Chapter 3 Heavenly Changes I
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"Alas, it's changed again!" Liu Wenzhong, the most famous benevolent man in Xuzhou City, dusted off the snowflakes on his mink fur robe and walked leisurely towards the inner house. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info The clever housekeeper Liu Heitie nodded and followed beside him, and his two hen-like hands were copied into his sleeves, as if as soon as they stretched out, they would be blown off by the north like a messy branch.
"Kuroko, have you sent out all the shoes you made for the tenants?" Liu Dashan people can't feel the cold of the weather, no matter how strong the wind is, the pace is always orderly.
"Back to the master's words, it has already been sent. As you say, half a tael of wool is stuffed into each pair of shoes. If you follow the Mongolian lord and send shoes, it would be good to have a rag wrapped in hooves! Liu Heitie took a step forward, and his words were full of flattery.
"Alas, I have been calling them cattle and horses for a year, and I have to add a bowl of black beans to replenish my fat in winter. Those who are in chaos will do less evil if they can do good! Liu Dashan glared at the housekeeper and taught in a low voice.
"Yes, yes, my lord is wise, if they don't work well like this, it's really a conscience for the dog."
"What about the porridge shed outside the east gate, has it been arranged? When it's cold, add an extra bucket of rice to the porridge every day. Don't throw away the moldy dried vegetable leaves at home, and boil them in the porridge to make up for the bitter haha! Liu Wenzhong thought about it and issued another order.
"The villain will arrange it, the old man is all over the world, and he must have been a Bodhisattva in his previous life! Even me, a headless little ghost, can achieve positive results with you! In the butler's mouth, sycophants are like springs.
"Get out, by the way, call the second master and the third master in, and let them come to my study to discuss matters!" Liu Wenzhong raised his leg and kicked the butler on the buttocks, laughing and scolding.
The housekeeper who had been lying on his body ran away, and the great benevolent man Liu Wenzhong looked at his back and shook his head, stretched out his hand to open the door curtain.
When it comes to Liu Dashanren, Fang Lili is a household name. His grandfather used to be a butcher who accidentally saved a Song general during the Northern Yuan's first trip south. The Liu family was shrewd, and after recovering from the wounds of this Song general, they sold it to the Mongols for three hundred taels of silver. With the capital of 300 taels of silver and the support of the Mongols, the Liu family has been in Xuzhou since then, and within a few years they have become one of the richest families in the city.
In Liu Wenzhong's life, the Liu family has a bigger foundation. Covering prostitutes and gambling, selling illicit salt, colluding with lust and transporting envoys to loot people's wealth, big buckets in and small buckets out of grain, all the means that people can come up with to make money, there is nothing Liu Wenzhong dare not do. Even so, he still mixed up the name of a great good man, black and white. Not only did the lord of the government want to give him Liu Dashan's face, but even the salt gang and the nearby red jacket army would not have the idea of fighting the Liu family's industry.
Liu Wenzhong can make money and knows how to spend money. When he makes money, he is ruthless, but when he spends money, he is kind. The tenants and long-term followers under the name of the Liu Mansion have always been treated better than other large families, and the clothes, shoes and socks sewn by the maids are always delivered to each tenant on time during the New Year's holidays. In flood and drought years, Mr. Liu will take the initiative to reduce the rent of tenants. Every year, when the green and yellow are not harvested, the Liu Mansion will also open a cauldron in the Hanwang Temple outside the East Gate, whether it is a beggar, a homeless person or a farmer who has not enough to eat, you can go to the Liu's porridge shed every morning to receive a bowl of gruel to satisfy your stomach. Although the porridge was always so scarce that it always had a musty smell, after all, it made many people who were going to starve to death endure another winter.
Compared to the cold winter outside the window, the study is a completely different world. Stained-glass windows smuggled in from the south keep the cold air out, and on the walls, brass stoves gently steam the room as warm as spring.
With such warm air, it's easy to get tired. But Liu Dashan's two eyes were round, and one heart was up and down, constantly weighing the chaotic situation.
The Taihang group of heroes who had been silent for a long time came out of the mountain, and Zhang Yixing was headed by Zhang Yixing in the north, and the well was laid, which was really fixed. In the south, with Xu Tugen as the commander, the power spread all the way to Shandong. The two Huai and the two rivers shook, and countless heroes took advantage of the situation to pull up their own teams. Even the vicinity of Xuzhou was not peaceful, and the Red Jacket Army, led by a man named Xiao Toutuo, had already attacked nearby Haozhou. And the government was busy guarding against the northward movement of the captive army, and had no energy to deal with other bandits and rogues.
