Ma'am help, the general is in trouble again

Chapter 55 Building the City Wall
"Why are there so many people here?" Trump asked.

The Shaanxi accent answered: "I don't know. Some time ago, I heard that Fu County recruited stonemasons at high prices across the country. I thought I could make money, so I asked my daughter-in-law to come here with packed tools."

"You are not from Fu County, no wonder the accent is a bit strange." The arrogant speech of the local stonemason.

A big foreigner with a Hokkien accent sounded uncomfortable, so he deliberately belittled: "For a poor and poor place like Fu County, where can I find any good stonemasons? At the worst level, it has to be a master or something else."

Zheng Quchi, who was listening to them from behind: "..."

Oh, I'm sorry, the worst is not the master level, but her, an ordinary and poor local carpenter.

Now I have the audacity to sneak into the ranks of stonemasons to make money, but I have not been rated on any level, please give me your advice.

While Zheng Quchi was entertaining himself, a man from nowhere deliberately bumped into Zheng Quchi.

She felt something was wrong, so she turned her head to look over.

I saw a wretched man with a beard staring at her.

……do not know.

However, Zheng Quchi felt that this person looked at her strangely, like a pervert, so he quickly dodged to the side.

However, he saw him leaning over resolutely and calling her in a low voice.

"Hey, ruler."

Startled, she turned her head suddenly: "Who?"

There are only a few people who know her real name is Zheng Quchi, and can also call her by her nickname "ruler", but this wretched bearded man is not among them.

"Me, you don't even recognize me? Haven't you seen me for more than a month?" He pointed to his nose and muttered dissatisfied.

This awkward and irritable tone, coupled with the fact that the other party directly called her real name, immediately made Zheng Quchi suspicious, and she asked tentatively, "Shan Bian?"

"Of course it's me." He winked at her and nodded vigorously.

Zheng Quchi raised his head and looked at the top of his hairy head in surprise.

No, what about his dysentery head?Why hasn't I seen him for more than a month, and his hair has grown out?

"ruler……"

Stop!

She stopped him screaming with her eyes, glanced around and saw that other people were also talking, and didn't notice their side, so she gritted her teeth and said, "Why did you sneak in again?"

Shan Bian now has a big beard and the kind with particularly thick hair. He covered his mouth with his palm and sent a message to her: "There is a mission, you come with me, but we will talk about this later, let's first hear about the large number of people in Fuxian County. What is the purpose of recruiting craftsmen?"

When Zheng Quchi heard the word "task", he felt like a stress disorder, his back was stiff, and his face turned green.

As soon as he came, she knew that trouble was coming.

She really just came here to do some hard work to earn money for the family, not to do anything.

But they insisted on not letting her go, this shit "task" would follow her wherever she went!

This time, the stonemasons were all gathered in the spacious square blocked by Luzhai, and the other people were scattered or blocked outside. After they gathered together and waited for a while, they saw a group of people led by the county magistrate coming.

When masons meet officials, they naturally have to bow to the county magistrate, but this is not considered a formal occasion and criminals, and they don't have to kneel down, they just bow their hands.

At the end of the line, followed by Mu Ke, the engineer whom Zheng Quchi knew, and Zhang Er, the recruiter.

Judging from the appearance of this county magistrate, he doesn't look like a clean and honest official. He has a fat head with big ears, small eyes, and big lips, which is a typical appearance of a corrupt official.

He said in a male duck voice: "Take out the official document and stamp their fingerprints."

The left and right master books and the county magistrate have orders.

The master book rolled out an official document with some content written on it, and he took out mud prints and asked the craftsmen to stamp their hands on the face.

There were no such ceremonies when the camp was built before. Is the recruitment so formal this time?

The stonemasons obviously knew the market, once they signed their handprints, they would unconditionally accept all the agreements on the official document, so they all hesitated about the contents of the official document and hesitated.

"I don't know what the content of the official document is?"

"Yeah, just put your fingerprints like this, will it..."

The thin county magistrate said, "It's just some rules and regulations. Don't worry, all the content and regulations are legal and legal."

Seeing this, the county magistrate opened his small eyes slightly, and the shrewd light flashed by, and he said loudly: "As long as you stamp this fingerprint, you will be able to receive the usual money."

I saw the officers and soldiers of the government lined up holding trays, and there was a small pile of copper plates inside. The visual impact of seeing so much money at once was enough to make the craftsmen who had been poor for a lifetime shine brightly and become dizzy.

