Chongzhen was twenty-nine in the eighth year of the month.

It was a dark day.

Lead clouds pressed against the sky, and the low-hanging heads seemed to be able to reach the ground.

It's truly heaven and earth, boundless.

The wilderness spread far into the distance, and at a glance, it seemed that the heavens and the earth were a dull gray.

It was the middle of winter, and the ground was no longer green, and this winter there was no rain or snow, and the ground was bare, black, gray, and yellow.

Such a scene, such a color, is the color of despair in the eyes of the people.

As rivers dry up over the years, it becomes more and more difficult to get water to irrigate the land, and many people are counting on a snowfall in the winter to alleviate the drought, but alas, God does not seem to hear people's appeals.

The cruel Xiaoice era played a very important role in the demise of Daming.

Beginning in the Wanli period, ending in the Manchu Shunzhi Kangxi Dynasty, the Xiaoice River era, which lasted for nearly a hundred years, reached its peak during the Chongzhen period.

This is the north of Datong Town, dozens of miles away.

Around Zhaojia Town.

Zhaojia Town is a fairly large town in this area, with four or five hundred households on it, a population of more than 2,000, and more than a dozen villages nearby.

Compared with the rest of Datong Town, the soil layer is deeper, and the whole is more fertile.

Therefore, the harvest in the fields near Zhaojia Town is better than in other places. Therefore, the villagers in this vicinity are living a little better than the people in other parts of Datong Town.

But that was before.

Since the White Lotus Sect took over the place a few months ago, this place has completely changed.

Those who could run ran away, but those who didn't have time to run, or who were bewitched by the White Lotus Sect and had illusions about the White Lotus Sect, soon found that they had fallen into hell.

Living death.

All men and women were forced to join the White Lotus Sect, but anyone who did not join was killed.

Join, join, it's nothing, anyway, as long as it's not dead, as long as you can live a hard life, it doesn't matter if you join this.

What the? Will the government investigate in the future?

I can't live happily now, who can care about the future?

But when the question came, Lord Sun Xiang spoke, join the White Lotus Sect, that is his own person, and he will definitely guarantee you glory and wealth. But you also have to show a little sincerity, don't you?

What sincerity?

Dedicate all the property and land of the family, and dedicate all the wives and daughters, this is sincerity!

"What? Don't want to give? Then it seems that you are not sincere, or you are not sincere to follow us! Since you're like this, it's easy to say, kill with a knife! ”

Under such an extremely harsh high-pressure strategy, Zhaojiazhen and the surrounding people could only admit it.

What should I do if I don't admit it? If you don't admit it, you will die!

Now inside and outside Zhaojia Town, it is like hell.

Everyone outside the town was relocated to the periphery of the town, and all the land was left abandoned.

The grain of the people's houses was collected and put in charge by the Lord Sun Xiang himself.

All the men were incorporated into the team, and every day they were muddy, they didn't practice, they couldn't eat, they just messed around.

A day counts as a day.

The four words of eating and waiting for death can roughly describe their current state.

And the female dependents of these people, the wives and daughters of these people, were all divided by Lord Sun Xiang.

The most beautiful and beautiful ones in it were of course selected by the high-ranking members of the White Lotus Sect such as Lord Sun Xiang. Then he gave the worse ones to the old brothers who followed him.

Among the people who followed him at the beginning, quite a few of them were singles, and Lord Sun Xiang naturally couldn't treat them badly.

The rest were put into the military prostitute camp, and whoever wanted to vent would go in and vent.

The remnants of the White Lotus Sect in the entire Zhaojia Town, although they are highly hierarchical, are also decaying.

It's like a body full of rotten sores and no vitality, not far from death.

You can't save it.

The number of women of Lord Sun Xiang has also increased to twenty, and they are all quite beautiful.

The people below can't eat a meal a day, but he spends every day drinking, drunk and dreaming of death. After he drank all the wine in the wine shop in Zhaojia Town, he even sent someone to dress up and carry a large amount of gold and silver to Datong Town to buy wine.

Since I've been there, of course, I can't just buy wine, but also buy a lot of other items by the way.

None of these things could enhance the combat effectiveness of the army, all of them were luxuries for him to enjoy.

For example, silk and satin, a bed made of fine wood, extremely exquisite food, jade ruyi for playing, and the finest snow fox skin and sable skin...... And so on, and so on.

These things cost a huge amount of money.

But Lord Sun Xiang doesn't care, he has money.

And not generally rich.

Since the White Lotus Sect uprising, it has plundered everywhere and accumulated a huge amount of silver. Now that Lord Sun Xiang is here, there is a shortage of many materials, but there is no shortage of silver.

In fact, the behavior of the White Lotus Sect on the side of Zhaojia Town could not be concealed from the side of Datong Town.

In fact, their every move cannot be hidden.

But those people in Datong Town don't care about this at all, they don't care about the identity of these people in the White Lotus Sect, and they don't care what they buy these things for.

They only know silver!

As long as Lord Sun Xiang's side can afford the silver, they will definitely sell it!

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, both civil servants and military generals were extremely keen on making money, and it could even be said to be crazy!

They also have reasons to comfort themselves: "Anyway, these traitors don't buy strategic materials such as food or weapons, as long as they don't buy or sell those things, they'll be fine!" ”

It's just that everyone knows very well that this is just an excuse to comfort themselves.

As long as the White Lotus Sect can afford the silver, even if it is food and weapons, they will sell it!

They don't care about the consequences, they don't care if the weapon of harmony will become a murder weapon to kill their soldiers on the battlefield, and they don't care if the food will make the traitor's soldiers eat stronger, so that they will have more strength to kill their own people.

Their black eyes can't see the silver of white flowers.

Anyway, Lord Sun Xiang is having a good time now.

lives in the largest and most luxurious mansion in Zhaojia Town, eats and drinks spicy food every day, and there are so many women at his mercy.

After the defeat outside Rock Castle, he was a little different from before. It seems that the defeat has completely exhausted his spirit, and he no longer has the slightest ambition and ambition, but is just satisfied with being the king and hegemon among these thousands of people in this small Zhao family town.

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