I rebelled in the Song Dynasty

At this time, someone muttered: "Why did you take a break so soon? I was just warming up."

Yelu Yanxi was a little surprised. Is there any rest for this hard work? But the people are actually unwilling to rest? What's the point?

Labor is not just about working non-stop. When it's time to eat, you can take a breath and then continue working.

But now it is obviously not the time to eat, but there is still rest, but the people are not willing to rest? He inquired and learned that the people working here did not regulate how many baskets of soil should be dug in a day.

This means that even if you can hang out for a day, it only costs ten dollars, and you can work for two meals, so why bother working so hard?

Yelu Yanxi asked the man on the side, but the man said displeasedly: "We are not laborers. The general invited us to work. We get ten yuan a day? Do your laborers get paid?"

"This..." Yelu Yanxi was a little confused, but it was just a name difference, so what?

But they really don’t get paid for their labor.

"Brother, what is the difference between labor and work?"

The man realized that their identities were not simple. After all, it was Liu Sheng who had greeted him personally. He patiently explained as he watched from the sidelines: "Our general said, labor is labor, work is work, labor is Working for the government and working for the general are two different things."

Yelu Yanxi was stunned for a moment. Is there any difference?

Seeing Yelu Yanxi's confusion, the man proudly explained: "Only those who work for the general can participate in labor service."

This man didn't say it was okay, but he was even more confused when he mentioned Yelu Yanxi. Do you need to be qualified to participate in labor service?

These people seem to want to do hard labor.

But since ancient times, when the imperial court conscripted husbands and the people fled if they could, how could they be so concerned? What method did Liu Sheng use?

At this time, there was a steward, holding a basket and passing out bread among the crowd.

He decided to ask the steward for details.

Yelu Yanxi discovered that not everyone had this kind of pancake. For example, the man who talked to him earlier didn't have it, so he skipped it. The steward came to the two of them and took a look at the work done by Yelu Yanxi and Xiao Fengxian. It's just a pit, not even a basket full of soil.

Some people felt disgusted and took out four loaves from the basket. After thinking about it, he put two more loaves back and gave them one each. If you can’t finish it, let’s eat first!”

Like giving alms to a beggar, Xiao Fengxian couldn't bear it immediately. Who is he? King Lanling of Khitan, was he treated like this?

A pie? He was a poor relative sent to beg for food, and he was also given dozens of taels of silver for a large table of food.

But Yelu Yanxi took over, and Xiao Fengxian lost his temper instantly.

The steward ignored Yelu Yanxi's inquiry and left directly.

Xiao Feng first picked up the cake, put it in his mouth and took a bite, but it didn't move.

Without even thinking, he threw the cake away and cursed: "Bah, this thing is for people to eat too? How can you eat it if you don't even give it hot water?"

Yelu Yanxi stared blankly, Xiao Feng was startled first, and hurriedly picked up the cake.

I blew off the mud on it, stuffing it into my mouth in big mouthfuls, regardless of whether it was hard or not scratching my teeth.

In fact, Yelu Yanxi was not very hungry. He had a hearty breakfast in the morning.

I drank tea and ate snacks at Liu Sheng's place, but I didn't make much effort all morning.

To be honest, he couldn't eat such a cake, but when he saw Xiao Feng throwing the cake out first, the man next to him straightened his eyes and stared at the cake.

If Xiao Fengxian didn't pick it up, he had no doubt that the man would pick up the cake and eat it.

But even so, seeing Xiao Fengxian eating the cake like chewing wax, the man also swallowed his saliva.

Only then did Yelu Yanxi realize what the bread, which he usually looked down upon, represented in the eyes of these people.

Without hesitation, Yelu Yanxi handed the palm-sized round cake in her hand to the man next to her and said, "Brother, I hope you can explain it to me. I didn't know much about this when I first came here. Why do the people Rushing to work? What's the trick in this?"

The man refused the cake handed over by Yelu Yanxi and said, "This is specially given to you by the general. I can't eat it."

But he also generously explained to Yelu Yanxi: "We in Yingzhou suffered a big disaster, and everyone's houses collapsed. The general said he would build houses for us."

When talking about building a house, the man was very excited and said: "Do you know where all the soil we dig will be transported?"

Before Yelu Yanxi could answer, the man replied: "Send the bricks to the brick factory to burn, and then build us houses. But the brick factory can keep building kilns, but we don't dig enough mud, so no one wants to rest." , I want to work harder and dig more mud so that we can burn more bricks so that we can live in brick houses as soon as possible.

But the general was afraid that we would have to work hard, saying that this was physical work and that the hard work would hurt our bodies. We refused. There are no farmers who are not tired.

As a result, the general drove out all those who disobeyed.

Let us work for two hours and rest for half an hour.

You can only do four hours of work a day. How can such a thing happen in the world? Not allowed to do the work. "

Yelu Yanxi broke the cake in half and said, "This cake is too hard. I can't get used to it. Eat half of it for me first! Just think of it as if I'm troubling you."

The man hesitated for a long time, but finally couldn't bear the temptation of the noodles and went ahead.

After taking half of the cake from Yelu Yanxi, he became more motivated and continued to explain.

Every household needs to build a house, but there are not enough bricks. The general said that the houses should be built first for those who are participating in the labor force.

So everyone rushed to join the labor force. We worked in the reservoir for half a month, and we had to exchange for labor labor. This half month happened to be the day when the brick factory produced bricks.

We used the bricks we dug and burned to build houses. By the way, I forgot to tell you that the labor we participated in was to build a house for our family.

"If the family doesn't have any labor to work, the general will build it for them, but he will be the last in line."

At the end, he expressed his pride that his family has five laborers, and they can go back to building beams when the next labor day comes. Their family was the first to live in a brick house.

He even told Yelu Yanxi everything that Liu Sheng had done since he came to Yingzhou.

"The general is a good general who has the people in his heart."

...

Yelu Yanxi knew about the heavy snowfall. He was forced out by the snowstorm across several states.

There were refugees everywhere, heading south in groups. Unexpectedly, Liu Sheng took them all in.

And build brick houses for them? Is Yingzhou so rich?

Then he figured out that as long as Liu Sheng had food in his hands, all the people would come to work in the form of servitude, and they would not spend much money at all.

And this is building their own home, so the people are very motivated to do labor. Think about what he did in the past to make people do labor?