The Handan tragedy, which occurred seven years ago, is one of the few stains on Emperor Jin's reign of more than 20 years.

Because this matter was a taboo for Emperor Jin, Emperor Jin changed his name to Yuan Zhenglong after that.

Handan, as the capital of Zhao during the Warring States Period, was also the largest city in the southern part of Hebei Province at that time, and it was a strategic town connecting the north and the south. Its prosperity is not comparable even to Jinan Mansion.

However, one night seven years ago, Handan City suffered a great disaster, the treasury of the government was burned, copper molds were stolen, and thousands of people were killed, causing a great riot and the whole Jin country was shocked.

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Here's how it all began.

Zhang Jiasheng is the governor of Handan, because he offended some big people three years ago, he was excluded to Hebei Province to serve as the assassin of Xiazhou, and he was depressed for a while. Fortunately, he was a man of life, gave up money and dignity, and befriended Zheng Keming, the secretary of the dynasty, under his activities, in just two years, the evaluation of the ministry called him "honest and honest, and ruled Jingping", so he was transferred to Handan, Shangzhou, to serve as the assassin.

It's only been a short year, and Zhang Jiasheng not only made up for the huge amount of money spent on flattery when he was assassinated in Xiazhou, but also made an entry. Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, he is the history of Shangzhou Thorn, real power, real fat difference, plus a way to make money, only one year, he has accumulated a net worth to a higher level.

That's two or three hundred thousand taels of white flowers and bloody silver!

However, he was not satisfied.

Zhang Jiasheng knew that it was none other than his best friend Yan Xi who caused his current situation.

If he hadn't offended the Tiqi Division, he would have fallen off the fat shortage in the Jindu Household Department? As for two or three years, you have to live by looking at other people's faces, don't be dignified, don't have face, don't have a name before and after death?

Made......

It's still a world friend, Ti Qi Si deceived you for three generations of the Yan family! Your Yan family is a joke through and through!

Married to Tiqi's daughter? Stop dreaming! Don't know about officialdom taboos?

It is better to marry a businessman than a wife; I'd rather marry a girl in a green house than a horseman.

Even if you are angry, even if you scold, what can you do? The marriage certificate has not been returned! This is the brightness of three, four, five, six! I'm almost married!

let you break off the relationship and divorce his daughter, you still miss the old love, no, you deserve to be unlucky, right? The Mi family is dead, and the Ti Cavalry has found your head!

If you look for you, what are you doing pulling me in? said that I had long been displeased with the Mi family, and Mr. Mi's death may be because of me...... I'll go to your ancestors for the eighteenth generation! What does this root have to do with me!

Didn't you just say that Mr. Mi is good at kung fu......

You are dead, your son has run away, and your daughter-in-law who has not passed the door has watched you go to the guillotine, but she has watched your son die!

Maybe it's that little bastard of yours is running fast, and your little widow who hasn't passed through the door is angry, so she spills her anger on me...... Fortunately, I am also talented in the household department, no, in just three years, I have re-accumulated my net worth, and now I am just around the corner again...... Unfortunately, you can't see it.

Zhang Jiasheng looked at the graceful maid who came slowly and smiled proudly.

This kind of thinking is Zhang Jiasheng's "compulsory course" every day, and he is called "three provinces and my body", of course, he only says this to himself.

In the huge bath, Zhang Jiasheng faced several maids dressed in tulle and put his hands on it, while secretly thinking about how much money those big families should pay for this encirclement and suppression of the bandits.

At the same time, while Zhang Jiasheng was happily bathing, dozens of foot merchants entered an inn in Handan City and were secretly planning a big event.

A young man with a scar on his face commanded several people to carry the boxes into the bunk, and then several more people closed the doors and windows, and then asked Xiao Er to deliver the food to the room, and then stopped going out.

