The autumn of each year is the main killing.
Autumn is the harvest season, there is enough food in the warehouse, and the labor force has been liberated from the work of the ridges, so that the manpower can be summoned to the greatest extent without delaying anything, and 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 relatively idle, winter is naturally cats winter.
Since winter requires cat winter, most festivals are also chosen in winter, which is when you want to have more fun for yourself.
In the autumn of 350 A.D., the north and south ends of the Han Kingdom fell into two completely different scenes.
Due to the outbreak of drought in the northwest, even if there is a harvest in various fields, only one or two percent of what it should have in previous years, a very small part can be harvested 30%, and more are not harvested.
Normally, unless the extremely wealthy families are not worried about food shortages under natural disasters, the middle class should basically think about how to fill their stomachs, and everything below the middle class is in vain.
When natural disasters strike, people whose families are wealthy and have a lot of food do not have to worry about going hungry, but they have to worry about being surrounded by hungry people with red eyes.
In the face of such a scene, things can be two sides of the extreme, some people will take the opportunity to buy land and tenants on a large scale, and others will come from heaven in their homes.
The Han controlled the land, and it was impossible to buy land from people who could not survive in a disaster year, and it was useless to absorb tenants if there was not enough land, so we should be afraid that 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 them, and they will be driven to do things that they didn't dare to do before, and no country or nation will be exempt.
"Open the warehouse and release the grain" Zhang Zhong had fear and resentment on his face, and almost roared: "Is the food at home coming out of thin air, and every grain of grain is not stolen, robbed, or cheated, if it is just to help relatives, it is your duty, but you" Zhang Zhong is actually not a stingy person, and usually does some charitable things, but this time it is for the villagers of the entire original township, not one or two charity, although their family is the richest man in the township, even if all the food in the family is moved, it cannot satisfy all the villagers.
At this moment, there are more than 200 people on the periphery of the wall of Zhang Zhong's house, and men, women, and children are surrounding the small house.
The beggars elected two or three people to enter Zhang's house, and asked Zhang Zhong to put grain for the sake of the villagers, and one of them was still Zhang Zhong's "boye" if he was counted.
Xianhan's father didn't call his father, but actually shouted "yes", and "yes" is also at the father's level.
"Boye" is the uncle.
Under the Tui En Order, it has become a habit of the Han people to divide the family, because it is the system of inheritance of the family property by the eldest son, except for the second son, he can only carry a small amount of property to stand on his own.
This custom has been enforced by the government since the Western Han Dynasty, but it still maintains the existence of the clan, that is, the property is divided.
It is now 450 A.D., although the Central Plains has experienced the Hulu Rebellion, but the system and customs preserved by the Han Dynasty are still common rules, and once again the whole family lives together, and there are hundreds of people when the family is exaggerated, and it has to wait for the Northern and Southern Dynasties to prevail again.
Zhang You, who inherited the vast majority of the Zhang family's property, is a bastard, and the family property has been defeated again and again under his auspices, but his younger brother is getting richer and richer, and his nephew's generation is not bad, and the disaster year has become what it is now.
"Twenty stones, no more."
Zhang Zhong said the above sentence tremblingly, and replaced it with a pleading: "I can't take out more." ” If there is such a thing as today, Zhang Youzhi will have the idea of being a bastard, and he will not think about ruining his family property, but only because he sees that his nephew's family is rich, and then thinks that those properties should belong to me.
Usually, Zhang Zhong's reputation is better than Zhang You, and as an elder, he can go to eat and drink and ask for money, but he can't instigate to deal with Zhang Zhong.
Now it's different, he can't live, and there are more people around him who can't live.
What he thought was that even if he didn't agitate, those people would definitely have to trouble Zhang Zhong, thinking that he could take the lead to save the lives of his nephew's family, and he could take the opportunity to take more advantages, but he still felt that he was a good person.
There are countless people like bastards, and it's not that no one around them can see Zhang You's thoughts, but in the face of life and morality, the vast majority of people want to live, no matter how much favor they received before, they can't compare to living, only if they continue to live can they regret it, and if they die, there will be nothing.
What Zhang Zhong saw was the people in front of him, and there was shame, helplessness, and pride on their faces, but no one gave in.
