During the Zhengde period, there was a saying: Hebei suffers from horses, and Jiangnan suffers from grain.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, after the fall of Zhang Shicheng, the land of the important ministers under his command was all taken over by Zhu Yuanzhang as official land. Coupled with the official fields from other sources, there are countless official fields in Jiangnan, and even more than Mintian at one time.

Since the official land does not have to pay rent and does not need to serve forced labor, the land endowment is three times that of the private land, which is equivalent to the three-in-one of the land endowment, field rent, and forced labor.

This was very cost-effective during the Hongwu and Yongle periods, and many small landlords voluntarily donated their private land to the government, and became tenants of official land for generations. They only need to pay the field tax every year, and then they don't have to worry about anything, and their small life is very nourishing.

After Xuande, Tian Zheng became increasingly corrupt.

Countless official fields have inexplicably become private land, and not only are the land taxes still levied at three times, but tenants also have to pay land rent and be subject to forced labor. There are countless bankrupts, countless people who sell their sons and daughters, and Emperor Hongzhi has failed to reform because too many relatives and powerful people are involved.

This is Jiangnan suffering from food!

And Hebei suffers from horses, also because of the corruption of the system.

Zhu Di once said very proudly: "The north raised 200,000 soldiers, and conquered Mongolia year after year, without spending a grain of rice for the people." ”

This is a fact, during the Yongle period, the northern army only needed to use the grain produced by the border military camps. Even the grain in the military field is still not finished, and there are often grain officials who report to the court very proudly: "Oh, my granaries here are full, and the grain from three years ago has not been eaten, and it is really a waste to rot in the warehouse." ”

And now?

As soon as a war starts, not to mention the border provinces, even the people of Hebei and Henan need to pay grain to serve (act as a people's husband to transport grain).

This led to the fact that the imperial court did not dare to fight a big battle, and could only passively defend itself.

But the cabinet bigwigs still have clear ideas and have been accumulating capital to take the initiative to attack. That includes raising horses!

The horse politics in the Yanzhao area is particularly fierce, and under the exploitation of officials at all levels, almost every family in some prefectures and counties raises horses. It is not to raise it for itself, but to raise horses for the imperial court, bad horses are used to transport grain, and good horses can be cultivated into war horses.

Although the idea is very good, and the horse administration is also well formulated, it is completely deformed at the grassroots level, and the people in charge of raising horses are miserable.

As a result, the Liu Liu and Liu Qi uprisings broke out.

This kind of civil unrest is different from the uprisings in the south and southwest of the Yangtze River, because many prefectures and counties raise horses. A few thousand chaotic people are thousands of cavalry, although they can't be compared with regular cavalry, but they can run fast!

The counterinsurgency officers and troops had only reached the halfway point when the rebels had already ridden away. Often, the official army arrives in County A, the rebel army captures County B, the official army comes to County B, and the rebel army goes to County C. The scale of the uprising is getting bigger and bigger, and it has also joined forces with the Shandong rebel army, and now there are rebel armies everywhere in the north of Shandong and the south of Beijing.

At this moment, even the county seat of Boye (under Baoding) is besieged, and the nearest rebel army is only a few hundred miles away from the capital.

These rebellious armies have many horses, and the northern plains are galloping, and they can enter the Koujing division in a blink of an eye.

Therefore, some people shouted "Liu Liu, Liu Qi is coming", and the people in the southern suburbs were all convinced, and the black lights had become a pot of porridge.

Wang Yuan held the torch high, galloped wildly, and before he came to the place where the thieves were causing trouble, he found that the thieves were taking advantage of the fire to rob on the way.

Those thieves were in the open fire, shouting "Liu Liu, Liu Qi", while rushing into private houses and shops.

"Damn the thief!"

Wang Yuan slapped his horse and slashed out the dragon bird knife in his hand, directly cutting off a head, and then burst into shouting: "Guizhou Wang Yuan is here, the thief surrenders quickly, otherwise he will be killed!" ”

While speaking, Wang Yuan hacked two more to death, frightening the surrounding thieves to avoid them.

"There was only one person, beat him to death!" There were thieves shouting.

Seeing that the thieves were surrounded, Wang Yuan was too lazy to talk nonsense, and rushed through the streets to kill. Only one went back and forth, and five thieves were hacked to death, and the rest either fled or knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

It was not until this moment that Zhou Chong, Zou Mu and their scholars finally arrived on horseback.

"Tie them all up and send them to the official tomorrow!"

Wang Yuan was sure that the surrendered thief had thrown away his weapon, so he ignored this place and let Zhou Chong and the three of them deal with it.

Further south, Wang Yuan went straight to the sky, but a manor was looted.

The thieves I met on the way were all ruffians in the southern suburbs who took advantage of the chaos to make trouble. This is the real thief, it is estimated that the horse thief from the neighboring county, pretending to be Liu Liu Liu and Liu Qi to loot the powerful manor - there is a high wall in the core area of the manor, and the thieves use the name of the rebel army, but they are so frightened that the manor family members dare not resist, and even some family members turned against the water on the spot.

The wheat fields in the manor had been trampled on countless times, and the thieves were concentrated inside and outside the mansion, carrying all kinds of looted goods, and it seemed that several carts were already filled.

Wang Yuan rode on the horse, and without saying a word, an arrow shot out, directly stringing the two thieves together.

All the thieves were shocked, they raised their blades one after another, and some people fired arrows at Wang Yuan indiscriminately.

There were more than ten thieves outside the gate of the house, Wang Yuan immediately stabbed and shouted: "Wang Yuan, a person from Guizhou, is here, don't surrender quickly!" ”

A thief leader came out of the courtyard and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"The second master, someone came over there, shot our two brothers, and told us to surrender quickly." A thief said.

