Chapter 297: The Victims of the Han Dynasty
The post house can be understood as the light hotel of the feudal dynasty, which is mainly responsible for receiving court officials and delivering military letters, serving the grain and grass supply of various official institutions, and can be said to be a very important institution in the feudal dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
With the rise of the Chinese Empire, whether it was the Tang Dynasty or the Qin Dynasty, post houses have been gradually replaced by more advanced post offices and hotels, such as the only post house that still exists on the crystal continent today is the Han Dynasty.
At this time, the caravan where 007 was located was still five kilometers away from the nearest post house, and the sound of shouting and killing in front of him was becoming more and more obvious.
"Lord Qiyu, there is a shouting and killing sound from the post house ahead, I'm afraid that there will be an emergency, please make a decision!"
"How can this be reasonable, Lang Lang Qiankun still has no royal law, send scouts to investigate the situation, go back quickly!"
"The subordinates obeyed. ”
With that, the leader of the soldiers calmly waited and prepared to go to the front to see what was going on.
The five-kilometer journey was not very long for a scout on horseback, and it only took half an hour for the scout to get the news.
"Lord Qiqi, the post house ahead is being besieged by the hungry people nearby, and there are about thousands of people. ”
After hearing the news of the scouts, the official in charge of escorting the transportation directly said angrily: "How can this be reasonable! This group of Diao people actually dared to besiege the imperial court institutions, and ordered them to march at full speed to rescue the officials of the post house and drive away the Diao people.
Obviously, the escort envoy who was an official was very angry about such contempt for the imperial court.
At this time at the post house in front, the door of the post house was closed, and the officials hid in it and did not dare to come out, and the hungry people were blocking the water around the post house, constantly shouting the slogan of opening the warehouse and releasing grain.
"My lord inside, I beg you, there is no grain of grain in the nearby ten miles and eight townships, and now only your official post house has food, please open a warehouse and save us." At this time, the leader was pleading outside the post house.
Soon a voice came from inside the post house: "It's not that we don't want to treat you, but the food in the post house is limited, and we also have to receive the caravan envoys of the imperial court, and if something goes wrong, even we will be killed." Go elsewhere and look for food. ”
"Big brother, don't talk nonsense with them, these officials are the same as those landlords, they are not benevolent to the rich, and they will not save them, let's kill them directly. Obviously, the answer of the officials inside made the people outside very dissatisfied, and they suggested to the leader to kill them directly.
"No, storming the imperial court post house is a capital crime, and there are a lot of post soldiers in it, so it's better not to do it if you can. "Obviously, the leader also has his own concerns.
"Big brother, now that the price of food is skyrocketing, and there is a big flood, we don't have any surplus food, and I'm afraid we will all starve to death here when the imperial court disaster strikes, so it's better to rush in and grab the food and be a full ghost." I have to say that what this person said represents the meaning of most people.
Both horizontally and vertically are dead, it is better to maximize interests and give it a go, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.
Speaking of which, I have to say why things have developed to this point.
In fact, all this should be the Chinese Empire, which can be expected from the beginning of the expansion of the Chinese Empire and the Han Dynasty's decision to close the country.
Due to the rise of the Chinese Empire, which directly annexed all the vassal states of the Han Dynasty, the original target of the Han Dynasty's oppression disappeared at once, and the target could only be turned to the country.
However, the basic charity in the Han Dynasty was really rudimentary, natural disasters occurred from time to time, which led to a sharp rise in food prices, and because of the Han Dynasty's policy of closing the country to the outside world, the possibility of upgrading infrastructure was infinitely close to zero.
The situation was exacerbated by famine in various parts of the Han Dynasty after a flood. Nowadays, even the peasants can no longer save themselves through production, and the landlords still want to use the disaster year to annex land and raise the price of grain, which is the main reason why the Han Dynasty smuggled grain and various materials through Li Feng.
It can be said that the famine that swept the Han Dynasty this time, natural disasters and man-made disasters accounted for half of it, but the peasants who could only wait for death in the past ten years have been spread throughout the Han Dynasty, when the Koreans rose up can be said to have opened the prelude to the peasant uprising, but this real drama, the Tao is only now beginning to be staged in the Han Dynasty.
The changes on the mainland still affected the peasant thinking of the Han Dynasty, and the princes and generals would rather have a kind of thing, so that almost everyone in the world already knew, which is also an important reason why the Han Dynasty closed the country.
As for whether the Tang Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty had such a situation? Of course, there were, but the domestic capital of these two empires completely absorbed the victims into the factories through industrialization, and spontaneously carried out infrastructure construction to alleviate this situation, of course, they also had their problems, which will be discussed in more detail here.
Having said that, there have been several rebellious forces in the Han Dynasty, and many large families have been looted, which can be said to be related to the existence of many small sects in the local area that depend on the existence of peasants.
These sects are actually engaged in underworld forces such as cheating, abduction, and collecting protection money, etc., and now that there is a famine, the big families will not hang these people, and the tenants are survival has become a problem, so these people do not hesitate to stand on the side of the civilians.
Now the leader of a gang in charge of negotiating with the inn did not realize the terrible nature of the famine, and even lent grain to the peasants, of course, it was usury.
Now seeing that these people don't want to repay their debts, it is very likely that there will be a situation where people die and debts will be eliminated, so no matter what, these victims cannot be allowed to die here, the nearby big landowners have private soldiers, and they can't get in, and the granaries of the government and county government have long been emptied, and the county officials are eager for these people to die, so the name of disaster relief is on the heads of these victims.
At this time, the leader was very irritable, things had come to this point, and if he really went in, there was no difference between it and a real rebellion. Then there will be no turning back.
However, just when the leader hesitated, suddenly the crowd didn't know who the big man was: "Oh no, the officers and soldiers are here, the officers and soldiers notified by the dog officer of the post house." ”
"Impossible, the nearest barracks from here will take a day and a night to ride fast horses, and it is impossible for the officers and soldiers to arrive so quickly. "Apparently the leader did his homework before he came.
However, the truth slapped him mercilessly in the face, and the person in charge of letting off the wind said conclusively at this time, there was an officer and soldier walking towards the post house on the way to the post house, and it seemed that there was still half an hour to get here.
When the leader saw this, he immediately gritted his teeth and said: "Fellow villagers, since the court is ruthless, then we can't be blamed for being unjust, rush in and get the grain and run, and gather in the Daqing Mountain, where the terrain is complicated and the officers and soldiers can't catch up." ”
With the leader's words, thousands of people began to attack the entire post house, climbing the wall and slamming the door, and after a while, the whole post house was conquered, and the crowd poured into the post house like a flood.