In ancient times, the people did not know a lot and had a wide range of contacts with the world like in modern times, no matter whether the cultural foundation of the family was thick or thin, whether they were the general secretary or picking up rags, as long as they had the heart, the vast majority of their children could give a meaningful and resounding good name.

In this era of the Northern Song Dynasty, the boys in the countryside were called dog babies and stones, and Wang San and Li Si were too common. Most of the girls are simply nameless, called Erniang, Sanniang, and a certain little girl, and families with status and wealth are no exception. That's how Sun Erniang and Hu Sanniang appeared.

Huang Yue, Jin Ding, this name, it is extraordinary when you hear it.

Yue is the honor guard weapon of the ancient palace guard, and was once a symbol of the country's strong force. Whenever the army is inspected or goes out to fight, the leader of the country will hold the golden sword, worship heaven and earth on the high platform, explain the righteous reasons for the conquest to heaven and earth, and swear an oath, and the army will be entangled and pulled out again.

Ding, but also the country's important weapon, the treasure of the country, a symbol of royal power, the eternal stability of the country and the like.

The fact that the two families are in the countryside of Hejian Province shows that the parents can give their children such a lofty name, which in itself shows that the family background has unusual roots.

The two families were actually the foundation of the rule of the Great Song Dynasty -- the most common landlord family, the neighboring village, each had a thousand acres of land, and they were the natural head of the village, and they were appointed by the government to collect taxes and distribute labor on behalf of the government.

Just as Huang Yue and Jin Ding said, the two families are heirlooms and do not do business.

The business trend led by the rise of Cangzhao has not been able to fundamentally change the backward old concepts that have been circulating in China for thousands of years, nor can it really change the traditional mode of survival and development of the ruling base group of the Great Song Dynasty.

This is because the distorted Confucianism still firmly rules people's minds, and naturally maintains the old and conservative traditions.

On the one hand, the magnates shouted that business was a cheap industry, despised commerce, science and technology, and practitioners from the height of national policy, excluded the children of businessmen and craftsmen through the imperial examination, guided people to engage in business and scientific research in terms of ideology and understanding, controlled the people to honestly divide agriculture and textiles, paid money and grain to support them, encouraged students all over the world to learn Confucian knowledge, and became scholars who abide by Confucian teachings and had the future of becoming officials, and gathered the world's smart people and elites with imperial examinations to serve the imperial court and serve them and the powerful, on the other hand, they knew the benefits of doing business. Desperately participating in business in various ways and with the convenience of power, regardless of harming the interests of the country and the nation, making a windfall, and living a life of poverty and luxury.

In this way, being an official is still the only decent thing in the Great Song Dynasty, and the various benefits are too great, and it can best glorify the ancestors.

Studying and taking the imperial examination is naturally the only opportunity for ordinary people to get ahead.

Cheap businessmen and lowly workers, learning to become literary and martial arts, and selling them to the emperor's family, are still the mainstream ideas in society.

Cangzhao is famous and powerful, but on the surface, he still can't resist the traditional understanding of society, and he can't directly show people as a businessman. He was born as a farmer and landlord in officialdom. As for the powerful business, that is the industry of Zhaozhuang, and the people of Zhaozhuang do it.

The factories and other wealth of Zhaozhuang belong to the Cangzhao family, and the people of all the castle villages in Zhaozhuang are tenant farmers or servants of Cangzhao, and Zhaozhuang's business is actually Cangzhao's business. The officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty and those with insight understood this, but at least they superficially admitted that Cangzhao was a farmer and not a businessman.

This is undoubtedly self-deception.

But the ruling class of several generations of feudal dynasties in China has been deceiving itself for generations, and it is natural that they are at ease.

The distorted Confucianism developed later, and the best and most shameless thing was to be a bitch/son to set up an archway, hanging a sheep's head and selling dog meat.

The two families live in the southwest of Hejian Province, not too far from Cangzhou in the east where the commercial manufacturing industry is prosperous and the commercial wealth is prosperous.

The ancestors of the two families have produced civil officials, but also military generals, there are family heirloom books and martial arts, this generation of the family continues to maintain the tradition of farming and reading heirlooms, to the son to study and practice martial arts, hoping that the child will one day be able to embark on a career in the official career, sell a body of skills and loyalty to the emperor's family, and glorify the ancestors.

The family has a lot of fertile land, which is not very rich, but there is no shortage of food and clothing, and there is money to spend, which also ensures that the two families can persevere.

Huang Yue and Jin Ding have grown up, and they are also outstanding children of good conduct in both civil and military affairs, famous in the township, and are local celebrities.

