"Kill the dog! Divide the field! Table Qi King! ”

"Kill—"

On the second day of the third month of the eighth year of the Apocalypse, along with the pent-up anger, the farmer Liu Si gathered hundreds of victims and planted a flag to revolt in Luochuan County.

The rebel army operated swords and weapons, and attacked Luochuan County with ink and face.

The Soldiers and Horses Division of Luochuan County was stationed on the city wall, and Han Chao, the magistrate of the county, climbed the city wall to watch, and began to mock after discovering that the so-called "righteous army" was only a few hundred people.

However, I only heard the farmer Liu Si shouting: "Who dares to kill Zhixian?" ”

Then an acquaintance in the Soldiers and Horses Division responded: "I dare to kill!"

After the city gate was opened, Liu Si led the crowd to attack the county seat, peeled the skin and filled the grass of Han Chao in the county, opened the official warehouse to help the victims, and the number of the rebels expanded to 10,000......

When the Shaanxi civil uprising broke out, the cabinet convened a meeting as soon as possible.

"Luochuan County civil uprising, what do you think of this matter?"

At the first time of the meeting, Gu Bingqian made it clear, but many officials did not think so.

To put it bluntly, five years before the Apocalypse, it was not uncommon for tens of thousands of people to rebel on this scale, and for this kind of rebellion, they were all appeased if they could be appeased, and suppressed if they could not be appeased.

"When all counties heard about the incident in Luochuan County, they all sent people to try to persuade them to surrender and appease, but Liu Si and other thieves in Luochuan County all refused."

Zhu Xieyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, opened his mouth, but said: "After Liu Si and others conquered Luochuan County, they did not send troops to the surrounding areas, so it is obvious that there is something wrong with it. ”

Zhu Xieyuan obviously sensed that something was wrong, but he was reluctant to join the Qi Wang Party and was also ostracized within the Zhejiang Party, so his words did not have much effect.

"Humph! Drop and don't fall, but don't fight, I think they want to divide one side! ”

A soldier of the Chu Party gave an unkind opening in the matter, and Yao Zongwen of the Zhejiang Party also spoke:

"The victims are insatiable, they don't know how to sympathize with the court, and they dare to rebel and kill officials, so they should send troops to suppress them quickly!"

"Fuck you!"

"Who's ......"

As soon as Yao Zongwen's words were finished, the scolding with a very high amount of "mother" sounded, and Yao Zongwen, who heard the words, was red-faced, and his blood was about to scold, but he saw Zhu Youzhen, who walked into the main hall with a strong momentum.

"Chitose ...... King of Qi"

Seeing that it was Zhu Youzhen coming, everyone stood up one after another, and Gu Bingqian even gave up the position of the first assistant of the cabinet.

Zhu Youzhen sat in his position unceremoniously, and scolded the crowd who were clamoring to send someone to suppress it just now:

"What is the reason for the uprising of the people in Luochuan County?"

"Is it because of insatiable greed? If you are insatiable, why is the first thing not to rob the treasury, but to go straight to the official warehouse? ”

"I haven't even figured out the matter, so I'm making a lot of nonsense here, and sending troops to suppress it at every turn, do you want things to get more and more serious?!"

Zhu Youzhen's soul three questions and the appearance of the loud voice made the more than 40 officials in the cabinet chief hall silent, and Zhu Youzhen was even more angry when he saw it.

"What I said just now is decent, but now I'm dumb when asked?!"

"His Royal Highness ...... angry" Gu Bingqian took the lead in persuading Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen said to Bi Ziyan:

"I have given Sun Chuanting the right to cut first and then play, and ordered him to go north with 30,000 stones of Gongwei Camp and Xi'an Warehouse Grain, and make a book of households."

......As soon as Bi Ziyan heard Zhu Youzhen's words, he immediately understood what the civil uprising in Luochuan County was.

He knew Zhu Youzhen very well, if it was a religious rebellion, then Zhu Youzhen didn't bother to say it, and would directly send troops and horses to suppress it.

