Let’s talk about the Central Plains in September of the first year of Wude.

Huaiyang County, Yuzhou, was originally a very rich place with nine counties. In the last population census when Wang Mang was in power, there were 135,000 households and 980,000 households in Huaiyang, which was similar to Wei County in the north.

But now, Huaiyang, which was swept by the green forest and red eyebrows, is in decline, and it is good that half of the household registration can be left.

There are thin hungry people everywhere, and even more, they call themselves red eyebrows after being stained with eyebrows, but in fact they are scattered bandits and robbers blocking the road.

But no one dared to rob the carriage coming towards him. Not only was the real Red Eyebrow Soldier escorted, but there was also a "giant" who was nearly ten feet tall in front of him holding a serpent and leading the way.

There was an old man with white hair sitting in the car - he also dyed red eyebrows, which was the mastermind of the Red Eyebrow Grand Duke Fan Chong: Weng Tian.

"Tian Weng, Chen County is coming soon."

Wang Mang nodded, but looked at the abandoned Lilu and worried. When he approached Chen County, the situation was not much better. There were hungry people begging with pottery bowls everywhere, and some even put on grass marks. When Wang Mang's carriage stopped, he rushed over and hoped that he could sell his children and himself to support his horses, and that horse-double horse was quite strong, and of course he could support people.

"I'm sorry. I haven't been able to farm well for two years, so I'll just flee to other places. I have to come back. The food provided by Chimei has eaten up. If this is not the case, the whole family will starve to death."

"My father-in-law, my daughter is only twelve years old, so it's just right to be a maid."

As if he felt Wang Mang's eyes, the quick-witted people quickly changed their words: "It's an adopted daughter, I'll ask my father-in-law to accept her as her adopted daughter, just give her some food."

Under Wang Mang's promotion, Chimei announced the abolition of the slave system, but the people below seemed to have misunderstood that what they eliminated was the name of "slaves", not the reality of slaves.

This technique of changing names but not real things, even the name change madman Wang Mang calls himself an expert.

Wang Mang was a great charity, so how could the people suffer? After sighing, he asked someone to share the food in the car with these people, and did not ask for their children. After leaving behind the car to loot, Old Wang Mang's heart was about to be broken.

The arrival of the ancient benevolent and righteous soldiers, Red Eyebrow, did not improve the situation in Huaiyang. The entire Liang and Chen land had fallen into anarchy, and bandits were horned, which was worse than when Liu Yong ruled. Wang Mang could only comfort himself in this way: "All the root lies in the land. Once the fields are divided, it will be fine."

That's right, but just like when he was the emperor, Wang Mang comforted himself that as long as the reform was successful, three generations would arrive, and all previous sacrifices were worth it.

Wang Mang just was unwilling to admit that the "three generations of soldiers" of the Red Eyebrow Army, which he had high hopes, gradually became obsolete to everyone. No matter how full the ideal was, it could not defeat human nature itself.

What’s even more terrifying is that just after the autumn harvest, Huaiyang has encountered famine again. Even if it can really divide the land for the people and plant the wheat in urgent need of urgently, the harvest will be reached next year. How can I survive in the past six months?

There were frozen bones on the road, but the wine and meat of the rich still smelled. He drove away the powerful and the Red Eyebrow Army, who lived in a good house in Chen County, had a very comfortable life.

After Wang Mang entered Chen County, he saw that the people who came and went on the street were all dyed with red eyebrows. The three elders and giants, some were tall and tall, and were proud and swaying across the market, or wearing silk and satin, and were accompanied by the "adopted son and daughter" carrying heavy objects. Others were not surprised. Ordinary red eyebrows soldiers were in groups of three or five, and they were bored and gambling games. The bet was the excess food on hand, and some were watching hundreds of plays in the downtown city to pass the time.

Here, Wang Mang also met an acquaintance.

One person left a basket on his head and was performing a hundred operas under the Shiting Banner. Wang Mang was so confused that he couldn't see clearly. However, Ju Wuba turned around and said to him: "Although that man had a hair, he looked like a Taishi."

When Wang Mang approached, he saw that he was indeed his nephew, the Grand Tutor Wang Kuang. Wang Kuang cooperated with Lian Dan in the Battle of Chengchang and sent a 100,000 army of Xin Dynasty, which made the famous Red Eyebrow Fan Chong and Dong Xian. Later, he fled back to Luoyang and was attacked by the Green Forest and was captured by the Green Forest General Wang Kuang.

The winner and the loser actually have the same name. Wang Kuang of Green Forest was quite disliked, so he asked the prisoner to change his name to "Wang Bao". The prisoner was around him to show off as a spoil, making him an advocate.

Now, King Kuang of Green Forest was defeated under the torrent of Red Eyebrows, but Wang Bao survived. However, the former Grand Tutor Duke is now living by making people laugh. I really don’t know whether to cry or have fun.

