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Chapter 169 Unveiled

The Irish people in the village were shocked. They were timidly taking the grain that they had stayed to buy peat for the grain collection team.

Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves broke into the village. Several men with long poles, flat heads and heavy knives were covered in rusty armor. No one could react. The sword light flashed, and the grain-finding captain's body was underground and his head was on the tree.

The five large and thick grain collection teams with helmets and armors were not even one who could hold on to Liu Ruguo's disciples for three rounds.

Immediately afterwards, the Ming merchant who had come to the village a few days ago appeared at the entrance of the village on a fast horse. He carried a musket on his shoulder and an iron helmet on his head. As soon as he picked up the musket and wanted to aim, he found that everyone had been knocked over to the ground by Liu Ruguo and others. He quickly drove over with curses and scolding.

"Don't chop, don't chop...oh, why don't you listen to people!"

The people in the village were all stupid.

Suddenly, a few strong men came from where they killed the grain collectors. They were stunned for a while before they reacted, and they all turned around and ran toward their homes.

It’s either they go home to get weapons, they are simply running away.

Since England colonized this, Ireland has never rebelled, but the more it rebelled, the less power it became. Young people have the strength to die on the battlefield or escape into the southern mountains to be bandits. They are just old and weak who have no combat power, and they are still recruited by nobles to fight against the rebels.

No matter how great the blood bravery is, they have fought all over again and again with various disadvantages. They can live safely on land only fifty miles away from Dublin because their ancestors have already admitted to the English.

Even if Master Zhu Xiaoen of Ailan came back, they did not have the idea of ​​raising an army, but just wanted to admit defeat again.

Even if they use grain to buy peat from Bai Laohu, on the one hand, they really lack this in winter and cannot survive. On the other hand, they are also the decision of everyone in the village after weighing the pros and cons.

The King of Alan went south again. If they won, they had supported them to sell food and exchange for peace. Even if the King of Alan lost the war again, the siege would always last for several months. As long as they had no food, there would always be a way to get food.

Rather than being stolen at that time, it is better to sell it to Bai Laohu in advance.

As for what would happen if the Governor pursued the situation after King Ailan's army retreated north after the defeat, no one thought about it.

People who are in danger of peace will not even think about tomorrow's events at night. Instead of thinking about what will happen in a few months, it is better to try their best to make themselves live until a few months later - the war is coming.

It is unknown who lives and who dies.

At this time, the tax officer died in the village. The vicious Liu Ruguo rode a horse and carried a knife to knock on the wooden door from house to house. There was nothing more terrifying in the world than this.

Liu Ruguo was also very unfair. In his heart, this was to eliminate harm for the people. It would be fine if these Irish people were not grateful to him, but they even regarded him as a bandit. They could not even shout from door to door. They hid behind the door and shouted, "Don't kill him, help me."

Is it sick? Why can’t I tell you that I can’t tell you how to be so damn!

After trying hard to persuade someone with kind words, he finally persuaded someone from the house. Through this person, he found the second respectful person in the village, who was a master who made black bread and asked him to summon the villagers.

As for the first respected tax officer, he rode a horse from the yard to report to the Governor of England, but was knocked down by the White Tiger's troops with a meteor rope. He is now tied up and plans to take it back to dig coal.

After some persuasion, all the villagers were summoned out, and the pit truck driven behind came. Bai Laohu sold the pit and collected the grain. Liu Ruguo pulled the bed sheet from the tax official's house, and wrote the words "Step the Way for Heaven" on the dry coal soil, put a spear in the middle of the village, and raised an army.

No one responded at all.

"Lord, we are just peasants, not soldiers, and we don't know how to fight. If we just go with you, what's the use?" The prestigious baker among the villagers felt the villagers' eyes looking at him, and gritted his teeth at Liu Ruguo Road: "And, the governor has many soldiers, not only these people, they will kill all our entire village."

"Farmer, what's wrong with the peasant? Chen Sheng was just a short-sighted villain at the end of the Qin Dynasty. You Fang Taoist in Zhangjiao at the end of the Han Dynasty. Huang Chao was a fallen scholar at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Han Shantong was a Pure Land Buddhist at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. If he were not a farmer, could they leave their names?"

"What's the matter with a mere governor? Even dynasties will be replaced in this world, only peasants. Look at which dynasty is not a peasant to give it a funeral?"

"The English have occupied your land for hundreds of years. Merchants, gentry, noble yamen runners have collected your taxes five times in the past four months. Now they are still going to collect the food. Are you not afraid of living like this? Are you still afraid of death?"

"I will ask you if you are hungry, and if you are cold, if you are hungry, come with me and take back all your robberies. If he dares to send troops to suppress me, Liu Ruguo will take you to fight them. What kind of governor, whoever wins will be governor!"

"A village of such a big one, don't even have a courageous person?"

Liu Ruguo shouted for a long time, and his apprentices were so excited that they gritted their teeth with a grim expression. The people gathered by the well at the village entrance were not in a state of turmoil. They couldn't understand.

Who is Chen Sheng? They know Chen Mu very well. As for Zhang Jiao, Huang Chao, and Han Shantong, who knows who it is?

Moreover, the environment is different. In the place where Liu Ruguo grew up, whenever there is a natural disaster, the officials in the government are not good for help, and the people can only grab grain to beg for work. In many cases, it is actually personal behavior after the collapse of local order.

When the dynasty is strong, this kind of riot that affects more people's livelihoods will be suppressed; and at the end of the dynasty, one place is in chaos and multiple places are dispatched to further increase fiscal and military expenditures, and the other is in a vicious cycle. More places are in chaos, which eventually leads to the destruction of the dynasty.

But Europe is different. The aristocratic rule of many founded people more subdivided the already scattered people. The blacksmith who forged swords had no food to rebel. The farmers who planted wheat looked at each other. The bread master didn't think it had anything to do with him. The lord had only a dozen guards to suppress them.

Even if the Central Plains Dynasty did not dare to fight the government army, several counties would have more people. But here, if you cross a stream, it would be the territory of another lord. If you oppose this lord, the lord's lord's people would not oppose their lord.

The most common choice is to rebel, but to run to the wilderness to rob people who are as poor as they are.

Therefore, the Ming generals and officials who followed Zhu Xiaoen had never considered launching a peasant uprising here. For example, Han Jinhuan and others often used methods to incite the nobles to rebel.

When a nobleman rebelled, his group of people naturally rebelled.

Even a few young people were ready to move, but were dragged by their families and dared not speak out.

Fortunately, everything is difficult at the beginning, and Liu Ruguo is prepared for this situation in advance.

His apprentice Jia Jiuer led people to open the granary cellar in the tax official's house, and all the grain, wine, fur and pigs and sheep were pulled out.
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