Li Chengzong came to this troubled era, especially since he came to Hebei to mix with Su Lie and Su Dingfang, he deeply felt what is called the thief of the hook, the thief of the country, and also knew a lot of things he didn't know before, for example, in later generations, as long as people mentioned the peasant uprising, many people always thought of what "for the heavens", "to relieve the people from hanging upside down, to save the people from fire and water", in fact, it is a big mistake. However, throughout the dynasties, the so-called "righteous army" is actually synonymous with "bandits" and "rogues", who burn, kill, loot and loot the people all day long, and can really do not disturb the people. In fact, it is precisely those who have done the most damage to the people in the name of justice. No matter how corrupt the military discipline of the officers and soldiers is, it will at least be restrained in the city or in front of the main generals; The rebels, on the other hand, did not have no military discipline at all, and only knew how to take prisoners. Loot and burn.

In the Great Sui, the family of gate lords controlled the government, brutally exploited the people, and did not hesitate to fish. The amount of taxes levied by the imperial court is actually not high, and if you really have to pay it according to this, then the people of the Great Sui should be rich and rich. In fact, the main burden of the people was caused by the looting of local officials and officials, and the amount of taxes in the imperial court often increased several times when they were added to the heads of the people after passing through the layers of officials. The three conquests of Goguryeo brought great disasters to the people of the Great Sui, and the forced labor and taxes soared until countless families were forced to the point where they could not survive by selling their sons and daughters.

The bandits' reasons for rebellion are certainly worthy of sympathy, but the ugly acts of their uprising are vicious and brutal to the point of heinous proportions. Most people who have experienced suffering and oppression will not only not feel sympathy for others because of this, but will have a revenge mentality to see others suffer worse in order to get vent, and they want to become new oppressors, so that their suffering and anger can be made up for in more honest and weaker people, so these bullied weak people raise their knives and go to persecute those who are weaker than themselves more ruthlessly.

Most of the leaders of the rebel army have outstanding talents in dressing, they burn, kill and loot everywhere under the guise of "doing the right thing for heaven", and insult women, although they say better than the other, as if they are heroes who eliminate violence and peace, but in fact they have become the biggest "violence", but they are just taking a group of once innocent people to rob and kill those who are more innocent. They only destroy, never build, but can only turn fertile land into wilderness and villages into ruins.........

You don't see that Li Mi, the biggest leader of the rebel army in the world, has put forward many demagogic propositions, but this guy is just a big liar who can only lie and promise, but in the hearts of many ignorant people, the picture he described is the only hope for many people struggling to survive. Some people are not really that easy to deceive, but there is no way out, and they have to force themselves to grasp this ethereal hope.

Zhang Jincheng, Li Zitong, Zhu Can, Wei Dao'er and other leaders of the rebel army also put forward their own ideas of governing the country in a high-sounding manner, claiming to "have clothes to wear and eat together" with the people of the world, but whenever they robbed something, they always hid in their secret caves first.

These people who use the banner of "doing the right thing for heaven" often attribute it to themselves first after reaping the benefits. So much so that when the officers and soldiers screened the identity of the prisoners after the war, they always picked the good armor and pulled it outward, and basically they would be the big bosses.

Of course, among these minions who were forced to rebel, there were also some good people who had the dream of helping the world, and they suffered greatly from harsh taxes, so they hoped to build a peach blossom paradise without corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and without unbearable taxes and forced labor. For example, Su Lie Su Dingfang is such a person, in the original history, he finally embarked on the road of breaking with the Great Sui in order to defend his new homeland, they fought bloody battles with the officials and soldiers who came to encircle and suppress, and under the leadership of the big boss, they were not afraid of life and death to break through the cities and kill every official and official inside. However, these people inevitably became tools in the hands of those in power, or died in some inexplicable dispute. Years later, the survivors look back and find that they have accomplished nothing but sabotage and create new disasters.

And in the face of the huge interests of the feudal marquis and the prime minister, even people outside the party are not exempt from vulgarity. Monks, Taoist priests, and monks are not lacking in the desire for profit, and when the world is chaotic, these people will always look for opportunities to tell the truth. Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, whether it is Buddhism introduced from the Western Regions or Taoists born in the Central Plains, they have all actively sought the strong in the troubled times. Because only by standing with the strong can their doctrine be fully supported by the government in the peaceful era, and the entire sect will have the opportunity to carry forward in the future. Just like Li Xuanying, who blew Li Mi as the lord of Sui Ying, and Jia Xiong, who deceived Zhai Rang into giving up the position of the big boss of Wagangzhai because of the gold and silver, all belong to this category.

Some of these people are for fame, some for wealth, and some for the future to be officials, the purpose is different, but they are all opportunists who gamble the lives of people in the world to pave the way for their own glory and wealth.

Because the rogues did not know how to train their troops, and there was a serious shortage of weapons and armor, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under their command was relatively weak, so they hoped that the more soldiers and horses under their command would be better, so as to rely on the number of people to win. In order to raise more soldiers, they had to keep looting, and the robbers had no food, so they had to go to be rogues, so the rebel bandits snowballed bigger and bigger.

Most of the time, the rebels plundered the people not only to get supplies and wealth, but also as a recruitment strategy. These heroes and heroes looted the villages, robbed the last belongings and food of the people, and then forced the strong among them to join the rebel army, so that they could be transformed into their own minions, and some even directly forcibly co-organized the good people into the gang, and then took them to another village to plague them, so that they could sign the petition in time.

Many rebels often force the people to act as cannon fodder when attacking the city and seizing the county, forcing them to rush to the front with knives, in order to consume the energy of the defenders and the materials for defending the city, and after success, they will rush into the city, burn them all, and withdraw from the siege if they are unsuccessful, so that the elite minions of the cronies around the bandit leader will not be damaged, but if the young and strong people who are coerced can survive the tragic siege battle, they will become murderers who have seen blood, and they will become the reserve force of the elite minions, because they have killed too many people on their hands, There was no turning back, so they could only start fighting against the officers and soldiers with all their hearts.

Contrary to what many people imagine, the people in the towns did not look forward to the rebels day and night, and they refused to let the harvest they had dug out of the soil from the morning and night all year round be easily snatched away by the rogues. Either fight to survive, or watch the bandits enter the city, insult their wives and sisters, and steal the food that the family depends on for the winter. In the absence of any other way out, it is men who know how to choose.

Li Chengzong is deeply aware of this, he paid attention to the so-called rebels, in his opinion, the rebels and the official army, the court and the gate lords are not a good thing, because Su Lie almost completely listened to his little brother in political affairs, Li Chengzong became the leader of their local armed forces similar to regimental training, Li Chengzong He is not willing to sink in this time and space, he wants to stir up the storm in this troubled era and create a career, so his goal is to live first, to survive there is hope, and there is the possibility of turning the tables against the wind.