Yuan Cheng three summer

A group of fifty horsemen looked out over the field

I saw swarms of locusts floating on the field, black and black covered the sky, where this dark cloud passed, there was the sound of the rain smacking the leaves and mulberries, and the farmers in the field were crying desperately, and some people worshiped the gods, but in this short time, all the crops in the field were eaten to nothing.

"Lord Liu?" A deputy stepped forward to remind him.

The officer at the head, dressed in leather armor and with a saber at his waist, was about thirty years old, and when he heard the sound, he turned around and said, "Hey, this land is finished." ”

"Yes, the flood the year before last, the drought last year, and the locust plague this year, this is indeed no longer possible." The adjutant said.

The man stopped talking, and went forward with the cavalry, ran to a post station, and then turned over and dismounted, and saw a civil official wearing a nine-grade hat inside.

"Lord Ye!" He stepped forward and saluted, although he was also a nine-rank official, but he had always been a civil official half a level higher than the general, but it was not as good as the seven-rank county in the Ming Dynasty on the earth, and he could also look down on the five-rank general.

Moreover, Ye Tong is the leader of one of the small armies sent out by Anchang to deal with the displaced people, so with a civilian official, he naturally wants to speak better.

Ye Tong sighed, took two heavy steps, looked a little sad, and asked, "Team Liu, has the checkpoint opened?" ”

"Lord Ye! The checkpoint just doesn't open, Yue Zhongcheng, the magistrate, is resolutely not allowed to leave with the homeless, saying that he is afraid that someone will gather to make trouble, and it is useless to show the official document, and he was thrown away, saying that Anchang's official document can't control Lunan's affairs! Team leader Liu Jin said as he took out the official document in his hand.

"Hmph. Now the plague of locusts. There is no harvest of pellets. Staying in the local area is the danger of gathering crowds to make trouble. What am I afraid of when I take it away? It's nothing more than the fear that the people of Luxi will be strong and difficult to control. Arrived at our Anchang. Strengthen the strength of our army! Liu Jin gushed as he spoke. and Ye Tongyi entered the room together.

Ye Tong was stunned. Gazing at the young man with his gaze. Thirty years old. Dan Feng Eye. It is said that he was born as a homeless person. My father has passed away. His brother is still there. But this man fought bravely. There are also martial arts. In a few years, they climbed to the position of the Jiupin team, and the cavalry team was the right Jiupin.

I thought he was a martial artist. But I learned it in the lecture hall. I really learned something. Ye Tong got up and paced a few steps. Stand in front of the window. Through the window, you can see the ravaged fields in the distance. He asked, "This is indeed the case." Do you have any ideas? ”

"Don't have any scruples. He's not afraid of gathering people to make trouble. Then let the crowd make trouble. It is said that the imperial court still has a decree to open a warehouse to release grain. Hey. Not to mention such a catastrophe. There is no food in the warehouse. It is a good year with food. How much can you send? Liu Jin's sharp eyes swept over: "As long as there is a little incitement." Those who are dying of hunger. You can kill the official. Skinned the county order Yue Zhongcheng. Who would dare to stop it then? Not afraid of the rebellion of the homeless? ”

There was a pause. He added, "The mark has gotten the news." Bandits gathered on Changfeng Mountain. There is no food left. You have to go down the mountain and rob the grain. Now there is no food. Only rob the big family and rob the county government......"

This fruit is a poisonous ploy. Ye Tong was taken aback when he heard this. Pondering. Stand up. Stared at Liu Jin and asked, "Changfeng Mountain?" How many bandits are there? Did you contact it? ”

"Changfeng Mountain is located in a remote area, and people who have never survived, as well as strongmen who have committed murder and crimes, are concentrated there, and there are also small groups. Large stocks are also available. However, I heard that there has been a person named Ding Menxiong in the cottage recently, unifying the whole mountain. There are three hundred outlaws gathered, all of whom are brave men, but there is no contact under the mark, but such strongmen will be supported by the villagers, so they are marked to inquire about some rumors. ”

This Changfeng Mountain, fifty miles away from the county seat, the mountains are steep, the forests are dense, it is the land of strongmen, and the officers and soldiers have also led the troops to sweep and encircle and suppress several times, less are county lieutenants, and more are captains in the house, but they have not been exterminated.

Now, after three years of disaster, those underworld bandits also want to eat, and seeing that the food stored in the village is about to run out, they naturally have to go down to sweep it.

Ye Tong turned around a few more times, snorted coldly in his heart, and said: "Direct contact, that is, the joint thief kills the official, there is a harm to the benevolence of the lord, no, but, there is no need to instigate, just let out the wind to the outside world, saying that we will go back to Anchang in five days, and we don't care about anything else, someone is willing to follow me and others, it is naturally their choice, if the county order is blocked and provokes the people to revolt, then it is none of our business!" During these days, you reassured the sergeant that he should not go out at will, lest anyone gossip. ”

This seems to be mild, but it is even more accurate to the lifeblood of Changfeng Mountain, this sentence "We will return to Anchang in five days, and we will not care about anything else", is even more poisonous.

