The people on the boat were stunned, from Min Yuanqi going ashore, arguing, and moving, to Min Yuanqi violently hurting people and cutting many people, everything actually added up to no more than five minutes, a lot of time, Min Yuanjin and Min Yuanzhong were still fighting between heaven and man, and when the two family members were also hesitating, the matter on the shore was over.

As soon as the boat sank, Min Yuanqi had already jumped back, and the bloody aura on his body was quite smoky.

While slashing others, Min Yuanqi was also a blood-spattered robe, with blood stains on his chest and on his face and hands, which looked quite terrifying.

Hearing Min Yuanqi's order, Liang Shifa reacted first and shouted: "Hurry up and hold the pole, those dogs just didn't gather, and there were no knives and guns in their hands, and when they had more people and weapons, we couldn't get out again." ”

Min Yuanqi stood at the bow of the boat, turned his head and glanced at Liang Shifa, who was holding the boat beside him: This guy is back to the taste now?

Not only Liang Shifa, but also Yang Zhijin and Gao Cuncheng also ran to the bow of the boat, Min Yuanjin and Min Yuanzhong were even more crazy desperate poles, the dilapidated boat could not resist the fierce action, and made a squeaky sound, but the hull load was not heavy, the wooden boat still quickly supported away from the dock, the long pole kept nodding at the bottom of the river, and the whole boat quickly left the scene and continued to move upstream in the direction of the river.

The green-skinned wanderers who ran over on the dock gathered more and more, and soon gathered dozens of people, many of whom were holding spears and knives in their hands, and even splashed skins and rushed over with shields, Yang Shida and others were still standing in place, and a group of greenskins stood at a high place and pointed at the boat and scolded, and in the scolding, the boat was getting farther and farther away.

On the embankment, there is a young man of twenty-seven or eighteen who has been watching what is happening by the river, this person is wearing a square scarf, but he is wearing a jade-colored straight jacket, a white fox fur jacket inside, a silk silk around his waist, hanging a jasper ornament as green as the river, and wearing red shoes on his feet.

This young man has been smiling and watching the fight by the river, and when he saw Min Yuanqi wielding a knife to kill, he frowned, and after Min Yuanqi and Yang Shida answered, this young man couldn't help but shake his head and smile when he saw Yang Shida's embarrassed appearance.

Of course, this young man also smiled quickly, although he is worth a lot of money and has a lot of connections in his family, but a salt lord like Yang Shida is not something that this young man can offend at will.

When he saw the boat breaking through the water, the young man nodded lightly, slapped the folding fan in his hand in the palm of his hand, and he didn't look back, but said: "Let's get on the boat too, hurry back to Huai'an!" ”

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After miles of sailing, the people on the dock had become the size of ants.

There were some undead green skins chasing and shouting along the riverbank, but at this time they also gave up, leaving the ferry wharf, and the banks of the bank returned to their original bleak appearance, withered yellow reeds, cold river water, sparse woodland, and boundless fields.

There was almost no rain throughout the winter, and the snow did not fall much, and the wheat seedlings on the plains were very sparse, but there would be some harvest anyway, and the great famine would not come, but it was difficult for the people to moisten what they had thought of.

Chongzhen years is really a famine, eight of the ancient nine wildernesses appear in the Chongzhen years, drought, water, locusts, earthquakes are endless, from Chongzhen five to eight years, and then to ten years, thirteen years, from Shanxi to Henan, the most affected is the north.

In fact, there are disasters here in Jiangbei, and people can just barely survive.

Min Yuanqi retracted his gaze, turned his body, and looked at the people on the boat.

Everyone's faces were still pale and uncertain, and when they saw Min Yuanqi looking back, several people hurriedly lowered their heads.

