On the way back, Wang, Wu and three people got together.
Chen Nong asked in a low voice: "Are you still going tomorrow?"
Wang Wu replied: "Of course I want to go."
He was so frightened by Han Zhen's knife today that he dared not go anywhere.
"I...I don't want to go."
Chen Nong said, a trace of resentment flashed in his eyes.
Hearing this, the other person couldn't help but exclaimed: "You don't want to live anymore? If you don't go tomorrow, he will definitely go to your home to look for you, and I'm afraid he will beat you half to death."
Beat him half to death?
Wang Wu shook his head secretly. He felt that with Han Zhen's temperament, he should be able to chop Chen Nong into pieces.
"Then... the worst I can do is go up the mountain and become a fugitive. I can't afford to offend him, so I can't afford to hide."
As soon as these words came out, Wang Wu and the other person couldn't help but look strange.
They were runaways from the mountain, and they had only been down the mountain for a few days.
Back to the mountain?
Wang Wu had had enough of the hardships on the mountain and didn't want to go back.
Now the family has been allocated two acres of land, and my mother-in-law has reclaimed three acres of wasteland, adding up to five acres of land.
Although his residence is just a rotten straw hut, he now has 500 wages per month. By next summer's harvest, he will be able to save enough money to build a good house.
Now that his days are running smoothly, he would naturally not want to go back and snatch food from the mouths of wild beasts.
Although he was punished today, Han Zhen did keep his word. He said three meals a day meant three meals a day.
Especially at noon, the rice is still delicious.
The best thing to do is to be less naughty in the future, and I guess I won't be punished again.
Seeing the two people looking at him strangely, Chen Nong also realized that he had said something stupid, but the resentment in his heart made him say harshly: "Look at your prospects, you can't walk on two acres of wasteland and five measures of grain." Already?"
Wang Wu asked: "Do you really want to leave?"
Chen Nong said angrily: "Why don't you leave and wait to be tortured to death? I will go up the mountain tonight and vote for the master Shi in Songshanling."
"Don't be fooled, Mr. Shi is not easy to deal with. I heard someone said that the runaways in the village are worse than serfs." Another person advised.
"That's better than joining the army."
After leaving these words, Chen Nong walked towards his home, leaving the two of them looking at each other.
Chen Nong was originally a villager in Xiaowang Village, and his family had an ancestral house.
However, in the past two years since I fled to the mountain, the ancestral house made of rammed earth has long since collapsed due to no one maintaining it.
In desperation, he had no choice but to build a simple straw shed to protect him from the wind and rain on the original basis, so that he could live in it.
But even so, it's better than what they live in the mountains.
When I got home, my mother-in-law and her two children were squatting at the door eating.
Seeing him coming back, the woman hurriedly asked, "Master, can you eat?"
"have eaten."
Chen Nong responded and sat down next to the two children.
Hearing this, the woman couldn't help but asked curiously: "Master, you joined the army today, are you really having three meals a day?"
"yes."
Although I resented Han Zhen in my heart, I had to admit that the other party was still very trustworthy and provided three solid meals without any adulteration.
"so good."
A trace of envy flashed in the woman's eyes, and then she said: "Now that you have joined the army, you will not have to worry about food and drink. We, my mother-in-law, can save the five measures of grains, which can last for several months. You have saved all your salary, and I will wait until you join the army. Now that winter is here, we have repaired our house and added some thick clothes. In the past two years in the mountains, our two children were so cold that they screamed in the winter, and their faces and hands were swollen, which made me feel very distressed."
"When the summer harvest comes next year, I can harvest three to five kilograms of grain from five acres of land, and life will be easier in the future. With five hundred penny a month, I can save for two more years, and then I can buy an ox for my family..."
Listening to his mother-in-law talking about the days to come, Chen Nong was in a complicated mood and his face was uncertain.
Sensing that something was wrong with her husband's expression, the woman asked with concern: "Master, what's wrong?"
"..."
