Chapter 64: Servants
In the midst of the snowstorm, countless ragged people were toiling hard.
This is about a dozen miles away from Li Ze's Zhuangzi, and it is a big wasteland near Daqing Mountain, and this will be their home in the future.
They don't know what their future holds, because they were once called bandits.
The young nobleman who had captured them, after bringing them here, told them an unbelievable piece of news.
This will be their home from now on.
No matter what the noble boy thinks, but these people who have fallen to the lowest point in their lives have no other hope, since there is a little bit in front of them, then no matter what, they always have to desperately catch on.
At least, although the pot is so rare that it can illuminate the shadow of a person, the gruel that can finally survive is really placed in front of them.
Even if it was for this pot of gruel that could allow them to survive temporarily, they couldn't help but accept the arrangement of the noble son in front of them.
The first is to build a temporary residence, which is close to the green mountains, and the trees are ready-made, and they only need to be cut back from the mountains, saws, axes, and Li Ze did not hesitate to distribute them to the young people who were still bandits not long ago, and he was not afraid that these people would escape, because these people who were sent out had a small family in his hands.
Trees were cut down from the mountains and dragged out, and rough sheds were erected, and the old and weak women and children lived in them first, and then it was the turn of the young and strong.
It was only at this time that these people really believed that the noble son in front of them really wanted to settle them.
This gave them a sudden birth of infinite hope.
Naturally, you will be more motivated to work.
Li Ze was wearing a cloak and a hat, and under the strict protection of Tu Lichun and others, he was watching this group of people work hard.
This piece of land was a piece of wasteland that he had begged from Yang Kai. Of course, the land is not good, and it is a barren field, not only has no water source, but is also full of gravel. Of course, if it was good land, it would not have been left until now. But for these people, it is where they will live in the future.
Building a house that could barely shelter from the wind and snow was only the first step, and then the young men began to dig big holes one after another, and the excavated soil was smeared layer by layer on the outer walls of the wooden houses, making the houses warmer day by day.
Digging pits, of course it wasn't Li Ze who was torturing them. The pits are filled with snow, and even the outside of these pits are covered with snow that has been cleared from the ground, and when the flowers bloom in the spring of the next year, the snow will melt into water, so that the land will not be affected by the water source for a short time.
In such a season, digging a pit on the frozen land is really not a good job, but these people are doing it in full swing, they are all farmers, farming, they are experts, the situation of this wasteland is clear at a glance, so there is no resistance to Li Ze's orders, but because Li Ze wants them to do these things more calmly, if Li Ze wants to clean them up, where does it take so much effort? You know, these days, just the gruel that these people drink will cost a lot of rice, which is the food of thousands of people!
These ordinary people may be very ignorant, but they are not stupid, who is good to them, they can still see and understand all this, so that they look at Li Ze who is standing in the distance at the moment, and they are already grateful.
If Li Ze hadn't caught them here, in such a cold weather, there might have been many of them who would have fallen in the Daqing Mountains at this moment.
The men continued to dig holes, continued to build their houses stronger, and the old and weak women and children began to pick up the stones on the land, even the children, who would also laboriously drag some branches and dead grass on the land, and then light a fire, first, the burning fire could warm the working people, and second, the fire could make the frozen hard earth soft, so that digging could be easier, and the fire could also burn some large stones, and then with a light knock it would become small pieces, which would be easier to be cleaned up.
In this snowstorm, there is a snow-white earth all around, only this piece of land, full of fireworks, like a black pearl inlaid on the snow-white earth, revealing vigorous vitality.
"This is the people." Li Ze turned to look at Tu Lichun beside him, as well as the four Chen brothers who were in shackles and handcuffs, "As long as you give them hope, they can do miracles that will shock you. Chen Changping, have you seen it, there is no way out for you to lead them to rebel, and only like this can they really survive."
"If we can live in such peace, why do we need to rebel?" Chen Changping is very calm now, and he has been very quiet since he saw Li Ze arrange these people like this.
Li Ze nodded: "That's right. But didn't you think about the consequences before you did these things? You didn't think about it, you wanted to take them on a way to live, but in the end, they went to a complete dead end."
"I did it as soon as my brain was hot, where can I think so much?" Chen Changping sighed.
"I'm afraid it's not just a hot brain, haven't you thought about taking this opportunity to do a career?" Li Ze sneered: "Don't tell me, you are thinking about seeking a way to live for these people."
Chen Changping was silent for a moment before he said with some embarrassment: "You are right, I do have this in mind."
"You're kind of confessing."
