I remember that a commoner emperor in later generations once said that as long as the court gave him a bite of food, he would never rebel!
As long as there is food to eat and as long as you can live, you will not rebel!
What a humble request?!
But there are some imperial courts that cannot meet even such low requirements!
Thus, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted, "Princes, generals, and ministers would rather have their own kind", which kicked off the peasant uprising.
A man named Wang Bo also appeared, and with his "Wuxiang Liaodong Wandering Death Song", he overthrew the once powerful Sui Dynasty.
However, Datang at this time was different from the above two situations.
In today's Tang Dynasty, although not everyone is wealthy, it is still no problem to ensure that most people have enough to eat.
For example, here in Shandong, if it were not for natural disasters and man-made disasters, there would not be a large number of victims displaced.
Natural disaster? There is really nothing we can do about it. No one can control God’s affairs. Even in the future generations of civilization, he will still come when it is supposed to come!
And man-made disaster?
Looking at the thick stack of accounts compiled in his hand, Ma Zhou sighed heavily under the oil lamp.
If the land annexation near Chang'an can be described as serious! Then he came to Shandong and learned that the land situation here is absolutely appalling!
Has anyone ever seen a family own an entire county's land?
All the people in the county are equivalent to its tenants, farming the land for him to make money!
Who has ever seen people in more than a dozen nearby townships, when the harvest comes, instead of paying taxes and grains to the court, they pour all the grains they have worked so hard to grow into the warehouses of landlords?
Moreover, these are things that Ma Zhou never dared to think about before! Here in Shandong, there are far more than just one! Two! One! Two!
Follow Ma Zhou's visit and investigation.
In the entire Shandong Province, less than 10% of the huge land in Shandong can be owned by the people themselves! The rest is all in the hands of local large households and landlords!
And this 10% of the land is basically dry farmland and mountainous land, which is land that others simply look down upon!
"They did this on purpose. They came here for me and Your Majesty!"
Holding tightly to the information in his hands, Ma Zhou suddenly understood at this moment why the rebellion in Shandong came so suddenly and so quickly!
Someone must have noticed His Majesty's intention to rectify this place, so he took the lead and launched an attack! He was thinking of taking advantage of a natural disaster to fight to the death!
Losing is just a few years ahead of the inevitable decline of the family!
But if they win, they can seal the territory, become a local prince, or even sweep the world and become the new master of the world!
I feel pity for the refugees who are treated as spearmen, but they actually believe in something like "When a phoenix is born, the world will be united!", and they really think that if they fight all the way, they can have their own land!
I'm afraid that in the end, they will find that they are still working for their former landlords until they die.
"Evil thief!" In the middle of the night, Ma Zhou Henji's voice rang out from the inn, and spread far, far away in the dark night.
When Ma Zhou was angry and helpless, he wrapped up the information and gave it to a personal servant to hide. Outside the Jinan Mansion, countless soldiers blew their horns again, and then, a dense crowd of people gathered with torches.
Under the illumination, they crazily attacked the Jinan city head!
"Hold it! Hold it to me!"
On the top of the city, a bearded military attache roared and waved his long sword, and chopped off a soldier who climbed to the top of the city along the ladder. He slashed down with his sword and cut off the iron hook at the top of the ladder! Finally, he jumped up with a kick.
, kick this ladder away from the city!
"Ahhhh..."
The ladder without the grappling hook tilted backwards. The bearded military attache could only hear a series of screams from below the city. In the darkness, a group of people all fell down with the ladder!
And this was just the people on the top of the ladder. Below the ladder, there were many siege soldiers who were unable to dodge and were hit hard by the fallen ladder and people. They were lying on the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
"Hahaha! Offal! Come on!"
Seeing that he had defeated more than a dozen enemies at once, the bearded military general couldn't help laughing wildly.
But soon, his laughter stopped abruptly.
Because a cold arrow suddenly shot from under the city, and it went straight into his mouth, leaving only the tail with white feathers, still trembling there.
"Uh...uh..."
Blood gurgled out of the man's mouth. The man waved his hands, trying to pull out the arrow, but his hands, which used to be as strong as a thousand pounds, were now so weak that they no longer had the strength to lift them.