The young man with a scar on his face said to the men gathered: "The brothers have already inquired clearly, the dog official is going to attend a poetry meeting outside the city the day after tomorrow, and then it is a good time for us to do it." ”

A shirtless man with a beard on his face said: "Brother Gongming, we listen to you, as long as you shout and kill!" When the time comes, I will definitely take off the head of the dog official for you and use it as a urinal for you! ”

The young man with the scar smiled slightly and scolded, "You talk quietly! Well, brothers, let me say the plan again. The day after tomorrow, everyone dressed up as small vendors, mixed in with the crowd, and waited for the poetry meeting to reach its climax. Be sure to wait until the brothers in the city have caused chaos by burning down the granary...... The Lai brothers will lead people to control the city gate, and be sure to block the city gate, not let the defenders enter the city, and don't let the defenders out of the city, as long as it causes panic. Then I and the Hengniu brothers led people to kill the dog official, Huan Shuai and General Wen brought their own people in the cottage to attack the remaining two city gates, and finally Yin Shuai entered the city from the gate guarded by the Lai brothers, robbed the silver warehouse, and helped the people! Strengthen the majesty of my Baiyan cottage! Brothers, do you know that? ”

After everyone had made it clear, there was a rumbling sound of drinking, and everyone fell asleep.

This young man with a scar on his face is Yan Xi's son, Yan Jiegang. On the same day, he escaped the pursuit of Tiqi, fled into the Taihang Mountain, was rescued by the bandits, after three years, the original gang of bandits has annexed more than 20 villages of all sizes around the area, developed to 20,000 people, and established a cottage, which is called Baiyan Cottage. And he himself has become one of the two leaders of the bandits, and he has a group of diehards under him. Because he is arrogant, righteous and squandering money, courageous and talented, he is also known as Yan Gongming.

Now, he has amassed enough strength to take revenge on his former enemies. And Zhang Jiasheng of Handan City, because he killed his father with a bite, is the person he wants to kill the most.

The next day, the city of Handan was full of people, and everyone was preparing and happy for the grand poetry meeting to be held in Handan City.

Yan Jiegang led the Lai family brothers and the Han Hengniu to comprador goods in the city, preparing to familiarize themselves with the situation at tomorrow's poetry meeting. The poetry meeting will be held for a total of three days, and according to the original prediction, the guards on the second day should be the most lax, so their attack time is set for the second day, and the first day is to find out the situation.

So in the busyness and expectation of everyone, the poetry meeting came as scheduled. Zhang Jiasheng, the assassin of Handan, attended the whole process and wanted to have fun with the people, which was one of the authorities of this poetry meeting. The poetry meeting was led by him, and several local Confucians formed a jury to select the three most outstanding talents in this poetry meeting.

On the first day of the preliminaries, the smooth progress warmed up for the people. Then the second day's race pushed the atmosphere to a climax. The poems of the talented people and the performances of the oiran pushed the atmosphere to the peak, and at this time, even the soldiers in charge of the guards were itching, thinking about seeing the song and dance of such and such an oiran.

At this time, the large-scale poetry meeting was accompanied by singing and dancing, and some men would be invited to do drills, competitions, etc., which was extremely lively. Xie Shence's Zhongnan Mountain Spring last year was like this. Therefore, the number of people who went out of Handan City to watch the poetry meeting has reached nearly 10,000.

And in the afternoon of that day, when people were talking about so-and-so girl and so-and-so, disaster suddenly struck.

The official granary of Handan City suddenly caught fire, and the fire raged, devouring tens of thousands of stones of grain in an instant, and the smoke could be seen for ten miles outside the city. At this time, the people at the poetry meeting outside the city naturally found out, so the crowd began to stir, and the bandits mixed in the crowd in Baiyanzhai agitated to create panic, and the crowd soon boiled.

"Run...... The bandits are coming! ”

“...... My house seems to be on fire, too! Help me! ”

"I'm going back! Outside it's ...... dead."

“......”

The boiling crowd ran madly towards the city gates, and almost no one thought about the logic of these words.

And in the city, this situation is also playing out.

