Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 372 Going Down the Mountain
"My old man, a new village has been established at the foot of the mountain, as long as you come down to work, it will not only provide you with jobs.

And there is a lot of barren land, the imperial court will give you farm tools, and the court will not collect land tax for the reclaimed land in the first year, but will charge two tiers in the second year, and only three tiers of land tax every year after that..."

At this moment, a young man from the Agricultural Society persuaded a strong man with a pleasant face.

"Crack!" In an instant, he saw the door of this strong man, and it was directly closed heavily without any hesitation.

The young man was very helpless, he came to Wang Zhenru and said, "Wang Gongcao, those who are willing to go down the mountain in this village basically go to the village below the mountain to receive the house and the compensation for the relocation of the village.

And the rest of them have fields and land here, they are used to the life here, and they really don't want to move down! "

"You've done a good job, Zixiu." Wang Zhenru nodded and said, "Today is the deadline, count the remaining people, and hand over the household registration to the bad guys. We don't have much time to spend here!"

"Okay!" Hearing Wang Zhenru's words, Zhang Zixiu looked quite helpless.

At this moment, he can only count the data in his hand, and then deliver this data to Wei Xu.

Wei Xu's subordinates were all full of flesh or disability and fear, and the words "I am a bad guy" were carved on their faces, which made people feel quite lethal.

"Wang Gongcao, I'll try again!" Zhang Zixiu looked at the bad guy Wei Xu brought, almost literally interpreting the meaning of bad guy, but he couldn't help but feel some instinctive fear, and turned his head Looking at Wang Zhenru, he fought for another sentence.

This seems to give these people hope, and more importantly, hope that they will feel less guilty.

Wang Zhenru shook his head and said, "We have finished our task, and we will leave it to Wei Xu and the others!

Wanting to clean up the people on the mountain in the shortest possible time cannot escape the use of violence. "

Wei Xu took a look at the household registration that Zhang Zixiu brought, and said,

"Tsk tsk, I didn't expect there to be so many common people. It's half of it. Are the real Confucians really working hard?"

"Pull down the young and strong in the village who want to go down first, let them know that the compensation given to them has not deceived them.

With them taking the lead, those who intend to move will basically go down the mountain, thus reducing the number of people left behind in the village on the mountain! "

Wang Zhenru looked at Wei Xu and said, "It will be much more convenient for you to act like this!"

"Okay!" Wei Xu nodded when he heard Wang Zhenru's words, "It's a favor from you!"

"Don't cause trouble!" Wang Zhenru looked at Wei Xu and said solemnly,
"Although the king of Wei allows you to forcefully drive the people down the mountain, he will never allow you to kill someone!"

"Don't worry, King Wei, I know no less than you!" Wei Xu thought now,
"I will choose a day, find a reason to find someone to sing on the mountainside, and after watching it, I will send eggs according to the head, including babies!

In this way, most of the people will go there, and there are no people in the village, so I set fire to them one by one.

Everything was burnt up with a fire, by the way, you should make compensation, so that these people have nothing to say! "

"It will be compensated, but it will be based on the area of ​​the house, and there will be no compensation for anything inside.

After all, these operations will become standard, so their treatment will be slightly worse than the first batch of people! "Wang Zhenru said seriously,
"If those who are willing to cooperate get more than those who break the rules, more people will abide by the rules set by King Wei!"

"I know!" Wei Xu listened to Wang Zhenru's words, nodded and said, "I will deal with the follow-up. If there are still people who want to stay, I will spread salt on the land they reclaimed in front of them!"

Wang Zhenru frowned when he heard Wei Xu's words.

Obviously, at that point, these people may not want to fight Wei Xu desperately, but even if they try hard, this policy must be implemented.

Because he was born in an agricultural school, it is unreliable to think that the ground will be covered with salt to make the land barren.

However, if the concentration of salt is too high, it will really affect the planting of crops, but it is really easy to solve.

Shovel the top layer of soil, then wash it with water, get some soil from other places to cover it and raise it for a year. Although you can't grow crops, there is definitely no problem in planting weeds, so that you can basically grow again in the second year. used to grow crops.

