Straight to the point. Wu Huo watched Yang Chendong smoke a cigarette and handed one to himself. After just a little hesitation, he reached out and took it, and then lit the cigarette with the match handed over, and took a puff like Yang Chendong.

Maybe it was because of the excessive force, he had never smoked a cigarette and coughed violently, and then he was blushing and his neck was thick.

"Old Wu, are you okay?"

"Brother Wu, how are you?"

Some of the stalls around him have been paying attention to the situation here, and when they saw Wu Huo's uncomfortable appearance, several people asked with concern. Judging from this point alone, Wu Huo's popularity is still very good.

"He's fine, but he sucked too hard, and his throat was a little uncomfortable, hehe." Yang Chendong replied for Wu Huo, then looked at Wu Huo with a smile and said: "Smoking is not like you, you have to come little by little and smoke slowly to enjoy that feeling." Of course, it's not good for the body to smoke too much. ”

Wu Huo, who had already adapted to it under a few loud coughs, learned from Yang Chendong to take a sip gently, and then closed his mouth, and two puffs of green smoke erupted from his nose, and laughed. "Well, this thing is good, it's a little strong, it's a little interesting, it's something that belongs to you."

"Hahaha." Listening to Wu Huo's evaluation, Yang Chendong smiled hahaha. Cigarettes are just one of the means he came up with to make money. In the future, he will also engage in cigarette monopoly, just this one, I am afraid that the annual profit will not be less. As for whether it is a gentleman's thing, he really hasn't thought about it, after all, many women in later generations will also smoke, although the proportion is not much, but that at least proves that this should not be all used by gentlemen.

With cigarettes as a bridge, Wu Huo was not as restrained in front of Yang Chendong as before, and the two were like old friends when they chatted, not to mention knowing everything, but as long as it was not a secret, they could share it together. And this is probably the charm of cigarettes, which can make two strangers quickly get closer to each other.

With the help of the god of cigarettes, Yang Chendong learned. Wu Huo is an authentic Ming person, and his ancestors used to be soldiers in the Nuer Cadre Division, and he is a standard military household. But it's too tiring to be a military carve of the Ming Dynasty, and it doesn't matter if you are suitable or not, the boys born to the military family are born into the military household, and the girls born are most likely to marry the military family unless they are good-looking.

It seems that he is unwilling to accept this fateful arrangement. Wu Huo's father escaped from the guard after planning for a long time, came to Narcissus Town, and gave birth to Wu Huo here, and now the old man is no longer alive. Wu Huo is also thirty-two years old and is used to life here.

"Oh? Did Narcissus Town exist more than thirty years ago? Yang Chendong asked with interest.

"Yes, it was there more than 30 years ago, but at that time it was not called a town, it was called Narcissus Village. Because it is next to the Songhua River, you can make a living by fishing in summer, and there are a lot of big forests nearby, and you can mainly hunt in winter, as long as people are not lazy, you can live, and there are more and more people here. ”

Under a cigarette, Wu Huo also seemed to open the conversation, it was Yang Chendong who asked something, he would say something, and he also said something that Yang Chendong didn't come to ask, but he also wanted to know.

For example, Yang Chendong learned about the disadvantages of military households, whether you want to or not, your background represents everything. Wu Huo's father was born to like iron, but he did not become a craftsman, but became a military household, so that Wu Huo inherited this characteristic of his father, and now he has started the work of repairing horse shoes.

For example, the Nu'er Gandu Division's various health centers have now had an empty salary. In fact, some guards did not have so many soldiers, and the generals deliberately thought of ways to ask the court for more silver.

For example, Narcissus Town is very poor, so poor that many people can't even eat enough, and the most common thing on the dinner table is fish soup for all kinds of fish, but eating this thing every day will make people get tired. Not to mention, after so many years, if you want to have a good harvest in fishing, you can't do it by the river, you need to go to the depths of the river, then you have a certain real ability.

For example, there are still a lot of young people in Narcissus Town, and because of the pressure, many people have practiced martial arts and equestrianism since they were children, and they are afraid that one day someone will threaten here, so they don't seek to kill the enemy, at least they can protect themselves.

For example...

After chatting with Wu Huo for more than an hour, in the later period, some small merchants around the area also had the courage to join here, and what Yang Chendong needed to pay was to scatter a cigarette by himself, which made many people who were curious before addicted to it.

From the mouths of these people, Narcissus Town also became three-dimensional, and Yang Chendong finally knew why this town of 50,000 people could indeed survive in the encirclement of the Northern Ming army and be unharmed. There is only one reason, it is too poor.