Hundreds of murderous thieves came out of the burning granary with bloody knives and began to kill people on sight, lighting fires everywhere in the city to create panic.

Thousands of heavily armed bandits had already appeared outside the city, heading towards Handan City.

Yan Jiegang took Heng Niu and other leaders in the crowd, and saw that the situation was already chaotic, so he broke the burden of the merchant, took out the knives and guns inside, and cut them at the heads of the approaching people, killing a bloody way, and killing straight towards the big platform of Zhang Jiasheng and others.

However, two quarters of an hour later, Yan Jiegang and Heng Niu and others arrived at the big stage, but Zhang Jiasheng was gone. After catching an official and asking, Yan Jiegang learned that Zhang Jiasheng had secretly returned to the city at noon.

It turned out that this poetry meeting was actually a disguise, and Zhang Jiasheng attended this poetry meeting to discuss with the local wealthy clan to share the salary and silver for the extermination of the bandits, and then discuss how to report the merits and losses to the imperial court to obtain money. On the first day, some outlines were basically finalized, and some people had already transported silver to the silver warehouse one after another, so at noon today, he was worried about the things in the silver warehouse, so he secretly went back under the pretext that the concubine was ill.

The furious Yan Jiegang slashed the official's head with a knife, and then led people towards the city gate to kill.

Handan is the capital of Shangzhou, so it naturally has a lot of troops, and its combat effectiveness is not weak, but it is a little overstretched at this time. First, the place where the fire was set was in the northwest of the city, the poetry club was in the southeast of the city, and most of the defenders in the south were transferred to the granary to put out the fire. The crowd was quickly dispersed, and the defenders were routed. Yan Jiegang and others then entered Handan City.

At this time, outside the city, thousands of bandits had already begun to attack the city. The chaos inside and outside the city suddenly increased.

Yan Jiegang led people to round with the Lai brothers, and then the two sides went to the northeast of the city to kill in the direction of Yincang. An hour later, they met with the people who set fire to the granary, and the three parties joined forces to kill the silver storehouse.

At this time, Zhang Jiasheng took hundreds of soldiers to defend the silver warehouse here, and it was extremely difficult to capture it for a while, Yan Jiegang was worried that things would change for a long time, so he ordered the warehouse to be set on fire, and he took people to grab the copper mold for printing copper coins.

After half an hour of fierce fighting, thousands of bandits outside the city broke through the city gate, some of them burned and looted inside the city to create chaos, and some of them held the south gate to ensure a smooth retreat. So fires broke out in the city, and bandits plundered their property. Adulterous women do all kinds of evil, and for a time Handan City is a hell on earth.

Under these circumstances, hundreds of Zhang Jiasheng's sergeants had no intention of fighting, and the silver warehouse was lost under the fire. Zhang Jiasheng led the remnants of the army to flee, but he didn't want to bump into Yan Jiegang, who won the bronze mold, and after the remnants were killed and retreated, Zhang Jiasheng was also hacked to death with a knife.

Subsequently, Yan Jiegang led a large group of men and horses to withdraw from Handan City, and when the reinforcements from the imperial court arrived, there were only monstrous fires and devastation all over the city.

Since then, the imperial court has counted that more than 4,000 people were killed and injured in Handan City, thousands of people were broken, countless losses of the people's property were lost, tens of thousands of grains were burned in the granary, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the silver warehouse were burned, part was robbed, the copper mold was lost, and Zhang Jiasheng, the assassin of Handan, died in the line of duty.

The Great Jin Dynasty was shocked, and the Jin Emperor then ordered a thorough investigation of the matter and exterminated the bandits.

However, in the end, it didn't work.

In the end, Emperor Jin changed the Yuan. The matter became taboo.

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This is the beginning and end of the Handan tragedy. It happened seven years ago, when Xie was 10 years old.

(PS: Hoo...... Lay a pit and leave it to fill in slowly......

There will be more later~. ~）