In the dark morning, before the fourth watch, Wang Xiao, whose home was next to the city wall of Pinglu County, got up and prepared to try his luck in the city early in the new day.
Wang Xiao's so-called home is just digging a larger pit in the ground, and then covering it with a branch thatch, and pasting a layer of mud.
The family was destitute, and there was no oil lamp to light on, so the west-slanting moonlight leaked into the open hole of the nest on the ground, groped for clothes that could no longer be called clothes, and carefully put them on, for fear of waking up the mother and the little sister.
Then he got up quietly, found firewood in the dark, stuffed it into the stove, and lit it with a smoldering fire, and for a time there was a little life in the nest.
Scooped a scoop of cold water into the water tank, poured it into the broken pot, which was the only belongings of the family who had fled, and then watched the water slowly become hotter, and in the light of the fire in the stove, a young and miserable face was reflected.
Wang Xiao is only sixteen years old, and he is actually still a child, but since his father was drawn by the government last year, he took all the food in the family and went to Biansai, and he never came back.
Wang Xiao also knew that his father would never come again, just like many people who were recruited by the government to serve as laborers, after eating up the rations he brought, he starved to death on the road, or he was lucky enough to go to the side, but he could hardly pay the materials he escorted, because those military leaders would try their best to tell you that they had embezzled the amount along the way, and finally let you stay in the barracks to contribute to offset the shortage.
And the final ending is always in the autumn when the Mongolian Tartars were threshing grass, they were stuffed with a wooden stick by the officer, used as cannon fodder, and died in a place where they don't know what it was.
My father was gone, and the livelihood of the family fell on this child, who was only fifteen years old at the time.
The land has long been assigned to Wang Tian, there is no ridge, every day in the morning and late return, rushed to the county to find some work within his ability, earn a handful of coarse grain Fukang, will raise the old lady who is sick in bed, and a little sister who is just seven years old.
During the day, the old lady and the little sister also staggered through the streets and alleys with sticks to beg for some food.
But in this world of natural disasters and man-made disasters, where can the kind-hearted poor still have half a grain of rice to give to the rich families who have money and rice, and only hear the shouting and laughing of a piece of wine within the high walls, how can they have compassion for these poor people who are about to die But just like that, one day he came again and told them that the emperor wanted everyone to pay the summer grain, and they had to make up for the taxes and miscellaneous donations accumulated in previous years.
Then the abacus sounded, "The Wang family should pay five stones in the summer tax, and the total amount of donations is eleven stones."
If there is a certain amount of arrears, the tax shall be ordered to be paid within three days" At that time, Wang Xiao and the brain-full fat Li Zheng theory, my land has become Wang Tian, where did the tax results come from, Li Zheng said, there is no land, the tax is still there, the field is not, the donation must be paid, the national tax and the emperor's grain can not be less, if you don't pay it for three days, you will arrest Wang Xiao and go to the Yamen prison.
The county government prison is the palace of the king of Hades, only seeing people entering, only seeing a basket of white bones carried out, there is no return at all.
At that time, in order to keep the only root and seedling of the Wang family, the mother decided to sell the little sister and deal with it for a while, but Wang Xiao couldn't bear to be ruined by her little sister, so she gritted her teeth and said to her mother: "There are only three people in the family, if you want to die, you will die together, my father may not be able to come back, and we won't wait, so we will lose our furniture and become a homeless person, where do we go." ” So, the family stumbled like this, and with a large number of displaced people coming south, they came to Pinglu after a lot of hardships, and like many displaced people, they dug a nest under this city wall to survive.
Fortunately, the lord of Pinglu is not fierce, and he does not arrest the homeless, nor does he drive away the homeless people who dig nests under the city wall, so they have a place to shelter from the wind.
Wang Xiao boiled water, the old lady had already woken up, but there was no food in her stomach, she didn't have the strength to open her eyes, and when she heard the sigh of her young son, she couldn't help but cry, secretly hating her incompetence for dragging down this child, and she had to bear the burden of this livelihood at a young age.
Since beating her husband was sent to the border by Latin, I know such a result, in a few years the neighbors who were pumped to the neighbors, I didn't see a back, I heard the rumors of the past, every year the Mongolian Tartars buckled the border, and the officers and soldiers also fought hard with the Tartars, but every time those officers and soldiers who couldn't even eat enough were suffering heavy losses, no way, in the end, they had to transport the heavy grain and grass into the army, and then stuffed a wooden stick to resist the Mongol charge for them, throwing corpses on the battlefield, hey, this is all fate.
