King Yang put his hands on his hips, looking very proud and confident.
Today he brought his brothers to break into this wealthy family, looted them, and then opened the granary to distribute grain. After hearing the news, the poor people from the nearby villages came to collect grain.
Diao Wu was sweating profusely as he was directing his men to distribute food to the people.
Li Moulue approached Yang Tianwang and asked, "Your Majesty, this harvest is quite a lot, enough to pay the brothers."
Yang Tianwang narrowed his eyes and smiled, "More than two thousand taels of silver, and some jewelry, calligraphy and paintings... Old Li, the young lady in this family is quite beautiful, do you want one..."
Li Moulue waved his hands repeatedly, "Stop messing around! You know the rules set by Zhang Tianshi. If I dare to mess around, he'll chop off my head... Heavenly King, have you memorized Zhang Tianshi's three iron laws?"
"I've memorized them all. Don't kill innocent people, don't bully women, don't take anything from the people... The rules set by Zhang Tianshi are great. They're considerate of the people. Could it be that he also came from a poor family?"
Li Moulue glanced at him and said, "He is a Heavenly Master, a deity who has descended to the mortal world to relieve suffering and save the people of the world."
A man as thin as a monkey walked up to Li Moulue and whispered in his ear for a while.
After listening to this, Li Moulue pressed the issue, "Slow Monkey, have you figured it all out? If you've wrongly accused anyone, the Heavenly Master will skin you alive."
The slow loris nodded vigorously. "I've figured it all out. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it."
Li Moulue took out a piece of silver from his pocket and stuffed it into his pocket, "Go back to your business."
The slow monkey nodded and disappeared in a flash.
The two of them were muttering to each other. Yang Tianwang pretended not to notice. After the lazy monkey left, he asked, "Was that little monkey also sent by Zhang Tianshi?"
Li Moulue did not hide anything and said truthfully: "Zhang Tianwang sent him here mainly to let him explore the way for us and to gather information along the way."
"What news?"
“Where are the bad guys?”
King Yang was stunned. Why was he asking this?
After a moment's thought, he suddenly understood, "So, he was the one who chose us to fight against the rich."
Li Moulue shook his head. "The fight against the local tyrants was all decided by Zhang Tianshi. Sloth Monkey was only responsible for gathering information."
"Understood."
Until today, King Yang finally realized that his every move was under the control of Master Zhang.
It's not bad to follow Zhang Tianshi. Except that you can't kill people at will, you can be free, drink big bowls of wine, eat big chunks of meat, and it won't hinder your wealth.
Although most of the money he got had to be handed over to Zhang Tianshi, he could still get a lot for himself.
Since the rebellion, these days have been the happiest days for King Yang.
The grain was almost distributed, so they started burning the land deeds.
The rich man of the family cried bitterly, hugged Diao Wu's legs tightly, and begged him not to burn the land deed.
That's his lifeblood.
Diao Wu kicked him aside, lit a fire, and burned the pile of land deeds.
A ragged man came before Heavenly King Yang and knelt on the ground with a plop. "Heavenly King, can I join you in the rebellion?"
Yang Tianwang was stunned for a moment, then smiled brightly, "We have rules here... disciplines. Everything must be done according to the leader. You can't do anything reckless. If you can bear it, I will accept you."
"I can bear it."
"Okay! I'll take you in... Diao Wu, let him follow you, and don't forget to tell him our rules."
"Okay!" Diao Wu came over cheerfully and pulled the man up, "You'll follow me from now on."
More and more people came to join the group, all of them were poor people.
King Yang changed his mind and agreed.
The team is getting bigger and bigger.
When he set out from Weishi, he claimed to have two thousand men, but the actual number was far less, only a little over four hundred.
There's no way, some people don't want to leave their hometown.
It is hard to leave a poor home. No matter how poor you are, you are unwilling to leave your hometown.
What we never expected was that after defeating a few rich people, people kept asking to join us.
Li Moulue saw that it was almost done, so he said, "Heavenly King, take a break, then go to the county town and scare the corrupt officials there."
"What are you going to do in the county town?"
King Yang felt a little uneasy.
Li Moulue saw this and hurriedly said, "Go there for a while, and then come to Kaikao City quietly at night."
Yang Tianwang blinked, his face full of confusion, "What's the point of doing this? Can't you just leave?"
"This is called a strategy. The main purpose is to let the court know that we are in Lankao... Heavenly King, don't ask, this is also Zhang Tianshi's idea."
Upon hearing that it was Zhang Tianshi's idea, Yang Tianwang stopped asking questions.
An hour later, the team appeared outside the county town.
The gates of Kaocheng County were tightly shut. The county magistrate stood on the dilapidated gate tower, leaning against the sunshade and looking towards the rebels. He saw billowing smoke and dust, and vaguely saw countless troops and horses running towards him.
The county magistrate shuddered and asked the county lieutenant beside him in a trembling voice, "Have the garrison troops and the local militia...all reached the top of the city wall?"
"They're all up here."
"How many people are there in total?"
"Five or six hundred people."
"Too few! Hurry up and go to the city to gather the young and strong! Quick!"
The county lieutenant agreed and hurried down the city wall.
A warhorse galloped over from the rebels and stopped at the city gate.
The men on horseback shouted to the gate tower, "Listen up there, you dog officials! Our king says we won't attack the county town unless you give us twenty sheep and ten mules. Otherwise, once we get inside, we'll kill everyone."
When the county magistrate heard that the rebels had only this request, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Isn’t it just twenty sheep and ten mules?
Give!
As for the court, I can’t take care of that much.
Send this group of thieves away as soon as possible. As long as they are not in Kaocheng County, they can go wherever they want.
A yamen runner leaned out from the top of the city wall and shouted down, "Our county magistrate has agreed. Go back and tell your king that we will deliver the things right away."
When King Yang heard that the county magistrate agreed so quickly, he immediately regretted it.
If I had known that the official was so straightforward, I would have asked for more things.
That's too little.
Li Moulue saw it and laughed inwardly.
After all, King Yang grew up digging dirt and has no experience.
But it doesn’t matter, I can eat roast lamb again tonight.
The county magistrate was trustworthy and quickly sent someone to deliver the sheep and mules.
King Yang led the team away.
I dare not stay any longer.
He still had too few men. Just now, according to Li Moulue's idea, he had people tie branches to the backs of their horses and run back and forth, raising dust to prevent the dog officials on the city wall from seeing their true strength.
The corrupt official was fooled.
Yang Tianwang sighed secretly, thinking that educated people are more cunning.
That night, King Yang left Kaocheng.
The next stop is Caozhou.
All his itineraries were planned by Zhang Tianshi and he could not disobey them.
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