Hearing his uncle's inquiry, Jing Ze hurriedly handed over the wine bag he carried with him.

It stands to reason that alcohol should be strictly forbidden in the military and among officials, but in fact, alcohol has long been a necessity for nobles and officers.

This is not about pleasure, but about the fact that before boiled water became widespread, nobles and military officers wanted to ensure that they drank water that did not pose a risk of disease, and generally as a rule of thumb, they had to choose to drink.

Therefore, as a county of 2,000 stones, it is common to always have wine around you. Not to mention that Hebei has just experienced a pandemic with countless casualties, and at this time, it is trapped in the muddy Juluze, and there is no clean water source at all.

"You can drink some too." Guo Dian really just moistened his throat slightly, and handed back the few remaining wine bags. "Remember, don't drink the water here unless you're thirsty, it's a last resort, and find live water to drink......"

Jing Ze immediately nodded yes, and then quickly poured a few sips, but carefully tied the seal of the wine bag.

Leaning against the edge of the damp mud pond, Guo Dian looked at his nephew with relief, and then looked up at the starry sky and sighed softly: "Shen Hengdou Zhuan, Aze, you are a serious descendant of Jing Shi Yi, you should understand the meaning of this sentence, right?" ”

"Nature." Hearing this, Jing Ze, whose face was still young, was somewhat refreshed. "This is the language of the spring horoscope. The former refers to Betelgeuse, although it is across the western sky, it is destined to gradually sink and disappear; Although Beidou has just emerged from the northeast corner, it will turn up day by day, hanging due north...... Such a constellation is the beginning of the year when the old and the new alternate, and all things are easy to do. ”

"That's a good point." Guo Dian squinted his eyes and looked at the starry sky above his head and said. "Although the old is strong, it will not last, and although the new is new, it is destined to shift and transpose, standing high in the north...... In fact, the stars are moving, the moon is lacking and the moon is full, which is the supreme principle between heaven and earth, so what can't be seen? ”

Jing Ze heard the wrong way, and hurriedly comforted: "Uncle don't be discouraged, the general of the left chariot in the south will definitely send reinforcements as soon as possible, and then we will be able to get out of trouble, maybe we can also break the thieves here!" ”

"That's right." Guo Dian turned his gaze from the starry sky to his nephew, and then smiled slightly. "But it's not that simple, you have to survive tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow before you can say this......"

Seeing that his uncle was still in good spirits, Jing Ze immediately breathed a sigh of relief, where did he know anything about military affairs? It's just a casual copy of his uncle's words of encouragement to the soldiers.

"The reason why I feel emotional is because things are changing so fast that it makes it a little difficult for me, an old man." Guo Dian continued to smile bitterly and sighed. "Although Julu is Zhang Jiao's hometown, when I besieged Quyang with General Wei last winter, the people in the county were still divided into two, and there were tens of thousands of children who were willing to cross the fort with me first, regardless of life and death. Therefore, although the situation was grim at that time, I never lost my ambition. And now? ”

Jing Ze remembered that he was attacked everywhere along the way, and there was nowhere to find supplies, and he was also gloomy for a while: "Uncle, if you really can't do it, just resign!" A few days ago, didn't Ping Yuan Guo Xiang take the initiative to resign? Now this situation is all about the Son of Heaven losing his trust...... The green and yellow are not accepted, the war and the epidemic, and the forced collection of money, it is natural for the Han family to lose the hearts of the people in Hebei, why should the uncle suffer this blame for the Son of Heaven? ”

"I can't quit." Guo Dian shook his head in response. "It is true that the Son of Heaven has no way, so that the Han family has lost the hearts of the people, but it is also true that I have been repeatedly favored by the Han family - I served as the Taishou of Julu last year, but Zhang Jiao seized the whole county, and the Son of Heaven did not kill me at that time, and I already had the idea of serving the country with all my heart at that time. Let's look at it, if you survive this experience, you will probably be punished, whether it is to enter Los Angeles or go home, then there is nothing to say. ”

Kyozawa breathed a sigh of relief again.

"Actually, having said so much, it's nothing else, but you ......" Guo Junye touched his nephew's shoulder with his hand. I thought the situation was getting better, so I called you from your hometown in Kansai to help me, but now it seems that I delayed your future and studies. ”

Jing Ze immediately lost his laughter, and he was about to speak, but was stopped by his uncle.