"There's nothing that can't be said, if I can do it above Zhu Shou's position now, I will definitely do better than him now, at least I won't be like him now, making the people miserable." Chen Changping said indignantly: "Meat eaters are despised, where do we know the suffering of the people, only we know the hardships of the people."
Li Ze laughed, looked at Chen Changping and said: "When one day, when you really achieve this position of Zhu Shou, you will know that things are far from being as simple as you imagined, and even, you will become a person like him."
"I won't." Chen Changping is definitely authentic.
Li Ze smiled coldly, and did not debate with the other party on this issue, I don't know how many people, when they started to do things, they all had a heart to help the world, but later, they went against their original wishes, and finally became the kind of person they once hated the most.
"Do you know what happened to you?" Li Ze turned his head to look at the people who were still busy in the distance. They don't need you anymore, see, even though they all know you're standing here, but no one cares what happens to you? Oh, by the way, there's still someone, and there's the wives and children of your four brothers."
"Yes." Chen Changping's voice was low: "It's nothing more than death."
"Since ancient times, it has been difficult and there is only one death!" Li Zeho smiled, "You can be relieved when you die, but what about your wife and children?" How are they going to live in the future?"
Chen Changping fell silent.
"Didn't even think about surviving?"
Chen Changping was taken aback, raised his head and looked at Li Zedao: "Is Childe going to let us go?"
"Let you go? Think beautifully!" Li Ze sneered: "Do you know, because I want to catch you, I have seven or eight brothers dead, and there are several more, and they are all crippled in this life."
Chen Changping lowered his head in despair. It turned out that Li Ze was just teasing him.
"It's easy to kill you, but no one has to pay for my losses." Stretching out the horsewhip in his hand, he unceremoniously picked up Chen Changping's chin, and said: "The four of you, all of you are so poor that you can't afford to compensate me, of course, you don't have the money to compensate me, tell me, how should you compensate me?"
Chen Changping looked at Li Ze a little confused, he heard the hope of immortality from Li Ze's words, but how could he compensate for this?
"The dead are my personal guards." Li Ze regarded the people in the secret camp as his personal guards, of course, it was not bad, "They are also my servants, but now they are dead because of you, Chen Changping, if the four of you want to live now, the only way out is to sell yourself to me as a servant."
"Being a servant?" Chen Changping opened his mouth wide, this option, he had never thought of it.
"Of course, you are also a capable person, and you are indeed a little wronged as a servant, but who told you to kill me and still fall into my hands? I don't want you to fight for your life, it's already considered extraordinarily gracious." Li Zedao: "Say, are you willing?" If you don't want to, I'll cut you with a knife, so you don't waste time."
"Isn't Childe afraid that I will pretend to agree, and then find an opportunity to bite back?"
"You're thinking too much." Li Ze laughed and said, "Do you think that even if you agree to be my servant, you will be able to come to me?" If you want to come to me to do things, then I have to believe in you thoroughly! Moreover, your wife and children are all in my hands, you dare to touch a single hair of me? Chen Changping, to tell you the truth, your ability is really good, I am willing to leave your four brothers with a life because of my talents, and I will work for me in the future, naturally your benefits are indispensable, if you are half-hearted, not only will you die, but your family will also die."
Chen Changping was silent for a long time, then looked back at Chen Changan and the others, and sighed, who wants to die if he can live? The more Li Ze said it calmly, the more he believed that Li Ze would really kill him, and he wouldn't even blink an eye, and if he killed the four brothers, how could this person not cut the grass and eradicate the roots!
"We agreed." He said dejectedly.
Li Ze seemed to have expected that things would be like this, and after glancing at Tu Lichun, Tu Lichun immediately took out four documents from his arms, and each of them sent them one by one: "Since you have agreed, then press the handprint, press the handprint, and you will be the servant of the prince in the future, and the time limit is ten years."
"Only ten years?" Chen Changping couldn't understand Li Ze again.
"Ten years." Li Ze nodded, "I have always been willing to give hope to people, just like giving hope to these homeless people. Ten years will give you a hope, and it will also allow you to be attentive when doing things for me. If you still want to be a servant for me in ten years, then we can renew it!"
Chen Changping didn't say a word, put his finger into his mouth and bit it, then pressed his fingerprint, ten years, and it will be over after a boil, which grandson wants to be a servant for you for a lifetime.
Seeing Tu Lichun receive the four pieces of paperwork in his arms, Li Zecai nodded with satisfaction: "Loosen the shackles for them, and then arrange for them to do things, as for their small families, they will all be taken to Zhuangzi to settle down, so they don't have to suffer here, Chen Changping, I have always been very generous to my own servants. Hahaha! Rest assured, you'll have family leave."