After the old man heard about the policy of suppressing the captive army, he was extremely happy. For them, they never dared to dream of such a result. You must know that when Jamur Khan recruited them, except for one day
Apart from taking care of a meal, there is no other salary at all.
Of course, apart from them, the local people are treated fairly well, but because they are foreigners, they do not have any human rights at all. When the women at home want to go to the streets, they have to show their faces.
They have to cover their faces, otherwise they will wipe their faces with pot ashes, otherwise they will be in danger when they go out. The local magistrate will not let them make the decision. Even so, they can live here for eight or nine years. This is indeed lucky.
Otherwise, the entire family would have been persecuted long ago.
The life of the Han people in other areas is very different from theirs, so as long as the Suppression Army can contact them, they can find people to be loyal to them. After all, we are here to change their living conditions. To them, we are like benefactors and hope.
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After setting up a new checkpoint in the local area, Long Jintu set off with his people. The old man's eldest son was named Wang Binggang. His eldest grandson originally wanted to follow him, but the family had to keep a strong labor force, so he sent his eldest son to Wang Binggang.
The grandson stayed at home, and Long Jintu just wanted to find someone who was familiar with the local area, so it didn't matter one or two.
"Sir, we will reach Saibei City seventy miles further. This is the largest city nearby, and there were once 10,000 troops stationed here. These troops are not local troops, they are all direct descendants of Jamur Khan. We are nearby
All these people come here to do business, and it is also the most ruthlessly exploited place. No matter what you sell, you have to pay 30% tax."
Wang Binggang rode his horse next to Long Jintu. This guy was very familiar with the roads on the grassland. After all, he had traveled several times when he was delivering goods. At first, he delivered goods to others, and later to his own home.
They thought they could make a fortune by buying goods, but they were robbed several times on the road, wiping away all their family's savings over the years. Later, they could only transport goods to others and charge a certain amount of tolls.
Saibei City?
After Long Jintu heard this, he thought of some information in his head. This should be the largest city from Loujin City to Wangting. As the old man said, there are not many big cities in the northwest.
There are no more than five of them. Saibei City is close to the inland area. It can be said to be a commercial exchange city with the inland area, so it is extremely developed. After occupying this place, it can radiate hundreds of miles around.
"Can't Saibei City be completely evacuated as well?"
Long Jintu thought for a while and said, they passed three small towns along the way, and there were basically no people there. Except for some local Han people, everyone else had escaped, and the local military facilities were also destroyed.
It was burned down. It seems that when retreating, they also carried out partition clearing.
"Sir, it's actually all about the Rakshasa people. Didn't that person say it when we went to a small town? The local people are not willing to burn down the entire town. After all, this is the result of their many years of hard work. What's more,
What's more, the imperial court once ruled here, and although the taxes collected were a little higher, they would not go around killing people. On the other hand, Rakshasa people would do such a thing, because they just don't want to leave anything valuable to us."
Wang Binggang said angrily that in his opinion, what has become like this now is definitely the fault of those foreigners. They are not people in the wasteland and want to destroy everything in the wasteland.
"Does your family have good relations with the local people here?"
Long Jintu thought of another thing. People from various countries in the local Western Region often bullied them. This was said by the old man himself. Maybe they didn't have a good relationship with these people, but you could hear it from his words just now.
When I came out, it seemed that the local people were not very evil.
“When they first came here, they tried to bully us and made trouble for us, making it impossible for us to survive there. But after three or four years, they also saw that we were
The local area can also bring benefits to them. After all, the population in the northwest region is not large, so the relationship has been eased a lot. Although there is still some gap between us, compared with those Rakshasa people, they are already much better."
Thinking of that period, the eldest son of the Wang family burst into tears. At that time, more than 90 people escaped from the famine. After nearly ten years, the population has not increased at all. On the contrary, it has lost more than half of its people. This is all
It was the result of the struggle with the local people. Most of them were captured by the Rakshasa people and worked as laborers. Unfortunately, they did not come back in the end. It is said that they all died of exhaustion.
"The Rakshasa people don't treat people like them well either?"
Long Jintu seems to have found a gap. If the local people and the Han people have no good impression of the Rakshasa people, then we may be able to unite them. According to the prince's wishes, the local people cannot kill them at will. These people may
He had some conflicts with us in the past, but he could never act recklessly.
These people are treated the same as the herdsmen on the Xiongnu prairie. We are temporarily wary of them, but after a period of time, they are also legal citizens. Many people below are opposed to these arrangements made by netizens.
But the prince issued it in the form of a written order. If we disobey the prince's order, we may not have a good life, so we should implement the regulations honestly and never challenge the prince's order.
"Although they have the largest number of people in the local area, their lives are not very good. Do you think the Rakshasa people regard them as their own people? The Rakshasa people will only regard their own people as their own people, and the people in the wilderness and
We are the same as animals in their eyes."
After hearing this guy's words, Long Jintu laughed instead. If the Rakshasa people knew how to do things, I'm afraid they would be a little nicer to the people in the wasteland. In this way, they could be distinguished. They would also have some tricks. If
If it is not good for the local people, then it will be easy for us to share the same hatred.
"Sir, I heard that you have to build roads everywhere you go. Is this true? The natural environment in the wilderness is so bad, do you also have to build roads?"
Wang Binggang asked another question. Long Jintu had always asked the question, but now it was him.