sweeping the world

Chapter 754 Ugly But True

Every autumn, the Lord kills.

Autumn is the harvest season, there is enough food in the warehouse, and the labor force has been liberated from the work on the ridges, and the manpower can be recruited to the greatest extent without any delay. Naturally, it is time to act if there is any big move.

For farming peoples, spring and autumn are the most important seasons of the year. In summer, there is basically nothing to do, and winter is naturally a cat winter.

Because cat winter is needed in winter, most festivals are also chosen in winter, which is to have more fun for yourself in your spare time.

In the autumn of the ninth year of Yuanshuo (AD [-]), the northern and southern ends of the Han Kingdom fell into two completely different scenes.

Due to the outbreak of drought in the Northwest, even if the farmlands in various places have harvests, they are only [-] to [-]% of what they should have been in previous years. Very few can harvest [-]% of the crops, and most of them are not harvested.

Normally, under natural disasters, unless extremely wealthy families do not worry about food shortages, the middle class should basically think about how to fill their stomachs, and it is useless to think about anything below the middle class.

When natural disasters occur, people with rich families and large food reserves don’t have to worry about going hungry, but they have to worry about being surrounded by hungry people with red eyes.Faced with such a scene, things can be extremely two-sided. Some people will take advantage of the opportunity to purchase land and take in tenants, while others will sit in their homes and make disasters come from heaven.

The Han State controlled the land, and it was impossible to buy land from people who could not survive in a disaster year. It was useless if there was not enough land to absorb tenants. We should be afraid that the hungry and red-eyed villagers would think something bad.

If a person has nothing, he will starve to death if he does not rob it. All moral right and wrong will be put aside, and his empty stomach will drive him to do things that he would never dare to do before. No country or any nation is an exception.

"Open the warehouse to release the grain?" Zhang Zhong's face was full of fear and resentment, and he almost roared: "Did the grain at home come out of thin air? Every grain of grain came without stealing, robbing, or cheating! If it was just a rescue Relatives, it is their duty to do so, but you!"

In fact, Zhang Zhong is not a stingy person. He usually does some charitable things, but this time he is facing the entire villagers in his original hometown, not giving alms to one or two people. Even if all the food is moved out, it will not be able to satisfy all the villagers.

At this very moment, around two hundred people surrounded the wall of Zhang Zhong's house, men, women, old and young, completely surrounded the small house.

The beggars elected two or three people into Zhang's house, and asked Zhang Zhongkan to provide food and assistance for the sake of the villagers in the village. One of them was Zhang Zhong's "Boye" in terms of seniority.

The fathers of the early Han Dynasty did not call them dad, but actually called "Ye Ye", and "Ye Ye" means that they belonged to the father's generation. "Boye" is uncle.

Under the Tween Order, family separation has become a habit of the Han people. Since the eldest son inherits the family property system, the eldest son can only carry a small amount of property to separate and support himself.This custom has been enforced by the government since the Western Han Dynasty, but the clan still exists, that is, the property is divided.

It is now [-] A.D. Although the Central Plains experienced the Hulu Rebellion, the systems and customs preserved in the early Han Dynasty are still the common rules. Once again, the whole family lives together, regardless of the family. When the family is exaggerated, there are hundreds of people. It was not until the Northern and Southern Dynasties that it became popular again.

Zhang You, who inherited most of the Zhang family's property, is a jerk. Under his auspices, the family property has failed again and again, but his younger brother has become richer and richer in business. Arrival became what it is now.

"Twenty stones, no more." Zhang Zhong said the above sentence trembling all over, and replaced it with pleading: "I can't give any more."

If such a thing happened today, it was still Zhang Youchi who led it, and the jerk would have jerk thoughts, he would not think about ruining his family property, but only because he saw that his nephew's family was rich, and then thought that those properties should belong to I.

Zhang Zhong usually had a better reputation than Zhang You. As an elder, he could eat and drink and ask for money, but he couldn't instigate action against Zhang Zhong.But now it's different. He can't survive, and there are more people around him who can't survive.What he was thinking was that even if he didn't encourage them, those people would definitely cause trouble for Zhang Zhong. He felt that if he took the lead, he could save the lives of his nephew's family and take advantage of the opportunity, but he still felt that he was a good person.

