I wield power with my innate talents, and forge the Heavenly Court.

Chapter 6: Four teams of one hundred men arrive at Wu Family Village.
Seeing that the group from Xiaoli Village had all fallen into a heavy, despairing state, Wang Chao couldn't help but step forward and ask one of his acquaintances.

"Li Shu, how is the situation in your village now?"

"What can we do? We're completely out of food. We can only wait to die now."

Li Shu's tone was filled with resentment and helplessness, as well as a deep sense of despair and confusion, as if he had no idea where the road ahead lay.

"Oh~!"

After listening to Li Shu's story, everyone couldn't help but sigh in unison.

Sadness, despair, confusion—all sorts of emotions were displayed on everyone's faces, and even the surrounding air pressure seemed to drop a little.

Even Wang Dahu and the others fell silent at this moment.

If they weren't forced to, why would they give up their good life to do something that could cost them their lives?

"We're going to Master Wu's house to steal our grain back."

Wang Chao glanced at everyone, making no attempt to hide his thoughts, and spoke directly.

Firstly, when talking to these ordinary people at the bottom of society, using roundabout language, they may not understand.

Secondly, the current situation has already driven them to a dead end.

Now, the dynasty is directly pointing out the way for them.

"you."

The moment Wang Chao finished speaking, Li Shu and the others stirred up a commotion.

Only then did they notice the machetes, sickles, hammers, and even kitchen knives that Wang Chao and the others were carrying.

If you don't notice it at first, that's fine; even if you're a little surprised, you won't take it to heart.

Now, after hearing what Wang Chao said, they instantly understood that they were preparing to rob grain.

"You...you're committing murder and rebellion!"

Someone couldn't help but say, somewhat flustered.

For these ordinary people, they did not know the difference between officials, clerks, and servants.

To them, they were all officials.

Including Wu, who was also the village head and an official, they represented the imperial court.

To attack the Wu family and seize their grain would be considered an act of murdering an official and rebelling.

"Heh heh, so what if we kill officials and rebel? In this world, if Heaven won't let us live, and the court won't let us live either, are we just going to wait here to die? We might as well rebel!"

Wang Dahu, holding a woodcutter's knife, took a sudden step forward, glared with bloodshot eyes, sneered, and said through gritted teeth.

"This"

Some villagers in Xiaolizhuang couldn't help but take a step back, hesitating slightly.

However, many others stared intently at Wang Chao, Wang Dahu, and the others, their breathing becoming increasingly heavy.

Clearly, they were tempted.

It is true that in today's world, natural disasters and man-made calamities have forced them to make such a choice.

Seeing that many villagers in Xiaolizhuang were already interested, Wang Sanshun took two steps forward and said to the crowd:

"We can't really be considered to be rebelling, can we? We haven't attacked the county town."

Moreover, Master Wu is not really an official; we are just reclaiming our own grain.

Without that food, we'd be doomed.

Do you really want to starve to death?

Upon hearing Wang Sanshun's words, a sense of hostility immediately arose in the hearts of those present.

They were all in their twenties or thirties, in the prime of their lives, who would want to starve to death?

Even those who were initially hesitant stood firm.

In particular, the statement that Master Wu could not be considered an official gave them tremendous courage.

"Isn't Master Wu our village head? How come he's not considered an official anymore?"

However, some people still asked a question with some hesitation.

"The village head is not considered an official; the county magistrate is the real official."

"Y-really?"

"Of course!"

Then, Li Shu frowned instantly, a fierce look flashing in his eyes, and turned to look at the people of Xiao Li Village, saying:
"Since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well take a gamble and maybe I can survive."

Moreover, after we robbed Master Wu, we can hide in the mountains, and those officials might not have time to bother with us.

Upon hearing this, everyone realized that it made some sense; if these people went into the mountains, the officials might not be able to keep an eye on them.

These days, aren't there plenty of bandits and outlaws? Yet the government hasn't sent troops to suppress them.

In everyone's mind, Wu, the village head, had already been removed from the list of officials.

Regardless of whether people believe the claim that the village chief is not an official.

They are now consciously or unconsciously suppressing it in their hearts for the time being.

Whether it's self-deception or something else.

They all need this explanation to strengthen their convictions.

In an instant, everyone present echoed, "Yes, yes, yes, we robbed the damn thing."

"You allow Master Wu to rob our grain, but you won't allow us to take it back?"

"If you won't let us live, then nobody will have a good life."

The rest was simple: Wang Chao told them to go back to the village, mobilize the rest of the villagers, prepare their weapons, and then gather at the village entrance.

