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Chapter 81 The Miraculous Journey of the Old Man Jiang
Before they appeared in Suifeng Fort, the origin of that group of people had to be mentioned a few hours ago.

In the morning breeze, the old man Jiang, who was used to getting up early, took a breath of the air in the village full of all kinds of garbage and excrement smell, and straightened his waist, which was already a little bent now.

Then, he tightened his trouser belt tightly, and immediately made his stomach, which had just drank a large scoop of cold water not long ago, less hungry.

There is nothing he, old man Jiang, can do if he does this.

In other words, it is all the life experience he summed up after living at the age of 57.

really!In the days not long ago.They just harvested a batch of wheat and millet; the family has a batch of new grain, and they can eat a few full meals.

But life is not like this.

In recent years, I don’t know what to do. I heard that the whole Datong Town and even the north of Daming are severely drought; God refuses to go down, and all kinds of monks and priests pray for rain, but it doesn’t work at all.

So no matter what crops are planted, the harvest will always be worse than before.

In addition, in order to defend the Tartars, the imperial court began to collect the "Liaoxiang" in the 46th year of Wanli; the Tartars were not wiped out, but now more and more money has been collected.

Anyway, the harvest after a year of hard work every year, after deducting the land rent paid to Jiang Dashan in the village, and various government taxes, the rest is absolutely not enough to eat.

Every time before the new crops are harvested, there are always two or three months of famine.

Especially don't know why?After more than ten years of Liaoxiang, the Tartars outside the pass have become stronger and stronger, and now it is the second time they entered the pass to plunder.

So it is the slack season after the wheat harvest, and there is no work to do, so why eat so much?

Tighten your trouser belt in the morning, drink a little more water to make yourself full, can't it be noon time? When the time comes, cook some grain porridge and drink two bowls, won't it save another meal?

However, just when Old Man Jiang was preparing to save a little food with his many years of experience in eating and living.

The situation has changed, and the series of things that happened after that made the old man Jiang still talk about it when he died more than ten years later.

At that time, when I saw a tall and smooth horse trotting along the dirt road in the village full of excrement and garbage.

Instinctively, old man Jiang gave way to the side of the road.

Why?He old man Jiang still has eyesight, not to mention the clothes of those military men on the horse.

Just the big horses below them are much better than when I went to the Huangtu Castle by myself in the early years and saw the horses of the servants of the integrity manager.

How can an old man in the village be able to provoke a person who can ride such a steed.

In addition, among this group of people was a fat man with armor on his body. With the eyesight of old man Jiang who had raised pigs for many years, he could estimate at a glance that this guy weighed at least 200 kilograms.

How much food is needed to raise such a fat body, can he be an ordinary person?

I am afraid that I will be knocked to the ground, so it will be useless if I hit it.

But to Old Man Jiang's surprise, amidst the neighing of war horses, these war horses slowly stopped beside him; among them, a man in good iron armor first showed a smiling face with eight big white teeth.

This is the one holding his fists together on the horse and saying:

"Old man, we are all Dunjun in Suifengdunzhong, and I am Yang Dongli, the leader of Ye Bu Shou.

The adults of my family want to find some labor these days to help repair some ditches around Suifengdun, as well as some miscellaneous things, and I also need to trouble the old man to spread the word in the village.

If anyone is willing to go, they can go to work with tools today.

Regardless of gender, the daily salary is 100 Wen, including a lunch. "

After finishing speaking, the man with big white teeth when he spoke continued to move forward with the others, and left Jiangjia Village soon after.

But in the following time, such a brief contact made the old man Jiang fall into a huge entanglement about whether to go or not.

go?This thing sounds unreliable.

Not because of anything else, but because the wages are too high. Old man Jiang has lived for so many years, and this is the first time he heard that he is paid so much for a day of work, and he also takes care of the lunch.

You know, since the imperial court implemented a whip method more than 30 years ago.

It was stipulated that after all land taxes and corvees were converted into silver and handed over, it created a scene where silver was expensive and copper coins were cheap; the ratio of copper coins to silver was higher, and copper coins were not so valuable.

