Tang Dynasty good man

Chapter [-] Prelude to the Fortress

Prepare for rain, from "The Book of Songs. Binfeng. Owl": "When the sky is not cloudy and rainy, it will penetrate the mulberry soil and prepare for the households."

I understand the meaning of this word, but when Lanling explained the source to me, I fell into a deep confusion. I couldn't understand a word she said.The ancient people were really tired of learning. Not only did they have to be able to write and use, but they could also tell the story of the whole story by just looking for a paragraph.It's as if Lanling has the urge to teach me how to write every time. After teaching and writing, he still laughs at me and despises me, which makes me, a graduate of a famous college in the 21st century, feel ashamed. I am far from qualified as a moral and cultural ancient.

"You can teach me what you want to teach in the future. You don't need to put on airs after teaching. It's boring." Pulling a face, he crumpled a few pieces of paper on the table and threw them into balls. Positivity, do you have to show the gap between us to satisfy your disgusting vanity?"

"That's right!" Lan Ling smiled happily, watching me vent my anger with the Four Treasures of the Study, "Didn't you say that the ignorant are fearless? I find that you are much cuter than others when you are fearless."

"It seems that my fearlessness is not strong enough." I looked down at the female hooligan in front of me, "One day I will make you fall under the most stalwart fearlessness in history. Oh, yes, you said that my current level is not enough. Are you illiterate?"

"Forget it," Lan Ling thought for a moment, then nodded affirmatively, "According to the meaning of the word, you can be classified as illiterate. If opportunism is not counted, then it is outright."

"Just say why I don't want to see you recently? Do you know that I'm upset when I see you? It's like seeing..."

"Creditor!" Lan Ling added with a smile.

"No wonder, that's how it feels. So please don't show off in front of me. The gap in wealth is enough to make people feel inferior, so you don't need to use your knowledge to stimulate me. Try to show yourself as much as possible when you are with me in the future Insufficient, so that I can save some face. Or I can change my opinion of you recently." The beginning of spring means spending money, and spending money means that Lanling is in the position of creditor. I don't care, the key is how to spend the money in the upper enclosure of Longyou most efficiently. "Do you feel helpless? Confused? Powerless?"

"Why do you feel this way?" Lan Ling looked at me with doubts in his eyes, "Hasn't any major incident happened in your family recently? There is another fight with Liu Rengui in agriculture?"

"Money," I shook my head with a wry smile, "it's about money."

"I didn't rush you to ask for the bill. You can use the money anyway, isn't that much enough?"

"Enough, enough. To be honest, I asked you to take a little too much, and I can't spend it at all." After coughing a few times, I said embarrassedly: "So my family plans to expand the toilet water workshop again in a few days..."

"Oh, there's no need for that expression, it's up to you to use the money you like. It will be fine when the principal and interest are paid off." Lan Ling stood up and took a plate of nut snacks and stuffed them at me, "It's okay How much money does it take to help you become like this?"

"This time the land in the north is said to be running a horse circle. It sounds really cool. According to this method, my family can circle bigger than the circle outside the capital." Ying found a rider who was as light as a swallow and went ahead on the spot. I practiced it once, and to be honest, although running in the outskirts of the capital is not as enjoyable as running outside the customs, it is roughly calculated.Still stunned, the small body was wobbly, and the unit Mu was obviously too delicate, as if a toothpick had been stuck on a watermelon.

"That's right, this is the first time I've gone out of the fortress to encircle the area with respectable people in the capital, and their abilities and appetites are naturally greater than ordinary people." Lan Ling nodded as a matter of course, and said with a smile: "Our two families are neighbors."

"It doesn't matter to your neighbors, the key is not to be neighbors in the inner palace. But even if I am a neighbor, I have to gallop for more than half an hour to visit you. It is very hard for everyone to visit." He flicked the tea bowl, "It is so hard to visit you , Cultivation, sowing, and harvesting, big sister, where do you ask me to get so much labor! You don’t know that the people in Guanzhong don’t even go out of Tongguan, and if they go out of the frontier in one breath, who will be enough for a hundred people?”

