stubborn thief

Chapter 66
In another memory, some people say that the only thing that can truly unite a group of good friends is a corpse in the backyard.

The dead tiger general is the corpse.

Liu Guoneng was also a scholar. His ancestors guarded the frontiers from generation to generation. His father, brother and son, the dead were killed in battle, and the living were recruited. All died outside the Great Wall.

There is only his old mother at home.

As the only scholar in the village, Liu Guoneng should be the leader of the people.

When the drought came, he led the villagers to build water conservancy.

When the thieves come, they build knives and guns to defend against the thieves.

until the official came.

Liu Guoneng gathered men from four villages to besiege Wangzhuangbao with sharp weapons, with a very humble purpose.

He just wanted to harvest grain from the king's fields that could pay taxes to the imperial court.

Now that there is more food, Liu Guoneng is very confused.

The villagers do not plan to be thieves anymore, and people hope that the drought will not continue next year.

The belief that life can always get back on track.

But he knew he couldn't go back.

In a Guandi Temple in Nanjia Mountain, Liu Guoneng set up a banquet to entertain the three of them.

During the feast, Liu Guoneng poured out his bitterness: "The rice we have left for the common people's family is probably enough for half a month. After half a month, there will be chaos around the city. I don't know what to do!"

"It's not far from the palace city, Brother Guoneng, I don't think you are practicing village soldiers."

Liu Chengzong persuaded: "Let's practice, weave young and strong people together, in the name of defending against thieves, now there is food and drink, it's the best time to train."

"I don't know how to train, not to mention that Yang Baihu can't come here every day."

Liu Guoneng shared his hands. His father was a veteran, but he died very early outside the Great Wall in northern Xinjiang. He has been growing up in Nanjia Mountain.

The family was poor and it was difficult to study, so he could only get the four books and five classics for the imperial examinations, and he was able to get a scholar by virtue of his intelligence, but extracurricular books such as military books.

have not seen.

"I don't know how to train. I can find a friend. As you said, the people around here are out of food. Even if you have food, you will be in chaos. If there is no food in Shaanxi, and if there is food in Shanxi and Henan, you can stay out of it?"

Liu Chengzong drank a glass of wine: "The great uprising is imperative!"

"I don't think so... That tiger general who took your name, gathered hundreds of people, spent two days getting his name into the Yan'an Mansion, and spent another two days getting Li Bei's merit list."

Liu Guoneng shook his head and said, "Not to mention the emperor Shengming, who will soon see what northern Shaanxi looks like today."

Yes, he is loyal and patriotic.

"You don't know what to do, I tell you, in the face of life and death, there is no right or wrong."

Liu Chengzong said: "The great drought has destroyed Shanxi and Shanxi, the eastern invaders dragged northeast Liaoning straight, and Chongming led the four southwestern provinces. The whole of Daming relied on a canal to survive, and the emperor could not take care of Shaanxi.

The expenditures of the imperial court were overrun every year, and one less province taxed one more hole. With more and more holes, the tax collection became more and more fierce, and the national power was exhausted. "

Liu Guoneng frowned and said, "You want to rebel?"

Looting is not a rebellion, it is a helpless expedient measure.

So he didn't think he had rebelled, and he thought it was a mistake to invite Liu Chengzong to come home.

Liu Chengzong did not answer this question clearly, but instead asked: "Drought has made Shaanxi like this. It has been two years since the imperial court should be exempted from taxation, but have they exempted it? Whoever forced you to become a robber is the imperial court."

Liu Guoneng was speechless, but the other two were excited.

"Correct!"

Li Wanqing echoed: "If the imperial court did not exempt tax, I would not have taken in more than 200 tax evaders in the mountains."

Yang Yanchang made a very serious suggestion to Liu Chengzong: "Brother Chengzong, I saw that day, you are both frontier troops, but Li Bei is really difficult to deal with. We can't beat him with a few thousand people."

"If you don't fight, how do you know you can't beat it!"

Li Wanqing was probably overjoyed, so he stood up and waved: "Tiger general, you lead us to rebel, I, Li Wanqing, will be the vanguard for you. Let's kill it first, and then we will be a general when we recruit security, so we won't be mad at all!"

Liu Chengzong asked: "What's the use of being a general, the world has not changed, the rich are rusting and rotten, and the poor can't live by selling their wives and children.

You fought with blood to kill this and that, just to ride on the heads of the people as a blessing, and when they turned against you, they slaughtered them again. "

Li Wanqing was silent, then sat down slowly and said, "Then what can we do? Even if we take Yan'an Mansion, we can't hold it. If we don't surrender and recruit security, we'll just beat ourselves to pieces for chickens and stones?"

"That's right, I can't hold it!"

Liu Chengzong turned his head to Liu Guoneng and said, "That's why I have to train troops now, and I won't have a chance to rebel. At that time, being able to run is more important than being able to fight. If you are blocked by the official army for a decisive battle, it will be a death."

Liu Guoneng was silent for a long time, no longer arguing about loyalty to the monarch, and asked, "Then tell me your plan, what are you going to do?"

"Of course I want to gather strength and wait for the moment.

But it's not my turn to wait for the opportunity. We are all like the imperial court, with candles in the wind and no risk. "

Liu Chengzong always used his family as a reference.

His family is the kind that wouldn't rebel under normal circumstances.

Rebellion requires a mass base. Once his family is forced to rebel, it means that the time for rebellion has come.

"We have fought side by side, and we are friends. If we rebel in the future, don't think about recruiting security. If recruiting security is not good, either don't rebel, and rebels only have the purpose of overthrowing the imperial court."

This is too difficult, it is difficult for Liu Chengzong to say this at this moment, it sounds like a joke in the ears of the three.

Even if the Ming Dynasty is still in the wind, it is not something they can overthrow.

But nothing in this world is controlled by who wants or not.

Halfway through the wine, someone stumbled into the temple and shouted: "Liu Jia Dalang, more than [-] officers and soldiers have surrounded the talented people. They want food, and they also want young mothers and aunts!"

Liu Guoneng was stunned for a moment, and then he said angrily, "Where did you get the dog, there's not enough food?"

Yang Yanchang also asked, "Which one leads the team?"

The villager shook his head and said, "I don't know. They said they were soldiers from the south, and they chased Wang Zuohang all the way to this place."

"Isn't this a fucking fart, Zuo Hangzi ran to Qingyang, what are you doing in Yan'an!"

Perhaps it was Liu Chengzong's words that played a role, causing Liu Guoneng to suppress his anger and walk out of the temple gate. He adjusted his mood and said, "Give them some food and send them away."

A few people followed out of the temple gate, looked down the mountain, and saw a village in the valley that was only two miles away from Liu Guoneng's house, and a team of soldiers blocked the entrance to the village.

Dozens of villagers gathered there, and some people went out to negotiate with the officials.

Not knowing what to say, the negotiating officer returned to the team.

The next scene made Liu Guoneng's eyes split.

A row of gunpowder smoke rose, and soldiers in guard uniforms fired platoons of guns with three-eyed guns, and villagers fell down.

The people behind fled into the village, and the soldiers rushed into the village with knives and bows.

When Liu Chengzong ran out, he saw that the villages in the valley were fighting, and Liu Guoneng stared blankly there.

As he took off his official robe, he shouted to Liu Guoneng, "What are you still doing, gathering people! They are not the official army!"

(End of this chapter)