【Fall into the Abyss】

The living room of Sufu was unusually quiet, Su sat on the seat with a paralyzed gaze, his eyes were glazed, the whole person was weak, and he sobbed from time to time, it was obvious that he had been crying for a long time, and now he was tired of crying.

"Master, there's a clue!" Zhang Shiping rushed to the living room and shouted.

"What, what's the clue, say it quickly!" Su Shuang's eyes immediately flashed.

"Someone just heard from the pastry stall in the market that two girls went to him two days ago on the fifth watch and bought two catties of pastries, and he also said that one of the girls made an extraordinary move and gave him a grain of gold directly!" Zhang Shiping panted and said, "I guess it's Xue'er and Lilac!" ”

"And then?" Su Shuang asked expectantly.

"He said that the two girls got into a carriage and went in the direction of the east gate!" Zhang Shiping looked at Su Shuang and said, "Did you say that Xue'er went to Zhuojun!" ”

"Oh, my mother, it's chaotic outside, what's going on!" Su Shuang was so anxious at this time that he kept patting his thighs.

"Master, send someone to chase it, it will take at least fifteen days to go to Zhuojun here, and it will take at least fifteen days to take a carriage, we will definitely be able to catch up!" Zhang Shiping's hands were clenched, which showed that he was very nervous.

"Yes, hurry up and send someone to chase after you first, I'll go too, you quickly ask someone to prepare the carriage and call someone to go together!" Su Shuang stood up with his hands on the ground and said sharply: "This time you must chase Xue'er back!" ”

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"Ah~" It was another morning, Lilac woke up early in the morning, stretched, and yawned.

"How did you sleep?" Su Xue asked.

"Hey, Miss woke up so early?" Lilac rubbed her eyes and said, "This inn is very good, sleep very comfortably, Miss, I'll come!" ”

Lilac saw that Su Xue was about to comb her hair, so she got up and walked over.

"You say we're going so boldly, won't we...... Wouldn't it be bad! Su Xue looked at herself in the bronze mirror and said.

"If Miss feels bad, you can stand from a distance and watch at that time, how about I speak for Miss?" Lilac combed Su Xue's hair strand by strand with a very skillful technique.

"That's fine, but don't disturb his normal life!"

"Got it, Miss!" After Lilac finished combing, she put down the comb and said, "Miss is indeed infatuated!" ”

"I didn't go this time for a reason, I just wanted to meet him, and I made my wish, maybe I won't see him again in this life!" When Su Xue said this, she couldn't help but leave tears.

"Miss, don't hurt your body by crying for him, come, wipe it!" Lilac handed the handkerchief washed with water to Su Xue and said.

"Hey~ Don't think about this unhappy thing, let's have breakfast, eat well and hurry!" Su Xue stood up after wiping her tears: "Put it on the table, it was brought up by the shopkeeper just now." ”

"Well, Miss, you eat first, I'll clean up my things, and I'll eat later!" After Lilac finished speaking, she packed up the clothes in the room and the gold and silver jewelry she had brought on the road.

"Recently, I heard that many people are rebelling, but I don't know if it's true!" Su Xue said as she ate early.

"This can still be fake, the government's notices have been posted, and it is said that many places are recruiting troops, but in this case, the master's business will be hot again!" Speaking of this, Lilac suddenly said: "Miss, you said that you ran out without saying a word, what should this do?" ”

"I'm sorry for my dad in my life, two people with different temperaments are together, and they are destined to not have good results!" Su Xue sighed, she finished eating, then walked to the bookcase, studied the ink and picked up the pen, took out a piece of paper, and wrote on it.

Lilac sorted the luggage into two packs, put them on the bed, and then ate breakfast: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read!" ”

"Who says it's not, there are too many deceitful and deceitful people in the world, there are too many heartaches and pains, living here, as if there are thorns around you, every step you take, you have to endure the pain brought to you by the thorns in front of you, so that you can continue to move forward, how cruel is this!" Su Xue said calmly: "If there is a chance in the future, I would rather go to the mountains alone, isolated from the world, and not ask about the world, which is also a desirable thing!" ”

"Ah, miss, this is too serious."

