Chapter 577: Doing the Right for Heaven
The carnival in Linxi spreads like the dry wheat stubble after the summer wheat harvest is ignited, and the raging flames spread unstoppably.
On the same day, it burned to the mouth of the house.
Although the Cheng and Wang families, who have been hostile to Zhukou for generations, work together to defend the Zhushui River......
But it still didn't work.
Because when the Cheng Wang family and the clan strong men fought side by side on the banks of the Zhushui River, the tenants and servants of Zhukou had already ordered the ancestral halls where the two of them competed with each other. Pity the descendants of Wang Shangning, the deputy capital of the Jiajing Dynasty, who was first called Wang Shangning, then Cheng Shangning, and finally Wang Shangning, had no choice but to go back to save their ancestral hall, but before they arrived, they were overwhelmed by more tenants who got the news.
By the next morning, the raging fire had reached Yinjia Village.
Then the descendants of Zhang Juzheng's main thug Yin Zhengmao were also unlucky.
Then move on.
It is said that there are simply too many hairpins here for generations......
Last year alone, there were five Jinshi here, including a tanhua.
It's just a She County.
In the more than 200 years since the Ming Dynasty, there have been 180 Jinshi in a county of She County, accounting for 40 percent of the entire Huizhou Prefecture.
Needless to say, this land is crowded with a large number of famous families including the Wanli Dynasty scholar Xu Guo clan, that is, in the countryside outside, casually find a mansion where the clan lives, and there is basically a memorial arch representing Dengke outside. The terrain surrounded by mountains and a plain also made these families crowded together to the greatest extent, and the same special political status also made these families like to raise slaves, and the wealth of the Hui merchants also allowed them to raise slaves with sufficient funds.
After all, there are few taxes.
The entire Huizhou government pays 40,000 yuan in taxes a year!
This Hui merchant base, which controls almost half of the salt capital of the Ming Dynasty, does not pay enough taxes for salt merchants to raise prostitutes.
Privileges of Scholarly Status.
There is silver.
Then raise slaves unscrupulously!
Debt slaves who can't pay their debts, slaves who don't pay their debts, slaves who serve as workers, and even those who have the same surname who are poor and can't get along, and serve as slaves for the wealthy families in their clans.
Those gentry families can be said to have a bunch of slaves of all kinds.
Right now......
set himself on fire.
In this land crowded with countless famous families and nobles, the raging fire burned wildly, like a raging flame swept away like a raging wave, devouring the scum of the old era and turning them into ashes......
Of course, this is a bit of an exaggeration.
In fact, there are not a few people who died, as the villagers often say, they are all villagers, and this kind of thing is still beyond the simple principles of the villagers.
As for whipping them tied to posts, or marching through the streets, or even stabbing them with a needle and awl, as the gentry liked, this was harmless, and the landlords used to use these methods against tenant servants. Then there is nothing wrong with retaliating with a tooth for a tooth, you have to have the consciousness of being whipped by others, and you should think that one day, others will also take an awl back.
This is also a kind of cause and effect.
But killing people is another matter, in the final analysis, these tenants and slaves have lived honestly all their lives, even if there were not many killings in history, most of the records of the slave rebellion in Huizhou are described as beating the gentry and killing them.
A few killed.
This description is very watery.
After all, those records are written by the gentry, and they must be exaggerated to show the pathos, for the gentry to be whipped a few times is already terrible, these people kick them a few times, this can already be said to be a big rebellion, if they are really killed, they will definitely not say a few deaths. It is simply a heinous crime, a heinous crime worthy of a book to record the evil deeds, it is impossible to understate a few killings and send them away, and even such records, most of them use the word "a few deaths", which means that in fact, they will be beaten a few times at most.
There are even many records of the sensible gentry, that is, those who fought for the sake of the cattle and wine, basically did not harm them, and ensured the safety of their families.
And that was when order almost completely collapsed during the Hongguang period.
Not even now.
People are more concerned about deeds of sale, usury IOUs, and so on.
They were only trying to force the sages to hand over what must have been hidden deeply, to force them to tear up the deeds of sale themselves, and then publicly recognize the equality of master and servant. This was the case with the slavery in history, and for them, they still longed for the gentry to be formally recognized to them, and from then on they were treated as equals, and their demands were so low.
"Even people, why enslave me?"
This was the only question the slaves had of the gentry.
They want a little bit.
They wanted the gentry to admit that they were the same people.
But for those who refuse to even agree to this, who have been tied to a pillar, and who refuse to bow their heads and admit that they are equals, they can only continue to whip, otherwise what can they do?
Can it still be influenced by love and justice?
Don't be funny.
But......
Some still have to be killed.
"Burn, burn these jackals who eat our flesh and drink our blood!"
Song begged and roared.
A mansion in front of him turned into flames.
In the flames, many of the villagers and people from the nearby tribes who had been holding on to this big mansion ran out in horror, and a few tenants and servants who had set fire to the periphery with flames on their bodies quickly rushed up, directly knocked them down, and then dragged them to this side.
"You thieves, you will thunder and thunder in the sky, how dare you ......"
A fellow sage howled.
It looks like some little virgin.
"How dare you, how dare you do this, I am your master, I am your heaven, if you dare to go against the sky, you will go to the eighteenth layer of hell!"
He continued to howl.
It is clear that he has taken his high position as a matter of course, and it has to be said that he has been high for too long, and he will not even look down anymore. Even though the men in front of him could have cut off his head, he still felt like a god, like Louis XVI about to be guillotined.
So since that's the case......
"Bring the guillotine, avenge the brothers, and return the thunder and thunder? Eighteen floors of hell? If God has no eyes, he should have split you first, and if there are really eighteen layers of hell, you will go down first, since God has not split you, and you have not gone down to eighteen layers of hell, then Lao Tzu will give you a ride, God has not punished you, let's do the right thing for heaven today! ”
Song begged and roared.
"Do the right thing for heaven!"
A chaotic roar rang out.
Then the revelry tenants and servants brought a guillotine and shoved the countryman's head into it as he struggled......
"Kill those who dare to resist!"
Song Qi shouted against the background of blood and fire.
A group of cavalry in the distance finally arrived, these should be reinforcements from Xiuning, as for the Huizhou City on the other side of the Lianjiang River in front, the city gate had already been closed at this time, and even the other side of the Wannian Bridge had begun to deploy defenses and prepare to block it. These cavalry can only be Xiuning's militia regiments, and when the regiments are all going to Congshan Pass, they rely on these militia groups to suppress them, and there are quite a few of them in each county, to prevent rebellion and escort supplies, these are actually militia regiments of musket cavalry.
"Boss Song, what should I do?"
One of his subordinates asked.
"What to do? If you don't want your children and grandchildren to continue to be slaves, then follow and rush up, the two of them carry a bamboo, and collide with those cavalrymen, followed by knives, guns and grenades! ”
Song begged and roared.
The tenant slaves, who were originally confused because they saw the cavalry, took out more than ten meters long bamboos from the mansion one after another, and carried them on their shoulders in pairs and crashed into the cavalry.
They don't have a formation.
It's just a group of peasants who don't have any training, they can understand what formation, and they just swarm into it.
And in the middle of this bamboo, those who followed with the weapons they found, including those with grenades.
And the more than 300 cavalry on the opposite side obviously did not think that these rabble were any threat, these pure mercenaries hired by the gentry, well-equipped, how could they put a group of peasants with bamboo as weapons in their eyes, the torrent of cavalry continued to move forward, the cavalry on horseback pulled out a short spear, used a winder to wind the short spear, and then pressed the flint clamp, and raised the gun on the horseback......
In their opinion, as soon as the gunshots rang out, the people dispersed in a hurry.
However......
"Kill, for the sake of future generations!"
Song begged and roared.
"In order not to be a minion!"
There was a roar all around him.
Everyone went crazy and ran forward.
Thousands of bamboos formed a torrent, like the giant spears of the Ming army that crashed into the alien cavalry more than two hundred years ago.
The muzzle flamethrows of the cavalry.
Despite the tragic accuracy of this thing, many people were still hit, but the raging torrent did not slow down in the slightest, on the contrary, the cavalry on the opposite side began to slow down, and the cavalry looked at each other in a bit of a panic, which obviously made them a little dazed. They didn't understand what was wrong with these people, why they hadn't fled when the guns rang out, and the officer at the head drew his sword to try to boost morale, but the cavalry behind had already turned around.
And the torrent of tenants and servants still marched forward......
"Demon law, this must be demon law!"
At the head of the Wannian Bridge, Ni Zhixian held the binoculars and said tremblingly.
In his telescope field of vision, those tenants and slaves carrying moso bamboo really drowned the cavalry like a torrent of mountain torrents, and one by one the cavalry fell off their horses in the impact of more than ten meters of moso bamboo.
Ni Zhixian didn't understand either.
He didn't understand what was going on, why did these grass people, who were usually as docile as sheep, honestly let the gentry slaughter, and dare not resist no matter how beaten and scolded or even killed, became such a terrible group of madmen? In the past, they would tremble when they heard the sound of gunfire, kneel down when they saw cavalry, and even a small official could make them honestly endure the whipping, but what is going on now?
Ni Zhixian, who was confused, could only attribute this to some kind of demon law......
It must be a demon law.
"County Zun, the thieves are coming this way!"
One of the officials shouted in horror.
The torrent that dispersed the cavalry in the distance was surging towards the Wannian Bridge.
"Withdraw, withdraw to the city!"
Ni Zhixian said with a pale face.
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