Chapter 171 The Second Imperial Order (Part 1)
Summer of the third year of Yuancheng
A team of fifty cavalrymen looked into the fields from afar
I saw a group of locusts floating on the field, covering the sky with a dark patch. Wherever the dark clouds passed, the sound of rain sucking leaves and gnawing mulberry trees came. The farmers in the field were crying desperately, and some people worshiped the gods. But in this short time, all the crops in the field were eaten without a single one.
"Mr. Liu?" A deputy came forward to remind him.
The officer in charge, wearing leather armor and a saber on his waist, was about thirty years old. He heard the sound and turned around and said, "Hey, this piece of land is over."
"Yes, the floods of the year before last year, the droughts of last year, and this year it was another locust plague. It is indeed impossible to survive." The adjutant said.
The man stopped talking and went forward with his cavalry and rushed to an inn. He turned over and got off the horse. He saw a civil servant wearing a ninth-rank hat inside.
"Mr. Ye!" He stepped forward to salute. Although he was both a ninth-rank official, he was half a level higher than the generals of civil servants. However, he would not be as good as the ones in the Ming Dynasty on Earth. Even the seventh-rank magistrate could look down on fifth-rank generals.
Moreover, Ye Tong was Anchang, who sent out to pick up the refugees' small army, so he naturally wanted to speak more with civil servants.
Ye Tong sighed, took two heavy steps, with a little sad expression, and asked, "Liu Guzheng, is the level opened?"
"Mr. Ye! The checkpoint is not open. The magistrate Yue Zhongcheng is determined not to take refugees away. He said that he was afraid that someone would gather to cause trouble. It was useless to show the official documents. He was left behind and said that Anchang's official documents would not be in charge of Lunan's affairs!" Liu Jin, the team leader, took out the official documents in his hand.
"Hmph, now the locust plague is not collected. Only when I stay in the local area will there be a danger of gathering people to cause trouble. What should I be afraid of taking it away? It's just that the people in western Shandong are strong and difficult to control. When we arrive in Anchang, we will strengthen our army's strength!" Liu Jin, the team leader, said as he kept talking, and entered the room with Ye Tong.
Ye Tong was stunned and stared at the young team leader with his eyes. He was thirty years old, with a phoenix-eyed eye. He was said to be from a refugee, his father had passed away, and his brother was still there, but this person was brave in fighting and had martial arts skills. He climbed to the position of the ninth-grade team leader in a few years - the cavalry team leader is the ninth-grade team leader.
I thought he was a martial artist, but after learning in the martial arts lecture hall, he really learned something. Ye Tong got up and walked a few steps, stood in front of the window, and could see the raging fields in the distance through the window, and asked, "This is true, do you have any ideas?"
"There is no need to be any scruples. He is not afraid of gathering people to cause trouble, so let them cause trouble. It is said that the court still has the will to open the warehouse and release grain. Hehe, let alone such a major disaster, there is no grain in the warehouse, even if there is food in the bumper year, how much can it be distributed?" Liu Jin glanced sharply: "As long as there is a slight incitement, those who are about to starve to death can kill the officials and peel the county magistrate Yue Zhongcheng. Who dares to stop it at that time? Are you not afraid of refugees rebelling?"
After a pause, he said, "The news has been obtained. The bandits gathered on Changfeng Mountain have no food. They want to go down the mountain to rob the food. Now there is no food, only the big family will rob the county government..."
This was a poisonous plan. Ye Tong was shocked and thought about it. He stood up and stared at Liu Jin and asked, "Changfeng Mountain? How many bandits are there? Have you contacted it?"
"Changfeng Mountain is located in a remote area and has never survived, as well as strong men who commit murders, are all concentrated there, small stocks and large stocks. However, I heard that there has been a man named Ding Menxiong in the parish recently. He unified the entire mountain and gathered 300 outlaws. They are all brave men. However, there is no contact with him. However, such strong men must be supported by the villages, so they were asked about some news."
This Changfeng Mountain is fifty miles away from the county town. The mountains are steep and densely forested. It is a strong place. The officers and soldiers have led their troops to sweep the encirclement and suppression several times. They were county magistrates, and most of them were lieutenants in the palace, but they have never wiped out the Qing Dynasty.
Now, after three years of disaster, the underworld bandits also have to eat. Seeing that the food in the village was about to be completely stored, they naturally had to go down and sweep it.
Ye Tong turned around a few more times, snorted coldly in his heart, and said, "Touch directly, it is the thief who kills officials. If it hurts the lord's kindness, it is not necessary. However, there is no need to incite, just let the outside world out, saying that we will return to Anchang in five days and ignore anything else. Someone is willing to follow us. It is their choice. If the county magistrate blocks and incites the civil unrest, it is not our business! In these few days, you should comfort the soldiers and do not go out at will, so as not to gossip about someone."
This seems gentle, but it even more accurate to Changfeng Mountain's lifeline. The sentence "We will return to Anchang in five days and ignore anything else" is even more a vicious plan.
