Hearing the words of this recruit, before Zhao Xian and Feng Tianyu could speak, the person next to him patted him on the back of the head and said, "You are stupid, what can you do as a newborn teenager?" It's those children who are brought into the customs, those prosperous worlds in the capital every day, which one can still want to work so hard outside the customs? ”

Zhao Xian also ignored this humanitarian: "That's exactly the reason, so most of the people we have to face now are the Han troops who surrendered in the north, so is it terrible?" Besides, what if it was really those Manchurians from before? I heard that Hou Ye killed thousands of real Tartars in Guiyang City. ”

Hearing Zhao Xian talk about killing Tartars in Guiyang City, these recruits suddenly became energetic. Although they were also very scared at the time, it did not delay them from bragging afterwards. Feng Tianyu said: "Yes, those Tartars are not the same and urine, that cowardly is simply rare in the world." ”

Zhao Xian said: "Yes, since the Manchurians are also people, what are we afraid of them doing?" To say that their cavalry is powerful, but here is Yungui, is the cavalry useful? ”

At this time, the other recruits also said: "On the mountain road of Yungui, it would be good if their cavalry could survive, and they still want to fight." Did you run past us? ”

Seeing that these recruits gradually eliminated their fear of the Manchurian Eight Banners, Zhao Xian was also very happy that his errand was completed.

At this time, Zhao Xian saw Zhu Youdong in the distance, and immediately stood up and said, "Master Hou." When the others heard Zhao Xian's words, they also saw Zhu Youdong one after another, and they all immediately got up and stood there.

Zhu Youdong stepped forward when he saw it and asked everyone to sit down. Zhu Youdong also sat with everyone and said to Zhao Xian: "What you just said is very good. ”

Zhao Xian was a little embarrassed and said: "I don't know how to say it, and I didn't understand it during the training." Zhu Youdong said: "You are right, the Manchurians are not terrible, but what is terrible is that we have no heart to resist." Those literati did not dare to go to the battlefield, so they found all kinds of reasons for themselves to justify their surrender. ”

Zhu Youdong saw that everyone was listening to him, and then said: "But we are soldiers, and the ancients said that if the clay pot is not broken from the well, the general will inevitably die in battle." If a soldier does not have the ambition to die on the battlefield, is he still a soldier? Some people say that they only received a few taels of silver in military salary, and if they can't do it, they will lose their lives, are you right? ”

Everyone looked at Zhu Youdong and didn't speak, and Zhu Youdong said like Guo Li Ai: "General Guo, are you right?" "Guo Liai surrendered to the Qing army, and when he said it there, he didn't speak.

Zhu Youdong turned to the other soldiers and said: "Maybe in the hearts of many people, it is not worth it for these taels of silver." But have you ever wondered where the money came from? ”

Feng Tianyu said: "Isn't this what the government gave us?" Zhu Youdong glanced at Zhu Youdong and said, "Yes, this is given by the government, but where does the government get the money?" ”

Feng Tianyu hesitated for a moment and said, "The money of the government is in the hands of the government in this world, isn't the money they loot all silver?" ”

Zhu Youdong said: "This is not called looting, only those corrupt officials who are unjust officials will loot, and the court collects taxes." There are always some people who use the name of the imperial court to apportion various taxes to increase the burden on the people, in fact, as long as the emperor knows a little about people's livelihood, he will not do this. ”

Zhu Youdong then said: "Far away, the silver of the government is the tax paid by the people of the world. But why are you qualified to stretch out your hand and put the people's taxes into your own pockets? ”

Hearing Zhu Youdong say this, everyone suddenly stopped talking. Zhu Youdong looked at the people who didn't know how to answer, and continued: "It's because the people want you to take this money, so that when there is an invasion of foreign enemies or the arrival of robbers, you can stand up and block these robbers and enemies for them." ”

Zhao Xian said: "Hou Ye is right, only in this way can we be at ease and get the taxes paid by the people." Otherwise, where would we have the face to get paid? ”

Zhu Youdong glanced at Zhao Xian approvingly and said: "Yes, some of us have always thought that we are working hard for the government and those who are officials, is this really the case?" Did they give us a penny, a bite to eat? All they think about all day long is to put money in our pockets and food in our mouths. Some people think that this is the government harming the people, and this is the imperial court's deduction of food and salary, but for a long time, it is these officials who have been greedy for what we deserve. ”

