Henan has been the hinterland of the Central Plains since ancient times, its land is mostly flat, as long as the Yellow River is properly managed, eliminate floods, tens of thousands of miles of fertile fields, grain production is not low after all.

If the imperial court can be more light and treat the people of Henan well, as long as the year is acceptable, the winter of Chongzhen's six years will not be a ghost gate, and there will always be most of the poor people who can survive the cold winter, usher in the spring of the recovery of all things, and find a chance to live.

However, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes!

The Shanxi War, all the thieves were eliminated, the imperial court issued an edict to stop collecting and suppressing salaries, and the prefectures and counties of Henan also received this order, but the time for the implementation of this order is not collected next year, Chongzhen's six years of collection is correct, and the officials are of course sparing no effort, and they must also pay taxes to dismantle the tiles.

Naturally, the object of this tax collection is also a small number of yeoman farmers who are in dire straits, and the princes of the clans, the township officials, gentry, and officials do not dare to collect it.

After the tax is paid, the food left in the hands of the poor people will not last the whole winter no matter what, the people have food to eat, no matter how the people in power exploit it, they can always endure it, if even survival has become a luxury, then breaking this cannibalistic society has become the only choice.

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Zhengjiabao, Lushi County, Henan Province, Henan Province, only wore a shabby cotton coat full of patches in winter, only a pair of straw sandals on his feet, and the dog who didn't even have socks looked at the rice bowl that was about to bottom out at his house, and then looked at his own mother, daughter-in-law, and a pair of children who were also thinly dressed, his brows were wrinkled into deep Sichuan characters, and he said with deep despair: "Even if you eat with sawdust, this little rice can't last for two or three days!" ”

When his daughter-in-law heard this, she was silent for a long time, and then sighed faintly: "Life is getting more and more difficult, the head of the house, do you see if you can still find the owner of the village..........

"I can't borrow it, Zhuang Tou said, we can't pay it yet, don't lend it......." Before the words of the dog's wife were finished, he was cut off by the dog.

"Son, what else can we sell?" The dog left his mother.

"Mother, even my sister and sister have been sold, what else can we sell....." Gou Yu looked around at his empty room and smiled bitterly.

When the dog leftover his mother heard this, she was silently unable to respond.

"Then we still have tree bark to eat in Zhengjiabao?" The dog's remaining daughter-in-law is Ai Ai Dao.

"It's gone, it's gone......." Gou Yu raised his eyes to look at the roof, his eyes were scattered, and his voice was ethereal.

"Alas! Think back then, when the Wanli Emperor and the Emperor of the Apocalypse were in power, the days were not like this, even in winter, there was always a way to live, this year, the year is not good, taxes and annual rent have not been less than half a cent, how can there be rice and grain in the pot!? "When the dog is left with nothing to do, he can't help but feel a little resentful.

"The government said that it would increase the levy of liao and expropriation, and the rent of the owner was heavily ........." The dog is a person who understands, and he got to the point at once.

Speaking of which, it's not all the government at the root of the common people!

"Dog leftover, I just ask you, how did you spend this winter?" The daughter-in-law doesn't want to discuss these useless issues anymore, she just wants to be the most realistic ones.

"How's it going!? Let's talk about it in a few days. ”

There is no way for the dog to think about it, so he can only talk about the days when he has something to eat in the past few days, and then talk about the future later!

When the dog leftovers heard this, they could only be silent, and the atmosphere in the house was extremely depressing for a while.

When the dog family was hesitating for their own livelihood, they suddenly heard the big bell ringing in the Zhuangzi to summon the villagers.

"What's the matter, what can happen at this time, isn't it God who has opened his eyes, is the court going to send relief food?"

Gou Yu thought it seemed impossible, but he sighed that he fantasized like this.

"Whether it's or not, let's go and see it first!" After the dog leftover's mother said this, she didn't say much, and went straight to the place where the people of Zhengjiazhuang gathered to worship and hold meetings on weekdays.

Along the way, whenever they meet someone, they have to ask what happened.

No one could give an answer to this question, and everyone was confused, and they could only see it until they went to the square where the meeting was held.

Zhengjiazhuang is not very big, and everyone walked for three to five minutes and came to the square.

"Huh!? Isn't that the owner of the farm, how did he get tied up! As soon as he came to the square, he saw Zheng Mengzhun, the owner of Zhengjiazhuang, being tied up by five flowers and hanging on the tree with a crooked neck, and his family members were also tied up by five flowers and knelt on the ground.

