Guanghe 6th year, August 10, Juanxian.

At this time, the city head of Juanxian County has already been replaced with the apricot yellow banner of Taiping Road, and the original banner of the Han family has become another collection of Taishan Army.

Since the siege of the city in July, Juanxian County finally couldn't bear it anymore when there were no reinforcements outside and no soldiers inside, and chose to surrender to Dong Wan outside the city.

Since the division of the Taishan Army in May, the Dong Visiting Army began to establish base areas in the countryside of Juancheng and Xiaqiu counties, and now it has finally achieved something. The county was breached in June, and Juancheng passed through the city because of a waterway connecting the great river to Juyeze. Juancheng also relied on this waterway to obtain a steady stream of supplies from Jiyin County, which has persisted until now. If it weren't for the fact that Dong visited the southern section of this waterway and blocked the supply road with wooden fences, Juanxian County might not have been able to hold out for how long.

The field officials sent down from various places have already sent the results of the latest field division one after another. It's a mixed blessing! Because of the lessons of the past, many of the heroes of the dock wall were weak, and they directly chose to donate their fields to the field team to avoid disasters.

This method of offering fields is very good, after all, it is not bloody, and many field officials are also inclined to this method in their hearts, they are also people, and they are also soft-hearted to see those villagers who cry to death and live to actively repent. Anyway, the final result is almost the same, and the land is all collected. Therefore, the field dividers encouraged and even forced the villagers to hand over the fields by donating the fields.

Originally, Dong Wan also thought that this method was good. After a long time in the Taishan Army, he certainly knew the importance of dividing the fields to Huang Tian's cause. There is no doubt that land is the most important thing for all Qiantou, and it is the source of food and clothing for everyone. In the past, it was precisely because the Qianshou only owned a small amount or even no land that they were impoverished for a long time and could only be reduced to servants. Therefore, as long as the Taishan army can help the vast number of Qiantou to satisfy their desire for land, it will be able to gain their support, and the Taishan army will be able to occupy a foothold in the countryside.

The reality is indeed the case, all the dock walls and hills that have divided the fields have become the helpers of the Taishan army. The Han army had no foothold in the countryside at all. It is precisely because of this that in just two months, the Dong Visiting Army took root in Juancheng and Xiaqiu counties.

In addition, as a Confucian scholar, Dong Wan had the ideal of letting the cultivators have their fields, and what the Taishan Army did was to do the right thing. But he still felt in his heart that it was not impossible to get land from the township tyrants in a peaceful way compared to violently dividing the land. Qianshou can live if he obtains land, and the villagers can live if they honestly hand over the land. Isn't that great?

Although in the past, in the process of dividing the fields, according to the regulations, it was necessary to grasp the typical public trial and hang it. However, Dong Wan felt that the policy itself needed to be adjusted according to different forms.

Just like the land policy that is being implemented now, Dong Wan knows that there are several changes. In the early days, the Taishan army confiscated all land, including homesteaders. There were no yeoman farmers in the Xue's wall and Taishan areas, so there was no problem. But later, after the division of fields in the Laiwu area, there were a large number of yeoman farmers here, and according to the past division, it was obvious that the Taishan army became the enemy of these people. Therefore, the policy at that time was urgently adjusted, and it became only divided into township tycoons and clan fields.

There is also a cooperative farm that Qu Kui experimented with before, which also achieved a lot of harvest, but was stopped by Qu Kui in the end. ….

Why? It is because the land of the cooperative farm belongs to the Taishan Army, no matter how well they do on this land, what is the difference between them and the villagers in the past? Then the matter was put on hold.

Therefore, in Dong Wan's view, now he is using the way of letting the landlord donate the land to obtain the land, which is also a kind of adaptation to the situation.

But in the opinion of Gao Sheng, the chief priest who assisted Dong Yu in handling the matter of dividing the fields in Juancheng and Xiaqiu, this was not right.

Although Gao Sheng joined the Taishan Army later than Dong Wan, he saw the deep purpose of Qu Shuai's determination to divide the land, that is, to compete with the villagers for the vast number of rural leaders.

Originally, the way for the Taishan army to win the head of Qianqian was to divide the fields. But the dedication of the villagers seems to be a gift from them.

Previously, the Taishan Army propagated that the township tyrants skillfully seized the land of the Qianshou, and then they could use liquidation and public trial to justifiably seize the land and compensate the Qianshou. But now the townsmen have become morally noble in offering land. Now, instead of the contempt for the townspeople, the Qiantou feel indebted.

