A month has passed quickly, and although the preparations are still not satisfactory, there is always something to face.

An ordinary scissor sailboat set off from Keelung Harbor, and in addition to Xu Chen and Yang Ziyun, there were only twenty teenagers carrying long wooden boxes on their backs.

Sail with the morning and arrive with the stars.

The city of Fuzhou is not much different from a month ago, if the only difference is the appearance of a rebel camp on the south side of the city of Fuzhou and on the other side of the Min River.

Every day, the rebels would attack the city with great vigour, fighting for a whole day before they called in.

Tonight, the defenders of Fuzhou had just repelled another round of rebel attacks when Xu Chen's ship arrived.

When he saw Lu Hao again, Xu Chen didn't see the haggard he expected, he was as rich as jade, his clothes were fluttering, and when he got closer, he even smelled a faint scent of sandalwood.

Thinking of the inhuman days that he had been dreaming of sleeping at night this month, Xu Chen's face immediately darkened: "You kid has been very moisturized this month!"

Lu Hao smiled, and after seeing Yang Ziyun behind Xu Chen, he said with a smile: "I can be so idle this month, all thanks to Miss Yang! If it weren't for Miss Yang to transfer her troops, whether Fuzhou City could be held is still between the two. ”

When Xu Chen heard this, he suddenly said, "Are you acting again?"

Seeing Lu Hao nodding, Xu Chen smiled and said, "That's fine, in this way, it is unlikely that the rebels from other places will come." ”

The initial strength of the rebels was not much, and there were only more than 30,000 sailors, which was still the children of the Yang family that had accumulated for a hundred years.

At the beginning, the damage of the first battle of Yangzhou was almost all these elite soldiers, and after taking Quanzhou, although it was easy to attack the city along the way, casualties were always inevitable.

Now, except for more than 5,000 people left in the north to defend Xianxialing, almost all of the rest of the soldiers have been transferred to Zhangzhou to defend against Wang Zhonghei.

Except for a few big cities such as Fuzhou, most of the prefectures and counties only left 100 wounded soldiers, plus the recklessness of the rivers and lakes that have been absorbed these days, as well as all the hooligans and ruffians and other three-no-personnel recruited, it is useless to defend the city, it is just to ensure the basic order in the local market.

As for the vast countryside, it is still controlled by large and small families, and the people of each family are strong and strong.

In fact, the situation of the rebels is already quite crisis, if it were not for the huge advantage of the naval division alone, and the choice of Fujian, a base area surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on the other, the rebels' manpower would not be able to control such a large piece of territory at all.

The most troublesome thing is that in addition to placing officials and troops in Yangzhou City, Wang Zhongsi is now adopting a steady and steady strategy.

Although the officers and troops still did not advance an inch in Zhangzhou, the fighting continued every day, although the casualties of the officers and troops were much greater than those of the rebels. But the rebels are also dying every day, and the ones who are still dying are the experienced soldiers of the Yang family.

Although Li Yi has begun to recruit and train new soldiers, the rebels are already an unrighteous army, and the people everywhere are still interested in the Tang Dynasty, how can they train in a down-to-earth manner, let alone go into battle to resist the king's division.

The most direct manifestation of the lack of a ruling foundation is the inability to collect taxes, and the money obtained from the initial robbery of the big families in the cities has gradually been squandered, and the teams sent to the townships and villages to collect taxes have without exception met with strong resistance from the villagers, with little success.

If the rebel high-level does not adjust their strategy in time, they are afraid that this sensational cause will not be able to be maintained.

And if the rebellion ends early, I am afraid that Xu Chen will not be able to support the completion of the plan.

Xu Chen, who was worried about the great cause of the rebels, turned his head to look at Yang Ziyun when he thought of this, and said with a smile: "Can you do a favor?"

Looking at Xu Chen's good-looking smiling face, Yang Ziyun was stunned for a moment, but she woke up instantly, and after shivering, she hurriedly said, "What do you want to do?"