"Hehe..." Lan Ling smiled, "Take a step and watch. People here don't want to go out. They won't be summoned from Longyou? Besides, we didn't intend to let you... We brought a lot of labor out, we didn't think it was so big Didn’t even post a notice?”

Cheng Chu didn't think about it.Being coaxed by my cousin, and knowing that there is such a good opportunity to occupy the mountain outside the Great Wall, I am so excited that I can’t describe it. He was so excited early in the morning in the agricultural school. He stayed in my office for a few days and didn’t show up. He discussed it with me with great interest. A series of unimaginable problems caused by the enclosure.

"My little brother wants to do laps in person!" Cheng Chu was a little bit insane, and his brain temporarily had insufficient blood supply.Dabao said: "On behalf of you, the Wang family and the Qin family have circled together!"

"Be careful I'll beat you." It's impossible to say that, since Mr. Cheng is not around, I am the only one who can suppress him. "Who is the head of the family who has lost his foundation and gone crazy? Honestly, stay at home and pick some tough people from your Cheng family to go there. Your family has this advantage among the three families, and they all count on you."

"No problem! The old soldiers who have served in the Tuntian Army can be caught. As long as they have enough money, they will be fine, let alone get measles!" Cheng Chu's chest slapped loudly, and his face trembled violently.

"That's when you talk at the age of 50, can you make it?" Although the age of 20 to 60 is in the service period, but in recent years, the national power has become stronger, the population has increased sharply, and the source of soldiers is much more abundant than that of the Zhenguan period. Generally not within the scope of enlistment, it can be regarded as an honorable discharge.But 50 years old... is a problem. He is not young. It is necessary to have enough money, food and settling expenses, but after all, he is not as strong as a young man.

"Don't worry! My little brother," Cheng Chu got up and showed off his violent beauty, "it's rare. I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and I haven't lost a single day. I haven't been afraid of anyone one-on-one. But last time In the military performance, the two 50-year-old old men came up together and easily handed the knife to the younger brother's neck. In this battle, bravery is one aspect, and experience is the key. They are veterans who have experienced many battles. After ten years, who doesn't have dozens of lives under their hands?"

"At this age, I can't live in peace. Is there anyone who is willing to go there and suffer?" If I fight here and there for decades, I will have a chance to live a stable life without leaving the house.

"Yes, not a lot." Cheng Chu cracked his lips and smiled, "People like my younger brother can't live a stable life. After decades in the battlefield, some plan to be safe, but some people can't see it. My younger brother is a little scattered After getting word out, there are already more than 400 people willing to go out of the fortress. One person is paid twice for settling expenses. There is still a chance to start another family business outside the fortress, that’s enough.”

"Are you sure Cheng Yue is leading the team?" Now that Cheng Yue is the chief polo coach of Chang'an, he unexpectedly volunteered to lead the team, and even several big-name players of the polo team were eager to try.

"If you can't persuade him, let him go. It's a pity that the team can't find a more suitable replacement than him." Cheng Chu was a little disappointed, after all, the backbone left.Cheng Jiadi's team record could no longer be guaranteed, and the ranking was in danger of falling.

But it’s a good thing for me. The team members are old players who I have trained. After the past, the Wang family will do their best to take care of them.From the beginning of personnel selection to the cooperative reclamation over there, the three companies advance and retreat together.

Not only me, but all the people who go out of the fortress are worrying about labor, recruiting on the right.But the number of people that can be recruited there is limited after all. There are only a few hundred people in an area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers. It is a little scary to think about it. Cheng Chu's description of how bloodthirsty the retired veteran is, it's worrying.

Cui Zhang twitched his handsome eyebrows who had already recovered, and bowed his hands in a long circle. "All uncles and uncles come to my humble house..."