"I'll get down to business." Guo Dian suddenly looked solemn. "Whether I continue to hold on to Julu or be punished by the imperial court, Jizhou is not a good place after all, and our hometown Fufeng is not a good place, it is too close to Liangzhou...... When I return to Xiatao City, you must take care of your aunt, cousin, and cousin for me! When he saw the opportunity, he immediately escorted them back to his hometown in Kansai, and after returning home, he sold his property, and then took the clansmen of your and my families to take refuge in Shuzhong! Aze, I have received the kindness of the Han family, and I can't help myself, but you don't need to ...... Especially you, as a man, always have to take responsibility. ”

Jing Ze hurriedly knelt down and said yes.

"If only you could understand that." Guo Dian couldn't help laughing. "Let's go, invite that Wang County Lieutenant from Pingxiang County, I have serious military affairs to discuss with him."

When Kyozawa heard this, he got up from the muddy ground and was immediately ordered to look for someone. After a while, the county lieutenant who came from Pingxiang County, south of the mainland, led several armor soldiers to Guo Dian.

"Help me knock him out." Guo Dian sat in the mud pit, leaning against a bulge on the edge of the mud pond, and calmly pointed to his nephew and said to the visitor.

When the county lieutenant Wang heard this, he simply knocked it out with the scabbard of the ring head knife and knocked Jing Ze, who didn't react to what his uncle meant.

"Ladies and gentlemen." Seeing that his nephew was put down safely, Guo Dian sighed, and then reluctantly straightened his waist and sat in the mud. "As I expected, you're going to go to the local bandits tomorrow, right?"

"Jun Jun Ming." In the night, County Lieutenant Wang also knelt on the ground with a ring-headed knife to show his gratitude and respect. "People live in the world, and there are still more people who steal life...... We can't help it, I still hope you Haihan. ”

"I understand your difficulties." Guo Dian sighed. "The imperial court wants ten yuan per mu, but the land occupied by the eunuchs is not paid, and the innocent people of the family are just paying according to their respective acres of land...... What about going to those gangsters and collecting money over and over again? Not to mention that now that there is no harvest and repeated wars, they have already done their best to spring ploughing, and they can't take out a penny at all. It's a well-off family, once or twice, five times or six times, ten times and eight times, where can you get enough money for the above? So everyone is against it, and there is chaos everywhere. You are caught in the middle, oppressed from above, and resented from below, and you can't stand it anymore. Now that he is surrounded here, he has to worry about his life as an official, so it is better to be a thief to survive...... Anyway, how many of those thieves are your old neighbors, aren't they? ”

"Now, what's the use of the jun saying this?" With the help of the starlight, Wang County Lieutenant raised his hand and crushed a common crab in the swamp with the scabbard in his hand. "Do you still want to stabilize us? If you want me to say, the county king is hiding here with peace of mind, and tomorrow we will be thieves, but you will find our signs at night and go into the river...... Let's say goodbye to this, and when we meet again, it's two pairs of officials and thieves, isn't it good? ”

"That's not the case." Guo Dian shook his head slowly, his gray hair swaying slightly. "As the king of a county, but he can't find a way to survive for the people of a county, so what face does he have to keep you? And for the courtiers of the Han family, not to mention the defeat of the master, but to sit back and watch the rebellion of his subordinates, how can he have the face to pretend that nothing happened? ”

As he spoke, he slowly bowed down to several armor soldiers in front of him and bowed three times.

Wang County Lieutenant and the others were stunned for a moment, and then immediately woke up, somewhat gloomy: "The county gentleman went by himself, why is this so?" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is a reason for these three prostrations." Guo Dian got up and said again. "One is that I am the king of a county, but I cannot let you live in peace, and I am ashamed, so I bow down to apologize; There is another one, I hope you can help me take this nephew out of Juluze...... He lost his father when he was young, and my sister was the only son of him, and I died when I died, but I really couldn't bear to let him die here at a young age, devoured by snakes and insects...... Therefore, pray for the grace of life; The last one is that I, as the king of a county, are at 2,000 stones, and after all, I am an important minister of the state, and I must not let you cut off your head to intimidate the Quartet, and please be sure to keep my whole body. ”

After that, Guo Dian reluctantly got up with his sword, facing the west, which is also the direction of Luoyang, and even the direction of his hometown in Guanxi, killing himself with a sword, and then fell into the reed pond behind him.

He was forty-three years old.

