Chapter 406 Children at the entrance of the village
In times of war, only the center of power is prosperous, and all other places are just defense lines to protect them. People living there hypocritically believe that the world is beautiful.
The problem of pirates on the southeast coast is the biggest hidden danger of Tang State besides the border. Not many people know how the pirates were formed.
If the pirates unite, they may become the tenth country in the world. Unfortunately, the land and human factors cannot allow them to truly unite.
After Chen Mo arrived at Xinshui County, he continued to walk east. There was a place of chaos, Qianjiao Island, where pirates gathered. The purpose of Chen Mo's trip was there. As for why it was there, because there was unscrupulous killing there.
Just like the Garden of Red Dust.
Well, that's not the most important thing.
Before arriving at Qianjiao Island, Chen Mo had to pass through Sendai County. It is said that this place was quite prosperous during the Tang Dynasty, but when Chen Mo came here, he could not see any prosperity.
Although it is not prosperous, it is not full of corpses. In short, it feels ordinary.
More than a month has passed since the Chinese New Year. Chen Mo walked all the way from Changjing to here. The prosperity is far away from him, and simplicity is everywhere. This is what the world is like.
Chen Mo led his horse and walked through a small village. When he walked in, a few ignorant children were playing in the mud on the wet ground and did not notice anyone coming.
A child swung the mud in his hand and threw it in front of Chen Mo. Only then did he notice the person coming. He looked at Chen Mo's clean and tidy clothes and the tall horses. He let out a sound of admiration, but did not approach Chen Mo.
There seemed to be no people in the village. There were only a few old men with limited mobility standing on the low courtyard wall in their yard and looking over. There was no communication, only eye contact.
Chen Mo soon knew the reason. At this time, the villagers were working in the fields.
"Old man, let me ask, are there any pirates around here?" Chen Mo led his horse to the edge of a courtyard and asked an old man who was holding on to the courtyard wall.
The scope of pirate activities is not limited to the sea. In fact, there are no merchant ships transporting goods on the sea now. Even the merchants who come to this coastal area are only a few. Chen Mo has not encountered any caravans along the way.
Therefore, the pirates who lived on Qianjiao Island had no commercial sites on the sea to rob, so they basically went to the coast to rob homes and houses. Therefore, the people living here were very miserable, just like the old man Chen Mo saw in front of him, with a look in his eyes.
There is no color, like a walking zombie.
"Ah? What's the sea?" the old man said in a hoarse voice.
"Hai pirates." Chen Mo said again.
"What bandit?" the old man asked again.
Chen Mo saw that the old man's hearing was not affected by something, and he had no intention of continuing. He turned to look at the old people in other courtyards, but when Chen Mo looked over, they had already turned and walked towards the house.ωωw.
Obviously, these people heard what Chen Mo wanted to ask, but did not want to get involved.
But when Chen Mo turned around again, the old man he was questioning also walked towards the house tremblingly.
Chen Mo knew that he wouldn't get anything out of their mouths. If he used violence, he would probably scare people to death. Chen Mo didn't think he was a good person, but he didn't bother to do such a thing.
His eyes turned to the children who were at a place similar to the entrance of the village and still had runny noses and bigger farts.
A few hands were holding mud, all dirty. Looking at Chen Mo who was returning, a child stretched out his hand holding mud and said in a sweet voice: "Do you want to play with us?"
The child's eyes were very innocent, and he was not afraid of strangers.
"Are there..." Chen Mo wanted to say about pirates around here, but he guessed that these children didn't know what pirates were, so he changed to a more understandable word: "Are there any bad people around here?"
"Yes, his brother is very bad and always spanks me." The child pointed to another child next to him and said.
"..." Chen Mo was speechless, as if communicating with them was a wrong decision.
"Wow, this cow is so beautiful." One of the children came to Chen Mo's horse at some point and patted the thigh of the tall horse next to Chen Mo with his hand that had just been played with mud.
It was indeed a mistake. Chen Mo sighed. These children couldn't even tell the difference between an ox and a horse, so what else could we learn from them?
Chen Mo picked up the child and asked him to stay away from the fierce horse. When he got this horse before, he also spent a lot of time to tame it. If this big kid was kicked by him,
My feet are probably going to die.
"Let him go!" At this time, on the road where Chen Mo came, a young man with a hoe shouted at Chen Mo with the hoe as a weapon.
Feeling that he was being treated as a bad guy. Chen Mo felt helpless and put the child back on the ground. As soon as the child landed, he ran to the boy and shouted: "Brother Zhaodi, why are you back now?"
The young man named Zhao Di pulled the child that Chen Mo had picked up behind him, his warning look not fading.
"He, he is the bad guy, he always spanks me." The child who was questioned by Chen Mo before sniffed and pointed at the young man holding the hoe.
