Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

At noon, fires suddenly broke out in Huangjia Village, twenty miles away from the Zhan family's ancestral home, followed by cries, screams, and shouts of killing. In the Huang family's big house in the center of Weizi, dozens of The man's body was stabbed or slashed with various weapons, leaving him unrecognizable.

In the six-bay main room, men with broad swords in their waists came in and out, piling boxes of gold and silver ingots and silver coins under the eaves.

Someone was comparing the fit of the satin clothes they dug out of the box. From time to time, the cries of the female members of the Huang family could be heard all around.

Next to the corridor paved with water-polished blue bricks, people threw books, contracts, money and food books into the fire, and a raging fire started.

Hundreds of bags of rice taken out of the barn were moved outside the gate and piled casually in front of the door without any care. On both sides of the stone lion, a dozen iron pots were set up. The pots were filled with hot water filled with flowers. After a few fat pigs were slaughtered, they were quickly disemboweled and thrown into the pot.

Someone on the side shouted loudly, "Eat the big ones! Eat the big ones!".

While shouting, he threw handfuls of Keelung copper coins into the street, attracting more and more people around him.

Zhan Chenjiu also put on a brocade robe taken from the Huang family and patrolled everything, looking quite majestic.

"Brother Chenjiu! I have sent messages to all the family members who are related to our family in the four villages and towns. Five or six families did not dare to reply for fear of getting into trouble. The other seven or eight families are here!" Zhan Xiaoer acted as a temporary messenger. The character relies on his quick legs and feet to pass news back and forth.

"How many people are here?" Zhan Chenjiu's voice became a little low and hoarse, either out of excitement or passion, or because of the sensory stimulation brought by killing.

"I'm afraid there are thousands of people!?"

"Tell the brothers outside to get rice and cook quickly. Everyone has enough to eat and drink before going to Wu's house in Baitu Village!"

For decades, the Wu family, the landlords of Baitu Village, have been raining down their land on the heads of Hakka people everywhere. They often do many evil things and bully men and women. Today, it is time to settle this account. .

While they were talking here, a painful scream suddenly came from there.

A son of the Zhan family was rolling on the ground with his mouth full of blood, gasping for air-conditioning, pointing vaguely at a woman in the distance and cursing.

"what happened?!"

"Brother Chen Jiu, third brother was making out with that woman. He didn't want her to bite his tongue, and he almost bit it off."

"You worthless thing! The mother-in-law in your family is not enough for you, so you come here to look for shame." Zhan Chenjiu cursed at his third brother without any idea.

"Chen Jiu, you are the leader now, but don't just reprimand me! The second brother entered the Huang family's house and did nothing. First he slept with Weasel's two concubines, and then he took Weasel's beloved granddaughter away. It made the old woman jump up and down and immediately jumped into the well, but you didn’t say anything?”

"You!" Zhan Chenjiu was speechless for a moment and didn't even know how to refute.

These brothers are really not cheap. They used to be honest and friendly, but now.

Zhan Chenjiu doesn't know whether their transformation is good or bad.

"Brother Chenjiu! Brother Chenjiu!"

The two children of the Zhan family ran out of the backyard happily. As they ran, they raised the items in their hands high and showed them to everyone happily.

"Brother Chen Jiu, we have discovered something good, please take a look!"

The two men held their inventions in their hands, a steel knife, a spear, and a breastplate.

Zhan Chenjiu took a look at it and took a long breath and said: "This weasel is really not afraid of death, and he dares to hide weapons secretly!"

"But it's ours now. It seems easier to go to Baitu Village next."

During the previous attack on the Huang family, several brothers still missed and were slightly injured.

"How many of these are there?"

"There are about 100 spears and 50 steel knives!"

"This is the time for rebellion." Zhan Chenjiu was shocked. If they hadn't attacked by surprise, the Huang family would not have been able to defeat them.

"Go and distribute the weapons to our brothers and eat quickly so that we can go to Baitu Village to settle the score with Wu!"

"okay!"

After eating and drinking, more than a thousand brothers, led by Zhan Chenjiu, rushed like a flood to Baitu Village ten miles away.

Facing the Weizi wall and the people on the wall, Zhanchenjiu cleared his throat and shouted loudly towards the Weizi wall.

"People on the wall, listen, we came to Baitu Village not to cause trouble for you! We just came to see Master Wu! Everyone knows the good things he has done over the years. If you don't want your mother-in-law to remarry, just leave quickly. I Make sure no one is hurt."

The people in shabby and dark clothes on the wall of Weizi were a little disturbed, and they seemed to want to quit. It was really not worth dying for the Wu family.

At this time, a burst of shouting and cursing came from the wall, "Don't listen to him, everyone. Didn't our brothers who went to the Huang family say that these people are now rebels, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil. Think about them coming in, Your mother-in-law is not allowed to serve several people."

"Yes, we can't let them in." When he mentioned his mother-in-law, his eyes were full of determination.

"Brother Chen Jiu, what should we do?!"