Xu Chen's smile was still gentle, and he proposed: "Why don't you go back and talk to your father, hurry up and work hard, otherwise your Yang family's great cause will not be able to support it!"

"If you don't have an idea, I can help you with a few!"

"For example, if the taxes of the townships and villages do not come up, in fact, it is not difficult, it is nothing more than differentiation and co-optation, one hand and one hand sweet dates, how can there be an ironclad place in this world, as long as you look for it carefully, you can always find some oppressed classes. ”

"As for you, don't always position yourself as a rebel, you should find yourself some righteous name and the like, such as 'fighting local tyrants and dividing the land'! For example, 'all men are created equal'! and 'all are talented' and so on, first shout the slogan and find the toiling masses who support you!"

"Don't always engage in some tricks to deceive children to confuse the people, that won't work, have you ever seen a country that can be obtained by deception?"

"This is economic, and military! Then it's easier, either rush over and kill Wang Zhongsi with a knife, or be troublesome, go to Chang'an to do some anti-plot or something, and now the relationship between Wang Zhongsi and the emperor is poor! Why don't you know how to seize such a good opportunity?"

Yang Ziyun swallowed slowly, opened a pair of apricot eyes, and said to Xu Chen's expectant eyes for a long time, "What do you want to do?"

Then he said excitedly: "Could it be ...... Did you agree with my suggestion?"

"Okay, I'll go tell my dad right away, we've got another good general!"

After finishing speaking, he was about to leave, but Xu Chen hurriedly grabbed her.

Yang Ziyun turned her head decisively, squinted at Xu Chen, and said very unhappily: "Hmph, I know you are talking nonsense!"

"That's not nonsense!" Xu Chen said very seriously: "Although this position cannot be changed, we can still seek common ground while reserving differences! In some respects, we can also carry out limited cooperation!"

"For example, I need time now, can I trouble your father to help me get some! I can provide you with some food, weapons, and so on!"

During this period of time in Keelung, in addition to helping to transform weapons and equipment, he tried to pull Xu Chen down to the rebel camp more than once.

Today's Yang Ziyun has also fallen into extreme contradictions, the great change in her father's temperament is just a trivial matter, and more than ten years of anger needs to be vented, and being a daughter can naturally understand.

However, now her biggest concern is that her feelings for Xu Chen are getting deeper and deeper, to the point that the ideal of recovering the country that has been instilled by her family for so many years can be shaken for Xu Chen.

However, despite her wavering, she never completely removed it from her mind, hoping that if her father did not want to pursue a great cause, she would be able to give herself a high-sounding reason to pursue her love with ease.

However, my father is even more paranoid than more than ten years ago, and his desire for great cause is extremely strong, how can he give up?

So Yang Ziyun had no choice but to turn her attention to Xu Chen, hoping to pull Xu Chen down to her camp, but she knew that Xu Chen was determined and did not have much hope for success.

So on that day, Yang Ziyun took advantage of the sudden predicament to take advantage of her weakness a little, hoping to fly away with Xu Chen and ignore these troubles.

However, Xu Chen was more resolute than she imagined, and in vain, in the following days, he kept trying to persuade Xu Chen to change camps and work with them to create a rebellion against the Tang Li family.

Seeing that Xu Chen still didn't mean to let go, Yang Ziyun pouted and said, "What's wrong with us?"

"Anyway, you don't mean to be a Tang Shunmin, you just want power and population! Follow us to do it, then you can be any official you want, and my father is such a daughter, if you ...... If only he ...... That...... That's not up to you!"

Xu Chen shook his head slightly, and said again: "I really don't have much sense of identity with the Li family dynasty, and I don't care much about who is the emperor!"

"If you have a good chance of success, it's okay to work with you!"

"Where do we have no hope of success!" When Yang Ziyun heard this, she immediately said angrily: "Although we have fewer people now, and the territory is not large, but now Yang Ting and that incompetent guy are dead, with my father, Uncle Kong, and the military advisor Li Yi, there are not many problems at the top at all, right?"

