Chapter 2124 Shining into the Ming Dynasty
Wen Rensheng stepped up his work while watching the battle in the north.
He needs more silver, more territory, and more manpower.
The official position of Bingbeidao is enough.
When the Zheng family dominated the East, they were just a guerrilla general at the beginning.
The value of this guerrilla general in the south is far less than that of military preparation.
Wen Rensheng continues to increase supply sources and sales customers.
At the same time, we vigorously opened various factories to attract refugees.
In short, these things require people, so just try your best to recruit people.
Anyway, as long as he keeps an eye on the food and ensures that there is enough food for the people in the system, he will have two years of reserves.
The best exchange for buying his goods is not silver, but rice and other long-lasting food.
For this, the red-haired man was both happy and depressed.
I am happy that I finally don’t have to spend money to buy goods from the Ming Dynasty. I am depressed that grain is not a high-value maritime commodity and often plays the role of ballast.
Fortunately, the red-haired people who started in business are extremely adaptable. Since they can't be defeated, they choose to use commercial methods:
In order to reduce costs, food cannot be transported long distances. Without access to land, they went to the conquered Japanese islands to plant rice, sweet potatoes, and corn...
Including Annan, Taiyuan Island, and near Batavia...
After the starch is harvested, it is processed into various foods that can be stored for a long time, such as extremely dry baked brick bread.
It must be soaked in water for more than 2 hours when eating...
Even if it becomes moldy, just scrape off the surface layer with a knife. This is also one of the main foods during navigation.
The famous baguette is a real stick in this era, the kind that can really kill people.
At this moment, Xiao Huan, who had not shown up for a long time, appeared again.
"Dad, what are you doing? There has been no sound for so long?" She looked around, as if she was standing on Wen Rensheng, and she was very frightened.
“Play a game with a being.” Wen Rensheng said.
As long as you look at it openly, everything is a game. The difference is just different emotions and whether there are numerical values. "
"Take me one, and I will bring Old Wei to play with you. "Xiao Huan blinked his big eyes and said.
"Uh, can you come in?" Wen Rensheng looked around.
This world is a purely historical world.
"Yes, as long as it's not too close to modern times, I can play casually." Xiao Huan said proudly.
Wen Rensheng smiled slightly and had an idea.
“That’s good.”
When the powerful and powerful people at the top compete with each other, the sun also shines into the bottom.
At the same time.
In the land of Gyeonggi, a dilapidated village.
We were just robbed by a group of Jurchen sentries.
This group of sentry riders has the task of robbing young people and treasures.
If you encounter an enemy situation in the brigade, you will naturally leave Qingzhuang behind and return to the brigade.
Bodies were everywhere, bloody.
A teenage boy was struggling to pick up the broken body.
One after another, corpses with vivid memories, he threw into the well near his home.
Because he really didn't have the ability to dig a hole. It was too difficult for the young man to dig a big hole.
He walked numbly, mechanically dragging family members and familiar people into the well one after another and pushing them down.
If outsiders saw it, they would definitely feel extremely miserable and sympathize with it.
However, among the corpses everywhere, these people who could still be buried hastily were much happier.
At least, they will not be eaten by wild dogs, crows...
At least there is a place to stay.
When the body was finally dragged away, the entire well was almost full.
He looked at the other corpses and shook his head. Then he found a stone slab and just wanted to cover the well. After resting for a while, he took a shovel and barely filled the well with soil.
Then the stone slab was covered.
After closing the lid, he leaned against the wellhead full of corpses in a daze.
If the well hadn't been full, he would have jumped in.
Just a trace of survival instinct, a numb mentality, and a well that was not full of corpses prevented him from doing this.
Of course he didn't know that there was a huge risk in doing so, which would lead to groundwater contamination and even cause a typhoid plague.
The best way is to put the bodies together.
Then throw in the firewood and burn it together.
But this is unimaginable for a young man.
Because what he usually hears the most is to bury the corpse and burn the body, which is what the army often does.
I don’t know how long I rested.
He finally got up.
In fact, he was able to throw more than ten corpses into the well, which he would never be able to do normally.
With at most three corpses, you will be too tired to rest.
And now he has done it all.
After finishing, he felt extremely hungry in his belly.
He did not go to his own home, but ran directly to the east end of the village, where the richest family in the village lived.
Liu's family owns most of the land money in the village.
