Nanjie Village is a small village under the rule of Da Songwei, and the population here is not large, only more than 20 households, less than 100 villagers.

On this day, a group of dun troops from the nearby Huoludun came to the village, and then, under the command of a small flag officer, began to collect food from house to house, just like the scene of "devils entering the village" in later generations, ignoring the obstruction and crying of those villagers, and looting every grain they found.

These dun soldiers not only searched for the villagers' homes, but also had a lot of experience, looking in the grass around the house, and even had some harvests. The two dun soldiers made a discovery in a haystack, and a small bag of grain was turned out.

When the two opened it, they saw that the food inside was only half a bag, and they were immediately a little dissatisfied. The little flag officer who led the team also came over, and after checking it, he scolded very angrily.

At this moment, in a nearby dwelling, an old woman ran over in a panic, and fell to the ground, blocking the front of the little flag officer and the two dun soldiers.

"The military master is good, the family still lives on this seed, the military master took it, what will my family snack next year!"

"Get out of here!"

Seeing this, the little flag officer immediately jumped like thunder, shouted angrily, and knocked down the old woman who blocked him with a wave of his hand, and the old woman's face was suddenly covered with blood, and one of her front teeth was also spit out, mixed with blood and fell into the snow.

"Bastard, such a little food, you don't even have one-tenth of the apportionment of the salary, and you dare to resist taxes and look for death!"

The little flag officer looked at the old woman who fell to the ground and cried weakly, snorted, and walked away with his two men.

At this time, the rest of the dun army came from a few houses next to them, more or less with some food in their hands, and those villagers chased them out, but it was in vain, and several dun soldiers beat and scolded for a while, and then drove the villagers who chased out to the side.

The little flag officer saw that the surrounding villagers had gathered one after another, and he reprimanded loudly: "What are you doing? Do! The imperial court apportions the salary, which is to train soldiers and horses to pacify the thieves, and when the world is peaceful, you will have a good life, I don't understand this reason, you deserve to be poor, get out of the way for Lao Tzu! ”

Seeing that the villagers dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, the little flag official was proud and said to more than a dozen subordinates: "Take all this food and things and go to the next place!" ”

A Dunjun said with a hippie smile: "Master Qin, we've been out for most of the day, and the brothers are freezing enough, why don't you go back to eat and drink to warm up, and go elsewhere tomorrow?" ”

"!"

The little flag officer surnamed Qin glared at the dun army and said, "The above has sent so much money and set a time limit, let's not hurry up, what will we use to offset it when the time comes?" With just such a small amount of food, how much silver can be composed! ”

"When the time comes, you can't pay the apportionment, you guys go and say to Mao Guerrilla by yourself, I won't be scolded for you!"

More than a dozen dun soldiers did not dare to say anything, and they all picked up the looted grain and a few copper coins and prepared to leave the village.

At this moment, the surrounding villagers suddenly became excited and gathered around.

"You can't go!"

"My family only has these grains, if you take them away, my family will not be able to survive the winter!"

Seeing that hundreds of villagers around him were clamoring, Qin Xiaoqi was also taken aback, after all, there were a large number of villagers, and if they really wanted to make a move, where were the opponents of their dozen or so dun troops who had not practiced for a long time?

So Qin Xiaoqi shouted loudly: "What are you doing!" If you can't resist taxes, there is no royal law! ”

"Leave our food!"

"You don't dare to fight the Tartars, you don't dare to fight the thieves, you will only bully the common people, which official army is it!"

"Robbers! You are all robbers! ”

At this time, hundreds of villagers became more and more excited, and many villagers picked up all kinds of farm tools, roared and rushed over, pushing and shouting with more than a dozen dun soldiers.

"Bastard!"

Qin Xiaoqi was furious, and pulled out his waist knife and cut down a villager, thinking that he could make an example of him, but then Qin Xiaoqi fell into the ice cellar with a heart, looked at the surrounding villagers, and secretly screamed badly.

"Shoot him!"

The hundreds of villagers around were not intimidated, but angrily besieged Qin Xiaoqi and others, and a dozen or so fierce dun soldiers were overwhelmed by the angry villagers in a blink of an eye, and there was no movement after a burst of screams.

