Grain was transported out of the Ma family's cellar in a steady stream, and the Ma family's cellar hoarded a lot of grain, because it was bought for five thousand taels of silver, enough for a thousand people to eat for a year.

But Li Chujiu did not transport all of them out according to Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions, but only moved hundreds of bags out of it casually, and these grains were moved to the gate of the house, Zhu Yuanzhang cut the grain bags with a knife, and with a bang, the grain was poured out of it, and several poor people standing nearby hurriedly came up and held them with their hands, shouting: "Oops, I almost spilled it...... You can't waste it. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said: "Fellow villagers, brothers, I just went into the house and begged for these grains from the second young grandmother of the Ma family...... The Ma family is still quite reasonable, I asked her for it, and she gave it! ”

The people laughed together: "We have so many people around her home, do she dare not give it?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Folks, the Ma family's grain is still too small, just a few hundred bags, what can it do?" We have 2,000 people here, and each person can only get a small handful, which is far from enough! If we want to eat enough and not starve to death, we have to do more......"

"The county seat, the warehouse! Go there and get all the grain out of the warehouse! Zhu Yuanzhang said loudly: "There is the autumn endowment we paid, those are our hard-earned money, let's go and get it back." ”

"That's right! Get our hard-earned money back! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the people's emotions were high, and he was still a little worried that they would get out of control, so he added: "Remember, we are a righteous army, not bandits, don't rob people when you see them, and burn them when you see them...... We can kill corrupt officials, but we don't deal with good people. Let's rob the rich and be civilized, just ask them for food, don't rush in to burn, kill and loot, those things are only done by bandits. ”

"Yes, let's listen to Bugling Zhu!" After all, most of the people are still kind, they just want to live with the rebellion, and they don't want to become robbers who kill people and goods, when Zheng Yanfu rebelled, the good people became rogues in a blink of an eye, the reason is that Zheng Yanfu lacked restraint on them, did not take into account the dark side of the surname, and connived at them to become runaway butchers, but Zhu Yuanzhang has been trying to control their emotions, so that they are not too irritable, even when killing officials, there is a trace of clarity in their hearts.

Among these chaotic people, only a few ruffians disagreed with Zhu Yuanzhang's words, they secretly had the idea of grabbing a handful and having a good time, for this kind of person, Zhu Yuanzhang is inconvenient to deal with now, so he can only secretly look at it in his eyes, keep it in his heart, and slowly clean them up in the future.

After the people divided the grain that Zhu Yuanzhang moved out of Ma's house, they began to rush towards the direction of the * county seat, Zhu Yuanzhang left a hundred of his henchmen to guard the Ma family compound, because there are still a large number of grain reserves here, which can not be thrown away in this chaos, and he himself took Wang Er and other henchmen to lead the chaotic people to continue to march towards the * county seat.

The closer they get to the county seat, the denser the villages become, and every time they pass through a village, Zhu Yuanzhang's team will expand a little bit, because the poor people see this rebel army rushing towards the county seat of the county with great momentum, listening to the shouts in their mouths, even idiots know what will happen next, and many people have the idea that they can't live anyway, and they follow the idea of grabbing something to eat, and they mixed into the team, making the team bigger and bigger.

It didn't take long for the rebels to pass by a luxurious mansion, which was the mansion of the Whitewater Lee family. The Li family is also a famous squire of the Baishui family, and there is also a Jinshi pole in front of the door, the family's financial resources are worse than the Ma family, but it is not much worse, and it belongs to a well-known wealthy family.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang could give the order, a large group of rebels rushed over and surrounded the Li family's compound. This is also a big drawback of the peasant uprising, because most of the rebels rebelled by listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's words on impulse, and the whole team lacked organizational discipline and was not as easy to use as the army, they would often do things out of control, and they would do their own things without waiting for the leader's order.

These people spontaneously surrounded the Li family's compound, and then shouted: "Li family, come out...... Li family, come out and ......"

How dare the people of the Li family come out, the people outside are dancing wildly, this scene is like the end of the gentry class. The gate of the Li family's compound was tightly closed, and there were stones, tables and chairs behind the door, and some of the Li family's family members with knives and guns in their hands appeared nervously on the wall, posing as if they were facing a great enemy.

The rich gentry of this era were all trained in the family and nursery, and they had some humble combat effectiveness. A wealthy family like the Li family usually has more than seventy or eighty people who can fight, and if they are given some more time and let them spend money to recruit villagers, they can gather a militia of five or six hundred or even thousands.

In fact, the peasant uprisings of all eras were often fought against these squire forces. For example, the very famous "Song Gongming Three Fights Zhujiazhuang" in "Water Margin" is actually the Liangshan bandits fighting with a squire surnamed Zhu. The result? The result was that Liangshan fought three times to get Zhujiazhuang done! Another example is Zengtou City, which was attacked by Chao Gai, the king of Tota, and was also a small town under the control of the squire, and the result was that Chao Gai was killed......