The world is in turmoil. Troubled times bring heroes, and troubled times mean risks, but also mean opportunities for the rise of the family.
"Big brother, you're looking for us!" A cordial greeting interrupted Liu Wenzhong's thinking, the second Liu Wenyi, and the third Liu Wenkui patted the snowflakes on their bodies and walked in. is different from Liu Wenzhong's compassionate face, the second Liu Wenyi has thick eyebrows, and he knows at a glance that he is a straightforward man. The third Liu Wenkui is as his name suggests, he looks quiet and quiet, with a bookish air from head to toe.
"It's changed!" Liu Wenzhong did not answer the words of the two younger brothers, looked at the flying snow outside the window, and said faintly.
"yes, it's really grandma's cold. On duty at the Yamen this morning, the brothers couldn't even carry water and fire sticks! The second Liu Wenyi replied angrily. He has been fond of martial arts since he was a child, and when he grew up, he took on the role of a banner official in the Xuzhou Mansion with his family relationship, and he was in charge of one hundred and ten archers who were responsible for pressing the place. Showing off his might on the streets every day is magnificent.
"yes, it's changed. I haven't been so cold since I can remember, and now there are more and more displaced people in the city, and if it gets cold, I don't know how many people will freeze to death! The third Liu Wenkui is obviously smarter than the second, and he followed the tone of the eldest brother and said implicitly.
"Those hungry people can't be fed no matter how they are fed. Since the day before yesterday, the people of Futai have added three cauldrons of soup porridge in the north and south cities, but people starve to death every day. If you don't give an order to close the door, if you continue like this, you won't be able to empty the entire mansion and add to the mouths that come from all around! The second Liu Wenyi said disdainfully. The wanderers caused a lot of trouble for the archers, and for days he was complained of the theft of his belongings, and the robbery of small families at night. The unanimous opinion of the archers was to close the gates of Xuzhou and not allow more displaced people to enter. However, Wang Tingyu, the lord of Xuzhou City Government and Taiwan, was soft-hearted and refused to listen to the persuasion of the brothers.
"Lord Futai can't hold on for long, he has no money. I heard that the imperial court has stopped hundreds of officials this year, and Lord Lu Shirong said that he would issue new banknotes and invalidate all the banknotes in the world! Now that the sky is angry and resentful, someone almost lit the fire! Liu Wenkui, the third child, took out a folding fan from his sleeve, brushed it open, and sighed while shaking.
"It's not the gangs of gangsters in the South. At the beginning, as soon as Chen Hangyan crossed the border, many wealthy families were ruined. If I meet you, hit the horse and ......" The second Liu Wenyi stretched out his hand and painted, as if he had become Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu back then, and no one in the army of ten thousand horses was invincible.
Liu Wenzhong coughed lightly, interrupting the second brother's boasting. What he said to the third child, he didn't listen to the second child. In order to open the nerd's shell, he decided to change the way it was easy to understand.
"Emperor Song has no way, but Wen Tianxiang refuses to wear a yellow robe, do you think it's strange?"
"This literary thief has Zeng Huan, Liu Zijun, Wu Chen Hangyan, and Zou Fengshu, but he refuses to be the emperor. I've heard that he will be angry and know that he is not the emperor's life. The Broken Army keeps saying that they want to restore the Han family, I am afraid that there is not a single Chinese character in the name and surname of this new monarch! The third Liu Wenkui knew what the eldest brother was thinking, and the more he picked his words, the clearer he became.
"Big brother, third brother, you say that the thief is not the emperor, is it because the great vitality is exhausted?" The second Liu Wenyi was confused. The great vitality is exhausted, then there must be a new emperor in the world, and the eldest husband should be sold to the emperor's family if he learns literature and martial arts well.
"The Great Yuan will be destroyed, and the Great Han will prosper. I think my ancestors of the Liu family cut the white snake back then and unveiled the ..... of the king's party" A string of sparks appeared in Liu Wenzhong's eyes, recalling how brilliant his surname was more than a thousand years ago.
The second Liu Wenyi finally understood what the eldest brother meant, and his face was whiter than the snowflakes outside the window. The eldest brother has far-reaching ambitions and ruthless methods, he has known it since he was a child. But I never expected my brother's ambition to be so far. If you want to be the emperor, you have to rely on the three brothers of the Liu family and the fifty or sixty family members ......? Lord Futai stretched out a finger, and he could make the Liu family exterminate.
