I want to be emperor

Chapter 510

In the afternoon of September [-]th, the sixth year of Chengshun, in a small coastal village located in the left office of Weizhong in Jinzhou, Liaodong, Li Dagou was hard at work doing farm work on the ground.

He was originally a serf of the master of the guard, but now, he is a serf of the master of the Dongyao!
It's not just him, since the Dongbang people came here 19 years ago, everyone in his village has changed from the serfs of the master of the guard to the serfs of the master of the Dongbo.

The survivors of the military households in their entire village were assigned as slaves to the dozen or so armored soldiers stationed here.

In the first few years when the Dongyao people came here, the Dongyao people treated them very badly, the survivors of military households in Liaodong, and they beat and killed them at every turn, and they basically didn't treat them as human beings.

At that time, Li Dagou was still young, but he still clearly remembered that his father was beaten to death by the Dongyao people because he took one more look at the passing master Dongyao. That night, he went back to his home where the wind was leaking from all sides and hanged himself.

After his parents died, he lived with his uncle's family when he was young, but his life was still very difficult and even dangerous.

Those captive masters beat and scolded them at every turn, and even killed them, and the young women in the village were taken to serve them or even playthings.

Some who dared to resist were killed, and many who escaped were captured and beaten to death.

Later, when the Dongbao people changed the emperor, life became a little better, but it was still not so good.

But his uncle said that it would be nice to be alive: those military families are low life!
It is difficult to be a serf for the masters of the Dongbao now, but life was not much better when I was farming for the masters in the guards more than [-] years ago.

They are all working as serfs to farm the fields. They work hard for a year and can't get enough to eat. If they are not careful, they will be beaten, scolded and even lost their lives.

In the past few decades, whether it was when the Zhu Ming Dynasty was in charge of this place or when the Dongyao people were in charge of this place, they were all living at the bottom, with no hope at all.

When he was a teenager, Li Dagou sometimes ran to the seaside to look at it. He knew that there was a big place on the other side of the sea, and there were many people.

Sometimes he thinks that maybe life is better on the other side of the sea.

But the uncle always told him that the life of the people on the other side of the sea is similar to theirs, not much better, and some people's lives are even worse than theirs.

"It's the same all over the world. It's not the same as being a slave to the old men. It's good to be alive now. Farm the land and save money so that you can marry a wife and have a baby."

It's a pity, Li Dagou thought, what do you do when you marry a daughter-in-law and give birth to a child?Is it just to give birth to a child and let him suffer like himself?
As he grows older, Li Dagou, like his uncle, works hard all day long to farm the fields. When he finally gets the slack, he will go fishing in the boat he built by himself for many years and with the fishing nets weaved.

It's just that his boat is small and his fishing net is small, so he can't catch many fish.

And after finally catching some fish, I have to give filial piety to the masters, and in the end, only a few stars and a half are left in my hands.

It was a fish he had worked so hard to catch, at the risk of being swallowed by the wind and waves, but he couldn't eat a few of them himself.

He didn't want his future child to be exhausted and angry like himself, so he never told his uncle what he said: marry a wife and have a child.

Even in the past ten years, he has secretly accumulated a lot of money, enough for him to marry a wife.

But he still doesn't marry!

Not only him, but many young people in the village did the same thing.

When you can't see any hope, you won't have the idea of ​​marrying a wife and having children!

Li Dagou thought about it, that day, he would just drive his small broken boat directly to the sea, and go to the other side of the sea. He couldn’t really be like what his uncle said, all crows in the world are generally black, maybe there are white crows?
Day by day, Li Dagou put down his hoe, and habitually looked towards the direction of the sea.

Today's sea is calm, and he wondered if he would take some time to go out to sea tomorrow. Although most of the fish he caught had to be used to honor the master, there was still a little left, whether it was sold for money or eaten by himself. All good.

Just when he was thinking wildly, he suddenly found a few small black spots on the sea surface in the distance!
As a person who lives by the sea and often goes out to sea to fish, he naturally recognized it as a boat at a glance, and it should be a big boat.

If it was a small boat, it would be impossible to see even a small black dot from such a long distance!

Sure enough, as he had guessed, it didn't take long for the small black spots on the sea ahead to gradually turn into the outlines of large ships.

I don't know where the big ship came from, maybe it was for business.

He had seen this kind of sea boat before, so he didn't find it strange for a while.

But slowly, he discovered that something was wrong. There were more and more boats on the sea...

And it seems to be coming directly towards them.

what happened?

Just when he was feeling puzzled, he suddenly heard gongs and drums beating and fireworks being lit on a small hill in the distance, that is, the place where the masters of the Eastern exile soldiers lived.

After seeing the fireworks, Li Dagou couldn't help becoming nervous. Could it be that the pirates are going ashore to plunder?
Thinking of this, he hurriedly put away his hoe, let go of his feet and ran to the village. He still hid some money and food in the house. He had to go back and take the things and then hide, so as not to be caught by those pirates. They stole it.

At the same time, I have to bring my uncle's family.

