Chapter 33 Killing Prisoners
When Qin Chuan returned to Mengjiazhuang, more than 30 prisoners had been taken outside the village and were sitting dejectedly under the corner of the wall. Hundreds of villagers and refugees were guarding them with guns and spears fired by Mengjiazhuang.
"What should we do with these people?"
Seeing Qin Chuan come back, Luo Ba, holding a horn bow, came up to ask.
Qin Chuan did not rush to answer, but walked over and took a look.
"Take your life, please, we are willing to follow the boss to the death..."
"From now on, I will sell my bad life to you. If you ask me to go east, I will never go west."
As soon as they saw Qin Chuan, the prisoners hurriedly knelt on the ground, either crying sadly or begging with confidence.
Qin Chuan did not respond, but looked at the villagers and refugees around him, and said lightly: "These thieves rob your food and kill your relatives, causing your family to be destroyed. Don't you want to take revenge?"
When the prisoners heard this, their faces changed drastically.
"Director Qin, what do you mean? All dozens of our brothers have surrendered, can you still kill us?"
Qin Chuan still did not respond and walked into Zhuangzi without looking back.
The villagers holding guns and spears looked at each other, with no one missing faces and eager to try them out.
When Bashanhu attacked Mengjiazhuang, in addition to the villagers who reacted quickly and carried the grain away in time, most of the families were robbed of their grains, and many villagers died.
Now facing enemies, the families of villagers have long wanted to kill their enemies and take revenge, but they didn't dare to take action due to the power of Mengjiazhuang's hospital guard.
But what Qin Da said was to let them kill these thieves?
Immediately, a brave villager went up with his spear and shouted: "Everyone is here together, kill these thieves and avenge the villagers."
"Kill them and take revenge." Several villagers came out.
The prisoners were pale, and one of them immediately knelt down and begged for mercy: "Groups, please spare me. We are all farmers from all over the countryside. We were forced to go up Huangcong Mountain, so let's go."
A few more eyes suddenly showed fierce light, rushed out of the crowd, and snatched the villagers' weapons.
A villager was unable to react and was chopped off his spear by the other party, and then hit the head with a spear by the other party, and fell down on the spot.
However, there were many villagers, with a large number of people, and there were three or four hundred people. The so-called "many people" were full of courage. Not only were they not scared to escape, but they were all angry.
With excitement from the crowd, hundreds of villagers pointed their guns and spears at the dozens of prisoners, cursing their mother and shouting horns, and advancing step by step.
Qin Chuan felt no worries when screams sounded outside the village.
None of the captives could be kept.
First, because of Loufan’s villagers, if he takes in those prisoners, he will inevitably lose the hearts of the villagers.
Letting the villagers kill the prisoners will invisibly give them the idea that "the Qin Daguan is standing on the same side as them", and it will also make these villagers brave and attract troops from them in the future.
Secondly, because these prisoners are difficult to control, the bandits in Huangcongshan are almost all raped, plundered, killed and robbed, and it is difficult for these people to discipline them. They are only 30 or so old bandits in Jishan, so they can't control so many people.
What's more, Bashanhu is not dead yet, and Huangcongshan Village is still there. Keeping these people around is a big hidden danger, and it is not uncommon to sell them one day.
Back at the gatehouse, Qin Chuan first counted the damage to the war. After finding that he had not died in battle or had no serious injuries, he felt relieved and sat down to eat something to fill his stomach.
The body of Big Fish Head and two injured brothers are still in the mine. I will be invited to pick them up early tomorrow morning.
Qin Chuan was not worried about the rebellion of the mines. Those miners who were selling hard work to eat would go with whoever had food. They had also seen his methods. As long as he did not deduct meanness and did not abuse and kill indiscriminately, they would not rebel.
After eating, he told his subordinates to find some wood to nail a coffin, Qin Chuan walked to the inner courtyard alone.
He wanted to talk to Wang Jizong.
Now, he has nearly 10,000 acres of arable land, a Heishan mine, hundreds of miners and thousands of tenants, and in a few days he will take in a large number of refugees. All aspects of the work involved, from production management to the food, drinking, defecation and urination of thousands of people, and he cannot take care of everything.
What's more, he doesn't understand many things at all, such as farming, mining and iron smelting, management of income and expenditure, etc., and he doesn't know these.
In the past, there were more than a dozen officials in the Meng family, but now he only has one and a half buckets of water, so how can he manage it?
So, I have to show off with Wang Jizong.
He had heard of the rumors about Wang Jizong, who was as stubborn as his ancestors. He knew that the other party was a tough guy and was not easy to chew, but no matter how difficult it was, he had to chew it.
When he took the inner courtyard, he saw that Wang Jizong was sitting alone in Mr. Meng's living room, his face as deep as water and as stable as Mount Tai, as if he was waiting for him.
"Mr. Wang, are you still used to living in this place?"
As soon as he entered the door, Qin Chuan said with a smile as he walked.
Wang Jizong looked up at him, then stood up, shook his sleeves, and wrote a compilation: "Jizong thanked Mr. Qin for borrowing food to save the emergency. When the autumn harvest is coming next year, we will definitely repay Mr. Qin's great kindness twice."
"It's just a few kilograms of food, it's not worth mentioning."
Qin Chuan smiled, but thought in his heart that he was a famous talent. He did not mention the rescue tonight, but also explained the date of returning the food. It was obvious that he didn't want to owe him favors.
Wang Jizong shook his sleeves and said, "Mr. Qin, since the bandits in Huangcong Mountain have been given their heads and retreat, I will not bother you."
"No hurry." Qin Chuan waved his hand, then sat down next to him, and said, "Mr. Wang, Qin has something to invite him."
Wang Jizong's face remained unchanged: "Mr. Qin, please speak."
Qin Chuan said straight to the point: "Then Qin said it straight, "I heard that Mr. Wang knows astronomy and geography, and advance can govern the country and retreat can manage the family. It is a rare talent for the world in a century. Qin has admired Mr. Wang for a long time, and at the moment when Loufan is in a waste of talents to be developed, Qin dared to ask Mr. Wang to come out of the mountain to take charge of the business and farming of Mengjiazhuang, and to make the Changzhi of Loufan Town prosperous."
Wang Jizong still remained calm and stood up and bowed, apologizing: "Thank you Mr. Qin for his kindness. However, most rumors in the market are fabricated rumors. In the next step, he is wearing a common man. He is neither a talented man nor a capable person in charge of his family. He is just a farmer in the mountains and fields. Mr. Qin's request is powerless or unanimous."
Qin Chuan had long expected that he would refuse, so he was not in a hurry at the moment, so he just asked: "When chaos is everywhere today, I wonder what Mr. Wang thinks about the Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchens, and the Shanxi-Shaanxi bandits?"
Wang Jizong smiled: "A mere farmer in the wild is ignorant of the world, and he may disappoint Mr. Qin."
Qin Chuan's face was slightly stiff, and he still had a smile on the surface, but he kept cursing in his heart.
Don’t those routines of recruiting talents in time-travel novels first talk about the situation, then fight against each other, and fight with reason. In the end, the protagonist conquers the wise men with the spirit of foresight and turtle?
Why did Wang Jizong not even have to talk about it?
Chapter completed!