I remember that a commoner emperor in later generations once said: If the court had given him a bite to eat, he would never have rebelled!
As long as there is food to eat and as long as you can live, you will not rebel!
What a humble request? !
But there are some imperial courts that cannot meet even such low requirements!
Thus, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted, "Princes, generals, ministers, would rather have seeds", which kicked off the peasant uprising.
A man named Wang Bo also appeared, and with his "Wuxiang Liaodong Death Song", he overturned the once powerful Sui Dynasty.
However, Datang at this time was different from the above two situations.
Although not everyone in the Tang Dynasty is wealthy today, it is still no problem to ensure that most people have enough to eat.
For example, in Shandong, if it were not for natural disasters and man-made disasters, there would not be a large number of victims displaced.
Natural disaster? There is really nothing we can do about it. No one can control God's affairs. Even if it is placed in a civilized future, he will still come when he is due!
And man-made disaster?
Looking at the thick pile of accounts compiled in his hand, Ma Zhou sighed heavily under the oil lamp.
If we say that the land annexation near Chang'an can be described as serious! Then when he came to Shandong, he realized that the land situation here was absolutely appalling!
Has anyone seen that one family can own an entire county's land?
All the people in the county are equivalent to its tenants, farming the land for him to make money!
Who has seen that when the harvest comes, the people of more than ten nearby villages do not pay taxes to the court, but instead pour all the food they have worked so hard into the landlord's warehouse?
Moreover, these were things that Ma Zhou had never dared to think about before! Here in Shandong, there is far more than just one! Two families! one place! Two places!
Follow Ma Zhou's visit and investigate.
In the entire Shandong Province, less than 10% of the huge land can be owned by the people themselves! The rest is all in the hands of local wealthy landlords!
And this 10% of the land is basically dry farmland and mountainous land, which is land that others look down upon!
"They did this on purpose. They came here for me and Your Majesty!"
Holding tightly to the information in his hands, Ma Zhou suddenly understood at this moment why the rebellion in Shandong came so suddenly and so quickly!
Someone must have noticed His Majesty's intention to rectify this place, so they took the lead and launched an attack! Thinking of taking advantage of a natural disaster to fight to the death!
Losing will only advance the inevitable decline of the family by a few years!
But if they win, they can seal the territory, become a local prince, or even sweep the world and become the new master of the world!
I feel pity for the refugees who are treated as spearmen, but they actually believe in something like "When a phoenix is born, the world will be united!", and they really think that if they fight all the way, they can have their own land!
I'm afraid that in the end, they will realize that they are still working for their former landlords until they die.
"Evil thief!" In the middle of the night, Ma Zhou Henji's voice rang out from the inn, and spread far and wide in the dark night.
When Ma Zhou was angry and helpless, he wrapped up the information and gave it to a personal servant to hide. Outside the Jinan Mansion, countless soldiers blew their horns again, and then, under the light of torches, the dense crowd went crazy. Attack the city head of Jinan!
"Hold on! Hold on for me!"
On the top of the city, a bearded military attache roared and waved his long sword, and chopped off a soldier who climbed up the ladder to the top of the city. He slashed down with his sword and cut off the iron hook at the top of the ladder! Finally, he raised his foot and kicked the ladder away from the city!
"Ahhhh..."
The ladder without the grappling hook tilted backwards. The bearded military attache could only hear a series of screams from below the city. In the darkness, a group of people all fell down with the ladder!
And this is just the people on the top of the ladder. Below the ladder, there are many siege soldiers who were unable to dodge and were hit hard by the fallen ladder and people. They were lying on the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
"Hahaha! Zongzi! Come on!"
Seeing that he had defeated more than a dozen enemies at once, the bearded general couldn't help laughing wildly.
But soon, his laughter stopped.
Because a cold arrow suddenly shot from under the city, and it went straight into his mouth, leaving only the tail with white feathers, still trembling there.
"Uh...uh..."
Blood gurgled out of the man's mouth. The man waved his hands, trying to pull out the feather arrow, but his big hands that used to have the strength of a thousand pounds were now so weak that they didn't even have the strength to lift them.
"Brother Zhang!"
Another general on the top of the city noticed something strange about the bearded man, and his eyes were immediately split! He picked up a huge boulder and smashed it down without any care! Immediately, another series of screams came up from the city.
Under the banner outside the city, Li Zhen, who was covered in fine armor, looked at the tragic siege scene ahead, and his pale face twisted unconsciously.
He didn't expect that Jinan City would be so difficult to attack!
You must know that Qingzhou, as the political center of Shandong, only took him half a day to open the city and surrender. However, Jinan City has been fighting for a full day and night, and there is still no sign of being broken.
"Master! Get out!"
Beside him, a counselor saw that the city in the distance suddenly began to pour kerosene down, and then a torch was thrown down, and a sea of fire instantly ignited under the city. He could only sadly advise his family leader: "These are our own sons and daughters, they cannot be compromised!"
"withdraw……"
Looking at the beating fire, Li Zhen seemed to have exhausted all his strength before he said this word!
After the word came out of his mouth, he felt a sweetness in his throat, and a bloody smell instantly filled his entire mouth!
That's right, what's under Jinan City now are not the bewitched refugees, but the real wealth of his Li family and several other aristocratic families!
Now, the entire land of Shandong! Except for the Cui family in Qinghe, there is only one Jinan mansion in the middle!
Li Zhen knew that if he wanted to remove the thorn in the Jinan Mansion, he couldn't use those refugees who could only fight with the wind, so he sent out his best troops, thinking of completing the work in one battle!
However, what Li Zhen, who has always been proud of, did not expect was that this Jinan Mansion turned out to be such a tough guy!
Even when his own elites, whom he was so proud of, came forward, they couldn't even get the slightest advantage!
"Who is the guard of Jinan Mansion! Where are all our internal agents? Where did Li Wenli die?"
A moment later, Ming Jin's voice came over to withdraw his troops. Looking at the soldiers retreating like a tide, Li Zhen looked at his counselor with a ferocious expression.
