Daming pirates

For these refugees, Liu Bu and others divided them into several levels. Young men with labor ability were placed separately. Each person was given a red wooden sign. With this wooden sign, they could cook in their special cauldron.

They receive meals there, three meals a day, one dry and two thin, and there are vegetable pancakes to supplement them. The meals for these people are relatively sufficient, which can ensure their physical fitness and allow them to do some heavy work in Tuweizi, or accept

Military training, when necessary, will also help maintain order and suppress commotion in the enclosure.

As for those who have a weaker labor force but have certain skills, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, or those who can raise horses, tailors, etc., they receive black wooden cards and the quality of food is slightly inferior to those with red cards, two meals a day, one meal

After being thin, the amount of food is relatively large, at least half-full is not a big problem, but usually I have to do labor that is not too physically demanding in Tuweizi or Xishan Village.

The third class is women or old people with a certain amount of labor, who are given yellow wooden tags. These people are responsible for looking after some stoves, washing and cooking, sewing and mending, and doing some labor within their ability, and they have two meals a day.

One dry and one thin, the food quality is slightly inferior to Black Label.

The fourth class is those who basically have a weak labor force. This does not include children and teenagers, but mostly the elderly and weak. These people basically do not need to work. Of course, the quality of food is also the worst. They eat two meals a day and they are all sparse.

Yes, the food is limited to enough to almost sustain their lives and provide a basic supply of calories so that they will not starve to death.

Of course, there is another kind of teenagers and children, regardless of gender, as long as they are over three years old, they are gathered into the cleanest and tidiest dens. After these children enter Tuweizi, they are handed over to some specialized personnel for management.

Everyone will be asked to clean up first, and given new clothes to wear. The food they eat is the best, two meals of dry rice and one meal of porridge, or three meals of thick rice porridge with cakes, and even some meat.

It can be said that the treatment is very good.

Most of these poor children come from poor families, and they have probably never had such good food in their lives. Such quality of food makes even the strong laborers feel a little jealous, and they can't figure out why Mr. Liu Dashan treats these children so well.

Even though they can't work, why are they fed so well? Some people without children will inevitably complain.

But Liu BuTong ignored the opinions of these people and followed the requirements given by the headquarters. In doing so, although the contact between them and their parents was cut off, the refugees saw that their children could receive such good care, and

Such good food, and even someone is teaching them how to read. Apart from being grateful, I don't dare to complain about anything. After all, with them, they can't take such good care of these children. I am grateful to Liu Dashan.

It's incredible.

At first, some people were worried that these children would be completely taken away from them. However, Liu Dashan assured them that as soon as the winter passed, they would be transported to Fujian in the south for resettlement.

After their conditions are better, the children will be returned to them and they will raise them on their own, thus appeasing these refugees.

In short, there are many people under Mr. Liu in Xishan Village who seem to be very good at doing these things. Although thousands of people were crammed into Tuweizi in a short time, these people managed these thousands of refugees in an orderly manner.

, one has to admire.

But as time passed, news came from Dengzhou. After the rebels rested in Dengzhou City for a while, they finally began to take action again. Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng sent many of their subordinates to lead some non-core rebels.

Members of the army began to go to surrounding counties, attack county towns and large villages, and plunder property and food to meet their needs.

The rebels also knew that although they obtained a batch of food in Dengzhou City, this batch of food was not too much. It was far from enough to feed them so many rebels. It could only last them two or three months at most.

Time, but this time they made the matter so big that it will definitely not be solved in a short time.

So Kong Youde and other rebel generals began to have other ideas. First, they wanted to continue their raids to raise more food. Second, they wanted to seize more territory and gain greater trump cards. Once the imperial court appeases them in the future,

time, you can also have more room for bargaining.

As a result, the situation in Denglai and other places and the entire northern Shandong region became tense again, which made Liu Butong a little worried again, and strengthened the defense forces of Xishan Village and Yangma Island.

He selected hundreds of young and strong men from among the refugees accommodated in Tuweizi and began to train them. He also trained two companies of rural warriors and distributed them weapons. These rural warriors were

Among them, some people were hunters in the past. They had some skills and could use bows, and were considered good archers. So they were promoted and became foot archers. They were given strong bows and hard crossbows, so that they had better skills.

Strong combat effectiveness.

