"If only my man had become a big official."

A glimmer of anticipation suddenly flashed in her heart, and then she smiled bitterly: "Don't dream, with the dead virtue of your man, it's good to stay in the army, and be an official?" Go for it. ”

After receiving Huo Qingtong's order, the first leaders began to maintain order, shouting loudly: "Come, come forward, get closer." ”

Huo Qingtong boarded the big stone when Dong Ce first convened all the people to speak, and the big stone was more than one zhang high, two or three zhang square, and the shape was very irregular. Li Gui found someone to repair the surroundings, pasted bricks around the platform, and chiseled the edges and corners to smooth out, and now it has been changed to the appearance of a platform. There are many large rocks like this around the Rock Fort, as well as in the geography, by the river, and around the city. It is often one or two zhang high, larger than the house, and I am afraid that the weight of hundreds of thousands of catties and hundreds of thousands of catties is there, and it can't be moved at all, so I have to continue to put it here.

However, although these stones are large, they are not broken, and compared to the vast land around them, they are nothing and do not affect farming. Some people directly built their houses against this big stone, and saved the need to build another wall.

Huo Qingtong glanced at the silent crowd below, and said with a smile: "Many of you know me, right?" ”

She is the kind of person who is very hearty, and she doesn't have any arrogance, because the women who have done things with her before are not very afraid of her, and many people shout at the moment: "Do you know, Miss Huo!" ”

"That's right." Huo Qingtong smiled: "Everyone who knows me should know my character, go straight, don't hide it, let's not say those scenes." I'll just say what's going on with bringing you here today. ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on her face, and somehow, many people were a little apprehensive in their hearts. These days, every time everyone is called together to announce something, whether it is good or bad, it will always have some impact and change in everyone's life.

People have inertia and inertia, and often don't want to change after adapting to a life.

"Now most of you, the men in your family are all serving as soldiers, and in the future, you will eat in the barracks, live in the barracks, and you don't have to spend a penny on every meal, and you will be given eight buckets of food every month. And now, you are still living on the daily rations. But from this day onwards, there will be no more daily food distribution per capitation! ”

"What? No more food in the future? ”

There was a huge commotion in the crowd suddenly, and Huo Qingtong's words were tantamount to a bombshell, which made these people dizzy, and they couldn't react for a while.

They immediately panicked, and they had adapted to receiving food every day, cooking and eating, and making ends meet, which suddenly cut off their food source, which suddenly made their hearts empty for a while, and they didn't know what to do in the future.

This made them feel a kind of despair that had been cut off from their lives, and as for those men in the family who did not become soldiers, they were even more panicked and helpless.

"Quiet, all quiet!" Huo Qingtong shouted in a low voice with a straight face, and those armor chiefs also helped to suppress it.

"Your Excellency is merciful, how can there be any reason to cut off your way of life?" Huo Qingtong said: "Naturally, there is another way out!" ”

Hearing this, the crowd became silent again, waiting for her to continue.

"From today onwards, adults will send down some odd and eighty errands, for example, you can buy chickens and duck seedlings, raise chickens and ducks, and then sell them to livestock farms. You can also go to the warehouse to buy cotton, and when you come back, you can spin and weave cloth, and then hand over part of the fabric as the principal interest of the cotton on credit, and the rest of the fabrics, isn't it your own? ”

When the people heard this, their minds immediately came alive. Miss Huo is right, isn't it quite what she can do? Most of them are from farmers, not to mention anything else, raising some livestock and poultry, farming and weaving, this is the old profession, and they will naturally know.

"Now there is such a task on your heads, and when it is done, each of you will be rewarded with five buckets of grain."

"What? Five buckets of grain? For these people, this is not a small amount, and they are all looking forward to it.

Huo Qingtong pointed to the big bags: "There are two things here, one is cotton, and the other is copper coins." ”

Everyone listened carefully with their ears pricked up, not knowing what was going on with the cotton and copper coins, and what it had to do with them.

"You don't have to worry about anything else, just know that cotton is used to make cotton sheets. And these copper coins are to be woven into nail leaves with hemp rope, the size of a palm. That's what you're going to do. ”

Everyone listened in a fog and didn't know what was going on.

Huo Qingtong's eloquence is actually average, and what she said is not so clear, she said hilariously: "Hey, forget it, I can't understand it when I tell you." So, I'm going to show you a little bit now......"

She had cotton and water come up, and a bag of copper coins and a bundle of hemp rope.