Feng Tianyu didn't turn around for a while and said: "But these officials are also appointed by the imperial court, and the surname of the Zhu family in this world is the same." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "This is not a contradiction, for the sake of the stability of his Zhu family's world, will the people be forced to have no way to live?" Will the northern Tartars break into the Central Plains? ”

Another recruit said: "In this way, this emperor's family really can't let people in, if they let them in, it will be his own family who will be unlucky." ”

Feng Tianyu also said: "But why are there so many people who want to help the Manchus? Zhu Youdong said: "This matter is not complicated, you think those who surrender first, they don't have a good reputation." Not only did they surrender to the aliens, but they themselves were also traitors and ministers, and they had to let the Tartars get the Ming Dynasty. They can say that they are in accordance with the destiny of heaven, and they are the founding heroes of the Tartars. Still not desperate to help the Tartars occupy the Central Plains? ”

The recruit who spoke just now said, "But what does this have to do with us ordinary people? Zhu Youdong said: "It doesn't matter, in fact, if Li Zicheng won the world back then, it would be okay, he himself is a Han person." If he really wants to win the world, he will also guard the country of his Li family, and he will not be bad for the people, maybe the world will really be peaceful in a few years. ”

Feng Tianyu said: "Even if the Tartars win the world, don't they have to guard the world?" Can't we be at peace? ”

Zhu Youdong said: "You think it's too simple, how many people do you think there can be in this Tartar?" When the Mongols came to the Central Plains, they should have forcibly divided the people of the world into four classes because the population was too small. Let other ethnic groups come together and suppress our Han people and all ethnic groups in the south. They didn't hesitate to let the people of the Western Regions also come to oppress us, and in the end, they thought about killing the most five people in the world, so they felt at ease. ”

Feng Tianyu also wanted to say, but Zhu Youdong hurriedly stopped: "I know you want to say that the current Manchurians do not divide the people of the world into four classes. I'll tell you, that's the cleverness of the Manchurians. He didn't say it, but he was doing it. ”

Zhu Youdong moved his body to make himself comfortable. He also said: "You see, this Manchurian is called the Manchurian Eight Banners, and the Manchurians are called the Banner People." They pressed the Mongols below, saying that they were a Manchurian family, but in fact, they didn't let the Mongols give them their lives, and the Mongols had to call the masters when they saw the Manchurians, claiming to be slaves. ”

Zhu Youdong said and said to Feng Tianyu: "This Mongolian is still in charge of the people of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, although these people are also called banner people, but they are just Manchurians and Mongols, what is Baoyi?" It's their minions. People don't see you as a human being, you're just a slave. ”

Feng Tianyu was surprised: "This, there is still this statement? Zhu Youdong said: "Of course, there is a traitor named Fan Wencheng, he has already surrendered to the Manchu Qing, at that time we still called them Jiannu, and they themselves called themselves what kind of Jurchen." This Fan Wencheng found a beautiful daughter-in-law, but was known by the Manchurian prince Duoduo, so he directly ordered Fan Wencheng to send him to the mansion to enjoy himself. ”

A recruit said: "This can't be, who can bear the hatred of taking his wife?" Zhu Youdong said: "But this Fan Wencheng himself is someone else's coat, does he dare to object?" had to send his daughter-in-law away, and later it was their other prince who used this incident as an excuse to weaken Duoduo's troops, so he asked him to return Fan Wencheng's wife, but he was only fined 1,000 taels of silver. How long has this Fan Wencheng surrendered to the Manchurians? Or the so-called Manchu First Hanchen. Are you thinking about what will happen to other Han Chinese? ”

Feng Tianyu couldn't close his mouth in shock, and Zhao Xian said, "Is this true?" How can there be such a ridiculous thing in the world? Zhu Youdong said: "Of course it's true, it is said that Fan Wencheng's wife gave birth to a son not long after she came back, and Fan Wencheng didn't dare to make a noise, so he named Fan Chengmo." This word refers to a strategist, and a plan is a conspiracy. He himself knew that this was not his son, but he couldn't dare to say it, so he had to name his son and say that it was from the wrong way and with a conspiracy. ”

Zhao Xian also reacted at this time: "It seems that even if you do more things for the Manchurian Tartars, it will not help them, where the Han people are just slaves, where will there be any security." ”

The other soldiers also responded. Zhu Youdong said again: "Look at the people in this world, whether it is the Han people, or other Miao people, the Yi people who don't pay attention to the body and skin, and the parents who are subjected?" But as soon as the Manchurians came, they all asked us to dress up in their clothes and keep their hairstyles. This is to cut off the inheritance of our ancestors. ”

