The first thing that came to the news of Hejian Province was the increase in exorbitant taxes. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Since the Jurchens came and the Wu Dynasty was forced to move south, it has always been difficult to have a few good days in the Central Plains. In the mouths of the old man and the witches, the officials of the Wu Dynasty lost their luck, and the year was also worse, sometimes floods, sometimes droughts, and last year ravaged the Central Plains, there was also a big locust plague, and the people who lost their way turned into "hungry ghosts" all the way south, and on the banks of the Yellow River, I don't know how many homeless wandering spirits.

The hungry ghost watched the Yellow River, this year, north of the Yellow River, ushered in a rare and peaceful good year, there were no natural disasters in turn, there was no sweeping and raging homeless people, the wheat in the field looked high, and then there was a heavy harvest. In Lizi Village, Wang Laoshi was about to grit his teeth and marry his son to a daughter-in-law, and the public in the yamen came to the door.

The taxes and forced labor that have been suppressed this year have increased by a large margin, and in the tone of the public officials, seeing that they have to take away sixty percent of this year's income, and the wheat yielding less than two stones per mu will be handed over more than one stone, then the next days will not be able to live.

Wang Laoshi is usually a gentle person, but this time he couldn't help but say something heavy to the public in the yamen: "You are also human beings, and you are also raised by your parents, you have to force everyone in the village to death." ”

After the public left embarrassedly, Wang Laoshi lost his strength and sat sullenly in the courtyard, staring at the three earthen houses at home in a daze. It's so bitter for people to live, it's not interesting, think about it, it's better when Wu Chao is there.

Soon after, the son came back and learned about the tax, and he blushed and couldn't speak. The son is also an honest young man, he can't beat a fart with three sticks, he is twenty-three years old this year, and he has not married a daughter-in-law yet. It's not that there are no women around, it's that they were too bitter in the early years to marry and can't support themselves. If the government's taxes are pressed down, I will have to eat bran vegetables again this year, and I will have to raise more women.

The next day, a meeting was held in the ancestral hall of the village—the days could not go on like this, and the hardships of the lower heads should be told to the lords above, and begged them to initiate kindness and give everyone a way to live, after all: "Even when the Jurchens came, they were not so excessive." ”

Wang Laoshi and his son were selected as porters, and picked wheat, cured meat and other things with the clan elders into the city, and soon after, they got the series of several villages next to each other, and everyone sent representatives to present their feelings one by one.

Seeing that there were more people, Wang Laoshi and others began to surge in their hearts, and the public along the way also let them go, and soon after, they made a huge fuss to Hejian Mansion, and the prefect Wang Manguang came forward to appease everyone, and the two sides negotiated several times, but they were unsuccessful. When the people below talked about the cunning of the dog official, they scolded, and then some people who scolded the dog official slipped through the city.

Two days later, a large number of soldiers suddenly poured into the city, and martial law was imposed. Wang Laoshi and others were so frightened that they thought that the matter of everyone's rebellion against the government had become a big problem, but unexpectedly the officers and soldiers were not arresting them, but directly entered the prefect's yamen.

After that, things developed rapidly, and in two days, there was a lot of mourning inside and outside the city, and the big officials in the government were imprisoned one after another. In just two days, a huge Xingtai was erected at the entrance of the vegetable market in Hejian Mansion, and on this day, Wang Laoshi and others received the news and went to the entrance of the vegetable market to see the head of the killing, killing the head of the dog official, and killing the head of the official and the official.

These officials, who were originally prestigious, were escorted up one by one, Wang Manguang was very fat, and he looked like he was full of fat, and he was tied up at this time, and he was gagged with a strip of cloth, and he was embarrassed. This kind of dog official really deserves to be killed, so people picked up something on the ground and smashed him, and soon after, he was the first to press in front of Xingtai, and the Jurchen official who came down from him was declared guilty of dereliction of duty.

Most people didn't understand the charges, they just cheered, Wang Manguang was broken head, his forehead was bloody and kneeling there, and when he was about to cut off his head, the executioner took the strip of cloth from his mouth, and the chubby corrupt official glanced at the crowd in front of him, and finally said a word. In this era, Wang Manguang is not a good official, and he can even be said to have bad deeds, but he was recorded in later history because of this sentence.

"Run...... Folks......" said the dog officer with a bleeding head.

Moments later, the executioner's knife fell.

On this day, in the midst of the people's rejoicing, almost a third of the original Yamen management of Hejian Province was killed, and the heads were rolling and the blood was flowing. Wan Yanchang, the "marshal" from the north, presided over this justice.

