Ninety-nine, where in the world can not go
The Light Dao took away more than 800 people, but Zhu Yuan was not depressed at all, but happy. Because the Light Cultivation Dao is equivalent to helping him take away all the bandits and hooligans, the remaining 1,200 people will be much easier to control.
And...... The light path will also become a good talisman, because the people he brought are all going to be smashed and burned, and Zhu Yuanzhang's team is not smashing and looting, so in this comparison, the squire and the government must hate the light path even more, if you want to send troops to encircle and suppress, you will definitely take the light path first, and you will have enough time to prepare.
His departure is really beneficial and harmless.
The two teams soon parted ways, Zhu Yuanzhang's goal was the * county seat, as a rebel army, he wanted to become a well-known leader in the uprising frenzy that swept the world in the future, make his own reputation, and trample Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others below, he must make some big events that mark the surname, such as the capture of the * county seat, which can bring him a lot of good reputation.
And Chongguangdao doesn't have such a big ambition, his goal is to rob money and women! So he had no interest in the county seat, and his attention fell on the nearby squires.
The two teams parted peacefully, went their own way, and the light path took the team to fight horizontally. Zhu Yuanzhang continued to advance towards the county seat with 1,200 people.
On the next road, Zhu Yuanzhang's team passed through the compound of a rich gentry, if this is a kind of light road team, this squire will definitely be finished, and it will be like Zhang Douyao's family back then, burned and looted by the rioters, the men were killed, and the women were killed after being insulted, but the people who were willing to continue to follow Zhu Yuanzhang were all very kind people, and they didn't have such thoughts in their hearts at all.
They just surrounded the gentry, and then Zhu Yuanzhang came forward to ask for taxes. With more than 1,000 chaotic people "asking for taxes", it is really a very easy thing, the squire was scared half to death, as soon as Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth, the other party immediately took the initiative to offer food, full of endless good words, just begging Zhu Yuanzhang to let them go.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang would not embarrass them, he left after receiving the money and grain, distributed the money and grain on the spot, and then continued to move forward with the people.
Not long after, the county seat is in sight, there are no defenders in the city, and Baishui also has three government offices of 100 households, respectively in the west, north, and southwest directions, but these three 100 households have not yet had time to send troops, just like last year's Chengcheng uprising, the troops of 100 households are often a day or two slower. And even if he sent troops, he might not be Zhu Yuanzhang's opponent, he didn't take these three hundred households in his eyes at all.
The old guards at the city gate fled as soon as possible, and they didn't even have the courage to close the city gate. Under the leadership of Zhu Yuanzhang, the rioters poured into the county seat, and the residents of the city hid in their homes one after another, just like the situation when Zheng Yanfu's team rushed into the city last year.
The streets were deserted, and all the inhabitants were trembling in their houses. Most of these people living in the city were well-to-do people, and it was absolutely impossible for them to join the rebel army.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think about fighting for them, but he didn't think about dealing with them, he came to seize the world, he didn't want to stir the world into a mess, the people are the cornerstone of the world, any act of smashing, looting, and burning and bringing trauma to the people is smashing his own foundation, he won't be so stupid.
Wang Er and his people quickly occupied the yamen, and the scribes, lords, officials, and catchers in the yamen wanted to scatter birds and beasts, but they were quickly captured by Wang Er and all the people, tied up with ropes, and knelt in a row on the square in front of the yamen.
Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to read out their crimes, and all those who oppressed the good people were all hacked to death. As a result, most of these people did not escape, and only a few officials, who were usually good people and took good care of their neighbors, saved their lives in the people's begging. It can be seen that good people are always rewarded, and being a kind servant, even if the people revolt, they will not die because of it.
The next thing is to open the * county warehouse, and the homeless people are full of anticipation and want to get a large amount of grain from the county warehouse to fill their stomachs, so they all excitedly gather in front of the warehouse.
When the warehouse was opened, everyone was dumbfounded, only to see a small pile of silver piled up in the empty warehouse, estimated to be less than a thousand taels, and some rice bags were placed next to it, but a hundred handfuls of stone rice were not as good as the rice that was moved out of the Ma family's compound.
"Zhu Bugs...... It's so empty in the warehouse! The people were stunned.
"Brother Zhu, why is there nothing in this warehouse!"
"What about Qiu Fu? Where is Qiu Fu? ”
This very small amount of money and grain in the warehouse is the autumn endowment collected by Gu Huaxiu this year, the year is not good, some honest people, through selling children and daughters, etc., handed over this little bit of autumn endowment, it is no exaggeration to say that these confiscated autumn endowments are all silver money turned into blood and tears! But such a small amount of money is too little.
