I don't know if it is the will of heaven, since the first year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, the three major powers on the land of China have suffered a series of great changes.

First of all, there was a rebellion in the north of the strongest Liao State, and the small-scale war never stopped for a few months, and then even Nanjing gave birth to a rebellion led by Xiao Dude and Yelu Si Buda, if it were not for Yelu Dashi and Yelu Xiongge to send troops to quell the rebellion in time, I am afraid that Da Liao would fall into a situation of split.

But even if the rebellion was finally extinguished, the Liao State was in turmoil, and tens of thousands of people were implicated in this rebellion, which can be called a great loss of vitality.

Originally, this would be an opportunity for the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty in the south, but what people didn't expect was that at this time, two major chaos broke out in the Great Song Dynasty. First of all, the Liangshanbo bandits in Shandong suddenly appeared, not only attacked several state cities in succession, killed officials and rebelled, and finally even the Beijing Daimyo Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty was set on fire and plundered, killing and wounding countless people, causing the government and the opposition to shake.

And just when the imperial court was raising soldiers and horses to suppress this bandit on a large scale, something more terrible happened-because the people in the Jiangnan area could not bear the exploitation of corrupt officials and cruel officials, as well as the endless burden of Huashigang, a large-scale uprising led by Fang La finally broke out in the autumn of the first year of Xuanhe!

In terms of status in the eyes of the people of the world, Fang La was far from being able to compare with leaders such as Liangshan and Song Jiang. However, when the banner of its rebellion was raised, the chaos caused was much greater than that of the Liangshan bandits, and in just a few months, the Jiangnan Prefecture fell into the hands of the rebel army one after another, and Fang La's command quickly gathered an army of nearly 100,000 people.

The emergence of two powerful rebel forces in the north and south at the same time made the Great Song court temporarily shelve the original plan to send troops to the Liao State and instead send troops to quell the civil strife. However, at least so far, the effect of the imperial court to quell the rebellion is not significant, and several official and military forces have been repeatedly defeated, which has fueled the arrogance of the two rebels!

There was civil strife in the Liao and Song dynasties, which should have been a great opportunity for the Xia Kingdom to rise in the west. However, in the winter of this year, a turmoil broke out in the capital of Western Xia. Although this rebellion is not comparable to the scale of the Liao and Song Dynasty, its impact is obviously greater, and it is said that all the forces of the Xia Kingdom have been mixed in, and it is impossible to use troops outside the country at least for a few years.

The Three Kingdoms are all experiencing frequent accidents, which is both a danger and an opportunity for those in the court, because only when there is such a continuous chaos can someone take advantage of the opportunity to rise up, from a penniless petty official to a hero who can save the world and help the building to collapse.

But for ordinary people, this is undoubtedly a real disaster. The successive turmoil and turmoil made the people of the Three Kingdoms miserable and precarious, especially for the people of the Great Song Dynasty, who had been in rebellion for a long time, life was extremely difficult.

This May is the time when everyone is busy working in the fields, but this year, the fields in many prefectures and counties in Shandong have been barren because of the presence of bandits in Liangshan. This is not only because the bandits in Liangshan are looting and harassing the people, but the more important thing is that the government continues to recruit strong men into the army, which greatly reduces the number of men in the village, and it is naturally impossible for the remaining old and weak women and children to plant all the fields left.

Of course, even if life is difficult, people still have to struggle to survive, and those who have land work hard to cultivate, while those who have no land have to think of other ways.

For example, on the edge of the official road leading to Qingzhou, there is a newly erected tea house, and a trembling old man is preparing a pot of clear and bitter wild tea for passing guests to quench their thirst.

Originally, this method of brewing tea with water and drinking it was not welcomed in the Great Song Dynasty, but since Sun Dujian often treated guests in his official hall, at least the people in Shandong gradually accepted this extremely simple way of cooking tea. In addition, it is now early summer and the weather is hot, so the business in this small tea house is not bad, at least the white-haired old man who sells tea can make a living from it.

Today, too, when it was close to noon, there were already five or six pedestrians walking along the official road in the tea house, and when they were thirsty, they would spend three or five cents to buy a pot of tea, and drink tea while resting.