Although he has moved out of his uncle's house and is now living alone, his uncle's kindness to him in nurturing him is real, so naturally he will not run away alone.

But as soon as he entered the village, he saw several armored soldiers from the East who were beating gongs and drums while shouting, asking all the young and strong men in the village to pick up iron tools and wait for the guys, preparing to meet the pirates.

Li Dagou is naturally unwilling. When the pirates come, just run away with their family and money. Those pirates will not stay in the village for a long time. They just grab a wave and leave. Wait a few days for the pirates They're gone, they'll just come back.

But when those soldiers from the east saw Li Dagou, they immediately stopped him and incorporated him into the young and strong team.

Maybe it was because Li Dagou was looking strong and strong, so the Dongren soldiers gave him a spear.

Immediately afterwards, he and the other young men were taken to a fort by the sea, where he saw their master, who was an old man who was still wearing armor.

He was full of incomprehensible words, and then commanded more than a dozen other soldiers from the east to lead a hundred young and strong to strengthen the city defense.

At this time, more and more pirate ships appeared on the sea...

When hundreds of pirates' ships appeared, and there were ships coming from behind, Master Dongyao in front of Li Dagou's voice was trembling when he spoke, and the other soldiers from Dongyao were not much better. where to go.

As for the young men like Li Dagou, they were all trembling in fear, wishing to escape from this place immediately.

When the ships led by those pirates rushed directly to the beach, and a large number of pirates in gray clothes waded directly into the water and forced to land, Master Dongbao seemed to be panicked, and he screamed strangely in his mouth for people to shoot arrows.

It's a pity that the sporadic arrows had no effect. Only one arrow hit one of the pirates, but it was spread out by the pirate's armor.

Are these pirates?

That suit of armor is even better than the armor worn by their masters of the Dongbao!
Immediately afterwards, Li Dagou saw a sudden flash of light from the pirate ships rushing to the beach, and then heard a rumbling sound.

This is a cannon!
Those gray pirates had guns on their boats and they were already firing.

Li Dagou was frightened, he quickly squatted down and hid behind the battlements, and then suddenly heard a plop, and a corpse fell in front of him.

This man, Li Dagou, recognized him. He was the armored soldier in charge of his group. Last year, he smashed the head of a servant in his family, who was also Li Dagou's childhood friend, to dig out his brains and eat it in front of a group of people.

Because of this childhood friend of Li Dagou, the servant of the armored soldier, he stole a piece of tofu and took it home for his one-year-old little daughter...

But at this time, the head of this Eastern captive armored soldier had become rotten, and brains like rotten tofu flowed out, just like the head of the slave he smashed open last year!
Li Dagou squatted on the ground, not daring to move, and then saw the battlement not far from him suddenly smashed open, a black iron ball, bigger than a fist, roared out of the stone fragments, and directly hit house behind.

Seeing this, Li Dagou's mind was empty, but he still dared to stay where he was, dropped the spear that was allotted to him, let go of his feet and ran back.

When running back, he turned his head and looked back, and saw several small black spots flying in the sky. These small black spots landed in different places, and one of them landed on the top of the previous city. Immediately afterwards, this small black spot raised a cloud of smoke and dust, and there was a huge explosion.

Standing in the distance, the Eastern captive soldiers in good armor were blown away, and when they landed, they were already bloody.

Is this a pirate?
Li Dagou didn't know, he only knew that it was dangerous here!

He kept running back, and then ran to the back room and hid directly.

There were constant rumbles of cannons and explosions outside, accompanied by screams!
Maybe it was the time of a stick of incense, or maybe it was just the time of a cup of tea, and suddenly there was another sound of fighting outside, it seemed that those pirates came in, the majestic Master Dongyao who was in front of them before , and fled in a hurry with a few soldiers from the East.

After the sound from outside subsided a bit, Li Dagou poked his head out cautiously, and saw a few pirates outside wearing gray burqas and fine armor inside, holding bird guns, walking over, and spotted them .

Before they could speak, Li Dagou knelt down on the ground and shouted: "Master, please forgive me, please forgive me!"

The gray cannon pirate in the lead looked at him, saw that he was wearing tattered clothes and was not carrying a weapon, so he immediately said, "You are a Han Chinese, do you know where the leader of the Dongbao people is?"

Li Dagou immediately said: "Yes, I am a Han... The master of the Dongyao people is behind, just now I saw him running away with a few people."

The leading gray cannon said: "Are you familiar with this place?"

Li Dagou said: "I am from the village behind, and I grew up in this area since I was a child."

The leader, Gray Cannon, said humanely: "Lead the way, the benefits of catching people are indispensable!"

As he spoke, he seemed to think about it, and threw out another handful of copper coins!
Li Dagou looked at the gray cannon pirates, and then at the dozen or so copper plates on the ground. For a while, he couldn't figure out whether these were pirates.

From his point of view, these pirates seem to be better at speaking than those masters of the East!

Not only did he not kill him, but he also rewarded him with money.

(End of this chapter)