Fazheng Zhang Ren on the horse was stunned, Yan Yan and the soldiers turned around, and were stunned when they saw the giant tree smashing huge waves in the deep pool, the two men and women who were fighting over who crossed the bridge first were frozen in the rain curtain, and the fleeing people looked at the scene on the cliff blankly, at a loss.

"These foolish people listen to the bewitchment of those clans, and they don't know who is really good to them.

Shamoke muttered on the horse, Xiao Furong immediately turned around and glared at Shamoke, and Shamoke shut up leisurely.

"The pontoon bridge has been built, the raft has been lowered, my lord, when will the order be given to cross the river?" Yan Yan came back to his senses and reported to Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang looked up at the people who were still standing on the cliff, and looked at the giant trees that fell into the deep pool and floated up in a sad manner, the people on the giant trees had disappeared, only the waves of white flowers, some people couldn't help but squat on the ground and cried, and some people came down the cliff in numbness and despair.

On the bank of the Xiangjiang River, there are countless people who have fled, they don't know where to go, when the Sichuan army starts from Jiangling, the people along the way can escape smoothly, the people of Baichuan City are unlucky, catch up with the rainstorm weather, there are very few people who flee to Xiangyang, and now, it has reached a desperate situation where there is no way to advance or retreat.

Liu Zhang did not reply to Yan Yan's words, turned over and dismounted, and the generals of the Sichuan army also turned over and dismounted, and followed Liu Zhang to a handful of people, a bunch of people saw a group of generals who only showed their eyes and were full of anger approaching them, and they all nervously retreated, and a woman fell until the water of the Xiangjiang River was behind her, and there was no way to retreat.

Liu Zhang asked an old man in front of him with ragged clothes and silver hair expressionlessly: "Why did you flee?" ”

The old man's mouth moved a few times, he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything, after a long time, Liu Zhang asked again, and then a little girl leaning on her mother's womb next to him said loudly: "Because the elders and the old men say that you are bad people, you are the big bad ...... from the west."

"What nonsense?" The mother hurriedly covered the girl's mouth, nodded to Liu Zhang, and begged with her heart: "I'm sorry master, I'm sorry master, children are not sensible, you must not blame, don't ......"

Liu Zhang didn't look at the mother, turned his head to look at the old man, pointed to the little girl and said, "Is what she said true?" ”

"Yes, it's true." The old man said tremblingly, his voice a little old, shivering in the heavy rain and cold wind.

"Old man, seeing that you also escaped from Baichuan not long ago, you say, what did our Sichuan army do in Baichuan to lose your conscience and be sorry for you? Do you want to force you to leave your homeland? ”

Liu Zhang's eyes looked directly at the old man, the old man was speechless for a while, he was so old, even if he died, where did he want to leave his hometown, but a few children listened to the words of the elders and fame in the city, and only said that if they didn't flee, there would be a catastrophe, the old man didn't want to be separated from his children, he couldn't stand the children's requests, and he didn't want to drag his children because he dragged them down, so he dragged a handful of old bones and fled.

In the past two days, the family has spent the past two days in tension, but in retrospect, these "vicious" soldiers in front of them really didn't do anything to them, but the previous Jingzhou army forced those strong men to go to the city to defend the city.

The old man was speechless, Liu Zhang's eyes rose from the rickety old man, looked at the people who were watching him in the rain, and shouted hoarsely: "You say, I, Liu Zhang, my Liu Zhang's soldiers, which one has done something sorry for you, which one has taken a grain of rice and a foot of cloth from your house, you say it, I will immediately behead him on the spot, as long as you can name ten, I, Liu Zhang, committed suicide on the bank of the Xiangjiang River, you say." ”

The sound entered the ears of the people through the rain curtain, the heavy rain was dripping, crackling on the river, all the people were silent, quietly looking at Liu Zhang, women, children, the elderly, and the youth, they could not see Liu Zhang's face, they could only see Liu Zhang's eyes, but they seemed to be able to see everything.

It seems that the Sichuan army is not as terrible as imagined, in front of Liu Zhang, relying on the Xiangjiang River, many people who don't know where to go gather over.

