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  Chapter 100 098 [Beggar Soldiers]

   Fei Chun sat on the fishing boat and waited, with a blood-stained cloth bag at his feet.

  Fei Ruhe stepped up the stone steps, scratched his head, and stared at the wooden sign of "Wuxing Town" for a long time.

   Came to the wrong place again?

  Fei Ruhe took the boat all the way, and had already missed several villages and towns.

   "Old Cousin," Fei Ruhe called to stop a farmer who had blamed him, "Is Huangjia Town still further upstream?"

  The farmer just came to the town to mend the pot, and said with a smile: "This is Huangjia Town, Mr. Zhao changed his name."

  Fei Ruhe suddenly became excited: "Master Zhao is not Zhao Yan, Zhao Zi said?"

  The farmer said confusedly: "Master Zhao is Master Zhao."

   "Thank you for your guidance," Fei Ruhe cupped his fists and said, then immediately turned around and shouted, "Come up quickly, we're here!"

  Fei Chun carried the blood-stained sack, tied the small fishing boat to the shore, and walked quickly to Fei Ruhe.

  The master and servant went to the inn. The business was not very good. It was almost noon, and there were only a few people in the lobby eating.

   There is also a notice posted at the entrance of the inn: The town wants to buy corn (corn) and sweet potatoes (sweet potatoes) with a lot of money.

  Fei Ruhe couldn't help but sighed, "I'm afraid Brother Han is not doing well, he is almost out of food."

  Fei Chun said: "The manager of this inn should belong to Brother Han."

  The original innkeeper was Huang Zundao's confidant, and he was fined to burn charcoal in the mountains, which is also considered a form of reform through labor.

  Huang Daliang is not very literate, he can only write his own name, he can recognize the names of dishes but he cannot write them. After he was promoted to be the shopkeeper, he had to find time every day to go to the private school to attend, and he returned to the inn to practice calligraphy while working.

  Master Zhao said, if within a year, if you can’t learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and you can’t learn more than 200 characters, you can change someone else to be the shopkeeper next year!

   "Two guest officers, do you want to be the top or stay in the shop?" The shop clerk came to ask.

  The shop clerk is Xiaocui's younger brother, who used to collect firewood for the Huang family, but now he is thrown into the inn to work as a clerk.

  Fei Ruhe said: "I am Master Zhao's family brother, my name is Zhao Yaonian."

   This guy is even more competitive with "Yao Nian" because he worships his uncle—the last famous official of the Fei family, Fei Yaonian who is both civil and military.

  The shop assistant was overjoyed, and said to Huang Daliang: "Shopkeeper, Mr. Zhao's brother is here!"

  Huang Daliang almost teleported out of the counter, arranged the affairs of the inn in a few words, and then led them to the town office.

  The Huang Family Ancestral Hall was changed to a private school in Wuxing Town.

  The residence of Huang Jiazu was changed to Wuxing Town Hall. The front yard is full of office space, Zhao Han himself lives in the backyard, and Pang Chunlai, Chen Maosheng, Zhang Tieniu, their wives and children also live in the backyard.

  Some maids and women, including those married to "military officers", can stay and work, and sign a short-term contract to receive monthly wages.

  While walking and chatting, I talked about some changes in Wuxing Town.

  Fei Ruhe couldn't help asking: "What is the mayor?"

  Huang Daliang explained: "The head of Lijia is gone, now there is only the mayor, and below the mayor are four village chiefs."

   Fei Ruhe looked at Fei Chun, both master and servant were shocked.

   This is no longer an ordinary rebellion, Zhao Han dared to reform directly!

  Seeing that they were shocked, Huang Daliang smiled and said, "What is this? Master Zhao still let women be officials."

   "Women become officials?" Fei Ruhe didn't understand.

Huang Daliang explained: "In the past, Xiaohong, the servant girl of Mr. Huang's family, is now named Huang Fei, and Mr. Zhao personally gave her a nickname. She is now the chief of the Maternity and Children's Department in Wuxing Town, and women and children are under her care. Mr. Zhao Having said that, it is not allowed to hit women and children casually, and anyone who disobeys will be fined to sweep the town streets."

  Fei Chun asked puzzledly, "Women are officials, men are willing?"

  Huang Daliang smiled and said: "What if you don't like it? Besides, when a woman is an official, she only cares about women and children. You can't let a man take care of it."

  Suddenly, Huang Daliang said in a low voice: "Master Zhao also said that drowning babies is not allowed. If it is found out, the rent and tax will be increased, and this matter is also under the control of Section Chief Huang (Xiao Hong)."

  Fei Ruhe nodded and said, "Infants should not be drowned."

