The big families, especially those in the late Han Dynasty, controlled more than eighty percent of China's resources and ninety percent of the power of public opinion. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe remaining royal family can only occupy one percent of the resources and one percent of the right to public opinion.

As for the people, those common people and the poor did not have any right to speak at all, and only the poor and a few rich peasants had land in their hands, and it was very limited. Most of the peasants were actually tenants of large families.

The four major families in Jiangnan, and even those second-tier families, of course, cannot fully represent the Huaxia family. It's just that in the land of Wuyue region, if they unite, even if they form a country within a country, it will not be a problem.

As for public and private use, this is not an uncommon thing. To put it mildly, Wu Yue's defenders are inextricably linked to them, and a large number of descendants or side descendants of the family are full of them, and it is normal for them to be used by the family when necessary.

Not to mention, they already controlled the power of public opinion, so they could even directly ask the emperor to suppress the bandits as they do now. Under their operation, Zu Heng has changed from a bandit to a thief, and it is naturally necessary for the imperial court to levy it. In the final analysis, this country belongs to the Liu family, and if the country is not guaranteed, their Liu family will also be dusted, which is not worth anything.

Therefore, even if Liu Hong knew that this was a false report, he had to send troops. Moreover, this report to the county guard of Danyang County and several adjutants had a joint signature, in other words, from an official point of view, this was already a real 'rebellion'.

Coupled with the hard work of these families in Danyang County, even ordinary people and mountain people can't help but think that maybe Zu Heng really rebelled. In other words, at this point, it no longer makes sense whether his ancestor rebelled or not.

Zu Heng originally distributed all the spoils to the mountain people who gave him intelligence support, so that everyone was very kind to him. But during this time, everyone avoided him. Anti-thieves and robbers are two different concepts, once they rise to the level of anti-thieves, even ordinary mountain people dare not touch them casually, so as not to implicate themselves.

Zu Heng didn't take Li Yu with him, otherwise maybe Li Yu would incite these people to rebel together, and he had a lot of means. It's a pity that Zu Heng is now active in the northern part of Danyang County, and Li Yu, who is on the Lingyang side, has not received any news.

Without the help of the mountain people, many of the five thousand people under the command of Zu Heng were shaken. Many of them are willing to help, mainly because this operation is only looting, and even if there are officers and soldiers, I am afraid that it will be perfunctory, and there is no need to worry.

But it has risen to the level of rebellion, and so many officers and soldiers are coming here from all directions, and if they want to say that they can still stand firmly by Zu Heng's side, they are generally only ironcore.

For a while, there were only more than 2,000 people left around Zu Heng, and more than 3,000 people returned to Lingyang in a gloomy manner.

The officers and soldiers of the family have surrounded the mountain where they are located, and they are tightening up little by little. It was only a matter of time before Zuheng and they were discovered and exterminated, among which the three families of Quan, Bu, Ling, and Zhu were the most active, and the most capable and warlike children of the clan were all dispatched.

The share of salt and iron is a large income, and it may even help them become a first-line family, at least on par with the Zhang family. For this reason, they have to work hard! Everyone has already sharpened their knives at the moment, waiting to cut off Zu Heng's head!

"You go back, I'll stay here!" Zu Heng didn't expect things to turn out like this, and when he learned that he had been surrounded, he silently said to the surrounding mountain people.

"We're not leaving! Aren't they just officers and soldiers? And fight your way out! Immediately there was opposition from below, and then the more than 2,000 people replied in unison. If they can stay, they are the hardcore supporters of Zu Heng, and even if they die in battle, they will have no regrets.

"Have you ever thought about it? Even if we can break through, so what? The Imperial Court is determined to deal with us, in other words, even if we are able to return to Lingyang, they will continue to pursue us. Will we still have to drag our respective villages into the water? If you can exchange the life of the ancestor for everyone's safety, then the ancestor is willing to die! Zu Heng looked at the sky and said silently.

He didn't expect those big families to be so ruthless, it was just a grudge between him and the Zhang family, but he didn't expect to involve several big families of Wu Yue. It is conceivable that the Zhang family should have paid a lot of price in order to deal with him, and it will inevitably break his muscles and bones after that.

He is no longer a member of the family that sits on thousands of acres of land, but a humble mountain dweller. Being able to exchange his own cheap life for a quasi-first-line family is actually the limit.

In other words, in fact, Zu Heng expected this ending from the beginning, but for some reason, he still embarked on the road of opposing the Zhang family without hesitation. And since he chose this path, he has no intention of regretting it.

"Go back and take good care of my son! In addition, that Li Yu, he will be your new village chief in the future, and he will treat him like he did to me! Zu Heng said slowly, this is almost explaining the aftermath.

"Why isn't it the young village chief, but his outsider?" The young man who came out of the village couldn't help but ask.

"Lang'er is still young, and it is inevitable that he will do something impulsive when he is the village head. Li Yu's identity is still a bit doubtful, but he is indeed talented, and he really intends to work for the village...... The point is that he has brains!

If Lang'er is the main one, then it is impossible to say that he will rebel directly and desperately. On the contrary, if Li Yu is in charge, even if he wants to rebel, he will leave a way back for you and not embarrass everyone! Zu Heng said slowly.

