Peng Da and Zhao Jun led more than 100 Red Turban troops to vote for Guo Zixing to taste the sweetness of the recruitment order, and he encouraged the soldiers to recruit people everywhere, and each soldier recruited was rewarded, and many were rewarded according to the head. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info Peng Da and Zhao Jun used the official positions of the two heads of hundreds of households to prove that it is a real proof.

Everyone likes things that benefit without expense, Tang He thought of his good brothers for the first time, and hurriedly repaired a book and sent it to Zhongli.

Taking advantage of the interval between the letters sent from Haozhou to Zhongli, our eyes will also temporarily review Zhu Chongba's childhood.

It is said that Zhu Chongba tasted the roast chicken for the first time when he pretended to be a god stick, and he went out of Liu Dashanren's house all the way, and the little guy ate so oily and satisfied that he forgot that he had not "shared the spoils" with Zhou Nose, and when he remembered this, Zhou Nose had already carried fifty taels of silver and didn't know where to hide.

Zhu Chongba tossed and turned after he learned the taste of meat, it turned out that meat was such a delicious thing. It's a pity that the profession of "god stick" pays attention to technical content, and he has no qualifications as a child, nor has he practiced the eloquence of Zhou Nose that blows the Milky Way for nine days, so he has to sigh with hope.

Cattle? Zhu Chongba's eyes fell on the round belly of the scalper, this cow has been pregnant for more than seven months, and it will be time to give birth after a while, he didn't dare to fight the idea of a scalper, but the calf ......

Hehe, Zhu Chongba's face flashed an evil smile, and the scalper was so frightened that he almost gave birth prematurely.

After two months, the cattle gave birth to a calf. The calf has a smooth coat, strong legs and feet, and a very fleshy appearance.

Landlord Liu was very happy and instructed Zhu Chongba to take care of it, hoping that the calf would grow up quickly and become the main force of cultivated land as soon as possible.

Who knew that the next day, Zhu Chongba came to report that the calf was crushed to death by the cow. At that time, it was common for a child to die young, and it was not surprising that a calf died.

Landlord Liu shouted bad luck when he heard this, and ordered Zhu Chongba to throw the carcass of the calf far away.

Zhu Chongba threw a place that no one could think of, and he "threw" it into his stomach. The calves are roasted to the outside and tender on the inside, and the aroma is overflowing. Zhu Chongba thought while eating, when will he be able to eat meat next time?

A year later, the ox gave birth to another calf, and the calf also died "inexplicably" the next day.

Landlord Liu didn't think that there was another reason for the death of the calf, he just felt that Zhu Chongba's kid was a mourning star, raising two calves in three years, who dared to stay in such a person, beat Zhu Chongba and prepared to deprive Zhu Chongba of the right to herd cattle.

Not being able to herd cattle means losing the source of livelihood, Zhu Chongba was honest at once, and repeatedly assured Landlord Liu that the same situation would never occur in the coming year. The old and young of the Zhu family begged hard, and finally won a chance for him to stay and observe.

Zhu Chongba, who has no desire to eat meat, honestly herds cattle, and only hopes that Landlord Liu can let him herd cattle for a lifetime for the sake of his diligence. Who knew that this goal was soon broken, and the rescue of Liu Dashan's daughter on Fengyang Mountain brought disaster to him. He still can't figure out why he was beaten by Landlord Liu's stick even after saving Landlord Liu's relatives.

Zhu Wusi, who is an old man and an old ghost, knows some of the dirty things of Landlord Liu, and seeing that Er inadvertently ruined Landlord Liu's good deeds, he had to persuade his son to leave Suxian quickly, "There are still a few pieces of land idle at home, you go home and farm." ”

Zhu Chongba returned to his hometown and did not farm, he was idle all day long, stealing chickens and dogs, and soon became a gangster in Zhongli County with Xu Da, Tang He, Zheng Yulin, and Zheng Yuchun.

Don't look at Zhu Chongba, who is black and ugly, his appearance is not good, but he is a thief and ruthless enough. At the age of five, he dared to pretend to be a ghost and gang up with Zhou Nose to fool Liu Dashan, at the age of seven, he dared to kill cattle and barbecue meat to eat, and at the age of ten, he beat people and kicked them, making the other party cry and call his mother, so of course he became the boss of the gangsters. Causing trouble and fighting always has his shadow, so that when the people of Zhongli County encounter a child crying at night, their parents will threaten and say, "If you cry again, I will send you to Zhu Chongba", and the child suddenly stopped making trouble.

Zhu Chongba's notoriety became more and more popular, Zhu Wusi was pulled by the villagers every time he went home to visit his son, and heard that his son was so uncompromising, Zhu Wusi was so angry that he simply donated the vacant land in his hometown to the nearby Huangjue Temple, as for this unscrupulous son, let him fend for himself.

However, Zhu Wusi never dreamed that he didn't see his son perish, and he perished first.

In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the banks of the Huai River suffered from severe plague and drought, first people could not afford to eat, starved to death, and then the plague spread and died of many people. Zhu Wusi unfortunately also contracted the plague, and Landlord Liu immediately and mercilessly drove the Zhu family out of the door. Zhu Wusi struggled and didn't return to Zhongli, he died of illness halfway, and the unlucky ones were Zhu Chongba's mother Chen and eldest brother Zhu Chongwu, fortunately, the two sisters married early, and the third brother Zhu Chongqi also became a son-in-law, otherwise maybe the family would have died more.

