Li Zicheng and the others suddenly attacked, which really frightened the villagers, and they involuntarily retreated, forming a small semicircle in front of Li Zicheng, but although they were afraid, they didn't want to disperse.

Because what Li Zicheng said makes sense, this winter, if you don't eat human flesh, I'm afraid that most of you will be able to escape death, since you will die sooner or later, it is better to fight with this Li Zicheng.

"Fellow villagers, Zheng Mengzhun is dead, Tian Deed, IOU, let's burn him now, you see" Li Zicheng said to himself as he lit the thick stack of papers in his hand, and then threw it on the ground and burned it to ashes.

"Look, our Lao Tzu will help you pay off your debts, Zheng Mengzhun's land will be distributed to you, his granary will be opened, and the grain will be distributed to you, if you want to get your own land, come and join our beggar army, I will register you, distribute land, seeds, and ploughing cattle according to the population, come, and those who are willing to join our beggar army will come to register and make a record, and those who are unwilling to join, have no food, no fields, do not want to join us, and want to take benefits for nothing, kill."

Li Zicheng said it very clearly, and he could understand it as a person.

If you rebel, you will die, and if you don't rebel, you will die, but it is better to rebel, at least live first.

The villagers were scheming in their hearts, and some people took steps forward and walked straight towards Li Zicheng and the others, where Megatron and Shocking Heaven were in charge of registration.

After the record, the villagers happily went to the Zheng family, which had always been wealthy, to take food according to the population of the family, and first moved the food home to cope with this cold winter.

After Li Zicheng distributed the fields in Zhengjiazhuang, he ordered each family in the fields to form a beggar army to protect their own fields.

After Li Zicheng and others finished killing the township officials and inferior gentry in Zhengjiazhuang, dividing the fields and forming an army, they did not stop and attacked the rest of the fortified villages and towns in Lushi County, Henan Prefecture.

In the process of killing the village officials and inferior gentry, it is true that some gentry are not very bad and they should not die, but if they are not killed, how can we complete the task of dividing the land and forming a beggar army, and if we do not eliminate these old classes, there will be no way to make room for the new classes.

One will be a success! Even if you are innocent, what can you do!

Liu Renyu, who was far away in Shaanxi, calmly looked at the documents sent by Megatron and Shockbreaker on a regular basis, and did not say anything, only asking Megatron and Shockbreaker to do things well, make the noise bigger, and be sure to wipe out the old vested interest groups, so as not to become the opposition force of the new Ming Dynasty.

Whoever kills one person is a thief, and whoever kills a million is a hero!

There are too many poor people in Lushi County who can't survive, and the people's grievances are boiling, like dry firewood, Li Zicheng and others with the policy of killing corrupt officials and inferior gentry and dividing the land, like a fire, dry firewood meets a fierce fire, and the entire Lushi County is immediately killed.

Such an earth-shattering event happened in Lushi County, and the magistrate of Lushi County naturally already knew that he had no soldiers in his hands, so he could only report this matter to the Henan Governor, and the Henan Government also felt that it was difficult to handle, so he reported it to the Henan Governor, and the performance of the Henan Governor was definitely not as good as the imperial court, let alone not sending troops to encircle and suppress.

This is because the governor of Henan thinks that this is just a small disturbance of the hungry people who do not want to starve to death, and if it is reported to the court at this time, it will make the emperor nervous, and the thieves will be calmed down easily, but they can't make the Son of Heaven worry anymore.

From another point of view, if something happens to Henan, he, the governor of Henan, will have a crime of inability to govern anyway, and the current emperor has no sand in his eyes.

In Emperor Chongzhen's worldview, it is either black and white, right or wrong, and there is no gray area in the middle, so it is better to suppress the matter, maybe in the spring of the next year, everything will recover, and these hungry people will have something to eat, and they will disperse.

Such an erroneous judgment directly led to the development and growth of Li Zicheng and others in Lushi County.

Those who were allocated the land, but they couldn't help but feel worried, for fear that the people of Henan who came to the court to encircle and suppress would not have any reaction from the court for a long time, so they gradually settled down, divided the land, received the land deed, and then picked out a strong man from his family to join the beggar army.

