Chapter 24:

Building a city wall is not easy. You need bricks and cement. Now you can’t buy blue bricks, let alone cement. Nowadays, building houses are mostly made of yellow mud mixture. This kind of thing is not strong, which is a face-saving project. That's it.
Lin Yuan, a liberal arts student, really doesn't know the formula of soil cement. Even if he knows, where can he find the raw materials?
There is no plaster in this wilderness.
He sighed and sighed. Yang Zian happened to be passing by and sat on the hill. Yang Zian is different from Brother Dao and others. He is literate. Although he has never read the sage books, he is also out of the scope of illiteracy. Lin Yuan teaches farmers the simplified Chinese characters to ignore Lin Yuan.
But fortunately, Yang Zian was not a descendant of a family, he was a landlord, and he disappeared after two days of lack of energy.
Anyway, those farmers wouldn’t be officials and slaughters, and it’s okay to know a few typos.
"Fourth brother, what's your sigh? Is something difficult?" Yang Zian asked.
Lin Yuan scratched the back of his head: "Thinking about the city wall, although we are surrounded by mountains on all sides, we are not stable. We only have a dozen hoes. What should I do if someone really comes? Don't talk about the gangsters, but the refugees. We have to die too."
Yang Zi'an: "The city wall?"
Lin Yuan didn't even think about what Yang Zi'an could think of, so he said: "You can't buy a blue brick, even if you can buy it, it won't be enough."
"What should I do." Yang Zian waved his hand, "Isn't it just burning bricks? I understand this."
The old bricks in his house were made by his own parents. The mud bricks are not as good-looking as the blue ones, but they can be used.
Lin Yuan's eyes when he looked at Yang Zian instantly changed, becoming extremely enthusiastic.
Yang Zian touched his chin, also a little proud. When he was a child, he used to go to the brick-burning place to play, and he burned bricks after he had nothing to do. The long-term workers naturally knew endlessly.
"We set up a brick-burning brigade!" Lin Yuan slapped, "Second brother, you will be the captain!"
Yang Zian is quite happy. Recently, Brother Dao became the captain of the hunting team. Although the big guys don’t know exactly what the captain does, but with the accumulation of time, he also knows that being a captain is good. Yang Zi’an is now also in charge of planting. , But he also didn't want to keep farming, the captain of the Burning Brick Brigade sounded quite stylish.
After all, it is the "big" captain, which is different from the "small" captain.
"We have to get some people." Lin Yuan said, "We are still too few."
There are now more than 100 middle-aged men in Zhuangzi, and more than 100 elderly women and children.
There are the fewest children, plus Gouzi, Erliang and Guoer, and there are less than ten in total.
Lin Yuan didn't want these bachelors to make the women miserable. They usually work separately.
But things between men and women are not very manageable. At this time, there is no etiquette and morality. If men and women see each other, something will happen. Now three women are pregnant.
People don't have much entertainment at this time, and there is nothing to do when it gets dark, and the little thing in the bed becomes the only activity.
Lin Yuan also understood why the ancients had so many children.
Without contraceptive methods, entertainment activities are basically nothing like bed, and it is strange that there are not many children.
But because these people are weak now, they don't get pregnant much.
Especially women, most of them have yellow and thin faces, and haven't been able to raise them after so long.
Yang Zi'an: "I'll take someone to buy someone."
It’s better to buy people peace of mind and find refugees. As long as there are one or two people with bad intentions, the trouble will be big.
Some of the refugees have been killed.
People will become more and more distorted as long as they start a murder without awe.
Therefore, modern soldiers must conduct psychological investigations after they have been on the battlefield.
In ancient times, it was not uncommon for soldiers not to obey the command to slaughter the city.
"Okay." Lin Yuan knew now that people could not buy it with money, and the paper currency had lost its purchasing power. He whispered, "Take food to buy."
Yang Zi'an nodded: "I know."
Lin Yuan: "Bring some people, take an ox cart and take a few hoes. It's best if you can buy kitchen knives and iron pots."
It is iron after all, and it can be turned into a weapon if it is melted.
Yang Zi'an also thought of this. Unlike Brother Dao and Jiang Gui, Yang Zi'an also felt that they had to have weapons and city walls. His family was also a landlord back then, but when the bandits came, there was no resistance at all.
After all, whether you are a servant or a long-term worker, you have a young family and don’t dare to work hard. The family has lost strong labor. It is difficult for a family to survive. The bandits are different. The head is not on the waistband. There will be today and no tomorrow. Days.
Even if the gangsters were not as good as them, no one was their opponent when they worked hard.
"Okay." Yang Zi'an, "I will try to get more back."
On the day Yang Zian left, he took twenty brothers. These twenty were all mature men. They had no family and were not hungry this year. The vegetables they ate also contained oil and water. After all, there was soy oil, so one All of them have some flesh, and they can still bluff people when they stand out.
Lin Yuan also gave a mobilization speech.
"If you encounter a bandit, you can fight if you can't fight, and you can run away if you can't fight." Lin Yuan said, "It's not ashamed to run!"