When Zhu Chongba received the bad news and rushed to the scene, he saw his sister-in-law Wang, nephew Zhu Wenzheng and second brother Zhu Chongliu lying on the ground crying to death. Zhu Chongba was grief-stricken, and suddenly understood the truth that "the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop, and the son wants to raise but does not wait". What made him even more sad was that he had no money, and he couldn't even pay for the thin coffin of his parents and brother, and his family's land had been donated to Huangjue Temple, and his parents and brothers didn't even have a place to bury.

Zhu Chongba tasted tears for the first time, and he and Zhu Chongliu finally scraped together a few pieces of torn clothes to wrap the bodies of their relatives, put them on wooden boards and carried them around, praying that a well-wisher would give them a cemetery for burial.

The incessant crying and poignant pleading simply made the listener sad and the hearer wept. Finally, at the junction of Zhongli and Suxian, there was a slightly wealthy landlord Liu Jizu who showed kindness and took out a piece of land for Zhu Chongba and them to make a cemetery. (It was also because of his good deeds this time that he was blessed endlessly, and was posthumously awarded by Zhu Yuanzhang as the Marquis of Righteousness, Yin and his descendants, and the Ming Dynasty.) ）

After burying his parents and brothers, and having nothing, they discussed going their separate ways to find a way out for the time being. Seeing that her husband's family was hopeless, Chen had to take her son back to her parents' house, and Zhu Chongliu was also forced to flee away. Seventeen-year-old Zhu Chongba was lonely and desperate, and he simply came to Huangjue Temple to become a monk.

At that time, the Yuan Dynasty worshiped Buddhism, and the treatment of monks was better than that of ordinary people, and they could marry wives and have children if they had their own land. Perhaps the Yuan people thought that the monks of the Central Plains were not Han and southerners if they escaped into the empty gate, so their attitude towards the monks of the Central Plains was also relatively relaxed, and many taxes were exempted. However, the Central Plains monks have inherited the precepts and rules for many years, and they can't be as open-minded as the Yuanren Lama, so the "flower monk" will still be despised in the Central Plains, so unless it is a last resort, ordinary people will not choose this method to cut off children and grandchildren.

Regardless of whether he is a monk or a vegetarian monk, as long as he doesn't starve to death, the disheartened Zhu Chongba devoted himself to the monk career without hesitation. This kid used to listen to some Taoist explanations with Zhou Bi's side, and there was actually no difference between the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism in terms of the ultimate goal of cultivation, so Zhu Chongba deceived the appreciation of the host of Huangjue Temple in just a few words.

For the sake of Zhu Chongba's wisdom roots, and his ancestors had merits for Huangjue Temple, the host left him.

However, plagues and droughts are not treated as favorably as the Yuan people treat monks, they truly achieve "equality of all beings", those who should starve to death will starve to death, and those who should die of illness will die of illness as soon as possible. When the plague also threatened the people of Zhongli, the monks of Huangjue Temple had no food to eat, so the host had to let everyone go out to make a fortune.

Zhu Chongba stayed in the temple for only 50 days, and he was a walking boy for less than two months, and before he could figure out anything, he was forced to leave Huangjue Temple for his livelihood and wander around.

This trip is several years, and along the way, Zhu Chongba can't tell whether he is a wandering monk or a beggar, anyway, he has tasted all kinds of hardships. In the south, Jin, Dou, west to light, rest, north to Yingzhou, all over the Huaixi, Henan mountains and rivers.

Although the outside world is very exciting, the outside world is also very dangerous, and there are people who have rebelled everywhere and officers and soldiers who have caught anti-thieves, and the phenomenon of "officials catching thieves and people killing officials" is not uncommon.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to take refuge in the Yuan people as a lackey, and he didn't want to be a thief and lose his head, so he had no choice but to hide back in his hometown and become a monk in Huangjue Temple again.

If there is no accident, Zhu Chongba, a monk, may continue to do it until the end of his life, and there will be no Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and the birth of the Ming Dynasty. But a letter from a friend changed his fate, and his life took a huge turn from then on.

A friend has written, but who has written? It turned out to be the difficult brother Tang He back then.

The content of the letter is roughly that Tang He has participated in the Red Turban Rebel Army, and has become the head of a hundred households under Guo Zixing in Haozhou, hoping that Zhu Chongba and other difficult brothers and sisters will also come to join the rebel army and strive for wealth and prosperity......

Zhu Chongba's heart suddenly itched like a cat's scratch, his younger brother was a hundred heads of households, and he was still a half-dead monk, and he was so bad that he didn't have a face. But he was afraid that he would lose his head if he joined the rebel army, and he didn't see these bloody scenes when he traveled.

Zhu Chongba, who was hesitant, very much hoped to find a few brothers to discuss. Who knew that when he returned to Zhongli to inquire, the brothers Zheng Yulin and Zheng Yuchun actually got into a lawsuit and ran away, and their current whereabouts are unknown; Xu Da seemed to help his distant relatives herd cattle, and he heard that the mountain was far away, and he would not be able to find anyone for a while.

Zhu Chongba was upset, he didn't dare to tell anyone about such a major event as rebellion, except for a few brothers, and after thinking for a long time, he finally thought that there was another person who had also done bad things with him, and the first time he went astray was the road led by this bull's nose.

So Zhu Chong rushed over the mountains and mountains to find Zhou Nose in Suxian County, this old Taoist doesn't often boast about what kind of Zhou Banxian, Chen Xuan, Qiu Chuji's successor, proficient in Zhou Yi gossip, know astronomy and geography, it is better to let him make a hexagram.