Text Chapter 787 Loyal and Righteous Person
Li Zicheng waited for the people to be completely quiet, glanced at the people again, and then said loudly: "Fathers and fellow villagers, the governor of Pontus knows that you have always had a difficult life, you have no last meal, there is no overnight food at home, and you even ruthlessly sell your children and daughters......
The people were stunned in their hearts, since ancient times, the people only paid food, and the government only knew how to collect taxes, who would care about the life and death of the people? The people are just low-class pariahs, even if they die, the officials will not look up to them, let alone just have a hard time?
What is this Metropolitan Governor going to do? Could he care about the lives of the people? I heard that the Mandate of Heaven Army distributed a lot of relief food......
Li Zicheng's eyes swept away, everywhere he went, the people were silent, seemed to be full of expectation, Li Zicheng was secretly happy in his heart, and said: "The people are having a hard time, but the princes and generals are drunk and dreaming of death, and Zhumen wine and meat...... Folks, why are you so poor? The reason lies in these princely nobles! ”
I don't know if I don't understand, or I don't dare to say if I understand, the people are very quiet, and the sound of breathing is heard!
Li Zicheng continued: "In the year of the catastrophe, these princes and nobles, not only did not provide disaster relief to the people, but only knew how to exploit and buy the people's land and children at a low price," said here, stretched out his hand to the corpses of Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi, and said: "It is the existence of these so-called princes and nobles, they exploit the people on weekdays, plunder the fertile land, and bully the market, so that we live so hard, we can't rest all day long, but in the end there is no overnight food, natural disasters are hateful, and these princes and nobles are even more hateful!" ”
When the people heard this, they could no longer bear it, and some of the people cried, but many more shouted and cursed:
"It's these princes, the villain's land, which was forcibly bought by the Fu Wangfu three years ago!"
"I heard that there are hundreds of thousands of stones of grain in the palace!"
"Kill, kill them......"
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The excitement of the crowd is exactly what Li Zicheng wants, but when he heard the words of killing, he unconsciously showed a wry smile on his face, Zhu Changxun is dead, what the hell did he kill?
However, the people have always been timid and afraid of the government like tigers, and today they have finally become bloody, how can they not make good use of it? He pressed down with his hand to silence the people, and said loudly: "So, the governor of Pontus killed Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, and Lu Weiqi, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, but there are too many princes and nobles in the court, kill them, and there are more princes and nobles to exploit us!" ”
"Kill, kill, kill together!"
"These are the people, and if we hadn't raised them, how would we have starved? Even if there is a big drought, there will still be some harvest in the field, which is more than enough to feed your family! ”
"It's the opposite, it's the opposite, we follow the Dadu Governor to rebel, go out of the Beijing Division, and pull the emperor off the horse!"
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If it is said that the people are still venting their anger in the front, then the last sentence is a big rebellion, there is a risk of killing the head, and pulling the emperor off the horse, this is something that many people dare not think of, do you want to rebel? Such a voice frightened the people, although the people were on the verge of starvation, if they wanted to rebel, they still had many doubts, at least they had to worry about their necks, whether they could withstand the waist knife of the imperial army.
It's okay to scold people, Zhu Changxun is dead, scold him a few words, he won't come back to revenge, and he will feel better in his heart, but if you want to take action and rebel against the court, that's ......
The emperor was angry, blood splashed all over the world, corpses were thousands of miles away, white bones were forested, and many villages would be silent about the sound of chickens and dogs, and it became a habitat for lonely souls and wild ghosts!
Although the people resented the government, resented the palace, and even resented the emperor of the Beijing Division, and were even on the verge of starvation, they were still very afraid to take up arms and kill the Beijing Division......
Li Zicheng knew that the people around him were all dry firewood, and they wanted to burn, but they were still short of a fire, and this fire could only be lit by himself, "Fathers and fellow villagers, the governor of Pontus was also hungry before, and I really couldn't bear to watch my family and neighbors starve to death one by one, so I rose up, the court will not care about our life and death, we can only save ourselves, such a court, such a prince, is it still worthy of our allegiance?" After a pause, he suddenly pulled out his waist knife, slashed into the sky, and shouted: "Kill the Jingshi and overthrow the imperial court!" ”
"Kill Xiangjing and overthrow the imperial court!"
There were a lot of soldiers standing around, Li Zicheng's personal soldiers were all there, and after listening to the impassioned words of the Grand Duke, they couldn't bear it anymore, and at this time, they unconsciously followed the shouting, hoarse!
The momentum of one or two thousand people suddenly enveloped the Zhou Gong Temple and began to spread around, and the people found that these soldiers seemed to be their backing, they were the same as the soldiers of the imperial court, they had swords and guns, and even Luoyang City was taken, and they should be stronger than the soldiers of the imperial court!
With the Mandate of Heaven Army as the backing, who would be afraid of the dog emperor of the Jingshi? In the hearts of the people, the root cause of poverty has been counted on the emperor's head, who let him not provide disaster relief to the people in the disaster area?
"Kill Xiangjing and overthrow the imperial court!"
The voices of tens of thousands of people, like the tide of a broken embankment, resounded through the world in an instant, gathering a lifetime or even a lifetime of resentment, at this moment, a breakthrough was finally found, and even the momentum of the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army was suppressed.
Zhang Dingyan and Feng Yijun were all shocked, they saw it for the first time, it turned out that the people were so terrible, this is the sound, if the people have knives and guns in their hands...... It is no wonder that the Metropolitan Governor has always put the people in his heart, and the Mandate of Heaven has never harmed the interests of the people.
