Chapter 77 Cao Gang (4)
"I have more than 2,000 people, and there are only six or seven hundred people who can be used. Other subjects are the elderly, weak, women and children. What you said is so easy, but can we really support us?" Sun Dong and the others had entered the living room at this time and had a banquet, but he still couldn't believe this person who had only met one time.
More than 2,000 people don’t mean they can support them. These are more than 2,000 mouths that only want to eat. They don’t have many things they can do. And the news that Zhang Shun is in Shennongjia is no secret. How could that place with few people in the streets?
Zhang Yunjie laughed loudly and pointed to the dishes on the table, "This is a proof that we can not only support you, but also support more people." This sentence was expressed by Sun Dong's face immediately turned red.
It won’t be too popular. In addition to the few fish on the street, the dishes on this table are basically made of canned foods brought by others. It’s not that Sun Dong is so stingy, but that he really can’t bring out more things and has no money anymore. He can only treat them with the things he just sent, otherwise he can still take out wild vegetables?
The Tartars' grain collection team has also been here before. In order to ensure that everyone survives, they have handed over their family's wealth. Even if they don't leave, they may not be able to survive the coming cold winter. After all, there will always be at least one month in winter. The river surface is frozen, and the boatman has nothing to do, which also means that some of them will definitely starve to death, which is also the biggest problem they are facing now.
Sun Dong is not a fool. Of course, he knew that as long as he nodded now, the Cao Gang would be swallowed up directly, but he really had no other way. As long as he thought of the thirty-nine people who starved to death last winter, his heart was as painful as a knife. He didn't want to watch that kind of human tragedy again. He would rather destroy the Cao Gang, as long as someone could save them.
"Gangmaster Sun is not a deaf person, of course he has heard about what we have done in Jiangbei recently. Do you know how many people we have taken away in nearly half a month? Tell you, it's nearly 20,000, how about it? Didn't expect it? But even so, we still don't think it's enough, because Shennongjia really needs a population. According to our preliminary estimates, it takes at least 200,000 people to truly enter a reasonable personnel structure, and at least 700,000 people to truly enter the Dingsheng. We are building Shennongjia according to this standard. We are not afraid of you to joke. The food in that place is now enough to feed 200,000 people, but the problem is that we have less than 130,000 people. Do you think we will worry about you two thousand people?"
Sun Dong straightened his body and looked at his junior brother. Qian Bin immediately smiled and said, "Senior Brother, don't disbelief. If you really have any questions, you can go and have a look first. To be honest, I can't harm our Cao Gang."
The last sentence made Sun Dong nod. Although the junior brother is always taller than the sky, he still can't do anything to deceive his master and destroy his ancestors. But he hesitated again, "That's right. All the six or seven hundred men in our Cao Gang can fight you. Even if you let us be the leader, you can do your best after eating your meal, we will still deal with the corresponding part. But we still have two requirements. First, our children cannot serve in the army since childhood. Although the Cao Gang has finished, we still want to keep some blood. Even if someone can burn paper for us to put some wine on the grave in the future. The second is, if our people die, can we give some pensions? You must raise orphans and widows. You can't drive our people out just because you think you can't do anything."
Zhang Yunjie was stunned at first, then Huo Di stood up, his face flushed and a little excited. Then his voice increased a lot, and even the people standing outside heard it really, "Gangmaster Sun, you said that, you really underestimate our Grand Governor, and I, Mr. Zhang too much!"
Sun Dong was shocked. He was actually ready to agree to the other party in his heart. Now that people said this, it was obvious that the talk was broken. He quickly wondered whether his request was too much, so he immediately thought about whether he should shrink the conditions and heard Zhang Yunjie continue to speak loudly.
"As long as you agree to join, we are our brothers, we will live. You are too flirting with these words. Since I heard Lao Qian introduce you, I have determined that you are all passionate men, so I came here in person. I don't want to recruit a group of vanguards. Indeed, it is impossible to not kill people in war, and we will never die by ourselves. When we are on the way, we must go up as soon as we should. This is nothing to say, but our Zhang family army has no vanguards. In the past, we were the first to rush to the front when we fought. He often said that
He will be the first to step on the battlefield and the last to leave. He did this. You can ask Lao Qian. I didn’t tell a lie. If the children go to the battlefield, it means that we, the big men, are dead. They should not fight, at least they should not fight now. They all have to go to school, study and write well, learn skills, and every child in our place must learn, because we work hard for them. If we ask them to die, why should we fight to the death? Isn’t it better to find a barren mountain and squat in it?"
"Go to school?" Sun Dong trembled all over. He had thought about the best, but he never expected it to be so good.
"Yes, go to school! They are our future, and our future must be better than us, so they have to learn more. Let me tell you, what they learn is the textbooks written by our governor himself, and they are the most useful things. When they grow up, they must be many times better than us."
"What you said is true?"
"If there is a word that will make me die without a place to die. Before I finish this, old women will not have nothing to do. Everyone has something to do in our place, and there are too many things to do. Who do you think these canned foods are made? They are all veterans who are still a little disabled in the elderly and women. If that's not the case, they can also spin thread, knit sweaters, and do all kinds of things. You will know that you will definitely make no less money than the men."
"Is there any money to make?" Sun Dong's eyes almost fell to the ground.
Chapter completed!