Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 345 Buying People's Hearts
Human thinking always has certain patterns.

When encountering something, everyone will have different choices, and this choice is often deeply related to their past experiences.

Among these connections, childhood experiences are often the most memorable... Although they may not be able to clearly remember every detail when they become adults, that feeling will be deeply engraved in the deepest part of their hearts.

Therefore, when he realized that the population of Dai County was insufficient, and the young and strong were transferred to serve in corvée, which might make the autumn harvest difficult, Li Shan took his heart.

When it was determined that nearly three thousand civilians could not return to the autumn harvest, Li Shan was in a panic.

The personal guards and guards thought that Li Shan was benevolent, and the few officials in the county thought that Li Shan was afraid of being punished by the Ministry of Officials.

Ma Zhou thought more deeply, there would definitely be problems in the autumn harvest this time, and Li Shan wanted to plan ahead and get rid of the blame in advance... After all, the main responsibility for this matter lies with Li Gaoqian, and Li Shan has only just arrived in office.

But when Li Shan quickly made a decision to send all the bodyguards and bodyguards to help in the countryside... Ma Zhou was dumbfounded, even if he bought people's hearts, it wouldn't be like this, right?

How can you say that you are also a Bailihou, and you are also a Bailihou who was named the Duke of the County!
On the one hand, he sent small officials to Yanmen to see if there was a way to release some of the civilian husbands. On the other hand, Li Shan asked the officials to mark the main gathering places of the civilian husbands on the map.

Ma Zhou on the side moved his mouth, and finally looked at Li Shan with a firm face, but he still didn't try to persuade him.

"This area is all..." Li Shan looked at the map, nodded and said: "About forty or fifty villages, fortunately they are all in one place."

"Oh, this is next door to Zhuangzi where the personal guard lives... Let's start from here!"

Li Shan babbled, and the scene of his previous life came to his mind. He remembered that when he was five or six years old, it was the autumn harvest, and the heavy rain for three consecutive days made the hearts of the whole village fall into ice.

I can't remember too many details, but I still remember my grandfather trekking dozens of miles to my grandmother's house to beg for food. The two uncles raised their eyebrows. I also remember the feeling when the leftovers were in my mouth, and even my childhood playmates. a few less...

After that year, more and more people went out to work, and the fields in the village gradually became barren. Grandpa also left the few acres of land and only concentrated on running the small tofu shop.

Standing by the river, looking at the harvested fields, Li Shan smacked his lips and turned his head to look at the other bank. Across the river was the field of another village. The two villages had about two or three hundred households, but they both sent soldiers to fight. They also went out of the young and strong to go to Yanmen to serve corvee, and only three or four out of ten young and strong were left in the village.

"Lang Jun, here we come."

Li Shan turned his head and saw an old man and a middle-aged man walking quickly, bowed respectfully to the ground, "The villain kowtowed to Mingfu."

One is the elder of Donghe Village, and the other is the head of Xihe Village.

"Get up." Li Shan didn't bother to ask carefully, pointing to the field beside him, "A certain two hundred guards, there are still a hundred young and strong people in Xihe Village on the opposite bank, plus the staff of Donghe Village, there are more than four hundred people in total, which is enough."

An old man was overjoyed, but then he glanced at the people around him and said hesitantly, "Mingfu, Xihe Village..."

"First Donghe Village, then Xihe Village."

The middle-aged man grimaced, "Mingfu, but..."

"There are few fields in Donghe Village." Li Shan explained, and then said: "If you refuse, I will return to the city immediately."

The middle-aged man didn't dare to say any more, and only glanced at the happy-looking old man beside him.

"Bring it!"

"Lang Jun..." Zhou Yilang hesitated.

Li Shan snatched the sickle, tried to wave it, and said: "After the two villages have harvested, follow me to the north."

The two people on the opposite side understood this sentence as soon as they heard it, but there were still many things to do after harvesting. While hesitating, they saw Li Shan tucked the hem of his clothes and strode down to the field.

"Mingfu, Mingfu!"

Zhou Zhoulang and the others looked at each other, and immediately followed Li Shan down the field.

In his previous life, Li Shan also went to the fields every year to harvest the autumn harvest, and even the school had special holidays. Although he only harvested rice, but never harvested wheat or millet, he was always a proficient hand... even a little more skilled than the natives like Wang Junhao and Zhou Zhoulang.

After cutting most of the ridge, Li Shan straightened up and hammered his waist, looking left and right, only two or three people rushed up, and Zhu Shitou overtook him.

"Stone!" Li Shan roared, "Keep working hard, whoever cuts the ten ridges first will count half the effort!"

The guards next to him who were about to straighten up crouched down again, half effort, which is not a low reward.

This was promoted by Su Dingfang in the personal guards. The reward for half the effort is not necessarily, but it is at least equivalent to half a year's rations for a family of five, and it can also send children and nephews to the imperial medical office to study medicine.

They kept busy until the moon was faintly hanging, and everyone called it a day. Li Shan's physical strength was not bad, he only hammered his waist, sat down on the stone slab at the head of the village, and scolded Ma Zhou at the side contemptuously.

Although Ma Zhou came from a poor family, he was a scholar after all. He had never farmed the land himself, and he couldn't bear to stand beside him alone. Now he was lying on the ground exhausted, panting, his head and face covered with dirt, obviously he didn't fall Once or twice.

At this time, the village head of Xihe Village trotted over, "Mingfu, the humble house is ready..."

"No need." Li Shan waved his hand, "The guards have brought tents, and it's not cold yet... By the way, prepare more meals, and I will count them for you."

The village chief said in a low voice: "The Ming government is so merciful, how can it be... Even if you invite Mai Ke, you still have to collect food."

His mouth was so dry that Li Shan was too lazy to talk, he just waved his hand, took a gulp from the bamboo tube handed over by the guard, and then beckoned to the elders of Donghe Village, "How much did you cut today?"

"It's about [-]% to [-]%, and it will be completed tomorrow." The clan elder fell to the ground.

"Get up." Li Shan muttered in his heart, so fast?
In fact, this is what Li Shan thought wrong. In his previous life, he only saw young men and women in the village going to the fields to harvest in autumn. In this era, a little more harvesting may be a life-saving ration, not to mention young and strong men and women, but children and the elderly. They are all going to farm.

Li Shan drank a few more sips of water before realizing that the clan elder was still bowing to the ground, "Huh?"

The clan elder stood up tremblingly, tears were visible on his face, he choked with sobs and said: "The villain has gone through three dynasties, only to see wars and chaos, only to see heavy taxes, only to see barbarians wreaking havoc, but not such parents."

Li Shan was stunned, but saw the village head of Xihe beside him also kneeling down, "It's the luck of Yanmen that the Ming family is here."

The gathered villagers fell to the ground like weak grass in the wind... Li Shan never thought about the significance of his actions in this era and the impact on himself.

Say something about your parents, everyone expects it.

Seeing this scene, Ma Zhou, who was still lying on the ground, couldn't help but slander. When it comes to buying people's hearts, there is no one better than you, Li Huairen!

(End of this chapter)