The officials of Henan Prefecture all returned to the yamen in despair, and some of them followed a few people to carry grain, and when they came back, the largest number of people borrowed fifty stone of grain, and these people borrowed less than three hundred stone of grain in total.

Lord Cen looked at the less than three hundred stone grain piled up in the yamen, and his face was a little gloomy: "You just borrowed such food?" ”

"Lord Cen, it's not that we are not unsatisfied, the granaries of this big family have been opened for us, and there are only dozens of stones of grain in it, even if we rob it, we can't grab back three thousand stones of grain."

"Nonsense, those big families are all wealthy, whether it is a harvest or a famine, the granary is always full of grain, how can there be no food? Did you take their benefits? ”

"Lord Cen, now everyone's heads are almost unable to be saved, what is the use of reaping benefits, people really have no food, we just went to borrow food a few days ago, and now the new wheat is about to come down, and no one is hoarding old food."

Lord Cen thought about it, this is indeed the truth, there should be no one who wants money and lives this year, and sighed: "I just asked people to buy grain elsewhere, but I'm afraid it's going to be difficult, although our Henan is said to be a major grain-producing province, after so many years of fighting, our family has already been emptied, and other prefectures and counties are afraid that there is no extra grain to sell to us." ”

At this time, Gao Muyan stood up: "Lord Cen, say something that shouldn't be said, although we are Manchu officials, but we are not so bullying, we just handed over the first batch of grain, and immediately asked us to make up three thousand stone of grain within three days, even if we are Da Luo Jinxian, we can't change so much grain!" ”

Lord Cen was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean?" ”

"If the Manchu Qing Dynasty doesn't give us a way to live, it's hard for us to wait for death here, all of you here are my seniors, and my junior shouldn't have said this kind of thing, but now we haven't violated the laws of the Qing Dynasty, and we haven't been passive and lazy, the prince said that if we cut off our heads, we will cut off our heads, and things in the world must always talk about a rational word, since he is unreasonable, we don't have to be polite to them!"

Lord Cen slammed the table: "Bastard! So many years of reading the books of the sages into the belly of a dog? Since ancient times, the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die, the tablet is engraved with the heaven and earth monarch and the teacher, don't you see? ”

Gao Muyan was already scared to say what he said just now, but now he was scolded by Lord Cen and was even more confused: "The lower official lost his words!" ”

"Next time, you will get out of the government of Henan Mansion!"

At this time, an old man stood up: "Although Lord Xiao Gao does not choose to speak, but what he said is indeed the actual situation, people's knives have been put on our necks, we should always think of some countermeasures, people say that the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die, maybe the emperor doesn't know what is going on here, you have also seen it, you are still young, and it is possible to be bewitched by others." ”

These words are reasonable, the emperor and the prince are taken out, and if they want to resist, there will be no such great pressure on everyone's heads.

Lord Cen pondered for a while: "I'm not asking everyone to wash their necks and wait for death, but now you have seen the situation in the city, the general took over the city defense, we don't have a single soldier in our hands, but there are a thousand people in armor, if we really do it to them, after the defeat, we will definitely be charged with rebellion, and then our whole family will be buried with this needless to say, I am afraid that the ancestors will not be at peace." ”

"Lord Cen is reasonable, we can't even get together a total of fifty people in the three classes of yamen, and besides, these people can catch thieves and take stolen goods, and they are desperately afraid that they are not other people's opponents, but there are always some house slaves in everyone's family, I don't believe that everyone's house slaves can only serve tea and water, in the past, family members visited relatives, and there must be someone to guard the temple to put incense around, to this point, do you still have to hide it?"

As soon as this adult spoke, everyone remembered, if they really couldn't transfer manpower in the past, but since the world was in turmoil, they all deliberately recruited some martial artists on the rivers and lakes, no matter how big the officials in the troubled times are useless, once the city is broken, the family will be broken, and recruiting these people does not expect them to be able to keep the safety of the whole family, just hope that they can escort their bloodline to survive.

"If you don't speak, I will assume that you agree, if someone feels that this matter is risky and does not want to do it with us, and it bothers you to sit in this mansion, you can't leave before we get into trouble, if you betray us and save our lives, won't we people die unjustly."

As soon as he said this, who would be willing to quit, once there was a mess and he was with these rebels, even if he said that he did not participate in the rebellion, who would believe it?

The adult who spoke coughed: "I have recruited twenty martial artists at home, and I am not a good hand, and it is not a problem for the defenders at the head of the city to clean up four or five like that." ”

As soon as there was a beginning, someone immediately picked it up: "I have fifteen martial artists in my family." ”

"Ten in my family."

"Fifty in my family."

The last person to say this was Lord Cen, and he glanced at everyone present: "Since you have decided to take a risk, then you must discuss the plan, we can't do anything else, this thing can't be done, and our lives can't be saved." ”

"Lord Cen is reasonable, I think we have to contact the defenders of the city head for this matter, there are five hundred defenders in our city, all of them are from our township, I don't believe they will help outsiders deal with us!"

Lord Cen smiled bitterly and shook his head: "You have to remember, we now have a knife on our necks, but no one has one, people are soldiers and eat food safely and steadily, why do you want to accompany us on an adventure, even if we win by luck this time and attract the army of the imperial court, who can live?" Everyone has parents, wives and children, since we are talking about the villagers, let's not drag them to death together. ”

In Lord Cen's opinion, even if he defeated those people by luck this time, he would have to hide in the mountains, even if he entered the mountains, it was impossible to guarantee their safety, and now they may starve to death in the prefecture and county, and if they go to the mountains, they don't know how many people will starve to death.

"Lord Cen is right, we are all villagers, don't pull people on their backs when we die, but there is one thing we have to get rid of them, they can't help us, what if we help those people, even if we can get together a few hundred people per family, it is impossible to beat so many people."

Thank you for your tips and support. The matter of building a group is still under consideration, and I am not very sociable, so I am a little afraid of it.

(End of chapter)