"...I have a dream...I dream of a world where one day all hard-working people will not have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation. I hope that 'justice, equality, and freedom' are not just engraved on that stone..."
"...I dream of this world. As long as those who are found to be unjust, false or wrongly convicted will receive the most just treatment, no one will suffer injustice because of poverty or power, and no one will suffer unjustly..."
"...I dream that everyone will receive the most equal treatment. No one has the right to beat or harm anyone. Those who hurt others will be punished and those who kill will pay with their lives. People all over the world will receive the most equal treatment. The emperor will break the law and the common people will be punished. Colleagues no longer just talk…”
"...I dream that everyone can go where they want to go, and there will no longer be a 'wicker edge' that doesn't allow us Han people to pass. Everyone can write the poems they like as they please, and no one will stop because of 'Qingfeng' Illiterate people were killed because they were flipping through books, and no one was beheaded because they wanted to grow their hair..."
………
Kaifu Li gets excited every time he thinks about it. Is there such a world at this time? He really wanted to see it too.
"Perhaps Zhang Rui can be a better emperor than the current saint? Is it really because of the "Hu people who have no luck for a hundred years" that such a monster like Zhang Rui was born? A guy who can build thirty cannons in more than ten days, how is this? possible…"
Thinking of this, Kaifu Li felt that the "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" he had accepted since childhood was tormenting himself again.
"This 'king' is really not my 'king'? This 'country' is not my 'country' either? Did Emperor Yongzheng really say, 'I am the king of a foreign country and I dominate China's affairs'?"
"Is this braid on top really our shame?"
Just when Kaifu Li was thinking wildly, he saw Zhang Rui walking in front, chatting and laughing with the people around him.
"Can someone so young and with such a small body be able to bear the burden of the entire world?"
Kaifu Li couldn't help but ask questions again, but when he thought of this, he couldn't help but shook his head and decided to get rid of these "rebellious" thoughts.
However, even he didn't understand why he had such thoughts. He had to ask himself again:
"Is it just because I am also Han that I have been unfairly treated?"
At this time, since there were brothers from the scout team exploring the road ahead, the bandit squad members who were walking felt relieved, so they sang their bandit squad song under the leadership of the captains.
“Rise up, you who don’t want to be slaves, take our flesh and blood!
Build our new Great Wall! The Chinese nation has arrived. At the most dangerous time, every Han Chinese is forced to let out a final roar! Get up! Get up! Get up! We are united as one, brave the enemy's artillery fire, move forward, brave the enemy's artillery fire! Forward! Forward! Forward! Forward!!”
After the anti-bandit team members sang this song several times, Kaifu Lee found that he couldn't help but hum it too. But, not only him, but also some of the Green Camp soldiers were humming along. Not only the Green Camp soldiers, but the Manchu slaves were also humming along in a low voice...
"Oh my god, this must be crazy. Did Zhang Rui really cast some magic on us? We must not get close to him again, otherwise we will have to follow him to death." Kaifu Li said with certainty in his heart.
………
Along the way, Li Kaifu discovered that none of Zhang Rui's soldiers asked for a rest. Instead, the captured Manchus came over and asked him to go to Zhang Rui to ask for permission, so he stopped to rest once.
Because Zhilian Mountain is not far from the handover road, Zhang Rui and his group arrived at the location within a few hours.
After Li Kaifu came into contact with Zhang Rui, he discovered that there are indeed some things in this world that people can interpret differently.
Even if his master is a Taoist priest with great experience and knowledge, setting up camp is something only a soldier can understand. How would a Taoist priest like him study this for no reason?
If his master didn't teach him how to set up camp, then how could he explain that a young farm boy who had never been out and had never seen the world could do this?
Everything is confusing.
In fact, the ability to set up camp was due to the "special forces" grandfather from the neighbor who was bored and wanted to teach Zhang Rui. However, he did not teach Zhang Rui how to set up camp. After all, he did not think Zhang Rui would use this knowledge.
This grandpa was just bragging about his heroic history - how he could enter other people's camps without anyone noticing and do what he wanted to do. Zhang Rui just asked about the relevant knowledge while listening to his bragging.
Later, Zhang Rui thought about it and made inferences about other cases, and finally came up with the specific plan for setting up camp.
In order to make the plan more perfect, Zhang Rui also asked all his military leaders to come over to find out the loopholes and then modify them one by one.
No one can see all these efforts, and naturally no one knows about it.
It turns out that's what it's all about. There is no such thing as mana and magic causing trouble.
Zhang Rui and others stayed in this place for a few days in order to ambush. Now it seems that I have to spend another night here.
The most difficult thing to endure in these mountainous areas of Guangxi is the mosquitoes at night. Although Zhang Rui also prepared various mosquito repellents, he still couldn't avoid being bitten in the wilderness.
Fortunately, the soldiers below were all children of nearby farmers, so they were used to these things, but they could accept them.
Pity the Manchus who were put down by Qianlong, it was difficult to bear this crime. Many people spent the whole night swatting mosquitoes and crying:
"After I go back this time, I have to find someone to take me back to Beijing no matter what. I can no longer bear these crimes."
Zhang Rui certainly didn't know how the Manchus "survived" the night. If he was full of hope that the Manchu Qing court would not notice him so early, otherwise he might really "fail".
Zhang Rui is afraid of failure. Once he fails, tens of thousands of people will die with him.
But if he does not rebel, then the path behind the Manchus will be obvious. Death will not be as simple as tens of thousands, and the backbone of the Chinese nation for thousands of years will also be lost.
Why was Taizu so respected at that time? The most important thing about his achievements is that he made the Chinese people stand up and no longer kowtow to "foreign adults".
That dream still remains in Zhang Rui's memory, and he wants to try hard to become the backbone of China.
So he had to make some efforts before the Opium War and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Zhang Rui felt that he could not be much worse than Hong Xiuquan. Because of the catastrophe of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, hundreds of millions of people died in China. It was precisely because of the deaths of these people that the "Qing Dynasty" was able to survive again.
So, where can we change without dying?
The pain is certain, but if it doesn’t hurt now, it will only hurt more in the future.
It is better to commit suicide instead of rebelling, so as to save the children and grandchildren born from suffering in the future.
