Xia Zhaoyi looked at her, her brows lightly furrowed.
Afraid that Xia Zhaoyi would not agree, Su Yumei added: "I have no plans for the rest of my time. My biggest wish at the moment is to meet Mr. Qi, but Mr. Qi is here with Miss Ali, and I can always see him. Therefore, I am now
I have enough time and hands to help the girl, and I will definitely not leave her half-way through. My handwriting is not ugly, and I am good at compiling and organizing words."
"It's not this," Xia Zhaoyi said, "it's just tiredness."
"I'm not tired," Su Yumei smiled, "To tell you the truth, if Miss Ah Li led the troops to break into Peifeng City, but any other man, then the hundreds of girls in this courtyard would all be dead.
They were going to die in the city. As soon as the situation stabilized, Miss Ali summoned them to prevent them from being kidnapped and humiliated in public by the fellow villagers in the city. Only a woman like me could understand the meaning of protecting them.
"
Xia Zhaoyi also smiled: "Miss Su is so eloquent."
"Otherwise, why is he a book writer?" Su Yumei smiled.
"Okay, then we have Miss Lao Su." Xia Zhaoyi said.
Song Qingtang looked Su Yumei up and down, looked away, and said to Xia Zhaoyi, "I'm going."
"Um."
Song Qingtang was about to leave and said again: "Ah Li, why don't you say 'Thank you' to me?"
"So, are you busy?"
Song Qingtang took a deep breath, turned around, paused, and then turned back: "You're welcome."
"..."
Song Qingtang walked away quickly, muttering uncomfortably in his heart, Humph, not sincere.
In addition to these women, Lin Yao also had a large number of servant wives and domestic slaves.
Although Lin Yao proclaims himself king, he and Ying Jinliang are two extremes.
Ying Jinliang occupies a small area, but he is very fond of achievements and loves ostentation. He is well-equipped with civil and military personnel throughout the dynasty. He can imitate the Twelve Guards of Gyeonggi Province in the imperial capital at that time, even if he is a small fellow.
As for Lin Yao, he didn't even have a minister by his side, and he never went to court. A few years ago, he thought about getting a few eunuchs to follow and serve him. To this end, he found eight handsome men with thin skin and tender flesh in the city, and forced them to
Take them away to cleanse themselves.
But they didn't understand this. Three men died of massive hemorrhage on the spot, and the remaining few became infected and died one by one within two months.
There was a severe shortage of medicine in the city, so Lin Yao gave up.
Therefore, a servant wife is still a servant wife, and a domestic slave is still a domestic servant, and cannot be regarded as a palace maid or eunuch.
After all, the conditions were limited and he couldn't even build a palace.
Song Qingtang took people to Lin Yao's Mansion to find the maids and domestic slaves, and asked them to find clean quilts and clothes and send them to Tianbu Mansion.
Then he took another group of servants and women to tidy up the houses where Lin Yao's soldiers lived.
On the Tianbu Mansion side, all the women in the open space followed Su Yumei and the twenty soldiers selected by Xia Xingming to the Yamen Court where Peifeng had been.
As soon as they left, Xia Zhi came to Xia Zhaoyi with representatives elected from each of the ten households, a total of five hundred people.
Xia Zhaoyi was slightly surprised: "In the entire Peifeng, if ten households choose one person, there are only...five hundred people?"
"Pei Feng now probably has less than 30,000 people left."
"..."
Xia Zhaoyi nodded: "I'll go see them."
Five hundred people stood in the cold wind, most of them looking numb.
Just came off the battlefield, many people were wounded.
They watched Xia Zhi go in and heard his steps coming out, but they saw a beautiful girl following behind.
War, death, and slavery made them lose their sense of aesthetics early on, and they looked at the girl expressionlessly.
But he saw that the girl did not go to the side with Xia Zhi, but stood in the middle.
"There are five hundred and twenty-five of you," Xia Zhaoyi said loudly, "Let's form a group of twenty-five, and then select twenty-one from each group, who will be equivalent to the head of the village. I will give you a cup of tea.
time."
Everyone was confused, looking at me, looking at you, whispering to each other, not knowing what she was going to do.
But it can be seen that the majestic general who brought them here, as well as the soldiers standing next to him, were respectfully listening to the order in front of the girl.
One person had the courage to ask: "You, who are you?"
"Just think of us as people who want to help you." Xia Zhaoyi said.
She was not as interested as Lin Yao in proclaiming himself king, and she did not want to hold an official position in Peifeng City.
The person who asked the question nodded. There was neither trust nor disbelief. They had no choice at all.
Twenty-one people were quickly selected, and Xia Zhaoyi started talking about business.
"We won't stay in the city for long. The only suggestion I can make is that you each bring your own troops. What you need to do from now on is to destroy those farmlands and build new houses."
Everyone was surprised, and one person raised his voice and asked: "Why don't you stay?"
"We have limited manpower and will not stay."
"Then you leave, what will we do? What if another army comes in?" Another person asked.
