Chapter 195: Resist Food! Tax resistance! (below)
PS: Solemnly ask for a monthly pass.
When Wu Liuqi and his brother Wu Biao received a message from Liao Dongzhi and rushed to Wuhua with forty brothers overnight, the dust had already settled here.
At this time, Wu Liuqi was not the general of any force, nor was he an iron beggar in the snow, but just a laid-off post guard of the official post station, (huh?) He's also a laid-off postman? Why is it that the post guards in the late Ming Dynasty are the same as the monks in the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, and they are all promising careers? At best, he is a country ranger, but if he is bad, he is the leader of a gangster and evil force, killing cattle and gambling every day, and collecting protection fees and tolls from passing merchants.
And if this person's history continues to develop according to its original appearance, it is a proper local hero, a warlord, a leading party and a traitor, but thanks to someone's works, in the large number of private goods he brought with him in order to repay Wu Liuqi's kindness to his ancestors, he was dressed as the backbone of the anti-Qing Dynasty, and he was still the red flag incense master of the Heaven and Earth Society. In the end, he was mistakenly killed by anti-Qing scholars, in fact, it was all fake, this person died with mourning, and he was the title of Jiatai Master, and he was a sacrifice. And there are also high-ranking officials in the family.
Oh, it's far away, let's go back to where we are!
"The Liao brothers are really good means!"
Wu Liuqi was carrying a stick that he was used to on weekdays, and saw that Liao Dongzhi's brocade robe was full of blood from nowhere, and the three-foot firewood knife in his hand was full of gaps.
On that day, when Huang Papi and the others saw that they were able to control the feelings and psychology of the Liao family, they immediately took advantage of the psychological advantage. When a major counteroffensive was being prepared, the situation took a sharp turn.
A sharp cough came from outside the crowd, and a young man's sharp and crisp voice pierced through the thick human wall, "Ah Gong, Ah Gong!" Your teeth? ”
"It's okay! Anyway, it's the last two teeth, which have been knocked out, and I'll just eat porridge in the future. Alas! I don't know if my Liao family will still have porridge to drink in the future. ”
These words became the heaviest weight to change the balance of the relationship between the two sides, and the last straw that broke the camel's back.
"I'll give you a lung!"
Hearing that Ah Gong even had his teeth knocked out by the minions of the yellow pickpocket, how could he endure this humiliation?
"Hit!"
There was a shout from the crowd. Dozens of people waved their pitchforks, nail rakes, wooden sticks and other objects. Brainlessly, he hit Huang Pap Pi and his group of more than ten people who were gathered in the crowd. Although the yellow pickpocket skin is accompanied by thugs and minions, there are also waist knives, daggers, iron rulers and other things, but how can it be used in this situation?
After a while, the thug who beat Liao Sigong. and under the great care of the people. He was beaten to the ground and fell to the ground.
"Ahh Killed someone?! ”
Generally in this case. There are two possibilities for a human condition in the face of blood. 1. Blood makes people calm and frightened, and allows the situation to cool down quickly; Second, the blood makes people become more and more violent and crazy, making the situation uncontrollable.
And Huang Peel and others. I definitely didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out today.
The hatred and resentment accumulated over decades of oppression and bullying made the men of the Liao family immediately violent, as violent and crazy as if they had seen a bull in red cloth under the stimulation of blood.
"Straight sissy thief! Anyway, I killed the people in the government! Just leave no one! Kill! ”
Liao Dongzhi said this sentence in his heart and mouth.
With a low tiger roar, the large chai knife in his hand immediately slashed towards an accompanying bookkeeper.
His firewood knife was specially made by the blacksmith in the town with good iron, which can be described as heavy and powerful, and in the past when he was collecting firewood in the mountains, the thick branch of his arm was immediately cut in two when he slashed it. Today, the effect of slashing people is also good, a mess.
With just one knife, the account room that was still triumphantly twisting the mouse's beard, the slender yellow and white face was unfolded by the blade of the chai knife from the forehead to the corner of the mouth, and the unknown body fluids in the blood, meat scraps, and skin tissues immediately splashed the surrounding people's faces.
