Fifty miles east of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, there is a county named Lantian, this county is a small county, the county border is sixty-five miles long from east to west, and fifty-five miles from north to south,.。

In later generations, Lantian County only had more than 600,000 people, but Lantian County in the Tang Dynasty surpassed it, with a population of 800,000.

The main reason is that there are constant wars in this era, coupled with natural disasters and floods in various places, which lead to the displacement of the people and the abandonment of their homes to flee the famine.

In the 12 years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it has experienced a total of four refugee waves, two natural disasters, and two man-made disasters, natural disasters are floods and droughts, and man-made disasters are Turkic invasions and rebellions in the southwest.

Under natural and man-made disasters, people all over the world continued to flee to Guannei, resulting in more and more people around Chang'an.

Although Lantian County is a small county, it now has a population of 800,000, and in February of the ninth year of Wude, the Tang Dynasty had set up the Yongzhou Mansion Yamen, and Lantian County was under its jurisdiction.

Now the big man sitting in Yongzhou Mansion is Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian County, he is loyal to Li Shimin's royal family, but the officials at all levels below are different, most of these officials are from Confucian families.

Half a month ago, Wang Jue, the patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang clan, led the trend, eighty percent of the officials in the world resigned and forced the palace, and the county commanders and county officials in Lantian County were all from families, and all of them were sealed and closed, sitting at home and waiting for the emperor to bow his head and admit his mistakes.

In June, when the farming season is about to be busy, the wheat in the fields is golden and the harvest time is approaching.

At this juncture, the yamen at all levels suddenly resigned and hung up their seals, who would lead the people to cut wheat, who would be responsible for the imperial court taxes, and other major events such as the competition for water sources among the villages and the fighting between clans, which used to be mediated by the county government, but now no one cares.

The chaos in the world has appeared, and many heroes with ulterior motives have felt the opportunity. The family is worthy of being a family, and this joint action can almost overturn the foundation of Datang.

Just when all parties were about to move, a holy decree suddenly came out of the palace, gathering the eyes of the entire world.

Datang wants to set up 100,000 towns and govern a million management areas!

"Li Shimin, is this a dog jumping off the wall in a hurry?" In the prison of Dali Temple, Wang Jue smiled disdainfully, and now he completely turned his face with the royal family, not only did he not call His Majesty, but even said that Li Shimin's dog jumped over the wall in a hurry.

The patriarch of a family next to him said with a smile: "That little doll, who is known as a genius, finally failed to help his father!" Using a soldier born with mud legs to become an official, he also thought of such a stupid thing! ”

Wang Qi laughed, stroked his beard with his palm, and said lightly: "In less than three years, the Tang Dynasty will be chaotic, poor Li family has been sitting for a total of twelve years, and I can't imagine that it will be subverted in a blink of an eye." ”

One person suddenly whispered: "The Emperor sent someone to pass the book last night, and he is ready to ascend to the top and return to the Taiji Palace." In the book, he invited us to help the family, saying that if we ascend the throne again, he will promise us great benefits? ”

"The great benefits?" Wang Qishou raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "If you want benefits from others, how can you remember to take benefits from us?" Ask someone for what is called begging, and it is the master to take it yourself......"

His eyes suddenly flashed, and he said with deep meaning: "My Wang family has been inherited for thousands of years, and I used to be just hiding in the shadows as a minister, but now it's time to stand up and be a king!" ”

The people in the prison looked at each other, and the eyes of several family heads flashed and said: "The prince said this, could it be that you want to ......"

Wang Qi smiled, closed his eyes and began to recuperate, looking at his comfortable posture, it seemed that everything was under control.

Everyone was silent for a long time, and suddenly one of them whispered: "The chaos in the world has appeared, I can't say it, this is really an opportunity to seize!" ”

His eyes flashed, and he said viciously: "Back then, because of Han Yue's incident, Li Shimin killed two ministers of my family, I will avenge this revenge, and after the Li family destroys the country, I want to look at the heads of this father and son as a night pot!" ”

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The bigwigs in the prison are imagining, and the officials of all states and governments in the world are also looking forward to it, just when this kind of chaos is about to appear, the Chang'an Imperial Capital suddenly has a new movement.

For half a month, tens of thousands of soldiers will go out of the city, galloping all the way, like ants out of the nest scattered in all directions, and gradually diffracted the corners and corners of the Tang Dynasty as time passed.

In the early morning of this day, the official road of Lantian County was suddenly dusty, but when I saw a group of about 300 horsemen galloping wildly, the pedestrians on the side of the road gave way, and suddenly saw this group of knights bypassing the county seat and running directly to a village ten miles north of the city.

This village is called Niujia Village, because it is close to Lantian County, so there are many households in the village, and it is a big Zhuangzi that can be counted left and right.

Three hundred knights rushed all the way into Niujia Village, and when the villagers were panicking, they suddenly heard a knight laugh and said: "Brothers, this is the hometown of my third son." ”

He turned and dismounted, and the rest of the knights dismounted, and the people stood quietly by their horses and looked at the village and the people.

