"Bell, bell, bell, ......"

Early in the morning, a bright gong and drum sound sounded at the north end of the Luotian Peach Blossom Collection. The crisp gongs and drums of the pen, fun, and pavilion www.biquge.info made the peach blossom set wake up quickly from sleep, and Zhang Lili, who lived in Beitou, was the first to stick his head out of the courtyard gate.

"Who is in charge? Don't let people live in peace in the morning......" Zhang Wang also got up, and the donkeys fed at home all crowed. This is the most precious object in the entire Zhang family. Zhang Li and his wife treated this donkey better than others.

"It's the group of outsiders who came up yesterday."

The name of the peach blossom set is very beautiful, but in fact it is poor. Most of the people who come and go are locals from ten miles and eight towns. Although it is not that outsiders never come to the country, this group of outsiders just entered the set yesterday, and they chartered all five rooms of the Li family's old store, the best inn in Peach Blossom Market, which is very amazing.

A small peach blossom set, if there is any news, the kung fu of a meal will spread from south to north, from east to west.

Zhang Li had dinner yesterday and set up a dragon gate formation outside, and the hot topic of conversation in the town shifted from the military merits of the military service of the Fuhan military government to this group of outsiders. Although this popularity is only for a while, for the people of Peach Blossom Collection, military merit fields and tax exemption are the eternal topics of the common people.

The first stop of the East Road Propaganda Team of the Fu Han Army was Huangzhou, starting from Huangmei County in the easternmost area, and Luotian was the second.

The reduction or exemption of grain taxes and the abolition of living taxes on silver, liquor on silver, artisan prices, jujube plants, liquor taxes, livestock taxes, fish taxes, ship taxes, and so on will be of great benefit to the local people. Just like the local secret report received by Chen Ming before the task force was formed, the governments at all levels in Huangzhou have been set up for several months, and those township officials have also been in the countryside for a few months, but the people in the countryside have no idea about the most basic policies of many governments.

If it weren't for the influence of the Fu Han Army's military merits Grange, and the people's enthusiasm for the fields and acres could not be interrupted by patriarchy or something, it is estimated that the Peach Blossom Collection here would be no different from the Manchu Dynasty a few years ago, and the topics to talk about were just the countryside, or some foul rumors and gossip, where would the Fu Han Army and the military merit fields be nagged every day?

"Recruitment, recruitment, a silver dollar per month, food and housing......"

"Recruitment, recruitment, a silver dollar per month, food and housing......"

"Wuchang Yuanxiang Garment Workshop, the industry of the Zhao family ...... million"

"Don't be deceived, don't lie. Signed, signed and signed, written in black and white, and the government was the Paula's ......"

Zhang Li is not interested in outsiders, he is interested in being a soldier, of course, not his soldier, but his son, and his brother. Of the five brothers of the Zhang family, there are now only Zhang Li and Zhang Youcai left. His brother is twenty-five years old this year, and he married a daughter-in-law in his early years, but he died of an illness and owed a lot of debts. Zhang Youcai's name is happy, but he is poor in the real world, and now he is also a widower, not even a queen, and the family is poor. Zhang Lili's family is not relaxed, with such a brother here, it is even less relaxed, you can't watch your brother starve to death, right?

When the county organized Lian Yong, Zhang Youcai wanted to go, one or two silver, and three hundred copper every month. But Zhang Lili stopped him, because Zhang Lili felt that it was not worth it. A life is only one or two pieces of silver, too little and too little. Let Zhang Youcai hide at home and watch the limelight. It turned out to be true. Luo Tian's Lian Yong was easily broken up in Huangzhou, and a total of 378 people were organized in the neighboring villages around Taohuaji, and ten of them ran home, and the remaining 19 were captured and captured.

But the soldiers of the Fu Han army are very different from the soldiers of the previous government, the Fu Han army is twenty acres of land as soon as it is shot, and each person still has ten silver dollars of silver, if Zhang Youcai can go to be a soldier, plus Zhang has his eldest son, this is forty acres of land and twenty silver dollars, and the silver dollars alone can also pay off the debts.

And forty acres of land ...... enough for the Zhang family to live in the countryside.

After his brother and son joined the army, he Zhang Lili was only a military dependent, and the chief of the security department had to give a smile when he saw it. Zhang Lili didn't expect his brother and son to make any more meritorious contributions and get military merits, and forty acres of land had already fascinated them.

He discussed this matter with Zhang Youcai and his eldest son Zhang Dashan, and Zhang Youcai and Zhang Dashan should also go.

"Twenty acres of land, ten silver dollars, selling a life, it's worth it. Third brother, to tell you the truth, if these are exchanged for silver in our land, five lives will be bought. ”

Every time the team sang a big opera, people from far away around them went to see it. The Zhang family also went to see it, and Zhang Li also deliberately drove the donkey cart to pull the whole family to see it, and also listened to the propaganda of the propaganda team several times. They know that the Fu Han army is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the salary of the soldiers is higher than that of the logistics soldiers, but the military discipline of the Fu Han army is also absolutely strict, and if they dare not obey orders, dare to be cowardly and afraid of war, and dare to commit adultery and plunder, it is all a crime to kill their heads, and no amount of credit can be replaced. And if they surrender to the enemy, once it is confirmed, all family members will not only be disqualified from military dependents, but will also be 'reformed through labor'.

