Chapter 1 Killing the Good and Risking the Merit

Su Tiancheng opened his eyes in a daze.

The remnant sun was like blood, and he saw a terrifying scene.

Not far away, several people riding brown and yellow war horses, wearing felt hats and brown clothes, with armor guards on their chests and backs, and a red scarf on top of the felt hat.

These people, wielding steel knives, were slashing at a group of ragged and vegetable-looking people.

A miserable wail came, and streams of blood kept rushing into the sky.

The steel knives of these people actually slashed at the people's bodies, and the people who fell to the ground struggled a few times, and soon stopped moving.

In just a few minutes, the killing was over, and the man on the horse turned over and dismounted, and began to cut off the head.

These people, when they cut off people's heads, still have a smile on their faces, and they don't care at all.

The surrounding scenery is beautiful, with blue sky, remnant sun, green grass and green mountains, with an ancient atmosphere.

It's a pity that under the beautiful scenery, there is such a discordant and even cruel scene.

The half-human-tall grass covered Su Tiancheng very well, he wanted to vomit, where had he ever seen such a bloody scene.

His body began to tremble, but at this time, he had to try his best to suppress his emotions, otherwise he would definitely not end well if he was discovered.

Subconsciously reached out and touched his trouser pocket, not calling the police at this time, let alone when.

His hands were empty, and he was wearing a robe with no trouser pockets.

Cold sweat broke out on Su Tiancheng's head, he hadn't worn a robe in his life, and he was a hell of a person.

The mature and steady style formed by long-term tempering made him begin to wake up, the more crisis the situation, the more he needs to be calm, impulsiveness is the devil.

The scene that appeared in front of me was too strange, and the murder was not so blatant that it could not be explained.

At this moment, Su Tiancheng's mind began to ache sharply, and some inexplicable thoughts entered his mind one after another, and these thoughts began to merge with his own thoughts, and became a whole between the calcium carbide firelight.

Su Tiancheng, who was fast, had no reaction process and no time to resist.

Enduring the sharp pain in his head, he didn't have time to ponder, he thought of a word: crossing.

After reading countless online novels, he laughed at the miracles of those crossings, but he never imagined that he would encounter such a thing.

crossed over, and arrived in October of the third year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty.

I just went out to climb the mountain with a group of donkey friends, and accidentally fell into the valley, and when I fell, I was still very sober. **Big thing, for what would cause such a drastic change.

Before the crossing, he was a civil servant of a state agency, with no worries about food and clothing, not rich, according to the standard of being handsome and rich, he was not on the side, but he did not belong to the type of silk, and he had many desires for life.

The most important thing is that I am about to be promoted again, and the organization department has just been assessed, and the situation has been publicized.

Is it joy and sorrow?

Su Tiancheng was a little unwilling, and bit his arm hard, it hurt, it really hurt.

Cold sweat came out of his head again, this is not acting, let alone dreaming, this is true.

In an instant, he had a trace of manic emotion, and he couldn't wait to stand up immediately, and cursed loudly God, Nima's, Lao Tzu's 21st century great state civil servant, has been reused organizationally, that is, to cross, at least until the Zhenguan era, or the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, for what came to the Chongzhen period.

A poem floated into his mind: Looking back at the bleak place, returning, there is no wind and rain and no sunshine.

I don't know how much I have seen in the officialdom, and the wind and waves have also passed, this time I don't know if the boat capsized in the gutter.

Troubled times, during the Chongzhen period, the real troubled times were full of ups and downs.

Everything has a reasonable explanation, for what is the reason for the fact that he is wearing a robe, for what he wears a felt hat and armor for those who are riding horses, and for what he is wearing clothes for those who are cut down.

Such a scene in front of you, even in the movie, is easy to see, it is too violent and bloody, could it be that the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen has been in chaos for three years.

Su Tiancheng was a little frightened for a while, this was a little wrong with the history he understood, and he said that hearing is false, and seeing is believing. But what you see for yourself can never be fake.

At least the knowledge of history, he is still clear.

There is a good saying that it is impossible for people who are not familiar with history to grasp the direction of the future, and the leaders of a country in any period must be familiar with the past and predict the future according to the course of historical development.

There are countless descriptions of the official history and the wild history about the events of the Chongzhen period, but a few points are credible.

From 1600 to 1644, the global temperature dropped to the lowest point in a thousand years, which is known in history as the alternating period of climate warming and cooling, which is commonly known as the Xiaoice Age. And among this global disasters and crises, the Ming Dynasty in China was the most severe.

During the Chongzhen period, the Central Plains region was plagued by famine year after year, there was no grass in the wilderness, ten rooms and nine emptiness, the common people had no way to make a living, and lived by eating tree roots and Guanyin soil, and even the tragedy of cannibalism.

The peasant uprising was surging, and the leaders of the rebel army, such as Gao Yingshen, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and Ma Shouying, slowly developed and grew, and it was difficult for Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi and other places to have a moment of tranquility.

The threat of the Later Jin is even greater, ** Hachi announced the "Seven Hatreds" with the Ming Dynasty in the forty-sixth year of Wanli, and began to rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty, ** Hachi died, and Shuo Beile succeeded to the throne, called Huang Taiji, and increased the crusade against the Ming Dynasty, the fight between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty will become more and more intense, but in a few years, the war will spread in the land of Shenzhou.

The situation is definitely not good, and it is extremely bad, but Su Tiancheng has no time to complain, he needs to think about how to deal with the situation in front of him.

The more you are afraid of something, the more you come.

Su Tiancheng was still discovered by a man on horseback.

It's no wonder that he hid in the grass and shivered for a long time, and if people couldn't find out, they would be really fools.

"Vultures, thieves, don't come out quickly and die."

Two horsemen on horseback came, and they didn't dare to get too close, there were not many of them, only five people and five horses, if they encountered an ambush of a large group of people and horses, they didn't get very close, and it was more than enough to turn around and run.

There was no time to adjust, and Su Tiancheng met the situation of life and death.

He slowly got up from the grass, and swept away the grass roots from his robe very stylishly, with a nonchalant smile on his face, despite the tense leg cramps in his heart.

Su Tiancheng was wearing a silk brocade robe, with a height of seven feet, equivalent to 1.78 meters now, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, revealing the temperament of a scholar.

"A few military masters, they are not thieves below, but they are scholars."

Calling themselves thieves, needless to say, these people are the sergeants in the army, headless corpses lying on the ground, dressed in tatters, unable to see weapons, they are definitely not rogues, they are almost the same as outcasts.

Kill the good and take the risk.

Su Tiancheng quickly thought of this word.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were many things to kill the good and take the merits, and some sergeants, in order to get the so-called reward, and in order not to be punished by the above, unscrupulous means, killed ordinary people, carried the heads of the people, invited merit and rewards, and said that they were thieves.

These sergeants, when they really met the rogue, ran faster than rabbits.

I was so unlucky to see such a situation.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, human life was like a mustard, looking at these soldiers, the action of cutting off people's heads was so skillful, they must have been used to doing this kind of thing, and they were discovered by themselves, wouldn't they want to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

I met a dead end.