Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 313
"Father, Dongguan was also attacked by the thieves commander Qin Junhong and Guo Fangyu. After the two thieves broke through the city, they killed all the officials in the city, broke down the houses of powerful families, kidnapped the young and strong, and kidnapped women. They did everything. It is said that they are now heading to the North Sea go."

Luo Jizu hurried to the Zhangqiu county government office and informed his father of the latest news.

"Bah, the way of the world." Father Luo Gui spat, with a worried expression on his face.

This great cause has just started eight years ago, and the result is such a bad situation, with bad news one after another.

First, the two thieves Wang Bo and Wang Yong attacked Beihai County, Beihai County, killed officials and rebelled, and gathered thousands of thieves.Then Sun Xuanya from Bohai gathered thousands of thieves to break through Yanshan County, Bohai County, followed by Hao Xiaode from Pingyuan County broke through Gaotang County, recruiting thousands of fugitives.

Just after this year, the two thieves Qin Junhong and Guo Fangyu broke through Dongguan City in Gaomi County.

As if overnight, there were beacon fires everywhere on both sides of the Yellow River.

Every day, you can hear that there are people rebelling here, and there are people killing officials there, and gangs of bandits have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. There are tens of thousands of people, and tens of thousands of people.

In the past, the common people were most afraid of locust plagues. The locusts would cover the sky and cover the land together, and they would eat up wherever they flew, and eat them when they were green.

But now, the thieves and bandits that are everywhere are much more powerful than the locust swarm.

Whether it's Wang Bo and Wang Yong from Beihai, Sun Xuanya and Liu Badao from Bohai, or He Xiaode from Pingyuan, or Qin Junhong and Guo Fangyu from Gaomi, all of these people have a characteristic, that is, they kill like hemp and loot everywhere. .They broke through the county seat, killed officials and rebelled, looted the rich and powerful, and forced the young and strong people to follow the thieves.

The turmoil is getting worse.

The old man said worriedly, "Although we haven't seen a large group of bandits in Qi County yet, Pingyuan, Bohai Sea, Beihai, and Gaomi are all on the edge of our Qi County, and bandits are flowing like locusts. I am very worried that they will appear at any time." Flee to our Zhangqiu."

What worries him the most is that the bandits along the way will eventually unite.

"Father, there is Zhang Juncheng in our Qi County. He is a fierce general. Wang Bo, Wang Yong, etc. came here several times before, but they were all beaten and fled like a bereaved dog. They dare not come to our Qi County." Ji Zu road.

"That's hard to say. Those thieves don't do production, they only know how to kill and rob, but they can be tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, and the number is still increasing. It's like a snowball. More and more Where is the supply for people? They can only be like locusts, eating up one area, and then going to the next. When there is no food to eat, let alone Qi County, even Luoyang they dare to rob."

The eldest brother Jizu sighed, "Why did it suddenly become such a mess?"

The old man didn't say a word. He is now the secretary of Zhangqiu County. He is no longer just a nominal recorder in the past, but actually works in the county government office. After all, he was also a guard in front of the palace. Yes, Du Ruhui humbly asked him for help, so the old man worked hard.

As a county official, my father is very clear why the current situation has become so corrupt.After all, when the emperor was founded in the early years, he was more enlightened, the world was stable, and the people’s life was easier, especially at that time when the population was far less than it is now. They all go to some lands, so when there is no famine, they can still make ends meet.

But starting from Renshou, the peace of the world for more than [-] years caused the population of the Sui Dynasty to explode, and the average land was evenly distributed, and gradually there was no land to be evenly distributed. In addition, the land occupied by the powerful and nobles made the people even more landless. Kegeng, many adult young people are actually landless.

However, after some people who had previously shared the land gradually aged and died, their previously shared land had to be returned.In a family, the old man who had land died and returned the land to his mouth, but the young people who became young had no land to share. As a result, many common people in the Sui Dynasty gradually became landless and proletarians.

However, since he ascended the throne today, there has been a lot of construction work, and the school service is heavy every year. The people are constantly recruited to serve.
Especially when the Eastern Expedition began, Henan and Hebei became the source of soldiers and civilian husbands. Countless young men were conscripted to leave their hometowns and go to Liaodong, whether they were government soldiers or civilian husbands.

And many evil local government officials took the opportunity to search for the people at this time.

When the people could no longer survive, they would go all out.

Therefore, when those daring ones finally jumped out desperately and took the lead in the rebellion, when the people in many counties and counties faced these bandits, they simply followed the whole family and became thieves.Anyway, this world can't survive, if you don't become a thief, you will starve to death.

This winter and spring, which is so green and yellow, is even more difficult.

The powerful families either ran to the county town, Luoyang and other big cities, or they could only recruit Ding Yong to raise the courtyard wall to defend themselves.

Seeing that spring is about to begin, no one is still thinking about this year's spring plowing.

More than half of the men in the county have either served as soldiers or become civilian husbands, the remaining half, and a small half have already joined the bandits, and the rest are mostly old and weak.

Just yesterday, Zhangqiu County sent another 500 civilian husbands, and each of them carried three stones of grain to Zhuojun.The two went together and took turns transporting six stones of grain in a deer cart.

This is a daunting task, not to mention that it is very difficult to transport six shi grains by deer carts, not to mention the cold weather today. What's more, the six shi grains are still public grain, and they can't use them. Bring your own dry food.But this road is so far away, there are gangs of thieves everywhere, no one knows what accidents will happen.

But when the edict was issued, the local governments could only obey the order.

The people have no choice but to flee.

"Boss, take some time tomorrow and lead the team back to the village, and take your mother and your brother's wife to the county town. It's not peaceful everywhere, there are bandits everywhere, and the countryside is not safe."

"What about the family?" Jizu was somewhat reluctant to part with the property in the countryside, after all, the family property is not small now.No one is at home, what if it is robbed by thieves.

"It's this time, and I'm still thinking about what to do with that little thing. If there are thieves who want to rob it, let them rob it. As long as people are safe, it's more important than anything else."

The boss said oh.

"It would be great if Fifth Brother and the others were still in Zhangqiu. With them here, no matter what kind of thief he is, he won't dare to commit crimes."

Among the gangs of thieves who are making trouble today, several of them were defeated by the old fifth, such as Beihai Wang Bo, Wang Yong, Bohai Liu Badao and so on.

The old man looked to the north, "Where in Liaodong will Xiaowu come back in a while?"

(End of this chapter)