Chapter 161 Episode
On the ninth day of March, the first group of one hundred sword army warriors arrived in Liang County.
They are lucky, because they already have a ready-made song - released by the local powerful in Liang County.
Chang Can stood on the ridge of the field and saw his tribe for the first time: a native of Sanhuliang County, who was forced to seek refuge with the local powerful Li Li because of a disaster.
A step is a step, a slave is a slave, and they are different.
Bu Qu is between free people and slaves. They can marry a good man as a wife and keep their own property. Apart from personal dependence, there is no difference between them and free people.
Chang Can silently looked at the three households with a total of sixteen men and women: four men, five women, and seven children.
Among the four young men, only one is in his prime, and the other three are quite young, at least in their forties.
Why does this happen? It's nothing more than fighting.
If war breaks out again in Luoyang, these four men may have to go into battle. It is hard to say whether they can come back.
There is nothing much to say about the woman. Under the sun and rain, she is far inferior to the young ladies Chang Can saw in Chang'an - Chang Can had just gotten married, and his wife's family was a businessman in Chang'an City. The whole family was killed, only She is the only one left.
Children are generally young. The oldest boy may not be ten years old. They all looked at him timidly and subconsciously wanted to hide behind the adults.
Chang Can was thinking about what he should say and what kind of greeting he should give when meeting his Buqu for the first time.
After holding it in for a long time, he just said: "My surname is Chang, and you will be part of my family from now on. It's the family at the east end of the village, very easy to recognize."
Finished After thinking for a while, he imitated Shao Xun's tone and said seriously: "It's good to do things for a living, don't cheat and cheat."
"Yes..." everyone responded sparsely.
Chang Can was slightly annoyed and said: "I'm not a harsh master, what should I be afraid of?"
After saying that, he walked to the horse and took out a bag from the saddle bag. A piece of hard biscuit was broken into several pieces and stuffed into the hands of several children one by one. He said in a rough voice: "Take it, I'll reward you."
The children swallowed dryly. , some people took it with a "swish", and some people looked at the adults and saw that there was no objection, then took it.
Chang Can laughed and took two steps closer to touch a child's head.
However, he was an old thief and an outlaw, and the clanking weapons on his body were quite scary. When the child saw it, he burst into tears and ran away wiping his tears.
Chang Can’s forced smile froze.
After a while, he waved his hands in disappointment and said: "Let's all disperse."
"Yes." The tribes immediately dispersed.
The breeze blew, and Chang Can squatted down with some disappointment.
In his expectation - or fantasy - Bu Qu should be the kind of brave man who farmed the land in his spare time, went into battle during the war, and shouted for fierce battle.
Now it seems that there seems to be a bit of a gap.
Stupid and stupid, not good at words, timid and afraid of getting into trouble. With such a mission, do you still expect them to accompany you on the expedition? Most of them can only do chores such as washing and washing horses, making fires and cooking. Or they may be gathered together by the superiors to repair the fortress.
Forget it, it would be nice to be able to do a good job as an auxiliary soldier. Why do you want to do so much?
After returning home, my wife was tending to the vegetable garden.
Chang Can looked at her clumsy look and sighed secretly.
The women in the city are good-looking, but when it comes to work - well, it's really hard to describe.
But he doesn’t regret it, as long as it looks good.
Sergeants have always been looked down upon by others, and it was impossible for them to marry a woman from Chang'an City.
The last time I heard an eunuch from Pan Yuan mention the incident of "taking away ladies and gentlemen" during the Cao Wei period (the third year of Qinglong 235), he felt very sad.
Girls from Binghu families were unwilling to marry Binghu families, which resulted in soldiers being unable to marry wives, which affected their morale. Therefore, the court investigated and arrested married women from Binghu families and forced them to remarry.
This kind of thing also happened during the reign of the first emperor of this dynasty (Sima Yan), and the scale far exceeded that of the Cao Wei period.
Both incidents were "positive events" that boosted morale for the soldiers, but Chang Can became very angry after hearing this.
Why can't a soldier who dares to fight and fight get a wife?
Why can they only marry women from military households?
I want to marry a woman from Chang'an City, even if she doesn't know how to do farm work, I'm happy!
There were some vegetables such as Chinese cabbage and leeks planted in the vegetable patch. Seeing his wife's clumsy appearance, Chang Can grabbed the wooden spoon, scooped out water to water the vegetables, and said, "Let's cook."
My wife responded, her face a little red.
Chang Can happily watered the vegetables and thought about his future life.
His wife had given birth to a child before, so he could have a child with him, and it would probably not be difficult to give birth, which made him feel relieved.
This small courtyard was left by the steward of a farm belonging to the powerful Li Li family in the county. It is not bad. Pooh! What's in charge? It’s just a slave born into the family.
