Section 8: The Two Heavens of Joy and Sorrow (Part II)
A fierce battle is about to break out.
Zhao Zhuang's move, in the eyes of the government, was a prelude to a rebellion. But it's easy to do.
At this time, the people's national concept was extremely weak. The people's demands are low, and it doesn't matter who rules them. In fact, as long as you can be safe and have no worries about food and clothing, what if you mess with the ghost clan.
This is also the border, although the north belongs to the Liao State, it is the land of Youyan dominated by the Han people. Over the years, because of the collusion of the government or the local tyrants and inferior gentry, the border people fled to Youyan to survive, and in turn entered the country more ferociously than the Liao people, burning, looting, and killing officials to take revenge. The Great Song Dynasty did not advocate the use of force, and could only make weak concessions to the Liao State, and when the people were thrown abroad, they were ridiculed by the Liao State, and they also lost people and property, and they lost their face, and the actual security needs had to be strict and tolerant in the governance of the northern border. He was harsh with the scattered people who made trouble, was strong and tolerant of the landlords with influential forces, and had relatively high requirements for the quality of officials, and always tried his best to arrange for Qing Neng ministers to dominate the border areas.
Therefore, the Zhao family hit by mistake, and this tough confrontation made a fuss, but there was a way out. If the Zhao family said at that time that they would go to the government to complain, then the catchers would be happy.
When the people are the masters of the country, the officials are not afraid of your lawsuit, but the brutal feudal dictatorship that lacks humanity will be afraid? Even if they sue the capital, they are not afraid. How many national affairs do officials have to deal with, and they have to take time to take bribes and entertain themselves in order to take care of their health so that they can better serve the country, how can they have time to pay attention to the trivial matters of the people, and don't treat you as a troubled person who disturbs the country's official affairs and social order, you are already lucky. After suing for a circle, even if it is accepted, in the end, you don't have to settle down, that is, you are honestly tried within the influence of the accused officials.
Dozens of fast catchers faced with thousands of fierce Zhao Zhuang men who would impulsively pounce on them at any time and wield knives to kill people, and they had the courage to make up for a few words of face in their mouths, and then retreated in panic.
Relatively speaking, Emperor Shenzong at that time was not so bastard, and he had the influence of famous ministers such as Prince Anshi, and the officials in the northern border did not dare to slaughter the people unscrupulously.
There was such a ** as Zhao Zhuang against the government, and for the first time from top to bottom, the officials of Cangzhou Mansion realized that there was such a united and powerful civil force in the remote area of Yanshan, so although they were biased towards the Cui family, they were also afraid of Zhao Zhuang who could fight against Liaokou. It's really hard, it's hard to catch it all, force Zhao Zhuang to kill the official and occupy Yanshan as a robber, or escape by boat, Youyan will come back every year to take revenge, and Cangzhou will suffer in the future. The key is that when your family goes out, you have to be careful with your head at all times. Moreover, the matter was so big that it alarmed the Gao Yang Guan Lu pacification envoy and even the imperial court in charge, and he was charged with ineffective governance, and it was very uneconomical to cut off his future.
Therefore, the Cangzhou Mansion came forward, but the threat of deploying troops only had the opposite effect, which provoked the people of Zhaozhuang to be even more angry and fierce, and the situation softened first after the development was wrong.
The domineering Cui family can only endure the ferocity, plan to make up for the interests of face in the future, strengthen collusion with the government, and slowly repair Zhao Zhuang by various means. Cui Zhao thus became a feud.
After winning this battle, Dad realized the root of Zhao Zhuang's strength, and began to recruit bankrupt refugees to strengthen Zhao Zhuang's military strength, and while resolutely repairing the official servants who came to find trouble, he continued to defend the Ma family and attack the Cui family. It's ridiculous that the Cangzhou government can't effectively clean up an arrogant group of good people like Zhao Zhuang with ruthless hands.
This actually exposed the dangerous and embarrassing military situation of the Great Song Dynasty and heralded the annihilation of the Great Song Dynasty.
The Ma family passed through the danger and got closer to the Zhao family. Ma Dacai and his father became friends. In the subsequent Liao Kou invasion of Majiazhuang, Dad led people to risk their lives to kill and retreat Liao Kou, and took the Majiazhuang people to Zhaozhuang, where the city was high and strong, and resisted more Liao Kou's retaliatory attacks. From then on, the Ma family realized that it was difficult to survive alone, so they simply moved into Zhaozhuang and lived with Zhaozhuang.
Cangzhao has the grace of protecting his family and saving his life to Cangma. Ma Dacai has a wide vision, although he is a businessman, he is also a bold and righteous Cangzhou man, so he simply recognizes Lao Zhao as his righteous brother and returns the money and grain that is in short supply in Zhao Zhuang. As they resisted danger together in a sinister environment, Zhao Ma's feelings deepened rapidly, and he began to share honor and disgrace. Liaokou is raging, the government is becoming more and more brutal, Cangzhou is bankrupt and suffering, the population of Zhaozhuang is also increasing, and the Ma family is paying more and more. After so many years, the economy has been tense but steady. And Zhao Gonglian, who was born in the same year of this generation, and Ma Gongliang, the only son of the Ma family, have peed and played in the mud since childhood, studied together, grew up together, almost everything together, and the relationship is closer.
