Changzhi County, Yongan Township, Shanghe Village.
Five consecutive years of severe drought have long since caused this humble village to lose its former vitality.
Lack of water! Lack of water!
These villagers can hardly even muster the energy to speak.
In the past, the fields that these farmers cherished as their lives are now idle.
Despite these plowed fields, large areas were dry and cracked, and no villager took a second look at them.
As the most virtuous and respected elder in Shanghe Village, the old man felt pain in his heart when he looked at the abandoned fertile fields.
"Sixth Elder, please stop looking. The more you look at me, the more distressed I feel..."
A thin man, wearing a gray and black rag on the upper body and dirty pleated pants on the lower body, looked at the six old men squatting on the edge of the field and couldn't help but choke up and cry.
"Grandma's...those melon seeds are not up to par..."
The skinny man muttered, with muddy tears filling his eyes.
"Those melon seeds... they don't live up to expectations... they don't live up to their expectations..."
Listening to the skinny man's mumbling.
The sixth old man sighed: "I don't blame those melon boys for fighting for water... fighting for water and letting these boys go up, I am so embarrassed."
"It's just that... after all, fighting with weapons will kill people. Those lustful people are all vampires and greedy ghosts. We, the fourth-class Song Dynasty people, are just fish and meat. Let them cut and slaughter us!"
"The slightest excuse can rip off a layer of skin from our villagers... not to mention that it involves human lives..."
"They don't care at all whether someone died, they just have a reason to care, so they can scrap us..."
Liu Laomo groaned at the short staff in his hand and said: "I have lived for sixty-three years. I have lived long enough and have seen a lot of the dirty faces of these superior people. For the sake of that water, I will add a few more lives...
Not worth it, not worth it..."
The skinny man didn't know why at this time, he just said blankly: "Then you still..."
You know, the sacrificial pig during the water fight came from the Liu Lao family.
I didn't think much about it at the time, but now...
If you don't want to win at all, why bring out a pig? This is a whole pig!
In critical moments, it can save lives!
"Hey...why do you have to kill pigs, right?"
The six elders were still rubbing their wooden sticks, smiling innocently on their face full of ditches, which became increasingly difficult to distinguish.
"Up the river...down the river, there is no difference. They are all Song people and they all want to live."
"That little bit of water...isn't even more than my old man splashing urine. What are you arguing about?"
"Xiahe Village... won, but their current situation is better than ours?"
Liu Lao's tone dropped slightly: "Those kids are all six or seven years old, and I watched them grow up..."
"It's not like you don't know the current situation. Severe drought, famine, life is getting worse every day..."
"We... we have no hope at all. We can only survive one day at a time... We guys... we can't, we can't..."
As he said this, Liu Lao's energy and spirit also declined by most, making him look even older.
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At this time, the same scene also happened in Xiahe Village.
Qi Lao stretched out his palms that looked like old tree bark and looked at the plants and trees in Xiahe Village reluctantly.
Several skinny men licked the dryness from their lips and asked in a low voice: "Seventh Elder... Why do we have to put on such a play?"
Apparently they all knew that the six elders deliberately killed pigs and distributed them to the children in Shanghe and Xiahe villages.
"Why?"
Qi Lao muttered: "Humans...we are all the same. We are all raised by our father and our mother. No one of us jumped out of the cracks in the stone."
"The human heart...is made of flesh."
The seventh elder looked at the dim sky and murmured vaguely: "The sixth elder feels sorry for those kids. They are all one family, up and down the river. I can't write two 'squares' in one stroke."
"Lao Liu, if there is no reason, he can't kill that pig..."
"Even if it was born and raised in his family, it won't work... The government is watching. Those big men don't care whether it's ours or not."
"In their eyes, it's all theirs..."
The Great Wei is the Great Wei of the Tule people, not the Great Wei of our old Song people!
Of course, Qi Lao would never dare to say this.
Today's imperial court is the imperial court where the Turer people and their servants, the Semu people, the Khorar people, and the Ur people, exist as superior people.
All kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have so many names and so many names that they are really countless.
I wish I could poop or urinate, but I have to levy an extra penny in taxes, which simply doesn’t give the people a way to survive.
As the superior people, the Tule people lived in a state of intoxication every day, and they also had a system of land granting as their privilege.
You can arbitrarily deprive good people of their cultivated land and turn it into your own private property, and demote these farmers who have no cultivated land into their own serfs.
Such blatant robbery and unscrupulous plundering have continued for a hundred and twenty years since the founding of the Wei Dynasty.
Under such national conditions, even if it is the pigs belonging to the six hometowns, if you want to kill them for meat, you still need an upright 'reason'.
Because even your own belongings, including your own wife and children, do not entirely belong to you. Some of them belong to those Tule gentlemen.
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Shanghe Village, Lindong, inside a thatched house.
"..."
Wearing baggy trousers and bare skinny shoulders, the childish boy of 16 or 16 or 7 years old has a hint of maturity on his face that is incompatible with someone of his age.
Xun Shaoyu stared blankly at the empty thatched house, which was leaking from all directions, leaving him speechless.
I know...I know...there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world!
It took Xun Shaoyu a long time to recover, gnashing his teeth and roaring in his heart.
Looking at his thin arms, he really wanted to cry without tears.
A moment ago, Xun Shaoyu was still the young master of Lu State, well clothed and well-fed. Even though he was wary of survival, he still had enough food and clothing, sleeping with beautiful maids, and drinking fine wine.
However, the next moment, he became the youngest son of Fang Zizi's family in Shanghe Village. He was a village boy who played with his buttocks naked every day, riding horses and fighting.