It can be seen from this that how difficult the squire is, it is not something that you can do if you say that you can get someone else.

Here, we have to mention a small incident that happened in "Sanda Zhujiazhuang", in this story, a tragic woman named Hu Sanniang appeared! The people of Liangshan killed Hu Sanniang's fiancé Zhu Biao, and also killed her parents and family, and finally captured Hu Sanniang alive and returned to the cottage, forcing her to marry Wang Xiaohu. This is simply a bad act of killing the whole family and robbing people to warm their beds, and it can be seen from here that it is more appropriate to change Liangshan heroes to Liangshan bandits.

Because of this bad behavior of the bandits, it also made the squires more fierce against the peasant rebels, and their sense of confrontation was even stronger than that of the officers and soldiers. This incident has also become a beautiful scenery in the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, where the rogues went, the squires shouted and beaten, frightened the rogues to run around, panicked like a lost dog, and fled for more than ten years, before slowly turning over with the power of drought.

The rebels surrounded the Li family's compound at this time, which was a bit like the Liangshan bandits attacking Zhujiazhuang, and a group of families in green clothes and small hats in the Zhuangzi guarded the courtyard, holding weapons in their hands, guarding the wall. Outside, there were a large number of chaotic people, waving messy farm tools, shouting and shouting.

The two sides stared at each other for a while, and a few chaotic people rushed to the door, kicking the gate of the Li Mansion with their feet, and a courtyard on the door wall smashed a stone down, almost hitting the chaotic people who kicked the door, but the chaotic people in front of the door shrank back in fright, and then someone in the crowd shouted: "Who has a hunting bow in his hand?" Inside...... inside ......"

"Is there a ladder? Let's climb into the wall......"

"Find out if there are any dog holes, and you can get into them!"

Seeing the unorthodox performance of these chaotic people, Zhu Yuanzhang was not surprised, the rebel army he had just gathered in the previous life was actually like this, but after several years of training, he finally became a lion who swept the Yuan army, these people are just lacking in discipline now, and it can be expected in the future.

He took a deep breath and shouted, "Brothers...... Don't mess around, listen to me! ”

The chaos was like a tide, and his voice did not spread far away, but Wang Er and more than a hundred henchmen and soldiers around him heard it, and they shouted in unison: "Brothers...... Don't mess around, listen to what Zhu Bugling said......"

A hundred people shouted in unison, the momentum was amazing, and the voices of the chaotic people were immediately suppressed, and even the family members in the Li family's compound were shocked by the roar, and the scene suddenly quieted down.

"What are the bad deeds of this Li family?" Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand and pointed to the door of the Li family, and said loudly: "Who came out to tell me what the Li family has done to hurt the heavens and reason?" ”

The people looked at each other, and after a long time, no one could say anything. It turns out that this Li family, like the Ma family, can be regarded as a well-informed family, and there is no oppression of the people.

Some officials may have been brainwashed by some propaganda in later generations, thinking that the ancient landlords were very evil, and they bullied the good people to play if they had nothing to do.

The ancients had a good name, and the landlords and squires, for the sake of their own reputation, actually did not like to do evil things, but liked to do good things.

If we don't look at the false propaganda of a certain dynasty, but directly look at some novels and scripts of the Ming Dynasty, we can see that the squires such as Wang Dashanren, Li Dashanren, Zhang Dashanren, etc., who often appear in novels and scripts, usually love to do is to build bridges and pave roads, give porridge and distribute wealth, and treat the people better than the government. Everyone knows that novels are based on life, and if these novels of the Ming Dynasty are not worth referencing, then the false propaganda of a certain dynasty is even less worthy of reference.

Of course, I'm not here to clear the name of the squire, because there are still bad squires and bad landlords, and there are quite a few. I just want to explain that there are also good squires and good landowners, and there are quite a few. The good people and the bad people in this world must not be divided by their class, like in the early days of our founding of the People's Republic of China, whether good or bad, to bring down all the people of a certain class, that is a wrong approach. Ahem, if you think about it again, whether this approach is good or bad, I don't even count it, let's leave it to history to evaluate.

"What are the bad deeds of the Li family? Who can tell? Zhu Yuanzhang asked loudly again.

The rebels were silent and could not speak.

Zhu Yuanzhang slowly shook his head and said, "I'll say it again, we are not bandits and robbers, we are rebels!" It is an army of justice, and we only deal with the bad guys, not the good guys...... Since the Li family has no bad deeds, we can't use swords, guns, bows and arrows against them. ”

The emotions of the rioters were once again slightly suppressed by him.

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......