This thousand thieves who came down from Crouching Tiger Mountain have no knowledge at all, and their combat effectiveness and discipline are extremely poor.

The gang of cowards saw that the cavalry of the brigade in front of them surrounded them, and they immediately screamed in surprise and made a mess.

Song Genhai, Feng Changqing and the others gathered for a while before they stopped.

"Surnamed Fan, do you think these little thieves can also rebel?"

Cui Geng pointed to the ragged bandits behind him, and sneered at Fan Guanglie: "Are you an idiot and mentally retarded, or a mentally handicapped idiot?" ”

Fan Guanglie sneered: "Whether it is a rebellion or not, you don't say it, the law of the court has the final say!" I think that Zhang Liang, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, although there was no trace, was convicted of rebellion by Emperor Taizong because he had 500 adopted sons, and his family was exterminated. I inherited the Tang system in Da Zhou, and said that you rebelled, don't you be wronged? ”

"Don't you fuck me with these word games." Cui Geng looked at Fan Guanglie's gloomy face, and he didn't have a good feeling, and scolded directly, "Privately accumulating a righteous son and tying each other with kindness and righteousness, of course it is a bad intention." But these people are not the righteous sons of their own officials, but some starved people. Why not, if this official guides him to be good? ”

If Cui Geng can be defeated in a few words, Fan Guanglie will not be worthy of the title of "expert in internal fighting", let alone Sun Yangao's staff and military advisor.

He groaned for a moment, and then said in a strange manner: "Oh! It turns out that they are hungry people, Cui Changshi helps the hungry people, compassionate, and the officials admire it! Still, hehe...... Giving money to the hungry and buying people's hearts is not a conspiracy? ”

Speaking of this, he shouted at Sima Li Xia of Dingzhou not far behind him: "Sima Li, I bother you to send some sergeants over and detain these hungry people as witnesses, I want to see how Cui Changshi is going to explain to the imperial court!" ”

Giving to the hungry without permission is not a light crime!

In feudal society, it is not that you want to do good deeds. The reason is very simple, you have countless living people, ascend to the heights, and all people respond. Next, isn't it time to prepare to pull the flag and rebel?

Lai Junchen has a little brother named Wang Hongyi. This person started like Lai Junchen, relying on exposing others to rebel. One day, he saw an old man in the neighborhood who made merit for himself and invited the monks and neighbors to eat for free, commonly known as "Yi Zhai".

As a result, Wang Hongyi exposed that he used the name of doing good deeds to win people's hearts and plot bad things. In the end, the slander was successful, and the meritorious officials were exposed. And the old man who did good deeds and did Yi Zhai was exterminated by his family.

There are traces to follow and examples to be carried out in this dynasty.

If it is strictly investigated, the nature of Cui Geng's matter is much heavier than that old man.

And Fan Guanglie knows that Cui Geng's sworn enemy Lai Junchen is now Luoyang Ling, and he is waiting to catch Cui Geng's pigtails!

He just needs to poke this case up...... will definitely be able to sit down, and Cui Geng will have no luck when the time comes!

Thinking of the smugness, Fan Guanglie already had a smile on his face, "Cui Changshi, you were not majestic in Huangcheng Village at the beginning, and you have suffered countless repercussions from Fan someone, and today I will let you return it with interest." Ha ha! Ha ......"

Cui Geng glanced at him indifferently, "Fan Guanglie, are you sick?" ”

As he spoke, Cui Geng unhurriedly took out a yellow cloth package from the cloth bag on the saddle.

Then he opened the package, and inside was a thick pile of deeds, and said, "Fan Guanglie, open your eyes on the dead fish and see, what is this?" ”

"What's, what is this?" Fan Guanglie was also surprised by Cui Geng's calmness.

Cui Geng's eyes were bright, Feng Changqing urged him to step forward, took a deed, and read aloud: "He Wufeng, male, thirty-two years old, from Gucheng, Dingzhou. Because his family was poor and difficult to stand on his own, he was willing to sell himself to Cui Geng as a slave, worth 20 yuan. The sale of one's body is limited to one year, after which the slave and maid can redeem themselves at the original price. ……”

Obviously, this is a deed of sale.

