Under Wang Dun'er's bitter pleading, he still got a partner, or a "way to survive" given by Zhuang Shang.
So the next day, he seldom ate half-full with a big bucket of sour soybean meal dregs and boiled vegetable soup. Then he put on his body and didn't know where to pick it up, still wearing a tattered robe with solidified and black blood; A rusty and barely sharpened sharp iron short knife.
In his hand, he took a long pole with uncut bamboo knots. On top, it was tied with straw and written in large characters "Tai Ping" with crooked ink, and a square cloth with raw edges dyed green with straw juice.
Afterwards, a group of local army officers came forward, urging and leading many similarly dressed villagers, walking westward along the river through the rolling mountains and hills, and stopped from time to time, leaving behind and getting lost. The people get back a whipping.
Only when it got dark did I divide a few half-baked taro, and slept in the wild with banana leaf cushions for a night, and then came to a place with dew and biting swelling. The dwarf trees and grassy red clay hills were wrapped in a red earth hill, and by the way, I ate the last piece of bran dumpling with a rotten taste.
At this time, they could already see a small mountain village in the distant mountain col with faintly smoked smoke and scattered huts and earth walls; then the leading Tu Tuan official walked over and faced Wang Dun'er and other few who were obviously at a loss. New faces,
"When you come to this kind of scene for the first time, let's just stand behind this hilltop tree waving the flag and yelling. Someone will naturally go down and act in a while..."
Then he yelled at other people who seemed to be familiar with the road and were wearing the toecloth.
"They all hide their hair buns. I heard that the thieves are all dressed up as shawls who disrespect their parents and don't care about their hair and hair..."
"I know, I won't be able to pull the tail of my hand... it's all evil too... the thief's activities..."
Someone suddenly drooled and laughed, and then his companion covered his mouth, and the Tu Tuan official quickly slapped a loud ear scraper.
"Just what you are talking about..."
"Wait, listen. This is the den of thieves who secretly colluded with Qiang Liang, and even relied on many of the Orion families, who insisted on resisting and destroying the master and the young man, and wanted to break the house and ask the thieves to defend the land. ... it is indispensable to teach a good lesson..."
Then the tuan official turned his head again, and shouted in encouragement to Wang Dun'er and others who were uneasy or cramped.
"Now most of the men in this village are hunting and cutting trees, and the rest are unusable old and weak. So if there are enough women found later, brothers will let you It’s okay to wait until you taste it."
"Speaking of which, do you want to ask a woman to be a gangster? You will become accustomed to following everyone a few more times... Maybe Zhuang Shang will give you one from the middle finger in the future..."
At this time, Wang Dun'er, who was standing in a bewildered crowd, was already cold and at a loss. Could it be that the women in the Zhuangzi in the past few years, the servants, tenants, and tribes who were given the grace of the master and had a wife to become a family, all came from this way
However, at this moment, he thought of his scabies and skinny mother, who was carrying him to death in front of the hot dyeing vat. There was also a certain person who went to steal the feed from the mill for a hungry child, but was knocked down by a mule. The woman who was crushed to death by her hands on the grinding disc was more real and clear than ever before.
However, in the jagged shouts that erupted afterwards, it took him several whips to yell out; he could only watch the "thieves" led by these soldiers scatter down the hillside and easily toss them down. And climb over a fence that can only be used to stop beasts.
Then, amidst the village’s knocking golden plates and crying and screams, the struggling women or children were dragged out with punches and kicks. Or chasing the scattered thin chickens and ducks everywhere, and uttering arbitrary shouts after another.
Because he was powerless to do anything, and he didn't have the courage to resist, the soldiers who were close to guarding them with knives and guns; he had personally caught and killed the biggest creatures of his generation, and he was only one of the pikas who were good at burrowing and hiding. Class only. He can only vent the awkwardness and sadness in his mind into a meaningless roar in the air.
"I want to go down and play tricks too... You are optimistic about these squatters in this generation... If you want to run away any one, I will just ask you..."
And after seeing the smooth progress of this scene, the Tuan official also triumphantly confessed to another companion next to him in a low voice:
"What should I do then..."
The companion frowned.
"By the way, you can see if there is any bold and obedient in it, so you can make up for it.. There are a few more that are really unusable, and it will be useful to bring them down later." The Tu Tuan official also disagrees. The Tao:
"At any rate, it was a bad thing done by a peaceful thief. How could it be possible not to drop a few corpses as evidence..."
However, the earth-colored Tu Tuan official didn't have the life to rush back, and he didn't hesitate to slanting past the villagers who stayed in place, and fleeing into the distance.
