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    In mid-March, Cao Cao led more than 23,000 soldiers to the south bank of the Yellow River and held a stalemate with Yuan Shao at Baima.  ?  Yuan Shao's army consisted of 40,000 troops and 30,000 civilians, with Wen Chou as the front, Zhang He as the left wing, and Gao Lan as the right wing. Tens of thousands of elite Euphorbia soldiers were divided among the commanders of each department.  Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Dun to be the front, Xiahou Yuan to the left, and Cao Ren to the right. The sergeants he led were mainly the remaining troops of Yanzhou and Beihai County soldiers, and the other four thousand were tiger and leopard cavalry.  Yuan Tan and Le Jin fought in Lu County, Jibei Province, Yuan Xi and Yu Jin fought in Yan County, and the middle battle between Ben Chu and Meng De also began.  The news that Deng Ji is preparing to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor on the first day of June has gradually spread to the surrounding areas.  Before Zhang Wei and Yan Pu fled Hanzhong, Liu Bei had strictly ordered all passes to be on guard to prevent important figures from the Five Pecks of Rice Sect from escaping through various routes again.  When he heard the news that Deng Ji was going to proclaim himself emperor, Liu Bei was stunned for a long time and then shouted angrily: "I don't know that the way of heaven is unpredictable and it is so difficult. Deng Mu'an also rebelled against the Han Dynasty! Is there no loyalty in the Han Dynasty anymore?" For him, Liu Xuande, it was just right.  Because selling shoes and weaving mats came from the market, the noble status of Han clan clan members could not be lost.  Deng Ji rebelled against the Han and proclaimed himself emperor, so he was no longer an ally. Moreover, Nanyang was taken away and he set up a new army in Bushui. Liu Bei, after Zhang Lu, once again ordered the passes to destroy the plank roads and cut off all contact with the pass.  .  In this life, Liu Bei, who had not yet had an audience with the emperor and had not been officially recognized by the royal family as a kinship family, reacted so greatly when he received the news that Deng Muan wanted to proclaim himself emperor, let alone Liu Biao and Liu Jingsheng.  Gan Ning's defection to Deng Ji failed several years ago. Later, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng, along with Peng Lize water thief Peng Hu, defected to Deng Ji. Liu Biao Shang was still laughing. He believed that this generation of thieves would not change their nature, so it would not be a pity to switch to others.  But now, news came back from Nanyang that Deng Ji wanted to establish a new dynasty and implement a new system.  Liu Biao was stunned for a long time, then he cursed angrily and issued an order: "Anyone who communicates with Deng Ji will be a traitor to the country. The whole clan must be punished!" Then he ordered Cai Mao to block the mouth of the river, and merchant ships were not allowed to enter the water.  Liu Xu, a big businessman in Changsha who kept transporting wood to Wancheng along the waterway, was no longer able to do anything.  However, in the past four or five months, he bought more than 200 large and small keels of wood for Deng Jidai.  The sky is level with Xiang County. The spring sowing has just ended. In a mostly dry ditch, thirty or forty men are dredging the waterway with their shirts off. Both sides of the ditch are piled with soil and grass.  Liangzhou has been in chaos for so many years, and suffered another rebellion last year. The ditches around the farmland in various places have been basically abandoned.  Many places are gradually buried and blocked by soil, forming one after another small puddles that can no longer be drained. If we want this field to be free from drought and floods, it is necessary to dredge it again.  This is a matter for the common people themselves. The village chief takes advantage of the leisure time to organize the work. The government will not pay the hiring fee. It is just to clear some congestion areas. It does not involve digging new ditches, and the work is not heavy.  Even other families in the village whose fields were not allocated to this area and who would not benefit from it did not come to help, nor did the women from each family.  Liangzhou Wubao has not yet been completed.  However, the construction of the dock took a long time, and the ditch had to be completed before the rainy season, so this work was done first.  One person excavates and the other pours the soil into the ditch using a bamboo basket, very quickly. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? From time to time, someone would say a few witticisms, which would make everyone laugh for a while, which is a good way to relieve fatigue.  