Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Wolf Smoke Rolls and the World Is in Chaos
The 100,000 Great Mountains are in the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty, where the territory of the demons and the paradise of the beasts have settled here since the Terrans drove them out of the most fertile land. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info This is a cruel hunting ground, where the law of the jungle eats the strong, and the drama of life and death is staged every day.
The northern border pass of the Great Zhou Dynasty was stationed in order to prevent the comeback of the demon clan, but between the border pass of the human race and the 100,000 mountains, it was a long and narrow strip, a no-man's land composed of grasslands, Gobi and wetlands.
But now these no-man's land also has sporadic human activities and settlement, the reason is very simple, there are iron mines, coal mines, and most importantly, gold mines and salt pans, so although this place is far away from the pass, not far from where the demon clan is, it will be attacked by the demon clan at any time, but people are still happy to come in waves.
Tucheng, the most common fortress in this land, is scattered everywhere, and the walls are also very strong, and a small number of troops are stationed to protect the nearby civilians who are mining or boiling salt, and can also monitor the movements of the demon clan.
The two soldiers on the wall before dawn were about to change the guard, and Zhang Fatzi said, "Old man Yan, it's my place." ”
Old man Yan said: "It's finally changed, my old bones really can't stand it." ”
Zhang Fatzi said: "You'll be fine, you will be able to return to the customs soon, I still have to stay in this place for a year." "According to the regulations, the Tucheng garrison will be replaced once every three years after the expiration of the period, and you can return to the customs after three years.
Old man Yan sighed: "Who didn't come here like this, bear with me, you're not bad, you see that I'm not old enough to come here, but I can finally go back alive." "As I turned around, I seemed to feel something shaking in the distance.
"Fatty, what's that?"
"What's wrong, old man Yan, don't scare me. ”
"No, there's definitely movement. At that moment, a howl of wind swept by, followed by a long roar.
Old man Yan saw the opportunity and immediately squatted down to dodge, but Zhang Fatzi, who was still looking outside the city, was directly beheaded, and at this time Old man Yan really saw that this was a big eagle, the war eagle of the Bird Country! The old man Yan, who had been on the border for a long time, naturally knew that it was powerful, but this was facing the territory of the Beast Country, how could the Bird Country appear?
Don't think much about it, the eagle has swooped down to the old man Yan again, this time he is no longer with sharp wings, but with sharp claws, the old man Yan rolled on the ground to avoid the attack of the eagle, grabbed a torch and waved it indiscriminately, the eagle could not get close for a while, the old man Yan immediately turned around and ran two steps to throw the torch into the beacon tower, in just a moment there were flames surging, in the sky before dawn burst into the fire, and the red smoke rolling into the air was very obvious, in order to be more obvious, the beacon tower added a special dye, which can release smoke like blood。
And Old Man Yan also completed his last mission, and the eagle slid down again and crushed his head with its sharp claws.
In just half a day, eighteen earthen cities issued wolf smoke warnings at the same time, and the news quickly spread to the marshal's mansion on the edge of the town, Mo Yunhai read the information and suddenly felt bad, and immediately wrote an urgent document to report to the imperial court, and on the other side took out a wooden box wrapped in a yellow turban, he had a hunch that the long-sealed border cutting order would come in handy at this time, and sure enough, it was only a few hours before it was connected to several other wolf smoke warnings, and the demon clan was gathering, this was by no means a simple small number of demon clans plundering ordinary people, this was a precursor to a large-scale invasion of the demon clan.
Mo Yunhai immediately decided: "Immediately issue a border attack order and summon the princes of the world to rush to the aid of northern Xinjiang." ”
The war mechanism of the Great Zhou Dynasty turned rapidly, and the Demon Cloud Sea also took Chai Shengnan back to Butterfly Valley, hoping to get the assistance of the division.
As soon as he arrived in Butterfly Valley, he hurried to see the Lord of Dream Butterfly Valley, and Chai Shengnan also met Lin Yue and Yue Xianglan in Bishui Qingtan, and then the three of them chatted about the past three years.
Lin Yue was surprised: "In just three years, the world has been so chaotic?"
Chai Shengnan nodded and said: "The four major Kou are in turmoil, the court has no pay and no soldiers, and some courtiers have proposed that the state governments should recruit troops to guard the palace on their own, and the localities can also set up regimental exercises." ”
Lin Yue said: "Who came up with this bullshit idea?"
Chai Shengnan was quite interested: "Oh, the junior brother also thinks it's inappropriate?"
Lin Yue nodded and said: "Of course, once the local government has military and political freedom, it will soon become a separatist trend that cannot be broken, and within a few years, countless princes with heavy troops will rise." "History is always strikingly similar, and it keeps repeating itself.
