"People's hearts are not ancient, people's hearts are not ancient..."

Mr. Ma stood tremblingly on crutches and looked at the thirty or forty people in the village who couldn't even cover the birds with their tattered trousers when they went out. At this time, he put on the green and black military uniform made by Chushan, with a long knife on his waist and a hand in his hand.

He was practicing with spears and arrogantly on the expropriated grain drying field of his family. Feeling angry and resentful, he stood under the old locust tree and cursed repeatedly.

"A bunch of ungrateful guys, they didn't even think about who gave them food to survive when they were so hungry in the past, but now they don't acknowledge it after they are full, and they turn around to help outsiders bully the countryside, forgetting their origins one by one

To betray one’s ancestors is to forget one’s ancestors and betray one’s ancestors…”

"Mr. Ma, if your family lends you a bucket of grain, you will have to take back two or three buckets of grain in the next year. If you can't get the grain, you will force them to sell their land, sell their bodies, and work as cattle or horses in your house, and you still have the nerve to say that this is charity.

Ah? Our Majiazhuang three or four

Year, there are not many paddy fields left. Which one has not been merged into your family? Thanks to our seven or eight acres of thin paddy fields, we still have some harvests in the past few years. Otherwise, I will beg you, Mr. Ma, and you will not be able to harvest the skins.

How many layers should I peel off? Shihe!"

An old man squatted at the entrance of the village to watch the young people in the village practicing, twiddling his toes exposed from the straw sandals, and laughing with Mr. Ma with joy,

"The Recruiting Secretary Xingwen wants to reduce rents and loans for those who apply for recruitment in the four counties. Mr. Ma feels sorry for the renters, so he doesn't want to give charity? Is it because he feels sad that he will never have the opportunity to skin people again?"

"What's going on with this old man asking Si Xingwen to reduce rent and loans?"

Because the Nancai Recruitment Division wanted to dig a new river channel in Zhangshan to connect Jiangling, the blockade section of the Han River was also expanded from Zekou in the north of Hualing to Zhangshan in the east of Jingmen.

There are no large wharves or towns on the east bank of the Han River near Zhangshan. Many business travelers who take big boats down the Xiangjiang River from Nanyang and Xiangyang can only disembark near Zhangshan and then find small boats to cross the Han River to Jingling.

County and then continue boarding the trip.

At this time, a group of businessmen came to Majiazhuang to hire a ferry to cross the Xiangjiang River. They stood under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village to rest and watched the Zhuangzi people performing drills. A young man couldn't help but curiously bowed to the old man in straw sandals and asked about the invitation.

What's going on with the writing?

The old man in straw sandals saw that the young man was about thirty years old, with a fair face and a short mustache. He looked very impressive. He quickly stood up and returned the courtesy and said:

"The Nancai Recruitment Division, which is located in Zhangshan, recruits people from all villages to practice to guard against lake bandits - those who successfully apply will not only be given weapons, uniforms and pay, but also order the clan gentry of each village to

, as long as the land and money and food are rented to the people,

For small Zhuang families, the tenancy rent must not exceed 30%, and the annual interest on money and food must not exceed 20%. Repayments must be made two years back from the date of application, in order to reward the Zhuang people for their efforts in protecting the countryside. Mr. Ma

It's our village

The largest landowner, his family accounts for 60% of the 4,000 to 5,000 acres of land in Zhuangzi. Now there are more than 40 tenants in our village who have applied for the Minzhuang Army. From now on, Mr. Ma will no longer be able to collect money from these tenants.

High rent and high interest rate

, one or two thousand stones of grain will be withdrawn all of a sudden. No, Mr. Ma was so angry that he almost went to the west. His son Ma Daguan also rushed to Jiangxia to complain. I heard that a group of people were gathered to prepare.

I'm going to Jianye to file a complaint!"

"Isn't this a mess? The recruitment department has already exceeded the rules by setting up a patrol station privately. When did it have the right to intervene in private money and food matters? It's such a mess, what else do the state and county yamen do?" A colleague said

The middle-aged man listened to the straw-shoe old man talk about rent reduction and loan reduction, and whispered beside the young man, "

Does he really think he is the King of Jingxiang?" "..." The young man glanced at the middle-aged man and asked him not to talk too much. He cupped his hands at the old man in straw sandals and said, "This is within Jingmen County. Except for the families who go to Jiangxia to find

The Production and Construction Department complained, but there was no other action? The county didn’t respond at all?”

