The city of Fei on the opposite side of here, named Zhuhu, was originally renamed Xiangben after being captured by the Chu State in later generations, and became an important strategic fortress, and at this time it was the Zhuhu Yi of the Fei State.

The righteous division on the other side of the river was stationed in a brigade, and the brigade commander was Yu Su, a native of Chuluyang who was the partner of King Shuqing, and he had been promoted to brigade commander after the expansion.

Before the order was issued, Yu Su had been called by Meng Sheng to have a conversation, to the effect that the farmers of Fei Guo had sealed the fields, and it was not easy to escape here, so if they could help, they would help, and if they were chasing soldiers by the river, they might as well drive the chasing people away without firing.

In fact, there have been some frictions in this place many times before, and Meng Sheng, as a high-ranking member of the Mo family, talked with Yu Su and other brigade commanders and division commanders, in fact, to encourage them to "create friction".

The transfer of the 1st Division and the transfer of the 6th Division here is not only because most of the soldiers in this division are a group of people who have just experienced a new life and are full of hatred and anger towards the old era, but also because among the large number of ink writers in the 6th Division, most of them are "self-suffering".

Open factions are allowed within the Mohists, and the existence of factions in the form of secret societies is strictly prohibited, and all factions can express their own opinions on the premise of abiding by the common program of the Mohists.

However, all expressions must not go beyond the scope of the common program of the Mohists. The prohibition of the formation of secret societies, the fact that the external environment was less cruel, the need for the Mohists to unite yeoman farmers, craftsmen and merchants, and the fact that many theories were interpreted differently did not cause a split.

The mainstream opinion is the appropriate faction, and the majority of those in the "self-suffering" faction are radicals. While they were full of hatred for the aristocracy, they were also dissatisfied with the semi-cooperation between the Mohists and the Yue Kingdom, acquiescing in the direct transformation of many nobles in the Yue Kingdom, using slaves to run salt workshops and developing planting industries.

They call themselves "pure Mohists" and resolutely oppose the compromise between the Mohists and other countries, especially believing that the Mohists now have the power to benefit more people, and even benefit the world, but they have not taken action, and have expressed some radical opinions on this occasion.

The majority of the faction is young people, they are highly motivated and energetic, and they are a very good group of young people.

They have been criticized in some previous disputes within the Mohists, but they have also become the most supportive pillar of the Mohist upper class in the arguments against some people's belief that "Sishang will build a paradise alone".

From being criticized for being too impulsive to now being praised for taking a firm position, it is not only the need of internal disputes, but also the manifestation of the growing power of the Mohists.

Now they have been transferred here from Hangou to guard the border that is regarded by the feudal farmers of the Fei country as a river of hope in the promised land.

The west bank of the river is miles away.

A dozen peasants in tattered clothes hid in the grass, carefully watching the situation behind, and heard the soft barking of dogs behind them, which frightened a baby to open his mouth to cry, and the mother's black hand stained with dust and sweat was firmly pressed against the baby's mouth, for fear of crying.

The child kicked his legs and shook his head, but the mother's hand did not let go after all.

How can a mother not feel sorry for her child, but if she cries at this time, the escape of her dozen or so people will be over.

If they are caught, the leader will be "killed" and his nose cut off, while the rest of the people will have their ears cut off.

If the number of fleeing is too large, they may be killed, as for whether to kill or not, it is a sentence of the nobles, and there is no inscription, because the "Prohibition Decree" stipulates that the nobles have the right to aggravate the punishment of the fiefdom peasants with serious circumstances.

Punishment such as cutting off the ears is used because the punishment of chopping off the toes affects the work.

Cutting off the ears is nothing, and it's not death.

However, they have all fled here, only a few miles away from the water, and if they are caught back at this time, they will really be unwilling to die.

After hundreds of years of being a fiefdom farmer, I have long been used to it.

He used to hunt, chop wood, pit ice, mow grass, farm and weave for his master...... After doing these "official duties", you can go back to your cabin and do your own thing.

Serfs are not slaves.

The serfs had their own means of production and small plots of land, and the nobles took away not all the labor of the slaves, but the labor of the serfs, and let the serfs support themselves on their own small plots of land.

Even though many people have been accustomed to it for hundreds of years, songs such as "The Rat" have been sung by farmers all the time, and there are often people who have fled.

It's just that the original tools are simple, the output is low, and the life after the escape is not easy, but after all, it is better than before. This is the reason why Confucius saw the old woman in Mount Tai and said that "the government is harsh and fiercer than the tiger".

After the Mo family gained a firm foothold in Sishang, these farmers, who had been trapped in the fiefdom of the village community all their lives, finally had the opportunity to hear a fantasy called "hope".

Some of them heard rumors when they were conscripted into labor to build the walls; Some people heard rumors in some of the salt-selling and milling mills outside the village community; Some people heard rumors on the way to deliver food for their masters.

These rumors are like thatch in the spring land, which suddenly emerges after a spring rain, and then sprouts and takes root, and cannot be eliminated even if you are hungry for milk.

It is said that when you cross the river, someone will answer you, and if you do it for three or five years, you will be given a loan of money and iron tools, and you will be allowed to cultivate a hundred acres of land, and even five people will be given a cow.

Moreover, the land is his own, and in the future, as long as he has paid the tax of Shiwu for twenty years, and someone in his family has served in the army, then the land can be sold, as long as someone wants it.

As for the school, literacy, and those things, for these people, it is still too old. The rumors of land and taxes alone were enough to make them want to flee.