At this moment, Zhang Zhong suddenly felt that he was living a ridiculous life, especially when he was willing to help people when his little life was good, and those good deeds were ironic one after another.
"yes, drive them out" Zhang Bian couldn't stand it for a long time: "You can stick to the mansion and wait for someone from the government to come."
The people in the northwest do not have much sense of belonging to the Han State, but they have to admit that after returning to the rule of the Han State, the action of the government is very strong, and the township is not a blank of the government, so the big movement must have attracted the attention of the government, and it must be taking action.
Zhang Zhong knew, and could even guess that Youyou, Youzhi, and Sifu must have acted, they were not locals, they were retired from the army and were arranged to serve in the township, and they had no nostalgia with the villagers, and they would not hide it, nor could they collude with the villagers who were about to cause chaos.
But even if the government solves the current matter, even if Zhang Zhong's family is not wrong in this matter, they will definitely be isolated in the future.
Even if a few people are right, they can face the wrong majority, and what is right is also wrong.
Zhang Zhong can guess the situation in the future, the people who come to the house today, even if they know that they have done something wrong, the problem is not to expect that they will have any apologies or guilt for Zhang Zhong's family, they will resent because of their mistakes, and they may not dare to do anything to Zhang Zhong's family, but isolating Zhang Zhong's family is inevitable.
If a family is isolated in the township, it will be difficult to move forward in modern times, and the isolation in the current social environment will be even more serious.
It was precisely because he knew too well what would happen, Zhang Zhongming knew that if he resisted a little, the matter would be resolved when the people from the government came over, and he was still willing to give some food.
As soon as he heard that the government would take action, the second and third sons subconsciously shrank their bodies.
Of course, they are afraid of the government, or they won't enter the house to reason, or they should go straight to the house.
In fact, if it weren't for Zhang You's lead, even if the original villagers had ideas, they would really not be able to hold on to attack Zhang Zhong's family, of course, because of the high efficiency of the government.
Since Zhang Zhong's Boye took the lead, how can there be an explanation for the matter, once the government really takes action, it may be possible to get away with it as a family affair.
That's right, most people are lucky, thinking that if there are too many people, the government will not deal with it because of the large number of people, but the most important thing is that Zhang You takes the lead, they feel that even if the government wants to deal with it, it is Zhang You who will deal with it.
Originally, there was a commotion outside, but I don't know when the noise quieted down.
The young man Zhang Bian noticed the situation outside and shouted, "It must be someone from the government."
"Even if someone from the government comes, what then," Zhang Youliang said confidently: "We just came, and we didn't hurt anyone, and we didn't invite anyone in."
That is, the negotiation was unsuccessful, and the law was not violated. ” When the other two heard it, it was really like that.
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The Han State inherited most of the rules of the previous Han Dynasty, first of all, as long as the crowd is not armed with weapons, it is not considered a crime, so no matter how many people gather, as long as there is no fight, or who is wrong to shout "the prince will be Xiangning has a kind", the government is at most persuaded to leave, and it is impossible to arrest people according to the law at all.
Putting aside what the situation was in the house for the time being, Zhou Qian, the wanderer, was the first to discover the abnormality in his hometown, and while he called his colleagues to monitor, he went to the county to report.
Because of natural disasters and the special situation in the northwest in the Han Kingdom, all counties have always been vigilant.
Some time ago, there was a storm in the remnants of the former dynasty, and the counties and counties also became rumored and full of soldiers, and it was the most effective time, and the county magistrate of Lingju immediately took action when he got the report.
Although it is not the first time that Tian has received a similar report, before Zhou Qian, similar things happened in many places under his rule, and there were even more intense, such as a wealthy family was really robbed by a broken house.
If there is a civil unrest under the jurisdiction of the people, no matter what the reason is, it is a stain on the highest magistrate of a county, and he must be so angry, if Tian has the right, he is eager to kill all the rebellious people, but after the civil unrest really breaks out, it can only be handed over to the military, and the civil affairs system is doing some things to deal with the aftermath.
Zhou Qian brought back eleven county soldiers from the county, of course he was not the person in charge, that chief was the real person in charge.