At this time, in the village, Qin Xiaoqi and more than a dozen other dun soldiers were dead on the spot, and more than 20 villagers also fell in a pool of blood.

The rest of the villagers also came to their senses at this time, anger and sadness were mixed, and then with a yell, the villagers of this village copied all kinds of farm tools and embarked on the road of resisting taxes.

As the health centers in Shandong began to vigorously apportion, scenes like Dasongwei Village continued to be staged in various places.

In addition, Lu Xiangsheng personally went to various places to supervise and forced officials and generals to give money, so that the generals of the Jimo camp, Wendeng camp, and Dengzhou camp were also ruthless, and they passed on the apportionment of the training salary to the military households and tenants under his rule.

Such a situation caused the people who could not survive to go bankrupt on a large scale in an instant, causing countless military households and tenants in various health centers to flee, and even turmoil occurred in many places.

Pingdu State.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was hesitating, whether to go south to Jimo Yingcheng or north to Laizhou City, so that he stayed in Pingdu Prefecture for a few days, and by the way, he also supervised the officials and generals here.

Suddenly, General Lu Huaiying pushed open the door with a little panic, clenched his fists and said, "Something happened to the governor!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng frowned slightly, and said, "But the salary training forced out the people's uprising? ”

"Governor Mingjian, that's exactly the case!"

Lu Huaiying took out several urgent reports, which were found in various places, all of which reported that there had been a popular uprising.

Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly took these urgent reports and checked them, then slapped them on the bookcase, and said angrily: "This governor is worried that those officials and generals will put all the apportionments on the people, so he has worked tirelessly to inspect various places. How could the generals of the Jimo Battalion, the Wendeng Battalion, and the Dengzhou Battalion not care about the lives of the people, ignore the orders of the Governor, and put all the apportionments on the military households and tenant households! ”

Lu Huaiying also said angrily: "The last general thinks that those things that are not enough to succeed and more than to fail, the amount of taxes that will be apportioned will definitely be more than the amount sent by the imperial court, and they must have taken the opportunity to fill their pockets!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng naturally knew this, if those generals didn't take the opportunity to make money, then they wouldn't be the generals of the Ming Dynasty.

I saw Lu Xiangsheng raise his head and sigh, and said: "This governor is on guard, worried that such a thing will happen, but after all, this governor only has a pair of eyes and a pair of feet, and he can't take care of the whole of Shandong, I am ashamed of the people!" ”

Lu Huaiying said: "The governors don't have to blame themselves, this matter is that officials and generals from all over the country took the opportunity to make money, and they didn't care about the lives of the people!" It's just that the chaos has gradually broken out in various places right now, and the governor should make the idea as soon as possible and calm down the situation as soon as possible. ”

Lu Xiangsheng immediately stood up and said, "Immediately rush back to Jinan Mansion City!" ”

"In addition, an order was immediately issued to the local health offices: no suppression of the people, immediately stop the apportionment of salaries, and those who violate the order will be severely punished!"

"Governor!"

Lu Huaiying hurriedly said: "What if someone takes the opportunity to pull people up and start an incident?" What should I do with the more than 400,000 taels of training salaries apportioned by the imperial court? ”

Lu Xiangsheng said categorically: "Is it wrong for this governor to let the people live? Ben Governor wants them to live! ”

Lingshan Acropolis, the mansion of conduct.

At this time, the commanders of the seven battalions of the New Army, the commander of the artillery commander Qian, as well as Wang Weizhen, Yue Ming, Song Gongming, Zhang Lei, Tian Huixu, Xun Jingyun, Bao Xuezhen, Zhao Min, Jia Hongyu and others were already waiting here.

Liu Yan sat down, looked at the full hall of subordinates, and said with a smile: "The weather is very cold, you are all frozen when you come over, but this official is not ready to cook a pot of wine to warm you up, but is going to deploy tasks for you." ”

The crowd laughed.

"Song Qianhu, Yue Qianhu!"

