Cangzhou. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The summer harvest is almost complete.

This year, the wind and rain are good, the grain harvest is abundant, and the farmers are turning over the wheat with full grains and a gratifying quantity, but there is no joy on their faces but sorrow, and their hearts are even more frightened and anxious.

They were afraid that the Liao Kou would come to burn and loot.

As early as when the wheat entered the ripening period, there were rumors that the Khitan barbarians in the north suffered a big defeat and lost Liaodong, forming many hungry refugees, and Yanyun poured in many barbarians who fled south. These refugee barbarians have the nobles and army of Liao, and there are civilian herdsmen, but all of them are hungry wolves who have lost their family business, and the Jin army is a waste, and even the slaves and thieves who occupy Liaodong can't beat the Bohai people, but they are all fierce and powerful and confident in bullying the Song State, and in the summer harvest season, they will pounce fiercely like hungry wolves eager to prey.

However, the local prefect Zheng Juzhong is an old straw bag who can only be an official, he is a good hand at drinking flowers and wine and writing fancy articles, he is personable, full of official authority and righteousness, and he looks like that, but if he is expected to lead the military and people in Cangzhou to protect the country and the people, then it depends on it.

This guy can lead those dog officers and bear soldiers to retreat to the mansion and defend the city, and it would be good if he was not scared to death by Liao Kou.

If only the capable Marquis Wen Cheng was still our prefect.

It's a pity that Cangbei Border Pass is also facing a counter-looting war, and Hou Ye's subordinates have tens of thousands of strong troops, but even if the foundation of the hometown is in danger at that time, he can't pull out if he wants to wave the army to save Cangzhou.

What's even more terrifying is that it is said that Hou Ye has fallen out of favor, and he is no longer a person trusted by the official family, and those traitors and dog officials in the court are jealous and hateful Hou Ye is immortal, and they are all competing to make difficulties and prepare for a big attack.

Look at Cangzhao's current embarrassment, the big deal that makes money is broken, the business that affects the whole country is gone, and the situation is worse day by day, from which it can be seen that Hou Ye is really losing power.

Without the support of Hou Ye, how can we Cangzhou people still have a good life?

Without the Cangzhao family leading the local prosperity and development, what hope can we have in Cangzhou?

The bad thing in front of me is that Zheng Juzhong, the dog official, has collapsed Cangzhao's business, scourged a large number of businesses, messed up the local economy, and Cangzhou's business is in a depression. The dog official is anxious, he has no ability to enrich the country and strengthen the people, but he has the ability to loot the people, and he has the courage of his own people in the puddle of poison in his belly, and in order to prove to the emperor that he is capable of governing the place, there are rumors that he will increase taxes this summer, not only to clean up the money accumulated in the pockets of the people of Cangzhou, but also to forcibly expropriate the grain that the people hope to have enough to eat after a bumper harvest.

It is said that the pirates wantonly plundered the people's money and grain in the south, and the Great Song Dynasty suffered heavy losses along the coast, and the tax deficit was so severe that it was in urgent need of a large amount of money and grain elsewhere to support the huge court expenses. Zheng Juzhong saw this opportunity to show his merit to the emperor, and planned to search Cangzhou to get money and grain and hand it over to the imperial court to please the emperor, no matter whether our Cangzhou people were willing or not, starved to death or not.

This dog official is ruthless and black-hearted, he understands that our people are inconsequential grass, and it doesn't matter if you hate him again, as long as the emperor is satisfied, he will be promoted to an official with a bright future.

In this way, it is good to have a good harvest and hard work, but when the time comes, you will end up with gruel to eat and barely survive.

This is terrible and miserable enough, Liaokou still wants to rob us, but the government doesn't care about us, can't protect us, how can we live this day?

Most of the people of Cangzhou now belong to foreign households, some have moved from the border to settle down, and have experienced the looting and resistance of the Liao Kou before, but more of them are well-known poor households of refugees from the interior who came to survive, and they are fortunate not to have experienced the ferocious burning and looting of the Liao Kou during the period of living in Cangzhou, and they have no such experience at all, even if they have received active military training under the leadership of the peripheral personnel of the Cangzhao Group, such as the eradication of the big criminal households and the special placement of a large number of village owners and Bao Zheng, during the reign of the Marquis of Wencheng, they have received active military training, and they are not able to protect themselves.

The government and the army are unreliable. I don't have the confidence to resist Liaokou, could it be that when the disaster comes, I just wait to be killed and robbed?

Even if you escape this catastrophe, you can't escape the cannibalistic taxes of the government, what will you do in the future?

Cangzhou has no hope and wants to move away, but where is the place in the Great Song Dynasty where we can live a good life in peace?

The people went from fear, anxiety and despair, and eventually to resentment, quickly or slowly.

