choke element

Chapter 289

In mid-March, the snow and ice melted all over Shandong.

The turmoil and war that started in the second half of last year seemed to have come to an end during this period.Now that the climate is getting warmer, people everywhere have started to plow in the spring, and the people who have been included in the military household system started earlier.After all, they have more land in their hands, but most of them have less care, so they have to pay close attention to many things such as plowing and raising ridges.

All of a sudden, in the fields all over Laizhou, ants-like crowds could be seen running around, which made people feel a little bit like the villages were smoking new smoke.

At this time, the Dinghai Mansion was also quite busy.

No matter how well prepared we are in winter, when it comes to the busy season of farming, I always feel that this place is inappropriate and that place is not comprehensive.In some counties, there are more cattle, but there is not enough grain; in some counties, there are grain, but there are not enough farm tools;

It is inevitable that some warriors complained that most of their shady households are old and weak, and they can't do anything.Seeing that the farming season was about to be delayed, the family didn't have the heart to train.

The bureaucrats in the military mansion had a special discussion, and they all felt that the situation was not difficult to adjust, but the common people were all farming, and there was a shortage of manpower at hand.

Fortunately, after a whole winter, Ding Haijun's control over the local area has become stronger and stronger, his family has a solid foundation, and he has many ways to do it.

Previously, the navy was ordered to reorganize the soldiers in the three prefectures of Dengzhou, Lai, and Ninghai, and to screen out the prison troops in Dengzhou and Ninghai prefectures.There is no doubt that the Ding Navy is elite, and the requirements for selecting soldiers are also high. Those soldiers who were eliminated were as many as 3000 to [-].However, many of them left the army and had no home to return to. They were only managed by Jing'an people temporarily.

This time the military government simply removed all of them from the military, and the Department of Government Affairs dispatched them to various places, a small amount of them assisted in the transfer of materials, and most of them directly assisted in the spring plowing.After the spring plowing, they will be assigned to shade households on the spot, which can be regarded as giving them a place to go.

The so-called Prison City Army came from the Song system. As the name suggests, it was theft and guilty slaves who were used to defend and build.

However, Dajin's prison army is not filled with criminals, but unidentified people who were captured by local officials from various places when the court was in a hurry to sign the army.

Since the identity is unknown, it is inevitable to commit crimes.In order to prevent them from committing crimes, it is only natural and normal to have their faces tattooed in advance and sent to prison.As for the soldiers of the Prison City Army, they all said that they were innocent and had never committed crimes. How could they be believed?How can the thieves in the prison city be trusted?

The local officials always have a way to smooth things out, and the soldiers of the Prison City Army have become the lowest-level cannon fodder in the Dajin Kingdom, and their status is worse than that of the Sheliang Army.

Wang Erbai is a prisoner soldier who was eliminated.

He was originally a fisherman in Wandu Village, Haizhou. When he was born, his father harvested [-] catties of fish in a net at sea, so he got this name.

In the summer of the previous year, Wang Erbai and the young and strong men from his village went out to sea to fish, and they were hit by a storm on the sea. Relying on his excellent water skills, Wang Erbai rescued his companions who fell into the water in the storm, but his family was in bad luck. The mast that fell into the water was blown off and hit.

He floated on the sea holding the mast for a full six days, relying on eating raw fish to replenish his strength, and finally landed in the Chengshan area of ​​Ninghai Prefecture.After surviving the catastrophe, he yelled wildly with joy, and was discovered by the officials who signed the army.

The officials saw it, hey, what a big man, he couldn't help but surround him and beat him with a stick, and he was tied up and brought back to the city.

After a while of confusion, Wang Erbai's identity became a pirate of unknown origin, and then a gold seal was added to his face, and he became a prison soldier in Wendeng County from then on.

In the next two years, he didn't make any money to fight, but he saw mountains of corpses and seas of blood on the battlefield several times.This made Wang Erbai miss his family even more.

He tried to escape one after another, but he was unlucky and was arrested several times, all of which were severely punished by his superiors.One of them was eaten hard by a military stick and hurt his hip, and now he walks with a little limp.

When Ding Haijun reorganized his team, Wang Erbai still wanted to go back to Haizhou, so he cheated and played tricks every time in the assessment, trying to perform poorly.

Sure enough, he was eliminated.

Unexpectedly, Ding Haijun treated these eliminated soldiers well and continued to provide them with food and drink.For half a month, I was able to eat two and a half full meals a day and sleep soundly at night.

