wild trail

Chapter 366 Branding
Revisiting the old place made Wang Lang feel a lot of emotion. This simple small cave sheltered the helpless self at the beginning. If he hadn't found this shelter at the beginning, he estimated that he might have died in the wild.

Wang Lang raised this place to the level of a holy place. As Dingbei City is close to the holy place, it is conceivable that the future status in Xia Kingdom will be absolutely extraordinary.

The officials of Dingbei City are full of pride and sense of mission at this moment.

Leaving this small cave, Wang Lang led his people to review the past along the road they had walked. The small salt mine on the river beach has now been used and has become the main source of salt for the nearby people.

After a busy day, it was not until evening that Wang Lang and the others returned to Dingbei City.

In the next few days, Wang Lang, who was rarely at leisure, spent most of his time playing around with his family. During this period, Wang Lang also visited the local school and met with only a dozen students here.

Since the selection examination a few years ago, the imperial examination, which was originally scheduled to be held every three years, has also been delayed due to the threat of the enemy. Wang Lang feels that it is time to hold the imperial examination again. With the increase in population, the number of low-level officials has decreased. Not enough anymore.

When Wang Lang took his family to play in the north, at this time in Yancheng, those dinosaur captives were ushering in their miserable lives.

The Ministry of Rites allowed Fang Shaoshi to choose three females from these captives, and as a special case, he was also allowed to choose a entourage of the dinosaur man. Naturally, Fang Wanglong, who was very good at observing words and expressions, was selected.

At this moment, with the courage of a human soldier, Fang Shaoshi stood majestically in front of the captives with a domineering Fang Wanglong and lectured them.

"You dirty bastards, your good days are coming to an end from today onwards, you must start working from now on, Daxia has no extra food to feed you idlers, listen carefully, if you don't want to die, just be honest Be obedient, see those protruding wooden stakes on the city wall, if you dare to make trouble, you will be hanged there."

After Fang Shaoshi finished speaking, all the prisoners looked at the high wall, and their bodies trembled subconsciously.

At this moment, Fang Wanglong shouted, "Do you understand, listen to the human officer and answer louder."

"Humph!"

These captives looked at this domineering guy with disdain in their eyes. Anyone who fell to this level would not be in a good mood, and naturally they would not give him any good looks.

"I think you all owe a fight!"

Seeing these fellows disrespecting him so much, Fang Wanglong became annoyed and raised his whip to whip them at them.

It was Fang Shaoshi who stopped it and said, "Back off!"

Hearing this, Fang Wanglong quickly put down the raised whip.

"Don't think I'm joking. The human chief said that if you perform well and get recommended by humans, you may regain your freedom. I hope you will perform well. Now you will be divided into groups. If one person makes trouble in the same group, they will be killed. One thing you have to remember, I hope you supervise each other, and don't lose your name just because of others." Fang Shaoshi said loudly.

The captives were shocked when they heard the words, the human's move was too vicious, so no one could trust the companions around them.

When the prisoners were panicking, Fang Shaoshi turned around and respectfully said to an official behind him: "Sir, I have finished explaining, can we group up now?"

Zhao Langzhong on the side translated the words again.

The official nodded, indicating that it was time to start.

Fang Shaoshi understood and yelled at these prisoners: "Now every group of ten people will have a mark on each prisoner. This is your number. If you deliberately destroy the number, you will be executed as a riot."

While the dinosaurs were wondering, they saw human soldiers walking over carrying a cylindrical thing made of iron sheets. These human soldiers lit the coals inside and put soldering irons of various shapes into it.

The captives immediately understood what they were going to do, and kept backing away in fright.

Seeing the signs of a riot by the dinosaurs, the armor of the human soldiers surrounding the prisoner camp clattered, and all their bed crossbows and arrows were aimed at these prisoners. As long as they dared to move recklessly, they would be shot and killed mercilessly.

Seeing this, Fang Shaoshi hurriedly shouted: "If you don't want to die now, endure the pain and burn this mark on your body."

The prisoners looked at those gleaming weapons, and their hearts sank, knowing that as long as they resisted, they would soon become corpses.

Seeing that the commotion of the captives subsided, the soldiers put down their bows and arrows one after another.

The flames in the tin furnace burned hotter and hotter, and soon those soldering irons of various shapes were burned red.

"let's start!"

The official in charge of the matter said.