Asshole?There are countless similar people, and it's not that no one around you sees Zhang You's thoughts, but in the face of survival and morality, most people think about living. If you continue to live, you can still regret it, and if you die, you will have nothing.

What Zhang Zhong saw was the people in front of him. They had shame, helplessness, and complacency on their faces, but no one gave in.

At this moment, Zhang Zhong suddenly felt that his life was ridiculous, especially when he was willing to help others when he was living a good life, and those good deeds he did were one after another.

"Yeah, just drive them out!" Zhang Bian couldn't stand it anymore: "You can stick to the house and wait for the government to come!"

People in the Northwest don't have a strong sense of belonging to the Han Kingdom, but they have to admit that after they belonged to the Han Kingdom, the government's actions were very strong. Taking action now.

Zhang Zhong knew it, and could even guess that Youji, Youzhi, and the stingy man must have taken action. They are not locals, they retired from the army and were assigned to public positions in the village. The rioting villagers colluded.But even if the government solves the current matter, even if Zhang Zhong's family has nothing wrong with this matter, they will definitely be isolated in the future.

Even if a few people are right, but facing the wrong majority, what is right is also wrong.

Zhang Zhong can guess what will happen in the future. One of the people who come to Wei Zhaizi today even knows that he has done something wrong. If you go wrong to resent, you may not dare to do anything to Zhang Zhong's family, but it is inevitable to isolate Zhang Zhong's family.

If a family is isolated in the village, it will be difficult even in modern times, and the isolation in the current social environment will be even more serious.

Knowing exactly what would happen, Zhang Zhongming knew that with a little resistance, the matter would be resolved when the government officials came over, so he was still willing to offer some food.

As soon as he heard that the government would take action, the second and third sons shrank subconsciously.Of course they are afraid of the government, otherwise they would not enter the house to reason, they should just break the house and enter.

In fact, if it weren't for Zhang Youdai's leadership, even if the original villagers had an idea, they would really be unable to hold on before attacking Zhang Zhong's family. The reason is of course the high efficiency of the government.Since Zhang Zhong's Boye took the lead, there is no way to explain the matter. Once the government really takes action, it may be lucky to shirk it as a family matter.

That's right, most people are lucky, thinking that if there are too many people doing it, the government will not deal with it because of the large number of people. The most important thing is that Zhang You takes the lead. They think that even if the government wants to deal with it, it is Zhang who will deal with it. have.

There was originally a noise outside, but the noise suddenly quieted down.

Zhang Bian, a young man, noticed the situation outside and shouted: "It must be someone from the government!"

"Even if someone comes from the government, so what?" Zhang Youli said confidently: "We just came here, firstly, we did not do anything harmful, and secondly, we did not enter without invitation. Even if the negotiation failed, we did not violate the law. "

When the other two heard it, it was really the case.

The Han Dynasty inherited most of the rules of the early Han Dynasty. First of all, as long as people gather without weapons, it is not illegal. Then no matter how many people gather, as long as there is no fight, or someone is wrong and shouts, "The princes and generals are better than each other." At best, the government is persuading people to leave, and there is no way to arrest people according to the law.

Leaving aside the situation inside the house, Zhou Qian, a traveler, was the first to discover the abnormality in Yuanxiang. While calling his colleagues to monitor, he went to the county to report.

Because of natural disasters and the special situation of the Northwest in Han, the counties and counties have always been vigilant.

Some time ago, the remnants of the former government made waves, and all the counties and counties became turbulent, and all the trees and trees were full of soldiers. It was the time when they were most effective, and the county magistrate Lingju immediately took action after receiving the report.

Although it is not the first time Tian has received similar reports, before Zhou Qian, similar things happened in many places under his rule, and there were even more intense ones, such as a wealthy family was really robbed.

Civil disturbances under the jurisdiction, no matter what the reason for the civil disturbances, is a stain on the highest chief of a county. After the outbreak of civil unrest, it can only be handed over to the military, and the civil affairs system is doing some aftermath.

