Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

After Cheng Yaojin left, Li Daozong called Niu Jinda and other generals over, and quickly held a new meeting.

Hanluo City, which is the city where the Tang army is currently stationed, Li Daozong didn't know the name of Silla, but he named the city directly according to the local name of the Silla people.

Pu Er looked at his wife and two children looking skinny inside the shack made of branches and thatch, and his heart was like a knife.One of the children was just one year old, but now he is thinner and not much bigger than when he was born, and the bones on his body are clearly visible.

The child was tired from crying and finally fell asleep, because he was hungry, and his wife didn't have any milk in her shriveled chest, but she still tried to feed her. For the common people, this was the only way to keep the child alive.

There is no food for adults, let alone food for children.

The other child was older, looked at Pu Er with a thin face and said pitifully, "Daddy, I'm hungry."

"You and A Niang are at home, don't run around, Dad is out looking for work, and I will definitely bring you something to eat today." Pu Er gritted his teeth and said seriously.

"Okay..." The child nodded obediently and agreed, and he didn't dare to run out, because there was still charcoal burned yesterday in the room, and it was still warm.

When they got outside, their feet would be frozen off with just the old clothes, the weather that had just snowed, and even a pair of good shoes.

Although Pu Er's surname is Pu, he is not an aristocrat, and his ancestors were not aristocrats. It's just that his ancestors followed those nobles and called him this surname, because they were all slaves of the master's family a long time ago, and they all followed the master's family. last name.

There are many people like this in Silla.

Pu Er wanted to visit Datang's military camp. He knew that the people who worked for Datang could get food and food every day, but there were many people who thought the same as him, but... a long time ago, in the Datang military camp Except for the small part that has already been hired, it will no longer be hired.

He didn't know...whether he could find a job, even if he knelt down to beg today, he had to go, because if he didn't go, neither his wife nor the child would survive.

Looking for food in the mountains is no longer possible, and those animals don't know where they have gone. It is not so easy to find food in winter. He even saw people eating voles yesterday, and even went to dig the voles' nests.

But there are so many refugees here, and there are countless people in the same situation as him, and the nearby rat nests may not be found.

Not long after Pu Er left here, he suddenly heard commotion from a distance, and before he could react to what was going on, he heard a voice shouting: "The Datang military camp is recruiting! stand up!"

Pu Er was stunned for a moment, and only one sentence was left in his mind, "The Datang Army Camp is recruiting workers."After regaining his senses, Pu Er put on his tattered shoes and ran in that direction in an instant.

And I don't know how many people like him, the entire refugee camp around Hanluo City has been blown up, and the entire refugee camp is now gathering nearly [-] refugees, which is much more than the [-] that Li Daozong estimated before.

There are even many refugees who came here from Silla in the opposite direction. They wanted to find food from the military camps of Datang. One can imagine how bad the country of Silla is.

After all, Pu Er was slow, he didn't squeeze to the front, but soon he knew that he didn't have to squeeze, because the soldiers of Datang were pulled into every corner of the entire refugee camp by the carriages. There were hundreds of carriages, and these carriages divided the place into gathering points, and there was a carriage in front of Pu Er.

Similarly, hundreds of people gathered around him.

"Quiet." A Silla man standing on the carriage said loudly and proudly.Everyone quickly fell silent.

"Everyone in Silla, since it's winter, we can avoid some problems. The Tang barracks are going to build some new barracks, so we need to hire a lot of people to work."

"As for your wages, let me first explain that you will be provided with three meals a day. Then each person will have a catty of rations per day. In addition, because it is winter work, Datang will provide you with several sets of thick linen work clothes to avoid You get frostbitten, you freeze to death, you don’t have to return your clothes, they will be yours after the work is done.” The Tang soldier standing on the carriage spoke loudly in Tang dialect.

After the soldier finished speaking, the high-spirited Silla man next to him spoke loudly in the local language of Silla: "Listen, you untouchables, you are blessed today, the soldiers of our country are going to build a barracks , so I specially hired you people, and the treatment for you is good enough. Each person has a catty of grain per day, and they also take care of the food and distribute rough clothes."

"But remember, work hard for me, work hard, and be obedient. If anyone is disobedient and annoys the soldiers of the Shang Kingdom, I will kill him! Do you understand?!"

Pu Er didn't speak. He could understand Tang dialect, but there were indeed many people who couldn't understand Tang dialect and could only communicate in a simple way.

But... even the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty called them Silla commoners, but our own people...

But Pu Er was in no mood to think about these things at this time, he only cared about whether he could be selected.

"Okay, let's start selecting people now. I ordered them, and they will all stand aside in a while and line up neatly." The soldier seemed to not understand Silla dialect, maybe he really didn't understand, he just continued to smile. He said with a smile.

"you you you!"

The soldier immediately started to spot people among the crowd, and Pu Er was the third one. At the beginning, Pu Er, who was nervous at the beginning, felt a surge of surprise in his heart when he was spotted. Knowing that his wife and children can survive!

He ran out of the crowd in a hurry, and started to line up neatly beside him. He had seen the workers recruited by Datang line up before, and he tried his best to line up neatly.

After standing in the queue, Pu Er was in the mood to look at other things. Soon he discovered that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty didn't seem to be ordering people casually, and even...he didn't specifically pick people who were in good health.

Instead, pick some people with physical disabilities, even some old, weak, sick and disabled, and people with tattered clothes.There are some obviously a family of two people who came together, but he only ordered one.

In the end, some people who were still healthy and well-dressed were not taken away.

From the beginning to the last selection of the last person, this Datang soldier did not choose a candidate quickly, but at this moment... Pu Er has already vaguely noticed something, these Datang people...are they really here to hire someone?

Even Pu Er, the man from Silla who was acting as an interpreter in the car, could see the astonishment on his face.

The disbelief on the faces of the selected women, the old man, and the apparently half-grown children in the queue has not dissipated yet.