There is a reason why the first shot of civil unrest in Hebei was fired from Wu'an County.
The prefect Chen Junbin was the nephew of Chen Shubao and the cousin of Chen Shuyi. He was also recruited from Jiangnan to the capital because of Yang Guang's favor.
The master led him in, and the cultivation depends on the individual. Chen Shuyi and Yang Guang's two wives of the Chen family ran around, and finally got a great opportunity for the family, and hundreds of old Chen's children were able to join the officialdom.
Chen Junbin was a man of real talent and knowledge. During the official assessment, he was spotted by Niu Hong and immediately became the local governor.
This year, when the canal was excavated, the Ministry of Civil Affairs asked Wu'an County to send 60,000 people. Chen Junbin killed no one and gave him at most 40,000. This angered the Ministry of Civil Affairs and was assigned to Wei Yijie, a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Hebei.
He came to negotiate, but Chen Junbin didn't give him any face. Anyway, he didn't have anyone to ask for, so you can do whatever you like.
Wei Yijie had nothing to do with him. After all, the rank of a prefect of a county was not low, especially when Wu'an County was a large county. Chen Junbin was now Niu Hong's disciple and it was hard to fall out with him, so Wei Yijie reported the matter to
Yang Jian, King of Qi.
This is why at first, Yang Jian hoped that Wei Jin and Pei Yun, the two ministers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, would come to Hebei. Because they were of high rank, the prefect did not dare to offend them.
Not so good on Wei Yijie.
After Yang Xian found out, he set off a fire. You don't want anyone to go out, right? Then bring out the grain. So he sent people directly to Wu'an County without saying hello. The granaries in eight counties were ransacked. The local grain merchants
It was almost as if it had been robbed, and the inventory was completely emptied by officers and soldiers.
As a result, the entire Wu'an County suddenly experienced a food shortage. The official warehouses were out of food, and the private food stores were also out of food. The people in the city were the first to suffer.
You must know that the acres of land under the names of hundreds of people in the Sui Dynasty were insufficient. The annual harvest, apart from paying taxes, was not enough to feed the family, so half of the people had to work part-time in other jobs to barely make ends meet.
This was the case all over the Sui Dynasty. Firstly, it was related to the unfavorable supervision of the imperial court and the government's personal enrichment. Secondly, it also involved a stability issue.
That means I can't keep you full.
There is a saying that "you have nothing to do when you are full." Only when a person is full will he have nothing to do. If you have nothing to do, the government will find you something to do if you have nothing to do.
There are two ways, one is to serve, the other is to make you hungry.
Let me ask, if you had one million, you might choose to settle down. If this million was a loan, would you settle down?
When the food shortage started in Wu'an County, many people felt that the food was being pulled onto the canal. Maybe they could fill their stomachs by building the canal. However, after someone took the lead in testing the water, they found that not only could they not eat enough on the canal, but they might also lose it.
Life.
So in just half a month, banditry broke out in Wu'an County, and there were countless examples of officers and soldiers being killed. Chen Junbin had no choice but to start looking for some local wealthy families to raise food.
The Wang family in Linming County had a lot of grain stored privately. Chen Junbin directly accused the Wang family of hoarding and killed the head of the Wang family and confiscated all the grain.
Kai Zhang was the nephew of the mistress of the Wang family. He was originally the mayor of the village. Later, when there was a food shortage in the village, he took his son Zhang Shun to seek refuge with his aunt Wang. He thought he would be able to eat well, but as a result, his aunt's food supply also declined.
They were all snatched away by the government, and even my uncle was killed.
So he entangled a group of servants from the Wang family and stormed into the Linming County Yamen at night.
Every cause must have its effect, and Chen Junbin did not expect that his actions would directly create a rebel leader.
The situation in Handan County is different. The rebel leader is highly rewarded. He is a local tyrant, otherwise he would not be able to be a county captain before. The county captains in the Sui Dynasty are usually selected from the most arrogant people in the local area.
