After all, Guo Zixing is a clown, and he will never be able to get on the stage, let alone be an elegant person.

We don't need to spend too much time talking about him.

Now let's get to know another person.

Before talking about this person, I would like to give him a relatively fair evaluation in my opinion.

This person is small and has no strategy.

I personally rate him as an out-and-out mountain gunner.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, all the heroes in the world rose up, and he seemed unwilling to be left alone. Under the oppression and deception of the Yuan Dynasty's brutal rule, he was so angry that he swore a blood oath with seventeen other accomplices, and then rebelled in Caoyanchang.

His name is: Zhang Shicheng.

Okay, let's take a look at his true face.

Name: Zhang Shicheng;

Former name: Zhang Jiusi;

Nationality: Han;

Birthplace: Baijuchang, Xinghua, Jiangsu Province (now Dafeng City, Jiangsu Province);

Occupation: private salt dealer;

Main achievements: The establishment of the Zhou regime at the end of the Yuan Dynasty;

Date of birth: August 23, 1321;

Time of death: October 9, 1367;

Cause of death: Suicide by hanging (suicide by hanging);

Character quality: Don't mess with me, otherwise I want you to look good!

Lifestyle habits: kill people with a quick knife and make quick decisions.

Slogan: What are you looking at? If you look again, I will cut you.

Status: Nouveau riche.

He amassed huge wealth by selling illegal salt. Among the leaders of the anti-Yuan uprising in the late Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng was a well-known rich man. He was known as the most unfaithful and forgiving, and Shicheng was the richest man.

On August 23, 1321, Zhang Shicheng was born, the eldest. In the following years, his three younger brothers Zhang Shiyi, Zhang Shide and Zhang Shixin were born.

Zhang Shicheng's family was not wealthy when he was a child, because his hometown in Taizhou is located on the southeast coast. Every midsummer, he would be hit by typhoons and the tide would flow in. In this case, the newly renovated land would be destroyed instantly, and a year's worth of land would be destroyed.

There was almost no harvest.

When the sea water receded, thousands of fertile fields turned into saline-alkali land, making local farmers miserable.

Although natural disasters could not be avoided, man-made disasters ordered by the imperial court made them even more breathless.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in the Central Plains ruled by the Yuan army, due to the extreme extravagance and extortion of the Yuan army, the country's financial resources were unable to make ends meet. In addition, due to successive years of droughts and floods, geological disasters continued to occur, and people complained and complained.

After the natural disaster, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty would not care about the life and death of the people.

What they only care about is fine wine, women, peace and happiness. As long as the unscrupulous people pay their tribute money on time and in the right amount, everything will be fine.

As for their life and death, they don't care, just let them fend for themselves.

None of my business!

Under the influence and exaggeration of this kind of thinking, a major event happened shortly afterwards, which made the already stretched Yuan Dynasty machine even worse. That is, Han Shantong and Liu Futong rebelled in Yingzhou.

When the rebels rebelled, the Yuan Army, as the only political body at that time, had the responsibility and obligation to suppress it.

But no matter which dynasty, wars cost money.

Every time the army takes a step forward, it has to prepare mountains of silver and piles of grain and grass. People have to deal with money to eat horse chews.

In the eyes of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, people's money can be fooled, and those unruly people's money can be deducted, but the army's money must not be manipulated.

As members of one's own clan, brothers who came from the Horqin Grassland, and brothers from the same mother-in-law, their lives are his own.

As the last line of defense of the Yuan Dynasty, the army cannot be ambiguous.

But soldiers are also men, they also need to have fun, they also need good wine, good food, and the company of beautiful women singing and dancing.

Brothers are like brothers and sisters, women are like clothes.

Your woman is my woman.

Which of us brothers is following whom?

Then I won't be polite.

You're welcome, why are you so polite?

Under the influence of this kind of extravagance and alcohol, the combat effectiveness of the Yuan army was constantly weakened. The iron hooves that once traveled all over the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and were feared by barbarians and Russian foreign devils had long been transformed by the demands of alcohol and women.

Gotta be lazy and undisciplined.

The Mongolian cavalry led by Genghis Khan was no longer the steppe wolf that people called nightmares.

Now they are still wolves, a group of perverts who will only be jealous when they see women, hungry wolves who will only live extravagantly and enjoy themselves when they see gold and silver, and jackals who will only oppress and exploit common people when they see them.

