please make me king

Chapter 947
"Fellow, have you eaten yet?" Old Liu was carrying two baskets of sweet potatoes on his way home from the market, when he heard the sound, he turned his head and saw that it was Niu Er from the west of the village.

He couldn't help but replied in embarrassment: "Eat, just finish eating!"

In fact, he sold the sweet potatoes all morning, but he didn't sell a few at all, so he picked one and wiped it on his clothes and gnawed a few mouthfuls. Now there is only pantothenic acid in his stomach, and he feels uncomfortable.

Could it be that this guy has no food and wants to borrow food from me?
Old head Liu murmured in his heart, and quickly added: "I just ate a couple of random bites. Things are not good these days, and the few half-children in the family are waiting to be fed. I am really ashamed of the old man!"

"Isn't that right, since the governor of Laoshizi Huguang came here, the boats on the water and the food on the land have been cut off. It's not a good life!" Niu Er didn't pay attention to his two baskets of sweet potatoes, and then chatted a few words.

It turned out that in the north of Tang County, there was an important commercial town called Credit Flag Town.

This credit flag town is located on the banks of the Zhao River, and it is a typical water and land wharf.

The Zhao River flows from north to south, and it happens to meet at Bishui near the county seat of Tang County.

Then it flows southward and joins the Fei River that flows through Nanyang, and then flows into the Han River.

Thanks to the benefits of water transportation, Credit Flag Town has become a trading hub for merchants in the west and south of Henan, as well as Shanshan and Huguang areas.

However, the western and southern parts of Henan, which are directly benefited, are now occupied by the rebels. So this important trading town trades here, isn't it capitalizing on the enemy?
Xiong Wencan, the former governor of Fujian, knew the key points of trade, so he immediately cut off the trade node of Credit Flag Town.

It's just that compared with other traditional Confucian officials, this guy is far-sighted, but he still lacks sufficient understanding of business economy.

They only know the harm of refugees, but they don't know the risk of unemployment.

Xiong Wencan controlled the waterway in Credit Flag Town, and after the shops were closed, a large number of sailors, boatmen, helpers and hard laborers lost their jobs, among which the old Liu Tou and Niu Er were the representatives.

They are all bankrupt farmers with no land to cultivate. In the past, they only relied on their strength to do some help and fiber pulling work in Credit Qi Town.

It's just that now affected by Xiong Wencan's severance of trade, these people have lost their jobs.

Old Liu Tou is better than the others. In his spare time, he has opened up a few acres of Susukida near the nearby hillsides and ditches.

If some food is planted on these barren lands, it may not even be possible to harvest the food seeds.

It just so happened that a few years ago, when Lao Liutou was helping out, he asked a passing merchant for a piece of "easy-to-grow" sweet potato.With this advantage, he was able to "digg out food" from the ravine.

It's just that although the production of sweet potatoes is large, they are not very hungry. Old Liu just treats it as a busy matter to subsidize his family.

It's just that now that he has been "unemployed" and has no income, he has eaten sweet potatoes for more than ten days in a row, and his stomach is full of sour water.

Then he planned to sell some sweet potatoes in exchange for some food to "raise one's stomach", but unfortunately it didn't work either.

"What are you going to do?" Old Liu Tou was also an honest person, seeing Niu Er chattering, he couldn't help asking.

"Oh, I went to pay homage to General Yang Si, hoping to bless us with smooth waterways and abundant wealth!" Niu Er said with a mysterious smile.

"Besides, clay Bodhisattvas can't bless themselves, so how can they bless us?" Old Liu was very old and had never seen anything before, so he didn't believe his words.

It turns out that at this time of year, there is a very widespread "Yang Si belief" among the people.Its range covers the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and spread to Sichuan, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

This "General Yang Si" is a water god who is said to be able to slay dragons and quell floods. Therefore, temples are often built beside rivers and lakes for worship by boatmen, sailors and other people engaged in related industries.

"This Yang Si is not that Yang Si!" Niu Er chuckled when he heard the words, and said in a low voice, "This man is a true god who came down to earth to kill evil people in the world!"

After finishing speaking, he murmured in a low voice: "General Yang Si set up from Nanyang, armed with an iron ax to destroy monsters and demons, all evil dragons and water ghosts, and then corrupt officials and hungry wolves!"

"Trillions of people have been saved, and millions of boats have been saved. Ships in the world are not prohibited, and all checkpoints in the world are demolished. People all over the world are happy, what a prosperous Taiping King!"

"You...are you crazy?" The old head Liu couldn't help being startled when he heard the words, and quickly reprimanded him in a low voice, "If you don't study well, why would you learn to be a thief? This is what you can do?"

It turns out that in addition to a mythical Yang Si in this land, there really is a bandit named Yang Si named "Yang Si".

This person raised troops almost at the same time as Guo Sanhai, Hou Yumin, Liu Hongqi, Shen Wandeng and others.

It's just that he is young and energetic, and he doesn't have the luck of those few, and his power and reputation are not as good as others.

It’s just that recently, for some unknown reason, this person suddenly became enlightened, and suddenly claimed that he stayed overnight in the temple of “General Yang Si” and dreamed of his past and future lives, only then did he realize that he was the reincarnation of General Yang Si, and he wanted to eliminate all injustices in the world and support the Ming Lord Kai Wan Shi Tai Ping!

Then he rode a white horse, dressed in golden armor and held an iron axe, and called himself "Yang Si, King of Taiping", and encouraged the nearby people to join the gang.

Originally, most of the common people kept a respectful distance from these thieves, for fear that they would be contaminated and their innocent identity would be ruined for no reason.

It's just that there are more and more people who have been robbed of their land by the management tyrants, and there are more and more "unemployed vagrants" who have been cut off from Credit Qi Town's trade by Xiong Wencan.

If there are too many idlers, something will happen.

Niu Er was drunk by the old Liu Tou, and laughed instead: "Kill people and set fire to the golden belt, repair bridges and repair roads without corpses. Old Liu Tou, you have been kind to others all your life, what did you end up with?"

"If you don't think about yourself, don't you think about your children and grandchildren?"

"This..." Old Liu, who was still steadfast, couldn't help hesitating.

That's right, forget about my own life being so muddled, do my children and grandchildren also have to live like this for the rest of their lives?
While old Liu was hesitating, someone suddenly shouted: "Grandpa, grandpa, go back quickly, our land was robbed by Liu Ermazi, a local ruffian from the east of the village, and my uncle's legs were broken by the government!" !"

Old Liu Tou heard the voice and turned his head to look, it was his grandson Liu Erhu.

He couldn't help being surprised and angrily said: "What's going on? How did that rascal Liu Ermazi rob us of our few acres of barren land?"

"He falsely accused our family of rebellion, my uncle was not convinced, and went to argue, but was pinned down by several archers and yamen servants, and his leg was broken alive!" The grandson cried when he heard the words.

"What? Is there any way for the king to do this!" Hearing this, the old head Liu couldn't help being furious, bent down and picked up a wooden stick, and was about to go back and desperately.

In the end, Niu Er grabbed him and said: "As the saying goes: If the people don't fight with the government, how can you fight against the government alone?"

"If you are willing to listen to me, not only will your revenge be avenged, but you will also be able to live a better life in the future!"

"Okay, it's up to you, against his mother's!" Old Liu didn't know what he meant when he heard the words, and now his family has nowhere to go, and that's the only way to go!
(End of this chapter)