Chapter 4 On the Whistle Flag
Hu Dadao led Feng Jian to bid farewell to the general Xu Ma Gang, all the way back to the temporary residence of the old and young in the square, and took Feng Jian to stand in front of everyone and shouted: "Fellow villagers, everyone listens, I and Feng Jian brothers have just met the cottage Commander Xu, and the general promised that from now on, all the neighbors can settle down in Huluyan." ”
Hu Dadao continued: "After settling down, the villagers and neighbors must first build their own places to live, and then they must reclaim wasteland on the slopes designated by the cottage, plant grain, cotton and grain, and all the harvest will be delivered to the cottage in a certain proportion, and most of the surplus will be owned by the reclamation field, and the cottage will not charge any additional taxes!" ”
Hu Dadao finally said: "From now on, as long as there is a gourd rock, the harvest on your fields will no longer have to pay taxes from the government, and you will no longer be oppressed by the government!" ”
The crowd buzzed, and some old people knelt on the ground excitedly and said loudly: "We don't ask for anything, just to be able to have clothes, food, and shelter from the wind and rain. Commander Xu is merciful, and Commander Xu lives a long life......"
Many women in the crowd couldn't help but cry with joy after figuring out the difference between a cottage field and renting someone else's field at the bottom of the mountain, and they prayed loudly and thanked the cottage for its benevolence!
Looking at the crowd who were excited because of Hu Dadao's few words, Feng Jian was a little sour, the poor peasants are the simplest and the easiest to satisfy, who can provide them with a foothold at this stage, let them eat a bite of food, they will be trusted and respected, there is only one reason, here they can continue to survive!
Sadly, when Emperor Chongzhen did the opposite, he endlessly squandered the blood and sweat of poor peasants to support the bureaucrats and gentry, while the royal family, the gentry, and the big businessmen had countless wealth, but Emperor Chongzhen turned a blind eye, or could not touch the moths of these countries at all, and let them suck the blood and sweat of the people, and constantly destroy the foundation and vitality of the country.
Hu Dadao was used to seeing everyone's reactions, he waited for everyone to calm down a little, and shouted loudly again: "We can successfully reach Huluyan this time, and everyone has to thank one person." ”
More than 400 old and young people at the scene turned their eyes to Feng Jian, and they all knew that it was Feng Jian who injured the Mocone Tiger at a critical moment and forced the Mocone Mountain Bandits to release more than 400 people old and young.
Hu Dadao saw that most of the people's eyes were on Feng Jian, so he continued: "Yes, it is Feng Jian, without Feng Jian's killing and injuring robber leader, I believe that everyone at the scene will not be able to reach Huluyan, and the result is that they were persecuted and killed by the robbers of Mocone Mountain." ”
The crowd on the opposite side was buzzing: obviously they all thought that Feng Jian really contributed to it, and they all echoed: "Yes! Right! Feng Jian is amazing! ”
Feng Jian's group of people came from several different villages, and at first they were still a little strangers to each other, but now after fighting with the enemy in the canyon, they have developed a lot of friendship with each other.
At this time, most people regarded Feng Jian as a life-saving benefactor, and with Hu Dadao's unsparing publicity, Feng Jian's prestige among the crowd increased rapidly.
Feng Jian secretly admired, this Hu Dadao completely mobilized people's emotions in a few words, on the one hand, it shows the simplicity and kindness of the peasants in this era, and on the other hand, it can also be seen that Hu Dadao is good at seizing the opportunity to show his own advantages.
As for why Hu Dadao put gold on Feng Jian's face so hard, he really couldn't understand.
Feng Jian believes that most of the interactions between people are driven by interests, why is Hu Dadao so deliberate, and believes that he must have something that makes Hu Dadao look up to him.
The crowd was infected by Hu Dadao's words, and many women and children knelt on the ground to thank Feng Jian for saving his life.
Feng Jian hurriedly knelt down and returned the salute, and shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, everyone get up quickly, kill the boy, don't embarrass me and my mother for a little thing." In the future, this Huluyan cottage is our home, we get together, cultivate together, harvest together, and live together as relatives and friends. Uncles, brothers and sisters, do you still need any gratitude and bow down to your relatives and friends? ”
Feng Jian's words deeply moved everyone at the scene, and several aunts who were familiar with Feng's mother surrounded her, their expressions full of envy and gratitude.
