A beggar-like man asked, "I'm the Lord of Lintong Incense, what are you guys doing?" Tell me quickly, is it a spy of the imperial court? Come here, I'm going to be searched! ”

Wang Yuquan and Zhang Kangning touched their waists, where was a pistol.

I pressed their shoulders.

They looked at me and put their hands down.

The beggars gathered more and more, and many of them pointed at us with sticks.

Looking up, there were also beggars on the walls, staring at us with bows and arrows.

Damn, what kind of intelligence gathering ability does the imperial court have!

You can't find one after looking for a long time, why did I find someone's base camp as soon as I came!

Have you ever done a field reconnaissance?

Now it's harming me, surrounded by so many beggars.

Just our little pistol, shot by shot, and we're all going to die here.

I said: "I am a cow cannon from Niujie in Xi'an County, and I naturally like to make friends with heroes all over the world." Who is the strongest hero today? Beggars, of course! The beggars are angry, reach the mandate of heaven, and save the people. I used to be a member of the Cattle Gang, but I came today to join the Beggar Gang! ”

The beggar touched his mustache: "Return the cow gang!" You see, it's a sycophant! If you let me believe it, I will believe it! ”

I took out a bunch of documents: "This is my household registration certificate, my clan certificate, and this is my cattle gang membership certificate." There is also a wanted warrant for me by the imperial court, and a bounty warrant posted on the wall. You see, every one of them has the imperial paper, the imperial seal, except for the imperial court, no one can make it! So it's certainly true. ”

I gave him those things.

He looked at it with the people around him, nodding his head constantly, and a few people who had seen the world said, "Well, look at this skin, paper, and seal, it must be true!" ”

Beggar: "I'm going to have to do a search!" ”

I said to my subordinates, "Don't move, let them search!" ”

Soon, fifteen pistols and a bunch of documents were in their hands.

100,000 gold dollars were hidden in my underwear, and they didn't find them.

The beggar's head changed color: "You actually have a pistol!" Who the hell are you? ”

Me: "I'm Niu Cannon, this is Wang Yuquan, Zhang Kangning, Zhao Yangxi, Qian Chengyun, Sun Leyue, Li Mingchen, Zhou Xiuwei, Wu Gongxuan, Zheng Yunhong, Wang Buteng, Ma Congye, Zhang Hongxuan, Liu Zhenbo, Chen Heqia, An Zhengwen, Ning Changmao, all of them are my subordinates, and they are selling illicit cattle with their heads. You know that those of us who sell smuggled cattle are much more dangerous than those who sell smuggled salt, and if we are caught by the government, we will punish the ten clans! So it makes sense to bring a pistol, right? ”

The beggar nodded and said, "Well, it makes sense. ”

Me: "These pistols were bought by me for one of my ten cows, and I will give them to you brothers today!" It's not enough trouble for the brothers to inform me of the helper, the elder, or something, so that I can accept me as a disciple. As long as I join the beggar gang, my family has hundreds of acres of land, a few manors, and a few thousand gold yuan, which is everyone's money! ”

The beggar happily touched the pistol and couldn't put it down.

He: "Of course, the beggars welcome heroes and heroes from all over the world, especially rich heroes. I'll keep you informed right away. However, only the Gyeonggi Hall Master was left in Gyeonggi by the Beggar Gang, and the Gang Leader and Elder ran away to the Central Plains. ”

Me: "Thank you, brother." ”

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Our group was taken into Lintong County.

The county town of Lintong is actually orderly, and I can even say that it is even better than under the governance of the imperial court.

In the past, the soldiers, officials, officials, and imperial soldiers of the imperial court could eat and take cards at will; Now, the beggars have not committed any crimes.

For example, in the past, if a beef shop sold one, it had to supply at least half a cow, not counting the poll tax, daily tax, night tax, city tax, environmental tax, maternity tax (recently become no fertility tax), value-added tax, consumption tax, business tax, land tax, urban construction tax, resource tax, customs tax, interest tax, management tax, housing tax, water tax, air tax, private tax, official tax, imperial tax, scholar tax, alien tax, nameless tax, cosmic tax, Confucian tax, Taoist tax, Buddha tax, god tax, and so on.

In the current county seat, there is no tax, and there is no supply, and the beef shop only needs to give the beggars a little cattle to the water, and they can do business freely.

We arrived at Lintong County Government.

The county government is a big yamen, the same as all the yamen in Gyeonggi, the same stone lions, big mahogany gates, large courtyards, zhaobi, flagpoles, Huabiao, etc., but there is a slight difference, the officials and officials have been replaced by beggars, some are gorgeously dressed clean clothes, and some are dirty clothes with leaky buttocks.

The flagpole is not my Ming dragon's flag, but the beggar's flag, with a broken bowl and a dog-beating stick painted on it!

