Chapter 338 A Time of Crisis (5)
Although this answer is very realistic, it obviously cannot satisfy Geng Anguo.
Back at the cottage, at the celebration banquet that night, Geng Anguo proposed to the big boss that the next time they went down the mountain to do business, could they first touch the bottom of the caravan, or attack the Zhuangzi of those bullies, or rob the silver of officials?
After Geng Anguo raised this question, the noisy hall fell silent, and all the fighting men looked at him like freaks, not moving.
On the one hand, it is difficult to fight this kind of battle, and the brothers will suffer great losses, on the other hand, the impact of this kind of thing is too bad, and it is easy to be retaliated by the government.
In comparison, how good it is to rob the road, if you see that you can beat it, you will go up, and if you see that you can't beat it, you will let it go, which is simple and easy, and it is in line with the basic essence of making a fortune in a muffled voice.
These words caused the brothers to nod their heads like garlic and agree with them.
Geng Anguo didn't give up, he asked the big boss, what should I do if I kill a good person?
The big boss smiled and said: What we are doing is the business of robbing the rich and helping the poor, and there is nothing wrong with robbing the rich and helping the poor, right? If you think about it again, those dog officials are all colluding with the rich and powerful to oppress the common people, are we much more noble than them? You can't ask us to be saints in a group of heroes in the green forest, right?
Not surprisingly, these words ushered in the applause of all the brothers in unison.
Geng Anguo felt that what the big boss said was wrong, whether it was wrong to rob the rich and help the poor, the key was to see whether the rich man was a good person, and no one had reason to move the clean money of a good person.
He wanted to say something, but the big boss felt that he had made a great achievement for the first time - when fighting with the caravan, Geng Anguo killed the strongest person on the other side - his brain was a little confused with excitement, and in order to calm him down, he promoted him to be the eighteenth master.
Geng Anguo quieted down.
He was not persuaded by the big boss, but suddenly realized that these people in front of him actually didn't want to delve into the questions he raised.
Either a normal person runs away from the mountains and hides? Either he has committed a crime and is on the government's wanted list, or he is a natural killer.
The former may have been oppressed and resentful, and he didn't care about killing people for a long time, while the latter didn't think there was anything wrong with robbing the house from the beginning to the end.
went to Liangshan, became a bandit and bandit, and lived a life of licking blood from the knife, and everyone was no longer a good person.
Geng Anguo's Liangshan years continued. He descends more and more often, because he has to forget a lot of things, and the tense life of robbery and killing will leave him with no time to explore the troublesome rights and wrongs.
He will often tell himself that nine out of ten rich people in the world are rich and unkind, and eight out of nine have not squeezed the blood and sweat of the people, so it is right to rob the rich and help the poor. The heroes of Liangshan were all born in hardship and were poor people, and giving them the money of the rich was in line with the basic program of robbing the rich and helping the poor.
More and more people died at Geng Anguo's hands.
Maybe it was self-hypnosis that worked, maybe blood really washed away a lot of things, or maybe it was just simple time that worked, and he got used to life in Liangshan. In short, Geng Anguo has become a typical Liangshan hero.
When there were countless lawsuits under his subordinates, Geng Anguo didn't care who he killed, he went down the mountain, went up the mountain, cultivated, drank wine and ate meat, bragged and laughed, and then went down the mountain, his life was very smooth.
During this period, he finally realized that the bandits and bandits everywhere were street rats that everyone shouted and beaten, not only did the government not welcome them, but they also scattered sea fishing documents everywhere, and the ordinary people who liked to listen to their stories basically avoided them like snakes and scorpions.
It's one thing to like their stories and want their lives, but if you really want the people to face a group of vicious murderous bandits, no one will not be frightened. When a wanted man enters the city to have fun, they will report it to the government and unceremoniously exchange their lives for a bounty.
When you go down the mountain, you see the enemy.
Except for that mountain, there is no place for a group of murderous bandits in the world.
The name of the heroes of the green forest, the slogan of robbing the rich and helping the poor, is nothing more than the dazzling label they put on themselves, the spit in the mouth of the storyteller, and the medicine borrowed by the common people to make their own dream of resisting oppression and raising their eyebrows.
Because of his outstanding achievements, Geng Anguo became the second leader of Liangshan.
On that day, Geng Anguo accepted the congratulations of all the heroes at the lively banquet, and in the face of a pair of reverent eyes, he laughed loudly and got drunk.
In the haze, he suddenly realized that it turned out that living a comfortable life without being angry with birds and drinking and eating meat was only the basic need of life, and that gaining the recognition, respect and envy of others was the higher need of life.
That night, standing on the roof of the main building of the cottage, overlooking Shuibo Liangshan at night, Geng Anguo was full of spirit and felt that his life was actually very successful.
You don't need to be respected by your brothers, and you don't need to care about killing people or anything.
There are so many dog officials in the world, big dogs, one lives more nourishing than the other, and I haven't seen them struck by lightning. What's wrong with killing some rich people yourself? As long as you can make your brothers live comfortably, it will be worth this life.
Only the emperor needs to be responsible for the people of the world, and he is a thief, so that his brothers and their families can have meat to eat, clothes and clothing, isn't it already very remarkable?
Walking in Liangshan, you can make thousands of men respectfully call the second master, you can make the children running around you laugh around you, and you can make the women look at yourself with the eyes of the strong, can't you call yourself a hero?
In this absurd world where materialism is rampant, bizarre, full of oppression and anger, full of injustice and misery, no one cares about right and wrong, and morality is ignored, what is more important than the good life of one's own people?
