Yao Degui saw Zhu Dashan's eyes glaring at him with red eyes, and saw that everyone squatting on the ground was full of indignation. Throwing away the whip that Zhu Dashan was holding in his hand, he pulled out his waist knife and slashed at Zhu Dashan and said, "You are not Diao Min, you still dare to resist." Lao Tzu will cut you now. Zhu Dashan's face turned white, and he hurriedly dodged to the side, and hit Yao Degui with his hand. Yao Degui saw Zhu Dashan dodging, and hurriedly waved his knife horizontally to slash at Zhu Dashan's waist, but he didn't want to be hit by the whip caught by Zhu Dashan on Yao Degui's wrist, or the whip handle. Yao Degui's knife instantly fell off his hand and fell to the ground. Zhu Dashan saw the knife slashing horizontally, and rolled to the ground to the side.

At this time, the other errand officers, seeing that there was a commotion here, rushed over. Qiu Longzu, the magistrate of the county, shouted loudly on the platform: "Quick, kill this thief." ”

Zhu Dashan turned over and hurriedly picked up the knife that Yao Degui had dropped on the ground in his hand, and saw Yao Degui holding his wrist and glaring at him. When Zhu Dashan saw the errand officer next to him, he quickly ran towards him, and stabbed Yao Degui with a knife in his heart. The officers usually carried only iron rulers and chains. None of them are murderous weapons, there are knives to catch quickly, but there are more than a dozen people at the scene. Zhu Dashan is not afraid of anything, a knife wheel is vigorous. For a while, he was on an errand, and he couldn't get close to catch fast.

Seeing that there were more and more people coming around, Zhu Dashan shouted while waving his sword: "They have seized our land and our food, and now they want to drive us to the battlefield to die, this is not to give us a way to live." Zhu Dashan saw that although everyone was full of anger, no one responded to Zhu Dashan's words. Zhu Dashan danced his knife and retreated. For a while, Zhu Dashan retreated into the crowd, and everyone saw Zhu Dashan's knife dancing, and they hurriedly dodged left and right.

Zhu Dashan was in a panic when he saw Old Man Wang and Gou Xingwang, and saw that the two of them were retreating to the left. Next to them happened to be the warden Zhang Yongquan coming over, and next to him was Liu Zhengqing, the leader of the team who arrested Zhu Dashan with Yao Degui. When he saw Old Man Wang and Gou Xingwang who were hiding to the side, he took out his waist knife and said, "These two people are Zhu Dashan's accomplices, and they were also cut together." ”

Liu Zhengqing couldn't shout, he didn't call out the names of Old Man Wang and Gou Xingwang, and there were twenty or thirty people next to him! Lin Zhuang, Cheng Dequn, Cheng Deyi, and five or six people who came to the south with Zhu Dashan to settle down. When these dozen or so people heard Liu Zhengqing shouting, they all felt that they were shouting at themselves, and they originally wanted to beg for mercy, but they saw Liu Zhengqing holding a big knife and slashing at him. The soul under each one does not possess the body.

Old man Wang had been mixed in Li Zicheng's team of displaced people, but when he saw Liu Zhengqing raising his knife and slashing over, there was no way to retreat. shouted: "They are going to kill us all, Lao Tzu and you are fighting." shouted and pounced directly on Liu Zhengqing. Liu Zhengqing originally saw that Gou Xingwang was young, and he was afraid that he would resist and see Gou Xingwang. Unexpectedly, Old Man Wang rushed over and hugged him. Liu Zhengqing's feet were unstable, and he rolled directly to the ground with Old Man Wang.

Cheng Dequn and others next to him also agitated and went up to hold Liu Zhengqing down. Zhang Yongquan walked in front and saw that Zhu Dashan was surrounded at this time, thinking that he was sweating profusely. If you don't have a cup of tea, you will definitely be caught. At this moment, he heard a roar behind him, and before he could turn around, he was thrown down and pressed to the ground. At this time, the other servants and catchers all mixed in with the crowd, and when they saw this movement, someone shouted: "If you want to live, fight with them." The others also started to make a commotion. Catch quickly, and the messenger is busy pressing everyone with weapons and bullets.

