Immediately, Fazheng Zhang Ren was stunned. Yan Yan and the soldiers turned around and were stunned when they saw the giant tree smashing into the deep pool and creating huge waves. The two men and women who were fighting over who could cross the bridge first, their movements were frozen in the rain curtain.
In the video, the fleeing people looked blankly at the scene on the cliff, at a loss what to do.
"These ignorant people listen to the deceptions of those noble families and don't know who is really good to them. They are short-sighted and deserve to die."
Shamoke muttered something on the horse, Xiao Furong immediately turned around and glared at Shamoke, and Shamoke calmly shut up.
"The pontoon bridge has been set up and the raft has been lowered into the water. My lord, when will we give the order to cross the river?" Yan Yan came back to her senses and reported to Liu Zhang.
Liu Zhang raised his head and glanced at the people who were still standing on the cliff, and looked at the giant tree that fell into the deep pool and came back up in despair. The people on the giant tree had disappeared, leaving only white flowers floating around. Some people couldn't help but squat.
They cried on the ground, and some other people came down the cliff in numbness and despair.
Countless fleeing people gathered on the banks of the Xiangjiang River. They didn't know where to go. When the Sichuan army departed from Jiangling, the people along the way were able to escape smoothly. However, the people in Baichuan City were unlucky. They caught up with the heavy rain and those who fled to Xiangyang
There are very few, and now, we have reached a desperate situation where we can neither advance nor retreat.
Liu Zhang did not reply to Yan Yan's words and dismounted. The Sichuan generals also dismounted and followed Liu Zhang to a group of common people. Seeing a group of menacing generals with only exposed eyes approaching them, the common people retreated nervously. A woman fell down.
After a fall, there was no way to retreat until the water of Xiangjiang River came behind.
Liu Zhang asked an old man in ragged clothes and silver hair in front of him expressionlessly: "Why are you fleeing?"
The old man moved his mouth a few times, wanting to say something, but nothing came out. After a long time, Liu Zhang asked again. At this time, a little girl leaning on her mother's belly said loudly: "Because the elders and gentlemen said
You are bad people, you are the bad guys from the west..."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The mother hurriedly covered the girl's mouth and nodded and begged Liu Zhang: "I'm sorry, sir, I'm sorry, sir, the child is not sensible, you must not blame him, must not..."
Liu Zhang did not look at the mother, but turned to the old man, pointed at the little girl and said, "Is what she said true?"
"Yes, it's true." The old man said tremblingly, his voice a little old, shivering in the heavy rain and cold wind.
"Old man, I see that you escaped from Baichuan not long ago. What on earth did our Sichuan Army do in Baichuan that is so unscrupulous and sorry for you? Do you have to force you to leave your homeland?"
Liu Zhang looked directly at the old man. The old man was speechless for a moment. Originally, he was so old that even if he died, he would not want to leave his hometown. However, after listening to the words of the elders and celebrities in the city, the children just said that they would not flee.
There will be a disaster, and the old man does not want to be separated from his children, and he cannot bear their children's requests, and he does not want to drag his children with him, so he drags a handful of old bones with him to escape.
The family spent the past two days in a state of tension, but thinking back carefully, these "vicious" soldiers in front of them really didn't do anything to them. Instead, it was the Jingzhou Army from before who forced those strong men to go to the city to defend the city.
city.
The old man was speechless. Liu Zhang raised his eyes from the rickety old man, looked at the people watching him in the rain, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Tell me, Liu Zhang, which one of my soldiers can do this?"
I'm sorry for you, whoever took away a grain of rice or a foot of cloth from your house, if you tell me, I will kill him on the spot immediately. As long as you can name ten, I, Liu Zhang, will commit suicide on the bank of the Xiangjiang River.
You tell me."
The sound passed through the rain curtain and entered the ears of the people. The heavy rain made a crackling sound on the river. All the people were silent and looked at Liu Zhang, women, children, old people, and young people. They could not see Liu Zhang's face, they could only
Looking into Liu Zhang's eyes, it seemed as if he could see everything.
It seemed that the Sichuan army was not as terrible as imagined. In front of Liu Zhang, leaning on the Xiangjiang River, many people who did not know where to go gathered.
