"Mother Buddha, is it really good for us to do this, once we do this, we will really rebel. However, the imperial court has stipulated that people are forbidden to enter this track, and once they are caught, they will be severely punished."

Dozens of miles away from Jinan Mansion in Shandong, next to the train tracks.

Hundreds of civilians dressed in civilian clothes, holding hoes, shovels, and axes, struggled to tear down the fence.

At the front of the line was a woman in a power suit.

Although this woman is medium in appearance, the heroic spirit between her eyebrows adds a bit of grace to her.

The questioner was a short, thin man named Liu Jun, who was one of the woman's followers.

The phoenix eyes were scanning the woman on the railway, and glanced at the short and thin woman, "Don't you believe in this Buddha Mother, or are you afraid?"

The short and thin man named Liu Jun turned red, as if he had been humiliated by something, and said excitedly: "Zhu Di is not benevolent, he doesn't treat us Shandong people as human beings, the local officials exploit us layer by layer, and his grandson Zhu Zhangui killed my eldest brother a few years ago, I have a common enmity with the Ming Dynasty, I can't wait to gnaw their bones and eat their flesh, so I don't even want my life, how can I be afraid."

The woman gave him a serious look and nodded lightly.

"I hope so!"

With that, hundreds of people walked over to the fence, ready to arrange the next step.

Looking at Qianying who walked away, the man bit his lip, a trace of obsession flashed in his eyes, and he strode after him.

This woman's name is Tang Sai'er, a personnel officer in Putai County.

The land of Shandong, since ancient times, is a battleground for soldiers, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, this place was an important place for the Red Turban Army.

Even if the world is stable, there are still rumors of the Red Turban Army and the White Lotus Sect here.

Tang Sai'er was influenced by the Red Turban Army and other ideas since he was a child, and he recited scriptures since he was a child, and even often called himself the Buddha's mother.

When he grew up, he married Lin San, a fellow believer.

Lin San, like Tang Sai'er's childhood experience, was also deeply influenced by the thoughts of the Red Turban Army and the White Lotus Sect!

When the husband and wife were together, they often discussed various spiritual beliefs and their yearning for the supreme Buddha kingdom.

This place in Shandong, I don't know what the reason is, it hasn't been good since the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

During the Hongwu period, there were disasters and starvation all over the country here year after year, and after the death of Lao Zhu, the old man launched a martyrdom again, and Shandong became the main battlefield again.

After the war, just when the people of Shandong thought they could rest and rest, Zhu Di became a demon again, planning to build a new palace in Beiping.

Coupled with many northern expeditions, dredging canals, and opening the Huitong River, in Shandong alone, the number of young and strong people transferred by the imperial court is as high as hundreds of thousands.

Coupled with the successive disasters and the barren land, the land of Shandong has almost become a purgatory on earth.

A few years ago, there was a drought in Shandong, and the arrival of the emperor's grandson brought a wave of blood back to the devastated Shandong.

The second year was not bad, so everyone planted some food, plus the famine of the imperial court was a little better.

But God specializes in hard work.

In the third year, the drought came again, followed by the locust plague, and this year there was another great drought.

After several years in a row, Shandong is almost unable to bear it.

Many people fed on tree bark and grass roots, and even sold their wives and children.

Although Tang Sai'er's family is not so miserable, it is also tight.

Tang Sai'er, who was influenced by the Red Turban Army's ideology since childhood, was very sympathetic to the victims, so he followed the example of the Red Turban Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and used the White Lotus Thought to envelop the people and appease the hearts of the local people.

Because of her daughter's body, she recommended her husband Lin San to be the leader, and she silently supported behind the scenes.

Tang Sai'er promoted White Lotus, in fact, he didn't have any bad intentions at the beginning, but just wanted the people of Shandong who had suffered a lot to have a spiritual sustenance.

Originally, as long as the imperial court quickly released grain and saved the people from fire and water, there would be no problem, and Shandong would quickly stabilize.

I don't know what's going on, the imperial court has not heard of the grain release until now, which makes the people of Shandong resentful

The sound was everywhere, and many people missed the days when the emperor was there.