When a group of 12 of them came to their hometown, they did not go straight to Zhang's house, but met with their colleagues in charge of surveillance first to understand the development of the situation.
Knowing that the villagers were just surrounding Zhang's house and nothing more drastic happened, everyone discussed it and thought that the villagers did not have the courage to make trouble for the time being, but they also had to act in time and could not let it go.
The county soldiers were assigned to Lingju County by the capital of Guangwu County, with a total of 1,500 people.
The composition of the county soldiers is more complicated, coming from other regions except the northwest region, which is to ensure that when they need to raise their weapons, they will not take into account the hometown situation and dare not attack, so as to avoid being shouted by their relatives in the chaos and cause chaos.
It turns out that even if the people in the northwest do not have much sense of belonging to the Han Kingdom, they will still be shocked when facing the army, as soon as Zhou Qian and the eleven heavily armed county soldiers appeared, the first reaction of the old and young was to quiet down from the noise.
Zhou Qian is a local wanderer, although he is not a local, he knows a lot of people who should be known.
He shouted in time, first controlled the scene, and showed that as long as everyone did not break the law, they would not be dealt with.
When Zhang Zhong, Zhang You and others came out together, what they saw was Zhou Qian standing on a high place and speaking, and there were more than a dozen heavily armed county soldiers around him.
"Qingzhuang goes to Yangguan, you can get ten stones of grain when you sign up, and if you get it, it can be regarded as a military merit."
It's not the first time that Zhou Qian has publicized this, and there are young people in his hometown who go to Yangguan to prepare to go out of 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 was called came out to testify, and after the testimony, he would add a sentence: "I'm either here to make trouble, or I'm just following the fun." ” Is this really the case, it can be said that once the big guys start to rob it, he won't watch it anyway.
Willing to go out of the Western Regions to obtain ten stone of grain, in fact, it is not a free distribution, it is part of the lease contract, such as borrowing money from the military to buy weapons or something, and the standard configuration is ten stone of food.
Almost everyone who was willing to go out of the customs to the Western Regions, even if they were not short of money or food, signed a loan contract.
Their idea is very direct, everyone is going to the Western Regions to work hard, the interest on the loan is not high, if the person dies, it will be over, how can the person grab something in the Western Regions if he has nothing to do, and the loan principal plus interest is not a matter 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, and those people didn't say anything before, and even reached a tacit agreement never to spread it, it is difficult to tell what kind of mentality it is, but looking at the original township choosing this kind of behavior in a difficult time, you can generally see who they are.
"There are a lot of men present, who are rampant in the township and break the law for the eldest husband, and if they break the law, they will not be arrested, but they will also run into the mountains and forests to avoid arrest."
Of course, Zhou Qian didn't want to mess up, it wouldn't be good for anyone if it was really messy.
After he finished intimidating, he saw that most of the people had flinched, and encouraged: "For the sake of the family, the eldest husband can go to the Western Regions to get food, and if he has any income, he can also entrust the military to send it home."
In this year of calamity, dare not act" No one responded, but it was impossible for them to break through Zhang's house.
Chaos is a one-way thing, and once there is a pause in the middle, many people will be afraid.
"If you think about it, you don't go out of the Western Regions, but you also go to the county seat to sign up for recruitment, why do you have to break the law to survive" Zhou Qian began to call a few villagers who usually get along well and let them go home.
Seeing that the crowd gradually dispersed, he exhaled a big breath at the chief who followed, and said fearfully: "Most of the reckless people go out of the countryside to the Western Regions, otherwise" Originally, people who were bold and courageous went to Yangguan, either they had already left the customs or were being trained, and those who stayed in their hometown were usually more cowardly.
Shi Chang nodded expressionlessly, to say that there were some joys and disappointments.
Joy is naturally that there is no civil unrest, and the disappointment is that once the chaos arises, killing the chaotic people is also considered a military merit, and he can be regarded as restrained and conscientious, and there is a pavilion in Lingju County that there will be no civil unrest, but he was intimidated by the county soldiers who went to make the scene out of control.
"I can control it for a while, but I am afraid it won't last long."
Zhou Qian is just a wanderer, and he can't tell any big reason: "If there is no food to obtain, something will still happen." ”: