Chapter 754

In the autumn of every year, the Lord kills.

Autumn is the harvest season. There is enough food in the warehouse. Moreover, the labor force has been liberated from the work of the ridge. It can summon people to the greatest extent without delaying anything. It is natural to take action if there is any big action.

For farming people, the most important seasons of the year are spring and autumn. Summer is basically idle, and winter is naturally cat winter.

Because winter needs cat winter, most festivals are also selected in winter. It's time to have more fun in your spare time.

In the autumn of the ninth year of Yuanshuo (AD 350), the north and south ends of the Han country fell into two completely different scenes.

Due to the outbreak of drought in the northwest, even if there is a harvest, there is only one or two percent of the harvest in previous years, a few can harvest 30 percent, and more are no harvest.

As usual, under natural disasters, unless extremely rich families are worried about food shortage, the middle class should basically think about how to fill their stomachs. What the middle class thinks below is useless.

When the natural disaster occurs, people with rich families and a large amount of food do not have to worry about hunger, but they have to worry about the surrounding people with hungry red eyes. In the face of such a scene, things can be extreme on both sides. Some people will take the opportunity to buy land and accept tenants, while others will sit at home and bring disaster from heaven.

The Han state controlled land. It was impossible to buy land from those who could not survive in disaster years. It was useless to have enough land to absorb tenants. We should be afraid of whether the hungry and red eyed villagers would have any evil thoughts.

If people have nothing, they will starve to death if they don't rob. All moral rights and wrongs will be put aside and driven by an empty stomach to do something they didn't dare to do at all. No country or nation is an exception.

"Open warehouse and release grain?" Zhang Zhong's face was filled with fear and resentment. He almost shouted, "is the food at home out of thin air? Every grain comes without stealing, robbing or cheating! If it's just to help relatives, it's duty bound, but you!"

In fact, Zhang Zhong is not a stingy person. He usually does some charity things, but this time he is facing the villagers of the whole hometown, not giving alms to one or two people. Although his family is the richest man in the village, even if they move out all their food, they can't meet all the villagers.

At this moment, there are more than 200 people outside the wall of Zhang Zhong's house. Men, women, old and young surround the small house.

The beggars elected two or three people to enter Zhang's house and asked Zhang Zhong to give food aid for the sake of the villagers. If one of them is considered as a generation, it is still Zhang Zhong's "Boye".

The father of the first Han Dynasty didn't call him "father", but actually called "Ye Ye", that is, the father level. "Boye" is uncle.

Under the Tuen order, family separation has become a habit of the Han people. Because the eldest son inherits the family property system, the eldest son can only carry a small amount of property to separate himself. This custom has been enforced by the government since the Western Han Dynasty, but the clan still exists, that is, the property is divided.

It is now the year 350 A.D. although the Central Plains has gone through the chaos of the hooligans, the systems and customs preserved in the early Han Dynasty are still common rules. Once again, the whole family lives together, regardless of family. When exaggeration was exaggerated, there were hundreds of people, which had to wait for the northern and Southern Dynasties to become popular again.

Zhang you, who inherited most of the family property of Zhang Jia, is a bastard. Under his leadership, his family property has failed again and again. However, his brother is managing well and getting richer and richer. His nephew's ability is not poor. He has become like this when the disaster comes.

"Twenty stones, no more." Zhang Zhong trembled and said the above sentence. He begged, "I can't get more."

It's still Zhang Youlian's head that will lead to such a thing today. Bastards will have bastard thoughts. He won't think about losing all his family property, but because he sees that his nephew's family is rich, and then thinks that those properties should belong to me.

At ordinary times, Zhang Zhong has a better reputation than Zhang you. As an elder, he can eat, drink and ask for money, but he can't encourage him to deal with Zhang Zhong. Now it's different. He can't live. There are more people around him who can't live. What he thought was that even if he didn't encourage them, those people must find Zhang Zhong's trouble. He felt that he could take the lead to save his nephew's life and take advantage of the opportunity to gain more benefits. However, he still felt that he was a good man.

