Ming Dynasty Rebel Bandits

Heaven and earth are not benevolent, treating all things like straw dogs. The Ming court is unjust, treating the common people like weeds and trampling them at will. A county magistrate can ruin a family, and a prefect can wipe out an entire clan. Yet even the cruelest tyrant should know that an ordinary man’s fury can make blood spatter five paces. At the start of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the rebel camp advanced on Fengyang Prefecture. A young bandit named Li Tianyi tightened his grip on the saber at his waist, gazed at the vast imperial mausoleums before him, and shouted, “House Zhu, I’m here to dig up your ancestors’ graves…”