Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his voice and asked coldly: "Do you want to rebel after you have learned martial arts?"

"Ah?" The nine young men were startled and their bodies shrank back at the same time. This was the most common reaction to being guessed: "No... we don't want to rebel, so we don't have the courage to rebel..."

"There is no food to eat?" Zhu Yuanzhang slapped hard on the thin shoulder of a villager. He deliberately used a relatively large force. The young man was already thin and hungry. After he slapped, he didn't have the strength to hold his shoulders. His shoulders collapsed half a foot, and his teeth were grinning in pain.

"There are no clothes to wear?" Zhu Yuanzhang pulled another villager again. The villagers' rags were full of holes, and they were simply uncovered. With a slight pull, he heard a crackling sound of cracking silk, and the torn clothes were broken into pieces.

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "If you have no food or clothing, you can strengthen your body? I will also make up a decent reason for me and tell me your true intentions, so that I will consider your requirements."

The nine villagers looked at each other and hesitated. After a while, the nine people gritted their teeth and said in unison: "Brother Zhu, we are really unable to live a happy life. We want to learn some skills from you while we still have some strength, eat all the food stored in our family, and kill the officials and rebel. It was a last resort to deceive you just now. If you are willing to teach, we will say goodbye now, just hope you don't inform the government..."

"Slow down!" Zhu Yuanzhang whispered: "I have a few questions to ask you."

"First, why did you ask me to practice martial arts? Brother Wang is more powerful than me, why don't you look for him?"

The nine villagers looked at each other and whispered: "We have heard of Brother Wang's reputation, but the people in our Xigu Village are more convinced of you, especially when fighting with Ren Village. We have seen Brother Zhu's methods with our own eyes and believe in your strength."

Zhu Yuanzhang was quite satisfied with this answer and asked again: "The second question is that there is no food to eat and no clothes to wear. Why do you think of rebellion first?"

The nine young men looked at each other again and whispered: "We are seeking wealth and honor in danger! We want to learn from Brother Zheng Yanfu of Chengcheng and be a hero who dares to fight and fight."

"Haha, what a wealthy person is in danger!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "It's interesting, you nine guys are really interesting."

The nine villagers were overjoyed and said, "Is Brother Zhu willing to support us in rebellion? That's great! Don't worry, when we kill officials and rebelled, we will never say that it was the martial arts you taught, and it will not implicate you."

"When did I say I support you to rebel?" Zhu Yuanzhang stopped laughing and whispered: "I don't allow you to rebel. There is a ingot of silver here. You can use it to improve your life and stop thinking about rebellion."

He touched his arms, touched the silver that Qiuye gave him just now, threw it into the hands of the villagers, and whispered: "Don't think about rebellion anymore, but there is nothing wrong with practicing martial arts art to strengthen your body. Start tomorrow night, and come to my yard every night to learn martial arts."

These nine villagers are available and can be taken as soldiers in the future. This is Zhu Yuanzhang's first reaction. But he is not stupid enough to tell these nine people directly, "I support you in rebellion." The risk of speaking like this is too great.

So he said he would not support him first, and hid his attitude. Then he taught them martial arts and helped them strengthen their bodies. This was actually just a disguised support for them to practice martial arts diligently and lay a solid foundation for future rebellion. In order to prevent them from starting to act recklessly before they were ready, he would give them some money first so that he would not be able to go against food and clothing directly, delay their rebellion for a period of time, and at the same time, they were grateful and collected their hearts.

In such a short moment, Zhu Yuanzhang had already changed many thoughts, but others could not see these things.

The nine villagers didn't even realize that Zhu Yuanzhang had the idea of ​​holding them in his hands and waiting for a year to make use of them. He thought that Brother Zhu was really generous and not only gave them silver, but also was willing to teach them martial arts... The nine people knelt in a row and kowtowed, "Brother Zhu, you are simply the timely rain in "Water Margin" reincarnation of Song Gongming!"

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was amused and crying. The reincarnation of the great Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang was called Song Jiang's black-faced obsessive officer. Is it really so unbearable? He waved his hand and said, "Go back, remember what I said, come here to learn martial arts tomorrow night. By the way... Tell the poor people in Xigu Village that if they can't live, they can come to me Zhu Ba. If the villagers in our village can help, they will help them, and they will not sit and see the villagers go to their wits."

Zhu Yuanzhang took some silver from the Qi manager, and later received rewards from Ma Zhixiong several times. He saved all the monthly silver for every month, and now he has about 200 taels of silver to spend. If he saves some money, it should not be difficult to help one or two hundred villagers for a year. If he can use this silver to get a group of confidants who are devoted to him, he can serve as the backbone of the rebel army when he rebels in the future. It is very worth it!

