When the time came to mid-October, Zhu Youxiao's will to reduce taxes in Shaanxi spread in Shaanxi, and it was this will that caused the fleeing villagers on Niutou Mountain to massacre each other.

At this time, Gao Yingxiang, who occupies Niutou Mountain, is training his subordinates on the mountain, looking forward to the hope for the future. It's just that Laojun Mountain at this time is not as peaceful as it seems, but there is an undercurrent.

At this time, although Gao Yingxiang's manpower was as high as more than 2,000 people, they were independent. Because some people are running away from one village to another, they are more huddled together to keep warm.

For the Chinese, both before and now. People will always trust their fellow villagers, so there will be scenes of fellow villagers seeing fellow villagers with tears in their eyes.

The party struggle in the Ming Dynasty, whether it is the current Donglin Party or the former Qi Party, the Zhejiang Party and the Chu Party are all this kind of thinking, so that the people in the court are grouped together to warm up and form a partisan division.

However, Gao Yingxiang relied on the fact that he had done a horse selling business before, and he could sit firmly in the position of the big boss, but for the second leader, it was held by another person with a lot of hands.

Both sides are in harmony on the surface, but secretly they are thinking about killing each other. Gao Yingxiang is thinking about taking over the other party's manpower after killing the other party, while the other party is thinking about killing Gao Yingxiang and taking the position of the big boss, after all, since there is a chance to be the boss, who will be the second?

"The ...... of the big boss", Li Gouzi, who was Gao Yingxiang's personal guard at this time, called Gao Yingxiang softly, and then motioned Gao Yingxiang to step aside with his eyes.

"What's wrong".

After Gao Yingxiang followed Li Gouzi to the side, he looked at Li Gouzi a little strangely.

"The big boss, the court issued a decree saying that we should be exempted from taxes in this place, and now those people seem to know about it, and they are discussing wanting to go down the mountain and go back."

Li Gouzi whispered at this time, as if he was afraid of being heard by others.

After Gao Yingxiang heard Li Gouzi's words, he couldn't help frowning and thinking for a long time.

"What do our people think", Gao Yingxiang asked Li Gouzi with a frown.

"There seem to be a few people who want to go back, but most of them don't have any intention of going back."

After Gao Yingxiang heard Li Gouzi's words, his frowning brows also relaxed, for Gao Yingxiang, these subordinates of his own are the foundation of his own roots, if all his subordinates want to go back, then he can only run away in advance, after all, whether it is to kill the official or propose to kill the official, it is his own head, once he is caught by the government, he will definitely kill the head.

"Gather me those who don't want to go back, and I have something to say to them. As for those who want to go back, try not to let them know".

Li Gouzi nodded after hearing Gao Yingxiang's words, indicating that he understood in his heart.

Half an hour later, in a hidden room.

Gao Yingxiang sat in the middle of the room, surrounded by seventy or eighty men. These men are all from Gaojia Village, and they are also the kind of people who are willing to follow him.

"Brothers, the imperial court has issued a decree that it is willing to exempt us from taxes here, I don't know what you think."

Gao Yingxiang still didn't trust the people in front of him, so he opened his mouth to test it.

"Let's go with you, brother, we will do whatever you want us to do."

The people sitting on the side looked at each other and hurriedly expressed their loyalty, for these people, there was only one way, and that was to follow Gao Yingxiang.

What's more, after more than half a month, everyone's hearts have long been tired of the previous life of farming, especially Li Gouzi, who is Gao Yingxiang's personal guard.

After Li Gouzi's mother-in-law was starved to death earlier, Li Gouzi never found her mother-in-law again. But after arriving at Niutou Mountain, due to the sudden increase in the number of people fleeing, and Li Gouzi, relying on being Gao Yingxiang's personal guard, openly robbed two young women and became little wives, which made everyone who followed Gao Yingxiang feel envious, and they all openly snatched women one by one.

Of course, although they say that they are robbing women, they are not robbing those married women, but they are robbing those who are alone. After all, these people are not stupid, openly robbing a woman who has a husband is likely to cause disgust among others, especially Gao Yingxiang, who will never allow such a thing to happen.

Gao Yingxiang saw that everyone was also following him, and after nodding with satisfaction, he picked out the matter clearly.

"In that case, then I'll make things clear, the group of people who went up the mountain with us, they want to take their people back, what do you think about this matter?"

"Brother, if they want to go back, they will go back, there is not much food on Niutou Mountain, if they go back, we can save some food and survive until the New Year."

After Gao Yingxiang heard this, he nodded to the person who said this, but he already decided in his heart that this person was not available. A guy who only cares about immediate interests has no long-term vision at all.

"I think we should persuade them to stay, you must know that after we occupy Niutou Mountain, everyone has done a lot of robbery, why don't the officers and soldiers dare to clear it, we are because we have more than 2,000 people, if they leave, our manpower is likely to drop sharply, and then the officers and soldiers are very likely to come to clear us."

The person who spoke was called Zhao Deliang, not from Gaojia Village, but defected to Gao Yingxiang halfway, because this person had read for several years and was valued by Gao Yingxiang, so he also participated in this secret meeting.

However, this person's popularity is not very good among Gao Yingxiang's subordinates, because he once advised Gao Yingxiang to kill all those who robbed women in order to follow You. Because he also saw that Gao Yingxiang's ambition was not a small mountain king, he had repeatedly persuaded Gao Yingxiang to clarify military discipline and recruit talents.

Although Gao Yingxiang knew that what he said was the truth, because he was just starting out now, he had to rely on these fellow villagers a lot, so he turned a blind eye to this matter, but he also made it clear that he was not allowed to rob those women who had husbands.

Gao Yingxiang also nodded after listening to Zhao Deliang's words, thinking about this person in his heart, although he has vision, but he still has a drum book and is not ruthless enough.

The two points of view have their own benefits, and everyone is also divided into two factions, and no one can convince anyone, so they have to look at Gao Yingxiang in the end.

"As Brother Zhao said, people must stay, otherwise the officers and soldiers will inevitably come to clean up. Although what Xiao Liuzi said is also very right, but he focuses too much on the present, don't forget that we have killed Shui Li, once no one here ......."

After hearing Gao Yingxiang's words, everyone also turned their senses, yes, they had killed tax collectors, if they let that group of officers and soldiers know that there are not many people here, they will definitely come to clean up.

The goal is unified, and everyone starts to think about how to get the other to stay.

"Why don't we give him a little favor and let the family stay."

"Cut, what kind of benefits can make people stay, is it difficult to make the big boss for him."

"Naturally, the position of the big boss can't be given to him to sit, if they really want to go home, then we will send them home."

Li Gouzi, who was standing next to Gao Yingxiang, looked at everyone in a gloomy tone.

There is a characteristic of Chinese dialect, the same sentence is said with different accents, then the meaning of the representative is naturally diametrically opposite, and everyone can naturally understand the meaning of Li Gouzi's words.

couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Gao Yingxiang, wanting to know what Gao Yingxiang meant.

However, at this time, Gao Wei was holding a water cup and watching there without speaking, and everyone didn't understand, but Zhao Deliang, who was a scholar, did understand what Gao Yingxiang meant.

"Throw the cup for the trumpet".