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Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and shouted loudly into the Li family's compound: "Please come up to the wall and say a few words......

It didn't take long for a middle-aged man wearing silk clothes to appear on the wall, this person should be the master of the Li family, he glanced at the chaotic people on the wall, obviously frightened, and his head shrank, but when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang standing there with a righteous face, and what he heard Zhu Yuanzhang say just now, he was a little bolder, and said: "The heroes outside, what do you have to teach you?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed lightly, and then said loudly: "Just one request, you agreed, I will take someone to turn around and leave." ”

"Heroes just mention!" Then Master Li just wanted to send these rebels away quickly, and he hurriedly agreed.

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his finger and pointed to the fields around the Li family's compound, and then said very seriously: "How many fields you have, calculate according to how many taxes these fields should pay to the state, and hand over the money and grain to us...... I'll turn around and leave! ”

"Hero...... In my grandfather's generation, he was admitted to the Jinshi and later served as a member of the imperial court, so he ...... My family doesn't pay taxes. Then Master Li hurriedly said.

"I know you don't pay taxes!" Zhu Yuanzhang said very seriously: "Your family is very rich, but you don't pay taxes. The people behind me are poor, but they have to pay taxes...... You live a nourishing life, and because you don't pay taxes, you live a more nourishing life. The people live very hard, and they live even harder because they have to pay taxes...... Don't you feel like you should do something? ”

"This ......" Master Li suddenly hesitated.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed again in his heart, raised his head, and said seriously: "I'm reasoning with you, because I like to convince people with reason." But if you don't reason with me, I have the means to be unreasonable......" He squeezed his hand and said very seriously, "If I start to be unreasonable...... I won't look for you to collect taxes, it's just a matter of breaking through your small yard, and when the time comes, all your family wealth will be taken away by me, and you won't have a chance to pay taxes if you want to. ”

"Pay your taxes! I pay my taxes! Master Li was startled, and hurriedly said: "Come on, go and calculate how much our family's land needs to pay if it is according to the standards of ordinary people...... Hurry up and report it. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was not in a hurry, found a stone, and sat on it.

The chaotic people next to them were stunned by the conversation between Zhu Yuanzhang and Master Li, although their knowledge was very shallow and they didn't know much about the big truth, but they could understand what Zhu Yuanzhang said just now. Yes, we are poor, but we have to pay taxes. People who have been officials are obviously very rich, so why don't they pay taxes?

Those who don't pay taxes are getting richer and richer, and those who pay taxes are getting poorer and poorer, which seems unreasonable!

"Zhu Bugs...... I don't understand what you just said...... a peasant came up to him and asked, "Teach me why the imperial court does not collect taxes from the rich, but from the poor?" ”

"Yes, Brother Zhu, I didn't notice it before you said it, but after listening to your words today, I suddenly found out, why does the imperial court collect our taxes? If you look for us to collect taxes, we won't be able to collect them, and we'll all starve to death. Those who eat and drink spicy food do not pay taxes...... Isn't that completely unreasonable? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes, shook his head and sighed: "Because...... The court did something wrong! But they don't have the power to change ......."

"We don't understand this, the imperial court is the biggest in the world, and it will be changed if it makes a holy decree to ask the rich to pay taxes and let the poor not pay taxes?" Wang Er also asked curiously.

"Hey, it's that simple!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in a low voice: "If the imperial court issues such a holy decree, and the rich people in the whole world rebel together, even the emperor will not be able to withstand it!" ”

"Huh?" Wang Er opened his mouth wide: "Then what should I do?" ”

"It's easy!" Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand and pointed to the Li family's compound in front of him, and said with a low smile: "Just like we are now, send an army to surround the rich people in the whole world like this, and ask them: Do you pay or not?" ”

"Uh...... It seems like it's hard to do. ”

"Hahaha, only now this little manpower, of course it's difficult to do." Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said: "However, when we have an army of millions, this kind of thing is effortless." ”

The two chatted for a while, and Master Li had already calculated how much tax should be paid on his field according to the standards of ordinary people, and he sent someone to put the silver in a bag, intending to throw it off the roof. At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, taxes were paid with grain, and later Zhang Juzheng reformed and implemented the "One Whip Law", and all taxes were changed to silver.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said: "Don't give me silver, convert it into grain and throw it down, I know that your Li family has a lot of grain in stock, and when I hoarded grain this time, the steward of your Li family was also buying a lot of grain." ”

How dare Master Li not listen, open the cellar, and transport the grain out one by one. Although the Li family's field is not as much as the Ma family's, it is not small, and according to the tax conversion, hundreds of stones of grain have been handed over. Zhu Yuanzhang asked the people to distribute the grain on the spot, and everyone packed a bag, and then left the Li family's compound and continued to move towards Baishui* County.

Not long after leaving the Li family's compound, there was a strange sound in the team.

