It is human nature to like to watch fun, especially the embarrassing things of decent people in the past.
So after hearing what the county soldiers said, the Guizhou chiefs and disciples in Dunbenbi rushed to tell each other, no matter whether there is any grudge or not, let's go and occupy a good place first.
There are also a few who are unmoved by the outside world and continue to be busy on the land. In their own words, can the lively and beautiful things be used as food? Can they still get the rice rent from the Cui family?
But some people with information secretly pulled these people over and said:
"Are you really stupid? You haven't heard of what the Taishan Army does?"
Those disciples from Qianshou who have been bending in the fields all day and have never left the county in their lives, how do they know what the Taishan Army does?
Even in their eyes, the world has never changed, it is still the Cui family's world.
Then I heard these informants say in a mysterious tone:
"Taishan Army, they have a slogan: 'Destroy the powerful and divide the land.' You Pinpin, who is this powerful? Who will we give the land to?"
Everyone was excited now, and they all talked:
"Can you share it with us?"
But some people are still doubtful:
"No, no matter who the Cui family is, they are all nobles. Those in the Taishan Army are also nobles, and nobles help nobles. How can they help us mud-legged people?"
Some people even sneered directly and said to the person who was delivering the news:
"Who are you? Why are you looking at life? You still want to divide the Cui family's land? You know that according to my ancestor, the Cui family is the heaven of Boling. Who are you fooling?"
When the so-called well-informed person heard this, he looked embarrassed and secretly thought that there were smart people here.
That's right, people like him are the kind of people the county and temple look for.
But trust me, there is nothing wrong with this matter. The Taishan Army really wants to allocate territory to them.
So, this person directly said to those people who were moved:
"Whether it will be divided for you or not, won't you know when you go? If you don't go, I guess you won't get a share. I won't tell you anymore. I'm going. The province will be divided later.
Go to the ground."
After saying these words, the man walked to Cui's ancestral hall.
And as soon as this person started, a few followed him, and then the rest forgot about themselves and ran away with muddy feet.
We don't dare to let others go ahead of us, we want to divide the land!
…
Everyone who knew Hu Pu commented that he was smart and had many tricks.
It is still unclear whether this style of behavior is good or bad, but due to his series of operations, the Cui family's ancestral hall is crowded with people at this moment.
The businessman who had previously suggested that Wei Lezi go to the Taishan Army to make the decision also came.
As soon as he arrived, he saw a wooden platform set up on the field, and standing next to it were a row of Cui's children with wide sleeves and high crowns.
The faces of these people no longer have the calmness and determination of the past. They are all preoccupied and cautious in their words and deeds.
Then, in front of the platform, a few more traders mingled with the crowd, chatting and laughing with a group of poor men with low noses.
Because so many people came, the whole place was filled with a strong smell of lower-class people.
Here, it's too easy to tell the difference between a poor man and a kid from an aristocratic family, just by smelling it.
The smelly ones are the poor, the fragrant ones are the nobles.
But you can also see that those who look like humans are noble people, and those who look more like monkeys than people are poor people.
The gap between people is like a chasm.
The dealer scanned the crowd and saw the victim, Wei Lezi.
At this moment, he was not as depressed as he had been in the past few days, and his whole face was radiant. Under the protection of several batches of soldiers, he was looking at a young scholar beside the stage with red eyes.
Obviously, that person is the culprit who caused the current situation, Cui You.
At this moment, Cui You was also shaking all over. It was obvious that he knew that his ending was not good.
Afterwards, the dealer walked into the crowd and quietly waited for the final judgment.
…
Behind the stage were Hu Pu, Geng Hao and a group of field officials.
Looking at the dark crowd below, Hu Pu frowned and was not very happy. Because he discovered a problem, that is, there were so many people below, but few dared to look up.
At this time, Hu Pu finally had an intuitive understanding of Cui's prestige.
Originally, the person who was going to take the stage was a field official, but Hu Pu decided to do it himself.
From this, we can see that this Boling Ling is really brave enough to do his job.
Because if it is done by some seasoned officials, they will definitely leave it to the field officials. If you do it well, it is your own merit, and if it is not done well, it is also the work of the people below.
But Hu Pu didn't bother to do it.
He was about to take off his leather armor when he was stopped by Geng Hao on the side.
Geng Hao advised him to be careful. There are so many people outside and any accident may happen.
But Hu Pu thought that this military uniform would affect the atmosphere of the Guizhou leaders below. As he put on the brown clothes worn by the poor, he smiled at Geng Hao and said:
"Old Geng, with a tiger like you here, what should I be afraid of? Besides, what do the people below have to fear? Are you and I not from them?"
After saying that, Hu Pu put on his brown clothes and walked to the front.
Geng Hao, on the other hand, looked at Hu Pu's back with respect in his heart.
He wouldn't think that Hu Pu's change of bunt was an act. He only knew that this man was really willing to do practical things for the people below.