"Brother Yuan Qi." Min Yuanjin hesitated for a moment, but still gritted his teeth and clenched his fists and said, "This time I didn't use it, and I didn't dare to go up to help." If there is another fight on the way back, I will definitely follow, and I will not lie. ”

Min Yuanzhong also hugged his fists and said: "Thinking back to Shicai, my face is really panicked, and when I arrive in Huai'an, I will sharpen my knife first." ”

Min Yuanjinbiao's determination is big, and he talks a lot, Min Yuanzhong doesn't talk much, but he directly wants to sharpen his knife, obviously, if he fights again, this Min Yuanzhong can be relied on.

"What kind of knife technique do you use?" Liang Shifa said with a smile: "Our flag army is not very practiced, and it is still an adult martial arts heirloom, and its skills are very good." ”

"There is a record in Qi Shuai's Wubei Zhi," Min Yuanqi said casually: "Xin You's knife technique, and pear flower spear, and splitting and hanging fists are all the skills of the Qi family's army back then." The ancestors of my family were ordered to prepare for the Japanese during the Jiajing period, which should be the boxing, spearmanship and knife skills learned by the Qi family at that time. ”

The flag soldiers and small flag officers are all thoughtful, of course they have practiced spearmanship and knife skills, but most of them don't know the source of knife and spearmanship, and most of them can't practice it. And Dahewei is different from the guard in the northern border town, more is to bear the responsibility of transportation, such a guard does not even have to put a flower shelf, the early Ming Dynasty Hongwu stipulated a five-day exercise, in more than 200 years ago Dahewei can not do, let alone now.

In fact, everyone doesn't think of themselves as soldiers anymore, only when they go north, there are also Jiaozi grains, when they are paid, or occasionally when the imperial history inspects the guards, these people will put on fat jackets, pick up knives and guns, and symbolically put on a formation, and what they think about on weekdays is to get more silver to feed their families, like what Min Yuanqi said, everyone seems to be listening to the book of heaven.

Xie Xiang hesitated for a moment, but then answered: "My lord, can I learn this knife technique?" ”

"You train your courage first." Min Yuanqi glanced at Xie Xiang and said, "I heard that you are brave and ruthless under the general flag, and you often fight, and ordinary people are not your opponents." If you really encounter a battle, you don't dare to come out, no matter how good your knife skills are, it's useless if you don't have the guts. ”

Xie Xiang's face turned blue and purple, and his fists were subconsciously clenched.

But he quickly let go of his fist, not only was he in charge of his boss in front of him, but he also proved his strength in the brawl just now, whether it was courage or skill, Xie Xiang was far inferior.

"Yang Shida is a powerful salt lord," Min Yuanqi didn't plan to go too far, the little flag officials in front of him had their own thoughts, and even communicated in advance, and they would never come out in case of trouble, it was best to eliminate Min Yuanqi's plan to work hard after setting up Min Yuanqi. It can be seen from the sneakiness of Yang Zhijin, Liang Shifa and others when the team is assembled. But before they proved their strength, it is not surprising that these people have such thoughts and intentions. Min Yuanqi paused, and said in a deep voice: "Li Chuang went to Jingshi, and the world will be even more chaotic." Let's put on the name of the guard, we can't be inferior to ordinary people, and we have no ability to protect ourselves. We have to accumulate food and train our troops, and we must have the strength to resist if we come back against the odds...... If even the salt barons are afraid, when the thieves come, what will you do? ”

Everyone didn't expect that Min Yuanqi had such a big article hidden in his heart?

In all kinds of strange eyes, Min Yuanqi said again: "I know that everyone is unwilling to fight, and the emperor can't send hungry soldiers." But whether it is a thief or an officer or soldier, when they fight, it is the local people who are unlucky. Wherever the thieves went, the officers and soldiers also arrived, and the thieves robbed grain and killed people, and the officers and soldiers also robbed grain and killed people. The world is in chaos, and the unlucky ones are the people who have no swords and guns in their hands. You must be strange why I am talking about this. A while ago, I was sick and lying in bed, I saw a lot of copies of the Tang Newspaper Mansion, the tragic situation everywhere is terrifying, my Min family has been in Dahewei for generations, and I always have to find a way to keep one side safe. Even if Ding Ge changes, I don't know how many people will die before we are stable, so we have to find a way to protect ourselves. If a salt lord like Yang Shida is also afraid, bandits, robbers, thieves, officers and soldiers, what should I do when these scourges come, watching my wife and children being humiliated and killed, and robbing their belongings? ”

