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Chapter 58 Chapter 11 Violent Carnival

Compared with the regular army, their organizational ability, military technology and tactical level are obviously quite amateurish. Their military textbooks are,Their military leaders, all self-taught, grew up through failure. They don't need the logistics department and the equipment department, and they can grab wherever they go.If a large number of hungry people come to vote, of course they welcome it.If no one comes to strengthen the team, they don't worry about it.During Sun En's uprising in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "the cities they passed through were burned and looted, and only the strong were left in the team, and the women, old and weak, were all thrown into the water."

Regarding the uprising team in the late Ming Dynasty, there are often such records: They wanted to develop the team, so they burned all the houses in a village and a village, and forced the young and strong in a village to join them.Holding knives, they asked one by one whether they wanted to go home or stay.If the person is ignorant and says he wants to go home, then they say, "Okay, I'll take you home." If you are willing to stay, they will also ask you if you have a wife and children at home.If you say yes, you still have to ask: "Do you want them?" If the answer is yes, then, sorry, I have to cut them down.If anyone escaped after being forced into a group, then either his ears or his nose would be cut off as a warning.

The hand accustomed to the hoe gripped the weapon awkwardly.Sharp blades make them feel fresh and exciting.The blade cut through the shackles tied to their feet by the ground, making them suddenly feel an unbearable freedom, and their bodies were light and floating, as if they were about to fly into the sky. These simple, kind and submissive farmers suddenly became another species that people did not understand. Their lives are maintained entirely by violence. They rob food, treasures, clothes, and women. Violence empowered them.Which woman they fancy, just put a knife on her neck, and which treasure they want, just point the knife at its owner.They entered the exquisite inner house of a rich family that they could not imagine before, and they can sit and waste as they like on the Ning style bed of a scholar lady.The silk that had never been worn before was worn on the body, and the heavy silver was stuffed in the pockets.

The income from knives and guns is obviously much faster and richer than that of hoes.We can imagine the burning passion of the rebels.Maybe at this time, they realize that their original life is not as good as pigs and dogs.Violence gave them for the first time far greater power and dignity than expected. They followed their leader willingly, conquering cities and lands, looting houses and homes, every day is a festival, every moment is like a carnival.Even if you die the next day, you are willing! They discovered the joy of violence. Of course, their soldiers are directed at the officials first.When Chen Shengchu started his army, "the counties and counties suffered from the violence of the Qin officials, and they fought to kill their chief officials, and they will win."Sun En raised his troops, and wherever he went, the magistrates of various counties were made into meat sauce, which was eaten by their wives and children. If they refused to eat, they would be "dismembered".At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the peasant uprising army "gained the officials of the Sui Dynasty and the children of the gentry, and killed them all."At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao fell into the capital. "All his apprentices went out to plunder, killing people all over the street, and the nest could not be banned. He especially hated officials, and killed everyone who got it."The Zhongxiang and Yang Yao peasant rebels in the Southern Song Dynasty also "burned government offices, cities, temples, temples, and homes of nobles, and killed officials, Confucian scholars, monks, witch doctors, fortune tellers, and people with feuds."During the Fangla Uprising in the Northern Song Dynasty, "several prefectures were trapped. Anyone who got an official must have his limbs cut off, his lungs and intestines explored, or boiled with ointment oil, shot indiscriminately from the clusters of dysprosium, and prepared to exhaust the poison of Chu to repay his resentment."And every time Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng destroyed a city, they must first kill the royal family and local officials.

The officials owed too much to the peasants, and the peasants encountered too much tyranny, greed, and injustice. Because they lacked normal channels for relaxation, their only attitude to deal with all the injustices in life was patience. However, extreme tolerance and extreme irrational violence are two complementary sides of a twisted personality.Under their obedient expressions, hatred and viciousness have accumulated over time.Now, all the ropes are cut abruptly, and the sinister, brutal and revenge desire suppressed in the deepest layer of human nature pour out. The moment they lose their minds, the most docile race in the world becomes the most vicious.Order now has to pay for its own rigidity. The most conservative and rational empire in the world will go crazy every few hundred years to express its years of depression.History gave them "fairness" in such a cruel way and completed their psychological relaxation.However, after this brief outbreak, what awaited them was another round of imprisonment and psychological torture that lasted for hundreds of years.

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