Chen Liujin hid around the corner of the street, clinging to the cold wall, holding his breath, his chest like a fire. Finally, he couldn't help but breathe heavily, and the white mist that erupted from his mouth rose up, forming a small cloud that hung over his head.

"Here it is! Don't run! Someone saw the white cloud and shouted loudly.

"Copy it!" Someone shouted again.

Chen Liujin's eyes widened in horror, and he struggled to stand up, and there was a sharp and piercing bamboo whistle in his ears.

Three officers and soldiers of the inspection department wearing long jackets and bamboo armor rushed forward. Each of them carried a wooden shield in one hand, a five-foot-long wooden staff in the other, and a fur hat on his head.

This equipment makes it impossible for civilians in the market to resist. Once the inspectors form a powerful military formation, they can even fight a hundred with ten.

Behind the officers and soldiers of the inspection department were the people of several nearby neighborhoods, holding hammers and wooden pestles in their hands, apparently good citizens who had heard the whistle and rushed to support. And those who blew the bamboo whistle had already rushed to the two alleys next to them, completely surrounding Chen Liujin in the middle.

Chen Liujin's eyes were soon filled with despair. He saw the people who were blowing bamboo whistles, with numbers on their chests and backs, and holding three-foot-long iron rulers in their hands.

These people used to be county officials, white servants, and public servants...... Now the imperial court has pulled these people out and set up a yamen called the "police station", and the former head catcher has also become the police chief of Zhengjiupin. These policemen are all locals, familiar with the terrain, and they are also recognizable, once they are targeted, it is difficult to escape.

Seeing that people on both sides rushed over, Chen Liujin squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, and shouted loudly: "I am a good family, I didn't commit anything!" ”

The wooden staff hit Chen Liujin the shoulder, knocking him to the ground.

A policeman sat on Chen Liujin's back. Grabbed Chen Liujin's joints, pulled them back, and quickly tied his hands with ropes.

"I'm from a good family...... Chen Liujin cried.

"Good family? What about the family register! An older policeman stepped forward and asked sharply, "Who is the surname, where does the family live, and how many people are in the family?" What a living, say! ”

"I'm from out of town, and I haven't registered yet......" Chen Liujin didn't finish speaking, and before he had time to beg for mercy, a stone was stuffed into his mouth, and it still carried the fishy smell of river mud. The policeman sitting on his back pulled out a straw rope more than a foot long and strangled Chen Liujin on his mouth so neatly that he couldn't spit out the stone and couldn't scream.

The old policeman took the red seal and struck Chen Liujin on the forehead. When he boarded, there was a vermilion mark, on which was the word "homeless".

The other policemen pulled Chen Liujin up, quickly slapped him all over his body, shook his head and said, "Nothing." ”

"Take it away." The old policeman waved his hand.

Chen Liujin couldn't speak, so he could only choke up and cry. He knew that these policemen didn't care if you were a local or an outsider, and as long as you didn't have a hukou, you would be arrested and served hard labor.

In a city god temple where he had settled before, thirty or fifty people named Huazi were housed by the police and the inspection department to check their household registration. Where are these Hanako willing to go to the hukou? Naturally, they were all taken to hard labor. A few of them were sturdier and refused to accept their fate. I wanted to run out, but I was shot and killed on the spot by the archers of the Inspection Division.

Fortunately, the walls of the temple suddenly collapsed. Chen Liujin escaped with a few clever Huazi. Who knew that it was difficult to move forward without a hukou in this county, and he wanted to beg for food, but when people saw him, they ran away and yelled, and as a result, the police were summoned.

The original dungeon in the county has been converted into a cellar, and the imperial court has set up a high-walled prison outside the city. Dedicated to people. Chen Liujin was quickly thrown in, but the straw rope on his hands and mouth was not untied. He originally thought that someone would come to interrogate him, so he could kneel on the ground and cry bitterly, begging the official to give him a household registration, even if he was beaten to the board, he couldn't go to hard labor.

Who knows the opposite. There was no one to interrogate at all. At noon, two men who looked like the inspection department came and connected the prisoners with hemp ropes, and followed them out like cattle.

There were about a dozen people strung on this rope, and whenever one walked slowly, the two inspectors would stab their shoulder blades with the tip of their canes, which was sore and painful, but did not hinder the journey.

