Before appearing in Suifeng Castle, the origin of that group of people has to start from a few hours ago.

In the morning breeze, Jiang Laohan, who is accustomed to getting up early, took a breath of the air in the village, which was full of all kinds of garbage and feces, and straightened his waist pole, which was now a little bent.

Then, he tightened his belt tightened his trouser belt hard, and suddenly made his stomach, which had only drunk a large scoop of cold water not long ago, not so hungry.

In doing so, he Jiang Laohan can't do anything.

Or rather, they are all some life experiences that he summed up after living at the age of 57.

Truly! In the days not so long ago. They were the ones who harvested a batch of wheat and millet; The family has a batch of new food, and can eat a few full meals.

But that's not how life goes.

In recent years, I don't know anything, and the entire town of Datong, and even the north of Daming, have heard that there is a severe drought; God refuses to go down, and all kinds of monks and Taoists beg for rain, but it has no effect at all.

So no matter what crops are planted, the harvest will always be worse than before.

In addition, in order to defend the Tartars, the imperial court began to collect the 'Liaoxiang' in the 46th year of Wanli; the Tartars were not exterminated, but now more and more silver is being collected.

Anyway, after a year's hard work every year, after deducting the land rent handed over to Jiang Dashan in the village and various taxes from the government, the rest is definitely not enough.

Whenever the new grain harvest arrives, there is always a famine of two or three months.

Especially I don't know why? After more than ten years of friendship, the Tartars outside the pass are getting stronger and stronger, and now they are all entering the customs for the second time.

So it's the slack season after the wheat harvest, and there's nothing to do.

In the morning, tighten the waistband of your trousers, drink a little more water and mix it to fill up, and it will be noon time to endure it; When the time comes, cook some multigrain gruel and drink two bowls, isn't it just another meal?

However, just when Jiang Laohan was using his years of experience in food survival and was ready to save a little food.

The situation has changed, and a series of things that happened afterwards are still talking about Jiang Laohan when he is angry more than ten years later.

At that time, I watched a tall horse with a smooth water and a slick water, trotting along the dirt road in the village full of feces and garbage.

Jiang Laohan instinctively gave way to the side of the road.

Why? He Jiang Laohan still has eyesight, not to mention the dress of those military men right away.

Just the horses below them were much better than when they went to the Loess Fort a few years ago and saw the horses of the families under the Master of Integrity.

A character who can ride such a divine horse and war horse, where is he, an old man in the village, who can provoke.

In addition, there is also a fat man in this group of people who wears armor and bulges on his body, and with the eyesight of Jiang Laohan who has raised pigs for many years, he can estimate at a glance that this product weighs at least more than 200 catties.

How much food does this have to raise such a fat man, can he be an ordinary person?

I'm afraid that if I am knocked to the ground, then it will be in vain.

But to Jiang Laohan's surprise, in the neighing of war horses, these war horses slowly stopped beside him; Among them, the first man in good iron armor came with a smiling face showing eight big white teeth.

This is the fist with both hands on the war horse, and the mouth says:

"Old man, we are all the dun army in Suifeng Dun, and I am Yang Dongli, the leader of the night non-collection.

In the past few days, my family wants to find some laborers to help repair some trenches around Suifeng Pier, and some miscellaneous things, and also trouble the old people to publicize a thing or two in the village.

If you are willing to go, you can bring your tools and go to work today.

For both men and women, the daily wage is 100 Wen, and a lunch is included. ”

After saying that, this man, who had a mouth of big white teeth when he spoke, continued to move forward with a few other people, and soon left their Jiangjia Village.

But in the following time, such a short contact made Jiang Laohan fall into a huge entanglement about whether to go or not.

Go ahead? This thing is unreliable when you hear it.

It's not because of anything else, but because the wage is too high, he Jiang Laohan has lived for so many years, and it is the first time that he has heard that he is paid so much for working for a day, and he also takes care of food at noon.

You must know that since the imperial court implemented a whip law more than 30 years ago.

It was stipulated that all the land taxes and conscriptions were converted into silver and handed over, which caused a scene where silver was expensive and copper money was cheap; The higher the ratio of copper coins to silver, the less valuable copper coins are.