They resented Zheng Juzhong, who could only play tricks, resented Shi Fulian, the chief of soldiers and horses, and resented ....... then resented the Great Song court.

The Great Song Dynasty is a rotten bird, no official is not corrupt, no general is not afraid of death, but he is afraid that it will become darker and worse day by day, what else is worthy of our people's loyalty?

The legendary pirate country is rich and strong and treats the people well, and likes the Han people the most, doesn't it mean that it is being robbed to the north?

If the pirates come. Let's just join the pirates and leave the Great Song Dynasty.

Zheng Ju waited for the dog official to die. the taxes.

Want to take our life money and food in exchange for their meritorious deeds?

Let's take everything away and dedicate it to the pirates, and if we can't finish it, we will burn it with fire, and not a single grain of rice will be left for the dog officials, so that the black-hearted dog officials will have empty dreams and empty joy.

With the completion of the summer harvest and the crisis approaching, the heads of the old and young will be cut off at any time, and this trend of thought has formed a frenzy of anger and anxiety in the hearts of the people of Cangzhou.

They actively harvested and dried grain, and the dried grain was not set up in a granary to pay taxes, but packed and shipped away at any time.

All they thought about was the pirates, why didn't they come? Will it come?

Adults and children alike craned their necks, anxiously hoping that the legendary pirate would appear in time.

People also hope that the local leader, the Cang family, Zhao, can also join the pirates.

With Wen Chenghou's ability, he will definitely be able to become the prime minister of the pirate country when he goes to the pirate country, so that everyone will have more confidence in joining the pirates, and they will have more confidence to rely on and have hope.

Why did the Cangzhao family stupidly wait for the Dog Emperor to use it and cut off his head?

Anxious people really want to run to ask Master Hou in person: You are so smart and wise, are you actually a fool with a rotten head that is not even as good as us grass people? The dog emperor treats you so harshly, the hundred officials reject and hate you so much, you have no place in the Great Song Dynasty, and your fate is only afraid that it is not as good as our grass people, what loyalty and integrity do you still insist on? The court is rare, your family is loyal and righteous? Who is your family's senseless persistence and forbearance? The hearts of the dog emperor and the hundred officials were already dark, and their eyes were already blind.

People are looking forward to the arrival of the pirates and forcibly remove the Cangzhao family. In this way, Marquis Wen Cheng will probably have to abandon Song and join the pirates.

Then it's all beautiful.

This trend is naturally deliberately promoted by Cangzhao Group. Naturally, those rumors were also deliberately released.

However, Zheng Juzhong's main officials in Cangzhou were indeed anxious about the tax issue this summer, and they also eyed the opportunity of piracy to plague Song, and planned to search for ordinary people to flatter themselves for their rich future.

As for what to do in Cangzhou. They have been promoted and transferred, and the rotten Cangzhou has nothing to do with them, and they don't have to worry about the consequences.

Even if they are not transferred, they can still be used as an excuse to deal with the serious scourge of Liaokou and pirates, Cangzhou has collapsed, and the tax tasks set before cannot be counted.

Not to mention the feudal bureaucrats such as Zheng Juzhong, they are the descendants of the legal civilization, and there are many people who take advantage of the interests of the local people to fight for their own political achievements and go to the top of the ranks.

This kind of bureaucrat is another kind of thief among thieves who is different from Zhao Yue.

Zhao Yue's fields do not have to pay taxes, the majority of tenants have a benevolent lord to take care of, and there is no need to worry about living without money and food, and the persecution of the government cannot be added to them, but they are still nervously busy transferring all the collected grain to Cangzhao Honzhuang and the castles near Benzhuang.

Cangzhao family's former castle factory production center in the dense production equipment, many male and female workers are gone, after the conquest of the peninsula was the first to quietly transfer to the peninsula to start over, the castle has become an empty city, only the guards guarding the fort are watching, the government and outsiders do not know the inside situation, and now it has become a refuge for the people when the crisis comes.

Liu Wen, the spy leader who stayed in Zhaozhuang, and Li Zhu, the military supervisor of the Divine Sword Daoist, actively prepared for war and secretly promoted the ideological preparations for Cangzhou immigrants, while closely monitoring the movements of the Liao people in Mozhou with spies and spies.

A hundred miles north of Cangzhou, there is an elite Qianning army under the command of Hou Ye, and then there are Xin'an Army, Qingzhou Army, and Jizhou Army under the command of Hou Ye himself to defend it. Li Zhu just kept an eye on Mozhou.

Zhao Zhuang, Zhao Yue's grandmother, Ning's old lady.

Xiao Liu sat in front of the old lady and spoke, but his expression was a little anxious.

Naturally, he was not afraid of the old lady's strictness, but worried about the safety of the old man.