Asshole? Similar people are numerous, and no one around can see Zhang's ideas. However, in the face of living and morality, most people want to live. No matter how much grace they received before, they can't live. They can only regret if they continue to live, and there's nothing left when they die.

Zhang Zhong saw the people in front of him. There was shame, helplessness and pride on their faces, but no one gave in to him.

At this moment, Zhang Zhong suddenly felt that he was living a funny life, especially when he was willing to help others when he had a good life. The good deeds he did were ironic one after another.

"Yeah, just drive them out!" Zhang Bian could not see it for a long time: "you can stick to the house until the government comes!"

Northwest people do not have much sense of belonging to the Han state, but they have to admit that after the rule of the Han state, the action force of the government is very strong. The village is not a blank of the government. Such a big movement must have attracted the attention of the government and must be taking action.

Zhang Zhong knows, and can even guess that Youhuo, Youzhi and stingy men must have taken action. They are not local people. They have retired from the army and are arranged to hold public office in the village. They have no local feelings with the villagers, will not hide, and will not collude with the villagers who will cause chaos. But even if the government solves the current matter, even if the Zhang Zhong family has nothing wrong in this matter, they will certainly be isolated in the future.

Even if a few people are right, they can face the wrong majority. What is right is also wrong.

Zhang Zhong can guess what will happen in the future. One of the people who come to the house today is one. Even if they know they have done something wrong, the problem is not to expect them to have any apology or guilt for the Zhang Zhong family. They will resent because of their mistakes. They may not dare to treat the Zhang Zhong family, but it is inevitable to isolate the Zhang Zhong family.

If a family is isolated in the countryside, it will be difficult in modern times. The isolation of the current social environment will be more serious.

It was too clear what would happen. Zhang Zhongming knew that if he resisted a little, things would be solved when the people from the government came. He was still willing to give some food.

As soon as he heard that the government would take action, the two or three children subconsciously shrunk. Of course, they are afraid of the government. Otherwise, they won't go into the house and reason. They should break into the house directly.

In fact, if it hadn't been for Zhang Youdai's head, even if the original villagers had ideas, they had to be really unable to hold on before they started to attack Zhang Zhong's family. Of course, the reason is the high efficiency of the government. Since Zhang Zhong's Boye took the lead, how can there be a statement? Once the government really takes action, it may be lucky to get rid of it as a family matter.

Yes, most people are lucky. They think that if there are more people, the government will not deal with it because there are more people. The most important thing is that Zhang you takes the lead. They think that even if the government wants to deal with it, it is Zhang you.

Originally there was a noise outside, but the noise didn't know when it was quiet.

Zhang Bian noticed the situation outside and shouted, "it must be the government!"

"Even if the government comes, what happens?" Zhang you said righteously, "we just came here. We didn't hurt anyone, and we didn't enter without invitation. That is, the negotiation failed and didn't violate the law."

As soon as the other two listened, that was really the case.

The state of Han inherited most of the rules of the former Han Dynasty. First of all, gathering people without weapons is not against the law. No matter how many people are gathered, as long as there is no fighting, or who is wrong and yells "princes and generals are kind", the government at most is to persuade them to leave, and they can't arrest people according to the law at all.

Let's not mention what's going on in the house. Zhou Qian, who was the first to find the abnormality in his hometown, went to the county to report while asking his colleagues to monitor.

Because of natural disasters and the special situation of Northwest China in the Han Dynasty, all counties have always been vigilant.

Some time ago, the remaining evils of the former dynasty made waves, and all counties became alarmed. It was the most effective time for the county magistrate to take action immediately after being reported.

Although Tian didn't receive a similar report for the first time, before Zhou Qian, similar things happened in many places under his rule, and even more intense, such as a rich family was really robbed.

Civil unrest under the jurisdiction of the government, no matter what the reason, is a stain for the supreme leader of a county. He must be very angry. Although Tian has the right, he would like to kill all the rioters, but after the outbreak of civil unrest, it can only be handed over to the military, and the civil affairs system does some aftermath.

Zhou Qian brought back eleven (county) County soldiers from the county. Of course, he is not the principal, and the chief is the real principal.