"Brother Zhu, I don't think it's good to do this." A splash said to the person next to him: "The Li family's compound is obviously already surrounded by us, and what kind of reasoning do you have to talk to them, I think I should go in directly, kill all the Li family, and snatch everything away, and the harvest will be much more than now." ”

"Yes! After talking about the truth for a long time, I got more than 100 stone of grain, is this considered a rebellion against officials, robbing the rich and helping the poor? I think it's time to slaughter the Li family...... Hey...... Anyway, I once looked at the young lady of the Li family from a distance, and she looked really smart, if she killed it...... Lao Tzu didn't rob anything else, just robbed the woman......"

"Let's stop following Zhu Baba Brother, he does things too much and reason, and it doesn't fit our surname......"

"yes, how about we pull up a team ourselves?"

Several scoundrels whispered for a while, and after a while, someone in the crowd responded to their words, and many people gathered over, and slowly, this group of people walked out of the team and formed another reading gang next to Zhu Yuanzhang's team.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at their behavior coldly and did not stop them...... Because he has long been mentally prepared, such a person will appear sooner or later, just like Zhao Yu, who has a surrender faction in Zheng Yanfu's team. Every team that has been pulled up temporarily and has not yet been tested must have some discordant factors in it, and Zheng Yanfu did not pay attention to this, and actually took them into his own team, which eventually led to the collapse of the entire team.

But Zhu Yuanzhang won't, people like this who have different ideas from him, it's better to let them out as soon as possible. So when the scoundrels were discussing, Zhu Yuanzhang not only didn't stop it, but also didn't let Wang Er mix it, until their team came out, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't stretch out his hand.

There are actually quite a few people in this group, more than 200 people, all of whom are well-known idlers, who usually do not produce, and specialize in doing some things that are cheating and abducting, and they are ruthless, and they are not good citizens at all. Seeing that this group of people took the initiative to separate, Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry but happy, and he really wished that they would go as far as they went.

A man walked out of the scoundrel, his body was quite strong, and his face also had a fierce color, he hugged Zhu Yuanzhang with a sloppy expression, and hummed: "Brother Zhu, we respect you brother, that's because you have helped us before, and you have taken us to this day, but ...... The brothers can't stand you now, you can rob it, just say a few words. Obviously, you can make more money and food, but you let it go gently, and we can't follow you. ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang responded casually.

The man continued: "I am the new leader elected by the brothers, named Chongguang Dao, let's not talk about it, let's go our separate ways here, the green mountains will not change, the green water will flow forever, we will have a period later." ”

"Planting the path of light?" When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this name, he was interested, and he was not unfamiliar with this name. After he wandered to the sky and watched the fall of the Ming Empire established by himself, he once looked through some records of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and recorded it in the "Baishui * County Chronicle": "Baihebei Wang Er, Chongguangdao advocates chaos." In the book "Geographical Soldiers", it is recorded: "The king of the north of the Luohe River is two, and the light path gathers people for thieves." ”

To put it simply, the guy in front of him, called Chongguang Dao, is actually a celebrity in history, but no matter which book he is, he is ranked behind Wang Er, which shows that he is not as powerful as Wang Er, just a supporting role. In the past, Zhu Yuanzhang was still wondering, he saw Wang Er, why didn't he see the path of light, it turned out to be ...... This guy jumped out at this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand casually and said: "Brother Plant, since we have different ideas, let's go our own way, the road is facing the sky, each going to one side, it doesn't matter, I wish you all the best." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang actually said loudly to the surrounding homeless people: "Brothers, please listen to me, when dealing with the Li family's problem just now, some brothers had different opinions, thinking that we should rush in and kill the Li family and take away all the Li family's property...... Now these brothers want to go out and form another rebel army...... I want you all to think about it, and if you think their ideas are better, please go to him too......"

With his roar, the faces of many homeless people showed hesitation, and Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "It doesn't matter if you are separated, don't think that we are not brothers if we join different rebel armies, we are brothers in a village, even if you follow the path of light, I will not blame you...... We just think differently and don't become enemies! One day you have a problem, come to me again, and I will still help you. ”

When the homeless people heard this, they immediately coaxed, and many people ran towards the team of the Light Path, it seems that there are still a lot of homeless people who agree with killing the Li family, it is no wonder that these homeless people don't understand anything, and their quality is low, and when they are about to starve to death, even their conscience and rational surnames have been burned, and they have the idea of smashing and looting, which is not surprising at all.

In the end, the number of people in the team was reduced by a small half, and more than 800 people were taken away by the Light Dao, and there were less than 1,200 people left in Zhu Yuanzhang's team. But he felt very satisfied in his heart...... The unstable factors were solved at once, and there was no need to offend people, and if they did not leave automatically, but had to let themselves make the means to leave, it would be really troublesome.

Thank you!