In terms of status, he is not as good as a military household, but he has five people and six people, and he even has a maid from the Li family as his wife. But their children are destined to remain slaves.
Fu soldiers are different. They are exempted from corvee service and only perform military service. They are completely good family members - no, the good family members in the Han Dynasty are not as good as them.
I heard from Governor Chen that General Shao also has other benefits for the soldiers, such as getting an official position through meritorious service - this is getting an official position, and it does not need to depend on family background, as long as you kill the enemy and perform meritorious service, there is still such a thing in the world Good thing?
Unfortunately, the general has no way to make the decision now and asks the court to reorganize the system. Nothing can be done under the slightest words.
Fuck it! Chang Can threw the wooden spoon into the bucket and thought silently, if one day, General Shao enters Luoyang to govern, will their good days come?
Even, go one step further?
All officials and palaces are ready-made! I heard that the queen had given birth, so General Shao didn't need to marry a wife, because even the queen was ready-made and could still give birth.
If there were such a good life, I would be willing to risk my life and fight.
A fire was lit in the kitchen, and my wife was already cooking corn porridge. After Chang Can finished watering the vegetables, he took the horse to the small river outside the door and washed it himself.
The horse rubbed him affectionately.
Chang Can, the murderous man, laughed heartily. He had just returned from Guangchengze, where there were still 300 brothers and a group of working men herding horses all day long.
It was also at that time that Chang Can saw the grand scene of thousands of horses galloping for the first time.
Guangchengze is a good place, with good mountains, water and scenery. If it can be used for farming, it will definitely be able to harvest a lot of food.
There was a sound of horse hooves on the other side of the river.
A dozen knights greeted Chang Can from a distance and looked up at the Chang family courtyard to see if his bride had appeared in the courtyard.
Chang Can laughed and cursed a few words, then proudly puffed up his chest.
The women of Chang'an are indeed beautiful, well, just work harder. In addition to practicing martial arts, you can also help with some farm work. Isn't this how you live your life?
After bringing A Niang back from Yushanwu and having a few more children with the bride, life will be more secure.
Be sure to have more boys!
In the future, choose the most outstanding one and teach him all your killing skills. When he grows up, he can go on an expedition with the general. Perhaps he has established meritorious deeds and has his own family business.
The Chang family also wants to spread its branches. Maybe it will become a big family in a hundred years?
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The wind starts at the end of Qingping.
Some things may seem ordinary at first, but not everyone can see the mystery behind them.
As for Li Li, a strong man in Liang County, he only saw a corrupt and cruel military leader who led a group of desperadoes to snatch his land - although he also snatched these lands from others.
Then, the army leader distributed the captured land to the soldiers and invited them to buy military morale!
On the surface it seems to be correct, it seems to be like this, and there is even a song for the first batch of one hundred and ten people.
One soldier and three households cultivated more than a hundred acres of land for those outlaws.
In addition, if there are livestock, they seem to help with grazing - these days, either because of insufficient development, lack of water conservancy projects, or lack of manpower, there are a lot of grassy wastelands. , is a good place for grazing, so strictly speaking, the benefits of the soldiers are not limited to the more than 100 acres of land.
“Alas!” Li Li kicked away a dead branch, feeling depressed.
He is only thirty years old. He took over the family business three years ago. His main focus is to be "brave and diligent".
He was embarrassed to take the land that others were embarrassed to take.
He dares to take the land that others dare not take.
There are several officials in the county who are brothers to him. When recruiting troops and collecting taxes, they will kill those who silently cultivate their own land. Then he will be a good person and accept the land and tribe.
Actually, many people do this. The way the world is, he doesn't think there's anything wrong. Are you going to allow your nobles to occupy the fields and not allow local powerful people like us to develop and grow? In troubled times, having more fields, more tribes, more food, and higher courtyard walls are the most reassuring things.
This official general will lie in a coffin sooner or later!
Well, I just dared to say this in my heart, because Li Li soon saw dozens of knights wearing heavy swords, crossbows and iron armor.
However, these people are not just show-offs, but real desperadoes who dare to kill people.
Don’t ask why Li Li knew this, there are too many people like this in this world.
As the knights rode past, their armor leaves rustled, and their weapons shone coldly in the sun.
If such a long and heavy sword were to be cut down, the person wearing the iron armor would be dizzy, let alone that their family could not make up ten pairs of iron armor.
These people! Li Li felt depressed. After hurriedly returning home, he thought over and over again and felt that this was something he could not change.
The best way is to contact more people to build momentum, and then send people to Luoyang to see if they can find a way to get Shao Xun away.
Or maybe it would be okay to go to Yingchuan?
In short, we can’t let Shao Xun continue to act like this.
(End of this chapter)