"Ancestor, my eldest brother has found out, Liao Kou bullied Zheng Juzhong and Shi Fu Lian incompetent, this time will focus on robbing our wealthy Cangzhou people, the elite regular army alone has 15,000 or 6,000 people, of which 5,000 are cavalry, or specially drawn from the elite of the northern army to deal with the Jin army, the general of the unified army is a Han man named Han Chang, it is said that this person is not only brave and good at fighting, but also has a lot of talent for commanding the army, and is the new general of the Liao Emperor. This kind of person personally led the troops here, and his intention is obviously not good. ”

Han Changzi longevity, although he is a Han Chinese, he was born in a famous family in Liao.

He is the descendant of Han Derang, that is, the most intimate and interdependent lover of Empress Dowager Xiao Xiao in history, and the Han Derang who was respected and relied on by Emperor Liao'er, who died of his father.

Everyone knows that the Liao Emperor Yelu clan has been related to the powerful Xiao tribe for generations to strengthen the foundation of rule, and the Xiao clan is known as the descendant of the Liao State. The queen mother of the Liao State is mostly surnamed Xiao.

But the Empress Dowager Xiao, who became a lover with Han Derang, was not ordinary, and was famous in history.

It was when she was actually in power that she resisted the barbaric and conservative and powerful forces within the Khitan, effectively promoted the advanced civilization of the Han people, changed the ignorance and backwardness of the Khitan people, greatly revitalized the political, military, cultural, economic and other aspects of the Liao State, and pushed the Liao State from a nomadic tribal alliance to a regular civilization and a strong dynasty.

The commander of the army went south to conquer in person, and it was the famous Empress Xiao who defeated Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong. The Song people called it the Demon Queen.

Zhao Guangyi, who was not good for a while, was bent on subduing Yanyun to teach the Khitan State, and wanted to show that he should take over the emperor if he was more wise and capable than the founding brother, and led the hundreds of thousands of elite troops of the founding elite of the Great Song Dynasty at that time, and attacked the Liao State in three ways, but he returned with a miserable defeat, and the well-known Yang family general Yang Linggong Yang Ye died in that battle, even Zhao Guangyi himself was wounded by an arrow, and thousands of the most elite guards around him were killed and wounded. He was fortunate enough to get a civilian donkey cart to escape back to China in a hurry, and when he came back, he was scared and sick, and wanted to move the capital to avoid the Liao army, burying hundreds of thousands of founding veterans who came out of the bloody battle, and whether the Great Song Dynasty could exist under the iron hooves of the Liao army became a problem for a while, and he no longer dared to think about seizing Yanyun, and soon died of illness.

Da Song has been suffering from hypochondriasis since then. His descendants are even less capable of regaining Yanyun's territory.

The problem is that it was a woman who defeated him and actually scared him to death.

It was also the new Liao State founded by women that firmly crushed the Song State led by Zhao Guangyi's descendants from generation to generation. It was also this woman who forced Song Zhenzong to sign the alliance of humiliation.

This is really a great irony, but it is the misfortune of the Han nation.

And the most powerful person who helped a generation of demon queens, Empress Dowager Xiao, to become strong was Han Derang.

Han Derang was essentially just a literati of a doctor's family, holding the demon queen's lover, respected and relied on by Emperor Liao, but he exerted great talent, and his majesty was unparalleled for a while, and after his death, he was buried with Empress Xiao by Emperor Liao himself. Instead of burying Empress Xiao and the first emperor together for the sake of face and so-called royal dignity like the Han emperor, Han De let the body be broken into thousands of pieces.

The romantic deeds of Han and Empress Xiao are still being compiled into operas and sung endlessly in later generations. He is undoubtedly a traitor who can stand up to the years of history, and he is also a thief among thieves.

Han people are always so strange, serving in their own clan, there is no one who can be as brilliant as Han Derang, once he becomes a traitor, he is radiant and powerful.

The Han people who suffered from it cursed the traitors, but they never reflected on why this happened, and no authoritative figure reflected on the fateful ills of the Han Dynasty to try to change.

Keen on internal fighting, harsh and domineering internally, tolerant and humble externally, playing Confucianism and self-locking hands and feet, self-deception, vanity and arrogance, China has endured too much ridicule from heaven in history.

However, Han Derang's prestige has long passed, the bones and scum are rotten, and his once prominent family has quickly declined, and it is a blessing in misfortune that the Khitan magnates who were retaliated against and suppressed by the Khitan magnates whose interests were damaged in the reform after Xiao did not become a historical cloud.

In the generation of Han Chang and Han Yanshou, because the Liao State was in danger of being destroyed by the Jin army, he had to attach great importance to all the generals who could conquer and fight, and no longer cared about race and old grievances.

Being able to come out in the national disaster proves that Han Chang does have real skills. Emperor Liao personally sent Han Chang to lead heavy troops to loot Cangzhou, I am afraid that there is a sinister and profound meaning.