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Chapter 119 Because they don’t accept their fate!The emperor's favor was granted to the old magistrate of the county

Blood spurted out, and twelve dirty heads rolled off the stage together, which shocked the miners greatly.

It was not that they had never seen dead people before, but this was the first time they had seen more than a dozen people beheaded together.

While he was deeply shocked, he also felt more in awe of the rebels. At the same time, most of the resentment accumulated in his chest when he was a slave in the mines was released.

After the 12 family heads, the remaining dozens of stewards were also dragged to the wooden platform and beheaded row by row, twelve at a time.

By the time all the stewards were executed, one third of the wooden platform was stained red with blood.

There was even a pool of blood in front of the stage!

Perhaps they were accustomed to order, or perhaps they were frightened by the rebels, but the miners did not vent their anger on the corpses of these mine owners and managers.

After the bodies were dragged away, Liu Sheng climbed onto the wooden platform again.

He looked around at the more than 1000 people in the audience - he knew that these people were elites selected from more than [-] miners.

Therefore, this trial and execution cannot end so simply, otherwise it will be no different from the Ming Dynasty government sentencing criminals.

He loudly said: "The 12 mine owners in Tieshanji and dozens of stewards who were the main accomplices were all beheaded just now.

Is the resentment and anger in the hearts of all the miners gone?Even if you don't say it, I know, no!
Because even if the mine owners and supervisors who caused you suffering in the mines are dead, the supervisors have all been captured by our rebels.

But the physical and psychological pain caused by those sufferings cannot be erased.Our relatives and friends who died in the mines cannot be resurrected.

Thinking back to his experiences before becoming a slave in the mines, his fields were taken away, his wife and children were separated, he was forced to leave his homeland, and he suffered from hunger and cold.

You don’t know why you are suffering so much!Therefore, there is always a bad breath in your chest that cannot be released! "

Zhou Xing was listening below and felt that what Liu, the leader of the rebel army, said was so good that it spoke to his heart.

He prides himself on his strength, is a good worker, and is diligent.

However, due to his father's illness in his early years, the family's land was greatly reduced, and eventually his father passed away.

Later, he got married and had a son. His son only suffered from a few minor illnesses. Just because the fields failed to harvest during the disaster year, the court and the government increased taxes, forcing him to sell all the fields and become a tenant.

However, being a tenant is not easy either.

Droughts, locust plagues, and military disasters come in turn, or all at once.

He, his wife, and his brother have been busy all year long, and they can't even earn enough to feed their family of four.

In times of great hunger, if the child is not careful, someone will steal it and disappear.

His wife became sick with worry and soon died of illness.

He and his brother had to flee to survive.

On the way, he was so hungry that he was tricked by the manager of the Zhao family in Tieshanji into working as a miner.

As a result, I didn’t pay the promised wages, and I didn’t even have enough to eat.

His younger brother was physically weaker and soon died of vomiting blood from exhaustion in the mine.

If it hadn't been for the rescue by the rebels, he probably wouldn't have been able to escape this ending.

As long as he can remember, his family has been enduring hardships and suffering all kinds of hardships. However, after 20 years of hard work, he is still the only one left in the family to die.

How could he not feel resentful?How not to be angry?

"Do you blame God for your suffering?" Liu Sheng's voice sounded again, "I'm afraid not. It's a shame that God has had droughts for many years, but those landlords and powerful country gentlemen also suffered from drought.

How come many of them haven't ended up like you?They can even take the opportunity to annex your family's fields and take your wives and daughters as slaves.

Some people may say that it is because they were lucky and had a good pregnancy.If we are not born well, we will be destined to be poor and suffer.

Is this really the case? ! "

Liu Sheng asked, his voice rising again, causing everyone to follow his train of thought and think about this issue.

Although no one said anything, many miners thought so.He thought that it was because of his bad luck that he had all this suffering, and his face became even more sad because of it.

Liu Sheng snorted and said: "If this were the case, more than 200 years ago, Emperor Taizu Zhu Chongba of the Ming Dynasty would have always been a beggar, and he would not have become the emperor!

His Huaixi fellows should have been treated as slaves by Yuan Tar and the landlords in the countryside, and they could not become the founding heroes!
The beggar became the emperor, and the mud-legged man became the founding hero, because they refused to accept their fate!

