The time comes to August, which means that the busy farming season is completely over, and people finally have some free time.

At the beginning of the slack season, an order came down from above. The order said that people from all over the country who wanted to reunite could go to Julu.

This has to be said about the special nature of Julu. People in other parts of the world are all gathered in villages and clans. In Julu, in order to smoothly implement the policy of equal land distribution, Li Mengxi divided the people from all over the world.

It's a mess.

Li Mengxi's muddled strategy was undoubtedly extremely successful. He succeeded in completely shattering the foundation of the powerful landlords. When the people of one village were divided into dozens of villages, they became scattered among the small members of the same clan.

By the time we reached the territory of more than a dozen counties, not to mention the powerful landlords, even with the organizational and mobilizing power of the Julu government, it was extremely difficult to gather the people from the original villages and clans.

However, another problem followed. When the Julu government found it difficult to find all members of the clan, it became even more difficult for the people to find their relatives and friends.

In order to solve the problem of family gatherings, when the fields were divided in spring, the Julu government made an appointment with the people to come to Julu to get together during the slack farming season in July and August.

By August, when farming is slack, it is time for the government to fulfill its promise.

People who have been busy for half a year are all looking forward to getting together with their loved ones.

The people all over Julu were on the move. The people left their settlements, packed their bags, and rushed towards Julu in groups.

On the road, the endless stream of people looked like people fleeing a famine.

But if you take a closer look, you won't mistake them for an escape team.

The clothes of the common people are still shabby and shabby, even older than last year, because in the past six months of farming, Julu has had no cloth income at all, and the weaving industry has not recovered at all, which makes the clothes on the common people still tattered.

, still looking embarrassed.

But, apart from the tatters on the clothes, the other differences were too great.

First of all, the complexion. Most of the people fleeing the famine were as pale as vegetables, while the people rushing to the Julu team were all emaciated, but their faces had some color.

Secondly, in terms of spiritual outlook, the fleeing team would be lifeless, while the people who hurried to gather at Julu were talking, laughing and beaming with joy.

Next, there is the luggage. Fugitives carry all their belongings with them. The backpacks are dirty, broken and messy. Among the people going to Julu, the backpacks carried by the people are clean and tidy, and they don’t carry much. There are many people

I only brought some cooked grain and a pair of bowls, but nothing else. This light and airy look made me look like I was visiting relatives, but also like I was going to work in the fields.

The biggest difference from desertion is discipline and weapons.

Julu is now disciplined and organized. The sources of discipline and organization are complicated. The formation of the organization includes political components. It is precisely because the government disrupted the original order in the countryside that the people who farmed everywhere had to obey.

The command of the village chief has thus become more disciplined. In addition, collectivization has been initially implemented. Under the initial collectivization model, the manpower in each camp has been divided into production teams of about 20 people.

As a group, these twenty manpower are unified, working together and resting together. In daily collective production, organization and discipline have been initially formed.

When ordinary people go out, they must use their families as small groups and relatives as large groups. Therefore, the flow of people is like small clusters forming one large cluster after another.

If you look carefully at the flow of people heading towards Julu, you can clearly see the difference. The crowds of people moving on the road are obviously too large and more concentrated.

It is easy to understand that people have a need for collectives. When the old clan relationship groups no longer exist and they lose the reliance of clans, people will naturally rely on another collective.

In Julu territory, on the roads of the southeast, northwest and large, the crowds are all huge. Each group of people must be traveling together from the same village (camp). Among the small groups of people, there must be twenty people at a time.

Around 1,000 people must be the number of people in a production team.

Among the people heading towards Julu, there were both men and women, and many of them were carrying bamboo or wooden spears on their shoulders.

If we make a closer distinction, we will find that women hold more guns than men.

Once upon a time, when more than 100,000 refugees were about to be sent down to work in the fields, Li Mengxi was worried that the refugees could still be supervised and restrained by the military, and could barely guarantee that they would not bully each other. But once the refugees dispersed in all directions, the supervision would be difficult.

Failure to do so will lead to oppression.

In order to avoid oppression, there must be laws to follow, laws must be enforced, and violations must be strictly punished. Each of these four points is extremely difficult for Li Mengxi.

Therefore, Li Mengxi used a simple and crude trick. He wanted to give each Julu citizen an AK. He wanted to empower all people with weapons and use the weapons in the hands of all people to fight against all oppression.

ak, Li Mengxi didn't have it, so he had to settle for the next best thing. Li Mengxi once wanted to make a crossbow for one person, but he succeeded in developing a steel crossbow that could be produced quickly. Due to the high cost, it was impossible for anyone to make a steel crossbow.

, in the end, everyone can only have a wooden gun.

Wooden guns are not powerful enough to inflict damage, but they can be used as weapons in desperate fights between common people.

The ragged passers-by who gathered towards Julu had guns in their hands. This was the most essential difference from the fleeing crowds.