From the county lieutenant of Wang and below, all bowed down and kowtowed.

The next day, in order to prevent fish and shrimp from gnawing, Wang County Lieutenant took the tightly bound Jingze to set off, but a fire burned half of the reed pond, and then went to see his villagers. And because he had been a county lieutenant and came with dozens of armored samurai, he was elected as the leader by the local thieves in Pingxiang who surrounded Juluze.

Although the county lieutenant did not dare to shirk, he was a little afraid of the court after all, so he went incognito and called himself bitter cockroach, which was a serious revelation, which made Jizhou have another famous bandits.

And within a few days, it was probably after County Lieutenant Wang had just let the soulless Jing Ze go. Suddenly, the news came, a Boling people called Zhang Niujiao played the banner of the descendants of the Taiping Road, all the way from Mount Tai through the plains, Anping to Julu to come, the momentum is huge, it is said to break through the Julu County to govern the pottery, rebuild the Yellow Sky!

The bitter cockroach, who had no clue at all, immediately set off, and like the big and small bandits in Jizhou, it was like a stream flowing into Juluze, and directly led the crowd to Zhang Niujiao.

Jing Ze, who had just returned to the pottery, had not had time to return to his hometown with his aunt, cousin, and cousin to avoid chaos according to his uncle's last words, and was once again surrounded by countless bandits, including the bitter cocklea that had just released him...... Jing Ze, who claims to be the descendant of the Jing family, only thinks that what he has learned is a joke at this time.

Under the general trend, of course, personal fate is ridiculous.

was also joked by the general trend and fate, as well as Chu Yan, the head of the pottery.

This bandit leader who was supposed to appear outside the city in history, but because of a mistake a few years ago, he was arranged by Gongsun Xun to become the guard of Liao Tao City, and then he was terrified by the tens of thousands of bandits outside the city...... Jun Cheng pushed everything to him.

This city is theoretically easy to defend, because there is Huangfu Song in Jizhou. Chu Yan knew very well that as long as the left-hand cavalry general broke out of the quagmire of bandits and led his elite troops to the city, so many rabbles under the city would inevitably be defeated in one battle.

But it was also difficult to defend, because in the face of so many bandits and the unstable hearts of the people in the city, Chu Yan didn't know if he could survive until the arrival of Huangfu Song.

Really...... Why?

Since he was young, he Chu Yan has been a bandit for so many years, and he is cautious, for fear of being destroyed by the official army; And now, when he worked hard and worked hard to become a county magistrate, the way of the world suddenly changed!

Why? Now that officials have to be cautious, but being a thief has become a fair and righteous thing?

With an inexplicable panic about the situation, Chu Yan, who was in charge of the city defense, welcomed an old man of the former Zhao State above the city.

"You're a thief too?" After retreating left and right, in the corner tower where the guards on duty rested on weekdays, Chu Yan was speechless. "You are a serious descendant of the Taiping Dao, and it is not bad to be a disciple of Zhang Jiao, but you have never rebelled against Zhang Jiao's Xuanhe that day, and now that the Yellow Turban Army is in ashes, how did you become a thief?"

Zhang Sheng, who had a thin appearance, laughed dryly, and then couldn't help but move the wrist that was tied when he entered the city before: "County Magistrate Chu asked this, don't you really know the reason?" I don't want anything else in my life, I just want my followers to be safe...... When the great sages and good teachers rebelled against him, the believers under my command were able to survive a lot, and Dong Zhao's fat man was strictly supervised, so it was naturally not good to be a thief. And now, with so many of the leaders of the gangsters having nowhere to live, how can I watch them be swept away by the epidemic and then persecuted by the officials, starving to death? ”

Chu Yan shook her head and asked, "Didn't you go to Lieutenant Dong?" ”

"Pleased, it's useless." Zhang Sheng spread his hands. "There were bandits everywhere, there was chaos everywhere, and he was also anxious. In addition, you also know that he is fat-faced and black-hearted, and he doesn't know what he will do to prevent me, the remnant of the yellow scarf, from making trouble, so I hurriedly took the believers out of Zhao Kingdom to find Zhang Niujiao...... He is indeed a disciple of the great sage and good teacher, the former Qu Shuai of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and he has an old relationship with me. ”

Chu Yan sighed, then sat on the couch and nodded slightly, as if to express understanding.

