Ding Sheng and the others have already begun to knock on doors from door to door.

With knives in their hands, they forced the poor shanty men to hand over their food.

There were even a few grumpy ones who had kicked in the door, dragged the shantymen out of the burrow like dead dogs, and beat them with their short clubs.

Suddenly, wailing, begging for mercy, and crying resounded through this small settlement.

"Stop, stop for me!"

Zhang Chong was talking to the old man before, but he didn't expect the team to break up.

Seeing this look of catching people and urging people, Zhang Chong was furious.

He walked quickly over to a foul man and snatched his whistle with one hand.

Then, with a knee on his head, he snapped the whistle stick.

Zhang Chong pointed to the sky and roared:

"Stop it."

This sound, like thunder, frightened Ding Sheng and the others not daring to move.

They looked at Zhang Chong suspiciously, and didn't understand, didn't they come to fetch food, why did they stop.

Zhang Chong ignored their confusion and just picked up the caveman who had collapsed to the ground.

Zhang Chong looked at this person, but he didn't know what to call him, because he couldn't tell his age from this person's face at all.

You call him Lao Suo, and it is true that this man has gray hair, a twilight face, and even a little old voice.

But when he looked at an old woman in the distance, naked and looking at him with sad and distressed eyes, Zhang Chong knew that this person was the woman's son.

The reason why he is so old is that Zhang Chong estimates that it may be caused by a lack of salt.

When he pulled this little brother up, this little brother was trembling all over, he held his head in both hands, and he didn't dare to raise his head at all, nor did he dare to stand up.

Zhang Chong supported him with pity, and a whooshing smell rushed straight to his brain stem, has this little brother never taken a bath in his life?

But I can't care about that.

He beckoned everyone to come, and asked the old man from before to come around.

Lao Su pointed to himself, and when he saw that it was right, he tiptoed over.

Zhang Chongxian sighed, his tone heavy:

"Why do you want to tell everyone to stop? Come, Daqi, you talk about it first. ”

Daqi, Ding Sheng's zigzag also.

On weekdays, Ding Sheng is the most active and talkative, but this time he saw Zhang Chong have such a big temper, and thought of the situation when he killed the sentry horse with one shot, he was a little afraid.

He replied with a little uncertainty:

"Because, we beat someone?" After saying that, he still explained to himself again:

"That grain is their lifeline, how can they honestly give it to us if they don't beat it?"

The others also looked like this, only the old man blushed and didn't dare to say anything.

Zhang Chong asked rhetorically:

"You know it's their lifeline? Then why rush their food? ”

Then, without waiting for Ding Sheng and them to answer, he pointed to the poorly clothed shantytowns and said:

"Keep your eyes open and see what else they have. A family of seven, who take turns wearing one piece of clothing and living in an earthen pit, tell me what else can they have?

Yes, if we don't rush food, we will go hungry. Therefore, it is better for them to starve and freeze than to fill our stomachs first.

But what? But what?

If you think so, if it's true, then are those heroes who threaten us also reasonable?

Anyway, if we suffer hard, their good life cannot be broken. Isn't that the truth? ”

Zhang Chong's team is basically the head of Qian, and one of them is oppressed by the local tyrants to serve.

So what Zhang Chong said, they were not convinced, but their faces were instinctively flushed.

Zhang Chong saw their thoughts:

"Are you not convinced, thinking that this can be the same thing?

One fish and meat town is just to be happy, and the other is to survive, and it is a last resort.

But have you ever thought that you feel different, but for these shantytowns, there is a difference.

We and the powerful are depriving them of their only hope. Shame, shame. ”

Saying that, Zhang Chong patted his chest again and said to everyone:

"My Shi cub's family is the same as them, a family of six, and they are also frozen in winter, crying hungry and cold.

That's when I had to swear that I wanted my family to have a good life.

And now, I have to swear that I want to let poor men like us live like human beings, and not as wild beasts. ”

Zhang Chong said heavily, but everyone listened to it in their hearts, in fact, it can be summed up as:

"The poor do not rob the poor."

But there is still a problem, how to solve the problem of food.

"Brother Chong, I support you. But now we don't have enough food for ourselves, what should we do? ”

Zhang Dan saw the problem in everyone's hearts and asked it directly.

When Zhang Chong heard this, he smiled, pointed to the old man, and said:

"Our food should be on his old man's head."

After speaking, everyone looked at Lao Suo with fierce eyes, and was so frightened that Lao Suo fell to the ground again, crying and howling:

"It's really gone, not a drop left. Woooooo ”

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Jiyin County, Chengshi, Li's Dock Fort.

In this world, this kind of dock fort originally appeared in the last years of Xinmang, and was originally used as a pavilion for border guards and imperial police.

After the arrival of the troubled times, the powerful in the interior also began to erect dock walls, such as the famous Fifth Lun, which built a dock fort on this plane to protect the clansmen and the township party.

However, with the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this kind of dock fort was successively demolished to eliminate the unstable factors in the countryside.

However, with the rise of the Qiang Rebellion, the imperial court in order to quell the chaos, levied and extorted tyranny, and increased the endowment every year, arousing thieves from all over the world to flock.

This kind of dock fort suitable for agriculture and soldiers was built by the powerful again.

