Chapter 44 When the farm is busy

ps: Just came back, ask for a monthly pass.

The small square was a mess, and everyone was in a mess. The tun commander and the instructor were asking more than a dozen tun households to stand at the street entrance, and then one by one they began to beat the military sticks, and the screams were heard one after another. Only twenty or thirty people ran up to the stage to chase a few Tartars, the curtains on the small stage were torn off, the tables and chairs and other props were overturned, and the backstage was also a mess.

Tang Wei was crying on the ground with a blue nose and swollen face, his nosebleeds were wiped all over his face, and the other two people in Tartar suits were also sitting on the ground, their faces were a little bruised, but no one paid attention to them. The three difficult brothers helped each other, Xie Fei, who had two bags on his head, helped Tang Wei take off the white cloth on his head, to see if there were any wounds, and whispered to Tang Wei: "The fat man fought well, Lao Tzu had already seen that Xu Pingjie was not pleasing to the eye, if you took a real knife, next time you beat him, don't be afraid, I will protect you." ”

Xie Fei is also a handsome guy among ordinary people, but he ranks last among the male actors in the literary team, Xu Pingjie is arrogant, and Xie Fei naturally looks at him unpleasantly. Tang Wei's crying immediately stopped, opened his swollen eyelids and glanced at him, and scolded in a low voice: "Then you don't go up yourself, just now those tun households came to the stage, you ran away as soon as you slipped away, when did you come to protect me?" Also said to be brothers. ”

Xie Fei smiled, he did escape fast just now, so he took a lot less beatings.

After Tang Wei finished scolding, he peeked at the victim, only to see some female soldiers chattering around Xu Pingjie, busy bandaging the wound on his head, and Xu Pingjie in the middle seemed to be groggy.

This Xu Pingjie is tall and handsome, and he is easy to say, which naturally attracts the favor of female soldiers, and other chores and actors in the team also know that he is Xu Yuanhua's nephew. Most of them had to please him. Everyone glared at Tang Wei angrily, especially those female soldiers

Guan Xiaomei strode over. kicked on Tang Wei's fat legs, pointed at Tang Wei and scolded: "Tang Fat." When he joined the team, the captain said, everyone is brothers and sisters, Xu Pingjie is just talking on stage, you dare to give such a heavy hand. ”

Tang Wei half-opened his swollen eyes, and saw Guan Xiaomei's angry crossed waist standing in front of her, looking like a rusade, and her anger rose again, she was scolded by the audience for playing a tartar, and Xu Pingjie clearly scolded herself for being a drama tartar on stage. Guan Xiaomei is so close, she must have heard it.

Tang Wei immediately stopped crying, twisted his head and said loudly: "He touched your hair, I will help you vent your anger." ”

Guan Xiaomei's face turned red, and then she scolded: "You have to take care of my affairs." ”

Tang Wei was even angrier in his heart, stood up and shouted: "It's my own business to beat him, and I want you to take care of it." ”

When a group of female soldiers heard this, they all came over to beat Tang Wei, who was leaning against the wall with his back. There was nowhere to escape, so I had to squat down again, covering my head with my hands, these women had worked at home, and they had a lot of strength in their hands. Tang Wei was beaten and cried, and the two Tartar brothers next to him hurriedly dodged away, so as not to be injured by mistake again.

"Stop. Hey......" The captain came to persuade him, but the women ignored him. Even he was almost kicked, so he was so anxious that he rubbed his hands outside.

"Lord Liu is here." "Master Mo is here too." The tun households rushed to open a road. The tun commander and the instructor who heard the movement hurried over. I happened to see Liu Minyou and Mo Huaiwen hurrying with a few guards.

The captain of literature and art knew Liu Minyou, seeing that the leader was coming, and he was still fighting here, how would he think of himself, he was angry for a while, pulled the two women apart, and rushed in to rescue Tang Wei.

Liu Minyou was just checking the fire prevention facilities in Tunpu, that is, some large water tanks, two of which were occupied by the tunhu, and when he was satisfied, a guard said that something had happened in the small square, and he hurriedly came here.

The captain briefly told Liu Minyou about the situation, but did not say that Tang Wei deliberately beat Xu Pingjie, Liu Minyou was also a little crying and laughing after hearing it, so he had to let the captain take him to comfort the injured.

