Chapter 342 The war is about to begin
Dennis, Branimir and Dixon were a little panicked. Bol was killed, and all eight on the opposite side surrounded them. They could only gather together and hold on.
As the leader of the Royal Mage Group of the Rhine Alliance, Becher knew the surrounding top combat forces and stepped forward to negotiate with them after the encirclement was formed.
"You only have more than a thousand gold coins a year, why are you selling your lives?" Becher stung their hearts as soon as he came up, "Duke Wesson said, tonight we will kill every one of you One, everyone has a bonus of 10,000 florins. I don’t want you to surrender yet.”
“But Duke Wesson thinks it’s not easy for everyone to get to this point, so he plans to fight with you. Talk.”
"Now the situation is very clear. It is self-evident who will win in the end. You are all loyal to the Grand Duke of Franconia. Why not protect the family of the Grand Duke of Franconia and bring money while the war has not spread to the Marienberg Fortress? Go to Mrs. Franken's natal home and take up the last post."
"Duke Wesson promises that your family and property will be protected."
War is not just about fighting and killing. Killing also speaks of human nature.
At this point, the gap in the number of top combatants is too big and there is no way to recover. Standing on the last duty can be regarded as worthy of the boss's reputation and not being damaged. It is not difficult to find another job if you lose your job based on your own ability.
Dennis and the others chose dignity, and Frederick gave them dignity.
The night was peaceful, at least on the surface.
Early the next morning, in the mountains less than a hundred kilometers away from the front line, a crowing rooster woke up the sleeping mountain village.
Built from scratch by more than 300 disaster victims, the red mud Basongmu Village has grown to more than 1,000 people after ten years of development. The original wooden houses have turned into two or three-story red brick buildings. The hillside beside the village It is covered with tea trees, and red-feathered summer ducks swim in the ponds dug at the foot of the mountain. The open space between the pond and the chicken farm has been reclaimed and planted with pumpkins. In the distance is a steaming wood processing factory. and Red Pine Food Factory.
Huo Zhenplozi rode the Ami donkey he had cared for for ten years as he walked slowly out of the village and headed to the food factory to start his day's work.
Unlike before, he brought a large navy blue backpack this morning.
On the road, children walking in twos and threes carrying small schoolbags boarded the steam train at the village head station, preparing to go to school in Langnar City.
Two years ago, the former village chief Thomas planned to build a primary school near the village so that the children would not have to travel so far, but it was immediately rejected by the village council. Everyone thought that the children should go to the city to meet them. The world is better than living in a ravine all your life.
Thomas followed the good example and finally found a classmate from the railway department and arranged a special train to pick up the children in the village.
It is said to be a special train, but in fact it is a flatbed truck transporting pine wood surrounded by wooden boards. Everyone sits on the floor on the train, and when it rains, it is covered with canvas.
As Huo Zhenplozi approached the station, he thought to himself that his eldest daughter will go to school next year and it will be very tiring running around. He should either buy an apartment in the city or rent a house from the old village chief.
Now Thomas is the deputy mayor of Langner City. His wife is the daughter of a wealthy businessman in the city. She owns half of the houses on one street in the city.
There is a row of newly built houses next to the square in front of the station. It belongs to the commercial district of the village. On the 10th of every month, many vendors will set up stalls. Only two restaurants are open so early.
Huo Zhenplozi used to buy several steaming cheese-filled steam breads every day, and when he arrived at the food factory, he asked the janitor on night shift last night to share them.
Today he bought a few more and packed them separately. He put the backpack in his office and took the bags to the accounting office next door. At this time, the accounting girl had just finished her work all night and was checking whether there were any mistake.
The accountant girl knew that her boss had the habit of giving breakfast to the workers who worked the overnight shift. She was not doing anything against her. She was already hungry after a busy night, so she ate the steamed buns with bitter tea without saying a word.
Huo Zhenplozi looked at the workers' salary list and corporate transfer form last month. The salary was about the same as last month. There was no problem with the loan to be repaid, so he signed it on the spot.