And then there's that, too

Although the villagers who went to the arbitrary countryside donated their land, they could get it back smoothly with the information and prestige of the past.

As far as Gao Sheng himself learned, many of the township tyrants who had originally donated their land out, intimidated and manipulated public opinion in the countryside in private, and secretly forced those Qiantou to return the land to them. What is the use of such a division?

Of course, the most important thing is what he and Dong Wan emphasized:

"These townsmen don't die, so the settlement listens to us or those townsmen."

In short, Gao Sheng himself is very resolute, this matter must see blood, and there must be revenge, so that Qianshou will go with the Taishan army.

Gao Sheng is actually a son of Haoqiang, but this person has a bit of a cool taste, and he understands the importance of iron-blooded methods very well. Even, in order to cut off the moral superiority of the townspeople in the countryside, he personally wrote a ballad and asked those yellow turbans in the old camp to sing in the countryside.

The Yellow Turban Lang is the Lang Army selected by Zhang Chong to visit Dong Yu from the old camp to teach writing and martial arts.

When these yellow turbans went to the countryside, they especially loved to go to the field and sing to the working Qianshou:

"What is black? Powerful and greedy. What is white? Haoqiang Guangsha Qian's skull. What is red? Haoqiang ribbon Qianshou blood. What is Yellow? Haoqiang Qian Gu Qian's face."

But for Gao Sheng's reminder, Dong Wan didn't care, and asked rhetorically:

"You and I are also sons of Haoqiang, and now we have also entered the Taiping Dao? You and I can, why can't those townsmen."

Seeing that Dong Wan insisted on this, Gao Sheng could not persuade him, so he could only let those Yellow Turbans go to the countryside more, trying to use propaganda to stimulate the consciousness of the Qiantou leaders.

Therefore, on August 10, Yang Wazi and Yang Gousheng took eight partners to the countryside again. This time, they were going to the Han clan where Jiao Yong was in charge of dividing the fields. They were going to get there and sing the folk songs again.

It's August, and it's autumn.

Yang Wazi walked on the official road with the Yellow Turban, sweating, but the interest was very high. The ridges on both sides of the road are already full of busy farmers. Someone who grows wheat will be harvesting with a smile on his face. But most of them are burying their heads in their own fields to grow millet and millet. Some of them grow their own vegetable fields, and they also bring some turnips and green onions. Without these two things, they Yanzhou people can eat hard. ….

Yang Wazi and the others looked at this busyness, full of energy.

Back then, their parents were also so relieved and wealthy, but it was the greedy officials and the townspeople who joined forces to take advantage of it, and their parents could only join the Taiping Road mutual insurance. In the end, my father died in the April uprising.

And this time, Yang Wazi and others will protect this pure land.

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Yang Wazi and the others walked all morning, and finally arrived at Han's wall.

They were just about to find Jiao Yong, and after listening to his arrangement, they heard from the old man outside the door that Jiao's team would take the field guards to arrest people.

After inquiring carefully, it turned out that the two nearby clans were fighting for water and weapons.

The people of Juancheng are fierce, and the clans still maintain the tradition of living together. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, in order to expand the government's ability to rule, local governments have generally been separated. The big clan demolishes the small clan, and the small clan demolishes the small household. However, the Juancheng area is different because it is a yellow flood area. Several major rivers were diverted and flooded in this dynasty, and the place was greatly affected.

If there is a catastrophe, it is naturally easy to gather clans to protect it, and small households are simply unable to avoid natural disasters and man-made disasters behind. When the Taishan army divided the fields in this area, they encountered this problem, but at that time, there were also many contradictions within these clans, and the field division teams took advantage of these contradictions to pull a group and fight a group, but it was not a big problem.

But once they encounter a struggle between clans, such as seizing water, these clans will suddenly unite, and even bypass the field protection teams on their respective dock walls and organize directly. They form a team directly based on the clan lineage, and they can fight privately with other clans with a big stick and a rake.

Before, Gao Sheng had sent a message to the leaders of the various tunbi teams, asking them to be more careful about the large-scale private fights that broke out between clans. Everyone had to be ordered, and although they were conscious, they didn't do much of it.

But no one expected that a riot that swept the entire Juancheng would start with this small water fight.

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The first battle took place from the two walls on the side of the Han wall, and they were both near a ditch. The ditch was dug from a tributary of the river, and although the amount of water was not large, it was enough to irrigate the nearby people. The upstream wall, surnamed Sun, and the downstream wall, surnamed Zhao.

