When Butcher Chen said that he wanted to follow him, Yang Xiucai wanted to refuse in his heart.
He is a man with a reputation as a scholar, and he is still in his forties. He is not as good as Long Yang. Now that the bandit wants to take him away, he must be 100% unwilling.
But looking at the butcher's knife of the strong man in front of him and the seven or eight people behind him looking at him eagerly, as if he would kill everyone in the room if he didn't agree, Yang Xiucai could only sigh in his heart, and then revealed a look.
With a tragic look, he followed Butcher Chen out.
Before leaving, he looked back at his family and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it. He couldn't tell him that he was now determined to die.
As a serious scholar of the Ming Dynasty, and also a scholar with a good reputation, playing with rabbits does not matter, it can even be regarded as a romantic affair. I don’t know how many scholars have countless wives and concubines at home, but they still like to raise a few good-looking children.
Book boy.
But there is a premise for this, that is, they are playing with others. In the words of later generations, these people are all pro-attackers, and few are sufferers.
If they were to be played with by another man and their buttocks were fucked, it would be a great shame and humiliation for them. Few traditional scholars could endure this kind of thing.
Yang Xiucai had already made up his mind that in order to protect the safety of his family, he had to endure the humiliation and bear the burden. However, after this incident, he no longer wanted to live in this world. How could a dignified man of seven feet survive this humiliation?
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With a tragic mentality, he followed Butcher Chen all the way, but soon he was taken away by Butcher Chen to a small building.
Naturally, he was very familiar with this small building. This was the small building where his son Song'er studied and lived at home. However, today, the small building was full of rebel soldiers inside and outside.
Seeing this situation, he could tell at a glance that there must be important figures in the puppet Tang thief army in this small building.
But before he could guess who the person inside was, he heard Butcher Chen coming in and saying, "Your Majesty, I have brought Yang Xiucai here!"
Then a faint voice came: "Xuan!"
When Yang Xiucai outside heard this, he still didn’t know who was inside. Who else could be called Your Majesty by these bandits except the pseudo-Tang Emperor Li Xuan!
In the past year, the names of Li Xuan and his father Li Erbi have spread throughout Zhengtai County. After all, there are still people who dare to rebel in a big way these days. It is rare to see fools who establish a country and proclaim themselves emperors. People have no regard for Li Xuan and his son.
I am also very curious: How stupid can someone be to do something like founding a country and proclaiming himself emperor?
This is a rebellion. How many feudal kings, generals and even chieftains in remote places have dreamed of doing this but dare not do it!
In the past few decades, only King Ning and King Anhua had the courage to rebel. As a result, King Ning was suppressed by the court in less than two months. As for the longer-standing rebellion of King Anhua, he was suppressed in just eighteen days.
After being suppressed, their persistence was not as long as that of Li Xuan and his sons in the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty was officially founded in October of the 39th year of Zhengde. In April of the following year, it was besieged by the Ming army. Li Erbi died for his country, entered the temple as Taizu, and was posthumously named Emperor Wu. Half a month later, Li Xuan inherited the great treasure in the midst of the rebellion.
Changed to Yuan Dynasty Xuanping.
However, the Anjian era name was still used last year, and this year it was officially used as the era name "Xuanping", that is, the first year of Xuanping, which is the 41st year of Zhengde, and 1546 AD in the Western calendar.
If calculated in this way, it has spanned three years from the founding of Lear to the present. The total time is one year and nine months, a full twenty-one months.
This is much better than Prince Ning’s unwarranted rebellion!
Rebellion is something that many people want to do but dare not do. Even if they rebel, few people dare to hurriedly declare themselves emperors and establish an empire. Many people rebel in the early stages under various banners, such as to clear the emperor's side.
, if you create a messy title yourself, in short, not many people will be able to claim the title of emperor in the first place.
Because in ancient times, if you rebelled, you were rebelling. As long as you didn't claim to be an emperor and establish a political system, you could still surrender if you couldn't win. There was a buffer. For example, so many rebels in the late Ming Dynasty rebelled and surrendered, and then surrendered again.
On the contrary, the main reason is that they did not establish themselves as emperors and were at best armed rebellions. The government did not bother to fight if they found it troublesome, and they recruited those who could surrender.
But if we proclaim ourselves emperor and establish a political system, we will fight to the death!
As for Li Xuan and his son, there are really not many people who dare to pretend to be emperors when their country is no more than one village and the people are no more than 300. What's more interesting is that although such a joke-like Tang Dynasty has gone through many twists and turns, the officers and soldiers have also
They have been encircled and suppressed several times, but just like the invincible Xiaoqiang, they are still alive and well, and their population is getting bigger and bigger, from hundreds to thousands.
The scale has expanded more than ten times!
Such a Tang dynasty is in Zhengtai County. If you want to keep a low profile, you can't. Many people, especially those in the upper class, have heard of the Tang dynasty.
