Baoxie Road, Wushengyi, and in front of the city gate tower
Wushengyi, Fenghuangyi and Yangquanyi belong to the Qinling Great Station, with countless houses and courtyards, but their fates are completely different. Yangquanyi has still been operated as a rest station for thousands of years, but Wushengyi in front of them has fallen into disgrace.
Everyone stood on the gatehouse and looked back. Wusheng Station was built on a flat slope turned out of the mountain. It was built on the mountainside like terraces. The gatehouse was like a city gate. When you entered the station, you could see countless nested courtyards. Most of the houses inside had broken beams and missing tiles. , the rammed earth courtyard wall is full of spider web cracks, and the weeds are so tall and dense everywhere that a child can’t even get over his head when he walks in.
The strong wind blew through, causing debris and bricks to fall from the window sill, leaving countless black holes in the black painted window, as if something had punched many holes intensively.
Ren Peacock noticed that everyone was looking at the strange courtyard walls, picked up the meniscus and pointed at the holes and said: "These holes are the traces of bullet drops!"
"Bullet marks, there was a gun battle here!"
Song Siyuan's eyes lit up. These holes had been weathered, and there was a faint black color around them. It could be seen that they were the traces left by gunpowder and bullets.
"My enemy, there were still people living in Wushengyi ten years ago, but then there was a gun battle, and some people saw people floating in the dilapidated tile-roofed house. This place was completely ruined!"
"Sister Ren, are you talking about the Shaanxi-Sichuan bandit suppression campaign?"
When Tang Dayang heard her mention the gun battle, he immediately guessed what was going on. Ren Peacock nodded to everyone and said in acquiescence: "The enemy is the Shaanxi-Sichuan joint bandit suppression ten years ago~ At that time, the previous dynasty abdicated and each province was autonomous. Whose children were whose children?" Come on, Hanzhong is located on the edge of Shaanxi and Sichuan rivers. I don’t want to take care of any king. In just a few years, bandits have broken out in Shanwowo..."
Hanzhong is located in the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains. It is surrounded by mountains and is closed and difficult to enter. There are only a few ancient roads leading to and from the mountains. It is a suitable place for bandits to occupy the mountains. Dozens of groups of bandits used tiger skins as banners and became the kings of the mountains nearby.
At first they were just making small fuss, doing trivial things like gathering people to drink and make trouble, robbing passing caravans, and extorting local people. It wasn't until these bandit leaders discovered that they could close the ancient road and collect tolls that they began to recruit troops and expand. Guns and bullets have completely occupied almost all ancient trade roads.
The Han County government has sent people to negotiate many times. Officials in such a place are soft-spoken and can't find a single soldier to listen to them even if they say harsh words. Of course, they are not a threat. Besides, the bandits have all turned into bandits. Who can I also heard that the official master was setting up a dragon gate formation. At most, he would give me face and not block the government's post letters and emails!
From then on, all vendors from Guanzhong to Sichuan and Sichuan, no matter how big their business is, have to pay some tolls to cross the border safely. If you don't want to, you can only take the other two ancient roads that are further away, and go back and forth again and again. Got a month.
Time is money. These traders and travelers have already walked half of the ancient road. How can they go back and change the road? Even if they don't want to, they have to endure the nausea and give the filial piety money.
Part of this money went into the pockets of the bandit leaders, and the other part was divided among the bandits. When the poor suddenly became rich, they naturally squandered it wantonly, drinking, gambling and playing mahjong, smoking and drinking and visiting the brothels. They spent so much that they could barely eat a bowl of jelly. I have to give two bowls of money.
Unruly people come out of poor mountains and rivers. Seeing that they have been working hard for half a year without being shown a few shots of their guns, the people of Han County also have the idea of joining a gang. In the end, not only do the people not think of being bandits. It is shameful, but on the contrary, they are proud of it. If there are young and middle-aged men in the family, they must introduce each other to become bandits.
It was not convenient for these people to say anything about this. They only said that their family members had gone out to "do business."
Throughout the year, these bandit boys carry knives on their waists and go down the mountain to reunite with their families, carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars distributed by the bandit leaders. Every household kills pigs and sheep to celebrate the New Year. If any boy does not come back on New Year's Eve, he is destined to be pulled to death. It's outside now.
This culture of banditry among all the people prevailed in Hanzhong, so much so that the government couldn't control it even if they wanted to. No relative of any family had a living in the mountains. Under each other's cover, anyone who wanted to suppress bandits had to be hindered in every possible way, and in the end nothing could be done. .
Later, the newly appointed governor of Shaanxi and Sichuan came here in the capital. They wanted to open up the Sichuan-Sichuan ancient road for their political achievements in Xijing. The first people they wanted to attack were these bandits.
When dealing with these bandits, the government's attitude has always been "to eradicate them all if they can, and to appease them if they can't." In order to solve the problem of the ancient post roads as soon as possible, they wrote books and appeasement for several bandit leaders. As long as they were willing to go down the mountain, they were allowed to do group training. If the officers of the battalion persist in their obsession, they will be surrounded and wiped out.
As soon as the official recruitment document came out, these bandits were panicked and had different thoughts. Some of them had gone through the days of licking blood from their swords and wanted to go down the mountain to clear their names and come ashore. However, some of the bandits had hundreds of lives on their hands and had long been recorded by their enemies. , I am definitely not willing to go down the mountain for fear of revenge from my enemies. Since they all have their own agendas, they definitely can’t agree to go together.
The bandit leaders of the major mountaintops experienced several fierce battles, and more than a dozen mountain flags gradually merged into several large bandit villages.
No matter how tough and tyrannical these bandits were, they finally accepted the offer!
Those who understand the current affairs are heroes, and they also understand that they can achieve things because the world has been settled for the first time and the government has not spared their hands to deal with them. If they make too much ill-gotten wealth, they will die. Since they all have families and families, they can go down the mountain and form a team to practice. The soldiers in the camp are much better than the bandits who are in danger at the moment.
After that, the bandit leaders wrote a letter and formally submitted a letter of surrender to the government. The officials in charge of Shaanxi and Chuan thought that a ceremony was needed, so they suggested that they pay homage to the second master Guan at Wushengyi Station and then wash their hands and go down the mountain.