The errand officers around Zhu Dashan, there were more than a dozen people who were caught off guard, and they were caught off guard by Cheng Dequn, and only six people were held down at once, and four people were busy pushing away the crowd and running out. Zhu Dashan stopped and looked, and the errand soldiers who ran out were caught together to be pressed. He yelled: "The government tricked us into clearing the wasteland, and now it wants to kill us all." If you want to live, you cut down these dog officers. ”

Zhu Dashan shouted and picked up the knife and slashed at the officers, and the two brothers Cheng Dequn, Gou Xingwang, Lin Zhuang and others responded with knives. Seeing that only a dozen or so people responded, the rest of the people were cowering under the pressure of the errand and fast bullets, and there was a tendency to be pressed down, and shouted: "Since you have done it, can you still go back?" ”

Among the people who had already squatted down, there was a person who moved from Huguang together, and there were fewer scruples in their hearts after all. Hearing the old man Wang's shout, he got up again and scuffled with the errand officer next to him. This time, Zhu Dashan took Gou Xingwang and others with knives to kill the remaining errand soldiers, and caught them quickly. After cutting down the four people, the other five people saw that there were too many people, and they were busy wrapping Qiu Longzu and running to the county office.

This abandoned school field is in the county seat, not far from the county office. But there were 150 people who were escorted to the school today, and Qiu Longzu and the others were finally arrested.

Just now, everyone started to arrest the magistrate with anger, and they arrested the people, but now they don't know what to do. Everyone gathered around Zhu Dashan and stood in a circle in a daze.

Zhu Dashan also calmed down at this time and looked at the magistrate who was arrested by everyone. Zhu Dashan understood at this time that it was impossible for him to be a farmer in a down-to-earth manner. He turned his head and looked around again. Except for a few people who copied Dao Ying and Zhu Dashan just now, most of the others cowered and stood aside. Qiu Longzu kept shouting: "You are so bold, you dare to rebel." When the officials and soldiers of Boryeong Mansion come, waiting for the thieves is a dead end. He shouted, but his eyes were looking around. Seeing Zhu Dashan holding the waist knife in his hand, he looked at him fiercely, and said: "As long as you let me go now, put down your arms and surrender, I will plead with the prefect yamen and the governor's yamen, when this incident has not happened." You can continue to go back to farming and live a good life. ”

Hearing Qiu Longzu say this, many of the people who were still cowering just now were a lot quieter, and the people holding Qiu Longzu were also lighter.

Old man Wang has been a homeless person, and he has seen many deceitful people who are officials. Seeing that everyone was retreating, they hurriedly walked to Zhu Dashan's side and snatched the knife in Zhu Dashan's hand. Finding Qiu Longzu's chest, he pierced it in pairs, and then said to everyone: "This dog officer asked everyone to go to the battlefield to die." Think about it, how many can we survive when we go to the battlefield? ”

At this time, Zhu Dashan also reacted and shouted: "If you want to live, kill these dog officials together, and everyone will find a way to live together." Then he was afraid that Qiu Longzu would shout something. stepped forward and stabbed Qiu Longzu in the stomach.

Gou Xingwang held a knife in his hand, and also shouted: "Let's go into the county government together, and kill the dog official to survive" After speaking, he rushed to the county office.

For a while, whether they understood or didn't understand, they followed Gou Xingwang and rushed into the county office.

The southern county was originally only forty miles away from Boryeong, so there were no troops stationed in the county seat. There are only more than 50 people in the county. Usually, if you have something to do, you can gather the people.

Today, there was originally a quick arrest, and there were twenty people who wanted to escort Zhu Dashan to Baoning Mansion to make an errand, but seven or eight were killed in the school field, and the rest were escorted by everyone. There were about a dozen others who went to the countryside, so there were only about 20 people in the yamen. was rushed in by everyone, and all hands and feet were tied up after a while. The officials in the yamen, the master was even more frightened and didn't dare to move.

Seeing that the county government was in control, Zhu Dashan hurriedly found Cheng Dequn, Lin Zhuang, and the two people who responded to Zhu Dashan just now, and these two people were also placed together a year ago. One person is Song Gaoju, who was originally from Jingzhou Mansion, and it is said that he has been locked up in prison before coming to Sichuan, and no one knows what he has done. The other person is called Zhou Dazhu, who was originally a military household of Wu Pingwei in Fengyang Mansion in Nanzhili. It is said that military households are actually tenant farmers of hundreds of households. Later, the Qing army invaded Nanzhili, and Zhou Dazhu's family died, leaving him alone to flee to Huguang, and then sent to Sichuan by the government as a homeless person. Zhu Dashan saw that the two of them had just followed Gou Xingwang to take the lead in rushing into the county office, so they called over together.

