The Fuxing Army in Jiangzhou was escorting the prisoners and queuing up in a long line to register basic information.
Five hundred miles away in Yuezhou to the west, a change is brewing.
There are eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake. Song Yang doesn’t know if there were eight hundred miles in the era before Song Yang traveled there.
But now most of them do.
The water level of Dongting Lake in this era is at least twice that of that time!
It is west of Baling, east of Wuling, south of Huarong, and north of Xiangyin.
This large area is within the scope of Dongting Lake.
Although Yunmeng Daze has begun to shrink, it still retains a large area of water.
Five miles away from the south gate of Baling City, on the east bank of Dongting Lake.
On a awning boat, there were two men and women standing on the bow.
The man has a talented appearance and looks about 23 or 24 years old.
A woman's heroic appearance only lasts for twenty years.
Judging from their looks alone, these two people are very similar.
"Second brother, when are we going to do it?"
"tonight!"
They only exchanged one sentence, and the brother and sister didn't say much.
Grief, anger, and strong murderous intent can be seen in their eyes.
These two are brother and sister.
The man's name is Liu Jinpeng, the second oldest in his family.
The woman’s name is Liu Manqing and she has two brothers.
Their father was former Shaozhou garrison Liu An, who was dismissed from his post three years ago for committing crimes and was unemployed at home.
After Liu An resigned from office, he returned to his hometown in Yuezhou to live.
The Liu family is a large family in Yuezhou, with nearly a thousand people in the clan. Liu An's lineage is the direct descendant of the Liu family.
Liu An's father is the clan leader.
Liu's father died of illness last year, and Liu An became the patriarch of the Liu family.
When the natural disaster struck, the Liu family was also devastated. Fortunately, the Liu family's granary was saved, and there was some hope for their future livelihood.
Liu An has two sons and one daughter, who have practiced martial arts with him since childhood.
The eldest son was the best in martial arts, but the worst in luck. On the day of the natural disaster, this boy happened to drink too much.
As a result, the eldest son of the family of four did not escape.
The remaining Liu An, his second son and three daughters were able to support the Liu clan in less than a month after the disaster.
There were finally 300 people left in the Liu family, who were organized by Liu An and devoted to disaster relief and life-saving work.
Last month, Miao Ji, the prefect of Yuezhou, found Liu An, hoping to borrow grain from the Liu family to settle the people.
As a squire clan, the Liu family must be given face by the prefect.
Miao Ji spoke, and Liu An asked someone to give Miao Ji five hundred shi of grain.
As a result, Miao Ji found that the Liu family's granary was well preserved, so he came to borrow grain from time to time.
In order to rebuild the state capital, the Liu family was not stingy.
We can always provide some relief to the victims.
But in early August, Miao Ji received news from Jiangbei that Kyoto had been destroyed and the Great Qian Dynasty was dead.
At that moment, Miao Ji revealed his true nature.
He began to oppress the people, regardless of their life or death.
First, he hid all the grain in the government office, and then organized the people and the remaining guards to take care of the grain.
The people couldn't even drink the porridge they needed to survive.
Liu An, as the representative of the squire, discussed this matter with Miao Ji.
But instead of restraining, Miao Ji asked Liu An to borrow food.
Liu An discovered that Miao Ji selected strong men among the refugees and took them into his hands, while the old, weak, women and children were discarded like worn-out shoes.
This is tantamount to using the Liao family's food to cultivate his own power.
If Miao Ji Anmin saves the world, Liu An and other gentry families may still give their full support. After all, population is also the key to the gentry's revival.
But Miao Ji's actions made his ambitions clear.
The squires gathered together and decided not to talk to Miao Ji anymore.
Now that the situation is unclear, it is impossible for the squires to risk their heads and follow Miao Ji in rebellion.
Besides, Miao Ji is not a good person. Even if such a person conquers the world, he is still a greedy master.
Miao Ji didn't show any anger on the surface when his request for borrowing food was rejected.
He also let the squires leave.
As a result, Miao Ji's troops attacked Liu's manor that night.
Liu An fought fiercely with Miao Ji's men, but was eventually outnumbered and died on the spot.
Three hundred members of the Liu family were also killed, and only twenty of them escaped and survived.
His son and daughter happened to be not at home that day. They went to the old house in the country to stock up on supplies.
That afternoon, Liu Anxin was restless, worried that Miao Ji was worried about his family's food.
So he asked his son Liu Jinpeng and daughter Liu Manqing to rush to the old house in the countryside to hide them overnight with five thousand shi of grain and some supplies.
As a result, he escaped a disaster.
The next day, the brother and sister were devastated when they learned the bad news and vowed to avenge their father Liu An.
So they used the food and grass stored in the old house to recruit 200 strong refugees.
After training for more than half a month, today I plan to sneak into Baling, the capital city, to kill Miao Ji for revenge.
The brother and sister have already dispersed two hundred dead soldiers into the city, and the situation in Miao Ji's house has been basically figured out.
I just want to take Miao Ji's head after dark today.
"Second brother, things in the military camp have been arranged."
A young man of fifteen or sixteen years old came to the shore. He was Liu Mo, a branch of the Liu family.
He was one of the tribesmen who followed the brothers and sisters to deliver food to the countryside that day.
Miao Ji has thousands of troops under his command, so fighting head-on is definitely not an option.
So Liu Jinpeng arranged for people to cause trouble in Miao Ji's military camp to attract attention.
He and his sister Liu Manqing and some of their elites went to assassinate Miao Ji.
The Liu family is a family of military commanders, and both brother and sister Liu Jinpeng have been practicing martial arts since childhood. Of course, they have to take matters into their own hands when it comes to revenge.
"Xiao Mo, take the people to the military camp and wait. Light the fire according to the agreed time. Don't fight with them. After setting the fire, go to the granary to put food in!" Liu Jinpeng ordered.
Tonight, not only will Miao Ji be killed, but the grain he took from the Liu family will be given to the people.
The Liu family's killing of officials today is an act of rebellion.
Regardless of whether Daqian is present or not, as long as we take action, the path of rebellion will continue.
When the brothers and sisters killed Miao Ji, they also gained the support of the people.
When Miao Ji's remnants of thousands of troops are leaderless, there is a high probability that they will surrender.
The Liu family is a wealthy local family in Yuezhou and has a certain reputation.
As long as there was no pressure from Miao Ji, those thousands of soldiers were just sturdier Yuezhou people.
After things were arranged, the brother and sister waited for the sunset on the boat.
The water of Dongting Lake is vast, but the scenery is not very beautiful.
A floating corpse wearing a goose-yellow dress is slowly floating on the lake to the west.
After natural disasters, corpses often float in the water.
In the first few days, Miao Ji pretended to let people salvage the floating corpses, but now he doesn't care at all.
The brother and sister looked at the floating corpses floating on the lake and sighed.
In troubled times, human lives are like straw.
Only by working hard to change the status quo can people survive.
"Huh? No! That man is still alive!"
Just as he was about to look away, Liu Manqing suddenly raised his eyebrows and looked carefully, and found that the "floating corpse" seemed to be moving a little.
If you look carefully, it's a woman.
He was floating on the water with his back facing the sky, and his arms were indeed sliding slightly, as if he was swimming.
But there was an undercurrent in front of her, and the floating figure couldn't get close to the shore.
"Plop!"
Liu Manqing was eager to save the man. When he found out that the man was alive, he jumped into the water and swam toward him.
"Plop!"
"Manqing, be careful!" Liu Jinpeng also jumped down.