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Now he is not a county captain, so when the county magistrate asks for food from a big family in the city, he naturally focuses on him. He says I don't have food, and the county magistrate says it's okay. I just want to discuss things with you, not to ask for food.
Therefore, the high prize was deceived and sent to the county government, where it was immediately withheld. Officers and soldiers went to their house and plundered all the food.
Absolutely no, the county magistrate shouldn't have offered a high reward, because the next night he led his men to kill the magistrate's entire family.
Originally it was just to take revenge and vent my anger. If you don't give me a way to live, you won't be able to live either. But killing the imperial official would definitely be a crime of losing one's head, so he refused to do anything for the high reward, so he just did the opposite.
Unlike Zhang Kai, Gao Jie finally deceived more than a thousand people in the city, formed a kind of rebel army, and ran to Wei County in the south.
Anyway, neither he nor Zhang Kai dared to run to the east, because the east was the canal and the main force of the military government was over there.
But there is also someone in Wei County who is not easy to mess with.
The prefect Liu Xuan was from the Liu family in Hedong. He was the eldest brother of Liu You who was dismissed from office because he opposed Yang Su.
After Liu Xuan received the news, he ordered his son Liu Kai to lead 300 officers and soldiers to fight with Gao Jie's rebels in the suburbs of Fuyang County. Three hundred people fought against more than 1,000 people, and they won a great victory. Gao Jie was hacked to death.
, only two sons escaped with about ten people and disappeared without a trace.
Originally, the overall quality of the high prize was much better than that of Zhang Zhang, but his fate was not good. Zhang Zhang met the great philanthropist Lu Yongji. The person he met had a title and was the Duke of Rang County. The key was that he was young.
He also fought in a war.
When Lu Yongji was taken away from his lair, he panicked and hurriedly led his army to pursue him in Shexian County. After all, Shangdang had his wife, children, and children, as well as the family property he had accumulated throughout his life.
Zhang Kai had already run away from Shexian County, but the county town after he left was already in chaos. A Taoist priest named Xu Bin summoned the rebels and called himself the True Lord of Guangde. He recruited his men to quickly pacify the county town, and then fought with Lu Yongji's troops.
, I did it in She County.
Shexian County was known in ancient times as the strategic center of the Qin and Jin Dynasties and the famous town of Yan and Zhao. It would be very difficult to attack this place normally.
After Zhang Zhang is captured and beheaded in the future, Zhang Shun, Zhang Zhang's son and about thirty men, will definitely not appear in the history books because it is too embarrassing.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If the common people knew that thirty or so people could attack the county town, the world would be in chaos.
Lu Yongji had no siege equipment at all, so he could only temporarily cut down trees and cut them into battering rams to hit the door. He thought that those in the county were the rebels he was looking for.
What's more, Yang Cong, the magistrate of Wu'an County, saw the corpses of his wife and children on the way. His eyes were splitting, and he kept urging the city to be attacked. He wanted to be the first to go in and kill the enemy with his own hands.
The ordnance in the city was opened and taken away. Most of the people guarding the city gate were civilians holding simple farm tools. They tore down some wooden beams in the city, carried them up the city wall, and threw them out of the city gate.
No one was killed, but the city gate was blocked.
The officers and soldiers holding shields outside the city were not afraid of missing arrows, but were afraid of rolling logs and boulders, so the siege was not smooth.
The opening there was not smooth either. After all, Shangdang County is the capital of Shangdang County. The city walls are high, the gates are thick, and there are hundreds of defenders, making it difficult to fight.
The city guard in Shangdang County is Duan Zhilan, the county lieutenant. He is worthy of the people outside the city. Now he has recruited strong men in the city. If nothing happens, he will be able to gather 2,000 people that night. There are no more people.
Disadvantage, but also the advantage of the city, this mob is nothing.
