Liu Santong took a breath, slightly left the rope in his hand, and the stone pony on his back fell to the ground with a loud bang, lifted up his clothes, wiped his sweat, and looked up at the entire construction site.

Around the construction site, which was about hundreds of steps long, was full of busy people everywhere. A little further away, a team of fully armed Tang soldiers patrolled back and forth on the construction site.

They were building roads. All the workers who built the roads were captured Pinglu soldiers along the Yellow River and after the Battle of Linzi.

Liu Santong once thought that generals of his level should receive the most basic respect and treatment after finally surrendering to the city, but the facts were beyond his imagination.

There was no preferential treatment, and of course, no deliberate abuse. He was divided into groups with all the captured soldiers, and then he was taken to the current construction site to start building roads, and some were sent to repair water conservancy.

There was not even a single person to interrogate him, as if he was no different from those ordinary captured soldiers.

This made him feel a little disappointed.

The daily work is exactly the same, shaping the roadbed, and then using a stone to isolate the road from other places, and large pits are dug out on the side of the road. It is obvious that it is used to plant trees.

Liu Santong had to admit that the Tang army was serious about building roads and did not do anything perfunctorily, or simply tried to find some things for them, prisoners of war, to waste their energy and avoid causing trouble.

The roadbed is extremely solid, and the layer of three-mix soil on the top is steamed with great effort. After paving it, it is filled with gravel and the thick stone mills are repeatedly crushed on the road, and a beautiful and sturdy road is presented in front of you. After planting big trees on both sides in the future, such a road will be a beautiful landscape.

In more than a month, these people have extended the road for nearly a thousand meters. And there are now tens of thousands of road construction workers like them along the Yellow River to the Linzi area. Even if only half of them are building roads, the mileage built is quite considerable.

However, Hou Xiyi ruled Pinglu for many years, but never built one.

Liu Santong was not very clear about the cost of road construction, but even if they were laborers who didn’t have money, the other expenses were not low. Besides, they always had to eat, drink, defecate and urinate.

Although I became a prisoner, I still had enough food. I could eat a lot of black buns for each meal, and although there were not many side dishes, I could still have enough food. I could eat salted fish, pickles, and big bone soup. I could eat a meal of meat every ten days. In the words of the Tang army officer who was in charge of them, I had to eat enough to work after I had enough food.

Such food is naturally extremely poor for generals like Liu Santong, but for ordinary soldiers, there is not much difference compared to before.

To be fair, the Tang army's attitude towards prisoners was far beyond Liu Santong's imagination. The injured soldiers and the sick soldiers could all receive good treatment. In their 500-person group, there was a doctor stationed.

But what made Liu Santong feel a little uncomfortable was that in their 500-person team, the captain was not him, and the squadron leader was not him, and he didn't even get into a group leader. When this team of prisoners of war was just brought here, the Tang army organized these people to select leaders of all levels. Although Liu Santong had the highest official position, he was defeated completely in the election of one vote for each person.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the composition of this prisoner. These prisoners of war came from different troops, and not many people recognized him Liu Santong.

But Liu Santong felt that this was Tang Jun intentionally embarrassing him.

The big-headed soldiers who would never look at him often would be so awkward to the distribution of affairs. But he still had to listen patiently and use his strength to work, otherwise he would be pulled away by Tang Jun and be hungry.

A hero does not suffer the loss in front of him, and Liu Santong gritted his teeth and endured all this. Now, although he is holding back the song, he is still alive. As long as he is alive, everything will have hope, right?

A loud military horn sounded. When the horn sounded, all the prisoners of war put down their work, quickly stood in a queue, and then walked towards a row of tents not far away.

This is a signal of eating.

More than a month after being captured, all the Pinglu prisoners of war were used to these orders from the Tang army.

The big basket contains large porcelain bowls, washed very cleanly, and held in their hands, and it was a bit hot. These bowls were cooked in meetings. It was said that for the sake of hygiene, it was completely unnecessary. However, it was obvious that the people in charge of this matter did not think so. The Tang army strictly enforced all regulations, and the prisoners of war responsible for these matters did not dare to be careless under their supervision.

There are two big buns per person, and you can take them if you are not full. Each person has a bowl of bone soup. There are still a lot of oil and meat floating on the noodles. What surprised Liu Santong was that today, there was a single grilled fish one person had.