These words were not said casually by Min Yuanqi, in fact, after realizing that he acted hastily, Min Yuanqi began to think about what kind of words to use to impress these clan relatives and subordinates, at least in the next fight, these people dare to follow him.

From "come by yourself" to "follow me", and finally to "give me up", this is a considerable distance, and how to take the first step is a problem worth considering.

Loyal to the emperor, righteous and awe-inspiring? I'm afraid it will have the opposite effect.

After observing and experiencing this period of time, whether it is ordinary people, guardsmen, or three religions and nine streams, except for those nerd scholars who are still loyal to the monarch, the thoughts and words of loyalty to the emperor are not heard in the mouths of ordinary people, and no one really has such thoughts.

Even those scholars will really be loyal to the Ming Dynasty? There may be, but it should be one in ten thousand.

This is the case, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, before the shaving order was issued, those officials who read the books of sages, the nobles, eunuchs, and scholars who retired with the Ming Dynasty, how many of them served the emperor and Ming, resisted to the end and died?

Only after the shaving order was issued, the Han gentry and the student class of the whole world began to rebel, and the Qing court suppressed the privileges of the gentry and students in the south of the Yangtze River, and after the levy of heavy taxes, the gentry and students were really mobilized, and the large-scale resistance began and lasted for decades.

It's useless to talk about righteousness, and even those who read books can't do it, let alone the coarse people who can't read a few of these big words.

As for what Huayi argues, the tragic situation in the north cannot be touched by the banner army of Dahewei, this year I will talk about the clan in the township, no matter how many northerners die, it will not have much touch on the people here, not that it doesn't matter at all, but it is also quite difficult to use these things to make the flag army rise up and follow. As for the division of Huayi, before the shaving order was issued, emphasizing the barbarism and strength of the Houjin would only make these banner troops more afraid and fearful, which was counterproductive.

Only by using the example of thieves and officers and soldiers fighting and fighting and harming the locality, so that these people can follow him and work hard, at least have the strength to protect themselves, this is the most effective way to say.

Sure enough, after Min Yuanqi finished speaking, everyone was even more frightened for a while, which was also a normal reaction, and after a while, Yang Zhijin said in a deep voice: "My lord is right, this world is becoming more and more chaotic, there is no distinction between soldiers and bandits, and there are more and more bandits in the local area. ”

Gao Cuncheng said: "I have relatives in Guide Mansion, and the last time thieves and officers and soldiers fought there, most of the people in the whole village died. ”

Liang Shifa knelt down and pleaded guilty: "The villain thought that the adult had nothing to do and caused trouble, but now he understands the good intentions of the adult, and if there is anything in the future, the villain will definitely rush to the front." ”

This person really knew how to read as a buddy, his mind became quick, and the words in his mouth were quite beautiful, and he invisibly justified his previous resistance.

Min Yuanqi's meaning is very simple, the world will be more chaotic, there will be a large number of rogue bandits and officers and soldiers who attack at any time in the locality, and there will be more rogue bandits and bandits, if you want to protect yourself, you must strengthen your military training, and if you want to do this, the first step is to accumulate more money and food.

If you want to get by like before, and endure being bullied, it will only get more and more difficult.

This truth is not profound and difficult to understand, and combined with reality, these people on the boat immediately understood.

In addition, before Min Yuanqi fought alone and made a brave move, everyone was shocked, and at this time, the people on the boat knelt down to express their allegiance, and the effect was really not bad.

"Get up." Min Yuanqi said with satisfaction: "Follow me, eat and drink enough, and you can keep your family small!" ”