Geng Anguo remembered that the night sky was very bright that night, and the stars dotted the sky like jewels, which looked so beautiful; the mountain breeze that night was also very cool, but it was indescribably comfortable blowing on the body, so comfortable that people wanted to hum a few times; at dawn, Liangshan was silent, and under his feet it was so magnificent and vast, bathed in a thousand red clouds, like a fairyland on earth.
After that night, Geng Anguo thought that he would continue like this for the rest of his life.
He felt that after all this time, he had come to know himself and his own path, and knew what he really cared about.
However, there are always many twists and turns in life, and when people feel that they recognize themselves, they will tell you that you have not really understood your heart and do not know what you really want.
After becoming the second master, the first time he took people down the mountain, Geng Anguo did not go up the mountain with the looted gold and silver property as usual, and when he walked into the gate of the cottage, he was followed by a large group of ragged, withered, dusty and embarrassed homeless people.
In Geng Anguo's arms, he was still holding a little girl who was skinny and bone-ty, dying, and couldn't survive.
When Geng Anguo saw the homeless people sitting or lying on the side of the road at the foot of the mountain, he didn't care about it for the first time.
Until a heart-rending child's cry entered his ears, and he saw the other party lying next to a skinny, motionless woman, crying like a terrified kitten, and the woman's wrists and the child's mouth were covered with blood, he could no longer move.
He picked up the little girl, who had been fed by his mother with his own blood for the last time, and took the homeless people who were about to die like weeds on the side of the road, and went up to Liangshan.
Years of Liangshan career made Geng Anguo feel that he was already a murderous bandit, his heart was as hard as iron, he had no morality, and he would not take anyone's life and death to heart except for his own brother.
At the very least, he killed the rich and their men and guards, and there was no wave in his heart.
But when he saw the little girl who was helpless and about to starve to death, and when he saw the woman who was still staring at the blue sky with her eyes full of pain, despair, grief and reluctance after she died, he realized that he might have been able to ignore the lives of the rich, but he could not ignore the suffering of the poor after all.
From that day on, Geng Anguo's behavior of going down the mountain to pick up people was out of control.
Geng Anguo was forced to take risks, violating the principle of not attacking the landlord's manor, and began to take his brothers to borrow grain from the landlord's big households, even the government's tax money.
And this made them usher in the revenge of the government, and the army of the defense envoy entered Liangshan Shuibo several times.
When these homeless people were invaded by the rich and became homeless, the government and the rich people were in collusion; when these homeless people starved to death in the countryside, the government was indifferent; and when these homeless people robbed the government and the rich of their money and food, the officials and soldiers immediately went out in a big way to strangle these bandit mobs in their mouths.
The big boss was angry with Geng Anguo more than once, asking him to give up this kind of behavior of causing trouble to Liangshan.
Geng Anguo has thought, hesitated, and struggled. But in the end, he couldn't convince himself, ignoring the children who were unclothed and hungry, and the eyes full of anticipation and apprehension.
Geng Anguo led the army to meet the official army.
Fortunately, in several battles, Geng Anguo won the official army, although the loss was not small, but the combat power of the brothers was also honed, especially the addition of the homeless young people, so that Liangshan gradually had the meaning of being strong and strong, and there were especially many soldiers under Geng Anguo's command.
But Geng Anguo didn't dare to be complacent.
Because he knew that the government would only have more and more soldiers and horses. What kind of path is it to be an enemy of the dynasty, Geng Anguo knows it, and he was also afraid, but he didn't have a choice.
Just when Geng Anguo was preparing to fight with the officials and soldiers for the next time, and did his best to obey the mandate of heaven, the national war broke out, and then, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to the king of the Quartet.
At this time, Geng Anguo felt that Liangshan's way out had come.
To be a bandit and bandit, everyone shouts and beats his life all his life, and sooner or later he will be exterminated by the government.
The heroes of Liangshan have become part of the royal division, everyone has a background, and they will have imperial food to eat in the future, not only do they no longer have to be strangled by officers and soldiers, but they can also live in this world openly, instead of nesting in the mountains.
This is the only chance for Liangshan to rewrite its destiny, and it will determine whether tens of thousands of people on the mountain can eat a bowl of Ansheng rice in the future.
With the ardent expectations of the people up and down Liangshan, Geng Anguo led the most elite 8,000 brothers to Yunzhou.
There, he had to fight side by side with the officials and soldiers who had been fighting with him for a long time, he had to fight side by side with the government that forced his brothers, women and children to become homeless, and he had to fight side by side with his life's greatest enemy, the rich forces.
He knew it wasn't going to be easy.
Leaving Shuibo, when Geng Anguo looked back at Liangshan on horseback, he felt a little bit of desolation, tragedy and helplessness in the wind and water.
Once the bandit descends the mountain, he will be the enemy, and he and the 8,000 heroes behind him who are watched by tens of thousands of families on the mountain will become a lone army without flanks and no backup.
They have nothing but the hopes of their loved ones.
Even if they bear the name of a righteous army, after all, they were once bandits who "caused trouble" and bandits who "incited the people" to become enemies of the government, how would the army of the defense envoy view them? How would the local assassins treat them? and how would the princes in the court treat them?
For Geng Anguo and his 8,000 brothers, from Liangshan to Yunzhou, from one battlefield to another, this long road ahead is destined to be full of thorns and obstacles.
On the day I left Liangshan, the mountain wind whistling by sounded like a whimper.