were absurd and bizarre and unique, but they won the hearts of the people, and this person came out of the Yellow Turban Taiping Road, which is really the misfortune of the world's great family.

Zhao Ang sighed with emotion, suddenly realized, his eyes swept over the crowd, and now a half-hundred-year-old man was shrinking his head and peeping at him.

Seeing the old man's face, Zhao Ang was stunned at first, and then smiled a little bitterly, and stepped forward to salute: "Uncle also wants to go to Luoyang?" ”

Although he was careful, he was finally noticed by Zhao Ang, and the old man blushed, opened his mouth but was speechless.

The old man looked ashamed, which made Zhao Ang feel relieved, and the depression caused by the recent complaints of the clansmen was reduced a lot, and he said gently: "Uncle Seventh doesn't need to be like this, since I am against the will of the clan and from Duke Deng, how can I laugh at you again?" ”

That's it. Zhao Ang pointed at the old man, turned his head to the scribe in charge of the record and said: "This is my uncle, he is very old, please find the docile livestock with him tomorrow!" ”

This kind of private relationship is not in the way, the clerk laughed, first took the old man's waist card, and registered it on the roster.

Zhao Ang took care of it. Only then did the old man squeeze out a sentence: "Lao Weizhang bothered! ”

Seeing that he was just cramped left and right, Zhao Ang said goodbye with a smile and turned around.

The old man's name is Zhao Kou, and he is from the same Zhao clan as Zhao Ang.

It's just that no matter how big the family is, it has been multiplied for a long time, and there is always an inequality between the rich and the poor. Before the division of the four classes. Zhaokou's family only has more than 20 acres of land, although there is no need to worry about taxes in the clan, but the family has a large population, three sons plus daughters-in-law and grandchildren, need to feed more than ten people, the burden is very large, can only barely maintain every year. If there is a slight disappointment, it is necessary to borrow public food from the clan.

At this year, Deng Ji became the master of Tianshui, and the county newly demarcated the household registration field, and the sons of Zhao Kou were divided into three civilian households, with a total of 60 acres of land, which was enough, but unfortunately the harvest would not be available until next year.

Because of Zhao Ang's hard persuasion, the Zhao clan was dissatisfied. But also had to enter the new household registration, before being dismantled, the public warehouse has been divided by the clan clean, the Zhao family blood is far away, and there is no benefit at all, not to mention, this year I want to borrow grain is no longer possible, I have to think of other methods.

The name of Deng Ji that I had heard in the clan before was a great evil. Worried about the first time he came out to find a way to live, Zhao Kou was worried about whether the government's promise could be fulfilled, and it was unlucky to transport the ashes of the dead, and his sons also wanted to come. Persuaded by the old man.

After the young scribe registered Zhao Kou's name, he handed back the waist card and smiled at the old man: "Go home today, and after eating outside the school yard tomorrow, you will choose a livestock vehicle!" ”

After signing up, can I have breakfast tomorrow? If this is the case, the second son should really be called, and the amount of food that the kid can eat can at least exceed three of himself.

The letter was suspiciously taken back to the waist card, and Zhao Kou first returned to his new home in the people outside the city.

There are many bandits of different races in Liangzhou, and the new Taishou Weikang is now recruiting people to prepare to build a dock fort, and the house is not built, and the new households can only temporarily live in temporary shacks.

The head of the people's tun in Tianshui counties was slowly transferred from the division after the autumn harvest to serve as civilians who abide by the law and discipline, and now no one has arrived. However, the county has announced that it will not pay wages to build the dock fort where it is located, and the residents need to build it themselves while the farm is slack.

It is common not to pay wages, but in the eyes of Zhao Kou, this is not a very reliable thing - originally the Zhao family also had a dock fort, with its inner wall houses, if every Xinmintun is built in imitation, how much project is needed? There are less than 100 households in each tun, and they can only find farmers to work in their spare time, and they can't build it for ten years! For ten years, they could only live in this temporary shack.

Anyway, after the new naturalization, in addition to the sixty acres of land allocated to Zhao Kou, the old man listened to the other words, and was very vigilant.

However, the county order I saw today was my nephew, and I thought that he would treat the people badly, and he should not be much worse to the Zhao family, and his heart was slightly stable.

The second son has a large amount of food, and the wife of the youngest son is not very virtuous, although he is in the same tun, Zhao Kou and his old wife's household registration is only the eldest son who is honest and duty. Not long after returning home, the other two sons had already come to ask together, and Zhao Kou recounted what he had seen and heard today, especially what he had been bumped into by Zhao Ang.

The young son was not ashamed, but said angrily: "If we can get the care of Brother Weizhang, we should also go together!" ”

Zhao Kou snorted coldly, squinted his eyes and reprimanded: "Don't dream of beautiful things!" Wei Zhang serves others as the Lord, and his actions are no longer from his original intention! And how have we ever been near to him? ”

The old wife and the eldest daughter-in-law have made a good meal, and as in the past, it is a pot of wheat bran and wild vegetable soup boiled out, because the day is long, it is only slightly thicker than dinner, Zhao Kou will send the two sons who have been separated home for their own use with the eldest son's family.