They don't know that what is most lacking in Sishang is labor, and what is most lacking is population, and now Mo said that it is only a small-scale escape, that is, the fiefdom peasants of the huge Fei State have all fled to the past, and with the financial and organizational ability of the Mo family, and the ability of the folk workshops to expand production in urgent need of manpower, they can completely absorb all of them.

All they need to know is that when they cross the river, they are "Promised Land".

In the grass, the child whose mouth was covered by a fierce and somewhat trembling hand twitched a few times, and finally stopped moving, and the barking of the dog in the distance seemed to be gradually moving away, and the mother hurriedly let go of her hand and quickly looked down at the fainting baby.

A person next to him squatted down, stretched out his black, dirty, long nails and pinched the baby's nose fiercely and said, "Mo Qi, who was traveling to apply medicine that day, said that he fainted and pinched here." ”

After a few sharp pinchs, Xu is child didn't deserve to die, and he woke up.

The "Mo Qi" in the mouth of the person who pinched people was the person sent by the Mo family to move around in the Sishang countries, on the surface to deliver medicine and cure diseases, but secretly spread some things at every turn. Although the nobles of various countries hated, the bronze cannon of the Mo family flickered, and they dared not speak out in anger after all.

The song of "Promised Land" was also spread by the wandering "Moji", and there were also mills built near some village communities, where a bunch of farmers would gather at night...... Listen to the story.

I heard a lot of stories, and the life that originally seemed very reasonable but was just a little bitter became a little unreasonable in addition to the bitterness.

The escape stories of these dozen people are just a microcosm of the hundreds of fugitives in the lands of Fei, Yue, Xue, Lu, and even Song.

Or freshmen.

Or return to the fiefdom, cut off the ears, or even be punished as slaves.

At this time, when the child finally woke up and howled and cried, the man in the lead said, "There can be no more delay, it is only a few miles away." Let's run over it! Run over and you'll be able to live the days of "Promised Land"! As long as you have a lot of strength, and the Mo family gives you iron tools, how can you still live worse than at home? ”

Their flight had already attracted the attention of the chasers, and the barking of the dogs had come from the ranks that were chasing them.

These dozen or so people had already lost their strength, and when they heard the word "Promised Land", they struggled to stand up.

grabbed a handful of grass to fill the stomach that was already hungry; His parched lips sucked on the morning dew, and the tip of his tongue rolled through the weeds of early autumn like that of an old cow, as if he had the strength to run towards the river, never to hide from anything.

The one who led the way was the strongest, took the child from the woman's hand, put it under his armpit, galloped forward, and shouted: "Don't look back, just run forward!" Don't look back when your father dies and your mother dies! ”

Their physical strength was already exhausted, and several people fell to the ground after running a few steps, but they struggled to get up and swayed their bodies and ran forward.

The sound of horses' hooves behind is getting closer and closer, and the stirrups of the Mo family have already been introduced to the Fei country, and these people who capture the fugitive farmers also use the stirrups used by the Mo family to benefit the world to hunt down these fugitives.

A vicious dog pounced on a man who had fallen to the ground, biting the man's legs hard.

The man's hands burst out and plunged into the dirt, like a poplar tree beside him rooting down, trying to break free of the vicious dog behind him.

The sharp pain of the bite was nothing, the man raised his head, always looking at the riverbank not far in front, probably forgetting that there was a vicious dog biting behind him, and all he thought was: Why can't he stand up? It's almost to the riverbank......

None of the people who fled in front turned back, this is the rule set when fleeing, no one is caught, do not look back. Even if it is a child, a parent, a husband and a wife, if you can run one by one, there is no hope of reaching the promised land again.

The man who was struggling to crawl forward on the ground finally reacted that he was being dragged by the vicious dog when he heard the whining and biting sound of the vicious dog in his ears again.

When he woke up, a sharp pain in his leg came immediately, but he didn't scream.

The woman running in front of him was his wife, even if there was a rule before fleeing that he would not care about the people who were arrested behind him, even if it was a close relative, but he believed that her wife was just running with the crowd, chasing his child who was being held by others, and he didn't know that he was knocked down, otherwise he had to turn around.

Everything in front of him seemed to slow down, and the person lying on the ground looked at his wife stumbling, chuckled in his heart, and said secretly: "Don't look back!" ”

Fortunately or unfortunately. The woman only tripped over the stone and did not look back, but continued to chase the man who was helping to carry the child.

The person lying on the ground wants to laugh, but he does not dare to laugh, because if he opens his mouth, he may be heard howling.

On the calf, it seems that the vicious dog has torn off a piece of meat again, it should be torn along the texture, and if he bites it, it is like peeling a leek at home, and the vicious dog must be tearing it hard along the texture, and a large piece of skin and flesh will be peeled off when brushed.

He thought, he can't shout out, once he shouts out, his wife will be arrested once he turns back.

He still had a trace of his dream of going to the paradise of Sishang with his wife, so he looked back at his legs with all his strength to determine whether he had just been delusional, and found that his calf had really been torn off a large piece of flesh.

So he thought, "Even if you don't die, you won't be able to work." Well...... It's useless to get there. ”

Then, as he was about to cry out in severe pain, he pulled out one of his hands that was stuck in the dirt and bit it into his mouth so hard that he choked on his mouth and did not scream.

Gurg......

Fingers are not very forbidden to bite, but fortunately, there are four or five, which is enough to bite for a while.

Under the severe pain, before this person was about to pass out, he looked at the figures that had blurred in the distance, thought about the person holding his child, and thought, "He is quite capable of living." , that's good. ”