The First-rate Thief in the Late Ming Dynasty

Name: The First-rate Thief in the Late Ming Dynasty
Author: Autumn Chi

by Autumn Chi

ongoing History Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties Male Lead

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In the seventh year of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought and people ate each other. Chen Po climbed out of the pile of hungry corpses with only a blood-stained stone in his hand. He doesn't want to rebel, he just wants to live. But Ming refused to let him live. Then there is no life-rebel! Kill tax collectors, open official warehouses, and gather refugees. Treating others as a thief is a dead end, but treating him as a thief is a way out. While Li Zicheng was still thinking about how to attack the city, and Zhang Xianzhong was still calculating how much money he could steal, Chen Po was doing a few "little things": Set down seventeen laws to kill the rabble and turn the bandits into an army; On the way to escape from wasteland, he taught people to compost and select seeds, and to open up wasteland for farming next to the mountain of corpses; Gather craftsmen who are considered lowly and let them figure out how to make their knives sharper, their fire cannons to hit farther, and their armor to be thicker. The officers and soldiers suppressed him and found that the formation of this group of "rogue thieves" was more organized than the officers and soldiers, and their firearms were sharper than those of the border troops. Li Zicheng won over him, and he swallowed up the old camp elites who broke into the camp. As Jianzhou moved south, the Eight Banners cavalry roared in, but they ran headfirst into the iron wall-like phalanx and roaring artillery fire, causing their flesh and blood to fly everywhere. Hong Chengchou said to him: "This thief knows soldiers." Sun Chuanting commented on him: "An extraordinary bandit." Emperor Chongzhen wrote in the edict: "The top thief in the late Ming Dynasty must get rid of this beast!" Chen Po smiled. A top thief? No. What I want to do is to step on this mountain of corpses and sea of blood, climb to the highest position, and let this word "trailing thief" become the one that everyone in the future will call long live - the Taizu of the New Dynasty!