Yanggu County, Anle Town, Fanjiazhuang.

The Fan family is finished!

The clan leader of the Fan family in Yanggu, who has the title of a famous Jinshi and the title of a ninth rank general, Fan Kaishan, was wearing his beloved official uniform and holding a sword that was from nowhere, which was long and wide, knelt in the Fan family's ancestral hall, and cried in tears at the ranking of the ancestors of the Fan family.

Because he knew that he was the last generation of patriarchs of the Yimen of Yanggu! The Fan Family Yimen, whose clan "has one thousand clans, is the first in Yunzhou, and lives together for 150 years, has now been defeated by the heroes of Liangshan.

Oh, it cannot be said that it is a breakthrough. The heroes did not attack at all... because there was no one in Fanjiazhuang defending it at all.

Fanjiazhuang is not Ximenzhuang.

The latter has 100 archers, 50 swords and shields and 10 cavalry generals all year round. Among them, 10 of the cavalry generals of the Ximen family are good at shooting arrows, and the quality of 100 archers is not low. When these 110 long-step bows are shot, 1,000 Liangshan heroes will become hedgehogs.

Although Fanjiazhuang looked like it, there were walls, and trenches were dug outside the walls. There was no Baoding who could defend inside the walls. Of course, Dubao had, but there was no Baoding who could fight. Although Fan Zu of Yimen had also produced martial artists, the long sword in Fan Kaishan's hand was the weapon left by his ancestors in the ancestral hall. However, the Fan family had long abandoned martial arts and transformed into the imperial examination family, and followed the path of farming and reading to pass on the family. Without it, they were unable to promote the education of Yunwen and Wu.

It is not cheap to be open to civil and military affairs! As the saying goes, it is a poor and rich martial arts. If you want to learn martial arts in a farming society, you must have certain economic strength! The Ximen family has such financial resources, but the Fan family does not have it. Moreover, the Ximen family was originally a Youzhou Yajiang family, and their ancestors participated in the Anshi Rebellion. Now there is a Beiximen lineage in the Liao Kingdom. Naturally, they are proficient in martial arts. Their martial arts are not just martial arts, but a series of skills including military use and warfare. Therefore, the Ximen family can organize 500 Baoding, who has a strong combat power.

In order to allow more children to receive the imperial examination education, the Fan family, which lacks financial resources, naturally would not teach the martial arts and military strategies that have nothing to do with the imperial examination. It is a little bit of teaching, but this cannot be used to organize the army to fight against the enemy.

Since all the children of the Fan family are civil but not martial, Du Bao, controlled by the Fan family, naturally cannot organize the combat-capable Baoding.

Moreover, the Fan family could not give many preferential treatment to the tenants who acted as guardians like the Ximen family to encourage them to fight for the Fan family.

After all, the Fan family has no future, so they can only rely on the income from scraping the land to maintain their study, life and reproduction. Even most of the children of the Fan family who are not very good at studying will become farmers on the farmland after failing two to three trials!

Therefore, the Fan family, an imperial examination ritual family that aims to cultivate officials who defend the feudalist dynasty of the Song Dynasty, is a peasant family that has read books and has no self-defense force.

In the past few years, the reason why Fanjiazhuang was not violated by Liangshan was, on the one hand, because "a bowl of rice" was not very good; on the other hand, it was because the Ximen family did not allow Liangshan to commit crimes in Yanggu County.

The long-term peace and tranquility also made the people living in Fanjiazhuang lose their basic vigilance and self-defense consciousness. They really thought that their moral articles could block the bandits in Liangshan.

When the army of thousands of troops from the Liangshan bandits came, there were neither warable soldiers nor many weapons that could be used to arm themselves.

So as soon as the bandits arrived, the Fanjiazhuang was in chaos. When the Liangshan bandits outside the village shouted that it was "Fan Jiuxiu brought them to get some rice, flour and meat", Fan Kaishan, as the head of the Fan family, was stunned and ordered the door to open the defense of Fanjiazhuang...

Then, thousands of Liangshan heroes rushed into Fanjiazhuang, who had no self-defense ability, like a tide, waving swords and guns!

However, the capture of Fanjiazhuang by Liangshan is not the main reason for the Fan family to be ruined... Unless the Liangshan bandits are preparing to rebel, they dare not destroy a family of scholars and officials, because destroying the Fan family is challenging the majesty of the civil servants of the Song Dynasty. If Liangshan does this, then wait to be surrounded and suppressed by the heavenly soldiers of the Song Dynasty court. The Liangshan bandits can kill at most a few small shrimps from the Fan family to establish their power, and then grab some things to go up the mountain with women (in fact, there is no mountain to go up), and the Fan family is still the original Fan family!

So when the Liangshan bandits attacked Fanjiazhuang, Fan Kaishan was not desperate, but instead took his children, daughters, and wife to avoid the Fanjia ancestral hall. He also asked his son to guard the door. When he saw the bandits approaching, he shouted: "The King of Jinshi is here, and he must not commit rash things!"

Not to mention, the Jinshi Master’s signature is really useful!

The heroes of Liangshan were just rampant outside the ancestral hall, and no one dared to step into the ancestral hall.

Just as Fan Kaishan was breathing a sigh of relief and was ready to figure out who was doing something bad behind the scenes and causing the Fan family to suffer such a disaster, his eldest son, Fan Zhiwen (Scholar Fan Shisan), who was guarding the ancestral hall, suddenly rushed in in a daze and told a message that made Fan Kaishan fall into despair. The Fan family's children joined Liangshan! This is a bolt from the blue!

