Chapter 67: Seizure of power
The ancestral hall of the Mao family is already full of people from the Mao family, and the torches are hunting and burning in front of the ancestral hall, illuminating the entire ancestral hall as bright as day.
When Mao Yulong squeezed in, he saw the patriarch standing on the steps of the ancestral hall, admonishing the clansmen. Although it is impassioned and high-sounding, it is those few words that are repeated over and over again, which really can't arouse people's interest and appetite. The patriarch looked calm and calm, but from his pale face and slightly trembling hands, he could see how frightened and nervous he was in his heart.
Mao Yulong listened to it, the patriarch was just rambling there, just talking nonsense about the people of the clan who should unite when the catastrophe was coming, and so on, it was indeed nonsense. Because in this era, the clan is the foundation of maintaining the bottom Baisheng society, and it is usually mutual assistance and unity internally, and it is even more courageous to fight against other ethnic groups. In fact, for an ethnic group like the Mao family who has fields outside the city, it is almost common for them to get into a few fights with other families because of water sources, because of the ridges of the fields, and for such and such inexplicable reasons. Therefore, such an ethnic group will have casualties every year. But everyone agreed that no matter who was killed or injured, they would obey the fate of heaven and never report to the official. Even if the government came down to investigate, both sides tried their best to hide it from each other. The reason is that the fight between the two families ended up with casualties and ended up with their own public money. But once the government intervenes, not only will they kill people to pay for their lives, but they will spare a man for nothing, and the government's methods of knocking out bones and sucking the marrow will emerge in endlessly. The cool officials who broke the family, the county order that destroyed the door, and the government still couldn't find such an opportunity to make a fortune, and when you got this opportunity, didn't you catch the toad and pinch out the urine? And their respective families can't hide or not, where will they take the initiative to send it themselves?
But it also follows from this point that in fact, the real family still has considerable combat experience and combat effectiveness. It's much better than those who don't have land and go their own way.
The patriarch was rambling there, but there was no proper arrangement at all, if it went on like this, the rebels came over, and everyone still had no way to deal with it, so they could only watch the family be ruined and destroyed.
So Mao Yulong shouted in the crowd: "The rebels have arrived at the corner of the street." ”
At this voice, in front of the ancestral hall, which was originally quiet, immediately exploded, and the patriarch and the long rooms of each room also hid in panic. In the blink of an eye, the adults are screaming, the children are crying, and it becomes a pot of porridge.
At this time, among the chaotic clansmen running around, Mao Yulong's thin body was like a mainstay, and then he picked up the gong in his hand, and the bell rang up.
This abrupt sound immediately suppressed the chaos in the square, and all the people involuntarily looked at the place where the gong sounded, but it was Xiao Xiucai standing there, dressed in a green shirt and two small wings, proudly unmoving.
Facing the determined expression of this thin figure, the person who ran in a panic suddenly felt a burst of shame, but he was not as calm as a child, and he was really ashamed.
The patriarch who was just about to drill under the table, saw Mao Yulong's calm and calm expression standing proudly in the square, and couldn't help but blush, but in a blink of an eye, he was annoyed and angry, and yelled at Mao Yulong: "You bastard, when has this happened, you are still beating gongs and drums there, confusing people's hearts, be careful of my family law." ”
Mao Yulong walked directly to the steps of Shi Shiran, and after giving an understatement to this fierce patriarch, he turned to the people gathered again in the square and said loudly: "The rebels will be killed in a moment, and in a blink of an eye, they will be ruined, but everyone has nothing to do here, does everyone think that their lives are long?" ”
The patriarch was angry, this was saying that he was incompetent, and at that time, he pulled the jade dragon: "What does the child know, am I not arranging troops here?" ”
Mao Yulong turned around and said to the patriarch: "But I don't know how you arranged it?" ”
The patriarch was stunned for a moment, but he didn't know what to say. Also, a guy who is seventy or eighty years old, pampered every day, and can only calculate the clansmen, what good way can he do in the big scene of arranging troops? But looking at the contemptuous look in the eyes of Mao Yulong, a bastard, he immediately replied with a stiff neck: "I am going to arrange for all the men in the clan to gather in this square to resist the rebellion with all their might, and the old people, children, and women in the clan will all hide in the ancestral hall to take refuge." ”
Mao Wenlong asked directly: "Then what should we do with everyone's house property?" Will you let the rebels burn and loot? ”
This question is being asked to the point of the bone, this time it is not a fight in the field between families, after everyone fights, they can't tell the winner, everyone pats their butts and goes home when they get to dinner. There can be deaths and injuries, but none of them involve family property.
But this time it's a rebellion, everyone can hide here and resist together, but the houses of each family can't be moved, and the furniture of each family is hard-earned by hard work, and all of this is the accumulation of hundreds of years and generations. Maybe it will be burned by a fire by the rebels, and the accumulation of hundreds of years will turn into ashes and rubble in a blink of an eye, why don't you make everyone feel distressed and anxious?
Mao Yulong's words were in everyone's hearts, but the patriarch was caught off guard, and he was stunned for a long time, but he didn't know what to do.
The uncle of the fifth room saw that the patriarch had no idea, so he asked cautiously: "What do you say about the child?"
Mao Yulong said confidently: "Our houses here are all next to each other, and the high firewalls are connected together, which naturally forms a continuous division defense, and the rebel army must go through several alleys to enter our area." We left the elderly, children, and women at home, and watched the fire so as not to run out of the water, and then we, the young men, took our weapons and blocked the alleys to defend ourselves and prevent the rebels from entering. Wouldn't this not only ensure the safety of the elderly and children, but also keep our family property?
There was immediately a buzz of discussion below, and finally everyone agreed that this method was the best, so they didn't know who took the lead, stretched their necks and loudly agreed; "Yulong, this kid is right, let's do it."
As a result, the patriarch standing behind him was already trembling with anger and his face was pale, he was angry not because Mao Yulong's method was nonsense, but because Mao Yulong was standing here, as soon as this very good method came out, the eyes of all the clansmen looked at him, and no longer looked at themselves, so that the patriarch had a deep sense of loss and a sense of fear, afraid that his prestige among the clans would be greatly reduced.
This is not a good sign, he must not be allowed to talk nonsense here anymore, he must be driven down.