Li Jibai and Zhang Shaode went back to explain Wu Fengqiu's intentions. The criminals were immediately divided into two groups. Some were about to surrender to the Guan Ning Army immediately, while others refused to surrender to the "rebels" despite their companions' persuasion.
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"There has never been a single unruly person in my Peng family for generations. We have always been law-abiding. Although we are in despair now, we cannot mix with rebels like them. This kind of work of licking the knife and making a living is not what our old Peng family can do.
If you guys want to go, you can go. I, Lao Peng, won’t stop you, but don’t force me. We still have wives and children in the customs, and we still want to go back to the kangtou. If we really follow these rebels and kill officials and rebel
, Wouldn’t that be throwing yourself into a pit of fire!” A young man in his forties desperately tried to pull him away to join Guan Ningjun’s companion, his face turned pale with anxiety.
Seeing him like this, the few men who kindly asked him to join the army glanced at each other and shook their heads in disappointment. A black man with only half an eyebrow could not help but snorted: "Come on, your Peng family has been law-abiding for generations.
I'm sorry you have the nerve to say this, but if that's true, why did you, Peng Yucai, end up outside the customs?"
Peng Yucai's original business was to rob people on the road, but now he would be exposed to his face. His old face turned red, and he crossed his waist and pointed at the dark-browed man's face: "Hey, you are arguing with me!
If I hadn't given you half of the cornbread back then, would you be alive today?"
When he heard this, the dark-browed man was very angry. When he first came to Dahur City, he was beaten half to death because he offended a bannerman and fainted. Peng Yucai thought he was dead.
, he even took the wotou that belonged to him, and later when he woke up, he stepped back half way. He kept this matter in his heart. If Peng Yucai hadn't been favored by the bannermen and became a small foreman, he would have been a small foreman long ago.
So I beat him up. Now I saw him talking shamelessly and saying the opposite, the black man was angry. All the bannermen in the city were dead, who could care about whom? He clenched his fist and was about to beat Peng Yucai, but was stopped by another man beside him.
The man was stopped.
"Okay, how long has it been? Are you still worrying about this?"
The man grabbed the black man, glanced at Peng Yucai, who was a little scared, glared at him angrily, and then shouted to the crowd around him: "I remember when I heard the gentleman talk about Chu and Han, the gentleman once said there was a man named
Chen...Chen Sheng's guy said something...what?...Let me think about it...Oh, I have a feeling for the king and general Xiang Ning! Our current situation is the same as that of Chen Sheng, why not follow Guan Ning's army and rebel?
, I can still strive for wealth! Are you really stupid enough to stay here and wait for the government to send someone to treat me like a cow horse again? "
"Does General Wang Xiang Ning have the guts?" Someone in the crowd asked in confusion: "Brother Wu, what do you mean by this?"
Wu Yong scratched his head. He had read little and didn't know what the words meant. Anyway, when Mr. Said said this, he was really excited. Then he explained half-knowingly: "It means that the officials in the world are
Were you born to be an official? You haven't worked it out! We have a home now and can't go back. Working tirelessly outside the customs to work as cattle and horses for the Tatars is not the life that a fucking person should live!
Nowadays, Guan Ning's army is killing officials and rebelling against the Tatars. We are also Han people after all. We usually don't have the chance to fight. Now there will be an opportunity, but you must seize it! Don't hesitate, everyone, crotch
If you still have eggs in your body, just fight with me, Wu Yong, for once, it’s better to die than to live like a man!”
"Wu Yong, go and vote for them. What are you inciting here?"
Chen Jibai and Zhang Shaode listened to Wu Yong's words from a distance, and couldn't help but come over and shout: "Is it child's play to kill officials and rebel? That will be beheaded! The court treats us well, can we do such a treasonous thing!"
"Stop inciting everyone here. If you want to leave, leave quickly!" Zhang Shaode raised his beard with a look of contempt on his face. This Wu Yong was originally a robber in the pass, a villain with several lives on his hands, but he didn't know that the local government had accepted him.
With so many benefits, he was not executed for betraying him, but was exiled outside the pass. On weekdays, getting along with this bandit was already a disgrace. Now how can he be allowed to continue to confuse the public with his monstrous words, and win over Chen, Wu Guang, the king, the general, and the prime minister?
, you don’t even urinate and take photos, do you have that kind of virtue?
"I won't tell you that much anymore. Anyway, Wu Yong and I have decided on this Guan Ningjun. It's up to you guys whether you want to go with me or not. I'll see you later!"
Wu Yong knew that Mr. Chen and Mr. Zhang did not want to see him, but he respected them as Jinshi masters and great figures in the world. Although they had committed crimes and were in trouble, they were not comparable to us rough people. At the moment, there is no such thing.
He retorted, cupped his hands towards them, and resolutely turned around and walked towards Guan Ningjun over there. The dark-browed man followed suit. As soon as they took the lead, dozens of people followed them without hesitation.
The rest of the group hesitated for a long time before following dozens of others out. However, the rest of the group had made up their mind that they would not become rebels and bring shame to their ancestors, even if they spent their whole lives together.
Every time someone walked out of the crowd, Chen Jibai's beard curled up. He felt hurt, but he was not hurting these people for taking the rebellious path and not only losing their own lives but also hurting his family in the future. Instead, he was worried about waiting for the government officials to come over.