Although the imperial grandson has strict management and will kill people, he will really give food, and he will give everyone the opportunity to work and not let everyone go hungry.

But now that the emperor's grandson is gone, these Shandong officials have begun to behave again.

Not only did they delay the distribution of relief grain, but they even joined forces with some local gentry and landlords to ignore the imperial court's tax exemption policy and continue to collect grain taxes from the people.

apportionment of forced labor, and even directly sent people down to arrest people.

Tang Sai'er's father was arrested, and later news came that he was in the Forbidden City of Beiping.

Two years ago, when Arutai invaded in the north, his father was inspired by the words of the imperial grandson and voluntarily went to the north to fight the enemy.

But this time, it was nearly two years, and I only received the news of safety once a year.

Although the Tang family was a little worried about this, thinking of the news that Tang Sai'er's father had saved a lot of money and would go home when the war ended this year, the family was still very much looking forward to it.

But just last month, an unfortunate piece of news came to the Tang family.

Tang Sai'er's father, when he was following the army and clearing the remnants of the enemy in the northern grasslands, was killed by the enemy's sentry while on duty.

The Tang family was devastated when they received the news, but their husband died fighting for the country, and they did not complain about the imperial court.

Fighting for the country and dying on the battlefield is the glory of Tang's father.

But on the second day, when Tang San'er and her husband went to the official office to receive their father's pension and inheritance, they were ruthlessly rejected by the official and the official.

In the words of those officials, your father was only recruited as a farmer, which belonged to the scope of conscription, plus he was a farmer's household registration, not a soldier, and there was no pension.

As for the inheritance or something, your father was dressed in rags when he went, and the rest were equipped by the imperial court, so there is no inheritance at all.

As for the reward mentioned in the letter sent back by Tang's father, the officials sneered even more.

A muddy leg, you can still make money on the battlefield, fooling the ghost.

Immediately, ignoring the explanation of the husband and wife, he threw away two catties of coarse grain, and was about to send the husband and wife away.

Tang Sai'er and his wife were naturally unwilling.

With the issuance of the new disability pension policy of the imperial court, the common people also know how much the disability and death pension is in the mouth-to-mouth propaganda of military households in various places.

According to the law of the disabled soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the disabled soldiers receive a lifelong pension of 50 taels of silver, 500 catties of food and a number of other items every year, and priority is given to arranging work to help their families live a small life, and their children can enter the new school for free.

For soldiers who died in battle, a direct subsidy of 100 taels was given, and the imperial court was responsible for supporting the old and young in their families until the old man died or the young son came of age.

What's more, according to the letters sent by Tang's father, he killed many enemies, and there was at least 50 taels of silver.

Shandong has been a disaster year in the past two years, and Tang Sai'er's family has not received enough food, so he has been living a tight life.

Although the death of my father was a big blow to the family, life had to go on.

The Tang family didn't want to ask the imperial court what they wanted, they just wanted to get what the Tang family should have.

But they didn't expect that their father exchanged his life for the food and silver money for the family to survive, but these corrupt officials denied it.

Tang Sai'er and his wife didn't believe that it was because their father was not a military household that they couldn't get all this, but they suspected that the court had already given the money, but they were just found a reason to be greedy by these corrupt officials who had no heart.

The two parties clashed in the yamen, and Tang Sai'er's husband Lin San was also a hyphenated person.

In anger, he roared angrily at that time, and wanted to bring a big complaint to the Beijing master to sue the emperor, so that the emperor could bring them to justice, corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the moths in Shandong.

Seeing this, the officials in the county government were angry on the spot, and directly ordered the husband and wife to be driven out, and gave some orders in a vague way.

During the conflict, Tang Sai'er's husband was seriously injured by the official hand, and Tang Sai'er injured the official and snatched her husband back because of some martial arts.

Unexpectedly, within a day of returning home, her husband would die.

My mother, who was heartbroken and bedridden because of the death of her father, died of this blow.

The death of her father, mother, and husband one after another, coupled with the fact that the yamen wanted to arrest her on the grounds that she was a chaotic people, made Tang Sai'er's heart full of resentment.

