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The Zhang family mansion is not far from Nanjiekou, only more than 300 steps.

Liu Sheng followed the officers and soldiers for more than a hundred steps, but could never find a chance to shoot the captain. Worried that the officers and soldiers arriving at Nanjiekou would cause difficulties for the rebels to invade the town, he simply took action directly and shot an officer and soldier commander first.

"There are crossbowmen!"

The reaction of these officers and soldiers was much better than that of the Fan Family Nursing Home. They screamed and immediately looked for places to hide.

Because most of them only wore cloth armor, it was difficult to withstand sneak attacks from crossbowmen on the street.

However, the street environment was complicated and these people could not find Liu Sheng for a while.

However, this complex architectural environment is very suitable for Liu Sheng to use his combat skills developed in the special forces of later generations.

So then two more corps commanders and a senior commander were shot dead by Liu Sheng.

Suddenly everyone among the officers and soldiers was frightened.

Even Cheng Wan, who was wearing armor, was scared and shouted quickly: "Go into the street shops!"

In fact, many officers and soldiers had already hid in without his order. Because the doors of the shops were locked, the officers and soldiers did not enter quickly, and Liu Sheng was asked to shoot a few more people.

But Liu Sheng was also seen because of this.

"The thief is over there, follow me!"

Cheng Wan shouted and rushed to the street, ready to chase Liu Sheng.

In his opinion, this is the only chance to deal with Liu Sheng.

If Liu Sheng was allowed to disappear from sight and then come back, they would definitely be shot one by one.

As a result, he rushed a dozen steps, but there was silence behind him.

Turning around, he saw that the other officers and soldiers had not followed, and he was the only one rushing.

"Damn it! They're all betraying me, right?!"

Swearing angrily, Cheng Wan quickly retreated under the eaves of the street, kicked open the door of the shop and hid inside.

The enemy is elusive, and the crossbow arrows are powerful and accurate. Even with armor, he is afraid.

Liu Sheng walked around and was about to scare the dozens of officers and soldiers again so that they would not dare to come out while hiding in the house, when he heard the shouting of killing at Nanjiekou changed.

"The bandits are invading!"

"Run!"

"Don't block my way!"

"···"

Then I saw many young and strong townspeople fleeing towards this direction.

Although these young men are tenants of several big families in the town, few of them are of the same mind as the big families - the big families charge high rents, and during the years of famine, no one sincerely helped the poor people, and many of their children even bullied the good people. , it’s strange that the tenants can be of the same mind as them.

Of course, the most important thing is that the fighting strength of the team composed of Dahu Huyuan and tenant Qingzhuang was far inferior to that of the Red Lady Rebels, so they persisted for a while against the obstacles at Nanjiekou before collapsing.

Cheng Wan and other officers and soldiers heard the movement at the entrance of South Street and saw the fleeing guards and tenants. They didn't care about the crossbowmen who might still be watching in secret. They took things from the hidden shops one by one and hurriedly Escape to the north.

Liu Sheng knew that the most important thing in Minggang Town was the Zhang family's grain harvest.

He was worried that the officers and soldiers, the Fan family or the archers would jump over the wall and burn the food, so he rushed to the Zhang family mansion without thinking of meeting up with the Red Lady and others.

Fortunately, he didn't see any smoke coming from the Zhang family mansion until he rushed back to it.

Some of the officers and soldiers who originally stayed in the mansion and the Fan family nursing home have fled, but some are still searching for the remaining wealth.

The few archers still guarded the granary compound, apparently hoping to rely on the thousands of stones of grain in the compound.

Liu Sheng only stared at the granary compound and didn't care about anything else.

After about seven or eight minutes, Lady Hong, Yang Heqing and the rebels rushed to the Zhang family mansion, went straight to the southwest, and surrounded the granary compound.

Liu Sheng appeared and said to the red lady: "There are about twenty or thirty archers in the courtyard. If they are pressed, they may burn their food.

But don't be afraid - try to persuade them to surrender first. If they don't know what to do, and the three of us join forces to rush in, they may not be able to burn food in time even if they want to. "

The red lady said: "Didn't you save them before? Are you here to try to persuade them to surrender?"

"also."

Liu Sheng cleared his throat and shouted: "Listen to the archers inside, you have been surrounded by rebels. Please put down your weapons and come out and surrender!"

After shouting, Liu Sheng stopped.

He unconsciously used the classic sentence patterns of later generations, and only after he finished shouting did he realize that it was a little weird.

Unexpectedly, just after he finished shouting, an archer inside asked loudly: "My benefactor, is this you?"

Liu Sheng: "It's me."

"My benefactor is a bandit...the leader of the rebel army?"

Liu Sheng glanced at the red lady and said, "That's right."

"Since my benefactor is the leader of the rebel army, as long as we promise to spare our lives, we will come out and surrender. Otherwise, we will light the cooking oil in the warehouse and burn the food utensils!"