After an investigation, it was found that so many people had gone with the rebels, and it was difficult for him to handle it.
"Mr. Chen, don't worry. I, Peng Yucai, only follow your lead. If you don't say anything, I will follow you for the rest of my life! Wu Yong and the others are looking for death on their own. They can't blame others. Don't worry about them."
Peng Yucai ran to Chen Jibai with a flattering smile on his face. He sincerely flattered these old guys who had committed crimes, but he did not dare to think that they had really committed crimes, because every year, many old guys were sent back by the court.
Yes, and many of them were returned to their posts, so there is no guarantee that these Jinshi masters will be recruited back when they wake up one day. This will please them, and when Da He returns to Guan in the future, he will have a place to go.
"Well, you are still sensible."
Chen Jibai glanced at Peng Yucai with a smile, nodded with satisfaction, and turned back to discuss with Zhang Shaode and the others what to do with the remaining people, and how to send people to report the news after the rebels left.
"Come here one by one, report your name, hometown, and all the crimes you have committed, so that we can register you. Once registered, you will be one of my Guan Ningjun soldiers from now on!"
After Wu Yong and others came to vote, Malji ordered one of his subordinates, the General Banner of the Han Army, to make a register for them. After registering them, he took the register to find Wu Fengqiu.
"How many people are willing to join our army?"
Wu Fengqiu casually flipped through the roster, and the people he met were either robbers, murderers, arsonists, or deceivers. They did not appear to be a group of good people, and there was not a single reader who had committed a crime. He had just done it, and the criminals opposite must have at least
There were more than a dozen of these weak readers. I thought that a few of these people would vote for me, but I didn't expect that there would be none.
"One hundred and sixty-four people!"
The number of people had been counted, so Maleki immediately reported the number accurately, paused, glanced sideways at the criminals who stayed on the opposite side, and asked, "Thousand households, these remaining people?"
Wu Fengqiu did not answer, but turned around and shouted: "Wan Song!"
"My subordinates are here!" Wan Song, who was directing the soldiers to count the loot, heard the sound and ran over.
Wu Fengqiu turned his head and said calmly: "Do something."
"I obey my orders!"
After Wan Song received the order, he waved to a commander-in-chief and whispered a few words to him. The commander-in-chief quickly gathered his men and rushed towards the crowd on the opposite side to drive them out of the city.
"Hey! Where do you want us to go!"
The sudden change made Chen Jibai and others turn pale with fright, looking at these ferocious "thieves" in fear.
The commander-in-chief who was acting under orders did not answer him a word and only said: "Why are you asking so many questions? Let's go quickly!"
"Wu Yishi! Wu Yishi!"
Chen Jibai and the others called out uneasily to Wu Fengqiu who was standing in the distance, but there was no response from the other party.
"Master Chen, are these thieves trying to kill us?"
"No, that Wu Yishi said just now that he wouldn't hurt us. Why did he change his mind now?"
"I've already said he's a traitor. Can you believe what this traitor says!"
"Then what should I do! Oh my god, I don't want to die!"
"Master Zhang, don't be afraid. It's impossible to say that these thieves just want to drive us out of the city. If they want to kill us, they can do it now. Why do they need to drive us out of the city?"
"That's true."
"Everyone, please stop talking and listen to them. When we leave the city, we must not conflict with these thieves. Do you all know that?"
"Got it, got it"
More than three hundred criminals who refused to surrender to Guan Ning's army were driven out of the city obediently, and were quickly taken to a hillside two miles west of the city. After reaching the hillside, the general banner leading the troops suddenly stopped.
Jumped off the horse and shouted to them: "We're here!"
"arrive?"
Zhang Shaode's heart trembled, where are they? What do the thieves want to do?
Chen Jibai was also looking at the hillside in confusion. Just two miles out of the city, the other party shouted, "What does it mean?" He was a little nervous and asked the leader of the team: "I dare to ask, I don't know the heroes.
Where do you want us to go?"
"Let's go!" The general manager pointed to the mountains in the distance with a smile: "You can go."
"Heroes, let us go?" Chen Jibai was startled.
The commander-in-chief chuckled: "Why, if you don't leave on your own, do you want us to send you off?"
"Don't dare, don't dare!"
After hearing this, Chen Jibai felt relieved and nodded to Zhang Shaode, Wang Yunfeng and the others with a happy face. The crowd was also in a commotion. Without waiting for the few Jinshi masters to say anything, they all ran down the mountain in a swarm. Peng Yucai ran the fastest.
He was active, and he was the first one to run. However, after running a few steps, he remembered something and quickly turned around and came back, carefully supporting Chen Jibai: "Mr. Chen, I'm helping you walk!"
"Okay, okay!" Chen Jibai was old after all, and he was already exhausted after walking only two miles. It would be best to have someone to help him walk.
"Farewell! Farewell!"
When Chen Jibai and the others left, they did not forget to greet the "thieves" and were very respectful and polite.
When more than three hundred criminals and criminals had walked for more than a mile, the three small flags who had been standing on the horse and looking at them coldly rode up to the general flag and shouted in unison: "Hundred households!"
The commander-in-chief sniffed and waved his hands at them.
Seeing this, the three flags suddenly drew their sabers, shouted "Drive", and galloped down the hillside with their horses. The cavalrymen of the three men also drew their sabers and rushed down the hillside with a shout.