Because the side of the mountain col gradually appeared, and it was a blue flag held high in the wind. And then after faintly shaking and flickering in the treetops, it became a fine tassel swaying from the tip of a snowy spear and a little bit of wind.
Then Wang Dun'er glanced at the crude flag that had been put down in his hand, and someone shouted in surprise.
"Peace thief..."
"What a peace thief is here..."
Suddenly, the hands and feet of all the people present became stunned and stunned like sifting chaff; the earth-coloured Tutuo soldiers were even more shocked and scattered, leaving these bewildered villagers especially on the hillside.
It's just that they didn't have time to run far, they were chased up by some newly-appearing pawns, knocked down one by one, and brought back. Dejectedly tied into a string, he knelt down on the ground.
Soon after, Wang Dun'er, who knelt on the ground and tried to curl up, could only be like other shivering villagers; full of despair and fear also prayed in his heart for the blessing and grace of the gods and Buddhas, so that he would not let him. These thieves start killing from them first.
You must know that the Tutuo officer who was dragged back by a lasso on his back is also the most promising elder of the chief steward, but at this moment, like other Tutuo soldiers, his armor and objects have been stripped;
Then, in the villages where the strips of light were "used", the women who cringed and were brought over to identify, all kinds of means on their hands, feet, teeth and nails vented wantonly.
And above the heads of these villagers, a strangely extroverted accent said.
"Are these the thieves who deliberately pretended to be my Taiping Army to harm the township... How many waves are these..."
"These people who stayed on the mountain have not yet participated in it; however, it is not excluded that some of them are responsible for watching the wind and detecting the sentinel..."
Another voice was slightly respectful.
Hearing this, these villagers suddenly lay on the ground with tears and snots, and cried and cried out with their hands on the soil.
"We are not gangsters,"
"It's all the local army sergeant who asked us to come"
"Zhuangzi can't live if he doesn't come..."
"We have signed a lot of debt deeds... we can only redeem them only after we say..."
Then, a pair of half-old black leather short boots suddenly stopped in front of Wang Dun'er, who was already crying in regret inexplicably, and then there was a voice with a heavy nasal voice:
"It turned out to be the uncle of Chashan... but we met again"
"you....."
Wang Dun'er, who raised her head in amazement, suddenly remembered that this faintly acquainted face was a half-size boy who had asked him about his way a few days ago.
Because he really couldn't see what harm such a young man with mud, hairy and runny nose would be; he really couldn't bear to take it for a complaint, and replaced it with something that Zhuang Shang injured;
Therefore, I resisted the troublesome thoughts of reporting, and even let him sleep in the night watch shed, and told him to leave quickly so as not to be seen by others.
But I didn't expect that he really looked away, this young man is still a true peace thief; he is still one of the most respected and respected little bosses among thieves.
"I can show you the way to find food on the Zhuangzi... just let me get rid of the thief, anyway, I can't live anymore..."
At this moment, Wang Dun'er suddenly yelled out of the blessed soul.
"But after you have used Zhuangzi's food, please don't use these poor people who are all bones and don't grow much meat as military food..."
However, after hearing his words, the Taiping thief present couldn't help but burst into laughter one after another, while the young Taiping thief had a slightly ugly and helpless expression.
—I am the dividing line —
In the Great Camp of the Eastern Crusade in Changxing County on the west side of Taihu Lake, Zhou Huaian was also tasting the local tribute tea named "Guzhu Zisun" with Yang Shigu, Luo Yin and others.
The spring buds of tea trees produced in the local Guzhu Mountain and Tanggong Mountain were purple, and they were rated as the first-rate tea in "The Classic of Tea" by the tea saint Lu Yu. Therefore, the special tribute tea courtyards have been set up in this dynasty on a large scale, and tens of thousands of workers each year specialize in making tribute tea "Guzhu Zisun".
At the peak of production in the past, not only tens of thousands of cakes were tributed annually, but also sold to various parts of the southeast, which became a major source of local revenue and an important source of the imperial court's monopoly tea tax.
Therefore, it is said that when tribute tea is made every spring, the provincial governors of Huchang and Changzhou first sacrificed to the tea gods of Jinshaquan, and finally floated and painted a dozen boats in Taihu Lake, set up flags on the mountains, brought official prostitutes to a feast, and drank wine and had fun.
Just as Liu Yuxi’s poem said: "Where is the world like a fairyland, when Qingshan brings prostitutes to pick tea." And as today, the Qidao 16 prefectures, which mainly produce tea, have already been under Zhou Huaian’s rule, so here is just a taste. It's new.