He is a distant relative of Juren.
These lands were also placed under the name of Juren through his connections.
Contrary to what most people imagine, if it is not good land, fertile land, and if it does not matter, Juren will not want your land.
It might not be troublesome enough to ask for it.
Because if you want it, you have to deal with the yamen servants.
The village has more than 800 acres of land and a population of more than 300 people. Who can eat the produce of these lands?
This is not the future, where most people are struggling on the line of life and death.
Or go out and do long-term work for others.
The young man entered Liu Da's house.
In the past, the concierge often gave him a steamed bun to eat.
The local dog at the door often wagged its tail at him.
Liu Dahu is a typical rural landowner, that is, he does not do evil but does some small kindness.
As long as the year is good, some food will be donated to the poor households in the village who are unable to take the blame.
There are still only a few big players who really do all kinds of evil.
Because in the countryside, there are mostly clans.
Too evil, no one sincerely helps when there is a wedding or wedding.
He sighed and decided to regain some strength before burying the members of Liu Dahu's family.
It seems that not many people in Liu Dahu’s family died.
The young men and women of his family were attracted by the men on horseback, and they were tied up with ropes and left.
Miss Liu, whom he used to watch secretly, was also tied to the horse and left.
Life is worse than death.
As for the other villagers, most of them were thin and could not walk very far at first glance, so they were killed.
He entered the gate and saw the old concierge with his back to the gate and collapsed at the door.
Hit a knife in the neck.
Most of his neck was cut open, and there was blood all over the floor.
He walked around carefully.
When I just arrived in the kitchen, the stove was still steaming hot.
Pancakes are baked on top.
It must be for those evil spirits on horses.
Do they also eat human food?
He picked up a piece of pancake with sesame oil and even eggs on it.
He was suddenly shocked.
In the past, he had occasionally eaten Liu Dahu's pancakes, which still had to contain grains. As for oil, it was impossible. At most, they had a little salt, and they were very delicious.
At least you don’t grind your teeth when you eat, and you don’t have to worry about breaking your teeth if you eat too fast.
Generally, it is done when long-term workers go to work in the fields.
And now there are eggs, oil, and salt.
He couldn't wait to eat it.
It seems that the previous sadness, pain, and numbness were all buried in the scent of oil and salt.
He even had a very unscrupulous thought. If he ate such pancakes every day, he could forget what happened before.
Just as I was eating, there were horseshoes coming from outside the door again. He had only heard that sound once, but he would never forget it in this life.
He was stunned. The half-eaten pancake he had just devoured suddenly lost its flavor.
The evil ghost is back!
He hurriedly looked around for a hiding place.
He was able to escape the disaster before because his father pushed him, the incense spreader, into the firewood pile at home.
And now, he once again hid in the tall pile of firewood in the kitchen.
It was made of wheat straw and cotton stalks.
This is all good firewood. If it were a poor family, they could only use weeds and fallen leaves to light the fire. Many people can even have a hot meal in two days.
He got in, then covered his body with firewood and carefully removed any traces.
This is a skill I learned when I was doing hide and seek in the past.
Don't show any signs of hiding, otherwise you will be found out immediately.
Why has hide-and-seek become a game that has been around for thousands of years on a closed land?
Because it has the most traditional use.
Escape.
Those terrible evil spirits have indeed gone and come back.
In the eyes of young people, those are the most ferocious and vicious government servants and white men in the ten miles and eight villages. When taxing Latin, they have the most ferocious faces and the most vicious words. Not as good as those evil spirits.
At least the yamen and the white men didn't just slash at him with their swords, just like he did at a grasshopper.
Those evil spirits were the scariest things he had ever seen since he was a child.
They are the demons crawling out of hell, the ghosts in the mouths of the old people.
He saw with his own eyes in the firewood pile that the evil spirits were still talking to the family members with smiles in the previous lesson. The next moment he heard that they couldn't come up with 5 coins, so he took out his knife and killed them all. .
The young man has been thinking in fear.
With a full stomach and a dozen uneaten pancakes in the pot, he wanted to live again.
At this time.
The sound of horse hooves is getting closer and closer.
Finally, we stopped in front of Liu Dahu’s house.
“Those bastards who left early, didn’t you tell them to leave something behind? Don’t kill everyone.”
"Yeah, it's another village that has been wiped out. It's hard for these idiots to find someone to cook for them."