Xun Shaoyu's heart was broken!
Without comparison, there would be no harm, which he believed deeply.
The feeling of being hungry is so uncomfortable...
In Xun Shaoyu's view, this was simply unimaginable.
After all, no matter in his past life or this life, he has never experienced the feeling of being hungry.
In his previous life, Xun Shaoyu may have had no power, no property, but in the 21st century with abundant materials, as long as he is diligent, even if he goes to the construction site to move bricks, he can earn one to two hundred RMB a day.
It is impossible to go hungry.
And in this life, he is the son of the king. Even though he is the least valued and least popular son, the king has never been stingy with the treatment he should be given.
Therefore, Xun Shaoyu, who awakened the secret disk in his womb, experienced the feeling of starvation for the first time in his previous life.
Looking around, his heart felt completely cold...
This is really a house with only four walls. The only real walls left in the house are four!
The entire home was empty, with only a pile of withered haystacks serving as beds for the family.
This is really, really cold...
Xun Shaoyu murmured for the last time.
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During the one hundred and twenty years since the founding of the Wei Dynasty, the people were filled with resentment and the country was shaken.
At that time, Ziweixing was dim, Seven Kills, Broken Army, Greedy Wolf, and came down to earth in response to destiny.
This three-star, with crape myrtle on top and all living things on the bottom, is a general star and a disaster star.
In response to the great Wei Dynasty, the state of Ji was about to perish.
Heaven sent down these three generals to overthrow the Wei Dynasty and establish a new dynasty.
It was the time of the Wei Dynasty, and Emperor Zhuang was in his eighteenth year.
April 28th.
Liu Yu, a native of Danzi County, Taixing Prefecture, Yangzhou.
In Danzi County, Huize Township raised troops to rebel against the Wei Dynasty. They claimed to be descendants of the former emperor of the late Song Dynasty, named "General Polu", and established a government.
There were three hundred private soldiers who destroyed the Danzi County government office. Responders gathered and destroyed the Taixing government.
He defeated the armies of several prefectures and marched across ten prefectures in Yangzhou.
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In the Great Wei Dynasty, Emperor Zhuang lived for eighteen years.
May 11th.
Chen Guang, a native of Dongze County, Huangshan Prefecture, Jingzhou.
On the banks of Panyang Lake, hundreds of watermen and trackers gathered, saying, "Vacuum hometown, pure land of bliss".
The magistrate of Dongze County sent 200 county soldiers to suppress the riots.
However, Chen Guang lived in the 25th village of Qixiang, Dongze, and had many believers, about tens of thousands.
Tens of thousands of believers defeated 200 county soldiers and elected Chen Guang as the "General Luo Tian Suppresses Demons".
He took tens of thousands of people, old and young, to break through the Dongze County government office. With hundreds of thousands of followers, he marched towards Huangshan Prefecture.
A few days later, when we went down to Huangshan Prefecture, the troops were directed towards the capital of Jingzhou, and the whole state was shocked.
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In the Great Wei Dynasty, Emperor Zhuang lived for eighteen years.
May 15th.
Liu Yuan, a native of Pingyuan County, Taiping Prefecture, Xuzhou.
In the east of Pingyuan County, he killed the county government officials, gathered green forest strongmen, and defeated Pingyuan County government.
He formally raised an army and called him the "Eleventh Grandson of King Duanyang of the Great Song Dynasty" and the "Recruiting Envoy of the Great Song Dynasty".
He trained three thousand strong soldiers, defeated several counties in a row, and attacked Taiping Prefecture.
As the sun rises, Taiping Mansion is destroyed and Xuzhou boils.
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War is raging and the world is in chaos...
There are thirteen states in the Wei Dynasty, except for the Gyeonggi area which was heavily suppressed by the Turer people.
The other twelve states are experiencing chaos to varying degrees.
Among them, Liu Yuan from Xuzhou, Chen Guang from Jingzhou, and Liu Yu from Yangzhou are the most famous and powerful, and are called the three greatest heroes in the world.
The three southern states were all the most blessed places in the world, but these three people turned them upside down and were almost out of Wei Ting's actual control.
Therefore, when the names of these three people spread throughout the thirteen states, Wei Ting had to pay more attention to them.
However, although these three people are heroes and famous, they are still not the ones Wei Ting hates the most.
The one that Wei Ting is really afraid of is the Qingzhou White Lotus Sect.
This sect is known as "Red flowers, green leaves and white lotus roots, the three sects are originally one family".
It welcomes hundreds of thousands of followers, including the elderly, the weak, women and children, and welcomes all who come.
Among them, there are all those who believe in Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, as well as lay masters and real people from the three religions.
When Sha, Po, Lang, and Sanxing came into the world, they were already known by the real people of the three sects who were investigating the secrets of heaven, and notified the White Lotus Sect.
Let the White Lotus Sect of Qingzhou exert all their efforts to capture Qingzhou in one fell swoop. In fact, they have already separatized the entire state.
Moreover, the White Lotus Sect, unlike Liu Yuan and Chen Guang, is just a country tycoon. Although it is quite powerful and powerful, its harm to Wei Ting is not very noticeable.
The White Lotus Sect has a truly profound foundation. It has been operating for more than a hundred years and has many masters. It is revered as the largest sect in the world.
The power of these forces was hundreds or thousands of times more harmful to the Wei Dynasty than those of Liu Yuan, Chen Guang, Liu Yu and others.
The foundation of the White Lotus Sect can be seen from the fact that once the army was launched, it quickly deployed hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers within ten days.
This kind of solid foundation really frightened everyone in the Wei Dynasty.