Han Qian came quietly with people, and left quietly with people.

Ordinary mountain villages are always very quiet, Zhao Zhixian, Tan Yuliang two families to buy this yard, and outside the valley, except for a few yellow dog barking to break the silence of the night, most of the people in the village rest early after dark, no one noticed the movement at the valley.

Tan Yuliang looked at the wine jar on the table and the thick stack of Xuan paper in his hand, if it weren't for these, he would have suspected that what he had just experienced was just a dream.

Zhao Zhixian and Tan Xiuqun also stood there a little dumbfounded, and saw more than a dozen sturdy figures escorting Han Qian and the others through the courtyard gate, which had already disappeared into the depths of the night, and they still couldn't believe what had just happened after a long time.

If they simply serve Xuzhou and serve in the state and county government offices, they have nothing to hesitate or worry about.

Even if Xuzhou is deeply feared by the surrounding powers, even if Han Qian himself is also suspicious of Emperor Chu and the imperial court, but the rise of Xuzhou, Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang all see it, and they also deeply understand the power of Han Qian and many descendants around him, they believe that following Han Qian and serving Xuzhou will not end too badly.

However, now the things that Han Qian assigned to them are by no means easy, and if they don't do it, their heads will fall to the ground.

"Who are the people in the courtyard just now?"

Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang's wife walked into the east wing at this time, their faces were a little pale, and they asked with a look of panic.

Just now in the east wing, Zhao Zhixian, Tan Yuliang, Tan Xiuqun and several adult children and nephews were drinking and talking, and the other female dependents and children served them well, and they were not qualified to serve at the table, and they also rested early after eating in the other room.

Lighting an extra lamp on weekdays makes people feel distressed; Whenever you hunt wild meat and eat some meat, you must first ensure that the young and strong laborers are fed, and then you can satisfy the hunger of the female dependents and children.

A large group of strangers with blades appeared in the courtyard, the corridors and corridors were blocked, and the ladies were frightened, so they only dared to close the door and hide in the house to watch the changes, comforting the children not to cry, and when the strangers did go away, Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang's wives had the courage to come to the east wing to see the movement.

Zhao Zhixian was over fifty years old, had three sons and two daughters, the eldest son was originally sick and weak, and could not endure the hard labor of the hard labor camp, and died of vomiting blood in the third month; The second son, Zhao Fanghai, was invited to treat patients in the afternoon by Qingtianzhai in Houshan, and no one came back from the mountain road in the dark; The third son had his left leg broken in a hard labor camp and was unable to move.

Zhao Zhixian's two daughters married Tan Yuliang's two sons, Tan Lang and Tan Qiu, respectively.

In addition to Tan Lang and Tan Qiu's two sons, Tan Yuliang also has a daughter. Zhao Zhixian's eldest son died in childbirth when he married his wife in his early years, and Tan Yuliang married his daughter to Zhao Zhixian's eldest son as a continuation, but he didn't expect to be a widow early.

Before the defeat of Tanzhou, Tan Xiuqun had a wife and a concubine, but after the defeat of Tanzhou, his wife did not dare to face the difficult fate, and found an opportunity to jump into the pond on the way to Leying, only the concubine Zhou and the seventeen-year-old eldest son Tan Wenlin and two young daughters were still around.

Tan Xiuqun is seven or eight years younger than Tan Yuliang, and he is less than forty years old at this time, and he is in the prime of life.

In addition to the two families who were ordered by the Ma family to share weal and butter in Qianyang to seek Xuzhou, it was also their sons and daughters who bound the fate of the two families together.

"It's nothing, it's just that a distinguished guest who hasn't seen you for many years came to the door, drank a drink and left." Tan Yuliang said, motioning to his wife Zhao and Zhao Zhixian's wife Xing to go back to the house to rest and ignore this, but at this time, they suddenly thought that the problem they were facing was not only how to start doing this, but also how to settle the more than ten female dependents and children who stayed in Gaozhiyu after they took the young and strong children to sneak into Sizhou to seek work?

Especially after they openly led the riot, what should the Sizhou Yang family do if they sent people to arrest their children?

While they were hesitating, two more figures came up to the door along the path, but it was Pei Pu, who had just left with Han Qian, and there was another person beside him, who was a coolie at Qingniubei Wharf as a retired veteran, and was quite familiar with Tan Yuliang and several nephews in less than half a month.

Tan Yuliang stared at Zhou Blind hesitantly, and he didn't know why he didn't come with Han Qian and them just now, but he had to wait until Han Qian and the others left to reappear.

