Gaocheng is an ancient city. Although it belonged to Shijiazhuang in later generations, at this time Shijiazhuang was just an abandoned military camp dozens of miles west of Gaocheng, which had been occupied by refugees.
There are also a lot of refugees in Gaocheng, but they are neither outside nor inside the city. After all, it is a small town with few resources. Most of the refugees gather in the Hutuo River in the north of the city.
The locals of the Hutuo River call the Putao River a big river with more than a dozen branches. For example, the two Qingshui Rivers outside Baoding City are its branches. However, the water in the rivers is not full due to drought at this time, but compared with the Qingshui River in Baoding and
The Mihe River outside Zhaozhou is relatively rich.
Choosing water to live is the basis for human survival. After all, people can go without food for three days but cannot go without water for three days. The army must choose water when setting up camp, and the gathering of refugees is no exception. Both sides of the river bank are crowded with people, some sleeping in the open.
, some built simple shacks, but the sanitary conditions were very poor, with feces and urine everywhere, and the river water was dirty. Even though Chang Yu was thirsty and his throat was smoking, he still didn't have the courage to take a sip.
Li Muxian was leading his followers to cause trouble in Gaocheng. Along the way, he was brainwashing the followers: Since Li Zicheng asked us to follow him to kill rich people and fight officers and soldiers, then we must control food and drink, otherwise why should we follow him? Why should we follow him?
If you work with him just to open the city gate to welcome King Chuang, why would you have to leave your hometown if King Chuang comes and doesn't pay for food? Now the court is exempt from paying taxes for three years. It would be great to just farm and raise children at home...
But now we are starving to death. We want food. If we are not given food, we will make trouble. If we are not given food, we will go back to our hometown. Why wander around outside.
But how could Li Zicheng have so much food for everyone? Chang Yu stood on the bank of the Hutuo River and couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the black heads. Li Zicheng was doomed to fail.
In order to win over the people, he proposed equalizing the land and exempting them from taxes. But where would the taxes and salaries come from, and how could hundreds of thousands of mouths be filled? He could only obtain temporary relief by robbing officials, rich households, and squires. But he forgot that in this era,
If you want to dominate the world and consolidate power, it is not the common people who rely on it, but the wealthy gentry and bureaucratic class, and it is precisely that he has offended all the people in this class.
Moreover, relying solely on robbery for food and salary is not a long-term solution. Most people just cut leeks, but he dug them up by the roots. How could he be able to dominate the world? At most, he is just a short-lived Internet celebrity. In this regard, he is far inferior to hundreds of people.
The apprentices who came after the year did a beautiful job. Although the methods were the same, they knew how to find a place to recuperate and only cut the leeks without digging up the roots.
As expected, going around the rivers and lakes will cause trouble. Li Muxian led a group of his followers directly into the county government office in Gaocheng and shouted for food. The fake county magistrate had never seen such a posture. While comforting him, he quickly asked people to find the thieves stationed in the city to suppress them.
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Small towns like this are mostly populated by refugees, and the thieves, who arrived in the dozens and a half, threatened Li Muxian and others not to gather in groups to cause trouble, otherwise they would be arrested directly.
Li Muxian thought that the matter was not serious enough, so he persuaded the believers to take action with a few words. Together with several great masters in Wuzhong, he disarmed dozens of thieves in the blink of an eye, and just said, "They want food!"
When the county magistrate saw this, he feared that the government office would be demolished immediately if he didn't come up with some food. He quickly sent people to send food and rice. However, this made the other refugees uncomfortable. It turns out that as long as they make trouble, they will have something to eat.
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Half an hour later, the county magistrate, who was bruised and swollen, escaped from the city and fled north under the protection of several thieves. They wanted to report to the superiors that the refugees had rebelled.
There was indeed chaos in Gaocheng. The refugees entered the government offices and started smashing and looting. The few grains left in the official warehouses were robbed. Some refugees even felt dissatisfied and tried to rob the local people in the city, but were killed by Li Muxian.
Countless people shouted at them that if they really did this, they would be enemies on three sides. The officers and soldiers would not let them go, the rebels would not let them go, and they themselves would not let them go.
"Remember, we are not officials, but we are not thieves either. We are here to eat, not to kill people. We are the ones who have lost our families and left our homes. Do we want them to be the same as us..."
Li Muxian was so popular in the city that his followers quickly increased from a thousand to thousands, and there were hundreds of protectors around him, and they were still growing at a very fast rate. Chang Yu, who was holding Nangong Yu's outing by the river, sneered, Li Zicheng finally
The feared thing is coming
What is Li Zicheng most afraid of? Not the little eunuch, but the snowball that gets bigger and bigger and is eventually crushed to death by the snowball! Right now, he has too many surrendered soldiers and refugees in his hands. If he accidentally fails to feed him enough, he will
Backfired! But he fell into an endless loop again. If he stopped, his food rations would be eaten up quickly. If he continued to move forward, the number of mouths that needed to be fed would increase. This is why he could obviously lay siege to the city with heavy troops and conquer Baoding City in one fell swoop.
