Chapter 102:

In such a big city as Runing, there are so many big households that Gaoyou can hardly compare. The big households are inextricably linked, relying on marriage and cooperation to each other, fighting for the strong in peacetime, Chen Baisong came, they It was twisted into a rope.
Since Runing is no longer under the control of the court, they naturally want to take advantage of Chen Baisong's hands.
It is better to kneel down or stand first. Most of them chose the former. They didn't think Chen Baisong would kill them all.
In their view, they are different from the people. The people are pigs and dogs, and they are the people in power who need to win over.
Master Zhang thought the same before entering the camp.
New people in power want to take over a big city, so they naturally need the help of people like them. Is there anyone who knows Runing better than them?
However, most of them are just tough on the face, and put on harsh words, but the gifts are constantly pouring into the barracks.
Chen Baisong looked at the box in front of him and asked the soldiers to open it.
There are more than 30 boxes sent in by families with different surnames. There are countless gold and silver treasures, exquisite brocades, and a group of women standing behind them. Most of these women are servants in the family. The color is not necessarily good, but in In the military camp, where no women can be seen, a group of soldiers salivates, even like flowers, they can be regarded as gods.
"No matter how hard your mouth is, it will be quicker to give money." The soldiers did not understand, "They are so cruel, how can they return gifts to our general? Isn't this slap your own face?"
Another soldier joked next to him: "You don't understand, right? Those big guys must have come up with the idea together, can anyone dare not follow? Afraid of offending other big guys, he can only fight against the general and fear that the general will hate him. Naturally, you have to give gifts to the generals in private. These people are like this and treat others as fools."
Chen Baisong picked up a pearl shirt. Pearls are a rare thing. There are not many offerings to most people every year, and there are fewer folks. The big family have such a piece, which is enough to be envied by people. In the era without artificial cultivation, The output of pearls is originally small, and it is even more difficult to find from these pearls that are of the same size and round enough, just such a piece, sometimes you can't buy it with money.
"Runing is wealthy." Chen Baisong threw the pearl shirt back into the box with no expression on his face. "Send someone to invite the patriarchs of these families, and he said that I want to have a good drink with them and discuss big plans."
The soldiers were taken aback for a moment: "General, why do you give them such a face? Runing has been beaten down. From now on, it will be our South Bodhisattva's site. What are they? Do the generals go to meet them personally? They are not worthy!"
Chen Baisong: "What nonsense are you talking about, if you ask you to go, you are a general and I am a general?"
The soldier quickly admitted his mistake: "Subordinate..."
Chen Baisong: "Hurry up."
The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and quickly greeted people to go.
Another soldier stood next to Chen Baisong. He had the most smile on his face, with meat on his cheeks, small eyes with a flat nose, and spots on his face. He was not old, but he was shrewd. He whispered, "General, why not Tell them to bring juniors with you?"
Chen Baisong shook his head: "You can't call them all, and they can't be closed in the barracks."
The patriarchs of those big families dare to come, just to put life and death out of control. If they die, they will occupy the righteousness. Although whoever has the big fist now makes sense, but the good name of the South Bodhisattva spreads far, and they really caught this. The South Bodhisattva changes from good to evil, and the people will change their hearts. There is not only the South Bodhisattva family in the world.
It's better to keep people locked up.
"They don't want to return home and stay in the barracks. Is it our fault?" Chen Baisong said with a smile, "However, even though they are in the barracks, their families must do their filial piety. The barracks do not support idlers. They want to stay. Where does the food come from for food? I may not be required to raise it?"
The soldier's eyes widened-he always thought that his general only knew about fighting, but he didn't expect that the general had such a city.
Inside the city of Runing, inside the Deng family mansion.
"Father, you can't go!" Deng's father and son hugged his father's leg, crying, his eyes swollen into walnuts, a piece of filial piety can be learned from the sky, his nose flowed to his mouth, and he couldn't reach out and wipe it, crying Heaven yelled, "Father, the surname Chen is a hungry wolf! If you go, he will not call you back safely!"
Father Deng sighed, his gray hair and crutches in his hand were a bit uncomfortable to walk. He needed the help of his servants around him. After repeated crying and pleading from his son, he said, "Send someone over there to invite us. If we don’t go, we have no reason."
The eldest son: "What is the truth?! You are old, it is the time to take care of your life! What truth can be more important than this? If people outside want to say, let them go!"
Father Deng looked at his eldest son. He was not so smart, but he was filial and honest. He was relieved and worried when his family inheritance was passed on to such a child. He was relieved that the child would do what he wanted. A hundred years later, if this child is deceived by someone with a heart, he will not be able to hold onto this huge family business based on his character.