"You listen to the words of those so-called fame, the so-called village elders, and the so-called masters, and you leave your hometown with your family, and you don't hesitate to die of illness and death in the river, are you worth it?"

"Order the whole army to delay the crossing of the river and let these people pass first."

Liu Zhang dropped a sentence and turned around, he didn't beg for how much of a few words of his own could make a difference, just vented the anger in his heart once, he wanted to suppress these thoughts in his heart countless times, just like the five words carved on Dongting Lake Island, no matter what others thought and said, he knew what he was doing.

Because it's useless to say it.

But seeing the temporary bridge sinking into the deep pool, and seeing the frightened and numb eyes of those people, Liu Zhang finally couldn't hold back.

"Your Excellency."

Just when Liu Zhang turned around, the old man shouted out, Liu Zhang turned around, and the old man's cloudy eyes looked at Liu Zhang and said, "My lord, I heard that you killed thousands of people in Jiangzhou, right?" ”

Liu Zhang nodded.

"I've heard that you've killed a lot of people in Brazil Hanzhong, right?"

Liu Zhang nodded again.

"What about Wuling, Chaisang?"

The old man searched for the names of the places that the fame had passed on to him, and according to the fame, those places were the corpse slaughter grounds of the Devil's Sichuan Army, and every time they talked about it after tea and dinner, three or five talkers had a terrifying tone.

Liu Zhang still didn't deny it, and still nodded.

"Then why did you kill them? So many people, do they all deserve to die? ”

The rickety old man shouted in an old voice, all the people looked at Liu Zhang, Zhang Ren, Fa Zheng, Xiao Furong, Yan Yan, all the Sichuan soldiers looked at Liu Zhang, the people wanted to know the answer, and these Sichuan soldiers also wanted to confirm the answer, they came from the people's families, and they didn't want to be regarded as murderous devils by the people.

"Old man, how much land do you have?" Liu Zhang approached the old man and suddenly asked, the rain was very heavy, and Liu Zhang's voice was also very loud, and the people could hear it clearly.

"My family has no land, and our whole family works for the Wang family, living on wages, and helping the landlord farm during the busy farming season."

"Then why doesn't your family have land, you were born without land?"

The old man was silent for a moment, and replied for a long time: "There used to be a few mountain fields, but because my son was sick, I sold the fields and the whole family moved to the city. ”

The old man said, and a middle-aged man on the side was inexplicably sad, as if he was stuck in a memory.

"If the government had bought the land at a higher price than the market price when you sold it, and after the purchase, it rented the land to you and charged you a lower tax than the landlord, would you still move to the city?"

"Where is there such a good thing?" The middle-aged man couldn't help but speak.

"That's right, the government and the rich man can't wait for the Ten Stone Valley to take away nine and a half stones."

"The government is too lazy to care about the affairs of those rich lords."

The people gossiped and said, although Jingzhou was rich under the governance of Liu Biao, but it was completely different from Yizhou, when Liu Yan entered Shu, relying on the Dongzhou clan, the Yizhou clan was suppressed too much, until Liu Zhang was in power, the local clan slowly developed, basically hiding the wealth from the people.

And Liu Biao entered Jingzhou, first of all, he got the support of the Cai family, the Ma family, and the Kuai family, relying on the major clans to stabilize the hearts of the people, conquer the thieves, and the clans also grew with the growth of Liu Biao, until Jingzhou became the paradise of the clans, the Sima family, the Zhuge family, the Pang family, and other famous families have moved their branches and leaves into Jingzhou, resulting in the prosperity of Jingzhou today.

And in this process, the people of Jingzhou are just stained with the drizzle brought by the development of the world, and they have to be exploited by the unscrupulous exploitation of the world, and with the connivance of Liu Biao, the major families can almost do whatever they want.

The people dare not speak out, as long as they can have a bite to eat, they can only be grateful to Liu Biao, compared to those war-torn areas, they have lived well, those landlords and rich people have taught them how to be grateful.

[There will be an outbreak on the shelves today, I don't know how many book friends will follow the tyrant]