Gejiazhuang is a natural village in the Guanzhong area that is not known to most people.

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it has been peaceful for more than 100 years, and the imperial court has always been light and thin, and now the small Gejiazhuang has hundreds of households, and even has gradually had the phenomenon of ruins, that is, a regular market phenomenon before becoming a town.

Gejiazhuang is a village inhabited by yeoman farmers, and such a village is also the foundation of the Ming empire.

The central court of the Ming Dynasty could only collect money, grain, and taxes from these villages to ensure the political and military operation of the entire empire.

However, unlike the private estates of the gentry group, Gejiazhuang did not have a village wall to defend against foreign enemies, not to mention that a village like Gejiazhuang was still in Guanzhong rather than northern Shaanxi, so naturally there was no need to worry about the invasion of Tartars.

Although it is a harsh winter and cold season, Gejiazhuang at this time is also very lively, and the villagers in the slack period all stay at home to make clothes or do carpentry or something.

Some well-to-do farmers had already begun to prepare to kill pigs, and the big wooden barrels were filled with buckets of boiling water, and white gas was steaming out, enveloping the village in a lively atmosphere, while the big fat pigs on the side were making a terrible howl, causing a group of village children who watched the pig slaughter to show their missing teeth and giggle.

There are also some farmers who are preparing to marry their daughters, and the sound of gongs and drums constitutes the most beautiful notes of peaceful and quiet rural life in the snowy world, and the red sedan chair also constitutes the brightest color.

Needless to say, chickens and dogs bark.

Before the arrival of the Xiaoice River, before the gentry, a privileged tax-free class, had swallowed up the empire completely, in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi's Daming, the life of the common people was still rich and peaceful.

However, due to man's selfishness and the unquenchable desire to compete for profit after seizing power, plunder and killing are inevitable.

The first to start slaughtering the village was the real Tartar, a group of Tartars put in by the Shaanxi Inspector Yu Shi Lu Zhonghe, and after they helped Shao Daxia and his men kill the officers and soldiers who escorted Wang Shu, they directly began to look for the village to implement their usual plan to make a fortune.

And the first to be slaughtered was Gejiazhuang.

The Tartar who rushed to the front galloped directly, and saw that there were a few Han children playing with the snowman at the head of the village, and without saying a word, he cut three or four children into two with a knife, and the blood suddenly sprinkled on the face of the snowman piled up, and the snow-white snowman became a bloody man.

These Han children in Gejiazhuang didn't have time to cry, and their white and tender little hands and legs were scattered on the ground like stumps in winter, trampled into mud by the horses' hooves of the Tartars on the snow.

More and more Tartars rode their horses, they showed their teeth like wild wolves, and swept directly over the wheat stacks built by the Han villagers, ignoring the roar of the yellow dogs in the village, and directly split the Han villagers who were stunned at the door in half, and the blood was suddenly sprinkled in front of the house, only the wide eyes still left shock and pain.

A tartar just smiled coldly, stepped on the body of the villager and entered his house, and when he saw the wheat, he put it on his shoulder, and when he saw the chicken, he grabbed it in his hand, and when he saw that there was a woman hiding at the foot of the bed, he threw away the wheat and the chicken, and threw himself at the woman of the Han family, and suddenly the woman's screams came from the house.

Countless tragedies began to be staged, and the Han villagers who were about to enjoy the pig killing feast were all hacked to death, they worked hard for a year, and finally waited until the end of the year to have a good meal, but they became the souls of the Tartars!

A sedan chair that was about to be carried to a neighboring village for a wedding stopped at the entrance of the village.

The four villagers carrying the sedan chair were all killed.

The groom, who has just married his sweetheart, is only half of his body left.

The bride was lying naked in the blood-colored snow, half an hour ago she was a fifteen-year-old Han girl, looking forward to the groom who grew up together like a childhood sweetheart to pick her up.

And by this time she had been ravaged to death by five Tartars!

In less than an hour, Gejia Village became an uninhabited village!

Hundreds of families, every family is out of the house!

Men and women, young and old, are not spared!

They may die without knowing who they have offended, what crime they have committed, and how they should be punished so severely.

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Coincidentally.

At this time, Shao Daxia and his party were also carrying out his plan to make a fortune.

Although they were not Tartars, but a gang of bandits raised by the gentry, they were no softer than the Tartars in their raids and killings, and even ten times more cruel.

After all, traitors have always treated their own kind more ferociously.

A place called Qili Village is a very ordinary village like Gejiazhuang, and there are dozens of villagers who live a relatively quiet and solid life, and it is also a homestead village controlled by non-gentry forces.

After all, Shao Daxia did not dare to go to the private estates of the butcher gentry, so as not to make a big fuss.

Shao Daxia was the first to rush into Qili Village, he only came to destroy the village and would not rob the money, so he was not merciless, saw a peasant woman coming out with hot water, and first went over and hacked the peasant woman to death in front of the threshold, and the other village women in the house did not know what happened and were helping a young woman of the Han family to give birth.

When this Shao Daxia came in with a bloody butcher's knife, the young woman of the Han family had just finished giving birth, and a newborn Xin'er of the Han family had just been happily lifted up by a village woman and was crying loudly to announce that when he came to this world, he was cut in half by the knife in Shao Daxia's hand, and even the village woman holding the Xin'er of the Han family was killed on the spot!

The young woman of the Han family who had just become a mother fainted in fright, but she still did not escape the fate of being ravaged by Shao Daxia.

After a room full of Han villagers was killed by him, he went on to kill the next family.

One by one, they were cleared.

If it is a pregnant woman, she will be stabbed more, and the reason is naturally that there is a possibility that there will be a villager who will not let this village continue to exist.

In the end, even the house was burned down, and the cattle, sheep, horses, and dogs were also driven into a room and burned.

Even farm tools can be destroyed.

In this way, the entire Qili Village will become a real uninhabited village, and the fields of these yeoman farmers will become real ownerless fields, and the operation of the government will become their fields.

Such tragedies continued to play out until the government found out about it.

Like every border trouble suffered by the Ming Dynasty in the past hundred years, villages composed of yeoman farmers were wiped out one by one, which included the credit of the Tartars, the gentry, and the bandits; It is difficult for bandits and thieves who really have nothing to do with the gentry to last, so it is mainly the work of the Tartars and the gentry.

Just as Mr. Gu Cheng said, the main reason for the demise of the Han dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty was the conclusion that the Han bureaucrats and big landlords colluded with the Manchu military aristocracy.

They colluded together to devour the foundations of the empire step by step.

It may be that in the long course of history, at most a few ordinary villages were slaughtered, but a hundred years later, it was the result of the rise of alien races, the financial tension of the central government within the empire, and the sharp decline in the patience of the common people.

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But this brutal method of land annexation will eventually come to an end, and Yang Yiqing, the governor of Shaanxi, who represents the interests of the empire, will have to send heavy troops to restore order.

But the thief had fled, and the tartar miraculously disappeared like the wind.

At this time, Shaanxi Inspector Yu Shi Lu Zhonghe had already gone to Yumen in the name of inspecting the border towns, and here, he received a secret letter from his family: "Four Zhuangzi have been obtained with a total of 24,000 acres of good land!" ”

Lu Zhonghe felt very happy, and also felt the greatest benefit of being an official, and at the same time, what made him happy was that he was about to be promoted to the governor of Sichuan, which was promised by Li Gefu of the cabinet.