"Sacrifice the city!" After introducing his origin, Zhang Sheng directly expressed his intention. "If General Wei were in Hebei, I would naturally not pull you into the water like this, but now that General Wei is in Hanoi, and Dong Zhao, the black-hearted fat man, he won't care if you live or die......"

"It's useless to dedicate the city!" Chu Yan raised her head and sneered when she heard this. "Although this pottery city is a county government, it is not a big city, and it is not as good as Xiaquyang in the north and Guangzong in the south...... As soon as the army of the general of the left chariot came, the city was about to be taken away. ”

"So what?" Zhang Sheng replied proudly. "As long as we enter the city and kill those Zhao disciples who have just returned, then the hundreds of thousands of bandits in the entire Hebei will be dominated by us."

"We?" Chu Yan was stunned.

"Zhang Niujiao, I had contact with him in my early years." Zhang Sheng said. "Ignorance and generosity, as evidenced by his immediate failure after the Qingzhou uprising. And you are good at fighting, and I am a great sage and a good teacher, so you and I can easily take their authority. ”

"What's the use of taking it?" Chu Yan was speechless, and threw her sleeves directly on the couch. "Although I am also worried that the city will be broken suddenly, and I will be guilty at that time...... But what is the future of being a thief? There were hundreds of thousands of great sages and good teachers that day, but I saw General Wei easily defeat them with my own eyes, can you and I be stronger than great sages and good teachers? ”

"This time and that time." Zhang Sheng leaned forward and said calmly. "Hebei is now full of bandits, and they can't be wiped out at all, even Guo Taishou is so tired that he can't see his body, let alone others? Huangfu Song is a famous general, but won't the situation be tired now? Moreover, Hebei is not without a place to survive after defeat, and the Taihang Mountains that stretch for thousands of miles are not the places where you used to be? If you have your back to the mountain, but the court can't stop it, maybe you can take the initiative to surrender and change to a better background......"

Chu Yan was at a loss for a moment...... Because this is exactly the best ending he imagined when he was younger. However, the key problem is that he is already an official at this time?! Why do you want to be an official?

Of course, Chu Yan quickly laughed at himself - now he is surrounded in the city, like a dangerous egg, once the city is broken, it is a worry for his life, and if he survives after the city is broken, the court will also treat him for the crime of losing his land.

But if it is a city, no matter what, Qianli Taihang Mountain is in the west, and it can always be left useful. ”

In the final analysis, he Chu Yan is used to being a bandit.

"How?" Zhang Sheng asked more than once.

"I always feel that I have lost some of General Wei." Chu Yan still shook her head slightly.

"How does General Wei know what kind of life we have in Jizhou?" Zhang Sheng asked gloomily. "Did your second son die in the epidemic? My eldest son is too...... Obviously he was already very careful. ”

Chu Yan was gloomy for a while, but after a long time, she suddenly raised her head:

"Is Zhang Niujiao really generous?"

In the second year of Zhongping, March.

Because of Chu Yan and Zhang Sheng, the city was not as reluctantly defended as in another time and space, Zhang Niujiao easily attacked the city, killed the clansmen who served Zhao Zhong in the city, broke the county government, and once again raised the banner of the Yellow Turban Army.

In desperation, in the face of the bitter beetle that rushed into the city first, in order to save his family, Jing Ze could only hold the banner of the bitter and become a thief...... Fortunately, Wang Xianwei felt guilty and accepted him again.

Of course, this small upheaval in the general situation was not enough to change the real current affairs, and as all wise people imagine, soon Huangfu Song led the crowd to come, and in a battle he recovered the city and broke the rabble.

Zhang Niujiao was defeated and was forced to choose to lead the crowd to Taihang Mountain.

However, halfway through, he suddenly died of an arrow wound, and then as a matter of course, he handed over the power in his hands to Zhang Sheng, who was also a descendant of Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Sheng recommended Chu Yan again on the grounds that he was not good at fighting, and Chu Yan changed his surname to Zhang, led the people to return to Taihang, and took the Purple Mountain where he lived in the past as the banner, and was called the Purple Mountain Thief.

At the same time, some of Zhang Niujiao's old subordinates were dissatisfied with Chu Yan, but instead elected a Hanoi leader who defected to Zhang Niujiao very early and called him Yu Poison. Yu Poison led his troops to the south and went straight to his hometown of Hanoi and went to Song. However, as soon as he entered the country, he was ordered by Chao Ge Guan Yu and General Wei's subordinate Sima Han to lead the county pawn, the county pawn, and the white horse Yicong to join forces to meet the attack!

