It is not easy to build a city wall. You need bricks and cement. Now you can't buy blue bricks, let alone cement. Most of the houses are built with yellow mud mixture. This kind of thing is not strong, it is a face project, and it looks good. That's it.
Lin Yuan, a liberal arts student, really didn't know the formula of soil cement. Even if he knew, where would he find the raw materials
In this wilderness, there is no plaster.
He sighed long and short here, Yang Zian happened to pass by, and sat on the Tiankan. Unlike Brother Dao, Yang Zian was literate. Although he had never read the Book of Sages, he was also out of the scope of illiteracy. Lin Yuan taught the peasants in simplified Chinese characters, but he never paid attention to Lin Yuan.
But fortunately, Yang Zian was not a descendant of an aristocratic family, that is, a landowner, and disappeared after two days of lack of anger.
Anyway, those peasants wouldn't be officials or slaughter, and it doesn't matter if they know a few typos.
"Fourth brother, what are you sighing? Have you encountered a difficult situation?" Yang Zian asked.
Lin Yuan scratched the back of his head: "Thinking about the city wall, although we are surrounded by mountains, we are not very stable. We only have a dozen hoes for weapons. What if there are people who come? Don't talk about the bandits, it is the refugees who come. We have to be screwed too."
Yang Zian: "City Wall?"
Lin Yuan didn't even think about what idea Yang Zian could come up with, so he said straight: "You can't buy blue bricks, even if you can buy them, it's not enough."
"What should I do?" Yang Zian waved his hand, "Isn't it just burning bricks? I understand that."
The bricks used by his family were all hand-fired by their own parents. The mud bricks are not as good as blue bricks, but they can be used.
Lin Yuan's eyes changed when he looked at Yang Zian, and he became very earnest and enthusiastic.
Yang Zian touched his chin, and was a little proud. When he was a child, he used to go to the place where bricks were burned, and he would burn bricks when he had nothing to do. The long-term workers naturally knew everything.
"Let's set up a brick-burning team!" Lin Yuan decided, "Second brother, you will be the captain!"
Yang Zian is quite happy. Recently, Brother Dao became the captain of the hunting team. Although most of the guys don't quite understand what the captain does, but over time, he also knows that being the captain is beneficial. Yang Zian is now in charge of farming. , but he also doesn't want to keep farming, the captain of the brick-burning brigade, sounds quite pompous.
After all, it is the "big" captain, which is different from the "small" captain.
"We have to get some people." Lin Yuan said, "We are still too few."
Now there are more than 100 middle-aged men in Zhuangzi, and more than 100 elderly women and children.
There are the fewest children, plus Gouzi, Erliang and Guoer, there are less than ten in total.
Lin Yuan didn't want these bachelors to cause trouble for the women, they usually work separately.
But things between men and women are not too uncontrollable. At this time, they don't pay attention to etiquette and morality. If men and women look at each other, something will happen. Now three women are pregnant.
At this time, people don't have any entertainment activities, and they have nothing to do as soon as it gets dark, and that little thing in the bed becomes the only activity.
Lin Yuan also understood why the ancients had so many children.
There is no contraceptive method, and entertainment activities are basically the same thing in bed, and it is strange that there are not many children.
However, because these people are physically weak now, there are not many pregnant.
Especially women, most of them have yellow face and thin skin, and they have not been raised for so long.
Yang Zian: "I'll take people to buy people."
It's better to buy peace of mind and find refugees. As long as there are one or two people who have bad intentions, the trouble will be big.
Some refugees have had human lives on their hands.
Murder, as long as you start, and you lose your awe in your heart, people will become more and more distorted.
Therefore, modern soldiers have to do psychological investigations after they have been on the battlefield.
In ancient times, it was not uncommon for soldiers to slaughter the city without obeying the command.
"Okay." Lin Yuan knew that he couldn't buy people with money now, and the paper money had lost its purchasing power, so he whispered, "Buy food."
Yang Zian nodded: "I know."
Lin Yuan: "Bring some people, take an ox cart and take a few hoes. It would be best if you can buy kitchen knives and iron pots."
It is iron after all, and it can be turned into a weapon if it is melted.
Yang Zian also thought of this. Unlike Brother Dao and Jiang Gui, Yang Zian also felt that they had to have weapons and a city wall. His family was also a landlord back then, but when the bandits came, they had no resistance at all.
After all, whether it’s a servant or a long-term worker, they all have young families, they don’t dare to work hard, the family loses the strong labor force, and it is difficult for the family to survive. The bandits are different. day.
Even if the bandits don't eat as well as they do, no one is their opponent when they fight for their lives.
"Okay." Yang Zian, "I'll try to get as much back as possible."
On the day Yang Zian left, he took 20 brothers with him. These 20 were all middle-aged men, with no family. In addition, there was no hunger this year, and the dishes they ate also contained oil and water - after all, there was soybean oil, so each one They have grown a bit fleshy, and standing out can still bluff people.
Lin Yuan also gave a mobilization speech.
"If you encounter a bandit, you can fight if you can, or run if you can't." Lin Yuan said, "It's not ashamed to run!"
Lin Yuan: "But you can't lead people over, you have to run around and spread out, understand?"