But now, after Zhu Youzhen learned about the matter, the first arrangement he made was to let the Gongwei battalion bring grain north, so to speak, the civil uprising in Luochuan County must have been caused by the ineffective disaster relief.

Bi Ziyan understood, Gu Bingqian and the rest of the people had almost guessed, and among those who guessed, cold sweat began to ooze from the foreheads of some Chu Party officials.

Without him, Han Chao, the magistrate of Luochuan County, was recommended by the Chu Party to go to Luochuan County.

Looking at King Qi's posture, it is obvious that the disaster relief money and food allocated to Luochuan County are most likely eaten by him.

"The affairs of Luochuan County, the six departments, the six departments, and the cabinet don't have to take care of it."

"From today on, the Jinyi Health Supervision Department will deal with it, accompanied by Dali Temple and the Criminal Department!"

Zhu Youzhen directly decided the matter of Luochuan, so that the officials did not know how to interrupt.

The handling of the Jinyi Health Supervision Department also shows that the matter involves the Nanzhen Fu Division.

After all, it's not surprising to think about it, Nanzhen Fusi is supervised by hundreds of officials, and local is supervised.

At present, the ineffective disaster relief in Luochuan has not been reported at all, and if it were not for the outbreak of the civil uprising, Zhu Youzhen would not even know about this matter.

At this point, I'm afraid that there will be a wave of purges within the Nanzhen Fusi......

The imperial court allocated tens of millions of stones, nearly 10 million taels of disaster relief funds, and if they were really divided, each disaster victim could get a few stones of rice and wheat and a few coins of silver.

Now that it has been poured, the distribution of money and food has not been effective, but has provoked a change in the people.

I am afraid that not only within the Nanzhen Fusi, but also the officials of the eight provinces affected by the disaster will be strictly investigated.

Everyone was starting to think about how to protect themselves, and Zhu Youzhen also went to the Heart Cultivation Hall to report to Zhu Youxiao.

It's just that when he went to report, Sun Chuanting had actually led the Gongwei battalion of Xi'an Mansion to the north a day earlier.

Surprisingly, Liu Si and others in Luochuan County did not continue to attack the surroundings after capturing Luochuan, but stayed in Luochuan County honestly.

When Zhu Youzhen's military order arrived urgently from 800 li, Sun Chuanting had already led his troops to Jinsuo Pass, the gateway to northern Shaanxi, which was less than 200 li away from Luochuan County.

"I know Your Highness's military order, this is my handwriting, Your Highness should know what the situation in Weibei is after reading it."

Before the golden lock, Sun Chuanting hurried up to 800 miles, and Tang Qi immediately left when he saw this.

As far as the eye can see, the Loess Plateau in Weibei is bare, and there are few trees in sight.

When the wind blows, the sand and gravel fly up like a small sandstorm.

The Qi River next to the Golden Lock Pass was originally a big river with a width of seven zhang and a length of hundreds of miles, but now the river is dry and cracked, and there is no trace of river water......

The draught of the entire Jinsuo Pass has to rely on the well water in the pass, and when he came to this place, Sun Chuanting probably knew why the people of Weibei rebelled.

The people of Jinsuoguan are skinny, not at all like Zhu Youzhen and what they thought, and their families have surplus food.

Sun Chuanting had been in Xining since last year, so he didn't know what was going on in Shaanxi, and he didn't return to Shaanxi until February this year.

As a result, before he stopped for a month, he was about to take command again, but in the face of the hungry people at the Golden Lock Pass, Sun Chuanting only asked a little and ordered someone to hang the guards of the Golden Lock Pass.

The people of Weibei had no food to eat, all because the corrupt officials continued to exploit the people regardless of the imperial court's decree to exempt them, and even more so, they were still collecting the salaries that had been exempted in the third year of the Apocalypse.

Although he did not travel to Luochuan County, when he came to the Weibei Loess Plateau with a golden lock, Sun Chuanting had already figured out a lot of things.

