Chapter 284
One day in the mountains, thousands of years in the world. This sentence is the most suitable to describe the Red Eyebrow Army.
A year ago, Green Forest was still a small bandit entrenched in the mountains, but the Red Eyebrows had grown to more than 100,000 people. They defeated Lian Dan and the 100,000 bandit suppression army of Grand Tutor Wang Kuang, shocked the world!
At that time, the Red Eyebrow Army's every move determines the future direction of Jiuzhou. It is not too much to say that they are the vanguards of anti-rebelliousness, leading the wave of the times. However, just when Red Eyebrows were standing at the fork in history, the big leader Fan Chong made a decision that seemed to be inexplicable to the ambitious:
"Get apart and go back to my hometown!"
So the Red Eyebrows were divided into three parts. Chi Zhaoping wanted to enter Hebei and was defeated by the Fifth Reun. She jumped into the glacier herself, and the rest of her troops were dispersed. Dong Xian, a great hero in the Battle of Chengchang, took Dingtao and other places and became the mountain king on the banks of the Dayo Lake.
Fan Chong led more than 100,000 people to the east and spent the winter in his hometown, Jucheng, his hometown, but because the local government troops resisted, Chimei was not good at attacking the city and failed to capture it. Others told him: "Ju, the city of his parents, how can Fan San Lao attack it?"
When Fan Chong heard this, he thought it made sense, so he led his troops to leave and went to other places to suffer disaster.
In the spring, they fought to Donghai County. The rough men were dressed in disheveled clothes and sat cross-legged in Lanling, which was said to be the Xunzi lecture hall to share the stolen stolen rice and grain, which made the elegance of the scholars' gatherings mess up, and then followed Yishui to Xiapi in Sishui.
In summer, we headed west and entered Pengcheng (Xuzhou), the capital of the Eastern Chu, and plundered the palace of the King of Chu, the richest among the Han Dynasty princes. We heard that there was a large tomb at the foot of the Lion Mountain, which had raised the "Lion" of the Western Regions granted by the emperor, and there were many golden treasures buried. The Red Eyebrow Army even went to dig, but found nothing.
By the end of the summer, the food in Pengcheng was approaching, and along the way, the Red Eyebrow Army had expanded its size to 200,000 to 300,000 people. The small Si Shang could not stay, so it continued to go westward, heading towards the Han Dynasty's Longxing land and Pei County!
At this time, the capital of Pei County was not in Pei County, but in Xiang County. Because of the red eyebrows and green forests, the local government had been severing contact with the imperial court for almost half a year. Even the fifth repentance was against the capital to expel Wang Mang. However, recently he received a manifesto from Gengshi saying that the Xin Dynasty had fallen and asked them to surrender.
Under this change, facing the surging Red Eyebrows, the county magistrate from other places, Zheng Wuxin defended the city and fled directly. The locals resisted for a while, but because of panic, they were not against Red Eyebrows, and Xiangxian was soon conquered.
Fan Chong was still the same Fan Chong, wearing a hat on his head and still wearing a thick burlap on his body, which was no different from an ordinary red eyebrows. He told the three elders and giants: "The old rules are to steal the rich first, then the middle family, not the poor! The officials and soldiers in the new room are killed at will, but for the rest, those who kill people will die, and those who hurt others will be injured!"
Everyone left with their promise. They were locusts, but they only ate food and not humans, at least for now.
Soon, Xu Xuan, the second leader of the Red Eyebrow, came to report that there was a local scholar who was a little bald. Please see Fan Chong.
"He claimed to be Huan Tan, and he was a local famous scholar."
Fan Chong took off his shirt under the sunlight and killed a fat dog in the noble family who was eating people. He held a sharp knife in his hand and sneered without raising his head: "Every place I go, there are scholars who read a lot of books to ask for a meeting. After meeting, I advised me to treat scholars with kindness and marry the powerful, and there is nothing new, I won't see you!"
He pressed the dog's mouth with one hand and stabbed the knife with the other hand, killing the dog's life. He said, "These scholars and scholars, wearing hats like branches on their heads, wide belts around their waists, and talking nonsense. When I was in my hometown, I worked hard every day, but I saw that they did not farm but ate well, did not weave cloth but dressed carefully, and shook their lips and tongues all day, and specialized in creating right and wrong. They could deceive the rich officials to give food. If they had not set the rules that killers died and injured people paid for their compensation, they would have to take the lead in observing them, and I would have to dig out their hearts and livers!"
So this time he asked for a meeting, he ended in vain. Although he claimed to be a madman, Huan Tan, who had been decent for life, could only hold his own piano and was pushed by the hostile red eyebrows to listen to Hou's "giant"'s hair.
The red-eyed giant's eyebrows fell on one of the eyebrows and was gnawing on the dog meat. His subordinate sat on the ground and divided the broth with a mud bowl. He looked up at Huan Tan: "What are you holding?"