Zhu Dashan said to the four people: "Now that we have captured the county government, I am afraid that someone will go to Baoning Mansion to report the news, so the four of you will each take ten people to block the four gates of the county seat." When the four of them heard this, they each led someone to take control of the city gate.

Zhu Dashan said to everyone again: "Cheng Deyi, you take twenty people to search out all the weapons in the county office." Zhu Dashan was about to call the other people to go to the grain depot together, when someone outside came in and said, "Go to the street, someone is setting fire and robbing things." ”

Old man Wang just found the torturer Huang Boyuan and walked over, and hurriedly said: "Quickly let people go to the street to maintain, don't let the fire burn!" ”

Zhang Yongquan, the former county magistrate, saw that Zhu Dashan and others had no rules, and he still wanted to do things one by one. He was brought in after the county government was occupied. I thought to myself: "I don't pretend to take people to maintain it, and then run out of the city to report to Boryeong." Then bring troops to quell the chaos, and then you can earn some military merits. So he hurriedly shouted: "I can lead people to maintain, and I want to make meritorious contributions." ”

His call made everyone stunned. Zhu Dashan also felt that Zhang Yongquan was suitable after thinking about it, he was originally a county warden and was known for his prestige. Zhu Dashan said: "Okay, if you are willing to make meritorious contributions, you can take twenty people to the street to maintain it now." If you can make meritorious contributions, we will let you go. Zhang Yongquan nodded hurriedly in agreement.

Zhu Dashan asked Zhang Yongquan to pick 20 people among the resettlement personnel, but Zhang Yongquan just wanted to run out of the city, and he didn't pick any locals. Zhu Dashan didn't give him a weapon either, but just asked people to dismantle some wooden sticks in the county hall and hold them. When Zhang Yongquan left the county office, Zhu Dashan grabbed the two people behind him and whispered: "Keep an eye on Zhang Yongquan, if he makes any changes, he will be killed directly." The two hurriedly agreed and followed.

Huang Boyuan looked at Zhu Dashan, and then at the crowd standing in the county courtyard, a little overwhelmed. Just as he was about to say something, the master who came from the signing room shouted with a crying voice: "Heroes, spare your life!" I'm just a master, I can't hurt everyone, please spare your life! I still have an old mother to support at home, and she can't live even if I die! ”

Zhu Dashan didn't care about him, and said to Gou Xingwang: "You take twenty people to the official warehouse to take care of the grain!" We won't live a few days without food! Gou Xingwang hurriedly led people to the official warehouse.

Originally, there were a total of 150 people in the school field today, and the locals with families quietly slipped away, plus some were injured and did not keep up, but now there are 20 people standing in the county office, and 10 people are still guarding the tied up catchers and errand servants. Fortunately, there were no garrisons in the southern counties. Otherwise, just these 150 people are bare-handed, let alone occupy the county seat, and no one dares to say whether they can live or not.

Zhu Dashan knows that everyone seems to be headed by him now, but in fact, no one wants to take the lead. In the past, once the court was put to peace, the little minions could still hide, and the bandit leader must be found and executed. Besides, now everyone occupies the county seat except for a moment of anger, but no one has a mental idea of what to do. So as long as someone takes the lead, others blindly obey. If you wait for everyone to calm down, just think about the officers and soldiers of the imperial court to kill them. I'm afraid that all the people will scatter in a panic. Zhu Dashan understands that he must find a goal for everyone and a backbone for everyone. It is also necessary to let everyone hug together and twist into a rope. After everyone has this backbone, they can only survive by twisting it into a rope.

Zhu Dashan hurriedly said to the remaining ten people: "You are divided into two groups, one group goes to the prison to see, and if there are any people who have come with us, rescue them." The other group went to the doctor, and then went to treat the injured, "Then Zhu Dashan randomly chose two people who looked stronger to be the captains. And the two groups went out separately.

