People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 59 Three Things! (Please read on!!!)
This was not a peaceful day in Yuyang City. The war lasted for the whole day. When the city gate was broken, the people in the city were all terrified. The arrival of the Yellow Turbans gave them great fear.

No matter what, in the eyes of the people, the government is still more reliable. After all, the government still has a bottom line.

If you leave your fate to the bandits, anything can happen. Bandits have no sense of morality or mercy. What they can do can be so cruel that it is unimaginable, and the people can only let them do whatever they want.

The moment the Yellow Turbans entered the city gate, the entire city felt suffocated, and the people could imagine whatever might happen to them next.

The occasional sound of horse hooves and footsteps outside the door sounded like the drumbeats of hell summoning souls to their ears.

But after the sound of horses' hooves and footsteps passed, the disaster they had imagined did not come. Although there were sounds of fighting and crying in the distance, they soon calmed down, and then the whole Yuyang fell into silence.

Occasionally, one could hear the movement of some Yellow Turbans, but they came and went quickly and did not disturb the civilians at all.

The people were confused and worried. They felt that something was wrong with the Yellow Turbans' peaceful behavior. It was not until a group of Yellow Turbans outside started shouting along the street that they slowly figured out what was happening.

However, these Yellow Turbans claimed that they were a righteous army representing the poor people. They did not come to rob the people, but to overthrow the powerful and to rule for the people.

When the people first heard these words, they did not believe them at all. It was not until the Yellow Turbans announced the opening of warehouses to release grain and distribute supplies that they were tempted to leave their homes.

Only when they actually got their share of things from the government office did they finally believe the Yellow Turbans.

Everything seemed to be no different from what the Yellow Turbans did in Zhuo County, but in fact, the Yellow Turbans were more thorough this time. The people heard an announcement that made them unbelievable.

The Yellow Turbans will survey all the land in Yuyang and then distribute it to the people of the county!

After this news came out, it had a shocking effect. Although the fields were just a piece of yellow earth, it meant a permanent income, which was far more touching than temporary material things.

With fields, there will be food year after year, and the family will have a foundation for survival, and even future generations can rely on this ancestral property to reproduce and thrive.

Not to mention ordinary people, even wealthy families regard farmland as their lifeblood. Even if they are already wealthy, they still have to keep an eye on the one or two acres of land in the hands of the common people.

As long as they can give a family one more piece of land, the powerful families will use all means to achieve their goals. Such means can be gentle borrowing and mergers, or brutal plundering.

In everyone's perception, land is a priceless treasure.

And these Yellow Turbans just distributed such priceless treasures to the people for free?

This kind of pie-in-the-sky thing makes people anxious and worried. Life is mostly full of suffering, and it is hard for them to believe that good luck will come to them.

They were filled with anxiety but also hope, and could only wait for time to pass and see if the Yellow Turbans could do what they said.

The Yellow Turbans acted differently in Yuyang and Zhuojun. This was naturally because the Yellow Turbans' situations and goals in the two places were different. Zhuojun was not the base chosen by Xu Chen, and they were in a situation of fleeing, so many things could not be done at all.

Now that we want to develop Yuyang in the long term, we need to do many tasks more meticulously.

People like the powerful and noble families who are labeled unclean by the way of nature cannot be judged and dealt with hastily. Although these guys must be sent to death in the end, their deaths must be more meaningful, completing the final performance of their sinful lives.

The distribution of materials was not really unreserved. After all, the Yellow Turbans also needed to eat. After keeping the part they needed, Xu Chen distributed the rest of the materials to the people. Directly distributing money and food was only a means to gain the trust of the people. To truly establish a solid and close relationship with the people, it was necessary to distribute land.

The Han Dynasty would certainly not recognize the land divided by the Yellow Turbans. If the people took the land, it would mean that they were tied to the Yellow Turbans' chariots. In order to keep their permanent property, they would definitely do their best to support the Yellow Turbans.

However, it would take time to survey the land. When the Yellow Turbans had distributed the supplies, the first thing they began to do was to settle accounts with the powerful nobles in the city.

Early in the morning, at the call of the Yellow Turbans, the people came to the vegetable market.

The Yellow Turban soldiers were already familiar with this kind of scene. They thought that today would be the same as before, with the crimes read out and the execution beginning. However, when today arrived, they found that the situation was a little different this time.

In addition to the common people, there was a row of dozens of Han officials or clerks watching the execution. They were all brought here by the Yellow Turbans along the way.

It was because they were physically strong that they did not die during the long escape.

In the open space of the vegetable market, unlike before when the people watched from a distance, this time Xu Chen asked them to surround the entire vegetable market, and the center of the crowd was the wealthy and noble people who were on trial this time.

With this stance, the common people were no longer just spectators. They came directly into the trial venue and surrounded the court in dense crowds, which naturally created a kind of oppression on the nobles in the middle.

The first group of people on trial consisted of only about twenty people.

When they were surrounded by a dense crowd of people and were being watched from all angles, they felt ashamed as if they were naked, and soon the shame turned into anger.

Who the hell are these people? They were pigs and dogs in my eyes before, and now they are worthy of standing here and watching?

Compared to the fear before death, the nobles felt more ashamed of being seen in such a miserable state by those lowly creatures as lowly as dust.

They really wanted to scold these dirty and inferior things away, but each of their mouths had rags stuffed in them, so they could only stand there and make “mumbles” in anger, helplessly.

"Snapped!"

There was only a crisp sound, which immediately attracted everyone's attention. The eyes of the common people and nobles were all focused on the source of the sound.

In front of the nobles, there was a desk, and behind the desk, there was a young Taoist sitting cross-legged.

After seeing this young Taoist priest, the common people's eyes suddenly became grateful, while the nobles' eyes became fearful.

In the eyes of the poor people, he is a natural theocratic leader who saves people from suffering, but in the eyes of the nobles, he is also a butcher who wants to kill them.

In just a few days, all the people in the city received the kindness of the leader, and the leader would also allocate land to them in the future. If this was really done in the end, the people would be able to treat the leader as their parent.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, Xu Chen put down the gavel, then raised his right hand and extended three fingers.

"Today, I am sitting here and will only do three things: fairness, fairness, and fairness!"

(End of this chapter)