The Jurchen marshal arrived, and the beware elders were no longer qualified to meet him, and everyone returned to the village. Three days after Wang Manguang was killed, the new yamen and the subordinate errand team had resumed operation, and this time, the two errand officers who came to Wang Laoshi's house were already two completely different attitudes from the last time.

This time they're here to save their lives.

After some notice, more taxes were suppressed, Wang Laoshi was dumbfounded, and then scolded like last time, and then he was hit on the head with a stick, and when his head was bleeding, he heard the messenger scolding: "If you don't listen, everyone will be killed!" ”

On this day, the people around Hejian Mansion began to recall the words before Wang Manguang was killed.

However, it was too late to escape.

The officers and soldiers in the vicinity of the river have already begun to move and block all road traffic. The same thing was spreading at this time in Hebei, Jingdong and other roads ruled by Pingdong General Li Xizhi. On Hebei Road, the 300,000 Jurchen army that knocked through the pass went all the way south, and the forward troops led by Wanyan Zongbi had crossed Zhending.

In the small village of Lizi, Wang Laoshi and the others still didn't understand what was going to happen next. But on the stage of the world, the southern expedition of 300,000 troops means that the war aimed at destroying and conquering the Wu Dynasty has completely sounded the horn, and there is no room for it. A ferocious battle, soon after, unfolded on the front.

On July 24, the "pack of wolves" raided the Daimyo's Mansion!

Since the Wu Dynasty moved south, the Wu Dynasty led by Wang Shanyue and Dulonggang Hujia, who had been operating in Jingdong East Road and Liangshan for several years, finally showed its long-awaited fangs.

Since Liu Yu established the Great Qi power with the support of the Jin State, Jingdong Road was originally the core of this force, but Jingdong East Road, that is, the area of Liangshan in Shandong in later generations, is still a blind spot in the jurisdiction of this force. At this time, Liangshan was still a water pool covering hundreds of miles, with nearby places such as Dulonggang and Zengtou City, with remote areas and bandits.

Where the Wu Dynasty is difficult to govern, the pseudo-Qi is also difficult to govern, until Liu Yu's court was infiltrated by the Black Flag Army, the emperor was beaten after the palace, Liu Yu moved south, and this piece of land was conveniently attributed to Li Xizhi and the Qi family headed by the Confucian Qi Yan behind it. Li Xizhi failed to suppress bandits many times, and later made great efforts to level Dulonggang and make hasty changes. But behind it, Wang Shanyue and others, in the name of "Wu Dynasty orthodoxy", can still continue to connect and expand their influence. In the past few years, the actual domination of the entire Yangsan region has been completed.

The nearby mountain bandits came to vote and the righteous gathered, even some righteous people under Li Xizhi's command, either Wang Shanyue took the initiative to contact or contacted Wang Shanyue in private, and they all completed the communication with Wang Shanyue in private. This time, with the issuance of the order, the vicinity of the Daimyo's Mansion gave Li Xizhi and his family a real performance of what it means to "infiltrate into a sieve". Twenty-four, the 30,000 troops of Liangshan suddenly appeared under the Daimyo's Mansion, the siege outside the city and the chaos inside the city, in less than half a day, the 50,000 troops guarding the Daimyo's Mansion were all routed, and the Wang Shanyue and Hu Sanniang who led the team completed the change of hands and took over the Daimyo's Mansion.

This is the explosion of almost all the heritage left here by the Wu Dynasty, and it is also the place where Wang Shanyue, who once followed Ning Yi, learned the Black Flag Army most thoroughly. This time, gun-to-gun and cannon-to-gun on the table, there is no room for turnaround.

The Daimyo's Mansion is one of the relay places for the Jurchens to go south, and with the development of the grain collection in these days, the grain and grass gathered here is even more amazing, and the first shot of the Wu Dynasty people was nailed to the seven inches of the Jurchen army. As the news spread, the more than 100,000 troops that Li Xizhi had gathered, together with the more than 10,000 troops of the Jurchens who had originally guarded Jingdong, joined forces and swooped towards this side.

The war spread with this first attack. The road to the north of Shuibo is also a mess and deserted at this time, with the occasional sight of empty ruins and villages. A procession of wagons was heading north along the road.

At this moment, the caravan that can walk on this kind of road is not an idle generation, although this team is small, but it can also see a man's skill, the carriage in front of him is bumpy, and occasionally there is a woman's voice coming out, it is a gentle humming sound, sometimes it is the "Lan Zhi Yiyi" of "Yi Lan Cao", sometimes it is the "son of Yu Gui" of "Tao Yao", and occasionally there are "Lisao" and "Shuo Mouse", the song is not accompanied, but it is refreshing to hear.

