"This Wuzhou city is so beautiful." Wei Ze stood on the canopy boat and sighed sincerely.

Naturally, the meeting of the Heaven and Earth Society could not have any results, and since Wei Ze did not jump out and pretend to be a big head, the meeting would soon be cold. It was not that no one in the Heaven and Earth Society hoped that Wei Ze would be able to come up with a solution, which just gave Wei Ze a chance, and he asked to see Wuzhou City in person on the grounds that the situation was unclear. There was no shortage of boats in the Heaven and Earth Society, and someone immediately volunteered to provide ships for Wei Ze to watch the enemy's situation.

Accustomed to the bumps of the boat on the river, Weese was finally able to devote more attention to the scenery around him. The river ditch in the north really can't be compared with the river in the south, and overlooking Wuzhou City by boat, I saw that the city walls were tall, and the cyan city walls gave people a deep sense of history, and Wei Ze couldn't help but admire.

After listening to Wei Ze's admiration, Hu Chenghe, who had seen enough of Wuzhou City, interjected and came in, "Wei Checkpoint, these brothers are all my old acquaintances." Several of them wanted to fight with the checks. ”

There were four leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society who came on the same boat, and they had already talked to Wei Ze when they got on the boat, and when Wei Ze was watching the scenery, they tried not to disturb them. Hu Chenghe greeted him like this, and several of them immediately asked, "Wei Checkpoint, it may take down this Wuzhou City." ”

Wei Ze was still not used to the bumps on the boat, he grabbed the handrail and sat back in his position before saying, "Don't hide it from your brothers, I only brought a thousand people to Wuzhou City this time. There were only more than 500 muskets in the ranks, and there were no siege equipment at all. Brothers are now asking me if I can conquer this Wuzhou City, and I think I will definitely not be able to defeat it at the moment. ”

The cerebellum of the four Heaven and Earth Society were all confused by Wei Ze's behavior, and one of them, a young man named Ruan Xihao, asked with a straight face: "Since Wei Jian thinks that he can't defeat Wuzhou City, then why are you still here to do it?" ”

"If I don't come here to take a look, how do I know that I can't beat Wuzhou City now?" Weezer said calmly.

Because it had been discussed in advance, Hu Chenghe didn't interject and ignored it, he also turned his head and looked at Wuzhou City in the same way as Wei Ze. But Hu Chenghe's leisurely didn't last long, and a brother behind him began to pull Hu Chenghe's clothes. turned his head to look, but it was Liang Changtai of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Liang Changtai looked sad and indignant, and he said loudly to Hu Chenghe: "Brother Hu, this is different from what you said earlier." ”

"What's the difference?" Hu Chenghe asked rhetorically.

Liang Changtai said loudly: "Brother Hu, you said that the brothers of the Taiping Army are brave and good at fighting, how come they came here, and they can't beat Wuzhou City!" ”

Hu Chenghe smiled, "We only came with a thousand people, not to mention artillery now, and we don't even have a ladder to climb the city wall." How to lay down Wuzhou City? ”

Liang Changtai was blocked by Hu Chenghe's words, his face was red and his neck was thick, and he didn't know what to continue to say, Ruan Xihao stopped Liang Changtai, "Is the Taiping Army really coming with a thousand people?" ”

"If you don't believe it, you can follow us to the camp to have a look." Hu Chenghe replied.

"Good! I'll follow Brother Hu to take a look! Ruan Xihao replied as if angry.

The boatmen sounded, and the canopy turned around and headed for Jiangbei.

As soon as they arrived at Wei Ze's camp, the four leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society were stunned. The first thing that came into their sight was an observation deck under construction. The lookout was not high, and it was not completed yet, but the Taiping army did not relax its reconnaissance work because there were no enemies around.

Walking inside, a patrol appears. Patrols carrying muskets and spears patrol back and forth. Continuing to approach the center of the camp, a large camp appeared in front of everyone, and even if there was no way to build a camp, the Taiping army also restrained the simple rejection of horses and set up camp. There were young and old people in the camp, and there were even women. But they all have a clear division of labor, and the camps that chop wood, burn fires, and are busy already have a rough appearance.

These little collars only brought forty or fifty people, and suddenly they saw this real camp of a thousand people, and the scale of the atmosphere made them dare not speak loudly anymore.

Brought these four people into the position of the Chinese army, and in a large tent simply surrounded by cloth, Wei Ze asked them to find stones and sit down.

Ruan Xihao didn't sit either, he said directly: "Wei checkpoint, I want to join the gang." ”

"I brought some brothers to fight Wuzhou because I couldn't survive." Nguyen Hee Ho didn't hide it either. His village is more than 80 miles away from Wuzhou, and there are four or five small Hakka villages in that area. There was a Tujia town nearby, and the government handed over the responsibility of local taxes to the Tujia town. The reason for the rapid intensification of the contradictions between the Tujia and Hakka is the taxation, the government's administrative capacity is low, Guangxi is mountainous, if the government collects taxes on its own, it cannot manage it at all, so the responsibility of taxation is handed over to the local heroes. The total amount of tax paid to the government in each region is a certain amount, but after the Tujia get the tax power, the government does not care at all how much tax they collect from the Hakka.

