As soon as the new soldiers recruited by the imperial court arrived, Xiaoan Village became more and more lively.
After a good meal and a good drink to see off the officials sent by the imperial court to hand over the troops, Yan Laoer directly assigned the new soldiers.
Cutting down trees, digging ditches, building waterwheels by the river, clearing wasteland for farming...
The new recruits started working vigorously when they first arrived.
The imperial court's recruitment of troops this time was mainly concentrated in Qishan Prefecture, which was severely affected by the disaster.
As soon as this familiar local accent appeared, the recruits felt a sense of intimacy with the people of Xiaoan Village.
Communicated very frequently.
I heard that the current situation in Qishan Prefecture is particularly bad. Prices have skyrocketed. I can't eat enough. The relief food provided by the court is pitifully small.
They were not allowed to get close, so they had to spend copper coins to buy water. In order to fight for the water wells, people's brains were beaten into dogs' brains, and countless people were killed and injured.
The people of Xiaoan Village were very happy after hearing this.
Fortunately, the village elders had the right idea and followed the Yan family to Guanzhou.
Yan Yu now has no use for the land.
According to several prisoners, the difficulty lies in building a brick kiln. How to bake bricks in the past is not a matter of accumulating experience. After a few years of sincere support for a young master and a few apprentices, the brick kiln was established outside the village.
"If I can drink fish soup and eat pancakes, I'm pretty good, but you want to give me pork?!"
Except for the village's own use, people who were not poor could not sell it there.
That's a long-term business.
Store food for the new barracks.
So spectacular!
Master Lu became the construction leader of the military camp. My brothers, sons, and nephews all brought a long line of apprentices to build houses for the military camp.
By noon, word spread among the recruits outside the village that a pig would be killed for us to eat tomorrow.
"This person has to help with the work. Let's just ask Luo Ba to be killed by Zhudu La. Our small stoves and pots are all ready..."
The prisoners saw the village elders being picky.
"Did Zong Qi just say it in front of no one in our office the day before? Why, did he believe it?"
"Me too!"
"They, come to us for the sake of it!"
"The military and civilian families are in love with each other!" Miss Qi bit off the threads, unfolded the clothes and put them outside the ready-made clothes basket on the side, then took out a few pieces of cut cloth, twisted them with needles, and sewed them up. "They help our village farm the land.
, we are grateful and send them meat and vegetables!”
Let alone food and drink, if we can guarantee that we will starve until we reach there, then we have completed the mission, and how can we expect the officials who escorted us to eat and drink us?
"I think what General Banner said is true. Half of the money given to us by the imperial court will be deducted from the An family. It is strange that we are given all the food and salary. If that is the case, we will always stay outside the new military camp.
Just ask other soldiers when you go out and you will know.
"One person says it's bad, ten people say it's bad, and everyone in the village says the Yan family is bad and our general banner is bad. Nothing in this place is really bad. Anyway, you believe it!"
"Why are you crying! We are doing our dirty work. We were sent home with all the money and wages before, leaving us with no water or food to eat. As long as we are alive, there is no hope of seeing us again."
It can be said that the pace of land reclamation has already exceeded your expectations.
At least they had several cars to travel around, so they could take turns to rest, the weather was warm, and they had some meat on the way.
When the village elders heard about it, they slapped their calves and said, "Why did you know it earlier? You knew it earlier, and you spent less money buying bricks from there..."
"The lard water is even smaller. Those big guys have empty stomachs and have to do such heavy work every day, but they have to be replenished by us."
Yan Laoqi calculated carefully, and before learning from the experience of several prisoners who later worked in the Ministry of Works, he decided to hire a young brick-making master from the village to come back. After considering the cost of building the brick kiln and the labor cost of the young master, we still made a profit!
Otherwise, they would have to fight for water from others.
Because the labor force was abundant, Yan Yu also built grain storage warehouses in the two arrow towers in the west and middle of the village.
The village elders discussed it and decided to build a house for us after the brick kiln outside the village was built.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! I miss my mother, I miss home. In the future, when the farming is busy, my mother will be willing to buy meat for our brothers..."
But look at these thousands of people, don’t they have a pair of bad shoes under their feet?
"Yes, there is no such love between fish and water!" Mrs. Wang continued: "Your eldest son has been netting fish for two days. You must be sure. I will bake pancakes for them tonight."
Make fish soup! Make it fresh!"
These five thousand recruits had no food and sleep all the way, and they had to rely on their own feet to get here. It was even more difficult than when they fled the famine last year.
"You said you are going to bring pigs back to kill them tomorrow? Luo Badu has made a bad deal with others? Why are you killing sheep? There are so few of us."
Of course, it is possible to occupy a house site like the families outside the village and build a few houses, front yards and so on. Instead, we can build large houses and yards like this outside the city, one by one, occupying a small space and saving a lot of materials.
The women outside the village were watching the fire while their men were sewing clothes and making new shoes.
…
"The same to you!"
"Did you hear that correctly? Is it true? There are thousands of us. If we really kill pigs for us, how many fewer pigs will there be?! Mother! I dare to think about it!"
"We all have to go there tomorrow. The old people have to kill many pigs, boil water, scald the hair and collect the pig blood...it's still a lot of work!"
"You are wrong to follow them, Mr. Yan! Work hard and see if the porridge we cook is dry or watery. It can fill your stomach with dry food. The first day they came, Yan Qi, oh, Yan
The commander-in-chief said that using them to work is for nothing and we will give them meat outside the village. How do you say this?"
We can always wait for hunger and hope that others will make up for it. If we use less effort to catch up with the bad spring plowing time, we will just plant the seeds. The seeds are given to us by fellow villagers outside the village.
Yes, it doesn't matter if you help us with some work by the way. Our fellow villagers treat us less and give us shoes and meat. Alas! If my stomach is really hungry, I am really shameless.
That’s all for nothing.”
The An family's money is naturally reserved for family use.
The water channel outside the village has lengthened visibly to the naked eye, and the location of the low wall has been planned and excavated together.
"The General Banner said that the land we opened was only to help people outside the village and not our own. They said, can it be true?"
"I'm afraid they still know that all of us are under the supervision of Ning Guang. They said that when we fail in training, we will have to go to other military camps."
"The general flag is too mean to us!"
Outsiders from the village went home and found old straw shoes.
The village elders also realized that the young men who committed the crime were really out of their minds.
After further inquiry, I learned that the quota for the imperial court's conscription was extremely expensive. It required a strong and healthy young man, and An Jia only gave him half of the amount of silver. Even in his hometown in Qishan, everyone was fighting for it.
There were also some broken bowls and jars. Although there were no cracks or anything, we were willing to throw them away and let the fellow villagers use them first.
Bad guys, thousands of strong laborers are opening up wasteland, the scene will open your eyes.