Lin Yuan: "But you can't lead people over, you have to run around and scattered, understand?"
These people shouted: "Understood!"
Yang Zian took the people away and left for two months.
Things lessened, Lin Yuan focused on Zhu Chongba. Now Zhu Chongba is going to the ground every day, tanned. Judging from his appearance, he is just an ordinary peasant boy. He lives in the dormitory and soon I've gotten into a fight with others, I'm smart, and I can eat anywhere.
Lin Yuan didn't doubt this. After all, he was the righteous son-in-law of Guo Ziyi in the future, and Zhu Chongba at that time had nothing.
Zhu Chongba feels that the present day is pretty good. There is no need to be displaced, and he rests after work every day. On the contrary, there are women who think he is young and healthy, and work quickly. They expressly hinted a few times, but Zhu Chongba ignored them. .
He still remembered the court's hatred in his heart and remembered clearly.
Lin Yuan sometimes chatted with Zhu Chongba, and after chatting, he discovered the difference between Zhu Chongba and others.
He is more sensitive and dares to challenge inherent thinking.
But it is also more extreme.
"Corrupt officials harm people." Zhu Chongba said, "it should all be cut."
Lin Yuan asked: "What if you are not greedy?"
Zhu Chongba: "If you are greedy, you are greedy. How many points are there?"
Lin Yuan was silent for a while, and he asked: "Do you know what their salary is?"
Zhu Zhongba was stunned. He didn't know this, but the official salary was certainly not low.
Lin Yuan: "Let's just say you Brother Jiang. He used to be a small official in Wucheng and was in charge of land. I only met him when I wanted to buy land."
"He wanted to adopt his mother-in-law and son, as well as his own parents. Later, he took his father-in-law and mother-in-law to his own home. Think about it, how much does he have to pay to support these people?" Lin Yuan said, "How common is this? If you want to visit relatives and friends, you have to buy things during the Chinese New Year. If you rely on your salary, then the family will drink northwest wind."
When Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he chopped off about 150,000 heads in anti-corruption, but he was still repeatedly banned. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the amount of corruption and bribery received by Ming officials was the highest of all dynasties.
He himself suffered from official corruption, so his methods were extreme. However, during Zhu Yuanzhang's period, officials' salaries were very low, and some officials were not as good as ordinary people, let alone compared with landlords.
Even if they know that they will behead their heads if they are greedy, the officials are still greedy.
It is estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't understand at all, why he chopped off the heads of so many corrupt officials, and so many corrupt officials still appeared.
Are those people not afraid of death?
Zhu Chongba seriously said: "That shouldn't be greedy!"
Lin Yuan: "When I bought the land, I gave Jiang Ge a dozen or so bribes."
Zhu Chongba: "..."
Lin Yuan: "Do you think that Brother Jiang is a bad guy for the common people?"
Zhu Chongba: "I..."
Lin Yuan thought for a while and said: "Human desire
hope is infinite. When you are poor, you want to eat and wear warmth. After you eat and wear warmth, you want to be big fish and meat. After big fish and meat, you want to be respected. Then there is power."
Zhu Chongba didn't speak.
Lin Yuan said: "It is better to block than to sparse."
Zhu Chongba suddenly asked: "My boss, if you sit in that seat, how do you rule corrupt officials?"
Lin Yuan thought for a while. He is not a politician, and all he knows is only the fur. Before he traveled across the country, he was conducting vigorous anti-corruption operations. It can be seen that corruption has been repeatedly banned since ancient times.
So Lin Yuan spread his hands very bachelor: "What can I do if I am a flat-headed people?"
Zhu Chongba was lost in thought.
If it was him... what would he do?
The day Yang Zian came back, the weather was grey, there was no sun, and there was no rain, but it made people feel gloomy. Yang Zian walked at the forefront of the team. Of the twenty men who went out with him, only those who came back completely Twelve people, two more injured, were lying in the bullock cart.
"I ran into gangsters on the road, and the buyer was half dead." Yang Zian said, "Six of our people died."
Lin Yuan almost didn't catch his breath.
"The two injured, I applied herbal medicine to them." Yang Zi'an frowned, his expression dim, "Can you survive it, it's up to your fate."
Herbs are the herbs on the roadside. They grow in the mountains. After rubbing them, they can stop the bleeding by applying them to the wound.
But those two people have already started to fever.
Once fever, even if it is hovering on the edge of life and death.
The people who came back were tired, and each of them had injuries. When confronting the bandits, they were afraid and wanted to run, but they couldn’t escape. There were so many bandits and the look in their eyes was so fierce. .
Fortunately, these bandits are hungry, otherwise they won't be able to live.
The people who are bought back are too thin, and it takes a while to be strong.
Yang Zian said to Lin Yuan: "There is a pot in the ox cart, and I have brought back the weapons of those bandits."
The group of bandits were originally farmers, and their weapons were mostly axes, hoes and kitchen knives.
Lin Yuan asked Yang Zian: "The group of bandits ran away?"
Yang Zian smiled at Lin Yuan: "They are all dead."
Lin Yuan sighed, the world is like this, either the other party died or they died.