It is almost impossible to change the living environment of a place with salt, after all, the amount of salt required is absolutely massive.

And I have to pray to God that it doesn't rain, otherwise the rain will wash away and basically food will not grow, but weeds will eventually grow.

And as long as weeds can grow, the nature of the land will eventually return slowly.

Nature sometimes looks very fragile, but sometimes it looks very powerful.

But for the local people, under such an operation, they have little capital to fight against the imperial court.

There is no way, the capital they have is too weak, and they are the poorest people in today's society hiding in the mountains.

Their houses were burned, their land was salted, and they had no capital to keep them alive through the winter.

So if they want to survive, they can only go down the mountain, and then follow the corvees to do simple mechanical labor, live in a warm pit house, wear white cotton clothes, and be coerced by the times to integrate into their new life.

All in all, whether to survive or perish, and what will happen to them in the end, is the final choice they make themselves.

Wang Zhenru didn't say anything more, and went back to the mountain to help the people who had gone down the mountain to integrate into the life of the new village.

To be honest, in order to build his own high-speed carriage roads, Li Tai forced the people who passed through the planned roads to relocate forcibly.

But Li Tai did not destroy humanity after all, but asked Wang Zhenru to let the corvees build a village first, and various supporting facilities entered the village, and then Wang Zhenru began to go to the top of the mountain to intimidate and lure the people to come down the mountain.

Fortunately, this was in ancient times. If it was in modern times, if this kind of thing was exposed, it would be severely condemned.

As for the ancient times, this matter can be big or small. The most important reason is that these people are people who do not pay taxes to the court on the mountain. subject to any protection.

Now after the joint efforts of Wei Xu and Wang Zhenru, at least these people have been brought back into the government system.

So to be honest, although Wang Zhenru and Wei Xu threatened and lured them, set fire to the house, and sprinkled salt on the fields, they did something to the court.

Even relying on them to really build a village of 5000 people, this credit is not too small.

Of course, if people know about doing this, they will be more or less morally condemned, after all, this job is too inhumane.

But the dirty work is mainly done by Wei Xu. Wei Xu said that as long as he has no morals, he can still live happily.

In about three or four days, Wang Zhenru helped the local people adapt to their new life as quickly as possible.

Although these people work hard, because they only do simple physical work, they have food to eat after finishing, and they even settle the settlement with Kaiyuan Tongbao according to the standard of temporary workers on the same day, so their enthusiasm is still very high.

To be honest, these people saw that after finishing their work, they could not only eat, but also earn money. They immediately felt that their decision to go down the mountain was right!

At this time, as Wei Xu set fire to the house, those people who couldn't stay on the mountain began to descend one after another.

And because the people who came to this village first, it took about a month for a long time, and a week or so for a short time. They have at least been more or less familiar with the survival mode of this village.

Those who came from the mountain now are related to those who came down first.

For example, the tough guy who stubbornly rejected Zhang Zixiu, now with a bruised nose and a swollen face, he held his arm and buzzed:

"Uncle Tiger, are you there? Uncle Tiger!"

Soon the house was opened, and a middle-aged man came out. Looking at the tough guy, the middle-aged man couldn't help but wondered,
"Erniu, didn't you say that you are guarding the fields on the mountain? How did you become like this, come in quickly!"

"Uncle Hu! That imperial court is not human!" Er Niu followed Uncle Hu to the house, and couldn't help crying.

That was crying loudly, but Er Niu said when he saw his relatives,

"Not only did they burn down the houses in the village, but they also sprinkled salt in the fields, and even threatened that if they didn't go down the mountain, they would set fire to the mountain below!

There are a few people in the village who are not popular, and they even have conflicts with them! "

"Hey, this is such a mess!" Uncle Hu could also think of the scene when he heard Er Niu's words, "Is anyone hurt?!"

Er Niu said: "These people don't look like they are disabled, but they are all very skilled, and their attacks are aimed at vicious places.

