Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Great Treacherous Seems to Be Loyal
"The public grain is used to build roads, provide disaster relief, and support the border stiff soldiers. Fire Ran??? ?wen
We are located in the plains, and we are born with an advantage, so we don't need to walk along the rugged mountain road and climb half a mountain to get to the township like our compatriots in Jinzhou, Hanzhong, Bashu and other countries.
You say that the Central Plains is a thin field, then they are barely a barren land, the loess is mixed with gravel, and when the shovel blade touches the gravel when it is cultivated, you have to knock a hole. If you still feel wronged, we can help you and swap them with your brother who grew up in the mountains. ”
Someone whispered, "Is it true?" Wouldn't it take more than half a day to go back and forth to the market... Farm work is even harder..."
Wen Qi saw that the men were no longer tense, and continued to speak: "The iron tools that everyone usually uses are all transported from the mountains, do you think this road is useful?"
Brothers, you are only staring at your own three acres of land, but the imperial court has to strategize and make overall arrangements, the purpose of which is only to strive to make all the compatriots of the Shengyan Dynasty have enough to eat, and if the imperial court does not give up those barren lands, how can they give up this fertile land. Brothers, don't put all the officials on our opposite, they are not our enemies, without them, who will maintain order, who will plan to resist the four yi, who will exchange goods to lead to the four directions, don't be blinded by the narrowness in your heart.
Wasn't the porridge you drank this time from the disaster relief funds? If you want to give up on you, why bother! ”
Some nod, others confused.
Wen Qi continued: "Sheng Yan's conscription law is that one man from five households guards the border pass, aren't those border soldiers all brothers and sisters around us? When everyone was busy with the summer and autumn harvest, our compatriots were pinning their heads to the waistband of their trousers and fighting with Siyi, holding a big knife one moment, and the next moment they might be wiped off their necks, and their heads were in different places, and they didn't even have a complete body.
If they behave like you, and when they encounter barbarians, they cower, they throw away their armor and flee from the battle, and their feet have been trampled by the iron hooves of those barbarians, and they still have their lives to stand here, and you say what's wrong with these men eating some dry food, shouldn't they? ”
The men said awkwardly: "You should eat." We are not reasonable people. ”
Wen Qi continued to speak: "Mr. Shi told us privately
The water in the ground has been eaten thoroughly, and it is difficult to seep much more water, and it is about to enter winter, let alone seep much.
If there is another big flood this time, next spring, a large area of fertile land can only become a barren land, overgrown with water and grass, and spring planting will definitely not be able to catch up, and autumn is not easy to say.
Waiting for others to give alms, how can you have food in your hands to be sure. ”
Most of the men nodded yes.
This is not enough, but also to ignite their fighting spirit, Wen Qi continued to cheer everyone up: "What is the difference between retreating when you see a fierce image and being a deserter when you encounter a strong enemy, what is not a mother's seed?"
Leaving his hometown, leaving his homeland to beg along the streets in another country, a dignified seven-foot man, in the eyes of others is just a joke, what is the difference between a lost dog, spitting, white-eyed, and being insulted, he is a man, but he is willing to live such a life.
If everyone is willing to do their best this time, these natural disasters are not to be feared, what I am afraid of is that you are willing to fall into a bad seed, and one by one will go backwards
Shrink. If you don't save yourself, don't do your best to protect your homeland, but you are looking forward to it, waiting for what hero to fall from the sky? What is not a bad seed? ”
The man next to Yu Bo punched up and down, cheered Wen Qi, and shouted: "Well said, who is a bad seed, and it is not a mother's grandfather to shrink back", and took a sip as he spoke, "I look down on him, stand up, and tell me to take a look." He laughed out loud.
More than a dozen people also raised their hands to echo: "Little boy said it well." ”
More and more people seemed to have a fire in their eyes, and their fighting spirit was high, and some men threw off their clothes and threw them to the ground: "Damn, I don't believe that I can't stop it, let's say, Mr. Shi, let's do something." ”
Among the victims, there were two thin marquis snorting in their mouths, and horror flashed in their eyes, and one said: "That person, why is that person a little familiar, and that little boy is also familiar, isn't it the one who killed the god we met last time when we went to rob the granary?" The young man who killed more than 100 people with a knife in his hand, isn't that little boy the one who gave us steamed buns! He also saved a lot of people, what kind of disciple of the divine doctor. ”
Another said: "Oh, yes, but listening to what he said is also right, just do it with everyone, what everyone does, we will do it, you can't make a mistake, last time those other people didn't all fall, who would ask, we ate steamed buns at the end with the public, this is not just picking up a life, maybe people are really successful, follow it, it's a big deal to see if the situation is not good, and it's not too late to make plans." ”
The man next to him nodded repeatedly.
The other people were loud, and the whispers of these two people had already been drowned out in the crowd, who could have noticed?
Fu Chun, who was on the right side behind Wen Qi, stroked the long sword that was retracted on his waist and frowned.