The accountant girl had finished eating the buns at this time and asked curiously: "Boss, why do you have to make the watch so early this month?"
Huo Zhenplozi replied: "We're getting ready for a big war. I'll go to the battlefield as soon as the war starts. If no one signs by then, you won't be able to get your wages. I'm afraid you'll be so hungry that you go to the duck farm to steal my ducks." Just after he finished speaking, a message came from outside the office. There was a quacking of ducks.
Huo Zhenplozi asked the accounting girl to go home and rest, and took the two lists back to his office and put them away.
Hanging in this office is a portrait of Duke Wesson receiving the four members of the Hozenplots family. It has Duke Wesson's autograph on it. Not many civilians in Wesson State have this kind of treatment.
There is a copy of Wesson Daily in a glass frame on the wall. The front page of this newspaper is "Bad lords turn good people into demons, and good lords turn devils into good people." Huo Zhen Plotz set the date in the newspaper as his birthday.
Several carriages brought the summer ducks to be processed today. This kind of duck with red feathers comes from the cold and dark land of the north. It originally migrated to the north in the summer and was later domesticated. It was introduced to Wei in the past few years. Senzhou.
There is a tradition of selling bacon here. A few years ago, Huo Zhenplozi and Thomas set up this food factory together. Today, the biggest source of profit of Hongsong Food Factory is the sale of duck down and duck feathers. , they also sell smoked duck meat and braised duck offal, and when the season comes, they make fried pine nuts.
A few years ago, Huo Zhenplozi heard that the red land was suitable for growing tea trees, so he asked a businessman to buy a batch of tea saplings. Who would have thought that the tea grown in the tea leaves would be so bitter that one would shiver, but it would be very refreshing. .
He and his wife drank a large glass of wine and stayed awake all night. Ten months later, their youngest son was born.
Nowadays, food factories add the extract of tea leaves soaked in high-purity alcohol to agar to make "spiritual pills". Take two pills to keep you from drowsiness overnight.
Extracted tea powder and pine wood chips from the lumber factory are used to smoke duck meat, which gives the duck meat a unique aroma. It is more expensive than other smoked ducks and is still in short supply.
Huo Zhenplozi called the factory managers and walked around the factory, settled some matters such as purchasing consumables, and then seriously told them: "Next, I may leave for a while. Time, you can discuss and deal with anything in the factory. If you can’t make up your mind, go to the village chief. If you can’t solve it, go to the old village chief.”
The technician in charge of tea extraction asked curiously: “Boss,” Is the Duke finally going to take you away and put you in jail?”
Huozhenplozi said to him viciously: "If I'm captured, I'll spray you in the face with a pepper gun first!"
"I heard that the front line is already preparing to take action. Don't sleep too much at night." Death, maybe the big one is coming."
"The Duke will definitely summon the militia, and I will definitely go."
The expressions of the administrators around him suddenly became serious. , my boss is a congressman, and he has contacts with officials, so he must have heard some rumors.
The technician just stopped joking and asked, "Have you told the boss lady about this?"
Huo Zhenplozi said to him: "She is the village chief now, so she will naturally know that she will have to ring the bell when the notice comes."
He explained the factory affairs again, but in fact it was not too much. There are many problems to deal with. First, ensure the orders of a few big customers, and sell the excess to vendors in the village. This has been the case over the years.
Half an hour before getting off work at noon, a rapid but rhythmic bell suddenly rang in the village.
Huo Zhenplozi was checking the duck feathers he had just plucked. Without saying a word, he ran to the office, took out a navy blue uniform from his backpack and put it on. He put on his backpack and hurried to the station. go.
The whole village suddenly became excited. Many people from the lumber mill and pine forest rushed to the village. They quickly changed into navy blue uniforms and ran to the station carrying backpacks full of luggage.
Hozhenpouloz was already ready in the square in front of the station. He took the list and ticked the corresponding name of each person who came.
(End of this chapter)