Surrounding without attacking, attacking without breaking, just to consume these mouths.
But who would have thought that when he saw the effect, he was accidentally ignited by a Taoist priest who traveled around the world. Chang Yu believed that the refugees in Zhending Mansion and Baoding Mansion would be in chaos in the next two or three days. At that time, Li Zicheng
Crying.
The herd mentality is terrifying. This group of refugees was coerced and had nothing to do every day but to eat and wait for death. At this time, someone took the lead in making trouble and immediately started to make noises. They were just idle, listening and eating and drinking. Why not do it?
Chang Yu took Nangong Yu and headed westward along the Hutuo River. Jiang Fa, Wuzhong and Qiao Sanxiu were secretly protecting him. As for Chen Wangting, his uncle and nephew, they followed Li Muchian to play tricks.
The story of an immortal in the city giving away food rations has gone viral. The refugees who had gathered on the shore rushed towards Gaocheng. The overwhelming force was like an army pressing down on the country. Chang Yu was speechless and thought to himself, Li Muxian, don't play with fire and burn yourself. Get in and get out.
not coming.
However, he knew that Li Muchian had been traveling around the world for several years and was proficient in all kinds of tricks to deceive and abduct him. Of course, he also had the means to protect himself. He would stay when he couldn't stop, so there was no need to worry about him. What he worried about was due north.
Crossing the river and heading west for fifty or sixty miles is Zhendingfu City. There is a large group of bandit troops entrenched there. Chang Yu doesn't want to move there at the moment. To be precise, it's not that he doesn't want to but that he is powerless. According to the current situation, he is afraid that he will even be connected to the Hutuo River.
I couldn't even get through, so I was surrounded by the refugees, let alone the bandits.
However, if Li Muxian were to play this game, he might be able to bring these refugees to Zhending Mansion within a day, which would be ridiculous. Li Zicheng coerced the refugees to break the city, and in turn was broken by the refugees. This is simply ridiculous.
How ironic.
Chang Yu couldn't help laughing, which made Nangong Yu curiously ask: "Master, why are you laughing?"
Well, Chang Yu suddenly realized that he had lost his composure: "I thought of something happy, Nangong, let's go across the river and have a look."
Okay, Nangong Yu nodded slightly, but where to go.
The Hutuo River is a large river, with a channel width ranging from a hundred meters to a thousand meters. The widest part of the river bed downstream is three kilometers long. However, it is only one to two hundred meters wide in front of us. It is difficult to find a place to cross the river for a while.
The searcher asked and said that he could go west if there was a shoal there, so Chang Yu took Nangong Yu for a walk toward the west. Unknowingly, after walking for more than ten miles, he still found no place to cross, so he asked passers-by to tell him to go west again.
, there is a bridge on the other side to cross when you reach Fucheng.
Damn you! Chang Yu secretly cursed, I still have to run dozens of miles to cross the river, that’s nonsense! Just when he was getting angry, he suddenly saw refugees coming from the southwest. He couldn’t help but be shocked, looking at this posture...
Damn it, Li Muxian, a charlatan, actually wants to coerce thousands of refugees to go to Zhending Mansion to beg for food! He has the guts, he really has the guts! Chang Yu admires this guy from the bottom of his heart.
Is it possible that the comedy side of his imagination will really appear? Chang Yu was thinking about whether he should have someone send an order to Huang Degong to take advantage of the trouble caused by the refugees to lead his troops to kill Zhending Mansion.
After thinking about it for a while, he finally gave up. Let's take a look first and see how big the waves Li Muxian and his gang can create. If the waves are rough, he can just follow the trend, otherwise he is afraid that the waves will be blown away by the bandits.
At this time, Li Muxian's heart was filled with mixed feelings, she was surprised and happy. Thinking about the decades of wandering around the world, eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling, cheating, and abduction, she never expected that there would be such a glorious time now. You know
These fools are so easy to fool, they have already opened a dojo to recruit believers. I am afraid they are no worse than Li Zicheng, and they will not be messing around with the little eunuch now.
Of course, he also knew that what he saw was just a flash in the pan. Seeing the large number of people, he was actually vulnerable to a blow. Not to mention the officers and soldiers coming to suppress them, but even if the rebel army roared, they would immediately disperse like birds and beasts.
But it’s quite deceiving to show off as a bluff!
Since it's a bluff, let's make it louder. If we fool tens of thousands of people and break through the Zhending Mansion directly, we will be able to gain a foothold under the little eunuch. I'm afraid even a few in the entire Dongchang would dare to look down on me.