The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 81 The Ambition of the Refugees

Zuo Wenkang's imagination had escalated to the point where he thought his wife was a fairy.

The women, including Mrs. She, were in a daze all morning.

The children who went to the banquet last night would only assume that they were too tired and fell asleep while eating meat.

Anyway, I wake up on my dad's or mom's back, which is very comfortable.

They had no idea that danger had ever occurred, so there was no question of lingering fear!

But it happened just last night, how could an adult forget?

The scene of dozens of people falling unconscious while eating was a nightmare.

How did they manage to escape the clutches of the guards unharmed and be sent back?

This is definitely not something that one or two people can accomplish!

They had witnessed the actions of those refugees in Lushan County, and they would never have believed that these people were the ones who helped them.

Doing good deeds anonymously will surely earn you the utmost goodwill from the recipient.

They must remember this kindness.

The group was lost in their own thoughts, occasionally exchanging glances.

In the end, they both shook their heads and nodded at each other.

They reached a consensus through their eyes: to preserve their reputations, they must not mention what happened last night.

Lady Lü had been secretly watching the results of her efforts to stir things up.

They naturally knew that these women had taken their children to the Thousand Households Office last night.

Fortunately, her twins' emotions were not completely stable, which gave her a reason to refuse.

She was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night.

When the officials knocked on the door in the early morning.

She then heard the news that the refugees had stormed the pass and slaughtered all the officers and soldiers of the Thousand Household Office.

Her first reaction was not fear.

But were Zuo Wenkang, Gan Shi, and their children also killed by the refugees?
Or perhaps, the refugees picked up all the women who had been violated by the government troops!
What kind of good people could those displaced farmers be?
I don't dare to think about it, the more I think about it, the more excited I get!
She was so excited that her face turned red as if she had a fever, her hands and feet felt weak, her whole body was trembling slightly.

If she weren't afraid of being seen with her lips curling up so wide she couldn't suppress it, she would have gone to the Huang family leader to inquire about the details of the thousand-household unit's demise.

Before dawn, she tried her best to control her manic emotions.

I followed the main group, panting heavily, stumbling along.

result.

After daybreak, what did God let her see?
The pork seller's family of four, all neatly arranged, walked in front of her house!
Lady Lü was terrified!

She didn't sleep at all last night; she was listening intently the whole time!

When did this family return?

He looked around again to see the other people in the group.

The women, including Madam She, acted as if nothing had happened!

Lady Lü was so angry she almost couldn't catch her breath.

What is going on here?

After much thought, she concluded that it was the group of refugees who had rescued the women and children from the government troops.

Otherwise, judging from the recent miserable state of the women in their house who had to get up during the day to receive the soldiers, the lamb would have lost at least half its life if it fell into the tiger's mouth.

Damn refugees! Since they dared to kill even the government troops, why spare the lives of those lowly people?
Those who should be killed are not killed, while those who shouldn't be killed are killed indiscriminately!

Lady Lü hated those refugees with a vengeance!
As Zuo Wenxuan carried his son on his back, he glanced up and saw her gloomy face, which startled him so much that he quickly buried his head in his chest. These days, he really couldn't afford to mess with this slut.

Even with his disfigurement, he still managed to hook up with those government officials. I wonder if they might take a dislike to him one day and have someone kill him.

He didn't want to die yet; he hadn't personally delivered that harlot to the border army's camp!
On the day everyone fled Sweetwater County.

The strategist successfully added three thousand brave men to this rebel army.

Currently, the number of displaced people has grown to more than 15,000.

Most of these brave men were between eighteen and twenty-five years old.

They were the main labor force that would be conscripted for forced labor immediately after the flood.

The strategist seized upon the pretext that the county governments were using various pretexts to enslave laborers.

This brought together a group of people who were most empathetic, impulsive, and highly combative.

They drank the blood wine together.

They swore an oath to follow their leader all the way to Nanhe Prefecture to develop their righteous army, and to take it upon themselves to kill all the corrupt officials in Nanhe Prefecture.

Down with corrupt officials and overthrow the damned government!
They could then live together with the leader: sharing clothes, food, and shelter, and everyone would share land.
The future that the strategist described to everyone was just too wonderful!
The key point is that their rise to power was so hasty and easy that it gave the refugees a false sense of their own strength.

If the entire Bei Kingdom's army were such cowards, they might be able to take over Shangdu in a few months.

After defeating these garrison troops, they had more weapons at their disposal.

There is no shortage of talented people among the common people.

At the very least, the blacksmiths recruited dozens or even hundreds of people.

Once we acquire a few more iron ore mines, what is there to worry about in achieving great things?
The migrant groups, chanting slogans about building a better home, swept through a county in a single day with overwhelming force.

They also had another shady move.

Upon entering a county, as long as the officials in the county government did not abscond, they would be arrested and publicly tried.

If a certain number of people in a county are dissatisfied with the government's governance, and their dissatisfaction can be corroborated, they will be sentenced on the spot.

At best, they'd be given dozens or even hundreds of strokes of the cane; at worst, they'd be beheaded.

And you know what? After killing those corrupt officials who were too greedy...

These refugees became saviors in the eyes of the poor.

It's easy for a county to recruit two or three thousand young and strong volunteers.

News kept coming in from them, and Chief Huang and the others urged everyone to run even faster.
The Shang capital, which had been soaked in the turbid river, had long been cleaned up by the palace servants.

The rumors about the Heavenly Calamity Star gradually disappeared amidst the chaotic grabbing and chopping sounds of the Grand Steward Nian.

A few days later, the capital city, which had just returned to its normal routine, was once again thrown into turmoil by an urgent report delivered by a messenger.

"Report! Nanhe Prefecture has been occupied by refugees!"

"Report! The entire garrison of the Nanhe Prefecture's thousand-household unit has been massacred by refugees from Ruzhou Prefecture!"

"Report! More than 10,000 people in Nanhe Prefecture have joined the rebel army of displaced people!"

"Report"

Even the most incompetent emperor could not tolerate a mere vagrant challenging his imperial authority.

The national treasury had just been emptied by disaster relief efforts, and now displaced people were causing trouble.

During the grand court assembly, Emperor Beiwen directly attacked the Grand Commander in charge of the ten prefectures of Zhongzhou.

"This is the first time in my life that I have ever heard of a group of unarmed refugees killing both government soldiers and county officials!"
Is it that the garrison troops in each prefecture are no longer able to wield weapons? Or is it that they are embezzling too much money, with only three to five hundred men in a single thousand-household unit?
"Minister Zeng, tell me properly how those refugees managed to occupy Ruzhou Prefecture and Nanhe Prefecture within half a month?"

Zeng Chong, the second-rank Grand General of Zhongzhou, was so scolded that he didn't dare to utter a sound.

(End of this chapter)