Daqin: Robbing Qin Shihuang at the beginning

Chapter 29 Refugees
"Since the day before yesterday, there have been refugees going to Zhenggangou one after another. My son, the menacing force!" Ming Tai looked worried, "Don't you know that when those refugees came here, they were angry! Their food Most of them were taken away by the local officials, and some of them came to Zhenggangou just because it was surrounded by mountains on three sides, so they could face the wind and suffer less cold.”

"More people have poor harvests in the fields, and the local tyrants deliberately lowered the price of food. They had no choice but to sell the land, and then dragged their families here, hoping that this place would allow them to spend a long time. warm winter."

"They don't care whose place it is, they only know that here, in the past, they could eat grass roots and bark, and sometimes there would be some game. My people are not easy to do it, so they can only distribute some food first, so that the They go back. Those homeless are still holding on to it, and it’s not easy for us to do it.”

Ying Qi looked at the ground and was speechless for a long time.

These refugees, or the original people.

Was it wrong for them to rush into Ying Qi's place indiscriminately?Wrong, they broke the law.

But are they really wrong?

They just want to live, what's wrong with living?

What is wrong is this era.

"Let's go, let's go to Zhenggangou and deal with these refugees properly." Ying Qi turned to Uncle Zhao and said, "Uncle Zhao, please go back and pack a few sets of my clothes and send them over. I won't be coming back anytime soon."

"promise."

Dozens of people rushed out of the gate of Xianyang city, and the county magistrate Li You looked at each other coldly above the gate.

Humans are social animals, they rarely fight alone.

Since the news that Zhenggangou can enjoy a wave of autumn wind after the autumn harvest every year has spread, most people living in the lower classes of society are happy with it. They silently abide by this unspoken rule, and then come here together.

But this fall is different.

A group of people came here, and sealed the entrance of the valley with gray-white mud, and then took up their swords and stood at the 'city gate'.

A young man in a gorgeous black uniform stood among them, without a weapon in his hand, with a kind smile on his face.

They knew that this might be the new grown-up.

This kind of thing happened before, but they didn't pay attention to it, because without the food in this valley, they probably wouldn't survive this autumn.

The last time they rushed over like crazy, how many people died?Or dozens or hundreds of them, they don't care.

They survived anyway.

"Choose one, accept the refugees. Reward: brick-burning craft."

"Option [-], expel the refugees. Reward: [-] iron roosters."

The sound of the system popped out, and Ying Qi was subconsciously taken aback.

"Five hundred iron roosters, are they alive or dead?"

"Have you ever seen a cock covered in iron?"

"No."

"That's it."

Ying Qi suddenly thought of something and asked, "Is your task not perfect?"

"what happened?"

"Nothing, I was wrong."

After exiting the system space, Ying Qi looked at the thousands of refugees.

"My lord, are you the owner of this land?" The two sides looked at each other for a long time, and a middle-aged man came out from the side of the refugees.

"Probably." Ying Qi replied flatly.

"Then can you let us in? We're just looking for something to eat and won't take your land."

"There's nothing to eat inside." Ying Qi said flatly, "At least not now."

"My lord, do you think we will believe your words? Although you have built high walls and brought well-equipped soldiers, but we are starving to death, do you still care about that? Let's fight to the death, let alone us? Under the desire to survive, we may not be the opponents of your soldiers."

"You mean, if I don't open the door, you will rush in like a robber?" Ying Qi's eyes turned cold.

"It depends on how you understand, my lord. I believe that if a person has hope of living, he is not willing to act like a robber."

Ying Qi snorted coldly, and then shouted: "I, Ying Qi, son of the Zulong! Do you dare to rush in?"

The refugees present were suddenly solemn, and those in front even took two steps back involuntarily.They just said they were brave enough to scare these landlords, not really thinking about sacrificing everyone.

"According to the laws of the Great Qin Dynasty, trespassing on private territory to plunder is an act of robbery, one hundred lashes and hard labor. Do you really want to break in?"

The middle-aged man looked very embarrassed, "Young master, you are His Majesty's son anyway, why do you want to rob such a piece of land with us small people? Are you really short of this little land?"

"I see that you speak well, what's your name?" Ying Qi looked at the man coldly.

"The villain's voice is hopeless, and the big voice's voice is hopeless."

"The name sounds nice, but the homophonic words are not very good."

"It was taken by my parents." Xi Sheng cupped his hands.

Ying Qi turned his head away from him and looked at the refugees.

"I really don't want this piece of land, but I won't let it go easily. Because I bought it with money, it belongs to me. In fact, I originally wanted to give this land to you, But look at all of you doing nothing, blatantly ignoring the laws of the Great Qin!"

"I have a job that can keep you alive, but I can't give it to a group of thugs! You are acting as refugees, but you are doing the work of robbers. Although I pity your background, the law of the country is ruthless!"

"You use moral kidnapping to blatantly usurp the interests of others for your own benefit. King's law! Even if I want to help you, why should I trouble myself if you are unrighteous and ignorant of the king's law?"

Xi Sheng's face completely collapsed, Mad, killing people.

And the people behind him already showed a look of shame, and some of them had their thighs limp and fell to their knees on the ground.

"My lord, save us! If we don't have food, we won't be able to survive this winter!"

"Young master, we are hungry, we are cold! Please show kindness!"

"My lord, we really didn't mean that!"

If there is one, there are two. When the first person started to kneel, many people who had lost their own opinions also knelt down.

The trend slowly spread, and many later refugees who didn't know what happened couldn't help but knelt down.

Xi Sheng glanced back, smiled miserably, turned his head and was about to leave.

"You are not allowed to kneel!" Ying Qi looked at the densely packed kneeling crowd below, and snapped, "Kneeling is not acceptable here, I want you to live standing up, and I want you to live with dignity!"

(End of this chapter)