Chapter 28: Establishing the Foundation
For a person like Zhao Heng who has practiced hard skills to the fullest, he is not afraid of the true qi of the inner family, and he is not afraid of swords and slashes, but he is a little irresistible in the face of endless poisoning plots.
If the Huashan Sect is the first sect of the righteous path in this world, then the Five Poisons Sect is the first sect of the evil path.
"The five elders of the Wen family, the master of the Five Poisons Sect......"
Feng Yuan's eyes flashed, and he realized in his heart that in the original timeline, when Yuan Chengzhi was preparing to assassinate Emperor Chongzhen in the capital, he happened to encounter a prince in the capital who rebelled.
This prince colluded with the eunuch Cao Huachun to recruit the Five Poisons Sect, the Shiliang Sect and many masters on the rivers and lakes, and prepared to enter the palace, but Yuan Chengzhi ruined the plan.
"It turns out that Zhao Zhilong has something to do with this matter!"
Feng Yuan couldn't help but laugh when he thought of the King Cheng who was ready to rebel, when Sun Chuanting's army was defeated in Tongguan and Li Zicheng was about to invade the capital, what was the difference between this and joining the Kuomintang in 49.
This plan can only deceive the five elders of the Wen family and the recklessness of the Five Poisons Sect, but anyone with a little wisdom will not get involved in this kind of thing.
As for why Zhao Zhilong was involved, Feng Yuan probably understood his thoughts.
He was the commander of the Beijing camp in Nanjing, with more than 200,000 battalions in his hands, and seeing the situation north of the river deteriorating, he may have been inspired to be ambitious, and was ready to take advantage of this chaos to raise his own title.
If the plan is successful, he will be a hero from the dragon.
Even if King Cheng's plan fails, it's nothing, and when the time comes, he just needs to clear the relationship. Anyway, in this year, as long as there are soldiers in hand, even the emperor does not dare to hold him accountable.
"Little Lord, we must be careful in the future, the poisoning methods of the Five Poison Sect are really impossible to prevent!" Jiang Yingjie said in a deep voice on the side.
Zhao Heng, Sun Qi and others nodded one after another, deeply agreeing with Jiang Yingjie's words.
"The poisoning kung fu of the Five Poison Sect really has to be guarded against, the Heavenly Mystery function refines my muscles and bones, and increases the strength of qi and blood, but before breaking through the fourth level, my body is still a mortal body, and I can't withstand the poison!" Feng Yuan said secretly.
At this time, he suddenly remembered Hu Guinan, who was known as the thief of the Holy Hand on the rivers and lakes. This person has a pair of ice toads in his hands, which can live the flesh and bones of the dead, and can dissolve all kinds of poisons.
If you can get your hands on this pair of ice toads, the threat of the Five Poisons Sect will be more than half gone.
I remember that Hu Guinan was going to take the ice toad as a gift and give it to Meng Bofei. When you arrive at Huaiyang Mansion, first find a place to lay a foundation, and then find a way to get the ice toad. ”
Feng Yuan secretly remembered this.
Huai'an Mansion is Shandong to the north, Fengyang Mansion and Xuzhou are the central capital to the west, and the rivers in the territory are vertical and horizontal. It is an important hub connecting the north and the south of the Yangtze River.
For Feng Yuan, the Huai River, Hongze Lake, and the Yellow River, which seized the Huai River into the sea, were important lines of defense against the southward movement of Qing troops in the future. It is also an important base for counterattacking the north.
In the future, the Qing soldiers will be driven away, the Ming Dynasty will be rebuilt, and Feng Yuan will restore the rivers and mountains, and he will hold great power, and the number of qi will inevitably increase significantly.
Huai'an Prefecture has a total of two states and nine counties, the core of which is Shanyang and Qinghe next to Hongze Lake, of which Haizhou is close to the sea and Pizhou is close to the canal. Fengyuan's destination is Pizhou.
A few days later, Feng Yuan and his men finally arrived at the place.
Pizhou is nominally a state, but in fact the city wall is similar to the county seat, and Fengyang Mansion has been repeatedly captured by thieves over the years, and Pizhou is often threatened.
