139 Old man's determination
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But Yan Wenchang kept sitting there, muttering something in his mouth, and after a while, he arched his hand towards Wang Pu:
"Lord Wang, this ...... You are from a big place, you are well-informed, I heard that the Shaanxi thieves are also killing officials and rebelling, in the meantime, you may tell us the details? β
Wang Pu looked down on Yan Wenchang, and the latter actually never took this nerd from other places in his eyes, especially after Wang Jieshan suffered losses from Shorthair several times, the big and small officials here naturally looked down on him even more.
But tonight, I can sit and drink with the rebels, and it is naturally not a big deal for these two scholars to talk to each other.
Wang Pu snorted, and he was used to putting up a shelf again. However, when he saw the greasy chicken leg in his hand, he smiled bitterly, simply took two sips, drank a large sip of wine, and shook his head:
"What else can there be, it's nothing more than coercion, wandering around the two strategies......" -
Before Wang Pu came to Qiongzhou, he had heard about the deeds of thieves in Shaanxi: every land, rich and poor, plundered it. He also put the old and weak villagers in front of the battle, and forced the good people to kill them with swords, so as to coerce each other, and they could gain thousands or even tens of thousands of people in a day.
Those peasants who were originally very simple, after their wives and children and relatives were killed by the rioters, some who dared to resist were often killed on the spot, while those who survived turned to become members of the mob and turned around and slaughtered other people's wives and children. In this way, the rebel contingent grew rapidly, and it was chaotic and chaotic.
Of course, such a contingent does not have any production capacity, and they can only engage in sabotage, so they must keep wandering and looting -- if they can't grab other people's food and supplies, they can only freeze to death and starve to death. In order to survive, to rob in order to have the strength to continue, they can even eat human flesh.
"Once you're coerced by a mob, you're not human. It's just a bunch of devils. Even if he later accepted the court's recruitment, it was difficult to feel at ease for the people, and it was common for him to rebel...... Boss Yang's appeasement strategy...... Alas. β
At the beginning, Wang Pu was patient and introduced the situation in Shaanxi to the people around him, but later he unwittingly turned into a criticism of the current trilateral governor Yang He, which was really the old habit of the Donglin Party -- anything could be related to the government.
But of course the audience next to him won't bother with him, in fact, after hearing about the terrifying acts of those Shaanxi thieves. Except for Yan Wenchang, most of the buns who had never been out of Hainan Island in their lives were in a daze.
Only that person is old and fine, and if a tail is exposed under the robe, the old master of Qiongzhou Mansion who must have white hair is thoughtful, humming and chirping.
"Sure enough...... I said they weren't like ordinary thieves......"
As if to strengthen his confidence, he asked Wang Pu again:
"So, Lord Wang, do you think you ...... These shorthairs do things. Sure enough, it's very different from ordinary bandits? β
Wang Jieshan is usually very sharp-minded, but Yan Wenchang's love today is a little wrong, if he could have seen it in normal times. But at this time, people who poured too much bud rice wine were also a little groggy. So not only did he not care, but he followed the other party's words:
"That's natureβto occupy the city but not to plunder, but to make friends with merchants and talk about trade, and now it's more decent to collect taxes...... If they hadn't done this tonight, they really wouldn't have looked like thieves at all. β
After a pause, Wang Pu and Wang Jieshan took advantage of the strength of the wine and finally said something in their hearts:
"And for people like me. The people who have repeatedly contradicted them can actually be accommodated, I'm afraid that it was the Huaiyou cloth back then, and that's it......"
As soon as the words came out, Wang Pu frightened himself - how could he say such a rebellious thing? But the words have been spoken, but in front of so many people, they can't take it back.
Sure enough, Yan Wenchang next to him had already begun to let out a weird laugh:
"Oh? β¦β¦ Huai right cloth? We don't read much, but we also know that it is Emperor Hongwu, the great grandfather, right? In the end, it is the master of Jinshi. This insight is really superior! β
However, Yan Wenchang's next action surprised everyone - with a whoosh, he actually took out a short knife from his boots, which frightened Wang Jieshan, a standard literati:
"What are you going to do, Lao Yan? Don't don't...... Don't do anything stupid......"
Unable to care about the official system anymore, Wang Jieshan crawled and flashed to the side. Several small officials around him were also frightened and retreated, but Yan Wenchang just smiled and took off his hat with his backhand:
"Even Master Jinshi said so, then my surname Yan will be released......"
With a sudden, Yan Wenchang actually cut off his hair with a knife.
"Since you already have Huaiyou cloth...... Hmph, then among those of us. It may not be impossible to produce Liu Bowen. Li Shanchang! "I don't know. Their kingly spirit has attracted at least one loyal servant. For them, it's nothing more than a man-made carnival. It's just that the smell of blood is a little stronger.