In the early years of Wanli, 800 wen money could be exchanged for one or two silver.

Nowadays, it takes more than 1,800 to exchange for a tael of silver.

In particular, some merchants and old men have minted copper coins privately, which are mixed with a lot of white lead, if it is such an inferior copper coin, at least 2000 Wen can be exchanged for one or two silver.

But no matter how cheap the copper money is, the salary of 100 Wen a day is still too high.

He Jiang Laohan has not worked for Jiang Dashan people in the village; If the normal salary is to take care of the food, it is 30 yuan a day.

So much so that such a piece of news was false as soon as he heard it.

But don't go, right? Jiang Laohan always thought that he was a little unwilling, as if he had lost a lot of money; In the end, after thinking for a long time by leaning on the big locust tree at the head of the village, Jiang Laohan decided: go.

The main reason is that he thinks that the dun army guarding the fire road squatting nearby are all military households under the jurisdiction of some loess forts.

is not like those foreign border soldiers, everyone is finally a folk, and they should not kill them and use the head to receive the reward; Take a trip to see, the top of the sky is just a trip for nothing.

And these days just happen to be idle farming, and idle is also idle.

With this understanding, Jiang Laohan called his three sons, a daughter and a daughter-in-law, as well as some clansmen in the village who were willing to go, and a group of more than 20 people walked eleven or twelve miles before coming to Suifengdun.

Then, there was a scene where Jiang Laohan stepped forward to ask if he wanted someone to work.

At the same time, Yang Dongli notified many people along the way, and this was the only person who came to see it together......

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Facing the dry old man in front of him who claimed to be Jiang Laohan, he asked timidly, Hu Biao, who was demonstrating assassination at the time, stopped what he was doing.

pulled his throat and opened his mouth to say: "Ah Li, Yu Hanfeng, you two went out to work." ”

After that, he stabbed out with a single shot, and the smallest of the five black circles made of thick and thin wood at the mouth of the bowl was stabbed.

The force of the tip of the spear was so great that it directly pierced the entire wood.

And Hu Biao's voice fell, and the white-haired girl who was currently in the shade, wielding a flying stone rope to practice accuracy, put down the cowhide rope pocket.

After carefully bringing a Fan Yang felt hat, he walked out of the Suifeng pier with a bag that seemed to be quite heavy.

In fact, to be honest, Jiang Laohan already planned to leave after seeing Hu Biao's fierce marksmanship that pierced the wood with one shot.

But soon after, he forgot about it completely.

I saw that under Fan Yang's felt hat, the skin was as white as paper, and after opening the bag, the old man's eyes straightened.

Because it seems that the bags weighing at least twenty or thirty catties are all copper coins.

What's more, the girl grabbed a handful of copper coins and counted them, while still shouting in her mouth:

"Uncle, that's right! We're in need of people to work here, fifty people in all, and if you want to bring someone else, just call them.

Don't be afraid that after you work, you won't get paid.

Now you all line up together, and everyone here will be paid 50 yuan first, as long as you are not lazy in your work, and the remaining 50 yuan will be paid when it gets dark and you are a casual worker.

If someone knows how to carpenter or mason, the daily wage will rise by another 50 wen. ”

In the end, after Jiang Laohan got a handful of copper coins, he felt the real feeling in his hand, and then he believed that everything was true.

Then in the next second, Ah Li saw this dry old man in horror, and suddenly jumped from the ground to a height of three feet.

Even after such a vertical bounce, it was still clearly in the air for a while.

Boy! Such a strong bounce data, put in the NBA of the modern plane, it is also a pretty good wave.

It's a pity that after jumping so high, Jiang Laohan turned around and shouted:

"Big dog, hurry up and bring people over to line up, the military masters have been paid.

Sangou, aren't you kid fast? Go back to the village immediately, and tell your dead second uncle that the work here in Suifengdun is true.

Tell him to bring a carpenter's work, and a few days here can support him in another fort, busy for a month. ”

Yu Hanfeng, who was wrapped in a large piece of gauze in his left ear, just stopped training and came over.

After seeing such a scene, he: "......"

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