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed secretly in his heart, the situation in the warehouse was as he expected, fortunately he prepared a large amount of food in advance, otherwise he would have to worry about the food and clothing of thousands of people.
"Oh my God...... There's just a little stuff in the warehouse, how are we going to live? Some of the people, who were looking forward to snatching a large sum of money from the warehouse and living a good life, immediately began to cry.
"yes...... There is no food in the county warehouse, so we're really done this time. ”
"Brother Zhu, what should I do?"
The eyes of the people were full of confusion.
For most ordinary people who have not read books and have little knowledge, the so-called "killing officials and rebelling" means uniting together, rushing into the city, issuing county orders, opening warehouses, putting grain, and then ...... And then there is no more!
This is the favorite talk of many storytellers in the middle of the Ming Dynasty when they tell jokes, and the people also love to listen to them. But...... When the storyteller talks about this, there is often no following. In a modern popular phrase, the story is eunuch here.
Therefore, when Zheng Yanfu rebelled, he also indiscriminately robbed without a plan, and then completely lost his direction!
Now the displaced people under Zhu Yuanzhang are also beginning to face this problem, the county seat is broken, the warehouse is open, but there is no food. Even if there is food, it is impossible to eat this food for a lifetime, and then ...... What shall we do?
Some substandard novels, written in this place, are about to start to let off the spirit of the king, the protagonist jumped in front of everyone, gave a generous speech, and said: "Let's go, everyone follow me to fight the world, I will be the emperor, and you will be the general." After speaking, everyone bowed their heads and bowed, and then they conquered the world and were invincible......
It's all!
For the poor people who have no knowledge and no ambition, if you tell them that they want to take over the world, I am afraid that they will be frightened, no matter how strong the spirit of the king is useless, and they can't understand it at all, what is underground, what emperors and generals, they don't have this ambition at all, so it doesn't make sense at all.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who understands people's hearts, understands that at this time, to let them follow themselves to win the world, they must use very simple words and very intuitive short-term goals to let them understand what to do next, although this goal is not necessarily big, but they must be able to understand.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the square in front of the ya, asked his subordinates to stand on the square, and then raised his voice: "Brothers...... Everyone saw that there was only a little grain in the county warehouse...... This little bit of food is not enough for us to survive......"
"yes!"
"Brother Zhu, what should we do?"
"It's over...... We're all done......"
Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "Everyone, don't make noise...... I have a solution! ”
"What's the solution? Brother Zhu, say it quickly! ”
"If you say, I'll listen."
Zhu Yuanzhang said with a calm face: "There is no food in Baishui, that's because we have suffered from drought, and now we can't find more food in the whole Baishui...... But we can't starve to death in vain...... If you can't grab food here, you can go to Chengcheng to grab it, go to Pucheng to grab it, go to Yichuan * County to grab it, and go to Fuping * County to grab ......"
"Brother Zhu, what if there is no food in these * counties?" Ma Xiaotian asked pretending to be next to him.
"Well, Ma Xiaotian, you asked this question well." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "There is no food in the county, can we still go to Fucheng to grab it...... Xi'an Mansion is so prosperous, I don't believe that there is no food in Xi'an Mansion. ”
"That's right! There is no food in the county, but there will always be one in the city! When the people heard this, their eyes lit up, and their thoughts were blinded by the word food, and they didn't think at all, is Fucheng a place that can be grabbed casually? The density of the defense of the officers and soldiers on the capital city is far hundreds of times higher than that of the county seat, and it is not that you can enter if you want to go in and grab food, of course Zhu Yuanzhang will not remind them that it is impossible to break through the city with the current strength.
"Brother Zhu, what if there is no food in Xi'an Mansion? Aren't we going to starve to death? Wang Er blinked and asked very seriously.
"Well, if there is no food in Xi'an...... And the capital! Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "It is impossible for the capital to be without food, we have legs, where can we go in the world?" There's always a place where we can find food......"
"Wow! Good! If there is no food in the county, go to the capital, and if there is no food in the city, go to the capital! We have legs, and we can't go anywhere. "The people didn't know that they had been deceived, and the idea of going to the capital to grab grain and rebelling could only be used to coax them, the people who had a lot of brains, and there were a few people in the crowd who had read for a few days, and their faces instantly turned white with fright.
It took a long time for the people to react and ask timidly, "Brother Zhu...... You said...... We robbed the county warehouse, will the officers and soldiers come to beat us? What should we do? ”
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Run!" ”