But not everyone can devote themselves to the vast sea of the people without any scruples, as Lao Xie did. Although everyone knows that they should mingle with the masses of the people. But really sit among them...... Endure the smell of bad breath and listen to dialects you don't understand at all? I know that I get saliva, but I have to take turns gnawing a piece of half-cooked fat with a group of guys I don't know at all? Or maybe you see that the other party's dirty thumbs are soaked in the wine bowl, but you still have to smile and take it and drink it all?
β¦β¦ Except for a few cattle such as Xie Xi and Zhang Shenyue, most modern people still can't accept it.
"I really didn't expect Lao Xie to dance hip-hop......"
A guy like Pang Yu, who thinks he is an intellectual and specializes in shaking goose feathers and fanning the ground, of course can't stand that scene. It just so happened that Ao Sayan was not used to this, so the two of them each carried a bottle of wine and only sat on the steps of the royal hall to watch the excitement.
The hall was quiet, and there were some muffled sobs - the family members of the royal family were all locked up in the hall. The reason why Pang Yu and the others chose to sit here was also to act as a caretaker by the way.
It's not for the sake of guarding the inside--those inside, who have long been frightened, if they were still quite in a posture of breaking the net when they divided the property before, until they actually dragged the men in charge out and beheaded them. Only those women and children remained, and they had to plug their mouths with their fists even when they cried, lest the noise be a little louder and attract the attention of outsiders.
What Pang Yu and they wanted to stop was the behavior of the crazy people outside-there was already more than one person who was trying to break inside with the strength of alcohol, but they were all blocked by Ao Sayan's subordinates.
The mass movement, for those who are bent on breaking this lifeless society at the end of the Ming Dynasty. It is a very powerful and effective means, but there is a premise - this movement must be under control.
Lao Xie and the others didn't really care about the lives of the dozen or so people in that hall, but they had to make this mass movement at least subject to some kind of rule - there must always be a reason to kill. If this is not guaranteed, then the situation on this side will definitely get out of control.
It was on this ground that Ao Sayan finally persuaded Wang Xinzhi, but the latter was still very unhappy and went into the crowd to drink. There were a few more people in the back. said that he had a grudge against the Wang family and wanted to take revenge, but the red eyes were clearly burning with ** fire, obviously he was full of food and drink and wanted to vent his ...... For these people, Pang Yu and the others didn't bother to communicate verbally, and a simple action was enough to show their attitude - in front of Xueliang's bayonet, even if those Li people were drunk, they would immediately retreat.
Pang Ao and the others didn't put these scoundrels at ease, and the two chatted with themselves, until Wang Xinzhi came over with the little leader of the urban management team named Lu Jinlou:
"Huh. Hello Mr. Pang, hello Captain Ao! β
Wang Feijiang seems to have figured it out, and he has reverted to the original rogue appearance of a hippie smile.
The brothers were drinking and were having a good time. It's just that these two stunned people can't figure out a question, so they specially came to ask the two gentlemen. β
"Say it."
Ao Sayang smiled and groaned, it was a good thing that Wang Fei would be able to calm down so quickly. They have always been very attentive to these people's thoughts.
"We all know the trick of killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys: if you get this family, other big families should be smarter. It's just that the brothers all feel ...... We worked hard to open the stockade. Why give things to the poor sticks? Wouldn't it be cheaper to directly fine and confiscate the granary land...... Brothers, too, there are a few more. After listening to him patiently, Pang Ao and the others glanced at each other, and there was a little smile on their faces - this was obviously Wang himself couldn't figure it out, but he pulled the second stunned man to the top of the cylinder.
patting the other party's shoulder, Pang Yu laughed:
"Ah, Flying General, you are now our descendant, the size of our group. You must have a number in mind - how many armed men do we have? β
"Uh...... The chengguan team is 247 people. Gentlemen, the local army is thirty-four, and the total number is ......"
It's also thanks to Wang Fei that he has recently gotten close to Shorthair. From them, he learned Arabic numerals and column addition and subtraction, otherwise he would have been blind when he encountered the problem of numbers. Wang Fei lowered his head and worked hard to do arithmetic for a long time. finally reported the correct answer in the admiring eyes of his subordinate Lu Jinlou:
"Two hundred and eighty-one people in total!"
"Well, yes, two hundred and eighty-one, less than three hundred...... So do you know how many big families there are in Qiongzhou Mansion? β
Knowing that the other party would definitely not be able to answer, Pang Yu directly reported the number:
"There are 17 large families with more than 10,000 acres of land. These seventeen families are all big families, and they gather to form villages. I read that the county chronicles record that in previous years, if there was a conflict and fight between two large families, the scale of five or six hundred people at every turn, or even thousands...... Just these seventeen big households, not to mention more, one or two thousand families, three or five thousand people can always make it up. "Yes!
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