When he was picked to come to Tunbao in Yifeng Town, he was a little scared, thinking that the military men in Dinghai with swords and guns would let them work hard until they died, so he planned to run away along the way.

He didn't give up in disappointment until he heard that there was a strong rebellion in Haizhou, and the army was in chaos.

Of course, there were people who took advantage of the chaos and escaped, but there were many cavalry in the Ding Navy, and most of those who escaped were captured.Those who were captured the first time were given twenty military sticks each; those who were captured the second time were beheaded immediately.

The severed heads were hung on bamboo poles and stood outside the camp.It is said that this is Dinghai Guo Jiedu's preference.

How can normal people have such preferences?That Guo Jiedu must have a green face and fangs, very vicious.

When Wang Erbai was young, he had heard in the fishing village that all the senior officials of the Dajin Kingdom were Jurchens who came from the deep mountains in the north.They are different from Han'er, they are ruthless, cannibalize human flesh, and even drink human blood!
But after more than ten days in Yifeng Town tremblingly, Wang Erbai didn't want to leave.

Life in Tunpu, Yifeng Town is much better than that in Ninghai Prefecture.I can eat scones every day, there are miscellaneous grains, and occasionally some salt vegetables and fish.This is really good, scones as big as your face, hard and solid, you can only eat them during the Chinese New Year in the fishing village!
If I have to say that there is something unhappy, it is that I am a little tired from work.

The Prison City Army was originally doing odd jobs in defense and construction, and it was not that Wang Erbai had never worked as a coolie in Wendeng County.But working for the government, who is not making do?Dinghai is different here. The weather is still cold, so it is necessary to dig ditches, build walls, and build houses.

Wang Erbai dug the ditch for three to five days, and then was sent to break the adobe.There is a special thing about this matter: the adobe used to build the wall should not be compacted. Before tamping, it must be sieved to remove the grass seeds and grass roots in the soil, otherwise the adobe will not be firm.

It's true that Wang Erbai didn't want to be a soldier, but he is a kind person.He felt that since he had a good meal, he had to do a good job, so he took a few soldiers who were from the Wendeng prison camp and knew him well, carefully sifted the soil every day, and rammed it solidly. .

He has great strength, and when tamping, one person can be used as two people, and the progress of making adobe is also fast.Therefore, after being praised several times by the officials above, he soon became a small leader who led more than 20 people, and had an extra pancake when eating every day.

There is a captain in Tunpu, who is said to be Guo Jiedu's Changzhou fellow, called Zhao Bin.

Zhao Bin likes the tall and burly Wang Erbai very much.He asked Wang Erbai why he was not selected by the military mansion, and asked Wang Erbai if he was interested in being his servant. Being a servant would bring many benefits.

Wang Erbai had thought a lot when he was recruiting troops before, but now for some reason, he was too lazy to think about it.

He said, all right.

Zhao Bin laughed out loud.

I heard from others that many people who have been eliminated by the sand now regret it, but it is not so easy to rejoin the army.

But since Zhao Bin boasted that he and Dinghai Guo Jiedu are from the same town... this may be true, and he really has some confidence.For this matter, Zhao Bin took Wang Erbai on a special trip to Ye County, Laizhou.

Because it took only three days to take the cart of the military government to transport supplies, and it took only three days for a hundred miles.Sitting on the roof of the car, Wang Erbai only felt that the road was straight and solid, with fields and canals on both sides, and every ten miles or so, there was a small fort similar to Yifeng Town.

After arriving in Ye County, Zhao Bin was really familiar with the government office.The big yamen he went directly to was said to be the newly established commander of the Laizhou capital.

After walking through several small courtyards, handing in the documents, Zhao Bin asked Wang Erbai to put his fingerprint on the booklet at the last place.

He said: "Boy, press it quickly. After pressing it, you are my Arixi! Hahaha!"

Since he wanted to press his fingerprints, Wang Erbai honestly bit his own finger.Thinking of dividing the fields and land in the future, he was a little happy, and he was full of calculations, so that he could bring the family and the village in Wandu Village, Haizhou, to live a good life.It was a good idea, he bit down a bit hard, and when he touched his upper and lower teeth, blood dripped from his mouth, flowing out from the corner of his mouth.

After biting it, I realized that several officers around me were stunned, saying repeatedly that there was red cinnabar available on the table, brothers don't have to be so cruel.

(End of this chapter)