The wheat grains in the bowl are picked out with chopsticks and eaten by the two grandchildren, Zhao Kou secretly calculated: as long as the sixty acres of land are there, the government is trustworthy and does not levy more taxes, and the hard days will end next year.

In order to verify whether what the scribe said about the food was true, the next day before dawn, Zhao Kou had already gotten up and rushed to the city, where he was located in the people's tun was close, and when he arrived outside the city, the city gate had not yet been opened.

Zhaokou was not the first to arrive, a group of people were all recruited people, and they waited outside for a while before they had to enter the city and go to the south of the city.

There are guards guarding the school gate, and the clerk needs to take yesterday's roster to verify the waist card before letting people in.

Inside, however, it was already very lively, and in addition to the large herd of cattle, horses, and livestock, there were still several rows of vehicles parked in a pile, and there were many soldiers and clerks shuttling among them.

There were nearly 1,000 people squatting on the ground in the west, looking at the costumes that should be all Qiang and foreign races, captured by Deng Jijun, and guarded by soldiers with weapons at this time.

Sure enough, there was a stove on the east side, and a man was busy making food, and the fragrance wafted in the wind, causing Zhaokou's group of recruits to drool together.

Yesterday, several scribes in charge of recording in the county government were already waiting, and one of them led them to the northwest corner of the car to rest, and said: "Don't move around, just wait here." ”

Before the hour came, the people were not yet together, and they didn't think that they would eat first, so as not to make themselves look too unbearable, Zhao Kou took his eyes off the stove and turned to look at the Qiang who was being guarded.

Most of these captured aliens were women and children, and there were very few strong men, and they seemed to be all languid, and I think they had suffered a lot after the defeat.

Before the Han Dynasty started a rebellion, he didn't have much prejudice against these alien Zhao Kou, and now he naturally won't have any sympathy, and he will feel happy.

There was a morning meal available, and the people who had enlisted were on time, and they had arrived before the hour, and the scribes divided them into groups of ten and sat on the ground.

In addition to the guards taking turns to eat, the soldiers and scribes also sat in this way not far from the east side; The same is true of the Qiang captives.

After a while, when the food came up, the people put three dishes and one soup in front of every ten people, although it was a little rough, but they were all sufficient, and they were all served in wooden pots.

Steamed dried bracken, scallion and chicken pancakes, cranberry pig and pork soup three kinds Zhao Kou knew, the other one was black and yellow, sprinkled with green onion and garlic, but he didn't recognize it, or the guy who served the vegetables told him that it was a cold salad with pine flowers.

The dishes are sufficient, and the staple food is a large vat of steamed corn, which can be eaten as much as you want.

How long has it been since I've had this full? Zhao Kou was already a little wet with tears, and he just hated to take it home so that his grandchildren could enjoy it.

Pulling the food in the bowl with a big mouth, Zhao Kou secretly looked at it again, and the soldiers and clerks over there ate one more dish than their own people, which was steamed dried fish, and Qiang Di needed less chicken pancakes.

This difference is acceptable to the old man.

At this meal, Zhao was full of twelve points, his belly was round, and it was a little difficult to even take a step.

After the meal, there were also scribes who supervised the men to put three boiled salted chickens in small bags of wheat for each man, which was dry food on the road, in case of rain or when he was in a hurry to make a fire on the road.

It was dry food, and the soldiers and clerks had an extra piece of jerky; The Qiang captives had three less salted chickens, and only noodles.

After the food was distributed, each claimed the livestock vehicle. Yesterday, the scribe who was instructed by Zhao Ang really found a docile bullock (note) for Zhao Kou, and picked a sturdy car for him to use.

The ashes handed over to the people are all sealed in wooden boxes, and each car only needs to pull more than ten boxes, which is not heavy, and the work is easy and tight.

When he went on the road, there were 500 soldiers in the team escorting Qiangdi, Zhao Kou was a little puzzled, relying on the county order is his nephew, and asked the clerk: "But if you take the car to Luoyang and make these Qiang prisoners okay, why spend money and grain to hire me and other people?" ”

The scribe smiled: "This has its own meaning!" The ancient Shang Jun was in front of him, and the Qin people believed in his law. The policy of the lord, the people of Tianshui still have many doubts, no matter how we explain it, it is not as good as you to see it in person, and hire you to go to Luoyang, but do it as you wish, so that seeing is believing! After the elders return to Tianshui, please tell the villagers what they have seen. ”

Note: Bull, bull, specifically refers to a bull with geldings removed from the testicles.

(At half past twelve o'clock in the morning last night, when the correction was just made, the power was cut off again...... (To be continued.) )