When he came to Tang Wei, the captain hurriedly said: "My lord, this is the team member who was beaten, called Tang Wei, from Aoshanwei." ”

Liu Minyou buried his head to look at Tang Wei who was squatting on the ground, the fat man had a few more bags on his head, after the two small eyes were swollen, he could hardly see the eyeballs, and his face was full of bells and whistles of blood and tears, looking pitiful.

"Team Don, this." Liu Minyou felt a little unbearable in his heart, this fat dun was just acting for a show, and he was beaten like this, "This time it was an accident, those tunhu didn't mean to beat you, they just hated the Tartars, they were so angry that they came to beat you, which means that you acted very well." ”

Tang Wei grabbed Liu Minyou's trouser leg and cried loudly: "Help, adult, I don't play a tartar anymore, I want to go home, I have only one family, and I haven't married yet, if I am killed, my mother will have to cry to death." Ask the adults to let the villains live. ”

The captain saw that Tang Wei was really not like words, so he hurriedly slapped him on the head, just hit one, Tang Wei let go of Liu Minyou with a bang, and kowtowed on the ground again and again, but he didn't knock his forehead to the ground.

"Only one?" Liu Minyou hesitated, the conscription in the tunhu is given priority to those who have more than two dingkou in the family, Tang Wei's job seems to be a high-risk industry, and it is possible to be killed one day.

He turned to the captain and said, "Can you tell Tunhu about it before the performance in the future, just say it's just a performance." ”

The captain said anxiously: "Chief Instructor Huang has said that he can't talk about it first, it's just a performance, it's just to make everyone angry, he said that only when there is anger can there be hatred." subordinates, don't dare not listen to Lord Huang. ”

Liu Min looked at Tang Wei who was kneeling, he really couldn't control this matter, the literary team belonged to the Propaganda and Education Bureau, so he had to persuade: "Tang team member, then you should be careful when you go on stage in the future, you see that your injuries this time are basically on your head, and you can wear a helmet to some extent." ”

Tang Wei was bent on leaving, but he still cried: "Ask the adults to help, the villain doesn't dare to go on stage at all now, he trembles when he looks at the stage, the villain can't play well, if the people in my hometown know that I play the tartar in the future, how can our family still have a face." ”

The captain didn't want Tang Wei to run away, so he leaned over and said, "Lord Liu, there are indeed few fat people in our tunhu, and I'm afraid I won't be able to find a suitable one if I leave." ”

Liu Minyou shook his head, thought for a moment and finally said, "If that's the case, then I'll go to General Chen and talk about it." Let's see if we can get you back, but the army has its own rules. This may not be possible. ”

"Really?" Tang Wei didn't expect to be able to really move Liu Minyou, so he was stunned for a while.

Mo Huaiwen said on the side: "What Mr. Liu said can still be false. However, if you go back, you will not be qualified to do business in the future in the land and tunpu. ”

Tang Wei buried his head and peeked at Guan Xiaomei, only to see that she was fetching water with the other two female soldiers, preparing to wash Xu Pingjie's face, Tang Wei's swollen eyes stared at Guan Xiaomei's slender back for a moment, raised his head and said to Liu Minyou: "My lord, my family is poor, and I am still waiting for the land to be divided, I have thought about it." I want to stay, so that everyone hates Tartar. ”

Liu Minyou smiled and nodded: "Very good, the captain said that there are fewer fat people now, and after two years, everyone will get better, and there will naturally be more fat people, and then you can change to do some other things, and then you can come to me again." ”

Tang Wei hurriedly grabbed it and said, "The adult Chrysostom said, the villain remembers." ”

Liu Minyou was stunned for a moment and felt that there was no problem. He nodded......

After dealing with the affairs here, Liu Minyou continued to inspect the affairs of Tunpu, including the preparations for the farm in August and September. This tunpu occupies a late area, but the land is all familiar. They planted wheat, mung beans, and a small amount of cotton.

Liu Minyou went to the cowshed and warehouse in Tunpu to take a look, and all the materials were ready. praised the tun chief a few words, the position of the tun chief is in charge of many things. There are also many mothers-in-law above, and everything ends up posting to this level. The tun chief then explained to the general armor below, they are the nerve endings of Dengzhou Town.