"Why not, it's good to be a person in the Daomen!" Su Xue said thoughtfully.

"Miss, have you eaten?" Ding Xiang saw that Su Xue had started writing early in the morning, and she didn't know what she was doing, so she asked, "Miss, what are you writing?" ”

"For Daddy!"

"Oh, that Confucian Legalist, and a lot of cats and dogs, you can also try, why choose Taoism?" Lilac swallowed the last piece of breakfast, choking her and quickly drank her saliva.

"Confucianism is in the office, Legalism is also for the ruler to serve, only Taoism can cultivate self-cultivation!"

"I also heard that there is another sect called Buddhism in our Han Dynasty, and that sect also feels like a god chattering, which is slightly similar to the Taoism you said!" Lilac got up and slung the two packages on her back and looked around to see if anything was left.

"Buddhism has just been introduced to my Han Dynasty, and its influence is not great, so it can only be regarded as a small fight!" After Su Xue finished writing, she put down the pen in her hand, and saw that Lilac was ready, so she stuffed the letter paper into the envelope and said, "Let's go!" ”

Su Xue and Ding Xiang walked down the stairs, and saw that Brother Ma was already waiting at the position.

"Little brother, let's go!" Lilac said.

"Alright, get on the horse!" The little brother got up and ran to the carriage, and took out a piece of wood from the carriage for the people to get on the carriage and use it for the feet of the people.

"Little brother, slow down the speed of the car a little faster, and strive to get to Zhuojun as soon as possible!" Lilac ordered the little brother before closing the car door.

"Yes, I know, girl, sit down, let's go!" After the little brother finished speaking, he threw up the reins of the horse.

"Hey, this person can leave whatever he says!" Lilac closed the car door and before she could sit down, she was shaken by the car and sat on the car.

"Be careful, it's okay!" Su Xue helped Lilac up.

"Miss, I'm fine, it's all my fault!" As he spoke, he grimaced at the little brother.

"The carriage is bumpy, the road is long, and it's not easy for the little brother, let's be considerate of each other!"

"Yes, Miss!" Lilac said aggrievedly.

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"Is there any news from Miss?" Su Shuang lifted the curtain and shouted to the entourage outside: "Speed up again!" ”

"There is no news from Miss yet, our people have already rushed to the front to find out the news, and it is estimated that it will come soon!"

"Hey!" Su Shuang threw down the curtain of the carriage heavily, and he sat in the carriage, with a gloomy face at this time: "This soldier is in chaos, if there are three long and two short, what should I do!" ”

"Master, don't worry, Miss Jiren has her own natural appearance, and it will be fine, you can rest assured!" Zhang Shiping handed the roast chicken bought on the side of the road to Su Shuang: "Master, you can eat some, you haven't eaten for almost two days, how can you continue like this!" ”

Su Shuang glanced at the roast chicken, waved his hand, and said with a disgusted expression: "It's too greasy, I don't want it, you can eat it yourself!" ”

"Report, master, there is news from Miss!" An entourage galloped on horseback to report.

Su Shuang immediately lifted the curtain and said, "Say it quickly!" ”

"The people in front have already obtained the news of the young lady, saying that it is two women and a young man who is driving a car, and the destination they are going to is Zhuojun, and according to the clothing and appearance described by the store, they are all the same as the young lady!"

"How long will it take for the pioneers to catch up!"

"About half a day!"

"Very good, speed up, you go and tell them, catch up with Miss, all have a reward, go quickly!"

"Yes, please rest assured!" The retinue happily drank their horses and galloped away.

"Master, don't worry about it now, Miss is fine!" Zhang Shiping said with a smile.

"Hey~ This Xue'er, I always like to toss my dad like this, but fortunately there are you and Lao Li, all the business at home has been taken care of by Lao Li recently, without such a powerful helper as you, I don't think the business of Su Mansion can work!"

"Master, it's too much for you to say that, this is all within our reach, what is there to thank for!" Zhang Shiping handed the roast chicken to the master again and said, "Master, you can eat it now!" ”

"Haha...... You, you! Su Shuang took the roast chicken and ate it in a big gulp.

