Text Chapter 19 Eruption
Without further ado, the house slaves hurried together, many of them also armed with steel knives, and while shouting loudly to their companions, they called the police to the top of the mountain, hoping that the yacha on the mountain would come down to help.
Pan head and yellow skin eyes are sharp, and they don't dare to show their heads. As soon as they came out of the squatting pit, they hid behind a large rock, because this was the edge of the quarry, and there were few people, so no one noticed them. The two saw dozens of big men surrounding the yacha, and then the yacha were arrested, and they knew that something was not good. There are only sixty or seventy house slaves in total, and in addition to the leather whip, there are less than fifty steel knives in their hands, so it is enough for them to bully and drive away, if they fight hard with those thieves below and protect the property of the master's family, it is tantamount to an egg hitting a stone!
Moreover, not only the house slaves discovered the anomaly, but also the nearby drives, and the entire quarry walkers put down their iron drills, hammers, wooden sticks, etc., and stared blankly at the changes in front of the shed. If these expulsors take the opportunity to make trouble, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Thinking of this, the two quietly shrank and retreated step by step to the place where they were squatting just now, but fortunately, the focus of the entire quarry was at the shack, which was relatively remote, and no one noticed them for a while.
The house slaves who were in the midst of the exorcism cried out bitterly in their hearts, and they had nowhere to hide in the middle, and they could not escape at this time, so they had to shout at each other and gather together, draw out steel knives, and hold leather whips, and gather about fifty people, and muster up their courage, and slowly walk to the shack, and at the same time shout loudly to the yacha at the top of the mountain to hurry down and help, but unfortunately the yacha did not care, and did not seem to see it. The clever house slaves could see that eighty percent of these yacha had been replaced.
The Exorcists found out about this change in the scene, and they were at a loss for a while. It was as if it had been abandoned by the world, and none of the expendists or coolies who had been sent here would have been able to get out alive. Every year, hundreds, if not thousands, are sent here, and dozens of people die every month from hunger, thirst, and fatigue, or are whipped and persecuted to death by the overseers. Basically, there are escapes every month, but their luck is not good, most of them will be caught in two days, eat a leather whip, and then go to the cage, as long as they do not die for three days, they will be considered to have passed the punishment level.
In fact, most were tortured to death the next day. In the ravine to the west, the dead bodies are buried layer after layer, and the torrential rains that cause flash floods every summer often wash out a lot of bones, and the flood carries these bones downstream, and the fate is unknown. Summer passed, and layers of corpses were buried again in autumn and winter, year after year, I don't know how many. At night, there are so many fireflies that no one dares to go there alone, even during the day.
The quarry drivers have been working here for many years, and as Mu Chun said, they don't eat as well as pigs and dogs, and they are better than cattle and horses. After a long time, everyone will learn various ways to passively sabotage work, or secretly destroy tools. But those house slaves are like hellish impermanence, every day is just a harsh and excessive, a little dissatisfied is a leather whip, if you are dissatisfied, you are standing in a cage to serve. Because it is mainly quarrying, most of the people who are distributed here are men, but listening to the chatter of these house slaves, I know that those women who have fallen into driving are even worse, either sold to the land of flowers and willows, or reduced to cheap women, and in the end most of them do not know what to do.
In the past few years, the people have been forced to rebel and migrate, and the officials and troops have surrounded and suppressed everywhere, and if they win, it will be better, if they are defeated, the officials and soldiers will lock up the people everywhere, and they will be regarded as anti-thieves, or killed good and risked, or directly used as a driving mouth, and assigned to generals at all levels and local lords. The source of this quarry is mainly from all over the belly of the capital, and there are a small number of coolies here, and the operators are mainly a few big gentry in Yidu Road, who cooperate to operate and mine here. The main source of the expulsion was the looting, buying and selling of these large families over the years, and the rewards of the imperial court, as well as the repatriation obtained by the local government through various means, as well as the heavy prisoners and thieves who could not raise money to reduce their sentences. According to the idea of the lord of the government: if these prisoners and thieves are kept in the prison, wouldn't it be a waste of rice and grain for the imperial court? Sending it to work can not only achieve the purpose of punishment, but also increase the income of the old men and officials of the prefecture and county, why not?
In these exorcisms, those who are bold and attentive begin to pay attention to the changes around them. The overseers drew their swords, and dozens of men rushed to the hut, which was the only way out of the mountain, and if they escaped from the hillside, they were afraid that without the help of these bandits, the coolies around them might take the opportunity to rush up and swallow them alive! So while the coolies haven't made trouble yet, hurry up and deal with the emergency situation here. The thieves generally come out to seek wealth, and the live and dead house slaves of the yacha do not care about it, but if the coolies make trouble and flee violently, it affects the fortune plan of the head of the family, and a few of his own heads are not enough to cut off. As long as your side remains strong and suppresses the arrogance of the bandits, everyone will have some blood, and quickly send away these evil gods.
