234. On the road
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On the bank of Pingyin City, by the rolling river, Huangtun sailed back with people waiting for the boats on the other side.
Huang Tun was originally a sergeant of Yuan Shujun, and he descended to Henan with Chen Jian, Lei Bo, and the sword and shield were slightly fine, so he had to be selected as an auxiliary soldier.
After obtaining the grain from Jingzhou, 5,000 sword and shield soldiers and 2,000 bow soldiers among the ten lieutenants, a total of 7,000 people, all went to Hanoi with household registration, and the new Panshi Army was formed.
However, although the Panshi Army has soldiers, the generals and captains have waited for hundreds of generals, and the generals have not yet accepted their fate.
Before they knew anything, 7,000 people were scattered, and they were sent to the refugees to select their families, obtained a black card that only recorded their names and faces, and then they were ordered to go to Hanoi, which made Huang Tun very confused.
Crossing the river is Hanoi, how to act when you arrive, who to find?
After returning to Deng Ji, Huang Tun was still very satisfied. In Yuan Shu's army before, due to the lack of military food, most of the time he had to find Pu Ying (note) in the river for food. Under Deng Ji's rule, the refugees were all fed, and the army was even more comfortable, and there was actually a salary, and the new recruits to the ten lieutenants began to follow the old Henan soldiers to become extravagant and learn to eat three meals a day.
With the return of Deng Ji from the grain robbery, the rare and comfortable days are now over, and the seven thousand soldiers who were transferred to Hanoi like Huang Tun heard that their salaries were going to be halved, and they had to cultivate the land to pay for the grain.
It's not annoying to halve the salary, anyway, I haven't heard that a pawn like my own can also receive a salary; Huangtun is not afraid of arranging land and receiving grain, and he is not from a big family, so he can get used to it.
What worries Huang Tun is that it will soon be the winter ploughing season, and his family will be transferred to Hanoi in such a hurry, and he will only be given five days' rations. The rest didn't say anything. I couldn't even find anyone to ask questions. After talking about the river, you can know yourself, and you can't explain it clearly, but you can still catch up after crossing the river?
During this period of time, the land of the three counties under Deng Mu'an's rule can be described as extremely chaotic, those who originally had families and rooms are good, and the rest are busy looking for people and looking for families to live, and when they become households, they will be moved to the west by the government. Crowds of people could be seen everywhere.
"Uncle Huang, there's a boat coming!"
The voice of the little girl beside him interrupted Huang Tun's thoughts, he looked over the river, and sure enough, more than ten sampans had turned around and rowed over.
The wait was about to end, and the crowd around him cheered together, and although Huang Tun and the others had only arrived at the river, they didn't wait long, and their spirits were also lifted.
Looking back, the woman he had picked this morning was secretly looking at him. The two eyes collided, causing the woman's neck to shrink in fright. Hurriedly lowered his head, and the roots of his ears were already slightly red.
The woman's surname is Li, and she is a Yuzhou refugee who was thrown into Deng Ji's army due to famine, and the six or seven-year-old girl who shouted before is the daughter of Li, whose nickname is Shun'er. The old woman who held Shun'er's hand tightly for fear of getting lost was selected from the refugees in Chang'an, surnamed Cai, and had nothing to do with him or the Li family.
The four people of Cai's Huangtun and Li Shun'er are the new family.
Li didn't dare to look at each other, and Huang Tun's own house was also awkward, so he turned his head again and waited for the sampan to land.
The sampans approached slowly, with only one gondoli in each boat. When they were four or five feet from the shore, all the sampans stopped, and the captain of the boat shouted: "Listen to the shore!" Only 20 people are allowed on each boat, and we will designate them, and the rest are not allowed to rush on board! Those on board are not allowed to move around! ”
The Pingyin County officer, who had been waiting with the crowd, also shouted on the shore: "You don't have to worry, you can cross the river today, as much as you can use for the boat, as much as you can!" ”
There are too many people to cross the river, congested on the riverbank, Pingyin County has already designated more than ten crossing points, each with a sampan to cross people, even so, there are still four or five hundred people in this group of people in Huangtun.
