Chapter 63 The Day of Raising the Flag!
The busy and joyful autumn harvest has finally arrived. For some ordinary people in Yong'an County and Haifeng County, the autumn harvest in the 13th year of Wanli is even more extraordinary. Their expressions are faintly excited, and they are stepping up the autumn harvest and waiting for the final time to arrive.
Even the landlords who found some clues temporarily put aside their investigation of mud legs during the autumn harvest time and focused on the autumn harvest.
In the busy life, the crops were harvested quickly. Every village united by the People's Army would send one or two people to gather towards the mountains. Finally, they came to Hutouzhai, where the People's Army is currently headquartered.
Not only are representatives of the outside villages coming, but representatives from Hu Zhuang, Zhou Lei, Wang Mu, He Yan, Ding Wei, Chen Kang, Gu Villagezhu, Wang Dachui..., representatives from the People's Army, Management, Research and other departments have come.
On the first day of September, Hutouzhai had been harvested and cleaned up the farmland. A "high platform" had been built. Representatives from various departments of the People's Army gathered in the audience. As the leader of the People's Army, Fang Nan climbed to the high platform.
Condescendingly, Fang Nan took everyone's expression into his eyes, including excitement, fanaticism, and happiness. Everyone had been waiting for a day for too long, and this day was finally coming!
"Brothers and sisters, comrades, hello, I am the leader of the People's Army, Fang Nan, today we all gather here, we all have a common goal - to overthrow the Ming Dynasty.
I am a mountain citizen, a commoner who was not accepted by the Ming Dynasty. My grandparents were still living outside the world and were still ordinary people under the Ming Dynasty. However, under the continuous oppression of the government and the landlords, their grandparents could not survive. They could only escape into the deep mountains like other people who were oppressed by the government and the landlords and struggled to survive.
From childhood to adulthood, I have seen too many separations of life and death. There are no doctors or medicines in the mountains. When I get sick, I can only endure it myself. As I endure it, I may be able to cure the pain, but more of it is the pain that has been tortured, and in the end, people are swallowed up little by little by little by little by little by little.
In the mountains, it is a very lucky thing to be able to have enough food. More mountain people live a hungry and full meal, wearing tattered clothes, living in thatched huts that leak and air-flowing, and occasionally bandits will come to bully us.
Life in the mountains is so unbearable, and life outside the mountains is also the case.
The land was 'robbed' by the landlords and the landlords could only rely on renting the landlords' land to make a living. Every autumn harvest, most of the grain in the field was taken away by the landlords, and then some of it was taken away by the government to pay various taxes. The remaining grain in the hand was not enough for the family to eat for a year.
Digging wild vegetables, digging tree roots, and working for landlords and wealthy families... I worked from morning to night every day, and finally got food that could barely fill my stomach. This is still the case when the year is better. If the year is not good, it is common to starve people to death. In order to survive, I have to sell my children. How many parents are willing to sell their children to wealthy families as cows and horses, enduring the pain of separation of flesh and blood.
That is our blood, that is our meat. The earthly families are lying on us to drink blood and eat meat. We are squeezed dry little by little, but the landlords and big families eat one by one, and the belly of the landlords and big families is still squeezed by the landlords and big families, and their descendants cannot escape this confinement.
Are you willing to continue to be oppressed and exploited by the landlords? Are you willing to be oppressed and exploited by the landlords?"
"I don't want it! I don't want it!" People from outside the mountains shouted loudly.
"I don't want to live in this deep mountain, and I don't want my descendants to live in this deep mountain. Are you willing?"
"I don't want to! I don't want to!" the mountain people shouted in unison.
"Yes, we are not willing. Why can they live a life of luxury when they are born as human beings? But we can only eat braised vegetables and why can they bully the poor people at will, and we can only bear it silently.
We want to live a good life and we want to avoid being bullied, but the landlords and the government do not want to see us live a good life because once we live a good life, they will have no object to oppress at will.
I can't stand it, we can't stand it. There are thousands of poor people all over the world, and less than one percent of the people who oppress the poor people. We can knock them down with one punch.
So I established the People's Army. The People's Army is the army of the people, the army of thousands of poor people in the world. The People's Army is willing to lead thousands of poor people in the world, defeat the landlords and old wealth, overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and live a good life together!"
Zhou Lei: "Down with the landlord Laocai! Overthrow the Ming Dynasty! Long live the People's Army! Long live the Grand Governor!"
Everyone: "Down with the landlord Laocai! Overthrow the Ming Dynasty! Long live the People's Army! Long live the Grand Governor!"
"Down with the landlord Laocai! Overthrow the Ming Dynasty! Long live the People's Army! Long live the Grand Governor!!!"
The shouts were over and over again, and at this moment, people's shouts resounded throughout the sky! The faces were full of fanaticism!
Fang Nan's speech was very simple, but it was these simple words that made people who had never seen Fang Nan before identify with Fang Nan. In Fang Nan's words, they saw themselves and struggled to survive under the oppression of landlords and government officials.
No one wants to be oppressed by the landlords and the government all the time, and they don’t want their descendants to be oppressed by the landlords and the government. In the past, they could not resist and dared not resist. At most, they would take their families into the mountains, but there were all kinds of unknown risks waiting for them in the mountains.
Now the People's Army has appeared. Everyone has seen the hope of achieving the wealth of landlords and overthrowing the Ming Dynasty. The People's Army is still weak and cannot confront the entire Ming Dynasty and the landlord class. However, as long as the poor people in the world support the People's Army, the People's Army will have the strength to fight against the Ming Dynasty and the landlord class.
After a long time, the shouts finally stopped, and the fanaticism on everyone's faces had not faded.
"I know our enemies are very powerful, so we have been preparing and accumulating strength. In eight years of preparation, we have built a powerful army of over ten thousand people.
Of course, we still want to continue to accumulate strength in secret, but our strength can no longer be completely hidden and may be discovered by the enemy at any time. We cannot wait for the enemy to mobilize a large army to encircle and suppress it. We must take the initiative to attack, seize a large area of territory while the enemy is unprepared, unite more ordinary people, and face the attack of the Ming army.
Brothers and sisters, comrades, let’s start to act. In the outside world, there are thousands of poor people who are waiting for us to rescue by landlords and government officials!”
"Down with the landlord Laocai! Overthrow the Ming Dynasty! Long live the People's Army! Long live the Grand Governor!!!"
Chapter completed!