The two parties had just met on the mountain road, and a house slave stared at a pair of fish bubble eyes in front of them, opened their big mouths and shouted: "Everyone, on that road? This is a special stone field set up in the county, with the shares of the lords and generals of Yidu Road, if you want money, everything is good to discuss, you might as well sit down and talk! ”
"Say you're a big mom!" A big man suddenly jumped out of Yu Zhilong's team and raised his knife to slash at Yu Bubble Eye. Someone had sharp eyes and immediately recognized that this was not Mu Chun who had escaped two days ago!
As soon as he confronted the overseers and domestic slaves, Mu Chunyu recognized at a glance behind Zhilong that this Yu Bubble Eye was the guy who tortured himself and Fang Xue and other brothers at the beginning.
Yu Baoyan didn't expect these thieves to be so unreasonable, so he held the knife and looked at it, it turned out to be Mu Chun, knowing that it was not easy to be good, and it was estimated that Mu Chun led the thieves to take revenge after he escaped. Although the person who came was not good, after all, his side did not have too deep a grudge with this strange bandit, and if he lowered his posture, he might be able to resolve it. His brain was spinning, and as soon as he thought of this, he heard Yu Zhilong say loudly: "We are not bandits and robbers, we are all heroes who kill officials and rebel!" Hearing that Brother Mu Chun said that the old and young masters are suffering here, the brothers are angry, and they will definitely come here to ask for an explanation, you dog slaves have made sins here, and you guys will be repaid one by one today! ”
"Do it!" Zhao Shi followed with a loud shout, and pounced on the knife, Qian Zheng and others responded violently, rushing up one after another, and for a while, the knife was light, and there were constantly domestic slaves who were cut down and fell to the ground. It's okay for these house slaves to bully people, but when they really used knives and saw blood, they were immediately angry, and they turned around and ran, like scattered ducks.
It's a pity that the back is full of quarrying drives, and the drives have gathered around, gathering thousands of people around, everyone looks at each other, observing the changes in the situation below. Hearing Yu Zhilong's words, he was shocked, although he didn't understand the truth of Yu Zhilong's words, but Mu Chun rushed out from behind and saw the scene of raising a knife to cut the fish and slash the fish.
Mu Chunkong is powerful, and he has taken care of his companions since he was escorted here a few years ago, so he is quite popular and has some fame here. Everyone saw that he and these strangers were together, first disarming dozens of yacha, and Zhao Shi also killed a team leader in public, guessing that it would not be good today. When they saw these strangers kill these house slaves again, they finally understood that today was the time for them to get out of trouble, so they responded one after another, raised the wooden sticks in their hands, and the stones beckoned to these house slaves.
At first, these house slaves could still hold their heads and run around, trying to find a gap in the crowd, hoping to find a path up the mountain in the back and escape up the mountain, but there were many coolies, a total of more than 2,000 people, and gradually formed a situation of encirclement, out of nowhere flew out a few feet and flew away a few house slaves who fled first, and someone shouted behind: "Kill him!" Shoot him! Shoot him! The angry shouts grew louder and louder, and the mouths of the people clamored loudly, and the echoes in the valley spread like a thunderbolt from the sky.
Pity the dozens of house slaves who fell into the crowd were knocked to the ground one after another, and none of them escaped. The people hated it to the core, and in their anger, stones and wooden sticks rained down, and the slaves of the house wailed again and again, and at first there were some wails, and after a while, many people only moaned, and only heard the shouts and kicks of the people. Looking at Yu Paoyan and a few others with the most public anger, it is already a puddle of meat mud!
Yu Zhilong and the others cut down and captured more than a dozen backward house slaves, and the surging exodus and coolies had completely surrounded the remaining overseers, and the long-term resentment and revenge broke out at this moment, and the whole valley was boiling!
At this time, Yu Zhilong and the others only had to watch, and in this case, no one dared to go up to stop the angry and hysterical drives. Yu Zhilong, Zhao Shi, Qian Zheng and others looked at each other, and everyone had to step aside and wait for these people's emotions to calm down a little before making plans. After a while, Mu Chun found a gong out of nowhere and struck it with his knife.
Dangdang, dangdang, dangdang, the sound of gongs suddenly sounded in the valley, and the angry people seemed to have regained their senses, and gradually stopped the waving sticks in their hands, and looked at each other at a loss, and the yacha was disarmed, and the house slaves were knocked to the ground by them, but why did the gongs that urged them to go to work sound?