The thief leader sneered, "Kill him!" ”

More than a dozen thieves immediately mounted their horses and charged at Wang Yuan with the help of the blazing firelight.

These are all farmers who were forced to rebel by Ma Zheng, and they fell into the grass and became horse thieves, all of them were good at riding, but they looked chaotic when they charged.

Wang Yuan shot an arrow, knocked over a horse thief, and immediately hit the horse and ran to the side. After running more than ten steps, he suddenly turned around and was an arrow, and he didn't need to pull the bow full at all, and the power of the rhino bow was amazing.

was shot to death by Wang Yuan five or six times in a row, and the thief leader finally shouted in panic: "Don't chase after it, retreat to the courtyard!" ”

Many houses in this mansion have been on fire, illuminating the sky clearly, and it is estimated that the servants and maids inside have also been killed and burned to death.

No matter what grievances the horse thieves had before, they killed innocents indiscriminately, and they were no longer good men.

If you rob a big household, you will rob it, and you will set it on fire. Even the riots on the streets outside the city were very likely caused by them -- some people shouted "Liu Liu, Liu Qi" outside the city, and as soon as the streets became chaotic, the officers and men in the city did not dare to go out easily.

The horse thieves all retreated into the courtyard, not even caring about the carloads of goods outside the gate.

Wang Yuan didn't care about rushing in, he could only shout: "Do you want to hide in the courtyard and wait for the officers and soldiers to leave the city at dawn?" ”

When it came to the hearts of the horse thieves, they could have left through the back door, but all the houses over there were on fire, so that Wang Yuan was now blocked in the front yard and could not come out.

and thou shalt not live.

In the courtyard, the big boss and the second boss have already quarreled.

The big boss said: "There is a man and a horse outside, I am afraid that he will be a bird!" ”

The second master said: "This man is very good at riding and shooting, and he has shot over several of our brothers, and he has not even touched a single hair." ”

"I'll wait for more than forty riders, and he'll shoot a few." The big boss asked.

The second master said depressedly: "He should be riding a BMW, and our horses can't catch up." We chase him and run, we retreat and he chases, and in the middle of the cold shot a few arrows, who can stand this? ”

The big boss huffed and said, "What should I do then? ”

The second master suggested: "Ride out together, ignore this person, and go to Boye County to join Liu Liu and Liu Qi." ”

"How many truckloads of goods are missing?" The big boss asked.

The second master was quite speechless: "Then how to transport it away?" The cart full of goods went slowly, and this man was so good at archery that he didn't have to shoot my brothers, but the horse pulling the cart to death. ”

The big boss gritted his teeth and said: "You can't come for nothing tonight!" ”

The second master said: "Everyone has some goods on them, only gold, silver and jewelry, and all the things in the car are gone!" ”

"Fart!"

The big boss suddenly shouted in the courtyard: "Who is the hero outside?" ”

Wang Yuan replied: "Wang Yuan, a man from Guizhou, is here, ordering you to surrender as soon as possible!" ”

The big boss actually wanted to rebel against Wang Yuan: "Brother Wang, it's useless to lift people alone, it's better to go with us to take refuge in Liu Liu and Liu Qi." The two generals Liu have conquered all of them, and they have defeated several groups of officers and soldiers, and they will be able to become emperors in the future. You are a lifter, and you will definitely be able to reuse the two generals Liu, and in the future, you and I will be heroes from the dragon. I am Chang Yuchun, you are Liu Bowen! ”

Wang Yuan stopped talking, too lazy to talk nonsense with the mentally retarded, anyway, it was beneficial for him to drag it out.

The big boss thought that he was moving Wang Yuan, and hit the railway while it was hot: "Do you know whose manor this is?" This is the Zhuangzi of Zhang Heling, Marquis of Shouning, and we have found thousands of taels of gold and silver. Regardless of whether Brother Wang defects to the rebels or not, as long as you let us go, half of the wealth will be shared with you! ”

Wang Yuan still didn't speak.

The big boss said in an angry tone: "Zhang Heling, a thief, relied on the support of the queen (Empress Dowager Zhang) to enclose the entire land. I was originally a good citizen in the suburbs of Beijing, but I was forced to die by this thief, so I had to fall into the grass. Today I am not only here to rob money, but also to take revenge. The good men of the green forest have clear grievances, Brother Wang, do you say I did it right? ”

"your grandma!"

Wang Yuan finally couldn't help but scold: "You have a grudge against Zhang Heling, why do you want to implicate innocent people outside the city?" You sent people to set fire to the streets and spread rumors, causing panic among people outside the southern city, and I don't know how many ruffians and hooligans took advantage of the fire to loot. ”

The big boss defended: "If I don't mess up the outside of the city, the officials and soldiers in the city will definitely send troops over when they see that something happened to Zhang Heling's manor!" ”

"You're reasonable," Wang Yuan scolded angrily, "I'm a native of Guizhou, and I know that Zhang Heling lives in the city, why don't you go into the city to find him for revenge?" If you lurk in the streets of the city and find an opportunity to assassinate Zhang Heling, I respect you as a good man. Now you are killing innocents indiscriminately, just to plunder their goods, and you are really unkind! Now you are hiding in the courtyard as a turtle with a shrunken head, and you don't even have the word 'brave', you are a nest that bullies the soft and is afraid of the hard! ”

After speaking, Wang Yuan stretched out his bow and shot all the horses pulling carts outside the gate of the house to death.

When the big boss heard the noise, he looked out through the crack in the door, and suddenly became angry: "It's too much of a bully, rush out for me!" Fuck it! ”

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