Hearing that the landlords and gentry were going to organize a "returning home group" to fight back, Ye Chunsheng decided to defend his current happy life to the death. Before the Huai Army and the Jinyiwei came, Ye Chunsheng rented the ten acres of paddy fields from Ye Jingzhou's family, and needed to hand over more than 70% of the harvest to Ye Jingzhou every year, and also paid heavy taxes. The rest were even a luxury to eat dry meals. In normal times, there were only two meals of porridge made from rice bran every day, plus sweet potatoes and other life. If the harvest was not good, the family had to rely on wild vegetables or even grassroots bark to spend the day. Moreover, the government would not exempt the taxes for the farmers to not have enough food, and to borrow usury to pay the tax.

What kind of land taxes, silver, corvee labor, silver, fire consumption, messy and complicated taxes made Ye Chunsheng and his family breathless.

The boss Ye Jingzhou is a juren, and his family must have tax-free land, but Ye Chunsheng is not the turn of the tax-free land to plant. Those tax-free land are all Ye Jingzhou's trusted slaves or people who have been married to him. The land planted by Ye Chunsheng has to be taxed, and land taxes and other things are transferred to their tenants.

This has been done for generations, his grandfather is like this, his father is like this, and he himself is like this. If it weren't for the Huai Army, his son, grandson, and descendants would have to continue to live such a life. There is no hope in life, just like in a dark abyss, there is no light to see living.

As for letting your child take the imperial examination? You should take a shower and go to bed. You have everything in your dream. Take the imperial examination? Don’t you need capital? Send your child to a private school, and the tuition fee is not something he can afford. And a few years ago, his son starved to death, and even this dream completely lost his mind.

The harvest was not good back then, and the servants in the yamen and local gentry came to urge taxes, but their son starved to death. Ye Chunsheng secretly cursed the emperor sitting on the dragon throne in the capital.

But after the Huai Army and the Jinyiwei arrived, he realized that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty actually loved the people. They were all corrupt officials and gentry riding on their heads to shit and urinate. They were the bad guys who really oppressed themselves!

I heard that the clothes worn by His Majesty the Emperor had been patched, and there was basically no meat on the dining table every day, and the Queen even had to weave cloth herself.

It is really unimaginable that the emperor lived such a miserable life. In the minds of these peasants, isn’t the emperor even the hoe he used is gold?

Every year, farmers pay so much land tax, silver, corvee labor, silver and various taxes. Where did they go? Why is His Majesty the Emperor so poor? They are all colluded with corrupt officials and all the money fall into their pockets.

Under the heavy pressure of heavy taxes, all the farmers in the north rebelled. However, the emperor asked the corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry to donate silver, but none of them donated silver. Later, the emperor escaped from the capital by luck. When he passed by Yangzhou, he saw a gentry eating a meal. The money spent was equivalent to the emperor's annual meal. As a result, the emperor was furious and asked the Jinyiwei to take down the family.

Ye Chunsheng was not educated and could not read. These things were told by the Jinyiwei. He only knew that these Jinyiwei were his benefactors.

But the "returning home team" is about to be fought back. Once the "returning home team" is fought back, they will definitely kill the Jinyiwei and take back the land from their own hands.

Can you agree? Of course not!

So Ye Chunsheng became a militia. He was a little older, but he was the only man left in his family, and the rest was a daughter who was about to marry a soldier.

The prospective son-in-law followed the Duke of Chu to conquer those corrupt officials. Ye Chunsheng had to take up his weapons to protect the fields he had finally obtained and the Jinyiwei who gave him the fields.

In the county town, a new yamen was established, called the County Armed Forces Department, which was under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate and Dianshi.

The new county magistrate in the county is a burly man of three or five thick face, full of murderous aura, and you can tell at a glance that he was a martial man from a warrior. However, this county magistrate from a warrior was very kind to ordinary people like Ye Chunsheng.

If the original system was followed, after the Longchuan County Magistrate was arrested for rebellion and rebellion, the new county magistrate should be sent by the imperial court. However, the court now does not have enough manpower, and the place has just been defeated, and the imperial cabinet cannot take care of the place for the time being, so Li Guodong simply appointed a veteran as the county magistrate himself.

Wu Fu's role as county magistrate must have violated the Ming Dynasty's ancestor system, but in this chaotic world, who can take care of so many things?

After Ye Chunsheng joined the militia, he fired a bamboo spear sharpened with bamboo, and then conducted queue training on the beach by the river outside the county town.

The newly joined militia built a temporary military camp outside the county town. Anyway, it is the slack season, and Ye Chunsheng and the others will conduct one-month training in this military camp.

During the first few days of queue training, many jokes were made, and many people couldn't even distinguish left and right. When the instructor shouted "turn right", many people turned around and faced with their comrades, and the team became chaotic.

The instructor used a whip to tell those who made the mistake and gave them a long memory. Many people, including Ye Chunsheng, had whip.

During the rest of the training, Ye Chunsheng found the instructor and asked in confusion: "Sir, we stand still with bamboo spears every day, otherwise it will be like turning back and forth. What's the use of this?"

"Team training is the foundation and the most basic discipline of the army. Although you are not regular soldiers, if you want to protect your home, you must know that on the battlefield, you can only strictly abide by the orders! The commander retreated without permission when he retreated, and he should be killed! Today you were hit by a whip. If you go to the battlefield in the future, if you make a mistake, it would be a loss of your head."

"When will this queue train be trained?" Ye Chunsheng asked again.

"A month, one month later, we will send you weapons, some are spearmen, some are musketeers, some are crossbowmen, and some are shieldmen. You don't need to fight in the wild, just guard your village." The instructor replied.

The five types of militia are spearmen, musketeers, crossbowmen, small gunners and shield players (not sword players, except for the large shield used to protect comrades, holding a short spear in the right hand). They are all the cheapest and easiest types of troops to train. As long as you have two months of training, it is absolutely fine to use the walls to defend the city.

Currently, there are more bird guns and turtledog-foot guns in Li Guodong's hands than rice. A large number of captured bird guns and turtledog-foot guns, as well as tiger squat guns and Folang machines. Li Guodong himself looked down on these firearms, and took advantage of this opportunity to equip these firearms to the militia.

Just as the Huai Army in Northeast Guangdong was training militias in various counties occupied by the Huai Army, Li Guodong's Huai Army had already arrived outside the Chaozhou Prefecture City.

The Chaozhou garrison general Che Renzhong thought that the Chaozhou Prefecture was strong and attempted to resist stubbornly with the city wall.

The Huai Army set up artillery large and large, and launched violent artillery bombardment at the Chaozhou city wall. The whistling shells kept falling on the head of Chaozhou city like hail, causing the city bricks to crack and gravel to fly across. The flowering artillery shells fired by the mortar cannon landed on the head of the city, exploding balls of fireballs.

Of course, Li Guodong would not completely expect to use cannons to bombard the solid city walls. While using cannons to suppress the defenders on the city, the simple shield of the Huai Army carried sandbags and approached the moat and threw bags of sandbags into the moat. It took only one day to fill a section of the moat.

Next, the Huai Army used the rifled gunmen on the Wanglou car to suppress the long-range firepower of the defenders at the city, and then asked the auxiliary soldiers to push the chariot converted from the ship to approach the city wall.
Chapter completed!