The herring roe, who was standing on Wen Qi's left side, glanced at the embankment in the distance, listened to Wen Qi chattering there, shook his head greatly, and was also very dissatisfied with the men around, and hurriedly pulled Wen Qi on the right behind him, glared at Wen Qi and said, "Tell them those truths, do they understand?" You get out of the way for me. ”
Wen Qi was dragged to a stumbling side, and Fu Chun's body on his side quickly blocked the right side of Wen Qi, who was staggering, and stretched out his left hand to hold Wen Qi's right arm: "Okay?" Wen Qi shook his head gently, and looked at the anxious herring roe at the same time as Fu Chun.
Wen Qi frowned, but still walked to the side of herring roe, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Shi is anxious, and I am also anxious, but the situation of this big water is so dangerous, if you don't give your brothers enough courage, they will be undecided when something happens after entering the water, can comrades-in-arms without faith be long-term?" In the end, they all have to be deserters, and those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, and in the end they fall short, and the ending is the same whether they do it or not, what is the point, since they have decided to do it, they must do it well, Mr. Shi, what do you say? ”
Qingyuzi glanced at Wen Qi coldly, and impatience flashed in his eyes: "Go aside!" ”
raised his right hand again, and swept down condescendingly, his eyes were full of contempt: "I, Shi Lin, can put life and death out of the way for the sake of the official business that I should do, and I can do it for the sake of official business, what power, what high-ranking official, I Shi Lin doesn't care about it, just do it." Look at you again, a group of cowards, in a word, do it or not, just like this ink until now, women's behavior, what kind of man, I said little ladies, stupid brains, don't know a single big word, don't make sense, I really don't know what you have to live
Now, I don't even have the courage to be a gentleman, let's go back, what are you doing here, it's embarrassing. ”
As he spoke, herring roe took the lead in the direction he came.
The men turned pale, frowned, and shouted: "After reading for a few years, what's the big deal, oh bah! What are you, who are the little girls? Stop. ”
The herring roe stiffened his neck, and in the face of the crowds of men, he did not show weakness at all: "Yo, I'm still not convinced, I am wrong, you should go to block the embankment and do something that makes people look up!" Like a girl, her hair is long and her knowledge is short, and she is a bad seed! Go, go, go, what to do, what to do, what to do, the annoying of the real mother. ”
The men are now full of blood, and they walked over in a few steps to push the herring roe, and the herring roe staggered backwards, stubborn in his eyes, and glared angrily at several big men: "Bully the soft and fear the hard, do you want a face?" What else can I do besides being able to bully a scholar like me, oh bah", he said and spit on the faces of those men: "Lao Shi looks down on you." ”
Several people's faces were blue from humiliation, and some reached out to catch the front of the herring roe.
Fu Chun took out the long sword on his waist and pointed at the others: "Stop!" Is it fun to fight with words here? Now I tell you, you have to do it, you have to do it, you have to do it, there is nothing to dispute, whoever takes a step back, who has any objections, you are welcome. ”
A man took two steps in front of Fu Chun, grabbed the tip of Fu Chun's sword with his right hand and pressed it against his chest: "Come, stab here, what are you, you have to do it, you have to do it, you have to do it if you don't do it, and you are forced to do it." ”
Fu Chun is a person who has no superfluous nonsense and does it directly, without even raising an eyelid, the tip of the sword is slightly retracted, and it is slashed upward, and a sound of "Ah!" came out of the air. The man's right hand covered his face, which had been cut, and his hands were covered with blood.
At the same time, the crowd said: "Killed again, it's him, it's him, killed a hundred people at once, it's terrible." ”
The people who said this were the two skinny monkeys who had seen Fu Chun suppress the granary with an iron fist.
Fu Chun said: "The next one who retreats will die directly, if you go to the battlefield, the military order will be obeyed unconditionally, and those who flee will be punished on the spot according to the crime of desertion." ”
Those who wanted to scatter for a while withdrew their feet.
Wen Qi chuckled in her heart.
He walked up to the person and said loudly, "Everyone, don't be nervous! Looking for the two thin monkeys, he said: "Two heroes, you can eat steamed buns, and the brothers who keep to themselves are injured." ”
The two of them were frightened, but they still trembled and said, "Well, well, I have eaten, I have eaten, I have eaten, I have not died, many people have come back alive." ”
Wen Qi looked at the slightly stable scene and said: "There is a way that is loyal like a traitor, and a big traitor is like loyalty." Let's use our brains to think about it, if the five sons around me didn't make a move at that time, you would have succeeded, grabbed food, and had a full meal.
But afterwards, everyone is afraid that they don't know, and the first offender who robbed the granary is Ling Chi and a family. Repeat offenders will be cut in half, and a family will be punished. Accomplices over the age of 10 shall be put to death.
Everyone can afford it, and when the time comes, they won't even be able to keep the tablet of their ancestors, so how should the brothers explain when they see their ancestors underground.
Don't take chances, because there is a reason for something, something is a last resort, and there is a hardship, and it has no weight in front of the law, in the face of major events, and in front of the affairs of the state. ”