Bandits crossed the border, the soldiers were ruthless, and the city, which was originally close to the prosperous canal, is now much more desolate. Feng Yuan directly led people into the city and took over the city.
As for the Zhizhou of Pizhou, there were only a few hundred defenders in his hands, and he couldn't resist at all.
Now in the north of the Ming Dynasty, there is chaos, and there are often thieves who occupy the county and state capitals, Feng Yuan did not show his identity, but put Zhizhou under house arrest in the yamen, and took charge of the entire Pizhou in his name.
In Pizhou, there are many cottages that occupy the mountains and are kings, and there are many water thieves from all walks of life.
After Feng Yuan occupied the city, he immediately posted notices and began to recruit young and strong soldiers, train new soldiers, and at the same time let Jiang Yingjie and Huang Shouzheng lead people to attack everywhere and sweep the city around.
Wait until the city settles down for a while. Feng Yuan left Jiang Yingjie and Gu Rujin to look after the house, and he took Zhao Heng north to Shandong, preparing to find trouble with Sha Tianguang.
At the beginning, Sha Tianguang led people to snatch Poria Shouwu and formed a bond with Feng Yuan, and this revenge could not be avenged.
Feng Yuan's character is that he will repay his kindness and repay his revenge! Of course, it would be better if he could take Sha Tianguang's stockade by the way and take over his subordinate forces.
Feng Yuan's original plan was to prepare to lead the firecrackers north, but at that time, his strength had not yet broken through, and he had to borrow external forces to deal with a big force on the rivers and lakes.
And now with the second strength of Hun Tian Xuangong, he is already the top master in the rivers and lakes, dealing with Sha Tianguang, there is no need to mobilize the people, and only Zhao Heng alone can suppress the evil tiger ditch.
According to Zhao Heng, the whole of Shandong is the sphere of influence of the evil tiger ditch, and any act of robbing the house and blocking the road must hand over a part of the evil tiger ditch.
Sha Tianguang's evil tiger ditch is in Shandong, just like the Golden Dragon Gang in Nanzhili. It's all a sitting tiger.
If the forces under Sha Tianguang are subdued, Feng Yuan will have countless eyes in Shandong, as for Sha Tianguang, if this person is interested, he will be killed, and if he doesn't know each other, he will be killed directly.
In Shandong, the roads are full of white bones, and there are whining ghosts crying from time to time in the mountains and forests, even if the sun shines on the earth during the day, it also gives people a gloomy feeling.
Not long ago, the Manchu general Abatai led the Qing army to ravage Shandong, repeatedly broke the city, captured and killed the Lu king Zhu Yipai, divided the troops to plunder Laizhou, Dengzhou, Qingzhou and other places, and went south to Haizhou in Huai'an Province.
When he returned to the army, he also attacked Cangzhou, Tianjin, and Miyun, captured 360,000 people, and plundered nearly 3 million taels of gold and silver.
After the devastation in various prefectures and counties in Shandong, it was a mess. However, the more this environment, the more active the cottages on those green forest roads become, and there are constantly bandits coming down the mountain, annexing and plundering the county seat by the homeless people.
"The face of the dead country!"
Feng Yuan sighed in his heart when he saw this scene. Now the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty have been eroded, and the orders of the government can't even get out of the city. The slightest carelessness can turn a wanderer into a raging thief.
In this environment, Feng Yuan saw that there were still many landlords and gentry who took the opportunity to annex land, hoard Juqi, and make a windfall.
There is also Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier stationed in Shandong now, who fled in a hurry when the Qing soldiers came, and after the Qing soldiers retreated, they were very obscene and intimidating the people.
Landlords, gentry, soldiers, thieves, and rotten state capitals. Feng Yuan really can't see any hope in the officials of the Ming Dynasty.
If you want to turn the tide of the tide, you must be ruthless and cut off all the tumors and rotten sores in the state capitals of Daming. Only by putting oneself to death and then resurrecting can the fortunes of the country be restored.
The current Emperor Chongzhen can't do this, but Feng Yuan has no scruples.