Look at this dilapidated home, look at the unbearable pressure for a family's livelihood, and their bodies are gradually unbearable, not only can not help, but have become a burden, and they also want to understand themselves when they have a secondary meal, but every time they see their daughter with them, they can't bear this thought, and they go again, who else will ask for a full warmth after leaving the two children In the misery, the kang slowly became hot, and he fell asleep in a groggy way, and sleep became the only way to live.
Wang Xiao saw that the water had boiled, so he secretly put his hand into his arms, and there was half a piece of mixed dough cake in his arms, which was mourned yesterday at a happy event's house, just one, he was hungry at that time, and he also had the strength to find some more work, so he ate half of it, and brought the rest back to his dying mother and his very thin little sister.
The little sister was sensible, just took a bite of the half of the cake, and sent it to her mother's mouth, and let her mother eat it weakly, but the mother just laughed and laughed more than crying: Good son, you cut and eat, for the mother has no appetite" and closed her eyes, but Wang Xiao obviously heard the soft sound in her mother's stomach.
Wang Xiao knelt down and cried and begged the old lady to take a bite, the family was crying, a piece of cake, and it turned around between the mother and son, and there was still half of the small left, and finally the old lady said that she was the pillar of the family, and she could earn food for the family after eating, so Wang Xiao took the cake in her arms.
The water was boiling, Wang Xiao quietly broke the cake, carefully put it in the pot, and with the splash of water, the half cake became a pot of paste.
Quietly put two bowls, one bowl on the mother's kang head, and one bowl on the side of the little sister's head.
Looking at the broken pot that was already empty, Wang Xiao straightened up, scooped a bowl of cold water with a broken scoop and drank it with his head up, which was considered to be full, tightened the straw rope around his waist, and then strode out.
He didn't see it, and a string of cloudy tears left in the corner of the eyes of the old lady who had lost her human form.
There are very few pedestrians on the street, but some men who have not eaten come out early, hoping to be the first to find a way to live.
When he walked a few steps, he was mixed up by a thing under his feet, Wang Xiao didn't look at it, he got up and left, he knew by feeling that it was a dead corpse and saw a lot of such things, and it was not surprising, but he was glad that his family was not one of them, and sure enough, after a while, he saw a few old soldiers pushing a broken car, and the car had already left a few homeless people to walk past the big guy, no one took a second look, and all of them continued to hurry numbly.
I found a leeward wall and squatted down, talked to some brothers who were also weak, and waited for the patron to come.
At this time, a few errand soldiers came to the city gate, with a bundle of paper rolls under their arms, and walked in a hurry, Wang Xiao hurriedly lowered his head, for fear that the officials would see that they were homeless, and the government was strict with the management of homeless people, and if they were caught, they would be assigned or imprisoned.
As a result, the officials walked up to the homeless people who could not see the end, but they stopped, and many of the frightened people turned pale and pleaded for help.
Unexpectedly, the official smiled and said loudly: "Don't be afraid, you guys are blessed, Captain Lu is strong in the Han Dynasty and under the Han Dynasty, and Dai Banzai will come to our Pinglu to help the victims, and implement work for relief, now, Lord Lu has begun to recruit workers, you should hurry up and sign up for a living." ” Cash-for-work and recruiting workers is not a mistake.
Wang Xiao looked left and right with the people around him, looking dazed.
At this time, the official didn't talk nonsense, he directly painted paste on the wall of the cave of the city gate, pasted a large letter, and then brought a stool, and began to read the contents of the notice aloud to the men who had been surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside.
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's grace is vast,、、、、、、 special order Qin sent Lu Yan to the Han Dynasty and the lower strong, for the relief of Shanxi Qincha, now stationed in Pinglu, the implementation of work for relief, mining coal, the construction of wharf roads, hope that the local displaced people have the strength to apply, there is only one place for a household, and it is not allowed to lie and report more than 、、、、、、 Yunyun."
Below are two large blood-red seals, one is said to be from the county, and one is said to be from the Qincha.
As soon as the notice of recruitment was posted at the four gates of the county, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire county, and caused a sensation in the entire army of displaced people.
Someone began to recruit a large number of workers, which is definitely a way of life given to them by God, and the conditions are good, which can be said to make people suspect that they are in a dream.
Recruit a thousand mine protection teams, require tall and strong people, eat and shelter, new clothes, and give brown rice one stone and silver one or two and a half yuan in the first month.