The social division during the Tang Dynasty (Wu Zhou) period was probably the serf of the merchant and the merchant, and this slave refers to the slave maid.

After Feng Changqing finished reading, Cui Gengcai said, "Fan Guanglie, did you hear clearly?" These people have sold themselves to their own officials as slaves, so why not? ”

"What? Deed of Sale? Are these your slaves? ”

Fan Guanglie was so angry in his heart, "Cui Changshi, who are you fooling?" ”

After listening to the terms of the deed of sale, he suddenly felt that his IQ was insulted.

Cui Erlang actually bought these thieves as slaves at a high price of 20 yuan, and it was not a lifetime contract! It is limited to one year, and after one year, the slave and maid can be redeemed at the original price.

Well, these two items, he can still accept them, after all, it can be explained that Cui Geng is kind-hearted and can't bear to be harsh on slaves and maids.

But what's the deal with the rest of the deed? You only need to work five hours a day, one day off every ten years, and the salary is consistent every month, four stones!

Fan Guanglie is sure and sure, where is this the treatment of slaves? This is fundamentally based on the treatment of the Nine Rank Officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty!

Is this Nima buying slaves? It's just a buy official master!

is such a solicitation law, not to mention those bandits, as long as Cui Geng releases the wind, he believes that more than ninety percent of the people in Dingzhou will have to be sold into slavery!

Fan Guanglie felt that Cui Geng was making fun of himself, and said, "Cui Changshi, are you planning to deceive fools with this deed?" With such generous conditions, how could it be just to recruit slaves and maids? ”

"The surname Fan, can you not be so rare and weird." Cui Gengyun said lightly, "This official is willing to treat slaves and maids preferentially, what's wrong?" This official has a lot of money in his family, and he is willing to do it so badly, are you envious and jealous, or hate? Look at your sour. It is said that how big the pattern is, how far the career is, no wonder, you have half a foot in the coffin of the old thing, and only now have you mixed up with a seven-grade record to join the army! ”

Fan Guanglie's humiliated body was incomplete, and he was already trembling with anger, raising his hand and pointing at Cui Geng angrily: "Cui Erlang, don't bully people too much!" ”

Feng Changqing shouted when he saw this, "The surname is Fan, my family is from the history of the governor of Wupinding, if you dare to point with your fingers and join the army, your mouth is not formal, hum, a certain family chopped your dog paws first!" ”

"The surname Fan, my family has deceived you too much, so what? How many products does he have, and how many products do you have? But you're sad, too! Look at me Song Genhai, I don't know a lot of words, but in the year of his establishment, he became a seven-grade Xuanyilang," Song Genhai rode on a horse and raised a horsewhip and sneered, "Look at your coffin again, no matter how much you can read the book?" Tsk, it's really important to be with people! ”

"You ......" Fan Guanglie laughed angrily, "You ......"

"Okay, okay, Changqing, Genhai, you're going too far!"

At this time, Cui Geng also knew that it was enough, and deliberately interjected and scolded, "Fan joined the army as a record of Dingzhou and joined the army, and he was Sun Tingshi's right-hand man!" It also depends on the owner of the dog that you fight! No matter how bad it is, you have to take care of Sun Tingshi's face! ”

"You...... You...... Cui Erlang, you dare to scold me for being a dog? "Fan Guanglie has really not been so badly abused in these years!

Cui Geng was surprised, covered his mouth and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't stop talking too quickly, Fan is not a dog!" ”

"Ahem......" Fan Guanglie was choked again and couldn't speak.

Cui Geng found that the beating was almost the same, so he smiled softly again: "Okay, don't worry about Fan joining the army, they are all rough people who don't understand Chinese crepe." ”

Fan Guanglie was angry in his heart, damn, Cui Erlang, it seems that you humiliated the old man more than the two of them, they are rough people, what are you?

I only heard Cui Geng say again: "In fact, to recruit these people as slaves and maids, the conditions offered by this official are indeed more generous." But the amount of money these people can earn for their own officials is much more than these conditions. If so, why care about that little money? You know, the Cui family's Mulan Spring Wine is making money every day, and it's not bad for that little money! ”

He sat on his horse and waved his arms and talked, and his whole body was full of a strong nouveau riche atmosphere.

