Chapter 33: Only Fires, No Lamps (Part I)

It's the first time I've heard of stupid people together, but after a little guessing I know it's not a good thing, but I have to admit that I'm a fool indeed, and if I hadn't said that I had something else to do with the three horses at that time, I wouldn't have caused these troubles. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The friends behind him were all caught one by one, and the salt was scattered and mixed with the snow, which made him feel distressed to watch.

With so much salt, Chen Jian guessed that it should be used by those fugitive slaves in Ohnozawa, and he had his own considerations for these fugitive slaves.

Along the Grass River, before the advent of ox ploughshares, he was a staunch supporter and defender of the slavery system, and even after Xia Cheng had ox ploughing, some slaves who fled from E and Acropolis to Xia Cheng would be sent back with a lot of ties, because he did not want to offend the slave owner class along the Grass River, which was the foundation of Xia Cheng.

But here he did not have much hostility towards these slaves, on the contrary, he was very keen to take advantage of the spread of ox farming in Xia Cheng to cause a violent shock - the development of the handicraft industry required a vast market, and these slaves who had no purchasing power must be eliminated - not physically, but in the form of an institution to turn them into yeoman farmers and workshop apprentices, so that they could be exploited on a large scale to feed more soldiers and workers.

Now that the slave-owning class of the summer city has been formed and cannot touch their interests for the time being, the newly built city needs to become another template, giving the future people another choice. Tearing down an old house and building a new one is far less simple than building a tall building on flat ground.

He didn't know what Jian Chen was thinking, he only thought that he would die this time, although he was not as famous as Ze, but he was also a heinous bad guy in a nearby city, and he would definitely be hanged.

Since he had seen through life and death, he was not afraid in his heart, and he snorted and shouted to the rider who had just reported the news: "Didn't you just say that you wanted to invite me to drink? I was just joking with you, why did you run away? I haven't drunk it in a few days. ”

The rider glanced at Jian Chen, and Jian Chen nodded, "Give him the strongest mouth." ”

The strongest wine of the half-gourd was poured into his mouth, hot from his tongue to his heart, and he stretched out his tongue and licked the remnants of his mouth, and said with a smile: "Good wine." I'm just, congratulations, for catching a guy who can be exchanged for a warehouse of corn. ”

He thought that this group of people would be shocked, but he didn't want Chen Jian and the others to look at each other, obviously they didn't know this name, and they didn't seem to be fake, and his face was a little unbearable.

Jian Chen smiled: "Look at what you mean, you are still a character." You're from the depths of Onozawa? ”

"Yes. Don't you know everything? ”

"Come out and get salt?"

"Yes."

"With whom?"

"Picked it up on the ground. Someone told us to put the goods in the valley, and they took the goods, and they put the salt in the valley and we took it. ”

He didn't keep his mouth shut, but lied, even in the eyes of that village, it was better than nothing, he didn't want to involve that village, and he did the last thing for his partner in Daze before he died.

Of course Jian Chen didn't believe it, there was a village in the distance, and he must have exchanged it with the people of that village. But he didn't say anything, just whispered something to a few people. He only saw a dozen people galloping away, but he didn't know what he was doing, and he just chuckled in his heart, and those people clearly followed their footprints to the village.

"What are you going to do?"

"Don't do anything, see if you're telling the truth. There was a woman who said that you slaves are all bad people, such as not telling the truth, and now it seems that this is true. ”

"Does a meat-eater have to tell the truth?"

"It is virtuous for a meat-eater not to tell the truth, and it is despicable for a slave not to tell the truth. You don't understand. ”

Jian Chen laughed twice, and asked the group to be tied to the climbing plough and headed towards the village in the distance.

In the village, more than a dozen dogs have made the sound of dogs silent, and when Chen Jian and others arrived, the village was even more nervous.

Although I don't know what the origin of this group of people is, the wisdom of the years still tells the old man that this group of people must be unusual, and at this time it is the time for the alliance between the cities, maybe it is the leader of which city, and he greeted him in a panic, and when he raised his eyes and saw the people who were tied, he was very uneasy, suppressed the pounding heart, and squeezed out a smile and said: "Where are the guests from?" The snow is strong and the wind is tight, so please warm up and drink hot water. ”

"No need, I'm the leader of Xia Cheng, a relative of Su Cheng, and I met some fugitive slaves from Onozawa on the way, so I want to ask you something."

As soon as the man behind him wanted to shout, several people had already rushed over and strangled him with a rope in his mouth, and the old man asked in a panic, "I don't know...... Don't know what's going on? ”

Jian Chen grabbed a handful of salt from a jar and said, "Where did this come from?" ”

"I don't know."

"That's amazing, how did I hear the man say he was from your village? These fugitive slaves are all extremely sinful, you exchange salt with them, and the leader of Suyue knows what will happen? ”

The old man glanced at it, believing that this man would never sell himself, and out of this trust, he raised his head and said, "This matter may not have anything to do with us. Once, when my son was out hunting, he saw many salt shakers in the valley, and it is not known that someone might have secretly exchanged them. ”

Jian Chen sighed, several strong men in the village had been restrained, and the rest of the people did not dare to speak, only the infant children cried and didn't know what was going on.

Chen Jian casually pointed to a few women holding children and some half-grown children in the crowd and said, "Arrest them, lock them in the house, and ask them one by one." I already know and just want to hear the truth. Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, they can still be saved. If you know your mistakes and cover up your mistakes, then you won't be able to save you, anyway, your guilt will end up hanging in Sucheng, so you might as well kill here. ”

In an instant, the crying was extremely panicked, and it was easy for the organized soldiers to deal with these villagers who were not very organized, and the crying echoed throughout the village.

Yuemei, who had been watching Jian Chen do these things, was a little soft-hearted, and asked timidly, "Are you joking?" And it won't kill them, will it? ”

Chen Jian spread his hands and smiled: "That's not necessarily. ”

Yuemei's face suddenly turned pale, as if she didn't know Jian Chen, she stared at Jian Chen a few times, Jian Chen had already figured it out, no desire is rigid, she was fearless, and she was extremely calm. Yuemei watched for a while, listened to the crying, grabbed her clothes with both hands, and sighed and couldn't bear to look at it.

After a while, a few people came out and laughed: "They all told the truth." ”

Yuemei also breathed a sigh of relief and said happily: "That's good!" ”

Unexpectedly, the old man on the side screamed miserably, almost fainted, and a few peasants were about to get farm tools, bows and arrows, but someone had already scattered them and divided them one by one.

Jian Chen shook his head and said: "There is no way to do this, the people in the Great Wild Ze are extremely vicious, they were trapped without salt and will finish sooner or later, no wonder many encirclements and suppressions have not succeeded, I am afraid that you not only gave salt, but also told them about the actions of the army, right?" (To be continued.) )