Back home, Uncle Lao, Jing Cheng and others gathered again. Baozhong told them that Li Yansi, Zehun and Qiangxiong planned to meet Abbot Zhao of Baima Court tomorrow and urge Abbot Zhao to send this month's relief food.
"Then, should we go and work for the Han people?" Jing Cheng asked.
Baozhong said: "Whether we can talk about it or not, it's a bad idea. If Abbot Zhao doesn't agree, will Zuru and the others use other means to cause a big problem? We can't predict these. The only thing I know is
Yes, when you get up tomorrow, everyone still has to eat, do you want to go and work?"
Xizhong said: "There are no collectors, and there are people from the Po Chou family. They originally planned to work with us, but if this happens, I'm afraid they will hesitate again."
"It's their business if they can afford to go hungry. It has nothing to do with us. Whether they want to go or not is up to them. In short, we can fill our stomachs ourselves and bring food back to our families. That's enough."
The next day, Renjia not only dispatched more than 60 men, but also brought more than 20 healthy women. The Taoist priest Dian Zaofang who oversaw the work had no choice but to fly to Baima Court again and brought back Abbot Zhao's edict.
It was agreed that the women from the Ren family would work together. Their tasks were to collect hay, dry firewood, make fires for cooking, and do some light manual labor.
After the day's work was done, each family brought back two more pieces of dough, and Ren's family's feeding problem was initially alleviated.
Baozhong sent people to inquire, and the news came back that Li Yansi and his friends' plan to ask Baima Court to distribute relief grains failed, or in other words, was postponed, because they did not see Abbot Zhao and Abbot Zhao went out.
On December 12, more than 30 people from the Tibetan family and more than 20 people from the Po Chou family followed the Ren family and entered the construction site together. The Taoist Dianzhuofang who oversaw the work took all the orders and arranged for everyone to do so.
Children work.
Baozhong has been paying attention to the various processes of building a turnover house in the past two days. He didn't catch up with the days of laying foundations and leveling the land in the early stage. At this moment, he paid attention to how the Han people built these turnover houses.
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He discovered that building a house can be roughly divided into various processes such as digging soil, crushing soil, mounding soil, drying, installing beams, and roofing. These days, what he has been doing is digging soil, which is the most basic and simple process, so
Pay attention to the second process of breaking the soil.
After working for a while, it happened that there was an older Han man there who was about to go out to pay tribute. Baozhong took the initiative to go over, picked up the stone hammer, and started to break the soil. The Taoist priest who supervised the work did not say anything and let him participate.
Entering, more than a dozen people gathered around, wielding stone hammers, smashing hard soil, clods and even stones, and then piled them aside.
Not long after, the Han people who came out of court came back. When they saw Baozhong taking his own stone hammer, he didn't blame him. He went to the Taoist priest and got another stone hammer, and started smashing it together around Baozhong. While smashing, he returned the hammer.
Instruct him on the techniques for exerting force on his waist and abdomen, and how to swing a stone hammer with less effort.
After smashing the soil, he instructed Baozhong to sift the soil with a dustpan, pick out the grass roots, leaves and stems in the soil, and leave as much gravel as possible.
While Baozhong was leading people to work, Li Yansi and others continued to ask to see Abbot Zhao, and were told for two consecutive days that the abbot was not in Baima Courtyard. Li Yansi understood that Abbot Zhao was deliberately hiding from the party members.
Therefore, Li Yansi repeated his old tricks and organized hundreds of people from the Tuoba clan, Mi Qin clan, and Pochao clan to sit quietly in the White Horse Courtyard and blocked the front and back entrances of the White Horse Courtyard.
After being blocked for most of the day, there was no movement in the White Horse Courtyard. The White Horse Courtyard only sent additional Ming army sentries to prevent the party members who were sitting silently blocking the door from approaching. So Zehun and Qiangxiong came to discuss with Li Yansi.
"Zuru, I'm afraid this Zhao is a ruthless person. Everyone has been stuck in traffic for so long. It's already past dinner time, and he didn't bring out any bread. He doesn't even have hot water."
"That's right. If it were the former Abbot Zeng, he would have given away the food long ago. I remember last winter when the White Horse Courtyard was blocked, everyone who went there got a cotton coat. It's been a good two days, there was nothing. It's so big
Everyone can't bear the cold weather, Zuru, what do you think we should do?"
Li Yansi pondered for a moment and said fiercely: "Deploy more people and block the street for me!"
In the afternoon of that day, more than 200 party members came and blocked the two streets in front and back of Baima Yuan, but Abbot Zhao was still nowhere to be seen. The Taoist priests of Baima Yuan walked in and out of the gate and walked on tiptoe among the crowd.
However, no one from the party had the guts to stop it, or maybe Li Yansi and the others were not ready to make a big fuss.
But after two days, the party members who went to besiege Baima Court suffered greatly, and their dissatisfaction began to build up. They all shouted and came to "ask for a fight" from the leaders.
During the time of the predecessor Abbot Zeng, the party members also organized several activities to besiege Baima Courtyard. During each siege, Abbot Zeng sent people out to deliver food and water. When the weather was cold, he also boiled hot water for service. At the same time, he always sent people out to serve him.
Be able to agree, at least partially, to the requests of party members.
Of course, Li Yansi and the others were not selfish, and every request they made would not be excessive. Step by step, they confirmed the party members' ownership of cultivated land and some pastures, and received regular monthly relief payments and temporary exemption from military service.
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It's a pity that Abbot Zeng, who loves and cares for the people so much, was transferred to another post. Abbot Zhao came. This Abbot Zhao didn't fart even a month after he came. The first fart he let was to stop the party members.
Relief! But everyone has been sitting around in the White Horse Courtyard for a whole day, but they have no food and no water to drink! Abbot Zhao is really a demon and a dog official!
In this case, don't blame me for being rude and having to cause some trouble for you so that you can get out of here as soon as possible!
"Zehun, Qiangxiong, each of you select some courageous people from among the tribesmen, preferably those without young families. I will also select some from below. Tomorrow, if there is no one surnamed Zhao, go and clear the streets.
The shops and restaurants were smashed by me, and some Han people were allowed to break into their homes and take whatever they wanted, and whatever they got was theirs."
Zehun hesitated and said: "Zuru, the Ming army has just entered the city. If we make such a fuss, will the sons and grandsons suffer?"
"Once the trouble really comes to the point of sending troops to suppress it, it will be considered a serious matter. In the past two years, I have clearly seen that the Taoist priests and officials of the Ming Dynasty are afraid of trouble. They do not seek merit, but only no faults. Just remember not to cause trouble.
Life is at stake, even if the men are caught and imprisoned, we can still find a way to fish them out. But as long as the trouble reaches this level, I'm afraid the man named Zhao will have to get out."
"Yes, don't worry, Zuru, we must let this dog official take a good look at the capabilities of our party members!"
"Yes, let him go wherever he comes from!"
When the party members besieged the Baima Courtyard in Hongyuan City, Zhao Ran was indeed not in the courtyard. He was not even in Hongyuan. He was currently in the official room of the Du Supervisor Courtyard in Tianhe Palace in Songzhou.