"All are optimistic......"

"Cotton, so, soaked, look good, must be soaked. Then the water is squeezed dry, and in this way, beaten with a wooden stick, repeatedly beaten, and beaten into thin sheets...... Yes, that's it, and then let it dry in the sun. After drying, it is soaked again, beaten again, and dried again. After soaking, beating, and drying, it is done. ”

"This copper coin, look at it, alas, it's all closer, hide behind it."

"This rope has to be braided like this, and it has to be worn like this, can you see it...... That's it, such a piece is considered complete. Isn't it exactly the size of a palm? I want two layers, take a look, and take them all to see. ”

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Huo Qingtong's demonstration is actually really time-consuming. She is also patient and carefully taught this process. After a demonstration, more than an hour passed.

The women listened very carefully to the important matter of eating, and although they had not read much, they were not stupid. Isn't that cotton pad beating similar to when you wash clothes? It seems that it is much easier to weave a piece of armor with copper coins than to weave a curtain and frame with a strip.

The women at this time have a lot of work, and most of them are also skillful, and basically after reading it, they can remember a rough idea. Of course, remembering is remembering, but the hands are still raw, which requires a lot of effort to practice.

"If you haven't learned it for the time being, and if you don't understand it, it doesn't matter. I've been here all day, and if there's anything I don't understand, just ask, and I'll demonstrate it a few more times. ”

Huo Qingtong said very heartily.

"Later, if all the men in the family are serving in the army, each of you will give you twenty pounds of cotton and eighteen pounds and two taels of copper coins. These things are to be used to make armor. Twenty catties of cotton should be beaten into thirteen catties of cotton sheets. And these copper coins are to be woven into fifty-three large nail leaves. ”

Hearing these news, a whisper immediately sounded below. Many people have already secretly moved their minds - more than a dozen catties of copper coins, how much does it have to be?

Huo Qingtong saw it in her eyes, a sneer burst in her heart, the smile on her face disappeared, and she snorted coldly: "I repeat, these are used to make armor!" Armor, you know, what it means? If you dare to make shoddy work, steal and play tricks, and the quality of the armor is not up to standard, then whoever wears this armor will be unlucky, and you will be hacked to death on the battlefield! ”

It was quiet below, but many people looked quite disapproving.

Huo Qingtong knows, I'm afraid that many people are thinking, what does it matter to me that others are hacked to death? As long as it's not your own man, it's done.

"I know what you have in mind, I have been poor, and I know that this money wants to be transferred to my own hands. But ......" Huo Qingtong paused, his delicate little face was tense, full of Sensen's coldness: "These copper coins, these cotton, you can't move!" No one can move! ”

"Everything you hand in, it will be recorded and your name will be written next to it. There will be someone one by one, carefully checked, if you find that someone handed in the pound is not right, or the cotton pad is not strong and tough enough, as long as there is a problem, you can immediately find your head. When the time comes, you will not only be unlucky, your whole family will be kicked out of the Rock Fort, your men, don't want to be soldiers, roll up and get out! ”

Under the threat and intimidation, many people were worried in their hearts and secretly made up their minds that they must not make up their minds on this.

Rao is like this, Huo Qingtong also knows that I am afraid that there are still people who will have a fluke mentality, after all, these people are all poor and afraid. So she threw out another killer feature: "

"In addition, besides, after the cotton pads and nail leaves you create are finally made into armor, whoever makes them will be given to whose men to wear them."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stupid, no one expected that this girl Huo, who looked hearty and grinning, would come up with such an idea. Suddenly, those who had crooked ideas in their hearts wilted, and they were honest and honest, and they no longer dared to have crooked thoughts.

Nonsense, now cut corners, even if you don't find out, go back and make it, let your own man wear it, but the quality is not good, and the harm to your own man is killed, what should I do? Where do these women understand war? Naturally, as soon as Huo Qingtong was frightened, they all believed it. This idea was thought up by Huo Qingtong, and he also gave Dong Ce instructions, and Dong Ce also appreciated it very much. At that time, Dong Ce also said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to look stupid, and you really have a bit of a crooked idea." "Of course, whoever does it will let the men of the family wear this, naturally it is just for these women, and if it is really operated, it is impossible. Ask them to write their names when they turn in their things, and then they can double-check them. When the armor is finally completed, it must be a uniform specification and a unified size, and it will naturally be issued to whoever it is.

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