The old man in straw sandals was not completely ignorant. He looked at the group of people in front of him warily and said with a smile: "Yes, why not? The gentlemen in and outside the city have collected rents over the years, dressed in brocade and silk, and brought us

These poor old men are all cornered and have no way out, and there are rebels everywhere, how could they not take any action at all?"

The old man in straw sandals sneered a few words and walked towards the grain drying field.

Mr. Ma couldn't understand the background of the young man and his group. He was worried that they were recruiting spies sent by the Division, so he didn't dare to complain any more and limped away with a cane.

"Chushan set up a patrol department in the north of Jingguang, ordered the counties to pay for the patrol department to recruit people to train, and then turned around to support the people and reduce the tenant loans. It is really a good plan. Brothers of the Zhong family, think about it, these shabby households will be eliminated

After driving, you can enjoy low rent and low interest. Now every household

You can ask for more than ten, twenty dan or even more grains at once, and you are still not happy? A village has to dig out at least one or two thousand dans of grain to pay off its old tenants. There are thousands of villagers in the four counties of northern Jingbei, and they are not allowed to squeeze out.

One to two million shi of grain came out. Tenants had more grain in their hands.

, there is no shortage of them on the market, Chu Shan just happened to buy them at a low price, and pocketed them all. What a good plan! In addition to recruiting six to seven thousand people who have no brains to settle down and follow them blindly, Chushan bought the hearts of these untouchables, and also

If you can take this opportunity to make a lot of money and food, everyone in the world will

There are really not many people who are so shrewd, but these poor settlers think they can make huge profits!" The middle-aged man was also born in Tongbai Mountain. He boasted that he had already understood Chushan's tricks. When he watched the Minzhuang drills on the grain field, everyone was stunned.

Show off your power and say angrily.

"We have already left Biyang, why are we talking about this?" the young man said with waning interest.

The young man is Zhonghe, who moved his family out of Nanyang and settled in Jianye.

During the bandit rebellion in Tongbai Mountain, Zhong He led his family and clan members to participate in quelling the bandit rebellion. Together with Xu Huai, Tang Pan and Xu Xin'an, he was known as the Four Generals of Huaiyuan. After the bandit rebellion was quelled, Zhong He did not feel that troubled times were coming.

, stayed in Tongbai Mountain to study hard, bent on gaining fame, while Xu Huai, Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an, Tang Qing, Han Qi, and Yin Peng followed Wang Zhen to Lanzhou and rose up during the two campaigns against Yanbei.

When Xu Huai, Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an and others returned to Tongbai Mountain, they were able to set up Chushan County and take control of it themselves. At that time, Zhongji Tang, a member of the Zhongji tribe, was able to command four to five hundred troops in Chushan.

Feeling depressed, Zhong He moved out of Tongbai Mountain and settled in Biyang City. Later, he was recommended by Cheng Lunying to join the Military and Horse Supervisory Department of Nanyang Prefecture as a military official.

However, last year, for the Nanyang Prefecture army's garrison of Rucai, Cheng Lunying led the army officials Kong Zhou, Liu Wugong and others to break with Ning Ci and Zhou Yunze and half-openly sided with Chushan. Zhong He Mingzhe withdrew from the Nanyang Prefecture Military and Horse Supervisor to protect himself.

manage.

After the death of Emperor Jianji, Chushan took advantage of the campaign to suppress the Dongjinghu bandits and dispatched troops to various places in Nanyang. Zhonghe realized that there would be no place for him in Nanyang. In the past month, he had been living in Biyang.

He sold everything and took his family to settle in Jianye.

The middle-aged man's surname is Tian, ​​and in his early years he was also the head of a family with a prominent surname in Tongbai Mountain.

After the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion, the Tian family did not rush to move to Biyang. The daughter of the Tian family boss even got engaged to Xu Xin of the Xu family. However, after Xu Xin followed Xu Huai from Shuozhou, the Xu family relied on Xu Huai's support.