So, Geng Hao took the initiative to go under the stage and defend Hu Pu while holding the knife.
Over there, Hu Pu smiled and said to everyone as soon as he came up:
"Folks, I am Hu Pu, the commander of Boling. I am here to make decisions for your fellow countryman Wei Lezi. You have also heard about Wei Lezi. Do you think Wei Lezi is suffering or not?"
The Guizhou chiefs below had different thoughts, and they thought the phrase "fellow folks" sounded friendly. This was the first time that a noble man took the initiative to marry them.
Others subconsciously didn't believe it when they heard that they were here to make decisions for Wei Laizi.
Wei Lingzi was a poor man like them, so he didn't know this kind of relationship.
But there were a few dealers selling goods from south, and they all clapped their hands happily:
"Mr. Hu County, we know you. We have seen you judge cases in the city. You are a good county man."
Some people nearby didn't know, so they asked them what was going on.
Then these people excitedly talked about how Mr. Hu punished the urban foxes and rats in the county.
One of the cases was related to traders like them.
They, the traders, have a very hard life. They have to be exploited several times every time they enter the city. Once they enter the city, they are exploited by the city gate officials. After entering the city, they go to the West Market and are exploited again by the city officials. When they get to the city, they have to be exploited again.
Being exploited again by the city foxes and rats on the ground.
When the Hu County Bureau came, they first investigated and expropriated these harmful petty officials, and then specially cleaned the streets, killing a number of urban foxes and rats.
That's why the few vendors present enthusiastically supported Mr. Hu County above.
Don't underestimate these dealers.
These people travel all over the country, come into contact with many people, and encounter many things. But in the countryside, the disciples bury their heads in the fields all day long, and they have no idea about the outside world.
Therefore, these people are often knowledgeable people in the countryside and have considerable prestige in Guizhou.
Sure enough, as these dealers cheered loudly below, the Guizhou leaders on the scene also began to be suspicious and looked at Mr. Hu County above with suspicion.
Although it's not very lively yet, the atmosphere has improved a lot.
So Hu Pu hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and directly called Wei Lezi to come forward to express his grievances.
When Wei Laizi spoke hoarsely about his tragic experience, especially when Cui dug his father's grave and his mother was beaten to death.
The heads of Guizhou and the disciples below were angry.
Strangely enough, it was not the first time these people had heard this story, and some of them were even present at the time, but they were not angry at all.
Strange, strange, strange human heart.
When Wei Laizi finished his last sentence, he turned angrily and pointed at Cui You below, saying angrily:
"He was the one who destroyed my father's bones, killed my mother, and ruined my family. I want him to pay for his life."
As soon as this statement came out, it directly ignited the atmosphere of the entire audience. The poor people below shouted:
"Pay for your life, pay for your life."
At this time, Cui You was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground. He did not see the disdainful looks of the surrounding tribesmen. His mind was filled with what he had said to Wei Laizi before:
"Although my Cui family's eagle is a beast, it is more valuable than the lives of you tenant farmers. Now that my eagle is dead, this person will have to pay for my dog's life."
Fortunately, he doesn't understand Buddhism, otherwise he would really sigh:
"The cycle of cause and effect leads to unhappy retribution."
At this time, Hu Pu spoke, and he said to the enthusiastic crowd:
"I am the county king now, but before I was a farmer's son just like you. I am from Dongpinglu. You may not know where I am, but that place is much worse than our Boling. My family has thirty acres of thin land.
, my family of four made a living from this. But later, the villagers in the village accused our family of being Yellow Turban thieves and defiled a few scriptures on us. Then the villagers came to arrest my family."
Having said this, Hu Pu's eyes were slightly red. He tried hard to control his emotions and continued:
"Later, my father took us and ran away. On the way, my grandfather, sister and uncle were killed in the countryside. Finally we found the Yellow Turban Army in Dongpinglu and we survived."
Hu Pu asked everyone:
"Do you know why that farm wants to kill our family?"
The Guizhou leaders below were all talking, but one person said:
"What reason do you need to kill us people?"
Hu Pu said loudly:
"Yes, what the person just said is right. They just have no reason. Because there is a big ancestral locust tree in our yard, they think it is good, so they come to get it. What other reason is there? If they want it, they want it.
Yes. Do they care about other people's lives?"
Hu Pu said sadly and angrily:
"At that time, my family had no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth. We were truly desperate. No one cared about whether you were wronged or not, and no one dared to seek justice for you. All the Han officials in the world were members of the same family, and officials protected each other. Who would
I am willing to be an irrelevant piece of dust and make others unhappy."
"Yes, I understand. When my uncle was chased by soldiers, he knocked on the door of five or six families, but no one opened it. I understand this. When my grandfather was kicked to death with a hoe, the villagers all
I understand why you don't dare to come and collect the body, so that it will be picked up by wild dogs."