It's because they dare to throw their heads and blood to fight against the injustice of fate!
The injustice they suffered in the past was that the Yuan Tartars enslaved the Han people, and the evil gentry and bullies acted as the lackeys of the Yuan Tartars, aiding the evil tyrants.

What injustices are you experiencing today?There are incompetent and ignorant kings at the top, corrupt officials at the middle, and evil gentry and bullies at the bottom!
Please tell me, fellow miners, do you want to acknowledge the injustice and suffering caused by these people? ! "

After listening to Liu Sheng's words, Zhou Xing felt the bad breath in his chest rushing straight out of his mouth, and couldn't help but shout along with the people around him——

"deny!"

"deny!!"

Liu Shengju mastered the fist, and the shouting miners fell silent for an instant.

He looked solemn and said: "Please tell me again, do you dare to throw your life and blood to fight against an unfair fate?!"

"dare!"

"dare!"

"dare!!"

After shouting three times in a row, the miners stopped on their own and looked at Liu Sheng expectantly.

Liu Sheng smiled, raised his fist and said loudly: "Okay! Then please all the fellow miners to join our rebel army!
Join me and wipe out all the treacherous officials in the Ming Dynasty, the corrupt officials in the government, and the evil gentry and bullies in the local area!

Give the world a bright future!Build another just country!Let us all be able to change our lives and become rich! "

The next moment, regardless of whether they understood or agreed with Liu Sheng's words, all the miners in the ten camps in front of the wooden platform started shouting, shouting at the top of their lungs——

"Change your life!"

"Rich!"

"Change your life!!"

"Rich!!"

"···"

This speech, not to mention that the miners were all excited and enthusiastically joined the rebels.

Even the surrounding personal guards and standing soldiers became more energetic, and looked at Liu Sheng with even more reverence.Liu Sheng took advantage of the impact of this speech and ordered the generals of his personal guards and standing army to quickly distinguish these miners.

If you are still unwilling to join the rebel army at this time, take it out and put it into a separate battalion.After the rebels set off to attack Wuyang County, they gave him three days of rations and let him go.

Those who are willing to join the rebels must formally register on the spot.

Later, these people were organized into several civilian brave battalions based on the establishment of 600 people per battalion.

Because nowadays there are many people in the rebel army who are literate and can count, and the work efficiency of the military and political officers at the battalion and sentry levels is comparable to that of the old officials in the county government, but they are sincere and have none of the corruption and slickness of the old officials.

Coupled with the active cooperation of the miners, the reorganization work went very quickly.

The trial meeting was held after breakfast, at about a quarter past eight.

The reorganization of the miners was completed before [-] noon!

Among the more than 100 people, there were only more than [-] people who were unwilling to join the rebel army for various reasons, which was less than a fraction of the more than [-] people.

So the remaining people were still organized into ten battalions.

At the same time, the guards made a preliminary distinction between the miners based on their physical condition.

There were more than 4000 people whose physical injuries were not serious or even minor during their time as slaves in the mines, and they were organized into the first seven battalions.

The remaining 1000 people obviously need a longer period of physical training before they can recover.They were all organized into the last three battalions.

The first seven battalions started training in the afternoon and will start performing some simple tasks tomorrow.

The latter three camps still focus on slow care, and they also invited doctors from Tieshanji to check their health and treat diseases...
The third day after the miners reorganized.

That is the first day of November.

He Lianyue and other 101 personal guards completed the dispersed infiltration mission, and Liu Sheng led the main force of the rebel army to attack Wuyang County.

Because the miners returned home and accepted a comprehensive reorganization, Liu Sheng only left two standing troops in Tieshanji and a battalion of civilian warriors brought from Queshan.

A standing army and seven miners' brave battalions (three battalions need to be nourished) were stationed around Tieshanji, responsible for guarding Tieshanji and the prisoners of the Twelve Families.

The other standing army stationed at the iron yard with one Queshan Minyong Battalion and three Mining Mingyong Battalions was responsible for guarding the prisoners of war and the iron materials in the iron yard.

Accompanying Liu Sheng to attack Wuyang County were three battalions of the Guards, the [-]st, [-]th and [-]th Battalions of the Standing Army, and a Queshan Minyong Battalion.

