Outside Zhengyang Gate, Grass Factory.

Near the grass factory is Zhushikou. The so-called Zhushikou is actually Zhushikou. It is the place where pigs are sold, slaughtered, and pork sales in Beijing. It can be imagined how large the pork needs for nearly one million people in the entire inner and outer city should be traded here.

There is a Guangzhou Guild Hall near Zhushikou, which has now been designated as a standard Qing army battalion (500 people) where the general "big tent" is located.

Of course, all the houses near the Guangzhou Guild Hall were requisitioned by the Qing army. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, a group of vendors at Zhushikou were also killed, and they were also killed in the whole family. The houses were naturally nationalized and became the place of the Qingzhuang Camp barracks collected in the city.

The so-called recruitment is naturally voluntary, most of which are usually associated with the Qing army, and they also kill pigs and sell meat. Naturally, they also have friends with the Manchu civil and military officials in the city. The largest pork stall here is opened by Manchu.

The prefect of Shuntian recruited 90,000 young and strong people in the outer city. Almost every family had a 90,000 people, and they had to have two hundred camps. The general level was naturally the original Green Camp general, and most of the remaining positions were actively accepted for recruitment and those who were close to Manchus.

Of course, most people are young and strong, who only gave out a "Yang" suit, ranging from fifteen to forty-five years old. Since they are in Zhushikou, young and strong, who usually rely on this market to support their families, are naturally placed near the Guangzhou Guild Hall.

Zhu Ba is one of them. He is 30 years old this year, tall and strong. He can walk freely even if he carries two hundred kilograms of fat pigs alone. There is also an old lady, a wife, and two children at home.

The merchants he used to serve had already been cut off, so he would naturally not be involved in those who made a living by strength. However, since his boss died, he had no life and had to invest in the Qingzhuang Camp. According to the prefect of Shuntian, he also had one or two taels of silver a month, so he could barely make a living.

Zhu Ba makes a living at Zhushikou every day, just like a craftsman squatting at the door of a construction site in later generations. The wages need to be paid daily, and the latest will not exceed three days. As mentioned earlier, the grain stored in Zhuba’s family will never exceed three days.

Although one or two silvers were issued during the recruitment, due to the white terror in the city, some grain merchants who were not involved but were terrified obviously did not dare to continue to open the door and closed the door early in the morning.

Compared with the serious Green Camp soldiers, when the war begins, the Qingzhu Camp is naturally used as a master, and once the war begins, it is used as cannon fodder.

For some powerful Kong Wu, the Qing army also gained some help, such as patrolling the city at night, and letting them do things from time to time.

Zhu Ba was obviously considered to be Kong Wu's powerful, and he also became a tenth chief. Ten days later, he took advantage of a night patrol and sneaked back home.

When I got home, I couldn't help but be shocked.

My mother was lying on the bed with sickness. She seemed to be venting more and getting less air. Her two young children were also skinny and leaning beside their grandmother.

"Where is Azhen?"

When he saw this look, Zhu Ba almost fell to the ground. Azhen was his wife. Although my mother was very weak, he couldn't help but shout.

"Dog, give me a bowl of water"

Zhu Ba quickly went to the water tank to get water. When he opened the cover of the water tank, he saw that there was only a little water left inside. He quickly picked up the bucket and went to the well in the yard to fetch water. When he scooped up a scoop of water with a scoop of water, a scent of fishy smell came to his face.

Since this is Zhushikou, the water quality of the well is naturally not very good and smells a little fishy, ​​but it won't smell as bad as it is now.

"It must be that the official army started a massacre in the city a few days ago"

When I think of the massacre a few days ago, Zhu Ba, who was used to killing pigs and sheep, couldn't help but shivered.

His old boss, a man from Zhuozhou, was a little stingy, but he never promised less wages to those who worked for him. He would give more money during festivals. Although Lifu's family like Zhu Ba was usually tight, he did not lack food.

Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, their whole family will be in different places!

"Affair with the bandits? The old boss is a honest person at first glance. What's the benefit of affair with the bandits? Besides, he usually has a lot of management resources for the Five City Military Office, the Infantry Commander's Office, the Shuntian Prefecture, and the Interior Office. Why did he lose it if he didn't?"

Although the smell is fishy, ​​I still struggled to get up and drank almost a bucket of water.

"Dog, I'm sorry for you"

"Mom, what's going on?!"

"Gou'er, your wife's life is so hard. Since she married you, she has never lived a comfortable life. Ten days ago, when the rice and flour in the rice jar was gone, she took your two family money to buy grain in the grain market"

"But when she walked to the grain market, she saw that there were only a dozen of grain shops left on weekdays. She could buy a stone of brown rice for one tael of silver, but today she could only buy a bucket. Your wife was unwilling to give up, so she walked around the streets and asked questions."

