A flash of fish belly white appeared in the east, and corpses were everywhere in Liu's Wubao. The killings gradually stopped, and Wubao was basically under control.
Liu's father and son were captured, and nearly two hundred of the family's defense team and those who resisted were basically killed and captured. After losing the restraint of the master's family, hundreds of servants and tenants dropped their weapons and gave up resistance. Of course, some Gains must come at a price, and the Yellow Turban thieves paid the price with thirty or forty casualties.
Zhang Sheng stood in the main hall of the Liu family and frowned as he looked at the body of a young maidservant on the ground.
"Zhang Shuai, we didn't do this. I've already asked, this maid was kicked to death by Liu Jin." Yang Mazi, who was good at observing people's emotions, quickly distanced themselves from the relationship, because Zhang Sheng told them before they attacked the fortress, Don't kill innocent people unless necessary.
"Let someone clean it up." Zhang Sheng glanced at the miserable situation on the ground, feeling a little bit of sadness in his heart.
In this world, human life is the most worthless thing. The life of a farmer and tenant like me is worthless, let alone a female servant?
The sages classified people according to their occupations, such as scholars, farmers, industry and merchants. In order to please the rulers and for their own interests, the crooked and sour scholars evolved them into classes and solidified them so that they could rule and benefit. for their oppression and exploitation.
Think about this Liu family, the land is cultivated by tenant farmers, the daily necessities are produced and managed for them by low-class businessmen and businessmen, and their daily life is served by maids and male servants, but what about them? The only thing to do is to find ways to manage these people so that they can be driven and exploited for a long time.
If the Liu family is like this, how can the Xun family, Yuan family, Chen family, Wang family, etc. be any better?
They talk about benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust every day, but they are just using this set of deceitful things to fool the people, and they are just doing it to make the stupid men and women more squeezed and exploited by them, and to provide them with more capital for enjoyment. .
A thief came to the main hall with the pungent smell of blood, and Zhang Sheng gave up his random thoughts.
"Zhang Shuai, Chief Ding asked you to come over." The thief explained the reason.
Uncle Shan, what will happen if he comes to find me?
Wubao, which covers an area of nearly 100 acres, is divided into four areas by two main roads, one horizontal and one vertical. The northeast corner is the Liu family's home, the northwest and southwest corners are the Liu family, and only the southeast is where slaves live. location.
He and others broke into the fort from the west. Yu Zhong opened the north gate again. The master's family and clan had basically completed the settlement. Only Dingshan and his people were finishing the work in the southeast corner. Now someone came to invite him to come. Could it be that he encountered What happened?
"Let's go, lead the way." Zhang Sheng decided to go and have a look.
A few people walked out of the main hall, crossed a small main street, turned around, and came to the southeast corner of Wubao. Zhang Sheng saw Dingshan in a small barracks near the south gate.
However, when Zhang Sheng saw the situation in the courtyard and Dingshan's appearance, his heart suddenly trembled.
I saw more than ten corpses lying scattered in the small courtyard, all soaked in blood and all headless.
At this moment, Dingshan was covered in blood, his eyes were red, his left arm was hanging down weakly, and he was holding a ring-shou knife in his right hand. The blade had collapsed, and blood was dripping from the tip of the knife to the ground. There was a blood-red knife on his left foot. A "round ball" with more than a dozen bloody dirty heads stacked next to his right foot.
"Uncle Shan, where is the injury? Does it matter?" Zhang Sheng grabbed Dingshan's right arm and asked urgently, regardless of the blood on his body.
When Dingshan heard Zhang Sheng's cry, he raised his head. His eyes, which were bleeding, gathered some expression, and silently shook his head.
"What happened?" When he couldn't find out what happened from Dingshan, Zhang Sheng became anxious and asked the soldiers with fearful faces in the yard.
"Xiao, Xiaoshuai, Chief Ding was not injured. We went into the backyard to inspect the situation. Chief Ding understood some things. Then, when he came out, he went crazy and killed all the surrendered thieves and chopped off their heads. ." A thief glanced at Dingshan with fear in his eyes and explained the situation.
"Take good care of Chief Ding."
backyard? understand situation? Zhang Sheng looked up at a courtyard gate in the corner, asked a soldier to take care of Dingshan, and walked towards the backyard.
As soon as he entered the backyard, the evil fire in Zhang Sheng's heart began to surge inexplicably.
I saw a row of dark cells that were not much bigger than pigeon cages. In each cell, pairs of eyes looked out with fear or shrinking. They were locked up in groups of three or five in each small cell. In the small cell, there were men and women, half-clothed and unkempt. Due to the cold weather, their naked bodies were bruised and trembling.
"Xiao Shuai, we have already asked. These people are all from the nearby villages. They cannot pay the rent and are being held as slaves. I heard that many of them will go to the outside of the Great Wall. After the spring, the Liu family I will trade them for horses." The thief reported what he knew.
Should be killed!
Really deserves to be killed!
Good kill!
As a time traveler, Zhang Sheng still knows a little bit about many things.
They are now located in the northern part of Jizhou, passing Youzhou to the northeast and Yanmen to the northwest, and can be adjacent to foreign tribes such as the Xiongnu and Xianbei.
At this time, the Han Empire was in short supply of war horses. In addition, the imperial court was secretly corrupt and nobles from all over the country had formed armed groups. War horses were in short supply, so they became a piece of fat and oily meat.
A horse in the border county costs more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan. When sold to Hedong, Luoyang and other places, its value ranges from 70,000 to 800,000 yuan to one million yuan.
Who wouldn’t be kind to such a hugely profitable business? Who doesn’t want to get involved and get a piece of the pie?
The wealthy families in these prefectures and counties that are close to the Xiongnu Xianbei will definitely not waste this opportunity to make a lot of money. Many noble families took this opportunity to "acquire thousands of gold", and many people, such as Liu Pao, Zhang Shiping, Su Shuang and others from the Zhongshan Kingdom who were the former sponsors of the race, all relied on their boldness to make a fortune by selling horses, and became wealthy businessmen.
Whether they are aristocratic families or wealthy businessmen, where do their original funds come from?
Real money?
Then you are too naive, because there is no reason for the wealth that has entered the wolf's mouth to be spit out again? Moreover, the Han Dynasty not only had the currency of five baht coins, but many other items could also play the same role as the five baht coins and participate in circulation.
For example, grain, silk, and slaves.
A strong slave is worth 30,000 to 40,000 yuan, and a smaller one is worth 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. These are all the property of the noble families and wealthy merchants.
After thinking about this, Zhang Sheng was not surprised that Liu pledged so many people and planned to use them to buy horses.
In troubled times, people are inferior to horses!
At this moment, he already knew why Dingshan went crazy.
Dingshan's only daughter had just turned fifteen and ended up like this. At that time, a wealthy family in the village brought people to the house and used their daughter to pay the rent, and then ran away. Dingshan fell seriously ill, and his wife was so angry that she He also suffered a serious illness and passed away...