The officials exploited, the gentry forcibly levied and robbed, and the things were appalling.

Although Sun Chuanting knew that there were too many Yanshan students in Weibei, every county in Weibei had Huangdian, but there was Nanzhen Fusi.

It is impossible for Huangdian and Nanzhen Fusi not to know the local news, and now that the situation is like this, I am afraid that they have already colluded with the Weibei officials.

Thinking about this clearly, Sun Chuanting looked at the soldiers of the Gongwei Battalion who had gathered in front of the Golden Lock Pass, and then turned his head to look at the door of the Golden Lock Pass.

There was a crowd of people who looked forward to him, but they were all ragged and unkempt.

Above them, on the tower of the Golden Lock Gate, a group of hanged people stood out.

"Apocalypse...... Apocalypse Prosperity ......"

Sun Chuanting muttered about the praise of the people in other places for the imperial court, but at the moment, how ironic it looked......

"Let's go......" Sun Chuanting shook the reins of his horse, immediately put on his official robe, and led the Gongwei battalion to the north.

Along the way, from time to time, you can see some elms that have been stripped of their bark, and some people kneel in front of the elms, throw the wooden blocks into them with hand-milled stone mills, grind them into powder, and drink them with some water.

"Omitted ......"

Guan Fumin looked at Sun Chuanting with some unbearability: "Didn't the imperial court issue military tuntian and food stamps?" ”

"Send it down, someone will take it back......" Sun Chuanting's expression was calm, as if he had long thought that things would be like this.

It should be said that from the moment he learned what kind of life the people of Weibei lived, he knew what the people of Weibei might have experienced.

Sun Chuanting's army continued to move north, and in Yijun, central and other counties, as long as the local officials were identified, they were all hanged or beheaded.

In the open official warehouse, the grain was piled up, and some sweet potatoes and potatoes allocated by the imperial court even rotted in the granary, and they were not distributed to the people.

The treasury inside the warehouse is full, the grain is piled up, and the warehouse is full of hunger, how ironic......

When Sun Chuanting led his troops to Luochuan County on the third day of the north, without waiting for the Gongwei camp to be launched, the gate of Luochuan County was opened, and the people who were pressed walked out under the leadership of more than a dozen shirtless and self-bound men.

"Liu Si, a rebel in the countryside, surrendered with more than a dozen of my brothers, please don't implicate other villagers!"

Liu Si led more than a dozen people to kneel in front of the stone bridge in the moat of Luochuan County, and the people behind him also knelt down one by one, and everyone was numb.

Sun Chuanting asked Guan Fumin to bring Liu Si and others to bring them, the distance between the two parties was hundreds of steps, if Liu Si was a fraud, then the Gongwei battalion had enough time to react.

However, facts have proved that Liu Si did not surrender by fraud, and he did not attack the county seat to claim hegemony.

In this way, they were honestly brought to Sun Chuanting by the officials and the people, just like the people......

"Don't kneel, untie the ropes and stand and talk, I have something to ask you."

Sun Chuanting turned over and dismounted, and his tall figure was in stark contrast to Liu Si and the others.

It should be said that all the generals of the Gongwei Battalion were silent when they saw Liu Si and the others.

Liu Si and the others were short in stature, skinny as wood, with dark skin, just like ordinary old farmers, only their abdomen was extremely swollen, like the starving ghosts in the villain's book.

"Why did the soldiers and horses from other counties come to persuade you to surrender, but you can't wait, but I will surrender?"

Sun Chuanting was very puzzled, in his opinion, even if Liu Si and the others wanted to surrender, they should wait for themselves to send someone to persuade them to surrender, instead of opening the city and surrendering as soon as they came.

In the face of his incomprehension, without waiting for Liu Si to speak, someone told the truth:

"Sun Jingluo, you and His Royal Highness the King of Qi swept the set, immigrated to the real side, and gave us a group of mud-legged fields, and we all remember the kindness of you and His Royal Highness the King of Qi."

