open sea

Chapter 1352
The Irish people in the village were shocked. They were just obediently giving the grain they had saved to buy peat to the grain requisition team.

Suddenly the sound of horseshoes broke into the village, and several men with long, flat-headed and heavy knives were covered in rusty armor. No one reacted, the knife flashed, and the body of the grain requisition captain was on the ground, with his head on the tree .

Not one of the five large and three rough-helmed grain requisition teams could last three rounds under the hands of Liu Ruguo's apprentice.

Immediately afterwards, a businessman from the Ming Dynasty who had been to the village a few days ago appeared at the entrance of the village on a fast horse. He carried a musket on his shoulder and wore an iron helmet with feathers on his head. The man fell to the ground and rushed over cursing.

"Don't chop, don't chop... Hey, why don't you listen to people!"

The people in the village are all stupid.

He suddenly killed a few strong men from nowhere, and killed the food collection officer in a blink of an eye. He was stunned for a while before he realized it, and turned around and ran away towards the house.

It's not that they went home to get weapons, they were simply running away.

Since England colonized it, Ireland has never stopped rebelling, but the more rebellious it becomes, the weaker it is. Young people who have the strength either die on the battlefield or flee to the southern mountains to become bandits. Weak, but also to be recruited again and again by the nobles to fight against the rebels.

No matter how great the blood brave is, under the combination of various disadvantages, they will be wiped out from generation to generation. They can live in peace and stability on the land only fifty miles away from Dublin, because their ancestors have confessed to the English.

Even if Alan's master Zhu Xiaoen called back, they didn't intend to follow suit, they just wanted to admit their cowardice again.

Even if they use food to buy peat from the white tiger, on the one hand, they really can't live without it in winter, and on the other hand, it is the decision of everyone in the village after weighing the pros and cons.

King Alan's army went south again. If they won, they had supported them to sell food in exchange for peace; even if King Alan's army lost the war again, the siege would last for several months. to grain.

Rather than being robbed at that time, it is better to sell it to the white tiger in advance.

As for King Alan's army retreating northward after the defeat, no one considered what would happen if the governor pursued it.

Precarious people don't even think about tomorrow when they go to bed at night. Instead of thinking about what will happen in a few months, it is better to try their best to survive for a few months—the war is coming.

Who lives and who dies is still unknown.

At this time, the tax official died in the village, and the vicious Liu Ruguo rode a horse and carried a knife to knock on the wooden doors from house to house. There is nothing more frightening than this in the world.

Liu Ruguo felt wronged too. In his heart, this is to eliminate harm for the people. The Irish people just don’t appreciate him. They even treat him as a gangster. They can’t call out from house to house, hiding behind the door one by one. Shouting something, don't kill him, help.

Is it sick? Isn't it? Why can't you tell the good from the bad?
After a lot of effort and persuasion, I finally persuaded a person from the house, and through this person, I found the second most respected person in the village, a black bread maker, and asked him to call the villagers.

As for the first person to be respected is the tax official, who rode a horse from the yard to report to the Governor of England, but was shot down by the White Tiger's followers with a meteor rope, and now he is tied up and intends to take him back to dig coal.

After some persuasion, all the villagers were called out, just as the peat cart driving behind came, and the white tiger sold the peat first to collect the grain, so Liu Ruguo pulled a sheet from the tax official's house to dry it. On the coal-soil book written with the words "walking the way for the sky", he inserted a spear and stood in the middle of the village to recruit soldiers.

No response at all.

"My lord, we are just farmers, not soldiers, and we don't know how to fight. What's the use of leaving with you?" The baker, who is famous among the villagers, felt the eyes of the villagers looking at him, bit his bullet To Liu Ruguo: "Besides, the governor has many soldiers, not just these few, they will kill our entire village."

"Farmers, what's the matter with farmers? At the end of Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng was just a short-sighted villain; at the end of Han Dynasty, Zhangjiao was a wandering Taoist; at the end of Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao was a poor scholar; ?”

"What is there to be afraid of the mere governor? In this world, even dynasties will change, only peasants. Look at which dynasty is not a peasant to send it to its funeral?"

"The English have occupied your land for hundreds of years. Merchants, gentry, and nobles have collected your taxes five times in the past four months, and now they have to come to collect the grain. You are not afraid of living like this, but are you afraid of death?"

"I'll ask you if you're hungry and if you're cold. If you're hungry, I'll go with me and take back all the people who robbed you. If he dares to send troops to suppress him, I, Liu Ruguo, will take you to fight them. What kind of governor, whoever?" Whoever wins will be the governor!"

"In such a big village, isn't there even a single courageous person?"

Liu Ruguo yelled at the top of his voice for a long time, saying that his disciples gritted their teeth with agitated faces, and the people gathered by the well at the head of the village had no emotion in their hearts - they couldn't understand.

Who is Chen Sheng?They know Chen Mu well and well. As for Zhang Jiao, Huang Chao, and Han Shantong, who knows who they are.

And the environment is different. In the place where Liu Ruguo grew up, whenever there was a natural or man-made disaster, the officials in the government were stupid and unfavorable for relief, and the people could only grab food for begging. In many cases, it was actually a personal behavior after the collapse of the local order.

When the dynasty is strong, this kind of riot that affects the livelihood of more people will be suppressed; and at the end of the dynasty, one place is chaotic and multiple places are deployed, which further increases financial and military expenditures. bring down the dynasty.

But Europe is different. The feudal aristocratic rule divides the people who are already scattered. The blacksmith who forges the sword will rebel if he can’t eat enough. What does this matter have to do with him, the lord only needs a dozen guards to suppress them.

In the Central Plains Dynasty, even if they did not dare to fight the official army, the number of people in several counties would increase as soon as they joined forces, but here, across a stream, it is the territory of another lord. If you oppose this lord, the people of that lord will not against their lord.

Lonely and lonely, the most common choice is not to rebel, but to go to the wilderness to rob the same poor people.

So the generals of the Ming army who followed Zhu Xiaoen didn't think about launching a peasant uprising here. For example, Han Jinhuan and others often used methods to incite nobles to rebel.

If a nobleman is rebellious, the people below him will naturally be rebellious.

Even a few young people were eager to move, but they were dragged by their families and dared not speak out.

Fortunately, everything is difficult at the beginning, and Liu Ruguo was prepared for this situation in advance.

His apprentice Jia Jiuer led people to open the cellar of the granary in the tax official's house, and all the grain, wine, leather goods, pigs and sheep were pulled out.

Liu Ruguo raised his arms and pointed, "Whoever dares to follow me, these things belong to their family."

　Good morning! Chapter 2 will be released at noon.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)