"So that was how it was."
Wu Yuan agreed aloud.
Inside, however, a storm surged through him.
It sounded simple, but putting it into practice was no easy matter. There were indeed plenty of poor commoners, but many were just putting on a show in the crowd, taking the money without doing the work. Some even slipped away as soon as they got what they wanted, freeloaders through and through.
They wouldn't follow orders.
Even the commoners who were willing to follow orders could easily drag everyone down.
It was no easy task to direct dozens or even hundreds of untrained commoners and get them to stick to a plan.
But since Shen Tang hadn't brought it up, Wu Yuan couldn't very well press her for details.
It wouldn't have mattered if he had asked.
There hadn't been any directing or coordinating to speak of.
It hadn't taken the slightest bit of skill.
Shen Tang and the others had only asked these "commoners" to charge in behind them and make as much noise as possible.
If they saw a door, they were to kick it in. If they saw someone, they were to follow along and beat him up. The granaries weren't in the clan lands where those families lived together; they were in secluded locations. Anyone they encountered would basically be a guard left behind to watch the place. If anyone got separated from the group and was injured or killed, she wouldn't be responsible.
These commoners might have been ignorant, but they weren't fools who'd stand still with a knife at their throats instead of dodging. All they had to do was run along and smash a few things to earn ten jin of grain. What could be easier? Who would go out of their way to get