Heavy snow is falling, and this year's snow season is a little late, and it is not as overwhelming as the previous year.

The snowflakes are very gentle, like the heavens in charge of the seasons, and finally took pity on this group of little people on the earth, and the gentle snow, from north to south, floated away.

Of course, this is the idea of most nobles, there will be no less Qianshou who should freeze to death, and there will be no fewer slaves who should starve to death, but this year's four cities of Mengdi, as well as the surrounding cities of Zhao Bing, Deng Zhizhong and others, followed the decree of Mengcheng.

He built houses with shelter from the wind for the miserable, wrapped them in winter coats of all kinds of animal skins and furs, and distributed them to the hands of this group of people, and every day they also had gruel and wheat cakes to feed their stomachs.

People's ability to survive and adapt is extremely strong, and these humble people at least have the hope of barely surviving.

In the rocky jungle behind Mengcheng, the soldiers and soldiers braved the wind and snow, and the five people were in a team, constantly searching in the barren mountains and mountains.

A cold wind blew, and the snow on the branches of the trees fell on the armor.

"Special brew, this snow is really cold, I really don't know that Wu Fuyin has just been promoted, and he is not at home holding his old wife and concubine happily, why do you have to let me wait to search for some savages in this barren mountain and wild mountains!"

The armorers hurriedly shook the snow from their robes, and couldn't help but complain.

"Okay, let's not say a word, Fu Yin is not to expand the population of our Mengcheng, I heard that this matter was personally explained by the lord."

"What is there to expand on this group of savages? They have all become savages, so let them survive in the wilderness, why do you have to capture them back and become living people? This group should be sent to be sent into slavery. ”

"You rammer, the lord teaches on weekdays, have you listened in vain? I, the people of the North Sea, should be different from other places, but we are the ones who have picked up a life from the mouths of strange beasts, so we should know what it is to be human? The same human race, unity is the foundation of Mengdi. ”

"Besides, if there are no people in the army, how can you and I drive away the alien beasts, and how can we guard our territory in the hands of those Rong tribes?"

"Okay, okay, don't talk about preaching, Nai Weng's ears are itching, I know, I'm not complaining casually, who is our lord? That's the sage of Yi Yin's reincarnation. What does the life or death of these savages have to do with Naion? At that time, if anyone dares to die, there will naturally be General Wu Dang to open their skulls and sober them. ”

The five of them cautiously approached the valley following the route told by the merchant, where a small settlement of hundreds of people was huddled in a cave.

The entrance to the cave was sealed with a withered wooden door, and occasionally several men wrapped in animal skins, with worn daggers hanging from their waists, were carrying clay pots full of filthy excrement to the stream in the distance.

The captain signaled to stop, and asked the two to return quickly to bring the army over, and the remaining three quietly went around to the downwind position, and hibernated like hunters, monitoring everything in the camp.

"Eh, have you heard? A few days ago, Wu Zhuqiu's Wu Zhuqiu died of illness, and I heard that Wu Zhu's family wanted to use the family's fifty slaves for burial, which caused the lord to be furious, and personally went to Wu Zhu's house to make a big fuss. ”

"Why is the Lord making a fuss? But the ritual vessels of the old man in Qiu are overdue? ”

"I heard that it was because of the dissatisfaction with the number of people who were buried."

"Indeed, there are indeed more than fifty people, and now the city is in ruins, and the lord and the city Yin are eager for me to wait for a winter to conceive a seventeen or eighteen boys, and then give birth overnight, grow up overnight, and then follow the army to fight in Beihai after the winter."

"Hahaha! Yes, yes, Nai Weng also wants to have seventeen or eighteen boys, but he can't afford to raise them. ”

Maybe these two rammers with broken mouths chatted a little loudly, Wu Chang turned his head and glared at the two, and the two of them suppressed their voices and restrained a little.

"Anyway, in the end, Wu's Wuzhu was reduced, and only ten people were martyred, and they were martyred by the lord with a disabled prisoner of war and Wu's Wuzhu."

"Hey, isn't this still going to be martyred? I thought I could directly not be martyred, in previous years, which nobleman died and was not allowed to bring a dozen people down, isn't the lord nosy? ”

Wu Chang finally couldn't bear it anymore, he was different from these two rammers, he had followed the lord to the inner North Sea realm, and he was also a person who was fortunate enough to listen to the will of the lord in that long night.

