Chapter 47: The End of the Family
Early the next morning, Hangul came to the house again. After taking his seat, Li Quanluo asked, "Was the family really killed by robbers?" Han Wen said, "Yes, uncle, Wei Bochengde's furniture was killed by robbers!" Li Quanluo smiled, and Han Wen also smiled!
Li Quanluo said: "I sent 50,000 troops to the navy, and the local heroes sent troops separately!" ”
Han Wen arched his hand, "Uncle Xie will help, see you in Bozhou City on the fifth day of the first month of next month!" The little nephew said goodbye! ”
In October of the first year of Zhonghe, Tang Fengxiang's army general Li Changyan launched a mutiny, led troops to attack the city, and forced away the Fengxiang Jiedu envoy and all the armies on all sides of the capital were under the command of Zheng Zheng, and he was left behind. Tang did not dare to offend Li Changyan, and ordered him to recruit envoys for the Fengxiang Festival, and Zheng Zheng fled to CD and became prime minister the following year. In the first year of the Zhonghe of Tuzhou, the Tang Probation Army sent Shi Pu to Guanzhong to encircle and suppress the Great Qi Army. Shi Pu turned back to Xuzhou halfway to launch a mutiny and killed Zhi Zhi. After the edict was sent to Shi Pu to reform the army, he was ordered to make a festival, and Shi Pu sent another 3,000 troops into Guanzhong.
The world is already in turmoil, and countless careerists are smearing the world for their own selfish interests. And Hebei is destined not to be calm! A big war is about to break out! And many people didn't expect this battle to determine the future of Datang!
Han Wen returned to Bozhou to see his father. Han Jian asked, "How!" They promised to send troops! Han Zhi replied, "Father, the two towns have agreed to send troops, but there is a little deviation!" ”
Han Jian hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"There are too many people coming, it should be around 150,000!"
"What!" Han Jian was shocked! "About 150,000, and I have nearly 100,000 here and in other places, adding up to more than 200,000 horses. Can His Highness's side afford it? ”
Han Wen said with a smile, "If you don't bear it, you have to bear it, the five centaurs will gather under Bozhou City at the beginning of next month, and the father should prepare early!" ”
"Alas!" Han Jian sighed, "That's all it can be!" "Immediately issued an order, ordering the generals who were guarding the towns in various places to lead the troops to come.
Zhao Debiao ordered the whole Zhuang Ding to gather, and selected thousands of people from the slaves and tenants, leaving 300 Zhuang Ding to protect the manor, and took more than 2,000 people to kill them.
Shandong Shi clan refers to the gate lord clan in the east of Taihang Mountain, mainly Li, Cui, Lu, Zheng, Wang five surnames. And Hebei is mostly composed of the Li family, the Cui family, and the Lu family.
Zhao Debiao led people to kill a branch of the Cui clan fifty miles away, these family scholars in order to flaunt their special status, developed a set of cumbersome etiquette regulations, in ordinary life, these scholars do not interact with the Shu people at all. Like Zhao Debiao, a local hero, the family simply disdains. And the Cui family here relied on the identity of the family and humiliated Zhao Debiao.
Since he has an excuse, how can Zhao Debiao let it go. The next day, the team of people killed under the Cui family's village, and was found as soon as they entered the territory of the Cui manor, which relied on their own clan identity, and several generations forcibly seized all the land near the manor by various means, and in order to protect the manor and the land, they raised nearly 2,000 people, most of which were composed of the children and slaves of the Cui family.
Relying on these village protection teams, the Cui family has become an independent kingdom here. The Cui family's oppression of tenants has also reached an outrageous ninety-one, and the slightest disobedience is the addition of knives and sticks. As for the taxes imposed by the feudal towns, the Cui family did not pay a penny, and all of them were added to the tenants. As for the tenants who dare to flee, it is enough to kill their entire family, and those who flee will kill their neighbors. As a result, the tenants were firmly tied to the land.
Cui's manor is surrounded by watchtowers, after finding that there is a large group of people approaching, hurriedly warn, for a while the manor gate is closed, a team of Zhuang Ding appeared on the courtyard wall. Flags and flags on the tall walled wall. The soldiers of the Cui family, who are vividly dressed and angry, and the long-term tenants with withered faces stand all over the wall.
The head of the Cui family stood on the courtyard wall and shouted: "Who dare to come to the Cui family to make trouble!" Aren't you afraid of death? Zhao Debiao laughed, "Today, when the time of death comes, you are still arrogant here!" Come! Shoot the arrows! ”
Hundreds of arrows flew up the courtyard wall, and dozens of people were killed and wounded under surprise. The screams and wails rang out, and the steward dodged the arrows and shouted, "Let go of the arrows!" Shoot the arrows! Shoot them! Dozens of arrows flew down the courtyard wall, and screams rang out from the crowd. On the courtyard wall, the chief steward shouted loudly again, "All the children of the Cui family, listen, these robbers outside must fight them back." The patriarch said that whoever kills a robber will be rewarded with a hundred wen after the war, and if he kills five, he will be rewarded with three stones of millet and ten killed, and the whole family will be exempted from taxes and forced labor, and the time will come to make a fortune, so everyone will work hard to kill the thief. ”
Zhao Debiao was also unambiguous and ordered someone to release the arrows, the two sides came and went, and after a while, the arrows on the courtyard wall were sparse. Zhao Debiao saw the opportunity and shouted, "Brothers, attack!" Kill them all! The first to rush to the courtyard wall will be rewarded with ten taels of silver! Hundreds of people rushed up with ladders, and dozens of ladders were set up on the courtyard wall.
