"Dad, Dongguan was also broken by the thieves Qin Junhong and Guo Fang, after the two thieves broke the city, they killed all the officials in the city, destroyed the homes of the wealthy and powerful families, coerced the young and strong, and plundered women, all kinds of evil. It is said that it is now heading to the North Sea. ”

Luo Jizu hurried to Zhangqiu County and informed his father of the latest news.

"Phew, the way of the dog." Daddy Luo Gui spat and looked worried.

At the beginning of the eight years of this great cause, the result was such a bad situation, and the bad news came one after another.

First of all, Wang Bo and Wang Yong attacked Beihai County, Beihai County, killed officials and rebelled, and gathered thousands of thieves. Then Sun Xuanya of Bohai gathered thousands of thieves to break through Yanshan County, Bohai County, and then Hao Xiaode of Pingyuan County broke Gaotang County, recruiting thousands of fugitives.

Just after this year, Qin Junhong and Guo Fang's two thieves broke through Dongguan City in Gaomi County.

It seems that overnight, the banks of the Yellow River are full of beacon fires.

Every day, I can hear that there are people rebelling here, and there are people killing officials, and gangs of bandits have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, with tens of thousands of people and dozens or hundreds.

In the past, the people were most afraid of the locust plague, and the locusts were all over the world, and they ate them wherever they flew, and they ate them when they saw the green, and when they finished eating and flew away, there would be no more people in that place.

And now, the bandits are much more powerful than the locust swarms.

Whether it is Wang Bo Wang Yong in Beihai, Sun Xuanya and Liu Badao in Bohai, or He Xiaode in the Plains, or Qin Junhong and Guo Fangpre in Gaomi, these people all have a characteristic, that is, they kill people like hemp and loot everywhere. They broke through the county seat, killed officials and rebelled, and also looted the rich and powerful, and forced the young and strong people to become thieves.

The turmoil is getting worse.

Dad said worriedly, "Although there is no large group of bandits in our Qi County now, but the plains, the Bohai Sea, the Beihai, and Gaomi are all on the edge of my Qi County, and the bandits flow like locusts, and I am very worried that they will flow to our Zhangqiu at any time." ”

What he feared most was that the bandits along the way would finally unite.

"Dad, we have Zhang Juncheng in Qi County, he is a fierce general in the world, Wang Bo Wang Yong and others have fled over several times before, but they have all been shot down, and they fled in panic like a lost dog, they dare not come to our Qi County." Following the ancestral road.

"This is not good, those bandits do not produce, only know how to kill and rob, but more than tens of thousands, as few as hundreds of thousands, and this number is still rising, like a snowball, more and more people are supplied somewhere. They will eat up one land like locusts and go to the next. When there is no food to eat, let alone Qi County, even if it is Luoyang, they dare to rob it. ”

The eldest step-ancestor sighed, "Why is it suddenly so messy." ”

Dad didn't say anything, he is now the recorder of Zhangqiu County, no longer the record of the past only name, but really doing things in the county office, after all, he was also a guard in front of the palace, whether it is vision or ability, Du Ruhui humbly asked him to help, and Dad is also very attentive to work.

As a county recorder, Dad knows very well why the current situation has eroded to this point. In the final analysis, in the early years, when the emperor was opened, he was more enlightened, the world was stable, and the people were living better, especially at that time, the population was far less than now, and the people had some land in their hands, and the young people who had newly become Ding could also get some land, so they could still make a living when they did not encounter disasters and famines.

Starting from Renshou, more than 20 years of peace in the world, so that the population of the Great Sui exploded, and there was no land to equalize, and there was also the occupation of the heroes and nobles, so that the people had no land to cultivate, and many young people who became Ding were actually landless.

However, after some of the people who had passed through the land slowly grew old and died, the land they had previously had to be handed back. In a family, the landed old man died and handed over the land, while the young man who had just become a young man had no land to equalize, so many Sui Dynasty people slowly became landless and proletarian.

However, since he ascended the throne today, he has built a large number of buildings, and the annual service is heavy, and the people have been constantly conscripted to serve, and the people have no land and less land, and they have to bear heavy rents, and now they have no time, how to live this life?

Especially at the beginning of the Eastern Crusade, Henan and Hebei became the source of soldiers and people's husbands, and countless young and strong people were recruited to leave their hometowns and go to Liaodong.

And many local officials and evil officials took the opportunity to loot the people at this time.

When the people could no longer live, they let it go.

Therefore, when those who were bold finally jumped out desperately and took the lead in rebellion, the people of many counties and counties simply followed the whole family to become thieves when they faced these bandits. Anyway, this world can't survive anymore, and if you don't become a thief, you will starve to death.

This winter and spring, which is not in full bloom, is even more difficult.

The big families and powerful people either ran to the county town, Luoyang and other big cities, or they could only recruit Ding Yong to raise the courtyard wall to defend themselves.

Seeing that spring is about to begin, no one still has the heart to work on this year's spring ploughing.

More than half of the men in the county either went to serve as soldiers or people's husbands, the remaining half, and a small half have become thieves, and the rest are mostly old and weak.

Just yesterday, Zhangqiu County sent another 500 people, each of whom carried three stones of grain to Zhuo County. The two of them worked together and took turns transporting six stones of grain in a deer cart.

This is a difficult task, not to mention that if it is freezing today, it is actually very difficult for the deer cart to transport six stone grains, not to mention, these six stone grains are still public grains, they can't use them, all the way to Zhuo County thousands of miles, and they have to bring their own dry food. And this road is so far away, full of bandits, no one knows what accidents will happen.

However, when the edict was issued, the local government could only comply with the order.

The people had no choice but to flee.

"Boss, you take a moment tomorrow, lead the team back to the township, and take your mother and your brother and daughter-in-law to the county seat. It's not peaceful everywhere, it's full of bandits, and the countryside is not safe. ”

"What about the house?" The step-ancestors are a little reluctant to have an industry in the countryside, after all, the family business is not small now. No one is home, what if you are robbed by thieves.

"It's all at this time, and I'm still thinking about what to do with that little thing outside my body, if there are really thieves to rob it, then let them rob it, as long as people are safe, it's more important than anything else."

The boss sighed.

"If only the fifth brother was still in Zhangqiu, with them, no matter what thief he is, he won't dare to commit it."

Among the gangs of thieves who are making trouble now, there are several of them who have been defeated by Lao Wu, such as Beihai Wang Bo, Wang Yong, Bohai Liu Badao, etc.

Dad looked to the north, "Where will Xiao Wu come back in Liaodong for a while?" ”