When they are alone, the power of the people is the easiest to be ignored, even if they infringe on the people, no one can make waves, but they understand from the sound in front of them, it is not that they do not report, the time has not come!
Zhu Changxun is dead, he didn't understand until he died, I don't know if Chongzhen of Jingshi understands?
After waiting for a long time, the sound became smaller and smaller, and the people gradually quieted down after their hoarseness, Li Zicheng waved his hand to the people again, and said loudly: "The Mandate of Heaven Army adheres to the will of God, and everything it does is for the people, the Mandate of Heaven Army comes to Luoyang, and those who are willing to join the Mandate of Heaven Army will go to the recruitment points in the city to sign up, and those who are unwilling to join the Mandate of Heaven Army, we will never hurt you, and if there is no food at home, the Mandate of Heaven Army will distribute food to help you survive the ......famine."
The people are boiling again, compared with the anger last time, this time it is smiling, the Mandate of Heaven Army is indeed as legendaed, distributing disaster relief food to the people, this is what the Metropolitan Governor himself said!
If you join the Mandate of Heaven Army, you won't have to worry about running out of food in the future, and the Mandate of Heaven Army will have food for disaster relief, so you will naturally not starve your own soldiers.
He Xiaomi looked at the face of the Metropolitan Governor, and saw that the Metropolitan Governor nodded in signal, so he stepped forward and let the surrounding people disperse, "You go back, first register with the government, there is indeed no overnight food at home, the Heavenly Mandate Army will never break its promise, and promise to distribute food to you!" ”
The people still want to hear the words of the Metropolitan Governor, such as what kind of people can receive disaster relief food, what is the quantity, if the food is gone in the future, will there be a chance to receive disaster relief food, but Li Zicheng has retreated, these questions can only wait to ask the registered officials, the current Luoyang City, has been replaced by officials of the Mandate of Heaven, they are the Mandate of Heaven Army!
Although the people were still unsatisfied, they still left the Zhou Gong Temple, but after a while, only the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army were left around.
Feng Yijun looked at the two corpses in front of him and asked quietly: "Metropolitan Governor, are the heads of Zhu Changxun and Lu Weiqi going to be hung in the city for public display, or are they buried?" ”
Li Zicheng didn't have time to answer, and suddenly two Tsing Yi people came out from behind the Zhou Gong Temple, they pushed away the soldiers, walked to the front desk, and cried loudly on Zhu Changxun's corpse, not paying attention to the people around them at all.
The soldiers were furious.
The words of the Metropolitan Governor just now, even the people were moved, the soldiers were all born in bitter haha, and naturally their blood was boiling, and they admired the Metropolitan Governor even more in their hearts, and they couldn't wait to work for the Metropolitan Governor at any time.
At this moment, someone actually cried for Zhu Changxun, it was really stubborn!
The soldiers couldn't help but say, stepped forward and twisted the two Tsing Yi people, tied them up, and pushed them in front of Li Zicheng, "Dadu Governor, these two Xiaoxiao are actually crying for the King of Thieves!" ”
Li Zicheng looked at the two of them, although they were dressed in green clothes, their backs were firm, not like the slaves of the lower classes, there was a faint red thread in their eyebrows, the pain should be real, who were they? At this moment, what is it for Zhu Changxun to cry and mourn?
Although the man in Tsing Yi was bound, he did not have a trace of panic, and glanced at Li Zicheng and the other officials sitting on it, but turned around again, and his eyes were almost fixed on Zhu Changxun's corpse.
Li Zicheng frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Who are you?" Why did you cry for Zhu Changxun? ”
The two turned around and faced Li Zicheng, one of them said: "We are the worship of the prince, and when the prince passes away, we naturally have to cry for the prince!" ”
Li Zicheng didn't know what Chengfeng was, and looked at Feng Yijun, Feng Yijun hurriedly whispered: "Chengfeng is a servant official, a low-level civil official in the palace!" ”
Li Zicheng nodded, these two people are still loyal, Zhu Changxun is dead, others are afraid to avoid it, but they cry for Zhu Changxun in public, it seems that the world is loyal and righteous.
A man of loyalty should never be despised, no matter who he is loyal to!
Maybe they are foolish loyalty, but in Li Zicheng's heart, the word "foolish loyalty" does not exist at all, no matter whether the master is loyal or treacherous, good or bad, for subordinates, there is no difference at all, in their hearts, they just pretend to be their master, but they will not discern it.
We must distinguish between the good and bad of the master, and if we stand from different angles, we will come to different conclusions, and there will be no loyal servants!
Li Zicheng asked his own soldiers to loosen the tie between the two, and said: "You are Zhu Changxun's flattery, crying for Zhu Changxun, and you can be regarded as loyal and righteous people, the governor of Bendu will not embarrass you, you can go!" ”
The two of them did not move at all, and after a while, the person who spoke just now said: "King Fu is dead, and we don't want to live anymore, we just ask for a coffin to contain King Fu's bones, and we have no complaints even if we are broken bones!" ”
Li Zicheng was very surprised, the loyalty of these two people was really beyond his imagination, so he said to Feng Yijun: "Give them a good coffin, don't embarrass them!" Then he said to them, "The Governor of Pontus has always admired the faithful, but are you willing to serve the Governor of Pontus?" ”
Both of them shook their heads, "We are the people of King Fu, and after burying King Fu, we have nothing else to think about, but to follow King Fu by killing ourselves!" ”
Li Zicheng sighed, he wanted to persuade a few more words, but looking at the eyes of the two, they were very decisive, so he held back his words, and just asked Feng Yijun to bury Lu Weiqi's body, and left Zhougong Temple with his own soldiers.