However, because the Tang Dynasty has been hiding in the mountains, many people did not take them seriously, and most of them regarded them as a joke, thinking that they were just a group of bandits with whimsical ideas. The government really wanted to take action.
With hands on hand, it would take only a matter of minutes to wipe out the pseudo-Tang Dynasty.
Well, this is indeed the case!
If the Tang Dynasty really attracted the attention of the upper echelons of the Ming court, let alone the capital cabinet, as long as the provincial capital launched a provincial army to attack, the so-called Tang Dynasty would be destroyed in minutes.
But the problem is that Li Xuan and the others have always maintained restraint and have not made any plans to attack Zhengtai County. They have always controlled the situation within Zhengtai County, making the local officials think that the matter is still under their control.
Instead of taking the matter to the top, they wanted to rely on the power of local officials to annihilate the Tang Dynasty.
After all, if you don't expose the matter and rely on your own strength to wipe out the Tang Dynasty, then you will have a great achievement. On the contrary, if you expose the matter to the top, then these local officials will be unlucky, even if the Tang Dynasty is finally wiped out.
Tang, Su Jiakang and Song Zhiwen could not get any benefits, let alone merit, it would be good if they did not lose their official positions and resign.
Yang Xiucai walked into the small building with an uneasy mood. Now he still doesn't know why the pseudo-emperor Li Xuan called him here. Could it be that the person who is as good as Long Yang is not the strong man in front of him, but the pseudo-emperor Li Xuan inside?
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After entering the small building, what caught his eye was a young man wearing Confucian clothes. Judging from the respectful attitude of the people around him towards this young man, Yang Xiucai guessed that this man must be the false emperor Li Xuan.
This man is so young, he looks like a young scholar. He is not like those bandit leaders at all. On the contrary, he is somewhat similar in temperament to his own son.
When Li Xuan saw Yang Xiucai come in, he smiled and said, "I heard that Mr. Yang has the reputation of being a scholar?"
When Yang Xiucai heard this, he immediately said: "Yes!"
Yang Xiucai didn't dare to speak more, and now he couldn't figure out why the fake emperor Li Xuan wanted to see him. It would not be a good thing to say more.
At this time, Butcher Chen suddenly said: "Why don't you kneel down in front of His Majesty!"
Yang Xiucai was frightened by the loud shouting. His legs and feet were a little weak, but he managed not to kneel down. He was a scholar after all, and he still had some backbone. How could he kneel down to a bandit leader so easily?
However, Li Xuan, who was above, did not take it seriously: "Since he is a scholar, his knowledge must be good. There is still one less clerk in my army. You can do it!"
When Yang Xiucai heard this, his expression suddenly changed. He had thought of everything, but he never thought that these thieves would actually want to become thieves themselves!
How can this be done? This is something more terrifying than death.
If he dies, he will die, but if he becomes a thief, will the Yang family still have a way to survive under the wrath of the court? Especially since his son is currently taking the provincial examination in the provincial capital, what if he, a father, becomes a thief?
, don’t expect your son to take part in the imperial examination and become an official.
So he took a deep breath, showed a determined look, and was about to say no, but at this time, Butcher Chen on the side had already pulled out the butcher knife in his hand, and Qian Mengjiu on the side said
: "Mr. Yang, please be careful. Now the lives of your family and your children depend on your thoughts!"
Such an obvious threat made Yang Xiucai swallow back the words he was about to say. It was obvious that if he refused, they would kill all his family members and leave no one behind.
It was not a pity to die, but Yang Xiucai did not have the courage to let his whole family die together, so he just blushed and couldn't say a word for a long time. He did not dare to refuse, but he also did not dare to agree.
Seeing him like this, Li Xuan felt a little upset. Damn it, it was so troublesome for him to recruit a scholar, but he had to threaten the lives of other people's family. But the threat was not enough. More importantly, he had to use the lives of his family as a threat.
With human life as a threat, the scholar in front of me is still hesitating!
At this time, he missed the Three Kingdoms game of later generations very much. It was easy to recruit civil servants and generals. However, when it came to him, it took half a year to recruit Zeng Ziwen, a military general, and he still had to put a lot of thought into it.
When we arrived at Yang Xiucai's place, he still refused!
Why is it so difficult to recruit this talent?
However, Li Xuan had already made up his mind. Even if Yang Xiucai refused, he would have to kidnap this person.
This is a scholar!
Li Xuan has been in this world for more than a year, and this is the first time he has seen a living scholar. Now he has several scholars under the Tang Dynasty, whether it is Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu, Wang Wenhua, or Old Man Xie.
There is no fame.
Although he met a few scholars during his several trips to the mountains, there was still no scholar here. Now that he had finally caught one in Yangjia Village, Li Xuan would not let him go no matter what.
Whether Yang Xiucai is willing or unwilling, Li Xuan will take him away with force!