"Just in time, I don't mean anything else, I just want to ask something." Chen Mo said, looking at the barefoot boy who had just started spring.
"What do you want to ask?" The young man still did not let down his guard.
"Are there any pirates around here?"
"Hai pirates? What are you doing with pirates?"
"Just let me ask you the questions." Chen Mo didn't need to explain to him.
"The pirates won't come at this time, and we won't have anything to give them if they come," the young man replied.
It seems reasonable. It's spring plowing time now. What can be found in a small village like this?
"Then... forget it." Chen Mo wanted to ask something else, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it, and then led the horse away.
"Brother, why is he gone?" The child who had to touch the horse's leg reluctantly watched Chen Mo leave.
"Okay, don't touch strangers' things in the future, remember?" Zhaodi knelt down and wiped the child's nose with her sleeve. "I have to go back to get some things and go to work. I'm in the village.
Carry it carefully and don't run around."
"Uh-huh."
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After Chen Mo left the village, he settled in a broken temple five miles away from the village. The offerings here had long since disappeared, and he didn't know what kind of temple it was.
Going directly to Qianjiao Island is a bit difficult. Although I am not afraid of being defeated by those little minions in terms of strength, there is one thing that makes me difficult. I am most afraid of building a boat.
Not to mention the turbulence around Qianjiao Island, it was already a little difficult for Chen Mo to get on the boat, let alone rock the boat there. Moreover, ordinary boats did not dare to approach there, and the fishermen in the offshore area were only in a small
There are activities within the scope, and the people there on Qianjiao Island will not let people in casually, it is very exclusive.
This is why the government has been unable to deal with them for so many years. In fact, as long as the court is willing to make great efforts to deal with them, it can still be done. However, the wars in those years have left the court with no time to care about it. In recent years, it has become a little more stable, and it is still
Don't have the energy to do this.
The current attitude of the imperial court towards them is: You can mess with one-third of an acre of land, but you can't disturb my people.
But the fact is: I won’t disturb your people, so what do I eat? If you can, come to Qianjiao Island and beat me.
Therefore, whenever pirates harassed a place, the government sent troops to arrest them, but in the end the arrests turned into driving them away. There were not many pirates in the government prisons.
Originally, Chen Mo wanted to capture a few pirates and ask about the situation on Qianjiao Island. Although he knew the detailed situation from Wu Ling'er, he still wanted to confirm it with a local and see if he could pass the captured pirates.
Kou went to the island.
It seems that this method will not work in the near future, and it seems that we have to make other plans.
Chen Mo's plan lasted for four or five days. Chen Mo was thinking about it in this ruined temple and was immersed in his practice, forgetting the time. He didn't wake up from his practice until he felt hungry.
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People in the small village worked in the fields all day, returned to the village when it got dark, and then smoke rose in the dark night. Such a poor small village did not have much big fish or meat, not even much rice, so many people's homes
To cook rice, you just put some taro, sweet potatoes, etc. in the rice and make a plate of green vegetables without oil and water, which is a complete meal.
Today, a young man who went out to wander around before the Chinese New Year came back with a good reputation. The so-called good news is that he brought back one or two kilograms of pork. In short, the young man's family ate some meat foam tonight.
It seemed that this young man was quite generous. After the meal, he brought some to his neighbor, not much, just two ounces of meat.
"Thank you, Brother Gouzi." Zhao Di took the two taels of meat and thanked her, and asked with an envious look on her face: "Brother Gouzi, where are you going? Why don't you take me with you?"
"This..." Gouzi said with a somewhat surprised expression, "Okay, but it's very hard outside, can you endure the hardship?"
"Yes, yes, yes." Zhaodi nodded. "Can it be more difficult than farming?"
"Okay, I'll take you out of here later." Gouzi Ge said cheerfully.
"Are you leaving right away? Are you in such a hurry?" Zhao Di said.
"I originally came back to have a look. Last time I got angry with my family and ran away. I didn't come back during the Chinese New Year. I just happened to make some money, so I came back to have a look. Now is the time when Brother Gouzi and I are making a career, so I came back just to think about it.
Let your parents not worry about you, so you have to go back now, and take more brothers out when things stabilize. Now that you ask, and we are Jinglu, I will only agree to you, otherwise I will leave by myself."
Gouzi Ge said a lot.
"Have you thought about it? If you have thought about it, come with me. I will bring you meat. This is also an excuse. I just don't want to listen to my mother's nagging, so I sneak away by myself."
Zhao Di was hesitant, thinking about whether to say hello to her family. At this time, the kid who was carried like a chicken by Chen Mo ran out and shouted: "Brother Zhao Di, parents are sleeping, stay with me."