A dozen or so major big families in the outpost sent representatives to attend the meeting of the Great Alliance of Mutual Aid and Friendship held by the Cui family.Everyone was used to calling the wind and calling the rain in the capital, but suddenly found that once they went out of the fortress, they would become alone and lonely, which was unacceptable.Cui Zhang is very envious of Cheng, Qin, and Wang's small alliance. For a hundred years, the Cui family has already mastered the art of maneuvering, not only successfully joined the joint circle of Wang, Cheng, and Qin to become a four-party group, It is to invite all the families from the enclave outside the Great Wall to discuss the issue of mutual assistance.They are all prominent figures in Beijing and know the key points.That is, those who have enmity with each other abandon their previous suspicions and sit together with their enemies.

"Haha. Sit down, sit down! Where are uncles and uncles? Today, you are here in the name of your family, so you will be exempted from seniority." Xu Jingzong cupped his hands in a circle, his appearance was a bit wretched, but he still smiled. have affinity.He bowed slightly to the old men on the opposite side, "The old men have also come here in person, the matter of breaking their heads in the hall, I will be treated badly by you, haha..."

"Don't mention it," the other party waved his hand kindly, "One size counts for one size, let's discuss the matter."

"Back and forth, this is all about Beijing. My brothers fight, and they are all family when they go out. There are many beards in the north, and I am an old man who hangs out with everyone. This is a group, and we all go out to plan. Shall I kill the beard?" An old man smoothed things over with a smile, his gray beard was trembling, his words were sloppy, but his eyes were refined.

"The old man started pretending to be crazy again. No matter how old he is, the juniors are not afraid of being embarrassed in front of them." An old man next to him couldn't see his appearance clearly from the side. "Kill, kill everywhere, how good it is after killing? Who will plant the land for us if we don't leave a few?"

"I still don't like it. It's full of people. There are people in Tubo and Korea. Lao Cheng beheaded 10,000+ and didn't kill the Turks. It's a lack of labor. It's a joke!" This is obviously a slave trader. The concept of population resources, things with two legs can make his family feel like a coolie. "There is also Baekje, and Silla's Gwangju land is not successful, and the males have been trafficked in the past. Wa country, especially Wa country, has been reinforcing Baekje for several years. It seems that the people are also Not less."

What are these things? Meetings to help each other, everyone to sign a common defense regulation or something. Before the topic is discussed, we first consider whether there is enough labor, and start thinking about the population of neighboring countries.As soon as the old slave trader's words fell, it immediately resonated with the dozen or so bigwigs present, and the topic went around again and again, and several of them had already begun to discuss the feasibility of armed slave trafficking.

Cui Zhang sat down with me and Cheng Chu helplessly. The three of us were lower in seniority, and it was impolite for the elders to intervene, so we had to discuss privately.

"Wait a minute, let the old man enjoy himself first." Cui Zhang persuaded Cheng Chu not to worry, and at the same time ordered his servants to distribute the draft mutual defense agreement to everyone, "But..." winked at me.He said with a smirk: "Based on this, maybe it's more cost-effective to traffic some labor there than to open up wasteland and plant cotton."

"You are immoral." With a disdainful look at Xiao Cui, he slapped Cheng Chu who was about to fight, "You are not allowed to interrupt, we will withdraw after they read the draft and sign it."

The signing of the draft was very hasty, everyone glanced at it hastily, since it was in their own interests, there was no need to exclude themselves from the mutual aid organization, and then the veterans of the march began to calculate the selling route.The domestic affairs expert estimated the feasibility of all the plans, Cui Zhangqiang sat with him with a smile on his face, and I sneaked out with a reluctant Cheng Chu.As a civilized person, I am sympathetic to the ancients, so I do not obstruct people from talking about some barbaric topics of historical regression, in line with the three no principles of not encouraging, not suppressing, and not participating.Stay away.

"Don't encourage, don't suppress, don't participate." Lan Ling smiled, clasped his palms together and gave a startling 'crack', "Me too."

"What do you mean?"