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"It's a gloomy day, and I always feel like it's going to snow!" Lilac said.

"It's snowing? Another year of snow! Su Xue remembered at this time, when she returned to Zhongshan in Songshan, it was snowing in the sky, thinking about how fast time had passed, nine years had passed in a blink of an eye.

"Ahh~" The carriage suddenly sped up, causing Su Xue and Lilac to fall in the carriage: "What is this little brother doing!" ”

Lilac opened the car door and asked, "Why did you suddenly speed up?" ”

"Girl, sit down, there are yellow turban thieves chasing us behind!" The little brother kept drinking the horse and galloping, and the carriage kept shaking violently with the ever-increasing speed: "You sit down, we will all have to die if they catch up!"

"Oh my mother, miss, what are we going to do!" Lilac hurriedly closed the door and hugged Su Xue and cried.

"Don't cry yet!" Su Xue lifted the curtain and looked back, and there were five or six thieves with yellow scarves in them who were constantly chasing after her carriage, and the distance was constantly narrowing.

"How could you suddenly run into these thieves!"

"Miss, do you think they will kill us!" Lilac said tremblingly.

"Robbers, since ancient times, they have robbed money and robbed sex, seeking money and killing people, I can't say, take out the dagger quickly, I have no choice but to fight with them!" Su Xue opened the burden and hurriedly took out two daggers.

"How do you spell this!" Lilac held the dagger and trembled.

"If you can't fight, you will kill yourself, and you must not be ruined by these people!"

At this time, Su Xue and Lilac hugged each other tightly in the car, holding the dagger tightly in their hands, tears streaming from their eyes, and their bodies were trembling.

"Phew~Phew~ Stop!" Suddenly, I heard the little brother's shout outside the door.

It turned out that the yellow turban thief was chasing too quickly, the little brother panicked, and drove the carriage to the small mountain road, but the mountain road was bumpy, the road was narrow, so that the carriage had already lost its balance, at a turn, the body collided with the rock, the whole carriage was overturned, and even the people and horses rolled down the mountain, the mountain was steep, and only the echo of the carriage overturned.

[Borrowing money and being humiliated]

After Liu Bei and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei became brothers with different surnames, they immediately went to their home and found Jian Yong and Liu Deran. As early as a few years ago, Jian Yong's father had died of illness, and since then, Jian Yong has been alone, seeing that Liu Bei is now in charge of recruiting troops in the county, he immediately decided to follow Liu Bei. And Liu Deran is also Lu Zhi's disciple, he learned the art of war under the teacher's door, if he doesn't go, wouldn't it be in vain, the boy is determined to be in all directions, and hiding at home all day is not a way, although Liu Deran's mother does not agree to a thousand and ten thousand, I am afraid that Liu Deran will have something long and two short on the battlefield, but Liu Yuanqi is well aware of the righteousness, the country is in trouble, if the thieves are killed in Zhuo County, where can the family go at that time, and finally Liu Deran also decided to follow Liu Bei, Liu Bei and the five of them began to be busy with recruiting troops and horses.

"The money and food given by the county magistrate is too small, and we need to find someone to fund it ourselves." Liu Bei looked at Jian Yong with a sad face at this time.

Liu Bei knew that among the five people, Jian Yong's eloquence was the best, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were suitable for training the army, Liu Deran could be a staff officer or be responsible for taking charge of military rations when there were not enough people, and Jian Yong's mouth could help him do a good job of public relations.

"Xuande, don't be sad, everything is difficult at the beginning, I know how many rich people there are in Zhuoxian, we will look for them one by one, and we can always find people who support us."

"That's right, without further ado, let's go."

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"Let's go to the Zheng landlord's house first, their family has been a local powerful landlord for generations, the land in the family is hundreds of acres, and the money and food are countless, everyone is from Zhuo County, no matter what, more or less will always give us some." The two came to Landlord Zheng's house as they spoke.

