Wang Jinbao, who comes from Luochuan County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, has been in a pretty good mood recently. He is not unhappy at all about leaving his hometown to go on a crusade. Instead, he feels elated.
He is a farmer from the countryside of Luochuan County, but he is not an honest farmer, but the kind of second-rate man who has no intention of farming.
And he can't compare to people like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Gao Yingxiang. He is a martial artist, and even if he is a gangster in the countryside, he is still the eldest brother. But he didn't have the ability, and he didn't dare to do anything against the Ming Dynasty. He could only do some sneaky things. Sometimes he also helps the landlord Wang Xiucai's family in the village to collect rent and force debts - all those who collect rents and force debts in his hometown and village are relatives of the same clan. The landlord Xiucai wants to pretend to be a good person and cannot take action himself.
And people like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Gao Yingxiang were too fierce, their attacks were inconsequential, and the prices they charged were too high. Therefore, the landlords like to use ruffians like Wang Jinbao. No matter how vicious they seem to show their teeth and claws, he has no guts to let him kill people and set fires. In other words, he just acts like a rogue and harasses the elders of the same clan, as well as the older girls and younger wives. This made people unable to bear it anymore, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet and pay the rent and repay the interest on the King of Hell's account.
However, with the severe drought in Shaanxi for several years, the landlord Wang Xiucai no longer dared to collect rent. When a landlord encounters a small disaster or famine, of course he will force the peasants, even if they cannot force them to produce food and money, they will force their daughters to do so. It would be nice to take it home and sleep on it. But they would also be afraid if there was a big disaster like that where nothing could be harvested!
How could they not know about the government forcing the people to rebel? When the people rebel, they will not immediately kill officials. If they want to kill, they will kill gentry like them first.
Moreover, the simple working people of China are still in a state between being rebellious and not rebellious - eating the big households!
Hundreds of victims rushed to the landlord's house to eat and drink... until the landlord was reduced to a poor peasant!
In years of great disaster, the government generally does not care about such matters. In a year of great calamity, if there is no civil unrest, we will be thankful to God. Why should we still encourage the people to rebel? Just eat the big ones... Anyway, those officials are not locals, they don't care!
Even if the government is willing to take care of it, ordinary landowners can't afford that benefit, because the county government officials can't take care of hundreds or thousands of hungry people. This matter requires troops! Wang Xiucai is just a scholar, and he is not a high-ranking official who has retired to the countryside. How can he recruit troops without giving him any benefits? If you really want to spend money to recruit soldiers, then you'd better pack up and run away.
So starting from the second year of Chongzhen, Wang Xiucai's family moved to Luochuan City and didn't care about the affairs of the village... With the drought like this, where can I still receive rent interest? If you go to the countryside and let others eat you, you won't even be able to cry anymore.
Once Wang Xiucai ran away, second-rate men like Wang Jinbao would suffer. Without the support of Wang Xiucai, and the business of forcing debts and rents, we can't even steal chickens and dogs - with the drought like this, where can there be chickens and dogs to steal? Moreover, this guy usually offended a lot of people, and no one in the village wanted to see him. Even when he was starving to death, no one gave him a helping hand.
Just when he was lying in his dilapidated house waiting to starve to death, there was no way out... The Ming Dynasty sent out Mingjun and asked all the victims in Shaanxi to go to Xi'an to eat Lao Zhu's food Big business!
Most of the people in the village had gone. Wang Jinbao, who was almost starving, crawled out of the house and begged the big guys to take him to Xi'an to eat at a big restaurant.
Everyone thought he was pitiful, so they fed him what he stuttered and let him follow him to Xi'an. From then on, he lived the life he dreamed of - he didn't have enough to eat, he didn't starve to death, and he didn't have to work. The most important thing was that there was no gap between the rich and the poor. Everyone is a beggar, so no one will think that he is a useless snack who can't do anything.
And something that made him even more happy happened in the fifth year of Chongzhen. He, a second-rate boy who could do nothing except sneaking around and cheating, actually became a person who was useful to the country and the people!
He suddenly transformed and became a member of the Shaanxi Regiment Training Army Luozi Battalion, and he was also a captain of ten!
Although he only oversees nine regiment members (a total of 10 including him), he does not have any rank officials, and he only eats the rations of ordinary regiment members. But Wang Jinbao still regarded himself as an official of the Ming Dynasty!
This is really proud, outstanding, and majestic, and the whole person feels a hundred times more energetic.
Not long after he became the tenth commander of the regiment, Wang Jinbao's Luozi camp was ordered to escort thousands of hungry people from Luochuan County into Xiangyang Prefecture, Huguang, and were assigned to Fangjiayan Town, Gu County under Xiangyang Prefecture. Big house.
Now Wang Jinbao has an opportunity to finally use what he has learned for many years!