The manager was shocked when he saw it, "Knock down the ladder!" Push to the tucker! Several ladders were knocked down, and the people on the sticks screamed and fell to the ground. A strong man slashed left and right and rushed to the courtyard wall, and several Zhuang Ding rushed over and were slashed to death. The rest of the men fled in all directions, and several more attacked them, and the steward was about to flee when the strong man rushed up and slashed him to death. The door is open!
Zhao Debiao shouted, "Rush in!" Rush in! Kill all the men! Women take them all! The first horse rushed into the village, and the rest of the villagers also swarmed up. All of a sudden, flesh and blood flew in the village, and countless heads fell to the ground. Crying and screaming filled the village. Zhao Debiao rushed into the village and saw the strong man guarding the gate of the village, and asked, "Who are you?" The strong man arched his hand, "The head of the family, the little Zhao Yufei!" Zhao Debiao smiled and said, "Okay, follow me into the village!" ”
To Zhao Debiao's surprise, some tenants in tattered clothes in the village also joined in, and they took the lead in leading the way and finding out and killing the people hiding in the Cui family one by one. When Zhao Debiao was puzzled, Zhao Yufan, who was holding a steel knife in his hand, stepped forward and said, "Family master, these family masters can accept and enhance their strength!" "Zhao Debiao is overjoyed" to come, give them food and drink, and give them weapons! ”
The killing continued, and the Cui clan was desperately resisting on the long street, and people on both sides continued to scream and fall. The ornate doors of the houses on both sides of the street were constantly smashed open by the tenants, and then rushed in and slashed at all men, women, and children. The long street was not long, and the resistance of the Cui clan became weaker and weaker, and the remaining hundreds of people of the Cui clan gradually retreated to the front of the Cui clan's ancestral hall.
The patriarch of the Cui clan is a white and fat old man, who relied on the connections of the Cui family to be an official in the court when he was young. This also made him the head of the Cui family. After returning to the township, it can be said that he is the emperor of the soil within a radius of 100 miles. The heirlooms of poetry and books in the past are no longer visible to the Cui clan, and only forcible seizure and arrogance and lasciviousness remain.
Originally, in two days, the patriarch was going to take a few juniors to Bozhou to visit Han Jian, hoping to let a few juniors experience Han Jian here, but he didn't expect that before the trip was completed, the disaster of exterminating the clan was already in front of him.
Looking at the few remaining Cui family disciples, the patriarch's eyes were filled with tears. He suddenly turned around and shouted, "Who slaughtered my Cui clan, but I can see it!" Zhao Debiao urged him to step forward, "The surname is Cui, it's me!" The patriarch was furious when he saw it, "Zhao Debiao, you and I usually don't interfere with the river water, why did you come here today to destroy my Cui family!" ”
Zhao Debiao laughed: "Your Cui family has a lot of humiliation to my Zhao family on weekdays!" Today I want to destroy your Cui family! The patriarch suppressed his anger and said, "Today's matter, my Cui family is willing to take out 50,000 taels of silver and 50,000 stones of grain." Is it okay to buy the rest of my Cui family! Zhao Debiao sneered, "Kill you, and all the things of the Cui family will be mine!" With a wave of his hand, everyone behind him rushed up. A child of the Cui family shouted, "The left and right are also dead, everyone rush together!" The fish is dead and the net is broken, rush! ”
Nearly a thousand people mixed together and slashed each other, and screams and angry curses continued to sound. Gradually, Zhe's voice weakened, and only the stunned patriarch was left in front of the ancestral hall, and behind him was a large corpse of the Cui clan. Zhao Tubiao rode to the patriarch and said, "Old thing, go and die!" "Cut off the patriarch's head with a knife, and the Cui family was wiped out!
Zhao Debiao was sitting in the Cui family ancestral hall, the killing was still going on outside, and Zhao Yufan had already taken someone to copy the Cui family's property. Zhao Debiao knew that he had made a fortune this time, and it was not until the next morning that the shouting and killing in the manor stopped.
Zhao Yufan came back, "Family master, we have made a fortune this time!" Zhao Debiao hurriedly asked, "How much silver and grain are there?" Zhao Yufan said, "There are about three million taels of gold and silver, and about two million stones of grain!" Zhao Debiao was overjoyed and said in a loud voice, "Okay!" Good! Ship them all back! ”
Zhao Yufan hurriedly stopped, "The head of the family can't!" Zhao Debiao asked, "Why not!" You said! Zhao Yufan said again: "After a while, I will go to the city of Bozhou to meet, if there are too few people, I am afraid that others will look down on me." Now these tenants of the Cui family outside can be used by me to strengthen our strength. At that time, the government will be able to look up to us! ”
Zhao Debiao thought for a while: "Okay! As you say! At this moment, Zhao Yufei ran in: "Family master! Check it out! Zhao Debiao asked, "What's the matter?" Zhao Yufei didn't speak. Zhao Debiao got up and followed all the way to the backyard of the ancestral hall. The scene in the courtyard surprised everyone who came, and the ground of a huge courtyard was dug open to reveal a lot of white bones, many of which were broken. There are hundreds of them. Zhao Yufei said: "I have asked the head of the family, these are all slaves and tenants who were killed by the Cui family!" ”
Zhao Debiao was furious, "There are such despicable and shameless people in the world, who are dignified on weekdays, but despicable and cruel behind their backs!" He looked at the white bones in front of him, and then looked at the courtyard. Suddenly, Zhao Debiao had a big understanding!
Suddenly turned around and walked out of the courtyard, and said as he walked, "Order all the people of the Zhao family to gather in the square outside the hall, I have something to say!" Outside the ancestral hall, looking at the children of the Zhao family. Zhao Debiao spoke, but what he didn't expect was that his words not only saved him, but also saved the Zhao family!