Zhang Fei's family is not powerful, but businessmen.
Haoqiang refers to the power of local clans. At least one official with 600 kilograms of gold in the family must be a powerful person.
In fact, Liu Bei was not a straw sandal seller. The idea of weaving mats and selling shoes meant that he was engaged in commercial activities, which devalued his status.
Therefore, although Zhang Fei's family is rich, in essence, he still belongs to the common people, and Taoyuan is his ancestral property.
In March, peach blossoms are in full bloom.
The servants of the Zhang family laid out the sacred table, incense and candlesticks.
Later, when people became sworn brothers, the statue of Guan Gong was usually placed at the place of the god.
It is naturally impossible for this kind of thing to happen now.
They set up heaven and earth.
The gods that people believed in at that time were not the Jade Emperor and Tathagata Buddha that would be familiar to later generations, but the Haotian God.
This Haotian God refers to the God above our head.
The Yellow Turban Army revolted in the name of Heaven is dead and Huang Tian should stand.
The sky is Haotian.
The sacred table was placed, and the four people sacrificed grains and livestock, raised four glasses of wine, kowtowed, and offered sacrifices to God.
"I am Liu Bei."
"Guan Yu."
"Zhang Fei."
"Chen Mu."
"Today we become brothers with different surnames. From now on, our lives will be intertwined, we will live and die together, and we will never leave each other. We do not wish to be born in the same year and on the same day, but we wish to die in the same year, the same month and the same day. If you violate this oath, you will be killed by both heaven and man."
The four of them poured the wine glasses in their hands on the ground, knelt in front of the divine table and kowtowed three times. After Liu Bei got up, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Chen Mu kowtowed to Liu Bei again.
"Second brother, third brother and fourth brother!"
"Brother!"
"Let's take action today to create a cause together."
Liu Bei helped the three of them up and held their hands tightly together.
Zhang Fei laughed loudly and said: "That's right. Yesterday I contacted the buyer and sold the ancestral property. We will use it to recruit and train soldiers."
Chen Mu said: "Then I will plan the march route, try to avoid the Yellow Turban Army, and look for the main force of the imperial court to defect to."
Guan Yu's face turned red. His three brothers and four brothers were all busy, but he seemed to have nothing to do. He held it in for a while and then said, "I'll go to the city gate to post a list."
Liu Bei was elated: "Okay, okay, but it's not enough to have soldiers, you also need horses. I know two horse dealers, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, and we had friends in the early years. I will set out to buy horses from them today."
Brothers three and four, you are waiting for my good news."
At noon, Liu Bei hurriedly rode to Zhongshan Kingdom to find Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping. Zhongshan Kingdom is equivalent to a county. Puyin County where Chen Mu is located is in Zhongshan Kingdom. Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping are famous horse dealers here, and they have something to do with Liu Bei.
intersection.
The four people had a clear division of labor. Zhang Fei contacted buyers to sell his property to use as military expenses. Guan Yu wrote a notice and began to recruit soldiers at the gate of the city. Chen Mu studied other marching routes they wanted to take.
There were maps in this era, and their names were maps. For example, when Jing Ke assassinated Qin, he used the excuse of presenting maps of various parts of the Yan Kingdom to get close to Qin Shihuang.
However, local maps are either in the hands of local powerful people or in the hands of the government, and the information is not detailed. Only official roads and some iconic scenery are marked, and the details can only be inspected on the spot. Chen Mu went to the tavern and restaurant.
Visit places where more outsiders come to inquire about information and understand the current situation.
Zhuo County is located at the junction of Youzhou and Jizhou, which is later known as Baoding Zhuozhou. Julu has not even changed its name. It is under the jurisdiction of Xingtai City. The distance between the two is only about 300 kilometers. Last month, the Yellow Turban uprising in Julu occupied most of the county.
Since Jizhou, the news naturally spread to Youzhou easily.
The next morning, Liu Bei came back, beaming with joy, and brought two pieces of news. First, he asked someone when he went to Zhongshan Kingdom. Lu Zhi was indeed the general who sent troops this time. He was currently in the Dangyin area and was about to leave.
Yecheng, fighting against the main force of the Yellow Turbans.
Second, when Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping heard that he was going to do something big, they actually decided to support Liu Bei and gave him 50 horses, 100,000 yuan, and a thousand kilograms of fine iron. This kind of iron has another name -
—Treaded steel.