At this time, another person and a horse came slowly from the end of the official road, and when he saw the tea house set up on the side of the road, he immediately looked a little haggard, and the young man with a depressed color in his eyes finally showed a happy smile, and immediately turned over and fell off the horse, tied the horse to the trunk of the tree by the roadside, and walked into it, and shouted at the old man: "The old man will bring me a pot of tea to quench my thirst." ”

There were three wooden tables and a dozen stools in the tea house, and at this time there were already guests sitting on each table, and the young man could only sit with two of them, drinking the bitter tea that was sent, and at the same time looking at the surrounding acres of barren fields, he couldn't help asking: "Does the old man know why no one has planted the fields over there?" It's a shame to let them be so barren. ”

The old man also smiled bitterly when he heard this: "You don't know, guest officer, in fact, these acres of land belong to the old man's family." However, now that our young and strong men here have been forcibly conscripted into the army by the government, my sons have never been heard from again, and they are old and decrepit, and they can't plant any more land, so they can only be left to be wasted. I can only rely on picking some wild tea and selling tea here to get by. ”

"Is there such a thing? Are bandits rampant even in Qingzhou now? Qingzhou frowned, with a look of worry and doubt.

A few guests on the side glanced at the young man, although he was a rare person who rode a horse, but this dress was really a little shabby, just a somewhat shabby linen shirt, the beard on his face had not been taken care of for many days, and his face was full of wind and dust, and he was not the son and brother of a rich and noble family at first glance. This made them feel a little relieved, and someone explained: "This little brother, you just came to my Qingzhou territory, so you don't know anything about the situation here." In fact, although there were indeed bandits rampant in my Qingzhou, they were pacified by Sun Dujian who had just taken office two years ago, and now I have not heard of any bandits who dare to cause trouble in my Qingzhou. ”

When he mentioned the name of Sun Dujian, everyone present, whether it was the old man who sold tea or those tea customers, showed respect. When the young man heard this, his eyes flashed slightly, and then he asked, "In this case, why does the government continue to forcibly recruit young people into the army?" ”

"Hey, it's not the new Qingzhou prefect and the capital supervisor who ......are making trouble," this one said, the look of indignation on his face was even worse, but his voice was subconsciously lowered: "Originally, I had Sun Du Jian in the Qingzhou territory, and the life of our people is getting better and better." But at the beginning of last year, somehow Sun Dujian was no longer in office. I heard that he was sent by the imperial court to go on a business trip, but who expected that after the autumn, the news of his murder came......"

"It's really a good person who doesn't live long...... There are too few good officials like Sun Dujian who are not greedy for money and can do practical things for the people such as us. When he thought of him, we, the people of Qingzhou, would have been able to support ourselves by growing grain, not to mention worrying about those mountain bandits and robbers rampaging here. But as soon as he left, the imperial court soon sent a new prefect and a capital eunuch, and now I will have a sad time waiting. Not only were the various taxes much higher than in the previous two years, but they also sent people to ask for grain from house to house, saying that they were going to fight the Liangshan bandits. Another person couldn't help but tell some of the inside information he knew.

And his words also attracted the words of another person: "Actually, if they can really lead our Qingzhou soldiers to fight a few victories like Sun Dujian." But as a result, they suffered several defeats in Liangshanbo, and finally lost their troops, so they had to forcibly recruit troops in the territory, and my two nephews were recruited by them in this way...... I heard that in order to prevent them from escaping, they all tattooed words on their faces, which is really evil! Maybe when, for the sake of their own future, these officials will send these newly recruited soldiers to the Liangshan thieves under the swords and guns. ”

"I think that the officers and soldiers of Qingzhou have just made a name for themselves in the first two years, but in just half a year, they were almost all defeated in the hands of those two new officials. If Sun Dujian knows what they have done in the sky, I am afraid that he will be angry and come back to life! ”

After listening to the words of these people, the young man's face, which was not too good-looking, suddenly became more and more gloomy: "As far as I know, there are actually many generals under Sun Dujian who can lead troops to fight, can't even they lead everyone to a few victories?" ”

Everyone didn't care why this new guest knew about this kind of thing at this time, and explained casually: "Originally, there are indeed several generals in my Qingzhou who can lead troops to fight, but they are all descendants of Sun Dujian, so how can the new prefect and capital eunuch reuse them?" So in the past six months, these positions have already been deprived of all their powers, and even two of them have been thrown into prison because of some things. ”

"Not only have they been thrown into prison, but I heard that they have also been convicted of the felony of colluding with bandits, and they will be beheaded after this fall. Ay...... In fact, everyone knows that they were wronged, and it was the two new officials who were resisted by them for the sake of Liwei, so they would kill them......" Before he finished speaking, he heard a crisp sound of Kala, and then he was surprised to find that the stoneware tea bowl in the hand of the young man in front of him was actually pinched in half by him, and the tea flowed all over the table, and the other party didn't care in the slightest, and his eyes were already blazing like fire!

"Wow, I can't imagine that my Sun Tu has only been away for a year, and you have already tossed my Qingzhou into such a state!" This haggard and tired young man is Sun Tu, who returned to Qingzhou from Xia Kingdom so easily!

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