In fact, not everyone is like Zhao Jiye, who can see the difference between the "Taishan Thief". At most, it means that he is a "thief with good ways". As for "ambition", whether he is robbed or

The borrowed gentry saw nothing more than a group of "horse thieves".

That is to say, in the magistrates of the counties in Jiaodong, when the gentry told the governor their experiences with all kinds of indignation and grief, and asked the government to send troops to clear them up, Zhu Guoqiang, who had just launched the banner of "Taishan Bandits", was leading

He rode in a group with his "eight hundred thieves" and walked swaggering along the official road. Although he only brought two hundred "horse thieves" with him when he "went down the mountain", there are now more than four hundred riders. This is amazing.

"Thanks" to the horse policy of the Ming Dynasty, as early as the Hongwu period, the government promoted "civilian herding" of horses, which was implemented in North Zhili, Henan, Shandong, South Zhili and other places.

Households were required to compensate, and many horse-raising households were ruined as a result and turned to "ragging horses" to make a living. The situation in the northern Zhili area was particularly serious. It was said at that time that "the food problem in the south of the Yangtze River was the most serious, and the horse problem in Hebei was the most serious."

In Shandong in ancient times, during times of famine, gangs of bandits on horseback appeared. Before committing a crime, they would often provoke by saying, "What can the officers and soldiers do to me?" They would place sentry arrows on their horses to make a sound.

After Zhu Guoqiang took the banner of "walking for heaven", naturally there were "horse farmers" who rode alone to join him. Of course, Zhu Guoqiang would not refuse these "horse farmers" with excellent riding skills. In addition, he took the initiative to

The recruitment of young men only took half a month. The original team of less than 300 people expanded tenfold to a total of 2,000 or 3,000 people.

Just such a group of two or three thousand men and horses is enough to scare away the officers and soldiers along the way. After all, it seems that they have strong troops and horses. In fact, these two or three thousand men and horses, although they hold swords and guns in their hands, they are actually playing a different role.

It is the role of the peasant husband - pushing the oxcart filled with gold, silver, soft goods and grain, and after "walking" for a circle, it is time to break camp and return.

As a "thieves", although it is impossible to say that they can leave without leaving a trace, they can leave neatly and neatly. However, when they came, the more than two hundred people and horses turned into two or three thousand people, and at the same time, there were one thousand more people.

There were multiple oxcarts, and each one was fully loaded. The wooden wheels left traces of earth on the dirt road.

"The speed of this wooden-wheeled cart is too slow. I have to think of a way to increase its transport capacity."

Seeing the wooden cart pulled by oxen creaking and struggling on the dirt road, at least for a moment, Zhu Guoqiang even thought about whether he should get a tractor to use as a tractor. But this idea was just a fleeting thought.

However, it is not the limitation of time and space on the size of matter, but... He is a little worried that these people will worship tractors as mounts of gods. In this era, everyone can worship red bricks as "fairy objects"

, things that are too heaven-defying must have come down from the Heavenly Palace.

Just like to this day, there is still a legend in Jinan that when the God of Fire descended to earth, he "borrowed" the thunder hammer, the magical weapon of the thunder god from the heaven. Once struck, he could control the powerful thunder.

——They are talking about the two Maxims.

All right!

It is a good thing for Zhu Guoqiang that they have such legends, at least they save a lot of explanations. In fact, Zhu Guoqiang has long discovered that appropriate myths are a good thing for him, and many unexplainable things do not need to be explained at all.

Explain, those people will naturally rely on gods.

"This is not my intention..."

With this sigh in his heart, Zhu Guoqiang once again turned his attention to the strong men who had just joined the gang.

These young men include villagers from the local tyrant You Kun's family, as well as young men in the village. They were tricked by Zhu Guoqiang into boarding the "thief ship" either for a mouthful of food or for a few stones of grain and a few taels of silver to settle down.

, bid farewell to their families with tears and joined the "Taishan Bandits". Although at the beginning, many of them looked back every few miles, but after two days of eating meat, their food supply was in doubt.

After a good and full life, I naturally no longer miss home.

In these days and months, these ordinary people do not have high requirements for life. Because of natural and man-made disasters, during this lean period, they can't even have enough to eat! Who ever thought they could live a life like this?

After eating, I no longer miss home.

This sentence is absolutely reliable at any time.

"Huzi, tell me, should we eat mutton or pork tonight?"

Sun Qiang, who was driving the cart, asked Sun Hu in a low voice. They were all villagers of the Sun family, and now they were all Taishan bandits. Originally, they thought they were "mountain bandits," that is, just eating and cooking.

You can feel comfortable killing and looting. But who would have thought that this bandit is not that bandit. Although they are not allowed to kill, kill and loot, the days when they have enough food and meat are much more comfortable than burning, killing and looting.

"Pork, pork. Pork is delicious. When the fat meat is stewed in the pot, the taste..."

"Pork, if you want to eat pork, then you have to grab a master first!"

Straightening up, Sun Qiang looked left and right.

"I don't know if there is any big village around here. If there is an indifferent coward who just happens to steal his mother's property, and if there is a daughter or something, maybe..."

Before Sun Qiang could finish speaking, Sun Hu lowered his voice and spoke.

"Daqiang, please don't talk nonsense. The boss said that our Taishan thieves have rules. If we break the rules, we will have our heads chopped off!"

"Look at how scared you are, I'm just talking about it!"

While the two of them were chatting and laughing, Xu Mingjie, who was riding a horse over there, would cast his eyes on the master from time to time. He never got off the ship after boarding the pirate ship in Zouping.

Even though countless people escaped along the way, he still followed the ship unswervingly.

Of course, it wasn't because he was unwilling to escape, but because he couldn't escape - in Zouping, he was ordered to write the "Announcement for Animating the People". No matter what, he could not escape the charge of "being a thief". Originally, he thought he said

After saying those words and writing the "Announcement on Peace of the People", the head of the family would use him as a master and counselor. But who would have thought that he has been neglected for a while, and even does not want to see him at all.

If so, why should I be a thief?

The reason why he became a thief was to seek a future? But now... he is just an ordinary horse thief. While Xu Mingjie was complaining in his heart, he heard the second master ask.

"Master, let's go there..."

I saw the leader raised the whip in his hand, pointed in the direction of Mount Tai and said.

"Tell all brothers to return to Mount Tai immediately. After returning, you must train your troops well!"
Chapter completed!