choke element

Chapter 810

Everything in front of Zhang Pingliang made him feel very strange.

Walking in such a huge city, wherever people's sight goes, they will be blocked by the protruding bucket arches and cornices.As far as the line of sight goes, buildings are strewn with each other, with five or six floors high, supported by beams and columns so thick that two or three people can hug each other.It seems that the black silhouette is slowly blending into the night, and it looks extraordinarily majestic.

Such a building can accommodate a hundred families in one building.If you only talk about shelter from the wind and rain, there is no problem in stuffing four to five hundred people.

Marching with Zhang Pingliang in the past few days, there is a senior military judge who used to be a hundred households of the town defense army on Nanjing Road.According to him, the city of Kaifeng was called Tokyo Bianliang in the early years, and it was the capital of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties.There are more than one million people in this city, thousands of palaces and palaces, each of which gathers the world's food, wine, wealth, women and countless rare treasures. It is an ordinary person living here, Can live a fairy-like life.

Zhang Pingliang was a little tempted because the words were too beautiful. Zhang Pingliang's partners, the monkey and the pheasant, even secretly discussed several times. Ladies, have fun.

As a result, I went to the city to have a look, and the military judge was probably not talking nonsense.The scale of the whole city is indeed huge, but there are not many decent residents to be seen, only rows of Jurchens kneeling coweringly by the roadside, and dead Jurchens lying in a pool of blood in a mess.

Those huge buildings are not wine shops or the like, they are all palaces or government offices, but they don't look like they are being used by anyone, and they have an atmosphere of decay and barrenness.Most of the buildings had recently been demolished, and the beams and columns that had been hacked and broken by the ax fell in all directions outside. Many of them were overfired, emitting black smoke in patches, and giving off a burnt smell.

Interestingly, there are still many farmlands in the city.The farmers who planted the fields had already fled away, and the fields were trampled in such a bad way that it was impossible to see what was being planted.

Now that the war is over, the soldiers feel relaxed and feel hungry and thirsty.Although the officers said that they had arranged wine and meat to eat and drink in the camp where they were scheduled to be stationed, the monkeys were greedy and couldn't hold back.Taking advantage of the footsteps of the front team to rest for a while, he sneaked into the field for a while, and when he came back, he looked at it with the help of a pine torch. It was really not a good thing, just an old mango and a shriveled melon.

The monkey didn't dislike it either, he ate the melon first, and threw the manjing to the pheasant.The pheasant frowned and took two mouthfuls of the cabbage, and finally finished the whole manjing in one bite, moistening its throat.

The fellow soldiers all laughed.

Under the relaxed and willful laughter, Zhang Pingliang heard the sound of grass and leaves shaking in the shadow of a haystack behind the field.He immediately pointed to two soldiers to visit.

The soldiers stood there holding their torches high, just as they bumped into several Han people sticking their heads out from the haystack.

Those people were all farmers, with straw hats on their heads and a lot of thatch wrapped around their bodies.Someone was vigilantly holding a hoe, but when the soldiers focused their attention, they immediately threw the hoe away and fell to their knees.

"Look..." Hou Zi pointed at those people, curling his lips: "Many Han people in this area of ​​Nanjing Road are like this guy. They shaved their heads and braided their own hair, and imitated the appearance of the Jurchens."

For the peasants were on their knees, and the firelight fell just on their shaved crowns and temples, and their braids that fell to their shoulders.

At this time, the front marching column broke through the congestion, and two teams were led by the general to rush to a fire site in the north, and the road was empty.Zhang Pingliang walked forward and said casually, "The same goes for Beijing Road, don't say you haven't seen it."

"That's not so much!"

While defending, the monkey winked at the pheasant.Pheasant then said in a daze, "Even if there are people on Beijing Road, they are learning from Khitan, Bohai or Xi people, not from Jurchen!"

"What the hell is this?" Zhang Pingliang laughed out of anger, and kicked the pheasant.

