When Li Fuda said this, he sighed softly and said: "The Red Turban Army swept the world, and its power is unstoppable, but it's a pity that it can't escape the fate of being used, and in the end it becomes someone else's wedding dress!" ”

Shen Yanqiu seemed to have an understanding, and glanced at Li Fuda: "Could it be that the sect leader has other plans?" “

Li Fuda sighed secretly: "Clever! Haha smiled, said: "I know that this little bit of thought can not hide from you, yes, this seat is studying the events of the past generations of sect leaders, from which all the understanding, although my Maitreya Sect with doctrine, to gain the support of the people, can quickly have a lot of power, once the world is in turmoil, my Maitreya Sect takes advantage of the situation to revolt, it is indeed a great achievement, but unfortunately, after all, it is congenital insufficiency, can not become the climate, and finally can not escape being used, made a wedding dress, or was taboo by the courtiers, secretly assassinated, so I Maitreya Sect wants to achieve great things, What is needed is no longer ordinary people, but an army! “

Shen Yanqiu said: "This is why the sect leader is trying to assist the Han King Zhu Gaoxi's purpose?" “

Li Fuda nodded: "Yes, Zhu Gaoxi is the king of the Ming Dynasty, and his prestige in the army is extremely high, if he doesn't take advantage of it, it's a pity, and besides, if he is determined today, he wants to seize the country, but it is not so easy, so I try my best to assist Zhu Gaoxi, the king of the Han Dynasty, and take the opportunity to infiltrate the disciples of my Maitreya sect into the army. In this way, you can take this opportunity to hold the military power! ”

Shen Yanqiu nodded, and said: "The sect leader said this, the subordinates understand, the sect leader asked me to stay in the prosperous land of Hangzhou, secretly recruit troops, those bandits and rogues who have no way to make a living in the rivers and lakes, deserters, fugitives, and guilty prisoners of hard labor are secretly gathered, these people are because of their unique skills, once they are used, they are a powerful army!" ”

Li Fuda laughed and said: "This seat is exactly such a plan, this tiger and wolf division, is the killer of this seat, the king of Han is about to raise troops, between the court and the king of Han, there must be a big war, at that time, a little to establish meritorious service, trusted by the king of Han, after holding heavy troops, and then the heinous crimes committed by the king of Han, one by one announced to the world, the world is ignorant, and then it is not for the use of this seat, the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty are shaking, the civil and military officials are dissatisfied, I Maitreya Sect takes advantage of the situation to raise troops, hehe, the seizure of the world is just around the corner! “

Li Fuda said proudly, raised his head and laughed, his eyes fell on Shen Yanqiu and Xiaoyue's young figures, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said in his heart: "When the time comes, will this seat reign in the world, are you still afraid that you will not obey?" Thinking of the scene of pressing Shen Yanqiu under him and ravaging him, he was very proud in his heart, and he laughed again.

The three of them drank tea and talked, and before they knew it, the night outside the window darkened, Li Fuda glanced out the window and said, "It's dark this day, and I don't know how Protector Wei is preparing?" ”

Shen Yanqiu said: "Wei Protector is strong in martial arts, witty, and has never missed a job, this time he is doing a big thing, and it is natural to be slower?" ”

Li Fuda nodded and said, "What Hall Master Shen said is that this seat is too anxious, if the situation is stable today, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, it is not easy to find someone to do these things, I will wait and wait!" ”

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The two were talking, there was a commotion outside the building, and after a while, there was a tom sound at the door, Xiao Yue glanced at Li Fuda, and said, "Maybe Protector Wei is back?" ”

Li Fuda nodded and said, "Open the door quickly!" ”

Xiao Yue heard the sound and went to open the door, only to see a tall middle-aged man, quickly dodge in, walked in front of Li Fuda, hugged his fists slightly and said, "Sect Master, subordinate Wei Fu is back!" ”

Li Fuda said "En" and said in a low voice: "How are things going?" ”

Wei Fu's face showed joy, nodded and said: "The subordinates have lived up to the trust of the sect leader, and they have gathered a lot of people, and they are willing to rush to the Jiangnan Canal with the sect master——?" ”

Li Fuda was overjoyed: "Okay, good, well done, once the Jiangnan Canal is destroyed, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal will be impassable, so hehe, as the prince of the prison country, he has to leave Nanjing and come to Hangzhou to investigate, so that the assassination will be much easier!" “

"The sect leader is clever, and his subordinates are very impressed, but now I ask the sect leader to rush with his subordinates earlier, and the brothers in the sect are waiting for the sect leader to come in person!"

Li Fuda laughed and said, "Good, good! This seat is going! “

The excavation of the Jiangnan Canal, the earliest can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms Sun Wu era, the Sun Wu regime in order to communicate Nanjing and the Taihu Lake Plain and dig the Jiangnan Canal, and then the successive dynasties have been continuously strengthened, to the Tang Dynasty basically formed the current pattern, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty six years of re-digging and widening the Yangtze River south of the canal ancient road, forming the Jiangnan Canal. The Jiangnan Canal and the Tongji Canal and the Yongji Canal built in the Sui Dynasty connected the Qiantang River with the Yangtze River, the Huai River, the Yellow River and the Haihe River, forming a fan-shaped Zhanbu River with Luoyang as the center and to the northeast and southeast.

