"I helped the general, how can the general reciprocate?"

This Gongsun Sheng, who directly asked for a return, was like a businessman. Hu Yangeng said: "I will point out a city to you, so that you can develop believers in this city in peace." ”

As long as the autumn tax can be collected, he will be able to raise 25,000 troops, including the Pinglu Army, for another year, and will be able to do more armament construction.

And Dong Yi, the governor of Binzhou, is obviously not a person from the same road, so he will use Gongsun Sheng to make some trouble for him.

"You go to Binzhou to develop, Binzhou brings together many displaced people who want to go south by boat, they live a miserable life, and they are easily seduced by you."

"General Hu, how can you say it's bewitching?"

"Are you going to do it?"

"Good! Deal. ”

One-half of the land in Cangzhou and one-third of the land on Hebei East Road are under the name of Chai Jin, and most of the terra nullius on the surface is also occupied by Chai Jin. And Chai Jin has an iron coupon for Danshu, and he can't be questioned unless he rebels. Therefore, since the collection of firewood into the memory, his family has never paid taxes. When he became the head of the house, he naturally didn't pay it.

When Hu Yangeng had just recovered the whole territory of Hejian, he asked Chai Jin to urge grain once, but Chai Jin refused to pay taxes, but only repaid 3,000 stone of grain, which was really incommensurate with his net worth of half of Hebei East Road.

Moreover, Chai Jin also has a lot of land in Dizhou and Binzhou, and he does not pay taxes. Zhao Zhengyun, the governor of Dizhou, once visited Chai Jin and said: "For the sake of Zhao Song Jiangshan...... Please ask the firewood staff to help. ”

I don't know how Chai Jin answered, but there is a joke among the people, Zhao Song Jiangshan, all the surnames have to pay, but the surname Chai does not come out.

is such a master, Hu Yangeng decided to open the knife. For such a strong force that leads to the sky, killing chickens and monkeys is ineffective, and it is necessary to kill monkeys and chickens.

A large group of refugees are wandering the land of Hebei East Road.

In July, it is the season to go to the fields, and if it is a normal day, the farmers are working in the fields to make up enough for a year's rent and food and clothing for their families. However, now, they are under the scorching sun, following the guidance of the Taoist priest, and marching towards the various manors.

Jingkang year for the whole seventeen months, neither rest, nor recreation, the Jin soldiers repeatedly passed through the army on the Hebei West Road, the entire Hebei West Road not only did not harvest, but also was requisitioned by the Song army, and was beaten by the Jin soldiers. There is not a single grain of grain stored at home. And when the army passed by, the land was completely destroyed.

Five or six out of ten families below the middle level on Hebei West Road were forced to leave their hometowns, because even if the food stocks at home were not exhausted, they might be arrested by the Jin soldiers.

There are two routes for the displaced people to flee, one is to go south to Jingshi, and then most of them are silted up in the Xiangzhou area north of the Yellow River, which is also the basis for Zong Ze to say that millions of righteous people can be raised. The other way is to go east, to Hebei East Road. Hebei East Road was not the main direction of attack of the Jin soldiers, and the Jin soldiers who took the Hebei East Road were blocked by Hejian Mansion, so the military disaster was smaller.

But the millions of displaced people on Hebei West Road are an army that eats everything. The trees had long since been stripped of their bark, and the leaves had been plucked clean, and they had all died, without a speck of green. The road was cracked by the sun and dusty.

A group of people, wading on this dusty road, backpacks. Burden-bearers, cart-bearers, crutches...... All of them have yellow faces and thin muscles, and their clothes are torn.

Expressionless faces, godless empty eyes, suffering seems to seep through the eyes and is buried in the soul. The road was littered with fallen corpses, and if there was no one to take care of them, they would be stripped of their clothes by those who passed by, leaving only a scrawny and naked corpse to be bitten by wild dogs.

There is no cooking smoke in the villages along the way, and the half-collapsed houses have black holes with no doors and windows. Unless it was a powerful manor, and the family guarded the wall with bows and arrows, these homeless people did not provoke and took a detour.

A mile away, Hu Yangeng carefully observed some of the bones thrown in the field, which showed signs of being smoked by smoke and fire, and were obviously eaten by their own kind. As far as the eye could see, there was a large group of homeless people.

He knows that the whole of Hebei is full of displaced people, and he knows the sorrow of the displaced people. But he never imagined that it would be like this.

Before this, Hu Yangeng had seen the 30,000 homeless people led by Zhang Heng, who fled before the arrival of the Jin soldiers, and there were always some preparations at hand, and there was a strong man like Zhang Heng organized for it, so he never reached the tragic scene in front of him.

Later, in Mengjin, more than 50,000 people who had fled were crossed the river, and many of those people had wealthy families, but they had not yet fallen to the point of having no food.

After that, I went to Zhending from the river, although I also encountered some victims on the way, but I didn't observe carefully when I was in a hurry, and second, the scale of the gang of those victims was not large, and it was not as shocking as I saw today.

Hu Yangeng looked at the homeless people in the distance and fell into deep self-blame. What are you doing?

