When Lu Shimu sat still, the surrounding villagers slowly gathered around him and waited for this omnipotent master to bring a charter to everyone, but when he saw Lu Shi's appearance, he didn't dare to disturb, so he waited for him to wake up by himself, until Zhao Dahai couldn't bear it anymore and shouted to wake up the tangled Lu Shi.

Thanks to this shout, Lu Shi might have been tortured by his own demonic wand.

Looking up and seeing the anxious and expectant eyes of the villagers, Lu Shi, who had returned to reality, stood up and assured the villagers. "Folks, in fact, the matter starts with me, and I will solve it, I will go to Zhangjiabao to reason with the Zhang family immediately, his Zhang family just looks at my windmill drawings, just give it to him, as long as I can save the villagers and the elderly, nothing else matters." In fact, Lu Shi doesn't have any good ways now, this is just to relieve everyone.

At the beginning, everyone heard that Lu Shi was willing to stand up for himself and others, and everyone was happy, and some mothers-in-law began to say words of gratitude, but then when they heard that Lu Shi was going to reason with Mrs. Zhang in Zhangjiabao alone, everyone was full of disappointment and worry.

Reasoning with the Zhang family? That's just whimsical, look at the past 100 years, which villager has explained the truth to the old lady of the Zhang family? Who can be reasonable and walk out of the gloomy door of the Zhang family?

Wang Fa? The eerie and dark water prison of the Zhang family and you say, Wang Fa? The layers of white bones in the water prison tell you, have you said that?

Lu Shi saw everyone's disappointment, but he really didn't have any other way, so Zou Mei couldn't help but spread his hands and asked, "Fellow villagers, is there any other way besides this method?" ”

No one answers, and really no one can answer, because the answer is there – no end.

A voice suddenly rang out, "There's another way." ”

It was a man in his fifties who said this with a rotten leg, staggering out of the crowd, everyone's eyes lit up - this is the only one in the village who has been in the border army for many years, and finally can come back alive.

"If you give in, you will die, if you have no money, grain, wheat, and pay taxes, you will die, if you flee the famine, you will starve to death in the ditch, no matter what, it is a death, why don't we die in another way? That may still allow our wives and children to die later, and there may be a slim way to live. The soldier stood in the middle of the courtyard, waving his arms in anger, and shouted to everyone and to the sky.

The lame man's words were like pouring cold water into a pot of boiling water, and the whole crowd became silent, except for the crackling of torches in the courtyard.

Everyone knew what the man's next sentence would be - rebellion.

Rebellion is really an insurmountable hurdle for the people who have been fighting for 5,000 years.

Unveiled the rod, the people in other places are also constantly implementing, but, those results are also seen by everyone, constantly unveiled the rod, but constantly suppressed by the wolf-like border army, even with the surrounding villages and towns of the villagers also suffered from the disaster of the fish pond, the so-called bandits are like combing, soldiers are like washing, bandits can also take care of the poor people, open are also the landlord's strong fortress, sometimes, those sympathetic poles can also take away the heavy objects, excess food to the local people, and the official army came, Not only could they not exterminate those homeless poles, but they also forcibly levied and robbed the people along the way, and they also killed the people and took their heads to ask for merit.

The trouble of the soldiers is more than the trouble of the bandits.

Lu Shi was silent like all the villagers, in fact, he knew that the Chinese people were the most tenacious, even when they were squeezed to the most urgent time, even when there was no pause, they were willing to be bullied by the officials, even if they couldn't see a little hope, they fantasized that hope was not far in front of them.

If you rebel, you will really be forced to a dead end, and there will be no more way to live, and there will be no hope in sight.

With his knowledge of history, Lu Shi knew that in the early stage of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, that is, at this time, the so-called rebel armies that rose up were all such displaced people who were forced by natural disasters and man-made disasters to live.

The so-called leader is just to promote one or two leaders who dare to fight and are not afraid of death, and take their lives to seize the grain in the granary of large households to survive, although it is often tens of thousands, in fact, there is no decent organization and rules at all, if you are together, you will follow forward, and if you don't agree, you will find another place, today you come and tomorrow he goes, like locusts to come to a place and eat up a place, and then roll forward, through the state and the government, hungry and full of food without a fixed place, some occupy the key passes, Looting the passers-by, tying up some meat tickets and asking for some ransom to save their lives, where is the real rebellion?

The current Ming Dynasty is not really weak enough to be as vulnerable as it was later, so weak that the homeless people who lack clothes and wear less clothes, put down their hoes, and pick up sticks as weapons have swept down the dynasty.

It is now the first year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming army is unbearable, it still has a certain combat effectiveness, even in the face of the brave and warlike Manchu Tartars, there is also the strength of a battle, if you are dissatisfied with the wild boar skin of the Qing Emperor Taiji, you will not find a monk to communicate with Yuan Chonghuan, and negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty on the condition of going to the emperor and saving the country.