Entering the yamen of the county government, there was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the first Ming Dynasty, hanging on it, and the red paper next to him read, "The beggar ancestor Hongwu Emperor blesses the beggars of all sizes."

I asked the beggar: "Why do you want to worship Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the first Ming Dynasty?" ”

Him: "You don't know! The beggar's grandfather is him. Zhu Yuanzhang was the founding emperor of the First Ming Dynasty, who was lonely and cold when he was a child, and was sent to Huangjue Temple as a monk, and later became a beggar. After he became the emperor, he felt that the beggars were good to him, and since then he has named the beggar gang as the first gang in the world, and the beggar household as the first household in the world. In order to thank Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty for his kindness to us, we specially set up a monument. ”

Me: "But you're making a rebellion against the Ming Dynasty!" Actually hung the portrait of the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty! This doesn't make sense! ”

He patted his head and said, "Ah, you're still careful." We didn't even notice this, it was hung up when we didn't rebel. I'll have someone tear it down right away. We have a lot of ancestors, and so does Liu Bang. You don't know! The beggar's grandfather is him. Liu Bang was the founding emperor of the First Han Dynasty, who was lonely and cold when he was a child, and was sent to Huangjue Temple to be a monk, and later became a beggar. After he became the emperor, he felt that the beggars were good to him, and since then he has named the beggar gang as the first gang in the world, and the beggar household as the first household in the world. In order to thank the Emperor of the Han Dynasty for his kindness to us, we specially erected a monument. ”

Me: "This ...... Not bad! ”

I gave him a thumbs up.

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We passed by the sacrificial temple and arrived at the county hall.

Originally, all the yamen lobbies in the Ming Dynasty had a plaque that read "Zhengda Guangming", and when I looked up, I thought it must also be "Zhengda Guangming" - but I saw three ugly big characters "begging house" written crookedly on the plaque!

I used to see "begging houses" and they were in every market.

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The begging house, originally a place for beggars to live, later became a house for beggars.

In the general begging house, in the innermost room lived the beggars and their wives and children, and the beggars, incense owners, and hall masters of the clean clothes faction lived more nourishingly than the scholars. The nobles were only a few dozen slaves, and some beggars had hundreds or thousands of small beggars waiting for them.

The hall in the middle is the "lobby" of beggars, where trials, executions, and spankings are executed, and beggars of all sizes can be seen.

In the beggarly world, the leaders who rule over beggars, big and small, are collectively referred to as "beggars". They have supreme power in the world of beggars. In the eyes of the gentry, merchants, and scribes, according to the order of "nine Confucians and ten beggars", even if the beggar is a "leader", he also belongs to the bottom of the "lower nine streams", and no one looks down on him; But in the beggar world, he is the emperor, and the rules he sets are the golden rules, and the words he orders are the golden words. If anyone does not listen, they will be dealt with according to the "gang rules and family law", which is three points harsher than the "national law". The beggars committed "things", and the beggars actually sat in the court like the government to ask about the case, ranging from spanking with the palm of the mouth, to three knives and six holes at the worst - give you a seven-inch steel knife, and let you poke three times anywhere on your body, but each knife must be pierced; Heavier ones can also cut their noses, chop their eyes, chop off their hands, and chop their feet until they drown, hang, stone, or stick to death.

This kind of "gang regulation family law" is also protected by the "royal law", just like the "clan law" of all surnames and ethnic groups. Those who have been punished, even if they have the courage to sue the county yamen, when the grandfather hears that it is a little beggar who sues the beggar, this is called "taking a small offense". As for the beggars who were executed, since they joined the beggar gang, they were all exempt from taxes, money and grain, and they didn't even have a household registration.

On either side of the "lobby" are collective dormitories for beggars. Beggars, large and small, live on the bunks of the two corridors according to the principle of distinction between men and women. People go out to beg every day, and when they come back that night, they must pay a "share", one for the beggars, three for the group of beggars, and the rest of the one is of course used to honor the local government. It is said to be "begging", and some are forced. For example, dozens of beggars blocked the beef shop, insisted on the cattle going into the water, and slept at the door all the time if they didn't give it. The shopkeeper can only be sent away at a broken cost.

Well, I copied it from the "Confidential Intelligence", and I don't know if it's right.

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Frankly speaking, I have seen dozens of large and small "begging houses", and this is the first time I have seen "begging houses" with hundreds of houses rebuilt by the county government.

As soon as he entered the main hall of the "begging house", a young man in a gorgeous flashing red robe appeared on the chair of the county magistrate.

Next to him were dozens of people in brown clothes, each of whom had wolf arms and wolf waists, and their muscles were bursting, and they looked like martial arts masters.

A red pennant to his left reads "The First Gang in the World"; A plaque on the right reads "Walk for Heaven".

The young man slammed the county magistrate's chair and shouted, "Don't kneel yet!" ”