The account room covered his face and fell to the ground with a scream, and was nailed and raked and forked by the Liao clan next to him, and turned into a pile of meat in an instant.
Seeing that the human body of Huang Peel and others was like sifting chaff, and the whole body was like falling into an ice cellar, it turned out that these ignorant villagers who had lowered their eyebrows in front of them in the past and begged for each other had such a strong strength!
"Master, let's go!"
The thugs, who were still majestic, saw that in the blink of an eye, two living lives had turned into a puddle of meat on the ground, and then they woke up like a dream, escorting Huang Pickpocket from the crowd and trying to rush out to escape for their lives.
You shouldn't have tried to rush out while making threats.
"You Hakka guys! Waiting for us! When we come back from moving troops to the county, we will arrest you one by one, kill your head, stand in a cage and execute you! ”
"Sell your wives and children to the kiln! Go and be crushed by thousands of riders! ”
In this case, it is tantamount to throwing dozens of tons of gasoline and explosives into the crater of the eruption of anger, which has aroused people's emotions to an uncontrollable point.
It was less than twenty steps from the side of the pond to the banyan tree where the big green mule was tied to the yellow paddle, but under the crazy attack of the people surnamed Liao, seven or eight people had fallen in an instant, and only Master Huang and one entourage remained.
The attendant was younger, and ran to the bottom of the tree in a few arrows, and pulled the reins off the branches with force. Seeing this situation, Master Huang couldn't help but be secretly happy in his heart, "What a slave, when the master escapes, he will definitely promote you to be a housekeeper!" ”
However, the subsequent appearance of this minion is almost insane. He pulled the mule, so fast that it was impossible to see how he got on the mule's back, and slapped the mule's ass so hard that the mule could not bear the pain, and the four hooves kicked away and ran forward.
"You dog! You left me here alone?! ”
Huang Paopi didn't know whether it was blood or tears in his eyes. It is estimated that he can't care about it anymore, just like he used to care about whether other people's eyes were blood or tears.
"Run!?"
A couple of stout lads pinned him to the ground.
"Brother Winter Solstice, what to do with this guy?!"
"That guy ran away!" Someone exclaimed. pointed to the Huang family slave who had already run more than a dozen steps on a mule.
"Don't worry, you can't run!"
The crowd did not know who roared, and with the roar, a nail rake swept over the people's heads, and a strong gust of wind blew the faces with some pain. The rake flipped twice in the air, and the rake landed squarely on the minion's back, and the huge nail teeth dug deep into his back, and a groan was heard before it could be fully made, and the man was already lying on the mule's back.
"You ungrateful murderer! Good! Well done! Seeing the Liao family rushing over to bring the mule back, they carried the dead body back. The beaten yellow cutlet, whose face was covered in blood, burst into bursts of bitter laughter. It's like a night owl crying.
In an instant, the eleven people who came to Liao's house with him to collect money and grain had all been killed on the spot, leaving him alone.
"Brother Winter Solstice! What to do with this guy?! ”
At present, Liao Dongzhi has become the leader and backbone of this group of young men.
"! Doesn't this guy want our Liao family to look good! Lao Tzu let him die first. Then go to the Huang family's house. Kill his whole family! ”
"Go! Bring four buffaloes! ”
The four buffaloes that were carefully fed by the Liao family were all fat and bright. The huge buffalo horn was smoothed by the oil, and it could be seen that this was the lifeblood of the Liao family.
"You are to lead my cow. I'll let my cow send you to the west! ”
The buffaloes all put on the plough sticks they had when they went down to plough the fields, but today they took off the plough sticks and tied the ropes firmly to the hands and feet of the yellow pickle.
"This, thank you for collecting twice as much food as my family! This is to thank you for collecting the fire and receiving five pieces of silver! This is to thank you for sprinkling more than 1,000 acres of land from the Xie family to my house! ”
While tying ropes to the hands and feet of the yellow pickpocket, the descendants vented the hatred in their hearts while kicking and scolding.
"Brother Simao, what is this?"
A half-sized man held a rope and looked at Liao Simao with some hesitation.
