Chapter 171: Political Showmanship
"Leave them alone." Chang Yuan looked at Ning Changrong and the two didn't know what they were thinking.
Wang Hanting got the order, and continued to stand back, staring at his subordinates to carry out the execution.
Just walking around, the corners of his mouth twitched from time to time, obviously pulling a wound somewhere.
Ma Honglin, who was standing in the distance, saw Wang Hanting's buttocks, pursed his lips, and turned his head to suppress the snickering at the corner of his mouth.
"This time, Grandpa Lin's family should be able to rest assured."
Ning Qing, Xin, and Ning Changrong walked on the road.
After Shopkeeper Lin came to Taoyuan Village, with the help of Li's father's family, he quickly adapted to life in the mountains and devoted himself to construction and production.
With the help of Shopkeeper Lin, Ning Qingxi could finally be freed from the accounting.
On weekdays, she has to be busy settling accounts, recording everyone's work, and busy researching her own things, and by the way, she has to give her milk and do chores.
Shopkeeper Lin has been running a shop for many years, and he is a good hand at accounting accounts, although he has no time to illiteracy for the people in Taoyuan Village for the time being, but he can help Ning Qingxi share a job.
As for his two grandchildren, they are too young to recover for the time being, they stay at home every day and wait for the adults to come home, and occasionally they can go out for a walk by themselves if they are bored.
Don't worry about adults going out to work.
Grandma Lin also came out of grief and began to be busy with her livelihood, Grandma Lin couldn't do rough work, but she did the sewing work very carefully, and now she is doing a job of sewing clothes in the village.
Usually help those who go to the construction site to build the city wall sewing clothes can also earn some work.
This time when they came out, Ning Qingxi's father and daughter originally just wanted to see the situation in Taixi County, and they didn't know the specific time of execution, but they didn't expect to bump into each other just after they came.
"yes." Ning Changrong sighed and didn't know what to say.
"Dad, I always feel that something is wrong." Ning Qingxi thought for a while and said.
Ning Changrong turned his head suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”
"Didn't you notice that General Chang and they seem to be acting too exaggerated? It's as if their family was also being tortured in Tessie County. ”
Ning Changrong chuckled softly when he heard this, "You just reacted?" ”
Ning Changrong has been in the mall for many years, and he is not a party to it, so he can see that this execution is somewhat showy, but he also knows that this is a political need.
He explained his thoughts to his daughter.
"These actions are all to eliminate the resentment of the people and let them rule this place better, and they can only put their position in the position of the people in order to make the people trust them more."
"Although it is a show, they are willing to use such a method to persuade the people, which proves that General Chang values the people."
Ning Qingxi nodded slightly, she had read the truth in this from political books and history books.
"At this stage, General Chang should pay more attention to the people, but I don't know how long his attention can last. But no matter how you say it, it's much better than Emperor Nan Chen. ”
Although there were no people on the streets, and most of them went to the vegetable market to watch the execution, when their father and daughter talked, they still subconsciously lowered their voices when they talked about General Chang.
The two talked for a while, and unconsciously walked in front of the shop where Ning Changrong lived in the county.
"Fortunately, I rented it at the beginning, and if I bought it, I would really lose money." Ning Changrong's father and daughter stood in front of the shop that had become a ruin.
"Dad, although this shop is rented, but the land under our mountain was bought with real silver, and now it's okay, there's nothing."
"What's the matter, although we lost the land under the mountain, but we also picked up our lives, and the land on the mountain is also good, more fertile, no one has collected taxes from us, I don't know how comfortable it is. It seems that the mountain can slowly calm down, but who knows when this imperial army will come? ”
"Our Taizhou Mansion and Nanchen's court have only one river."
Ning Qingxi's mind flashed the illusion that their family ran down and continued to live happily, and then suddenly there was a war again, and they were beaten again.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but shudder, "Forget it, let's live on the mountain." ”
At the very least, there will be a city wall soon, and it is only their own city wall, which is not the same as the one built with loess strips and stones below, and it is completely made of cement.
It's a pity that there is no steel bar, and if you add steel bars, it will be stronger, but they add bamboo skin to it, which can also play a role in preventing solidification.
Taixi County was destroyed everywhere, and the original restaurants and inns were all smashed into ruins, and now the whole county is in ruins, and they wanted to buy something along the way, but there was nowhere to buy it.
The two of them glanced at the shop they had rented and walked back, there were still many things in the mountains, waiting for them to do their work.
When he went out of the city, he saw the soup kitchen at the gate of the city, and Ning Qingxi was a little worried.
"They are giving porridge for free now, and when there is no porridge, won't there be chaos in this county again?"
Ning Changrong was stunned for a moment, and then continued to walk as he said, "Can we manage so much?" Chang Yuan is a general, he can conquer so much territory, and there must be capable strategists around him, they should be able to think of a way, let's just take care of our own family. Thinking of the grain they planted, Ning Changrong's heart was full of confidence, and this winter could be spent peacefully.
To be honest, Ning Qingxi actually admired Chang Yuan, he was able to win so much territory in such a short period of time.
And seeing the situation in Taixi County, the other party should also have capable assistants for governing the place, and the most important thing is that he did not care about the lives of those people, and chose to take out food to help the people.
When Ning Qingxi and the two went back, they also took a look at the original Xiayuan Village, I don't know if Chang Yuan sent someone to clean it up, and now there is only an empty land and a few dilapidated houses that are about to fall.
The land looked as if it had been turned over.
"The land must be more fertile this year." Ning Changrong didn't know why, so he said this.
Ning Qingxi immediately understood what her father meant, I don't know how much carrion there is in this ground, can this land not be fertile?
When the two returned to the mountain, it was already mid-afternoon.
As soon as the two of them came back, Shopkeeper Lin came over to find Ning Changrong.
Looking at the shopkeeper Lin in front of him, who wanted to speak but was a little hesitant, Ning Changrong took the initiative and said, "Hu Dadao and their group have been beheaded. ”
In fact, he also offered to let Shopkeeper Lin go to see it together, but Shopkeeper Lin refused, first, he wanted to earn work, and their family still owed Taoyuan Village, and secondly, he didn't want to go to that sad place.