After continuous transformation and governance, the Jiangnan Canal now enters Zhejiang from southern Jiangsu, and is divided into three lines: eastern, central and western. The east line is the ancient canal line, from Pingwang to Hangzhou via Jiaxing, Shimen, Chongfu, Tangqi and Wulintou; The middle line is from Pingwang, through Wuzhen, Lianshi, Xinshi, Tangqi and Wulintou to Hangzhou in Zhejiang; The west route enters Zhejiang from Zhenze, Jiangsu, and passes through Nanxun, Huzhou, Linghu, Deqing, and Wulintou to Hangzhou. So far, the Jiangnan Canal has become the most important and busiest section of the entire Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, this section connects the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, it can be said that it is responsible for the dance supply of the entire capital, not to mention that since the relocation of the capital to Beijing, every year from all over the south through the guò canal will be the southern wood, tea, silk, porcelain, grain, cloth, salt, oil, and other rare materials in the north to Beijing, as well as more north. It is the capital in Nanjing, and the Jiangnan Grand Canal is also an important way to connect the north.

It is the extreme importance of this section of the canal, so the emperors of all dynasties have attached great importance to the canal in the south of the Yangtze River, and every year they have to send a large number of farmers to repair, expand and dredge this section of the river transportation to protect the normal operation of the river transportation in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although this measure, somewhat costing people's power, but this is the best for the people of Jiangnan, the dredging of the Jiangnan Canal, that means that there is an opportunity to make money every year, carrying, leading the way, that all require a lot of manpower, poor people, some strength, as long as they can make money, a little strength is nothing, so the Jiangnan Canal is dredged every year, but few people complain.

But in the past two years, there are a lot more complaints than in previous years, this is really no wonder the people of Jiangnan, the Yongle Emperor is very talented, build a treasure ship to go to the West, repair the "Yongle Canon", if these are not enough, you can move the capital, five times to conquer Mongolia, send troops to Annam, years of war, millions of Jiangnan population into the north, plus the war killed a large number of soldiers, so that the population of Jiangnan has decreased sharply, the annual construction of the Jiangnan Canal laborers are also pitiful, the three canals along the way silted up a lot, after the autumn harvest of each year, Even when the canal was built, for two consecutive years, there were too few migrant workers to build it, which made the construction time longer, thus delaying a lot of farm work, not counting, and the annual transportation of cargo ships also made them lose a lot of income.

Back and forth, many people have a sense of dissatisfaction, but they are often poor people, even if there is a lot of dissatisfaction in their hearts, but they are helpless, only hope to dredge the canal earlier, take advantage of the autumn harvest to take advantage of the autumn harvest, good on the canal to pick up some work to carry, earn a little income, stay in the New Year, so that their mother-in-law, children to buy decent clothes to wear.

"Hey, there were a lot of floods this spring, which washed away a lot of gravel, trees, and a lot of silt along the canal compared to previous years. On a protruding rock on the left bank of the canal, there stood a young man, in his twenties, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, if it were not for the peasant costumes, he thought he was a talented scholar who had passed the examination, the young man looked at the looming silt in the river in front of him, sighed heavily, and said to himself.

On the boulder behind the young man, there was an old man, the old man was about fifty years old, he looked kind and kind-eyed, he was frowning and smoking dry tobacco, listening to the young man's words, he also glanced at the canal in front of him, spit out a puff of smoke, sighed slightly, and said: "The Jiangnan Canal, about thousands of miles long, relying on these more than 300 people alone, is the dredging day and night, and it may not be dredged by the end of the year?" ”

The young man frowned slightly, this time the dredged migrant workers, are Danyang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Wujiang, Jiaxing, Tongxiang and other places gathered ordinary people, if you can't dredge the canal before the New Year, then it means that these people, not only can not go home during the New Year, is pinned on the stall in the New Year, with coolies to earn some extra income is also disappointed, waiting for more than half a year of the family, but they are counting on this bit of silver to buy a few clothes for their children, buy some New Year's goods, without this silver, Is the river still being cleaned? “

The young man's surname is Li, a single name is Hang, the old man behind him is surnamed Liu, because he is the third in the family, he was given the name of Liu Laosan, no one knows his real name, both of them are natives of Hangzhou, and the work of calling migrant workers to dredge the canal every year fell on the two of them, thinking about such a thing, the two have been doing it for almost five years, it can be said that among the migrant workers, there is quite some prestige, if it is not for them, relying on a single order from the imperial court, no one may come to build the river.

However, since the Yongle Emperor moved the capital to Beijing, the grain amount transported from the south to the north by sea was only 70,000 stones, and in the sixth year of Yongle, it increased to 650,000 stones. In the twelfth year of Yongle, the amount of grain transported from the canal to Beijing increased to 500,000 stones, and another 400,000 stones were imported by sea. By the 16th year, the grain supply from the canal to Beijing had reached 4.6 million stones. These have cost a lot of people and material resources in Jiangnan, plus the Yongle Emperor has been fighting Mongolia for many years, and most of the soldiers required are the population of Jiangnan, which has greatly weakened the people in Jiangnan, so the people who cleaned up the Jiangnan Canal have also been reduced to more than 300 people at the beginning! “