Chapter 32: The Slave Revolt

The capital is full of heavy snow, but the city of Guankou is clear and sunny, and at night because there is no light of the stars and moon, you can't see your fingers.

There are still four days, the end of the year is coming, according to the time, Li Jing and they have just arrived at the Dust Cloud Temple, and the Li family of Guan Kou has already begun to work on the slave rebellion!

At the time of the third watch, the slave market is filled!

A hundred men in black broke into the slave market under the cover of night, and this group of men in black seemed to be extremely familiar with the terrain, and assassinated all the sleeping guards guarding the slave market.

In a moment, the Man in Black took full control of the slave market, and then lit the torch of the slave market.

There were 2,500 slaves held here, waiting to be picked up by their future masters.

Most of the slaves were not fully asleep, and on such a cold winter night, they would wake up from freezing if they squinted for a short time.

At this time, the slaves poked their heads out of the windows, looking at the unreachable firelight outside, fantasizing about the warmth that the firelight brought to them when it was around them.

Ji Wuyan stood on the square of the slave market surrounded by the people of the Yu clan.

In the past few days, Ji Wuyan, as a slave owner, had visited the slave market several times, and he had already understood the terrain of the slave market clearly and had a good relationship with his slaves.

A clansman whispered in his ear: "Boss, you only have a stick of incense to mobilize them, if not, let's evacuate quickly." ”

Ji Wuyan nodded and said, "Act according to my gestures! If it succeeds, I will roar and quickly open the prison door to release the slaves! If it fails, let us evacuate the same way as we are." ”

"Yes!" the man in black quickly disappeared into the darkness and went his separate ways.

Ji Wuyan was speechless and said loudly: "Slaves!"

This sound came far away, and the slaves in the cell could hear it clearly, and they all looked at Ji Wuyan, I don't know what this person planned to do when he came here late at night!

The slaves began to talk.

"Isn't this our new master? here tonight, I don't know what happened?"

"Anyway, it's not a bad thing, he has sent us some old clothes these days, so that we can get better in the cold winter. ”

"Yes, the other slaves envy us for having a good master. ”

"Slaves! I can only call you that! I have no words! I swear by the inheritance of the Guan Kou Li clan, the Jiangkou Ji clan, and the Xin Kou Chang clan, and all the words I have said below are true! All the promises I have made will be fulfilled! If there is a trace of repentance, let our three clans have no ancestor spirit position in a hundred years, no bloodline inheritance in ten years, and no children will be born from now on!"

The people of the Tian Yuan Continent attach the most importance to the inheritance of the race, and swear that the inheritance is also the most important!

Naturally, the slaves have heard of the three clans of the Yu clan, and the political turmoil of 18 years ago will still be mentioned! The reputation of the three clans in the Great Wei is very good, and when they hear Ji Wuyan make such a poisonous oath, there will be something to say, so listen carefully now!

"I, Ji Wuyan, on the orders of the three clans as family members, came here tonight to give you a chance! It also gives us a chance! A chance to completely change our common destiny!"

Speaking of this, Ji Wuyan paused.

The slaves began to quarrel.

"Tell me, what's the chance?"

"I don't care what kind of Yu you are, as long as I don't want to be a slave, I will listen to you for everything. ”

"You're talking, old white face. ”

Ji Wuyan continued to say loudly: "This opportunity! is to follow our Yu clan to rebel against the Great Wei and defect to the Great Zhou!

The slaves were instantly blindfolded, it turned out that they were inciting them to rebel, so the slaves laughed and cursed.

"Are we stupid? Rebellion is to kill the head, and as a slave at least you can live!"

"Use us as a shield, but don't say anything good to us. ”

"I was born as a person of Great Wei, and I am a ghost of Great Wei when I die, and I want to rebel, I bah!"

Ji Wuyan said: "Yes, I want you to rebel! Have you ever thought about why you are a slave? Could it be that you were born to be a slave? The current emperor only cares about his own alchemy and seeking immortals! When did he care about the life and death of you people? Cruelty to the loyal and good and oppression of the people, should such an emperor rebel?

"You were born in Da Wei, and you think you are a Da Wei person! But! Did Da Wei love you? If you love you, why are you the lowest slaves? Just because your blood is lower than others? You have no freedom, you eat the worst food, live in the dirtiest house, and do the most tiring work! While those high-ranking officials and nobles have fine clothes and food, and squander the fruits of your labor! Do you love such a Great Wei?"

"Don't talk about these useless things, I'll ask you what benefits you can give us!"

"It's reasonable, such an emperor should be against his mother, but if I rebel, it won't work!

"It's long overdue, I've had enough of being a cow and a horse. ”

Ji Wuyan saw that some slaves seemed to be a little moved, so he hit the railroad while it was hot: "Everyone who acts with our Yu clan will get one acre of land and a place to live!5 taels of silver, and your free body! I swear by the Yu clan inheritance again!"

After that, Ji Wuyan took out a short sword and slashed his hair as an oath!

The entire slave market fell silent.

I only heard a majestic voice in a corner in the west: "I will go with you, although I die without regrets, the three clans of the Yu clan, I can trust it!"

Ji Wuyan made a gesture to the man in black in the night, and the man's cell was opened, and he lived in a house alone unlike the other slaves.

The man walked out of the house, very tall, and he took the weapon and the silver tael from the man in black.