But at this time, the rule of the Great Song Dynasty fell into decay, the society became increasingly turbulent, the domestic robbers and thieves were everywhere, there was a trend of turbulence, and the border was never peaceful. From time to time, the Western Xia and Liao armies would invade, burn, kill and plunder.

Cangzhou has a strong Cangzhao family, the Liao army is becoming more and more afraid to commit, in recent years, the idea of simply not fighting Cangzhou, saving the root hair can not be grabbed, but the people and horses have gone and never returned, and Cangzhou has been strengthened, but they have suffered heavy losses.

The Hejian Mansion in the west, that is, the Yingzhou Mansion, and the Liao-controlled Mozhou in the north, became the hardest hit area of the Liao army's scourge.

After Zhang Jin, the capable minister in charge of Gaoyang Guan Road, and the former prefect left office one after another, the newly appointed prefect and the prefect of Gaoyang Guan Road Observation Shi Wang is the in-law of King Anqing. Hejian Mansion has become more and more a place where Liao Kou is raging.

The children of the two golden families are biased towards martial arts, papers, and the road to becoming civil officials in the imperial examination is not passable. There are certain conditions and opportunities to take the military examination or join the army, and strive to be a military attaché, but both families have only such a child, and if they really become soldiers, whether it is to fight against the Liao Kou or to exterminate the endless bandits, it is an extremely dangerous thing.

As a result, the mother of the two families was afraid that her only son would die in battle, and she would not let her child go on a martial arts path.

The husband who adheres to the gentleman's demeanor can't twist the wife who loves his son, and then consider the complex form of officialdom today, like his own family, who has no roots and no support in the court, and the child really becomes a soldier, I am afraid that he will be stepped on in peacetime, and in wartime, it is the life of a human weapon to help others earn credit. Liao Kou often comes to attack, and sometimes he can kill here, and the family also needs his son to support and protect him, so he no longer insists that his child go to the martial arts exam to become a soldier.

Huang Yue and Jin Ding grew up together, twenty years old, it was full of energy, when they couldn't sit still, they didn't have to farm in person, they didn't do business, they didn't worry about food and clothing, they were carefree, and they were armed again, and they had nothing to do all day long.

At this time, Ji'an and Wu Dezhen became bandits, although the cottage did not belong to Hejian Mansion, but they grabbed the neighboring gold two families.

Huang Yue and Jin Ding, who were conceited and uncomfortable, were overjoyed when they heard the news, summoned their younger brothers who followed, and took Zhuang Ding from the two villages to intercept Ji'an and Wu Dezhen's subordinates who had returned from robbery.

In the education received by the two golden, robbers and bandits are naturally bad people, and killing them can not only uphold justice, but also gain fame and profit.

The four of them immediately clashed, and both sides were one with a big knife and one with a gun, just knife to knife and gun to gun, and there was a vicious battle.

Ji An and Wu Dezhen are both born in fast hunting, and they don't know how many gangsters they have met and how many bandits they have killed in their careers, even if they are not masters in the world, they have honed their real skills and rich combat experience in actual combat.

Huang Yue and Jin Ding played small and taught the head of the martial arts hired by the family to learn martial arts and lay the foundation, but they did not receive the guidance of the real famous teacher, and the family martial arts practiced by the ancestors were summarized and passed down by the ancestors on the battlefield, which was very practical, but the fathers of the two were ordinary people who were good at writing, and they could not help in martial arts.

In the shouts and cheers of the younger brothers on both sides, Huang Yue and Jin Ding were excited and extremely brave, but they were knocked off the horse by their opponents.

The conceited hearts of the two were hit hard, and they closed their eyes to death. But the robbers spared them.

Ji An said, "Do you know why we are robbing you two villages apart?" ”

"For your fathers are disciplined and conscientious."

"You two are bent on killing us. Do you know why we didn't kill you? ”

"And because you two aren't really villains. You're just stupid boys who read and get educated, and you have bad brains and can't tell the difference between red and black. ”

The robbers laughed and rode away with the looted booty.

Before leaving, Wu Dezhen threw down a sentence: "Childish young man, remember, those who wear official uniforms do not necessarily have red hearts." Robbers, the heart is not necessarily black. Right and wrong are never necessarily the same as identity. It's not that simple. ”

Luckily picked up a life. Huang Yue and Jin Ding have learned a lot of lessons.

It just so happened that at this time, Huang Yue's father was sick, Huang Yue took Jin Ding as a companion, and hurried to the cool Taoist temple in the nearby mountains, and asked Dai Xiuming, a Taoist priest who is good at medical skills, to heal again.

Little did they know that a catastrophe had befallen their homes.

The big bully that Ji'an and Wu Dezhen robbed is the hometown of Li Absi, a public actor similar to Song Jiang in the county.