Wang Kuang struggled to hold the baskets on his head and stacked them up one by one. He tried hard to stand up straight and maintain balance. Only when he was stacking the fifth one, he seemed to see a giant in the crowd. He saw a familiar white-haired old man. He was stunned for a moment and shook it, causing the basket above his head to fall, roll all over the ground, and he also fell.

The Red Eyebrow soldiers burst into laughter, while Wang Can was beaten by his master. He only looked up when he hugged his head, but the person he had seen before disappeared. Is it an illusion?

It is better to come early than to come by chance. When Wang Mang entered the former Huaiyang Palace, one of the winners of the Battle of Chengchang, he has now become a prisoner, no different from the Wang Bush.

Liang Han's "King Dong" Dong Xian was tied up in the hall and glared at Fan Chong, who was sitting high in the hall.

"Journey Fan, it's really not changed at all."

...

Wang Mang remembered it very clearly that in the second year of the Dihuang, Chengchang was defeated, Lian Dan was killed in battle, and a hundred thousand troops were ruined. The names of the three Red Eyebrows were also presented to his imperial case.

Needless to say, Fan Chong, the Red Eyebrow of Mount Tai.

Chi Zhaoping, the Red Eyebrow of the River, attacked Wei County, and wanted to burn Wang Mang's ancestral tomb. He was defeated by the Fifth Reun and committed suicide by jumping into the river.

Finally, the Red Eyebrow in Yanzhou, led by Dong Xian, started from Juyeze, and then developed southward, merged with Lianghan, and was enfeoffed to Donghai County.

Dong Xian was indeed quite loyal to Liang Han. After all, he married Liu Yong's sister. He was defeated when he returned to Liangdi and cooperated with the Liang army to fight against Chimei. He hid in Tibet like Liu Yong. Unfortunately, he did not have the talent to escape from the Liu family. Liu Yong slipped to Qufu, and Dong Xian was about to flee back to the East China Sea. He was captured by other Red Eyebrows and sent to Chen County.

The Red Eyebrow Army had no rules, only the verbal agreement that "the murderer died, and the injured others paid for the injury". Recently, with Wang Mang's involvement, he joined the "people have land" and "no slavery to be stored", but it is still quite simple.

Therefore, it remains to be discussed how to deal with Dong Xian, a "Red Eyebrow Traitor", so today is equivalent to "public trial" Dong Xian.

However, when Dong Xian heard Xu Xuan scolding him for "resigning to Liu Yong and betraying the Red Eyebrow", he actually burst into laughter, then glared at Fan Chong and said, "Isn't you, the one who betrayed the Red Eyebrow, you are not Fan Giant?"

To settle the old accounts, Dong Xian has a good memory. He counted: "When the Chengchang battle was in battle, the three of us gathered to discuss it. At that time, I proposed to go south and attack Dingtao City."

"And Chi Zhaoping proposed to go north and enter Hebei, destroying Wang Mang's ancestral tomb."

Wang Mang raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He said that the Fifth Reun had already been emperor, but he still had not touched Wang Mang's ancestral tomb. Although they were all from the Tian family, the two tribes separated very early, and the people buried in Yuancheng, Wei County had nothing to do with the Fifth Reunion half-money.

"If Giant Fan followed Chi Zhaoping's words, the Red Eyebrows would sweep across Hebei, and those copper horses and the like would not have to wait for Liu Ziyu, but would join the Red Eyebrows, and the Qingyan and the Red Eyebrows would be the end of the red! "

"And if you follow my words, you can also capture Liang Chu, fight the Central Plains with the New Dynasty, and get the turn of Green Forest to fight the Kunyang War?"

Dong Xian said angrily: "But even Fan Ji Ren disagreed, so he led his troops back to his hometown. For two years, he brought 300,000 red eyebrows in Qing, Xu, and Yuzhou, making the green forest fifth the climate. For the future of my brothers, I joined forces with Liu Yong."

He felt that it was Fan Chong's indecision that ruined the great opportunity for Red Eyebrows to develop, and he must be responsible for the division of Red Eyebrows!

"I haven't beat you on the battlefield. I'm not as good as anyone else's skills, but if you want to blame me, you are worthy of it? Fan Juren doesn't want to be an emperor, so you can do it, but I want to be a prince, general, and minister, what's wrong?"

Faced with Dong Xian's rebuttal, Xu Xuan had nothing to say and even agreed. Fan Chong laughed and stood up and said, "You and I have just joined forces to fight and shared the name of Red Eyebrows. We are neither the monarch nor the subject, nor the father and son. You have just walked your own path and have not betrayed me."

But Fan Chong's face turned dark: "But you betrayed the brothers and sisters of the Red Eyebrow in Yanzhou!"