It's like now, an invitation was sent over there, even if they knew that the front was Longtan Tiger Den, they had no other choice but to jump down.
Father Deng asked his servants to help the eldest son up. Then he said earnestly: "You listened to Dad, that General Chen sent the invitation. It was his courtesy corporal and his good name. If we don't go, the notoriety will be on our side. By then, he will enter the city and kill our family. Even if he is said to be outside, it is rootless duckweed. If he hasn't restrained, he naturally has no concerns."
"Do you think that the people of the world dare to do it right? But the people of the world dare to do it right? Think about the Zhao family ten years ago."
The eldest son looked in a trance, Zhao family?
Obviously it was only ten years ago, but he can't remember it anymore.
Ten years ago, the Zhao family was at the peak of the sky. Several streets in the city of Runing belonged to the Zhao family. The Zhao family had the most fertile land on the edge of the city. The management of the Zhao family for several generations was just Overturned within ten days.
The building will collapse. No one will shed a tear for them. People watch the excitement and rejoice over the destruction of a family.
How did the Zhao family fall?
At first, it was mixed with stones when serving the porridge.
Many large families have done this before. The people at the bottom have to fish for oil and water, and replace the new grain with uneatable old grain. The shortcomings of this are carried into their pockets.
Then again? It seems that the beggar refugees are making trouble.
Some people hired beggars and refugees to guard Zhao's door day and night, and throw dung when someone came out.
The Zhao family wanted to catch, but these people ran away after losing their dung and couldn't catch up.
That's all, the Zhao family went out, and some people in the crowd threw dung.
After that, the Zhao family stopped going out.
There are also people in the Zhao family's stall constantly looking for faults. The Zhao family wants to distinguish, but the people already think this family is a villain.
The officials above will not speak for the Zhao family even if they receive benefits from other families.
In the end, the Zhao family sold the shop and land, and went away from home, never coming back.
But when people leave their hometowns and humble, leave the rooted land, go to other places, go to other people's entangled sites, how much hope is there to return to the glory of the past?
The eldest son covered his face with his hands. It's not that he doesn't understand this truth. Sometimes a person's tongue is a sharp weapon, and it can also be turned into a murderous knife.
Father Deng patted his son on the head: "Father must go. When he goes, our family has the truth. If Dad dies there, our family can get more benefits. Then Nan Bodhisattva worked hard, not stupid. This principle, so Dad will not die, then General Chen will still treat Dad as a guest."
The eldest son was stupid again, didn't understand, and didn't dare to say that he didn't understand, so he could only lower his head.
Father Deng sighed again: "Listen to Dad, Dad has passed away. If he dies, you must wear a linen and filial piety, and let everyone know who father died, so that our family will have a reputation and a reputation, even if it is silent for a while. Don’t be afraid, one day you will get up again."
"But if you lose even your reputation, when General Chen enters the city, our house will be all gone."
The eldest son nodded: "Father, I understand, what do you say, my son will do it!"
In Runing City, not only the Deng family was parting, but the big families all received invitations. They thought about it, and the majority went, only four or five claimed to be sick and could not leave the city.
These families don't need Chen Baisong to do anything, other families will join together to cannibalize them.
Most of the patriarchs came, they rode out of the city in a carriage, and then entered the barracks together.
Master Deng thought he could see the rumored brutal and ruthless General Chen, but he waited in the tent with a group of old men. Not to mention General Chen, even the soldiers around him could not see him, only the small soldiers in the barracks. Against them.
It doesn't matter, the little soldiers don't talk to them, they will deliver food to them when they arrive, and they will take them to Lhasa when they want to.
But they didn't dare to ask—everyone wanted to live longer.
Now that he is dead, he doesn't seem to get any benefit.
They didn't dare to shake their faces at the soldiers and put on airs.
They still understand the truth that people have to bow their heads under the eaves.
Master Deng sat on the wooden bed, covered with the quilt he had brought, holding a cup of hot water in his hand, panicked, but he didn't dare to show it, so he could only sit down and sit down.
The elders of other families were a little greedy for his quilt. As they were older, the young people thought it was right to be lukewarm, but they still felt cold.
There was no quilt for them in this account, and they had to be cold if they didn't bring them.
"Master Deng actually brought a quilt, which is more careful than we thought."
"I just don't know how Master Deng thought about bringing a quilt."
"Could it be that General Chen had a head and tail long ago?"
Master Deng's face turned green, and he quickly said, "It's a child who is worried. I'm old and my son bought it for me. If you don't dislike it, please come over and cover your legs."