"Brother Zhang!"
Another military commander on top of the city noticed something strange about the bearded man, and immediately his eyes were split open! He picked up a boulder and smashed it down without caring! Immediately, another series of screams came up from the bottom of the city.
Under the banner outside the city, Li Zhen, who was covered in fine armor, looked at the tragic siege scene in front of him, and his pale face twisted unconsciously.
He didn't expect that Jinan City would be so difficult to attack!
You must know that Qingzhou, the political center of Shandong, only took him half a day to open the city and surrender. However, Jinan City has been fighting for a full day and night, and there is still no sign of being broken.
"Master! Withdraw!"
Beside him, a counselor saw that the city in the distance suddenly began to pour kerosene down, and then a torch was thrown down, and a sea of fire instantly ignited under the city. He could only advise his family leader sadly, "
These are our own sons and daughters, they cannot be compromised!"
"withdraw……"
Looking at the beating fire, Li Zhen seemed to have exhausted all his strength before he said this word!
After the word came out of his mouth, he felt a sweetness in his throat, and a bloody smell instantly filled his entire mouth!
That's right, what's under Jinan City now are not the bewitched refugees, but the real wealth of his Li family and several other aristocratic families!
Nowadays, in the entire land of Shandong! Except for the Cui family in Qinghe, there is only a solitary Jinan Prefecture in the middle!
Li Zhen knew that if he wanted to remove the thorn in the Jinan Prefecture, he couldn't use those refugees who could only fight with the wind, so he sent out his best troops and thought of completing his work in one battle!
However, what Li Zhen, who has always been proud of, did not expect was that Jinan Mansion turned out to be such a tough guy!
Even when his own elites, whom he was so proud of, came forward, they couldn't even get the slightest advantage!
"Who is the guard of Jinan Mansion! Where are all our internal agents? Where did Li Wenli die?"
After a while, Ming Jin's voice came over to withdraw his troops. Looking at the soldiers retreating like a tide, Li Zhen looked at his counselors with a ferocious expression. I remember that a commoner emperor in later generations once said that when the imperial court gave him a mouthful of food,
If he eats it, then he will never rebel!
As long as there is food to eat and as long as you can live, you will not rebel!
What a humble request?!
But there are some imperial courts that cannot meet even such low requirements!
Thus, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted, "Princes, generals, and ministers would rather have their own kind", which kicked off the peasant uprising.
A man named Wang Bo also appeared, and with his "Wuxiang Liaodong Wandering Death Song", he overthrew the once powerful Sui Dynasty.
However, Datang at this time was different from the above two situations.
In today's Tang Dynasty, although not everyone is wealthy, it is still no problem to ensure that most people have enough to eat.
For example, here in Shandong, if it were not for natural disasters and man-made disasters, there would not be a large number of victims displaced.
Natural disaster? There is really nothing we can do about it. No one can control God’s affairs. Even in the future generations of civilization, he will still come when it is supposed to come!
And man-made disaster?
Looking at the thick stack of accounts compiled in his hand, Ma Zhou sighed heavily under the oil lamp.
If the land annexation near Chang'an can be described as serious! Then he came to Shandong and learned that the land situation here is absolutely appalling!
Has anyone ever seen a family own an entire county's land?
All the people in the county are equivalent to its tenants, farming the land for him to make money!
Who has ever seen people in more than a dozen nearby townships, when the harvest comes, instead of paying taxes and grains to the court, they pour all the grains they have worked so hard to grow into the warehouses of landlords?
Moreover, these are things that Ma Zhou never dared to think about before! Here in Shandong, there are far more than just one! Two! One! Two!
Follow Ma Zhou's visit and investigation.
In the entire Shandong Province, less than 10% of the huge land in Shandong can be owned by the people themselves! The rest is all in the hands of local large households and landlords!
And this 10% of the land is basically dry farmland and mountainous land, which is land that others simply look down upon!
"They did this on purpose. They came here for me and Your Majesty!"
Holding tightly to the information in his hands, Ma Zhou suddenly understood at this moment why the rebellion in Shandong came so suddenly and so quickly!