These soldiers were even more excited when they heard this, and Zhu Youdong said again: "Also, every time the Manchurians go to slaughter the city, how many people in the world have been killed, Sichuan is obviously a country of abundance, but now it is uninhabited for thousands of miles, and there are no more people killed." ”

Zhu Youdong said to Feng Tianyu: "You are looking at the north yourself, as long as the land of the people is run by the horses of the Manchurians, it is not your own, it is the Manchurians." Even he is not his own, people are all slaves of the Manchurians, and they have to farm for the Manchurians. ”

Feng Tianyu was even more angry when he heard this: "Although this Manchurian did not directly divide the people of the world into four classes like the Mongols, what they did was more vicious than the Mongols. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Yes, so this is not only to protect the Zhu family, but also to protect our own home, so no matter how powerful the Manchurians are, we will defeat them and drive them away." ”

Zhao Xian also said: "Yes, only when we defeat the Manchurians and drive them away, and let our people live and work in peace and contentment, can we be qualified to accept the taxes paid by the people, which is the reason why the people are willing to pay taxes." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Yes, the people are willing to pay taxes so that the government can protect their family business, and let the army fight away the robbers and enemies to protect their lives when enemies and robbers come." That's why people are willing to pay taxes. If we only take the money, and in turn we do not protect them, what reason do we have for it? Moreover, it is not only for money, but also for the protection of our own homes. ”

Zhao Xian said: "Yes, this salary is for us to defeat the enemy, and the current enemy is the Manchurian Tartars who burn and loot everywhere, as well as the Qing soldiers who do all kinds of evil." ”

Feng Tianyu said: "But the Qing army is so powerful, can we fight this point?" Zhu Youdong said: "Don't talk about the current Qing army, even the Qing army that is still outside the pass, we can also defeat them." In the bloody battle of the Hunhe River that year, the Qing soldiers had no way to take the Qi family army and the white pole soldiers, and finally let the traitor artillery use artillery to open fire on the Ming army, so that the Ming army suffered heavy casualties before winning. ”

Zhu Youdong said again: "As long as we are united, even if the three of us are exchanged for one of them, how many people will be exchanged in the entire Manchuria?" ”

Feng Tianyu said: "Then how many people are we going to die?" Zhu Youdong said: "Think about it, if everyone thinks about running for their lives, they won't resist the Manchurians." When the Manchurians came, they would say that this man had escaped on his own, and that we would not harm his family, and that he had not beaten us at that time. Will it be so? ”

Zhao Xiandao: "Of course it can't be, when the Qing soldiers entered Sichuan, they fought with Zhang Xianzhong's troops, but in the end, they still killed people and set fire to Sichuan, and did all kinds of evil." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Yes, even if you run deep in the mountains and old forests, you look at where the current King of Jin is?" They have all retreated to the land of Burma, and the Qing army is not chasing and killing non-stop. Where can your wife and children run? ”

The recruit before said angrily: "Yes, we Miao people have never gone out to fight with them, they came to Miao Jiang, and they didn't burn and loot the same, how many Miao people they killed." ”

This is another person, but it is Ma Nan from Kaizhou, and he said: "These Qing soldiers not only killed our people, but also did not spare the corpses. As he spoke, he looked at the other soldier with red eyes.

When the soldier saw it, he hurriedly said: "Look at what I'm doing, have I eaten you Miao people?" Zhu Youdong hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Feng Tianyu entered the army from Duyun and knew about Manan. Said: "Master Hou, this Ma Nan is a Miao person from Kaizhou, and he originally had a good impression of the Qing army, and the Qing army is not necessarily as bad as the Han people say." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Then why is he like this now?" Feng Tianyu told Ma Nan about it again, and said: "So now, as soon as you hear who is the Qing soldiers who surrendered, Ma Nan will treat whoever is the Qing soldiers who have eaten his people." ”

Zhu Youdong suddenly understood, and said: "Yes, we don't fight the Manchurians, they are all going to kill us, are you all seedless people?" Let the Qing soldiers kill your own home, let others kill your family, and harm your wife and daughter? ”

Before the others could speak, Ma Nan was already angry and said: "Who doesn't plant, as long as I see the Qing soldiers, I will kill him without leaving a piece of armor, the big deal is a life, can I let myself die in the nest?" ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Yes, good, as long as we can work together, we must let the Manchurian Tartars pay their blood debts." ”