He knew that if these people were allowed to continue talking, he would become a traitor. Not to mention this quilt would allow him to build a leg, even if he let it go.
These people have always been like this. When they gather together to condemn someone, and then ask others to announce it, the convicted person will be over.
Or map other people's shops, or map other people's land.
They used this method handily and tried repeatedly, and Master Deng did not dare to confront them.
The family members in Runing City are waiting for news of the old people's death.
When the old people die, they are more confident to negotiate terms.
However, waiting left and right, the news of death did not arrive, but the messenger sent by Chen Baisong.
"Your parents are in the military camp. How can you persuade them to return to the city? It's hard to ask our general to raise people?"
Everyone heard this.
So countless food carts were pulled from the city to the barracks.
Chen Baisong looked at the grains. There were old grains and new grains, but the quantity was sufficient. The grains brought by dozens of vehicles were enough for the entire military camp for a month.
Just when the families in the city thought they were bleeding heavily and were distressed to death, Chen Baisong's envoy came back again.
"Your old man has a good appetite and eats a lot. The food we sent before is gone."
Everyone is stupid.
This is simply to take them out and ask for food.
"Can't give it to them!"
"Continue to give, they will continue to ask, their appetite is not full! Can't give!"
"What can I do if I don't give it? That's your father. Do you want to be an unfaithful and unfair person?"
"Hundreds of filial piety is the first priority, and even filial piety is no longer needed. You will be the one who will force your father to die at that time!"
"What can I do?"
"Give food? We can only continue to give it, and the amount of property in the family is not enough!"
Before the elders leave, I hope that the elders can come back safely.
At this time, one by one, they were anxious that their elders would die earlier.
"It's late! No food is given now. It is our family members who will kill them at that time. The food can't be stopped, continue to deliver!"
Chen Baisong looked at the new grain truck and asked someone to open it for inspection. There was less grain, but there was more gold and silver instead of grain.
But the role of gold and silver is obviously not as great as that of food at this time.
He said to the soldiers: "Since they think gold and silver are edible, go and ask them to eat it by themselves."
The soldiers took their orders and took the gold and silver to "buy food" for the big households in the city.
Can they say not to sell?
Although the elders of various families cannot act at will in the barracks, they can eat and drink and cannot enjoy them, but life can be guaranteed, even if they are sick, Chen Baisong also asks a military doctor to treat them.
Master Deng’s quilt was eventually snatched away. Fortunately, the clothes he brought were thick enough. He slept under the clothes every day, but he felt okay. But when people get old, there will always be all kinds of troubles. I'm defecate, and the tent is that smell all day, not to mention other things.
Master Deng couldn't stand it after living for a few days. He would rather sleep in the wild than squeeze a tent with these old guys.
It's a pity that he said it's useless, no matter how he begged the soldiers from outside, no one was willing to accept him.
They didn’t know that the family had delivered food, but thought that General Chen was going to disarm him, shut them up here, and smoothed their hearts. They gritted their teeth and vowed to overcome this difficulty. , In any case, can not shame the family.
Chen Baisong looked at the continuous delivery of food, and finally let go, and asked someone to send quilts to the group of elders. The food was better than before. At any rate, there was meat. Before, there were no vegetables. Every day was sweet potatoes. And potatoes, these two things are also very sweet occasionally, but they can be eaten every day.
"Can't give it anymore!"
A group of people got together to discuss.
They looked indignant: "What is he? He is a bandit! More than a bandit!"
Deng's family son whispered: "I remember that General Chen was born as a bandit..."
When everyone looked at him, Boss Deng was taken aback. He shrank his neck and pretended to be a quail. He didn't dare to speak anymore, but he couldn't help thinking, "What kind of cruel pretend here? When you asked for food earlier, none of you dared Speaking, now I want to push a fool to come out without giving me food, who is that fool?"
The room was quiet again. At this time someone said: "We don't deliver food together, I don't believe that he really dares to attack the elders! What do you say?"
"Since An Gongzi said, we will naturally follow An Gongzi."
"Yeah, they bully people too much, they bully people too much, we can't always be led by them."
"Exactly, they are sure that we will not ignore the elders, we will not send food, and I don't think they dare to do anything."
"Okay! Then don't give it away!"
When Mr. Deng returned home at night, his wife brought the boiled sober soup and asked in a soft voice: "My husband has discussed in the past today, what result can we discuss?"
Boss Deng took a sip of the sober soup and shook his head: "I want to treat others as fools. How can there be so many fools in the world?"
