Zuo Baoliu stood in front of the crowd, holding a hoe. While pointing to the tolerance on the opposite side and scolding angrily, he was thinking about the benefits of this "acting" trip in his heart.

Originally, he didn't want to come.

Zuo Baoliu is a tenant of the mulberry garden in the west of the village. He and his mother-in-law are not only good at manipulating mulberry trees, but also raise silkworms by themselves when the season comes. Although the life with three babies is tiring, it can be quite passable.

I don't want to have a bad year last year, the weather was so cold, and there was a rain and snow in March. As a result, the mulberry trees in the garden did not grow well at the budding stage, and when it was time to pick the leaves, the harvest was much worse than in previous years.

Last year's cocoon harvest was not good, and some cocoon seedlings were sick, which made his situation worse. What Zuo Baoliu didn't know was that air temperature and air humidity have an impact on the development of silkworm seeds.

The cost of reduced production was dangerous, and the Zuo Bao Liu, who did not complete the expected contract, immediately took on heavy loans. In the past year, he not only owed the rent of the owner of the mulberry garden, but also owed the money in the Zuo family.

Zuo Baoliu, who was overwhelmed by the heavy burden, had no choice but to silently pray for the blessings of all the Bodhisattvas, hoping that this year's New Year would be a little better.

However, the reality soon made him anxious: after the New Year, from the beginning of spring to the present, not a drop of rain has fallen. The same abnormal weather as last year, this terrible omen made Zuo Baoliu, who had planted a field all his life, panic.

Then came the more exciting news: the master family sold the mulberry garden and the village acres, along with the tenants of Zuo Baoliu and their debts, to the tenants.

Zuo Baoliu, who learned that he had changed his master's family, was naturally calm. As a result, when he ran to the land acquisition office, he didn't expect the first impression to be quite good.

This group of outsiders not only has official support, but also is quite generous. When one of the shopkeepers in the rental house learned that Zuo Baoliu was a tenant of Mulberry Garden, he threw a few points of silver over and told him: Go back to Ansheng and farm.

The originally apprehensive Zuo Bao Liubao put his heart back in his stomach, he was already on the verge of bankruptcy, and the fragile family could no longer withstand any twists and turns. Fortunately, the new owner's family doesn't look bad, and it's about a big family that is not short of silver, maybe the arrears of last year can be counted less this year?

Zuo Baoliu went back with a full stomach full of longing and continued to work. There is a lot of work in the spring field, and he doesn't have the time to spend in the land acquisition office in the United States.

In the days when he was immersed in work, news from the outside world still came to his ears in a steady stream: Zuo Seventeen sold his land, Zuo Seventeen was expelled from the clan, and the landlord was accepted by someone's landlord to clear up the arrears accumulated over the years

"What? Want to pay off the debt!? ”

Just after the conflict between the two sides and the Zuo clan's decision to resist with all their might, it didn't take half a day for the news that the official mission was going to clear up the arrears spread throughout the clan from the meeting of the elders.

At this time, everyone, including Zuo Baoliu, is not calm.

In the Ming generation, tax arrears have become the norm.

Grain households and landlords in various localities owe to the local government, and the local government owes it to the imperial court. The imperial court is basically helpless against this kind of old bad debts, and the only way to deal with it is to find an excuse to reduce all the debts after a period of time. For example, when the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne, he issued an edict to exempt a considerable amount of arrears of taxes and silver in various places.

Therefore, when the news came out, it was inevitable that everyone in the Zuo family would be panicked: if they paid off the arrears, although the big landlords owed a large amount, the ones that were distributed to the families were also astronomical. You must know that these debts have been accumulated over the years, how can they be repaid all at once? What's more, everyone is waiting for the court to be relieved, what the hell is this clearance?

Taking advantage of the conflict in that hidden field, the big landlords easily incited the clansmen after distorting the facts a little.

Zuo Baoliu is also not exempt from vulgarity in this matter: if you smash down a little debt, he will be finished. So he consciously came to the Zuo family's big house, and lined up to meet the person in his room: Lao Xiucai Zuo Ping.

After once again confirming in a skillful tone that the official mission wanted to chase down the arrears, and to recover all the hidden fields and clean up the tenants, Zuo Ping told Zuo Baoliu angrily: It will not be possible to make trouble this time. If the officials and the renters behind them do nonsense, then everyone in the Zuo family will be doomed.

Zuo Baoliu, a medieval peasant who had no ability to collect and distinguish information from the outside world, could only trust the judgment of his clansmen at this time. After all, people have been in charge of the strategic level for thousands of years, so what insight can he have with a mud leg?

Of course, intimidation alone is not enough to make people die. Zuo Lao Xiucai immediately told Zuo Baoliu with a pleasant face: After everyone works together to drive away the officials and the people who rent the inn, half of the money he owed to the house last year can be waived. If he redoubles his efforts in this matter, it is not known that all the debts will be forgiven.

In addition, when the Zuo family has the upper hand in the future, and the tenant finds that he can't collect the rent from the mulberry garden, he may sell the mulberry garden back to the clan. At that time, Zuo Laoxiu immediately promised: all the debts that Zuo Baoliu owed to Yuandong before would be written off.

