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On the outside of the village, there are many small hills. All the places with soil on these hills have basically been reclaimed into fields by the villagers. The fields are not big and have different shapes. Some are oblique, some are square, some are rectangular, some are triangle, and some are even unable to tell what shape they are... The hardworking Chinese farmers are best at adapting to local conditions and turning waste into treasures.

Although the land in Huanglong Mountain is not very fertile and can even be said to be a bit barren, no matter how barren the land is, it is better than the land that has suffered from drought. This group of villagers actually harvested a batch of grain with a little stream in the mountainous area and the seeds brought back from the mountains.

In these small fields, some villagers are bent over and harvesting crops in the fields, and their shadows are dragged long by the sun. These farmers who are harvesting crops are the first group of people who came to the village. Because they came early, they laid a foundation and occupied land early, so that they could harvest crops smoothly this year.

As for the later villagers, the fields they reclaimed were a little far from the village, and some even had to cross two hills to arrive. Moreover, their fields were not yet reclaimed for a year and they were not in the sowing period at all, so there was no harvest this year. This was helpless. Who told them not to join Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates at the beginning?

The farmers who had no harvest had to look at others harvesting crops with a little envious look, feeling sad. If I had heard Brother Zhu earlier... I would have heard Brother Zhu earlier.

Zhu Yuanzhang led his army to pass by the hillside, and the farmers in the fields greeted him together, while some were looking for their sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands in the army... from time to time, people greeted someone's name in surprise.

The first autumn harvest of the village! A good start! This means that the village can finally produce some basic grains on its own and will not live completely with the face outside the mountain.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at the farmers on the hillside. Although he was the emperor for a lifetime, Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite profession was still the farmer! He was born in a poor peasant family and had a natural sense of closeness to the profession of peasants. He hated corrupt officials very much and had killed corrupt officials to flow blood. He also didn't like businessmen and suppressed them mercilessly.

When I think about the past life, I think about it now, some are right, some are wrong, some need to be completely overturned, and some need to be slightly corrected. In short, I will definitely do better in this life than in the previous life, but no matter what, his preference for farmers will not change. [The insect does not know]

"Brother Zhu! I have collected a lot of food this year... Hahaha!" A little old man laughed at Zhu Yuanzhang: "Since the fall of the first year of Chongzhen, I have eaten your meal for two years in vain. This year... I finally got my own harvest."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and waved his hand: "How can you say you are free? Isn't your son working under my hands? Without him helping with the war, I wouldn't have got so many things back, so you can enjoy it with confidence."

"Hey, my unscrupulous son used to know that he was swaying around and mingling with those rogues. Now he goes out to do serious business with you. I feel very sincere. You discipline my son well... Now he is a soldier and is much more respectful to me when he returns home." The old man smiled and said, "By the way, we agreed when we first went up the mountain, I will pay you a portion of the harvest... as my tax."

"Yeah!" Zhu Yuanzhang did not refuse, but just nodded. Tax collection is unavoidable. If he refuses it once due to some kind of favor, it will be inconvenient to collect it in the future. If the villagers are disgusting as not paying taxes, they will create a bad situation in the future that they cannot be cleaned up, just like the current Ming Dynasty.

After passing by the old man's field, along the way, there were people greeting him on the hillside, and his words were as big as what the old man said. These villagers did not join the army, did not participate in the "tax collection" work, nor did they fight with the officers and soldiers who came into the mountains to encircle and suppress them. So they ate the food distributed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and were always a little uneasy in their hearts and thought about doing something for the copycat. Now that the harvest season is finally coming, how can they not express it quickly?

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and waved to them and responded one by one.

When he entered the village, he summoned everyone as usual and began to distribute spoils. Food and daily necessities were still distributed like the same thing to ensure the basic life of the villagers. He also distributed the villagers who had already had fields and harvested their own crops. He would not distribute the things that the army had snatched back to them just because they had already had their own income.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang knows people's hearts very well, people will not worry about poverty or inequality! If the villagers who have gained gains do not send things and only send them to those who have not gained, wouldn't they encourage everyone to work in disguise? It is obviously wrong to do this! Those who have done more work get more, those who have gained gain more, and those who have gained gain more, are natural.

However, the way he sent things was the same as last time. Everyone sent the food to ensure everyone's basic life, but daily necessities were distributed according to military merits. In this way, families with soldiers could get fine heads, needles, pots and other items that could not be produced by themselves in the village. If families without soldiers wanted these things, they needed to exchange the food they had harvested to find soldiers for... In this way, the villagers in the entire village could find their own place in the village.