"For the bait thrown by Liu Yong, you happily took the bait. You became a prince. However, the 100,000 Yanzhou Red Eyebrows were tenants, but they were still tenants, driving the monarchs and ministers of Lianghan, like a cattle and horse. Why is it so easy for the Red Eyebrow Army to break Suiyang? Isn't it that the Red Eyebrow soldiers in the past unable to bear the enslavement, attacking the city gate from the city and letting us enter the city!"

"We should not decide what to deal with you."

"And it should be decided by the Red Eyebrow Warrior who was betrayed by you!"

Fan Chong waved his hand: "Come out! Send it to the downtown market, and ask the Red Eyebrow soldiers from Suiyang to throw stones, kill left, and live right! If the left is red, then behead you tomorrow. If the right is red, then shaved your eyebrows and go wherever you go! Don't come to the front of Naigong."

These resounding words made Dong Xian unable to refute for a while. There were indeed a few people who made money by him as Hou, and the rest lived a worse life than in the Xin Dynasty. They were called soldiers but actually slaves. However, Fan Chong suppressed his ambitions and desires. Although corruption among the middle and high-level Red Eyebrows was inevitable, the Red Eyebrow soldiers at the bottom could still receive a slightly fair treatment, and could be distributed to the land and distributed to the grain.

Are there any kings, princes, generals and ministers? This is indeed the most exciting slogan that those who advocate righteousness can shout. At that time, Chen Sheng called the king and attacked Qin in Chen County. Red Eyebrows should have embarked on this path, but Dong Xian was not lucky and met Fan Chong who wanted to lead his subordinates to find a real "paradise". When Fan Chong was confused, he met "Wen Tian" again.

The combination of Fan Chong and Wang Mang created the unconventional system of the Red Eyebrow Army today, such as the Republic administration and the Five Public Administration. Not many people can understand these ancient allusions of Wang Mang with good intentions, and Fan Chong is the same.

But for Fan Chong, as long as he doesn't become an emperor, he can do it. He can't control his inner selfish desires and maintain superficial equality is Fan Chong's greatest effort.

For the people below, they are also using a simple and easy-to-remember way to understand the five commons.

"Duke Fan is the Great Emperor, Duke Xu is the Second Emperor, and so on, there are five emperors in total."

This is similar to the "Five Virtues" of a certain Wude Emperor. Xu Xuan heard it but did not stop this statement.

After deciding to make the judgment on Dong Xian, Fan Chong was able to take care of Wang Mang.

"The reason why I asked Weng Tian to come to Chen County was to discuss major issues!"

Fan Chong is indeed very distressed. Although the red eyebrows are sweeping across the Central Plains now, they are full of hidden dangers.

From the three elders to the Red Eyebrow Warrior, I will gradually become infected with the habit of arrogance, extravagance and debauchery, and there will be even more imminent disasters.

Back then, after they raised their troops, they fought in several states, relying on siege to break the villages to obtain supplies, and they captured a place and opened a fort, forcing the powerful to hand over the food. However, the wealthy families in various places were limited after all, and after eating, the Red Eyebrow Army had to seize new land. During the years of war, they stayed in a certain place for a short time. This was a "thief". After eating the leftovers, they could still be distributed to the hungry people, attracting the bottom team who could not survive to join, so the team became larger and larger.

Fan Chong could care about the lives and death of millions of local people under his rule, but he cared about hundreds of thousands of Red Eyebrow brothers and sisters. In order to ensure their food, he listened to Wang Mang's suggestion to divide the land in Runan in Nanyang and abolition slaves and tried to establish a logistics base, but the distant water did not quench the near thirst, and the mobile predation could not be given up.

The original motivation for attacking Liang Han came from this. At first, he only planned to grab a wave of food. Unexpectedly, Liang Han was also a hollow air and collapsed as soon as he poked it. The Red Eyebrow Army unexpectedly attacked Suiyang without much fighting, and simply transferred the main force to the Central Plains to eat.

Now that Liang Han has been destroyed, Dong Xian, the "traitor", has been captured, and the main enemy in Yuzhou has been eliminated, but the big problem that has troubled Chimei has come again.

There is not enough food again.

The red eyebrows in Yanzhou merged again, and with various "adopted sons and daughters", the red eyebrows team grew from 300,000 to more than 500,000, and at least 400,000 were squeezed into the five counties of Huaiyang, Yingchuan, Liang, Runan and Pei in Yuzhou. The wealthy Liang and Chen land was only enough for them to eat for half a year. The wealthy wealthy families and powerful people who can torture are dead, and there is no grain of rice in the city granary.

Fan Chongpo had a headache and could only rely on the new policy of Nanyang planned by Wang Mang, wanting to know what the harvest was.

Since the "reform" was restarted, Wang Mang's spiritual temperament has been greatly restored, and he has become the reformer who has a circumstance and can use the world as a scroll and often points to the square and round. He stood up confidently and said:

"The method of the well fields of Dagong, Nanyang and Runan has been greatly improved!"

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ps: Chapter 2 is in the middle of the night.
Chapter completed!