Huang Daliang sighed and said: "If you can support the children, who would do that kind of thing? In fact, Mr. Zhao doesn't need to make rules. Now everyone has divided the land, and the rent of the land has been lowered. When life is better, no one will mess around." Come."

   "All the land is allocated?" Fei Ruhe asked.

  Huang Daliang said: "There are still more than 20 households that have not been divided."

   Those who have not been allocated land are all self-cultivated farmers and small landlords, who are now isolated by the villagers.

  Wuxing Town Office.

Zhao Han said to several officials: "Come one by one, let them release the slaves. If the slaves are willing to go home, the master is not allowed to stop them. If you want to continue working, you can change it to a short contract, how much per month?" Write down the wages clearly. From now on, you are not allowed to call the word 'slave', you can call them servants, servants, helpers, whatever. Also, you are not allowed to beat the servants, and whoever dares to beat the servants will be sent to the mountains to burn charcoal!"

  Chen Maosheng got the order, and immediately set off with Xiaohong, and the head of the village had to give full assistance to any village he went to do.

  The self-cultivating peasants could not afford to keep slaves in their families, so the target of this attack was the few remaining small landlords.

  If there are many servants in the family, keep seven or eight servants.

   There are only one or two servants in the family.

   Can't make any waves!

   Moreover, Zhao Han did not force the removal of the servants. Firstly, it would prevent domestic slaves from losing their jobs, and secondly, it could also reduce their resistance.

  In just two days, all the remaining domestic slaves in Wuxing Town were released by Chen Maosheng, and a few were willing to continue to be servants.

  Don’t talk about the slave’s contract of sale. In order to hide the population, almost all the people are white contracts. They don’t report to the government at all. If they tear up the contract, they will become free people immediately.

  The next step is to force the small landlords to separate their families. A family of more than ten people must be separated (children under the age of 12 are not counted)!

   Also, small landlords and self-cultivating farmers did not provide young and strong choreographers to practice group courage. Therefore, they cannot get tax reduction and preferential treatment, and they will be heavily taxed and taxed until they provide young and strong soldiers to join the army.

  …

  Fei Ruhe was walking on a country road, and found that the seedlings had been planted, and men and women were organized to dig water canals.

   And full of energy, bursts of laughter from time to time.

Huang Daliang took the initiative to explain: "In the past, there were only two canals. One used a water truck to draw water from the river, and the other diverted water from a mountain stream. Now that the farming is slack, Mr. Zhao organizes the villagers to repair and dig the canals, and the dug canals can be used by everyone. Mr. Zhao means what he says, he said that the canal is public property, so it must be public property."

   "The peasants believe it?" Fei Ruhe asked doubtfully.

"Of course I believe it. What did Mr. Zhao say that he didn't fulfill? The interest and rent owed by the villagers, he dug up and burned them all two days ago. Mr. Zhao is really kind to us," Huang Daliang said with a smile, " On the first day of excavation, Mr. Zhao rolled up his sleeves and led others to dig the canal himself. Have you ever seen such a master? The villagers came here without the government urging them to work, even the big girls and the young wives.

  Fei Ruhe couldn't help scratching his head, he always felt that this place was weird, but he couldn't tell exactly how weird it was.

  As a domestic slave, Fei Chun can understand more.

  He can be brought into the identity of a villager. If there is such a person who presides over the division of land, tax reduction and rent reduction, and promises to dig canals for everyone to use, he will also bring his own dry food and work hard to dig canals.

  Getting closer and closer, Fei Ruhe suddenly woke up, and finally found something weird.

  As far as this kind of basic engineering construction is concerned, in Qianshan County, it is either organized by the government or hosted by the rich. The common people who work are all frowning, and they will be lazy and desert when they have the slightest opportunity.

  But at the construction site in front of you, you can see countless smiling faces, sweating profusely but getting harder and harder.

   No need to shout slogans, no need to promote any ideas.

  As long as you give farmers a little hope, they will burst into labor enthusiasm.

  If farmers are given hope, they can change the world!

   Zhao Han took the lead in killing landlords, dividing land, reducing taxes, reducing rent, distributing grain, releasing slaves, and burning the land rent and usury owed. A set of procedures has given farmers great hope.

  Fei Chun observed secretly all the way, he felt that Zhao Han could accomplish something, but he didn't dare to say it in front of Fei Ruhe.

"kill!"

"Ah!"

  The distance from Wuxing Town Hall was getting closer and closer, and the master and servant heard a sound of killing.

  Fei Ruhe finally got excited: "Go and see, Brother Han is training soldiers!"

   After running wildly for a while, Fei Ruhe came to the gate of the office and shouted loudly: "Zhao Zi said, I am here, and I will accompany you to do great things!"