He has read some books and knows a little story these days.It turns out that where Dajin founded the country, an order was issued to return to the original dynasty everywhere, and the customs should be the same, to remove hair, short scarves, and left lapels. Anyone who dares to violate it will be regarded as nostalgic for the old country and will be treated as a formal punishment.

But later, with the deepening of Daikin's governance of the local area, this policy changed again.

It was all because the imperial court discovered that the Han people living on Nanjing Road and the Shandong boundary were different from the Han people living on the Yanyun boundary in the north in terms of the position of the Dajin court.

Yanyun Han people have been under the rule of Khitan for 200 years, and they have naturally formed a set of methods to deal with foreign rulers. Dajin replaced Daliao, but the ruler changed. The rulers of Daikin all thought that their generation was too flattering and changeable.In this way, forcing Yanyun Han people to issue different clothes will only cause trouble.

In court documents, the Yellow River is usually used as the boundary, and the Han people south of the Yellow River are called "Southern People", which roughly means the people left over from the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties.These "Southern people" are different from the Han people. They have not been under the rule of Dajin for a long time, and various resistances have never stopped. Therefore, the imperial court has always suppressed them, and strived to conform to the Jurchens in terms of hairstyle, diet, and living customs. Habit.

So it's not enough to boast about your braids, or the details of your life.If you have to get entangled, Zhou Guogong and his subordinates, including Zhang Pingliang, monkeys, pheasants, etc., are almost all from the Dajin army. They have worked and died for Dajin, so why look down on these poor people?
They are just farming for the Jurchens!
At that moment, Zhang Pingliang said in a deep voice: "Under Zhou Guogong's command, there is no distinction between north and south, so don't talk nonsense, and remember to obey the military orders."

Seeing that Zhang Pingliang was rarely strict, the soldiers around him nodded repeatedly.

The long queue started, and everyone resumed their solemn expressions, passing the Jurchens kneeling on both sides of the road and the terrified Han people hiding in the distance.

After walking a few hundred steps along the long street, the monkey couldn't help but said again: "Everyone is dressed in rags, and they don't look like they have enjoyed a happy life. These Jurchens are messing around badly! I didn't kill them on the battlefield just now!" Enjoy it, I originally planned to find an excuse after entering the city, and then chop off the heads of a few Jurchens to avenge Buyan... Now I am a little bit reluctant."

"Bragging, didn't you get tired on the battlefield just now?" Zhang Pingliang succinctly pierced through the monkey's big words.

He also saw the low eyebrows of the Jurchen people, and for some reason, he suddenly remembered his home in Yutian County, Jizhou.

In his home, this kind of frightened or extremely submissive eyes had long been absent.

His wife, Li Shi, had been an official in her early years, but she suffered a lot of hardships after being robbed and sold as a trophy.But since marrying Zhang Pingliang, she has been able to live a stable life in the past year, with support in her heart, isn't she much happier in the blink of an eye?
The shady households under Zhang Pingliang's management will not be the same.

The Ding Navy has its own strict system and strictly prohibits oppressing the people. In the past two years, the conditions for allocating fields, cattle, and grain seeds have been favorable, and they have lived a good life.There is some hope for the future, and there are officers from the Ding Navy to protect him. Although the period of stability is still short, the family's savings are not strong for a while, and daily life is inevitably a bit embarrassing.However, people are no longer timid.

Not only his shady households, monkeys, pheasants, and protruding eyes are vulgar and uneducated, and they are too lazy to manage the shady households, so Zhang Pingliang has always been in charge of them.The energy and spirit of those people are also much stronger than those in front of them.Zhang Pingliang feels that that is what a person who can live a stable life in the peaceful years should be.

At that time, the emperor committed suicide by jumping off a building in the central capital, and the Jurchens were panicked. In the Dading Mansion in Beijing, some people also took the opportunity to flee southward and flee to Kaifeng. What were they asking for at that time, and what did they get now?At that time Zhang Pingliang was angry about his betrayal, but now he felt a little sad about his misfortune. Looking at them, he suddenly felt a little pity in his heart.

(End of this chapter)