When Wang Jinbao lived to be in his thirties, wasn't his greatest achievement the act of bullying the good by pretending to be powerful? When he was in Luochuan County, he pretended to be Wang Xiucai and worked as a scoundrel in the village. He never worked hard after his parents died, but he still had food and drink and didn't starve to death.
But now, his background has been upgraded from a scholar to an emperor. As the emperor's lackey, he has been put into Fangjiayan, which is full of paddy fields and many tile-roofed courtyards. Of course, he has to... eat Ordered!
He wants to eat meat buns!
It’s still the kind of roujiamo that fills your mouth with oil after one bite!
Quite a few years ago, when Wang Xiucai celebrated his fiftieth birthday, he ate such a meat bun in the Wang family mansion... The taste was something he would never forget for the rest of his life!
Thinking back when he was a gangster in Luochuan County, Wang Jinbao fantasized that one day he would be prosperous and would have to eat meat buns like this every day, two a day - yes, two, not three, because he didn't have any at that time. I have thought about three meals a day, and I also think that when I become rich, I will still have two meals a day...
But when he asked Widow Zhang, who had escaped with him from the same village, to eat meat buns (he was working with Widow Zhang), he got a negative answer.
Widow Zhang couldn't make Roujiamo for Mr. Wang Shifu because there was no meat and no noodles - Fangjiayan was full of rice fields, there was no wheat, and ordinary people's homes didn't have flour either. If you want to eat "Rou Jia Mi", it's easier to do. At most, you can make Rou Jia Mi without meat. And this Roujiamo is really difficult to make. There is neither meat nor steamed buns, so how about eating air? If Mr. Wang Shifu really wants to eat, he can only go to the Fang family mansion to find a way. Everything is available there.
But this Fang family mansion is no ordinary place, it is a Jinshi residence! He was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi and is the ancestral residence of Fang Gongyue, the current magistrate of Songjiang. Moreover, the power of the Fang family does not only rely on Fang Gongyue. Looking at the place name of Fangjiayan, you can also know how awesome the Fang family is.
Zhang Pu, the magistrate of Luochuan County who led the hungry people of Luochuan County to settle in Fangjiayan to eat at a wealthy family (he, the magistrate of Luochuan County, was also miserable, and had not seen the mountains, rivers and ravines of Luochuan County for a long time) repeatedly gave instructions to his regiment members. , we must restrain the hungry people, and we must not disturb the peace of the Fang family.
Of course, the Fang family also had to use rice to feed the hungry people who lived in the big households in Fangjiayan... After all, tens of thousands of armed hungry people were making trouble in Fangjiayan, Gucheng County, Xiangyang Prefecture. The prefect of the border area was too late to intervene.
In short, the Fang family cannot touch the butt of a tiger, while the hungry people in Luochuan are extremely vicious and may want to pluck out tiger skins and sell them... Only the Fang family takes the lead in bringing out the rice, so Zhang Pu can control the people below as much as possible. people.
But the peace that the beggar magistrate Zhang Pu, who was a Jinshi, tried hard to maintain, was destroyed by a second-rate man who must have starved to death in the original history.
Wang Jinbao must have had a few too many drinks that day, and he was so dizzy that he couldn't suppress the glutton in his stomach, so he called his nine men and headed towards the Fang family's mansion carrying a threatening spear.
When they arrived at the place, Wang Jinbao's sneaky habit came back again. Instead of going upright to the front door to ask for food or drink, he walked around the house and went directly to the back door. He didn't knock on the door, but pulled out a dagger. The door lever was picked. As soon as the door opened, it was the back kitchen of the Fang family's mansion. Several cooks were busy preparing meals - it turned out that the master of the Fang family wanted to treat Zhang Pu to dinner today! An old scholar from the Fang family was personally giving instructions in the back kitchen. When he saw the back door suddenly being pried open, and a few Shaanxi rice dumplings in green clothes and white hats came in, he immediately became annoyed. He stepped forward and scolded: "What are you doing? ?How dare you break into the Fang family mansion?"
Wang Jinbao was still a little confused. When he heard this Huguang native ask, he answered truthfully: "Well, I just want to eat Roujiamo. Do you have meat or steamed buns here?"
The old scholar's hometown was suffering from these beggar soldiers. He was very angry, and Zhang Pu was in the house now. Of course he felt confident, so he opened his mouth and cursed: "You beggar, how can you deserve to eat meat, waiting to be eaten by the army?" Come on! This is the Jinshi Ranking. Do you dare to break in? Let me tell you, Zhang Zhixian of Luochuan is having a drink at my house. When I take it, you go to see him..."
As he spoke, the old scholar went up to take someone away. Wang Jinbao panicked and wanted to run away, but he was grabbed by someone. In a hurry, he actually thrust out the knife in his hand and inserted it into the chest of the old scholar!
