Chapter 189
Zhao Peng thought for a while and said, "Everyone has to carry more than 60 kilograms of gold from Qufu to the Jining Lake. It will take fifty miles to bring such heavy things. If the Qing army in the Green Camp comes, can we run away?"
"What should I do? You can't just take away a part of the gold, right?" Wang Quan asked.
Zhao Peng lowered his head, frowned, racked his brains to think. Suddenly he had a plan: "Well, aren't a large number of Qufu people waiting for us to distribute the food? We can mobilize them and ask them to help us deliver the goods to the Jining Lake. Those who are willing to follow us will reward them with fifty taels of silver alone!"
"Are they willing to leave?" Wang Quan asked.
"Let's try it first." Zhao Peng didn't have any confidence in his heart.
The sky gradually became brighter, and the square outside Yangsheng Gate was crowded with people who had heard the news. In the middle of the square, the Jinyiwei soldiers who disguised as robbers took out the things from the Yansheng Gong's house and piled them up on the square. The Jinyiwei also drove pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, yellow cows, mules, donkeys and other animals, and drove them to the square, preparing for the people to choose.
There was a crazy light in the eyes of the tenants - they were exploited and oppressed by the Yanshenggong family for generations, and the people's lives were very difficult. On weekdays, they could only struggle around the line of food and clothing. If they encountered a disaster year, they would starve to death! The years of these years have not been very good.
But these tenants hesitated and none of them dared to step forward. After all, the Yansheng Gong family has remained powerful for hundreds of years. They know who these things will be divided. The Kong family has accumulated power over their heads for hundreds of years. If they take away the Kong family's things, they will be a bandit.
Kong Yinzhi, tied to the pillar, shouted loudly: "I am here, see who dares to move! This is the Kong family's thing. Whoever dares to move is a bandit, and the whole family will be killed!"
"Famous people, what are you waiting for? Don't you want to have enough food? Do you want to watch your wife and children starve to death in front of you?" Zhao Peng opened his voice and shouted loudly.
The Jinyiwei began to kill pigs on the spot. With the screams of the pig's dying, a huge black pig fell down. It was soon made into two live pigs by the Jinyiwei. Then a Jinyiwei held a pig's knife and chopped meat on the chopping board.
The people have been here for a long time to be full and wear and clothing. Now they have seen so much food, cloth, and precious meat. Some robbers claim to give them these things to themselves, so how can they not be excited? The people who have been tortured for many years in the famine are willing to die even if they can have a full meal and then die.
Finally, someone moved first, walked into the middle of the square, and carried a bag of rice.
"This is also yours." A Jinyiwei walked up with a basket, which contained a piece of pork, a bag of salt, and a dozen eggs. Another Jinyiwei carried a live chicken and beat the tenant.
The tenant who received the food, pork, eggs, and salt put the things on the ground and kowtowed to the Jinyiwei: "Living Bodhisattva! My seriously ill mother, my son who is about to starve to death is saved!"
Seeing someone coming up to get food and food, the thousands of tenants around the outside finally went crazy and rushed forward like crazy. Although they were still trembling at first, they lost their minds in front of food and cloth, such as survival necessities, they all lost their minds. It was the Jinyiwei who waved their whips and kept crackling in the crowd, which barely maintained order.
No wonder the people here are excited. Whether it is Yanzhou Prefecture or Qufu, they can actually be described as starvation all over the years. The common people are almost unable to eat grass roots and bark, and they can be seen everywhere after eating Guanyin soil. Moreover, this famine has lasted for a long time. From the early years of Chongzhen to the present, the entire southwestern Shandong area has been repeatedly tossed by drought locusts, making these survival necessities more precious than other places, and are even worthy of exchange for life.
A middle-aged man in his thirties hugged the food and meat sent by the Jinyiwei, crying in the dark. Zhao Peng and the others didn't know, but the people in the tenant knew that the drought had been severe over the years. His parents, wife, and children were all starved to death, and the family of six was only left. If he had just a few kilograms of food, it wouldn't have been!
Someone asked timidly: "Can women and children be collected?"
"Of course!" Zhao Peng nodded kindly.
Gu Pout
"Where is the old man?"
"Of course!"
"No matter how old the child is, can it be as good as the old man?"
"No matter how old it is, as long as it is a person!"
The man turned around excitedly and rushed out, went home to call someone. After a while, the man held two children in his arms, a girl about two years old and a baby who had just been born, followed by his wife and his teenage eldest daughter. They were carrying a pair of door panels, and on the door panel was a dying old woman, and behind the eldest daughter, there was a series of children from eight to three years old.
But after this family received the things, they were worried: "Hero, I can't take so many things."
"If you don't take it, put it on the ground first, let the children watch it, just like you and your aunt come one by one." Wang Quan said to the man with a happy look.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a woman's cry. Looking in the direction of the sound, I saw a woman with a big belly crying loudly: "My son, why didn't you come to the world a few days earlier? In this way, our family can get one more thing."
Seeing the pregnant woman crying loudly, everyone laughed, and there was laughter and joy in the crowd. The people who got the things looked a little more kind and grateful in their eyes when they looked at the Jinyiwei.
Kong Yinzhi and his family were so distressed that they were almost broken when they watched this scene. The food, cloth, and animals were all accumulated through great efforts. Now they were all divided. How could they not be as if they were hurt? What's even more annoying is that the robbers took the Kong family's things to buy the Kong family's tenants and shamelessly started a business without foundation!
But what’s annoying is that the tenants of the Kong family were willing to be bewitched!
But Kong Yinzhi was not desperate yet. Although the place where he hid gold and silver was found out by the robbers, there must be no more than robbers to move so much gold and silver. It would be great if they could take away a part of it. The Kong family not only had these properties, but the Kong family had countless fields, and there were shops, shops, shops, etc., things that were not something that could be separated by mud legs.
But after a while, the Jinyiwei made Kong Yinzhi desperate because he saw the "robber" carry out a large wooden box. The "bandit leader" in the lead opened the box. Seeing what was inside the box, Kong Yinzhi's heart suddenly contracted.
Zhao Peng took out a stack of paper from the box with a smile. All the eyes in the square focused on these papers. All the tenants present at the Kong family held their breath. The Kong family's land deeds, sales deeds, store deeds, business investment documents and loan bans for usury.
In the middle of the square, the Jinyiwei built a high platform with boxes. Zhao Peng stood on the platform, holding an iron horn and shouted: "Dear fellow villagers, the Kong family has been deeply blessed with hundreds of years of grace in the Han Dynasty, but now they sell themselves as Jiannu and are willing to be the lackey of Jiannu! No longer deserves to be Yan Sheng Gong! His property is no longer protected by conscientious Han people! So from now on, you will be deducted the debts owed to the Kong family, and rent the Kong family's land to the tenants, as well as all the slaves, and all the freedom will be restored!"
As he said that, Zhao Peng threw all the paper in his hand, except for the stockholder documents of the business, into an iron basin, then took out the flint scythe, fired the fire, and ignited the words.
A maid cried and shouted: "Grandpa, but I have lost my contract, so I have no identity."
The slaves' contracts for selling their bodies in those days can't be destroyed at will, because the contract for selling their bodies is the household registration of the slave. Once the contract for selling their bodies is gone, they will turn from a slave to a black household.
Chapter completed!