Gaocheng is an ancient city. Although it belonged to Shijiazhuang in later generations, at this time Shijiazhuang was just an abandoned military garrison dozens of miles west of Gaocheng, which had been occupied by refugees.
There are also many refugees in Gaocheng, but they are neither outside nor inside the city. After all, it is a small town with few resources. Most of the refugees gather in the Hutuo River in the north of the city.
The locals of the Hutuo River call the Putao River a big river with more than a dozen branches. For example, the two Qingshui Rivers outside Baoding City are its branches. However, the water in the rivers is not full due to drought at this time, but compared with the Qingshui River in Baoding and The Mihe River outside Zhaozhou is relatively rich.
Living on water is the basis for human survival. After all, people can go without food for three days but cannot go without water for three days. The army must choose water when setting up camp, and the gathering of refugees is no exception. Both sides of the river are crowded with people, some sleeping in the open. , some built simple shacks, but the sanitary conditions were very poor, with feces and urine everywhere, and the river water was dirty. Chang Yu still didn't have the courage to take a sip even though his thirsty throat was smoking.
Li Muxian was leading his followers to cause trouble in Gaocheng, and he was brainwashing the followers along the way: Since Li Zicheng asked us to follow him to kill rich people and fight officers and soldiers, then we must take care of food and drink, otherwise why should we follow him? If you work with him just to open the city gate to welcome King Chuang, why would you have to leave your hometown if King Chuang comes and doesn't pay for food? Now the court is exempt from paying taxes for three years. It would be great to just farm and raise children at home...
But now we are starving to death. We want food. If we are not given food, we will make trouble. If we are not given food, we will go back to our hometown. Why wander around outside.
But how could Li Zicheng have so much food for everyone to share? Chang Yu stood on the bank of the Hutuo River and couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the black heads. Li Zicheng was doomed to fail.
In order to win over the people, he proposed equalizing land and exempting people from taxes. But where would the food and wages come from without taxes? How could hundreds of thousands of people be filled? He could only rely on robbing officials and rich gentry to relieve him for a while. But he forgot that in this era, if you want to dominate the world and consolidate power, it is not the common people who rely on it, but the rich gentry and bureaucratic class, and it is precisely he who gave up all the people in this class. excuse me.
Moreover, relying solely on robbery for food and salary is not a long-term solution. Most people just cut leeks, but he dug them up by the roots. How could he be able to dominate the world? At most, he is just a short-lived Internet celebrity. In this regard, he is far inferior to hundreds of people. The apprentices who came after the year did a beautiful job. Although the methods were the same, they knew how to find a place to recuperate and only cut the leeks without digging the roots.
As expected, going around the rivers and lakes will cause trouble. Li Muxian led a group of his followers directly into the county government office in Gaocheng, clamoring for food. The fake county magistrate had never seen such a posture. While comforting him, he quickly asked people to find the thieves stationed in the city to suppress them. .
This kind of small town is mostly populated by refugees, and the thieves, who only numbered dozens and a half hundred, came and threatened Li Muchian and others not to gather in groups to cause trouble, otherwise they would be arrested directly.
Li Muxian thought that the matter was not big enough, so he persuaded the believers to take action with just a few words. Together with a few great masters from Wuzhong, he disarmed dozens of thieves in a blink of an eye, and just said, "They want something to eat!"
When the county magistrate saw this, he feared that the government office would be demolished immediately if he didn't come up with some food. He quickly sent people to send food and rice. However, this made the other refugees uncomfortable. It turns out that as long as they make trouble, they will have something to eat. …
Half an hour later, the county magistrate, who was bruised and swollen, escaped out of the city and fled north under the protection of several thieves. They wanted to report to the superiors that the refugees had rebelled.
There was indeed chaos in Gaocheng. The refugees entered the government office and started smashing and looting. The few grains left in the official warehouse were robbed. Some refugees even felt dissatisfied and tried to rob the local people in the city, but were killed by Li Muxian. Countless people shouted at them that if they really did this, they would be enemies on three sides. The officers and soldiers would not let them go, the rebels would not let them go, and they themselves would not let them go.
"Remember, we are not officials, but we are not thieves either. We want food, not lives. We are the ones who have become homeless and have left our homes. Do we want them to be the same as us..."
Li Muxian was so popular in the city that his followers soon increased from a thousand to thousands, and there were hundreds of protectors around him, and they were still growing at an extremely fast rate. Chang Yu, who was holding Nangong Yu for an outing by the river, sneered, Li Zicheng finally The feared thing is coming
What is Li Zicheng afraid of most? Not the little eunuch, but the snowball he rolled got bigger and bigger and was eventually crushed to death by the snowball! Right now, he has too many surrendered troops and refugees, and if he accidentally fails to feed them enough, he will be backlashed! But he happened to fall into an endless loop again. If he stopped, his rations would be eaten up quickly. If he continued to move forward, the number of mouths that needed to be fed would increase. This is why he could have surrounded Baoding City with a heavy army and conquered it in one fell swoop. Beat, beat but not break, just to consume these mouths.