"But so what if I understand it? Should those of us deserve to die? Should those of us be oppressed? But fortunately in this world, he has justice. The sky is unfair, and Huang Tian can't stand it. That's why there are heroes descended from the sky.
, justice comes from heaven, he comes to uphold justice for millions of us poor people."
Hu Pu had already stepped off the stage and walked into the crowd. He asked the simplest question:
"What is morality?"
"Those who hurt others will be punished, and those who kill will die. The farmer has his own land. This rice is poured out with your sweat for a year, so you should eat this rice. This is morality. The righteousness that we in Guizhou Province want."
"And now, right here, you are luckier than I was. Because I didn't have anyone to make decisions for me at that time, but now you do. As I said before, today is about revenge and injustice. This
The world has changed, and no one can sit on your head and oppress you. This is what I, Taishan Army, said."
"And for this sentence, we Taishan Army soldiers fought one after another, and many people died. So whoever violates this sentence, our dead brothers will not agree, and those of us who are still alive will not agree."
At the end, Hu Pu said forcefully to everyone:
"Come and tell us your grievances. We are right here."
This sound sounded like gold and iron. These Guizhou disciples, who had never had a bright future in their lives, were dumbfounded by these words.
No one has ever cared about them. They are like mud on the roadside, and they are dirty even if you step on them.
But are they really mud? No, they are human beings. They also have emotions and family ties. Have they really forgotten those relatives who died tragically?
Nothing, never!
Suddenly there was an old man who had some strength and climbed onto the platform.
He pointed directly at the female dependents of an old lady below. She was the first wife of an elder of the Cui family, an old lady.
Then the man cried:
"Ten years ago, your family took my land, and I had no choice but to sell my daughter to your family as a slave. My daughter has been good since she was a child, but how did you treat her? If there is a drop of urine on the tiger's paw that has not been wiped dry, you will
My daughter licks it with her tongue. If she doesn’t like it, she will hit her. But even so, my daughter endures it because she knows that there is an incompetent father like us out there.”
At this point, the old man was already bursting into tears. He hammered his chest hard and complained to himself:
"That winter, my daughter was crying outside the door, saying that she had been raped by you. I was really incompetent, and I actually let her go back. I was really a beast."
"But you are worse than animals, and then you, an evil woman, started torturing my daughter. In the end, I couldn't even find the body. I came to look for her, but your family members said that even if my daughter died, she was still a ghost in your family.
"
"Woo, tell me, where did you bury my daughter?"
At this moment, the old man went crazy. He jumped off the stage and pinched the old lady's neck.
There was a huge crowd for a while. If it weren't for the county soldiers to maintain order, these Cui clan members would have been beaten to death here.
Finally, the old lady finally told the old man where the body was buried.
Hu Pu hurriedly ordered people to dig, but soon a county soldier came back with a pale face and said:
"County Lord, go and take a look. There are corpses everywhere."
Hu Pu was shocked.
He led everyone to the burial ground inside the dock wall, only to see thirty or forty bones lying there, while the county soldiers were still digging.
Looking at all this, Cui Si, the leader of the Cui clan, lamented:
"Hey, there is no way to bring about blessings and misfortunes, only people bring it upon themselves."
Things changed next.
The sad and angry leaders of Guizhou cried here and complained about all the bullying they had suffered in the past, and none of the Cui clan members who bullied them could escape.
The murderers, including Cui You, were all sentenced to death. Some of the lighter ones, such as the clan leader Cui Si and others, were fined. As for the other innocent Cui family members, they were not punished, but they were also deprived of continued residence.
Right at Dun Ben Wall.
These people will later share the land with these Guizhou leaders, and from now on, these people will also have to live with their own hands.
Afterwards, the field officials presided over the election, and all the Guizhou leaders elected Wei Lezi as the president of the commune. Several other prestigious people among the Guizhou leaders were also elected to the commune.
Since then, Dunbenbi disappeared and was replaced by Dunbensha.
The Bolingcui family may indeed be a prominent figure in the long history, but here, in Dunbenbi, they are just a microcosm of this great era.
The Boling Cui family fell, but the struggle was not over. Wei Lezi and others, who were raised up by the villagers and the Taishan Army, would continue to fight against the Cui family's children.
But now, they are not afraid, they are more confident than before, and they are more powerful than before.
This is an end, but also a beginning.
The new Dunhuang Society will start again here, and its future prosperity will depend on the work of their hands.
It's just that the land distribution in Boling County was successful, but will it be the same in other places? Will they also have a good chief official like Hu Pu?
This problem is a real problem in various places in Hebei now.
I always don’t want to describe too much about heavy topics. After all, everyone is here to read the novel, but if I don’t write it, I feel like something is missing. To be honest, I don’t know what the point is in continuing to describe suffering in our era, but
Perhaps it is because we are living so well that I would like to thank those most lovely people. It is they who have changed the times and changed the situation for thousands of years. Thank you!