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Outside Julu City, crowds of people from all over the country arrived one after another.

All the soldiers in the city were sent out.

Julu has fourteen counties and more than 130 townships. The flags that were rushed out last year to facilitate the differentiation of manpower are now in use again.

There are more than 130 townships in the four areas of Julu, which requires at least more than 130 gathering areas, a huge number of guides, and a huge number of logistic support manpower.

I don't know how many people are rushing to Julu, and the logistics pressure is bound to be great. Simply, similar things have happened many times before, and everyone in Julu has sufficient preparations to deal with it.

With Julu City as the center, it spread in all directions, whether in the wilderness or on the roads, more than 130 gathering areas were scattered and spread out, extending beyond three miles.

Under the banners of various counties and townships, the residents of Julu City were the first to arrive before the people from all over the country.

The residents of Julu City refer to those old and weak women and children who are not working in the field. All the old and weak women and children in Julu City are concentrated in Julu City. The old and weak are taken care of by the Julu government, and the children are educated by the schools in Julu City. These

Because of the close proximity, the residents of Julu City arrived at various gathering points early to wait.

Julu County, Nanhe County all the way, under the banner of Sizhao Township, Nanhe County.

The person holding the flag was a big man in armor. The big man held the flag and looked towards the distant road.

Around the flag, more than a hundred old, weak, women and children gathered, waiting eagerly.

A woman was holding a short, thin child. The child seemed to be bored with waiting. He tugged on the woman's clothes and said in a sweet voice, "Mom, I want to eat steamed buns."

The woman took off the small bundle on her arm, took out a small piece of dry and hard dry steamed bun the size of a walnut and stuffed it into the child's hand.

The child took the dry steamed bun and didn't feel it tasted bad at all, and ate it happily.

After a while, when the steamed buns were finished, the child didn't even let go of the dried steamed bun residue that fell in his hands, and stuck out his tongue to lick them all.

"Mom, I want to eat one more." The child reached out and asked for more.

The woman pinched the child's face helplessly and said, "You, let's wait for aunt to come and give it to aunt."

The child was very sensible. He nodded seriously like an adult, "We don't want to eat it, we will give it to our aunt."

There are no steamed buns in the entire territory of Dahan, and there are no steamed buns in the entire territory of Julu. Steamed buns are only available in Julu City, and the technology of steaming steamed buns has not yet been promoted everywhere.

Residents of Julu City can often eat some steamed buns. Maybe, many people think steamed buns are a rare delicacy. They carefully save the steamed buns they save in daily life, hoping to leave them to relatives they have not seen for a long time.

As a gift.

Time gradually passed, and people who came back and gathered kept passing by. The people in these counties and townships had never known each other at all, but when they saw each other, they all came for the same thing, which was more or less the same.

tacit agreement.

People passing by and people waiting under the flag greeted each other in a friendly and friendly manner, and the atmosphere was extremely harmonious.

The little child who was waiting for his aunt with his mother stood on tiptoe and looked around. People kept passing by, but he still couldn't see his aunt.

"Why hasn't aunt come back yet?"

"Auntie hasn't come back yet."

The child kept asking, and asked again after a while.

The child's mother could only comfort him.

Finally, another wave of people came over.

The soldier holding the flag saw the people approaching and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Who is from Si Zhao Township? Those from Si Zhao Township come here!"

Three or five people heard the shouts of the soldiers holding the flag, left the team, and came here half hesitantly and half sure.

One's own family members can recognize one's own family members.

"Mom, look, aunt!" The child saw the aunt at a glance, and he happily pointed to a young woman walking towards her mother.

The child's mother had also seen it a long time ago.

Even though they were far away, the child's aunt kept laughing, and the child's mother also laughed.

One of the two walked away, the other greeted him, and took a look at each other.

The child's mother looked at her aunt and said, "Sister, there is someone..." Halfway through, she wanted to ask her aunt if she had been bullied, but when she saw her aunt carrying an iron-tipped gun on her shoulder,

The child's mother suddenly felt at ease inexplicably, and she couldn't ask the rest of the questions.

The child's mother naturally took off the little bundle on her arm and said, "Here, sister, come and have a taste."

Steamed buns are not considered a delicacy, especially dried steamed buns, which are even more unpalatable when you eat them. However, for the people at the bottom, they regard them as delicacies.

The child's aunt took some dry steamed buns to eat and said they were delicious.

When she lowered her head and saw her little nephew looking at him eagerly, her aunt smiled and handed over the entire bundle.

The child's mother hurriedly stopped her, and the child sensibly turned her back and refused to accept it, but the aunt insisted on forcing it.

After some pulling and pulling, the dried steamed buns were finally returned by my aunt.

When the child took a fancy to his aunt's iron-tipped gun and wanted to play with it for a while, his aunt told him to be careful and let the little nephew play with it.

The two women, while paying attention to the children playing, asked each other about their lives in the past six months.
To be continued...