"Qin." Huan Tan treated them with no false colors.
The red eyebrows were interested: "Play it and listen?"
Huan Tan glanced at them squintedly: "My piano is only played for those with virtue."
So he saw what it would be like for a person who was unvirtuous to get angry. Huan Tan watched his good piano be robbed and smashed to the ground, falling in half, and then thrown into the fire, burning to a crackle.
The fine wood that famous craftsmen in the capital spent so much effort to find, and the fine zithers that were found for years or even ten years, have been carefully crafted and worked. The beautiful images of the world contained on the zither appeared one by one when playing the zither. Now it has become the fuel for the red eyebrows to cook dog meat soup. I still think it is not strong enough, and Huan Tan's sword has been cut, and he can't do anything except incompetence and furious.
Because the Huan Tan family was not rich, it was not as good as the Red Eyebrow Army's money-making, and because they were still wearing mother filial piety, Chimei liked filial sons, so she escaped by chance and was sent to the prisoner camp where the army was accompanied, and her main job was to herd cattle.
Although the Red Eyebrows no longer farmed, they flew around and fought, and many heavy guys could only be pulled by animals, so they raised a lot of cattle. The former cattle raising kids turned into "giants" and "three elders", but someone had to do it. So the children of noble relatives who were plundered along the way, and even the scholars who Fan Chong was most disgusted the most were sent here.
Huan Tan's good clothes were taken away and a dirty and smelly short-shot was thrown away. His previous owner was accidentally killed by the bull fighting in heat while herding cattle. There was also a bloody hole on his chest.
Even though he felt that it was insulting his character, Huan Tan had to wear it to cover his body. The "Niu Lie" who was sent to teach him how to work was actually a teenage child. He gave Huan Tan a decent gift as soon as he came.
"Hello sir."
Huan Tan didn't expect to see such a polite child here: "What do you call a little gentleman?"
"My name is Liu Penzi."
The young man led Huan Tan through the prisoner camp to familiarize him with his next life.
It turned out that Liu Penzi was born after Liu Zhang, the king of Yangjing, Seoul. His father was still a marquis. Wang Mang was given a title, but he was still very wealthy and generous. He was a well-known local clan until he met the Red Eyebrow...
The three brothers of Liu Penzi were captured, and the Han clans in the counties where Chimei passed by were mostly descendants of the former Qi, Lu, Chengyang, Donghai, and Chu kings, totaling more than 70. These Liu family members were all the best people in the past and lived a life of eating with bells and cattle, but now they have all been knocked out of dust and become cowherds and coolies.
They used to call their servants and drink, but now they have to serve people and even cows, dealing with the dung grass that they usually surrounds far away.
"We belong to the giant Liu Xiaqing. The work we have to do every day is to mow the grass and feed the cows."
A stone sickle that mowed the grass was stuffed into Huan Tan's hands, which made him stare wide.
Of course, Huan Tan of Wugu was divided, because he was good at practicing swords and was diligent in four bodies. However, since he was a child, he was born in the family of music officials. He lived the ceremony of noble people. He held the bronze vertebra that played elegant music for the emperor. He straightened his back and paid attention to elegance in every movement. Now he had to wave a sickle and bent over to deal with the cow grass. He was so tired that Huan Tan's waist hurt. He often scratched his hands when cutting the grass, which made him feel so distressed.
For a musician, the hands of playing the piano are the capital of past and present.
When the passing Red Eyebrow Army saw Huan Tan’s clumsy work, they burst into laughter. They liked to see these scholars’ gentle and disgraceful look.
At this moment, a man recognized him.
"Is it Dr. Huan Junshi?
When Huan Tan turned around, he saw a round face wearing a black man. He didn't remember who it was. Until this person bowed down and reported his name: "The young man's name is Bao Xian, his courtesy name is Ziliang, and he is also a Qu'aren of Kuaiji."
Wu people, no wonder Yayan spoke so badly.
Bao Xian said: "A young man studied at Chang'an Imperial Academy and studied "Lu Poetry". He had the honor to hear Doctor Huan go to the Imperial Academy to teach music and etiquette. Last year, he returned to his hometown and was detained by the Red Eyebrow in Donghai County and sent him here to do his job."
Both of them were lost in the world, Huan Tan had a speaker at least, and this bag of Xian was also magical. Although all the things on his body were taken away, he still remembered the knowledge learned in the Imperial Academy and recited scriptures freely every morning, which surprised Chimei. Someone even asked him: "Do you know how to use witches?"
Bao Xian was angry: "This is a book of sages. How can the world be compared with the Tao of witches and witches?"
The red eyebrows were quite disappointed: "The witches and divinations are useful. What kind of benevolence and righteousness do you read? What kind of thing are there? "
He looked at Huan Tan, who still looked like a master, again: "How can you?"