Zuo Baoliu, who was originally cowering and didn't want to wade into troubled waters at all, suddenly turned into a majestic macho man after coming out of the Zuo family's big house. The countrymen have experienced a lot, and Lao Tzu was also a good man when he was young.

So after completely tearing their faces, the two sides of the conflict quickly prepared.

Three days later, Zuo Baoliu was standing at the front of the crowd, holding a hoe, and was scolding.

The countrymen can't scold any grade, it's nothing more than some foul language. These words spread through the air to the entrance of the village, 200 meters away.

Under the big willow tree at the entrance of the village, more than 100 thugs from the Land Acquisition Office were standing on the dirt slope, confronting thousands of Zuo family members opposite.

Among the more than 100 people, the food gap under Yu Bende accounted for one-third. These ruffians were all pale at the moment, their legs trembled, and they didn't even seem to be able to hold the iron ruler and stick in their hands steadily, and they looked like they were about to run away at any time.

In fact, if it weren't for the road out of the village behind it, which could be turned in at any time, it is estimated that these people would have run away long ago. And standing in front of the food difference, the ones who really faced the villagers were naturally the action team members under Xiong Dao.

Standing at the forefront is also a person from the government: Yu Bende. Yu Shuban, who was dressed in a black soap suit, said that he was drumming in his heart at the moment, but he really had no choice. This matter has come to this day, he has been completely trapped in it, and he has staked all the old people in the family, so he can't retreat if he wants to.

After glancing left and right at the thugs around him who were wearing variegated short robes, who seemed to be very calm and still quietly laughing, Yu Bende became more and more anxious.

When the villagers fought and resisted taxes, it was common to kill and cripple several officials. And according to what his old man has done in Zuojia Village recently, if this side loses today, then he will have to be knocked to death by these riotous people with hoes.

Yu Bende, who really couldn't hold back his panic, couldn't help but turn his head and smile and asked a thin black man beside him: "Master Gu, there are too many opponents, can the brothers eat?" ”

"Master Yu, don't ask again. These rabbles are not opponents, you can watch the show with peace of mind. ”

After the middle-aged man named Gu Le comforted Yu Shuban again, he raised the Leica HD mini monoculars in his hand and looked at the opposite side.

At this time, the villagers' brigade has begun the final mobilization: the heads of the houses in the camera are standing in the crowd with elites with knives and guns in their hands, agitating loudly. It didn't take long for the villagers to move their emotions to the highest point, and they slowly raised their forks and hoes, as if they were ready to move forward.

At the same time as the villagers took the first step, Gu Le put down his arm, turned his head to a sturdy man beside him, and said, "You can start, squad leader Wu." ”

The man named Squad Leader Wu nodded, turned around and waved his hand. When the crowd dispersed on the dirt slope, ten men in gray cloth jackets stood at the front.

Soon, the ten people squatted down, two by two, forming five teams. Then they stuck a black iron pipe in their hands diagonally into the ground, and the mouth of the pipe was aimed at the crowd 200 meters away.

As the crossing forces deepened their understanding of the Ming Dynasty, both the military and the intelligence department noticed a problem that could not be ignored in their peacetime operations: the gathering of villagers.

In this medieval era when bandits were rampant and the government was weak, gathering crowds can be said to be the most common daily life of the people. Otherwise, it is not enough to fight against all kinds of natural disasters, and of course, fighting with neighbors for water and land is also a major purpose of gathering.

For example, Zuojia Village is a typical gathering behavior this time. It is clear that there will be countless more of the same to deal with in the future. However, in this situation, the traversal is bound to not be able to kill thousands of tenants.

This situation is very headache, and you can't consume imported shock bombs every time, right? So at the congress at the end of last year, the only "localized" high-tech project jointly proposed by the Army and the Intelligence Agency was approved by the Cabinet: homemade tear gas.

When it comes to tear gas, it's actually not that hard to do. After removing the chemical tear gas bombs such as phenylchloroacetophenone in later generations, anti-wolf spray and tear gas with capsaicin and bioperine as the main raw materials are also widely used.

For chemical plants in kiln areas, it is not difficult to obtain capsaicin, a simple chemical extract, but it is difficult to obtain the approval of the resources to be invested, rather than the production process.

Peppers and peppercorns are at hand. The process of extracting capsaicin with alcohol or some other organic solvents is not complicated, it is nothing more than some distillation and common means of decompression, and the demand for this thing is not too large.

After obtaining capsaicin, combined with a little magnesium powder and nitrate for combustion, such as barium nitrate, the materials used to make tear gas bombs are all lived.

With n, the next step is naturally to put it on.

For villagers whose main weapons are dung forks and hoes, the most economical and cheap weapons to drop are the Silk Buster. This crude Dongdong, which has a firing range of only 200 meters, was specially used in World War II to bully the silk Chinese troops who lacked n and artillery.

Then after encountering the U.S. military in the Pacific islands, the book suddenly understood the true meaning of the silk, and the summoned naval guns and land artillery washed the floor at any time, and no longer used a grenadier with a range of only 200 meters. 11