"My lord, I don't understand!"

At this moment, in the crowd, an old man who was over half a hundred years old came out of the crowd and looked at Lu Fan with a look of doubt and pathos.

"In my life, I have been diligent, hard-working, paying taxes and grain on time every year, and I have never done anything unconscionable!"

"But before the adults came to the East Road, the days were getting harder and harder, and there was no way to live, and the only few acres of land were taken away at a low price, and the whole family could only barely make ends meet by renting farmland!"

"And since the adults came to the East Road, those who participated in the reclamation of the wasteland, managed food and housing, and could also get the fields, the days are finally hopeful, and we, the villagers, have finally seen the hope of living!"

"But I don't understand, why, why do these bandits in soldier skins just refuse to give us a way to live, they just don't want us to live?"

"Although I can't read or write, old man, I have lived for a long time, and I can see a lot of things!

I can see very clearly that these rebels, they are not for a salary at all, nor for that little money, their purpose is to harm our people, they just want to burn, kill and loot, they just don't want us to live!

I don't understand, we didn't recruit him to provoke him, and we didn't act as a traitor, we just wanted to live in peace, why is it so difficult?"

"Is it a sin to live?"

These words can be regarded as the voice of the local people, and even the entire Ming people.

They just want to have a stutter and live, why is it so difficult and so hateful?

Outside the entire East City, there was silence for a while, and countless eyes gathered on Lu Fan, wanting to find the answer from him, find the answer to the future, how to really live.

Under the gaze of hundreds of people and officials, Lu Fan looked serious, muttered for a while, and finally spoke.

"Maybe many of you don't know why these rebels are attacking the government and killing the people under the banner of making trouble, doing all kinds of evil, and not giving you a way to live!"

When the general spoke, the people suddenly fell silent, and even some of the people who were crying held back the sadness in their hearts and listened to the adults.

"Actually, the reason is very simple, because, if you live well and live comfortably, these military attachés and bandits will not be able to lie on your body and suck blood, and they will not be able to stand on your head as a prestige!"

"You have land, those so-called big families, the so-called official masters, a large amount of land in their hands, no one is willing to rent the plant, they can only be wasted!"

"You have the fields, you have the harvest, and your life is good, but it will be difficult for those guards and ethics to use some small profits to recruit private troops and support their families. If there is no household, how can they be powerful, how can they lie on you, suck blood, and plunder the people's fat and anointment?"

"They wish you had no land or land, and preferably no place to live, so you can only send people under the fence, rent their fields, and beat and scold them, just to beg the owner to give you a little ration that will not die of hunger!"

"And they can still be high, they can still be powerful, they can still enjoy and squander!"

Speaking of this, Lu Fan's voice paused, looked at the indignant people all over the city, and said loudly: "Now, you can understand why today's war disaster happened, right? Because if you are doing well, they will not be able to live comfortably!"

The old man with a wrinkled face nodded and sighed at the sky.

"After living for such a handful of years, today, I finally figured out the problem in my heart!"

Speaking of this, the old man knelt on the ground and bowed to Lu Fan.

"The old man only understands today that in this world, if you want to live a good life, you don't just have to be diligent, you haven't met a good official like you, the general, no matter how hard you work, how your duty, everything, it's all in vain!"

"Here, I want to thank you, my lord, for feeding and closing, giving us a field, giving us hope, and seeing the hope of living!"

As soon as he took the lead, at that moment, countless people knelt down one after another, kept kowtowing, and the shouts converged, like thunder and explosion.

"Thank you, General!"

"Thank you, General!"

........

At this moment, Lu Fan's prestige has completely reached its peak.

At this moment, the people of Donglu finally figured out who gave them a good life, and who didn't want them to live in peace.

This made them firm in their belief that only by closely following the steps of the generals can they live and live like a person!

It's just that at this moment, Lu Fan is turning his gaze and constantly patrolling several cronies under his command.

The meaning is obvious, this old man, it shouldn't be a few of you who made it up, right?

Shen Lian and the others were also a little dazed at the moment, and they glanced at each other and shook their heads slightly.

That old man is really not what they arranged.

In this regard, Lu Fan no longer pursues it, it doesn't matter whether it is a trust or not, his goal of completely establishing his majesty through this rebellion has been completely achieved.

Ascend to Mien, fight Mi Qiu!

There is only grace, no might, after a long time, people's hearts will change!

After all, people's greedy desires have no end!

Only the combination of grace and power is the king's way!

Originally, his plan was to execute dozens of rebels in public, and then through an impassioned speech, he expressed the idea that as long as he Lu Fan was there, the East Road would not be chaotic, and the people could live and work in peace and contentment.

But now, it seems, there is no need for such trouble.

After figuring out the irreconcilable contradictions between themselves and the local gentry officials, the people of the East Road, if they want to keep their hard-won land and live a good life of food and clothing, will naturally spare no effort to stand on the side of the General's Palace!

The prestige has been brushed up, and the next step is naturally the execution.

At the sound of an order, the rebel army, including a thousand generals and two generals, were all beheaded and raised in the wilderness.

In the Ming Dynasty, for officers, it was actually quite preferential.

If a military attache of three rank or higher violates the law and wants to be arrested, he must petition the imperial court and be arrested only if a holy decree is issued.

If an officer below the fourth rank commits a crime, the superior officer will arrest him and ask him for the crime, and he will need to issue a holy decree before he can be convicted.

And like Datong Town, if there is a soldier who plots to rebel, after being arrested, he must be commanded by the capital, and the political secretary and the three divisions of the judicial department will be interrogated together, and then report to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies to inform them.

The process can be described as extremely troublesome, and it is common to go back and forth, and drag on for a year and a half.

Even during this period, if the criminal's family spends money and finds a high-ranking official in the court to speak, he can't say that he can overturn the case!

But Lu Fan is different, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he has the privilege of cutting first and then playing.

Especially when encountering this kind of rebellion of the rebel army, it is completely self-determined and killed on the spot!

I have to say that Lu Fan likes the identity of Jinyiwei more and more, and the more he uses it, the more he uses it, the more convenient it is to do many things, but with this privileged identity, it becomes easier!

This is also the main reason why when Chongzhen wanted to cancel the institution of Jinyiwei, Lu Fan had to keep this department no matter what!