"You listen to the words of those so-called famous people, the so-called village elders, and the so-called masters, so you take your family and leave your hometown, even if you die of illness on the road, and you don't hesitate to be buried in the river. Is it worth it for you?"
"Send an order to the whole army to delay crossing the river and let these people pass first."
Liu Zhang dropped a word and turned around. He did not beg for his words to have much effect. He just vented the anger in his heart. He wanted to suppress these thoughts countless times in his heart, just like the five words carved on Dongting Lake Island.
Generally speaking, no matter what others think or say, you know what you are doing.
Because it's useless to say it.
But seeing the temporary bridge suddenly sinking into the deep pool, and seeing the fearful and numb eyes of the people, Liu Zhang finally couldn't hold it back.
"grown ups."
Just when Liu Zhang turned around, the old man shouted out. Liu Zhang turned around. The old man looked at Liu Zhang with his cloudy eyes and said, "Sir, I heard that you killed thousands of people in Jiangzhou, right?"
Liu Zhang nodded.
"I heard that you also killed many people in Hanzhong, Brazil, right?"
Liu Zhang nodded again.
"What about Wuling and Chaisang?"
The old man searched for the place names that had been passed down to him by fame. According to the celebrities, those places were the slaughterhouses of the devilish Sichuan Army. Every time they talked about it after dinner, the three or five people who talked about it had a tone of horror.
Liu Zhang still did not deny it and nodded.
"Then why did you kill them? So many people deserve to die?"
The rickety old man shouted in an old voice. All the people looked at Liu Zhang, Zhang Ren, Fazheng, Xiao Furong, and Yan Yan. All the Sichuan Army officers and soldiers looked at Liu Zhang. The people wanted to know the answer, and these Sichuan Army officers also wanted to confirm the answer. They
Coming from a common people's family, they don't want to be regarded as murderous devils by the people.
"Old man, how much land does your family have?" Liu Zhang approached the old man and asked suddenly. The rain was heavy and Liu Zhang's voice was also loud enough that the people could hear him clearly.
"My family has no land, so our whole family works for the Wang family and lives off the wages. During the busy farming season, we help the landlord farm the land."
"Then why does your family have no land? Were you born without land?"
The old man was silent for a moment, and then replied for a long time: "I used to have some mountain fields, but later because my son was ill, I sold the fields and the family moved to the city."
As the old man spoke, a middle-aged man beside him felt inexplicably sad, as if he was stuck in memories.
"If the government purchased your land at a higher price than the market price when you sold it, and then rented the land to you and charged lower taxes than the landlord, would you still move to the city?"
"How can there be such a good thing?" the middle-aged man couldn't help but said.
"That's right. The government and the rich are eager for Shishigu to take away nine and a half stones."
"The government is too lazy to care about the affairs of those rich men."
The people talked a lot about it. Although Jingzhou was prosperous under Liu Biao's rule, it was completely different from Yizhou. When Liu Yan entered Shu, he relied on the Dongzhou family and suppressed the Yizhou family too much. Until Liu Zhang came to power, the local people
Only then did the aristocratic families slowly develop, basically hiding their wealth among the people.
When Liu Biao entered Jingzhou, he first got the support of the Cai family, the Ma family and the Kuai family. He relied on the major families to stabilize the people's hearts and conquer the clan thieves. The various families also grew with Liu Biao's growth, until Jingzhou became a family.
In Paradise, the Sima family, the Zhuge family, the Pang family, and other famous families moved their branches and leaves into Jingzhou one after another, resulting in the prosperity of Jingzhou today.
In this process, the people of Jingzhou were only exposed to the drizzle brought by the prosperity of the aristocratic families, and they had to suffer the unscrupulous exploitation of the aristocratic families. With Liu Biao's connivance, the major aristocratic families could do almost anything they wanted.
The people dared not speak out, but as long as they had something to eat, they could only be grateful to Liu Biao. Compared with those in war-torn areas, they were already living a very good life, and those landlords and rich men taught them how to be grateful.
[It will explode when it is released today. I don’t know how many book friends will follow the tyrant]