What made Fan Kaishan even more desperate was that among the "thieves" Fan family's children, they also included Fan Jiu's scholar Fan Zhijin, who was as famous as Fan Shisan's scholar!

Fan Zhiwen told his father that he saw Brother Jiu walking outside the Fanjiazhuang step by step with his old mother and son, along with several Liangshan leaders.

Entering Liangshan is not a joke! Even if you are forced, you are still a "thief"! The Fan family is in a dignified righteous family, and the children of the clan are all scholars and officials who read the books of sages. Don't they know that Confucius said, Chengren and Meng said, "to seek justice?" How can they follow the thief? What is this? Is Fan said, "to take the thief?"

All of them have been thieves, and they have returned to the literati and officials, and they have returned to the ranks of righteousness? Is this the righteousness of loyalty or gathering righteousness?

Mr. Fan Kaishan knew that the Song Dynasty court was actually very afraid of the so-called Yimen. After all, this Yimen can gather a large number of people and make a bunch of trouble! It is easy to cause trouble! Therefore, the children of the Yimen must be clean. It is nothing to be a corrupt official, and it is nothing to have a thief, but you must not "return" to the big thief who occupy the mountain and become the king.

Because occupying the mountain and becoming a king is the lowest form of fighting against the court! If the Yimen, which has gathered a thousand clans, colluded with such bandits, there is a possibility of rebellion and rebellion... This is something that the court cannot tolerate!

Besides, if you want to take the imperial examination, you must be honest!

The Yimen is inseparable from the family, and all the children are under the same household registration, so if a child becomes a thief, his wealth will not be clear. The brothers and nephews with your household registration have all become bandits. Do you still want to take the imperial examination and become officials?

Is this going to be an internal supporter in the court?

This is definitely not allowed!

If the Fan family's nephews still want to continue to take the path of rising imperial examinations, they must disband the Fan family's Yi Sect.

In other words, Yanggu Yimen Fan must be separated!

The Dabian family will cause the entire Fan clan to face a crisis of economic collapse!

Because while gathering the population, Yimen will also use the huge scale of Yimen and the status of the literati and official families to invade the taxes and corvee labor of the court.

For example, Yanggu Yimen Fan, a child of the Yimen who has not been certified by the Song Dynasty, never paid exemption and tax was added very little, so he only allowed some children from the clan to maintain public order and also to take the archer (the money was not taken out by the government, but by the merchants of Yanggu County), and even if he was in service.

At the same time, Yanggu Yimen Fan is also controlled by a large number of hidden fields!

The so-called hidden fields are fields that do not exist on the official land list, so there is no need to pay any taxes at all! These hidden fields are the true foundation of the Yanggu Yimen Style.

There are more than 1,000 males in Yimen, Yanggu, plus the elderly, weak, women and children, with a population of more than 3,000, and the land owned by more than 76,000 acres, making it the largest landlord in Yanggu County. Among these more than 76,000 acres of land, more than 50,000 acres are hidden fields.

Once the family is separated, not only will most of the children of the Fan family be unable to avoid evading the service money and tax on duty, but these more than 50,000 acres of hidden land cannot be concealed. All of these fields will become registered and must be paid tax according to law. The Fan family has to pay at least about 10,000 yuan in more land tax every year (the land tax is paid in kind), and the service money and tax on duty are exempted.

With so many taxes under control, it’s not the Yimen style, but the entire Fan clan!

The Fan family no longer has enough financial resources to maintain education for the children of the clan. If they don’t need a generation, the Fan family will not be able to get a special Jinshi, and will become an ordinary farmer family...

The Fan family’s roots are gone!

When he thought of the 150-year imperial examination and charity party being destroyed in the hands of his generation, Fan Kaishan, who was crying, wanted to put the long sword left by his ancestors on his neck.

But this sword is too heavy and cannot be held! I don’t know how the ancestors can handle such a heavy sword?

...

The miserable crying, ferocious laughter, and the sound of knocking or smashing things mixed into the most terrifying music in the world and reached Fan Zhijin and Fan Dashao's ears. He was now supporting the old lady who had already cried into tears, and walked back and forth to the Fanjiazhuang.

Go and follow the thief!

When he walked to the open gate of Zhuangzi, he saw the "Give up the martial arts and follow the literature" monument left by the ancestors of the Fan family!

It turned out that the ancestor of the Fan family was also a vulgar martial artist back then. Heiyun Changjiandu, the Huainan Army in the late Tang Dynasty! Three generations of people served Yang Xingmi, Xu Wen, Xu Zhigao (Li Bian), Li Jing, and Li Yu, the five kings. After the demise of the Southern Tang Dynasty, they moved to Yanggu County. They recognized the general trend of peace in the world and decided to abandon martial arts and follow the literature and embarked on the right path to the imperial examination. This monument of "abandoning martial arts and follow the literature" was erected at that time.

But unexpectedly, more than a hundred years later, the descendants of these Black Cloud Sword Capital actually produced an unfilial son like Fan Zhijin. In order to survive, he forgot loyalty and was going to Liangshan to be a thief...

It’s better to kill yourself by hitting one head!

Fan Zhijin thought about the pursuit of righteousness, but then he thought about filial piety. If he dies, what should I do? Who will support him? Do you want to starve to death?
Chapter completed!