It was only after the road that it was getting dark that the two inspectors stopped at the gate of a post station. One of them said in a loud voice: "Spend the night at the post station tonight, but anyone who dares to speak loudly, dare to cry noisily, dare to plot to escape, will be killed!" With that, the inspector led the men to the back stable, and untied the straw ropes from the mouths of the people in turn, causing them to spit out stones. Then he untied the bound hands of the people, and used a noose, which he tied to the manger like an animal.

Although he was treated like an animal, he had to admit that it was much more comfortable, and he could even lie down and sleep, but he had to be careful not to be entangled in a lasso.

Chen Liujin's already desperate heart was filled with hope again, such a simple noose could easily be taken off his head. When the time comes, take advantage of the darkness and you will be able to escape! However, it is impossible to go east, and I heard that it is more severe than here. Then the only way to go west and go back to Henan, where there is no inspection department and police.

He was pondering, when suddenly his body lightened, and he was pulled by the inspector who didn't speak with one hand. The inspector took out the iron chain, tied Chen Liujin under the eaves opposite the stable, and put a huge lock on it.

Chen Liujin fell into despair again, could it be that these inspectors could actually read minds? Know you're running away?

The inspector pulled out a few young and strong men from the crowd, and chained them all together.

"You both keep an eye on Lao Tzu!" The inspector who spoke before said loudly: "If one of the stables is gone, all the people under the eaves will be beheaded!" If one of the people under the eaves runs, all the people in the stables will be beheaded! Do you understand? ”

A group of homeless people were frightened, and Nono did not dare to speak out.

The inspector took out another cookcake and placed it on a wooden bench in the middle of the courtyard: "If anyone wants to escape, the first one to shout will have a cookcake to eat!" The second one who shouts after him can be exempted from punishment! Those who shout late eat the whip with the fleeers. Got it! ”

Everyone only stared at the snow-white cookcake, swallowing their saliva recklessly, but still no one dared to speak.

The two inspectors checked it again, and then rubbed their hands together and went into the house to eat.

After a while, an emaciated figure came out of the room, laboriously carrying a wooden bucket from which the sound of swaying water could be heard.

"Let's eat." Hoarse and eerie voices chill in the night sky. He scooped soup out of a bucket with a wooden bowl and fed it to the men who had been sent to hard labor. After drinking the soup, he would pull out two alfalfa nests from a small inconspicuous cloth bag next to the barrel and stuff them into the hands of the men.

When it was Chen Liujin's turn, Chen Liujin was almost about to cry again. He hadn't eaten for two days, but he didn't expect that when he stepped into the ghost gate, someone finally gave water to the nest.

With these two nests alone, he dispelled the idea of escaping.

"Are you a boy Chen?" The ghostly old man suddenly said to Chen Liujin.

Chen Liujin swallowed hard the slag in his mouth, and his eyes widened: "You are ......"

"Hong Laoqi." The old man asked slowly, "What did you do?" ”

"I didn't have a household registration...... Chen Liujin remembered the old beggar who was messing around with him in the City God Temple, and wondered: "Why are you here?" ”

"I went to the hukou and was assigned to work here." Hong Laoqi laughed twice in a dry slag voice: "No one beats or scolds, just sweep the floor, lead the horse, do chores, two meals a day." ”

Chen Liujin's mouth opened unconsciously, as if he had heard something unbelievable. He couldn't believe that there was such a thing in this world. Sweeping the floor and leading the horse can be fed, this is just nonsense!

"You refused to ask you to register with me," Hong Laoqi's mouth shook, "At your age and size, maybe you can go to the camp to be a people's husband, three meals a day, and you can open a meat dish every few days!" Tsk, tsk, pity. He spoke, and went on with his errand.

Chen Liujin didn't suspect that Hong Laoqi was lying.

If there was the slightest lie, this old man would not have survived until now. (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter explains how the protagonist squeezes the war potential and makes full use of human resources. Although it is indeed very inhumane to look at, and it does not talk about people/power, but in that environment, if you don't take thunderous measures, you can only watch the iron hooves of Manchuria raging. What's more, the protagonist can't be launched with a halo, and all the law enforcement officers of the Ming Dynasty consciously enforce the law in a civilized manner...... This is how it should be.

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