"Besides, if you are also added, are you still afraid of the officials of the Li family?"

"This is political! Speaking of military, although we are still a little short of the army, the sailors are unique!"

"Except for you monsters, the Li family's sailor is our opponent?

"As for the land battle, there are weapons made by you, plus me! There are still unwinnable battles? It's a big deal, every time I fight, I will go out and kill their main generals, and it will cost a few more spirit stones!"

In this way, Yang Ziyun has said it more than once these days.

However, Xu Chen still shook his head and sighed lightly: "I told you, your idea is really good, maybe you can really succeed if you spend more time!"

"But what I'm lacking most now is time!"

"According to the method you said, it will have to encroach on the past little by little, and it will take at least nearly ten years to lay down the entire Datang. After the defeat, it will take many years to quell the rebellions in various places. When the world really settles down, it will take many years to resume production, but do I have that much time now?"

"The general trend of the world is indeed divided for a long time, and it must be united for a long time, but it also needs to be intensified to a critical point before there will be a change of dynasty!"

"Today, you are just a rebellion with one family name, and you can't represent the voice of the people of the world at all! The Tang Dynasty has been established for a hundred years, and the foundation of its rule has long been deep-rooted, and the common people have long been accustomed to the Li family being the emperor, so how can it be possible to completely change it without spending decades?"

"Why do you care about the opinions of these ordinary people?" Yang Ziyun argued: "Li Shimin's sentence is very right! Water can carry a boat and also capsize a boat, but few people understand his implicit meaning, the small people are indeed water, but even if a drop of water gathers into a vast ocean, there is no wind and no power, it is just a pool of stagnant water! What role does it play?"

"Yes!" Xu Chen's voice raised slightly, and said, "But do you know what the wind is?"

"It's not a great change in heaven and a bad etiquette!

"This world is not the emperor's at all! It belongs to all the great families! The royal family is just the most powerful one among them!"

"Qin Shi Huang seems to have abolished the feudal system, but in fact, family politics has always been the only one on this land!"

"The basis of the small-scale peasant economy determines that all production must be combined with all the labor of a family in order to be reaped, and in the vast countryside, all the labor of digging holes, competing for water, sowing seeds, harvesting, etc., must also be combined with the strength of the whole village!"

"As long as the foundation of agriculture remains, production collectives will inevitably be formed in the form of villages, and what can distinguish these collectives?"

"Who would trust an outsider but to have the same blood on their bodies?"

"This is the real foundation of family politics in the land of China!"

"Agricultural production takes land as an indispensable production element, which is destined to the families with surplus wealth will spontaneously start land annexation, and those who are getting richer and richer will begin to educate their children to read and write, and then enter the court as officials, using the power of the government to protect their own interests, and at the same time use this power to accumulate more wealth and annex more land!"

"Is there any of those great families today who didn't come from like this?"

"And the so-called world peace, except for strange things like your Yang family and Ying Zheng, is almost always because the contradiction between land and population is becoming more and more intense, which eventually leads to landless farmers taking risks. But what is the use of relying only on the peasant revolution like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang?"

"The key is to see if these big families will get involved!"

When Yang Guang was here, the contradiction between population and land was not fierce, and the legacy left by Yang Jian was enough for him to be corrupted, even if there was a rebellion in one place at a time, it was not a big deal, and it was enough to turn back in time and put down the rebels. ”

"But the chaos in the world has given hope to those families who were not suppressed by Yang Jian during his reign!

After saying this, Xu Chen sat down and drank a cup of tea, although Yang Ziyun was still ignorant, but when he saw Xu Chen talk about his ancestors, he listened quietly.