Blind Zhou seemed to be able to guess what Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang were thinking, and arched his hand and said: "There are two nails in Sizhou in Yuzi, I have to bring someone to keep an eye on them so as not to cause chaos, come over and ask Lord Zhao and Tan Ye to say goodbye, please forgive me!" ”

As the first large-scale village outside the Hujian Pass, the boats and business travelers that come from the Chenshui River are docked and passed nearby, it can be said that it is the westernmost bridgehead of Chenzhong County, and Xuzhou is also here with a post station, the township inspection department.

Sizhou Yang not only wanted to cooperate with Xuzhou for profit, but also worried that the Xuzhou forces had the ambition to annex Sizhou, so it was normal to arrange two eyeliners in Gao Yiyu outside Hujian Pass and stare at the movements left and right.

"Zhou Ye is polite," Tan Yuliang arched his hand, invited Zhou Blind to sit down, and couldn't help but ask again, "What is Zhou Ye's honorific surname?" ”

"What is disrespectful, my family's surname is Diao, and I don't have a name, I am blind in one eye, and everyone in the camp is used to calling me Diao Blind; I was worried about Tan Ye's well-informed ears and eyes, so I ran to the dock and pretended to be a coolie, so I used my dead mother-in-law's family name to show people," Diao Blind sat down and asked, "Lord Zhao and Tan Ye are going to do something, have you told you?" ”

"I'm waiting for Master Diao to come and talk about it in detail." Tan Yuliang said.

"Tan Ye, don't be polite to the blind man, I have a few brothers, and now I have nothing to do with Xuzhou, and I will listen to Tan Ye and Lord Zhao in the future - I am rude, I don't know much about the rules, what I did wrong, although Tan Ye reprimanded, don't leave me any affection." Diao said blindly.

"Pei Pu, you are also with us, not returning to Chenzhong?" Zhao Zhixian looked at Pei Pu and asked.

"If something happens, it will inevitably die, and the adults are afraid that Zhao Shi and Fang Cheng will not be able to take care of it," Pei Pu said, "Besides, I paid to ransom Zhao Shi and Tan Ye from the hard labor camp, and there are records in Tanyang County." I really want to stay in Chenzhong, Master Zhao and Tan Ye have an incident in Sizhou, and the adults have to 'detain' or 'expell' me from the state medical hall first. I thought in my heart that staying in Chenzhong would be useless, so it would be better to advance and retreat with Zhao Shi and Tan Ye. ”

To be honest, Tan Yuliang was also worried that they were just chess pieces thrown by Han Qian so that they would have an excuse to enter Sizhou in the future, and now there were people like Pei Pu who didn't seem to be descendants of Xuzhou, but were directly assigned to participate in the uprising, which was also a guarantee for their future way out.

After Diao Blind and Pei Pu sat down, Tan Yuliang emptied the dishes on the table, lit an extra oil lamp to illuminate it, and asked Tan Lang, Tan Qiu, Zhao Fangcheng, Tan Wenlin and other children to sit around and open the outline of the uprising left by Han Qian:

"The legal nobility is not a good law, and the nobles should be waiting, so that the cultivators can have their fields!"

In order to start an incident, it is necessary to make a vigorous and vigorous effort in the shortest possible time, and how to agitate to the greatest extent, gather manpower, and effectively organize it is the biggest problem facing the people.

The specific action plan requires Tan Yuliang and Diao Blind to respond at any time according to the actual situation, but Han Qian drew up a program for Tan Yuliang and them in advance to mobilize and organize the uprising, that is, to abolish the old system of slaves and maids in Sizhou and divide the land equally, so as to mobilize the slaves and poor people who have been oppressed by the big surname forces for thousands of years to participate in the uprising to the greatest extent, and overthrow the rule of the big surname forces headed by Yang Xingfeng Yang over Sizhou.

The slogan is on the one hand, and how to effectively organize and implement it under this slogan is also described in detail in the outline of the uprising.

In addition, the outline also attached a large amount of detailed information about the topography of mountains and rivers, population distribution, the contradictory relationship between local and Hakka people, state soldiers, cities, and the defense of Fanzhai in Sizhou.

Even the specific entry point of the incident, the state government hall has also drafted a plan.

In addition to constantly cultivating new cultivated land and building water conservancy roads on a large scale, Xuzhou has also developed large-scale industries such as ironmaking, weaving and dyeing, oil pressing, shipbuilding, and river beach aquaculture, and the demand for young and strong laborers is getting higher and higher.

