Yanggu County, Anle Town, Fanjiazhuang.

The Fan family is over!

The patriarch of the Fan family in Yanggu, Fan Kaishan, who has the status of a famous jinshi and the official rank of Shilang from the nine grades, was wearing his beloved official uniform at this time, holding a long and wide sword from nowhere, holding a long and wide sword in his trembling old hand, kneeling in the ancestral hall of the Fan family, and crying at the ranking of the ancestors of the Fan family.

Because he knew that he was the last patriarch of Yanggu Yimen Fan! "The first in Yunzhou with a thousand people of Ju clan, and it is rare in the world to live together for 150 years", has now been broken by the heroes of Liangshan.

Oh, and it can't be said to be a breakthrough, the heroes didn't attack at all...... Because Fanjiazhuang has no one to defend at all.

Fanjiazhuang is not Ximenzhuang.

The latter was garrisoned by 100 archers, 50 sword and shield men, and 10 horsemen. Among them, 10 of the cavalry of the Simon family are good at shooting arrows, and the quality of the 100 archers is not low. These 110 long-step bows were shot, and 1,000 Liangshan heroes had to become hedgehogs.

Although Fanjiazhuang looks like a serious thing, there is also a wall, and a trench has been dug outside the wall. But there was no Baoding inside the wall that could be defended. Of course, there are all guarantees, but there is no Baoding who can fight. Although the Yimen Fan Zushang also had a martial artist, the long sword in Fan Kaishan's hand was the weapon left by the ancestor for the ancestral hall, but the Fan family had long abandoned martial arts and changed to the imperial examination family, taking the road of cultivating and reading heirlooms, and did not have the ability to implement the education of Yunwen and Yunwu.

Yunwen Yunwu is not cheap! The so-called poor literature and rich martial arts, in order to learn martial arts in an agrarian society, you must have a certain economic strength! The Simon family has such financial resources, but the Fan family does not. Moreover, the Ximen family was originally a Youzhou Yajiang family, and their ancestors also participated in the Anshi Rebellion, and now there is a line of North Ximen in the Liao Army, so they are naturally proficient in martial arts - their martial arts are not just martial arts, but a series of skills including fighting with soldiers, so the Ximen family can organize 500 Baoding who is not weak in combat effectiveness.

In order to let more children receive the imperial examination education, the Fan family, who is short of financial resources, naturally will not teach martial arts and military strategies that have nothing to do with the imperial examination - the art of war on paper is to teach a little, but this cannot be used to organize the army to fight the enemy.

Since the children of the Fan family can all be civil and military, the capital controlled by the Fan family will naturally not be able to organize the fighting Baoding.

Moreover, it is impossible for the Fan family to give many preferential treatment to the tenants who act as Baoding as the Ximen family, so as to encourage them to fight for the Fan family.

After all, the Fan family has no windfall, so they can only rely on the income from scraping the ground to maintain so many children to study, live and reproduce. Even most of the children of the Fan family who are not very good at reading will also become farmers who cultivate the land after failing the examination two or three times!

Therefore, the Fan family, a righteous family of imperial examinations with the purpose of cultivating officials to defend the feudal state of the Great Song Dynasty, is a peasant family that has read books, and it has no self-defense force.

For many years before, the reason why Fanjiazhuang was not violated by Liangshan was because "a bowl of rice" had no oil and water; On the other hand, it is also due to the fact that the Ximen family does not allow Liangshan to commit crimes in Yanggu County.

The long-term peace and tranquility has also made the people living in Fanjiazhuang lose their basic vigilance and sense of self-defense. I really thought that my moral article could stop the thieves of Liangshan.

When the 1,000-strong army of Liangshan thieves came to attack, there were no soldiers to fight in Fanjiazhuang, and there were few weapons that could be used to arm themselves.

So as soon as the thieves arrived, there was chaos in Fanjiazhuang. And when the Liangshan thief outside Zhuangzi shouted that it was "Fan Jiuxiu brought them to get some rice, noodles and meat", Fan Kaishan, as the patriarch of the Fan family, was actually dizzy and ordered to open the gate to defend Fanjiazhuang......

Then, thousands of Liangshan heroes poured into Fanjiazhuang, which had no ability to defend themselves, like a tide, wielding knives and guns!

However, the fact that Fanjiazhuang was broken by Liangshan was not the main reason for the end of the Fan family...... Unless the Liangshan thieves are ready to rebel, they will not dare to destroy a scholar family, because destroying the Fan family is challenging the majesty of the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty, if Liangshan does this, then wait to be surrounded and suppressed by the heavenly soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty. The Liangshan thieves will kill a few small shrimps of the Fan family at most, and then grab something and go up the mountain with a woman (in fact, there is no mountain to climb), the Fan family is still the original Fan family!

Therefore, when the Liangshan thieves invaded Fanjiazhuang, Fan Kaishan did not despair, but took his children and daughter-in-law and wife to avoid entering the Fan family ancestral hall. He also let his son guard the door, and when he saw a thief approaching, he shouted: "Jin Shigong is here, don't make a mistake!" ”

Not to mention, the signboard of Master Jinshi is really good!

The heroes of Liangshan just spread wild and wreaked havoc outside the ancestral hall, and no one dared to step into the ancestral hall for half a step.

Just when Fan Kaishan let out a sigh of relief, ready to ponder who was behind the scenes and caused the Fan family to suffer such a catastrophe, his eldest son, Fan Zhiwen (Fan Thirteen Xiucai), who was guarding the door of the ancestral hall, suddenly rushed in in and told a piece of news that made Fan Kaishan fall into despair - a child of the Fan family joined Liangshan! It's a bolt from the blue!