"At such a big cost, you can still make money?" Fan Guanglie was so angry that he was already out of breath when he spoke, and snorted: "What do you want them to do?" It's not going to continue to rob homes, right? ”

Cui Geng said seriously: "Of course not." What exactly to do, Fan Senjun knows everything, please come with this official. ”

"Where are you going?" Fan Guanglie asked.

"Huangcheng Village, of course." Cui Geng said.

Fan Guanglie said again: "Hmph, you want to divert my attention and leave the rebellion behind, right?" ”

When Cui Geng heard this, he rolled his eyes, "Fan Guanglie, if we want to fight, can we have some technical content?" I've taken them all as slaves, do you think it's still good to detain me for rebellion? ”

Feng Changqing bared his teeth and smiled, urging: "Okay, old dog, you can't pit my family, this will make you lose again!" Okay, next time you want to frame my family, use more brains! ”

Song Genhai also scolded proudly: "Hurry up and enter Huangcheng Village, old thing, next time you dare to frame my family, you can't even enter the ancestral grave because of my humiliation!" ”

Fan Guanglie was almost so angry that he fainted!

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In Huangcheng Village, Cui Geng brought more than 1,000 thieves to the village, and the Boling Cui clan had already known about it and had made preparations early.

As soon as these good bandits entered the village, they were greeted by forty middle-aged men in green shirts, divided them into twenty teams, arranged washing, eating, and sheltering, and everything was in an orderly manner.

As for Fan Guanglie, Sun Yangao and Li Xia, they were introduced to Cui Ru's house to serve tea.

After a few words of greeting, Fan Guanglie couldn't help it anymore and said, "Cui Changshi, what do you want Ben to see when he joins the army?" ”

Cui Geng ignored the old dog, but winked at Cui Ru and said, "Old patriarch, everything is going well with the matter that the kid explained, right?" ”

As soon as he mentioned this matter, Cui Ru was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, and said, "It's going well, it's going very well!" Erlang, you are really worthy of being called the "Golden Sage", and you are even familiar with this matter! ”

Sun Yangao, Fan Guanglie and the others saw that the old and the young were playing dumb riddles, and they could hear it in a fog, and asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

Cui Gengdao: "Want to know? If it's not too dirty, the official can take a few people to see it now. ”

Sun Yangao wanted to find out, so he said: "Regardless of oneself for the country, what are you afraid of messy?" I'll go now! ”

"Okay, Sun Thorn Shi, please!"

Under the guidance of Cui Geng, people came to a small courtyard. As soon as I opened the courtyard door, a sound of "chirping" suddenly came, which was extremely noisy.

Looking at it, it is even more incredible, but I saw that there were dozens of bamboo baskets in the courtyard, and there were dozens of chickens in each bamboo basket, adding up to at least more than a thousand!

In these years, chickens and ducks are all free-range for the people, Fan Guanglie was a little dizzy when he saw it, and asked, "How can there be so many chicks?" You bought it all? ”

Cui Gengdao: "The boundary of Dingzhou, the official just wants to buy it, and there is no place to sell it, of course I ordered someone to incubate it." ”

"Hatched?" Sun and Fan were extremely surprised.

Especially Fan Guanglie, he knows more about livestock breeding than Sun Yangao. He understands that such a thing as hatching chicks does not mean that the owner can hatch them if he wants to, but that the hens have that will. You just threaten the hen, and it doesn't understand, this kind of thing can only go with the flow, and it can't be forced.

With so many chicks hatching at once, how many hens does Bolingcui's have to have?

What made him even more strange was that what did the Bolingcui clan do with so many hens or chicks? What does this have to do with Cui Geng's collection of those bandits?

Cui Geng saw the doubts of several of them, quietly uncovered the corner of the puzzle, and said: "It's not a secret, these chicks are not hatched by hens, but completely by artificial. Therefore, as long as there are enough eggs, the official wants to hatch more chicks and kill them. ”

"And this?" Fan Guanglie was even more confused.