Sizhou Yang coveted the wages offered by Xuzhou, and since last year, the village slaves in its territory have been transferred to Xuzhou to participate in the repair of post roads and other work, and there are a total of more than 5,000 young and strong village slaves in three batches before and after, and they have entered the Hujian Pass Post Road, Xuefeng Mountain Post Road, Eagle Fish Village Post Road, Qudong Post Road and other places to work.

As early as the Han Daoxun era, Xuzhou abolished the conscription, and the employment of workers and workers was funded by the state government, although the wages were low, but it also ensured that the recruits could have an income equivalent to one stone and five buckets of grain per month to support their families.

In addition to the supply of inferior rations, the village slaves sent by Sizhou were almost stripped of nearly one stone of rice grain per month by the Yang family; Cumulatively, in the past year, Sizhou Yang's family has earned more than 40,000 stone rice grains from Xuzhou.

After the opening of the Qianjiang channel, on the one hand, the Yang family put his mind on the operation in Sizhou, thinking about renovating the post road, passing through the goods of Qianxiang, Sichuan and Shu, and collecting sufficient taxes to replenish the source of wealth, but also warned that the abolition of the old slave system in Xuzhou would have a negative impact, and was also worried that Han Qian would have unpredictable ambitions to occupy Xuzhou, so the number of slaves led by the Yang family and working in various parts of Xuzhou at this time plummeted to about 800.

In any case, once the impact is generated, it is difficult to eliminate it in a short period of time.

After the year, the passive sabotage, flight and even direct resistance of the village slaves in Sizhou emerged in an endless stream, and the contradictions between the big surname forces and the village slaves who had been exploited by them for thousands of years became more and more acute.

After the opening of the Qianjiang River waterway, Sichuan Shujing salt was the most important material for circulation to southwest Hunan and central Guizhou, and in order to protect its own interests, the Yang family also greatly strengthened its efforts to crack down on the trafficking of illicit salt in Sizhou.

In the early days, some of the smuggled salt dealers in Sizhou were directly involved or led by the Yang family and other big surname forces, and some of them were composed of poor people in Sizhou in Xia Geshan, Panlongling and other places, as well as fugitive slaves who broke free from the control of Fanzhai.

Naturally, the smuggled salt dealers with big surnames will be incorporated into the regular salt and iron supervision institute by the state government, so that the salt profits generated by the circulation of Sichuan salt can become the most important source of finance and taxation for the state government, but the Yang family and other big surname forces will no longer show mercy to other smuggling salt dealers.

These two factors made the prisons of Jinhe, Shiqian, and Renshan (Zhouzhi) counties, to which Sizhou belongs, overcrowded.

Adjacent to Chenzhong, Jinhe County, located in the west of Hujian Pass, although Dingkou is only about 20,000 people, but the county prison at this time held more than 400 prisoners such as fugitive slaves, salt dealers, and tax-resistant poor.

"We're going to rob Jinhe County Prison?" Zhao Zhixian didn't expect that Han Daoxun, Han Qian's father and son would build their prestige by suppressing the state prison riot on the first night of their arrival in Xuzhou, and the plan drawn up at this time was to ask them to rob Jinhe County Prison and start the first battle of the Sizhou uprising!

"Dong Tai, Dong Ping, Zhang Guangdeng and others, presumably Tan Ye is no stranger, these smugglers are imprisoned in Jinhe County Prison, these brothers, Dong Qing and Zhang Guangli, are secretly running, thinking of gathering outlaws to rescue them," Diao Blind said, "We have also been in contact with Dong Qing and Zhang Guangli, and we will bring them over tomorrow to ask Tan Ye to come out of the mountain to help......

Tan Yuliang used the Qianjiang Inn as a cover to lurk in Qianyang, making friends with people on both sides of the Yuanjiang River, and Sizhou smuggled salt dealers who traveled through the southern foot of Wuling Mountain to and from Qianxiang, so naturally he also had a lot of friendship.

On the one hand, they are confident that they can gain the trust of the salt dealers among the prisoners and those involved in the robbery, and they are also confident that they will have the initiative to follow up the uprising, so that they can organize them in the shortest possible time and form the first vanguard of the uprising.

However, Tan Yuliang was a little confused at this time, was it when Pei Pu went to Tanyang County to redeem them, Han Qian was waiting for this day, or was it really because of the grim situation in Guangde Mansion that he thought of using them to knock the mountain and shock the tiger?

When they officially erect a banner in Sizhou, if they don't have time to pick up the family left in Gaoyiyu, Xuzhou will come forward to "detain" and protect them.