Old man Wang saw that Zhu Dashan had slapped everyone out, so he brought Huang Boyuan over and said, "Dashan, now we occupy the county seat." How are you going to do that? And ah! The yellow clerk has taken good care of us, and we must also take care of him. ”

Zhu Dashan said: "Of course, the yellow officials will take care of it, but I don't know what to do now." At that time, Yao Degui was too deceitful, and I couldn't help but fight back, and the trouble became bigger and bigger. ”

At this time, Huang Boyuan spoke: "Killing an official is a rebellion." You can't be unaware of it now! Otherwise, not only will your life be in jeopardy, but the 150 people who rebelled with you, as well as the 500 households in this southern county, and more than 2,000 old and young people will not be able to survive. ”

Zhu Dashan said blankly: "Our rebellion is a rebellion, even if the Qing soldiers come to kill us, what is the matter with the old and young in the county?" ”

Huang Boyuan smiled indifferently, sat down on the ground and said, "Haven't you heard that the Qing soldiers slaughtered the city?" It has been 13 years since the Qing soldiers entered Sichuan, and their forces have been trapped in the northern corner of Sichuan. He was afraid of the counterattack of the Sichuan people, so he massacred the Sichuan people and implemented the policy of clearing the wilderness. Anyone in the northern Sichuan region who dared to rebel against the government slaughtered the whole city. ”

Zhu Dashan also sat on the ground, puzzled: "The Qing court's own city also slaughtered the city? In this way, the entire city in northern Sichuan will be killed. The court just asked? Huang Boyuan said: "Of course, these things can't be hidden from the court, but when the Han people are killed, the court will turn a blind eye and close one eye." Besides, how many cities were slaughtered by the Qing soldiers when they entered the pass? Whenever the imperial court failed to attack the city, it used the slaughter of the city to boost morale. Now it's just a small town that has slaughtered a few rebellies, who will pursue it? ”

It was the first time Zhu Dashan had heard of such a morale boost, and said: "Then the Qing court slaughtered like this, how many people can there be in northern Sichuan?" No one can defend the city? ”

Huang Boyuan said: "The Qing court is not afraid, only human life is the cheapest in this world." What do you think the governor of Sichuan recruited from the provinces for? In addition, Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan, has captured the cities in eastern Sichuan over the years, and most of the population of Chongqing Prefecture, Shunqing Prefecture, and Tongchuan Prefecture has also migrated to various parts of northern Sichuan. That's why we have these people now. ”

Zhu Dashan felt strange and asked: "Li Guoying moved all the people from all over eastern Sichuan to northern Sichuan, and he doesn't want these cities anymore?" ”

Huang Boyuan said: "He moved the population away, one is to fill the population of northern Sichuan, and the other is to resist the counterattack of the Ming army in southern Sichuan and other places. Third, in order to boost morale, first let the Qing soldiers loot, and then move the population away. When people left their hometowns, these people went to northern Sichuan, and their hearts to resist the Qing court were much weaker. This brings us to the fourth point. Therefore, Li Guoying was able to use a very small number of soldiers and horses to stay in Sichuan, and the Ming soldiers could not defeat several counterattacks. ”

Zhu Dashan listened to Huang Boyuan's detailed words, and only then did he understand Li Guoying's insidiousness. "That is, if the Qing soldiers come to attack us, if we are defeated, they will slaughter the city." Even if we withdraw early, the Qing soldiers still go back to the slaughter city to vent their anger, and then rob everything"

Huang Boyuan nodded and said, "That's right." Even if you surrender now, the Qing soldiers will not accept it. Your heads are not worth a lot of money, and they have not cleared the soldiers and directly cut off and robbed you of your belongings. So you can go two ways, one is to flee with the whole city, young and old, into the mountains or to the city of the Ming soldiers. However, I estimate that you will be caught up by the Qing soldiers before you leave Baoding Mansion with the old and weak women and children. That would be a dead end. Even if you escape, can you feed so many people in the mountains? I'm afraid it's not much better to get to the city of the Ming soldiers! ”

Zhu Dashan saw that Huang Boyuan stopped and didn't speak, and hurriedly said: "What about the second way?" ”

Old man Wang sat aside and said, "The second way that the yellow official said is to rebel directly!" Huang Boyuan just nodded and didn't speak. Zhu Dashan said: "If you rebel, you will rebel, just now I killed all the county orders, are you still afraid of rebellion?" Zhu Dashan remembered the TV he watched in his previous life, whenever someone in the Qing Dynasty rebelled, they all shouted to resist the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. He said: "The Qing soldiers killed us Han people, and now the Qing court has forcibly confiscated our land and grain." Let's rebel against him, and we want to restore the Ming Dynasty. ”