   Not long after, Zhao Han stood at the door, surprised to see Fei Ruhe, and then smiled and said, "Are you here to be a general? But I only have five hundred soldiers."

   "Don't talk about five hundred soldiers, fifty soldiers will do!" Fei Ruhe was so excited.

   "Brother." Fei Chun followed up and called out softly.

  Zhao Han nodded and smiled, "You're here too? Very good."

  After the Huang family’s ancestral house was converted into the town hall, a section of the courtyard wall was also demolished, and the garden was cleared to level ground, which was connected with the courtyard as a training place.

  Fei Ruhe soon saw the team, he was a little disappointed and said: "No serious weapons?"

   "Poor, let's make do with it." Zhao Han was also helpless.

  In order to train the army as soon as possible and deal with the encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers, Zhao Han did not conduct any military training for college students.

  Getting started is a simplified version of Mandarin Duck Array!

  Chop the moso bamboo into wolf traps, and keep the front branches to protect friendly troops from advancing. This is the Wolf Soldier.

  The wooden pot cover is also used as a shield, and the sickle or kitchen knife is held in hand to cover and resist the enemy. This is the rattan player.

   Cut the hard-headed yellow bamboo into the spear body, and bind the scissors into the spear tip, which is the core force to kill the enemy. This is the spearman.

  Moso bamboo, yellow bamboo, pot lids, sickles, kitchen knives, scissors... These are the equipment of the peasant army in Wuxing Town. At first glance, they look like a group of beggar soldiers.

   Fei Ruhe wanted to be a great general. In his imagination, the soldiers under his command should have sharp swords, well-equipped armor, and mighty military appearance.

  Dreams and reality seem to be a bit far apart.

  Seeing Zhao Han coming, Zhang Tieniu greeted him immediately, and said in a low voice, "My lord..."

   "Captain Zhang, please address your military position!" Zhao Han interrupted immediately.

   "Boss!"

  Zhang Tieniu hurriedly stood up straight, shouted at the top of his voice, and then groaned in a low voice: "Chief, I'd better be your personal guard. It's boring to be a mandarin duck."

   Zhao Han now has two positions, one is the mayor of Wuxing Town, and the other is the captain of the regiment brave battalion.

  If the team leader below wears three stripes, then Zhao Han, the general leader, can wear five stripes.

   Facing Zhang Tieniu's complaints, Zhao Han reprimanded: "Other captains can practice, but you can't?"

  Zhang Tieniu said with a painful face: "This Laoshizi army formation, if you want to advance together and retreat together, what orders do you have to listen to? I'm dizzy from the practice. What's the use of that thing? It's over after fighting and rushing forward."

  Zhao Han was about to give up on Zhang Tieniu. He practiced for several days, and his performance was not as good as that of ordinary tenants.

   He is not a well-behaved person who fights wars. The correct use is to let Zhang Tieniu lead the Death Squad to carry out special tactics such as night raids and guerrillas. Or, with a group of first-board troops, desperately ran to climb the wall and attack the city.

"Ugh!"

  Zhao Han sighed: "Okay, you will be my guard from now on, and the first brigade will hand over to Fei..." He stopped here, and Zhao Han asked Fei Ruhe, "What is your name now?"

  Fei Ruhe smiled and said, "My name is Zhao Yaonian."

   "Leave the first team to Zhao Yaonian for training!" Zhao Han immediately made adjustments.

  Fei Ruhe suddenly remembered something, asked for a cloth bag from Fei Chun, opened the bag and said, "This is my nomination certificate. I killed an **** in Jinggang Town."

   "Why do I want this thing?" Zhao Han felt a headache instantly, Zhang Tieniu was out of his mind, and Fei Ruhe didn't seem to be much better.

  Fei Ruhe was complacent, and began to tell the story: "This time I used a clever trick to earn the head of the **** without any effort. At that time, I went to Jinggang Town to find my fourth uncle..."

   This guy talked happily, embellishing the details to show his wit and bravery.

  Then, Fei Ruhe looked at Zhao Han with a "quickly praise me for being smart" expression.

  Zhao Han sighed in his heart, and patted Fei Ruhe on the shoulder: "You are so smart, you already know how to use tricks."

   "Haha, it's a trivial matter, it's just a matter of improvisation." Fei Ruhe said proudly.

  Zhao Han asked suddenly: "Then why don't you just follow the plan and stay with the **** as a confidant, and take the opportunity to develop your own subordinates. Wouldn't it be better to wait for the **** to collect money before killing him? Wouldn't it be better to come to me with a lot of money and subordinates?"

"Uh…"

  Fei Ruhe was stunned for a moment, then slapped his head violently: "That's right, a good opportunity was missed!"

  (end of this chapter)