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The next evening, when the blind man took the two of them, taking advantage of the dim light and no one on the mountain path at the end of the twilight.

These two people are Dong Qing and Zhang Guangli mentioned by Diao Blind earlier, and they are running around and gathering people to rescue Dong Tai, Dong Ping, Zhang Guangdeng and other salt dealers who are imprisoned in Jinhe County Prison.

Dong Qing and Zhang Guangli were both lean, in their early thirties, with dark skin and short shirts.

Earlier, this land boundary belonged to the Xi family, and the region belonged to Chenyang County, and the left and right Fanzhai combined were only 1,2300 households, and then moved into more than 300 Xi households.

On the basis of Han Qian's Jiming Village, he counted the green carp piers twelve miles east of Jiming Village, and traced west along Chenshui to the valley of Gaoyiyu, one hundred and ten miles of river valleys and hills on both wings, and after the establishment of Chenzhong County, he arranged for more than 800 households to be resettled from the wave of people who moved west from Guangde, plus the displaced people who were successively recruited and resettled, the population of this land exceeded 3,000 households, which could barely be regarded as reaching the standard of Xia County.

The people of Gaozhiyu have also doubled in the near future, Tan Yuliang and Zhao Zhixian are both old people in Gaoqiyu, and they have just caught up with the Qingniubei Wharf when it was just built.

Therefore, a new face came to Tan Yuliang and wanted to settle on the back of the green cow, which was not strange to the aborigines of Gaoyiyu.

Dong Qing and Zhang Guangli said that they were from Shanyueyi who lived in Longling, at the intersection of Jinhe County and Renshan County in Sizhou, but they were surnames in the Central Plains, and their ancestors may have moved into Wuxi from Guanzhong, Hedong and other places.

The two great migrations of the Qin and Han dynasties greatly increased the population of central Guizhou, Xiangxi, Lingnan and other places, but after the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the southwest region became closed again.

Dong Qing and Zhang Guangli call themselves rangers, but they are not guests who live in the official family, nor do they have enough family business to run rampant in the countryside, in fact, they are just wanderers selling smuggled salt.

Tan Yuliang ran the Qianjiang Inn and lurked in Qianyang for many years, whether it was his identity at that time, or the needs of secretly spying and infiltrating Xuzhou, he had a deep contact with salt dealers such as Dong Qing and Zhang Guangli, and also had a high reputation in this group.

Even if they wanted to be defeated and expelled from the Eagle Fish Village, they confronted Han Daoxun and Han Qian's father and son, but it did not reduce the aura on their bodies.

After all, folding in the hands of a figure like Han Qian is not a shameless thing.

Tan Yuliang and Zhao Zhixian were demoted to bitter slaves after the defeat in Tanzhou, and then they were redeemed by others, and lived in Qingniubei Wharf as coolies to make a living, Zhang Guangli, Dong Qing and others have also heard of it.

However, for the sake of secrecy, Zhang Guangli and Dong Qing only thought about looking for helpers in Sizhou earlier, but the so-called righteousness of the rivers and lakes was just a livelihood for the vast majority of people in the rivers and lakes.

What's more, under the high-pressure and severe crackdown of the Yang family, the salt mongers who walked the southern foot of Wuling Mountain were beaten to pieces in just three or five months.

Those who barely escaped the blow wanted to keep to themselves for a while at this time, and they didn't want to jump out and stir up trouble.

The righteousness of the rivers and lakes can compete with the Yang family, which has ruled Sizhou for more than 110 years for five generations?

After running back and forth for two months, bribery and rescue did not work, and only twenty brothers who dared to fight to the death were gathered to rob the prison, and the manpower was completely inadequate, so under the advice of the Xuzhou secret spy, he ran to Gaozhiyu to invite Tan Yuliang and the children of the Tan family to go out of the mountain.

This is mainly due to the recent order of Yang Xingfeng, the assassin of Sizhou, to take the salt prisoners held in Jinhe and Shiqian counties to the state capital (Renshan County) for trial, and it is very likely that hundreds of heads will fall to the ground at that time, and the time left for Dong Qing and Zhang Guangli to rescue the prisoners has become extremely limited.

The two sides hit it off, Zhang Guangli and Dong Ping took out the 100 cakes of gold they had accumulated over the years to reward each other, Tan Yuliang bluntly said that he regarded Dong Tai and Zhang Guangdeng as brothers in the rivers and lakes, and this shot was also caused by righteousness, so that the desperate Zhang Guangli and Dong Ping were moved to tears.