For them, the warlike genes in their bones have long since died.

Gengji Khan, who once led them to unify the Mongolian grasslands and conquer all directions, began to decline from the day he died.

The final destination will only be the abyss of sin and national subjugation.

Under this corrupt political rule, in order to raise military pay, the Yuan army did not hesitate to issue a large amount of salt and continuously raise the price of salt. In the end, the salt industry actually became the main source of revenue for the national finance.

The increase in salt prices is by no means a good thing for the salt people on the southeast coast, because the Yuan Dynasty regulations prohibited individuals from processing salt privately.

There was only one way for the common people to get it, and that was to buy it from the Yuan army.

I still have to decide the price, whatever I say is what it is.

Do you like it or not? Don't get out.

If anyone who dares to dry salt without permission is caught, there will only be one result: he will be taken out and his head will be chopped off.

But for the poor people, in an era when they are so poor that they can only wear underwear and sell their children, how can they still have money to buy expensive and poor quality official salt.

The sea water is right in front of you. If you don’t bask in the sun, it won’t bask in the sun. If you bask in the sun, it won’t bask in the sun.

It’s all money anyway, so why not do it.

Inspired by this kind of thinking, there will inevitably be bold and careful people who risk their lives to do it.

Zhang Shicheng is one of them.

Due to the meager income from transporting salt to the government, Zhang Shicheng, together with several of his brothers and a few bold villagers, started a business of selling private salt. On the pretext of transporting salt to the government, they took a portion of the private salt with them and sold it.

Give it to local wealthy households to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.

Those evil businessmen also seemed to know about Zhang Shicheng's business of selling illegal salt, so they often threatened to report to the government. Not only did they not give Zhang Shicheng salt money, but they also beat and scolded him.

Since Zhang Shicheng himself was of low status and selling smuggled salt was illegal, Zhang Shicheng and others had no choice but to swallow their anger.

After being treated unequally, all Zhang Shicheng could do was smile apologetically, trying to exchange peace between the two parties with a humble smile.

But there was definitely hatred in his heart.

He looked at the ugly guys in front of him who were extremely rich, had pig brains and fat intestines, and had big bellies as if they were ten months pregnant. There was a murderous cold light in his eyes, but his face was still full of smiles, and he secretly cursed these guys.

A beast that eats people without spitting out their bones.

You mountain cannons, don't give me any trouble.

Don't let me be proud of you. I'll let you be happy for a few days first!

Just wait, one day I will get my capital back with interest.

When the time comes... hum, I will definitely make you look good!

Finally, in the thirteenth year of the reign of Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, in 1353, Zhang Shicheng, with strong thoughts and feelings that he could no longer tolerate it anymore, angrily launched an armed riot.

In order to prevent leaks and strictly keep the news secret, Zhang Shicheng and seventeen other passionate salt people made a blood alliance in the North Pole Hall in Caoyan Field. They picked up the pole used to carry salt and quietly sneaked into the salt policeman Qiu Yi in the cold wind.

In his home, this bully who usually harmed his neighbors was beaten to death with a stick.

Subsequently, eighteen people rushed into the homes of local wealthy families, opened the warehouses, distributed food and money to the local people, and then burned the houses clean.

This is a very famous event in history: the Eighteen Pole Uprising.

Then everyone unanimously elected Zhang Shicheng as the leader of the rebel army. With the wealth he gained from selling illegal salt and looting corrupt officials, he quickly assembled a large number of troops and captured Taizhou in one fell swoop.

At this time, the Yuan army was faced with the dilemma of rebels. It was not appropriate to make enemies everywhere, so they chose to persuade Zhang Shicheng to surrender. After all, Zhang Shicheng had helped them before, so he knew them and understood each other. The foundations of the two sides were relatively familiar. It would be a good idea for the Yuan Dynasty to surrender him.

It shouldn't be difficult. With the attitude of giving it a try, they sent Zhao Lian, the provincial political officer, to bring generous gifts to persuade them to surrender.

Zhang Shicheng, who heard the news of surrender, did not refuse directly, but welcomed the visitor happily.

However, when he fully accepted the gift brought by Zhao Lian, Zhang Shicheng, a former private salt dealer, showed his ferocious face. He was so murderous that he smiled and raised the long sword in his hand. Li Qi was in a situation where there was no way to escape.

Then, he chopped him alive while laughing.

After killing Zhao Lian, he led his army to defect again.
To be continued...