Bai Xiaonan nodded: "Do you know why we want to be bandits?"
"In order to realize the ideal of freedom and the great ambition of building Dayong..." Xie Yu said casually.
But seeing Bai Xiaonan's indifferent look, Xie Yu felt a little bored.
He just smiled and said: "For what?"
Bai Xiaonan said: "In order to have enough food! When Baishi Village was at its peak, there were nearly five hundred people. And most of them went up the mountain to become bandits just to fill their stomachs."
"As long as they can fill their stomachs down there, no one will want to go up the mountain! Because everyone knows that when you go up the mountain, you no longer have to pay taxes and food, you no longer have to worry about your livelihood, and you no longer have to sell your children because you don't have enough to eat. Already..."
"And then everyone went down the mountain because they didn't have enough to eat..."
Speaking of this, Bai Xiaonan's mood became depressed.
It was only after Xie Yu came that life in Baishi Village became easier.
Before Xie Yu came, Baishi Village was also facing the crisis of running out of food!
Maybe it was because of this that the second master took the risk and cooperated with Yunyingzhai to overthrow Bai Xiaonan.
After all, life in Yunying Village is much better than that in Baishi Village.
Xie Yu understood what Bai Xiaonan meant.
With the current material reserves in Baishi Village, as long as they are willing and spread the news, they can indeed attract many people who have no enough to eat.
Xie Yu thought for a while and said: "But I need personnel in place in the short term! The refugees you mentioned who don't have enough to eat don't just meet them. I can't go down the mountain and ask people when I catch them. Is he hungry?"
Bai Xiaonan couldn't help but roll his eyes at Xie Yu: "You're talking nonsense again! I know a place where people basically don't have enough to eat!"
"where?"
"San'in Quarry!"
"You mean the people who work in the quarry?"
Bai Xiaonan nodded: "Yes! That Shanyin quarry is also a miserable place! The wages they give people are not high. It's only twenty coins a day."
"But even so, there are still many people working there! Because not everyone has land to farm!"
Xie Yu nodded.
His cheap friend Xie Jin is a big landlord.
He knew very well the income of those sharecroppers.
For current tenant farmers in the Yong Dynasty, the rent they have to pay every year is almost half of their harvest.
Calculated based on the income from cultivating five acres of land, converted from zero to zero, we can have an income of thirty cash per day.
Thirty coins can buy more than four kilograms of rice.
For a family of five, this is just hand-to-mouth living.
But having land to farm is the greatest guarantee of life for them! Even making a living is a happy thing.
What will happen to the many people who have no land to farm?
All I can do is find work everywhere!
Twenty Wen's job may seem very demanding, but if you don't do it, someone else will do it!
Twenty coins can buy nearly three kilograms of rice!
Add more water and make the porridge thinner, and you won't starve to death!
So when he thought of this, Xie Yu felt that his cheap friend Xie Jin deserved to die!
"Okay, let's go to the quarry tomorrow and see if we can recruit some people."
When Bai Xiaonan heard this, he shook his head and said, "I can just take a few people with me. You have a lot to do every day, so you don't need to follow me."
Xie Yu thought for a while, nodded and said: "Okay! When you see those people later, you can tell them: As long as they are willing to come, you will have enough food! And you can have two meals of meat on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month!"
Being able to eat meat under the common situation of not having enough to eat is really a magical day!
Of course, Xie Yu is not like other copycats who casually write out empty promises of "big bowls of wine and big chunks of meat" when recruiting people.
Previously, Xie Yu robbed twenty carts of money and food from Xie's family, and later Zhou Yue brought the supplies that Xie's family planned to reward General Yu up the mountain.
There are nearly 30,000 kilograms of food on the mountain!
Moreover, during this time, the brothers in the village worked hard to practice archery and were no longer satisfied with just shooting wooden targets.
Now people take turns going into the mountains to hunt every day!
So there is no shortage of meat in the village.
The endless meat was processed, dried and stored.
As for the money, even after grabbing what the Xie family brought to Yunying Village, and deducting the consumption of the fourth master’s purchases, there are still more than nine thousand taels!
So now Baishi Village is very wealthy!
This recruitment matter is finally solved! Xie Yu finally let go of one thing on his mind.
Early the next morning, Bai Xiaonan took his six sons and more than 20 people down the mountain.
Shanyin is not far from Ta County. If you take the mountain road, it is more than sixty miles.
It doesn't even take an hour to ride a horse.
However, Bai Xiaonan, Liu Zi and the others only came back the next day.
Xie Yu thought that Bai Xiaonan could bring back dozens of people after being gone for so long.
As a result, when I looked at Liu Zi and his horses, there were only five or six unfamiliar faces.
Xie Yuying stepped forward, pulled Bai Xiaonan's horse rope, and then looked at the men who were as thin as poles: "Why did you bring back so many people? But what trouble did you encounter?"
Bai Xiaonan turned over and dismounted, shook his head and said: "No! No one believed what we said. We tried to persuade them for a long time, but finally these few people agreed to come with us to see the situation."
"If the facts are as we said, they will go back and bring people here."
Xie Yu immediately understood that his feelings were here to stand in front of him.
He walked towards those people.
These men are not only skinny but also in poor spirits.
The cloudy eyes were full of numbness.
Seeing Xie Yu sizing them up, several of them shrank back timidly.
"Don't be afraid! Did you eat when you came here?"
Xie Yu tried his best to communicate with them in a gentle tone.
"If you want to reply to the great master, it's not yet... it's not time yet..."
A slightly bolder man answered Xie Yu's questions timidly.
Bai Xiaonan pulled Xie Yu's clothes and whispered: "When they are working, they eat two meals a day. When they are not working, they eat one meal a day or even none!"
Xie Yu nodded.
Obviously, they knew they were coming to the village today and didn't have to work, so they simply skipped the meal.
Xie Yu said to Liu Zi: "Liu Zi, tell the cooks to make some food. By the way, get some meat! Aren't you eating too? Let's eat together later."
Liuzi agreed and led the people down.
Xie Yu said to the men: "Come with me!"
Xie Yu didn't say anything encouraging.
I didn’t even bother to draw cakes for these people.
He just led the person to the door of the warehouse and opened the warehouse.
And after seeing the piles of grain in the grain store surrounded by mats, the mouths of these men were so wide that they could almost fit their fists!
When I opened the room where the dried meat was hung, just looking at the rows of raw meat, these men could no longer control their saliva!
Xie Yu only took them to visit these two places, and then took them to eat.
Looking at the full bowl of noodles in front of them and nearly half of the meat in the bowl, these men just froze in their positions and swallowed hard.
But no one dared to use chopsticks.
Xie Yu said to them: "Eat! Eat your fill!"
Looking at each other at their companions, they finally plucked up the courage and picked up the chopsticks at hand.
Then the sound of gobbling came from the dinner table.
All the noodles and meat in the bowl were finished, and they even licked the soup clean!
The soup seemed a little salty. I don’t know if there was too much salt or because they shed too many tears...