As soon as spring plowing is over, all hope has been sown into the ground.  As long as the taxes promised by Deng Shijun remain unchanged, as long as God doesn't have a bad temper.  The haze of chaos last year has passed, and there is finally hope for this year.  It's just clearing a few ditches. For people who are used to doing heavy work, it really doesn't mean anything. They just talk and laugh and relax.  However, among the crowd in the ditch, there was a tall, thin old man in his sixties or seventies, with a gray beard, but he was only busy waving a hoe, with no expression on his face. No matter how funny others said, he turned a deaf ear and just cared.  He worked hard while his son framed the frame beside him, but he couldn't keep up with his speed.  There was a young man in the front who told another joke related to the neighbor¡¯s bed incident, which made everyone who heard it burst into laughter. The old man¡¯s son also trembled with laughter.  This time the joke was more serious, which made the young man¡¯s neighbor very angry. He threw him down beside the ditch, grabbed two handfuls of mud and smeared it on the young man¡¯s face, and punched him hard on the thick part of his back and buttocks.  The others looked on and laughed even harder. They were all holding hoes and joking, provoking, and laughing non-stop.  The old man roared angrily, threw down the hoe, turned around and shouted at the laughing people: "If you don't do anything, go home!" The old man's son was splashed half-body with mud and water by the hoe, and the people around him were a little afraid of the old man.  With a shout, everyone lowered their heads with a smile and started moving their hoes again.  The two people who were fighting also separated, and the young man got up.?, he came up to the old man and said with a smile: "Master Chen, today's canal clearing is just a matter of necessity. You can get it done just by messing around. There's no need to rush." ??"Huh!" The old man snorted again and picked himself up.  He took out his hoe, wiped off the muddy water on the hoe handle, and said in the urn's voice: "Go home early!" The young man said: "It's been half a month, Master Chen still wants to get angry with Deng Shijun? I can't wait for the common people. I have fields at home.  I have no worries about food, and I can't thank you enough for your kindness. What else can I ask for? I don't care if he becomes the emperor or not." The old man raised his head and sneered: "Who am I, Chen Sanqiang, who dares to be angry with you?  ? But you brass are ignorant, I dare not forget that I have eaten Han food since I was a child, and my father and great ancestors are all Han people!" This old man's name is Chen Qiang, who moved from Nanyang to Liangzhou Xinmin!  After he settled in the village, the older generation called him Chen Sanqiang. In his own words, he had a strong face, a strong sense of benevolence and righteousness, and an unwillingness to accept defeat. After getting along with him for more than a year, everyone knew that, as he himself said, he was really  He is really an old man who wants to be strong in everything, so everyone is a little in awe of him.  The young man's name is Brass, who also moved here from Nanyang. When he heard the old man's words, he retorted: "Master Chen, when I was a Han citizen in Nanyang, I had plenty of food during the good years, and it was hard to cover my body with clothes.  If the Emperor of the Han Dynasty did not receive a reward for being a soldier every year, why would he move into the Han Dynasty under the rule of Deng Shijun?  , What does our fate have to do with it? " But this old man's stubbornness can't be persuaded by brass. Chen Qiang then scolded coldly: "Ignorant boy! We are in trouble today because of the mistakes of the national traitor. What does it have to do with the Holy Emperor?  ? If we can get rid of the evil people, we can restore peace to the world. There are many affairs in the world, and there is no end to them. How can the government have so much money and food to hire people for labor? Since ancient times, why has there been no country that has not done this?  If you use Huang Lao's technique to attract people to vote, it will be abolished sooner or later, so don't celebrate it too early!" Although Chen Sanqiang is also illiterate, there is a private school next to his hometown, and he has heard a lot of books and scholars.  When people debate the statecraft of various schools of thought, they only know a little bit about the big principles.  The old man couldn't defend himself. He could only shut up and stop talking. However, someone next to him disagreed and said: "Listen to the commander of the village. It has been eight years since Deng Shijun has been in Luoyang. There has been no corvee under his rule. Recently, the village has been completely empty.  