Liu Bei saw the pomp of this gate and knew that the wealth of this family was no less than that of Wang San of Lujiang County, although he was sincerely disgusted by their oppression of the people and their evil behavior, but now that there is a big chaos today, he is short of money and food when he recruits troops and horses, this time he is asking for others, so he naturally has to put on a face on them, even if he doesn't say those flattering and pitiful words, at least you have to greet them with a smile. Liu Bei stepped forward and knocked on the door, and when he saw someone coming, he said with a smile: "This little brother, I am here to find your master, please notify me, and say that Liu Bei, a relative of the Han family and the volunteer general of Zhuo County, came to visit him." ”

"Oh, wait a minute." The young man looked Liu Bei up and down, and then closed the door.

As soon as Jian Yong heard Liu Bei's self-title, he felt funny in his heart, he already called himself a general without even a soldier, and Liu Xuande really has you.

The doorman left a sentence of "you wait a minute", Liu Bei thought that someone would come soon, but he didn't expect to see a figure for a long time, at this time he was sulking, clenched his fists and cursed: "Fuck, this old killer, where is the death, if you don't see it, you won't see it, and you don't have to play us like this." ”

"Xianhe, let's go!" Liu Bei turned around and left.

"Wait a minute, Xuande, we have something to ask for, this money is not easy to get!" Jian Yong hurriedly chased after him and grabbed Liu Bei's hand.

"Xianhe, we've been waiting for so long, he obviously did it on purpose!" Liu Bei angrily pointed to the door of the landlord's house and said.

Just as Liu Bei was about to leave, the door suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man came out of it, and when he saw Liu Bei and Jian Yong, he said with a smile: "Hey, let General Liu wait for a long time." Although the landlord shouted so, he didn't know which one was Liu Bei in front of him, anyway, he shouted first. Moreover, the reason why he was so lazy was because Liu Bei had never heard of it at all, and naturally he didn't pay attention to it, thinking that they would naturally leave in a short time, but just now he asked the doorman to look through the crack in the door, and the person was still there, so he had to come out himself to see what was going on.

Although Liu Bei said that his stomach was on fire at this time, but he couldn't help it, when he saw that people came out, he also changed his face and said, "Where is it, the rich man Zheng is polite." ”

"General Liu, I don't know what you are looking for me?"

"That's the case, now the Yellow Turban thieves are swarming, causing chaos in the world, I was ordered by the imperial court to recruit troops in Zhuo County, ready to gather troops, to fight against the thieves...... However, at present, Zhuo County's finances are tight, and it is also difficult to recruit troops. Therefore, if I want the rich man Zheng to donate some money, grain and grass for this county, I will thank him with trophies after defeating the Yellow Turban Thieves. ”

After listening to Liu Bei's words, the landlord was also ignorant, thinking to himself what kind of thing you Liu Bei is, leading the troops to fight at a young age, who doesn't know that now this Yellow Turban Thief is invincible, just because you also want to defeat the Yellow Turban Thief, I gave you my own money and grain and grass, isn't it a waste, it's really inexplicable, I don't know the sky and the earth is thick, the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, it is said that you are a kind of person. At this moment, he said: "This Yellow Turban thief is now menacing, and it may not be so easy for General Liu to defeat the thief army with the strength of one person." ”

Liu Bei saw that he was suspicious, and hurriedly explained: "I am not alone in Xia, I am in Xia Wu and Zhang Fei, both of whom are enemies of ten thousand people; At the same time, Jian Yong once studied under Li Dingyun's predecessors, and Liu Deran and I also studied under Shangshu Lu Zhi......"

This landlord was confused at first, what Guan Yu Zhang Fei, he had never seen them at all, just with your mouth, saying that they are ten thousand enemies, are they it, but when he heard the word "Lu Zhi", his eyes suddenly lit up, how could he not know that this Lu Zhi was not the one who attacked the powerful landlord with the iron fist of Lujiang County, and now his students actually want to find the powerful landlord for help, at this moment he sneered: "It turned out to be Lu Zhi's student, I have admired the name for a long time, When Lu Zhi attacked the powerful landlords, did you ever think that there would be today, don't you know the truth of being cocooned, don't you like to help the people, you can't let him down as a student, you just learn from your teacher, go to the people to help you, send off! After saying that, he turned around and left.

Hearing this, Liu Bei's teeth were clucking, and he actually insulted his teacher in front of him, he really wanted to step forward and give him a few slaps, but when he looked back, it was important to recruit troops now, and beating him might cause other troubles, so he left without looking back.

Jian Yong listened to the words of the landlord at this time, and he was also angry, this old killer, he is now watching coldly, and when we kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions in the future, we must clean him up, thinking of this, he said to Liu Bei: "Xuande, he is so messed with, I don't think the powerful landlord of Zhuo County will help us, I think forget it, go to the businessman." ”

"It's fine." Liu Bei was disgusted when he looked at the powerful landlords, this kind of class was a redundant thing in the Han Dynasty, and their existence would not only not be beneficial to society, but would be harmful.

A healthy society, or state order, is one in which the rulers of the state directly manage an innumerable number of individual small-scale peasant economies, whose members are not only large enough to expand the government's sources of tax revenue, but whose individual power is too small to compete with the government.

During the Zhou Dynasty, the country's land system adopted the feudal lord land ownership system, although the whole world is not the king's land, but in the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, and the princes were divided into the princes of the world, and the princes could be divided into other people in their territory, like this kind of land ownership shows the characteristics of hierarchical ownership, that is, the Son of Heaven and lords at all levels of land ownership form a relationship of division and ownership, the disadvantage of this system is that the land of Zhou Tianzi gradually decreased, and in the era of the integration of national political power and land ownership, The authority of the Son of Heaven of Zhou also continued to decline, and the vassal states under it gradually did not take the Son of Heaven seriously, and they fought for land and fought frequently, resulting in the emergence of the Spring and Autumn Warring States in the late Zhou Dynasty.

With the development of productive forces, the emergence of iron tools, the popularization of ploughshares and ox ploughing, and the improvement of farming techniques have provided the possibility for the emergence of individual small-scale peasant economies. Therefore, the peasants' call for private ownership of land continued to rise, and at the same time, in order to adapt to the country's perennial war, the country urgently needed to expand financial resources, and the past lord system was no longer suitable for the development of society.

The ruler granted the land to the peasants, and from then on the peasants had their own land, which greatly increased the motivation for labor, not only expanded the source of tax revenue, but also freed the peasants from the control of the lords, and ensured the direct control of the state over people, because the peasants who settled in the new land were no longer subordinate to the nobility (lords) as in the old days, thus eliminating the hidden danger of excessive local power and threatening the central government.

The introduction of the land grant system created a huge class of small peasants, which became the basis of the Qin and Han regimes. However, since the private ownership of land was recognized, and the land could be legally bought and sold, some people forcibly annexed land through political means and strong economic strength, which gave rise to the later powerful landlord class, and the emergence and development momentum of the powerful landlord class was very strong, they continued to obtain land from the small peasant class, and the small peasant class gradually suffered destruction, and the annexation of land was gradually eating away at the ruling foundation of the Han Dynasty.

In the face of such a situation, the government gradually realized the seriousness of the problem of land annexation, so it successively made a series of measures to curb land annexation, among which Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a system of idle private land area according to social hierarchy, which temporarily achieved certain results; Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty stipulated that "no more than 30 hectares of famous land should be borrowed", but when they rewarded the land, they took the lead in destroying the system, and the measures to restrict the land soon failed; Emperor Guangwu's "edict to check the acres of land and the age of household registration" was carried out by the prefecture and county, and then severely punished a number of officials who were not truthful in the field, but it was finally abolished by the obstruction of bureaucrats, nobles, corrupt officials and the outbreak of peasant uprisings...... The inability of the Han emperor to stop the wind of land annexation eventually led to a severe peasant war, and the Han dynasty finally fell under the impact of the peasant war.

At this time, Liu Bei and Jian Yong were going to the house of a big businessman surnamed Chen, I don't know if they could move him, and the hearts of the two people were always uneasy.