So poor that even the Beiming army won't come here to threshk grass, so poor that most of the young men born here can't find a daughter-in-law from other places, so poor that they can only give a little money to work for people, so poor that...

It's good to be poor and poor. At least that's how Yang Chendong sees it.

Because of poverty, it will be more convenient and profitable to persuade some useful people to use for themselves. Because he was poor, he could do a lot for a very small price.

From Wu Huo's mouth, he also asked the people in this town what they thought of the Jurchen cavalry and the Mongol cavalry.

Wu Huo was in charge of the main said, and others added. talked about these two cavalry.

Whether it is the Jurchen cavalry or the Mongol cavalry, they are not really composed of Jurchens and Mongols, among them are many primitive Narcissus town people. It is precisely for this reason that they rarely do anything to oppress the local people, because it will not be supported by the cavalry.

It is also because of the participation of local people on both sides, which makes the Jurchen cavalry strong, but it does not really fight with the weaker Mongolian cavalry, after all, the soldiers below are their own people, and many of them still play together from childhood to adulthood, let them kill their own families, the effect will not be too good.

Although they can't be oppressed openly, these two cavalry secretly do oppressive things. For example, the salary to become a cavalryman is not very high, and it is only enough to eat. For example, Wu Huo, a small merchant and peddler who made a living by craft, still had to pay taxes and silver every year, which was openly said to be a kind of protection fee they collected in order to protect Narcissus Town from the oppression of the Beiming Guard and some small bandits nearby.

Yes, there is not a lot of money. But for Wu Huo, who is already living at the bottom of the society, it is a penny of silver and silver, and it can save lives at a critical time.

Yang Chendong's eyes brightened the more he listened, and judging from the things he understood, he already had a rough plan in his heart. Once he makes the trip, his military strength here will rise to a big level.

There was a lot of gossip among the people, and it was probably almost evening when Yang Chendong left the market. Out of gratitude, everyone who chatted with him today received the benefit of a piece of fat and five taels of silver.

That's a big piece of fat weighing three catties, and five taels of silver, which can be kept in the future to buy what you need in other nearby Beiming towns, which is enough to move Wu Huo and them.

But the more shocking thing was yet to come, just after dinner that night. Most of the people in the town already had the courage to come out and sneak around, because they found that the Five Star Army seemed to be very talkative, at least it would not threaten the safety of the people, and they didn't even say a word of seriousness, which made people feel a lot more relieved.

And it was these five-star soldiers who were in charge of patrolling the streets, and they spread the news in the evening that a public trial meeting would be held tomorrow morning in the largest square in town. If the generals and soldiers of the Jurchen cavalry and the Mongol cavalry were judged in the past, if they were guilty of evil deeds, they would be sentenced and executed on the spot, so as to give justice to the people.

The news reached the ears of the people walking in the streets, and then through their mouths to all the people's homes. According to the Five-Star Army, I hope that they can go to the public trial tomorrow morning, and those who are wronged can reclaim their grievances on the spot, and those who are not wronged can also go to see a lively scene.

Because of this news, the town of Narcissus, which has a population of 50,000, suddenly became lively, and many people did not come out to sneak around, and went home early to rest, just so that they could get up early tomorrow, and then go to the square to grab a good position, and take a good look at what this public trial meeting is all about. Is it true that as the news says, you can make decisions and compensate for them?

Yes, it's compensation.

The news said that anyone who has been bullied, as long as the facts can be proved, the Five Star Army will take out silver taels from the warehouses of the captured Jurchen Army and the Mongol Army to compensate. Of course, if someone wants to claim fraud, once it is found, then you are equivalent to a crime and will be severely punished.

But how many people who live in Narcissus Town have not been exploited or oppressed? This is closely related to everyone, and naturally, there are many people who care about it. As for the impersonation, hehe, they really thought about it, but when they learned that it was a felony, they dispelled this idea. Yesterday's dense gunfire in the town was not firecrackers, I heard that more than 100 people died, that is really murder, or is it the kind of blood that flows like a river, don't you want to live, to be greedy for this kind of money?

With all kinds of thoughts, the sun slowly rises, and a new day arrives.

In the morning, even many people did not even eat breakfast, so they came to the square with their own things to sit in, found a good place and began to wait.

The time was set at 9 a.m. But in fact, before eight o'clock, more than 30,000 people were focused on the square, so that in addition to the elderly who are too old and too young children, more than eighty percent of the people with independent ability have come out, which can already achieve great influence.