These news are the talking points of Zhang Lili every time he puts on the Longmen Array after dinner, because the work team only sent a small team to the Peach Blossom Market to carry out publicity, and the stage is set up in Dandian Town, which is the largest town in Luotian. Zhang's family has a donkey cart, which is the best tool, and every time Zhang Li comes back, he will bring back some fresh news, and every time he says it, it will attract countless listening ears.

Zhang Li especially enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded by people at that moment.

For him, a poor man with no wealth and no power, only at this moment can he enjoy the taste of being respected and popular. Especially after deciding to let Zhang Youcai and Zhang Dashan go to be soldiers, whenever he encountered 'some people' who expressed disdain for the Fu Han Army, Zhang Youcai would fight with others with a red face and a thick neck, and Zhang Wang also persuaded him.

"Bullshit. Do you think they really supported the Manchu court? They don't want to see us poor people turn over! ”

Many of the words of the propaganda team were memorized by Zhang Li, and he also felt that what those people said was really right. The poor are also poor all their lives in the land, and they also have to be used as cattle and horses for those landlords. Just like the Zhang family rented six acres of land from the rich man Li's house, and the rent was three out of five, every time I saw the Li family, I had to accompany the smiling face from afar. When the Li family had a donkey, they didn't want to greet it, so they led the donkey directly.

The peach blossom set is not big, and there are not many people, but there are poor and rich, like the Zhang family, there are also those who are looking forward to the collapse of the Han army.

Zhang Lili, who had made up his mind, was unimpressed by the shouts outside, and was busy adding water to the stone trough. But Zhang Wang's eyes became brighter and brighter the more he listened, "The master, have you heard it, one silver dollar a month, take care of food and housing." ”

What is her mother-in-law's psychological thoughts, Zhang Li knows very well in her heart that she is reluctant to let Dashan become a soldier. Zhang Lili's heart is not made of iron, and he is not willing to let his son go out to fight for life and death. At the beginning, Zhang Youcai also told him that he would leave Zhang Dashan and leave one more root for the old Zhang family. If he has a good man on the battlefield, it is better than following his name and not letting him be a lonely ghost underground. Zhang Li insisted that his son also go to the army. didn't send his son away, but sent his brother away, the twenty acres of white land, Zhang Lili's face was not so thick. I have repaired Zhang Wang's family because of this matter before, and now Zhang Wang's family is confused again, right?

"Are you looking for a fight again? I told you, this soldier, the fifth child goes, and the mountains will go; If the mountains don't go, neither will the fifth child. I am poor and poor, but I am not an elder brother who sells his brother's life. Do you want me to go outside and be scolded in the back, so that the mountains, the sea, and the rivers are scolded as black-hearted sons? Yes? ”

Zhang Li's face is red, this is his bottom line, no matter how poor he is, he will never be able to let his younger brother work hard and live a good life at home with his own family. Not only that, if Zhang Youcai and Zhang Dashan both die outside, Zhang Dahai will be Zhang Youcai's son in the future, and Zhang Dajiang's son will also have a successor to Zhang Dashan's name.

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"The Zhao family in Wuchang City, the Zhao million family, don't you know? That's our first-class rich, millions of families. Now the son of the Zhao family is the magistrate of Wuchang, and the workshop opened by the Zhao family has been informed by the government. Hundreds of thousands of military tents, quilts, shoes, tents, etc., of the Fu Han army were all undertaken by this Yuanxiang garment workshop......"

"When you go in, you can start with a silver dollar, and you will be able to eat and live. One day off a month, five days off for the New Year, and New Year's gifts, where can you find this treatment......

The sound outside accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums kept coming into Zhang Wang's ears, and at the same time, there were also conditions for recruitment, young people over fifteen years old, under twenty years old, don't have bad eyes. Of course, if you know how to tailor clothes, then those over 20 years old need it. In the garment workshop, there are people who talk about craftsmanship, and people with good craftsmanship are also masters at the age of forty or fifty, and they are given high salaries, up to twenty silver dollars a month. The salary will also increase with the growth of seniority, as for what is the 'seniority', that is, the time you work, one level a year, according to the technology, job standards, wages and benefits have increased......

Zhang Wang's return to the house is a pity, the Zhang family now has three boys and two girls, only the eldest son Zhang Dahai is seventeen years old, which meets this standard, and the eldest of the two boys below is only fourteen.

But in this family, Zhang Li is heaven, whatever he says is what he says, and Zhang Wang's family can only endure it no matter how reluctant he is to his son.

Three days later, they successfully passed the physical examination, and Zhang Youcai and Zhang Dashan, who were conscripted into the army, returned home. Zhang Wang and Zhang Li watched the two of them shave their bald heads and the big red army uniforms they were wearing, and their tears couldn't stop flowing.

The two land deeds and military family certificates, as well as twenty silver dollars, were handed over to Zhang Lili by Zhang Youcai and Zhang Dashan, and Zhang Lili divided half of them and handed them to Zhang Wang's family, "Go, buy some good wine and meat, let the sea and the river invite the elders of the clan to ......, let's make a wine, and see off the fifth child and the mountain......" Zhang Lili originally thought that he would not cry, but now he was crying with snot.

The remaining ten silver dollars were stuffed back into the hands of Zhang Youcai and his son Zhang Dashan, "You take this money." Something happened to the team, and it was better to have silver than to have it. What kind of future you can run in the future depends on you......" Zhang Li was speechless when he cried. (To be continued.) )