In a wingman village in Connecticut, a southern recruit of the Dragoons was walking through a ripe rice field.

Not many of the seedlings in the entire paddy field are upright, and most of them are staggered and drooping in the field.

Many have even fallen down completely.

According to this recruit's observation, such a farmland can harvest a load of grain per acre, which is quite a lot.

That's about half less grain than the newly reclaimed land.

He stood on a high place and roughly estimated the area of the land.

It was concluded that the land was barely enough to feed more than a hundred people.

With this estimate, he felt that the population of this wingman village should not exceed two hundred.

Any more of them would be difficult to sustain their survival.

He walked along the path in the field to some of the old men who were harvesting.

In Chinese with a slight Chu accent, he asked, "Why are there only a few old men harvesting in the field?" Isn't there a young strong man in the family? ”

Several old men looked at him vigilantly and asked, "Where did the next generation come from?" Where do you want to go? How did you end up in the farmland outside the cave? ”

Xiao Bing pointed to the burden behind him and replied pretending to be sad: "The kid just came from Shu County and wants to go to Xinyi to bury his father." ”

An old man spoke: "The ancestral home of the descendants is faithfulness? ”

The soldier nodded, "Exactly." ”

The old man asked, "Why did a man of faith and righteousness run away to that distant Shu County?" ”

Xiao Bing said sadly: "According to my father, he was sold out at the beginning. ”

After listening to his words, the old men all showed a flash of memory.

I've seen this before.

In the turbulent years of the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, many of these bureaucrats were taken away and sold.

Many people die and never return to their former homeland.

Even now, the Tang government has promulgated draconian laws prohibiting the buying and selling of the bureaucratic population.

But there are still people who are willing to risk their heads in this industry for the sake of profiteering.

The soldier's words made him quickly gain the trust of these people.

So someone said: "The young people have gone to stop the Han people from encroaching on the border, and we old people will do some farm work when we have nothing to do." ”

Xiao Bing pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Are those Han people bandits?" Why don't you hurry up and report to the officials and let the court clean them up? ”

An old man snorted coldly: "Report to the official? Where is the official? Not Han yet? It is the government on behalf of the Han people who came to seize our land. ”

The little soldier said: "How can this be? Hasn't the imperial court been encouraging the integration of Han bureaucrats? ”

An old man scolded: "The fusion of the fart Han bureaucrats is a good thing, and you don't want to rob us of the land?" ”

Xiao Bing said: "Why has the kid never heard of such a thing in Shu County?" Is there any misunderstanding? ”

An old man said: "Those Han people don't have land in the first place, so why don't they come here to grab land?" What can be a misunderstanding? ”

Xiao Bing asked, "The Han people don't have land to reclaim themselves, so what does it have to do with us?" ”

An old man snorted coldly: "Once the Han people enter Connecticut and see that we have ready-made land, where will they reclaim it?" It must have been robbed. ”

Xiao Bing said: "Old man, who did you listen to to to your misleading to think so?" As far as the kid knows, the law of the imperial court prohibits the seizure of land. ”

An old man asked suspiciously, "Why are you always speaking for the Han people in your later life?" Could it be that he forgot that his relatives were taken captive as slaves by the Han Chinese? ”

Xiao Bing shook his head and said: "My father has long been rescued by the imperial court, and he has long had the identity of a Han Chinese, and even the land in the boy's family is allocated by the imperial court. ”

When an old man heard this, he wondered, "How could your father be so lucky?" How can such a good thing happen? ”

Xiao Bing said: "A few old men may not know that most of the slaves who are forced to buy and sell like their father are like this. ”

An old man was intrigued by what the soldier had to say.

So he pulled the little soldier and asked, "Little brother, come and tell the old man how your father was rescued by the imperial court?" Why didn't he return to his hometown? ”

Xiao Bing said: "I don't know how to save the kid, but my father was taken away and sold on the way to escape, so the family has no property."

After being saved, he stayed in Shu County.

At first, he relied on government relief to survive, but later took the initiative to apply for land and reclaim it by himself. ”

The old man trembled his lips and asked, "If there are any relatives in the family, will they be sent back to their hometowns?" ”

Xiao Bing said: "Naturally, it will." ”

When the old man heard this answer, he was so excited that he folded his hands together and kept muttering:

Poor son! May you soon be able to meet such good things and return to your fatherhood.

The other people on the side all sighed softly when they saw him like this.

The old man's eldest son was taken captive and sold when he was a child.

Xiao Bing couldn't imagine that a lie he made up casually could lead to such a thing.

Just as he was about to open his mouth to comfort the old man, another person next to him spoke.

I only heard the old man ask: "Little brother has been in contact with the Han people for many years, so he must be familiar with the outside world, can you tell us in detail?" ”

The soldier replied, "Why not?" It's just that the kid doesn't know much when he's young, so don't be disappointed. ”

After saying this, he told some of the information he knew to several people.

It not only depicts the prosperity of the outside world in detail, but also mainly tells the living conditions of the people in the outside world.

As several people continued to ask questions, he also told some of the laws of the Tang Dynasty that he knew.

During this period, he did not forget to carry private goods, revealing the origin and achievements of the reclamation army led by Li Zhi in the form of what he saw and heard.

When the old men heard that the people who confronted them were all prisoners of war and disaster victims, they were all puzzled.

An old man asked, "Didn't you hear that the Han people would sell prisoners of war as slaves?" Why give them land? ”

Another asked, "Did the little brother hear me wrong?" Could those people just be cultivating land for that little prince? ”

Xiao Bing shook his head and said, "How could the kid hear such a novelty wrong? I heard that those prisoners of war have all obtained their household registration now, and they are already the people of the Tang Dynasty! ”

Someone spoke: "No wonder these people will come to rob us of our land, it turns out that the imperial court used to buy these people!" ”

Xiao Bing shook his head and said: "A few old men have misunderstood, the land they have cultivated is all uninhabited wasteland, and they will not rob your own land." ”

Someone said, "We are all foreigners, how can they let us go?" ”

Xiao Bing asked rhetorically: "For the Han people, those prisoners of war are also foreigners, and now they have also become the people of the Tang Dynasty?" ”

After Xiao Bing said this, all of them fell silent.

The rhetoric they had heard before was very different from what the creeps had said.

This can't help but make them feel a little difficult to accept.