In addition, among these refugees, they can be regarded as hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Among them are more than a dozen former Shandong soldiers. Some of these Shandong soldiers are deserters and some ran away from Dengzhou. These people did not want to join the rebels, so they mixed in.

He got into the refugees, ran here, and blended into Tuweizi, but was quickly picked out by Liu BuTong's men.

These people were detained separately and interrogated carefully. Not to mention that they actually found out the details of the two rebels, and they were immediately killed and thrown out of Tuweizi.

The remaining Shandong soldiers didn't have much of a problem. They said they had no ill intentions and just didn't want to join the rebels. But they had nowhere to go, so they came here in a daze. However, the county seat refused to let them in, and they had no evidence to prove that they were there.

Because of his identity, he became a refugee and mingled with Tuweizi in order to survive.

Now each of them is alone. Their families are either trapped in Dengzhou City, or they are single and cannot go anywhere. They can only stay and follow Liu BuTong.

Among these people, several were cavalrymen. Although they were a little older, they were still in good shape. After being taken out to try them out, they found that they really had some kung fu and their riding skills were quite good.

So he was retained and temporarily incorporated into the scouts.

Liu BuTong also obtained dozens of horses in this area, and took out some of the horses that could be used as war horses and gave them to the scout team for use, while the rest were used as draft horses. He also bought a dozen carts and prepared them.

Go back and form a transportation team to go out for activities or purchase things for use.

During this period, he often sent out two or three shifts of manpower, leading dozens of strong village warriors, to wander around and take in children and some young women who had fallen hungry on the roadside. As long as they were not dead, they would be fed.

With a few mouthfuls of food and some hot water, they were almost able to be rescued, and then they were dragged back to the enclosure in a cart.

I have picked up a lot of people by doing this, and now I send them out for a walk around the neighborhood almost every day. If I'm lucky, I can pick up dozens of young women or children in a day, which is quite a harvest.

Just when the Dengzhou rebels began to leave the city again to attack and plunder, and Liu Butong was worried about this all day long, one day in early February, someone suddenly rushed back to Xishan Village and reported to him good news.

, said that a team of about 500 people appeared in the southeast of Muping County, about thirty miles away from the county seat. They were inquiring about the location of Xishan Village and were heading this way.

It happened that a team sent by Liu BuTong the morning before was going to a trafficker's village over there to pick up a hundred young women. When they overheard the news, they were so frightened that they thought they were being targeted by a group of strongmen.

Xishan Village. If you want to come to Xishan Village to enjoy the autumn breeze, please quickly ask two scouts on horseback to investigate.

As a result, the two scouts went over to observe for a while, and immediately discovered that this team was not a group of strong men, but their Sea Wolf men. This group of people was exactly ten days ago because the waters of Shidao Bay were blocked by sea ice.

It was freezing, but with nothing to do, I was ordered to withdraw from Shidao Bay and come to Mouping County, Ninghai Prefecture to reinforce Liu Buping's two companies.

These people were not walking very fast because they were carrying dozens of carts filled with all kinds of food and ammunition. Along the way, they were harassed by nearly ten groups of horse thieves. These horse thieves kept an eye on them.

They tried to rob and kill them with the goods and food loaded in the car, but they were all repelled. Many horse thieves were killed and dozens of war horses were seized.

So they walked for more than ten days before reaching Mouping County, but they didn't know the specific location of Xishan Village. When they got here, they sent people to inquire about the roads along the way, and happened to meet the man Liu Buping sent out to buy women.

The small group of people headed towards Xishan Village together.

A scout came back first to report the news. Liu BuTong was almost overjoyed when he heard this. He was worried about not having enough manpower. At this time, the lord sent him two companies. It was said that there was another company that would come over later.

Now he didn't have to worry about anything anymore.

Although the arrival of so many people will definitely attract the attention of the Haining Prefecture officials, and may even make them suspicious, but with the current chaos, even if the Haining Prefecture officials are suspicious, they probably will not dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to trouble him.

If not, I would like to show my kindness to him and ask him to help defend Muping County.

So now he doesn't care about much else. He should first increase his strength. Otherwise, everything will be in vain. As long as he can stand firm here, even if the Ninghai Prefecture government is unhappy, there will be nothing they can do to him. As long as he doesn't act randomly, he will

Officials don't want to mess with people like him.

So he quickly packed up and headed out of Xishan Village. Before dark, a large convoy of people and horses appeared on the road to the east of Xishan Village, joining Liu Buong.

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