Chen Nong looked at his mother-in-law who looked worried, and then at the two children who were devouring wheat rice. The words "Go Up the Mountain" came to his lips, but he couldn't say anything.
After a while, he finally managed to say: "It's okay, maybe I'm just too tired."
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he felt that his anger was suddenly released.
The woman didn't know what happened, but she thought he was really tired, so she hurriedly said: "When you are tired, just go back to the house and rest. I'm at home, so don't worry about it."
Chen Nong nodded numbly, got up and went back to the thatched hut, lying on the bamboo bed fully clothed.
Staring straight at the hayloft above, he couldn't help but start thinking wildly.
Sometimes he was vomiting on the threshing floor, and sometimes it was his mother-in-law's nagging... Before he knew it, the snoring began.
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The next day.
Wang Wu got up early, washed up, and hurried to the house as soon as he arrived at the second quarter of Maozheng.
If you arrive at the barn half an hour early today, you won't be punished again, right?
Before reaching the barnyard, Wang Wu saw a man standing under a tree next to the barnyard at a distance.
Is there someone earlier than me?
Wang Wu was curious. When he got closer, he discovered that the man under the tree was Chen Nong.
Walking forward quickly, he asked: "Chen Nong, didn't you say you wanted to go up the mountain yesterday?"
A trace of embarrassment flashed in Chen Nong's eyes, but he continued to speak harshly: "My wasteland has just been plowed and the seeds have been sown. Wouldn't it be easier for others to go up the mountain?"
"That's true."
Wang Wu smiled strangely, but did not expose him.
After a while, other people arrived one after another.
At the beginning of the morning, Han Zhen walked out of the house on time.
Looking around at the crowd, he ordered: "Old rules, ten laps to warm up."
Hearing this, Wang Wu and others couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
I didn’t punish myself anymore today.
The group of people formed a long queue and started running around the barn.
To be virtuous first and then to be powerful will lead to resentment.
Yesterday, Wang Wu and other three people must have resented him in their hearts, but Han Zhen didn't care.
What is the army?
It is a big millstone. No matter what monsters or monsters come in, they will eventually be crushed into pieces.
When I was a soldier in my previous life, in the first month after joining the army, a comrade wanted to kill the squad leader in the middle of the night.
As a result, less than half a year later, the guy in the class had the strongest relationship with the squad leader. On the day he was discharged, he hugged the squad leader and burst into tears.
He planned to train these soldiers in Xiaowang Village as the backbone, so he planned to use the training methods used in the armies of later generations.
When these soldiers become junior officers in the future, they will naturally use his method.
What goes up leads to deeds, this is how the tradition of an army comes about.
Han Zhen really didn't like the military system and training methods of the Northern Song Dynasty, and they were completely ruined by the literati.
To be honest, the combat power of the soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty was not as weak as imagined. The Western troops on the Qinfeng Road were not necessarily weaker than the soldiers of the Xixia and Liao Kingdoms.
Are there any differences between Guanzhong people in the Tang Dynasty and Guanzhong people in the Northern Song Dynasty?
Although the Five Dynasties period was chaotic, there were mutual victories and defeats in the battles with the Liao State. There were even cases where the Liao State surrounded the Later Jin Dynasty with several times the force, but was defeated by the Later Jin Army and was annihilated.
In the later Zhou Dynasty, Chai Rong conquered the Liao Dynasty and captured the three passes, three continents and seventeen counties of the Liao Kingdom in only forty-two days. If he had not died of a serious illness suddenly, the outcome would have been hard to say.
Therefore, the soldiers are still the same group of soldiers, but the general leading them has changed.
Look at who the generals who led the troops in the early Northern Song Dynasty were, Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Yang Ye, Li Jilong...
Take a look at who is leading the troops in the Northern Song Dynasty now?
Kou Zhun, Han Qi, Fu Bi, Tong Guan... except Di Qing, a traditional military general, other literati from Qingyishui'er.
That’s not to say that there aren’t any geniuses with both civil and military skills, but how many such people can come out of one dynasty?
Leave professional matters to professionals, and literati should do literati's work conscientiously.
