readx; Yun Zheng made up his mind to stick to it, as long as he didn't let Xiao Dahu run out, he would win the biggest victory. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Xiao Dahu did not lead the army to break through at the first time, which had already made Yun Zheng underestimate him by three points, lack of food was his biggest weakness, and continuing to shrink in Xijing City would only make his strength weaker and weaker.

In contrast, Yun Zheng is not so anxious, and the supplies that have been prepared for five years are being transported here from Yanmen Pass in a steady stream, as part of the relay race, after the beginning of spring, Yun Zheng will have a fully equipped army again.

The achievements of the Great Song Dynasty in these years have been quietly displayed, the war in the north continued, but the domestic tax was not increased, with a large number of food support from Lingnan, the emperor even ordered the reduction of Shaanxi's money and grain.

This is a great achievement, Sima Guang even went to the Wanmin excerpt for this purpose to ask for merit and pray for the emperor, and Yun Zheng also signed his name on this excerpt.

However, there are places where the light does not shine under the brightest sun.

30,000 people climbed the ice and snow in the extremely cold weather to come to Xijing, and after the final count, there were less than 25,000 people left, that is to say, a full 5,000 people had died on the journey from Yanmen Pass to Xijing, which was less than 1,000 miles.

Wang Anshi himself was sick, and the fever did not go away, since the beginning of the heavy snowstorm, he ∑ been moving forward without sleep, he knew that once this army of displaced people stopped in a certain place, I am afraid that he would never be able to go to Xijing again.

There may be another way to live forward, and there is no second way to stay where you are but to die.

After Wang Anshi, whose lips were scorched, saw Yun Zheng, his two deeply sunken eyes seemed to be bubbling with ghost fire, pointing at the homeless people and roaring at Yun Zheng: "Don't let them die again!" ”

This guarantee Yun Zheng can't give Wang Anshi, in fact, Wang Anshi himself knows that Yun Zheng can't do this at all. The reason why he roared out was that he had seen so much death these days that his spirit was almost broken.

The soldiers couldn't help but whisper and point when they saw the homeless, and they admired the men who could walk here from thousands of miles away barefoot.

Only Chen Lin's expression was still very calm.

These people have a different reaction when they see the homeless people than ordinary people when they see the homeless, the common people will only sympathize when they see the homeless, while the officials and emperors will see the homeless. It's like seeing turmoil and unease.

In Chinese history, there are no more than two kinds of people who have ambitions to compete for the throne, one is the wealthy family, such as Yang Jian, Li Shimin and so on.

The second is hooligans, such as Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang, etc. This Gaihao clan has the advantage of gaining power, and the hooligans have no scruples and have the courage to take risks.

What does the Hao family rely on? Since ancient times, our country has been based on agriculture, and land is the only tool of production. It is also the only power base. But among the four people, the peasants suffered the most. The inheritance system of our country is mainly divided equally among the sons, even if it is a large peasant, after passing it on again and again, the land will also be subdivided, from a large peasant to a small peasant, and the production of land can no longer sustain the life of a family. However, the tax was mainly based on land taxes, and the peasants were oppressed by harsh taxes. As a result, Chao Cuo said:

'Do not shelter from wind and dust in spring, heat and heat in summer, rain in autumn, cold and cold in winter, rest on the day of death...... Diligence is like this, and it is still plagued by floods and droughts...... Convergence from time to time...... When the owner sells it at half price. The deceased took double the interest, so there were those who sold their fields and houses and their children and grandchildren to pay off their debts. ‘

These people, who have no land and no means of production, have no other way out than to be displaced people.

China has been an agrarian country since ancient times, and China's agriculture is very naïve.

Technological naivety can hinder the development of productive forces, and cultivation of too small land makes it difficult to improve technology.

As a result, the peasants, of course, had no savings. And reproduction can only be repeated on the same scale. However, the land is limited, the harvest is decreasing, and if we cultivate the same land every year, how can the harvest not decrease every year.

In the Western Han Dynasty, in the era of Emperor Wen, "a hundred acres can not be harvested more than a hundred stones". In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the productivity seems to have improved, and "three acres are harvested". From the Three Kingdoms to the Jin Dynasty, the harvest of one mu "may not be enough to pay for the seeds". Descended to the Tang Dynasty, "one hectare produces more than 50 meters". In the Song Dynasty, when Taizong, "about three acres were collected", and when Shenzong, "about one stone per mu was about the middle age". However, according to Lu Huiqing's words, "Tian Sui is the first to come to four, five or six fights". Productivity was so low, coupled with floods and droughts and heavy taxes, the people "abandoned their fields and migrated to idlers".

The number of idlers has increased, and poverty has become a common phenomenon.

The reason why Wang Anshi fell ill was purely because he had close contact with the lowest level of the homeless people this time, and it was also through this long journey that he had a very pertinent understanding of the composition and causes of the homeless.

Looking at these homeless people crying out for survival in the cold wind, and then thinking about their loopholes and creeds, I was ashamed and angry, and finally fell ill.

However, what worries him the most is that once the displaced people become a disaster, the ordinariness of poverty is a hint that the Great Song society is about to have a big chaos.

