Two days later.

The sunset slanted in the west.

South of the city.

Wu Shan led a team of catchers, carrying a basket of copper coins and more than a dozen buckets of gruel outside the arsenal.

Wu Shan took the gong and rang "Dangdang" outside.

There was an uproar in the arsenal.

"Leave work, leave work."

The workers who were building the arsenal immediately put down their work and lined up to walk out of it one by one.

They looked at the steaming porridge bucket, and their stomachs, which had been hungry for more than two hours, also growled, and they swallowed saliva one by one.

They first came to the official who was in charge of the payment of wages and received today's wages, ten cents.

Although ten cents is not much, not even a pound of corn can be bought, but it can keep the family from starving to death, in today's world, it is already good, and if you save it, it is three hundred wen a month.

Especially for those who come to work, the county also manages two meals in the middle and evening, although it is only gruel, but it still attracts many refugees and poor people who cannot eat.

Liu Er is one of them, the difference is that he is not a homeless homeless, he is from Qingting County, or from the county seat.

Because Qingting County is backed by a salt lake, the people in the city live quite well, and the people at the bottom can barely eat a mouthful of food.

But since the Celestial Master Army came, everything has changed.

After the city was broken, this group of thieves burned, killed and looted, and Liu Er's family was also ransacked.

For three consecutive days, there was a tragic scene in Qingting County.

Countless families died, some people left their hometowns with their families who had survived for most of their lives and became refugees, and some people were forced to join the Heavenly Master Army.

The last part of the people, that is, the outright "honest people", they are reluctant to leave home, even if they have anger in their hearts, but in the face of the powerful Heavenly Master Army, they can only swallow their anger, pinning their hopes on the Heavenly Master Army to leave quickly, so that they can return to their old lives.

It's just that to their surprise, they heard that the Heavenly Master Army, which used to fight a city and change places, actually stopped in Qingting County at this moment.

Although large-scale looting like before no longer happens, the turmoil has not stopped, petty theft often happens, even if the Heavenly Master Army issued a peace order, but it is only thunder and rain, just not face to face and directly rob.

I also give one porridge a day, but that porridge is like drinking water, and there are no ten grains of rice in a bowl of porridge.

At this moment, Liu Er heard that the county magistrate of Pingting County next door ordered Chen Mo to treat people leniently, and the people in the city lived and worked in peace and contentment.

At first, Liu Er didn't believe it, after all, he heard that this Chen County Order was also a member of the Heavenly Master Army, and they were all in a group, how good could it be?

Well, due to the blockade of the whole city of Pingting and Qingting counties before, the news was blocked, and it was difficult for the people at the bottom to know what was happening outside, and the Qingting County Order intended to block the matter about Chen Mo to avoid causing turmoil, so except for the people outside the city, the people in the city didn't know much about Chen Mo.

But because he really couldn't go on, the riots that occurred in the city all the time made Liu Er never feel at ease.

So he planned to come and see for himself.

After coming to Pingting County, everything in the city stunned him.

The city is so lively, the shops on both sides of the street are open one by one, the streets are full of people, there are catchers patrolling back and forth, once they find the people who make trouble, they will be arrested immediately, and even the fights caused by quarrels will be taken care of.

Many stores have also put up recruitment announcements, but unfortunately, only people from Pingting County are recruited.

Only the arsenal in the south of the city recruits workers, and there is no restriction on where the other party is, as long as it is over 10 years old and men under 60 years old.

As a result, Liu Er became a worker in the construction arsenal.

"Eh, then who, why are you stunned, don't want to be paid?" Wu Shan looked at Liu Er stunned and didn't understand, and the people in the back of the queue had been urging, and suddenly shouted.

Liu Er reacted and hurriedly said a few words of embarrassment.

He stepped forward and took ten wengong money from Wu Shan's hand.

Looking at the ten copper coins in his hand, Liu Er was like dreaming again, he really gave it if he had money.

After that, he lined up again to receive a bowl of porridge and half a spoonful of pickles.

Although the porridge is a thin porridge, there are at least 100 grains of rice in one bite, and there are shredded meat in the porridge.

The most important thing is that it is this half spoonful of pickles that makes Liu Er feel as if he has eaten the delicious food in the world.

He did not put the half spoonful of pickles in the porridge and eat it together, but carefully wrapped it in a cloth and put it away, ready to take it home.

Although there is a salt lake in Qingting County, it does not mean that every household can afford to eat salt, especially after the Tianshi Army occupied Qingting County, the entire salt lake was blocked.

After coming out of Pingting County, Liu Er's brain was still dizzy, and it didn't feel real, until he touched the copper coin in his arms again, and the cold touch told him that all this was true.

"One-two, one-two-three-four."

"One-two, one-two-three-four."

At this time, hundreds of shirtless men, shouting the same slogan, ran all the way from not far away, and the people outside the city heard the movement, and their eyes were all attracted to it, and their eyes were full of envy.

And these hundreds of men, feeling the envious eyes outside the city, all of them became energetic, and they couldn't help but raise their heads, and their movements became more neat.