As the saying goes, birds die for food, and humans die for wealth.

Their minds are completely corrupted by money, so they don't have rationality and superfluous doubts. They stamped their fingerprints in a hurry to get the money without even reading the content of the official document.

Of course, if the county magistrate intends to deceive and deceive, it will be difficult for the stonemasons present to escape the money trap. After all, they basically do not know how to read. Article deed.

Just like that, they pressed their fingerprints one by one, and soon it was Zheng Quchi's turn in the team.

She was not so reckless, but quickly read the content of the official document before pressing her fingerprints, and only then did she dispel the suspicion in her heart just now.

Oh, it turned out that they were asked to go to Guijiaoling in Fu County to build the city wall.

The ancient city wall is a tall and thick wall built around the city for defense.

At first, she suspected that they were so secretive and secretive, because they planned to let them build some mausoleum in secret, so some kind of confidentiality agreement needed to be signed to make it so serious and formal.

Looking at her now, she is worrying unfoundedly.

Thinking that she would get the money right away, she also pressed her handprint happily, and then handed it to the mangy man next to her, but saw that he was staring at the official document and did not make any further steps.

After a long delay, others will look at them, Zheng Quchi urged him: "What are you doing?"

Shan Bian frowned, and suddenly said loudly: "So the county magistrate recruited us to repair the city wall called Thousand People's Tomb in Fu County?"

As soon as Zheng Quchi heard the adjective "Thousand People's Grave", her nerves jumped immediately. She looked at the red handprint she had just stamped on the official document, and said in a trembling voice, "What is a Thousand People's Grave?"

Wouldn't it be the way she understood it?

But I didn't want Shan Bian's words to be like a stone stirring up thousands of waves. The stonemasons who hadn't been immersed in the temptation of money before were shocked.

"What to build? The city wall of the Thousand People's Tomb?! Is it on the Guijiao Ridge?"

The locals reacted immediately.

"How is it possible?! How can we repair it?"

Zheng Quchi looked left and right, and pulled Shan Bian who obviously knew the inside story: "What's going on? Why did they react so strongly?"

Shan Bian glared at her: "Are you really ignorant or are you pretending not to know? To repair the city wall on the terrain of Guijiaopo, it's like asking the craftsmen to go to the Temple of Yama. You don't know that you fell to your death in the first place?" How many craftsmen did you have?"

"Repairing a city wall in such a steep and uneven place is simply an impossible task. I have heard that at least a thousand stonemasons died to make it, but now they have to rebuild it. Guess this time we How many people have to die?"

The faces of the others were ugly: "No wonder the government is willing to spend so much money. It turns out that this is money for our lives."

"I don't do it anymore!"

Seeing the excitement in the audience, I couldn't accept it for a while, but the county magistrate had expected it, and comforted him: "Don't get excited, don't get excited, if you want to leave, I won't stay. But first, I have to explain two points."

"First, although it is said to be repairing the city wall near Guijiaoling, it is only a reconstruction of the old land, and naturally it is not as difficult and dangerous as reclamation. Second, this time, our county specially invited two craftsmen, Yuan Sui and Yin Xiao from Jixia Academy Master, these two are good at city wall planning and preventive fortifications, just follow their arrangements, and the mass casualties of artisans like before will never happen."

His persuasion was on the right track, and calmed down the excited stonemasons a lot.

Shan Bian is also weighing and hesitating.

Zheng Quchi touched his side: "What is Jixia Academy? This is the second time I've heard of it, and it sounds quite powerful."

Shan Bian also has a deep understanding of Zheng Quchi's "ignorance".

"Jixia Academy is an institution jointly organized by the seven countries. It specializes in the seven main functions. As long as the craftsmen come out of it, they must be at least a second-class craftsman."

"What is the level of second-class craftsman in Ye Kingdom?"

In Ye country?Shan Bian showed contempt: "Ye country can't keep people, all the powerful ones have gone to other countries. If you want to say that Jixia Academy is naturally powerful, how many unique palace exhibitions and majestic temples are built by them. Students made it, have you ever heard of Gongshu?

Oh, this name is not unfamiliar to her. After all, the person she met a few days ago wanted to buy her tiger skin, but he was cut off by the bully local snake Yu Wencheng.

"I heard."

"The leader of the craftsman, he has studied at Jixia Academy."