"What's going on!?"

Could it be that they did it!?

With a stomach full of questions, Gou Yu stared at the dozen or so living people standing in front of the Land Temple. Among these people, there was one man standing in the front, he was a little tall, not angry, wearing a big felt hat, a red coat, soap boots on his feet, and a single knife at his waist, calmly and leisurely, looking at the villagers gathered in front of the land temple.

When the villagers saw these living people, they were still confused, and they whispered, but when they asked and asked, everyone didn't know what this group of people was doing, why Zheng Zhuang was tied up, and everyone didn't know the essentials, so they naturally quieted down.

In Zhuang Min's eyes, the middle-aged man in red wearing the iconic big felt hat was naturally Li Zicheng, saying that he was assigned a task by Liu Renyu, and after he was released from Liujiabao, he joined Li Guo, Gao Jie, Yu Bin, Gu Junen, Bai Guangen, as well as Megatron and Shocking Heaven, as well as more than a dozen of Li Zicheng's former right-hand men who came to Henan together.

They came out of Tongguan, and came to Lushi County, Henan Prefecture, which is closer to Shaanxi, and when everyone came to Henan, they found that the situation in Henan was the same as that of Shaanxi in thousands of miles of red land, the people were poor, and there was a great drought in Henan in the sixth year of Chongzhen, and the rainfall was very little throughout the year, and the whole earth was dry and cracked, and the year was naturally miserable.

Winter is coming, and the poor people have no surplus food at home, so how can they survive the winter!

Only peel and eat the bark, the bark is pure, then Guanyin soil, this thing can not be digested, and it will die of bloating in a few days.

The people can only wait to die, the government and the gentry don't care, the wine and meat stink, and the people's hearts are available!

Li Zicheng discussed with Megatron and Shocking Heaven to stop, and decided to start an incident in Zhengjiazhuang.

The first step in this incident was to crack down on the township officials and inferior gentry, burn the land deed and pay the arrears, divide the land, establish base areas, and establish the people's own army, an army with constant production and perseverance.

When Li Zicheng, who had made a plan, took someone to Zheng Mengzhun's house, Zheng Mengzhun thought that he had been robbed, and he planned to buy some money to buy his life and make a friend, but who knew that Li Zicheng and others had ideals and pursuits, and they were not interested in this at all.

Li Zicheng and others grabbed Zheng Mengzhun and tortured him to force him to hand over all his belongings, as well as the title deeds and IOUs, and then tied up his family and took him to the place where the villagers gathered in Zhuangzi.

Li Zicheng waited until the villagers who didn't know the truth and the fog shrouded in Yunshan arrived, so he began to give a speech according to the routine of Professor Megatron and Professor Shocking: "I am Li Zicheng, a hungry person in Shaanxi, God is not benevolent, I take all things as a dog, it has not rained for many years, and the land has not been confiscated, but the court is not sympathetic, the corrupt officials are not merciful, and the gentry are not helping, and we are going to starve to death when we see it."

Let's think, why do we deserve to die, why do these township officials and gentry have to eat and drink spicy food, let's not recruit anyone and don't mess with anyone, work diligently, work hard for a year, and wait for the end to starve to death! This is not fair, when we come to this world, we have the right to live, so our Lao Tzu is against his mother.

On the contrary, there was food to eat, and he survived. That's what Li'er is. We don't say much, just say a little, now your owner is here, our Lao Tzu killed him, his land deed, the rent you owe him, what kind of profits, our Lao Tzu is all fucking burned, you will divide his land, his property, and live a good life with our Lao Tzu, how about it? ”

"Hey, it turns out that you are thieves in the north, what are you angry about, who doesn't know that you were killed by my soldiers in Shanxi and wiped out, what big waves can you set off if you fish slipped through the net, I advise you, release me quickly, I will ensure that you are recruited."

Zheng Mengzhun didn't find out the situation until this time, it turned out that Li Zicheng and his gang were thieves who slipped through the net, and when they came to Henan, they remembered something, so he immediately told the grim reality, and wanted to persuade Li Zicheng and others to put down the butcher's knife and accept Zhao'an.

"Hey, if you want to be recruited, our Lao Tzu has already suffered it, why wait until today." Li Zicheng smiled, then quickly pulled out the saber on his waist and cut off Zheng Mengzhun's head with one sword.

"Ah......h

Zheng Mengzhun's family encountered such a change, and before they could finish shouting their screams, they were all cut down to the ground by Li Guo and others, and they were all silent.