It's just that the disorderly singing voice also reveals that the singer's mood is not calm.

Lu Junyi was in front of the carriage and glanced back.

"Senior girl, the future is not peaceful, you should really be obedient and go south."

The woman in the car was Master Li, dressed in coarse cloth clothes, humming while mending the torn clothes in her hands. The woman who was once the most popular in Alum Lou naturally doesn't need to be too much female red. But over the years, as she grew older and tossed and turned, there was nothing in her way from sewing and mending on the rickety car.

"In today's world, there is no place for peace anyway."

"If you go south, you can always settle down, there are our people, and the hungry ghosts can't catch you."

"I'm going southwest, will he see me?"

"The surname Ning is not a coward."

"But I don't want to see him."

Shishi lowered his head and smiled, biting off the thin thread in his hand. After a few moments, she dropped her things and leaned on the edge of the window to look out, the wind ruffling her hair. Over the years, she has been tossed and turned, but she has not become old, weak and haggard, on the contrary, age has solidified on her face, and only time has turned into a free and easy temperament, embellished between her eyebrows and eyes.

Lu Junyi shook his head and sighed: "Xiao Yi went to do something, I don't understand the hearts of you women." However, fighting is not child's play, you are ready, and I have nothing to say. ”

"Hmm." The master in the car nodded, "I know, I've seen it." ”

She looked down at her hands. It was more than ten years ago, she was only in her early twenties, the Jurchens finally came, storming Bianliang, at that time she was bent on doing something, clumsily helping, she remembered the general Xue Changgong Xue who was guarding the city at that time, and remembered his lover, He Lei'er, the sister in the alum tower, she didn't dare to go to the city wall to help because she was pregnant with his child. They didn't have children later, did they stay together?

It's all about the past.

After more than ten years of changes, the world around this has been turned upside down. She and Ning Yi also became an "old lover" by mistake, in fact, at many critical times, she almost became his "lover", but in the end, she became distant and alienated.

She used to have a crush on him, then she admired him, but later she became incomprehensible about him, and now she understands some of it, but there are still many things she can't understand. The world has turned upside down, and the slightest emotion has long since become unimportant. In the years since she learned of his "death", she has come out of Dali and traveled all the way. Back last year, they might have almost met in Zezhou, but he didn't want to see her, and she didn't want to see him much after that. Maybe one day, she understands everything and goes to see him again.

"I'm sorry, Ning Liheng, I blame you." She hoped that one day, she would be able to say such a thing to him, and then go and confess a trivial emotion. However, now she is not qualified for this, and she still has too many things to understand.

But there are also some things that she can understand now.

As the Jurchen went south again, Wang Shanyue's resistance to the Jurchen finally started, and all along, the team that accompanied her back and forth from south to north finally began to have their own things, a few days ago, some people led by Yan Qing had left the team to go north to carry out a task that belonged to him, and Lu Junyi led the team towards Shuibo after persuading her to go south unsuccessfully.

"It's time to meet some old friends." Lu Junyi said.

“…… When he was still young, he practiced spear and dance, knew military strategy, thought that his martial arts were unparalleled, but no one appreciated it, and then he didn't think that he went to Liangshan, and the one surnamed Ning destroyed Liangshan again. I joined the army, and then I was tied down, knowing that I was not a general. After all these years, I know that there is no room for hesitation. ”

The son of the Wang family, who used to work under Ning Yi, has already launched his power, and the black flag forces that had been waiting in Shandong have finally stopped being silent. More than ten years have passed since the first minister Qin Siyuan led the people to defend the city, and the bloody battle in Wuruiying Summer Village, and there have been several years since the bloody battle of Xiaocang River.

Thinking of this and recalling the twists and turns of the past ten years, the teacher sighed in his heart, and a sense of pride and ambition was inevitably surging.

Soon after, she met the Black Flag army gathered at her destination. "Burning City Gun" Zhu Biao as the leader, "Big Knife" Guan Sheng, "Thunderbolt" Qin Ming, "Golden Gunner" Xu Ning, Zhu Long and Zhu Hu and other generals are already waiting here. Subsequently, "Jade Qilin" Lu Junyi returned to the team.

This year's water, the long reeds have dried up, and the gathering of the heroes has brought more or less sighs to each other, but more is still the ambition and pride gathered in front of them. Compared with the things to be experienced at this moment, the former Liangshanbo and Juyitang are just a small floating dust in their memories, and Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others are just clowns who have left in the past.

The autumn wind is bleak and the waves are surging.

The big war is ahead.