Liu Jin couldn't help but be stunned, and heard Ye Tong smile and say, "But let's go, we can go slowly!" ”

Suddenly, Liu Jin realized, thinking that he was a scholar in the end, and he was really poisonous and ruthless, and he always had a grandiose face, which actually implied that the bandits, just said that you are in charge of robbing, and my fifty horsemen are leaving.

After all, there are only a few hundred soldiers in the county, all of them are veterans, and in terms of combat strength, these fifty horsemen can kill them all in the time of a meal without riding horses, so of course it is this cavalry that the bandits are afraid of, otherwise there would not be a mouth to fall here to show temptation.

When the bandits come down the mountain, the county is really in chaos, and then they are invited back as an uncle, and then they can open their mouths.

Thinking of this, Liu Jin responded respectfully: "Yes!" ”

No matter how these people planned, Liu Jin did not have contact with the bandits, but it did not mean that the bandits did not know that they existed, and after a few days, on the mountain, Ding Menxiong was standing on a rock, looking down, and asked a person on the side, with a hoarse voice: "Xu Lao Liu, is what you said true?" ”

"Big boss, you don't believe me?" Xu Laoliu, who came out on the grounds of visiting relatives and looking for relatives, patted his body: "If I am my size, I can be regarded as a petty official in charge of fifty households and hundreds of people." "It's not that I don't believe you, I always have to think about my brothers, and you also know that the government's recruitment has always been counting." Ding Menxiong said bitterly: "Say it, say it again, say it carefully!" ”

Ding Menxiong has known Xu Lao Liu for a long time, and he was also from Changfeng Mountain before, with No. 5 or 6 people.

"In the old year, this was said a few times, I took six brothers out together, met a group of homeless people, relied on some hands, but also convinced some people, heard that Anchang recruited homeless people, so I took people to follow, I wanted to see if there was a business to do, but because I brought more than 100 people, I was awarded the post of chief, and when I was in Tuntian, I also did some things, and I was promoted to the captain of 50 households, although it was a citizen not a soldier, but it also lived well, and I also knew a hundred big characters, 50 acres of land at home, and married a new mother-in-law, You've already bore me a son! Xu Lao Liu said with a mouthful of water.

"The big boss, you have two hundred brothers in your hands, all of them can go into battle to fight, the front battle, there is a disaster here, there are many people who have no food below, you take your brothers to make a transaction, and take the people who have no food to go to Anchang, there are two thousand people, you can get a deputy fort chief of two hundred and fifty households, or when you go to the army, you can be a deputy captain, how cool to buy and sell, that is from the nine grades of the official, is a big official!"

"And, boss, what are you afraid of? You don't know these soldiers in the county, they are all dirt eggs, Governor Li's soldiers can indeed fight, but they all left yesterday! ”

Speaking of this, there was a rustling sound, and several figures appeared behind one after another, all of which contained hope and said: "Big boss, the sixth brother will not deceive us, so he will make this vote." ”

"Yes, the big boss, if you don't make this ticket, you have to go down the mountain to grab it, but those big families in the big village are not easy to fight, who doesn't have dozens of young people? How many brothers are going to die? ”

"Big boss, let's fight." As he spoke, some people gathered around.

Ding Menxiong swept over them, all of them were old brothers who had been following him for more than ten years, he gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, Lao Tzu will make this vote, pull down when you die, drink wine and eat meat if you don't die!" ”

Suddenly, the village is banging, the cottage is not a good time, not to mention drinking and eating meat, most of the brothers are bitter life, occasionally the next time they made a deal to get some oil and water, now there is an example of the sixth child, of course, envy is very.

They naturally don't know that within hundreds of miles from Anchang Province, bandits and homeless people of all kinds have more or less similar situations, and farther away, those who don't know Anchang, or can't go, but they are homeless, there is no hope to get, like a torrent of convergence, mixed together, gradually, those desperate outbreaks, has been formed, hundreds of tribes of people on the land at the same time shaking their arms and shouting, in an instant, gathered hundreds of thousands of people, almost at the same time, began to turn from the people to the army, raiding the world, The already existing thief army immediately swelled several times, and some even brazenly played the banner of kingship.

In the Central Plains War, it has reached the most critical juncture, the army of the vassal king has been rapidly defeated and retreated, most of the 20,000 soldiers of King Liang of Rhode Mansion have lost, and the most remaining 3,000, and King Xin has simply perished the whole army, fortunately he was not caught, and defected to King An, and hundreds of thousands of troops in the imperial court were looking at him.

However, on the other side, the kings of Chu, Qi, and Zhao, the forces still maintain tens of thousands to 100,000 troops.

But at this moment, a news spread to the world, and the little emperor, who had only been on the throne for three years and was only three years old, died.

This news seriously broke the situation in the world, for a while, the world was boiling, you know, the first emperor just this one son, and died, then the orthodoxy was cut off, and the closer clan, no one had already escaped from the imperial capital, no one thought that Gao Mingtong would do this, this is too unwise

You know, now that the kings have been defeated, and there are still a year or two at most to sweep them away, why did such a thing happen at this juncture? In this way, Gao Mingtong barely retains the orthodoxy, but all of them are gone, even if he wants to support the new emperor, there is no suitable candidate, and the distant relatives of the seventh or eighth generations should not be taken out.

After a short silence, in the imperial capital, some eunuchs and ministers went in the direction of the kings who still existed with their edicts.