Liu Er asked others and asked who these people were?

From the mouth next to him, he knew that these people were Shen Yongwei, and Shen Yongwei was the envy of everyone in Pingting County, because every Shen Yongwei could get a monthly salary of 800 Wen per month, and those team leaders and captains had a higher monthly salary.

In addition to the monthly salary, there are three dry meals a day, one of which is meat.

The most important thing is that the first batch of Shen Yongwei still has fields at home.

A matchmaker said to Liu Er that if there is a relative in the county who is brave now, the other daughters or sons in the family will not be worried about not being able to go out or marry a daughter-in-law.

These brave guards are the sweets in the eyes of the matchmaker.

After learning this, Liu Er was also full of envy, and asked if Shen Yongwei recruited people, but the answer he got was no, which made him a little disappointed.

Back at home, it was already dark.

At this moment, more than a dozen men came to Liu Er's house, these people, all of whom were Liu Er's friends and neighbors, came to ask Liu Er if what was going on in Pingting County was true.

When Liu Er took out ten copper coins from his arms and told what he had seen and heard in Pingting County.

These dozen men were stunned, but they didn't expect the rumors to be true.

Liu Erdao: "I have already decided, I will take my family tomorrow and move to Pingting County, I have inquired clearly, there is a refugee camp in Pingting County, and even if there is no place to live, it is better than staying here." ”

"Liu Er, I'll go with you."

"Go together, go together."

……

Three days later.

The sunset was slanting in the west, Chen Mo stretched his waist, he won't go back to the cottage today, let Chunhong go and boil the water, he wants to take a bath.

After Chunhong went down, Sun Meng came over and said that Wang Ping and Wu Shan asked to see him.

Wu Shan is currently the canonical history of the Yamen, in charge of all arrests, responsible for maintaining law and order in the city, as well as arrests and prisons.

Wang Ping is the official of the household in the yamen, in charge of all the scribes in the yamen, the amount of household registration, the amount of field grain, the warehouse and other money and taxes.

The two came together and talked about the situation of the refugees.

There are too many refugees in the city now, especially in the past few days, many people from other counties have poured into the city, and some of them are even soldiers under Yuan Youchun, and now they actually want to be the people under Chen Mo's rule.

When there are too many people, the refugee camps in the city are not enough to live in, and if there are not enough places to live, these refugees will sleep on the streets with their families, affecting order and the appearance of the city.

In addition to this, the arsenal is already saturated with workers and can no longer be recruited.

Chen Mo rubbed his brows, pondered for a while, and said, "In this way, the garrison in the city will be re-established, with a quota of three thousand, and the treatment will be half of that of the Divine Brave Guard."

In addition, refugee camps were built outside the city, walls were reinforced, fortifications were built, and foreign workers were recruited, and the treatment was the same as that of the arsenal. ”

"No."

As soon as the two of them retreated, Sun Meng came to report that Han Wu was coming.

Chen Mo asked Sun Meng to let Han Wu in.

Han Wu walked in with a basket and said, "Immortal Master Chen, this is the fishing goods that the people are fishing in Dadong Lake today, and these three fish have the same characteristics as the fish you said, Immortal Master Chen. ”

Chen Mo walked over and saw that two of the three fish were purple, with the same scales as snakes, no fins, and one fish had three eyes, which had been growing at the tail of the fish.

According to what Yi Qianqi told him, these three fish correspond to the three-eyed cowfish and the snake scale purple fish.

"How much do these three fish weigh?" Chen Mo said.

"These two purple strange fish, this one with a bigger belly has seven catties, a smaller one has three catties, and this fish with eyes on its tail is less than a catty." Han Wudao.

Chen Mo nodded: "Send the bounty first." ”

Although it was the first time he had seen this kind of fish, he couldn't confirm whether it was the three-eyed cowfish and snake scale purple fish that Yi Qianqi said, but the characteristics were in line with the city gate Lixin, no matter whether it was or not, Chen Mo would give the bounty.

"No." Han Wu retreated.

Just when Chen Mo was about to take these three fish to Yi's house for a trip, Chunhong walked over, handed Chen Mo a booklet, and said, "County magistrate, this is a song composed by the eldest lady, and I invite you to come and listen to it." ”

Hearing this, Chen Mo raised his eyebrows, yes, the Xia family sisters, as the daughter of the prefect, it stands to reason that they know more than Yi Qianqi, why should they be willing to go far.

"I know, you go down first, I'll go in the evening." Chen Mo said.

"No." Chunhong responded, then thought of something, and said, "County magistrate, the water is also boiled." ”

Chen Mo bowed his head, and after Chunhong went down, he called Sun Meng, gave him the score of the poem, and said: "Send someone to send this score to Miss Yi Shiyan, and say that this is a poem I wrote especially for her, and composed the tune." ”

He didn't know what gift to give Yi Shiyan yet, so he just borrowed flowers to offer Buddha.

"No."

(End of chapter)