The Tian family brothers thought it was too unbelievable and unbecoming of a request to get married within three days, and they did not dare to refuse in person. However, they fled with their family overnight to settle in Biyang.

This time the Tian brothers also decided to move their family out of Nanyang, so as not to die without knowing how to live under the Xu family's roof.

The Zhong family and the Tian family have suffered a lot in recent years, but the emaciated camels are bigger than the horses. This time, they each took their families, twenty or thirty servants, and dozens of large and small boxes and cages, and took a boat south from Biyang.

The ship was forced to interrupt its trip when it arrived at Zhangshan because the Han River was blocked.

They could only go ashore temporarily, thinking of hiring a boat to go to Jingling County on the east bank of the Han River, and then hiring a carriage to go to Jianye.

They didn't expect to stop at Zhangshan, but found that Chushan's tentacles had reached every corner of the four counties in northern Jingbei in less than a month.

Regardless of whether Chushan's ambitions had aroused the court's vigilance, Zhonghe knew that Chushan was no longer something they could slander at this time. In addition to sighing a few words, he quickly hired locals to hire boats and crossed the Han River to Jingjing.

Ling County hired a carriage and went around to Huangpi County, then transferred to the boat owner to enter Jianye.

After being delayed all the way, it was almost early November before we arrived in Jianye.

However, Zhong He had already sent his family to Jianye to buy a house. After arriving in Jianye, they would move directly into the new house without having to worry about being displaced. However, what was worrying was the way out in the future.

Zhong's Ruoda family property, after many twists and turns, was reduced to a house and a farm with more than 200 acres of grain land in Jianye.

Although the new emperor ascended the throne, it was said that the imperial court would restart the imperial examination next year, but these years have been chaotic, Zhong He married a wife and had children, and abandoned his studies early, and did not expect to be able to participate in the imperial examination and pursue an official career.

After he arrived in Jianye, he just sent someone to the Jin Mansion early to submit a name card. At this time, Zhong He lowered his profile. Of course, he did not expect to be appreciated by Jin Zhuangcheng, the Minister of Rites, but thought about his relationship with Jin Mansion, a famous figure in the Jin Mansion.

Longquan had known each other for many years, so he sent someone to give the famous post to Jin Longquan, hoping that Jin Longquan could give him some advice in Jianye.

Jinlongquan was not alone, even if he couldn't get away for a while, he sent someone to give him a housewarming gift that day; two days later, Jinlongquan sent someone again to say that it was the Jin Mansion's arrangement for Mrs. Jinzhuang Chengsan to give birth to a son.

When he held a banquet to celebrate, he specially included Zhonghe in the banquet list and invited Zhonghe to come and have a banquet with him.

Zhong He prepared the gifts and rushed to the Jin Mansion early. He walked into the Jin family's house in Jianye City and found that many of the guests at the banquet were Zong Shen who had moved out of Biyang in the past month as if they were fleeing. They must have been jealous.

He could get the appreciation of Jin Zhuangchen and find a job in Jianye; among the many guests, Zhong He also saw his old acquaintance Deng Gui, who had fought side by side in Tongbai Mountain to suppress the bandits.

Before he became famous, Deng Gui was just a small patrol officer.

During the first invasion of the Chihu people to the south, Deng Gui, as a military official in the deployment department of the military and horse capital on the South-Western Road of Beijing, accompanied the King of Qin on the South-Western Road of Beijing | Soldiers and Horses, and listened to Hu Kai's orders; later he was sent by Hu Kai to go to Gong.

The county helped the late emperor defend the city, and he prospered from then on. Together with Zhang Xin and Liu Yan, he was called one of the three generals of the Yuyingsi.

However, Zhong He also heard that Deng Gui had been unhappy recently because he had a close relationship with Chushan and was the late emperor's favorite general.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, Deng Gui was ordered to return to Jianye from his residence in Luzhou to report his duties. He had been staying in Jianye for more than half a month, and the new emperor had no intention of sending Deng Gui back to Luzhou to continue commanding the army.
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