Without looking at it, he threw the silver two on the ground, shook his head, and said with a firm look in his eyes: "I'm not for money, just for freedom." ”

With this man as a pioneer, it was not long before more people who did not want to be slaves offered to join.

Their cells were opened and they were freed, but this was only a minority of the 2,500 slaves.

Ji Wuyan took out the list of slaves in the slave market, showed it to the slaves, threw it into the brazier, and then said to the slaves: "You are all already free. Now, the opportunity is at hand, it's up to you to decide!

Or, take up the money, take up arms, and fight for your freedom! You may die! But you may also gain precious freedom! On the day you are free, you will have a place to live, an acre of land, food to eat, clothes to wear, and when you are old, your children and grandchildren will be by your side to do their filial piety for you. A hundred years later, the ancestral ancestral hall will have your spiritual seat.

Whenever you suffer under the whipping of your master, when you grieve under heavy labor, when you are old and weak, when you become a lonely ghost in a hundred years, you will regret your decision today, there was an opportunity to be free in front of you, but you did not cherish it!"

At this time, some slaves joined the rebellion!

Ji Wuyan estimated the number of rebel slaves, and then roared into the night sky, and the men in black took action one after another, opening every cell in the slave market! He whispered a few words to a man in black beside him, and the man in black led dozens of people to take the order.

Under the leadership of Ji Wuyan, the slaves who were willing to follow entered the Li Mansion left and right under the cover of the night, and the number was calculated, and there were only about 1,000 people! Among them, there were about 100 female slaves, which was already a very good number!

In the courtyard of the Li clan, the people of the Yu clan gave each slave a set of warm cotton clothes, a weapon, and 5 taels of silver per person.

With the weapons, the body became warm, and the silver in the hand gave the slaves a great confidence, and then the slaves elected their captains in teams of 100 people.

Under the leadership of Ji Wuyan and the masters of the Yu clan, they rushed towards the north gate of Guankou, and the defenders of the north gate had already received news that the slave market was in chaos, and it was possible that it was a slave uprising!

Slave revolts happen all the time in this world, but the last time there was a slave revolt was decades ago.

Wang Xuanji, the lord of Guankou City, received the news of the slave rebellion, hurried over, personally supervised the battle at the north gate, and transferred crossbowmen.

It's just that Guan Kou is not a military town in the first place, there are not many garrisons, and the Changyang Army, which is responsible for exterminating the Li family, is still on the way, and it can only be reached on the day of the end of the year.

Fortunately, these slaves were not strong in combat, otherwise the north gate would have been breached.

The two sides engaged in a fierce battle at the north gate.

At the same time, the city lord's mansion and the slave market in Guankou were in flames, Wang Xuanji was shocked, knowing that this slave uprising seemed to be premeditated, and if something happened to the city lord's mansion, how could he sit idly by, hand over the command of the north gate to a nephew, and personally bring some people back to save his family.

It turned out that Ji Wuyan had already prepared the manpower, and just waited for the north gate to fight, and the people who had set the ambush in advance set fire to the City Lord's Mansion.

On the side of the slave market, a fire was also lit by the Yu clan, and the only way to do so was to force these slaves to rebel.

Those slaves who did not want to rebel saw that the slave market was burned, and there was no way, they did not want to rebel, and they could only rebel, otherwise they would only be executed.

At this time, the black-clothed man in charge of lighting the fire pretended to advise them to rebel with the Yu clan, as long as they rebelled out of the Wei State, the benefits they obtained would remain unchanged.

So far, there is only the opposite, but these slaves, old and weak, women and children, are mostly led by the men in black, and rush to the west gate.

Although the west gate was closed, the officers and soldiers guarding the city ran to the north gate, and the Yu clan broke through the west gate with the help of the slaves.

Among the more than 1,500 slaves, 500 people with combat effectiveness were selected to attack the north gate under the leadership of the Yu clan, and the rest of the old and weak women and children followed closely in the direction of the north gate.

The people in the city and the people outside the city attacked on both sides, fought fiercely until dawn, and finally broke through the defense line of the north gate of Guankou, and the two sides converged, leading the large group of men and horses towards the mouth of the river in the north.

After Wang Xuanji learned that it was the Li family's planned action, he angrily led people to rush into the Li family's mansion, which was already empty, only to wake up to the fact that the three spies they sent, including Steward Li, had been executed and fell on a tree.

Wang Xuanji immediately sent a message to the nearest Flying Bear army, he didn't dare to say that it was the Li rebellion, in case the Li family and the Liu family colluded, it would not be good, only said that it was a slave rebellion, and hoped that they would send troops to suppress it.

How dare Liu Lianchang, the commander of the Flying Bear Army, act rashly, Da Zhou has been moving frequently on the border recently, and he may invade at any time, compared to a small slave rebellion, he will naturally not lose a big one because of a small one, besides, the rebellion of the slaves in Guan Kou has nothing to do with him, and it is also the responsibility of chasing him Wang Xuanji.

Liu Lianchang burned Wang Xuanji's letter for help, and sneered: "This Wang Xuanji! Relying on the power of the Wang family, he has always looked down on our Liu family. If you want me to say, it's better to be the opposite!"

"Write back to Wang Xuanji, just say that our Flying Bear Army does have the responsibility of suppressing bandits, and it is also responsible for defending the land, and the recent movements of Da Zhou are unknown, forgive me for the fact that the Flying Bear Army can't help, let him invite someone else!"