The Zhao and Ma families also have the intention of getting married, and they want to wait for the children to be older to see if they can make Ma Gongliang and Zhao Mingyue a pair.
In the era of arranged marriages by parents, the reason why it is necessary to look at the meaning of the children. First, Zhao Mingyue was rude and rebellious. And Ma Gongliang is the only child of the baby, and the Ma family can't bend the child. The twisted melon is not sweet, and the relationship between the two families must not be ruined because of the marriage of children, and good things must be turned into disasters. Second, it is the Zhang family, who has always been assertive.
The Cangzhao family is scared, the grandmothers in the family are completely sick in the matter of their children and grandchildren, and they are more serious patriarchal, the Ning family who gave birth to a son is like this, let alone those who have no son, they all treat boys and girls in the face, but they don't take their granddaughters seriously at all.
Zhao Laocai has a rough temperament and has a lot to do, he has to be busy looking for food for tens of thousands of mouths, he has to resist the powerful corrupt officials and Liaokou, deal with all kinds of dangers, he is busy all day long, it is rare to care about the children, and the upbringing of his children is completely herding sheep, and the education is almost not spoken, but it is just an intentional or unintentional example formed in daily life. The girl is beautiful, smart and cute. He generally treats his children equally, but in reality it means that he does not care about his children.
This forced the Zhang family to worry about his son's loss, and had to care more about his son. And she's just as busy. There are tedious and unfinished tasks such as taking care of the elderly, managing household chores, and resolving disputes between villagers. Many landlords' wives in feudal society also had to do farm work when they were busy with farming, but they were not as comfortable and idle as the wives of officials. There are few people in Zhaozhuang, so there is no need for Zhang's to go to the ground, but he also has to engage in textile and other labor. Even though he takes good care of his youngest son now, he is not idle when he is free. Poor Zhao Mingyue was sensible and could only try her best to get some comfort and care from her mother. Zhang always felt ashamed to be like his daughter, and he chose a husband from many suitors on his own, and when he came to his daughter, he wanted to make up for it.
In any case, in short, the relationship between the two families is developing towards closer unity.
is closely related to Zhao Yue's current life, the person who always dangles in front of his eyes, and there are two girls.
Although the economy is difficult, as a landlord's wife, Zhang's family has two personal rings, one is called Lotus Ye, an orphan rescued by Zhao Laocai when the Liao people invaded the border. At that time, her mother died in a ditch. Her father held a bloody hoe with angry eyes, and died not far from her mother, only a one-year-old villain was lucky to live, and still hugged her mother tightly to death and cried in her arms, now fourteen years old, has been promised to the housekeeper's third son Liu Da, childhood sweetheart. Zhao Zhuang has adopted at least hundreds of such orphans.
The other is called Xiaodou Sprouts, who is only eight years old, but she is the daughter of a refugee from Jiangnan, who was abducted by traffickers and sold in Cangzhou City, when she was two years old, and her surname is unknown. Zhang, who went out, met it, and saw that the child was so small but sensible that it was sad, so he bought this little baby who was so thin that it was like a bean sprout that could die at any time, and named it to commemorate it.
Like the vast majority of people in this era, Zhang had never been out of the state and did not know anything about the situation in other places.
She couldn't understand why so many people in the wealthy Song Dynasty who were proudly advertised by officials still had so many people who could not eat and be displaced, especially in the land of fish and rice like Jiangnan. For the two orphans, it was said that it was a ring, but in fact it was pity for the two children, so they kept them by their side as half a daughter, and taught and raised them together with their own children. The two girls are also diligent and sensible, so distressed that they are desperate for the Zhao family.
From these things, Zhao Yue saw a compassionate feudal landlord family, and a silly but extremely warm loyalty. It made him feel warm, he saw hope, and his dim heart brightened a lot, and of course it was all.
All the advantages and advantages of the Zhao family are far from guaranteeing anything. Not to mention how the too fragile economic situation is vulnerable in the face of natural disasters, not to mention how the Cui family, which is becoming more and more prosperous and the official background is becoming more and more hawkish, is becoming more and more hostile to the threat of provocation, just when the Jin army comes, no matter how united Zhao Zhuang is, no matter how heroic and stubborn the resistance is, it will be wiped out.
How can one family be against a nation?
Even if guns are built, how many resources can be obtained and how many guns and ammunition can be made in a vigilant environment like the Great Song Dynasty, which is afraid of rebellion. Without ammunition, guns are not as good as cold weapons.
The God in the dream is unreliable, and the current government is unreliable, so let's rely on ourselves first. Straight sissy thief!
In order to survive, Zhao Yue began to silently make a rough plan.
Didn't the wolf in the nightmare say that my most powerful and magical thing is the brain, and it should be the modern knowledge of the brain. And technology is the key. It is, the wings that support me to soar in this era. Whether Zhao Zhuang can become rich and powerful, and whether he can save the lives of a large Zhuangzi people at that time, depends on it first, and he never dares to forget it.
I'm afraid that after a long time, I will forget the knowledge I have mastered, as long as Zhao Yue is awake, whether he is nursing or lying down, he always tries to recall and review.
Poor, low-conditioning brains can't withstand high-intensity operation, and often toss to the point of dizziness and nausea.