Hu Dadao shouted loudly at the right time: "Our Huluyan Commander issued an order, this time all the villagers and neighbors on the mountain are numbered as their own posts, and appoint Feng Jian as our own whistle flag, in the future, everyone must obey Wang Xiaoqi's arrangement and get along with the original mountain people on the mountain, do all the villagers and neighbors hear it?" ”
Seeing the enthusiastic response of the crowd, Hu Dadao was very satisfied: "Okay, everyone stay away and follow Feng Xiaoqi's arrangement." ”
He turned to Feng Jian and said: "Later, the first thing to choose is to select a few literate people from the crowd, and register the people on a household basis. Every ten households are a small team to arrange the personnel of their own outposts, and a team should select five young and strong people to come out as the guard team of the outpost, and the guards of each outpost on the mountain must take turns to patrol and post in the gourd rock area to ensure the safety of the cottage, and this matter must be implemented as soon as possible. ”
After Feng Jian comprehended it, he naturally nodded in agreement.
"I have done almost everything I should do, you have to arrange the specific things of your own post, and then I will send someone to lead you to the station, you must first build a house in the designated area, the wood and straw needed to build a house are ready-made, I will send someone to help you prepare materials first, and you will save a lot of trouble in the future!" Okay, if you encounter something difficult, come to me again, Lao Tzu will go back to clean up the wounds on his body first. "Hu Dadao is a little nagging.
Feng Jian bowed down to see Hu Dadao away, turned to face everyone and shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, just now Leader Hu announced that the cottage will make us his own sentinels, and Commander Xu appointed Feng Jian as his own small flag officer. Here I promise to you that I will make sure that all the neighbors in my post will be fed, clothed and warm, and I also ask all my uncles, brothers and sisters to work together to make suggestions for my own whistle and jointly build our new home! ”
The people in the crowd listened to the young little flag officer's inauguration speech, and as soon as Feng Zhen's voice fell, some nimble people came forward to compliment him.
Most of the bankers still look confused, and not many people will believe that Feng Jian, a hairy boy, has the ability to change the fate of everyone!
Feng Jian had never experienced this kind of situation, he waved his hand to stop the gossiping people, and said loudly: "Don't make noise for the time being, I still have something to say!" ”
Seeing that the crowd was gradually quieting, he continued: "I want to find a few literate people to register and make a register for everyone, so as to lay a good foundation for our own development, and if you are literate, please come to me." ”
"I'm literate!"
"I went to private school!"
Four or five people came out of the crowd one after another, including a woman in her thirties, holding a young man of fourteen or fifteen years old, standing timidly behind several people.
Feng Jian walked up to the woman first and said, "Does this aunt know how to read?" ”
The woman hesitated for a moment and said, "Great, great, the old woman's child is literate!" ”
Feng Jian smiled and said: "This aunt, my name is Feng Jian, and I will call my name if I have something in the future." ”
The woman let out an "oh" when she heard this, and she was anxiously waiting for Feng Jian's decision.
Feng Jian looked at the young man beside her, and saw that the young man's figure seemed to be thinner than a normal young man, with slender eyebrows, big eyes, blinking like a pool of lake water, and his pointed chin was slightly raised.
Feng Jian couldn't help but conjecture, if this young man was a woman, he would definitely be stunning, and it was a pity that this figure was on a man!
"What's your name? The banker's? Who taught you to read? Feng Jian asked in a series of questions.
The boy broke free of his mother's arm, and his voice sounded hoarse at first: "Feng... Feng Jian, I ...... My name is Su Su, and I am a native of Majiadianzi Village, Shili Xi, Pingdu City, and my father taught me to read and write since I was a child. As he spoke, he licked his dry lips, as if he was afraid that Feng Jian would not be satisfied with his answer.
Feng Jian looked at the young man in front of him, and felt more and more that the young man was shy and timid between his eyebrows, and his words were a little twisted, feeling a little awkward, so he blurted out and asked, "Why didn't you see your father......?"
Feng Jian noticed that the woman looked at him strangely, and saw that her eyes were red and swollen and her face was sad, and he sighed in his heart, and said, "Isn't it that he died in the canyon!" ”
Feng Jian's words immediately caused Su Su to cry, and the woman hurriedly came up and hugged Su Su, and said sadly: "In the canyon, my family official has been killed by the robbers of Mocone Mountain. ”
The families of several of the people killed in the battle in the canyon in the crowd also wept loudly when they thought that someone in their family had suffered the same thing.