"Nothing! Just thank him for beating our grandfather! When we clean him up, we will go to his house and send the entire Huang family house to the west to see the Buddha! ”
"Huh! I heard that several of the Huang family's younger sisters are very well-behaved! Shall we help with the pain? ”
Blood-spurred eyes, people talked loudly and did not hide the violence they were about to take place.
The four ox ropes were pulled straight and tightly tied to the limbs of the yellow pickpocket, and an eleven or twelve-year-old child ran out of the enclosure, holding a firecracker in his hand, "Brother Simao, Brother Dong Solstice, this, tied to the tail of the ox, just like Mr. Singing said, the fire ox array!" All at once it killed his dog! ”
"Ah Cai! You stupid boy! Isn't that too cheap for him?! ”
Liao Simao counted a few words, waved his hand towards Sixia, and the people leading the cattle began to pull the cattle rope and move forward slowly, as if they were pulling out the well-fed cattle to eat.
"Brother Winter Solstice! Brother Winter Solstice! Oh no! ”
A big-footed girl from the Liao family ran out of the enclosure in a panic, "Ah Gong! Father-in-law! ”
Liao Sigong saw that his children and grandchildren had done such a heinous event, and he couldn't think of it, so he quietly returned to the ancestral hall in the Wailong House while his children and grandchildren were killing outside, and took off his belt and committed suicide by hanging on the beams of the house.
When Liao Dongzhi and others rushed into the ancestral hall, the old man was already exhausted.
The last words of the old man were left on the offering table in the ancestral hall.
"I've already committed the big crime of killing officials, either hurry up and run, or kill people and set fire to be recruited!"
At the end of his life, Liao Sigong still pointed out the direction for the inheritance of the family, or he fled quickly, lest the officers and soldiers come and cut off the ancestral incense; Or, just go down this road and get to the point where the official family has to recruit you.
"Four hairs!"
At present, Liao Dongzhi has become the head of the Liao family.
"Brother Winter Solstice!"
"You ride this mule, hurry up to Meixian, go to the Nanchang Yuanmi outside the east gate of the county seat, go to their backyard to find Wu Biao, and say I'll let you go to him. Sue him, Lao Tzu's Liao family wants to fight against grain in Wuhua! If he sees that everyone is a Hakka and is willing to help, I will drink wine with him in a big bowl and eat his mother's meat, and divide the gold and silver in a big scale! ”
In the winter sun, the blood and stumps on the Heping looked so dazzling.
It's noon. Jiahewei, which is twenty miles away from the ancestral house of the Liao family, suddenly burst into flames, followed by crying, screaming, shouting and killing, and in the Huang family's big house in the center of the polder, the bodies of men were stabbed or slashed by various weapons, and they were no longer complete.
Several women of the Huang family cried and tried to escape the invasion of men, but there was no way to escape under the siege of several men.
In the five-bay hall, men with knives in their waists went in and out, piling boxes of gold and silver ingots and silver dollars under the eaves. And Nanzhong Tongbao was thrown all over the ground without any scruples. Someone was comparing the fit of the satin clothes that had been turned out of the box. He also asked the person next to him, I don't look like a rich man in this statue?
Next to the water-milled blue brick road, several fires are enthusiastically turning the books, contracts, documents, and money and food books that people throw into them into heat and light.
Bags of rice were carried out of the barn and piled up haphazardly in front of the gate. Just on either side of the stone lions. Set up seven or eight cauldrons. The pot was full of hot water with flowers, and after a few mouthfuls of fat pigs were slaughtered, they were quickly disemboweled, thrown into the pot to shed their hair.
Someone was shouting loudly there. "Eat big! Eat big! As he shouted, he threw a handful of copper coins into the street. Attract more and more people around you.
Liao Dongzhi also changed into a brocade robe copied from the Huang family, which looked quite majestic.
In his hand, which did not match the costume, he still held the big firewood knife.
"Brother Winter Solstice! The family members who are related to our family in the four townships have sent messages, and seven or eight families said that they don't care, and the rest of the families have come! The brothers ask what to do next?! Ah Cai played the role of a temporary signal soldier, relying on his legs and feet to deliver news back and forth.
