The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 151 This is your biggest sin!
Wearing a red robe, a red scarf on his head, a red cloak on his back, and a sword hanging from his belt, Ma Baocai stood on a high platform made of four eight-immortal tables, letting the autumn wind blow the cloak on his back.

He held the hilt of his sword with one hand and put the other on his waist, staring intently at the skinny and dark faces below who were tortured by life. He was too familiar with these faces!
Because he, his parents, his brothers, all his relatives and friends once had the same face - skinny, dark, numb and desperate! It was not until his mentor, the angel of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, led two thousand female Taiping soldiers to Etang Town that the fate of all of them changed!

No, not all, because many people had starved to death before the angels arrived, little by little, dying of desperate starvation!
After that, he was lucky enough to become one of his mentor’s first twelve disciples, and received a copy of the “Anti-Scripture” from his mentor - although he did not recognize most of the words on it, he understood the principles on it!
Did he know why the poor suffered?
Did he know why the poor couldn't survive?

Did he know how to change the fate of the poor?

He knew that the fate of the poor must and would change!
He knew what the hell was fair! He knew that only fairness that allowed everyone to not starve to death was the greatest fairness!

Ma Baocai also realized how lucky he was to be able to devote his whole life to this cause!

Although he is now a brigade lecturer like Zhu Ba, to be honest, leading troops is not his forte, especially when he is sent to Xiao Chaogui's army as a lecturer. The old brothers from Guangxi under Xiao Chaogui are too superstitious. They have their own principles for rebellion and are not interested in dividing the land. Yang Shangdi, Xiao Ji Du and Hong Tianwang have already promised them that after they conquer this little paradise on earth, everyone will have an official position, and they can also hold official positions from generation to generation.

That’s why what Ma Bao wants to do most is to lead the poor peasants to rebel!

"Someone come here!" Ma Baocai suddenly shouted, "Bring up those evil thieves from the Zeng family who are rich but ruthless, oppress the good, and force the villagers to live!"

"Yes!"

Following his order, dozens of Taiping soldiers in red scarves and red robes captured two of each and brought up more than a dozen wealthy landlords from the Zeng family in Heyetang.

Most of these landlords, who usually made the poor peasants feel suffocated, were now trembling with fear, and some were even crying uncontrollably.

Of course, there were also some who were more stubborn. An old man who was a generation older than Zeng Guofan was a stubborn man. Although he was tied up, he was still stubborn and refused to accept it. He shouted and asked: "I, what heavenly law did our Zeng family violate? Why did you Taiping Heavenly Kingdom treat us like that? How come our Zeng family is rich and unkind? How come we oppress the good people?

Every inch of our Zeng family's land was bought with money! The money for buying the land was not earned by committing crimes, but was earned and saved by our ancestors from generation to generation!
We, the Zeng family, have never forced anyone to rent land, and the rent and interest we charge from anyone who borrows money is no higher than that of other families. The prices are the same in the entire Xiangxiang and Changsha Prefecture!"

What Mr. Zeng said is right!
Although Zeng of Hetang was more mean than Huang of Etang, their money was cleaner than that of the Huang family of Etang - the Huang family were profiteers who sold opium, while the Zeng family were country gentry who passed down their family traditions of farming and studying, and they only became rich in Zeng Guofan's generation.

Although he was said to be prosperous, he was not that prosperous. Zeng Guofan had been an official for so many years, and he had always been in the government. He was truly incorruptible. Although he took this "respect" and that "respect", it was all legal income in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty. If Zeng Guofan did not take it, he would have to sleep on the streets in Beijing with his salary.

Ma Baocai glanced at the old man and just smiled: "Have you ever been hungry, old man?"

"Starving?" The old man was stunned.

"No?" Ma Baocai's face suddenly darkened. "I have been hungry before. I was often hungry several times in the past. I almost starved to death! At that time, I would do anything for a bite of food!"

"What does that have to do with me?" The old man Zeng looked at Ma Baocai and questioned, "It's not me who made you hungry!"

