Everything seems to have returned to normal.
At least that's what it looks like on the surface.
Under the attack of nearly 100,000 rebels, Ning Cheng achieved a complete victory at a very small cost! Moreover, countless strong laborers were harvested!
For this reason, the cultivated land area around Ningzhou has rapidly expanded several times!
The water conservancy facilities that the fat county magistrate had always wanted to build before were finally able to obtain free labor. For a time, countless ditches and waterways were being excavated around Ningcheng.
And the so-called prophecy that there will be a great disaster after the great chaos has not been fulfilled here in Ningcheng.
With Xiao Han and Old Man Hua, two doctors who are proficient in medical skills, they buried all the corpses that may have caused the epidemic as soon as possible, and blocked all water sources that might have been contaminated! Along with the personal hygiene of the rebels, it is also strictly controlled!
It’s okay not to eat, not to drink water! But if you don’t take a shower, that’s a no-no!
Now that the weather has warmed up, those rebels' daily compulsory course is to jump into the river to take a bath!
And after washing, they have to be inspected. If there is any failure, a team of people will wash it again, and they will also enjoy a free massage.
Don't think this massage is a good thing! If you don’t believe it, ask those rebels. No matter who enjoys it once, they will never want to enjoy it a second time.
Such a thick broom knot is too hard even for brushing pigs! But rubbing against them crazily!
After being scrubbed, my whole body was as red as steamed pork! Not to mention wearing clothes, just touching it will make you grin with pain!
By the way, I almost forgot, the feces left by the rebels in the city were also cleared out of the city this time.
After being mixed with straw, leaves, horse manure and other materials, it is buried in a large pit and waits for it to mature and become fertilizer.
Xiao Han was a little confused about this at first: isn't manure just ready-made farm fertilizer? Why don't you just throw it into the ground instead of going to the trouble of burying it first? I heard that once buried, it will take several months!
Later, while he was free, he asked Old Man Hua this question, but he received a pair of blank stares on the spot...
I remember that after Old Man Hua heard his question, he immediately looked at Xiao Han up and down with eyes as if he were looking at an idiot. Then he said "Another idiot who doesn't eat minced meat" and left with angrily throwing away his sleeves!
Xiao Han was left stunned for a moment, unable to figure out what relationship he had with that idiot Jin Huidi.
In the end, Xiaodong couldn't stand it any longer, and quietly told Xiao Han that everyone who walked the land knew that so much feces could not be used directly as fertilizer and would burn the crops to death, even if they were not burned to death. , crops can also get sick, and must be cooked before use.
Well, after listening to Xiaodong's explanation, Xiao Han realized where he was wrong.
But you have to admit your mistakes and stand firm after being beaten!
Who told him that he had never been in the fields or worked in his two lifetimes? To be able to recognize the difference between leeks and wheat is to surpass most people of the same age in later generations.
Regarding the above-mentioned changes in Ningcheng, to put it bluntly, they were all caused by the captured rebels.
Nowadays, the people of Ningcheng, including the residents of Xincheng who later moved into the city, have all transformed into supervisor Baotou!
Each of them holds a whip, and what they do every day is to fiercely watch over the work of the rebels! Whenever he finds someone cheating and slipping, he will immediately hit him with the whip in his hand!
In the past, I wouldn't even dare to think about something like this!
Because even some wealthy families would not dare to abuse their servants who were sold into slavery like this!
If someone discovers this, at least he will be stabbed in the back by his neighbor on the street, or at worst, he will probably get into a lawsuit and be severely punished by the government!
Moreover, the county masters of the Tang Dynasty seem to like doing this kind of thing.
Punish the rich for being unkind and help the poor!
In this way, not only can you make a lot of money secretly, but you can also get the title of Lord Qingtian who makes decisions for the people openly. You can even be recorded once in the official examination. With so many benefits, why not for?
but now? Treat those rebels?
Even the government has made it clear: Beat! As long as you can't be beaten to death, then fight to death!
Of course, this does not mean that the government is inhumane!
If it weren't for these bastards, where would so many people have died in Shandong?
If nothing else, just look at Weizhou City. It is a truly big city several times larger than Ningcheng!
But what about now? They burned, killed and looted once, and the whole city was almost empty!
this! They are all their own people! Unarmed civilians are not some vendetta against foreigners! Maybe eight hundred years ago, we were in the same family as them!
How could they do it!
Therefore, when the scouts sent to Weizhou City came back, they told everyone what they had seen with their own eyes about the tragedy in Weizhou City.
The hard days of those rebels are coming again!
"What, you didn't kill anyone! Can't I whip you? Nonsense! The murderer would have been chopped down by the Marquis!"
"Now you know it hurts? Why didn't you stop them when they were killing people?"
Similar remarks were heard from time to time inside and outside the city, but more often, they were the crisp sound of the whip being dropped, and the miserable howls of the person being beaten.
If they had known that such a day would come, they would probably rather starve to death than believe in King Nalaoshizi.
Now I don't get three meals a day, but I never miss three beatings a day, and I even have to add a few more from time to time.
"Jingyuan is dead..."
In a dark room in Ningzhou City Yamen, Xiao Han looked at Ruan Nanzhu, who had a withered face and sunken eye sockets, and whispered.
Like a stone sculpture, Ruan Nanzhu, who was sitting cross-legged on a low platform, trembled slightly when he heard Xiao Han's words, and his dull eyes finally showed a trace of sadness.
"The leader of the thief escaped. Our people chased him but failed to catch up." Xiao Han noticed the strangeness of Ruan Nanzhu, but did not pay attention to it. He just continued what he said: "In the past two days, we have killed more than a thousand people in total. People, these people were basically stained with blood in Weizhou City, their heads were covered with lime and they were hung outside the city."
Hearing this, the sadness in Ruan Nanzhu's eyes slowly dissipated, but he remained motionless, sitting cross-legged on the ground.
Seeing this, Xiao Han sighed slightly, stood up, and walked out. When he almost reached the door, he suddenly remembered something. He turned back to Ruan Nanzhu and said: "Master Ruan, since our old friend has passed away, why is he still alive?" People should live well! I will ask someone to prepare another piece of food for you later, so don’t waste it this time."
After saying that, without waiting for Ruan Nanzhu to respond, Xiao Han turned around and strode out of the room.