Several Zhan family members gathered around him, eagerly waiting for him to make up his mind.

"Brothers! Let me ask you, how have you been these past two days?"

"It's so exciting! I'm eating lard, wearing silk, and even women who didn't dare to look up before are now able to do whatever they want!"

"That's right! It feels so much more comfortable than before. I really want to feel like this every day!"

"Okay, since the brothers all want to live like this, then the Wu family must be captured."

Zhan Chenjiu held a steel knife in his hand. After shouting, he led thousands of people and rushed towards the Wu family's small earthen fort.

The small earthen wall of the Wu family was pushed hard by more than a thousand people and fell apart. The servants on it were either buried in the soil or turned around and ran away.

In just half a day, the Wu family was completely captured by Zhan Chenjiu.

A few days later, Zhan Chenjiu had transformed from a farmer's boy into a rebel leader, with an aura that Zhan Xiaoer didn't dare to recognize.

^.^，

"Boy, the Wu family's women are locked up in the ancestral hall. You go and choose a young and beautiful one to play with tonight. I've been traveling back and forth these days, thank you for your hard work."

Zhan Chenjiu gave a faint instruction, which was regarded as a reward for the waiter who had gone to Chang County to inform the Gu family brothers in the past few days.

"Okay, Brother Chen Jiu." His eyes were hot before, but now he can finally get started, which made the waiter grin from ear to ear with joy.

Late at night, in the flower hall of the Wu family's courtyard, a banquet was placed, where Zhan Chenjiu, Gu Shengzhi, Gu Qian and others drank and talked.

Gu Qian raised his wine glass and made a toast: "Congratulations to Brother Zhan for taking revenge and eradicating a great evil from all over the country!"

Zhan Chenjiu laughed and said, "Brother, you are too praised. What can I do with this property?"

"I wonder what your plans are for the future?!" Gu Shengzhi asked at the side.

Zhan Chenjiu thought for a moment: "Nowadays, all the villages and towns are resisting grain and taxes. I am the first to revolt. If the government pursues them, I will definitely not be able to escape. Beheading is a trivial matter, but no one can escape me." Lose."

"really!"

"I think, let's make the matter of grain and tax resistance a big deal for him, so that the court cannot ignore it, and my head will be more stable!"

Zhan Chenjiu walked up to Gu Shengzhi, gave him a glass of wine, and asked, "Brother Gu, would you like to join me?"

"If we all work together, our heads will definitely be saved, and future prosperity and wealth will be indispensable. Brother Gu, you are the leader of Chang County. If you come, the brothers will do well."

I have to admit that the idea of ​​drinking wine is very attractive, and Gu Shengzhi has really taken it into consideration.

He is at best a local figure in Chang County, with many big households and county magistrates. What he does is also illegal. If people are unhappy that day, he will just have fun.

"Okay! I'll do it with my brother! I'll go back to Chang County tomorrow and give him a big fight! There's chaos in the north now, and there are thieves and hungry people everywhere. Although we in Lingnan are worse, the tax collectors everywhere are going crazy again. Hey, this is a great opportunity for you and me to make some achievements!"

"Okay!" Zhan Chenjiu took a sip of wine into his mouth. The stimulation of the alcohol made his face immediately turn red. "Then I will wait for Brother Gu to have an uprising, and I will immediately take over a dozen surrounding towns and villages for him! By then, we will be the county magistrates of Chang County."

"Brother, no!"

After all, Gu Shengzhi is a person who has traveled far and wide. He has been to Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas and has seen the world. He is much better at thinking about problems than Zhan Chenjiu, a farmer's boy who was still cultivating and collecting firewood in the mountains not long ago.

"Brother Zhan, if you want to keep this head around your neck for a long time and stay stable, you will be tempted to capture some county. You can do whatever you want with the surrounding villages, even if they are slaughtered, it doesn't matter."

"Brother, why is this?" Gu Qian, whose eyes were red with alcohol, looked at his elder brother in confusion.

"Occupying the county seat is tantamount to confronting the officials, and they will have to send troops to encircle and suppress you. Do you think you can withstand the officials? If you attack the county seat, the Lingnan Governor's Yamen will lose face. !”

"So, we will only rob the town and never touch the county seat! We are only resisting food and taxes, and we will never kill officials in rebellion!"

"But I killed that weasel." Zhan Chenjiu asked.

"Haha. Brother Zhan, that weasel is nothing, but he only got this job because his daughter became the eighteenth concubine of the county magistrate. To say that he is an official is really a compliment to him." Gu. Noboru took a sip of wine and enjoyed it very much.

"There are rules for killing officials in rebellion. Those below the seventh-rank official can be killed at will. Those who are placed casually by the superiors, it doesn't matter if they kill a few. But when they reach the seventh-rank official, they are appointed by the court, so they cannot be killed. "

"Since there is such a thing!" Zhan Chenjiu was shocked. If Gu Shengzhi hadn't reminded him, he might have got hot-headed and gone to attack the county.

Kill the county magistrate, and then think about the government army in the future. How can I withstand this small force?