In the early years of Wanli, 800 Wen could be exchanged for one tael of silver.

Today, more than 1800 coins are needed to exchange for one tael of silver.

In particular, the copper coins cast by some businessmen and lords privately are doped with a lot of white lead. If it is such a low-quality copper coin, at least 2000 cash can be exchanged for one tael of silver.

But no matter how cheap copper coins are, 100 cash a day is still too high to pay for food.

It's not that he, old man Jiang, has never worked for Jiang Dashan in the village; if the normal salary is for food, it is 30 yuan a day.

So much so that such a news, he heard it was false.

But don't you?The old man Jiang always thought a little unwillingly, as if he had lost his fortune; finally leaning on the big locust tree at the head of the village and pondering for a long time, the old man Jiang decided: go.

The main reason is that he believes that the Dunjun guarding Huolu nearby are all military households under the jurisdiction of Huangtubao.

It's not like those foreign frontier soldiers, everyone is a fellow countryman, and they shouldn't kill them to receive rewards with their heads; go and see, it's just a waste of time to go there.

And the past few days happened to be slack in farming, and being idle was also idle.

With this understanding, old man Jiang called his three sons, a daughter and a daughter-in-law, and some clansmen in the village who were willing to go. After a group of twenty people walked for eleven or twelve miles, they came to Suifeng pier.

Then, there was a scene where the old man Jiang stepped forward and asked if he wanted someone to work.

At the same time, Yang Dongli notified many people along the way, and this is the only person who came over to take a look...

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Facing the dry old man who claimed to be old man Jiang, he asked timidly. Hu Biao, who was demonstrating the assassination at that time, stopped his movements.

Raising his voice, he just said, "A Li, Yu Hanfeng, you two have gone out to work."

After finishing speaking, he stabbed out with a single shot. A gun target made of thick and thin wood at the mouth of a bowl, among the five black circles of different heights and sizes, the smallest one was stabbed.

The force of the spear tip was so strong that it directly pierced the entire piece of wood.

But Hu Biao's voice fell, and the white-haired girl who was currently in the shade, waving the flying stone rope to practice her head, put down the cowhide rope bag.

After carefully putting on a Fanyang felt hat, he walked out of Suifengdun with what seemed to be a heavy bag.

In fact, to be honest, old man Jiang already planned to leave after seeing Hu Biao's fierce marksmanship that pierced the wood with a single shot.

But soon after, he completely forgot about it.

I saw that under the Fan Yang felt hat, the girl whose skin was as white as paper, opened the bag casually, and the old man's eyes straightened.

Because it seems that the bags weighing at least twenty or thirty catties are all copper coins.

What's more, the girl grabbed a handful of copper coins and started counting, while still yelling:

"Master, that's right! We need people to work here, and we need about fifty people in total. If you want to introduce other people, just call them.

Don't be afraid that after working, you won't get the money.

Now you all line up together. Everyone here will give 50 coins first. As long as you don’t work lazy, the remaining 50 coins will be given out when you work casually in the dark.

If someone is a carpenter or stonemason with better skills, the daily salary will increase by another 50 Wen. "

In the end, after the old man Jiang got a handful of copper coins, he felt the real feel in his hands, and then he believed that everything was real.

Then in the next second, Ali saw this dry old man in horror, and jumped up from the ground with a height of three feet.

Even after such a vertical bounce, it was still clearly suspended in the air for a long time.

Good guy!Such a powerful bounce data, put in the modern NBA, is also a pretty good wave.

It's a pity that after jumping so high, the old man Jiang turned around and yelled:
"Big dog, hurry up and bring people over to line up, the soldiers are paying their wages.

Sangou, don't you have fast legs, kid?Go back to the village immediately and tell your stubborn second uncle that the work here at Suifengdun is real.

Ask him to bring a guy who does carpentry work, and working here for a few days can take him a month's work in other forts. "

Yu Hanfeng, whose left ear was wrapped with a large piece of gauze, just stopped training and came over.

After seeing such a scene, he: "..."

(End of this chapter)