Although the water is enough, the surname Sun is used to being domineering in the upstream, and the fence has been cut off several times. The reason why it can be so arrogant is because the official who presided over the construction of this ditch back then was the ancestor of the Sun family, and the Sun family naturally thought that this ditch belonged to them. But the water is often cut off here with the surname Sun, and the Zhao family downstream is not happy. Over the generations, the two clans have built many lives for this ditch.

On August 9, in the middle of the night, a fierce armed fight finally broke out between the two tribes.

On this day, Sun once again blocked the ditch. But at night, the Zhao family, who had just finished harvesting the wheat, rushed into the ditch in the hazy moonlight, not only removing all the soil and stones that blocked the ditch, but even the Sun clan who was guarding the water was beaten.

But no one expected that this man would die.

On the second day, the Sun family knew about it, and under the excitement of the crowd, more than seventy strong patriarchs in the Sun family wall led the direct killing to the Zhao family wall and directly killed three people.

Speaking of the patriarch of the Sun family, his person was originally to be set up as a typical example by the field team that settled in. But because of this person's alertness, he dedicated the land to the Taishan Army in advance, and in the end, not only his family was safe and sound, but he was also absorbed by the field team because he was old in the field. ….

When Sun's team saw that they had killed someone, they were all afraid, so they withdrew. But on the way, he was stopped by the Zhao people who were catching up behind. After that, both sides fought bloodily, and after half an hour, more than a dozen people died, all of whom were injured, and had to go back separately.

Originally, although this matter was serious, it was still only a matter between the Sun family and the Zhao family. But the Sun clan didn't know what means they used, and an unknown team directly attacked and killed the clansmen who retreated from the Zhao clan.

More than forty people were killed.

Then rumors spread, Juanxian County was spreading everywhere, Taishan thieves wanted to catch everyone to fight with the Han army, all those who found and ran were killed, and the corpses blocked the river, that miserable. There are also many people who say that these Taiping Dao steal children and use this to sacrifice their yellow sky. There are also rumors that these Taiping Taoists can do evil magic, and those who offend them are cursed to death by them with rune paper.

These rumors appeared suddenly, and they made people panic. Some people have the heart to explain for the Taishan army, but they don't know how to say it, because they have indeed lost a lot of children recently, and even some people who have settled the entire mound suddenly died, and no one knows what's going on. Some people say that they just offended a young general of the Taishan Army, and then they were cursed to death.

The leaders of the field guards everywhere were all people from the front rampage, and they immediately realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly gathered troops to arrest the patriarch of the Sun clan.

But this man also died, in the house of Sun's field guard. At this moment, the clansmen of the Sun clan, under the bewitchment of someone with a heart, collided with the field protection team.

To be honest, everyone is vigilant about these outsiders in the Taishan Army. They speak another language, dress up very differently from them, and even promote people they think are very lowly. Those who are lazy and lazy will ride on their heads by tying up these Taishan troops.

In short, the anger was early, and at this moment it was just an outburst.

At the same time, the elders of the clan were also on the sidelines, and they said:

"Before these demon thieves came, our Sun clan wall was so peaceful, how many disasters and difficulties are now."

"Did they give you the land that the thieves gave you? That's what we sent to see the hard work of the clansmen. What does it have to do with those thieves?"

"These thieves rebelled, and following them is a dead end. As long as we defeat them, not only will the land originally allocated to you be yours, but even the court will reward us."

"Clansmen, get up with me, fight these thieves, and avenge the old patriarch!"

This sentence ignited the anger of the Sun clan, and they set out together, carrying sticks and hoes.

The field guards who were supposed to suppress the riot also gave up the confrontation.

After all, these field guards were also members of the Sun clan two months ago. In the face of the strong pressure of the clan, even if he did not defect, he retreated to the side, and he did not dare to be right

Resist.

In the end, the field division team and the field protection team that presided over the work of Sun's wall were all stoned to death. His body was hung on the old locust tree outside Sun's wall, and around his neck was hung:

"Damn it, thief!"

The same situation is happening all over Juanxian. The rioters stormed the public office and killed the division team and the team leader of the Taishan army.

The return of the exploration horse sent a steady stream of situations from all over the country into Juancheng.

At this time, Dong Wan and Gao Sheng finally realized that something was broken, and someone was behind it!

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