In May of the first year of Guangwu, the temperature gradually rose.
Outside the city of Laizhou Prefecture in Hedong County, a large number of people were working in the fields, including Zhang Dagui's family.
There are seven members of the Zhang family, including Zhang Dagui and his wife, three sons and two daughters.
Even though the youngest son is only ten years old, he is still digging the ditch with a small hoe at the moment, while his older brothers and sisters are working seriously.
Zhang Dagui was originally from Guangyang County. Three years ago, zombies were raging in Guangyang County, so Zhang Dagui fled with his family.
There were other people from the same village who fled together. Unfortunately, most of these people died on the way. Zhang Dagui's family was lucky to survive.
After crossing the river and escaping to the south, they were out of danger, but it was still extremely difficult to survive.
The first thing is food. To feed such a large family, Zhang Dagui worked hard and sometimes had to do some sneaky things.
Although life was hard, the Zhang family managed to survive without losing any family members like others.
But even so, their family's life is still difficult, and they are in danger every day.
This situation improved until February this year, when the newly succeeded emperor issued an edict and the Zhang family moved north to Hedong County.
Tens of thousands of people who moved north with them are now all resettled outside Laizhou Prefecture and are responsible for cultivating hundreds of thousands of acres of surrounding land.
Hedong County was once occupied by zombies, and these lands were ownerless.
After being moved here by the government, the officials announced the policy to everyone and would give them land as long as they worked hard.
Land is a precious means of production. Now the Zhang family is responsible for more than 120 acres. If all this is distributed to them, life will be smooth in the future.'
Therefore, everyone in the Zhang family is working hard and striving for a better life in the future.
And this kind of situation is happening in the land reclamation in various parts of the Jin Dynasty, and the abandoned land is rejuvenating.
Soon the time came to noon. Zhang Dagui sat under the shade of a tree and asked the children in the field to come over because it was time to eat.
Zhang Dagui's wife, Wang, was coming over with a basket at the moment.
"Why is this porridge getting clearer and clearer? Now is the time to do heavy work, but it's not as good as before!" Zhang Dagui looked dissatisfied.
In addition to a can of porridge, Mrs. Wang also brought wild vegetables that she dug herself, and she was laying them out for eating at the moment.
When she heard her husband's dissatisfaction, Wang explained: "It's not that I can't bear to part with it, it's that there really is no more rice!"
"Old man Zheng gave out twenty kilograms of rice today, and said it was half a month's ration!"
Hearing this, Zhang Dagui couldn't help it, and heard him scold: "We have seven people in our family, and we are given twenty kilograms of rice for half a month. Do we still have to live?"
"No big deal, I'll dig more wild vegetables!" Wang said helplessly.
"Digging more wild vegetables? There are tens of thousands of people around us. How many days can the wild vegetables be eaten? Is it possible that we will dig up tree roots to eat again?"
"We've already reached that point, and we still have nothing to gain!"
When she heard that her husband was getting more and more outrageous, Ms. Wang quickly comforted her and said, "Just stop saying a few words and eat first..."
In fact, there are many people who are as dissatisfied as Zhang Dagui, including many big landowners who are in decline.
The food was distributed by the Laizhou Prefecture Government Office. Combined with the recent changes in food distribution, these people could easily guess what was going on.
The imperial court must have distributed enough food, otherwise it would have been impossible to distribute enough food in the previous two months and less now when we are working.
So where did the food go?
"Obviously he was corrupted!"
"These people are so courageous. The emperor is so decisive in killing, how dare they be greedy?"
"As long as the benefits are great enough, what should officials do not dare to do? You don't know the virtues of these people?"
In the evening, several men were chatting indoors.
They were originally wealthy young men, but their family declined after the escape, and now they have to rely on their own strength to make ends meet.
Although it has declined, the knowledge of the past is still there, so they can guess the tricks of the government.
"The third son of the Xu family is starving to death. Let's all go over and help him and make arrangements for his funeral!"
Hearing the shouting outside, several people in the room sighed. It is not uncommon for people to starve to death in recent days.
Even though they had just had dinner, they were still hungry because the food provided by the government was too little.
Starving to death is not a big deal, what matters is survival. Recently, extreme incidents of robbery and robbery have occurred, resulting in the death of many families.
After a while of silence, someone suddenly said: "If this continues, I'm afraid something big will happen!"
"Let him go, if he can't survive, what is supposed to come will come!"
What is supposed to come will always come, this sentence is really true.
On May 12th, the people who could not survive rushed to Laizhou Fucheng one after another. They wanted to ask the government for an explanation.
It is said that the people do not fight against the officials, but for the people who cannot survive, they are not afraid of this at all.
Inside the government office, the prefect Wang Qianwang was extremely anxious and was pacing back and forth in the lobby.
"These untouchables deserve to die!" Wang Qianwang couldn't help but cursed angrily.
At this moment, he was waiting for news, so he glanced outside from time to time.
"Why haven't you come back yet?"
Listening to the roar outside, Wang Qianwang felt sweat dripping from his forehead, but he didn't bother to wipe it off.
Finally, footsteps were heard outside, and it was his cronies who arrived.
"How is the situation?" Wang Qianwang asked quickly.
"Reporting to your lord, Commander Qin has ordered Jia Qianhu to send troops to maintain order!"
"Maintaining order? Didn't I ask him to suppress the unruly people? Didn't you make it clear to him?" Wang Qianwang's face turned from sunny to gloomy.
"Sir, I have made it clear, but Commander Qin said that this is civil affairs and it is inconvenient for him to interfere too much!"
Obviously, Commander Qin was very cautious and knew not to get too involved in this kind of thing, otherwise he might end up playing along.
When Wang Qianwang was thinking about countermeasures, he never got a reply. The people became more and more excited at this moment.
"Come out, all the officials inside, come out!"
"His grandma's salary is 2 to 2 meters per person per day. He doesn't want us to starve to death!"
Everyone yelled angrily, their voices getting louder and louder, making the atmosphere more heated and further emboldening them.
"There must be food. It must have been corrupted by an official. Maybe it's hidden in the official office!"
"You're all going to die anyway, so you might as well be a dead ghost and let everyone go in and look for food!"
When everyone was agitated, there were still people in the crowd who fired at each other from time to time, aiming directly at the government office.
"Yes, go in and find something to eat!"
At this moment, the garrison troops were still on the road, and there were dozens of government officials in front of the government office. It was difficult to deter the angry people with water and fire sticks.
"Go, go in..."
In the excitement of the crowd, the people rushed to the government office, forcing the government officials to suppress them with sticks.
But there were too few of them, so they could not stop the people. Instead, they got themselves trapped in the crowd and were beaten half to death by the angry crowd.
The people rebelled and the situation suddenly got out of control. This was something Wang Qianwang never expected.
While he was being escorted by the police officers and escaping through the back door, he was already thinking about how to exonerate himself and how much money he would have to spend on it.
He has only been in office for three months, and the money he has "accumulated" is not very large. To manage the situation, he may have to use his ancestral property.
In order to force people to rebel against the people, Wang Qianwang lamented that he had stolen the chicken but lost the rice, but he did not realize that he had done something wrong.