"rebellion?"
"Embezzlement of family property?"
Zhang Mingtu let out a long sigh, the anger in his chest did not seem to subside, but instead became more intense.
He loves peace and dislikes fighting.
He learned all his martial arts skills in his family, never argued with others, and was always kind to others.
As a result, struggle is inevitable for people living in this world.
The family has always been kind to others and has voluntarily given up a large part of its profits in order to make friends with fellow underworld people and deal with all kinds of people.
As a result, he made a fortune every day and still attracted attention, but in the end he was just making wedding clothes for others.
"Isn't this world allowing people to live well?"
"Anything that changes one's status is not allowed?"
Zhang Mingtu recalled the last memory of the scene where thousands of arrows were fired at once.
Thinking about the desperate and angry expression of clan leader Zhang Benben at the end.
There was also a fire slowly burning in Zhang Mingtu's heart.
The burning sensation caused his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys to ache.
"You won't give me a chance to live?"
Zhang Mingtu felt that he had retreated many times. When he encountered gangsters in the restaurant, he took the initiative to step back and invited many bodyguards to stay in the restaurant, thus eliminating the fight invisibly.
As a result, after running the business peacefully for ten years, he was kidnapped and blackmailed for the formula.
After being tortured severely, he killed the person with a single blow.
Later, he chose to hand over the recipe to his family. As the family's power gradually grew, it also attracted covetousness.
The other party not only wants the formula, but also the wealth accumulated by the Zhang family for ten years.
"If the old path doesn't work, then I'll try a new one. You're the ones forcing me to do this."
Zhang Mingtu gritted his teeth. He deeply realized that he would not get far if he kept a low profile.
Strength and wealth must be equal, otherwise in this era, you will be the fat meat in the eyes of others, and everyone will want to take a bite.
"Force is the foundation!"
Apparently, Zhang Mingtu, the future person who writes his own biography in the Book of Life and Death, also thinks so.
The most detailed information recorded in the Book of Life and Death is about the growth of martial arts, how to cleanse the marrow and exchange blood, open up all the meridians, and generate internal energy from the outside to the inside.
The internal conversions are detailed and written very meticulously.
On the other hand, not much was described, but Zhang Mingtu was secretly shocked.
In the year 833 of the Great Xia calendar, heavy rains lasted for several months.
The riverbank collapsed, flooding the entire county and causing countless casualties.
The victims had no food and riots broke out.
It was under this premise that the county magistrate at that time could easily label the Weiyuan Escort Agency as a rebel and declare it a crime.
The army surrounded Zhangjia and wiped out everyone from top to bottom.
Disaster victims arose everywhere and rebellion broke out.
The higher-ups just want to make sure that whoever is a rebel is a rebel.
Looking back, Zhang Mingtu couldn't help but feel ridiculous for being in this situation.
He even suspected that the current patriarch of the Zhang family was basically rebelling.
The armor and weapons received by the family were all standard military weapons, as well as special crossbows.
Although there were only forty or fifty bodies, they were enough to sentence everyone to death and exterminate all nine generations of their clan.
"The place is too small to support a dragon!"
Zhang Mingtu sighed secretly in his heart.
If in his previous life a local enterprise could sell its products throughout the province, or even across the country, it would definitely receive strong support.
For example, the Nanshan Pizza Hut mentioned in the previous life really had the support of Uncle Ji.
But here, everything will be directly confiscated by the higher-ups.
A century-long dynasty, a thousand-year-old family.
In the hearts of many people, there is more of a home but no country.
"The riverbank collapsed..."
Zhang Mingtu looked at the disasters that were briefly described in the Book of Life and Death. Besides being trembling in his heart, he also felt an uncontrollable discomfort.
Among the forces of heaven and earth, water and fire are the most ruthless and terrifying.
His mother had to flee because of the flood in Jiujiang County.
His grandfather also died on the way to escape. Although Zhang Mingtu had never experienced the flood, he heard his mother Wang Yulan talk about it every day, and he felt the same sense of unease in his heart.
"How could the riverbank collapse? Doesn't the imperial court send people to reinforce it every year?"
The western part of Jiangnan is prone to floods. Although it is known as the land of fish and rice, floods occur every year.
Even with cutting-edge science and technology in later generations, floods are inevitable.
Therefore, whether in the previous life or this life, the imperial court would allocate money every year to repair the dikes in the western part of Jiangnan.
Many of the young and strong men in Weiyuan Escort Agency went to build the dam.
Sometimes floods occur frequently. In addition to the officers and soldiers guarding the various passes, the escorts of Weiyuan Escort Agency will also be assigned tasks to guard some embankments that may burst, so as to give people advance warning.
Zhang Mingtu was not sure about the entire Jiangnan West Road, but in the Jianyi area, every household knew how to use water, and those who didn't could not even go far out of the door.
Because there are small rivers and banks everywhere, you have to swim around after walking a short distance.
"When the flood broke out, didn't the imperial court open its granaries to provide food relief?"
Deng Yuntu asked himself this question, but when he thought about what the county magistrate's son had done, he felt that these things were natural.
We can learn from history and understand the changes that are taking place.
There are many records of this in previous life’s TV dramas, movies, novels, and even history books.
Zhang Mingtu had seen too much: reselling grain from granaries, enriching himself during dam construction, and abusing his power for personal gain...
Whether it is building dams or managing granaries, it is a first-class lucrative job.
Even in modern times, management in this area is quite difficult and problems often arise, let alone in ancient times.
In ancient times, guarding warehouses and building dams without any intervention is simply a myth.
As for the court's inspection of the granary, there was a problem because there was not enough food in the granary or the dam collapsed after it was built.
As long as the problem doesn't occur during my tenure, there's no problem. Even if a problem occurs during my tenure, there's always a way to cover it up.
The lesson humanity has learned from history is that humanity does not learn from lessons.
No one thinks there is anything wrong with what is being done now, and no one thinks there will be any problems in the future.
Zhang Mingtu secretly compared his guess with what would happen in the future and found that his guess was almost right.
Obviously, it was an extremely tragic thing, but Zhang Mingtu inexplicably thought of a very famous sentence in history books. The words were very brief, but they were shocking.
"There was a great famine, and people were eating each other!"
“History always repeats itself.”
The fire in my heart is burning fiercely and is difficult to quench.
The murderous intent in his heart surged wildly. In Zhang Mingtu's mind, the tiger demon formed by the Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist became more and more wanton.
But Zhang Mingtu felt empty and inexplicably powerless in his heart.
The tiger demon's fists were strong and powerful, and it roared ferociously, but it didn't know where to pounce.
Feeling confused, Zhang Mingtu wandered around aimlessly and arrived at the martial arts training ground without knowing when.
When he came to his senses, he saw the one-armed old man looking at him with a smile, his posture gentle and his steps light.
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