"How many people came?" Because of excitement, excitement, or because of the sensory stimulation brought by killing, Liao Dongzhi's voice became a little low and hoarse.
"I'm afraid there are a thousand people!?"
"Sue the outside, hurry up and cook rice, everyone is full of food and drink, go to Xie's house!"
For more than ten years, the Xie family, the landlord of Xie Jiawei, has been sprinkling his own land and forest people Ding Yin on the heads of Hakka people everywhere, and today this account is also a time to settle.
He was talking here, and suddenly there was a scream from there.
A child of the Liao family was full of blood, inhaling the cold air and jumping there, pointing at a woman and scolding vaguely. While scolding, he whipped headlessly with the fork of the pitchfork.
"What's going on?!"
"Brother Winter Solstice, Brother Seventeen kissed the woman, I didn't want to be bitten by the woman's tongue, and I almost didn't bite my tongue off."
"Something that doesn't make a difference! That pee bubble in your crotch is in such a hurry to come out?! Liao Dongzhi scolded his seventeenth brother headlessly, and the old seventeen, who was covering his mouth and babbling, couldn't help it, and opened his mouth to defend himself.
"Brother Winter Solstice, don't just reprimand me! The fifth brother didn't do anything when he entered the Huang family's house, first slept with the two aunts and wives of the yellow pickpocket, and then snatched away a Bodhisattva worshiped by the old lady of the yellow pickpocket, forcing the old woman to jump into the well when she boarded, and I didn't see what you said!? ”
"You!" Liao Dongzhi was speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to answer the seventeenth brother's rebuttal.
"Brother Winter Solstice! Brother Winter Solstice! ”
The two children of the Liao family ran out of the backyard in a hurry, and as they ran, they raised the items in their hands high for Liao Dongzhi to see.
"We found a cellar in the back courtyard, and this is it except for the gold and silver silk!"
The two men held in their hands the fruits of their discoveries, a desperate knife, the spearhead of a mourning gun, and a cuirass.
"That's good stuff! With this thing, let's go to Xie Jiawei and save trouble! How many?! ”
"Brother Jiu and his brothers are counting, about a dozen knives, more than thirty spears, and only two pairs of armor! However, there were five or six barrels of gunpowder, but I couldn't find where the guns were hidden! ”
Hearing such a harvest, although he was a little regretful because he didn't find the firecracker, Liao Dongzhi was still very satisfied and patted the shoulders of the two brothers, "Not bad!" Go and sue your ninth brother, move these things out, distribute them to our brothers, hurry up and eat, let's go to Xie Jiawei to find the surname Xie to settle accounts! ”
"Good Ratcha!"
The people who ate big households and the people who came to the Huang family to take revenge on the blood feud were after eating and drinking. Like a flood, it rushed to Xie Jiawei, dozens of miles away.
Facing the polder wall and the people on the wall, Liao Dongzhi cleared his throat and shouted loudly towards the polder wall.
"Listen, the people on the wall, we're here to Xie Jiawei, not to find the big guy! Our Liao family is just here to find the Xie family! If you want to fight the enemy, just come up, if you don't want your mother-in-law to remarry, stand back! ”
The shabby and darkly dressed people on the wall of the polder made a slight wave, and then there was a burst of scolding from the wall. "Less nonsense! We've heard what you did to the Huang family! The Huang family and my Xie family have been married for generations. You've ruined their family! Generations of decades of business savings have come to naught, you don't have enough?! ”
Hearing these words, Liao Dongzhi knew without asking that this must be the head of the Xie family. Ordinary residents in the general polder. I wouldn't have said such a plain thing. "Prepare to pour it into the polder!"
He whispered to the people around him.
"Brother Winter Solstice. Don't worry, you have already brought those barrels of gunpowder! ”
"Bang!" I don't know if it's because of nervousness on the wall of the polder, a villager with a fire gun fired a gun out of the polder. Immediately, a chain reaction was triggered, and the surrounding fire guns, small franc machines, and invincible general cannons all opened fire one after another. For a while, the sand and stones under the polder wall were scattered, and it was not lively.
