Chapter 26 Grassroots
Xue's wall was silent all night.
The people who were separated were afraid, and choked with broken teeth. Those who have benefited show off their power and fall into a deep sleep.
It doesn't matter only those who are slaves and slaves, life is still one day.
Early in the morning, everyone had breakfast.
It's full of thick corn, cooked for several pots, and served with Xuejiajiao's pickles, it's delicious.
After the meal was over, the animals were fed cud, and everyone gathered in the wheat field.
The team was just starting out and lacked everything, but the main venues and armor were complete, and the flag had already ordered Zhang Bingnan and the others to prepare their supplies.
Now, sixty-five people were already standing on the wheat field.
But Zhang Chong was standing on the wooden platform where he was yesterday, holding the roster in his hand but feeling worried.
The roster was compiled by Duman yesterday, recording the names of all sixty-five people in the team.
But the names above either have no surname, or the names are too cheap and repetitive.
For example, there are five or six people called Gouzi in the book, and there are countless other people with nicknames, which is not easy to manage at all.
Zhang Chong never expected that the first thing in this military training was to name everyone.
Okay, let’s start with the naming of this tall building.
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When Zhang Chong was in trouble, Duman and Zhang Dan were also in trouble.
After they finished eating, they came together with the baggage crew to divide the prisoners.
According to Zhang Chong's instructions last night, these more than 200 people must be divided into three groups.
But who would have thought that we would encounter difficulties right from the beginning.
"Which of you are from the Xue family?"
At first, Zhang Dan stood in front of the prisoners and asked with an indifferent expression.
But the embarrassing thing is that everyone in the audience looked at you and me, but no one said a word.
Duman took a look and found it was broken.
Last night, we should have taken advantage of the killing power and immediately divided the prisoners into camps.
Now, after a night of communication, the Xue family disciples here have vaguely taken control of the situation with the help of their past power.
Duman didn't dare to delay, so he quickly asked the baggage people to divide the team into ten groups, and then escorted them to different courtyards.
After that, Duman took Zhang Dan and started asking questions in groups.
They first talked about the different treatments for the Xue family's children, Buqu, and disciples.
It is said that all the land owned by the Xue family's children will be inherited by the tribes.
Then the disciples can go home individually and share food, salt, and millet seeds to take back so that everyone in the settlement can survive this spring.
At first no one believed it.
It is not difficult to understand that you do not believe it when the bandit who just killed someone last night suddenly tells you that he will now divide the land and provide you with food.
It had to be Tian Dayong, now called Tian Jun, this five-inch boy, to show up and speak out.
He held his father's body last night and stayed up all night. No one knew what he was thinking about all night long.
But when Duman came to the wheat field to divide people, he rushed over and said he could help.
Duman saw that this man's eyes were bloodshot and wanted him to rest.
But now there is only one person who is familiar with the inside story of Xue Jiabi, so he can only be allowed to follow and help.
Tian Jun has been in Xuejiabi for four or five years, and he basically knows everyone in Xuejiabi. With his help, things made progress quickly.
He first named a member of the Xue family.
Then tell everyone that whoever points out the person first will have priority in giving out his land.
Sure enough, this move quickly disintegrated the unity within the prisoner population.
After all, if you don’t point it out but someone else points it out, then if you really want to divide the land, it has nothing to do with you.
Therefore, everyone was hesitant at first. Seeing that all the Xue family members in this group were about to be identified, they also swarmed forward and competed to expose them.
It's like reporting a Xue family member and you can immediately receive fifty acres of land.
Soon, all the Xue family members mentioned by the prisoners were identified, and Tian Jun finally checked them.
There is no doubt that they were all thrown into a courtyard.
Then they were locked up and the food was delivered by the baggage team.
Then it becomes simple. Without a leader, the prisoners basically just ask questions and say whatever they want.
However, when asked again if they were willing to send food back to their settlement, they hesitated.
Duman asked several people, but they all just said they didn't want millet.
Ask, what do you want?
Answer, I don’t want anything.
Later, Tian Jun said the reason:
"The captives today are not convinced. They are unwilling to ask for food. They are probably worried about attracting wolves into the house."
Duman patted his thigh, and it made sense.
He has his own way of doing this.
The most urgent task is to count the number of troops and disciples first.
The needs of the two are different. One part is given land, the other part is given food.
After a detailed investigation of the situation in every Dingkou, they found out that except for the twenty-six children of the Xue family who were being held in separate custody.
There are a total of 132 troops and 140 slaves. Among them, among the forty-six Ding girls, excluding twenty women and children of the Xue family, the remaining twenty-six slaves were homeless.
Zhang Bingnan's baggage team took them away, and they were needed for flag making, clothing and cooking.
Then, Duman separated the management of the two groups and asked Tian Jun to take the villagers he knew well together, and randomly selected a group of people from the disciples group to serve as Lifu.
Then he allocated a hundred stones of millet, two stones of coarse salt, and millet seeds from the warehouse, transported five carts full, and headed towards the settlement of Tian Jun's family.
This is Duman's "horse bone of a thousand gold coins".
He first sent millet to the Tian family settlement to build a trust among his disciples, and then broke through one by one and sent it to all the surrounding settlements.
In this way, we can win the support of the disciples who account for half of the number of prisoners. With their support, we can then turn around and allocate fields to the tribes.
As for how to divide the food, he had a rough idea. After he divided the food, he would come back and discuss it with Zhang Chong before he could implement it.