After that, two taels of silver and five cents per month, ten taels of bereavement pension, and twenty taels of bereavement pension.
Recruit 3,000 miners, to be strong and strong, in the first month, brown rice one stone, silver one tael, and then two taels of silver per month, recruit charcoal burners five hundred, to bear hardships and stand hard work, the same treatment, to masonry carpenters, blacksmiths and so on five hundred, this is considered a type of skilled work, the first month brown rice one stone, silver two taels, the following month to give three taels of silver, recruit temporary roads to level the site, build two thousand men to build houses and frame houses, give brown rice one stone, five silver dollars, the following month to give silver one penny five, recruit three hundred women who can sew, make village brave clothing tents, Give brown rice a stone, give a silver tael in the next month, recruit a number of shepherd boys to raise chickens and ducks, three meals a day, and a piece of clothing for half a year.
Recruit guys, grooms、、、、 and so on.
Finally, 100 scribes were recruited, and those who could keep accounts were preferred, and they could enjoy the treatment of talents according to the rules of the imperial court.
What is the treatment of Xiucai According to the original rules of the Ming Dynasty, three stones of rice per month are given, which is not only a matter of rice, but also a matter of decency.
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This recruitment clearly stipulates that this is a disaster relief mission assigned by the emperor, and all the recruited personnel are mainly displaced people, and once hired, no matter what the original household registration is, it can be settled in Pinglu.
A family without labor, but with disabilities, widows and orphans who cannot work, can apply for 3 buckets and 15 catties of rice per month.
For a while, the homeless people in the streets and alleys of Pinglu were panicking and waiting to die, this is God to bring everyone a way to live, this is the emperor's Qi Tianlongen, why don't you let all the people cry and be grateful for a while, the recruitment office in the city was immediately crowded, and the black pressure was full of people, so that Wang Dazhuang's brother was simply unbearable, if it wasn't for the little fat man who brought the soldiers, and used a bright big knife to calm the field, he couldn't say that he would be able to immediately make a bloody case.
Walking on the street of Pinglu, looking at the recruited townsmen or strong men, waving the vouchers in their hands, running to the place where they received the grain to receive the brown rice they paid in advance this month, they either carried pockets on their backs, or they didn't even have pockets, so they took the family with their old and young, with clothes, pants, or half a broken bowl to take away the food they deserved, and some even lay on the ground, carefully looking for even a grain that fell on the ground for the coming year, and then cried with joy.
Immediately after that, in the alley, on the side of the street, there were curling fireworks, and the family gathered around the broken pot on the bonfire, expecting the gruel to be cooked quickly.
Staying next to a temporary nest shop of a homeless person, I watched a man with a face full of vegetables, with his wife, holding a broken bowl, kneeling on the ground, respectfully handing it to the mouth of an old lady curled up in the corner, and their children were looking at the porridge bowl greedily on the side, but they could only swallow saliva to look.
The man said in a trembling voice: "Mother, it's time to eat, it's buckwheat porridge." ” The old lady closed her eyes, smelled the fragrance of buckwheat porridge, swallowed a mouthful of dry saliva with difficulty, turned her face, turned her face to the wall, and then waved her hand weakly: "Mother is not hungry, didn't mother eat yesterday, give my little grandson to eat, he still has to grow taller." ” The daughter-in-law's tears fell, and she choked up and explained: "Mother, your son has found a job, one stone of brown rice a month, one tael of silver, the owner is merciful, and paid the brown rice first, you see, don't we boil a pot, everyone has a share, you look at it."
As he spoke, he pulled up his mother-in-law.
"Yes, mother, we have something to eat."
At this time, the mother opened her eyes, and sure enough, she saw the gruel rolling in the pot and a bag of brown rice in the corner, and her eyes immediately lit up, "My son, this is not a dream, is this true, do we really have a stone of brown rice?"
"Yes, yes, there really is, mother, you hurry up and drink a bowl while it's hot."
The old lady took the porridge bowl handed by her son with a trembling hand, took a shallow sip, squinted her eyes and carefully tasted the taste of the porridge, and then took a sip and handed the porridge bowl to her little grandson, watching him gobble it up, and told her son: "Long live or sympathize with us, the owner is a good person, my son goes to work, no matter what you do, you must not be lazy, you must do your best, or you will not be able to live with the great kindness of others." ” The man nodded in agreement. t1706231537: