Chapter 784 The autumn wind is bleak and the flood surges up (1)
In Hejian Mansion, the first news that came was the increase in exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes.
Ever since the Jurchens came and the Wu Dynasty was forced to move south, the Central Plains has never had a good life. According to the old people and witches and fortune-tellers, the officials of the Wu Dynasty lost their luck and their fortunes were also poor.
Sometimes there are floods and sometimes droughts. Last year, there was also a huge locust plague that ravaged the Central Plains. People who had lost their way of survival turned into "hungry ghosts" and headed south. On the banks of the Yellow River, there were countless homeless wandering souls.
The hungry ghosts watched as they crossed the Yellow River. This year, the north of the Yellow River ushered in a rare and peaceful year. There were no natural disasters coming in turns, and there were no more refugees sweeping through the fields. The wheat in the fields grew taller.
, and then came the heavy harvest. In Yanzi Village, Wang Laoshi was about to grit his teeth and marry his son a wife, when the officials from the government came to visit.
The taxes and corvee that have been suppressed this year have increased significantly. In the hesitant tone of the officials, it seems that 60% of this year's income will be taken away. The wheat yield of less than two dan per mu is more than one dan. What will happen next?
There is no way to live through the day.
Wang Laoshi was usually a gentle man, but this time he couldn't help but say harsh words to the officials in the yamen: "You are also human beings, and you are also raised by your parents. You want to bring down the people in the village."
Forced to death."
After the gentleman left in embarrassment, Wang Laoshi lost his strength and sat sullenly in the yard, staring blankly at the three earthen huts at home. Life is really miserable and boring. After thinking about it, it is still martial arts.
It's better when Chao is around.
Not long after, the son came back and learned about the tax. He blushed and was speechless. The son was also an honest young man who couldn't beat him with three sticks. He was already twenty-three this year and had not married yet.
It’s not that there are no women around, but it was too hard in the early years, and I didn’t dare to marry and couldn’t support myself. If the government taxes are suppressed, I will have to eat rice bran again this year, let alone raise another woman.
In the dull autumn night, the same heavy worries were weighing on the hearts of many people. The next day, a meeting was held in the village ancestral hall - life could not go on like this, and we had to tell the masters above us about the hardships below and ask them to be kind.
, giving everyone a way to survive, after all: "Even when the Jurchens came, they were not so extreme."
The clan invited old squire Su, and in order to smoothen the relationship, everyone scrounged up some money and food through subsidies. Wang Laoshi and his son were chosen as porters, and they picked wheat, bacon and other things and followed the clan elders into the city.
, not long after, they got in touch with several neighboring villages, and everyone sent representatives to submit their complaints to the superiors one by one.
Seeing that the number of people increased, Wang Laoshi and others began to feel excited. The officials also let them go along the way. Soon after, they arrived at Hejian Mansion. The prefect Wang Manguang came forward to appease everyone. The two sides negotiated for several times.
This time, it was not successful. When the people below mentioned the cunningness of the dog officer, they began to scold him, and then a jingle scolding the dog officer was spread in the city.
Two days later, a large number of soldiers suddenly poured into the city and martial law was tightened. Wang Laoshi and others were frightened, thinking that everyone's rebellion against the government had become a big deal, but unexpectedly the officers and soldiers were not arresting them.
, but went directly to the prefect's Yamen, and it is said that the dog official Wang Manguang was imprisoned.
Things developed rapidly after that. Within two days, mourning was everywhere inside and outside the city, and high-ranking officials in the government were imprisoned one after another. In just two days, a huge Xingtai was erected at the Caishikou of Hejian Prefecture.
On this day, Wang Laoshi and others received the news and ran to Caishikou to watch the beheadings. Those who were killed were the heads of dog officials, government officials and officials.
These officials who were originally domineering were escorted one by one. Wang Manguang was very fat and looked like he was full of fat. At this time, he was tied up and his mouth was gagged with a cloth. He was in a miserable state. Such dog officials
, he really deserved to be killed, so people picked up things on the ground and hit him. Soon after, he was the first to be pinned down in front of Xingtai. The Jurchen official who came down announced that he had neglected his duties.
Most people didn't understand the charges and just cheered. Wang Manguang was beheaded and he was kneeling there with blood on his forehead. When he was about to behead his head at the end, the executioner took the strip of cloth from his mouth. This chubby corrupt official
He glanced at the crowd in front and said one last sentence. To be so fat in this era, Wang Manguang was not a good official, and could even be said to be full of misdeeds, but because of these words, he was recorded in later history.
"Run away quickly...folks..." the dog officer said with a bloody head.
After a while, the executioner's knife fell.
On this day, amidst people's rejoicing, almost one-third of the original Yamen management of Hejian Mansion were killed, with heads rolling in and blood flowing like rivers. "Marshal" Wan Yanchang from the North presided over this event
Field justice.
The Jurchen marshal came, and the wary elders were no longer qualified to meet him, so everyone returned to the village. Three days after Wang Manguang was killed, the new Yamen and the lower police team had resumed operations. This time, they came to
The two guards who arrived at Wang Laoshi's house had completely different attitudes from last time.
This time they are here to save their lives.
After some notice, more taxes were suppressed. Wang Laoshi was stunned, and then he cursed like last time, and then he was hit on the head with a stick. When his head was broken and bleeding, he heard
The guard scolded: "If you don't listen, everyone will be killed!"
On this day, people around Hejian Mansion began to recall Wang Manguang's words before he was beheaded.
However, it was too late to escape.
The police officers and soldiers near Hejian have already begun to take action and blocked all road traffic. The same thing is currently spreading on Hebei, Jingdong and other roads ruled by Pingdong General Li Xizhi. On Hebei Road, the Jurchens passing by knock on the pass.
Three hundred thousand troops marched southward, and the vanguard force led by Wanyan Zongbi had crossed Zhending.
In the small Yanzi Village, Wang Laoshi and others still don't understand what is going to happen next. But on the world stage, the southern expedition of 300,000 troops means a war with the purpose of destroying and conquering the Wu Dynasty.
, the trumpet had been blown completely, and there was no room left. A fierce battle started in the front soon.
On July 24th, a "pack of wolves" raided Daming Mansion!
After the Wu Dynasty moved south, the power of the Wu Dynasty, headed by Wang Shanyue and the Dulonggang Hu family, who had been operating in the Jingdong East Road and Liangshan area for several years, finally showed its long-repressed fangs.
Since Liu Yu established the Daqi force with the support of the Kingdom of Jin, Jingdong Road was originally the core of this force. However, Jingdong East Road - which is also the area of Liangshan, Shandong in later generations, is still a blind spot under the jurisdiction of this force. At this time, Liangshan
It is still a water park covering hundreds of miles, and it is also connected to many nearby places such as Dulonggang, Zengtou City, etc. The area is remote and bandits are everywhere.
Where the Wu Dynasty was difficult to control, the Puppet Qi was equally difficult to control. When Liu Yu's court was infiltrated by the Black Flag Army, the emperor was beaten behind the palace, and Liu Yu moved south, this area was conveniently owned by Li Xizhi and the Qi Dynasty led by the great scholar Qi Yan behind him.
Li Xizhi failed to suppress the bandits many times. Later, he spent a lot of effort to pacify Dulonggang and made a hasty exchange. But behind the scenes, Wang Shanyue and others were still able to continue to connect and expand their influence in the name of "Wu Dynasty orthodoxy"
.In the past few years, the actual rule of the entire Liangshan area has been completed.
The nearby mountain bandits came to seek help, and the righteous people gathered together. Even some of the righteous people under Li Xizhi's command either contacted Wang Shanyue on their own initiative, or contacted Wang Shanyue in private, and they all completed the negotiations with Wang Shanyue in private.
This time, as the order was issued, Li Xizhi and his group truly performed what is called "penetration into a sieve" near Daming Mansion. On the 24th, Liangshan's 30,000 troops suddenly appeared under Daming Mansion, and they attacked outside the city and there was chaos inside the city.
, in less than half a day, the 50,000 troops guarding Daming Mansion were completely defeated. Wang Shanyue, Hu Sanniang and his wife, who led the team, completed the change of hands and takeover of Daming Mansion.
This is almost the explosion of all the heritage left here in the Wu Dynasty, and it is also where Wang Shanyue, who once followed Ning Yi, learned the most about the Black Flag Army. This time, there is no gun-to-gun, gun-to-gun battle on the table.
Any room for maneuver.
Daming Mansion was one of the relay places for the Jurchens' food and grass march south. As the food collection began over time, the amount of food and grass that came here was even more astonishing. The Wu Dynasty people's first attack was a sudden blow to the Jurchen army.
Seven inches up. As the news spread, the more than 100,000 troops that Li Xizhi had gathered, together with the more than 10,000 Jurchen troops who originally guarded Jingdong, joined forces to swoop in this direction.
The war suddenly spread with this first attack. The road leading to the north of Shuibo was already a mess and desolate. Occasionally, empty ruins and villages could be seen. A carriage team was walking along this road.
The road goes north.
At this moment, the caravans that can walk on this kind of road are not ordinary people. Although there are few people in this team, you can still see the agility of each man. The carriage in front is bumpy, and occasionally there are
The woman's voice came out, it was a gentle humming sound, sometimes it was "Lan Zhi Yi Yi" from "Yi Lan Cao", sometimes it was "Zi Zhi Yu Gui" from "Tao Yao", and occasionally "Li Sao", "
"Shuo Mouse", the song has no accompaniment, but it makes people feel relaxed and happy.