Although we can't explain the details of the new system, everyone says that Deng Shijun gave up power to the people, which is rare in the ages. Isn't this better than the Han Dynasty? "There are no soldiers or supervisors in the ditch. Chen Qiang is more courageous.  He also sneered: "Is it really possible to give power to the people? This is just Deng Muan's attempt to do something treacherous on behalf of the Han Dynasty, just to cover up his reputation. You just believe it? Don't you know that you can stand for election only if you serve the people? You only serve the people **  As a household of brave soldiers and supervisors, all those who are close to Deng Mu'an, if you don't see them, we will implement the new system. We will take care of the farm work at the soldiers' homes. They have all been recruited back to the army. I haven't heard of any rebellion nearby. Isn't it possible first?  Why do you want to do this? In the future, you will allude to the deer as a horse. How can the common people know? "At least I remember that it was under Deng Ji's rule, so he was afraid of being reported to the official, so the old man didn't say anything worse.  Nowadays, the Xinmin villages in Xiliang are not as good as those in Sizhou and Henan. Most of the meritorious citizens are from the families of brave soldiers. Apart from soldiers, among the residents of Zhuang's village, only three families, the master, the village chief and a carpenter, are good people. The rest are all good people.  It is a civilian household registration. The people working here today are all civilians. They only have a partial understanding of Deng Muan's new system. Even if he disagrees with Chen Qiang's words, he can't come up with any reason to refute.  "It's hard to tell whether the corv¨¦es will last for ten to twenty years, but if we let the power take two or three years, we will know the truth and falsehoods." The old man sneered again: "At that time, you will know that no matter where we are, we are only doing it for  Untouchables, Deng Mu'an's new dynasty may not be as good as the old Han Dynasty in the future! There are many traitors in the Han Dynasty, and when the emperor is in trouble, the stupid people can be bullied!" Chen Sanqiang seemed to make sense. After hearing his sigh, everyone came forward.  The cheerful mood began to become heavy, and no one was laughing or joking anymore, only doing the work in hand silently.  Brass stopped talking and ignored the mud on his face. He returned to his original position and raised his hoe. Just as he was about to dig, a piece of grass fell from the mound of soil above the ditch and hit him on the head.  .  "Huh?" Brass looked around. Everyone around him was several steps away. It didn't look like anyone was joking.  He lowered his head in confusion. The remaining water under the ditch was making ripples one after another, and the tips of the weeds beside him were trembling.  When he raised his head again, he found that the entire ditch was shaking, and the soil that had been dug up on both sides of the ditch was falling straight down.  Mud fell into ditches everywhere, not just brass. Many people had noticed something strange, and they were all surprised and didn't know why.  "Boom! Boom, boom, boom!" Focusing on the outside, he heard a messy and dull loud noise. Brass hurriedly threw away the hoe and climbed to the ditch with all his strength. He only took a look and then turned around and shouted"Master Chen, I'm recruiting soldiers back to the army, probably for the military!" After all, Chen Qiang was old, so it was difficult to climb up for a while. After his son got up first, he stretched out his hand to drag him up to the mound, and then he found the end of the view to the north.  The dark cavalry was running towards this side along the main road. Many of the knights on the horses were wearing black armor and holding long halberds. They were the Pingliang Army to which the soldiers in the camp belonged.  Chen Sanqiang opened his mouth slightly, wondering what else this army had to do - if it was to conquer Zhangye, it shouldn't come to Tianshui.  Thinking about the old man¡¯s remarks before, the people watching around felt relaxed at first, and then tense again - is there another war?  Note: Zhengpeng, Gengpeng.  Corvee service in the Han Dynasty.  Men between the ages of twenty-three and fifty-six were required to serve.  Each person serves in the county or county for one month every year, which is called a guard.  Each person takes turns to serve in the capital for one year in a certain order and is called a regular soldier.  (Recommended votes, monthly votes, requests) (To be continued.)
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