Instead of going straight to Zhang's house when they came to their hometown, they met with their colleagues in charge of monitoring to understand the development of the situation. When they learned that the villagers were just around Zhang's house and no more violent things happened, they discussed and thought that the villagers didn't have the courage to make trouble for the time being, but they should take action in time.

County soldiers are appointed to lingju County by the capital of Guangwu County, with a total of 1500. The composition of county soldiers is relatively complex. They come from other regions except the northwest. That is to ensure that when they need to raise weapons, they will not take into account the local conditions and dare not start, so as to avoid being followed by the relatives of the mob.

Facts have proved that even people in the northwest do not have much sense of belonging to the Han state, but they will still be deterred when facing the army. As soon as Zhou Qian and 11 heavily armed soldiers from counties and counties appear, the first reaction of all ages is to calm down from the noise.

Zhou Qian is a local tourist. Although he is not a local, he knows a lot of people. He shouted in time, controlled the scene first, and showed that as long as the people did not break the law, they would not be dealt with.

When Zhang Zhong, Zhang you and others came out together, they saw Zhou Qian standing high and talking, surrounded by more than a dozen heavily armed County soldiers on guard.

"The young and strong go to the Yangguan pass. You can sign up to get the grain of ten stones. If you gain, you can count as military merit." This is not the first time Zhou Qian publicized this. There are young people in his hometown who go to Yangguan to prepare for the western regions, but there are too few people. He called out the names of several people and asked loudly, "is that so?"

The person whose name is called out will come out to testify. After completing the certificate, he will add a sentence: "I'm not here to make trouble, or I'll watch the excitement."

Is that true? It can be said that once everyone starts to rob, he won't do it anyway.

Willing to go out to the western regions to obtain ten stone grain is not a free distribution, but a part of the lease contract. For example, borrow from the military to buy weapons. The standard configuration is ten stone grain.

Almost everyone who is willing to go out to the western regions, even if they are not short of money or food, has signed a loan contract. Their idea is very direct. People have to go to the western regions desperately. The interest on borrowing is not high. If people die, even if they finish the ball, how can they grab something in the western regions if they have nothing to do. It's not a matter to borrow principal plus interest at all.

More than one person came out to prove that what Zhou Qian said was not wrong at all. The problem is that Zhou Qian didn't ask. Those people didn't make a statement before, and even reached a tacit understanding. It's difficult to tell what kind of mentality it is. It can be seen that the hometown chose this kind of behavior in difficult times. Generally, we can see who they are.

"There are a lot of men present. They break the law in the countryside. If they don't take it, they won't be arrested. They also want to flee into the mountains to avoid arrest." Of course, Zhou Qian doesn't want chaos. It's really not good for anyone. After intimidating, he saw that most people had retreated and encouraged him to say, "the eldest husband, for the sake of his family, can go to the western regions to get food, and can entrust the military to send it home. Do you dare to act in this disaster year?"

No one responded, but it was impossible for them to break Zhang's house. Chaos is a lot of things. Once they stop in the middle, many people will be afraid.

"Think about it! If you don't go out of the western regions, you also go to the county to sign up for recruitment. Why should you break the law and live?" Zhou Qian began to shout some villagers who usually get along well and let them go home. Seeing the crowd gradually dispersed, he spit out a mouthful of muddy Qi at Shi Chang who followed him, and said fearfully: "most reckless people go out of the countryside to the western regions, otherwise..."

The original thing is that bold and courageous people go to Yangguan. They either have passed the pass or are being trained. Those who stay in their hometown are usually counselled.

Shi Chang nodded expressionless, saying that there were some joy and disappointment. The joy is naturally that there is no civil disorder. The disappointment is that once the chaos rises, killing the chaotic people is also a military merit. He can be restrained and has a conscience. There was no civil disorder in Juxian. However, he was intimidated by the soldiers of the counties and counties who went to make the scene out of control.

"If you can control it for a while, I'm afraid it won't last long." Zhou Qian was just a tourist and couldn't tell any big truth: "if there is no food available, something will happen."