While talking, I heard a report that Silong Village in Qingfeng Mountain heard that the ghost general Zhang Xiaowu was visiting Qingfeng Village and came here to pay a visit. Since the news was received relatively late, only six heroes from the village came today. These 880
There are at least fifty or sixty people in the eight Qingfeng Mountains.
It is a cottage, but everyone does not have many contacts with each other. Song Chong only has a good relationship with several surrounding cottages. On the one hand, everyone came to pay homage to this great hero, and on the other hand, they also wanted to have a good relationship with the ghost guard. It is rare to have such a good relationship.
The government is willing to have face-to-face dialogue with them.
Of course, everyone is more willing to meet Zhang Xiaowu himself. After all, the ghost general is too famous in the Central Plains, and the image of Zhang Xiaowu as the God of War is really famous in the Central Plains. Those mountain kings who fight and kill all day long worship Zhang Xiaowu in their hearts. Zhang Xiaowu originally planned to take a rest and leave.
, it can be seen that when the heroes came one after another, he had to stop and chat with the heroes about what happened in the green forest.
Qingfeng Village immediately prepared a dinner. Even though Qingfeng Village was poor, they did not lack meat. They killed a large number of birds and animals, especially the hunters in the village who were very good at archery. There was a lack of refined salt before, and the people in Qingfeng Village lacked strength to cook the food.
The taste is not good either, but now with the experience funded by Zhang Xiaowu, everyone can make the food extremely delicious.
There was still strong liquor in the Ghost Guard car, so Zhang Xiaowu ordered twenty jars of strong liquor to be drunk and chatted with the heroes.
Zhang Xiaowu said: "Thank you for your respect. I heard that the leader of the Song Dynasty was a kind and righteous man. I think his friends also protected the people. It is helpless for everyone to fall into the trap. But there is one thing you must remember. You must learn from the leader of the Song Dynasty.
Generally speaking, you should not harm the people, otherwise after being despised by the people, the government will not issue an order to you in the future."
When everyone heard about Zhao'an, they were immediately interested. After all, they could become Chinese citizens and officials again. Not many people really wanted to be bandits. When Zhang Xiaowu talked about Zhao'an, he just thought of the story in "Water Margin".
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Is there any precedent in Zhao'an? For any court, the Zhao'an bandits are a helpless solution. But for the Shenghan Empire, these bandits in Qingfeng Mountain are really out of place. They pose no threat and can't cause any harm.
to stabilize the country.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaowu made a suggestion and said: "If you want the imperial court to issue a decree, you must first make the imperial court aware of your role. Can you be seen by the imperial court? If you are just ants, the imperial court will naturally not pay attention to you, but
If you cause pain to the court..."
Everyone just thought it was wonderful, and then they felt very strange. This General Zhang sounded like he was poaching the empire?
After a night's rest, the next day Song Chong led eighteen heroes and other village owners to escort the ghost guards through Qingfeng Mountain. Bandits, big and small, appeared from time to time along the road. They were not here to rob the road, but to pay homage to Zhang Xiaowu. Song Chong laughed and said, if
General Zhang will not be able to survive in the imperial court in the future. When he returns to Qingfeng Mountain, they are willing to publicly elect Zhang Xiaowu as the chief village leader of Qingfeng Mountain and command the thirty-six villages of Qingfeng Mountain.
Zhang Xiaowu laughed and said: "I am a commoner, and I will definitely be attacked in the future. If I am really in trouble, I just hope that everyone will not capture me and send me to the court." Everyone shouted that we must regard the general as the chief village leader.
, this was a death agreement, Zhang Xiaowu smiled and waved goodbye to everyone, left Qingfeng Mountain, and arrived at the boundary of Huizhou.
The further south they walked, the more refugees and disaster victims they could see. Although Huizhou was once wealthy, it was now in disaster. The people's life was difficult, and some people even ate elm leaves mixed with bran.
"Master Jun, please do it."
"Master Jun, give me something to stutter."
"Master, we are going to starve to death."
"Master Jun, please take pity on us..."
"Master Jun, do you want a wife? Just three cakes. Three cakes, and my daughter will sell them to you."
"Master Jun..."
Zhang Xiaowu couldn't bear to look at the victims, but they didn't have much food. If the food was given to the victims, what could they eat? He could only endure the pity and order to disperse the victims.
When we were stationed in the middle of the night, we suddenly heard a scream in the camp. Everyone immediately ran over and saw a group of victims carrying a horse and running away. When they chased after them, they saw that the horse had been cut into pieces.
Several victims were eating raw horse meat, ignoring their anger and gnawing with their heads down, as if even if they were killed, they still wanted to eat the meat in their mouths and become a dead ghost.
"Did I kill them?" Xia Ming asked.
Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and turned to leave. Xia Ming looked at the victims and sighed: "Go away, the general can't bear to kill you. You must know yourselves. Next time, you will definitely not be so lucky."
Back in the camp, Zhang Xiaowu couldn't sleep. He sat on a rock and looked up at the stars. The stars in the sky were particularly dazzling and illuminated everything.
Ruan Qingwen came over with Kang Tianen, and Zhang Xiaowu asked: "Mr. Ruan can't sleep either?"
Ruan Qingwen said: "It's strange that they can sleep. These victims are like hungry wolves."
Kang Tianen said: "General, I'm afraid it won't be long before the people of Yangquan Mansion will become such hungry wolves. If a person becomes hungry, he can no longer be called a human being, he will become a walking animal."
Ruan Qingwen smiled and said: "Huiye, you know them very well."
Kang Tianen shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Brother, do you know why there are so few disaster victims in Daizhou?"
"Why?"
"The victims of the Daizhou disaster have long since fled to the south, and cannibalism has happened a long time ago." Kang Tian'en said, "It is not unusual for people to exchange their children for food and sell their sons and daughters. The Daizhou disaster has already happened.
However, the Huizhou disaster has just happened."
Zhang Xiaowu thought for a while and suddenly said: "In other words, the people of Daizhou fled early because of the plague and drought, but the remaining people were able to survive."
Kang Tian'en said: "So when the dynasty changed, people were devastated, and in the next fifty to one hundred years, the world was prosperous. It was because the land was large and the population was sparse. During this period, the people owned a vast land, and they were well fed and clothed.
, once the worries of marrying a wife and having children are gone, how can we not live in a prosperous world?"
Zhang Xiaowu asked: "Mr. Kang thinks that war and disaster are not bad things?"
Kang Tianen said: "There are two sides to the matter. The plague took away 40% of the population of Daizhou, whether they died or fled to the south, but it solved the problem of too many people and little land in Daizhou. The original land of Daizhou was barren and could not support so many people.
So once there are more people than land and the people starve, they have only one way to rebel and kill people. This is the so-called great rule after great chaos, and great rule must be followed by great chaos."
After Zhang Xiaowu listened, he always felt that the other party was sophistry, but he couldn't say anything to refute the other party. It was both reasonable and awkward, and it made his head hurt. Kang Tianen was about to speak when he suddenly heard the cry of a child in the middle of the team.
It turned out that his child was hungry, so he quickly apologized and went back to take care of his youngest son.