Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 557

After leaving Ma Dabangzi's house, he led the way to another yard within a few steps, which was also rough and primitive. Compared with Ma Dabang's house, the house in this house was not so warm.

Instead of burning the fire pit, only the kang was burned.

There were six or seven men and women working on the kang, and panic flashed in their eyes when they saw Ma Dabangzi bringing someone in.

"Tun Chief, my brothers and the others will leave in a while."

A Goguryeo woman with a puffy stomach spoke to Ma Dabangzi in unproficient Chinese.

Ma Dabangzi said, "It's okay, I didn't come to drive them away, this is our commander, and I came to see you today."

The woman looked at Luo Cheng, and for a while she didn't understand what the handsome man meant.

Kan Leng glared at him, and snorted coldly, the frightened woman wanted to kneel.

Luo Cheng stepped forward to support her, then turned to Kan Leng and said, "Your bravery should not be used in this kind of situation."

Then he said to the woman, "I'm Luo Cheng, I'm staying behind in Liaodong, I'm here to see you today."

The woman finally understood who the man in front of her was. It was actually the man they called the King of Liaodong by the Goguryo slaves. She wanted to kneel again, and she even asked her brothers to kneel together.

"It doesn't have to be like this, let's all sit on the kang."

The woman's belly was swollen, and it was said that she had been pregnant for almost five months. She looked very young, not in her twenties, her face was a little pale, but she was not too thin.

Those men and women on the kang are all the family members of this woman outside the village. Their houses outside the village are no better than here. In a half-starved state, she came to visit her in the village today, so she let them eat here and stay on the warm kang for a while longer.

However, according to regulations, all slaves are not allowed to spend the night in the village. Even if they go in and out, they must be registered and allowed, and they are not allowed to carry iron tools.

"Marshal, this woman's name is Ada, and her man is Hu Lu from Longyou. We all call him Huluer. Huluer is a military soldier in his 30s. He didn't take Ada with him when he left, saying that his grandchildren are Yes, if you bring a Goguryeo concubine back, people will say, and it is a long way to Longyou, so it is inconvenient to bring a Goguryeo woman."

Anyway, Hu Lu left, leaving behind this young Goguryeo concubine Ada.The military farmland and Xuntian farmland that he had allocated in this village were taken back by the military government, and the military government gave him a sum of money as compensation.

His house was actually a wooden house, which was still lived by Ada. When he left, he left some food for Ada, which was the end of it.

"When Hulu'er left, she didn't know that her daughter was pregnant, or else she might have taken her back."

Mansion soldiers like Ma Dabang and the others, although they don't have any food and salaries to receive, but after all, those who won the spoils in the previous battles have savings on hand, and they have already stored food for the winter.

But Ada lost her fubing husband, but she has no source of life.

Even her family members outside the village are rarely supported by her now, after all, she is also living on financial aid now.

In fact, when her family came to see her today, they came to persuade her to marry another soldier from the Sui army.

After all, they are now slaves. If they marry Fubing, they can become tenant farmers of Fubing.

Originally they were tenant farmers of Huluer, but Huluer left and his field was taken back, so the family became landless.

Luo Cheng nodded while listening.

In Liaodong now, the social class structure is actually very simple. Under his deliberate leadership, there are now two types of people in Liaodong, one is the soldiers of the Sui army and their families, and the other is the Goguryeo slaves and the Central Plains rebels who were exiled. Army and family.

The soldiers of the government are now allocating land and granting land, and they are all landlords. Even their family members have enjoyed good treatment and been allocated land when they came here.

But those Goguryeo people and the criminals who were exiled were much more miserable. They were all slaves or criminals. Although they were not private slaves, they were also official slaves. They had no land, no house or property.

Luo Cheng still found a way out for them. It was much better to be a tenant farmer of the government soldiers and landlords than to be a serf directly.

But they had to depend on the landlord to survive.

Especially in Liaodong, under Luo Cheng’s design, these Goguryeo people or criminals live together as a family unit, but there must be a woman in the family to marry the soldiers and landlords as concubines, whether it is an unmarried girl or a widow. It doesn't matter if the widows marry, even if they have husbands, they can remarry to the soldiers as concubines. In short, if they want to change from slaves to tenant farmers, they must have family members to be concubines for the soldiers and complete the binding procedure. OK.

Luo Cheng did this, in fact, to turn these government soldiers under his command into Liaodong landlords, or even his semi-feudal knights, so that these government soldiers could be tied to Liaodong with land, and as the guarantor of this system, these The landlords of the Liaodong government will also support him with all their strength.

To put it bluntly, Luo Cheng wants to tell all the soldiers in the government that the good days you can live today are all given to you by Luo Cheng, so you also have to support me. I, Luo Cheng, protect your interests, and you protect my status. Complement each other.

As for those exiled criminals or Goguryeo slaves, they were the bottom layer under the feet of the government soldiers. After all, although Liaodong was big, it could not realize socialism, and the pyramid was the most stable structure.

Because of this, Huluer left, and this woman named Ada was not eligible to inherit Huluer's land, even if Huluer was willing to give it to her.

People go, land collects.

Even Huluer's simple wooden house can only accommodate Ada temporarily. If he remarries, this house will no longer belong to her property.

As for Ada's family members, they can only take the opportunity of visiting Ada to come here to warm up and have a good meal. Before dusk, they have to leave and go back to their shack outside the village.

"Ada, what are you going to do with the baby in your womb after it is born?"

Ada was a little confused, although she also hated the man Huluer who was already a little stranger, but the child in her stomach was her own flesh after all.

But if it is born, how to raise it?

Today, her father and brothers persuaded her to find a way to kill the child, and then marry a Sui man, so that not only would Ada have security in the future, but also the whole family could continue to be tenant farmers in the future, instead of having no owner like a lonely ghost.

"I don't know." Ada said.

"Ada, now I have two options for you. First, you can give birth to the child and raise it yourself. The Liushou government will give you some food subsidies every year until the child grows up. Or, you can give birth to the child After you come down, hand it over to the left-behind mansion. We will raise this child for you and Huluer, and he will grow up and become an adult in the orphan camp."

"Can I kill this kid?" Ada asked.

Luo Cheng shook his head.

"No, this child doesn't belong to you alone. He is also a citizen of my Sui Dynasty, and a commoner under the rule of my Liaodong Left-Shou Mansion. Since you are pregnant, you can't kill him. You don't have to raise him, but you can't. Not born."

Luo Cheng said directly that population is very important to Liaodong today.

"Then what should I do? What about my family?"

"If you are willing to remarry, the residence will arrange it. As for your family, of course you will be with you. Whichever soldier you marry will be arranged as a tenant farmer."

"If you don't want to marry now, you can wait until after the child is born, or wait until the child is one year old. Before that, you and the child will be taken care of by the left-behind mansion, and money and food will be given to you every month. As for Your family will also arrange for them to farm the government’s public land and so on.”

Ada listened carefully to the choices Luo Cheng proposed, and deliberately asked again and again if there was something she didn't understand.

In the end, she decided to give birth to the child here first, then raise the child until one year old, and then hand it over to the left-behind mansion.

Finally, Ada asked a question.

"Will I ever see the child again?"

(End of this chapter)