Rebellion now? That's no different from looking for death, Lu Shi only smiled bitterly, as a person who travels through, this simple historical knowledge is still there.

Besides, even if there is no hope of life now, how can it be done with the old and weak women and children in these courtyards? Let's forget about the rebellion.

Look at the old and young women and children all over the courtyard who lost their voices together, and then slowly moved their steps backwards, which means that they do not approve of the initiative of this military man.

Lu Shi saw it and knew everyone's thoughts, so he smiled bitterly and said to the embarrassed man: "It's too early to say the law of the eldest brother, and it hasn't reached the point of exhaustion yet, so don't talk about this matter yet." ”

The man threw his neck around and said, "Is there any other way for everyone to do now?" Say it and I'll hear it? ”

This question, looking around, the courtyard full of old and young women and children were silent, and the man said loudly: "Our children were arrested and taken to the county seat, and our old people were arrested in Zhangjiabao, don't talk about the county prison first, that is, Zhangjiabao, you don't know the danger of the water prison, since you have entered, where is there any hope of survival?" Which folk did you see walking out there? ”

The women and children who had taken a step back were even more silent, and their eyes were already full of despair.

This is the truth, in the dungeon of the Zhang family, if you go in, you will not save one out of ten, where is there a chance to see the light of day again? Those are all flesh-and-blood relatives.

But is this rebellion really the way to live? Rescuing relatives is just a moment of respite, where is the road?

In this deathly silent courtyard, this is what everyone wants to know.

For a long time.

Lu Shi stood up and said as calmly as possible: "Let's go back first, I want to go to Zhangjia Theory, that's where I have capital, have you forgotten?" The negotiation in the spring was that the Zhang family was helpless against me. ”

The old folks remembered that in the spring, the master was indeed brave to fight the evil slaves, and the Zhang family, who was squeezed by words and wisdom, did not dare to act rashly, this time it was impossible to say that it might really be possible, so everyone ignited hope again, and looked at Lu Shi with eager eyes, although the hope was very slim, but after all, there was still hope, and they found the backbone of the heart for a while, and everyone was secretly relieved.

Seeing that everyone did not agree with the Zhang family's initiative, the lame soldier also hammered his disabled thigh in frustration, shook his head helplessly. After thinking about it, he said again: "But if you can save your family back, hundreds of people in this village will be driven by the master." The rest of the people nodded in agreement.

Lu Shi pretended to be as confident as possible and said with a smile: "This matter is not needed by everyone, now everyone goes back to their homes, shows the appearance of Zhang Luo Qian and food, and then waits for the news of me and Zhao Dahai's brothers?" ”

Everyone was stunned, what is this solution? But seeing that Lu Shi was full of confidence, he said please, and according to Lu Shi's words, they went home and prepared to go, which was also a helpless hope.

When everyone dispersed, Lu Shi pulled the brother and Zhao Dahai into the house together, closed the door tightly, and without waiting for Lu Shi to speak, Zhao Dahai couldn't wait to ask:

"Brother Dacai, a man like me who can only fight, without your twists and turns, you can say your charter, everyone can rest assured? It's really not good, for the sake of Brother Zhang's honest brother, I'll let it go. ”

The lame soldier also stared at Lu Shi with trust.

Lu Shi smiled and said: "The idea of the two elder brothers is just to be happy for a while, have you ever thought about it?" Can the current situation really be revealed? No, because there is no basis for an incident in this garrison mountain, everyone wants to be at peace with what they encounter, struggling to live, and no one wants to really do the things that shame the ancestors and rebel, not to mention that the rest of us are old and weak women and children, relying on these old and weak women and children to attack the same fortress as Zhangjiabao County, what is the difference between letting everyone die? At that time, the relatives will not be able to save them, and they will have to take the lives of our ordinary people, and the gains of that town will outweigh the losses. ”

The military man and Zhao Dahai were immediately silent, everything was in their eyes, the facts were there, what else did they have to say?

"Even if everyone has the same mind and is young, but we don't want and can't rebel yet, because this place is closest to Yansui, and the strength of the nine towns in Yanbian is something we can't resist. We, the ragtags who are poorly clothed and short of food and weapons, are we the opponents of the official army? Wasn't it a tragedy? ”

It was silent again, both of them knew that Lu Shi was reasonable, and they also knew that they were just angry for a moment just now, and they didn't think about it so much, but the relatives imprisoned in Zhangjiabao still had to be saved, and they couldn't watch them die in Zhangjiashui Prison.

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, you have to come up with a way, as a friend of Zhang Honest, you are also favored by the Zhang family, watching the Zhang family is about to die, you can't be indifferent." Zhao Dahai said anxiously.

"Brother Dahai, don't worry, I think this matter has to fall on you."