"What is a craftsman leader?"

"I can't explain these things to you for a while, anyway..." He looked guilty, and his voice was almost inaudible: "Even if our Mo family and Gongshu don't deal with it, you should pay attention, disciple of the Gongshu family. It spreads across all walks of life, but anyone who encounters a craftsman character embroidered on the corner of his clothes is a disciple of Gongshu."

ha?
Zheng Quchi was dumbfounded.

The Mo family doesn't deal with public losers, does this have something to do with her?
She has become an accomplice without doing anything?This Mo family is simply a place of evil. She has never been so determined to break away from this organization at this moment, and never communicate with each other.

She said: "We country people should not have the opportunity to meet those high-level people."

"That's not necessarily true. Your family... Uh, that's all. These things really have nothing to do with us for the time being. Let's listen to what they are saying."

"Your family"... Why did he suddenly mention "your family"?
What exactly did he want to say, about Sang Xuanqing's family feud with the Mo family, does Shan Bian also know some truth?
The county magistrate dispelled most of the concerns of the stonemasons, and now their eyes fell on the golden copper plate, and their legs could not move at all.

Of course they knew that this fortification would be risky, but in their line of work, if they want to earn a lot of money, they can't just accept a stable job.

"Since there are people from Jixia Academy as the backing, if they are afraid of the motherfuckers, just do it!"

"Yes, this job can earn a lot more than traveling around the country before."

In the end, most of these stonemasons were left behind, and some of them gritted their teeth and chose to leave because their families couldn't afford the risk.

This time, in addition to the recruited technical masons, thousands of laborers were also recruited in the surrounding counties. Naturally, they have no money, and only those who are rated as craftsmen will have special treatment in Ye Kingdom. .

If such people have fortifications in the county, they will be called forcibly, but they will pay. If they are in other counties or counties, and they do not belong to the service conditions of the local household registration, then they have to rely on their own wishes.

Therefore, all stonemasons in Fu County must do it, while stonemasons recruited from other places with money can have a way out.

Afterwards, Zheng Quchi made a rough assessment of his previous series of behaviors.

"Am I... am I throwing myself into a trap?"

Ren County only recruited stonemasons, but she was lucky enough to get herself into the team of stonemasons in a different way, relying on her connections, and finally packed with other stonemasons and sent them to Qianren Tomb to repair the city wall.

Shan Bian's expression was even sadder than hers: "Forget it, for the mission, I have to throw myself into the trap!"

He also reluctantly pressed his fingerprints, and the official document was full of content, which can actually be summed up in the following four words very succinctly - Conceited in life and death.

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This time the craftsmen were on the road differently from the last time. There was no cart to pick them up. They lined up to walk the mountain road. After climbing for nearly an hour, they came to a hut for a temporary rest, and saw officers and soldiers waiting for assembly.

They counted the number of people first, and when it was Zheng Quchi's turn, they were surprised at first, and then glanced at her with a funny and strange look, probably because they disliked her small body.

Zheng Quchi has long been used to this kind of discriminatory gaze, she is in a good mood, thinking that if she sees a dwarf in the giant country, she should take a second look at Rare.

She decided that when she eats later, she has to increase her appetite by 20.00%. She is still growing, and compared to Brother Sang's height, she doesn't believe that her genes will mutate, and she has always been so short!
Along the way, officers and soldiers lead the way, maintain order on the road, and climb mountains and ridges.

Zheng Quchi saw that each of these craftsmen carried one or two things on their bodies.

But she and Shan Bian are the only ones who have nothing to worry about.

Their guys are generally made of iron products. Iron is a controlled product, not only expensive, but also not available in large quantities through ordinary channels.

Therefore, Zheng Quchi thought that the government would distribute them to the stonemasons, but judging by their posture, could it be possible that these tools have to be prepared by themselves?

She hurriedly asked Shan Bian, "You didn't bring any tools, either?"

Shan Bian seemed to be aware of this problem: "I have never worked as a mason, so how do I know what to bring?"

Zheng Quchi thought for a while: "It's just Erhammer, steel drill, hammer, chisel and so on."

"I don't have any of these. At worst, when the time starts, the two of us will be responsible for moving the stones. Besides, after taking these things, you will be able to forge and quarry?"

Anyway, he doesn't know these things, and he is not a universal craftsman, he can shine in any line of work.

(End of this chapter)