Cui Geng's method of artificially incubating chicks is naturally beyond this era.

His method is neither complicated nor technically difficult.

Just find a water tank and pour warm water from 50 to 70 degrees into it. This temperature range is very large, almost enough, and there is no need for any tools to measure the temperature.

Then, the outside of the tank is covered with a thick layer of cotton to keep warm, and thirty or forty eggs are placed on a thin copper plate and hung over warm water.

Finally, cover the tank with a quilt.

The rest is simple, every two or three hours, turn the eggs. Change the water in the tank once a day. You don't need to change the water completely, just keep it warm.

After about 21 days, the chicks can break out of the shell, and the survival rate should be more than 50%. If you are proficient, this probability will increase to 80%!

Cui Geng didn't hide it, and briefly explained the method of hatching chicks, which surprised everyone.

Cui Geng finally said: "As for the official who took these thieves as slaves and maids of the Cui family, it was to take care of these chickens. ”

"No, it won't!" Sun Yangao exclaimed: "This is more than a thousand thieves, oh no, more than a thousand slaves, how many chickens do you have to raise?" ”

"At least the total number is more than a million, otherwise how can we be worthy of their wages?" Cui Gengdao: "Xiaguan's move is not just to make money, there are other reasons. This reason is related to your grandson's head, my Cui someone's future! ”

"Huh? It's still my business" Sun Yangao couldn't help but care a little when he heard it.

Cui Geng said: "Of course, do you remember Your Majesty's holy decree a few days ago? It is said that there is likely to be a big locust plague next year, and you and I are ordered to eliminate locusts in the five states. If it is not good to cure locusts, I will take off the head of your grandson Thorn Shi and remove my Cui someone's black yarn. I don't know if Sun Tingshi still remembers? ”

"Huh? Remember to remember! ”

It was about his own head, of course Sun Yangao remembered, and suddenly, he reacted a little and asked: "Could it be that Cui Changshi, you are preparing to raise millions of chickens, so that in case of a locust plague in the coming year, you are ready to use these chickens to exterminate locusts?" ”

Cui Geng snorted, and praised Sun Yangao and did not forget to ridicule Fan Guanglie, "Sun Tingshi's eyes are like torches, no wonder Fan is so old in the army, and he still joins the army in the seventh grade." I know that I put a hat on others, and my mind is all about hurting people and pitting people, how can I improve in this career? ”

Fan Guanglie just relieved his breath, and when he heard the sarcasm, he was so angry that his face was red, and he trembled his lips and said: "It's too much to deceive people, it's just too much to deceive people!" ”

Sun Yangao is having a headache about exterminating locusts, where can he care if Fan Guanglie is wronged?

After hearing Cui Geng's words, he immediately said with great joy: "I see, Cui Changshi is dedicated to the public, speaking of which, this assassin is really wrong to blame you!" ”

On the standpoint of eliminating locusts, it is obvious that Sun Yangao and Cui Geng will not tear up, because they both have common political interests.

But after a while, Fan Guanglie suddenly laughed wildly, laughing breathlessly, a little crazy!

"Haha! Cui Erlang, I will eventually meet a tiger when I go up to the mountain, and I will see a ghost if I walk too much at night, and I was finally caught by the official with a pigtail, right? Fan Guanglie suddenly said proudly: "People's locusts can fly, can they still stand there obediently and let you eat?" Even if you could keep a million chickens, what would you do? Can your chickens still fly? And the most crucial ......"

Fan Guanglie suddenly walked up to Sun Yangao and said in a low voice: "Lord Thorn Shi, Cui Erlang must be trying to harm you, you think, if there is a locust plague next year, it will be the year of the catastrophe!" What did the people lack most in the year of the great calamity? It's food! But this Cui Geng is good, and he even has to feed the chickens with precious grain, You say, what is his intention? It's not about you, what's it? ”

Sun Yangao was also stunned after hearing this, frowned and supported his chin, thought about it, and muttered: "Well, if you really use grain to feed chickens in this year of catastrophe, it will be to take food from the mouths of the victims, and when the time comes, let people participate in a copy, and the saint will definitely punish you and me, Cui Changshi!" ”

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