They were looking at the people, and the people were secretly looking at them, and suddenly an old woman in the crowd was startled and shouted, "Sanbiaozi, is it you, my son, are you back?" ”

Niu Laosan was shocked, he turned his head to look at the old woman in the crowd, knelt on the ground with a puff, and cried: "Mother, you see it right, it's me who is back, or I am back from the battlefield." ”

There was a sound of tsk around, and the old man who was familiar with the past whispered: "This Niu Laosan's family is very poor, he has no father since he was a child, and he relies on his widowed mother to support him, but his wife is an ordinary woman, where can she have the ability to support her children." Niu Laosan's two elder brothers starved to death, and the saved food provided for Niu Laosan and his two younger sisters. When Niu Laosan reached the age of fifteen, his family became poorer and poorer, and this kid was also ruthless, so he gritted his teeth and went to the border army. ”

The old man sighed as he spoke, and many of the people around him had fled from outside, and they didn't know the past of this village, and they were a little fascinated by what they heard.

The old man said: "The border army is the regular army of the court, not an ordinary government soldier who is a soldier while farming, they are stationed at the border pass to fight with the Turks, and live a life of licking blood with a knife every day, maybe the last moment is alive, the next moment it will become a dead corpse, if the old man remembers correctly, this Niu Laosan is afraid that he is twenty-five or six years old this year, he joined the border army at the age of fifteen, and he has not died for ten years, tsk, this life is really hard enough......"

"Or what about coming back? His family is poor, his two younger sisters are thin and dark, and no in-laws are willing to ask for it until now, even if Niu Laosan has made a little military merit, the court is estimated to give some reward money to finish, but how many years can the reward last? Their family will still be poor in the future, alas, pitiful, pitiful! ”

It was another old man who spoke, he thought for a while, and suddenly said: "There seems to be a wasteland in the back mountain, and the old man gathered a few old men in the clan to discuss and discuss, and gave that piece of land to Niu Laosan, after all, it is the doll of our Niujia Village, he has not died in the border for ten years, and he must not be starved to death by Niujia Village!" ”

The old man in front nodded slowly, and said solemnly: "Fourth, you're right, you can't starve this doll to death, his family is too pitiful!" ”

When the two were talking, Niu Laosan had been holding his mother and crying for a long time, he slowly got up from the ground, suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to the two old men, and said loudly: "Thank you to the third grandfather, thank you to the fourth grandfather, I have joined the army for ten years, and only the old mother and two sisters are left in the family, if there is no clan to take care of them, they can't wait for me to come back." Third grandfather, fourth grandfather, I'll kowtow to you! ”

The soldier spoke, loudly, and he slammed his head on the ground a few times, and the two old men couldn't stop it.

Most of the people around were kind, and a few elderly women sighed faintly: "Alas, poor doll, I have been a soldier for ten years, and I still ......have a poor family when I come back."

Niu Laosan got up slowly and said to the old women: "A few aunts, I won't be poor anymore!" ”

He suddenly turned his head to the knight who came with him, and said loudly, "Where is the robe that is in charge of this town with me?" Trouble the big guy to move our construction funds over, while the people are here, let's let everyone see the prince's reward. ”

Among the three hundred knights, fourteen of them suddenly stepped forward, each of them dragging a large box on their horses, and a total of fifteen boxes plus Niu Laosan.

With the help of others, the fifteen people quickly carried the box off their horses and into the field, and Niu Laosan shouted loudly, "Split it!" ”

Sonorous –

Everyone drew their knives together, slashed the lock of the box, and the lock fell to the ground under the flash of sparks.

Niu Laosan stepped forward, reached out and grabbed the handle of the box, and at the same time turned his head to the surrounding people and said, "Fellow villagers, look at what this is?" ”

With a flick of his hands, he lifted the lid of the box directly.

Under the sunlight, a touch of patina faintly came into view, this is a whole box of copper coins. Next to the copper coin, there was a piece of gold the size of a little finger, and next to the gold, there were ten stacks of silver neatly placed.

Copper, silver, gold! The three kinds of goods scorched and shone brightly, dazzling the eyes of the people around them for a while.

Niu Laosan laughed and said, "Have you seen it clearly, folks?" This chest contained five hundred copper coins, ten taels of gold, and fifty taels of silver......"

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the rest of the chest, and said in a loud voice, "The same is true of the other fourteen, all the money adds up to seven thousand five hundred taels, one hundred and fifty taels of gold, and seven hundred and fifty taels of silver!" The copper coins are the construction funds issued by the imperial court to our Niujia Village, and the gold and silver are the rewards for my and fourteen comrades, but now that I am the mayor of the town, these rewards will also be used to build Niujia Town......"

The surrounding people looked shocked, and after the shock, they were at a loss.

So much money?

Niujia Village?

What is the famous construction fund?

Niu Laosan suddenly reached into his arms and took out an object, and said with pride: "Take a look, folks, this is the official seal issued by the imperial court to me, and now I am the mayor of Niujia Town under the command of Tiance Mansion, directly under the command of His Majesty the Emperor, managed by King Zhao of Xifu, holding this seal to build Niujia Town, the prince wants people to give people, ask for money to give money, he is the virtuous king of our Tang Dynasty 8,000 years old, even the princes of each family have to salute when they see him." Hey, hey, hey, fellow villagers, my third Niu used to be the prince's personal soldiers, and our Niujia Town will be a direct town under the prince's command in the future, and follow the prince to make a fortune, and no one in Datang dares to provoke us......"