One of them was specially aimed at the bones of the villagers. I was dislocated when I was touched by his hand! "

"What happened to the people in the village!" Uncle Hu couldn't help but worry.

"They took a doctor to walk, and they were cured by the doctor!" Er Niu said.

"That's good, sure enough, the people in the court will not mess around!" Uncle Hu couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

"After the bone was attached, I asked if I wanted to go down the mountain, but I said no very forcefully."

"Then why are you now..." Uncle Hu didn't react when he heard Er Niu's words.

"The man rushed over again and dislocated my arm again." Er Niu said helplessly again,
"Then the doctor picked me up again, and then came to ask if I want to go down the mountain... I can only go down the mountain!"

When Uncle Hu heard Er Niu's words, he couldn't help squinting his eyes, thinking about how painful it was.

"It's good to come down!" Uncle Hu said after hearing Er Niu's words, "You go to the village chief to apply for a house tomorrow.

In the past few days, I will live with Uncle Hu to recuperate, and when you apply for a house, you will be considered settled in the village! "

"Is it the same house as Uncle Hu?" Er Niu also looked at this house, especially the kang he was sitting on now was warm, although it was winter, it was not cold at all!

Uncle Hu heard Er Niu's words and said, "You came down late.

This kind of house close to the boiler room or sharing the heating with the corvée has long been taken away by the people who came down first.

The good thing about these houses is that they are heated together with the imperial court. You don’t need to burn your own fire, which is cheap!

If you apply for it now, the only house you can apply for will be burned with coal! "

"Burning with coal? It's expensive!" Er Niu couldn't help but change his face when he heard this.

"If you buy it yourself, it will cost twenty or thirty cents a catty, which is really not cheap.

But as long as you work diligently when you go to the construction site to help, some will be reserved for you every day.

At that time, you can pick up some branches or something to heat up the kang! "

When Uncle Hu said this, he was quite proud after all, after all, he was the one who went down the mountain on his own initiative.

However, the imperial court's arrangements for these people who took the initiative to go down the mountain were very appropriate, at least they got a lot of advantages.

On the surface, it seems that I am treated similarly to those villagers who are now down the mountain, but the difference in some hidden benefits is quite large.

For example, the heated kang in the house is heated by the public. For example, if you want to reclaim the fields, the imperial court will rent iron farm tools.

Even when he went to work for the corvees by himself, he knew that he had entered the probationary period, and as long as he passed, he could become a formal contract worker with a establishment, and then he would be able to enjoy formal corvee treatment.

Needless to say, the imperial court will issue two cotton padded jackets for working in winter. At the same time, as long as the work gloves are torn and taken back to exchange, they will basically be exchanged for you.

Not to mention, as long as you are willing to work, you will be guaranteed three meals a day, and even occasionally there is meat, and I have eaten meat several times!

When I was on the mountain, I didn't even dare to think about these things.

But now there are so many benefits to working with the corvees, and I still think about what to do in those miserable days on the mountain.

This is simply heaven!

"Stay here well, work hard, you will have what is on the mountain, and you will have what is not on the mountain!"

Uncle Hu said as he patted Er Niu on the shoulder and said, "Wang Gongcao is a good official, it is not easy to meet a good official, so if you meet one, work hard.

At first it was because of the great chaos that they fled to the mountain, but now the world is at peace, if I don’t go down the mountain this time, I’m afraid I won’t be able to go down in the future! "

"Oh!" Er Niu nodded half-understanding when he heard Uncle Hu's words.

In any case, if he could have a house here and survive in this village, he would reluctantly accept it.

What if you don't accept it?The village where he used to be, has been burned down by bad guys led by Wei Xu!

Regardless of whether the people who came down from the mountain were willing or not, at least they could not go back.

After all, human beings are not creatures that have been living in the past. As long as they can survive, whether they like it or not, they still have to look forward slowly.

"Sure enough, there are still a lot of people, and they are actually not included in the court's statistics!" Li Tai murmured when he saw that a small village had really been built under Songshan Mountain.

(End of this chapter)