After moistening his throat, Xu Chen continued: "Yang Jian may not want to suppress the wealthy families, but when he seized the throne, he relied on the support of these wealthy families, and when he ascended the throne, the world was not unified, so he could only continue to rely on the strength of these families. ”

"Actually, it's nothing, the means are clever and can still be suppressed, like Li Shimin and Wu Cong, they use it when they use the family, and if they don't obey, they will kill it, they are not soft at all, at this point, even Li Longji is doing well!"

Speaking of which, Xu Chen seems to have returned to the time when he was in college with his classmates, and he has long forgotten to avoid this matter.

still talked eloquently: "But Yang Jian's heart is too soft, the Dugu family doesn't want to deal with it, and the Yuwen family doesn't want to deal with it either, so they beat Yang Su painlessly, but they returned the military power to others!"

"What kind of emperor should you be so good-hearted!"

"In the end, Yang Guang killed his brother and got the position......"

Speaking of this, Xu Chen was shocked, turned his head to look at Yang Ziyun, and smiled apologetically: "Don't be angry!"

"I'm not Yang Guang's descendant!" Yang Ziyun said coldly.

"That's good! That's good!"

So, Xu Chen continued: "In fact, the period of your rebellion is similar to the situation at the time of Yang Guang, and the most fundamental contradiction between land and population is actually not sharp. However, politically, how can Yang Guang compare with Li Longji today? At least in terms of winning the hearts of the people, Yang Guang is much inferior to Li Longji!"

"And the most important thing is the reaction of the family!"

Of course, most of the people who rose up to resist at the beginning were the people who were oppressed by tyranny, and the families at this stage were all in the wait-and-see stage, and the so-called seventeenth road or eighteenth road came in the later stage......

"Eighteen!" Yang Ziyun reprimanded with a pretty face.

"Yes!Eighteen!" Xu Chen continued: "How many of these so-called Eighteen Road Anti-Kings are not from the big families or powerful people from all over the world? At least these people have the support of the wealthy families behind them, or they can invest in it! Otherwise, where will those robbers get the money and food to recruit troops and horses?"

"And the Li family in Taiyuan was a big family in Jinzhong hundreds of years ago!"

"Therefore, at this time of rebellion, it is not enough to rely on the peasants alone, if you want the general trend of the world, you have to let these wealthy families stand up and resist together!"

"But do you have that now?"

"Now that the rebellion has been more than half a year and almost a year, which big family has expressed its intention to invest to you?"

"Even if you don't get their support, at least you have to provoke their ambition to conquer the Central Plains! Let them see that the Li family's rule has a crisis, and as long as they stand up, it is possible to gain hegemony in the world!"

"But now, is this possible? Even the craziest people don't think that the Li family's rule is in crisis right now! Because now that the Li family's rule their interests have been determined, they don't think, or you don't let them see the hope that they will be able to obtain greater benefits after overthrowing the current order!"

"Then how are you still rebelling?"

"I ...... I ......" Yang Ziyun was angry and said angrily: "It's a big deal, I'll kill them one by one! With my current cultivation, can't I do it?"

"You really can't do it!" Xu Chen's expression became serious, and he said lightly: "First, it is because each family and clan has a lot of force, and you know this very well!"

"Second, I won't allow you to do that!"

Yang Ziyun listened to Xu Chen's cold words, her heart ached, and she shouted loudly: "Do you just want to go to Chang'an to be a good official of the Li family?"

After venting a sentence, Yang Ziyun suddenly said with a resentful face: "It's a big deal...... It's a big deal, can I always be small?"

"Poof!" Lu Hao, who had been listening quietly beside him, couldn't help but squirt out a sip of tea, and then hurriedly turned his face to the side, but the corners of his mouth were constantly twitching, and his shoulders trembled.

Xu Chen's face immediately darkened, and he said coldly, "Can you be sensible?"

"It's time!

"Yang Guang was angry and resentful at that time, and it was not until the eighteenth road anti-king stopped that the world recovered until Li Shimin ascended the throne for several years!"

"I still have so much time to wait for you to change the dynasty? Those cultivators haven't eaten me alive sooner!"