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Chapter 189 The "Loyalty" of a Slave

Hu Bian was one of the sons of the Hu family. When the Hu family raised troops against Zheng Jun, he hid with his extraordinary sense of smell.After the Hu family was wiped out, he took advantage of Zheng Jun's unfamiliarity with the situation in the county, and led a few people to secretly take the private warehouse of the Hu family for himself.

As soon as Zheng Jun left, he opened the door openly and started doing business.

Some of his subordinates also called him "Hu Langjun", as if he was the owner of this private warehouse.

The obvious grain in the county has been sealed up by Zheng Jun, and several grain stores are controlled by the county government, which buys and sells the county residents on a daily basis.

But there are a lot of people in the county who are hungry.

Probably because several big families were razed, many hidden people fled back to their homes or scattered in the county.These people without household registration cannot buy the food provided by the county government.

Therefore, the grain business here in Hu Bian is extremely hot, but the price is frighteningly high.

"Old man Shan, I think your daughter is pretty good. It's better for Master Bian to keep her here to live a full life than to starve with you. Twenty catties of millet, keep your girl. Master won't take your money! "

A string of copper coins was randomly thrown on the ground, and the servants of the original Hu family laughed.

At the foot of the steps, the old man stopped a young girl behind him with a distressed expression on his face.

There are many people around the private warehouse, Zhang Zhe who came here only brought Bailu and Zhao Ping with him, and those beggars were walking here sparsely, and they couldn't get together without a stick of incense.

Originally, Meng Xiaowan also sent Geng Liang, but Zhang Zhe drove Geng Liang back. He was worried about letting others guard the gate of the Gu family.Meng Xiaowan also sent four or five Jiangling official servants who were newly rewarded by the officials. The emperor rewarded Zhang Zhe with a small courtyard and six hectares of land in a beautiful mountain. These few were sent to manage affairs.

As a large number of civilian husbands from the right camp gathered here, the Xiushan county residents who were watching noticed something was wrong and hurriedly dispersed secretly.

Hu Bian was going to snatch the woman, since they were both fugitive slaves anyway, in his opinion, the one he snatched was his.

The old man and the woman were crying loudly, but the people around were so quiet and scary.

When Hu Bian looked up in surprise, cold sweat broke out.

Hundreds of Zheng people around were looking at him with a sneer, and some of them still had knives and guns in their hands.A flag was erected behind a young man, "Xunche Army Right Battalion".

Plop, Hu Bian and several others knelt down on the ground tremblingly.

The scene of Zheng Jun massacring the rebels a few days ago was deeply imprinted in his heart, and Hu Bian had no intention of resisting.

"Xiaomin is joking with this father and daughter, military men don't care. There is some money here, all military men please raise your hands."

Hu Bian asked someone to drag out half a basket of copper coins, all of which he earned from selling grain today.

Zhang Zhe sneered and shook his head.

"The fugitive slaves of the Hu family were meant to be confiscated into the government, but they actually took over the private warehouse of the Hu family and acted like a domineering? These silver guns should have belonged to us. Brothers, give me the help of these bastards. Take it and send it to the County Central Square Division!"

Not to mention Hu Bian and his group, even the father and daughter were forgiven.

But the beggar gang disciples in Youying turned a blind eye to the father and daughter who were also escaped slaves, and only overturned Hu Bian and the others and dragged them away.

Zhang Zhe led the people into the private warehouse, and after a hasty walk around, he estimated that there were nearly four thousand shi of grain here.

Pointing to the private warehouse, he said to the peasants: "Brothers, this is our residence! From now on, I will open my stomach to eat, and we will not be able to take much away when we leave in a few days!"

Hundreds of beggars suddenly agreed, all smiling like flowers.

When Zhang Zhe left the private warehouse with the egrets, the father and daughter knelt on the ground tremblingly, not daring to run away.

Little Zhao Ping threw half a bag of rice beside the father and daughter: "Go away, my master told you not to stand in the way here!"

The house given to Zhang Zhe by the emperor is in Beihu Lane, Xiushan County, an extremely remote place.

Zhang Zhe took the egrets around for a long time before finding the right place.

It's not that Zhang Zhe and the others don't have a strong sense of direction, but that they have subconsciously misaligned the mansion in front of them, which occupies the entire laneway, with his "two-entry small courtyard" on the booklet.

"A certain finally understands why brother Yue said that the big clan in Southern Wu is a cancer of the country."

Looking at the mansion in front of him, Zhang Zhe couldn't believe that such a building would appear in such a small county as Xiushan.The compound, which covers an area of ​​more than ten acres, is actually described as a "two-entry flat house" in the Southern Wu official book.

The resistance forces in this county were all wiped out by Zheng Jun outside the city, and then Zheng Jun only sent people to take over the county government. If Zheng Jun entered the city, the so-called "two-entry flat house" would have been ruined long ago.

This was originally the house of the Cai family, and there were no more than eight servants on the list.

But when Zhang Zhe and the others entered the gate, they looked at the servants kneeling all over the floor, and they couldn't be less than fifty at a glance.

Kneeling at the front was a thin man who claimed to be the housekeeper of the Cai family who managed the yard, named Liu De.

According to his report, there are a total of 71 slaves in this courtyard, including 21 maids, 23 women, 63 male servants, and [-] singers. Among them, [-] slaves are hidden by the Cai family. population.

Zhang Zhe even learned from Liu De that the reason why this courtyard is registered as "two entrances" is actually counted according to the main wall. If the courtyard walls dividing each courtyard are counted, it is only five entrances. almost.

"However, there is a law in Southern Wu that people are not allowed to build houses more than three times. Therefore, the local county officials were bribed, and the same is true everywhere."

The biggest house Zhang Zhe had seen before was Gu's Mansion, and this courtyard was four to five times the size of Gu's Mansion. After a cursory walk around, it was dark.

"When a child sees this house, he must have a terrible headache. There are so many mundane things to deal with every day!" Bailu's exclamation makes people dumbfounded. It is full of the word "ruren", and the word "big lady" is no longer called, which made Zhang Zhe feel so embarrassed that he almost committed a cancer.

"It wasn't Mama Chen who instigated it," Little Zhao Ping secretly complained to the master, "She also asked me to talk about it. If the eldest lady really heard it, I would scold her once at most, but my ass must be a meal. beat."

The Lord of Southern Wu had strict requirements for the people to build houses, but he did not know how many people violated the prohibition.On the other hand, Dazheng encouraged the people to overhaul their houses and encourage the conversion of slavery into employment, so Dazheng's folk houses are not too common.

Zhang Zhe knew in his heart that although the house was not prohibited, he still had to take the initiative to report the actual situation to the emperor.

The original housekeeper, Liu De, was dismissed by Zhang Zhe and replaced by an old slave from Jiangling sent to his house by the officials.

Because just after dinner, Liu De, who had served Zhang Zhe and his party well, took the initiative to do something.

He reported that the only grandson of the former owner, Mrs. Cai, escaped from this yard the day before yesterday, and now hid in the Zhuangzi outside the city.

This time and space is completely opposite to the servant culture, which is the slave-servant loyalty culture that changes completely with the change of status, which is quite distorted.

Zhang Zhe witnessed it with his own eyes today. When Liu De betrayed the only blood of his former master without hesitation, most of the slaves showed their expressions as they should.

Extraordinarily chilling.

(End of this chapter)