"People say that the great vitality is exhausted, and the world will inevitably be the world of the Han people in the future. The Zhang brothers of Taihang Mountain are just a group of grass robbers, and now they can also conquer the city. The literary thief was beaten and fled alone, and in a blink of an eye, he owned half of Jiangnan! The Great Yuan Dynasty has become an empty shelf, and it will fall down as soon as it is pushed! Liu Wenzhong used the example in front of him to encourage his two younger brothers.
"But in Xuzhou, the land of the four wars, the Lord of Futai is known to be ......," Liu Wenyi stammered. Among the three brothers, he has the best martial arts, and he is the least courageous.
"What if Lord Futai is assassinated by the Red Jacket Army?" Liu Wenzhong asked with a sneer.
"The people of Futai do not go out of the city, the red jacket army advances, and enters the ....." Liu Wenyi wanted to say that the Red Jacket Army did not have the strength to attack Xuzhou, but from his brother's sharp eyes, he saw its true intentions. The archers and horses in the city are in their own hands, and if they take advantage of the unpreparedness of the people to enter the yamen......? He knew he could do it, and cold sweat rolled down his forehead like a spring.
"Second brother, don't worry." The third Liu Wenkui patted Liu Wenyi on the shoulder and analyzed in a low voice: "The Tartars in the south are busy preventing the army from crossing the river. If the Tartars in the north want to go south, they first have to deal with Chen Hangyan. Our brothers have time to make the dreadlocks bigger. As long as we are strong, even if we are recruited by the imperial court in the future, we will be able to mix with the marquis! Now that we are in troubled times, can our brothers come forward and do it in one fell swoop! β
"Second, heroes emerge from troubled times. Back then, Han Gaozu was just a pavilion chief. The emperor will take turns to do it, and he will come to my house next year......" Liu Wenzhong chattered and persuaded. The wind outside carried the flying snow, hiding his words in a white world.
"The sky has changed!" Wang Tingyu, the governor of Xuzhou, closed the window cowardly. The weather this winter is very strange, with no sun in sight of the wind and snow all day long. As a result, the new chief manager, who had just filled the vacancy this autumn, did not touch the ground every day, and was either busy relocating the displaced people or busy sending additional people to guard against the rebellion of the Red Jacket Army. He knew that Dayuan's official was so difficult, so he wouldn't bother to make up for the lack of this general manager.
Thinking of the official hat on his head, Wang Tingyu became more and more depressed. After reading the sage books for so many years, I thought that I would be able to show my life's ambitions after becoming an official of my parents, but I didn't expect that what I did in the officialdom and what I said in the books were fundamentally different things. The book of sages teaches you to be diligent in government and love the people, in fact, it doesn't matter if you are diligent or not, whether you love the people or not, you can take care of your boss, that is, you rob men and women, force good people to become prostitutes, and you will still rise step by step.
After being recommended as an official by his teacher, he worked as a seven-grade official for more than ten years, and Wang Tingyu realized the true meaning of being an official. I finally scraped together more than 2,000 silver dollars, and bought a real shortage of a general manager from Zhongshu Province, I wanted to be a corrupt official quickly, but I didn't want the troubled times to come suddenly, Xuzhou, a ghost place surrounded by bandits, and the people in the city were panicked.
Does this great official still have the meaning of being in office? How long can the imperial court, which can't even afford a hundred officials, support? Wang Tingyu looked at the dancing candlelight and thought blankly. He has a solid family, and he can survive even if he is not an official. It's just that it's too wasteful to learn to enter the WTO in one belly, and the sage taught people to "work together as a family, govern the country, and level the world", so that they didn't read so many books in vain. Although the Great Yuan Dynasty is stormy, after all, it is the right thing in the world.....
Outside the dark window, there was a commotion. One of the nearby wealthy dogs barked wildly for a while, and soon regained its composure. The howling of the north wind drowned everything in darkness, and who knew what was going on outside. The night in Xuzhou City has always been like this, Chen Hangyan smashed the nearby county town to pieces when he went north, and the Mongol army followed the broken army to rob it, and then the ant-like red jacket army. The passage of the three-way army will turn the richest place into a wasteland, and now the streets and alleys of the city are full of displaced people, and there are several fights every night for the shelter of the gate hole.
"Ahh There was a terrible scream in the night sky, as if it was close at hand. Wang Tingyu sensed that something was wrong, and walked to the wall and grabbed the sword for self-defense. The garrisons in the city had gone out to suppress the bandits, and he could only command the archers and horsemen recruited by the local authorities. And those archers are basically born from ruffians and hooligans, and it may not be easy to catch thieves, but it is a top trick to bully the good.
