Chapter 35 The simple and honest folk customs of Puyin County
In the ancestral hall, everyone stopped eating and drinking, and looked sideways at the soldiers outside the hall.
Kick the door of Chen family ancestral hall?
This is almost stepping on the heads of the ancestors of the Chen family!
Everyone's eyes became fierce, the atmosphere became depressing, and everyone glared angrily.
No one should be afraid because they are soldiers.
Many people look at the disputes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when any of the Three Kingdoms stood up and defeated the ethnic minorities, and the ethnic groups were exterminated, so they thought that the Han people were brave and that the Jin Dynasty had abandoned the soul of the Han people.
In fact, it is not that the Han people are naturally brave, but that in the Han Dynasty, all the people were truly soldiers. Every adult man had to perform military service for a period of two years and go to the border to fight.
Except for a few wealthy families who can pay people to serve in the military, ordinary people have to serve as soldiers and go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service.
Therefore, every one of the hundreds of people here is a soldier, and they are full of evil spirits. They have never been afraid.
You must know that those who are sitting here now are the descendants of Chen Ping from all the eight townships in Puyin County, not just Chenjia Village. All the Chen clan members are gathered here, five to six hundred young and strong people, which is a very powerful force.
Chen Mu put down his bowls and chopsticks with a cold face, stood up and walked out of the crowd, asking in a deep voice: "I wonder what you soldiers want the stewards to do to stand up?"
Liu Guanzhang put on his weapon and stood beside him.
The leader pointed his sword at Chen Mu and shouted: "Are you the one in charge? Let those of you who beat gongs and drums come over. I will have to give you thirty lashes with a whip to relieve the hatred in my heart."
Chen Mu's eyes became more and more fierce as he said, "Who do you call me?"
Everyone in the Chen family put down their bowls and chopsticks, stood up and gathered behind Chen Mu. Even the respected old man did not try to persuade him this time.
Lao Tzu's curse words are not modern words. They are found in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty·Yi Min Biography·Han Kang", which means I am your father, in order to humiliate the other party.
Standing in someone else's ancestral hall and cursing yourself for being someone else's father, you are cursing a whole clan. This is a great grudge.
When the soldiers saw the crowd gathering, they stared at each other with eager eyes and drew their weapons one after another. The two sides were at war with each other, and all they needed was a fuse.
No one was the trigger, Zhang Fei came!
After a while, Zhang Fei yelled: "Kill these beasts!"
The two swords Qinglong Dao and eight steel spears shot out at the same time. The Chen family did not place any weapons in the ancestral hall, but they were not afraid either. They took whatever they had and grabbed things like desk desks or brooms.
Liu, Guan, and Zhang were as fierce as tigers. As soon as the two sides exchanged swords, they stabbed the two leading soldiers to death, and most of the rest of the soldiers' anger disappeared immediately.
There is actually no difference between fighting in the countryside and fighting on the battlefield. They both rely on courage.
These soldiers were all low-level soldiers who were suddenly transferred from above. The generals would not tell them the purpose of stationing here or the identities of the people they wanted to monitor. Everyone thought they were facing a group of ordinary villagers.
The grievances I had built up over the past few days were completely erupted this morning by the villagers' noisy gongs, so I came here to offend.
As a result, when they saw that the other party was not a good person, they all abandoned their helmets and fled for their lives.
The officer leading these five hundred people is Zhang Chun's close confidant Sima Zhang Dan, but Zhang Dan is not in the military camp at this time. He is now in Puyin County.
During the New Year, Zhang Dan was transferred here and stationed in a shabby village. Zhang Dan also felt unhappy, so he simply arranged for some village commanders and five commanders to lead the team and go to the city with the two music commanders to have fun.
It is precisely because of the information asymmetry in the army that ordinary soldiers have no idea what kind of people there are in Chenjiacun, which led to this avoidable conflict.
When Zhang Dan learned that there was a conflict between the two parties, he was so frightened that he pushed away the prostitute on the bed and crawled out of the bed. His legs were trembling and he led the two music directors back on horseback.
Anshun Township is only a few miles away from Puyin County. After a few minutes of galloping, the two sides were seen confronting each other at the entrance of the village.
There are more than a thousand people in Chenjia Village, and they are also gathering village warriors from other villages in Anshun Township. The friendship between fellow villagers and fellow villagers was quite strong in the Han Dynasty.
In addition, Liu Bei had just divided up 20,000 to 30,000 acres of land from the Zhang family to the villagers a few days ago. Their prestige was high, and the number of people was increasing, and they were all armed. Although the formation was scattered, their momentum was like a rainbow.
In fact, the most important thing is that people in Puyin County have benefited.
Many people think how rich can a powerful person in a place be?
How can it be possible to have tens of millions of assets when it’s a million dollars?
This is to underestimate the power of the Han Dynasty.
"Book of Han·Biography of Kuang Heng" records that after Kuang Heng, the man who chiseled the wall and stole the light, became the prime minister, he was named Marquis of Le'an and was rewarded with 310,000 acres of land, and this was not land owned by a county.
Kuang Heng later secretly continued to expand his fiefdom and stole another 40,000 acres of land in Le'an County.