In this small kingdom, they were self-sufficient, oppressed the landless peasants, became slaves and maids, became vassals, acted arbitrarily, and the court could not govern.

And the dock fort of the Li family of the Cheng family is such a typical dock fort of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It's just that they are very large, compared to a small county town.

Here, there are thousands of guest slaves and maids attached to the Li family, and you must know that the number of households in a small county is only 10,000.

In the former Han Dynasty, Gaozu determined Xiao He as the first merit, and named him the Marquis, and he had the most food.

How many are there?

However, there were only 8,000 households, and later I felt that it was less, so I made up another 2,000 households, making up 10,000 households, that is, the number of households in a county.

And the liehous are already the highest level among the twenty meritorious knights, and it is impossible to be awarded if they do not have military merits for the country's social affairs.

So, can we now know how strong the Li family of the Cheng family is?

It's Fubiles!

However, it is still worse than the real liehou, because after the light and martial arts win the world, they will rule the world with softness. The meritorious service is particularly generous, the former Han Dynasty made food for one county, and he gave it to four counties.

Therefore, the Li family is even at the level of the little liehou.

This time, the sky has already dawned.

On both sides of the straight road leading to the Dock Fort, the Li family was full of laborers, who were tidying up the corn fields in their calf-nosed pants.

From time to time, you can see five or six men ploughing on oxen.

At this moment, a sentry horse galloped past the distant horizon, arousing countless vain looks.

In a fort tower, I saw the sentry horse with the Li family's flag from a distance, and immediately ordered the husbands on both sides to put down the door.

The sentry horse did not greet him, but dismounted directly outside the wall, and ran inward as if flying.

The whistle horse found Li Gan, the head of the Li family, in the drying field.

He first handed over Li Dian's talisman, and then handed over the letter written by Li Dian.

Li Gan opened the letter suspiciously, wondering why it was the talisman sent to Li Dian instead of Li Jin.

He saw that on the letter, Li Dian told him a cruel truth in his concise and beautiful writing:

Li Jin was killed, died in a meaningless battle, and did not know the murderer.

Li Gan's eyes were black and he was about to faint, but fortunately he was helped by his son Li Quan.

Li Quan, like Li Dian, is the leader of the next generation of the Li family, and because he is the son of the patriarch, he is even more important than Li Dian.

Li Quan also saw what Li Dian said in the letter, but he has always been a serious person, he held back his sorrow, and said to his father:

"My lord, please mourn, now we have to think about how to deal with the suggestion of the pawn, do we really want troops to pursue?"

Li Gan relieved himself at this time, but tears still flowed out.

He already knew that with Li Jin's violent temper, he would definitely seek revenge from the eunuch party.

Knowing this, why did you stop him from entering Beijing to assassinate?

Mourn me, my brother.

You should have left your name in history, but how did you die in a nameless battle.

He pushed his son away, hissed to the left and right, and roared:

"Beat the drums, call up the soldiers, whoever it is, I want them to pay for me."

After speaking, he hid his face and wept again.

Hearing this, he climbed up to the watchtower left and right, and beat the cowhide drums on both sides.

The sound moves around, and the courage is gathered.

Three quarters of an hour later, a team of 200 people, waving their flags, vented their anger towards the east.

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"Knife in hand, follow me."

At this time, Zhang Chong, who was at the front of the team, was so happy that he cheered everyone up.

The old man on the side said tremblingly:

"You must not go, or I will tell you where you are, and you will go yourself. I don't want the borrowed grain. Hero, do you think it will work? ”

Zhang Chong took Lao Suo and said with a smile:

"Don't call me a hero, it sounds like a green forest bandit, just call me 'General Shi'.

And if you don't go, it's okay, think about it, you even the millet seed was snatched away by the one surnamed Xue.

Without seeds, what will you eat next year?

Oh, yes, don't wait for next year, you're probably going to starve to death this year. ”

Lao Su was embarrassed and didn't want to speak, so he could only continue to lead the way.

But Lao Suo didn't want to speak, but Zhang Chong kept asking:

"Old man, why does the countryman surnamed Xue you mentioned take care of you? He is not an official government, he said to pay food, can't you run? ”

"Don't be an old man, I'm looking old, in fact, I'm only thirty-eight."

Zhang Chong looked at this person with white beard and sideburns, who was only thirty-eight, and couldn't help but speak.

The old man ignored him, but sighed, and said:

"We are all sinners who have escaped from service, and we are all living here together, and we are living and clothing together.

But about four years ago, a group of village tyrants found out about us and forced us to make it their part.

As for why don't you keep running?

There's really nowhere to run, it's the same everywhere.

Originally, the Xue family was not so harsh, maybe they encountered some difficulties. ”

Zhang Chong was angry, but he also knew that he had been oppressed for a long time, and his psychology would become like this, otherwise he would not be able to live his life.

But after understanding, Zhang Chong still feels aggrieved, he has been exploited like this, and he still thinks that the master has any difficulties!

I didn't see my family crying hungry and cold.

That's it, the old man was still chattering, and said vigorously:

"Don't hurt anyone, let's borrow it, people will definitely give it."

After all, there are several of us in the settlement, who are attached to them there?

How could we really starve to death? ”

said, and instructed Zhang Chong one by one:

"Don't do it."