As the old saying goes: "A good iron does not hit nails, and a good man does not serve as a soldier." ”

In times of peace, no one would want their family members to serve as soldiers, but that is not the case now. Li Zicheng issued a notice, promising that if the family can produce strong men to serve as soldiers, the tax will be halved, and if the strong men in the family die in battle, not only will they share more land, but they will also enjoy the preferential treatment of halving the tax for life.

Being a soldier is glorious is the consensus of the entire beggar army-controlled area.

In just one month, Li Zicheng gathered 3,000 people, and the quality of these 3,000 people was far from comparable to the rabble that Li Zicheng had brought in under his command back then, but they entered the army with the mission of defending their own land and vested interests.

After the army was formed, Shocking and Megatron selected the best people to serve as officers in accordance with the Ming military system, and then began to train the army.

The army's salaries could be paid for by the gold and silver goods obtained by large families, and the weapons needed by the army were also hired by Li Zicheng and others to work day and night.

The beggar army is in full swing and actively preparing for war, but the officials at all levels in Henan are hiding their ears and stealing the bell, ignoring them regardless of whether they ask or ignore them, hoping that the "hungry people" in Lushi County will disperse after the spring begins. They don't care whether the people under their rule are being harmed by thieves.

Li Zicheng trained the 3,000 beggars strictly according to half the training intensity of the Jingbianbao army, and a month later, there were faint signs of strengthening the army.

The army was just beginning, and in the interior of Henan, there were no strong officers and troops around, and they could attack larger cities and expand their influence.

Li Zicheng issued a military discipline: "Killing one person in vain is like killing my father, lewdness another person is like adulteration of my mother, freezing to death without demolishing the house, starving to death without plundering." ”

Of course, the scope of this military discipline is limited to the ordinary poor people, the class enemies of the beggar army, and the corrupt officials and inferior gentry are not included.

The first target that the beggar army was about to attack, that is, the larger towns, was the county seat of Lushi County.

But he said that the Lu County Decree knew the thief's policy well, and he knew that the thief's next step was to attack the Lu County, but he couldn't run, otherwise he would have the responsibility to defend the land, lose the city, and be a capital crime!

He wanted to take the initiative to attack, but he had no available soldiers in his hands, and the guards were unusable, even the ones in the border areas were unusable, and the ones in the interior were even more unusable.

It is because of this Lushi County order that the soldiers who defend the city can only be called to investigate carefully at the daily price, and do not let the thieves and spies into the city, and cooperate with the thieves outside the city to seize Lushi County.

The soldiers defending the city got the order of the Lu county order, and they actually checked the pedestrians and merchants very seriously, but the purpose of their strict investigation was not to arrest the real spies, but to slander the people entering and leaving the county as thieves and spies at will, and then look for opportunities to extort money.

On this day, at the west gate of Lushi County, five men in thin clothes, wearing straw sandals on their feet, a broken hat on their heads, and hemp bags on their backs, were walking together, and were about to pass through the city gate, but were stopped by a small officer with a waist knife, a big felt hat, and a mouth full of wine.

"What's the matter, where did you come from, where are you going!?" The little officer stood with his legs apart, his hands on his hips, stood still, raised his head, squinted at the five men, and asked.

"Master Jun, we are all from Zhengjiazhuang, we have caught some game and sold it in the city." One of the five men walked out, patted the sack on his shoulder, and replied with a smile on his face.

"Zhengjiazhuang, mother, I heard that there are thieves there, how do you know that you are not thieves, you want to blend into the county, with bad intentions, come on, arrest it, and ask for it."

The officer suddenly drew the saber in his hand and pointed at the five men, and the rest of the officers and soldiers who were still checking at the city gate saw this, and immediately took their swords in their hands and surrounded them.

"Hey, military master, military master, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, we do have thieves there, but we are really not thieves, don't believe it, you ask him," the man with the sack on his back took out a small cloth bag from his bosom and handed it to the little officer.

The little officer took the cloth bag, first tossed it in his hand, then opened it again, and looked at a small handful of black and scattered silver taels.

"Can you still make so much money selling game? Lao Tzu also wants to sell game. The officer smiled, took the silver taels, and then waved his hand and said, "Go, go." ”

"Master Xie." The man thanked him, and then walked with his four companions to the county seat of the Lu family.