The valley finally fell silent, and the people gathered in front of Yu Zhilong and the others, and a big man climbed a boulder in front of him, knocked on the gong in his hand, and then put it down, this person was Mu Chun.
"Old and young masters, everyone must know me. I am Mu Chun, who escaped two days ago. ”
"Brother Fang Xue and I have a good life, we met these heroes who killed officials and rebelled on the way, and they saved us. I, Mu Chun, have figured it out, and now in this world, there is no way for our people to live. I Mu Chun used to be a child of a good family, and I just wanted to make a living by honestly striking iron, but I didn't expect that the Tartar lord, the landlord's exploitation of old wealth was so harsh, and the annual harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the labor apportionment hollowed out my blacksmith shop, not to mention a lot of debts, and forced my wife and sister to pay the debts. I didn't obey, but I was detained and put in prison by the government, insisting that I resisted the court and gathered people to resist taxes, and my mother and sister were also changed to expulsion by the dog officials, and now I don't know where they were sent to. I couldn't be angry, when Liu Futong beat Bianliang, I simply broke out of prison and went in and out of the gang. Unfortunately, I was escorted here. ”
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are tired and tired here, working from dawn until dark, I only see people entering the mountain alive, but I have never seen anyone get out alive! You say, "Are you willing to be a cow and a horse here for the rest of your life, and then die in this ravine?" Mu Chun shouted.
"No, no, no!" The following drivers answered one after another.
Yu Zhilong also climbed on the stone, looked at the people below who were ragged and thin-skinned, his heart was sour, and he waved his hand and said loudly: "Brothers, we are not those bandits who plague the people, nor are we robbers who rob houses, we used to be the same as everyone else, we were also poor people who planted crops, and we all lived a life facing the loess with our backs to the sky. Now the court is corrupt, the government is incompetent, and they only know how to pay exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and apportionment to us that we cannot do at all, and to collect endless rent, and to pay lamb profits that can never be repaid. If we can't meet the requirements of these vampires, we, Brother Mu Chun, and Brother Fang Xue, will end up like everyone else! ”
"We just need to live well! We just want to be able to sit together and have a full meal as a family, and no government officials will break into the door and force our last rations when we rest at home at night! We only hope that our sisters will have the opportunity to marry a good family, and will not be forcibly captured by the government lords and landlords, bullied by them, and beaten and scolded by them. Could it be that these ideas are also wrong? ”
"That's right! That's right! That's what the little brother said! The emotions of the crowd were gradually mobilized, and someone began to respond.
"We are ploughing in the fields, grazing cattle and sheep in the fields, and we do not steal or rob, is it also wrong for us to do this?"
"That's right! That's right! ”
"Brothers, why did we fall into this field? Look at the way you look now, you should be living a life with a family and a business, how can you be worse than an animal now? ”
"Who made you live a life that is inferior to pigs and dogs, and who separated your family? It is those inferior gentry and wealthy families who eat people and do not spit out bones, and it is the Tartar court that brutalizes the people of the Han family! Today, these domestic slaves died at the hands of you, and the government and big families in Japan will not let you go easily, do you want to live? Do you want to find your parents, wife and children? Follow me Yu Zhilong and other brothers, pick up the sword, and kill him in this cannibalistic world, since the court does not give us justice, I Yu Zhilong will use the sword to give him justice! Yu Zhilong took out the bright steel knife and pointed obliquely ahead, waved it slowly, circled his body, and looked at the expressions of the thousands of people below one by one.
Everyone was already full of anger, and they killed these dozens of slaves under the agitation of the crowd, and now seeing that such a person is dead, some people have begun to be afraid and hesitate. But many more have made up their minds.
"Kill the Tartars! Kill officers and soldiers! Kill the old money! Mu Chun saw that the expressions of the people below were different, and he immediately responded excitedly beside Zhilong.
"Kill the Tartars! Kill officers and soldiers! Kill the old money! Zhao Shi immediately pressed his shoulders against Ji Changzhi and a few companions around him, and shouted first, Chang Zhi and the others suddenly seemed to be enlightened, and followed Zhao Shi to raise their arms and shout, dozens of snow-bright steel knives pointed directly at the blue sky.
Many people who were better with Mu Chun first raised their hands in response and followed the shouts, and then more and more people responded, and finally became a prairie fire.
The back road has been broken, only by picking up the sword to kill the world can there be life, people's emotions erupted like a volcano, and they all raised their arms and shouted: "Kill the Tartar!" Kill officers and soldiers! Kill the old money! Kill the Tartars! Kill officers and soldiers! Kill the old money! ”
The sound shook the sky and resounded through the valley.
Seeing this scene in front of them, the disarmed officials were pale and sat on the ground like clay sculptures, not knowing what would happen to them.