After some explanation, the boatmen began to shout: "Are there any soldiers?" Pawns can get on board first! ”
When picking a woman, he had already taken the lead over most people, so he could get such a graceful figure as the Li family, Huang Tun didn't expect to cross the river and enjoy the privilege, so he hurriedly shouted with dozens of people in the crowd: "Yes! Yes! Yes! ”
Holding the black street sign high, Huang Tun had to lead Cai's Li Shun'er to get on the boat first.
The boatman pointed to the paddle board in the boat and said, "Please help!" ”
Huang Tun nodded, took an oar and stroked it twice in his hand, he was from Huaishang, but he was used to it.
Cai and Li were afraid that Shun'er would be mischievous and fall into the water on the boat, sandwiching her between one left and one right, and was not allowed to move.
After a while, the boatman's twenty men turned the bow of the boat to the other side. Huang Tun and several men paddled to help, Huang Tun was better, the rest were just paddling and pulling, among them there was a fat middle-aged man who was not honest, paddling in his hand, but a pair of thief eyes always squinted at Li up and down.
This fat man only has a white card hanging on his waist, either a servant or just a passerby, although Huang Tun is unhappy in his heart, he doesn't bother with him.
There were many oarsmen, but fortunately, the boatman beckoned, and there was no accident, and the sampan crossed the river safely.
Chua was dazed and only pale when he was on the boat, and vomited on the side of the road after landing.
Huang Tun thanked the boatman, and when he saw that the sampan turned around and returned to the ferry on the other side, he turned his attention back to the two vomiters, but they were very close to each other, and he was embarrassed to step forward to comfort them.
There was an official on the shore carrying a large bucket of ginger soup and distributing it to the seasick people one by one, so Huang Tun stepped forward and asked for a bowl for them.
vomited almost the same, and had to pour two mouthfuls of ginger soup, so that Cai and Li were better.
However, this is Hanoi County, and Hoang Tun is at a loss where to go.
Looking around, it seems that there are many people who have crossed the river, and even those who came before are still gathered here, more than a thousand. Not far from the crowd, there were more than 100 ox carts parked, and there were still ox carts coming farther away.
Thinking that under Deng Ji's rule, his family was a good citizen and a decent person, so he wanted to ask the errand to ask for an explanation.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
Huang Tun had only walked a few steps when a gong suddenly sounded in the center of the crowd, and an errand shouted, "Everyone, listen! The counties of Hanoi and the two counties of Lin Xiandangyin are close to Yuan Shaojun, and there are 20 households of meritorious people, 30 households of good people, and 50 households of civilians; In the rest of the counties, there are 10 households of meritorious citizens, 20 households of good citizens, and 70 households of civilians! Today, there are several tun chiefs who lack residents under the rule of this recruitment, and they are willing to go to their own devices, but the same clan and tun are not allowed to have five households! The number of households is insufficient. Only the far county first. Only civilians are recruited in the vicinity. Until all the tuns are full! ”
As soon as the official's words fell, someone picked up and shouted: "Gongping Pavilion Yitun in Dangyin County, there are seven households lacking meritorious people, fourteen households of good people, and forty-two households of civilians, and there is also a lack of masters, so I wish those who come here here!" ”
After the tun chief shouted, he was immediately surrounded by the crowd, Huang Tun could no longer squeeze in, and the Dangyin Lin was close to Yuan Shao. He wanted to wait and see.
After a while, someone finally shouted: "Jiguan Pavilion Gengtun in Chaoge County, there are five households lacking merit and twelve households of civilians, and there are already masters in the tun, and those who wish to come here are willing to come here!" ”
Huang Tun has been paying attention for a long time, and after listening to his report, he immediately inserted it and took the street sign to see: "I am the home of good people." I want to live! ”
This tun chief is in his fifties and in good spirits. After seeing the black card, he handed over a wooden block and said, "Good! Please take care of your family first, hold this wood for a while! ”
After talking to Huang Tun, the chief of Tun crossed out a good family in the scroll in his hand, and then turned around and talked to the people around him.