Father and brother and relatives and friends who used to be domineering with the help of power in the past are almost dead, and the floating wealth accumulated for many years by the family has been looted, Li Abssi gritted his teeth with hatred for this gang of robbers, but the robbers do not belong to Hejian Province, no matter how capable he is, he can't intervene in Beppu to move troops to encircle and suppress revenge, and there is nowhere to vent his hatred.

One is to avenge the grudge with the two families in the past, and the other is to get the lost wealth from the gold two families the most.

The local magistrate took the path of the new prefect of the king, and the official was to make money, and he hated the gold family, relying on his own power and influence in the local area, and refused to pay a lot of money to him, the newly arrived county magistrate, who did not know how to raise it, and was greedy for the property of the two families, and hit it off with Li Zhisi.

The two golden families, from the master and his wife to the maids, were all arrested by the sudden arrest who rushed to the door and were arrested by the county government to interrogate the bandits.

The two families naturally shouted that they were wronged.

Li Absi sneered and asked: "You are so innocent, why don't the robbers rob you?" Defeat your sons and don't kill them? ”

This logic is like the judge deciding that you didn't hit people, why would you save people, so people must be hit by you. Robbers do you no evil. This is the evidence of your collusion.

In order to retaliate, the official skin repeatedly makes things difficult for you under the banner of joint law enforcement and inspection, and destroys the normal operation of the enterprise, that is, to bring down your enterprise, you protest, you apply for administrative reconsideration, not to say that you have to be entangled until the Year of the Monkey to achieve results, even if you win, most of the enterprises will collapse, the government said that it was done by temporary workers, the responsibility is not ours, sincerely accept criticism, and then the official will do it, and the money will be reaped......

At this time, in addition to three or two people such as the magistrate of the county, including the priest, those who are really temporary workers who are not in the official establishment and are not in the national financial salary budget, and if the government has a liability accident, it can be pushed clean without mentioning the word temporary worker.

Under the feudal bureaucratic system, it is not easy to convict and kill the country's pillar generals, and it is not easy for the officials to catch a little handle, and it is not easy to convict and rectify the landlords and grass people like the two gold families.

The members of the two heads of the two families refused to accept the wrongs, and argued and protested in court, and the result was naturally a heavy punishment.

Huang's father was already ill, and he was tortured and killed on the spot.

Kim's father was beaten and crippled. The county order saw that Huang's father was dead and died, so he temporarily stopped the execution of Jin's father.

forcibly confessed to the crime, died, spread the charges, and burned the body directly. The others were all thrown into prison first. Wait for the approval of the above, and then kill what should be killed, sell what should be sold, and pay the income at home to play with.

The property of the two gold families was naturally sealed, the land was confiscated, the floating wealth was cleaned, and the meritorious and qualified people were divided, and they were all happy.

Huang Yue and Jin Ding didn't know that they were suffering at home in Qingliang Taoist Temple, and they had become wanted criminals and were about to set off with Dai Xiuming.

Fortunately, the nursing home of the cronies at home rushed to report the news in time.

These cronies did not come forward to block the resistance when they were arrested and killed, but the two masters did not realize the severity of the matter, conceited their identity, asked themselves if they were not afraid of the shadow, had a clear conscience, and respected the government management and obeyed the law enforcement habits, thinking that they were innocent, and the county did not dare to rely on their guilt, so they went to the yamen to defend themselves clearly to the county order in person, and they were soon able to get out and come back and not let them resist.

Fortunately, he was not corrupted to the level of a fool, so he left his hands behind.

Let these cronies leave the village quickly, and hurry to the Taoist temple to inform the young master, just in case.

Huang Yue and Jin Ding heard the bad news, like five thunderbolts, and when they came to their senses, the first thing they thought of was to appeal to the prefect's yamen and redress their grievances to the yamen, they were indeed good children who abided by the law.

However, Taoist priest Dai Xiuming is proficient in medical skills, knows martial arts, and has seen through the current world, shook his head and said: "Don't say that the newly appointed prefect is a corrupt official and evil official, the punishment yamen has long become an institution that erases the red and white corruption and dirty law, even if they are honest and honest, but when you ask for the relevant agency personnel with a complex structure and slow public affairs to intervene in the case, I am afraid that your father and mother have already been killed in prison." ”

Huang Yue and Jin Ding thought about it too.

So what to do?

The two of them were anxious.

After all, this matter is not only related to the life and death of parents and relatives, but also related to the property, identity, future and destiny of oneself. No one has to be anxious.

What to do?

Dai Xiuming shook his head and said, "There is no other good way." Don't think about the houses and fields at home. Loot the prison, snatch out your relatives and servants, kill the wicked people who framed your family such as Guangzhi County, and rob them of their property. This is the only way. (To be continued.) )