Around the announce, the hungry people began to discuss. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Look at the conditions on this notice are very good, you can give 5 taels of settlement expenses as soon as you go, and return to the cattle, you don't have to pay grain in the first two years, tsk, anyway, you can't live in Shandong, it's better to go to Qiongzhou to beg for a living!"

Some people expressed concern: "Our ancestors have been in Shandong for generations, will we not adapt to the water and soil when we go to Guangdong?" I heard that Guangdong is very hot, Qiongzhou is even hotter, and the sun is also poisonous, will there be no crops in this place? ”

Some well-informed refuted: "You want to fork it, I heard the official say that Qiongzhou has no winter all year round, there is enough rain, the crops are three crops a year, and the harvest is very good, but the local Li people are not yet civilized and will not serve the crops, so they have wasted such a large area of good land, and the government over there has found a way to pull people in Shandong." ”

The news of three crops a year made everyone marvel, "I am a good one, three crops a year, if Shandong also has this benefit, we don't have to leave our hometown, what if there is no ploughing cattle and no rain, no matter how hard and tired you are, you can grit your teeth and get through......"

"The government also said that the place in Qiongzhou is surrounded by the sea on all sides, there are no bandits, and the bandits have also been wiped out by the officers and soldiers, and after they go, they don't have to be afraid of anything except farming with peace of mind, they can honestly pay for grain, and the standard of paying grain is very low, except for two stones of grain per mu, the rest do not have to pay, and the rest is all their own, and in a few years, they can live the life of a landlord!"

As soon as these words came out, they hit the pain points of all the hungry people: there is no war-torn environment, there is no need to bear a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and hard work can also get rich, which is almost the life that the peasants in feudal society yearn for the most.

After more than two years of war and suffering, the hungry people need a stable environment in a particularly urgent way, they do not demand much, as long as they do not lose their homes and relatives by the war, they can farm and make a living in peace, if they can also be exempted from most of the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and can enter the well-off by relying on diligence and thrift, it is simply a fairy day.

Everyone couldn't calm down, and said one after another: "If it's really so good, let's go without paying the settlement fee!" ”

A few people expressed concern: "People have two skins in their mouths and two mouths in official words, and now they are saying it well, who knows if this is the case when they go to Qiongzhou?" What if it ends up being a lie? ”

Most people scolded him: "Now we can't live anymore, our homes are gone, the acres of land are abandoned, it's not the government's soup kitchen, we have already starved to death on the way, even if the government talks with moisture, can we go to Qiongzhou worse than now?" ”

"That's it, you're afraid of this, you're afraid of that, stay in Dengzhou, the porridge shed of the government won't keep open, and when the time comes, you'll either starve to death, or you will be called Huazi!"

The yearning for a better life has made the hungry people ignore all difficulties and obstacles, and ninety percent of them have made up their minds to go south to Qiongzhou to seek a living, and what they are concerned about now is when to leave.

Fortunately, the government didn't let them wait too long. Two days later, officials beat gongs and drums along the streets and alleys and shouted that all the hungry people who were willing to go to Qiongzhou should "register" at the Chenghuang Temple in the south of the city, and then they could board the boat.

Hearing the news, hungry people flocked to the temple from all directions, and surrounded the temple.

The Qiongzhou battalion temporarily requisitioned the Chenghuang Temple as an "office location" for registration and preliminary screening of hungry people. Not all hungry people can board the ship to Lingao immediately, and those who are seriously ill must stay for treatment, otherwise their lives will not be saved. The journey to Lingao is far away, and the cabin is stuffy and unventilated, and people in good health are uncomfortable, let alone patients? Most likely will die on the ship. Moreover, some diseases are contagious, and a confined space is the best place for infectious diseases to spread, and it is impossible to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to transport some dead people back in the end.

The local officials and officials in Dengzhou were sent by Zhu Dadian to assist the Qiongzhou battalion. More than a dozen Eight Immortal Tables were put together, lined up, and more than a dozen clerks sat behind the tables, writing down the information of the hungry people who came to sign up, and there were a few Lang Zhong who were responsible for screening patients. Soldiers of the Qiongzhou battalion are armed with rifles and are responsible for maintaining order.

Because of the high expectations for the trip to Qiongzhou, and the natural fear of the government, although the number of hungry people was large, they were orderly under the surveillance of bayonets, and the long queues registered in turn.

Zhu Jinhu stood in the long line and slowly moved forward. At this time, the sun was a little poisonous, Zhu Jinhu already had some cold, and he was exposed to the sun, dizzy and swollen, and felt that he would fall at any time.

Unlike other hungry people who dragged their families with them, he was alone, and his entire family had been slaughtered by the rebels a year earlier. To be precise, he was the only one in the entire village who escaped by herding cattle on the hillside outside the village, and hundreds of people in the whole village were all killed by the looted rebels, and there was not a single one left alive.

After experiencing this great change, Zhu Jinhu has changed from an ignorant teenager to a resolute character. For more than a year, in order to survive alone in difficult circumstances, he had rummaged through piles of dead people in search of food to satisfy his hunger; He also stabbed to death a wounded rebel soldier, which to a certain extent can be regarded as avenging his parents. Because he couldn't integrate into other hungry people linked by villages and clans, he could only struggle like a lone wolf, almost starved to death in the wilderness several times, and even thought about eating dead human flesh in the most difficult times, but his life was big, and he survived so much.

Now Zhu Jinhu finally saw the dawn of his life: the government wanted to recruit hungry people to go to Qiongzhou Mansion in Guangdong to reclaim the famine, and the conditions were still very favorable. Unlike others who fear being deceived, he hardly hesitates. I only have a cheap life, if I stay in Shandong, I will be cornered, and sooner or later it will be a dead end, so it is better to go to Qiongzhou Mansion to try my luck.

After waiting in line for a long time, it was finally his turn. He answered the book's questions hopefully, watching the bookmaker's brush brush on the paper and write words he couldn't understand.

"Name, place of origin, age?"

Zhu ...... Zhu Jinhu, Laizhou Mansion is ...... Jimo people, 19 ...... Nine years old. ”

The clerk who was struggling to write looked up at him and said in surprise: "Stammering? ”

Zhu Jinhu's face was flushed, and he stuttered a little when he was nervous, which was a major heart problem for him. I can't help but worry in my heart, recruiting people who farm the land, I won't want him because of my stuttering, right?

Fortunately, the book office did not dwell on this issue, but continued to ask him whether he had any specialties and whether he would be able to farm or other basic information.

After passing this level, he followed the people in front of him to a Langzhong. Lang Zhong pinched his cheek like an animal, looked at his tongue and teeth, and then touched his pulse. These actions made Zhu Jinhu a little resistant, and he remembered that when he was a child, adults looked at the teeth of livestock, which was also like this.

After Lang Zhong felt his pulse, he looked at his flushed face again, frowned, and said, "Are you sick?" ”

Zhu Jinhu's heart was half cold, and he saw with his own eyes that there were seriously ill hungry people in front of him being led away by officers and soldiers, and it was said that they could not get on the boat and go to Qiongzhou. He didn't want his only hope to be dashed, so he quickly defended: "The small one is just a cold, not a ...... It's not a serious illness! ”