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Chapter 52 The Autumn Harvest Campaign: The Han Army Goes to the Countryside

Tian’s family is less busy for months, and May is much more busy.

The south wind blows at night, and the wheat is covered with yellow.

The women carry baskets of food, and the children carry pots of pulp.

Ding Zhuang is in Nangang.

My feet are steaming and rustic, my back is scorching with the scorching sky,

I tried my best to know the heat, but the summer is long.

Again there was a poor woman with her son beside her,

The right hand holds the ears and the left arm hangs the basket.

Listening to the words of each other, those who hear it are sad.

After all taxes are lost in the family field, pick up this to satisfy your hunger.

Today I have no merit, and I have never been a farmer.

Lilu had three hundred stones, and Yan had surplus food.

I am ashamed of reading this and will not forget it all day long.

This poem is called "Guan Mao Mao" and was written by Bai Juyi, a poet in Liu Wu's previous life.

When Bai Juyi was serving as a county captain in Zhouzhi County at that time, he wrote a poem that was inspired by the hard work and poverty of the local people.

The work denounces the heavy taxes that are the source of people's poverty. I feel deeply guilty that I have no merit, no virtue, and no work, but I can have enough food and clothing.

The poet felt very ashamed when he thought that he was not working hard but had enough rice. So he spoke directly about the matter and expressed his deep sympathy for the working people.

Although it is August now and the grain farmers are harvesting is not wheat but rice, the idea is indeed very similar to the scene at this time.

It's just that the poet just sympathized with the people's hardships in life. He felt very ashamed of it and could not forget it all day long. But he could only compose one poem, which was of no use.

However, the poet is like this, but Liu Wu and the others are not like this. They must take the initiative to lead their soldiers into the villages to help the working people.

In terms of background, they are actually no worse than Bai Juyi. A group of people are all students, and half of them even come from official families, and have had no worries about food and clothing since childhood.

At Liu Wu's call, they chose to go to the fields to do farm work.

Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves or looking down on others, we should be down-to-earth and sincerely help the working people.

They truly practice the thoughts, ideas, and principles of the sage.

Although they are young people, they live more clearly, more purely and happily than many senior officials, princes and other decadent old people.

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Although it is autumn and autumn tigers are rampant, they still cannot stop the villagers working hard in the fields.

"Master, slow down, don't be tired."

At this time, a woman was holding a child and a basket, shouting to her man on the edge of the field.

It's not that she doesn't want to go to the fields to help her men share the burden, but it's because she has three children under three years old and her own legs are lame, so she can't go to the fields.

However, she still did a lot of things within her power, limping along, bringing water and food to her men, and pulling up the children.

Just because there is one less labor force, his family's harvesting speed is slower than that of other families.

Her man looked up at her, wiped his sweat, and said with a naive smile:

"It's okay, it's been so long, and our harvest speed is too slow. If I work faster, we will try to finish harvesting as soon as possible, and then save more food. Otherwise, when the time comes, the soldiers, subordinates, and gentlemen will come, Our lives will not be easy in the future.”

After that, he started working hard again.

The woman's expression darkened when she heard this. Yes, their life was really hard, and those soldiers, subordinates and gentlemen were also really terrible. Her leg was broken like this.

But now, she can't do anything but do some housework, and her man does all the other heavy work.

Thinking of this, she felt a little sad, she was now a useless person.

At this moment, there was a sudden noise in the distance. The woman looked around and saw the village chief leading a group of people walking towards them.

The village chief shouted loudly before he even got close: "Boy of the Li family, wife of the Li family, come quickly to greet the generals. They are here to help you collect food."

The two of them were stunned when they heard this, and then looked at the people who came.

These people are all tall and tall, and they all have a sickle in their hand.

The two of them were a little confused. The village chief said these generals were here to help him collect food?

As the village chief finished speaking, the burly generals, led by a short and thin general, ran directly towards them.

The two of them were immediately stunned. What were these people going to do? Is this to help you collect food? This posture is for robbery!

Before the two of them could recover, a group of burly men walked into their fields. Without saying a word, they picked up their sickles and started harvesting grain.

The thin and frail general said to him cordially: "Fellow, we are the Han army. I heard from the village chief that your family is in difficulty, so we came to help you collect food."

The man opened his mouth, but just when he didn't know what to say, the village chief hurried over and shouted: "Thank you, General!"

The man reacted immediately and was about to kneel down to thank him, but found that he was being held tightly by the thin and weak general and could not kneel down at all.

"A lot of strength!!"

The man was very surprised, but in the end he couldn't kneel down, so he could only say with tears of gratitude: "Thank you, general, thank you, general."

This thin general was Lin Shi. Lin Shi waved his hand and said, "Brother Li, it's okay. No need to thank you. This is what we should do. We are also practicing the saint's will."

After saying that, he also picked up the sickle and learned how to harvest rice.

After all, he came from a scholarly family, and this was his first time harvesting in the fields, so it was really not easy to work. He only felt sore in his back after working for a while.

In the end, he had no choice but to straighten up and looked at the man who was still working hard. The same was true for all the soldiers, and he couldn't help but sigh:

"Xuan Yu said, who would have thought that every meal on the plate requires hard work, and that's really the case!"

"It turns out that the people are suffering more and are more tired than I thought!"

Thinking of this, he bent down again.

He, Lin Shi, wanted to be a real person, not a talkative scholar.

Soon, with the efforts of more than a dozen people, just a few acres of land were harvested.

Then they helped Brother Li transport the grain to the threshing floor, and then helped other families who had not finished harvesting in other fields to harvest.

Liu Wu and others have a total of 9 teams. This time, they sent 6 teams to help the villagers harvest grain and grass. Each team has 52 people, and each team is responsible for a village for two days.

Among the twelve villages in the southeast of Hetu Mountain, the largest population did not exceed [-] households, so a team of soldiers was equivalent to the strong labor force of one of their villages.

In addition, most of the people in these villages had finished harvesting, so they helped the whole village harvest the food from the fields before night fell.

In the camp outside the village, the village chief found Lin Shi and the four of them at the request of the villagers.

The village chief hesitated and said: "General, the villagers are grateful for your help, so they want to entertain all the generals, do you think?"

Lin Shi shook his head and refused directly: "Village chief, we have our own food, so we can cook and eat by ourselves."

The village chief was a little embarrassed and said: "General, this is not what the little old man said alone, but what all the villagers asked for. General, please don't embarrass the little old man."

Lin Shi still shook his head and said with a smile: "Village Chief, your life is not good, so you really don't need to entertain us. Besides, we have discipline, and the discipline clearly requires that this is not allowed."

The village chief didn't know how disciplined they were, but this was the villagers' wish, and he immediately persuaded them: "But every household has prepared it. If you don't go, all the food will be wasted."

"The most important thing is that if the generals don't participate, the villagers will not feel at ease!"

Lin Shi hesitated for a moment, then suddenly thought of Liu Wu's explanation, and then understood what was going on, and couldn't help but admire Liu Wu's long-term vision.

So he nodded directly and said, "In that case, it's better for us to be respectful than to obey."

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