It is normal for a larger county to have millions of acres of cultivated land and a smaller county to have hundreds of thousands of acres.
It is not uncommon for a county to be powerful enough to occupy tens of thousands of acres of farmland.
For example, the "Fan's Farm" run by Fan Hong in Huyang has more than 300 hectares of land. In the Han Dynasty, one hectare was 50 acres, which is close to 20,000 acres of land.
The biography of Xun Yue in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty also records that today the wealthy people may occupy hundreds of thousands of hectares of land.
It can be said that it is almost the norm for the Eastern Han Dynasty court for local powerful people to have tens of thousands of acres of farmland. If you don't have ten thousand or twenty thousand acres of land, you will be embarrassed to call yourself a powerful person of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
This is also the fundamental reason why large-scale land annexation by powerful powerful forces in the late Han Dynasty led to frequent peasant uprisings.
According to the records of "Land Purchase Coupons for the Fan Li Family of the Han Dynasty" and "Land Purchase Coupons for the Mo Qing of the Han Dynasty", the price of an ordinary acre of land is more than 100 to 2,000 yuan, and if it is high-quality fertile land, the price is 3,000 to 10,000 yuan.
About five thousand dollars.
The price of 20,000 to 30,000 acres of land, even if it is only 1,000 yuan per mu, is an asset of 20 to 30 million yuan.
Liu Bei gave all these properties to the common people of Puyin County. Such a large-scale donation instantly won the hearts of the people of the county. In addition, he was already well-known. People from all over the country heard that Liu Bei was in trouble and took money one after another.
Come over with a pole and a hoe to help.
For a time, thousands of people gathered at the entrance of Chenjiacun, and there was a faint confrontation with the soldiers sent by Zhang Chun. Because the soldiers were afraid of the large number of people on the other side, there was no fighting yet.
But the villagers were very eager to fight, and they were holding poles, hoes, and hatchets, and they had a vague intention of taking action.
"stop!"
Zhang Dan came over on horseback and shouted loudly.
Seeing that someone from the enemy's side seemed to be in charge, Chen Mu comforted the villagers and signaled them not to be impulsive.
"Sima, they killed our brothers!"
Seeing Zhang Dan return, a village chief hurriedly went over to report the situation.
Liu Guan and Zhang charged forward, killing more than a dozen people, and with the help of the villagers, they had already suppressed a group of 500 troops.
Hearing that someone on his side had died, Zhang Dan's face instantly darkened, he turned over and dismounted, and said to Liu Bei who was not far away: "Liu Shijun, we are all Han soldiers, you kill people for no reason, are you trying to fight against evil?
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Liu Bei said coldly: "On the day of the Chen family's New Year's Day ceremony, your soldiers came in to cause trouble. This is a recipe for death. There is no one to blame."
Etiquette had already collapsed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Confucius believed that the city wall of Sanheng's family in Lu State was not in line with etiquette and was ready to demolish it. Qi State immediately sent troops to the border and waited for the city wall to be demolished before attacking Lu State. Confucius lamented the collapse of etiquette.
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Although it is not in line with the etiquette to come up to make trouble when worshiping ancestors at other people's homes, the big-headed soldiers don't know etiquette. They just feel that the noise makes them uncomfortable, so they come to make trouble. Who can they blame if they die?
The root cause of all this is because the soldiers under Zhang Chun often bully the countryside and are used to being domineering. How can they care about what a group of rural people think?
However, it was a dead person after all. Zhang Dan was afraid that he would not be able to deal with him, so he threatened with a bad expression: "Your Majesty, I know your identity, but it is a capital crime for a countryman to attack the imperial army. If you are fine, aren't you afraid that they will be fine?
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Before Liu Bei could speak, Old Master Chen stepped out from the crowd and scolded sternly in an old voice: "Shuzi, you have to first find out where this place is. I have lived here for more than eighty years, and I don't know any villagers from all over the country."
I usually ask them to live in harmony, and they may not listen to the peaceful countryside, but I ask them to kill people, you ask them if they are willing to go."
"Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!"
Thousands of villagers raised their weapons at the same time, with such majestic momentum that Zhang Dan's soldiers could not even hold their weapons steady.
Zhang Dan was furious and wanted to order an attack, but he was afraid of making the matter worse and did not dare to make a decision easily.
If you don't fight, you will be scared away by a group of villagers, and the regular army will be completely embarrassed by them.
Let's fight, it seems a bit difficult to beat.
Five hundred people fought against thousands of others, and I heard that Liu Guan and Zhang were as fierce as tigers, one against a hundred, and they were brave and good at fighting. Moreover, he did not dare to act rashly until the imperial court ordered him to do so.
For a while, I was in a dilemma, riding a tiger with a hard time getting off.
There was a stalemate for a moment, and at this moment, a large convoy of carriages and horses slowly came from the distance. The banner headed by it had the words "King Jizhou Governor" and "Zhongshan State Prime Minister" written on it.
Zhang Dan was overjoyed and shouted to Liu Bei: "Liu Xuande, the imperial edict has come down. It is a capital crime for you to attack the county town and kill the county magistrate. This time you will definitely be stripped of your rank and official position and taken to Luoyang for trial. After you leave, I will see you