I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Chapter 94

After seeing off Guo Zixing and his son,

Tianyu turned his head to Zhu Yuanzhang and sneered:

"You are very brave, young man, but now you have learned to help the evildoers?"

Zhu Yuanzhang broke out in a cold sweat, and he shouted out in protest:
"Really not, Lord of the Land, we are wholeheartedly serving the people."

Tianyu: "You followed them to oppress me for the sake of the people?"

Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth and nodded. He knew that with Tianyu's character, he would definitely not cause trouble for no reason. Since a conflict had occurred, it must be that Guo Zixing and others had offended Tianyu in some way.

Although Tianyu is not good at history, he knows that in the original history, Zhu Yuanzhang should have joined the Red Turban Army.

Now that they are mixed together again, it is not worth being too surprised.

After all, the only rebel forces nowadays, besides the Celestial God Sect, is the Red Turban Army.

Tianyu glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang and asked:
"Get up, how did you get together?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang asked this question, his eyes lit up.
"Lord of the Land, we have found the girl you told us about!"

Tianyu was stunned.
The one and only? What the hell? When did I tell him about the one and only?

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and waved vigorously toward the wall behind a street corner.

After a while, a gentle woman who looked 7% or 8% dignified and generous came up with a nervous expression and bowed and said:
"My humble daughter Ma Xiuying greets you, sir."

Tianyu was stunned when he heard this:
"Ma Xiuying? Ma? Empress Ma? What the hell? The big-footed Empress Ma."

Ma Xiuying looked a little unhappy when she heard this. How could she say someone had big feet the first time she met them? Besides, her own feet were not big either.

Tianyu also knew that he had said something wrong, and immediately apologized with a smile:
"Sorry for the slip of the tongue. I'm just a little surprised that the virtuous Empress Ma in history actually looks like such a beautiful girl."

His understanding of Empress Ma in his previous life was limited to the most superficial level. He only knew that she was quite virtuous and was Zhu Yuanzhang's safety rope. After the death of Empress Ma, Zhu Yuanzhang went further and further in eliminating dissidents like a wild dog that had broken free from its reins.

The image of Empress Ma also comes from a TV series called Big-foot Empress Ma.

I took a quick glance at it at that time, but because the Queen Ma portrayed in the TV series had a personality like that of an upright ape, Tianyu gave up after reading just the beginning.

Now that Tianyu thinks about it carefully, he also realizes that TV dramas in later generations were purely fabricated to attract attention.

Empress Ma was a virtuous woman. She was kind and reading-loving in history. She came from a landlord family and received an education many times better than that of ordinary people. How could she possibly jump up and down like a monkey?

Moreover, the so-called big feet were obviously someone's deliberate attempt to discredit Empress Ma. After all, at that time, the evil custom of foot binding had not yet become popular, and people generally would not specifically criticize big or small feet.
A famous and virtuous queen in history was inexplicably given the prefix "Big Feet". It is hard to believe that no one was maliciously slandering her.

Ma Xiuying blushed when she heard Tianyu's praise. Then, she bowed to Tianyu with a worried look on her face and said:
"I wonder how my godfather and his friends have offended you, sir. Can you please forgive them?"

Tianyu glanced at Ma Xiuying calmly and said:

"If I didn't have some abilities, I might have been beheaded by now, right?"

Things like the peasant uprisings in ancient times did not necessarily mean that the uprising was a just act.

In the final analysis, it was just a change of regime, for the sake of that supreme throne, for more land, wealth and power.

Therefore, every time an uprising broke out, many civilians would be mistakenly killed by the imperial court and the rebel army, or even deliberately killed innocent people to claim credit and exchange heads for money.

Therefore, there is no right or wrong in uprisings. It is nothing more than a simple matter of redistribution of resources and winner takes all. There are both advantages and disadvantages to being in an era of dynasty change.

The downside is naturally that people are living in poverty, the economy is in recession, and the quality of life has dropped to the lowest point.

The benefit is that the whole society has entered a society where the law of the jungle prevails and the strong prey on the weak.

As long as you have the military force, you can set the rules of the game as you wish.

Confucians, officials, landlords, they all swept past.

As long as the basic means of production can keep up, it is not impossible for today's China to skip the two feudal eras of Ming and Qing and enter the next social stage directly.

Ma Xiuying's face changed slightly when she heard Tianyu's words.
She knelt down and begged:

"Please forgive my godfather's family. I am willing to take the blame for them."

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was standing by, became anxious upon hearing this, and he also knelt down on the ground:
"Lord of the Land, how about we take over one too?"

Tianyu raised his eyebrows and cursed with a look of disappointment:
"You idiot, have you learned all these years in vain? Everyone is responsible for their own actions. There is no such thing as substitution for punishment. What kind of idiotic logic is it to let a good person suffer for a criminal?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately ashamed when he heard this. After all, he was a young man of 25 or 6, and this was his first time falling in love. He was a little anxious as it involved his wife.

He turned to Ma Xiuying and said comfortingly:

"It's okay. Just like the land god said, it's just ten years of mining. The labor reform treatment in Taoyuan Township is not too bad. You get enough food every day and you are also responsible for teaching. Just think of it as studying hard for ten years. When they come out, they will definitely become useful people to society."

Ma Xiuying was stunned when she heard this.

Looking at Ma Xiuying who looked suspicious, Zhu Yuanzhang pleaded to Tianyu embarrassedly:
"How about we take Xiuying to visit Taoyuan Township?"

Tianyu nodded and replied:
"can."

He suddenly remembered something, turned around and looked at the poor scholar with his mouth wide open, and said with a smile:
"There's another one here. You can take him with you. I think he's a decent guy."

The poor scholar was startled.
He waved his hands in fear and said:

"No, no, no, we don't need that. You guys are busy. I'm leaving first."

Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes upon seeing this.
"Scholar? Scholar?"

How could he let the scholar who had been seen by himself run away?
Don’t you know that you are short of people now?

Zhu Yuanzhang put his sword on the scholar's neck with a silly smile on his face and said kindly:

"Don't be afraid, sir. We are good people. How about we invite you to be a clerk? You will be fed, paid, and have unlimited power."

The scholar looked at the sword on his neck with a look of despair on his face.

My family property was originally taken away by this group of hateful gods and goddesses, and now that I have finally escaped, it has fallen into their hands again?

Seeing that there was no escape, the scholar clasped his hands with a look of despair and said:
"In that case, I, Li Shanchang, am sorry to bother you, Marshal."

Zhu Yuanzhang: "Pfft! What's your name!?"

(End of this chapter)