Wang Jinbao, who comes from Luochuan County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, has been in a pretty good mood recently. He is not unhappy at all about leaving his hometown to go on a crusade, but rather feels elated.

He is a farmer from the countryside of Luochuan County, but he is not an honest farmer, but the kind of second-rate man who has no intention of farming.

And he can't compare to people like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Gao Yingxiang. He is a brave warrior, and even if he is a gangster in the countryside, he is still the eldest brother. But he doesn't have the ability, and he doesn't dare to do anything against the Ming Dynasty, so he can only do something

He is a sneaky person. Sometimes he also helps the landlord Wang Xiucai's family in the village to collect rent and force debts. In this town and village, those who collect rents and force debts are all relatives of the same clan. The landlord, Xiucai Gong, wants to pretend to be a good person, so he cannot personally do it.

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And people like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Gao Yingxiang are too fierce, their attacks are inconsequential, and the prices they charge are expensive. Therefore, the landlords like to use scoundrels like Wang Jinbao. No matter how vicious they seem to be with their teeth and claws, they really let him kill people and set fire to them.

He didn't have the courage, that is, he just acted like a rogue and harassed the elders of the same clan, as well as the older girls and younger wives. This made them unbearable, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and pay the rent and repay the interest on the Yama's account.

However, with the severe drought in Shaanxi for several years, the landlord Wang Xiucai no longer dared to collect rent. When a landlord encounters a small disaster or famine, of course he will force the farmers, even if they cannot force them to produce food and money, they will force their daughters to do so.

It's a good thing to take it home and sleep for a while. But if it really encounters such a big disaster where there is no harvest, they will be afraid!

How could they not know that the government forced the people to rebel? If the people rebelled, they would not immediately kill the officials. If they wanted to kill, they would kill gentry like them first.

Moreover, the simple working people of China are still in a state between being rebellious and not being rebellious—eating from the rich!

Hundreds of victims rushed to the landlord's house to eat and drink... until the landlord was reduced to a poor peasant!

In years of catastrophe, the government generally doesn't care about such things. In years of catastrophe, if there is no civil commotion, thank God. Why do you want to provoke the people to rebel? Just eat the big ones... Anyway, those who are officials

They are not locals, they don’t care!

Even if the government is willing to take charge, ordinary landowners cannot afford that benefit, because the county government officials cannot take care of hundreds or thousands of hungry people. This matter requires troops! Wang Xiucai is just a scholar, and he does not live in seclusion in the countryside.

Senior officials, how can you recruit troops without giving any benefits? If you really want to spend money to recruit troops, then you'd better pack up and run away.

So starting from the second year of Chongzhen, Wang Xiucai's family moved to Luochuan City and didn't care about the affairs of the village... With the drought like this, where can I still receive rent interest? Run away

In the countryside, if someone eats a rich family, they won't even be able to cry.

Once Wang Xiucai ran away, second-rate men like Wang Jinbao suffered. Without the support of Wang Xiucai, and the business of extorting debts and rents, he couldn't even do things like stealing chickens and dogs - with the drought like this, where would there be chickens and dogs?

Is it okay to steal? Besides, this guy usually offends a lot of people, and no one in the village wants to see him. Even when he is about to starve to death, no one gives him a helping hand.

Just when he was lying in his dilapidated house waiting to starve to death, there was no way out... The Ming Dynasty sent out Mingjun and asked the victims of Shaanxi to go to Xi'an to eat Lao Zhu's food

Big business!

Most of the people in the village had gone. Wang Jinbao, who was almost starving, crawled out of the house and begged everyone to take him to Xi'an to eat at a big restaurant.

Everyone thought he was pitiful, so they fed him what he stuttered and let him follow him to Xi'an. From then on, he lived a dream life - he didn't have enough to eat, he didn't starve to death, he didn't have to work, and the most important thing was that there was no gap between the rich and the poor.

Everyone is a beggar, so no one will think that he is a useless snack who can't do anything.

And something that made him even more happy happened in the fifth year of Chongzhen. He, a second-rate man who could do nothing except sneaking around and playing tricks, actually became a person who was useful to the country and the people!

He suddenly transformed and became a member of the Shaanxi Regiment Training Army Luozi Camp, and he was also a captain of ten!

Although he only oversees nine regiment members (10 people in total including him), does not have any rank, and only eats the rations of ordinary regiment members. But Wang Jinbao still regards himself as an official of the Ming Dynasty!

This is really a feeling of pride, standing out, and majestic, and the whole person feels a hundred times more energetic.

Not long after he became the tenth commander of the regiment, Wang Jinbao's Luozi camp was ordered to escort thousands of hungry people from Luochuan County into Xiangyang Prefecture, Huguang, and were assigned to Fangjiayan Town, Gu County under Xiangyang Prefecture.

Big house.

Now Wang Jinbao has an opportunity to finally use what he has learned over the years!

