Chapter 171: Words
On the fifth day, things finally changed! Two groups of slightly organized men appeared in the south, each numbering about 10,000 people.
20,000 people flocked to the vicinity of Jimo, and saw the 100,000 poor people in the city waiting in line to deliver porridge, and they knew something was different. The leader of one of the men and horses inquired for a moment, and then stood on a high place and called on the hungry people to attack the city and seize the food! Some of them were instigated by him, but many more were afraid that their actions would force the officers and soldiers in the city to stop distributing food, and they all showed disgust!
A big man stood out from the other group of people and shouted, "Zhang Di! We didn't do this kind of murder to have something to eat! Now that the officers and soldiers here are distributing porridge, what are you still shouting about attacking the city, do you want to make everyone have no food? ”
The man who called on the hungry people to attack the city shouted: "Zhang Wanxian, are you hungry!" We have done all the things that we rebel against, can the officers and soldiers really let us go? Besides, how much food can this small city of Jimo have, and can we eat it for a lifetime? According to me, hurry up and capture this Jimo, grab the grain, and go to Dengzhou as soon as possible. ”
His words moved many people's hearts, and at this moment, more than 1,000 people in Jimo City shouted in unison: "There are millions of tons of grain and grass in the city, enough for you to eat for a year!" If anyone dares to come to attack the city, the besieging city will die, and the coercion will have nothing to eat! These words half rhyme and half do not rhyme, but they sound like thunder in the ears of the hundred thousand hungry people outside the city.
That Zhang Di said angrily: "Who forced us to this dead end? It's not your government yet? I don't believe these bullshit! There is a kind, rush with Lao Tzu! With that, he took the lead and rushed over.
In a noisy situation, many people did not understand the situation at all, and saw many people rushing towards the city wall and rushing towards it. When 10,000 or 20,000 people rushed to the city, many of those who had decided to obey the rules began to waver, and even began to take steps.
Suddenly! Thousands of crossbows were fired at the head of the city, and the people who rushed to the front fell on the spot! Following the opening of the city gate, hundreds of cavalry rushed out, and the first person approached Zhang Di, it was Zhao Li. The cavalry overwhelmed the men and horses covering around Zhang Di, Zhao Li waved his big knife and cut off Zhang Di's head and shoulders, and his deputy picked up his head with a spear and shouted: "The leader of the thieves is dead!" Put down your weapons and send food without sin! ”
Hundreds of people in the city shouted loudly together: "Put down your weapons and send food without sin!" ”
With a bang, a knife fell. Poof, a stick fell. This was followed by the sound of countless weapons falling to the ground, and the scene of thousands of knees kneeling.
Zhao Li shouted: "Among the people who didn't make trouble, is there anyone who has a leader, come out and answer!" ”
The man who was called Zhang Wanxian by Zhang Di just now took a few steps out of the crowd behind him and said loudly, "Does the official have anything to say?" ”
Zhao Li asked: "The spear is on this head, but Zhang Di's?" ”
Zhang Wanxian said: "Not bad!"
Zhao Lidao: "You are all good citizens of the Great Song Dynasty, and you are forced to make trouble, which is really helpless. Now that the first offender Zhang Di is dead, the others are not to blame! Today and tomorrow, our army will continue to distribute food. The day after tomorrow, we will distribute ten days of dry food and arrange for you to go to a place where you have work and food. You'll have to line up honestly! If you dare to make trouble, you will be killed! ”
Zhang Wanxian said: "The official is Mingjian." As long as there is something to eat, who wants to do this headless thing! ”
"Good!" Zhao Lidao: "From today on, this group of people will be led by you temporarily. Tomorrow you start dividing the crowd into groups of ten, hundreds, and thousands. The day after tomorrow we will have someone take you on a boat to the south, where there will be food and land to plant! Did you hear me clearly? ”
Zhang Wanxian said: "I heard clearly." He turned around and raised his hand and asked the 100,000 hungry people, "Did you hear clearly?" ”
Tens of thousands of people said together: "It's clear." ”
"Good!" Zhao Li said: "I'll go back to the city first!" If anything, send to the city gates to inquire about it! ”
After Zhao Li returned to the city, the city gate was closed, and food continued to be thrown in the city. Zhang Wanxian sent people to the city to collect food, and at the same time sent people to clean up the corpses by the city wall. Most of those who survived were glad they weren't on the wrong side, otherwise they would probably have been one of those corpses.
That Zhang Wanxian was quite organized, and on the second day, he really divided the 100,000 people into a group of ten people, a team of 100 people, and a group of 1,000 people. No one knew how many people were outside the city when the crowd was pressing, but such an organization immediately came up with a more accurate number: more than 116,500 people.