"As a result, some banned street started that day, but Li Zheng did not inform us in advance. Soon he met a pair of soldiers on the street and captured your wife without saying a word."

"Then, are you just arrested and kept going?"

"Oh...", my mother sighed, "Your wife has a miserable life. Although she came from the countryside, she looks handsome and works very quickly. After being captured by soldiers, she was ruined by them... The soldiers who killed thousands of swords were ruined. Your wife could not bear the humiliation and jumped into the well that night."

"Ah!"

Zhu Bali was spinning, and the water scoop in his hand also fell to the ground with a bang.

"These things were said by the neighbor who was released three days later. He was a man and was not humiliated. However, he was beaten for thirty plates and spent another five taels of silver to come out. After he came back, he gave us a small bag of rice. He only lasted for another three days. After three days, our family was out of stock. It has been three days since the rice drip has not been in."

"Your girl is sick and has a great fever. She has no money and can't go out to see a doctor. Her younger son fell ill after not eating or drinking for a few days. She has been drinking water for the past few days."

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Zhu Ba knelt on the ground with a plop and started crying.

"If I didn't take advantage of the opportunity to sneak back home, wouldn't the whole family be dead?!"

He put a few big cakes he had saved in the past few days on the kang and then returned to the military camp.

He found his immediate boss, a young man named Du Jiu.

Du Jiu used to make a living in Zhushikou, but in addition to being young and strong, he also knew how to write. He had worked as a clerk before and could also plan for the plan. He was soon attracted by the largest butcher shop in Zhushikou, which is the butcher shop owner who runs a man.

Later, this person became the right-hand man of the boss, buying live pigs, hiring Lifu, and selling pork almost all of him. When the thief besieged the city, his boss's butcher shop was not implicated, but stopped selling it to the outside world, only supplying officials from the inner city and officers from the outer city.

Unexpectedly, such a person volunteered to join the Qingzhuang Camp. Such a person naturally received attention from the officers and became the deputy general manager of Zhushikou Camp. Although this person used to have a certain status in Zhushikou and had a huge background, he never bullied the weak and often helped some hard-working men who encountered difficulties.

He always smiles with a faint smile and nods when he meets anyone. He has a very popular reputation in Zhushikou. People like Zhu Ba who have no intention of being active thinks he values ​​him very much when they see him.

Later, Du Jiu became the deputy general manager of Zhushikouying, but most people in the camp only listened to him, and the airborne general manager ignored him. After learning about Du Jiu's background, the general accepted all this. Anyway, he was just a relative of the general manager of the general manager of the green camp, so it was not easy to control these young and strong people.

What's more, as soon as he took office, Du Jiu gave him a big gift, knowing how to be a human being, and supporting him, he would compete with him for power and profit after eating too much?

So he became the boss and handed over all the business to Du Jiu.

Zhu Ba knew that even if he stayed at home, it would be useless, so he cruelly left his sick mother and children, and quickly slipped back to the military camp to find Du Jiu, the only one he hoped for now.

Du Jiu also lives in the Guangzhou Guild Hall, but is not in it now. He heard from the ex-Lifu, who had just been promoted to a personal soldier, that he had taken people to patrol the streets.

Zhu Ba had no choice but to guard the entrance of the guild hall.

In the evening, he finally met Du Jiu.

"I already know your business"

Du Jiu256 looked like this, no longer had the faint smile of the past, but a look of sadness.

"When I passed by your house, I brought them some medicinal materials and some rice and flour, all of which were taken from the barracks, which would probably last for ten days and half a month."

Zhu Ba immediately fell to his knees.

Although they are all young and strong, Du Jiu is an intermediate officer and already has a serious official uniform. He has dozens of personal soldiers promoted by him, and also has serious "soldier" robes, so he can freely enter and exit Zhushikou.

Du Jiu helped him up.

"There are many people like you, and at least a few thousand households in the entire outer city were implicated, all of whom were harmed by the Green Camp under the Military Command of the Five Cities"

Zhu Ba knew that his affairs would definitely not be successful.

In the past, although the Five City Military and Ma Si was known as the largest barracks in the outer city, it was actually no different from the yamen runners, the Military and Ma Si had many idle positions, all of which were held by the children of the Han army flag who were idle at home. Nowadays, the thief army besieged the city, and the Five City Military and Ma Si restored the power he should have.

The dignified Minister of War, Mingliang, a Manchu official, also served as the commander of the military commander of the Ministry of War, and several Han army bannermen and nobles served as deputy commanders. All the quotas of the green camp soldiers under his command were restored. With such a background and such a person, Zhu Ba, even Du Jiu would have no choice.

"It's not impossible"
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