Twenty people sat down in a circle and ate the first meal of today. No one dared to procrastinate because the time for meals is strictly stipulated. When the military call sounds, the meal will be over. Regardless of whether you finish eating or not, you have to gather together, then clean your big bowls, and finally put them in a big basket.

Liu Santong quickly finished the first meal today, and then lowered his head to think about his worries. It seemed that something was going to happen, because when he was receiving the meal, he saw several people who obviously did not belong to this place. Their clothes were obviously not from the Tang army's left guards, two of them were in black clothes, and they should be from the Tang army's inner guards, and the other one was a civil servant.

Liu Santong was a little scared. People like him were most afraid of were people from the inner guards.

The sound of the war horn sounded again, and the prisoners quickly jumped up, washed their big bowls by the sink, and then lined up again. When the team stood up, the people in the tent came out with the stewards here.

This governor's surname is Yang and named Yang Hong. He looks very kind on weekdays and is even more smiling at this time.

"Everyone, thanks to your support and hard work during this period, our 12th Group has been in front of all the teams throughout the project. I am thankful here." Yang Hong bowed his fists and saluted.

The prisoners looked at each other, and the team was silent.

"I think everyone has noticed today that the food is better than usual. This is because there is a happy event. When the happy event comes, you will naturally have to have extra meals." Yang Hong said with a smile.

"What kind of happy event? Of course it's not that I, Yang Hong, have been promoted." Yang Hong joked and then said: "This happy event of course belongs to everyone. Li Xianghongen, all the Pinglu soldiers captured in the Pinglu war, who meet the conditions, will be released on the spot."

With a coaxing sound, the team suddenly started to noise.

Yang Hong pressed his hands down, and when he calmed down, he turned sideways and let him go. The civil servant walked up. Compared to Yang Hong's smile, the civil servant had no expression on his face. "Everyone listened, this is the grace of the court, and the grace of the prime minister. According to the past practice, you must serve at least three to five years of labor. But in the mind that Hou Xiyi was in a state of war and forced to fight Lu Qingming into the army, many people were forced to rebel against the court. So Li Xiang was particularly kind. All those who were released will receive a consistent travel fee. From the date of release, according to the distance of the journey, there will be ten to twenty days to return home. Remember that you must return to your hometown and report to the local government immediately. If you do not return within the deadline, you will be included in the ranks of fugitives and re-arresisted. If you are caught, you will be twice the punishment and work for at least ten years."

"We will definitely go home on time."

"I was arrested by an official to serve in the army."

"I have parents at home, so of course I'll go home."

Suddenly, a response after another sounded in the crowd.

At this time, a smile appeared on the civil servant's face. He stretched out his hand and took a file from the guard beside him: "The person who read the name is the first group of people who were released. Don't worry about those who were not released this time. There is also the second group and the third group, and there must be a sequence! The farthest from here is the first group, and then every half month, a group of people will be released on the spot."

"Long live!"

"Thank you, Li Xiang!"

Cheers sounded in the crowd.

As the civil servant opened and closed his mouth, soldiers walked out of the queue happily. On the other side, someone had already set up a long table, putting a basket of yellow copper coins in the basket, taking away their own pardon documents, taking away their usual money, and then leaving impatiently.

Liu Santong lowered his head. He knew that no matter from any aspect, he could not be the kind of person who meets the conditions. It just depends on how many years he had been in labor.

General Liu Xinda once told him to run away to find him if he had the chance. It seemed that he had to pay attention. Tang Jun did not treat himself differently, but it was a good thing for him to escape.

The civil servant put down the document in his hand. There were about fifty people released in the first batch, which happened to be one-tenth of their group. Those who were not named were inevitably disappointed, but they thought that there were still the second batch and the third batch, but there was hope in the disappointment.

"Everyone, I hope that everyone will work sincerely in the future to complete the tasks assigned by the above. Otherwise, I will be qualified to cancel your qualification for pardon!" The civil servant returned to the tent, and Yang Hong appeared with a smile, but the words he said were not warm at all.

Liu Santong looked up at the civil servant in the tent. He seemed to have something to do, otherwise he would have left with his guards after completing his official duties.
Chapter completed!