"That's right! Remember! ”

A very simple idea was spoken, and Sun Chuanting heard it with mixed feelings, and his nose was sour.

"Is the tax in Luochuan County too much?"

Sun Chuanting knew that the taxes were overcharged, but he wanted to know how far corrupt officials could go......

It's just his words that made Liu Si and the others look at each other, and finally Liu Si had to stand up and say:

"After a while, we don't know if the taxes are overlevied, and we don't know what taxes need to be paid, but the officials came to ask us to pay the grain, and we paid it."

"How much food do you have to pay per year? What about the fields issued by the imperial court? Sun Chuanting's mood fell into a trough, and Liu Si just replied:

"Every year, the officials let each mu pay three buckets of fields, and let them pay seven buckets of rice as fire consumption, and the imperial court gave us three acres of fields, and each household got more than ten acres of fields, but they also had to pay more than ten stone fields."

"I could have lived on this day, but the white plague of the fifth year of the apocalypse, the six-year drought, the seven-year drought, and the eight-year drought this year have long exhausted the grain stocks of every household."

"Since the beginning of the seventh year, there have been people who have sold their military fields to the gentry who have been approved by the government to buy land, and they have sold their fields to pay taxes......

"Didn't the imperial court issue food stamps and let the cash-for-work go to sort out the Yellow River?" Guan Fumin couldn't help but ask, but Liu Si said:

"General, do you look at us like we have food stamps?"

"That's right, the imperial court issued food stamps, but the food stamps were only issued once, and the corrupt officials Han Chao saw that Nanzhen Fusi was not strict in his investigation, so they began to bribe Nanzhen Fusi Jinyiwei and Huangdian eunuchs, and finally intercepted all the food stamps and exchanged them for grain."

"As for cash-for-work, there is no wage at all to comb the Yellow River, and the corrupt official Han Chao said that the imperial court sends out conscription, and we not only have to bring farm tools to comb, but also need to bring our own food."

"If Jingluo and the general don't believe it, you can send someone to the county government to see how many food stamps are piled up in the county office."

Word by word, appalling...... Sun Chuanting and Guan Fumin didn't expect that it had been eight years since the Apocalypse, and there were still people who were so rampant.

"Your Highness is very concerned about the drought situation, and has sent people to northern Shaanxi many times, haven't you told the officials who passed by about these things?" Guan Fumin couldn't bear to ask.

"We want to say it, but how do we say it?" Liu Si and the others said, and old tears welled up in their eyes:

"The corrupt official Han Chao and others learned in advance that there were officials inspecting, so they distributed food stamps and grain ten days in advance, and drove the men and women of the county to comb the Yellow River, leaving only the old and weak children at home."

"Some officials came to inspect and they sent people to follow, but when anyone tried to complain, they were arrested and tortured to death that night."

"We are so hungry that we can't stand it, otherwise we wouldn't have done such a rebellious thing."

Liu Si's words shocked Sun Chuanting's heart, he didn't expect that a county official in a place could be greedy to such an extent.

The joint gentry forcibly seized the people's acres of land, and regarded the regulation issued by the Qi royal palace that "the military tun fields shall not be bought and sold" as waste paper.

imposed the rice and field endowment, and played with right and wrong in the matter of food stamps, and what was even more terrifying was that they could know ten days in advance that the Qi Wangfu had sent someone to inspect.

This kind of method is impossible for even his Sun Chuanting to know, or he Sun Chuanting never thought that he could do this.

How do they know? Naturally, I learned about it through the people of Huangdian and Jinyiwei.

In the mouths of Liu Si and others, Sun Chuanting only felt that the crimes and punishments of Han Chao and others were too numerous to write, and it was already cheap for them to peel the skin and fill the grass, and such a person deserved to die with 3,600 knives.

"What sin do you have ......?"

After listening to the words of Liu Si and others, Sun Chuanting sighed, and was a little confused for a while, but at this time, Guan Fumin asked a sentence that should not be asked:

"Didn't the officials from Yanshan report these people?"