When the people who came to eat the big family and poured sweet potatoes saw this, they immediately ran backwards crying like the ebb tide of the sea, leaving behind broken baskets and rotten straw sandals on the ground.
"Brother Winter Solstice, what should we do?!"
Several children of the Liao family gathered around him, eagerly waiting for him to come up with an idea.
"Afraid of a bird! Brothers! I ask you, how have these two days been? ”
"It's so cool! Damn, I eat oil and wear silk, and I just cuddle that woman over and sleep! ”
"That's it! It's so much more comfortable than ever! ”
Several people expressed their satisfaction with the current state of life.
"Do you remember what Ah Gong said when he died?"
"Remember, either run away with your family, and the farther away you are, the better. Either kill people and set fires to be recruited! ”
"Good! If you want to be an official, kill people and set fire to be recruited! ”
"If you want to get an official, kill people and set fire to be recruited!" ……
When the morning sun emerged from the top of the mountain the next day, the entire Xie Jiawei had been captured by the Liao family and those who came to eat big families and pour sweet potatoes.
The power of gunpowder in Bainanzhong, taking advantage of the night, the Liao family quietly buried the gunpowder in a background place on the polder wall and released it here. A gap was blown open, and people swarmed in.
When the Wu Liuqi brothers listened to what had happened in the past few days, they couldn't help but be amazed, and the Red Flag Incense Lord of the Heaven and Earth Society in the novel grinned and expressed his admiration.
In just a few days, Liao Dongzhi has changed from a peasant child to a leader of the people, and the temperament exuded by his body makes Liao Simao a little reluctant to admit it.
"Simao, the woman in the Xie family's ancestral hall is locked up in their family, you go and choose one to warm yourself up. I've been running back and forth for the past few days, and I've worked hard for you. ”
Liao Dongzhi gave a faint order, which can be regarded as a reward for Simao to run Mei County in the past few days.
"Brother Liao, what are your plans for the next step?"
In the flower hall of the Xie family's compound, a table of mixed wine and water is placed here, where Liao Dongzhi, Wu Liuqi, Wu Biao, Liao Simao and others drink and talk.
"I don't have any plans, at the moment the four towns are fighting against grain and taxes, I am the farthest and earliest one, if I kill the head, the government will investigate it, I will definitely not be able to hide, so I will simply make a big deal of food and tax resistance for him, and it will get bigger and bigger, and the more stable my head is!"
"That's right! I'll go back to Meixian tomorrow and give him a big deal! Now there is chaos in the north, and there are thieves and hungry people everywhere. Although our Guangdong seems to be better, but it is a bumper harvest and a disaster to hurt the peasants, and the tax collectors everywhere are leviing and expropriating money again. ”
"That's right, after Brother Wu, after you get into trouble, I'll take down more than a dozen towns and polders in Wuhua County for him! Let's also enter the county seat, hit other people's boards in the lobby, and taste the taste of being a big man! ”
Liao Dongzhi smacked a sip of wine into his mouth, and the stimulation of the alcohol made his face immediately appear red.
"No!"
In the end, Wu Liuqi is a figure who has traveled all over the world, not only worked as a post guard in the government, but also traveled as far as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and his knowledge is much stronger than Liao Dongzhi, a farmer who was still farming and collecting firewood in the mountains not long ago.
"Brother Liao, if you want to stay with this head on your neck for a long time and stay steady, you don't want to fight the idea of the county, and you can occupy the rest of the Weizi Town!"
"Why is that?" Wu Biao, whose eyes were red from alcohol, looked at his eldest brother in confusion.
"Occupying the county seat is equivalent to confronting the official family, and he must send troops to encircle and suppress you. Do you think you can handle the official family? If you hit the county seat, the face of the yamen of the governor of Liangguang will be gone! ”
"Therefore, we only rob the town, and never touch the county seat! It's just to resist grain and taxes, and never kill officials and rebel! ”
Note: Dumping sweet potatoes refers to the behavior of picking up some necessities that others don't want after the gangsters who rob homes and houses. (To be continued......)