"The will of the lord, how can you two people with no ambition talk lightly? You only see the valor of the king, but you do not think of his righteousness. If it weren't for the lord's leniency, we would all be slaves. ”

"Have you forgotten? Wu Qi, the weak and bullying villain, was still in the city at this time, and he was desperate to follow the Yuan thief! ”

……

The two soldiers pondered for a while, and after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that it was true, if it was not the Meng man who came that day, but the hot-tempered Chonghou or Chao Lei, where would they have the opportunity to change their ways, they would have been transported back to Chaoge or Chongcheng a long time ago, and they were all slaves and human animals.

The two of them said with red faces: "I have been taught, don't be annoyed, I and other rough people have gossip, but we have never been disrespectful to the lord, don't blame, don't blame!" ”

"The will of the lord and the monarch should be benevolent and virtuous, but there are always some people in this world who do not have benevolence in their hearts, cling to the cruel old rules, and hinder the way of the lord's benevolent government. How many acres of land can you have? Or is it better for the lord to divide the harvest of the baron's land, and then persuade those nobles to subsidize the people? If not, where will there be grain for spring plowing and sowing to restore livelihoods? If it weren't for the lord who borrowed those stored grains and took people to the countryside to hunt for famine, we would all starve to death and freeze to death last winter! ”

"Remember, Mengdi is the Mengdi of Meng's male, not the outside of the Beihai, naturally when Xingrendao, whether it is a savage, a slave, a living people, all are Meng, this is the lord himself, if you don't obey, don't blame me for not thinking about my comrades."

The two armorers were silent, blushing and silent, and hurriedly nodded yes.

"Slowly, the road must be walked step by step, the meal must be eaten one bite at a time, this is the truth that slaves know, I will be the sword in the hands of the lord, help him slowly change this cannibalistic world step by step, don't say these bastard words in the future."

After the three of them finished speaking, there was a movement of the march in the distance, and the commander immediately turned his head to look back, it was his two men who came with hundreds of armor soldiers.

"Let's go, prepare to encircle the camp, after today's single-task, I will wait for the task to be completed, and I can go home and rest for at least three days."

"No!"

And far away in Mengcheng, watching the armor soldiers lead the savages back to the city "one litter" after another, showing a helpless expression.

This group of wild men is simply stubborn, and the front is persuaded by people, but as soon as the front foot leaves, this group of wild people does not know where to run, and the family moves.

I don't know how many times Wu Qi has deceived these people before, he ran away when he saw the army, and fled when he heard Zhao'an, as if he had put the "city people" on the list of dishonesty, and he couldn't get in.

In desperation, they could only let the armor soldiers take turns to go into the mountains, "invite" them out of the wilderness one by one, first capture them into the city, not be disgraced, work with slaves, and wait until they are willing to believe, willing to transform into people, and then promoted by virtue of their military exploits.

Because of this, the nobles, witches, and diviners in the city "rebelled" one after another, and they came to persuade him twice in three days, saying that he was perverse, cruel and unkind, and a tyrant who deprived the "people" of their privileges.

Anyway, Meng Wei at this time can be regarded as a retrospective, and squeezing "slaves" and "savages" with them is benevolence and morality. Otherwise, it is tyranny.

In their eyes, the word "people" does not include those slaves and savages, and they do not even regard these "animals" as human beings.

Wu Cheng stepped forward a little tiredly and asked softly, "Gentlemen, rumors have begun to spread in the market, saying that you ...... Say you ......"

Meng Wei rolled his eyes, and he didn't have to guess who released it.

"Say that I am tyrannical, right, is it a prince who is a rebellious prince of Yin Shang?"

"Uh...... Or send someone to the door to gag them? ”

"Ridiculous, they can't say it if they are gaged? Rumors are like a flood, and they cannot be stopped. ”

"Then you can't let them ruin your reputation, if these words get out, don't say that you just issued a recruitment order, even some ignorant people in the city will be misled by these rumors and cause a bad impact."