Even if you don't have to see it with your own eyes, you should know the tragic situation of the displaced people everywhere. But his focus is only on the territory, the grain and grass are all supplied by the regular liquidation, and he takes the heron to patrol around every day, and does nothing for these displaced people.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at the tall heron standing not far away. She was afraid of the bones, and she didn't dare to stand up.

Hu Yangeng sighed, walked to Gao Lu's side, and took the reins.

Gao Lu said: "Gaojiazhuang can put grain, but there is not so much grain. ”

"Gaojiazhuang do his best, but it can't all rely on Gaojiazhuang, when the transfer department issues a tax order to Hebei East Road, Gaojiazhuang is enthusiastic and set an example."

He jumped on his horse: "Let's go back first." ”

Gao Lu also jumped on his horse: "What are you going to do." ”

"I neglected that the craftsmen, the people, the fishermen, and the farmers I needed could be requisitioned from the homeless. It's just that food is still needed. Drive. ”

An old man on crutches, barely trudging through the mud, his family has always been a medium-sized farmer, with more than 20 acres of land. Feeding a few large animals, life is not bad. In good years, use the surplus grain to put some usury. In the village, he is still a man with a head and a face.

However, the Jin soldiers passed everywhere, but there were no grains left, his family's grain was taken away, and the eldest son was arrested and strong, and I don't know which city he had filled in. The land was trampled by the army and ruined to the ground. Even this summer there will be no replanting of food.

The family was finally forced to embark on the road of escape. I heard that the situation in the area of Jingdong East Road is still good, and there is a way to live. He took his family to the east and then south, and the refugees along the way converged, and gradually became a surging flow of people.

His daughter-in-law, with her head and face wrapped, led her grandson, and the youngest son pushed a wheelbarrow, and the little granddaughter sat in the car, and there was a little tattered luggage bundle on the car, which was all the belongings.

Looking at the tragic situation on this road, the daughter-in-law kept shedding tears, she has lived for more than 30 years, and has never left a place twenty miles away from home, and now she has left her home and gone away, I really don't know what awaits her family at the end of this road.

It is rumored among the refugees that the Chai Daguan family on Hebei East Road used to be the emperor, and the grain is piled up, as long as the Chai Daguan takes out a corner of the grain mountain, everyone can spend this year.

Silently weeping, the refugees silently recited the "scriptures" taught to her by the Taoist priests in the crowd, which are said to be repeated to help their deceased loved ones escape from samsara and enter bliss, and disasters will disappear soon, and their families can return to their homeland.

"I'm going to die...... one refugee only felt like a fire in his stomach, and the little ground bark and bran residue he had eaten the day before yesterday had long since disappeared, and he only felt dizzy and his legs were as heavy as lead. Several times he couldn't help but want to sit down on the side of the road, but he knew he couldn't: many people like him wanted to sit on the side of the road to take a relay and take a breath, but they couldn't get up again when they crooked.

The sound of chanting became smaller and smaller in my ears, and farther and farther away. Those Taoist priests said: As long as you repeat it, you can enter the Paradise when you die, and you can still see your father and mother - but I can't remember their faces clearly, can I still recognize them when the time comes? It's always okay, Daddy always remembers what he looks like - the thought of this his eyes were sinking deeply, tears overflowed from his eyes, and the dirt on his face was washed away one after another black grooves.

Maybe it's still dead, right? But you will be eaten by others, you can't, you can't become food in other people's mouths. A wave of false fire stimulated his vitality again, and he read aloud the "scriptures" for unknown reasons, and continued to walk forward.

Someone is shouting, "Scatter the blessings!" Scattered blessings! ”

Three times a day, Gongsun Sheng arranged for the distribution of miscellaneous grain nests, a small number, just to be able to gather the refugees and guide them in the direction they needed.

On the outskirts of Nanpi County, which is subordinate to Cangzhou, there is a manor under the name of Chai Jin, which is a branch of the Chai family in Dizhou. A large number of displaced people suddenly appeared outside the village and surrounded the village.

The steward of the manor sent someone to report to Chai Jin, and the gate was strictly closed, and the villagers were stationed on the wall. The steward of the village looked at the wall of the village, and the homeless people were boundless, and they could not see the end at a glance.

Among the homeless people, a few people who looked like Tao came out, looked at the wall, put down a box on the wall, and took a Taoist priest into the village. After the Taoist priest entered, he reported to his home, saying that the homeless people outside Zhuangzi were all believers of the Longhu Mountain lineage, and they passed by Guizhuang on their way south to beg for life, and asked Guizhuang to give a few days of porridge and grain.

The steward shirked and said that it still needs to be decided outside the staff. The Taoist priest smiled and withdrew from the village.

After a while, I suddenly heard a commotion outside the village. The steward's doorman asked, "What's going on?" ”

"The homeless people have opened a Zhuangzi."

Within three days, Chai Jin's three manors were breached by the exiles. Chai Jin asked the Cangzhou Yamen to suppress it, so Zhang Yancheng and Chai Jin had a good talk about the summer tax and the autumn tax.

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