More than a dozen soldiers in armor came out in a row, standing in a row, without any expression on their faces.

In order to alleviate the suffering of the dinosaurs, the Ministry of Industry specifically asked the craftsmen to make the soldering iron very small. Since there are more than 2 captives, these captives will be distributed to various places in Xia Kingdom for the convenience of identification and management. Each group consists of ten people. People can be divided into about 100 rents, and each city can be divided into more than 001 prisoners. The number of these prisoners is composed of the name of the city plus three numbers. For example, the prisoners in Yancheng are Yan 002 and Yan [-]. , and so on, each person's number can be said to be unique.

Each prisoner had to endure four times of pain. Those prisoners who hadn't yet had their turn heard the screams of their companions and were so frightened that their bodies were already fighting like chaff, but there were threats of human soldiers beside them. He didn't dare to resist at all. Compared with the pain and death, Renren might pass.

Since these captives are of special use to Wang Lang, the undead specifically explained that it is best to place the branding in an inconspicuous position, and the position chosen by these soldiers is the outside of their thighs.

As long as you wear pants in this place, it is generally difficult to find these brandings.

These captives who had experienced pain were limped and taken down by the doctor who was waiting on the side. After a simple disinfection and bandaging, the soldiers grouped them according to their numbers.

The grouping work lasted for a week, and after a week of recuperation, the first group of people were gradually moved out of the camp, escorted by dozens of soldiers to their service locations.

As for the small leaders among the captives before, because of Fang Shaoshi's care, although they were not exempted from the punishment of ironing, they were also given some rights among these captives to be responsible for managing the local captives. Compared with ordinary captives, these People will have more freedom.

In half a month, a large number of captives were distributed, and they did not need captives to do farming. These tall races had a rare labor force, and mines and construction sites were good places for them.

There were only [-] captives left in Yancheng, and these captives were assigned to work in the nearby iron mines. From this day on, the captives had a new name, "reform-through-labour prisoners!"

After dealing with the affairs of these captives, Fang Shaoshi can be said to be very relaxed. He only needs to manage the captives in Yancheng well. With the help of Fang Wanglong, a diligent dog leg, his daily job is to work in the iron mine. By the side, drinking cool and delicious fruit juice leisurely, watching those fellow clansman bend over and transport baskets of ore into the hanging basket, this kind of life is not too pleasant.

As the veterans gradually return to their hometowns, these veterans are people with rich families, and their return soon drives the growth of the local economy. Among these commodities, cloth and wine are the most popular among them.

Although most of the soldiers are full of joy when they meet their long-separated wives and children, but anything can happen when the forest grows up, and some unpleasant things happened in many cities.

Soldiers who have been away from home for many years, after returning home, find that they are already happy to be fathers. This kind of sudden incident immediately increased a lot of fatal cases, but according to the laws of Daxia, after investigation, these soldiers were arrested The criminals were released, and the men who had broken the relationship of the soldiers' families while serving in the soldiers were arrested.

In order to appease the anger of these soldiers and their comrades-in-arms, the local government confiscated all the property of these captured prisoners.

Soldiers are risking their lives to serve the country in the army. If the emotions of these soldiers cannot be properly handled, then these officials also know that this will greatly affect their political performance.

Such a severe punishment eased the emotions of those angry soldiers a lot.

Of course, these things are just a few episodes, and they don't have much impact on the overall national conditions of the Xia Kingdom. The main role of the soldiers' return is to greatly increase the area of ​​cultivated land. Those barren lands, with these With the addition of young and strong laborers, it slowly regained its vitality.

During the Xia Kingdom War, the implementation of the collective farm system also came to an end, and the land belonging to the common people returned to their own hands. The execution power of the official uniform, which can be said and done, has greatly increased the trust of the common people in the government.

Officials are not as high as gods, especially those agricultural officials of the household department, who are most popular with farmers. These officials not only guide the people to cultivate, but more importantly, through these low-level officials, the people can understand, What kind of food is planted can be sold at a good price after harvest.

The north returns to Yusan Village.

Since the dinosaurs retreated, the nearby villagers have returned to their homes one after another.

Those villages that were massacred by the dinosaurs gradually regained their vitality with the arrival of the newly migrated people.

Due to Chen Bai's performance in the past few years, these villages without village chiefs were temporarily handed over to Chen Bai to take charge of them.

