Chapter 131 Differential Treatment

The wall built by Doujiabao was also very strong, and even attracted the water of the Qin River. A trench was dug outside the village wall to form a moat. Li Shuanzhu and Zhao Er donkey led the leaders to attack repeatedly and suffered repeated setbacks for two consecutive days. They could not defeat the Doujiabao. They had no choice but to ask Xiao Tianjian for help. .

Hearing the news, Xiao Tianjian, who had just attacked Zhuangzi, immediately led the sentry who originally belonged to Feng Gouzi and drove dozens of iron-headed guards to Doujiabao. After arriving here, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but have a headache when he looked at Doujiabao's situation.

So he immediately sent someone to find a few local people around and asked them about the situation of Doujiabao. After asking, he knew why Doujiabao resisted so fiercely.

It turned out that the people who lived in Doujiabao were not surnamed Dou, but all surnamed Zhang. In the early years, the big family surnamed Dou here was ruined because they were not good at management. Later, because they hurt people and had a lawsuit, they had to sell their farmland. As a result, they were sold by the family surnamed Zhang. Later, the family surnamed Zhang moved to Doujiabao, but I don't know why, after the Zhang family took over here, they did not change the name of Doujiabao to Zhangjiabao, and still used the name of Doujiabao. This family surnamed Zhang is basically all relatives, and there are not many tenants in Doujiabao. Basically, they are all from the Zhang family. It is a Zhuangzi with a group of Wang nationality surnamed Zhang. That's why no one in Doujiabao listened to the surrender of Xing Tianjun and resisted so strongly.

Moreover, it is said that the Zhang family was originally from a poor family, but their ancestors were good at hard work in their early years and were good at careful calculations, so they gradually accumulated this family property. The ancestors of the Zhang family were not only good at management, but also took good care of his relatives. After the Doujiabao, they gradually moved their relatives to Here, when they first came here in the early years, they had no foundation and were always bullied by the big families around them, so the ancestors of the Zhang family took his nephews and built Doujiabao into a strong fortress with their own hands.

It is said that as early as the fourth year of Chongzhen, thousands of rebels passed through Yangcheng to attack the Doujiabao. As a result, they failed to capture the Doujiabao for more than ten days. On the contrary, under the desperate resistance of the Zhang family, they suffered heavy losses. It is said that even one of the two heads of the Rebels was Zhang on the spot. The family was killed outside the fort, and finally forced the group of rebels to give up attacking here and retreat in frustration.

And for all their land, this family basically is cultivated by their own people and rarely hire tenants. Over the years, they have not heard of their evil things. On the contrary, in the first two years of famine, their Zhang family also took out a lot of grain and opened porridge sheds in the county to help many disaster victims. The local people are also very fond of this patriarch of the Zhang family, calling him a good man.

After listening to the explanation of the local people, Xiao Tianjian suddenly realized that the owner in Doujiabao to Zhuangding was all a family. What he proposed to rob the rich and help the poor is divided into fields and land. It doesn't work at all here. Whose wealth to help and help the poor? Whose field is it? They are all a family. Who would listen to his words? No wonder they resisted so fiercely. It turned out that everyone in the village was taking care of their own property!

In this way, Xiao Tianjian felt that something was wrong with their Xing Tianjun. They were all a good family. They neither provoked him, nor bullied him and squeezed the blood and sweat of the people, but he came to attack other people's homes. This matter was a little no. It's over.

And after walking around Doujiabao, he saw that although Doujiabao is not very big, the wall built is very strong. There are also strong enemy buildings in the four corners, and there are also a watchtower in the village. If he mobilizes the whole army to attack this Doujiabao, it can't be said that he can't attack it, but at least he has to pay a lot. There are many casualties. In this way, attacking Doujiabao is a loss-making business.

So after thinking about it, he asked Zhao Erlu and others to stop attacking, and he wrote a letter himself, sent someone to shoot into Doujiabao with a bow, and invited their steward in charge of the village to come out and talk. To put it bluntly, it was negotiated and settled.

The Zhang family in Doujiabao also heard about the power of the Xingtian Army. Thousands of officers and soldiers were defeated by the Xingtian Army in just half a day in front of the Xingtian Army. It can be seen that this Xingtian Army is indeed not easy to mess with. In more than ten days, more than a dozen Dazhuang Forts around their Doujiabao fell into the Xingtian Army one after another. In their hands, and their Doujiabao has become a lonely castle in their Xingtianjun's control area. Although they have repelled the Xingtian army's several attacks in a row, if the Xingtian army is determined to capture their Doujiabao, then even if Doujiabao has exhausted everything, it is estimated that it can't stop the fierce attack of the Xingtian Army for a long time. In the end, it will It will definitely be defeated by the Xing Tianjun, and I'm afraid the whole village will not escape death.

When their Zhuang Ding received a letter from Xing Tianjun shooting into the castle from outside the castle, he did not dare to neglect it and quickly handed it to the patriarch of the clan.

After the patriarch surnamed Zhang opened the letter, he read it carefully, frowned and thought for a moment, sighed and said to the clan, "Now Xiao, the head of Xing Tianjun outside the castle, wants to invite me to go out of the castle. It seems that this surnamed Xiao is not an ordinary person. Please help me clean up and prepare 500 taels of silver, and give it to me. Prepare 20 pieces of cloth and 300 stones of grain. I'm going out to meet the head of Xiao!"

After hearing this, the people were shocked and immediately persuaded them one after another: "The patriarch should not listen to those thieves!" He must have wanted to deceive you out and use you as a hostage to force us to open the door and surrender! It's not good to play!"

The 50-year-old head of the Zhang family raised his hand to stop the advice of the clan and said to them, "At this point, whether his surname is Xiao is lying to us or not, I can only go out and meet him. As the saying goes, it is not appropriate for the enemy to solve the problem. It has been several months since the head of Xiao came here, although he did There are a lot of family robberies, but in general, he is still a reasonable person. He has never heard of him harming the people in Yangcheng. The reason why he led his troops to attack our Doujiabao this time is really as he said. It should be a misunderstanding! So if this is the case, if I don't go out to meet him, I'm afraid the hatred will be big!

You don't know what kind of person Xing Tianjun is. They are not even afraid of the government. They dare to fight head-on with the officers and soldiers. So is our little Doujiabao their opponent? And in the past two days, we have also seen that the Xingtian army is disciplined and moderate. It is not a group of rabble at all, and its generals are very brave. They are not greedy and afraid of death, and you should also know that in our Zhuangzi, there are hundreds of people of people here. Since this Xing Tianjun has occupied the surrounding area here, how can we not allow us to listen to their orders?

I'll go out and meet this palm plate surnamed Xiao. Let's see what medicine is sold in his gourd. It's better not to end this hatred or not. It's better to talk about it. Let's pay some money and food to let them retreat. It's also save hundreds of people in our Zhang family. In the end, jade All the stones are burned!

If you don't worry about it, you should wait in Baonai and don't care about my life and death. If he really wants to take me as a hostage and force you to wait to open the door and surrender, then there is no one in our Zhang family who doesn't have bones. He would rather fight with them and teach them that our Zhang family is not easy to mess with!"

The reason why this patriarch surnamed Zhang can be the patriarch is that he is still a person with vision, and he is decisive and bold, so he is trusted by the clan. Although they are worried about his safety, they have made up his mind, and they also know that if he doesn't go, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it, so they don't persuade him more. The patriarch is out.

The clan quickly prepared a gift list for him. In addition, they also sent all the gifts to the gate and were ready to be sent out at any time. The patriarch left the village alone and walked towards the camp of Xing Tianjun outside the village.