"They're all families in the front line. There's no need to suppress them. Why bother to offend these elders and children for the small country of Fanbangchuer?" He chuckled a few times. Rude, but they are all shrewd in their hearts. None of these leaders are fuel-efficient." I read the mutual aid agreement handed over to me, "It is not allowed in the customs, but it is different when you go out of the country. Don't you always say that you are a Chinese? The interests of the people are the first, is this the truth?"

"Didn't private slaves not be allowed during the Zhenguan period?" Looking at Lanling, oh no, it seems that the imperial court intentionally did not interfere, or acquiesced.

"We haven't defeated the Western Turks during the Zhenguan period." Lanling murmured, holding his chin, "If everyone thinks about it. If you don't participate..."

"Not participating is not participating!" I want to maintain principles, I am a civilized person.

What's annoying is that I'm the only civilized person, but there are two savage wives.Of course, Ying didn't know the charter of the United Nations, let alone the Civil War on the opposite continent. It seems that I need to add a new subject to ancient history and modern history-the history of descendants.

"How to say?" A group of women chirped and tried to do no good, and they ran back to do something bad after gossiping with some other family's family members.

"Buying labor." Ying raised her hand and waved. "Wrong, it's hiring labor."

"Who hired it? You went to Cui's house again?" He frowned.Cui Zhang held a meeting, and Mrs. Cui Zhang also learned to hold a meeting. It has been a few days.

"All four of our families have gone," Ying said strongly in favor of Cui, Cheng, Qin, and Wang's four-party meetings from time to time, and the wives even sat together to exchange bad ideas when they had nothing to do. "There have been years of war in the east, and the people have suffered unspeakably..."

"Is it related to our family?"

"Yes, isn't it my husband's plan back then?" When Ying mentioned this, she immediately looked at her with reverent eyes, "There are constant wars and chaos, and the people are in dire straits, so they keep fleeing towards Korea."

"Anton Governor's Mansion, Goryeo is gone. Find out the status first!"

"That's right," Ying smiled and pushed me, "Whatever it is, anyway, the refugees came running over one after another, and General Liang killed the rioters one after another..."

"Two concepts, what is being suppressed is rebellious people, what does it have to do with refugees?" Ying's words can cause international disputes, human rights issues and so on after 500 years.

"What my husband said, I can't tell the identity of the concubine. Do you still expect General Liang to be able to tell the difference?"

"That's true." Liang Jianfang's hell-like appearance emerged in his mind. This old guy even beat me, a obedient citizen, let alone other civilians. He was very scared. "so?"

"That's why we put up notices in the past and recruited some strong men. Instead of being in disorder and refugees in that bitter cold place, we should honestly follow our family to Longyou and become obedient citizens. Do you think this is the reason?" Yingshun said He took off the abacus, "If you say, our four families share a total of 5000 people, and after a year, we will run out of food..."

"Assessment? Who said you want to apportion it?" These days, he has been very busy with agricultural studies. Since he has made an alliance with the four families and they are all trustworthy people, he entrusted the preparation work of Longyou to Ying. Who knows that everyone has already Started apportioning the young men, the progress is a bit fast...

"It's all been discussed. Didn't you gentlemen have discussed it in the past? This time, Qu and Liang took the lead. For the sake of the homeless refugees, a special memorial was prepared." Ying said the memorial, as if it was her own hands The submission was average, "According to the migration of ten times the number of people going out of the fortress this time, I heard that the Korean nobles who surrendered in the capital also intend to go out of the fortress with them."

Poor big immigrant, Gao Zang couldn't hold back in Chang'an, and wanted to take advantage of this momentum to go out and get some air.Speaking of migrating refugees, according to the bastards in Beijing, they are treated as slaves. The wages are probably unlikely. When there are not many people, they can guarantee food rations. , There is also the possibility of starving to death and freezing to death.

That’s right, Liaodong is already cold, and those refugees are probably able to adapt to life in the northwest, at least they are more resistant to the cold than the people in the Guan, which can be regarded as a temporary solution to the labor problem, but the method is a bit despicable, and I have to adapt.