Zhao Li led the people out to collect the iron weapons, leaving only the sticks for their self-defense. At this time, the Dengzhou military horses had already established initial trust in the hearts of the hungry people, so no one resisted. On the third day, dry rations were distributed, and the first group of 1,000 men followed the first group of cavalry to the south, and the other groups also set off one after another.
"Where the hell are we going?"
Most people actually have no bottom in their hearts, but with dry food, they feel that the official who sent the grain this time is still quite trustworthy. 100,000 people arrived in three groups at Laoshan Bay, where a lot of timber was piled up and hundreds of people were waiting. Several civil officials directed the hungry people to build a wharf, and the vicinity of Laoshan Bay soon became a construction site. When there is a serious job, the human mind is not easy to go down the wrong path. And the timely distribution of grain for more than 10 consecutive days has established the credibility of these officials in their minds -- the Chinese peasants are actually very easy to coax, especially in this era, as long as you can let them live, everything can be discussed.
Due to the manpower, it didn't take long for the wharf to be erected, followed by dozens of big ships approaching one after another, and the people who were willing to get on the ship were picked up, some of them were transported to Qingyang Port to Zhutanggu and Liaokou, and some of them were transported to Liuqiu Zhuan Mayi, and the remaining more than 10,000 people who were relatively strong and willing to work and live stayed behind, ready to stay in Dengzhou and Laizhou to work. Zhao Li selected 1,500 people from these 10,000 people, led by Zhang Wanxian, to set up a Banqiao village on the west bank of Jiaoshui, as a barrier in the east of Laizhou, and listened to the control of Jimo Zhi County. As for the supply of money and grain, it is allocated by the port of Qingyang on a monthly basis. Of course, Mozhi County has no opinion on this - he doesn't have to do anything to add a group of armed forces to defend the land and the people, which is simply a good thing that fell from the sky!
In this way, a peasant uprising that almost poisoned the entire Shandong Peninsula was eliminated by the famous minister Wang Shizhong of Dengzhou. Wang Shizhong and Jimo Zhixian flew to Bianliang, because they had gone through the back door of Cai You and others in advance, and everyone from the prime minister down to the prime minister praised it. Daojun Emperor Longyan Dayue gave a special letter to the royal pen, preparing to promote Wang Shizhong to Beijing to participate in politics. The businessmen were shocked and tried to keep them in many ways, so some officials said that the roads in Shandong were not quiet, and they needed such a capable official as Wang Shizhong to guard the border. Moreover, a clever Taoist real person in Bianliang claimed that Shandong needed to be guarded by a "three horizontal and one vertical" in order to keep the peace in recent years, so Emperor Daojun couldn't, so he only added a few more titles to Wang Shizhong, and continued to serve the country in Dengzhou with the deputy envoy of Jingdong Transfer, sharing the worries of the king.
All kinds of things that happened from Jimo to Bianliang made Wang Shizhong feel furious in his heart. Hundreds of thousands of hungry people were really completely solved by the seven generals! Even the changes in the situation in the DPRK and China, no matter how you look at it, it looks like it is being played according to the script compiled by Yang Yingqi!
"Today's Great Song! Who is in the world?! ”
Wang Shizhong can't see clearly, and he can't figure it out! At the end of the day, I decided not to think about it anymore! After returning to Dengzhou Prefecture, Wang Shizhong simply stopped taking care of government affairs, and since then he has been intoxicated with wine to spend his years.
However, all kinds of virtues and politics in the royal division traveled all over Dengzhou without his knowledge, and even infiltrated Laizhou. The three villages of Qixia, Mudong and Fushan established a prestige that surpassed the local army in this incident and became the most trusted armed force on the Shandong Peninsula. Due to the guidance of experts from southern Liaoning and the abundant materials, Banqiao Village has slowly transformed in the direction of Qixia Village.
Dengzhou Laizhou became safer and richer when the officials of the Zhao family had no time to pay attention. More and more people are moving to the peninsula, which was sparsely populated a decade ago, to work and find something to eat. The arable land here is not very sufficient, but the large granaries set up by Yang Yingqi are more than enough to feed them.
Soon the new governor of Laizhou took office, and this official named Zhao Mingcheng did not have particularly outstanding economic talents, and under the strong influence of Wang Shizhong, all he could do was Xiao Gui Cao Sui.
Whether it is in the frontier or in the center, the family law of the Great Song Dynasty is becoming more and more weak and weak, perhaps because the parents of the Song family of this generation are really a soft egg who can't get tough!
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