And what made Fan Kaishan even more desperate was that among the children of the Fan family who were "thieves", Fan Jiuxiucai and Fan Zhijin, who were as famous as Fan Thirteen Xiucai!

Fan Zhiwen told his father that he saw Brother Jiu taking his old mother and son, together with several Liangshan leaders, and turned back to the outside of Fanjiazhuang step by step.

Joining Liangshan is no joke! Even if it is forced, it is a "thief"! Fan's family is dignified and righteous, and the children of the clan are all scholars and doctors who read the books of sages, don't they know that Kong said Chengren and Meng said to take righteousness? How can you get from a thief? What is this? Fan said that he was a thief?

are all thieves, return to the doctor, and return to the righteous door? Is this the righteousness of loyalty or the righteousness of gathering?

Master Fan Kaishan Fan knew that the Great Song Dynasty was actually very jealous of the so-called righteous gate, after all, this righteous gate could also gather a large number of people to form a group! It's easy to make a mess! Therefore, the children of the righteous sect must be clean and self-sufficient. It doesn't matter if you're a corrupt official, and it's okay to have a petty thief, but you must not "follow" the kind of big thief who occupies the mountain.

Because being king of the mountains is a lowly form of rebellion against the imperial court! If the Yimen of the 1,000 tribe colludes with this kind of bandits, there is a possibility of rebellion...... This is intolerable to the imperial court!

Besides, if you want to take the imperial examination, you have to be innocent!

And Yimen is not separated, all the children are hung under one household registration, so if there are children who are thieves, this net worth is not innocent - and your brothers and nephews with a household registration have all fallen into the grass, and you still want to take the imperial examination to become an official?

Is this to break into the internal cabinet of the imperial court?

This is certainly not allowed!

If the sons and nephews of the Fan family still want to continue to take the path of rising through the imperial examination, they must dissolve the Fan family.

In other words, Yanggu Yimen Fan must be divided!

And the Great Divide Clan will make the entire Fan clan face the crisis of economic collapse!

Because while gathering the population, the Yimen will also use the huge scale of the Yimen and the status of the scholar family to encroach on the taxes and conscription of the imperial court.

For example, Yanggu Yimen Fan, a child of Yimen who has not yet been certified by the Great Song Dynasty, never pays the exemption money, and the Ding tax is also increased very little, but some children of the clan are used as archers in the county to maintain law and order and have money (the money is not taken by the government, but by the merchants of Yanggu County), even if they serve.

At the same time, Yanggu Yimen Fan is still controlled in a large number of hidden fields!

The so-called hidden fields are fields that do not exist in the land register of the government, so they do not have to pay any taxes at all! These hidden fields are the real foundation of Yanggu Yimen Fan.

Yanggu Yimen Fan now has more than 1,000 men, plus the old and weak, women and children, the population is more than 3,000, and the land owned is as much as 76,000 mu, making him the largest landlord in Yanggu County. Of the more than 76,000 acres of land, more than 50,000 acres are hidden fields.

Once the family is separated, not only will most of the children of the Fan family no longer be able to escape from the service money and taxes, but also the more than 50,000 acres of hidden land will not be able to continue to be hidden. All of these fields will be turned into registered fields that must be taxed in accordance with the law. The Fan family has to pay at least 10,000 yuan more every year in the field tax (the field tax is paid in kind), exempt money and Ding tax.

With so many taxes pressed down, it is not Yimen Fan who is finished, but the entire Fan clan!

The Fan family no longer has enough financial resources to maintain the education of the children in the clan, or in a generation, the Fan family will not even be able to produce a special famous jinshi, and then it will become an ordinary farmer family......

The roots of the Fan family...... Gone!

Thinking that the 150-year-old imperial examination was destroyed in the hands of his own generation, Fan Kaishan, who was in tears, wanted to rest the long sword left by his ancestors on his neck.

It's just that this sword is too heavy to hold! With such a heavy sword, I don't know how the ancestors could hold it?

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The miserable cries, the hideous laughter, and the sound of banging or smashing things mixed into the most terrible music in the world, reaching the ears of Fan Zhijin and Fan Daxiucai. He was now holding the old lady who had cried into tears, and walked back to the outside of Fanjiazhuang step by step.

Go from the thief!

When he walked to the open gate of Zhuangzi, he saw the monument of "Abandoning Martial Arts and Congwen" left by the ancestors of the Fan family!

It turned out that the ancestor of the Fan family was also a vulgar martial artist back then, born in the Black Cloud Long Sword Capital of the Huainan Army at the end of the Tang Dynasty! Three generations have served the five generations of kings Yang Xingmi, Xu Wen, Xu Zhihe (Li Yu), Li Jing, and Li Yu. After the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he moved to Yanggu County, recognized the general trend of peace in the world, and made up his mind to abandon the military and follow the literature, and embarked on the right path of entering the imperial examination. This monument of "abandoning martial arts and following literature" was erected at that time.

But I didn't expect that more than a hundred years later, among the descendants of these Black Cloud Long Sword Capitals, there was an unscrupulous son like Fan Zhijin, who forgot his loyalty and righteousness in order to survive, and wanted to go to Liangshan to be a thief......

It's better to hit your head and die!

Fan Zhijin thought of Chengren and righteousness in his heart, but he thought of filial piety again. If he dies, what will happen to the old lady? Who will feed? Do you want to starve to death?

Thinking of this, he sighed and walked out of Fanjiazhuang with tears in his eyes.