Is there still cooking oil in the Zhang family's granary?

There must be something wrong with the Zhang family!

Liu Sheng, Lady Hong and Yang Heqing looked at each other and said, "It's important to keep the food."

The two nodded.

Liu Sheng then shouted: "I can protect you from death!"

After Liu Sheng finished speaking, about a minute or two later, the courtyard door opened with a creak.

The chief of the archers, Zhang Ao, came out first, followed by Li Niu and other wounded soldiers - a total of twenty-six people came out, most of them injured.

Liu Sheng walked over and asked, "Is there anyone inside?"

Zhang Ao said: "We trust our benefactor."

trust?

Liu Sheng doesn't think so.

Most of these archers knew that they could not really threaten the rebels, so they gave them a verbal guarantee of survival.

Sure enough, the matchmaker took people in to check and found that there was only one barrel of cooking oil in the granary.

In other words, what this group of archers said before about "burning with the food" was simply a lie.

Liu Sheng was not in a hurry to deal with this group of archers, but followed them into the granary compound.

He found that the grain storage buildings at this time were already quite particular.

For example, in the Zhang family compound, a row of granaries was built in the northeast and south. Each row had ten granaries. They were all built according to the standards of Ming Dynasty granaries, or even exceeded them.

The walls and floors of the granary are made of bricks, stones and lime. A large open space between the three rows of granaries is built with blue bricks and is used for drying grain.

There are large water tanks in front and back of the house to prevent fires. Even now during a severe drought, there is still half a tank of water.

As for other ventilation, moisture-proof, insect-proof, and bird-proof measures, they are all available.

"How much food is stored in this room?"

The red lady had learned about it from Yan Yuanshan before. After hearing this, she replied: "It's about two hundred stones per room. Most of them are not shelled."

"The Zhang family actually hoarded six thousand shi of food?" Liu Sheng was surprised.

Although the Zhang family is a big grain merchant in Runing and the largest landowner in Minggang, in the end they are still rural tyrants. They cannot compare with those super landowners who own tens of thousands of acres of land, or with hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of acres of land. King Zhu Ming is even more incomparable.

But think about it, the Zhang family already has more than 5,000 acres of farmland in Minggang. As long as they don't encounter a severe drought that wipes out the grain harvest, they can earn at least a thousand dan of self-produced grain a year. (In this civilization, summer wheat and autumn millet were grown in the north, and the yield in a normal year was calculated as two stones per mu.)

In addition, the Huaihe River connected the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River at this time, and the Zhang family had convenient water transportation from Huguang and Sichuan to Runing, so hoarding thousands of dan of grain was nothing.

The red lady said: "It's not six thousand dan. Some of the food racks are empty, and some are not full. I guess it's only more than 4,000 dan."

Liu Sheng once again thought of the plot in a certain film and television show where a landlord hid grain in multiple places, and said, "The Zhang family should have more than just this granary, right?"

The Red Lady led the rebels to destroy many landlords' homes, and she also knew the landlords' habits of hiding grain. She nodded and said, "There must be more. We will know after we bring the Zhang family here for interrogation."

"What are you going to do with the Zhang family?" Liu Sheng asked.

The red lady opened her mouth, but swallowed back what she was about to say, and asked: "What does Master Liu think of dealing with it?"

Liu Sheng smiled.

When the red lady asked this question, she obviously already wanted him to be the main one - even though she hadn't seen the "treasure place" yet.

After laughing, Liu Sheng thought for a while and then said: "Let's have a public trial."

"Public trial?" The red lady was confused.

Liu Sheng explained: "It is to let the common people judge whether they are guilty or not. If the common people think that they should be beheaded, we will behead them; if the common people think that they should be punished, we will be punished."

In fact, Liu Sheng had hesitation on whether to use a "public trial" to deal with the Zhang family.

Because a public trial is not as simple and random as it seems on the surface, organizers need to conduct certain research in advance and have certain ability to control the situation, otherwise two unfavorable results will easily occur.

Without research, if most of the people recruited are "good people" in the eyes of ordinary people, it will be easy to portray the rebels as the evil side.

Without the ability to control the situation, it will either fail to arouse the enthusiasm of the people to participate, leading to a cold start; or the situation will get out of control, with large-scale false accusations or people directly beating the person being judged to death, or even bad incidents of trampling on each other.

In short, a public trial is not easy, especially the first time. Organizers will face many difficulties.

But Liu Sheng felt that it was a good opportunity to try the Zhang family, and it could give the rebels some training and gain experience.

The red lady thought for a while, but then raised doubts.

“There are also many Zhang family members among ordinary people in Minggang Town, and there are even more tenants of the Zhang family, and everyone else is also a fellow Zhang family member.

In their eyes, we are foreign bandits. If they all say that the Zhang family is innocent and should be let go, or even ask us to keep the Zhang family’s food and money, what should we do? "

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