She resented the inaction of the imperial court, resented the ruthlessness of those officials, ***, violated the law and memorized it, and lost her conscience.

She is a White Lotus propagandist herself, and she has the idea of overthrowing this corrupt court in her heart.

Dozens of days ago, when Tang Sai'er returned from mourning her husband, father and mother, she found a stone box at the foot of the mountain, dug it out, and found the Heavenly Book Sword from inside.

Since then, among the White Lotus masses, it has been spread that she Tang Sai'er knows spells, and can use divine swords and paper-cutting people to fight.

For a time, Tang Sai'er reached the peak of her prestige among the White Lotus masses, and was regarded as the Buddha's mother by the White Lotus believers, who believed in her.

In just a few days, Tang Sai'er gathered a large group of believers, the number of which was as high as tens of thousands, including 3,000 young and strong.

A few days ago, Tang Sai'er gathered his followers and conveyed the will of heaven to everyone.

It is said that the continuous disasters in Shandong are caused by demons, and their purpose is to cut off the luck of Shandong and do unspeakable things.

And the train track laid this year is the formation set up by the demon.

Tang Sai'er told the believers that she had been guided by God, and God had inspired her that as long as this formation was broken, Shandong would be restored to peace, and there would never be any natural or man-made disasters in the future.

As soon as this news was announced, the believers were furious, and they scolded the demon one by one, shouting that they were willing to obey Tang Sai'er's orders.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Tang Sai'er ordered on the spot to divide his men into four battalions, led by Liu Junbinhong and others, who were the first to follow her, responsible for destroying the train tracks from four places and interrupting this demon array that was going to destroy Shandong's luck.

"Mother Buddha, this demon array is so powerful, everyone can't stop fighting at all!"

As Tang Sai'er approached, a group of men who were holding hoes and axes and slashing the railroad tracks frantically, trembling hands and numb hands and feet, asked Tang Sai'er, who was a god in their minds, for help.

In fact, there is no need for this person to say, when he came over just now, Tang Sai'er saw it.

The men struck the steel with no effect other than to stir up sparks and a little mark.

The big gray bricks below were only knocked out of small gaps.

Tang Sai'er frowned, stepped forward and stroked the cold rails.

The imperial court was so extravagant that it used such good iron materials to create a group of useless things.

If Heaven wants to destroy it, it must first make it mad.

Tang Sai'er sneered in her heart, although the railroad tracks and the gray bricks were very stiff, but she was the Mother of the Buddha, how could there be no solution.

Good guy, if you really brainwash yourself and talk too much, you even believe it.

No wonder a great man said that if you want others to believe your lies, you must first believe it yourself. How can you deceive others with lies that you don't even believe.

Grabbing the gravel under the railroad tracks, Tang Sai'er said thoughtfully to the believers.

"This thing is possessed by a demon demon, mortal things can't hurt it in the slightest, although my divine sword can cut it off, but I want to keep my mana to deal with that demon, I can't waste it on this useless thing."

When the believers heard this, they were full of regret.

"Mother Buddha, can't this formation be destroyed? If we can't destroy this demon array, our Shandong land will be finished."

A believer who was very fascinated was so anxious that he was about to cry, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to Tang Sai'er.

"Pray that the Buddha's mother will exert great magic skills and save the people of Shandong!"

The others also knelt on the ground, "Ask the Buddha Mother to exert great magic skills to save the people of Shandong!"

Reaching out to help the person kneeling in front of him, Tang Sai'er said with a confident smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Don't panic, this Buddha Mother is already there

There's a way to break the formation!"

With that, she pointed to the gravel under the railroad tracks.

"This is the base of the formation, I have used my mana to break the demonic energy on it just now, you can dig it up."

"Without the qi of the earth, this demon array will be greatly weakened, and when the time comes, we will destroy a few more places, and this array can be broken!"

When all the believers heard this, they were overjoyed and shouted that the Buddha's mother was boundless.

Then they stood up excitedly, brandished their hoes and shovels, and dug hard under the rails.

"Hey, what are you bastards doing, dare to dig the railroad tracks, you can't find death!"