Wife inexplicably: "What do you say?"
Boss Deng shook his head and said, "I said that it is not to send food. You can wait and see, see which one does not send it."
When the day came to deliver food, Boss Deng didn't want to confront everyone, so he asked his servant to send him out of the city late at night. Now the guards of the city gate are Chen Baisong's people, and he is not afraid that other families will know.
As a result, when the servant who delivered the food came back to report, he said that when he was out of the city, he encountered a lot of food delivery trucks. Although I don't know which ones they belonged to, they are not less than the previous food delivery trucks.
Boss Deng laughed loudly at home: "I said it would be weird if these people have the courage to not give it away! All of them are waiting for others to come forward, so what else to discuss?"
The wife said with a sad face: "There is no food at home, even the old Chen Liang from previous years. If this continues, we can only buy food."
But buying grain is not so easy. The grain is in the hands of the big households. If the big households are out of grain, is it possible to find the people to buy it?
Even if the people have food in stock, they can't save much. At most, it is enough for a family's rations for a few months. If you really sell these rations, can you starve to death?
Boss Deng lowered his head: "Continue to send."
The wife raised her hand to wipe her tears, her eyes were red: "Husband, you should think about it for the children, not for the family. If the father-in-law knows, he is unwilling to do everything..."
As long as they are willing to pay for food, they can always buy food, but after their family has no food, only money is left. If there is no money, what is left?
In the end it will not be defeated.
Boss Deng looked at his wife: "It's no longer something we don’t deliver. Believe it or not, if I don’t deliver food today, tomorrow the group of soldiers will rush into the house and give me a charge of unfilial piety. The money and food at home, even the shop and land, can’t be kept! Even life is gone!"
The wife looked at her husband blankly: "It is so..."
Boss Deng smiled bitterly: "I originally thought that General Chen was a reckless man, but now it seems that we are too stupid. Even if we report the illness, we shouldn't ask Daddy out."
Wife: "...but everyone went..."
"The ones not going...now..."
Boss Deng looked at the night outside the window with a bleak heart. If he saves his father, his family will be defeated, and he may not be able to save him.
If you don't save your father, you can't escape. You will die if you advance and retreat. You can only choose how to die to be decent.
Boss Deng learned the next day that there was really a family that did not deliver food. This family is not very decent in Runing. There are too many large families. This family can only be regarded as a small fish. No one among the family and relatives is an official. Some money cannot be compared with other families. I don't know how it is considered, but it is really not given.
Although it was not sent, it was not troubled.
The big households in Runing City seemed to have received some messages, and they really started not delivering food one after another.
Chen Baisong did not send soldiers to make trouble.
"Let me just say, may he really dare to do anything? If he really kills the old people, the saliva of the world can drown him!"
"That's right! Now we don't send food, isn't it nothing?"
Boss Deng didn’t dare not give it away. He had lived in his father’s hands all his life. He didn’t dare to think about what his father would do if he was really dead. He could only ask people to continue to give it away secretly. Detour after the curfew.
Fortunately, I still picked it up from the barracks.
Boss Deng’s wife did not understand him, and neither did his brothers and sons.
Isn’t it all right if others don’t send it? Why does our family continue to send it? There is no benefit if you send it, and there is no harm if you don't send it.
But after all, they are elders, and they are connected by blood.
A month later, Chen Baisong finally made a move, and the army entered the city and copied all the houses that did not send food.
As soon as the charges of unfilial piety were released, the soldiers arrested the people and sent people away from all the paved fields.
"Master!" People scurrying in the courtyard.
Boss Deng was already a little unsteady. He heard the news, and he was flustered. Although he sent food, he was afraid that General Chen would also take this opportunity to copy their Deng’s house. Will someone come to Deng by then? Is the family pleading for justice?
Just when Boss Deng was in a panic and didn't know what to do, the soldiers walked in.
The soldier with flesh on both cheeks smiled and said to him: "Our general said, Uncle Deng is very filial, as a model, and this tells us to send Mr. Deng back."
"Those who are unfilial are detained now, so I have to ask Uncle Deng to bother and visit them from time to time. With you as a model, teach them more about filial piety.
What else can Boss Deng say?
What can he say?
I could only stand there and nodded stupidly, and said nonchalantly: "Naturally share the worries for the general."
The soldier encouraged: "There are not many households in Runing now. If Uncle Deng is interested, please walk with our general more. Then we will deal with those troubles with our general and win a good name. Isn't it beautiful? "
Boss Deng swallowed, "Let the general send it."
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There should be another watch in the evening, maybe a bit late, huh?