Liu Bei made a lot of friends and had friends everywhere in Zhongshan and Fanyang counties. Originally, he planned to ask the two horse dealers to bring their horses to Zhuoxian to give them money, but now he just went to prostitutes for free. Of course he was very happy.
A few days later, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu recruited 500 strong soldiers, and at the same time, 1,000 kilograms of iron were used to build three magical weapons.
Male and female double swords, Qinglong Yanyue Sword, Zhangba Snake Spear.
Originally, Zhang Fei was clamoring to buy Chen Mu a sword, which was more than enough iron, but Chen Mu had obviously positioned himself as a dog-headed strategist. For a modern man who couldn't even kill a chicken, he was making suggestions from behind.
It would be fine to engage in some despicable conspiracy, but it would be impossible for him to kill the enemy on the battlefield, so I tried my best to refuse.
In late March, Liu Bei led his Xiangyong Army and set off. According to the route planned by Chen Mu, they decided to avoid the main force of the Yellow Turban Army and did not choose to go south directly to Julu. Instead, they went west to Zhongshan Kingdom and passed through Changshan Mountain.
From the northern area of the county, go to Zhao State and Guangping County.
Changshan County was later known as Shijiazhuang. The southeast was the North China Plain, with open terrain and smooth official roads. The northwest was in the middle section of the Taihang Mountains, with many high mountains and ridges, making the roads very difficult to walk.
It can be seen from the map at this time that among the eight counties in Changshan County, there are none in the northwest, and almost all are distributed in the southeast. There are no people along the way. The villages may be dozens of kilometers apart, and sometimes even the roads have to be cut through thorns and thorns.
Only then can you come out.
But there are advantages to going this way, that is, the prosperous areas of Changshan County are close to Julu County in the southeast. Julu is the hometown of the Yellow Turban Army, and its power radiates to Changshan. Therefore, if you go from the uninhabited Taihang Mountains in Changshan County to Zhao State, go south to Guangping County
Joining forces with Lu Zhi, you won't encounter large numbers of Yellow Turban troops along the way.
At present, Zhang Jiao has more than 200,000 main troops of the Yellow Turban Army. Not to mention that the 500 people under Liu Guanzhang are also farmers who have just taken up arms, and there is no difference in combat power compared with the Yellow Turban Army. Speaking of Liu Guanzhang, no matter how brave he is,
It is impossible to really fight one against ten thousand, that would be too exaggerated.
Therefore, when the marching route is convenient, we have to avoid the real situation and avoid the weak, and go to places that are relatively infrequent.
However, although the large Yellow Turban Army was cleverly avoided by the march route studied by Chen Mu, after arriving in Zhao State, small groups of Yellow Turban Army began to increase in number. This made Zhang Fei extremely excited. It had been more than ten days since the expedition, and his spear
I have already become hungry and thirsty.
It was at this time that Chen Mu saw the famous Yellow Turban Army for the first time.
At that time, these people were plundering a village. There were about several hundred people, most of them were young and strong, with yellow cloth strips tied on their foreheads. Most of the weapons in their hands were farm tools, and only a few of them were equipped with knives. One of them looked like a small leader.
The man also had a skinny yellow horse, holding a big sword and riding the horse to kill wantonly in the village.
There were not many young people in this village, so it was difficult to organize an effective resistance force. The old, weak, women and children fled in panic. Dozens of courageous men picked up weapons to resist and protect their families, but were hoed by the Yellow Turban Army who were several times their size.
He was beaten to death with wooden sticks and other farm tools.
An old man took his grandson and fled to the north on the central road of the village. There was a small forest there. If you ran into it, you would not die. The little boss chased him on horseback and chopped him with a knife. Before he died, he was still urging his grandson to run.
The women barely managed to survive, but most of them were caught, and some excitedly started tearing off their clothes on the spot.
There were cries, screams, insults, and laughter.
Seeing this scene, Liu Bei took the lead without hesitation and led his troops towards the village.
There was someone protecting Chen Mu, so he didn't look over his shoulder and tried not to see this human tragedy.
Essentially, this is an incident where a group of farmers were bullied by another group of farmers, and then a group of farmers came to help.
But the cruelty and bloody nature of the incident cannot be summed up in a simple sentence.
There are only a few words about the Yellow Turban Rebellion in history books, and more words focus on this group of heroes in troubled times with bright stars and turbulent clouds.
No matter in modern times or in the past, people always only pay attention to those heroes who have made great achievements.
Who cares about the demise and rise and fall of these humble individual lives?
It's just that no matter whether it rises or falls, the people suffer.