To tell the truth, if he could, Meng Wei would really kill if he wanted to draw his sword, and kill until these people no longer dared to talk nonsense, but when would it be done to stop killing by killing? The aristocracy cannot be killed, and if the problem is not solved from the root, if this group of nobles is killed, there will be a new aristocracy in the future, which is a problem of system and class.

Now it is a huge problem, if you want to quickly improve the strength of Mengdi, you must open up the population and wasteland, all of which need the support of the population, but the consumption and lifeblood of the population are not eradicated in slavery and various problems of human martyrdom and human sacrifice.

If you want to change the system, you have to face the challenge of the nobles who stick to the old system, if you don't change the system, everything will develop quietly, then Mengdi will still be the dirty city that used to be, the inertia carried by the wheel of history can't stop the future crisis at all, he might as well unload his armor and return to the field to be a Tao Zhu Gong, sit and watch the clouds roll up.

Meng Wei chose the most difficult road, challenged the old system, and rushed forward step by step, at least even if he died, he could be regarded as dying on the road of promoting the development of history, rather than being killed by the inertia of history.

"Inform me that in the spring festival of the coming year, Mengdi, Qingyang Pass, and Hucheng are not allowed to use human animals, and use three animals instead."

Wu Cheng was shocked, looked around, and after retreating from the guards around the perimeter, he approached and whispered, "Are you crazy?" A few days ago, I was still talking to you, slowly Tuzhi, what are you going to do now? ”

Meng Wei stared at Wu Cheng and asked slowly: "Wu Cheng, you are a disciple of the Wu family, it stands to reason that you should think about the problem from their point of view, but at this time, you keep helping me formulate these new rules and policies, what do you want to do?" Should I trust you? ”

Wu Cheng immediately knelt on the ground: "The subordinate doesn't want anything, the subordinate is originally a side branch of the Wu family, and he originally thought that his ambition in this life was limited to a city Yin." ”

"Did you know? When the lord of the day bought slaves to replace the animals, Wu Cheng was always worried in his heart, afraid that you would take the people as animals, in that case, how different are you from Wu Qi? But you didn't abuse the people, and you didn't refuse to give it. Do you know what the ministers thought at the time? ”

"Wu Chengning followed a pedantic benevolent lord to the abyss together, and he didn't want to be a mediocre lord anymore, to be the executioner who slaughtered his fellow clansmen, lord, you can fully trust Wu Cheng, Wu Cheng is the governor of Mengdi, and he is definitely not a relative of the Wu family."

Meng Wei looked at Wu Cheng's sincere gaze, he didn't know whether he should believe it or not, he didn't have the ability to read minds.

If you don't believe it, what can you do? It is difficult for a lone person to achieve great things.

"In the name of a private person, you secretly inform the Wu clan that Meng Yan is about to enter the Chong clan as a son, and Chonghou intends to make him the heir of Chongguo, if Meng Yan is his uncle, the patriarchs of the Zhucheng clan are all barons, Meng Yan is the marquis, and the clan can be promoted to the earl, if Meng Wei is the marquis......"

Wu Cheng looked at his own lord with a shocked face, opened his mouth wide, and asked in disbelief: "Is this ...... Your Lord, are you telling the truth? ”

"It's not fake, Chonghou did ask me what I meant."

"It's just that I didn't say yes."

"Aren't you lying? Since you have no intention of joining the Chong clan, why do you want to use this pretense to tell the clans this? ”

Meng Wei spread his hands helplessly: "So, isn't this for you to secretly reveal in the name of a private person!" In the future, let's climb up step by step, if we can climb up, we will naturally be able to cash in, and if we can't climb up, don't blame me, this is what you said, when did I say this? ”

"Let them help me suppress other small and medium-sized clans first, help me succeed in reform, and then ...... after completing the big things"

"Then they can't agree with it!"

The energy is limited, and it's a day at work, so I can only break out occasionally, and I can't maintain it every day, but I'll still try my best to maintain the two watches, and on weekends and holidays, I'll be crazy about coding and saving manuscripts, preparing for more.

By the way, today's chapter is followed by tomorrow's first chapter, which is not only a point of clarity, but also a plan for the future. A new journey is previewed, and it is about to take off.

(End of chapter)