Someone must have noticed His Majesty's intention to rectify this place, so he took the lead and launched an attack! He was thinking of taking advantage of a natural disaster to fight to the death!
Losing is just a few years ahead of the inevitable decline of the family!
But if they win, they can seal the territory, become a local prince, or even sweep the world and become the new master of the world!
I feel pity for the refugees who are treated as spearmen, but they actually believe in something like "When a phoenix is born, the world will be united!", and they really think that if they fight all the way, they can have their own land!
I'm afraid that in the end, they will find that they are still working for their former landlords until they die.
"Evil thief!" In the middle of the night, Ma Zhou Henji's voice rang out from the inn, and spread far, far away in the dark night.
When Ma Zhou was angry and helpless, he wrapped up the information and gave it to a personal servant to hide. Outside the Jinan Mansion, countless soldiers blew their horns again, and then, a dense crowd of people gathered with torches.
Under the illumination, they crazily attacked the Jinan city head!
"Hold it! Hold it to me!"
On the top of the city, a bearded military attache roared and waved his long sword, and chopped off a soldier who climbed to the top of the city along the ladder. He slashed down with his sword and cut off the iron hook at the top of the ladder! Finally, he jumped up with a kick.
, kick this ladder away from the city!
"Ahhhh..."
The ladder without the grappling hook tilted backwards. The bearded military attache could only hear a series of screams from below the city. In the darkness, a group of people all fell down with the ladder!
And this was just the people on the top of the ladder. Below the ladder, there were many siege soldiers who were unable to dodge and were hit hard by the fallen ladder and people. They were lying on the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
"Hahaha! Offal! Come on!"
Seeing that he had defeated more than a dozen enemies at once, the bearded military general couldn't help laughing wildly.
But soon, his laughter stopped abruptly.
Because a cold arrow suddenly shot from under the city, and it went straight into his mouth, leaving only the tail with white feathers, still trembling there.
"Uh...uh..."
Blood gurgled out of the man's mouth. The man waved his hands, trying to pull out the arrow, but his hands, which used to be as strong as a thousand pounds, were now so weak that they no longer had the strength to lift them.
"Brother Zhang!"
Another military commander on top of the city noticed something strange about the bearded man, and immediately his eyes were split open! He picked up a boulder and smashed it down without caring! Immediately, another series of screams came up from the bottom of the city.
Under the banner outside the city, Li Zhen, who was covered in fine armor, looked at the tragic siege scene in front of him, and his pale face twisted unconsciously.
He didn't expect that Jinan City would be so difficult to attack!
You must know that Qingzhou, the political center of Shandong, only took him half a day to open the city and surrender. However, Jinan City has been fighting for a full day and night, and there is still no sign of being broken.
"Master! Withdraw!"
Beside him, a counselor saw that the city in the distance suddenly began to pour kerosene down, and then a torch was thrown down, and a sea of fire instantly ignited under the city. He could only advise his family leader sadly, "
These are our own sons and daughters, they cannot be compromised!"
"withdraw……"
Looking at the beating fire, Li Zhen seemed to have exhausted all his strength before he said this word!
After the word came out of his mouth, he felt a sweetness in his throat, and a bloody smell instantly filled his entire mouth!
That's right, what's under Jinan City now are not the bewitched refugees, but the real wealth of his Li family and several other aristocratic families!
Nowadays, in the entire land of Shandong! Except for the Cui family in Qinghe, there is only a solitary Jinan Prefecture in the middle!
Li Zhen knew that if he wanted to remove the thorn in the Jinan Prefecture, he couldn't use those refugees who could only fight with the wind, so he sent out his best troops and thought of completing his work in one battle!
However, what Li Zhen, who has always been proud of, did not expect was that Jinan Mansion turned out to be such a tough guy!
Even when his own elites, whom he was so proud of, came forward, they couldn't even get the slightest advantage!
"Who is the guard of Jinan Mansion! Where are all our internal agents? Where did Li Wenli die?"
After a while, Ming Jin's voice came over to withdraw his troops. Looking at the soldiers retreating like a tide, Li Zhen looked at his counselor with a ferocious expression.