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Choosing a name is a big deal for people of any era.
Because the last name represents the family and the first name represents oneself.
If you have no name or surname, you will become a nameless ghost after death, and you will not even be able to participate in blood meals and family sacrifices.
But then again, for the poor men in Zhang Chong's team, these are the last things they need to think about.
Because most of them will never have a wife in this life, let alone have offspring.
Because of the unfair calculation of wealth by the imperial court, all poor families drowned their female infants, creating a society with more boys and fewer girls.
And because of the huge gap between the rich and the poor, even if one or two poor people raise their daughters, they will be sold to local powerful men as maids due to great disasters.
Therefore, the rich families have thousands of maidservants, but the poor men in the countryside cannot get one if they want one, and the yin and yang are out of balance.
Back in Zhang Chong's team, there were quite a few people without surnames.
Just because they are beggars from hundreds of families, struggling to survive, how can they not talk about family memories.
But now, Zhang Chong wants to give these unknown people a name so that they can continue from generation to generation.
No, Zhang Chong is naming a person named Tu.
He was the captain of Jiyang's tribute ship. He was inspecting the water village of Li's house that night and escaped with Duman and others.
He said that he was picked up from a field ravine by a widowed mountain man. He had no surname and was usually called Tu.
"Your name is Tu, then I will give you a surname of Huang, and call you Jie. Huang Jie, work hard in Chen Huan's team from now on.
This country was brought up by the mountain people and knows how to bow and arrow. Although it is not outstanding, it is almost at the stage of mastering the art of bow and arrow.
Therefore, Chen Huan wanted to promote him to be a corps leader, and then take him to Zhang Chong to take the exam.
Zhang Chong was satisfied with his footwork and shooting skills, so he not only awarded him the title of Captain of the Jia Shi Jia Wu on the spot, but also gave him a name.
Zhang Chong held a bamboo slip and wrote on it:
"The commander of the Jia Shi Jia corps under General Shi is Huang Jie."
His original name was Tu, but now he was called Huang Jie in Chinese characters. He took the bamboo slip dully, unable to believe that he could have a name.
He kept chanting the words on the bamboo slips, wanting to imprint these two words into his heart.
Everyone looked at him with envy, but they were also full of yearning for his name.
Zhang Chong's rules are like this.
First, each chief will select the lower-level military officials, and then go to him for assessment. Those who pass the test will be added to the military rolls on the spot.
After that, the corps leader would select people he knew well to form a corps. Those without surnames or names would all be sent to him, and he would give them good names and enter them into the military register.
It was already noon when all sixty-five people were named and entered into the military register according to the order.
Zhang Chong asked the baggage team to kill a fat pig, then cook a lot of corn, and let everyone eat together.
Everyone ate the squirting millet and the fat and oily pork, and laughed constantly.
But suddenly there was crying.
Zhang Chong looked over in confusion and saw a young man named Jing from before.
He was also pitiful. He was abandoned by a well and was raised on pig milk by an old woman who saw him as pitiful.
Then Zhang Chong named him Jin Quan so that he would not forget the kindness of the old lady.
Zhang Chong put down the bowl and asked Jin Quan doubtfully:
"Jinquan, why are you crying?"
Jin Quan wiped away his tears, pushed aside the crowd, and came first to kowtow to Zhang Chong.
Then he stood up again and said gratefully:
"Qu Kui, I think he looks like a human being now. In the past, I was confused and didn't know what to do. I just followed what others told me to do, and I didn't have any idea. I also know that I was born cheap and was abandoned by others. , has no clan to rely on, and it’s all thanks to Eminem’s hard work that he can grow up. “
Speaking of this, Jin Quan is even more sad:
"When I came here, my mother was already dead. She was beaten to death by the village officials. They conscripted me to carry a tribute ship to the King of Jibei. My mother did not agree, saying that after his previous son was conscripted, he She could never go back. Now she wanted to take another son away, unless she died. Then Amu was pushed down by the officer and died on the spot. "
Jinquan is trembling at this time:
"I was very angry, but I didn't know what to do? I could only watch the pavilion chief dig a hole and bury Amu. And I still had to come to pull the boat for King Na Jibei. After that, I followed Mr. Du They ran away together and met Qu Kui. Seeing your bravery in killing the enemy, I felt that if I had this strength, Amu might not die."
"Later, you told everyone in the forest that you would let us poor people live a clear life. I also feel that you are the hero of us poor people and the hope given to us by God."
"You said you must be first in battle, and you must be last in the rear. You have said and done all these things."
"Now, you are giving names to us unknown people, so that we can have the opportunity to enjoy the incense of our descendants."
"I swear, I, Jin Quan, will follow Qu Kui to the death, and charge under your command no matter where I am. Let more poor people have names, have grain to eat, land to cultivate, and clothes to wear. Wear it and live in it.”
After saying that, Jin Quan burst into tears and kowtowed heavily again. At the same time, everyone bowed to Zhang Chong, knelt down heavily and shouted:
"We will follow Qu Kui to the death, so that everyone can have a name, have grain to eat, land to cultivate, clothing to wear, and a place to live." After saying this, everyone knelt down and worshiped.
But this time, Zhang Chong did not refuse them to kowtow. Instead, like them, he burst into tears and swore:
"I will work hard so that everyone has a name, everyone has grain to eat, everyone has land to cultivate, clothing and housing."
If he says this, his heart is also strong.
(End of chapter)