(1. Xiazhou Yiling County, Guizhou Badong County, Kuizhou Yun’an County, Jinzhou Hanyin County, Xingyuan Prefecture Hanzhong County on Shannan Road; Changzhou Jinling County, Huzhou Wuxing County, Muzhou County on Jiangnan Road Xinding County, Changle County of Fuzhou, Poyang County of Raozhou; Lingxi County of Xizhou on Qianzhong Road; Shouchun County of Shouzhou, Lujiang County of Luzhou, Qizhou County of Qizhou, Yiyang County of Shenzhou and Jiannan on Huainan Road Lushan County, Yazhou.)
However, the topic they were discussing at this time was not so elegant and pleasant, but full of the triumphant meaning of the iron horse and gold.
"The important points of Huzhou and Changzhou are not in the city, but in the Taihu Lake and the waterways; the Taihu waterways have changed hands, and there is not much room for them to rush and retreat and hide, and then intend to recover."
Luo Yin looked at the sand table road that was constantly marked
"Nowadays the lake, Changji lightly descends... Then Suzhou and Hangzhou, which are in the same place, are also not far away..."
"Suhang has always been rich in products and densely populated. It is the first place in the land of fish and rice in the eastern Zhejiang provinces. Although it has been devastated by wars, it still has a little more power."
Yang Shigu shook his head slightly.
"In Suzhou alone, there are five families vying for possession; thousands of widows and more than ten thousand strong ones are all local teachers who have been fighting and sawing down in previous years. Naturally, they will not be willing to sit and wait for death."
"And in Hangzhou, there are also the remnants of Dong Chang’s Badu and Jiang Huan, a local tycoon in Qiantang. They attacked and killed more than one side, and Dajiang divided them. Although there is no shortage of defeated troops, it will be too if they work together. It's troublesome..."
Zhou Huaian remembered the phrase in Chinese textbooks: "There is heaven on the top, and Suzhou and Hangzhou on the bottom", or the history textbook mentioned in the Southern Song Dynasty that "Suhang is familiar with the world, and the world is full."
But now it is inevitable to realize this in the recruitment campaign.
The so-called pattern like a small underground paradise is nothing but a comprehensive product of the humane and social environment that has been maintained and supported for a long time by the rich product resources and population base from generation to generation, and then gradually accumulated and emerged long ago.
"Then Dong Chang of Lin'an County sent someone to negotiate, willing to lose his sincerity to the governor and lead him to be a precursor to the invasion of Hangzhou, but he had to save his two counties and three towns afterwards..."
Li Shicheng, who happened to be in charge of foreign affairs, walked in and said
"It doesn't need to be seen anymore, what is it that gives him such confidence and ambition..."
Zhou Huaian waved his hand.
"Just let people go back and tell them, hand over all the people and chassis, and go to Guangfu to be a rich family apartment. That will be the best result."
"In fact, I heard a joke in the early years; it was said that as long as you kill all the evil people in this world, the rest will naturally be good people..."
After Zhou Huaian finished the episode, he continued to speak lightly.
"For most people in the world, isn't this a simple, rude and straight-forward approach, the easiest way to achieve results, isn't it?..."
"It's just the biggest problem during this period, I'm afraid it is how this wicked person should interpret and define; and who should decide which way to handle it..."
Yang Shigu did not take the tea ceremony seriously.
"However, there are always people in the world who take it for granted that the principles they hold are correct and flawless, and that those who oppose them must be evil people. Only by overthrowing and eliminating those different opinions can everything be good. stand up"
Zhou Huaian also meant something to point out.
"Isn’t it the same in the original conflict between Niu and Li, and the result is that they are more and more willing to do something, and the situation in this world becomes more and more degraded and corrupted. In this way, the generations have followed each other, and the great ability and ambition of being in it can not be saved. ."
Luo Yin also nodded and sighed.
"Furthermore, once the killing in the name of eliminating evil has begun, if the means of destroying the alien is smoothly used, it will be difficult to stop sensibly..."
Yang Shigu continued to talk.
"So the real key, isn't it to cut off and contain this abnormal and unfair world cycle, so that the originally good people do not need to be forced by the environment and the times to become new evil people again..."
Zhou Huai'an concluded with some experience in the end.
"In other words, it is the reconstruction of laws and ethics, so that those who have the intention to do evil in the world will never dare to do it, and those with selfish desires will not dare to cross the thunder pond half a step, and the world will naturally rule peace..."
"This is the reason that the general governor wants to choose this one that seems to be the most difficult, to overcome all obstacles and rebuild the road in fire..."
Luo Yin suddenly stood up and said seriously:
"Then the unforgiveness and harshness at this time is not the greatest compassion and forgiveness for the people who will live in the future..."
The other people present also no longer spoke, but instead stood up and bowed their hands together, showing a convincing expression. (End of this chapter)