"Go to that wealthy family's house and talk to them this time. Don't burn the house until the infantry are here."
"Go away quickly."
"I hope they can keep a maid or something."
“Yes, Miss, I don’t have any hope.”
The cavalry dismounted and entered the yard of Liu Dahu's house.
The young man hiding in the kitchen on the east side heard more and more clearly and became more and more nervous.
He almost fainted.
The horrific corpses and dripping blood were brewing in his mind again.
At this moment, he couldn't help but hold his hands and pray to the gods and Buddhas in the sky.
Please, let me get through this.
Let me, like everyone else, get through it.
Even if I starve to death in the end, please let me get through this.
Er Gouzi will give you a golden body in the future.
He began to pray.
Taishang Laojun, Queen Mother, Dragon King, Land Grandma...
One after another, the names of gods that he had heard and seen in daily life were recited in his heart one by one.
Yet in his prayer.
The five Jurchen cavalry, no, to be precise, they should be said to be the cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.
Leave it to them to capture young men and plunder treasures.
Firstly, it is not too difficult, and secondly, it can improve their morale.
The scouts who actually collect battlefield intelligence are not collected at night. They are all the most elite white-armored ones and will not be distracted from doing other things.
They sentry riders are searching for where there are wealthy families, which cities are well-off but poorly defended...this is the information.
Anyway, almost all the treasures they collected will be handed over to the masters of the Eight Banners.
If you want to keep it privately, you can keep a few dozen taels at most.
I can't hide any more on my body.
Gu Dao’s method of hiding silver, which contains six ingots and 300 taels of silver, must have been practiced since childhood.
The five cavalrymen walked towards the kitchen talking and laughing.
They smelled the aroma of oil cakes.
“It’s okay, those grandsons still know how to leave food for the people who come after me, otherwise, I will chop the mutton and eat it.”
In the panic of the young man, the five people entered the kitchen.
Then I glanced around and saw no one.
Then he shared the fried cakes on the stove.
While eating, someone suddenly said: "Find some beans to feed the horses."
A man searched around the kitchen and found a bag of soybeans.
When he was about to leave, he suddenly noticed a line of footprints on the ground, which were rubbed footprints.
It leads vaguely to the firewood pile.
He smiled at several other accomplices.
They quietly drew out their swords.
They are going to play a cruel game.
They walked around outside the firewood pile.
“There is a guy hiding nearby. Where is he hiding?”
“It would be great if it’s a maid.”
“It’s okay if it’s a boy.”< br>
“Hahaha!”
They smiled cruelly, like gods who controlled the fate of others.
Indeed, in such a fixed time and space, they are the gods who control the fate of many people!
The reason why massacre is addictive is that after someone has tasted the taste of arbitrarily controlling other people's lives, arbitrarily controlling other people's joys, sorrows, joys and fears, they can no longer leave it.
They took out their knives and pointed them at the pile of firewood.
However, what surprised them was that what appeared on the knife edge was not blood!
But green slime!
“What the hell is this?”
“I don’t know, open it up and have a look!”
A cavalryman picked up firewood with a sword!
The screams sounded!
But it was not the boy who made the noise, but those cavalrymen!
Yes, the person who was frightened and paralyzed was not that boy!
But five evil spirits!
The five evil spirits of the Han and Eight Banners, what did they see?
I saw a monster in front of me in the pile of firewood!
It has snake-like tentacles all over its head, and there are all kinds of snakes!
There are 8 eyes on the face.
The whole body is filled with all kinds of rashes!
Looking at it makes people get goosebumps all over their bodies, and one glance can drive them to death from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
"Monster, evil spirit!"
"Run!"
"Kill him to death!"
The five people said different things.
These few evil ghosts who had just killed countless people were stunned when they saw the real devils and evil gods.
Someone was rolling and crawling trying to run back.
Some people used their waist knives to hack and kill indiscriminately!
The monster suddenly stretched out two snakes and entangled two of them directly.
It seemed that they could break free easily, but the two people were frightened and screamed crazily.
One of them took a waist knife and instinctively slashed at the snake.
To his surprise, the snake's body was chopped off!
Ten of them seemed to recover from their madness.
Run out the door quickly!
Then he quickly mounted his horse and rushed out of the door.
Fortunately, the door of Liu Da's house is large and the opening is wide, otherwise, several people would bump into each other.
(End of this chapter)