In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Henan not only broke the king and broke the eight kings' people and horses back and forth to fight, but also caused drought and locust plagues, the distance is so close, and the annual situation of Xiajin County is also very poor, it is not an exaggeration to say that the people are not living well. Those poor peasant households have no livelihood, so they can only flee from the famine, although other places are also in chaos, but there is hope in the end, although it is extremely slim.

For example, many scholars with meritorious reputation, they relied on the money and rice issued by the imperial court to live, but in this bad year, the transportation was cut off, and the money and rice that these scholars deserved could not be distributed at all.

Zhang Chengye is a talent in the three years of the Apocalypse, he is usually a scholar, so he can take advantage of some small advantages, drink wine and talk about some shallow and ignorant world affairs, he married a wife in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and had two children later. Like all scholars, he lived a somewhat poor life, but he could still have enough food and clothing.

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, this kind of life gradually could not be maintained, and Xiajin County in Dongchang Prefecture became worse and worse, and the displaced people and rebels from Henan and Northern Zhili often wandered here, which made the already bad situation even worse.

In the ninth year of the Henan disaster in Chongzhen, most of the fields in the west of Dongchang Mansion were not harvested, and it was said that the imperial court wanted to allocate money and grain relief, but it was only said that it never came down. In May, when the green and yellow were not available, a large number of deserters appeared, Zhang Chengye's mother-in-law was not in good health, and last year there were children, and relatives were in Henan, so there was nothing to be done.

Zhang Chengye looked at the sallow mother-in-law and the hungry crying child at home, desperate and angry in his heart, and finally stomped his feet, grabbed a rice bag at home, gritted his teeth and said hatefully:

"Today, I don't want this scholar's Sven, I'll go to the grain store to borrow grain!"

The fields were damaged and did not produce grain, but several grain stores and warehouses of large families in Xiajin County were full of grain, but they either kept it by themselves, or the price was so high that they could not afford it.

There were many hungry people in the city who wanted to borrow grain, and in front of the gate of the largest grain store, about three or four hundred people were gathered, and they were confronting the men of the grain store and the servants sent by the yamen.

At this time, the common people are afraid of officials after all, seeing the tall and thin Zhang Chengye wearing a shabby cyan robe, walking by with a rice bag in his hand, there was a whisper in the crowd, nothing more than "This is Zhang Xiucai", the famous literati are also very prestigious among the people, seeing Zhang Chengye coming, everyone's courage suddenly strengthened a lot.

Zhang Chengye originally wanted to see the wind behind the crowd, and then go to get some cheapness, as a scholar, his brain is always flexible, and the reason for this shot is still clear.

As a result, he walked to the front inexplicably, standing in the first row, Zhang Chengye saw the official and the family member holding a stick opposite, and couldn't help but be very scared in his heart, and his body shrank backwards, but he didn't know whether he stumbled, or was pushed behind him, and he couldn't help but take a step forward......

There is a way, this is a small step for him, but it is a big step for him, Zhang Chengye doesn't know what happened behind, but he knows that he took this step, and was surrounded by hungry people with high emotions behind him, and even grabbed a few grain stores and large households, and in the end, Zhang Chengye returned home with a slow rice bag, and had a full meal with his happy wife and children.

After grabbing the rice grain, these households went back to their respective homes like Zhang Chengye to fill their stomachs, where would the government give up.

Early the next morning, this Zhang Chengye was caught by the magistrate and went to the yamen, and the magistrate over there was shocked and shouted:

"Why gather people to grab food and make trouble!!"

Looking at the torture instruments on both sides of the court and the servants with some bruises on their faces, Zhang Chengye, who was quite tall, suddenly lost all his courage, trembled like chaff, and didn't know where it was to bless his soul, so he begged and said:

"The ancestor of the students used to be the head of the household."

There are people in the court who are good officials, and it is more convenient for some people in the court to make trouble, and the magistrate pondered that this tall and thin scholar may still be an official in the court, and the sentence that was supposed to be executed was changed to three years in prison.

Things are always not as usual, the hungry people in Xiajin County heard the news that Zhang Chengye was arrested, everyone was frightened, once a soldier of the idle man gathered to rise up, pulled the flag and rebelled, thousands of hungry people broke through the county government, opened the prison and rescued Zhang Chengye, these years the scholar is always valued.

After this Zhang Chengye was rescued, he had nowhere to go, so he simply joined these rebels, pulled the flag and rebelled, and became a master's tent with these thieves, at least compared to before, his stomach was full and his status was much higher.

The guards near Xiajin were unbearable to fight, and they went to encircle and suppress the defeat of the desperate rebel army as expected, and after several similar experiences, the prestige of these rebels in Xiajin was greatly shaken, and even the hungry rebels in Henan and North Zhili came to defect.

