Wang Er is not a fool, or Zhang Hongbin's actions are too obvious, if he can't see it at all, he is simply blind.

It's just that Wang Er didn't dare to say it explicitly, or that as a peasant in this era, he was instinctively afraid of that kind of thing. This is a common problem of the people in this era, as long as there is a trace of survival, they can hold on, and they will not consider whether to rebel or not.

"Remember yesterday we were talking about the concept of the state, right? Do you remember? Zhang Hongbin did not answer directly, but asked Wang Er as a mentor.

"The state is the product of a compromise of interests, in which the lord at the top gives up some of his privileges and assumes some of his obligations, in exchange for the people of the lower strata who give up most of their interests and assume most of their obligations.

In layman's terms, the state undertakes to protect us, to help us when disaster comes, to find ways to make us rich when we have no money, and to find us a job or create a job when we don't have a job; On the other hand, we are engaged in social work such as work, farming, etc., and we pay taxes to the state, and at the same time, we work for the state voluntarily in the form of forced labor.

With such a form, the state can be considered a state, otherwise it is a pure instrument of violence. The upper class does not have any obligation to take care of the people below, but the people below have to bear a qiē responsibility and obligation, and their rights are deprived to the maximum. Wang Er memorized Zhang Hongbin's teaching last night.

I have to say that Zhang Hongbin's understanding of the country is completely out of shape, but he used his own methods to let these students understand one thing.

The Ming Dynasty no longer has the qualifications to call it a country, and this qualification has always been called 'deer' in ancient China.

Qin lost his deer, and the world chased him, these eight words can be heard a lot in the mouth of the storyteller. So everyone realized one thing, now is a good time to make contributions, the premise is how to bypass, or break through the Ming Dynasty, which has become a tool of violence.

"So, what questions do you have?" Zhang Hongbin pushed the problem to Wang Er again.

"The young master said that under the rule of violent institutions, the people are miserable, but the young master's family seems to be doing well?" Wang Er said he didn't understand it very much.

"Because the Zhang family, and even the gentry, nobles and even the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, they are the owners of this tool of violence, or the ones who gain benefits. As I said before, under the oppression of this violent organization, the people can only continue to pay. So where did these efforts go, that is, they went into the hands of vested interests, to put it bluntly, that is, in the hands of a few people such as the gentry, nobles, officials, and royalty. Zhang Hongbin pointed out very clearly.

"Then if the young master raises the anti-flag, isn't it a betrayal of your class, and at the same time, he is not going to openly wage war against your class?" Wang Er actually really doubts, that's it.

"The composition of a country, at least at the top, will always be a minority, but it is not denied that every country must have an upper class. The gentry and scholars did not occupy a mainstream position in the violent institution of the Ming Dynasty, and they had a certain degree of experience in changing their positions and throwing themselves into the new state. In fact, each dynasty, these two classes, were relatively stable, without fear of being completely ruined. "Zhang Hongbin is not a speaker, let alone a qualified scholar, he can only use his own words to say what he wants to express.

But Wang Er understands that the new dynasty will also have gentry, there will also be officials, and the officials and gentry who rebelled from the previous dynasty will often appear in the plot of storytelling. For example, Zhang Liao and Zhang He of the Three Kingdoms, Qin Shubao and Wei Chigong of the Tang Dynasty, etc.

Wang Er understood that the young master just wanted to rebel, and he had already considered many aspects, even how to deal with the gentry and officials, but he was afraid that he also had a draft. Suddenly, he felt that he was really thinking too much, these things were not something he needed to think about in the first place, but he cared so much.

"Don't have any mental baggage, in fact, before I was here, you were just a very ordinary person. Your awareness is very low, and you even have the idea of getting by, like all the people, and living a hard life. On this basis, as long as you are still alive in the past, you do not want to rebel, because you have a natural fear of the government. Zhang Hongbin had already seen Wang Er's mood, so he enlightened him seriously.

"Young master, isn't that okay?" Wang Er tried to ask.

"If we don't oppose it, others will oppose it. If you are a farmer, you should be able to see that there will still be a big drought next year. Perhaps every household still has emergency food hidden in their homes. But have you forgotten about next year's spring endowment? And if the people have to rebel, then if it is small-scale, then it is fine, but now the whole of Shaanxi is like this, I am afraid that the scale is indispensable.

If the scale is large, the imperial court must send heavy troops to encircle and suppress, and sending heavy troops needs food, and what the court lacks is food. Therefore, the only result is to increase the amount of money to the people of the world, just like the situation of increasing the salary in the Wanli period. In this way, what do you think will be the life of those who still dare not rebel in this rebellion next year or even the year after? What if Shaanxi has been dry for the next few years? Zhang Hongbin didn't answer directly, but asked a lot of questions directly.

Every question made Wang Er leave a cold sweat, which was afraid.

Because he knew that what the young master said was very likely to happen. Although there has been a major drought for several years in a row, it has not been confirmed for the time being.

At the same time, he also understood one thing, the young master did not want to rebel, but had to rebel.

If you don't, you will be harmed by the thieves, and even if you survive, you may be harmed by the officers and soldiers who cross the border. The most important thing is that if the anti-thief becomes the climate and becomes a person who is truly qualified to win the world, then there will be not much benefit to speak of when the time comes. What's worse is that no one knows how this group of anti-thieves will treat an old force like the Zhang family.

Wang Er knows one thing, at least the people who can oppose it are the poor people, and the poor people will hate the rich. The Zhang family is very rich, so it will even be ruined to the point that there is no scum left. It's not a possibility, but a high probability that something like this will happen.

If you don't want to die, you don't want to live in a nest, you can only do the opposite, this is what the third young master thinks.

I don't know why, Wang Er suddenly began to agree with this idea.

Time passed day by day, three months passed in a blink of an eye, bidding farewell to the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and the time came to the seventh year of the Apocalypse.

In August this year, the Emperor of the Apocalypse will die, and eight days later, King Zhu Youzhen will ascend the throne and change his name to Chongzhen.

In the past three months, Zhang Hongbin has accelerated the training of his family members, so that they can become familiar with the battle formation more quickly. At the same time, a new batch of family members will be appropriately replenished, anyway, the money he makes now is enough to support him to do so. Not to mention that there have been more and more displaced people recently, and the price of this person has fallen sharply.

A masked man named Shura began to visit Wèn among the large and small cottages and famous tenants in the same state, and there was only one topic, that is, the reverse next year.

The masked man is also generous, and he is also bold, so he has also been recognized by many Taoists. Not to mention that with his contact, more and more people joined the agreement, and the subsequent invitations became easier and easier.

Everyone discussed, after the harvest of the autumn fu, the forces behind the masked man took the lead in raising the anti-flag, and then they raised troops to respond.

And as a sign of friendship and credibility, the masked man brought thousands of guns from all over the place and distributed them to the major powers. For the Ming Dynasty, where weapon control was relatively strict, it was better to have a gun than to use farm tools and wooden sticks.

The forces that received these spearheads naturally promised very happily that as long as the forces behind the masked men rebelled, they would follow without saying a word.

After getting the promise of this group of people, the masked man went back and forth between Baishui County and Chengcheng County several times before returning to his original appearance and returned to the Xishan Annex.

"Welcome back!" Zhang Hongbin greeted him warmly.

"Fortunately, I have lived up to my mission!" Wang Er breathed a sigh of relief.