Each tun is basically ten general armor, these general armor in addition to the management of the 50 households in the department, but also in the tunpu also have some public chores, such as schools, treasury management, public shops, road construction labor, etc., they have a monthly salary of five dollars of silver, although not too high, but they have land in their homes, the sum is still good.

Liu Minyou talked to all the chief armor and asked some ordinary things, and those general armor were a little nervous, but they still answered everything clearly. Generally speaking, Liu Minyou is still satisfied, but he is not too satisfied with the shacks in the fort, this kind of temporary building with a group of grass and wood structures is too poor in fire prevention, no matter how to prepare, it has little effect, a fire may engulf the entire Tunpu, Ningyuan Qiantun fire, burned down more than 6,300 houses, and killed more than 200 people. In June, there was also an incident in a tunpu in Dengzhou, and the tunhu reacted quickly, burning only a dozen people to death.

After the inspection, Liu Minyou and Mo Huaiwen walked out of the north gate together, and in front of them was the verdant Daze Mountain.

Liu Minyou remembered an army bulletin last month, and asked Mo Huaiwen: "Huaiwen, how many bandits are there in Dazeshan?" ”

Mo Huaiwen rolled his eyes and replied in a low voice: "Zheng Sanhu reported it once not long ago, saying that there are still a few big ones, which may add up to around two thousand. They were short of food, and bandits continued to go out of the mountains to surrender or flee to Qingzhou Mansion. ”

"Well, there are quite a few of them, have they ever come to attack our cantonhouse?"

Mo Huaiwen paused for a moment and said: "That's very little, maybe it's because I'm afraid of the military might of Dengzhou Town, Daze's biggest force now is called the Earth Tiger, he usually goes to rob the households in the west, and sometimes even goes to the Ye County side, and the same is true for several other bandits." In May, a small group of bandits came out and robbed once, but they were immediately exterminated by the soldiers, and since then, no one has dared to come and plunder our fort. As a result, the surrounding households fled completely, or entered my Dengzhou Tunpu, and this month more than 20,000 acres of land were collected, and in September, they were expropriated as wasteland. ”

Liu Minyou sighed silently in his heart, and then said: "We will not hand over the land occupied everywhere, but will fold it into silver and two jewels to give the officials personal benefits, how to complete the performance appraisal of those officials this year?" ”

Mo Huaiwen bowed down and said: "Those adults will share all the land endowments to be completed to those remaining households, because the burden of the remaining households is getting heavier and heavier, and the more they will escape. ”

Liu Min is very aware of this vicious cycle, land is not only not wealth, but a burden, and in the later stage it will become extremely cheap and uncared for, and the original owner has to flee, and there are more and more displaced people in the north.

After the emergence of the tunpu system in Denglai, those tenants have a place to choose, and the process of escape is accelerating, and eventually the vast majority of households will be turned into tunhu, and the people will still be those people, but the way of organization will completely change. After reaching a certain level, Dengzhou Town will help the civil officials to complete the performance appraisal.

This is Chen Xin's method of preparing to erect the civil institutions of the imperial court, although it seems that it is still paying food as usual, and the population has not decreased, but the actual structure has become a different set.

This process is not bloody, Liu Minyou also approves, but he has doubts about the bandits in Daze Mountain, with the combat power of Dengzhou Town, Zheng Sanhu's battalion is stationed here, even if he is not satisfied, but it is very easy to deal with those bandits, but there has been little progress.

"You pay attention to the bandits in the mountains, please Zheng Sanhu do everything you can to exterminate them, otherwise the forts everywhere will not be able to live in peace......"

Before Liu Minyou finished speaking, Wu Youdao hurried over, and he whispered to Liu Minyou: "Lord Chen has sent an urgent message from Denglai, please return to Dengzhou as much as possible, and it is best to arrive within two days." ”

Liu Minyou was surprised: "Why are you in such a hurry? ”

Wu Youdao stared at Mo Huaiwen, and said mysteriously: "The slave chief personally led the troops to the west, and I heard that he was going to attack Chahar Mongolia, and some Jiannu banners also appeared in Gaizhou, Haizhou and other places. (To be continued.) )