Liu Jin couldn't help but be stunned, and then he heard Ye Tong smile and say, "But we can leave slowly!"
Suddenly, Liu Jin realized that he was a scholar after all. He was indeed poisonous and cruel, and he always had a noble face. This actually implied that the bandits said that you were just robbing, and that my fifty horses were leaving.
After all, there are only a few hundred soldiers in the county, all of them are veterans. In terms of combat power, these fifty cavalry can kill them all in a meal without riding horses. So the bandits are of course concerned about this cavalry, otherwise there would be no verbal whistle here to show temptation.
When the bandits went down the mountain, the county was in chaos and they were invited back as an old man. Then the lion could speak loudly.
Thinking of this, Liu Jin responded respectfully: "Yes!"
No matter how these people plan, Liu Jin did not contact the bandits, but it did not mean that the bandits did not know that they existed. A few days later, on the mountain, Ding Menxiong was standing on a rock, looking down, and asking a person next to him, his voice hoarse: "Xu Laoliu, are you talking about it true?"
"Big boss, don't you believe me?" Xu Laoliu, who came out on the grounds of visiting relatives and looking for relatives, patted him: "If I were too old, I would be a small official who was in charge of fifty households and hundreds of people."
"It's not that I don't believe you. I always have to consider my brothers. You know, the government recruitment never counts." Ding Menxiong said bitterly: "Say it, say it again, talk carefully!"
Ding Menxiong has known Xu Laoliu for a long time. He was born in Changfeng Mountain and brought people with him No. 5 and No. 6.
"I have said this a few times back then. I took six brothers out with me. When I met a group of refugees, I impressed some people with some efforts. When I heard that Anchang recruited refugees, I took people to follow me. I wanted to see if there was any business to do, but because I brought more than 100 people, I was appointed as the chief. When I was in the farming field, I also did some things and promoted the captain of fifty households. Although I was a civilian or not, I lived well. I also knew a hundred big words. The family had fifty acres of land, and had married a new wife, and had already given me a son!" Xu Laoliu said with a mouthful of water.
"You have two hundred brothers in your hands, and you can fight wars. Before the beginning, there were disasters here, and there were many people who had no food to eat. You took your brothers to trade and walked towards Anchang with those who had no food to eat. If you had two thousand people, you could get a 250-household deputy fortress commander Dangdang, or become a deputy troop chief in the army. What a great deal, you are a ninth rank official, a high-ranking official!"
"And, Master, what are you afraid of? You don't know that the soldiers in the county are all rusty eggs. Governor Li's soldiers can indeed fight, but they all left yesterday!"
Speaking of this, there were rustling sounds, and several figures appeared one after another, all of which contained hope and said: "The boss, Lao Liu will not deceive us, just make this vote."
"Yes, the boss will not make this vote and will go down the mountain to grab it. However, those big villagers in Dazhai are not easy to fight. Who doesn't have the young and strong number of numbers? How many brothers will die?"
"Big boss, let's fight." As he said that, some people came to me.
Ding Menxiong swept over them, all of whom had been following the old brothers for more than ten years. He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll just make this vote. If I die, I'll go to drink and eat meat!"
Suddenly, the village heard a loud bang. Life in the village was not easy. Not to mention drinking and eating meat, most of the brothers lived a hard life. They happened to do some business next time and were very envious. Now there is Lao Liu's example, of course they are very envious.
They naturally did not know that within hundreds of miles near Anchang Province, all kinds of bandits and refugees had more or less similar situations, and even further away, those refugees who did not know Anchang or could not go were homeless and had no hope to get it. They were mixed together like a torrent of convergence. Gradually, those outbreaks of despair had formed. Hundreds of refugees were shocked and called high on the ground at the same time. In an instant, hundreds of people gathered together, and almost at the same time, they began to turn from people to troops and conquer the world. The already existing thief army immediately expanded several times, and some even brazenly took the banner of becoming king.
During the Central Plains War, the most critical moment was already reached. The army of the vassal kings had retreated urgently. King Liang of Luode Mansion lost most of the 20,000 soldiers, and the remaining 3,000 were left. King Xin had simply destroyed the entire army. Fortunately, he was not captured and defected to King An. The court's hundreds of thousands of troops were looking at Dandan.
However, on the other side, King of Chu, King of Qi, and King of Zhao, still maintained tens of thousands to 100,000 troops.
But at this moment, a piece of news spread to the world - the young emperor, who had just ascended the throne for three years, died.
This news seriously broke the situation in the world. For a moment, the world was in full swing. You know, the late emperor had only one son and died again, and the orthodox was cut off. The close-to-back royal family had already escaped from the imperial capital. No one expected that Gao Mingtong would do this. This was too unwise.
You should know that the kings have already shown their defeat, and they can be eliminated in a year or two years at most. Why did such a thing happen at this critical moment? In this way, the orthodox justice that Gao Mingtong barely retained is gone. Even if he wants to support the new emperor, there is no suitable candidate. If you rely on the distant relatives of seven or eight generations, don't show it.
Chapter completed!