Emperor Sui Yang

There is also a reason why the first shot of civil unrest in Hebei was fired from Wu'an County.

The prefect Chen Junbin, the nephew of Chen Shubao and the cousin of Chen Shuyi, was also recruited from Jiangnan to the capital under the influence of Yang Guang.

The master led the door in, and practice depends on the individual. Chen Shuyi and Yang Guang's two Chen wives ran around, and finally found a great opportunity for the family. Hundreds of old Chen's children were able to become officials.

And Chen Junbin was a man of real talent and learning. During the assessment by the Ministry of Officials, he was spotted by Niu Hong at a glance, and he went straight to the sky as the local prefect.

This year when the canal was excavated, the Ministry of Civil Affairs asked Wu'an County to send 6 people. Chen Junbin killed no one, and gave up to [-]. Therefore, the Ministry of Civil Affairs was pissed off, and Wei Yijie, a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was assigned to Hebei. When he came to negotiate, Chen Junbin didn't give him any face. Anyway, if there is no one, you can do whatever you like.

Wei Yijie also had nothing to do with him. After all, the prefect of a county is not low in rank, especially Wu'an County is still a big county, and this Chen Junbin is now Niu Hong's student, so it is not easy to turn his face, so Wei Yijie notified the matter to the King Yang of Qi.

That's why at the beginning, Yang Hao hoped that Wei Jin and Pei Yun, the two servants of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, would come to Hebei, because they were of high rank and the prefect dared not offend them.

Wei Yijie is not so good.

After Yang Hao found out, he made a big fuss, so you don't come out, right?Then take out the grain, so he didn't say hello, and sent people directly to Wu'an County. The granaries in eight counties were raided. The local grain merchants were almost robbed, and their stocks were emptied by officers and soldiers.

As a result, there was a food shortage in the entire Wu'an County in an instant, the official warehouses were out of food, and the folk grain stores were out of food. The people in the city were the first to suffer.

You must know that the land under the common people’s name in the Sui Dynasty was insufficient, and the annual harvest, apart from paying taxes, was not enough to feed the family, so half of the common people had to do other things part-time to barely make ends meet.

This was the case everywhere in the Sui Dynasty. First, it was related to the unfavorable supervision of the imperial court and the government's private pockets. Moreover, it also involved a problem of maintaining stability.

That is, it cannot make you full.

There is a saying that "you have nothing to do when you are full". Only when you are full will you have nothing to do. If you have nothing to do, it is an unstable factor in the eyes of the government, so they have to find something for you to do.

There are two ways, one is to serve, and the other is to make you hungry.

Let me ask, if you have 100 million, you may choose to lie flat, if the 100 million is a loan, you lie down, you?
When there was a food shortage in Wu'an County, many people felt that the food was being pulled up the canal, and that they might be able to fill their stomachs by building the canal. Life.

So in just half a month, bandits broke out everywhere in Wu'an County, and officers and soldiers were killed countless times. In desperation, Chen Junbin began to find some local rich families to raise food.

The Wang family in Linming County had a lot of food in private storage. Chen Junbin directly accused the hoarding of hoarding, beheaded the head of the Wang family, and searched for all the food.

And Zhang Kai, the nephew of the mistress of the Wang family, was originally the village official in the village. Later, after the food shortage in the village, he took his son Zhang Shun to seek refuge with his aunt Wang. They were all taken away by the government, and even my uncle was killed.

So he entangled with a group of servants from the Wang family and entered the Linming county government office at night.

Where there is a cause, there must be an effect, and Chen Junbin did not expect that this action of his would directly create a rebel leader.

The situation in Handan County is different. The anti-thief leader has a high award, and he is a local tyrant, otherwise he would not be able to be a county captain before. The county captains of the Sui Dynasty are generally selected from among the most arrogant people in the area. .

Now he is not a county captain, so when the county magistrate asked for food from a big household in the city, he naturally focused on him. He said that I had no food, but the county magistrate said it was fine.

Therefore, the high prize was deceived to the county government and was directly detained. The officers and soldiers went to their house and searched for all the food.

Never should, never should, the county magistrate shouldn't have given away the high prize, because the next night, he brought people to kill the entire family of the county magistrate.

Originally, it was just revenge and anger. If you don’t give me a way to live, you don’t even want to live. But killing the imperial court official is definitely a crime of losing your head.

Unlike Zhang Kai, the high prize finally fooled more than 1000 people in the city, forming a Guiyi army, and ran to Wei County in the south.

Anyway, neither he nor Zhang Kai dared to run to the east, because the east was the canal, and the main force of the military mansion was there.

But in Wei County, there is also someone who is not easy to mess with.

The prefect Liu Xuan, who was born in the Liu family of Hedong, is the eldest brother of Liu Yu who was dismissed because of his opposition to Yang Su.

After Liu Xuan received the news, he ordered his son Liu Kai to directly lead 300 officers and soldiers to fight against the rebels with high awards in the outskirts of Fuyang County. The two sons fled with a dozen or so people, but their whereabouts are unknown.

Originally, the overall quality of the high award was much better than that of Zhang Kai, but his fate was not good. Zhang Kai met Lu Yongji, a great benevolent man. The one he met, he has a title, the Duke of Rang County, the key is that he was young Also fought.

Lv Yongji's old nest was caught, and he panicked all of a sudden, and hurried to Shexian County with his army. After all, Shangdang has his wife, children, and the family property he has accumulated in his life.