"The most likely thing is Jiao Jinhu. Even if he comes in, he won't treat you like anything. In these years in Zhenzhou, Kuozhou and Xiaozhou, he has not done anything to waste people's money, nor has he done anything to disregard human lives. You can rest assured."
"Then, why do you want us to destroy the fields?!" Another person asked.
"Because of your crime of holding a jade, it will not be easy for you if any force knows that there is such fertile land in Peifeng City."
"Then what will we do if we have food to eat?"
"The fields outside the city are no longer fields?" Xia Zhaoyi looked at the person who asked the question.
"You want us to leave the city?" another person said.
"I will leave enough food and grass for you, and I will divide it among ten households. During this period, you can farm outside the city or make other livelihoods."
Everyone still found it unbelievable. They had been oppressed by Lin Yao for so long, and what was happening now did not feel real to them, and they were not even used to it.
But it is already clear whether this girl is good or evil, friend or enemy.
Suddenly, someone stepped forward, knelt down and shouted: "Girl, you are indeed my great benefactor!"
He raised his hands above his eyebrows and bowed down to salute.
The man was startled and looked up at Xia Xingming.
"My second young lady doesn't like to be knelt down by others, so get up quickly!"
"Get up!" Xia Zhi and Yan Haiqi said at the same time.
The man had no choice but to get up.
"There are two more things," Xia Zhaoyi continued, "First, Lin Yao's tribe, there are still hundreds of people alive. We promised to disarm and not kill, but we are us and you are you. Now we will leave them to your disposal.
.”
Everyone was overjoyed.
"Thank you girl!!"
"The girl is really a god descending to earth!!"
"Secondly, it's about the girls who have been forcibly taken over by Lin Yao and others over the years." Xia Zhaoyi said.
Everyone paused, with different expressions on their faces, and all looked at the girl closely.
"I don't care about your clan rules or your customs. I have the final say on everything right now," Xia Zhaoyi said. "First, after we leave, you cannot abuse them. Which family do they come from?
I have sent people to write down the accounts of each household. From now on, each of them will have a book in my hand. I will send people back every year to renew the book, and they will tell the truth about their lives.
Go and find out. If the people in Peifeng City treat them violently, I will go to you, the ten household heads, and the twenty-one li chiefs to settle the account."
"Second, many of these girls are pregnant. If the girls are younger than 1 month, I can help remove the children. If they are older than 1 month, they can only be born. These children will only be born to their mother, and will only bear the mother's surname. They will be headed by the heads of ten households and
The head of the house protects the children as they grow up, and they cannot be bullied by others."
"Yes, but this child is the son of those thieves!!" A slightly older man shouted loudly.
"Yes! They are the offspring of those thieves!"
"We shouldn't do this. We won't raise those thieving beasts!"
"Yes, we would rather kill than humiliate. We don't want to raise descendants of dog thieves!"
"I've said it!" Xia Zhaoyi sternly rebuked, "I have the final say!"
Xia Xingming immediately pulled out his sword.
Xia Zhiyan Haiqi followed closely behind, and the Xia family troops next to them all showed their weapons.
"Who dares to yell at my second young lady?"
"Who dares to try!" Xia Zhi shouted loudly.
All the ten household heads and village heads fell silent, and the whole place was completely silent.
On the way here, they saw blood all over the ground and saw Xia Junnan leading the captured soldiers to behead them.
They all know that these soldiers can do it...
Xia Zhaoyi said coldly: "I won't talk nonsense with you, just listen to me in everything. If you can't swallow this breath, kill yourself. But I have bad words ahead. If these girls and children are not properly protected, then there will be more than just
I won't spare any of you, your family members, or your ancestral graves. Don't try to instigate them to commit suicide, I can find them all."
Everyone was pale and speechless.
"Besides," Xia Zhaoyi said in a slightly gentle tone, "if their children grow up safely and are educated properly, then I will reward the head of the ten households where this woman lives with five taels of gold, and two taels of gold in the house."
"Yellow, gold..."
"Five taels?!"
"Only give us ten household heads and village chiefs?"
"Yes," Xia Zhaoyi said, "No one else did."
Everyone's pale faces gradually turned back.
In this way, the most advantageous thing is the length.
Many heads of ten households began to wonder if any of their girls had been snatched away, but they did not know whether they were pregnant...
"What if there are two pregnant girls under a household of ten?" someone asked.
"Ten taels of gold." Xia Zhaoyi said.
Everyone's eyes widened with unspeakable surprises and expectations, and they were eager to try it.
Let’s talk about tyranny first, and then humanity.
First a slap, then a mouthful of candy.
However, who can resist the temptation of gold.
This is five taels of gold.
For them, just five taels of silver is enough to make them rich and powerful, but five taels of gold is just fine.
Seeing their appearance, Xia Xingming understood that it was done and put the weapon back into its sheath.
Xia Zhi and Yan Haiqi followed suit.
Xia Zhaoyi took a deep breath. This is the human nature that Master dislikes the most, but it is really convenient for me to use.