In Wang Mang's era, "all the four sides were hungry, cold, and poor, and became thieves, gathering a little, often thinking about the years, and having to return to the countryside, although there were tens of thousands, they did not dare to have a little city, turned to plunder and beg for food, and only self-defeating."

In the era of Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty, "there was frequent hunger, and the people were displaced to the valley",

"As for Yongjia, there is a lot of mourning. To the east of Yongzhou, there are many people who are hungry and hungry, and they are even more sold, rushing and moving, and there are countless people", which eventually caused the displaced people to make trouble.

In the era of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, "the people were poor and their financial resources were exhausted, and they were overwhelmed by the cold and hungry when they lived in peace. So they began to gather together as a group of thieves."

In the era of Tang Xizong, "thieves all over the world swarmed, all out of hunger and cold". Taxes are heavy and labor-intensive, and many people abandon their fields and do not plough them. And the thieves harassed the people again, "because the people could not bear it, the heroes in the countryside gathered poor and loafers, and caused chaos, breaking 52 counties in six prefectures, killing 2 million civilians." ”

This kind of history can prove that most of the rebellion caused by poverty is initiated by hooligans. They have no "wealth and life", and their lives are unstable, and the joy of life has not been tasted, and the pain of death is not terrible.

They are the most willing to take risks, and in the middle of their lives, they suddenly find themselves above the clouds. Although they have no power personally, after forming a group, they can run rampant in the rivers and lakes. The gentlemen were afraid that they would make trouble, and the peasants were afraid of their fish, and in Chinese society, they were outsiders and had become a hidden force.

Displaced people have played an important role in Chinese history. They often become outcasts, plundering the most defenseless peasants first, leaving the exhausted countryside unable to survive. After the destruction of the countryside, the government became increasingly poor due to the reduction of land endowments, and it was impossible not to scrape the people without exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but all the scraping was finally passed on to the peasants.

In this way, it became an unsolvable circle of death, the peasants continued to become exiles, the exiles continued to plunder the peasants, and finally after the power of the exiles reached a certain point, the dynasty came to an end, and was finally replaced by other forces, and then the great distribution began again, and then continued to follow the old path of the ancestors.

The green forests and red eyebrows of the Western Han Dynasty, the yellow turbans of the Eastern Han Dynasty, many rogues of the Jin Dynasty, Dou Jiande and Liu Heimin of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao of the Tang Dynasty, all made the central government exhausted, and the dynasty was cut off because of it.

Wang Anshi's high fever did not subside, even in a dream, he still waved his arms and shouted: "How amazing is this, how amazing is this!" ”

Strange to say, after Xiao Dahu stopped bluffing and the trebuchet stopped throwing stones, Wang Anshi's fever finally faded.

Wang Anshi was dying of illness, so Yun Zheng couldn't help but be nervous, and after returning from the camp, he came to the ice and snow house where Wang Anshi lived without removing his armor.

After entering the house, he found Wang Anshi sitting on the bed, his two hands vaguely touching the colorful light and shadow cast on the ice, his eyes were extremely intoxicated, and he didn't even notice Yun Zheng walking in.

Yun Zheng didn't bother him, found a chair and sat down, poured himself a cup of tea, and drank it slowly, not wanting to disturb Wang Anshi's happiness at the moment.

After a long time, Wang Anshi sighed and said: "The cruelty of dreams, the beauty of dreams, the old man wasted his years and became a frog in the well." ”

"How so?"

"Build a palace on the beach, build the Great Wall with ice and snow, just afraid of the tide coming, and the spring sun is warm!"

"Yes, I know of a successful great man who said that he was crossing the river by feeling the stones, and you at least had the people in mind."

Wang Anshi smiled bitterly: "Back then, you told my old man that the most terrible thing in the world is to kill the people under the guise of benefiting the people, but now the old man understands that this is true!" ”

"I don't usually think too far ahead, being able to pre-arrange things within five years is a big victory for me, I have said before, your starting point is too high, and you think of all the people as a model, so there will naturally be trouble in doing so." Yun Zheng smiled and comforted Wang Anshi.

Wang Anshi smiled bitterly: "The old man stood under the Fan Tower in the autumn of last year, and after being humiliated by the people, he didn't understand what it was for, but now he understands that the old man was humiliating himself that day, and he couldn't complain about others." ”

Yun Zheng said with a smile: "What do you want to do so much, what we have to do now is to kill Xiao Dahu, and then settle these displaced people in Xijing City, and when the spring flowers bloom next year, we will leave Xijing and embark on the journey again, and the families of these displaced people will also come to Xijing City, and work with them to reclaim the wasteland in Xijing and resettle their homes." ”

Although the land of Xijing is vast, I am afraid that it cannot accommodate these foreign displaced people, and the resettlement of displaced people is always a big problem, and it is not an overnight achievement. ”

Yun Zheng took off his helmet and put it on the desk and laughed: "Who can't tolerate the homeless?" Who can not tolerate the homeless people, and the famous saying that there is no grass everywhere General Yun goes, has the prince forgotten it? (To be continued.) )

PS: Chapter one