Wang Jinbao lived to be in his thirties, and his greatest achievement was not to bully the good by pretending to be powerful. When he was in Luochuan County, he pretended to be Wang Xiucai and became a scoundrel in the village. After his parents died,

I haven't worked hard since then, and I still have food and drink and I haven't starved to death.

But now, his background has been upgraded from a scholar to an emperor. As the emperor's lackey, he was put into Fangjiayan, which is full of paddy fields and many tile-roofed courtyards. Of course, he has to... eat

Already ordered!

He wants to eat meat buns!

It’s still the kind of roujiamo that fills your mouth with oil when you take one bite!

Quite a few years ago, when Wang Xiucai celebrated his fiftieth birthday, he ate such a meat bun in the Wang family mansion... The taste was something he would never forget for the rest of his life!

I remember when he was a gangster in Luochuan County, Wang Jinbao imagined that one day he would be prosperous and would have to eat meat buns like this every day, two a day - yes, two, not three, because he didn't have any at that time.

I have thought about three meals a day, and I also think that when I become rich, I will still have two meals a day...

But when he asked Widow Zhang who had escaped from the same village to eat meat buns (he was a friend of Widow Zhang), he got a negative answer.

Widow Zhang cannot make Roujiamo for Mr. Wang Shifu because there is no meat and no noodles - Fangjiayan is full of rice fields, there is no wheat, and ordinary people do not have flour. If you want to eat "Roujiamo", it is okay

The most I can do is make a meatless Roujiamo. But this Roujiamo is really hard to make. It has neither meat nor steamed buns, so it can’t be eaten with air? If Mr. Wang Shifu really wants to eat it, he can

The only option was to go to the Fang family mansion to find a solution. Everything was available there.

But this Fang family mansion is not an ordinary place, it is a Jinshi place! It is the ancestral home of Fang Gongyue, the Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi, and the current magistrate of Songjiang. Moreover, the power of the Fang family does not only rely on Fang Gongyue. Look at Fang

The place name of Jiayan can also tell how awesome the Fang family is.

Zhang Pu, the magistrate of Luochuan County who led the hungry people of Luochuan County to settle in Fangjiayan to eat at the wealthy family (he, the magistrate of Luochuan County, was also miserable, and had not seen the mountains, rivers and ravines of Luochuan County for a long time) repeatedly gave instructions to his regiment members.

, we must restrain the hungry people, and we must not disturb the peace of the Fang family.

Of course, the Fang family also had to use rice to feed the hungry people who lived in the big households in Fangjiayan... After all, tens of thousands of armed hungry people were making trouble in Fangjiayan, Gucheng County, Xiangyang Prefecture.

The prefect of the border area was too late to intervene.

In short, the Fang family can't touch the butt of a tiger, while the hungry people in Luochuan are so vicious that they may want to pluck out the tiger skin and sell it... Only the Fang family takes the lead in bringing out the rice, so Zhang Pu can control the people below as much as possible.

people.

But the peace that the beggar magistrate Zhang Pu, who was a Jinshi, tried hard to maintain, was destroyed by a second-rate man who must have starved to death in the original history.

Wang Jinbao must have had a few too many drinks that day, and he was so dizzy that he couldn't suppress the glutton in his stomach, so he called his nine men and headed towards the Fang family mansion, carrying spears to scare people.

When they arrived at the place, Wang Jinbao's sneaky habit came back again. Instead of going upright to the front door to ask for food or drink, he walked around the house and went directly to the back door. He didn't knock on the door, but pulled out a dagger.

The door rails were picked. When the door opened, it was the back kitchen of the Fang family's mansion. Several cooks were busy preparing meals - it turned out that the master of the Fang family was going to treat Zhang Pu to dinner today! An old scholar from the Fang family was in the back kitchen.

Here, I personally took command. When I saw the back door suddenly being pried open, and a few Shaanxi rice dumplings in green clothes and white hats came in, I immediately became angry. I stepped forward and scolded: "What are you doing? How dare you break into the Fang family's mansion?"

Wang Jinbao was still a little confused. When he heard this Huguang man ask, he answered truthfully: "Well, I just want to eat Roujiamo. Do you have meat or steamed buns here?"

The old scholar's hometown was suffering from these beggar soldiers. He was very angry, and Zhang Pu was in the house now. Of course he was confident, so he opened his mouth and scolded: "You beggar, how can you deserve to eat meat, waiting to be eaten by the army?"

Come on! This is the Jinshi Ranking, do you dare to break in? Let me tell you, Zhang Zhixian of Luochuan is having a drink at my house. When I take it, you go to see him..."

As he spoke, the old scholar went up to arrest him. Wang Jinbao panicked and wanted to run away, but was grabbed by someone. In a hurry, he actually thrust out the knife in his hand and inserted it into the old scholar's chest.
Chapter completed!