Ju Xi is the concubine of General Ju Wang, and although he has no chance to inherit the title, the general still wants him to join the army. But this Ju Xi, who was quiet when he was a child, although he was taught by his father to learn swords, guns, swords, halberds, and military battle methods, he was only interested in the study of governing the country. Ju Wang was so angry that he blew his beard and glared at him, but there was still no way, so he had to entrust him to Gan Long as an apprentice and take the road of a scribe. This time, Zongzheng Mansion recruited 500 officials, and they were recommended by Gan Long to Gongsun Jia. After two trainings, he achieved excellent results, and was appointed by Zhao Dun, the official of the Zuoshu Governor's Mansion, as a brigade commander, with ten positions, and ten Lu officials, who were responsible for the 500 immigrants in the southern community in the eastern district. After Ju Xi received the task, he knew that it was because his grades were too good that he was assigned to the merchant area to complete the most difficult task.

When his ten subordinates saw that he received the task, their brows tightened, and they asked very puzzled: "Brigade commander!" Isn't this business district good? In my opinion, that's better than the North District. Those Qiantou in the northern district, but the chief of Zuo Shu has repeatedly explained, can only persuade each other with good words, and cannot use the sword*. If they don't go, you'll just stare dryly. But the merchant area is not in the column, the merchant does not go, take a knife *, what a simple thing. Why do you have a sad face and sigh here? ”

Ju Xi looked at the ten subordinates, sighed, and said, "We are all playing together, not that I said you!" Now that you are all officials and sergeants, you are in charge of fifty households and one of more than a hundred people, why are you still so naïve? What about merchants? They are wealthy families in the Qianshou and live well in the city. Now being immigrated to the reclamation area is like taking away your father's title. You say, are they convinced? Can't resist? You just take a knife*, but you can only bow your head to them for a while, and you want them to really use it for us, which is absolutely impossible. If this is the case, can the sharp weapon theory of Lord Gongsun Jia still be established? Therefore, the knife is not available until it is absolutely necessary. ”

The subordinates discussed: "Finally, I can use the knife, but I can't use it." So what do we do? "Those merchants are not poor, and the poor can rarely get fifty acres of land for themselves, but they don't even count as fart." 、、、、、、 Juxi smiled when he heard this: "But haven't you thought of it: what are they the rarestest?" After asking, without waiting for his subordinates to answer, he immediately gave the answer: "They are the rarest revenge and anger!" ”

When his subordinates heard this, they shouted, "What's the use of this? Instead, let's set up a target for merchants to take revenge and vent their hatred. They are looking for us for revenge, but is that still a sharp weapon in our hands? ”

Ju Xi laughed: "Stupid! What if we transfer this fire of revenge and anger to the Zuo Governor's Mansion? Originally, the Zuo Mansion wanted to emigrate, and it was only natural to find the Zuo Governor's Mansion to take revenge and vent his anger? Why should we be targeted? All the subordinates suddenly realized and clapped their hands one after another. Ju Xi said with a solemn face: "Listen up!" Starting tomorrow, each of his ten sergeants will be arrested by me according to the book, whether I want to or not. Be fierce when you catch it. After being arrested, he was escorted to the camp in the northern suburbs and handed over to me. I'll lock them up for three days, and then I'll talk about them after three days of starvation. Just grab it and hand it over to me at the East End Market Square. I treat them with my fifty sergeants. ”

The subordinates replied coasadly, and retreated after accepting the order. The nobles provoked the hatred between the head of the Qianshou and the chief martingale of Zuoshu, and Juxi opened.

The next day. In early April, the scene of the sweeping army arresting merchants was staged again in the Eastern District. It's the time of the morning food again. The two sergeants arrested a household and escorted it to the market square. The difference is: whether you are voluntary or not, as long as it is a merchant who has divided the household, it is to be arrested together with the adult woman and the strong man, and you don't knock on the gong, but just tell people when they are arrested: "According to the order of the chief martingale of Zuoshu!" All new households will be resettled to the reclamation area, and each household will increase their land by 50 acres. Then he ordered him to assemble at the bazaar. If you go slowly, it's just a spear shaft, which must not be politely said. Even if the merchant in your eastern district has already been trained to be arrested once, he is still frightened by these wolf-like sergeants. This time, it will be different from the first time. The first time, most of them were returned, but this time none of them were returned, and it took two days to finish.

Ju Xi was in the camp in the northern suburbs, and when he saw the men and women who had been arrested, they were all sluggish and hungry, and he sneered in his heart. If it weren't for the fact that 500 households were caught in two days, he still wanted to catch them.

He looked at the scorching sun at noon at the end of June, basking in the school field of the camp in the northern suburbs. Those merchants sitting under the school grounds, one by one, looked at him with begging eyes, thirsty and hungry, and did not even have the strength to shout, only then did they smile with satisfaction and wave their hands! Fifty sergeants, carrying water, stood around the thousand-handed. Those eyes, with a thud, pounced on the bucket like hungry wolves.

Ju Xi was very satisfied with his masterpiece, stood in the shade under the eaves, and shouted, "Do you want to drink?" A thousand pairs of eyes looked at it awkwardly, and no matter how weak he was, he nodded his head. He smiled coldly: "It's easy to drink." It's easy to eat. It depends on whether you want to follow the brigade commander to take revenge? Do you want to follow the brigade commander to make meritorious service and be knighted, and then live a better life than you are now? Of course, you don't want to, don't follow the brigade commander, but it will harm your parents, and the heat also includes your self-esteemed life. If you want to be with the brigade, go to the bucket to drink water! Eat after drinking water. ”

As soon as Ju Xi's words fell, the group of people seemed to be crazy, and under the instinctive drive, they pounced on fifty buckets. But some were beaten by the sergeant with the shaft of a spear and shouted: "Line up!" Line up! Both, both. No queuing is not allowed to drink! One scoop per person, no more than one drink! "The group of people lined up under the spear shaft of the sergeant, and each of them drank water. But there are exceptions, on the square, there are hundreds of people, enduring hunger and thirst, against the scorching sun, helping each other, barely falling, with angry eyes, staring at Ju Xi viciously.

Ju Xi met the eyes of this who wanted to eat him, smiled slightly, slowly paced to the hundred people, and said gloomily: "Don't accept it?" I'm not afraid of dying or dying with my parents and family, right? Hehe, I know you don't have the strength to scold me anymore, and you don't have the strength to speak. I'm a kind-hearted person, and I don't like to be strong the most. So be it! I will give you water to drink, and then I will give you food to eat. Please also come into the house and enjoy the water and food in the shade, and then we will talk. What do you think? Nod your head if you agree? Shake your head if you don't agree? Why don't you even have the strength to point and shake your head? ”