Xiaoli Village and Xiaowangzhuang Village are adjacent, but Xiaoli Village is much larger, with five hectares and more than fifty households.

Normally, there are six men per household. There may be some discrepancies here, but even after removing the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled, Xiao Li Village still has more than sixty people gathered together.

Looking at everyone, Wang Chao immediately selected the strongest group of people and assigned them to his team.

Then the size of the teams led by Wang Dahu and Wang Shi was expanded.

The original team of ten people was changed to a team of twenty people, and then the remaining twenty people were given to Li Shucheng to form a team.

The reason why the dynasty selected the strongest group of people was not to form cliques or build its own powerful forces.

He's not in the mood for that right now.

The reason the dynasty did this was simply because its army would be the main fighting force and the frontal offensive force going forward, so naturally it had to select the strongest group of people.

The dynasty did possess a certain amount of extraordinary power, and with its numerical advantage, it was confident that it could handle those dozen or so guards.

In fact, if everyone rushed forward, Wu's guards might not have dared to put up much resistance.

However, Wang Chao was worried that Wang Shi and Li Shu were just ordinary farmers. Although they had been driven to the brink, they were still somewhat timid in the face of Wu Yuanwai and his men, who represented the government.

What the dynasty needed to do was to break down the shackles and fears in their hearts.

Once they see blood, the hot-blooded crowd, led by him personally, will overcome much of their fear and timidity.

When the time comes, they'll swarm in. But what fighting power can a mere village chief's guards possibly have?

Actually, most people were mainly concerned about preventing anyone from Wu's household from escaping.

If someone escapes and reports it to the authorities, it will definitely attract the attention of government troops, and their lives will become very difficult.

Although choosing this path means there will inevitably be times when you have to face officers and soldiers.

However, it certainly can't be now.

The group of people were just a bunch of hungry villagers and didn't have much fighting power.

Perhaps they could still launch an attack against the servants and guards of those landlords and wealthy people.

However, when faced with a real regular army, they are just a flock of lambs to the slaughter.

As for the officials and soldiers being corrupt, they are still far better off than these disaster victims.

Anyway, the better we can delay it for as long as possible, so that the dynasty can make more preparations, right?
Therefore, apart from the squad personally led by Wang Chao, the other squads were mainly there to guard against anyone from Wu Yuanwai's family escaping.

Thus, including the Dynasty team of more than 30 people, there are a total of four teams, totaling nearly 100 people.

By the time everyone had lined up, the sun had completely set in the west, and the originally sweltering temperature had dropped slightly.

Afterwards, Wang Chao led everyone towards Wu Family Village.

Although everyone was starving and exhausted from the heat, they were already feeling weak and listless.

However, it's only a few miles from Xiaoli Village to Wujiazhuang.

In just over half an hour, the group arrived outside Wu Family Village.

Wang Chao looked up at the sun; it was probably late Shen Shi, around four or five o'clock.

Looking ahead at Wujiazhuang, apart from the large courtyard in the very center, it is no different from Xiaolizhuang and Xiaowangzhuang.

In fact, many places are not as good as them.

Because most of the villagers in Wujiazhuang were tenants of the Wu family, they didn't own a single piece of land.

The whole family rented land from Master Wu, and most of their grain was harvested. In the event of a disaster year, they had absolutely no ability to cope with the disaster.

People like Wang Chao, although they sold most of their land to Master Wu, still owned some land themselves.

Therefore, compared to the Wang family, these tenant farmers were probably in a worse situation.

Even so, they were still ripped off by Master Wu once again.

Master Wu is forcing them to either sell themselves into servitude and become his slaves, or starve to death.

Including Wang Chao and his group, Master Wu mainly forced them to sell their land and their bodies. It can be said that after a natural disaster, even if someone survives, they will end up penniless, and they may even become servants or maids in Master Wu's household.

However, this time, Master Wu is about to miscalculate.

Looking at the large mansion in the center of the village, Wang Chao and the others had fierce glints in their eyes and were breathing heavily.

After glancing at the sky, Wang Chao pondered for a moment.

To be honest, now is not the best time to attack Wu Family Village. It would be better to wait until night or even dawn.

However, unlike the dynasty, the people had not been baptized by the power of heaven and earth. Not only were they twice as strong as they were at their peak, but even their hunger and fatigue had been washed away.

If they wait until night or even dawn, the hungry crowd will likely be even less capable of fighting.

Does that mean that in the end, the dynasty will really have to fight and charge forward all by itself?
Although he was confident, he wasn't confident enough to challenge a team of one or two dozen guards all by himself.

Thinking of this, Wang Chao's eyes sharpened.

Since that's the case, let's just start fighting now.

(End of this chapter)