Brothers, what’s the use of a death warrant? It can’t be used as food or clothing! Have you forgotten what we set out to do? Where’s our silver? Where’s our food? Where’s our pay? There’s nothing! Brothers, the little dog officer is changing the subject!”
“Even with the death waiver rolls, it won’t change the fact that we’re so poor that we can’t cook, it won’t help.”
“The little dog official didn’t give us any solution at all, things at most went back to the original point this morning, our folded silver is still less, our wives’ food is still not available, our soldiers’ pay is still not issued ……”
Unsurprisingly, the chaotic soldiers had just been pacified by Zhu Pingan, when a voice of denigration and compulsion was heard again from the chaotic group of soldiers.
“Yes, the key issues of folded silver, wife’s food and soldiers’ pay have not been resolved ah ……”
“That’s right. The little dog official didn’t solve any problems for us, we’re still poor and starving!”
“Crap, listening to you guys, it seems like it’s really like this, we’ve been brought to the ditch by the little dog official.”
The flammable and explosive chaotic soldiers were once again agitated once again.
The reaction of the chaotic soldiers was completely within Zhu Pingan’s expectations, Zhu Pingan smiled and arched his hand at the chaotic soldiers, and said with a calm face, “Gentlemen, be at ease, the third thing that this official is going to talk about is the wife’s food, the folding of the silver, and the soldier’s pay.”
“Good, we’ll listen to what you say, if you can’t say a one, two, three, don’t blame us for sending you to see the surname Huang! You are young and strong with good legs, if you go now, you should still be able to catch up with surname Huang.”
“Dog officer, return my wife’s food, folded silver and soldier’s pay, don’t presume to stall us like before, ……”
One by one, the disorganised soldiers shouted, their eyes burning at Zhu Pingan, their hands gripping their blades tightly and gesticulating.
The meaning was self-evident.
Zhu Pingan smiled as he scanned the crowd of chaotic soldiers, taking in the ten thousand phases of the crowd into his eyes, and when the scene quieted down, he stretched out a finger, and said loudly, word for word, word for word, “Firstly, from today onwards, wives’ food will be restored to the initial quota: for those who have a wife, the monthly food and rice will be one stone, and for those who don’t have a wife, the monthly food and rice will be reduced by forty per cent!”
When the crowd of chaotic soldiers heard this, the anger between their brows dissipated for the most part, and their gesticulating blades were put down.
Zhu Pingan once again stretched out a finger and continued, “Secondly, from today onwards, the discounted silver is restored to the same as it was initially, in the spring and the second month of autumn every year, rice is discounted by five silver coins per stone!”
“Good ……”
When the crowd of chaotic soldiers heard this, the anger on their faces had dissipated, and there were even people who couldn’t help but shout.
Zhu Pingan stretched out another finger and said to the chaotic soldiers with a gentle face, “Thirdly, for the recent cuts in wives’ food and discounted silver, an additional one tael of supplemental discount will be given to each of you!”
“Ah! In addition to restoring the wives, food, and discounted silver to the old ones, we’re also given an extra one or two silver pieces to make up for the discounted price?!”
“This is really an unexpected blessing!”
Hearing this, the crowd of chaotic soldiers couldn’t help but show joy on their faces, and the atmosphere of the scene turned from depressing to relaxed and happy.
“Fourthly, the salary owed to all of you will be paid back to you in place tomorrow.”Zhu Pingan stretched out another finger.
“Your Excellency said that the pay will be paid on the next day.”
“Finally pay the wages, the family can’t uncover the pot, can boil a pot of rice again ……”
Hearing this, the faces of the soldiers could not help but reveal smiles, the weapons in their hands were all put down, and their names for Zhu Pingan changed from “Dog Officer” to “Lord”.
“Brothers, these belong to us!”
“The dog official is being generous at our expense! Brothers don’t be fooled by this small profit ……”
“Have you heard of the allusion to the three sunsets? There was a monkey keeper who took acorns and fed them to his monkeys. One day he wanted to restrict the monkeys’ diet, so he said to them, Give each of you three acorns in the morning, and four acorns in the evening, and all the monkeys were anxious to hear it; and then he said, Give you four acorns in the morning, and three in the evening, and all the monkeys were happy! And now it is so; the dog officer and the others are playing with us as monkeys. Brothers, are you willing to be made monkeys by the dog officials?!”
“Brothers, we have gone through so much trouble and risked killing our heads, is this satisfying? As the saying goes, if we walk a hundred miles, we’ll have given up at this point!”
“Kill the dog officer, rob the barracks, we can all get rich, eat and drink all the time ……”
As expected, another sound of furious denigration and compulsion came from the group of chaotic soldiers.
The chaotic soldiers fell into hesitation ……
“Fifth! In light of the recent severe flooding disaster and the difficulty of livelihood for all brothers, we hereby give the entire battalion 10,000 taels of silver reward, no, 30,000 taels, and everyone will receive a reward of 10 taels of silver!”
As soon as Zhu Pingan’s hand was fully unfolded, he swung it forwards with great force, and loudly promised to the chaotic soldiers.
“Thirty thousand taels ……Everyone can receive a bounty of ten taels of silver ……”
Zhu Pingan’s promise echoed in the hearts of the crowd, completely weighing down the scales in their hearts.
One side is exempt from death rolls, the discounted silver is restored, the wife and food are restored, an extra one silver to make up for the discounted price, the soldier’s pay is issued tomorrow, and 30,000 taels of reward silver ……
One side is to rebel, defect to the Japanese or fall into the weeds as a bandit, and from then on be wanted by the imperial court, and everyone will be executed, and never be able to live in the sunshine ……
Choosing that side hardly even requires thinking. Bam bam bam, a group of chaotic soldiers silently dropped their weapons.
“Are you all stupid? The dog official’s promise you guys still take it seriously ah? Who doesn’t know how to make empty promises!”
“Brothers, the dog official is lying to us with his words, if we take it seriously, we’ll have fallen for the dog official’s trick.”
“Brothers, has the dog official lied to us less often? Is it true that you can’t remember what you’ve eaten?!”
The chaotic soldiers with ulterior motives couldn’t help but shout in exasperation when they saw that everyone had lost their weapons.
“All of this official’s promises will later be posted in a formal document in the form of a camp-wide announcement, so please supervise.”Zhu Pingan stood on the table, smiled faintly at which provocateurs and spoke.
“My lord, the exemption rolls have come. Three thousand copies are all together.”
Right at this moment, two meat shield proctors came holding ruler-thick exemption rolls and reported to Zhu Pingan.
“Very good, you guys have worked hard, just put it on the table.”Zhu Pingan smiled and nodded.
“Alright, with this official’s words, it’s up to you all to choose, if you want to kill this official, then do it.”
Zhu Pingan turned to face the three thousand chaotic soldiers, reached down and pulled the collar of his coat, exposing his neck, and said with a righteous face.
The exemption rolls are here, so what’s the point of doubting! The chaotic soldiers were like wheat that had fallen over in the wind, kneeling down one after another.
“Greetings, my lord.”
“Whoever wants to kill His Excellency, step over my body first!”
For a while, the chaotic soldiers knelt down to pay their respects to Zhu Pingan, their embrace of Zhu Pingan could not be described in words.
If Duke Wei had seen this scene, he would have shed tears of envy.