There were only a few words on the wooden block handed by the tun chief, Huang Tun didn't know it, and he was afraid that people would be scattered and it would be difficult to find it, so he called the three Cai family and waited honestly by the tun chief's side.
The shouts are still coming and going, a large number of people are surrounding the chiefs, and soon, they are all full, and there are still some on the periphery, and those who are not allowed to get close to the chiefs have missed this opportunity.
He had his own errand to appease those who had not found a place to live, and the tun chief of Jiguan Pavilion Gengtun in Chaoge County gathered the people who voted for him, and beckoned him to go on the road.
A total of 38 families went to Chaoge County with Huangtun, waiting for the crowd, some people in the ox cart shouted seven to join in, all of them came to pick them up from Bentun, the ox cart carried some grain, the young and the elderly were invited to get on the car, and then pulled the limited luggage, it was full, and the rest could only walk.
But the tun chief has a mount, he rode on a bad horse to lead the way, after walking out of the road for half a mile, Fang turned back to the people behind and said: "This year's winter ploughing has arrived, after you arrive, you must not be afraid of the waste of the field!" After naturalization, the households of the meritorious and good people can purchase livestock from the county government with their salaries; Civilian homes can only be obtained if they have not committed any offence within two years of age. ”
The five brave soldiers who accompanied him, whose household registration was a meritorious citizen, and whose status was the highest among the people, asked in a whisper: "What is the price of livestock?" ”
"A one-year-old tax for civilians can be exchanged for livestock, which is worth four stone of grain!"
Hearing about such a low price of livestock, everyone was happy, but the common people needed to wait patiently for two more years, and seeing the joy of everyone, the tun chief said: "Each household is only allowed to exchange livestock with the government, and adult livestock are not allowed to be bought and sold privately!" The government exchange livestock for death and loss, the next time the same price can only be exchanged for young animals. It can be self-breeding, but the household can have up to two adult livestock, and the rest need to be exchanged for the same price to the government, and the sick and old livestock are not allowed to be offended, and the young animals do not want to be raised, they can be sent to the government or others. ”
"The ox cart that picks you up today will be borrowed by the meritorious households in Tunzhong, and the government has paid the remuneration."
The head of the livestock matter had explained, Huang Tun understood, and then asked him about the grain: "Although the people can borrow grain from the government, but we and other soldiers should have a salary, and now I hear that the Panshi Army is not in charge, where can I ask for a salary after that?" ”
"Be at ease!" The tun chief laughed and said: "The salary of the soldiers of the Panshi army will be paid by the pavilions for the time being, and after arriving at Bentun, you can go to the pavilion to advance half a year's salary for your family, or you can borrow food from the civilians and the county government." However, if there are thieves and enemies, they also need to go to war with you! ”
Speaking of this, the tun chief said again: "Even if the two counties are worried about the Yin Forest, there are also many Dangkou troops to take care of, you don't have to worry!" ”
If you have a salary advance, you can exchange it for livestock to be busy with winter ploughing; The government can borrow grain, and there is no need to worry about livelihood, so Huangtun can rest assured.
Seeing that the tun chief was good at talking, the adults scrambled to ask about various things, and Shun'er sat on the ox cart by Cai's family, her feet swayed, and she couldn't find anyone to talk when she stared left and right, and her little face was full of boredom. Huang Tun still treasured a few salted eggs in his arms, which were in the army of Hongnong, and he was reluctant to eat them, so he took out one and handed it to her.
Seeing that she had chickens, several young children in the same car were all greedy, staring at it, Shun'er hurriedly retracted her hand, and the salted egg was already in her sleeve, and then smiled sweetly at Huang Tun: "Uncle Xie Huang!" ”
Touching Shun'er's head, and then touching the four salted eggs left in his arms, Huang Tun still couldn't give up his heart to divide it, so he could only avoid the eyes of other young children with a weak heart.
When he sneaked a glance at Lee, the woman was also looking at him, and this time the eyes met, and she didn't shy away from it, but smiled gently.
Note: Pu Ying, clams and conch shellfish.
(Eight votes short of squeezing into the top ten in the history category, with the sponsorship of the brothers with monthly passes, let the tiger shine!) (To be continued......)