Tan Yuliang dug up the knives, halberds, crossbows, scale armor and other armor that they had buried in the vegetable garden behind the courtyard last night.

In the eyes of Zhang Guangli and Dong Ping, Tan Yuliang himself is the kind of person who is unwilling to lie in wait, and when he sees everything in front of him, he just thinks that Tan Yuliang and others are dormant here, and they have actually been trying to do something for a long time.

In the end, Zhao Zhixian, Zhao Fangcheng, Pei Pu, Zhao Fanghai and other four people were discussed, and tomorrow they will directly step into the territory of Enzhou Jinhe County from Hujian Pass.

And Tan Yuliang and Tan Xiuqun, Tan Qiu, Tan Lang, Tan Wenlin, Diao Blind, and Dong Qing, Zhang Guangli and the secret spies lurking in Xuzhou, if they want to bring these blades and armor into Sizhou, they can't pass the checkpoint check, so they can only cross over from the mountains and mountains north of Hujian Pass and enter the territory of Jinhe County, Sizhou.

Sizhou straddles the two major basins of the Yuan River and the Qianjiang River, and is located in the hinterland of Sizhou, Xia Ge Mountain, also known as Fanjing Mountain, as the main side branch mountain range at the southern foot of Wuling Mountain, is the watershed of these two major river basins.

The three counties of Sizhou, Shiqian County are located in the west of Xia Ge Mountain, standing on the Qianjiang River, mainly to develop the river valley in the middle reaches of the Qianjiang River.

To the east of Xiage Mountain is Renshan County, where Sizhou Prefecture is located, and to the east of Renshan County is a Panlong Ridge that stretches nearly 200 miles from north to south, 70 or 80 miles from east to west, and the main peak is 7 or 800 zhang high, and the main arable field of Inshan County is located in the valley between Xiage Mountain and Panlong Mountain.

To the east of Panlongling is Jinhe County.

Jinhe County is mainly located on the southeast slope of the Wuling Mountains, and on the whole, it belongs to the shallow hilly terrain in the upper reaches of Chenshui with Chenzhong County, and there are many low hills and mountains in the territory.

Jinhe county pond is built on the north bank of the upper reaches of Chenshui, not big, only more than 1,000 steps square.

Sizhou is impoverished, which can be said to be fully reflected in the dilapidation of Jinhe City.

The rammed earth wall has not been repaired for many years, and the surface is cracked with dense cracks that can be inserted into the palm of your hand, and there are weeds and dwarf shrubs.

A dirt road stretches along the north bank of Chenshui, and it has not rained for three or four days, and the occasional passing of cars and horses stirs up smoke and dust in the sky.

Fortunately, the climate in Sizhou is mild, and the grass and trees on both sides of the road are thick, but it is not desolate.

In addition to the heavy troops stationed in Hujian Pass, which is thirty miles away, the Yang clan did not relax its defense of Jinhe City, although it was forbidden to travel in and out of the city, but they were subject to strict inspection.

Zhao Zhixian They were able to enter the city and find a place to settle in the city; Tan Yuliang and the others crossed the mountains, and they were delayed for two days on the way before they arrived at the foot of Jinhe City.

In the end, the blind man came up with the idea, wrapped the armor in oilcloth, and the people in the city put a rope out of the inner side of the northern city through the sewage culvert to drag the package into the city.

Zhang Guangli and Dong Ping have been anxiously gathering people these days, thinking about robbing the prison and saving people, but they actually have no clue about the internal and external structure of the county prison, the number of prisoners in the county prison, the number of jailers in the county prison, the distribution and deployment of more than 300 defenders in Jinhe County, and how to break the city and escape before Yang Shouyi and the reinforcements arrived at Hujian Pass after the robbery, and where to flee.

Fortunately, in the outline of the uprising, there is extremely detailed investigation information of Jinhe County.

There are not only the distribution maps of the county prison office, city defense barracks, ditches and lanes, but also the distribution of large and small mountain roads, streams and valleys and Fanzhai villages in the Panlong Ridge west of Jinhe County.

And in the plan that Han Qian drafted for Tan Yuliang, he also asked Tan Yuliang to take the vast majority of unarmed prisoners with them after the robbery, and before Yang Shouyi, the lord of Hujian Pass, led reinforcements to suppress them, they fled out of the city and into the treacherous Panlong Ridge, with the help of these manpower and the favorable terrain of Panlong Ridge, first repelled the first wave of Sizhou state soldiers who rushed to promote the mountain clearance, and then mobilized the slaves and poor people in Fanzhai inside Panlong Ridge to make the uprising vigorous!