Huan Tan raised his eyelids: "Bu Score is only an ordinary person."
The red-eyed giant looked confused: "What do you mean? Speak human words."
"Divine is sometimes effective, but it's just a coincidence." Huan Tan was still very materialistic and said proudly: "I don't believe in witches and divinations."
"Then you're even more useless."
The Red Eyebrow giant left in a panic, leaving only Huan Tan and Bao Xian. They looked at each other and laughed in silence. While smiling, Bao Xian started crying again: "Sir, this way of the world is really a waste of power, and it is a normal way to sweep the floor."
They were not the worst. Several scholars wanted to persuade Fan Chong to become king and dominate, but they were demoted to coolie by Fan Chong, who was most disgusted with these things, and were exhausted to death.
"Fan Chong scolded them like this. You only looked up and saw one king and one domineering person. You never looked down and saw thousands of poor people, stepping on the mud, carrying them. Let's do enough hard work first, and then talk to me about the king's and hegemony!"
"This is a tiger's head and a tiger's beard, but it's impossible to avoid the tiger's mouth." Listening to Fan Chong described by Bao Xian, Huan Tan became more interested and said with emotion: "Although the Taoist chapter of "Zhuangzi" was randomly arranged for Confucius' deeds, there are actually people of the Taoist people described in this world!"
In the past, Huan Tan always felt that he was a madman who was drunk and awakened by everyone. He was truly indifferent to himself, but he saw this encounter that he actually had what I called "big fake".
He is not a common Confucian scholar, and some ideas tend to be Taoist. It seems that if he survives this time, he can think carefully about what it means to "the saint does not die, and the thief will not stop" in the camp of "Taozhi"!
Huan Tan wanted to say a few words to Bao Xian, but unexpectedly, Liu Benzi's tender and crisp shout came from outside.
"Mr. Huan, Mr. Bao, get up quickly and beat the cow grass!"
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Fan Chong drove all the children of the Liu royal family and scholars to do cool labor, but he himself also had great troubles.
More than 200,000 mouths were opened. In early July, Xiangxian's food was finished again!
The red eyebrows even beat the corn that was not yet mature, but it was still not enough. It turned out that Peidi also suffered a disaster last year, and all the local tyrants were wiped out and they could not get much surplus grain.
"Old Fan San, we have to leave again."
But where are they going next? They have fought from Yanzhou to Qingxu, and now they have fought in Yuzhou, and most of the Guandong have been traveling.
They had just eaten up all the land of Lu in the north and Chu in the east, so they naturally could not walk back.
To the south of Peidi is the "Wufu County" established by Wang Mang, which is Huaibei.
Going west, there are Liang County and Chenliu County!
Fan Chong patted the board and went to the beam!
However, the Red Eyebrow Army, which targeted Liang County, had just walked west not long after walking west, and encountered an armed force with the same forehead, but was connected into a line, and also called itself a Red Eyebrow.
But he met Dong Xianmen, the "Red Eyebrow of Liangshan" who parted ways half a year ago!
However, except for the red line on his forehead, Dong Xian's army has already had the same flag as the official army. It turned out that in the past six months, he had already used Dingtao and Shanyang as the base and completed the merger with Suiyang's powerful faction: Liu Yong, Prince of Liang in the Han Dynasty.
Dong Xian and Fan Chong made an appointment to meet in Dang County near Mangdang Mountain. General Dong, who had a big belly, was quite enthusiastic and promised to be willing to solve the problem of Red Eyebrow's food.
"General Fan..."
However, Dong Xian forgot about Fan Chong's preferences when he first met, which made Fan Chong unhappy: "There is no general among the Red Eyebrows, call me the three elders."
"Old Fan San..." Dong Xian was a little embarrassed. After a short reminiscing about the past, he was anxious and proposed a bold idea to Fan Chong.
"Child Eyebrow raised an army to rebel against the rebellious people, which was obviously earlier than Green Forest, but now Green Forest has established an emperor, trying to annex the county of Guandong. Where will Chi Eyebrow go? Have the three elders thought about it?"
Fan Chong scratched his head, how could he think so much? Chimei had to have a clear strategic plan, so he would not have gone from being a reckless vanguard who was eye-catching in the world to not knowing where to go now.
But Dong Xian had already figured it out.
"It is difficult to find a frog with three legs, but there are so many Han clan members with two legs!"
The Gengshi regime's manifesto also reached Liang Di and Dong Xian, but he had greater ambitions: Can Green Forest make him the "King Dong"? No!
Dong Xian said: "He has the emperor with green trees and my power is not bad, so I can't make it? Why bother to surrender!"
He pointed to the red eyebrows on his forehead and said, "Let a 'Red Han' come out, and you can compete with the green Han!"
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Chapter completed!