In short, you either work or join the army. If you don’t do anything, you will only have a meal and no other daily necessities, and you will be very sad that day.

While busy dividing this and that, the desperate Saburo, who was responsible for the defense of the parody, suddenly came over and said with a strange expression: "Brother Zhu, a group of people suddenly came to the foot of the mountain, saying that they were coming to visit you... It was very strange... You go and have a look!"

"Visit me?" Zhu Yuanzhang was so strange. What is this place? This is where bandits gather, and someone is coming to visit?

Zhu Yuanzhang walked to the gate of the mountain village and looked down. He saw more than twenty men at the foot of the mountain in the distance, all wearing small hats in green. He saw that they were servants of a rich family, two of whom were carrying a slide pole.

The so-called slide pole is two smooth bamboo poles, with a soft net hanging in the middle, like a pocket. This thing is actually used to carry people. In rugged mountains, things like sedan chairs are very inconvenient and cannot be lifted at all, but the slide pole can run like flying on the mountain road. Therefore, people with some status like to find two strong people to carry the slide pole when entering the mountain.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked closely and saw that the person who was carrying the slide pole was about to "visit" him. He looked very familiar with this person. He was Mr. Xu Renjie and Xu, 32 years old this year, Mi Shang.

"Oh, isn't that Xu Renjie?" Zhu Ba, Ma Xiaotian, and even Lion Dog, who were following Zhu Yuanzhang, recognized him and said, "Why did Xu Renjie come to us for? And when we come back from Baishui, he will follow him, and he will definitely make a mistake."

"He is not planning to be ill-gotten." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "He came to me to learn something."

"Learn something?" Everyone was surprised.

If he had given him some time to train him, Xu Renjie might become a wise general. Zhu Yuanzhang did not say this, but he just waved his hand and said, "Go and a few people and welcome him up the mountain."

For Zhu Yuanzhang, these two things are easy to get, but the reason is very simple. He is a thief. Few people who run out to be thieves are not bold, so it is not difficult to get thieves in the thief army. Like Wang Er, the desperate Saburo, the Lion Dog, these people are all good materials for thieves and powerful generals. Even in the incompetent army of Wang Zuoga, there are Miao Mei, Feishan Tiger, and the Big Red Wolf.

The most difficult thing for the bandit army to get is the wise general! To put it bluntly, the bandit army lacks brains!

Among the ten thousand thieves, there may be only one scholar among them, and maybe not one. This principle is very simple. After ten years of hard work, I have to become an official after studying. Who would become a thief after reading? Isn’t this a lunatic?

Not only Zhu Yuanzhang, but also all the leaders of the rebel army who were in the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, were facing a problem of lack of wisdom. Take Zhang Xianzhong for example. How powerful this guy is, with a tough style and tenacious combat power. But when he caught a scholar Pan Duao, he quickly invited the scholar to be a military advisor.

Let’s talk about Li Zicheng, this person is strong enough, he is at the level of a demon king. Folk legend says that Mr. Li Yan and Mr. Li are his right-hand man. What is this Mr. Li Yan and Mr. Li? A Juren! Just a Juren! Not a Jinshi, a poet, or a great scholar or the four great talents in Jiangnan, he is just a Juren.

There is only one talent like Xu Renjie who has read books and can calculate, figure out the east, south, west, and north, and explain the general trend of the world. Currently, there is only one copycat among the clerks, that is Zhu Yuanzhang himself, and everyone else is blind. If Xu Renjie can be trapped into the gang, it would be a very good thing.

How could Zhu Yuanzhang not welcome him?

After a while, Xu Renjie, led by Ma Xiaotian and others, came up the mountain. He was quite interesting. He ran from Baishui to the mountain village from afar. He kept sitting on the slide pole, but when he walked up the mountain road at the gate of the mountain village, he got off the slide pole and climbed up with his feet.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded in his heart: This is the best thing for those who have read books. He is polite and Xu Renjie's small move to slide down shows that he respects me and does not dare to sit on the slide and walk up high in front of him.

He stood at the gate of the mountain village and waited quietly. Xu Renjie walked closer and saw Zhu Yuanzhang. He bowed respectfully to him, and then shouted: "Brother Zhu Ba, I am here to visit you this time, and I am thinking about one thing... Can you teach me to fight?"
Chapter completed!