In a word, let Sun Chuanting regain his confidence, because although the number of Yanshan officials is small, they mainly serve as the warden of the Soldiers and Horses Division and the Criminal Department, and the officials of the county Yadali Temple.

With them, it stands to reason that it is impossible for corrupt officials Han Chao to do so much.

However, Liu Si's words instantly made the hands and feet of Guan Fumin and Sun Chuanting cold.

"Yes! Many officials in Yanshan learned about our affairs, and then they prepared to join forces. ”

"But that night, several adults who advocated Shangshu disappeared, and we also knew about this incident before attacking the county seat!"

Just for a moment, Sun Chuanting and Guan Fumin subconsciously glanced at each other.

It was late spring, but they felt cold in their hands and feet.

Disappearance is a nice way to say it, but it's actually a good way to say it......

Both of them understood, I am afraid that this matter is no longer a simple problem of official corruption, and daring to kill Yanshan officials is almost stepping on the face of the Qi Palace.

You must know that the main places where Yanshan officials were dispatched were Nanzhili and Zhejiang, but no one in Nanzhili and Zhejiang dared to kill Yanshan officials, but this kind of thing happened in this land of Weibei, Shaanxi.

"Find! Find out the missing Yanshan officials first! ”

Sun Chuanting gritted his teeth and spoke, and the official Fumin immediately responded.

Immediately afterwards, Sun Chuanting said to Liu Si and the others: "What you have done is reasonable, even His Royal Highness the King of Qi knows and will forgive you, then Han Chao should be killed!" ”

When he said a word, Liu Si and the others immediately knelt down, and Sun Chuanting also comforted:

"I have ordered someone to transport 30,000 stones of grain from Xi'an Mansion to the north, and when you arrive in four days, you can take someone to divide the grain and go home first, and then the imperial court will send Qing officials and officials to take over Luochuan County."

"Xie Jingluo's grace not to kill!"

Liu Si and the others made a few heavy knocks, and their foreheads were full of loess, and after Sun Chuanting helped them up, he ordered someone to settle them well.

He led his troops to take over Luochuan County, and the situation in Luochuan County was the same as what Liu Si and others said.

The soldiers and horses, the officials, and the scribes were not harmed, and only the officials who worked under Han Chao were hunted down, and the fourteen Yanshan officials who took refuge in Han Chao, as well as the eunuchs of Huangdian and Jinyiwei, were imprisoned by Liu Si in the dungeon of Luochuan County.

Sitting in the county office, Sun Chuanting looked at the white paper and the ink pen in his hand, and didn't know how to write for a while.

The matter in Weibei is too complicated, not only involving the Nanzhen Fusi, but also the Huangdian, local officials, and even the corruption of Yanshan officials and the killing of Yanshan officials, as well as the corruption of local officials......

If this thing is played, I am afraid it will become a bigger case than the "Three Ladies and Eucalyptus".

How do I write? This is something that Sun Chuanting needs to be cautious about.

"Warp!"

There was a sound of footsteps outside the study, and when Sun Chuanting looked up, he saw Guan Fumin walking in and saying:

"Liu Si and others returned the money looted from Han Chao's already gentry's house, totaling about 260,000 taels of silver and more than 294,000 acres of land."

"Other ......" Speaking of this, Guan Fumin hesitated for a moment before continuing:

"The six Yanshan officials who disappeared have been found, and although Han Chao did not kill them, he locked them in the dungeon, and the people have been rescued."

"It's okay...... Sun Chuanting breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the six missing Yanshan officials were not dead.

However, the silver and land that the people scavenged from Han Chao and the gentry's homes made Sun Chuanting's anger ignite again.

There are only more than 50,000 people in Luochuan County, and the county's land is only 300,000 mu, while the military tuntian should have more than 160,000 mu, but at present, the gentry have more than 294,000 mu of land, and almost all the land in the county is in their hands.

Such corrupt officials and corrupt officials, the gentry are strong and strong, and it is against human nature not to kill!

Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting also knew how to write this book......