Chai Shengnan nodded and said: "That's not bad, those courtiers are all rat-eyed people, they only think that they can control the world by holding the high-end authority in the capital, but they don't know that with soldiers and silver in their hands, how can those generals who are outside respect your order." ”
After all, he has been on the border for a long time, Chai Shengnan has seen this matter very thoroughly, and the ministers in the DPRK and China are still fighting each other for power, and the far-sighted nobles and military generals have already written to ask for transfer, just to release other state capitals so that they can control the military and political power of a state.
Compared with the court, Yue Xianglan was more interested in the four great cowards, and she asked: "Senior Sister Chai, what is the origin of these four cowards, they are so fierce, can't the imperial court exterminate them?"
Chai Shengnan nodded and said: "Yes, these four gangs of thieves can't help but gather responders, and there are many fierce generals and wise men in the army, which are different from the thieves in the past." ”
The so-called four great thieves are the four most powerful thieves in the Great Zhou Dynasty at this time, serving Kou: Gao Baohai, Yan Kou: Bai Jingcheng, Demon Kou: Leng Yue Qingyun, and Fierce Kou: Xia Sandao
The Northwest Warrior Xia Sandao was originally born as a horse thief, and later picked more than a dozen strong stockades in a row, gathering tens of thousands of horse thieves and border people in the northwest of the Great Zhou Dynasty, coming and going like fire, aggression like the wind, no one can control it.
In the southeast, there is Bai Jingcheng, a salt farmer, who was originally a smuggler of salt, and the imperial court was short of money, and all kinds of taxes followed, and the existing taxes were also greatly increased, and the tea tax and salt tax in the southeast states have made the tea farmers and salt people miserable, and the official salt price has repeatedly reached new highs, and the people who have been doing well for many days have also bid farewell to the days of having salt at once, and what about the vast number of poor people? Whether they can eat or not, the salt people's riots will inevitably occur.
In the year when Lin Yue stayed in Butterfly Valley, the north of the Muddy River flooded, and the two banks of the Muddy River were seriously affected, Dingbei County, Zhongshan County, Pingyuan County, Yuanlang County and Jiangmi County, more than 20 state capitals in five counties fell into a food shortage crisis, and the victims poured into various state capitals, causing countless disputes.
There were even unscrupulous profiteers who took the opportunity to raise grain prices, and in Changzhou there was a matter of raising grain prices six times in a row, and the rice jars in the people's homes were already empty, and some of the people who were affected by the high price of grain were exploited, so they gathered at the grain merchant rice store to stomp on the ground with bamboo poles, and sang ballads accompanied by bells and castanets, demanding that grain prices be lowered:
Brass bells, ringing.
The poor man's wife was hungry.
The family is poor, and the fields are light.
The bark of the tree is used as grain and grass to make soup.
The land is full of hunger and no one cares,
The old man is full of idle grain.
If the price of food is not lowered today,
It's going to make it hard for you to open.
Seeing that they were besieged and could not open, the grain merchants invited the Jianghu tourists who were taken in on weekdays to fight the victims, and the local government had long been fed by profiteers, so they didn't care about it. In that one case alone, more than 100 people were killed, and countless others were injured.
But the disaster is far from over, after the flood came the plague, and the people of the five counties suffered from illness again, just when there was no hope of survival, a ray of hope shone in front of everyone, worshipping the Holy Maiden.
It is rumored that the goddess felt the suffering of the people and sent her daughter to save the people, and the medicine distributed by the Worship of the Holy Woman did heal countless sick people.
Leng Yue Qingyun was originally the Taishou of Bazhou in Pingyuan County, and suddenly one day he claimed that the goddess Niangniang dreamed that his daughter was the reincarnation of the saint, and the goddess Niangniang gave him high mana to assist his daughter in saving the world.
Then the Holy Maiden Cult was established, and Leng Yue Qingyun used the position of Bazhou Taishou to vigorously preach, especially at the moment of this natural disaster, the miracles he revealed attracted hundreds of thousands of believers, and finally Leng Yue Qingyun raised an event in Bazhou a year ago.
The Holy Maiden Sect declared that the Great Zhou royal family was the embodiment of the fierce beast that caused trouble in the world, and the holy woman did her duty and vowed to destroy the fierce beast.
Chai Shengnan suddenly smiled and said, "You also know that holy woman, guess who she is?"
Lin Yue and Yuexianglan were puzzled, who do we know, it won't be from Butterfly Valley, Lin Yue thought of someone: "Could it be the ...... of Elf Island?"
Chai Shengnan nodded: "Elf Island, Leng Yue Guwei." Yue Xianglan said she couldn't believe it, Lin Yue nodded, sure enough, it was her, Leng Yue Qingyun and Leng Yue Guwei were like people who were related when they heard it.
Lin Yue asked: "Senior Sister Leng Yue Guwei is not like a person who will mix in the strife of the world, it must have something to do with this Leng Yue Qingyun." ”
Chai Shengnan said: "Yes, they are father and daughter. Lin Yue nodded in understanding, what should the father do if he rebelled against his daughter?
Yuexianglan asked, "Didn't the second master go to Elf Island?"
