Chapter 125 Julu Sky is three feet high
When Zhang He and Ji Ling, who were worried and lost, returned to Guangping with their subordinates, Zhao Xing's light cavalry had already crossed the State of Zhao and entered Julu, and Guan Yu and Zhao Yun also arrived in Pingxiang.
In the county magistrate's mansion, Zhang He reported to Yuan Shu about his defeat against Zhao Xing by the Yishui River. Ji Ling also talked about the ferocity of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun with lingering fear. Yuan Shu himself was frightened by Zhao Yun's arrow from the air, and did not blame the two too much. After all, Zhao Xing's "creating something out of nothing" strategy completely disrupted Yuan Shu's original deployment. In addition, although the opponent had few people, they were elite soldiers, all of whom were fierce as tigers and cunning as foxes. If you were to siege him to death, you might as well capture Zhao Xing, one of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun. Instead of scolding Zhang He and Ji Ling, it would be better to think carefully about how to end it.
Zhao Xing refused to hand over the military power of Crouching Tiger and took his men to Julu. This time it was Yuan Shu's turn to have a headache. Although the court gave him a title of General Hepingbei, the Yuan family's hand reached into Shangdang through Jiguan and Huguan. If he really dived in inconspicuously, he would have to wait for his family to collect the body. Seeing that the new prefect and his brother Yuan Shao was going to come to Guangping to take office, Yuan Shu was a little anxious about his future prospects. He couldn't take care of that much, Yuan Shu planned to continue to stay in Guangping and wait for the court's new decree.
Yuan Shu in Guangping felt uncomfortable, and Zhao Xing, who entered Julu, felt uncomfortable. Why? Because what he saw and heard along the way made Zhao Xing deeply worried about the poverty and disasters of the people of Julu.
According to the Geographical Records of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Julu County has 15 counties including Tao, Yangshi, Xiaquyang, Renxian, Pingxiang, Nanhe, Julu, Quzhou, Guangzong, Guangnian, Chizhang, and Leren, with 109,517 households and a population of 600,000. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of "Daluze" in the middle of Julu County, which is a good place with abundant rainfall and suitable for agricultural production. However, since the three years of Guanghe, Julu has been famine for years, and the government has imposed severe taxes. Many poor people have had elderly people and children starving to death at home, and from time to time, there are shocking news that they have changed their children and eat.
Zhao Xing went from Guangnian, Nanhe and Renxian all the way north to the county pottery. Every time he passed by a county, he could see groups of children in the market town with grass marks on their heads, tied by their parents to the tree stumps on both sides of the road like a livestock. Before Zhao Xing could approach, they all shouted excitedly: "Sir, buy my child, he can chop firewood and feed horses. Just feed one by one a day, and you can survive!"... "Sir, buy my child, don't look at her thin, she is still a yellow girl who has not deflowered. When you go back, you will raise it for some time. Make a bed and fold quilts and be a maid!"... "Sir, buy my child, buy this big one, and give two small ones!"
Zhao Xing looked at the children who were sallow and swollen in front of him because of hunger, and couldn't help but think of the children who went to a country in Africa with a long-term turmoil in his previous life because of a rescue mission. He saw the children who were so thin that they were only supported by a skeleton! How similar are these children in front of him!
Don’t call these parents cruel. In fact, compared to those people who eat because they are hungry, they are already soft-hearted. If there wasn’t really anything to eat at home, who would have been willing to sell their biological flesh and blood to others at a low price? If they sell to rich families, their children may not starve to death. If they follow their parents, they will only be cooked and eaten or starved to death!
Zhao Xing was very confused! According to his idea, he wished he could buy all the children sold in every market and transfer them to Shangdang and Xihe, where the population was now short. After a while, Zhang Liao stood firm in Shuofang and tore off the fattest Hetao area from the Xianbei and Qianghu people, which would require more people. As long as these children had a bite of food, they would follow you wholeheartedly. How many of them would care about whether the place they were going was bitter and cold?
However, Zhao Xing can't do it now! As long as Yuan Shu is in one day, Zhao Xing will not be able to take refugees to Shangdang. This time, Zhao Xing decided to kill him completely. Even if he can't kill him, he will definitely let him hide from himself in the future!
Although I couldn't buy them all, I had a pitiful life experience. I bought one and get two free, Zhao Xing still bought a lot of children. If this were to be abducted in such a large number of children in one lifetime, Zhao Xing would have to be shot! As I stopped and stopped, Zhao Xing's original team of more than 200 people grew bigger and bigger. When I entered Tao County, a cavalry was following two or three children!
In order to ensure that the children they bought would not die in their hands, Zhao Xing specially grouped the children according to men and women, with one boy and two girls following a cavalry, and the children will be responsible for the soldiers in the future. Zhao Xing distributed property to each soldier to raise the children and asked the soldiers to ensure safely bringing the children back to Shangdang in the future.
When he entered the Tao County, Zhao Xing headed straight to the county magistrate's mansion, hoping to take a good look and turn the fertile land and densely populated Julu into what kind of virtue he has now! With Zhao Xing's temper, if he was really met by himself, it might be very likely to be killed with one knife.
Unfortunately, perhaps Zhao Xing's peerless reputation for killing the county magistrate has become known to everyone. The original Julu County Magistrate came out half a month ago, and the family ran back to Luoyang to become a Beijing official with the wealth he had plundered over the past few years. He did not even want to give Zhao Xing the chance to kill the third county magistrate!
The former Julu County Magistrate ran away in a hurry. One of the most important reasons was that he was afraid that Zhao Xing would tear himself up on the spot when he saw the clean treasury that was as clean as if he had been licked with his tongue! Zhao Xing was a martial artist, so there was no reason to be said when he was acting arrogant. He would not listen to his explanation: "Brother, I had to do it! When he was promoted to the county magistrate, the treasury was so clean! Most of the taxes collected in recent years were handed over to the court, and a small number of brothers from the county magistrate's office had spent much time living, and I didn't get much myself!"
Not to mention that the former Julu Prefect ran away, many officials from the former county magistrate's yamen and officials from various counties also ran away! After sealing the official seal, they hung it on the beam of the lobby, and they were very carefree and farewell to Zhao Xing! Everyone knew that "Zhao Shaved" was not the one who was easy to deal with, and if one was not done well, they would just lose their heads.
I didn't see where Zhao Xing went, would it be restless? First, the magistrate of Zhongmu County was forced to escape by Zhao Xing, and then the magistrate of Anyang County was beheaded, not to mention the prefect of Shangdang Zhang Yang and the prefect of Henoi Yuan Yi, and the Xihe County Magistrate who was driven homeless. Living examples are placed in front of them. Didn't these officials who were used to harming the village change their faces when they heard of Zhao Xing?
Chapter completed!