Zhang Chu ordered someone to carry the Zhou landlord to the next room, because according to the experience in the stories of the elders, such landlords and old fortunes would definitely hide their valuable belongings in a secret place. The interrogation went smoothly, and the landlord of Zhou quickly confessed the place where he had hidden his valuables, and a silver ingot was dug up, which amounted to several thousand taels. When the landlord of Zhou saw that all the savings of his life were taken away by others, he screamed and fainted, and the blood from the wounds on his two legs continued to flow outward, and he never woke up again. The family members of the Zhou landlord may have been too active in defending their property, and they have all died in the scuffle just now. For the rest of the Zhuang Ding, Zhang Chu ordered all the people to be tied up and locked up in a sturdy room.

Zhang Chu cherished the Zhuangbao that he had fought so hard, and decided to clean it up carefully and remove all the things that could be used. At this time, the people who were guarding outside came to report that a group of people outside the village approached Zhuangzi, and it seemed that they were homeless. Zhang Chu immediately ordered the vigilance to be strengthened to prevent the displaced people from approaching. This kind of thing happens often, and sometimes the displaced people themselves will organize themselves to eat large households, and once the Zhuangzi is broken, the surrounding displaced people will rush over to see if they can take advantage of the chaos to get a piece of the pie. The fire-breaking refugees in Wenta Village naturally gathered here, but what disappointed them was that although Zhuangzi was breached, the thieves sent out a sentry, and the thieves in the village did not rob things indiscriminately, but packed up their belongings in an orderly manner.

"Let's open a warehouse and put grain." The bolder of the unwilling homeless shouted that they hoped that the thieves would release some food for the sake of fame.

"If you want food, you will exchange your life for it! Our food is bought with our lives. "I didn't expect the thief to lose face at all.

The homeless looked at the knives and guns in the hands of the thieves, and they couldn't exchange their lives for food.

"We need young people to join us, and our families can follow us, bring food back, and have food to eat." At this time, Yang Biao walked over from Zhuangbao and said.

Immediately, dozens of young and middle-aged people followed, and all of them were arranged to carry food, and the psychological barrier of being a thief in the face of hunger has long been gone.

The remaining helpless old and weak women and children were very disappointed, and the hope of survival was once again far away from them.

A thin man in his twenties hesitated, but finally made up his mind to walk towards Yang Biao. The reason why I hesitated in my heart was because this man was a Sven, a serious and famous talent. Xiucai's surname is Zhu, the real national surname, the name of Jishi, he has a bright future, he was admitted to Xiucai at the age of eighteen, and became the hope of the family's future Zhongxing, and soon married a wife and had children. Xiucai's good fortune came to an end, and the years of famine hit Xiucai's family hard, and Xiucai's fame was useless in the face of natural disasters. The family declined and was unable to support Xiucai to continue to gain fame, and Xiucai lost the strength to rely on outside. The family sat and ate the mountain empty, Xiucai could not carry the shoulder, could not carry the basket in his hand, could only sell the field and land, sat and ate the mountain empty, and finally saw that there was no rice to live in the pot, so he could only take his wife and children to leave his hometown with the homeless people. At first, he also wanted to go to the same year he met when he was studying to get relief, but those poor scholars were also too busy to take care of themselves, Zhu Xiucai could only leave, hoping to find a private school somewhere to be a gentleman or a master or something, but now the rich family can't afford to hire new people.

Zhu Xiucai took his wife and children to walk on the road to escape the famine, and he was more miserable than others, and the whole family had not been able to eat for several days. Seeing the fire in Wenta Village, Zhu Xiucai rushed over with the homeless people in the hope of grabbing something to eat in the chaos. But now it looks like another disappointment is coming.

When a thief or starves to death with his wife and children, this is a problem, Zhu Xiucai repeatedly struggled in his heart, it doesn't matter if he dies, he can't let his wife and children starve to death. Zhu Xiucai made up his mind, quickened his pace and hurried over and said loudly: "I want to join too." ”

Unexpectedly, the summoner looked at him twice, focused on his shabby robe, and said, "Scholar, right?" Don't be like this, you're too thin. ”

Seeing that the food in his mouth was about to fly away, Zhu Xiucai was anxious, and couldn't help but say loudly: "Don't judge people by their appearance, scholars can also kill people with knives!" ”

The sentence "Scholars can also kill people with knives" attracted the attention of Zhang Chu, who was passing by, and Zhang Chu walked over and watched with interest a thin young man in a long shirt doing a proud gesture there.

"Reader? What books have you read? Zhang Chu asked.

"I often read the book of sages and sages, and I have studied in the county school, and I am a student of the county school, that is, a showman." Zhu Xiucai saw that the momentum of the person asking the question was different, and he thought that he was the leader of the thief, so he had to bow his head under the low eaves, bow down, and explain.

One sentence almost didn't make Zhang Chu angry, the book of sages was often read, and then shouted, "Scholars can also kill people with knives." "That's a wonderful person. However, Xiucai should be regarded as a high-level intellectual in the Ming Dynasty, and it is rare for Xiucai to participate in the rebellion, so maybe it is really useful.

Zhang Chu didn't have time to talk to him, and motioned to accept Xiucai, who immediately trotted to pick up his wife and children not far away, and then joined the team of carrying grain, and worked hard.

