Chapter 002: Cao Cao and Taishan Zangba
Seeing the man say this, Lu Yi could only pat the dust on his body, stood up, and walked towards Fang's house.
The Fang family, a wealthy family in Shu County, has a large area of land outside Shu County.
At least hundreds of people were employed under his command.
also raised more than 300 subordinates.
said that it is a subordinate, in fact, in this era, it is a thug, a ministry.
Even the county magistrate of Shu County had to give three points of face when he saw the head of the Fang family.
In addition to dealing with the government of Shu County, it is said that the head of the Fang family also dealt with many bandits.
Bandits burned, killed, looted, and abducted people everywhere.
From the elderly, down to women and children.
And the old people and children, in fact, the vast majority of them are bought to work as coolies!
The women are better.
Most of the women caught were sold to unmarried men among the common people.
In this era, there has been chaos to the point of chaos, and the number of people has been greatly reduced.
In order to increase the population, the imperial court ordered each state and county to have children.
At this time, it is not a question of whether men and women want to marry, or whether they want to marry.
When you reach a certain age, if you don't marry a man or a woman, the court will make you pay a heavy price!
Half a month ago, when Lu Yi first arrived in Shu County, Lujiang, he met a "blind date" organized by the imperial court.
However, because Lu Yi had just arrived, he avoided it.
This time, I finally couldn't escape.
The imperial court really spared no effort for the sake of fertility and population, and no one could escape.
Lu Yi rushed to Fang's house.
The Fang family owns a large mansion in Shu County, which is almost equivalent to the total area of hundreds of people's houses.
In the fourth week of the Fang family's mansion, the Fang family's subordinates were in groups of five, constantly patrolling to prevent people from sneaking in to do evil.
Five days ago, a teenager sneaked into Fang's house, was arrested, and was directly tied to a tree by the head of the Fang family and whipped to death!
His parents were also implicated and were forced by the Fang family to work as laborers for the Fang family for ten years to pay off their debts!
Appalling!
Lu Yi looked at the door of the Fang family's mansion for a while and sighed.
In this troubled world, still want to be a strategist? Fight for the world?
Not to mention reaching out to the heroes.
Even the small local family, if you don't do it well, can make you "a good man in eighteen years"!
Lu Yi walked into the Fang family's mansion.
In the garden, many people from Shu County have gathered.
These people stood together.
In front of them, there were two subordinates of the Fang family holding hemp ropes to stop them.
In front of the hemp rope, on the ground, kneeling more than thirty women.
Each of these women was gray-faced, rough-skinned, and not at all pretty.
In terms of age, they range from their 40s to their teens.
There are two of them who are five big and three thick, and they look quite powerful.
Behind the thirty or so women who were kneeling, there were more than a dozen sacks.
It seems to contain people inside.
You can see it by the constant writhing of the sack and the sound of the clanging.
Lu Yi looked at these women with some sadness.
In troubled times, human life is not as good as a dog.
Men are the instruments of war.
Women are the tools of procreation, the money that walks.
At that moment, a man who looked like he was full of fat intestines walked over.
Behind the hemp rope, all the men licked their faces and said hello.
"Butler, where did you get these women?"
"Why don't you feel as good as the last batch?"
"yes, there aren't a few fat ones!"
It turned out that this man who looked full of fat brains was the housekeeper of the Fang family.
The butler laughed, shook his head, and said, "You fools with eyebrows and rat eyes, how can you understand the good and bad of women?" ”
"The previous batches of women were all sent down by the bandits who were tired of playing with them."
"It's all inferior!"
"And this batch is all high-quality goods!"
"Those bandits haven't moved!"
"Let you buy it, that's your ancestors smoking, it's not good!"
One man complained: "How dare you be sure if they are tired of being played?" ”
The butler rolled his eyes, pointed at the women, and said, "Do you know the origin of these women?" ”
Everyone shook their heads.
The housekeeper said: "These women all fled from Xuzhou, and then they were separated and arrested. ”
"Moreover, the people who arrested them this time are not ordinary bandits."
"It's Zang Ba, the former cavalry commander of Xuzhou, do you know? Do you know what a riding lieutenant is? ”
Lu Yi looked at the housekeeper with some astonishment.
Zang Ba!
He knows!
It's not because he's seen it, but because he used to be a fan of the Three Kingdoms and knew more about the history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Zang Ba, a native of Taishan County, was a cavalry lieutenant during the Taoqian period in Xuzhou.
Cao Cao attacked Tao Qian, this guy couldn't win, so he went to the mountains with Sun Guan and others to be bandits!
However, Zang Ba is very knowledgeable about current affairs.
Even if he was a bandit, he had an excellent relationship with the scholars in Qingzhou and Xuzhou.
Therefore, after Cao Cao later took Qingzhou and Xuzhou, he could not control these two places, so he let Zang Ba manage them on his behalf.
In the history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Zang Ba was regarded as the overlord of Qingzhou and Xuzhou.
Rao is when Cao Cao was alive, there was no way to take him.
Now it seems that it is indeed true.
This Zang Ba is indeed quite knowledgeable about current affairs.
Even the Fang family in Lujiangshu County can get in touch with him and do "population" business.
Thinking of this, Lu Yi asked the housekeeper: "Is Cao Cao going to fight Xuzhou?" ”
The housekeeper was stunned, looked at Lu Yi with some surprise, and said, "Do you still know Cao Cao?" ”
Although Cao Cao was one of the most famous heroes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there are not many people here in Lujiang who know him!
During this period, the people had too few channels to know about current affairs.
Many people have lived all their lives and only know the officials around them.
Let's just say that the people around Lu Yi, now that the Yellow Turban Rebellion is basically over, the princes are fighting, they don't know!
They still think that this world is under the jurisdiction of the imperial court!
And Lu Yi knew that the Yellow Turban Rebellion was over and the princes were fighting, not based on the intelligence obtained from the outside world, but historical speculation!
Because, people here often say that Liu Biaojun in the west is coming!
To the west, it refers to Jingzhou.
At this time, there was Liu Biaojun in Jingzhou, which showed that Liu Biao had become the lord of Jingzhou.
According to historical speculation, now is the time for Dong Zhuo to be destroyed and the heroes to compete for the deer!
And the housekeeper said that Zang Ba, the commander of Xuzhou, became a bandit.
It is speculated that Xuzhou Tao Qian's men killed Cao Cao's father Cao Song, and then Cao Cao took the opportunity to take revenge on Xuzhou.
It is precisely like this that Zang Ba was afraid of death, gave up the position of Xuzhou Cavalry Captain, and went to be a bandit.
It is precisely in this way that the people of Xuzhou want to flee.
When everyone saw the housekeeper ask, they all looked at Lu Yi curiously.
"Who is Cao Cao?"
"Lu Lang, what about you!"
Lu Yi glanced at the people around him, sighed and said, "Cao Cao is an existence that is even bigger than our Lujiang Taishou official position. He had his own powerful army and even occupied an entire state. ”
Looking at the housekeeper, Lu Yi said: "Zang Ba was originally a cavalry captain, and he went to be a bandit, so Xuzhou is finished." I heard that the people of Xuzhou killed Cao Cao's father, and now Cao Cao will definitely slaughter Xuzhou in order to avenge his father. Therefore, the people of Xuzhou fled south one after another. ”
Looking at the women who were kneeling and sitting, and the existence of being stuffed in sacks, Lu Yi sighed with emotion: "It's really exciting, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer. ”