Song Gongming and Yue Ming stood up, and Liu Yan asked, "How is the money and grain prepared?" ”

Yue Ming was in charge of money and grain, and he was the money and grain official under Liu Yan, so he stood up and hugged his fists and said: "Your Excellency, rest assured, after several raisings by your subordinates and Song Qianhu, the money and grain set by your lord have been prepared, and most of them have been transported to Aoshanwei, and the remaining small part can be delivered in these two days." ”

"Good!"

Liu Yan was relieved and said to everyone: "You must be very strange, why did this official suddenly raise a large amount of money and food, and why did he gather everyone here. Now I will tell you. ”

"Because Shandong is about to be in turmoil, people everywhere will be displaced and become homeless!"

"Because this official wants to take in and give relief to the people on a large scale, and enrich the population of Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei!"

Liu Yan stood up and said loudly: "So this official asks you to immediately prepare for the large-scale resettlement of displaced people. This official has only one request, that is, this winter, not a single homeless person will freeze and starve to death, can you do it? ”

Although everyone didn't understand why Liu Yan was so sure that there would be a wave of displaced people, and why there would be chaos in various parts of Shandong, seeing Liu Yan's attitude, everyone subconsciously chose to believe it.

It's just that Liu Yan's request that no homeless person be frozen to death or starved to death seems ordinary, but it is actually very difficult.

Wang Weizhen hugged his fists and said: "The adults care about the people, and their subordinates admire it. It's just that the matter of helping the people costs a lot of money and food, and the court does not stretch out its hand and only relies on Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei, which is weak! ”

Tian Huixu said: "My lord made such a judgment, is it related to the training salary under the apportionment of the imperial court? ”

Liu Yan nodded and said, "You all know that the imperial court has apportioned training salaries to us in Shandong, do you know how much?" More than 400,000 taels! ”

"Do you know how much the salaries paid by the officials and generals to the military households and tenants in various places add up? Millions of taels! ”

Everyone was shocked, although they didn't know where Liu Yan knew these numbers, but if this matter was true, then Shandong would really be in chaos, and the people of Shandong were already poor and couldn't afford such a raid!

Liu Yan said to Wang Weizhen: "Wang Tongzhi is right, the matter of giving relief to the displaced people is indeed the business of the imperial court, but now the imperial court has no silver, otherwise it will not levy more salaries and loot the people." ”

"Although we will spend a lot of money and food this time, we can make more money when the silver is gone, as long as there are people, there is hope!"

Everyone clasped their fists and said, "May you save the people with your lordship!" ”

Zhao Min even bowed to Liu Yan and said: "My lord's mind is so impressive to my subordinates!" ”

Liu Yan also clenched his fists and said: "You can follow and trust this official, thank you!" ”

Then Liu Yan Zhengse said: "Everyone, listen to the order! ”

Everyone stood solemnly, waiting for Liu Yan to give orders.

"Commander Tongzhi Wang Weizhen, commander Tian Huixu, and commander Xun Jingyun immediately prepare to build resettlement points in Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei, and each guard must prepare to build at least thirty places!"

"Yes!"

"The front battalion and middle battalion of the new army were immediately deployed in Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei, and the displaced people were sent to the nearest resettlement point, the left and right battalions went to Lingshanwei to support, the rear battalion and the cavalry battalion supported in Aoshanwei, and the personal guard battalion and artillery were on standby."

"Order!"

"Qianhu Bao Xuezhen immediately led his medical officers to prepare all kinds of necessary medicines, and stood by at various resettlement points in Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei to treat the people."

"Yes."

"Thousands of households Zhao Min led people to register and make a register of displaced people, and they were diverted to various places. Zhang Lei, the Guantun official Qianhu, was responsible for the distribution of cultivated land, and led the displaced people to reclaim wasteland after the freeze. ”

"Yes!"

"Song Gongming of thousands of households and Yue Ming of thousands of households are responsible for allocating money and food for all parties, and there must be no mistakes!"

"Yes."

After Liu Yan finished deploying, he clasped his fists and saluted everyone, saying, "I hope you will do your best, Liu Yan is here, please!" ”

Some people died, but not completely......