The Book of Heaven

Chapter 169
In Ma Zheng's view, this era is actually good.

At least the people of this era really don't smell like copper. The most profit-seeking businessmen are ranked at the bottom. The result is that people who are "no profiteers and no merchants" can only do business honestly. Well, once you lose your integrity, not to mention the scholars who despise businessmen, even the big brother of the farmer and the second brother of the worker will punish you severely.

So this era is still about honesty, but in Ma Zheng’s original world, Chinese people talked about honesty until the Song Dynasty. It is no wonder that some people say that there will be no China after Yashan. I am afraid that after Yashan, there are many things that Chinese people are most proud of. The things in the bones are gone.

Since the little girl Yelang is talking about bandits, then Ma Zheng will take care of her.It has nothing to do with acting bravely. Since this is the responsibility of the Ma family, it is also the self-consciousness that a warrior should have.

As for the repayment promised by the little girl Yelang, Ma Zheng didn't listen carefully. In short, there must be a repayment, which is related to the issue of integrity.

The bandits came after them, and although they were still on the other side of the river, Ma Zheng had already seen those guys whose clothes were the same as those of the mountain people, or even a little more ragged, holding gleaming knives, dragging their frail bodies to the small sampan.

Looking at the group of people in the river, compared with the group of people in front of him, Ma Zheng suddenly felt that if he replaced the group of Yelang girls with steel knives and sharp blades, he would be able to kill those bandits without his own help.

However, the answer given by the little girl Yelang to Ma Zheng is very sad.

The Han Empire accepted the Yelang clan, but the Yelang clan also needed to pay something, for example, they were not allowed to hold soldiers forever.

It is not that the Han Empire is demanding the Yelang clan. In fact, any race that has integrated into the Han nation must abide by this condition. Otherwise, the simple Han generals will issue orders to massacre without reporting to the court.

This has nothing to do with kindness and cruelty, it is just what is needed to maintain the unity and stability of a country.

Since you are not of my race, if you want to make a living, you should be honest. If you dare to play any tricks, the emperor will recognize you, but the general steel knife will not recognize you.

"how about you?"

The bandit was still far away, so Ma Zheng didn't panic.

"Hey, are you a Han Chinese? A village of the Yelang tribe always needs an official. I am that official!"

Yelang little girl is an official?An official of a village, could it be the owner of the village?For some reason, looking at this little Yelang girl, Ma Zheng thought of the word "Yazhai Husband" without coming.

I don't know how many husbands this little Yelang girl has. Some ethnic groups do not object to polyandry. After all, matrilineal society was once a powerful human social system.

"The bandits are here, let's go first, if you can really kill these bandits, remember to come to my village, we will definitely repay you."

The little girl Yelang didn't give Ma Zheng a chance to continue chatting, and led her team away.

They walked very simply, as if they were not at all worried that Ma Zheng would be killed by bandits. Ma Zheng felt that he was playing a little too big when he singled out a group of bandits.

But I'm afraid that even the little Yelang girl knows that the so-called bandits are nothing more than a group of refugees who can't get enough to eat. On the mountain road, a martial artist with great martial arts skills can completely control one man and keep one man at bay.

Unless the bandit can fly over the wall.

With the iron bamboo stick in his hand, he felt heavy, just like Ma Zheng's mood.

As a "central state", the wealth of the Han Empire is unquestionable. The gold and silver spent every year just to raise soldiers, make weapons and feed horses is an astronomical figure. However, in most parts of the empire, remoteness means poverty, and the greatest happiness for people's survival It is to be able to eat a full stomach every day.

Don't talk about the variety or the taste, just fill your stomach with edible things, this is the minimum requirement for survival, but there are still many places in the Han Empire that can't be done, especially in the case of natural disasters or man-made disasters, It becomes a very luxurious thing to have a full belly.

Fortunately, this problem is not just a problem of the Han Empire, but a problem of the entire human society. Whether it is domestic or foreign, Eastern or Western, people at the bottom will always worry about their stomachs.

As far as Ma Zheng knew, bandits in the Han Empire were pretty good, especially in Bashu, which was relatively rich in resources, there were bandits on almost every mountain. It would be a joke to switch to the northwest border.

A mountain top, whether it is products, surrounding villages or passing business travelers, is simply unable to support a group of bandits who do not work but only know how to plunder. Compared with the barren border desert of Bashu, which is ten times or even dozens of times worse, only the wind comes and goes. Only a horse thief who can fly five hundred miles in one day and night can survive by plundering.

Therefore, horse thieves are more terrifying, fiercer and more effective than mountain thieves.

For example, the group of bandits who walked up to Ma Zheng, obviously they had more than 30 people, and obviously they almost all had a weapon, no matter whether it was a knife light or rusty, when they found Ma Zheng standing on the road with a long stick In the middle, when they were more like bandits than bandits, their first decision was not to attack, but to test.

"I opened this road, I planted this tree, if you want to pass from here on, stay and buy road money!"

The twenty-cross mantra Ma Zheng uttered eloquently, this is the edification and summary of countless years of later generations, which made a group of people who should be real bandits stunned and stunned for a while.

"Grandpa, are you the owner of this mountain?"

Finally, a well-educated guy appeared from among the bandits. He was still wearing a turban. He looked like he should at least be an educated teacher before he fell into the grass. He stood up and bowed to Ma Zheng.

"grandfather?"

Ma Zheng touched his chin, not to mention the beard, there was not much fluff. Is the name "Grandfather" a curse or a respect?Of course, the name is not important, what is important is the mentality.

Observing these bandits at close range, Ma Zheng was very disappointed.

"Forget it, you don't have anything worth grabbing from me, so let's go."

Ma Zheng became disinterested in an instant, he could enjoy fighting and killing a group of bandits, but Ma Zheng felt that he was not so evil when he attacked a group of refugees armed with weapons.

"However, the group of Yelang people who just passed by brought a lot of food."

The big turban is worthy of being a scholar, and his words are very sensible. The word "grain" is the key point of these bandits. Click it once, and the bandits will go crazy once.

The hand holding the steel knife high began to tremble, and the breath coming out of the nostrils full of dust and dirt became heavy and hot, food, food, food that can fill the stomach.

"Are you their leader?"

Ma Zheng finally began to pay attention to this big turban. It seems that he is not at the level of an ordinary Meng Xue, at least at the level of a county school.

"We don't have a leader, we're just a group of poor people who don't have enough to eat. We don't rob Han people, we only rob foreigners." The big turban is indeed a scholar, and he knows how to use a fig leaf.

It's a pity that his righteous words didn't get Ma Zheng's finger, but only got Ma Zheng's spit.

"Come if you want to call, so there is so much nonsense?"

(End of this chapter)