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Chapter 14 Ten Pebbles Dyed with Ink

"Have you all arrived?" The village chief Wang Lao, leaning on a vine-wood crutch, turned to the village chief Li Shugen and said.

Li Shugen stretched his neck and looked around for a while, shouting in his loud voice: "Have you come from all the families? Are there anyone not here?"

"Everything has arrived, everything has arrived." There was a noise below. Basically everyone already knew the reason for gathering villagers. I heard that they were going to gather for training. Many people were worried. Most of them were lost this year. Each company was planning to go to work in a short-term worker nearby, or go to sea to fish and make some food. This time, a strong labor force was gone.

"General Wang, everyone is here." The village chief Wang turned his head and said to the sword-fitting officer who was closing his eyes and pretending to sleep.

The officer opened his eyes, glanced at the villager in the crows under the locust tree, nodded, and said to the long-robed civil servant: "Official Zhang Kongmu, you should declare the emperor's edict."

The Kongmu official named Zhang nodded, walked to everyone, took a scroll of silk book from his arms, slowly opened it, and sang loudly.

"Be careful in the battlefield, so we are prepared for unpredictable and trained soldiers, so we have to prevent violence, and we have a general tradition of the country.... In the years of natural disasters and famines, the people are famine, Pang Xun's remnants, invaded the prefectures and counties, and plundered villages. We have thought about it here and never forget to learn from it. We have set up a town to prevent border towns, and we should rescue each other. Now we have to join forces to unite the soldiers, and we must order the head and tail to guard the front and tail, and to open the force of the horns, so that the enemy can't be violated, and we have nowhere to go. We prepare horses and train troops, observe the provocation and move, cultivate land and accumulate grain, and consolidate the enemy's request, and destroy the army, and defeat this place. We ordered all the places in Henan Province to draw one of fifteen households to gather each county, and continue to command the unsuccessful war. We need armored soldiers, so that the public and private sectors will plant, and farm and fight. We should teach and encourage each other to fulfill my thoughts."

After reading a large section of the emperor's edict, the civil servant took out another notice, but it was the order of Song Wei, the governor of the Lu Army of Ziqing Ping, who controlled the five prefectures in the eastern Henan Road.

"Ziqing pacified Lu, and the border bandits were ordered to train soldiers, and they must always be warned. If you hear that Pang Xun's remnants of evil will rise again, you should order Qi, Qing, Zi, Lai, and other states to examine the situation and make more defenses. You should accumulate strength and wait for labor. When you are in the important robbery, you must increase the number of troops and horses, and you can handle the situation with your orders. You still choose a few people to be simple and simple, and you should clearly see the situation. If you are the master and general, if you are careful and do whatever you want, you should increase the rewards; if you are abolished officials and robbers, you must set up Yan Xian. You will still be sure to instruct each person to work hard and be appointed as the deputy. If you manage the city and the city, you should be able to complete the work, and you will not delay it. If you are not allowed to defend the prefectures, you will be short of your prefectures. The soldiers are recruited by dangerous and narrow-minded people, and you will be called a healthy man, give spring and winter clothes and food. If you are the people, you will be called a group of people, return in spring and autumn, and collect in winter and summer, and give a piece of food and pickled vegetables every day."

The clerk recited it for a long time like singing, before he finished reading these two announcements. However, after he had been reading for most of the day, the villagers below were almost dozing off, and few of them understood half of them.

"Brother Xiucai, what is that white-bearded old man? " Wang Xiaoshitou beside Li Jing asked him with a confused look on his face.

"The court wants to draw troops to train and prevent bandits, and one for fifteen households will be drawn." Li Jing replied, but he felt an uncontrollable excitement in his heart. The two general orders only talked about one thing, and the heroes were drawn into the army and formed a group to train troops. And the reason for the draw was that Pang Xun, who had been rebelling from Guilin and fighting to Xuzhou, began to move again. The court drew troops to form united soldiers as reserve forces.

However, Li Jing inferred from these two general orders that the so-called remnants of Pang Xun have already made a big fuss, otherwise it would be impossible for the central court to issue such an edict. If it is really just some remnants, it is enough to order the dispatch of troops and horses from all over the country to suppress bandits. Why do you need to draw a large-scale group training from 15 to 15 to form a group training?

It's not simple, if things go wrong, they will become monsters. If his predictions are good, it must be because of the great disaster this year that led to the beginning of the great famine. People who cannot survive will definitely have to wander around, and some ambitious people and even bandits will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble. The court's fifteenth draws one person, not only to form a reserve army to prepare, but also to remove firewood from the bottom of the pot, and to draw out many young and strong people in advance, so as not to be separated from the thief.

It should be true. According to the historical knowledge of later generations that Li Jing mastered, due to locust plagues and droughts in the Tang Dynasty, the number of places in Guandong, Henan was first completely out of stock, followed by the surge in food prices, and then hungry people from all over the country flocked, and then bandits from all over the country flocked. Then, next year, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao's two biggest rebels will be in full swing. Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao's affairs were a major outbreak of the civil war in the late Tang Dynasty, and the initial Mars should have begun.

The civil unrest at the end of the Tang Dynasty was about to begin, and the Tang Dynasty was about to enter the last decades of storm. The peasant army flew around and fought in all directions, and the last bit of balance in the Tang Dynasty would be broken, and the balance barely maintained by the checks and balances between the various vassal states would be completely broken, and the era of separatist melee was about to begin.

Troubled times, a real turbulent times are coming.

People are not as good as dogs in troubled times, but heroes are also produced in troubled times!

Should I be a dog or a hero?

Li Jing once thought about using his knowledge to make some small voices, do some small business, and live freely in the coastal coast. But after experiencing the Wuwang prison disaster that had just passed, he completely realized that this is the late Tang Dynasty, and this is not the prosperous era.

In the turbulent times of the late Tang Dynasty, people's lives were not as good as dogs. Huang Chao's army and Caizhou thieves were all using people as military rations. It was impossible to keep them alone. Wang Liang's dog was just a collusion with a small sesame warehouse official and could easily kill himself. If it weren't for the amnesty order, he might have become several bones outside Chishan Town at this time.

It is absolutely not necessary to take life and death into the hands of others. Your own destiny should be controlled by yourself.

How to control your own destiny in this chaotic world?

The King of Chaos is the king, and the one with the biggest fist is the boss, and the force of soldiers and horses is the most powerful and core force in this world.

Only by becoming a soldier and becoming a soldier can you have the opportunity to seize your own destiny.

Li Jing turned his head and happened to see Gui Niang and Wan'er standing by Han's side, left and right. Behind them, the rest of the Li family also arrived. Looking at this family, he felt a moment of reluctance in his heart, but in the second moment, he immediately strengthened his thoughts. Staying there was only a moment of greed for more peace. No one could do anything about the tide of the turbulent times of the late Tang Dynasty.

In troubled times, only by protecting yourself and strengthening yourself can you have the opportunity to protect the people around you.

Before the villagers understood the content of the notice, the civil servant had already brought a pottery jar and shouted loudly to everyone: "The population of 158 households in Wangli Village is the method of drawing one gen in fifteen households. There are a total of 158 pebbles in the pot. Among these 158 pebbles, only ten are soaked ink. Each of you households sends one person to touch a pebble. The ten households that touch the ink pebble must each be recruited into the army!"

All the villagers understood the meaning of this one, and no one went up to touch it for a while.

"I'll do it!" Li Jing shouted, squeezed out of the crowd, and was the first to walk forward. With everyone's screams, he reached into the pottery jar.
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