In addition, after the spread of his relief of villagers, it can increase the popularity of the people, and it will be easier to incite the people to revolt in the future. Although it is embarrassing to be said to be Song Jiang's reincarnation, it is not a bad thing to have this reputation... Most rural farmers are short-sighted people. They have never read books and do not know the heroes of ancient and modern times. They can only expand their knowledge through some stories told by storytellers. In their simple understanding, Song Jiang is the best hero in the world, which is the highest evaluation they can say.

"Yes, thank you Brother Zhu!" The nine villagers went there with great gratitude, and Li Chujiu also walked out behind.

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood, and I don’t know if this was a coincidence. After joining the rebel army in his previous life, the first step to advance was to become the commander of the Ninth Husband. This time, nine people took the initiative to join his disciples. Does this indicate that the path he had succeeded will be in front of him again?

Just as she thought of this, a slight footsteps suddenly came from the door. A familiar face appeared in front of him. Miss Ma San's personal maid Zi Xincai. She looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with a strange expression on her face, and she wanted to speak but stopped.

"Hmm? Little girl, what's the matter with me?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked curiously.

"Just... what did the Zhang family maid come to you to make?" Zi Xincai asked nervously.

No! Zhu Yuanzhang secretly cried in his heart, what kind of demon moth this woman is going to make trouble for? He replied casually: "It's nothing, just chat a few casually."

Zi Xincai pouted: "Stop lying to me, the second young lady wants to promise you the maid from the Zhang family?"

"Huh? How do you know?" Zhu Yuanzhang was very curious.

"The second young lady said in front of the lady that she wanted to tell you about the marriage... I was standing by and listening." Zi Xincai said with a flat mouth: "Brother Zhu, you must have a conscience. It is our maids in the Ma family who will take the lead. Don't choose one from the maids in the Ma family. This is too unfair."

This... what do you care about? Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became angry. He had never thought about these things at all. But women kept making trouble by his side. How could these women be so idle?

"Hey, Brother Zhu, have you heard what I said?" Zi Xincai shouted.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened and he said angrily: "Stop it up, you women are so idle! Go back and tell your sisters, don't come to my room from today. I'm almost annoyed by you. Can I free up my mood to do some serious things?"

"Ah?" Zi Xincai shouted: "Then you just don't choose the maid from our Ma family, you have to choose the Zhang family?"

"You have to take care of who I choose!" Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the purple cabbage and threw it out from the door. The person he wanted to choose could not be said!

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The next day, it was not dark yet. After dinner, the Ma family's long-term workers came out of the dining room and scattered back to their own small rooms. Zhu Yuanzhang sat in his small yard and waited quietly.

Before the moon could climb to the top of the treetops, Li Chujiu walked in with nine young people from Xigu Village: "Brother Zhu, they are here to learn martial arts..."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the nine people carefully. The money he gave them yesterday was obviously in handy. The nine people had a full meal for two days, and their steps were no longer so weak. It seemed that they still had some strength to use.

"Well, it's a good thing!" Zhu Yuanzhang asked them to stand in a row first, and then whispered: "Let's start with horse stalking. Tonight, nine of you will stance all night."

"What? Maza?" The nine young men were a little confused. Can this horse stance be used to kill officials and rebel?

Seeing their obvious distrust expression, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and shook his head and said, "Have you ever been to the battlefield?"

"No!"

"Have you ever seen thousands of troops fighting against each other?"

"No!"

"Do you know what kind of people are the least likely to die during war?"

"have no idea!"

"I tell you... Those who stand firmly are the least likely to die!" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "When thousands of troops attack, dozens or hundreds of rows of people stand densely. People are crowded, and people rely on people. You are in front of you and behind you, and people are everywhere, shields, swords, guns, crossbows, artillery... are crowded around you. When the military formation moves, if you fall to the ground, you don't need the enemy to fight, and your companion's feet will send you to the King of Hell to report. If you want to practice martial arts, the first thing you need to practice is your steady legs. Standing among thousands of troops, you can be as stable as Mount Tai. If you don't have this foundation... don't practice!"

When the nine young men heard this, they opened their mouths wide and were so surprised that they couldn't get together. Didn't Brother Zhu oppose our rebellion, but just teach us to strengthen our bodies? Why did he hear what he said, we seemed to be going to rebel and fight...

"Why are you stunned? You haven't practiced yet!" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted.

The nine young men were immediately snatched by his sniff. The messy thoughts in their minds quickly closed, and they honestly split their legs and stole a horse.

"Very good! Stand all night and don't move." Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and walked back to his room.
Chapter completed!