Today, Chen Bai is in charge of nearly 500 people in three villages. After the return of the soldiers, the village has returned to its former prosperity.

Since coming to this village, Chen Bai has been working conscientiously for nearly five years. According to the system, it is time for a low-level official like him to judge his performance in five years. He is sure that he has made no mistakes, even if he His performance is not the best, but it is certainly not the worst, which not only makes him look forward to his future appointment.

In five years, the once childish young man has become a man with sharp edges and corners. Now Chen Bai also married a local woman here. His wife is a Caucasian woman. The two gave birth to a healthy son.

Chen Bai sat in the courtyard, looking at the books bought from Gui Yucheng, enjoying the warm sunshine.

Chen Bai's wife is busy taking care of a few wild boars in the animal pen. As long as these young wild boars grow up, they can be sold at a good price in the market in the county town.

Putting down the book, Chen Bai looked at his wife's busy figure, and felt very satisfied in his heart. Although his wife was just an ordinary woman with a simple mind, she was extremely neat when doing the work, much better than a clumsy, rough man like him. .

"Father, father, what do you think this is?" A little boy with brown hair grabbed a small snake and shook it at Chen Bai.

Seeing this, Chen Bai was startled, jumped up from the stool, knocked the little snake off the little boy's hand, and trampled it to death with his feet.

Seeing that Chen Bai had trampled his toys to pieces, the little boy burst into tears with a "wow".

Chen Bai was furious at the moment, and shouted: "Hold it back, if you cry again, you won't be allowed to eat today."

The little boy looked at his mother aggrievedly, and saw that his mother didn't pay attention to him at all, tears were rolling in his eyes, and he really didn't dare to stay.

Chen Bai picked up those palm-sized small snakes and said to his son, "This thing is poisonous, stay away from it in the future, if you get bitten, you will die."

I don't know that the little boy didn't understand Chen Bai's words. At this moment, he just lowered his head and didn't dare to look into Chen Bai's eyes. He shrugged his shoulders slightly and sobbed softly.

Chen Bai was about to teach his naughty son a lesson, when a "dada" sound suddenly came from outside the village.

Looking towards the entrance of the village in surprise, I saw a sentinel running towards this side quickly.

"Village Chief! Village Chief!"

Chen Bai hurried out and said, "What's going on!"

"Village chief, someone is coming from Fucheng!" The sentinel reported.

"Someone from Fucheng!" Chen Bai frowned slightly: "I understand, you go down, I will come later."

"Yes!"

The sentinel left in a hurry.

Chen Bai's wife nervously put down her work, pulled her child aside, and looked at Chen Bai worriedly.

"Take care of your child at home, and I'll go and see what's going on."

After finishing speaking, he returned to the house, hurriedly changed into his official uniform, and walked towards the entrance of the village.

Through the wooden door at the entrance of the village, Chen Bai saw that there were indeed several official servants in official uniforms outside the door.

Opening the wooden door, Chen Bai cupped his hands and said, "I don't know what to call you, what's the matter here."

"You are Chen Bai." An official said.

"It's Chen Bai!" Chen Bai said in a deep voice.

"The imperial court has an order, and Chen Bai, the head of Guiyu San Village, will accept the order!" the official said loudly.

Chen Bai was startled when he heard the words, he straightened his clothes quickly, bowed his body to listen to the order.

"Chen Bai, the village head of Guiyusan Village, performed well during his tenure. After discussion, his political achievements were rated as above-average. The five-year term of office has expired. Now, Yusan Village is renamed as Yunan Town, and Chen Bai is appointed as the town. Chief, rank six, in charge of the four villages, six villages, and eight villages of Guiyu."

After the official appointment was finished, Chen Bai was overwhelmed with surprise, and secretly said: "Is this the promotion?"

"Chen Bai accepts the order!"

"Chen Bai accepts the order!"

After receiving the document respectfully and putting it away, he said to several officials: "You guys have come from afar, why don't you go to the village to have a rest, and leave after you have a full stomach."

The officer shook his head and said, "No need, thank you, Mayor Chen, for your kindness. We still have to go to other villages." Handing the pamphlet to Chen Bai, he said, "Mayor Chen, this is the request from above for you to return to Yunan Town. You can read it yourself! We will leave now."

Chen Bai took the pamphlet, saw off several officials, turned around and startled him, only to see these villagers gathered together and staring at him.

(End of this chapter)