Chapter 144: The Death of Yuncheng
As a lucky captive, Vajra De was rescued by the brotherhood people, while the unfortunate people were swept back to Yuncheng by the Mongolian army and continued to act as a coolie. Especially after the defeat of this battle, the Mongolian generals of the entire Mongolian army would fist and kick together if there was any dissatisfaction. Every day, more than a dozen people were beaten to death on the way to transport food and supplies.
Baizhu was not in the mood to care about the lives of these people, but Baizhu finally delayed the time for Batulu. On the fourth day after the war, Batulu ordered the camp to go north. Under Baizhu's pressing, Batulu did not dare to take over the people of Yuncheng. The young and old collected from Yuncheng were also exempted from the trouble of leaving their hometown. More than 200,000 troops of Batulu brought enough food and grass as they wished in Yuncheng, but left Yuncheng with a sluggish aura.
Those men who were dismissed home returned home but were crying without tears. The home was gone... The village was burned, and their wives and children were either missing or left with frozen corpses. Just a month after winter, the food at home was gone.
Every household is in the same situation. From the beginning when Batulu ordered the recruitment of these strong men, he did not intend to let them go home. These male men are now released and do not feel grateful for the kindness of worship. Instead, everyone has planted a seed of hatred in their hearts.
Everyone is very sad when their wives and children are gone. After being sad, people still have to live. Hunger can make people wake up. At first, people in the village start taking care of each other and everyone gets together to find some food.
After everyone got together, the hunger and hardship did not reduce everyone's resentment. Instead, the same experience escalated this hatred. Who is the most terrifying, and the unscrupulous person is the most terrifying.
The men who survived alone around Yuncheng are now scruples. They have nothing left, their homes are gone, their wives, children, mothers, and almost all their relatives are gone.
In each village, there are more than a hundred men and dozens of people. After gathering together, they are like groups of hungry wolves. The problem is that they do not have decent weapons, and they cannot be hungry when they take revenge, and can only rob the wealthy families. Shen Hao, the landlord of the Gaomen and Shenyuan, became their target of attack.
A civil chaos that has nothing to do with justice and life and death broke out in various parts of Yuncheng like an agreement. Among them, the Jin family was the one who suffered the most impact. As early as when Jin Yun appeared in the Mongols' team of tyrants, the Jin family was labeled as a traitor.
Fighting traitors has also become the slogan that most people have risen up, and some people don’t have that much thought. Your family is a wealthy family, so why are our wives and children gone? Your family is fine, the Tian family, the Guan family, and these local big families in Yuncheng have also been attacked by the same.
Regardless of whether you are kind and generous on weekdays, we have no food to eat and we have no home, and you rich families are like being alone? At first, several wealthy families could barely resist the chaos in various places, but as more and more people gathered together.
The moor mill was a formation that roared by thousands of people, and even wealthy families could not resist it. Unexpectedly, Yu Shengqin, the young head of the Jin family, refused everyone, and ordered several villages outside the city to attack the rioters who came to the door to fight or kill them, and also sent a large amount of food and cloth.
Every day, a large number of convoys delivered food to the village where the Jin family was located on 30 miles south of the city. This move surprised everyone who received the news, including Han Zhenhan and others.
The Yu Shengqin, the staff officer Wang, made an evaluation. This is a character. If this son is in politics, he will have a bright future.
Not all wealthy families can use a lot of food to comfort the rioters like the Jin family. After receiving Tian Wenjie's instructions, the Tian family relied on the high-walled courtyard and Zhuang Ding's yard to protect the courtyard, and no one could get in.
The Guan family is different. The Guan family has a very delicate position in the hearts of the people of Yuncheng. First of all, they are descendants of Mr. Guan, but they are also the Daguan family in the eyes of ordinary people. Respecting and being unable to afford to offend on weekdays does not mean that they are too hungry and dare not offend.
At this time, Guanjiazhuang was surrounded by thousands of people. On the wall of the village about three meters, the contemporary head of the Guan family stood in the middle, crying and full of grievances. A stone's throw away from him was a strong man wearing animal skin holding a Mongolian scimitar sitting upright on the horse.
"Old man Guan! Don't talk nonsense. I have told me how much grain your Guan family has... I don't ask for it too much, give me half of it, and I will take people away... Do you know that if my brothers rushed into your farm, it would be as simple as a thousand stones of grain..."
Does the Guan family have food? Of course, there are, for hundreds of years, with nearly a thousand people from all over the country, how could there be no food? If Kublai Khan had not instructed him, the local wealthy families would not be harassed, and the Guan family would not have escaped this disaster.
The poor people have no food to eat, so they have to rob them. There is no reason for the wealthy families like the Guan family to rob. This is not the first wave of people who came to the Guan family to rob. Some retail investors outside the farm either hid in the farm or hid in the deep forest. Anyway, the rioters robbed wealthy landlords and would not care about those little people.
But the thief chief said that he had done something in detail, which made the head of the Guan family very angry because this was not like groundless. As the head of the family, he knew how much grain was stored in the Guan family. The other party asked for half of the grain stored in the food, and he could roughly say the amount of one thousand stones, which proved that someone might be with these bandits.
This thief chief is no one else, but Sun Hu who Han Zhenhan and others miss him. The leaders around him are also the ones he brought out of the Brotherhood. He is not a stranger for his detailed works. He is the master of opera, Guan Hanqing. For nothing else, because Guan Hanqing was recently excluded by the people in his family and sent him to the Mongolian military camp as a coolie.
Logically speaking, Guan Hanqing was a scholar. In this period of the Song Dynasty, he should have been treated with courtesy in the environment where everything was inferior but he was high in his studies. However, Guan Hanqing did not follow the ordinary path, but became a playwright.
There were voices of opposition within the Guan family, and the source of the objection was by the head of the family, so Guan Hanqing was the leader of the family. The clay man was still a little bit rustic, and Guan Hanqing and Sun Hu had met several times.
In Guan Hanqing's own words, he felt the suffering of the people. The Guan family shouldn't have the food for themselves, regardless of the suffering of the people. Hearing the whereabouts of Sun Hu and others, he ran out overnight. Seeing that the people were still the leader, he explained the situation he knew to Sun Hu.
The next morning, Sun Hu surrounded the Guan family compound with more than 2,000 people.
Chapter completed!