Yu Poison's subordinates were scattered, and only a few hundred people fled to the Black Mountain in Hanoi, and since then they have been called Black Mountain Thieves.

Of course, whether it is Montenegro or Purple Mountain, this is a later story.

As far as the aftermath of the war that day is concerned, fortunately, Guan Yu is not a person who kills indiscriminately, so Jing Ze, who deliberately went here with Yu Poison, reported his origin in time, and then actually turned the stars around, and finally took the family members of his uncle's family to turn the corner and barely survived.

"So, Guo Jun is indeed dead?" Le Ma went to Gongsun Xun on the way to Chaoge and met Jing Ze and his party, first went to see Guo Dian's widow and children, and then came out to see Jing Ze, but he was already mentally prepared.

"Yes." Jing Ze fell to the ground, and it was inevitable that he would cry for a while.

"I have an old relationship with Guo Jun." Standing on the side of the road, Gongsun Xun was really a little numb at this time. "You and serve your aunt to go to Huaixian County to live in peace, and after a while, wait for me to ask for grace from the center for Guo Jun, and then return to your hometown to settle down!"

Jing Ze was naturally grateful and kowtowed in thanks.

"I don't know your name yet." It was only at this time that Gongsun Xun had the heart to ask the other party's name.

"Jing Ze, the word is ......happy," Jing Ze said with some mourning. I lost my father when I was a child, this is the word given by my uncle. ”

"There are clouds in the Book of Changes, there is no disease in vain, and there is joy in medicine." Wang Xiu, who was following behind Gongsun Xun, couldn't help but sigh a little. "This word is similar to going to illness and disease, and I want to come to Guo Fujun as a parent and child, and I want you to live safely for a long time."

Kyozawa burst into tears.

"That's a good word......." Gongsun Xun also sneered after listening to the explanation. "March is coming to an end, April is coming, borrow his word, I hope there will be more good news in the future!"

Everyone said yes.

Immediately, the two sides said goodbye on the road, Jing Ze naturally served his aunt and took his young cousin and sister to Huaixian, and Gongsun Xun also got on the horse and led everyone in the curtain to continue to go to Chaoge.

Halfway through, however, another messenger hurried over.

"If the imperial court sends a messenger from the West Garden to urge the endowment, there is no need to report it!" Gongsun Xun was in a bad mood, and said directly from afar. "Relying on Hanoi's proximity, two or three times a day, are you annoying?!"

"It's not the envoy of the Western Garden!" The messenger galloped in, sweating profusely, and turned over and dismounted, only to come up and report a word. "Lu Changshi asked me to call the prince and the marquis to return quickly, saying that Uncle Sima died strangely."

"Uncle Sima is dead?" Gongsun Xun didn't turn a corner for a while. "Wasn't he okay with the pandemic before? I remember that the court also recruited him to serve or something......"

"It's suicide." The visitor gasped, then bowed his head and spoke. "In Mengjin committed suicide, before he died, he summoned Sima Lang to that place, and after his death, he sent a message to the county government, saying that there was something left for the prince to dispose of on his behalf."

Gongsun Xun didn't care, and directly turned the horse's head and walked back, but after walking less than two steps, he suddenly woke up, and then looked at Zhao Zhi, who was stunned on the spot, trembling and speechless...... This is Sima Zhi's student.

"Uncle brother is dead?" Gongsun Xun asked again. "Is it suicide?"

—————I am the dividing line between life and death—————

"Guo Dian, the word Junye, at the beginning of the Middle Plains, is the Taishou of Julu, in order to ask for the Yellow Turban, and he is good with Taizu. In the second year, the thieves in Jizhou rose together, and the locations were innumerable, with 20,000 or 30,000 big ones and 6 or 7,000 small ones. pawn the thief and fall into Juluze. Watching the stars at night, seeing Betelgeuse passing away in the west, the Beidou will rise, knowing that the destiny of heaven will change, he called his nephew, saying: 'Betelgeuse will turn, the sun, moon and stars will move, and the world will change.' However, now I am in the posture of Hanchen, and I cannot defend his land; In the name of the county king, he should not appease his people, and he should die. After my death, when the family went to Hanoi, it was safe. 'The nephew knelt down and wept according to his words, and met Taizu in Hanoi, and he was preserved. —The Book of Old Swallows. Solo Ranks