A total of more than 3300 people.

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Wuyang County.

Pan Hongzheng, the county magistrate, led dozens of government officials and a hundred rural soldiers to personally collect taxes in the county.

The reason for doing this is that firstly, the amount of taxes allocated to Wuyang this year is too much, and it will be too difficult to collect and pay the taxes. It will probably force some wealthy households and businessmen to go bankrupt.

The county officials and government servants colluded with these wealthy households and businessmen to some extent, and they were always procrastinating when collecting taxes.

Second, in the process of collecting taxes, clerks and government officials will always take the opportunity to extort money, making the people's burden heavier and ruining the reputation of the government.

Pan Hong himself was a big landowner in Jiangxi Province, and he did not win the election until he was 60 or [-] years old.

After more than ten years, he failed to win the imperial examination, and he failed to fill the vacancy and become an official.

I originally thought that there was no hope of becoming an official in this life, and I didn't want to win the emperor's favor. Last year, I was given the title of Jinshi and the magistrate of Wuyang County.

Pan Hong deeply felt the emperor's kindness. Although he was nearly seventy years old, he still encouraged himself with integrity and brought his son to Wuyang to take office.

He was well aware that there were so many local bandits nowadays, so after taking office, he organized and trained [-] township soldiers to establish his authority, intimidate the county officials and gain real power.

He also knew that the imperial court was indeed short of money and food.

Therefore, even though he knew that the amount of tax assessed above greatly exceeded Wuyang's burden, he still decided to do his best to collect it.

The most he can do is to distribute more to rich households and wealthy businessmen and less to poor people, so as to prevent his subordinates from taking advantage of the opportunity to prey on the common people.

This is not because he has poor people in mind, but because he knows that the poor people really have no money and food at home, and further pressure will only make them leave their homes and even rebel on the spot.

On the other hand, those wealthy households and wealthy businessmen can barely bear this year's tax assessment.

As for the big households in the county, they were the foundation of the imperial court's rule, and he could not touch them.

In the southwest corner of the county, in an alley where Hui Hui lives.

More than a dozen government officials entered a relatively large courtyard and captured an old man Hui Hui.

Pan Hong stood at the entrance of the alley, looking at the returning people gradually gathering behind him, with awe and no fear.

He shouted to the old man who was about the same age as him: "Duggan! The deadline has come, are you really unwilling to pay taxes?!"

Du Gen's wrinkled face was full of sorrow, and he said: "The county magistrate clearly shows that it is not because he refuses to pay taxes, but because the government has levied too many taxes, and the family has no money or food to pay."

"No?" Pan Hong sneered, his gray beard standing up, "Your family has two to three hundred acres of farmland outside the city, and a shop in the city. Don't think I don't know! Where are the rural soldiers? In his house Go search!”

Pan Hong's youngest son, Pan Cheng, immediately rushed to Du Gen's home with dozens of village soldiers.

Du Gen is an imam (scripture teacher) who has returned here, and his son Du Jin is a heroic hero in the county and has great appeal in this area.

Seeing this, Du Jin was about to lead the alley back to stop the rural soldiers.

But Dugan scolded and stopped him.

So, Pan Cheng took the soldiers and went into Du's house to rummage through the cabinets. In the end, they only found some worthless things. There was not a tael of silver and only enough food for a few days.

Seeing this, Pan Hong became even more angry, knowing that the Du family had probably gotten wind of it in advance and had transferred money, food and other property.

So he said angrily: "Dugan, since you don't want to pay taxes, then I will take over your shop and fields first! You will also be taken to jail!"

Du Jin, when will you come to the county government office with the tax payable, and when will you take your father back! "

After saying that, Pan Hong waved his sleeves and prepared to lead the team to leave and go to the next house to collect payment.

Unexpectedly, among the crowd of people watching outside, a young scholar stood up and blocked Pan Hong's way.

　First more.

　　Historically, Chongzhen indeed promoted many civil servants and even scholars to officials in the form of special gifts.

　　Many of these people had outstanding abilities and were extremely loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

　　Pan Hong, Du Jin and others in this plot are all reasonably adapted from the legend of Wuyang.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)