But who would have thought that when he saw the effect, he was accidentally ignited by a Taoist priest who traveled around the world. Chang Yu believed that the refugees in Zhending Mansion and Baoding Mansion would be in chaos in the next two or three days. At that time, Li Zicheng Crying.
The herd mentality is terrifying. This group of refugees was coerced and had nothing to do every day but to eat and wait for death. At this time, someone took the lead in making trouble and immediately started to make noises. They were just idle, listening and eating and drinking. Why not do it?
Chang Yu took Nangong Yu and headed westward along the Hutuo River. Jiang Fa, Wuzhong and Qiao Sanxiu were secretly protecting him. As for Chen Wangting's uncle and nephew, they followed Li Muchian to play tricks.
The story of an immortal in the city giving away food rations has gone viral. The refugees who had gathered on the shore rushed towards Gaocheng. The overwhelming force was like an army pressing down on the country. Chang Yu was speechless and thought to himself, Li Muxian, don't play with fire and burn yourself. Get in and get out. not coming.
However, he knew that Li Muchian had been traveling around the world for several years, and was proficient in all kinds of tricks to deceive and abduct him. Of course, he also had the means to protect himself. He would stay when he couldn't stop, so there was no need to worry about him. What he worried about was due north.
Crossing the river and heading west for fifty or sixty miles is the city of Zhendingfu. There is a large group of bandit troops entrenched there. Chang Yu doesn't want to move there at the moment. To be precise, it's not that he doesn't want to but that he is powerless. According to the current situation, he is afraid that he will even be connected to the Hutuo River. They were surrounded by refugees even if they couldn't get through, let alone the thieves.
However, if Li Muxian were to play this game, he might be able to bring these refugees to Zhending Mansion within a day, which would be ridiculous. Li Zicheng coerced the refugees all the way to break the city, and in turn was broken by the refugees. This is simply ridiculous. How ironic.
Chang Yu couldn't help laughing, which made Nangong Yu curiously ask: "Master, why are you laughing?"
Well, Chang Yu was shocked and lost his temper: "I thought of something happy, Nangong, let's go across the river to see it."
Okay, Nangong Yu nodded slightly, but where to go.
The Hutuo River is a large river, with a channel width ranging from a hundred meters to a thousand meters. The widest part of the riverbed downstream is three kilometers long, but it is only one to two hundred meters wide in front of us. It is difficult to find a place to cross the river for a while.
The searcher asked if he could go west if there was a shoal there, so Chang Yu took Nangong Yu for a walk toward the west. Unknowingly, after walking for more than ten miles, he still found no place to cross. He asked passers-by to tell them to go west again. , there is a bridge on the other side to cross to Fucheng.
Fuck you! Chang Yu secretly cursed, I have to travel dozens of miles to cross the river, what nonsense! When I was getting angry, I suddenly saw refugees coming from the southwest. I couldn't help but be shocked. Look at this posture...
Damn it, Li Muxian, a charlatan, actually wants to coerce thousands of refugees to go to Zhending Mansion to beg for food! You have the guts, you really have the guts! Chang Yu admired this guy from the bottom of his heart.
Is it possible that the comedy side of his imagination will really appear? Chang Yu is thinking about whether to send someone to order Huang Degong to lead his troops to Zhending Mansion while the refugees are causing trouble.
After thinking about it for a while, he finally gave up. Let's take a look first and see how big the waves Li Muxian and his gang can make. If the waves are rough, he can just follow the trend, otherwise he is afraid that the waves will be blown away by the bandit army.
At this moment, Li Muxian's heart was filled with mixed feelings, she was surprised and happy. Thinking about the decades of wandering around the world, eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling, cheating, and abduction, she never expected that there would be such a glorious time now. You know These fools are so easy to fool. They have opened a dojo to recruit believers long ago. I am afraid they are no worse than Li Zicheng, and they will not be messing around with the little eunuch now.
Of course, he also knew that what was in front of him was just a flash in the pan. Looking at the large number of people, he was actually vulnerable to a blow. Not to mention the officers and soldiers coming to suppress it, even if the rebel army roared, they would immediately disperse into birds and beasts.
But it’s still quite deceiving to show off as a bluff!
Since it is a bluff, then make it louder. If you fool tens of thousands of people and break through the Zhending Mansion directly, you will be able to gain a foothold under the little eunuch. I am afraid that few in the entire Dongchang would dare to look down on you.