Chai Shengnan shook his head and said: "The master rushed over as soon as possible, but Ye Han and Uncle Ye didn't want to interfere, she said that she would go her own way, and the elf island would not interfere." ”
Lin Yue said: "This is very similar to our Butterfly Valley." ”
And the last of these four is the servant coward, Gao Covered Sea. His real name was Gao Dongsheng, and he later changed his name to cover the sea, which is to take the meaning of "covering the sea and turning the boat", which means turning the boat, that is, the meaning of anti-Zhou.
He was originally a migrant worker in Wang Ling, just because he was usually righteous and generous, and the migrant workers in the same battalion respected him very much, and the grain was in a hurry in various parts of the river flood, and the grain distribution standard of Wang Ling was also lowered again and again, and whenever everyone took the water called rice porridge and a dry food slightly larger than a wine cup, dissatisfaction immediately spread throughout the camp.
This royal tomb was also built for more than ten years, and the people gathered from all over the world, and some people never left after they came, while others could never leave.
Ding Daqiang is an ordinary man, and he is different from others, his wife is also on the construction site, because his family has no money and can't send the official errand, so he and his two brothers can always be on the wheel, he and his two brothers have come to serve, there are only old fathers and mothers in the family, but the official errand of Ding still goes to his house, his father's health is not good, and his mother voluntarily comes to work on the construction site, just ask not to be difficult for the old man.
It was also here that Ding Daqiang met his old mother who had been absent for many years, and the old lady had to sew and wash the pulp in the camp at an old age.
But today, the old mother can no longer eat, just because she is too hungry, the old woman is weak and knocked over the wooden basin in her hand, and splashes the washed sewage on the overseer general, and the overseer whips the old woman with a whip, and the surrounding migrant workers are both resentful and very afraid, after all, everyone here has been subjected to the long whip, Gao Dongsheng and Ding Daqiang, who are belated, hurriedly stepped forward when they saw this, Gao Dongsheng grabbed the hand of the overseer and whipped the general: "Stop me!"
Ding Daqiang checked his breath and found that the old lady had lost her breath: "Mother!!" In pain and anger, he pounced on the overseer, and his iron-like fist fell like falling rain, Gao Dongsheng couldn't stop it at all, and the overseer wanted to resist, but Ding Daqiang was already red-eyed and beat the overseer to death.
Gao Dongsheng hurriedly pulled him up: "Don't fight, stop, Daqiang, don't fight." The person was pulled up, and then the overseer was obviously out of breath.
Ding Daqiang, who was opened, cried, and the iron-like man cried a lot: "Brother Dong, my mother is dead......"
The surrounding migrant workers were very scared, and the overseer was killed, this is the people's food camp There are not many soldiers around the camp, but after such a fuss just now, there are already soldiers rushing over, and three or four soldiers pushed away the crowd "Get out of the way, get out of the way." ”
But he was very shocked when he saw the situation inside, and was about to leave to call out to his companions, Gao Dongsheng reacted and immediately shouted: "Stop them, otherwise we won't survive." ”
Some of the people were so frightened that they didn't dare to move, some of them blocked the way of the soldiers, Gao Dongsheng was known for his prestige among the people, and this roar really scared those soldiers, "What are you doing! What are you going to do!" Then he took out his knife and immediately slashed the two people in front of him, but things are often like this, I wanted to scare these people, but I didn't want everyone to really think that they were going to do it, and they were going to suffer, and the people who were already on the verge of breaking out finally broke out together.
Three or four soldiers were surrounded and fell to the ground with fists and kicks, seeing that things were getting bigger and bigger, Ding Daqiang panicked: "Brother Dong, what should I do, let's ......"
Gao Dongsheng gritted his teeth: "Brothers, the matter has come to this point, there is no way out, it is reversed, it is reversed, it is !!"
"Yes, I've had enough of this bird's anger a long time ago!"
"yes, it's damn it, or I'll die sooner or later. ”
"Brother Dong, let's do it, we listen to you!"
Gao Dongsheng led a group of people to break the terracotta figurines to be buried with the king, those terracotta figurines are with weapons, although there are not many large and small hundreds, taking advantage of the guards to prepare them to raid the people's camp in one fell swoop, the first thing is to take out all the stock and give food to all the people, and eating these grains is equivalent to joining the gang to rebel, do those people eat? The answer is yes, eat!
This procedure was repeated repeatedly, gathering, raiding, distributing grain, gathering people, in just three days, more than a dozen people's battalions gathered 70,000 or 80,000 horses, Gao Dongsheng changed his name to Gao Fuhai and raised the flag against Zhou.
The world was in turmoil, and powerful local generals and nobles also took advantage of the situation, and at this moment, the Northern Xinjiang Demon Clan, which had been silent for a hundred years, invaded again.
At this time, the bell of Butterfly Valley to gather the disciples rang, and it rang three times in a row, which was to call all the three generations of disciples, Chai Shengnan, Lin Yue and Yuexianglan to go to the main hall.