The surrounding governor ** told Feng Jian that Su Su's father was teaching a private school in the village, and he was also forced to be helpless, so he took his family to Huluyan, who knew that he would encounter robbers in the canyon, Su Su's father resisted the attack of the Cone Mountain thieves with his bare hands, just imagine how a scholar could be the opponent of those robbers, and he was quickly killed.
Seeing the sadness of the orphans and widows crying, Feng Jian was also uncomfortable in his heart, he took Su Su's hand and said: "Alas, don't be uncomfortable first, the gentleman will take revenge, ten years is not too late, when our own power is stronger than the Mill Cone Mountain, I will definitely kill the Mill Cone Mountain, kill all those robbers to avenge your father and everyone." ”
Su Su stopped crying, tears rolled in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, the gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late." Sooner or later, I will find the robbers of Mill Cone Mountain and avenge my father. ”
Feng Jian felt a little strange, Su Su withdrew his hand like an electric shock, and couldn't help but taste Su Su's soft and delicate hands, and felt very strange in his heart.
Feng Jian couldn't think of a reason, so he began to look at Su Su carefully, and Su Su, who was sad, keenly noticed Feng Jian's gaze, and there was an indescribable coquettishness in the flashing of his eyes.
A boy made himself feel coquettish, Feng Jian shivered, and quickly turned to the crowd and said: "The people who died in the canyon died to protect everyone, and we will not ignore you, I will ask the commander to show mercy and see if the people who died in the canyon can be exempted from the land rent of their families." ”
"In addition, our outpost will allocate special personnel to help families without labor to cultivate land and grow grain, so as to help them tide over the difficulties."
The family of the deceased stopped their grief under the persuasion of the people around them, and they were grateful for Feng Jian's decision.
Su Su has been exposed to her father since she was a child, and she is literate, and the little flag officer in front of her, who is three or four years older than herself, is like a brother next door, and the decision he made in front of everyone made her and her mother grateful, but I don't know what arrangements to make to pick out literate people?
Feng Jian was happy in his heart, Su Su was the most literate person in his outpost, and things like writing and painting would be indispensable in the future, well, it seems that it would be good to have such a guard by his side! It's just a bit of a sissy, and those eyes grow on the girl, I don't know how many people will be fascinated!
I was about to ask about the literacy of the rest of the people, when I saw an old man in his fifties who was short and thin and took the initiative to come over, "Lord Wang, my person Hu Baocai, I used to work as an account office in the Wang Lao Ye Grain Store in Pingdu City, and I can read and settle accounts." As he spoke, he gestured casually.
Feng Jian smiled: "Call me Feng Jian, Uncle Hu, please continue!" ”
Hu Baocai stroked his goatee and shook his head and said: "My person is a native of Hujiatai, twenty miles outside Pingdu Prefecture, who used to work as an account office in Pingdu City, inadvertently offended the villain, suffered a lawsuit for several years, and was forced to return to his hometown to farm for the elderly. Whoever wants to cause trouble is not alone, and was bullied by the governor and his family in the countryside, and dragged his two young grandsons to survive, so this time he went to Huluyan with the villagers. By the way, I and the leader of Hu Dadao are from the same village, and the leader of Hu has to be called my third uncle in terms of seniority. ”
Feng Jian was embarrassed when he heard this, so he couldn't help but comfort Hu Baocai with a few good words, and finally said: "Uncle Hu, you are a literate person, go to the side to rest first, and then you will have something to borrow." ”
Feng Jian turned around and asked the other two literate people, and learned that these two were brothers, one was named Zhao Shougang and the other was Zhao Shouqiang.
Just now, Hu Dadao said that it is necessary to register more than 400 people in Jishao, and Feng Jian is looking for Su Su, Hu Baocai and others to prepare for this.
Feng Jian immediately announced: "Su Su, Hu Baocai, Zhao Shougang, and Zhao Shouqiang were divided into two groups to register more than 400 people at the scene.
First find out how many people and how many households are enough in the self-post, and then follow the yellow book system of the imperial court to establish a household sticker for each household in the self-post, recording the names of family members, the number of family members and the number of family assets.
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