With the government as a backer, the Tujia family is even more crazy to impose heavy taxes on Hakka villages. Last year, when the year was not good, tax revenues not only did not decrease, but increased somewhat. The number of people in Ruan Xihao's village is smaller than that of Hakka, and he can't beat it. has been plundered by the Tujia for a long time, and has no money and no heroes, so he summoned Hakka armed forces from other places to help. Knowing that the Heaven and Earth Society was coming to fight Wuzhou, he led his brothers from several nearby villages to participate. As long as you can defeat Wuzhou and kill all the people in the government, I think no one will come to collect taxes anymore. If you can break Wuzhou City and grab it in the city, you can subsidize the livelihood of the village.

Seeing that the Taiping Army was in order, with thousands of people, Ruan Xihao immediately felt that it was more promising to follow the Taiping Army.

Weser had heard of going to the doctor when he was sick, and he had just heard of it. Ruan Xihao used a very realistic move to let Wei Ze see with his own eyes how far the people could go to the doctor.

Let Ruan Xihao sit down first, Wei Ze asked the other three Heaven and Earth Society leaders, "Why do you want to attack Wuzhou?" ”

The other three have in common with Ruan Xihao all want to get rid of the tyrannical government, Liang Changtai is from the boat army, and it is too difficult to make a living at the moment, if he can not be taxed, or even share a sum of taxes after occupying Wuzhou, Liang Changtai's livelihood will be immediately better.

In general, this group of brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society are all desperate for their future, and they can't find any other way to change their current terrible life than violence. In a word, these people can't live happily.

Wei Ze said: "Brothers, you are right about something, if you don't kill the current government, you will definitely not be able to live." It's just that in addition to this incident, I'm afraid that everything else is wrong, and defeating Wuzhou doesn't mean that everything is over, there is still the Manchu court behind the official government in Wuzhou, if you don't defeat the Manchu court, everyone will do everything in vain......"

Without waiting for Wei Ze to explain the difference between rebellion and uprising, Ruan Xihao interrupted Wei Ze's words, "Wei Checkpoint, as long as you can help us destroy Wujia Town, not only brothers and me, but also several villages where we are are follow Wei Checkpoint." Brother Hu has already told me that your Taiping Army is going to rebel. When we came to fight Wuzhou, we also wanted to rebel. Expecting the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society to go with us to fight Wujiazhen, they are all unwilling. Wujiazhen has bullied us for so many years, owed us countless blood debts, and if Wujiazhen is not destroyed, brother, I can't eat or sleep! ”

Ruan Xihao said it so clearly, Wei Ze didn't know what to say next for a while. Since Ruan Xihao explained what he said, he no longer hid it, "Wei Checkpoint, I'm not ignorant of what to do." If Wujia Town is destroyed, the officials and soldiers will definitely go to kill it. I'm alone, and staying at home is a death. I make an oath here, if you can take me to destroy Wujia Town, I will swear to follow Wei Jian to the death, and wherever you take me to fight, I will follow you! ”

Wei Ze couldn't help but pat his thigh, and he stood up suddenly, "Okay! Since Brother Ruan said so, even if it is only Brother Ruan who joins my side, I will also fight that Wujia Town! ”

The other three brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society looked at Wei Ze and Ruan Xihao in amazement, they had only come into contact with Wei Ze today, and Wei Ze's unfathomable appearance made the three of them feel that this young man was very difficult to deal with. It's not that Wei Ze is weird, it's that these people can't figure out what Wei Ze wants to do and what he wants. And Wei Ze let Wuzhou not fight, and ran to fight Wujia Town, which made the three of them even more confused about what was going on.

Liang Changtai is a clever person, he thought about it, fighting Wuzhou is also making a profit, fighting Wujiazhen is also making a profit, Liang Changtai does not have such a lofty idea, let alone the determination to completely rebel, for him, if he has money, he can solve a lot of extremely difficult things at the moment. He was more convinced of Hu Chenghe, since Hu Cheng was willing to follow Wei Ze, Liang Changtai also wanted to try it, this time he could follow Wei Ze and them to fight Wujiazhen, which was also a good opportunity to see Wei Ze's ability.

Thinking of this, Liang Changtai also stood up and said, "Wei Checkpoint, I am also willing to fight Wujiazhen with Wei Checkpoint." I hope that Wei Jian can take me there. ”

With these two people joining, although the other two leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society did not fully understand what was happening, they also followed suit, "We are also willing to obey Wei Jian's dispatch." ”

After the basic team for attacking Wujiazhen was determined, Wei Ze was not pretentious, as the main force and the supreme commander of the "coalition army", Wei Ze immediately began to give orders. Ruan Xihao is a local, so he is naturally in charge of the early intelligence work together with Zhang Yingchen. Liang Changtai and others were the brothers of the boat army, and they were responsible for transporting troops across the river by boat, and they also undertook the task of water transportation.

After sending them out, during the period before leaving, Weeser began to intensify the training of the troops. In this era of queuing up to be shot, the slightest improvement in discipline and proficiency can increase the combat effectiveness of many troops.

In this gap, Wei Ze also conducted more investigations into Wuzhou City. After all, when you get here, it's not a bad thing to take Wuzhou City.

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