The noise was getting closer and closer, and Wang Tingyu could already see the firelight. He drew his sword and shouted outside the door: "Someone, pass on Liu Paitou....."
None of the small officials in the yamen who had been circling him like flies responded, and the huge courtyard seemed empty, except for the whistling of the north wind echoing among the treetops.
"Someone, who is on duty at night, pass Liu Paitou!" Wang Tingyu was a little scared and shouted at the top of her voice.
The door of the inner house was gently pushed open, and Liu Wenyi, the flag officer, was draped all over his body and slowly walked in. Behind him, a dozen drunken archers lit up the snow with torches.
"Master, are you looking for me?" Liu Wenyi asked lightly.
"Liu, Liu, Paitou, you, what are you doing, what are you doing?" Wang Tingyu heard his voice trembling, and the sword in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and he couldn't lift it.
"Master, the sky has changed!" Liu Wenyi stepped forward and patted Wang Tingyu on the shoulder, and snatched his sword with his hand.
"Ben, Benfu, Benfu has been waiting, and you can't wait! You, you are waiting......" Wang Tingyu pointed at the archers and scolded angrily.
The archers stood expressionless, the flames in their hands spitting and jumping.
"Sir, the sky has changed. The number of great vitality has been exhausted, and the hero has taken advantage of the chaos. You are the governor of the Great Yuan, and the King of Han will bury you according to the ceremony of the war between the two countries! Liu Wenyi smiled and stuffed the sword into Wang Tingyu's hand again. He turned around and walked out with the archers, and took the door of the inner house of the mansion.
The door creaked shut behind him, and after a while, the firelight jumped up from the Xuzhou Mansion and burned half of the sky.
"The Red Jacket Army has entered the city!" Someone cried out in the snowy night.
"The Broken Army is here, the Eight-Character Army is here, the Red Jacket Army is here!" Fearing that there would be no chaos in the world, some people shouted and rushed into nearby houses. Hearing the shouts, countless wealthy families locked the courtyard door, and their own hired bodyguards and courtyard guards jumped on the courtyard wall one after another, aiming their weapons at the nearby streets.
"The king of Han has an order to expel the Tartars. The people of Xuzhou who kill the Mongols will be rewarded with ten taels of silver and one bucket of rice. Those who break a house will seal 100 households. Those who surrender to the Han will not be killed, and those who assist the Han army will be rewarded! The third child of the Liu family wore a big red cloak and led a hundred and ten family members to crisscross the streets. Listening to the shouts of the family members, the homeless people who had no physical food and the beggars who had received the favor of the Liu family responded one after another, and after a while, they captured several compounds near the yamen.
"All the men will be killed, and the women will be distributed among the leaders!" Liu Wenkui ordered loudly. Behind him, the family members who had just become officials rushed into the courtyard like wolves and hugged the female dependents out horizontally. The outcasts, beggars, and ordinary people, with red eyes, kicked through the doors of their houses and raised their steel knives at their unarmed people.
Amid the crying, the snowy night seemed so long. In the streets and alleys, atrocities took place in every corner. Jewelry, jade, gold and silver are fine and soft, and the wealth accumulated by large families for several generations changed hands overnight. On weekdays, the tyrannical officials and Mongolian tycoons who were rampant and extorting were dragged out of their beds by the rebels and taken to the streets to be beaten to death with bricks. Shopkeepers, landlords, and business owners who had no grudges with the people were also found out, and they quickly announced their allegiance to the King of Han and scattered their wealth for a moment of peace. If you don't react in time, you will become a ghost under the knife in a blink of an eye.
At dawn, Liu Wenzhong, a great benevolent man, personally raised a blood-stained red flag at the head of the city. On the flag, there is a big "Han" character written on the flag, indicating the noble blood of the Liu brothers. Subsequently, Liu Wenzhong named the second brother as the general, the third brother as the minister of state, and several of the first to follow the uprising, killing people and making meritorious contributions to the government as hussars, and began the process of fighting for the world.
When the nearby poles and bandits heard the news, they moved closer to Xuzhou. With the help of Li Ziming, the helmsman of the Red Jacket Army, the Han State defeated Pengcheng, Peixian, Dingtao, and Shan Father, and soon became the largest rebel force in Lianghuai.
"The troubled times are coming, the emperor will take turns to do it, and he will come to my house next year!"
The two Huai groups of males swarmed up, Han, Tang, Zhou, Chu, and countless banners fluttered in the land of the four wars.
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