Zhou Qian brought back eleven (county) county soldiers from the county. Of course he was not the person in charge, the chief was the real person in charge.

A group of 12 of them came to Yuanxiang and did not go straight to Zhang's house. They met with the colleagues in charge of surveillance first to understand the development of the situation.Knowing that the villagers were only surrounding Zhang's house and nothing more violent happened, they discussed for a while and thought that the villagers didn't have the courage to make trouble for the time being, but they had to act in time and not let it go.

The county soldiers were assigned to Lingju County by the capital of Guangwu County, with a total of 500 soldiers.The composition of the county and county soldiers is relatively complicated, and they come from other regions except the Northwest. It is to ensure that when they need to raise their weapons, they will not take into account the situation of their hometown and dare not attack, so as to avoid being shouted by their relatives among the rioters to follow them into chaos.

Facts have proved that even if the people in the northwest do not have a great sense of belonging to the Han Kingdom, they will still be intimidated when they face the army. When Zhou Qian and eleven heavily armed county soldiers appeared, the first reaction of all people, young and old, was Quiet from the noise.

Zhou Qian is a local tourist. Although he is not a local, he knows quite a few people he should know.He shouted in time, first controlled the scene, and stated that as long as everyone did not violate the law, they would not be punished.

When Zhang Zhong, Zhang You and others came out together, what they saw was Zhou Qian standing on a high place speaking, surrounded by a dozen or so heavily armed county and county soldiers on guard.

"Young and strong go to Yangguan, and you can get ten stones of food if you sign up. If you get something, you can count it as military merit." This is not the first time Zhou Qian has publicized this matter. It's just that there are too few people.He called several people's names and asked loudly, "Is that so?"

The person whose name is called will come out to testify. After testifying, he will add: "I'm not here to cause trouble, I'm just here to enjoy the fun."

Is it true?It can be said that once the big guys start to grab it, he won't just watch anyway.

Being willing to go out of the Western Regions to get ten shi of grain is actually not a free distribution, it is part of the lease contract, such as borrowing from the military to buy weapons or something, the standard equipment is ten shi of grain.

Almost everyone who is willing to go out to the Western Regions, even if they are not short of money or food, has signed a loan contract.Their thinking is very straightforward. People have to go to the Western Regions to do their best. The interest on loans is not high.

More than one person came out to prove that what Zhou Qian said was not wrong at all. The problem is that Zhou Qian didn't ask, those people didn't say anything before, and even reached a tacit agreement and never spread it. If you choose this kind of behavior, you can generally see who they are.

"There are a lot of men present. If they commit crimes in the village, they will not be taken by a real man. If they break the law, they will not be arrested, but they will flee into the mountains to avoid arrest." Of course Zhou Qian didn't want to cause chaos. benefit.After he finished intimidating, he saw that most of the people had flinched, and encouraged him: "For the sake of the family, you can get food if you go to the Western Regions, and you can entrust the military to send it home if you have any income. Under this disaster year, dare you No action?"

No one responded, but it was already impossible for them to break into Zhang's house.Making chaos is a one-off thing. Once it stops in the middle, many people will feel scared.

"Think about it! Even if you don't leave the Western Regions, you also go to the county to sign up for a job. Why break the law to survive?" Zhou Qian began to call a few villagers who usually get along well to let them go home.Seeing the crowd gradually dissipate, he let out a big breath to the chief who followed, and said with fear: "Most reckless people go out of their hometowns to the Western Regions, otherwise..."

Originally, those who were courageous and courageous all went to Yangguan, either they had already left the customs or were being trained, and those who stayed in their hometown were usually more timid.

Shi Chang nodded expressionlessly, both joy and disappointment.Naturally, he was happy that there was no civil unrest, but he was disappointed because once the unrest broke out, killing the insurgents was considered military merit. He was still restrained and conscientious. There was no civil unrest in Lingju County, but he was the county who was sent there. The threat of the county soldiers made the scene out of control.

"If you can control it for a while, I'm afraid it won't last long." Zhou Qian is just a jerk, and can't make any big sense: "If there is no food to be obtained, something will happen."

(End of this chapter)