Just when Tang Sai'er and the believers were in full swing, dozens of young people wearing railway uniforms in the distance roared and rode over.

Zhang Kejian was angry.

The platform had already informed the emperor that he was about to arrive, but on his side, there was a group of people who wanted to dig the track.

Isn't this Nima asking for his life?

He was sentenced to 55 years in prison for confiscating all his family property and serving a prison sentence of 55 years.

My sister beat him hard for this, and the dog he scolded was bloody, and later, under his pitiful prayers, the prison sentence that was originally working became an overseer.

His daily task is to supervise the efforts and criminals who are not working, carry knives and whips every day on the construction site, and from time to time make appointments with friends who are also serving prison sentences, drink some wine and eat some side dishes together, and life can be regarded as okay.

Although I didn't live comfortably in Jingshi, I was never tired, hungry, or cold.

Of course, it would be better if his wife and concubines came and went from once a month to every few days, and it would be even better if they could stay with him.

It's a pity that my sister doesn't allow it.

In my sister's words, it's good to let you see you once a month, and the other noble children who are serving sentences with you can only see their families once a year, and they can only see their parents, don't talk about touching women, you can't see them, you bastard can still fool around with your wife and concubine once a month, you can secretly have fun.

With the construction of the railway from Jinling to Beiping, the construction site began to gradually move and other places began to be built.

Zhang Kejian didn't want to follow the construction site, so he asked his wife, who came once a month, to beg Zhang, wanting his sister to change his job again.

Seeing that this guy was working hard, and his attitude of admitting his mistakes was sincere enough, plus he was his own brother, he softened his heart for a while, so he discussed it with Zhu Fatpang.

Zhu Fatpang thought about it and didn't object, after all, he was the one who pulled this brother-in-law into the pit in the first place.

Later, the imperial court established the Ministry of Railways, and Zhu Fatpang arranged Zhang Kejian to patrol the railway. The route he is responsible for is the section from Jinan to Beiping.

In the future, the central force of the imperial court will be moved to Beiping, and Zhang Kejian is in charge of this road, and after a major inspection every few days, he can also arrange for him to stay at home for a few days at the railway station.

In this way, this brother-in-law can not only serve his sentence to atone for the work of the imperial court, but also see his family often.

As the person in charge of this road, Zhang Kejian naturally knew that the emperor was coming in the next few days.

On weekdays, this section of the road is inspected by his subordinates, and he only inspects the entire section of the railway for 10 days.

After receiving the news that the emperor was going to arrive the day before yesterday, Zhang Kejian wanted to behave in front of the old man and strive for a commutation of his sentence.

So he led his men to patrol back and forth beside the railway, trying to let the old man see his efforts when the train passed.

At noon, while eating in a small station, he received a notification on the walkie-talkie he carried with him.

It is said that after dusk today, the emperor's train will arrive at Jinan Station, and then go directly to Beiping after loading coal and water.

Although it is a little regrettable that the emperor came at night and could not see his hard work, Zhang Kejian still meticulously carried out the tasks that should be responsible.

He knew his own luck, so in order to prevent that bad luck, he made his crime worse.

After Zhang Kejian ate, he took his inspectors to inspect every track hard.

In order to prevent his luck from causing bad luck, he wandered outside the train track fence, for fear that his bad luck might cause something bad.

This inspection was at dusk, when Zhang Kejian was about to go to Jinan Station to greet the emperor and others, his subordinates suddenly reported to him that hundreds of people had touched the train tracks, and it didn't look like they were doing a good thing.

Zhang Kejian was furious when he learned about it.

Nima, these people are trying to trap him.

You don't come when the emperor doesn't come, you come over as soon as the emperor comes, what bad things did I, Zhang Kejian, do in my last life, why are I so unlucky.

In order to prevent these guys from affecting the operation of the train, Zhang Kejian directly summoned people and rushed over angrily.

When he arrived, he saw the guys wielding hoes and shovels, digging the foundations of the tracks.

The enthusiastic believers, who were wielding hoes, looked up when they heard the hooves and shouts of the horses.

When he saw that it was a person in uniform, fear flashed in his eyes.