What's more, he has already sent people to Tunliu County in the north, asking the county magistrate to bring people over to help suppress the rebellion.
When the time comes, we will be attacked from both inside and outside, and this mob will surely be wiped out smoothly.
After staying up all night, hundreds of people from Zhang Zhang's side had already escaped under the cover of night and stolen a lot of food from him. Zhang Zhang knew that he would die here if he continued to waste it like this, so he changed his route towards Tunliu.
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They happened to run into hundreds of reinforcements led by the Tunliu County Magistrate, and the two sides fought.
The magistrate of Tunliu County was killed, and his officers and soldiers ran away to death.
This time Zhang Kaixue behaved well. He asked his men to change into officers' and soldiers' clothes and went to Tunliu County to call the door at night.
The city gate was not opened because all the Hebei people here knew the Shangdang accent, but they didn't know how to imitate it, and the officers and soldiers above the city gate saw through it.
It looked like the county town couldn't be entered. He was so angry that my 3,000-strong army could not enter the county town, but there was not much food rations left. So he led his men and began to wreak havoc on the surrounding towns and villages, robbing money, food, and women.
Duan Zhilan, the captain of Shangdang County, felt bad after receiving the news that the Tunliu County reinforcements had been wiped out. Since he did not dare to leave the city, he could only urgently seek help from surrounding counties.
For a time, Linfen County and Changping County both received news that the rebels were wreaking havoc on Shangdang.
To the south of Linfen County is Jiang County, and to the south of Jiang County is Hedong County.
The governor of Hedong County is still Dou Qing, the county magistrate is Xu Deyan, who reunited after a breakup, and the hussar general of Hedong Prefecture is Xiao Mohe.
The soldier cao, named Song Laosheng, was promoted by Xiao Maha. He followed Xiao Maha in suppressing bandits and made many meritorious deeds, so he was promoted exceptionally.
After receiving the news from Hedong, Dou Qing hurriedly held a meeting to discuss how Hedong would respond if the rebels continued to move south.
"The important land east of the river cannot be lost. The governor should immediately write to Qiao Zhongkui, the governor of Linfen, asking him to recruit people to go to the Shangdang to quell the rebellion."
Qiao Zhongkui was a general under the rebel king Yang Liang. Later, he surrendered to Yang Ming with an army of 40,000. He was received by Yang Guang and given to the Zhu Kingdom.
But this boy had great foresight. When he was in front of the two armies, he pledged his eldest son Qiao Chun as a hostage to Yang Ming. Now his son is a swordsman and pen clerk in the Palace of Qin. When Yang Yue first assisted the government, Qiao Zhongkui gave Yang Ming
I was given a generous gift.
Moreover, Qiao Zhongkui has been fawning over Shi Wansui and almost recognized him as his adoptive father. Soldiers serve as soldiers.
Yang Yue thought that he was not an outsider, so when Linfen was vacant, he asked Yang Rui, the then capital garrison king of Hedong, to appoint Qiao Zhongkui as the prefect of Linfen.
Yang Yinjiang also agreed at the time.
Dou Qing definitely didn't want the fire to reach Hedong, so he agreed with Xiao Mohe's method. Qiao Zhongkui was also a famous general. If he recruited enough people, the rebels in Shangdang County should be nothing.
"On the King of Qin's side, please ask General Xiao to write a letter and see what King Qin means," Dou Qing said with a smile.
Xiao Mohe nodded: "The military situation cannot be delayed and must be reported to the King of Qin as soon as possible."
Dou Qing was also unlucky. Hedong is such a wonderful place. Being a governor here is not very comfortable. Unfortunately, from the time Yang Ming was eleven to now, there have always been vassal kings in Hedong, causing him, the governor, to be like this.
Pretty much the same mascot.
It was Li Jing back then, and now it's Xiao Mohe, so he has been completely ignored.
If not, find another place, I really can’t stay in Hedong.