Seeing Dongfang Ming coming, many people put down their things and looked at Dongfang Ming.

Dongfang Ming shook his head: "Everyone is busy, no need to worry about me."

The people nodded and continued to do what they were doing. They secretly glanced at Dongfang Ming to see why their leader suddenly came today.

Liu Caiquan was concentrating on swinging a hammer to hit a piece of red iron on the board. The fire on one side shone on his face, making the expression on his face look extremely solemn.

When Liu Caiquan saw someone approaching, he looked up at the person coming, but his hand movements did not stop: "Master!"

He pulled up the towel hanging on his shoulders and wiped the sweat on his face. He looked at Dongfang Ming: "Look at me..."

Dongfang clearly waved his hand: "I'll come and take a look. You'll do yours first, I'll just take a look."

After walking around the weapons shop, Dongfang Ming walked around the village alone.

Now the village is basically on the right track, and there are still some small details that need to be made up and improved. The most important thing is to continue to recruit people.

In the era of cold weapons, it not only depends on weapons and equipment and command ability of generals, but also on the number of people.

After a simple plan in his mind, he found Wang Bodou to ask him to take people out to recruit people.

After Wang Bodang came back from Shanxi, he heard that Li Mi secretly colluded with the officers and soldiers to attack the village and was autistic for several days. After that, he didn't know how he adjusted it. When Dongfang Ming looked at him again, the red light on his head was almost red to the point of purple.

It is naturally uneasy to send Wang Bodang to do business.

Cui Ning stayed in the village for a few days and couldn't stay any longer. She clamored to go down the mountain to have a look and have fun, and even asked Yue'e and Que'er to go with her.

Dongfang Ming thought that it was nothing, so he was planning to go to the foot of the mountain to collect some information. However, his masters naturally could not go with Cui Ning and the other women.

So he took Wang Dan and Cui Ning and others to go down the mountain in two directions.

The fields in the village at the foot of the mountain are basically from their Sun and Moon Sect. The villagers are also friendly to the Sun and Moon Sect. The relationship between the two sides is good, and some people from the villages have also sent to patrol and guard here.

A few people stayed at the foot of the mountain for a day, but they didn't go up the mountain to meet the village that day, so they decided to stay in the village at the foot of the mountain and would go up the mountain early tomorrow morning.

A few people were going back early the next morning.

Before we could reach the vicinity of Wutou Mountain, we saw a group of people coming from a distance.

They were ragged, unkempt, and depressed. The old ones were hunched over. The young ones were also tired, and the young ones looked extremely pitiful.

Dongfang Ming saw that they frowned slightly. These people were refugees.

The group of refugees stopped when they saw Dongfang Ming and Wang Dan, who were not dressed in luxurious clothes but were decent and comfortable. They looked at Dongfang Ming and their faces were full of numbness.

The leading middle-aged man saw them, his chapped lips moved, and he looked at Dongfang Ming who was walking towards him, looking like he was reluctant to speak.

Dongfang Ming naturally noticed his expression and stopped waiting for him to speak.

"This, do you know where the Aconite Mountain is?" the middle-aged man hesitated for a while before asking.

Dongfang Ming wondered, was this person coming to find their Sun and Moon Sect?

But he still said, "This is the territory of the Aconitu Mountain. Where are you from?"

"This is Wutou Mountain?" The middle-aged man's originally dim eyes suddenly lit up, "Is the Sun and Moon Sect here too?"

The numb faces of the group of people following him also changed a little. They whispered and whispered, with joy and worry on their faces.

Dongfang Ming raised his eyebrows: "You are here to find the Riyue Sect?" Wang Dan behind him couldn't help but become alert when he heard that these people were here to find the Riyue Sect.

The middle-aged man clasped his fists to Dongfang Ming and said, "In the next Wang Zhi, the villagers behind me and me all came from Fengxian."

He said as he looked at the people behind him, with unconcealed grief in his eyes: "We heard that the leader of the Sun and Moon Sect is kind and treats his subordinates well. We come from Fengxian to join the Sun and Moon Sect."

Dongfang Ming's eyes moved slightly, and he was secretly happy. It seemed that the good people and good things had not been done in vain. Even the people in Fengxian, which is so far from Wutou Mountain, had heard of the reputation of the village and came to surrender.

but,

He glanced at these dusty people, like refugees, or refugees, and thought that they had suffered some suffering and were forced to abandon their hometowns and defect to him.

In the small peasant economy, land is the life of the lower-class farmers, their foundation, and their roots will make them abandon their roots and go to a foreign land, and they may suffer unbearable oppression.

Thinking of this, Dongfang Ming asked again: "Your Fengxian is a place with fertile land. Why do you want to go so far to come here?" Fengxian has only a hundred miles from Wutou Mountain.

Hearing Dongfang Ming’s question, the middle-aged man and the people behind him showed a sad look on his face.

When Dongfang Ming saw their faces, he guessed something.

The middle-aged man said: "A new county magistrate came to our Feng County half a year ago."

"Did this county magistrate increase taxes on you?" Dongfang Ming could have guessed that there are only heavy taxes, and labor service and natural disasters will force the people to leave their land.

There was no natural disaster in Fengxian County, so these people should have escaped because of harsh policies.

An old woman wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Then Zhao Shen, after coming, he said he would charge an extra 10% of the food tax, which was already 40% of the tax!"

The middle-aged man's eyes were full of anger: "It's okay to increase the food tax, but he even pays breeding tax for the chickens and ducks raised by each household!"

Dongfangming was simply amazing. Now, the yield per mu of grain is more than 300 kilograms, and it is considered a high yield. Normally, 100 kilograms will be taken away if the yield per mu is 200 kilograms. How many fields are there for a family?

Besides, there is no family planning now. Everyone can give birth. Every family has four or five people, and a hundred kilograms of food is not enough to eat. Including the rent for the landlords.

I finally raised a few chickens and ducks to wait for them to lay eggs to subsidize their household income, but they also had to be taxed.

It's like forcing the farmers to death.

"The most hateful thing is," a woman wearing a headscarf choked up: "Zhao Shen has been taking the excuse of choosing a concubine for the prince, and has started to capture young women in the county again. The daughters of many people in the county have been arrested."

"My poor daughter, I didn't come back after I went!" One of the women howled sadly.

"We heard that the leader of the Sun and Moon Sect is powerful and treats people well, so we came. Little brother, do you know which road you have to take to reach the Aconitu Mountain Village?" asked the middle-aged man.

After hearing this, Dongfang Ming thought of the poem in his previous life, "It is the people who have suffered, and it is the people who have suffered the most in troubled times. Fengxian is also a big county, so it is definitely not easy to save those women, but if you don't help the fire in your heart, you can't help it.

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