Chapter 23 Peasant Uprising in the Late Ming Dynasty
Wangjia Village, back hillside.
The White Water King Er looked at the villagers in front of him with a dark face.
Last night, he organized a group of villagers to go to Gaojia Village to steal water, but each of them picked up two buckets of flour, which was really exciting.
A group of people were in a great mood and walked with the wind.
Unexpectedly, once I returned to the village, my beautiful mood was hit by lightning.
The official attacker actually raided Wangjia Village overnight while he was not in the village, injured several villagers, burned a broken thatched hut, and stole the villagers' grain from their homes.
Several injured villagers, with cloth wrapped around their heads and blood still oozing from the cloth, lay in front of Wang Er and cried, "Brother Wang... you have to help everyone make the decision."
"My family's grain was robbed. Even if the drought is over, God will appreciate the rain, and my family has no grain to grow. The whole family can only starve to death."
"My family's grain is gone, and they are going to die."
Wang Er was furious and clenched his fists: "Brothers, I brought the flour back, and everyone used it to make gnocchi, first have a full meal, and then... fuck it."
When everyone heard this, they were startled: "To rebel? That's the crime of beheading."
Wang Er roared angrily: "Afraid of beheading? Your family has no food to grow. What else can you be afraid of? Every word is dead. Instead of starving to death, it is better to kill the head of the county magistrate Zhang Yaocai and die again."
Everyone thought about it carefully: This is true.
Wang Er grabbed a handful of black soil on the ground, blackened his face, then raised his hand, and shouted loudly: "Who dares to kill Zhang Yaocai?"
The villagers all blackened their faces and responded together: "I dare!"
"Okay, make fire, make rice, eat dough, and kill the county town when you have enough, and chop off Zhang Yaocai's dog head."
He looked around and found that there were less than a hundred villagers. The number of people rebelled seemed to be a little thin. He recruited two young people and ordered: "You two, go to Zhongjia Village and Zhengjia Village respectively, and contact my two brothers.
Zhong Guangdao and Zheng Yanfu told them that I, the White Water King Er, would rebel now, and asked them if they dare to come with me."
The two young men hurried toward Zhongjia Village and Zhengjia Village.
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Gao Chuwu took three young people into Chengcheng County.
The second time I came to the county town, they were more courageous than the last time.
I shrank when I first came, but I was naturally calm when I came the second time.
This is probably the difference between seeing the world and not seeing the world.
The four of them were still very sweet. When they saw someone on the street, they asked about the "Former Master Thirty-two's residence". Soon someone pointed the way for them. The four of them walked through the streets and alleys and came to the gates of the three families.
Gao Chuwu raised his hand and was about to slap the door.
Unexpectedly, the door was opened from the inside first. Gao Chuwu slapped it in the air, a little embarrassed, and smiled silly.
It was Thirty-two who opened the door. While opening the door, he was also shouting at the person behind him: "Hurry up, hurry up... Hurry up?"
He stopped speaking, staring at Gao Chuwu for a second, and suddenly realized: "You are... a young man from Gaojia Village, what's your name? "
"Great junior high school fifth!"
"Ah, yes, yes." Thirty-Er's eyes rolled around twice, and immediately understood: "What are the instructions of Lord God? I'll take a look at [Shake the ears and listen carefully]."
Gao Chuwu was stunned: I didn't say anything, you knew it? Sure enough, a person with knowledge is different from a silly person like me. If the village chief grandfather wants to tell me something clearly, he has to carry me.
It took a long time to roar with your ears.
Gao Chuwu snatched his head awkwardly: "Lord Tianshen is asking our village to make artificial iron armor. He said that many thieves will come out to chop people around recently and asked us to build iron armor to protect ourselves, but the only blacksmith in the village is Gao Yi.
The uncle's skills are not very good, so Lord Tian Shen wants to find you a way to get some skilled blacksmiths."
Thirty-two When I heard the word "Iron Armor", I was confused. I made Iron Armor privately. You are going to behead me. No, I got the point wrong. The real focus of this sentence is the first half, "I will do it recently.
Many thieves came out to chop people around.”
Thirty-two instantly understood!
Lord Tian Shen means that the second king of Baishui is going to rebel.
He just guessed that the White Water King Er would rebel through the "grab-graining" incident, but now with what Lord God said, it is almost 100% possible to judge that the White Water King Er would rebel.
Good mother! It's so scary.
Thirty-two turned around and yelled at his family: "What are you still delaying? Don't want all the things you haven't packed up yet. Let's go, leave immediately. This is called [Dropping Helmet and Armor]."
His wife ran out of the house with a daughter in her arms. The maid and the servant each carried a large package containing gold, silver and fine gold. When she ran out, she asked in a panic: "Where are we going?"
Thirty-second gritted his teeth and grabbed Gao Chuwu's hand: "Gao... Brothers from Chuwu aren't they?"
Gao Chuwu was startled by his excited movements: "What's wrong?"
Thirty-two said anxiously: "I'm sorry to you and the other three young people to protect my wife and daughter to Gaojia Village, and ask Lord Tianshen to take care of me. As long as my wife and daughter are safe, I will have no worries. If I try my best, I will help Lord Tianshen.
Doing things is called [repaying favors].”
Gao Junwu: "Hey? Hey? Hey?"
He looked silly and didn't understand what was going on.
Thirty-two said anxiously: "Let's go, go quickly, don't stop here! The White Water King Er may come here at any time, and he can't even get out of here even if he wants to. This is called... Oh my mother, don't listen to my nonsense again
Now, you guys go quickly.”
Gao Chuwu was still stupid and didn't understand what happened, but a silly man like him had an advantage, that is, he listened very much to others. When the village chief was talking about it, he listened to the village chief's instructions. When the god of the gods talked about it, he would
Following the instructions of Lord God, now that he has done thirty-two things, he will just listen to the instructions of Thirty-two.
He smiled and said, "Okay! Then we're leaving."
Four young men, protecting their thirty-two wives, daughters, maids and servants, quickly left the county town and returned to Gaojia Village.
Eight of them had just left the city and walked two miles away. On the hillside to the northwest of the county town, hundreds of people with black faces appeared.
The leader was the King of Baishui. Next to him were his two sworn brothers, Zhong Guangdao and Zheng Yanfu.
Baishui Wang Er shouted: "The unscrupulous county magistrate is very cool to urge me to grow grain. Under the jurisdiction of such a guy, we can't survive for a day. Today, everyone followed me into the county town and cut off the county.
Let the dog head kill the rich and unkind dog shit in the city together, open a granary, and let the poor have a full meal. Do you have the courage to follow me?"
Everyone: "Have courage!"
"Who dares to kill Zhang Yaocai?"
"I dare!"
"Who dares to kill Zhang Yaocai?"
"I dare!"
"Who dares to kill Zhang Yaocai?"
"We all dare!"
The White Water King Er laughed: "What are you waiting for? Go!"
Hundreds of villagers shouted in unison, waving hoes, wooden sticks, pot lids, shovels, hatchets, manure forks and other weapons, and came to Chengcheng County.
Chapter completed!