Yang Biao came over to report to Zhang Chu that he had found more than 600 stones of grain in the granary of the Zhou landlord, as well as many other materials. Zhang Chu immediately ordered people to gather the horses, horses and livestock of the Zhou landlord's family to load the materials, and took out the silver money to ask He Jin to take people to the surrounding villagers' homes to sell the vehicles and the cattle pulling the carts, and repeatedly told He Jin that the price must be fair. Soon the vehicles and livestock in the village were bought out, and the newly recruited homeless people drove the cattle and carts, and a long convoy pulled the supplies to the mountains, and the Zhou landlord's fort was only left with bare buildings.

Before leaving, Zhang Chu ordered Yang Liu to quietly bring out the lone children among the displaced people outside the village and follow the team, while leaving some food for the elderly and women. Now we can't afford to take in all the displaced people, and I am afraid that the displaced people from other places will gather when they hear the news, so we can only do this.

It was already midnight when he returned to the valley, but Zhang Chu could not rest, so he hurriedly arranged for people to treat the wounded, and the losses caused by this sortie were huge, six people were killed on the spot, two were seriously injured, and seven or eight people were slightly injured to varying degrees. It was only because of the victory that no one turned their attention to it. The dead were temporarily parked in the ancestral hall in the village, and the wounds of the wounded were medicated, and the next step was to hope that they would not be infected and see if they could survive the hurdle. Then he gathered the new recruits together to rest, and instructed He Jin to arrange for manpower to take precautions and investigate tomorrow.

Everything was arranged and it was almost dawn on the day, Zhang Chu only lay on the bed and took a nap for a while before getting up again, there were too many things to do, and he needed more helpers. So he thought of that Xiucai.

Xiucai was called to Zhang Chu, Zhang Chu looked at him, Xiucai joined the cottage and generally became a character like the second master of the master, but Zhu Xiucai in front of him was very different from the image of the second master with a goatee and a sinister face in Zhang Chu's mind. Although Zhu Xiucai is thin, his face is white and beardless, and his facial features are upright, no matter how you look at it, he is a positive person.

Let go of these boring thoughts, Zhang Chu asked, "Can you memorize a thousand-character essay?" ”

Zhu Xiucai didn't reply after hearing this, and it can be said that it was an insult to ask a Xiucai if he could memorize a thousand-character essay.

Zhang Chu didn't care about Zhu Xiucai's reaction, but pointed to the pen and paper on the table and said: "Write a thousand-character essay silently, and the words should be written horizontally from left to right, leaving a gap in one line at the bottom of each line." ”

Zhu Xiucai thought that this king must be to check whether he was really a talent. However, I despise the cultural level of this king in my heart, and I see that this king is a reckless person, I only know that there is a thousand-character text, and I have never heard of a deeper sage book, and there are words to be written horizontally from left to right, and I have never heard of such a rule for thousands of years. But he didn't dare to disobey, and sat down at the table and wrote. Zhang Chu went out to do other things again.

After a while, Zhang Chu came back, Zhu Xiucai had already finished writing, Zhang Chu took the written thousand-character text and said: "This time I took in more than a dozen children, and in the future, you will teach them to read and write, and you go and register them." Zhu Xiucai took the pen and paper and left, and Zhang Chu took the pen and wrote and drew on the thousand-character text written by Zhu Xiucai.

After the registration was completed, Zhu Xiucai came back to report to Zhang Chu, Zhang Chu returned the thousand-character text to Zhu Xiucai, Zhu Xiucai was surprised, he didn't expect Zhang Chu to be able to write, in the gap of the thousand-character text Zhang Chu copied it again, it seems that the words are still written well, and there is a charm of Yan Lugong. But looking closely, Zhu Xiucai wanted to laugh again, because many of the words written by Zhang Chu had shortcomings and few drawings, and there were many circles and dots between the words. Zhu Xiucai couldn't hold back his laughter, and he didn't dare to say that Zhang Chu had written it wrong.

At this time, Zhang Chu said: "In the future, the characters must be written horizontally from left to right in this way, and the words should be written according to the way I write, and the symbols I use should be added between the sentences and readings, that is, punctuation." You have to learn it as soon as possible, the children are taught by you, and the official documents and records must be written in this kind of writing. ”

So Zhu Xiucai began his career as a teacher in the valley, but every day he had to teach the children the words that were missing arms and legs, so that every night Zhu Xiucai had to confess to the Holy Master: "Students are forced by life to teach children incomplete words, it is really helpless, if there is an opportunity to correct mistakes." ”

But as the application time increased, Zhu Xiucai found that this set of characters was easier to write and remember. Later, Zhang Chu gave him a set of strange symbols called Hanyu Pinyin, and taught him how to use it, Zhu Xiucai tried to teach the children, the children's literacy speed increased greatly, Zhu Xiucai couldn't help but think that if this method was promoted, Zhang Chu said that it is really possible to make the children of the poor literate, and the problem of literacy of readers will be solved, which is a pioneering move. Later, Zhu Xiucai's daily confession to the Holy Master changed, and Zhu Xiucai asked the Master: "If this kind of initiative is made by me, can I also be ranked among the sage disciples of the First Master?" ”

Zhang Chu was not idle when Xiucai was thinking wildly, due to the situation, Zhang Chu was preparing for the next long-distance attack.