Zhang Kai had already fled from Shexian County, but the county town after he left was already in disarray. A Taoist priest named Xu Bin summoned the rioters and called himself Guangde Zhenjun. , in She County to dry up.

Shexian County was known as the key point of Qin and Jin Dynasties in ancient times, and the famous city of Yanzhao. This place is very difficult to fight normally.

After Zhang Kai was caught and beheaded in the future, the fact that Zhang Kai's son Zhang Shun led thirty people to attack Shexian County would definitely not appear in the history books, because it was so embarrassing.

If the common people know that thirty people can attack the county, the world will be in chaos.

On Lu Yongji's side, there was no siege equipment at all, so he had to temporarily cut down trees and turn them into battering hammers to hit the door. He thought that the rebels he was looking for were in the county.

What's more, Yang Cong, the magistrate of Wu'an County, saw the corpse of his wife and child on the way, his eyes were already tearing apart, and he kept urging to attack the city.

All the ordnance in the city was opened and taken away. Most of the people guarding the city gate are civilians with simple farm tools. They tore down some wooden beams in the city, carried them on the city wall, and threw them outside the city gate.

The smashing didn't kill anyone, but it blocked a city gate.

The officers and soldiers holding shields outside the city were not afraid of arrows, but such rolling logs and boulders, so the siege of the city was very difficult.

Zhang Kai's side is not going well. After all, Shangdang County is the capital of Shangdang County. The city walls are also high, the gates are also thick, and there are hundreds of defenders, so it is difficult to fight.

The guard of Shangdang County is Duan Zhilan, the county lieutenant. He is worthy of the people outside the city. Now he has recruited strong men in the city. If there is no accident, he can gather 2000 people that night. There is no disadvantage in terms of numbers. , and the benefits of the city, this group of rioters is a fart.

What's more, he has sent people to Tunliu County in the north, and asked the county magistrate to bring people over to help put down the rebellion.

At that time, both inside and outside will attack, and this group of rioters will surely be wiped out smoothly.

After staying up all night, hundreds of people from Zhang Kai's side escaped in the dark and stole a lot of food from him. Zhang Xin knew that if he continued to consume like this, he would die here, so he changed his way to Tunliu .

It just happened to bump into the hundreds of reinforcements led by the magistrate of Tunliu County, and both sides were killed.

The county magistrate of Tunliu was killed, and his officers and soldiers ran away dead.

This time Zhang Kai behaved well, he asked his men to change into the uniforms of officers and soldiers, and went to Tunliu County at night to call the door.

The city gate was not called open, because all the Hebei people here, although some of them understood Shangdang's accent, they didn't know how to learn it, and they were spotted by the officers and soldiers above the city gate.

The county town seems to be inaccessible, open that hatred, my majestic army of [-] can't enter the county town, but the rations are not much, so he led people to start to wreak havoc on the surrounding towns, robbing money, food and women.

Duan Zhilan, Lieutenant of Shangdang County, was distressed when he received the news that the reinforcements from Tunliu County had been wiped out, and he did not dare to leave the city, so he had to urgently seek help from surrounding counties.

For a while, both Linfen County and Changping County received news that the rebels were raging on the Shangdang.

To the south of Linfen County is Jiang County, and to the south of Jiang County is Hedong County.

The prefect of Hedong County is still Dou Qing, the governor of the county is Xu Deyan who was reunited after a broken mirror, and the general of Hedong Prefecture is Xiao Mahe.

Bingcao, called Song Laosheng, was promoted by Xiao Mohe, and he made great achievements in suppressing bandits with Xiao Mohe, and was promoted exceptionally.

After receiving the news from Hedong, Dou Qing hurriedly held a meeting to discuss how Hedong would respond if the rebels continued to go south.

"There is no room for loss in the important area of ​​​​Hedong. The prefect should immediately write to Qiao Zhongkui, the prefect of Linfen, asking him to recruit people to go to Shangdang to suppress the rebellion."

Qiao Zhongkui was a general under the anti-king Yang Liang back then, and later surrendered to Yang Ming with an army of [-]. He was received by Yang Guang and given to Zhuguo.

But this kid is very far-sighted, when he was in front of the two armies, he pledged his eldest son, Qiao Chun, to Yang Ming as a hostage. About sent a generous gift.

Moreover, Qiao Zhongkui has been flattering Shi Wansui all the time, and almost recognized his adoptive father, a soldier serving a soldier.

Yang Yue thought about it, this is not considered an outsider, so seeing that Linfen was vacant, he asked Yang Rui, then King of Hedong, who was guarding the capital at that time, to appoint Qiao Zhongkui as the prefect of Linfen.

Yang Yinjiang also agreed at the time.

Dou Qing definitely didn't want to set fire to the Hedong side, so he agreed with Xiao Mohe's method. Qiao Zhongkui is also a famous general. If enough people are recruited, the rebels in Shangdang County should be nothing.

"King Qin, please ask General Xiao to write a letter to see what King Qin means," Dou Qing said with a smile.

Xiao Mahe nodded: "The military situation cannot be delayed, and it must be urgently reported to the King of Qin."

Dou Qing also fell ill with blood. What a great place Hedong is. Being a prefect here is simply not too moist. Unfortunately, from the age of 11 to now, Yang Ming has always had a vassal king in Hedong, which made him an auspicious county governor. Things are about the same.

Back then it was Li Jing, now it's Xiao Mahe, so he was safe and secure.

No, let's change the place. He really can't stay here anymore.