"Okay, don't say more, the officers and troops are coming, you can break through quickly!" Those mountain people were about to say something, but they didn't want Zu Heng to wave their hands and let them leave. If you don't leave, it's too late!

The villagers repeatedly tried to stay, but Zu Heng was unmoved, and finally had no choice but to leave down the mountain.

Zu Heng saw everyone leaving, so he moved in another direction. Originally, he could have used these two thousand people as bait to get out safely. But he didn't do anything else, if anyone went back alive, then the character and reputation he had managed for many years would be completely ruined; Second, as I said earlier, there was no point in leaving, and the officers and soldiers were already determined to kill him, and they would not let him survive at all.

"Officers and soldiers! If you want Zu's head, just come! Zu Heng didn't intend to sit still, with two quivers on his back, a hunting bow in his hand, and a ring-headed knife in his waist, he sank directly into the jungle.

"When you find out that Zu Heng is cross, immediately surround him, don't let him run away! Don't care about those mountains, Zuheng is the key! The officers and soldiers originally saw the other party breaking through and quickly surrounded the other side, but they didn't want Zu Heng to suddenly appear, so they suddenly changed their target and killed Zu Heng directly.

Zu Heng's height is more than 1.8 meters, and he is completely outstanding in the south, and more than a dozen ordinary mountain people are not close to him. Because of this, there is no way to find someone with a similar body type to pretend to be killed and escape, which can be described as both advantages and disadvantages.

Besides, his ancestor was originally from Xiapi, Xuzhou, and his appearance was somewhat different from that of the southerners, and it was because of this that he knew that he could not escape for a while, and the family had already made up their minds to kill him, or not to implicate more innocent people.

After more than an hour of guerrilla warfare, Zu Heng skillfully killed nearly 100 officers and soldiers with the help of his familiarity with mountain warfare.

At the same time, his own scope of activity was also shrinking little by little, and finally he was surrounded by officers and soldiers. This circle is shrinking little by little, and at this moment, Zu Heng has even used up the last arrow.

"If you are caught, I can give you a whole corpse!" Quan Shang from the whole family stepped forward slowly, trying to persuade Zu Heng to give up resistance, and the generals from other families also approached little by little.

Zu Heng's head is related to the key to the prosperity of their family, so he naturally does not want to fall into the hands of others.

"To put it lightly, Zu's head seems to be very interested, right? Take it if you want! You hypocritical families, full of benevolence and morality, but what is the crime of our common people, why do you want to take away our land and property, and take away our dignity! Your officers and soldiers, more or less of them are from the common people, but now they are helping these families to harm our people, ask your conscience! Ask if it was eaten by a dog! Zu Heng roared angrily and pounced directly towards Quan Shang.

"Stabb him to death!" Jeon Shang commanded, and the pikemen around him hesitated for half a second, and then had to move forward under Quan Shang's gaze. Military orders are like mountains, and they will only be unlucky if they do not obey orders. On one side were a large number of friendly troops, and on the other side was Zu Heng, who was alone, and these soldiers knew how they should stand.

In other words, they have learned since they were born how to protect themselves in this world.

It's not that they don't understand some truths, but what? There is no way to change the way of the world, everyone follows the flow, why bother to be that different existence?

The spear stabbed towards Zu Heng in all directions, and under this dense thrust, Zu Heng didn't even have room to dodge. However, he jerked forward, and then took advantage of the castration to slash directly into the thighs of the three spearmen in front of him.

The other party was in pain, and the spear in his hand was naturally unstable, which gave Zu Heng a room to return. But unfortunately, there were spearmen all around, and the moment he got up, he was stabbed in the back several times.

"Haha, if you're dead, you want to, find a few people and bury them!" Zu Heng may have been a reflection of his death, his face became very ruddy at this moment, he rushed directly towards Quan Shang, grabbed his head and cut off his head.

The next moment, he was really pierced by pikemen from all directions, like a sieve with a big mouth.

"It's worth it!" After Zu Heng finished saying these two words, he finally lost consciousness.

"General!" One of the soldiers cut off Zu Heng's head and gave it to their superior, Wei Yun, who was from the Wei family.

"Collect the dead soldiers and officers, and go back! As for you, you will be promoted to the team rate on the same day, and the reward will be consistent! Wei Yun took the collection with satisfaction, gave a few orders under the attention of other families, and gave the soldier who cut off his head a reward, and then slowly took the head and turned away.

Two days later, the head of the Wei family handed over the head of Zu Heng to Zhang Yun, who naturally transferred the share of salt and iron to the Wei family as promised. The head of the Wei family was very satisfied with this, but he didn't know that he had planted a time bomb.

At the same time, the news of Zu Heng's death in battle also spread back to the village.

Zu Lang was stunned for a long time, and finally cried after reacting. And Li Yu couldn't help but be stunned, without Zu Heng, how could these villagers obey the order? Is it just a teenage Zulang?!

"The village chief ordered, in the future, the village chief will be handed over to Mr. to serve as the position, and please take care of the village chief more!" The villagers who came back naturally also told Li Yu Zuheng's decision.

"Me?" When Li Yu heard this, he was even more incredible, he couldn't have imagined that the heir would be himself!