Don't look at these guys, under Tang Sai'er's bewitchment, they gritted their teeth one by one who hated the court, but when they really saw the people of the court, they still had no bottom in their hearts.

This phenomenon is actually quite normal behavior.

People who have not committed any crimes, when they are stopped and questioned by people in official uniforms, will suddenly feel in their hearts, wondering if they have done something bad. What's more, these guys also know in their hearts that they and others are rebellious.

"They are the demons' guardians, they are the lackeys of the demons, the culprits who cut off my luck in Shandong, kill them, and protect my Shandong!"

The believers were a little scared, but Tang Sai'er was not afraid at all.

only heard her shout, pulled out his waist knife with a "poof", commanded his followers, and prepared to cut Zhang Kejian's dozens of people.

As a faithful believer, Liu Jun is also the battalion officer of this battalion, and after Tang Sai'er gave the order, he brandished a woodcutter in his hand and shouted.

"The white lotus descends to earth, and all the people turn over!"

This slogan, as if it was ***, made the believers, who were originally a little afraid, instantly high morale, waving various farm tools in their hands, shouting slogans, and killing Zhang Kejian and others.

Zhang Kejian, who was leading people to come up and drive away the troublemakers, was stunned for a moment when he heard the slogan shouted by the other party.

As a person who can enjoy, in addition to enjoying delicious food and beautiful women every day, Zhang Kejian's biggest hobby is to listen to various operas and storytelling.

He had naturally heard about the White Lotus Sect, and even he had heard that Lao Zhu was related to this sect.

Later, when Lao Zhu became the emperor, he designated the White Lotus Sect as a demonic sect, and stipulated that anyone who discovered the White Lotus Sect and reported it to the imperial court or arrested and escorted it to the yamen would be rewarded.

"My dear, these guys are from the White Lotus Sect."

Those who followed Zhang Kejian were the second generations who had a good relationship with him at the beginning.

Usually everyone mixes together, and naturally they have heard the story of the White Lotus Sect.

"Brother Zhang, there are many of them, let's withdraw!"

One of the second generations, looking at the hundreds of people rushing over with great momentum, was a little stunned in his heart, and suggested that Zhang Kejian should flee for his life first.

Zhang Kejian, who was squinting his eyes and looking at the White Lotus Sect members who rushed over, glanced back at the man, and an excited smile appeared on his face.

"Brothers, each of us here will serve more than ten years in prison, and I ask you if you don't want a warm bed and a beautiful wife and concubine at home?"

As soon as these words came out, the second generation looked at Zhang Kejian.

Reaching out and wiping his nose, Zhang Kejian reached into his arms, took out the revolver that his sister had secretly stuffed into him, opened the insurance and roared loudly.

"Emperor Taizu has an edict, and those who capture and kill the White Lotus Sect alive will be rewarded!"

"We are all guilty, and it will take at least ten years to go home and reunite with our families, and now that God has given us the opportunity to go home, are you really willing to go?"

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the second generation were red one by one.

Who the fuck wants to be on the construction site every day

or at the train station guarding the broken railroad tracks, eating food that they don't usually look at.

But they are guilty, although no one is looking at them, but if they dare to go home, they are implicating the people in the family.

For the sake of the family, they can only grit their teeth and live this hard life of entertaining themselves.

When they return home and go back to the old days, many people have thought about it in their dreams, but when they think that they will have to serve more than ten years in prison, and some even more than 20 years, many people are desperate.

But just when they were desperate, God put the opportunity in front of them.

What is the White Lotus Cult? That's a thief.

What are the thieves used for, they are guilty of meritorious service.

As long as they defeat these rebels, capture the leader of them, and then force the other party's base camp to report to the court.

With the character of the emperor today, these people have made such great contributions, maybe the emperor will be happy and let them go home directly.

Thinking of the warm bed at home, as well as the delicious food and the beautiful and bewitching maids and concubines, the second generation finally couldn't help it.

"Kill the thief, make great contributions, and go home and enjoy a good life!"

Stretching out his hand and pulling out the sword he was wearing, the second generation, under the leadership of Zhang Kejian, roared and rode up.