The men shouted, "Understood!"
Yang Zian took people away, and he left for two months.
As things became less, Lin Yuan focused his attention on Zhu Chongba. Now Zhu Chongba goes down to the ground every day and gets tanned. Judging from his appearance, he is just an ordinary farm boy. He lives in the dormitory and soon I mingled with others, people are smart, and they can eat anywhere.
Lin Yuan didn't doubt this. After all, he was the righteous son-in-law of Guo Ziyi in the future, and Zhu Chongba at that time had nothing.
Zhu Chongba thinks that his life is good now, he doesn't need to be displaced and rest every day after work, but there are women who see him in good health at a young age and work quickly and expressly hinted it several times, but they are ignored by Zhu Chongba. .
He still remembered the hatred of the court in his heart, and remembered it clearly.
Lin Yuan sometimes chatted with Zhu Chongba, and while chatting, he discovered what made Zhu Chongba different.
He is sharper and more daring to challenge stereotypes.
But also more extreme.
"Corrupt officials hurt people." Zhu Chongba said, "It's time to cut them all down."
Lin Yuan asked, "What if there is not much greed?"
Zhu Chongba: "To be greedy is to be greedy, how many points are there?"
Lin Yuan was silent for a while, then he asked, "Do you know what their salary is?"
Zhu Zhongba was stunned, he didn't know this, but the salary of an official was definitely not low.
Lin Yuan: "Just say you brother Jiang, he used to be in Wucheng, and he was also a small official who was in charge of land. I only knew him when I wanted to buy land."
"He wants to support his mother-in-law, his son, and his own parents. Later, he will take his father-in-law and mother-in-law into his house. Think about it, how much salary does he need to support these people?" Lin Yuan said, "How common is this? If you want to visit relatives and friends, you have to buy things for the New Year and festivals, and rely on the salary, then the family will drink the northwest wind."
When Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he chopped off about 150,000 heads for corruption, but he was still repeatedly banned. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the amount of embezzlement and bribes taken by officials in the Ming Dynasty was the highest of all dynasties.
He has suffered from official corruption himself, so his methods are extreme, but during Zhu Yuanzhang, officials' salaries were very low, and some officials' family resources were even inferior to ordinary people, let alone compared with landlords.
Even if they knew that they would be beheaded if they were greedy, the officials were still greedy.
It is estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand in the end, why he cut off the heads of so many corrupt officials, and there are still so many corrupt officials.
Don't those people fear death
Zhu Chongba said seriously: "That shouldn't be greedy!"
Lin Yuan: "When I bought the land, I gave Jiang Ge a consistent bribe."
Zhu Chongba: "..."
Lin Yuan: "Do you think Brother Jiang is the bad guy of the fishy people?"
Zhu Chongba: "I..."
Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "People's desires are endless. When they are poor, they want to be fed and clothed. When they are full, they want to be big and big. After they are big, they want to be respected by others. hold power."
Zhu Chongba didn't speak.
Lin Yuan said, "blocking is worse than sparse."
Zhu Chongba suddenly asked, "Master, if you were to sit in that seat, how would you deal with corrupt officials?"
Lin Yuan thought about it for a while. He was not a politician, and he only knew about skins. Before he crossed the country, he was carrying out a vigorous anti-corruption operation. It can be seen that corruption has been banned repeatedly since ancient times.
So Lin Yuan spread out his hands very single: "I'm a commoner, what can I do?"
Zhu Chongba fell into deep thought.
If it was him... what would he do
On the day Yang Zian came back, the weather was gray, there was no sun or rain, but it made people feel gloomy. Yang Zian walked at the front of the team. Of the twenty men who went out with him, only the ones who came back completely were Twelve people, two more wounded, lay in the ox cart.
"I met a bandit on the road, and half of the people who bought it died." Yang Zian said, "Six of our people died."
Lin Yuan was almost out of breath.
"The two injured, I applied herbal medicine to them." Yang Zian frowned, his expression gloomy, "Whether you can survive it, it's up to you."
Herbs are the herbs on the roadside. They grow in the mountains and fields. After rubbing them, they can be applied to the wound to stop the bleeding.
But the two had already started to have a fever.
Once fever, even hovering on the edge of life and death.
The people who came back were tired, and each of them had injuries on their bodies. When they confronted the bandits, they were afraid and wanted to run away, but they couldn't escape. There were so many bandits, and they looked at them with such fierce eyes. .
Fortunately, these bandits were hungry, otherwise they would not have survived.
The person who was bought back can't be thin, and it has to be raised for a period of time to gain strength.
Yang Zian said to Lin Yuan, "There is a pot in the ox cart, and I have all the weapons of the bandits back."
The bandits were also farmers originally, and most of their weapons were axes, hoes and kitchen knives.
Lin Yuan asked Yang Zian, "That group of bandits ran away?"
Yang Zian smiled at Lin Yuan: "They are all dead."
Lin Yuan sighed, the world is like this, either the other party died, or they died.
The author has something to say: Zhu Yuanzhang hated corrupt officials very much. When he was in power, he cut a lot of them, but he kept getting banned. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, there were more and more corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, and they soon surpassed all the previous dynasties. The Qing Dynasty also had no corrupt officials. can catch up.