But the disorderly singing also revealed that the singer was not in a calm state of mind.
Lu Junyi was in front of the carriage and glanced back.
"Miss Shishi, things are not going well ahead. You really should be obedient and go south."
The woman in the car is Li Shishi. She is dressed in coarse cloth. She is humming and mending the tattered clothes in her hands. The most popular woman in Fanlou naturally does not need to be too many female celebrities. But over the years, she
As I get older, I am bumpy and bumpy, and now there is no hindrance to sewing and mending on the swaying car.
"In today's world, there is no peaceful place anyway."
"You can always stay if you go south. With our people, the hungry ghosts can't catch you."
"I'm going southwest, will he see me?"
"Ning is not a coward."
"But I don't want to see him anymore."
Shishi lowered her head and smiled, biting off the thin thread in her hand. After a moment, she put down her things, leaned on the edge of the car window and looked out, the wind blowing her hair. She has been bumpy over the years, but she has not become old or weak.
Haggard, on the contrary, age has solidified on her face, and only time has turned into a free and easy temperament, dotted between her eyebrows.
Lu Junyi shook his head and sighed: "Xiao Yi went to do some business. I don't understand what you women are thinking. However, fighting is not a child's play. If you are ready, I have nothing to say."
"Yeah." The teacher in the car nodded, "I know, I've seen it before."
She looked down at her hands. That was more than ten years ago, when she was only in her early twenties. The Jurchens finally came and attacked Bianliang. At that time, she wanted to do something and helped clumsily. She recalled that she was defending the city.
That Xue Changgong, General Xue, thought of his lover, the sister He Leier in the Fanlou, who did not dare to go to help under the city wall because she was pregnant with his child. They later had no children, were they together?
All gone.
After more than ten years of changes, everything around her has been turned upside down. She and Ning Yi also became an "old lover" by accident. In fact, at many critical moments, she almost became his "lover".
But fate plays tricks on people, and in the end they become distant and alienated.
She once had a crush on him, then she admired him, and then she became unable to understand him. Now she understands part of him, but there are still many things that she cannot understand. The world has turned upside down, and the budding feelings have long since become unimportant.
In the years after she learned about his "death", she came out of Dali and wandered all the way. Looking back on last year, they might have almost met in Zezhou, but he didn't want to see her, and she didn't want to see him much after that. Maybe one day
, she understands everything, and then goes to see him.
"I'm sorry, Ning Liheng, I wrongly blamed you." She hoped that one day, she would be able to say such a sentence to him, and then confess a trivial relationship. However, she is not qualified yet.
There are still too many things she doesn't understand.
But there are some things that she can understand now.
As the Jurchens went south again, Wang Shanyue's attack on the Jurchens finally started, and the team that had been accompanying her back and forth from south to north finally began to have its own affairs. A few days ago, Yan
Some of the people led by Qing had already left the team and headed north to perform a mission that belonged to him. Lu Junyi, after failing to persuade her to go south, led the team towards Shuibo.
"It's time to meet some old friends." Lu Junyi said.
"...When I was still young, I practiced spear and dance stick, and had a rough knowledge of military strategy. I thought that my martial arts skills were unparalleled, but no one appreciated them. Later, I didn't expect to go to Liangshan, and the man named Ning destroyed Liangshan. I joined the army, and then
Then I tied my hands and feet, only to realize that I was not a talented general. I have walked around and looked at it over the years, and now I know that there is no room for hesitation."
The young master of the Wang family who once worked under Ning Yi has activated his power, and the black flag forces that were waiting in Shandong are finally no longer silent. More than ten years have passed since the first prime minister Qin Siyuan led his troops to defend the city, and the bloody battle at Xia Village in Wurui camp has passed.
It has been several years since the bloody battle at Xiaocang River. When the Jurchens came south again, it was still the force of this group that was the first to stand in front of this angry tide.
Thinking about this matter and recalling the twists and turns of the past ten years or so, Shishi felt sad and uncontrollable, but a surge of pride and ambition was inevitable.
Soon after, she saw the black flag army gathered at the destination. They were led by "City Burning Gun" Zhu Biao, "Big Sword" Guan Sheng, "Thunderbolt Fire" Qin Ming, "Golden Gunner" Xu Ning, and Zhu Longzhu from the Zhu family.
Hu and other generals were already waiting here. Later, "Jade Unicorn" Lu Junyi returned to the team.
In this year's water pond, the long reeds have dried up, and the heroes gathered together, which brought more or less sighs to each other, but more importantly, it was the ambition and pride gathered in front of them. Compared with what we are going to experience now, what we once had is
Liangshanbo and Juyitang are just small dust in the memory, and Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others are just clowns remaining in the past.
The autumn wind is bleak and the waves are rising.