Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 246 Run away, Dad!

It really looks like the military base of the soldiers of the rice army in later generations. Beside the military fort where the soldiers were stationed, a pair of soldiers were holding axes and guns in their hands, shouting slogans while running.

"What are we?"

"Soldiers from Qingzhou!"

"What is our duty?"

"Get promoted and get rich!"

"What?"

"Defend the family and the country!"

Not to mention, this neatly dressed plate armor helmet, dangling axes and guns, and the short hair can be easily worn in a steel helmet like Qin Jun's, and the original beard was also shaved off. child spirit.

In this day and age, there is a saying that the body, hair and skin should not be damaged by their parents, but those who live close to each other will send five hundred dollars to their parents, and those who live far away will send letters back. Let's shave!As for those who don’t want to shave, the squad leader checks personal hygiene every day and finds that it is not clean. The playground is [-] laps, and the horse walks for an hour. The uncontrolled gold thieves are gone, and the spirit of that sub-unit has been raised.

However, the recruits have been trained for three months, and the quality of the troops has improved little by little, but the situation in Qidi has gradually started to boil like a pot of water. Wang Hou collected and scraped the grain of those gentry, and the gentry fell under his hands. If you want to talk about how the ancient tyranny came about, Wang Hou expropriated 200 shi and distributed it to a land with a population of nearly 20 million. One household is considered to have ten people, and a family of [-] households only needs to pay three buckets, in the name of the government. It is not uncommon for them to grab two stones in the first month, or even scratch off all of them.

In the first month they robbed all the food, in the second month they took the opportunity to rob sons and daughters and went back to be slaves, in the third month they robbed whatever they wanted, Linzi and the others could restrain themselves a bit, but they were a hundred miles away from the capital of Qi, and the common people were bankrupt It has reached sixty-seven out of ten!Some refugees have even fled the spring famine and came to Linzi City.

The entire land of Qi State seems to have returned to the restlessness of more than [-] years ago, the restlessness before the launch of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

However, the temporary large-scale spring famine did not lead to large-scale population deaths. Unlike other natural and man-made disasters, this time there was a huge population devouring a giant beast in Linzi.

On the loess-filled official road, there is another big family dragging their families, helping the old and the young to walk on this road to escape from famine. I don’t know how long they have walked. Women, children, and their lips are so thirsty that they are about to split. .Shaking his body exhaustedly, the excited eyes of the man in front suddenly lit up, as if he had been slapped with chicken blood, he ran back in a hurry and excitedly shouted at the old man who was being supported in the crowd stand up.

"Ah Weng! We're going to Linzi City soon! Everyone can't die of hunger!"

But after listening to his words, the old man rubbed the sweat from his forehead, but the old man sighed deeply, stretched out his hand to say hello, he greeted the whole family to his side, and began to give earnest advice.

"Awu, you must be careful about Juan'er, Xizi, Mancang, and you guys, don't run around. If you run away, someone will catch you and tie you up. I don't know which corner you catch, you will be ripped open on the spot. Go to Guo and eat it!"

The three daughters-in-law and the children all turned pale when they heard this, and kept nodding their heads, looking back at the city not far away, the old Shuantou who had escaped twice said nervously .

"When you get to the edge of the city, don't get too close to the city gate, follow me! There are too many refugees waiting to gather, rushing to the city gate, the government can't hold back and open the door, let's go in again, rashly rush ahead, the officers and soldiers As soon as I get angry, I will kill you if I say I will kill you! Do you understand!"

"Understood, Aon!"

After exhorting for a long time, Old Shuantou was still worried, but there was nothing he could do about it. When Mr. Liu in Daxuetian Village brought his servants out to collect grain for the government, he felt that something was wrong. , kicked the last bit of food and household belongings, regardless of the ice and snow, he directly led the family to flee the famine.

Sure enough, this decision was right. Not long after escaping, I heard that Mr. Liu brought people to force food again. He went to war and hasn't come back. He may have died outside. His daughter-in-law and grandson were snatched away. As soon as he couldn't think about it, he hanged himself!
There is no way to go back, and he can only rush into Linzi City like the last time during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, maybe relying on the government's relief for some porridge, begging for food, and stealing some food, he can survive this catastrophe.

With the solemnity of going to the battlefield, he led the whole family, Lao Shuantou tremblingly, to the city of Linzi.

However!I met a lot of people at the gate of the city, but they were not the victims who escaped from the disaster as imagined. Instead, they were all dressed in bright, thick new clothes, raised by red-faced guys, who didn't even have a pudding on them. People are jealous!
This has not yet reached the place, a middle-aged woman with a fat face like a goose egg, who even luxuriously sewed a mink fur on her cotton padded jacket, is already extremely excited, just like the irregular woman next to the train station. The proprietress of the inn greeted him.

"Young man, do you want to live in a hotel..., no, do you want to find a job? Food and lodging included, full meal!"

"Uh, big sister, do you want a long-term job?"

Hearing this, Ah Wu's eyes lit up, and he went forward excitedly, but before the fat woman smiled like a flower roll and opened her mouth to speak, another dry old man squeezed over viciously.

"Hey! Boy, don't listen to her, their family is the worst, come to my house, don't worry about eating three meals a day, and there will be fish at night!"

"Old Mr. Zhao, are you ashamed to say that I'm picky? You forgot that the manor occupied the public road and refused to retreat. As a result, your son who works in the city squatted in full view for a day. Let the young and the old laugh, boy, don't listen to him, come to my sister's house, our house has fish sooner or later, sea fish! I will also make clothes for your family with two bolts of cloth in the autumn harvest!"

"I, I'll give two and a half horses!"

While Ah Wu was stunned, even a "rich" and enviable landlord and local tyrant choked on each sentence.

When did the poor, tinkling long-term workers become so popular?

He doesn't know, there is a saying that there is a policy!

Last year, almost all the cotton growers in Rizhao made a small fortune. There was a surplus of twenty or thirty shi in the family, and they took advantage of the wealth of seven or eight pieces of cloth. This year, Wang Hou changed the land policy of Rizhao City. The 20 mu of land outside the city can be divided into cotton fields, and this year is the last year that you can get cotton fields for free. If you want to get it again next year, you have to spend money to go to the government to apply for a license.

This year, Zhuge Lie also perfected the household registration system according to Wang Hou's request. Only the citizens of the city who work in steel mills or cotton spinning mills are eligible to receive it. The cost of building a new cotton farm can also be borrowed from the government without interest!The only requirement is that the cotton farm must not be abandoned, but must be planted, otherwise, a fine will be imposed!
Wang Hou is elevating the class under his rule. These days, poor peasants do not have any right to speak politically. He needs a group of small and medium-sized landlords and the middle class as political support. Moreover, cotton farmers are different from ordinary landlords and manors. The self-sufficiency of feudal manors is more similar to the owners of colonial sugar cane or tobacco gardens in the age of great navigation, and their class attributes are far more advanced than the stagnant landlords and gentry.

It's like doing the Internet in [-]. If you don't seize this opportunity, you will have no chance to make a fortune!According to the government, the owners of these cotton farms are now organizing a group to recruit workers in Zizi. A family with seven young men like Lao Shuantou's family is the most popular!

But while Ah Wu was stunned, Old Shuantou turned around and walked away with a dark face, yelling non-stop.

"If you don't work or don't work, you come to join your relatives!"

"Think about going to relatives! We are treated very well in Mianzhuang! Hey, hey! Don't go!"

(End of this chapter)