Originally, the prefect of Dongchang Prefecture had already reported the situation, and the soldiers and horses stationed in Yanzhou and Jinan were already preparing to go to encircle and suppress, but the 100,000 troops of the Dongyu Jurchen entered the Kou from Xifengkou at this time, and the soldiers and horses of Shandong were deployed in the area of Dezhou and Jinan Prefecture.

This Xiajin County has been ignored in the past, this kind of rebellion of the chaotic people often has a characteristic, that is, it is easy to be carried away by a small smooth and provincial, the hungry people in this Xiajin County, there are only 3,000 soldiers and horses, and they occupy only a county, but whether it is the leader of the chaotic people, or Zhang Chengye, they are already forgetful.

The leader called himself the king, but this Zhang Chengye called himself Nanshan, taught others to call him Mr. Nanshan, and often compared himself to Zhuge and Liu Ji. Usually good is to hear that there are valuable antiques and calligraphy and paintings, so I came to visit, saying that I want to "appreciate" one or two, although this small place will not have too valuable things, but no one's good things are not willing to be so appreciated, this is too distressing.

As a result, some large families have not yet broken their homes, and they all arrange people to look at the door, and if they see this Zhang Chengye coming, they all shout, "Nanshan is a thief again!" "They were all in a hurry to go back and hide the good things. Therefore, although Zhang Chengye said that he called himself Nanshan, the people of Xia Jin called him by his name in private, but he added a word at the end, and everyone called him "Nanshan thief".

This Nanshan thief Zhang Chengye also has a habit, he likes to pretend to be weak and can't help the wind, the so-called Wei and Jin celebrities are also demeanor, every time they go out of battle, they like to be carried on a bamboo bed to show that they are in command and elegant.

(The character setting of the three thousand beautiful girls is borrowed here, and it has been authorized by Zichai Hate)

The shopkeeper Zheng once gave Li Meng a telescope, at this time the name was still called clairvoyant, and I don't know whether it was brought by the Franc machine (a collective name for Spain and Portugal) merchant ships or Dutch merchant ships, the price is like a treasure, but it is a great good thing.

However, in Li Meng's view, compared with modern children's toys, it is also inferior, but in this era, it is already a very useful utensil, and there is no substitute for it.

Looking at it from a distance, in the chaotic formation of the other party, there was a scholar in a brocade robe lying on his back, very leisurely, and the 1,000 soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion led by Li Meng met Zhang Liang's 900 salt dings, and swaggered through the county and came to Dongchang Mansion.

Along the way, he kept getting news through the system network of private salt trading, and Li Meng was becoming more and more sure, he was not ready to hide anything at all, and swaggered over.

The Jiaozhou battalion is sure that the chaotic army in Xiajin County is also arrogant and abnormal, and it actually looks like waiting for Li Meng to come to fight, and does not make any preparations, and it is indeed dizzy.

What is really different is what happened along the way, Li Meng once said during a casual conversation at dinner that he was going to convert the military salary paid to the soldiers into fields, and this conversation "accidentally" spread to the barracks, and all the soldiers who heard the news were very excited, as poor military households, or even the children of landlords and rich peasants, they had land in their hands, or more land, which these people dreamed of.

As a modern person, Li Meng really doesn't understand the kind of fanaticism that people in this era have for the land, especially their own land.

Since this news was spread "very accidentally", with the cavalry messenger running between the team and Jiaozhou City, the news spread throughout the Li Meng system, and the soldiers were all talking about this matter, and everyone was a little restless and excited. Relatively speaking, this battle was not taken seriously by the people.

It seems that there is really no need to worry too much, the army led by Li Meng entered Dongchang Mansion from Jinan Mansion, and after passing through Enxian County, after walking thirty miles, he encountered the chaotic army of Xiajin County.

The formation of the Jiaozhou battalion is tight, and the chaotic army and people are scattered and abnormal, and it seems that those chaotic people are more than ten times the number of people in the Jiaozhou battalion, but at most they are twice as many people, which shows what the chaos looks like.

Li Meng saw the "Mr. Nanshan" lying on the bamboo bed in the telescope, couldn't help but smile, and said to Ma Gang beside him:

"You've been out for a few months, let me see the results of your military training, salt Ding is in front, veterans are behind, go ahead!"

Hearing Li Meng's order, Ma Gang nodded and got down, rode to the front of the formation, and after dismounting, he also picked up a spear, stood in the first row on the left, raised the spear, except for the three hundred reserves, the soldiers who had already finished the formation suddenly quieted down.

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