Ma Baocai stared at the old man fiercely and said word by word: "But your family has food, a lot of food. There are 400 million people starving in the world now, at least one or two million die of starvation every year, and tens of millions are waiting to starve to death. If they don't starve to death this year, they will starve to death next year, the year after next, and the year after next!
But you, the gentry and landlords, have the land and food that feed those who are starving to death, about to starve to death, or barely not starving to death. This is your greatest sin!"

"What's the truth about this?"

This old man Zeng has probably learned too much from the saints and has become stupid. Even at this time, he still wants to talk about reason.

But who can reason with a group of armed people who are about to starve to death?
"Qiang!"

Ma Baocai drew his sword, pointed it at Zeng Laotou's head, and shouted, "Fellow villagers, do you have rice to eat?"

"no!"

The people below said in unison.

Farmers who have rice to eat will generally not be the first to stand up. Even if they do, they will say "no"!
"Do you have land?"

Ma Baocai asked again.

"No!" the people below said in unison.

"Do you owe the Zeng family a debt to the King of Hell?"

"Have!"

"Do you want to eat rice, do you want land, do you want to burn the IOU?" Ma Baocai asked again.

"miss you!"

"Okay!" Ma Baocai pointed his sword backwards, pointing to the Zeng family compound, "Then follow me into the Zeng family compound. There is rice, land deeds, and your IOUs in the Zeng family compound. Follow me if you want any!"

After saying this, he jumped down from the Eight Immortals Table and walked towards the Zeng family compound with big strides.

In fact, the Zeng family compound had been breached by Xiao Chaogui's army long ago, but Ma Baocai still decided to lead the poor peasants of Heyetang to attack again in front of a group of landlords and rich people from the Zeng family!
Because the charge of the Taiping Army and the charge of the poor peasants in Heyetang are different!

There is also a difference between rushing to the front and rushing to the back.

When Ma Baocai led his men to attack the Zeng family's old house, his good partner Chen Ji watched coldly from the side.

Chen Ji looked much gentler than Ma Baocai, but he had one skill that Ma Baocai could never catch up with, which was his good memory. He could remember every face he saw, not that he could remember it forever, but he could remember it for several hours.

So he would remember who rushed into the Zeng family mansion first and who followed behind.

The first ones to rush in, of course, were the key development targets of the Heyetang branch of the Xiangxiang branch of the Hunan-Jiangxi Border Church of the God Worshipping Society!

Next, they will be selected, and under the guidance of Chen Ji, they will burn the IOUs in front of the Zeng family and a group of poor farmers, divide up the wealth, and equally divide the land. They will also sentence several elderly members of the Zeng family to death and execute them!

They raided Zeng Guofan's house, robbed Zeng Guofan's money, divided Zeng Guofan's land, and killed Zeng Guofan's relatives. Could Zeng Guofan forgive them? Looking at Zeng Guofan's "evil face", it doesn't look like he can forgive them!

Now, they can only fight to the end with the Zeng family and the militia of the Hunan gentry!
With this group of people, the Heyetang base can be consolidated and long-term dealings with the Hunan militia can be maintained.

Outside a farmhouse next to the Zeng family mansion, King Xiao Chaogui of the West, with his arms folded, watched coldly as a group of poor peasants carried out baskets of rice, boxes of copper coins, boxes of IOUs and land deeds from Zeng Guofan's old house. He suddenly heard a child crying, and when he turned around, he saw Xu Yuegui holding a skinny boy appearing behind him.

"Second Sister Xu, who are you holding?" Xiao Chaogui asked.

"His surname is Zeng!" Xu Yuegui said, "His generation name is Ji!"

"Oh," Xiao Chaogui looked puzzled, "Second Sister Xu, do you want to..."

"Ah Hai," Xu Yuegui asked the child gently, "Are those people bad people?"

"Bad!" Although the boy was young, he knew that those who were robbing the Zeng family's old house were bad people - they were too bad for the Zeng family!

"What should we do then?" Xu Yuegui asked.

"I'm going to find the master. He's a high-ranking official. He'll send soldiers to arrest them and chop off their heads!"

Xu Yuegui said softly: "Then I will take you to find your master, okay?"

"Okay!" The little boy from the Zeng family nodded heavily.

(End of this chapter)