As soon as Deng Yuanjue, who was extremely heavy in the teaching, said this, Fang La also remembered the goodness of Lu Shinang, and restored his trust and reuse of Lu Shinang.

Later, Lu Shisang recovered his health, and Fang La trustfully continued to entrust him with power, and in addition to his previous duties, he also handed over part of the work of managing and training the apologetics (monks who entered the temple) to Lu Shinang.

Going north to grab property and weapons, the Mojiao no longer dared to think about it for a while.

It's too dangerous to lose.

Even if Lu Shisang is sent to lead the team to get it, it will have to wait for the Liao State to relax its crackdown on horse dealers and allow Song merchants to enter the country and trade freely, and then look at the form.

After this blow, the arrogant Fang La also calmed down a lot, deeply realizing that the Mo Sect was not as powerful as he imagined, and in the north, the influence was almost none, so that even the green forest boss like Chao Gai knew nothing about the Mo Sect; In the South, the roots are also not so broad and strong.

In the final analysis, the real influence of Moism is limited to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In other regions, such as Anhui, they all rely on the cottages stationed there to maintain their sphere of influence and influence, but because they are in the form of bandits, they are naturally hostile and even hated by the locals, and it is extremely difficult and slow to promote the teachings, let alone respond to the situation in response to the situation.

As for Fujian and Liangguang Road, which should be the backyard of Mojiao, it is even worse.

Due to the immigration and growing influence of pirates, it was almost impossible for the Mosades to establish a sphere of influence in these regions.

Looking at the pirates again in this state of mind, Fang La couldn't help but be shocked.

The pirates only entrenched overseas, only used a small Haitan Island to plunder and attract some people, and never occupied the basic territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and did not even occupy Qiongzhou (Hainan Island), which was very weak in the rule of the Great Song Dynasty overseas, which may have little impact on the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty's rule, but it was a major disadvantage for Moism.

If Manichaeism could not swallow the north and dominate the world after the uprising, but only occupied the south of the Yangtze River, or even limited to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the Great Song Dynasty lost an important tax base, and would definitely not give up, and would definitely send the northern army or even the western army to encircle and suppress, at the same time, the sea and Fuguang three roads, which could have been used as a free way to advance and retreat, were also blocked by the threat of pirates, and once the battle with the Song army failed, there was a danger that there would be no retreat and all would be destroyed.

Fang La couldn't help but once again have the idea of seizing Hainan Island as a retreat and a base for raising troops and training.

But after thinking about it again, he sighed again and gave up.

The seizure of Hainan Island is easy for today's Moroccanism, at least it is not difficult, but it is difficult to hold on and develop steadily.

Once the believers of the sect were transferred there and established their rule, they were constantly threatened by the invasion of powerful pirates from all sides, and the imperial court should not have despised the rebel forces on Hainan Island as much as it despised the pirates of Haitan Island.

After all, Qiongzhou is very large, can raise a lot of people and soldiers, and is too close to the mainland, which seriously threatens the fundamental dominance of the Great Song Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River.

Due to the scarcity of shipbuilders, the Manichaeans did not currently have the powerful warships and well-trained naval armies of the pirates.

No matter how unbearable the ships and troops of the Great Song Dynasty Navy were, if the imperial court made up its mind to conquer and mobilize the support of the water forces of the whole country, it would not be a problem to cross the narrow Qiongzhou Strait and kill Qiongzhou.

The occupation of Qiongzhou will inevitably reveal the rumors and expose the rebellious nature of Manichaeism, and the forces in Jiangnan will be searched and cracked down by the government, and the core areas and battlegrounds of Mohism in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will only be lost, and the foundation of Mohism in Jiangnan will inevitably be completely shaken.

It will be difficult to regain the disadvantage, and I am afraid that the efforts of this religion for more than ten years will be in vain.

The most important thing is that once the parishioners reach their own territory and live a safe, free and comfortable life, they will lose their ambition in comfort after a long time, and they are afraid that they will not have a strong will to overthrow the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, and they will no longer have the heart to fight to the death with the imperial court.

Constantly enduring the pain and injustice brought by the government, and living in torment every day, can make the congregation increasingly angry and want to rebel and resist.

There is no way to retreat, in order to force the whole sect to be united, the soldiers will fight to the death wholeheartedly, and the people of the church will frantically support the overthrow of the Great Song Dynasty.

Without this hatred and extreme desire for a better life, there would be no fundamental motivation and possibility to overthrow the corrupt rule of the Great Song Dynasty.

If you want to win the world, rather than a corner of peace, you can't give the people a way out.

Fang La didn't know that Cangzhao had other plans if he didn't capture Qiongzhou.

In the eyes of the Zhao brothers, the people of Hainan are the people who naturally fill South Vietnam, and when the time comes, immigrants will rule South Vietnam, which will save trouble and save the manpower and material resources consumed by immigrants, and the crowd is suitable for living in South Vietnam.

Fang La also learned that the hundreds of thousands of troops placed by the imperial court in Tuntian on the southern coast and defended against pirates actually betrayed the Great Song Dynasty and defected to the pirates, and quickly fled overseas in the winter with the harvest and family on the pirate ship along the coast.

This group of Huazi Army, who were extremely poor and miserable but had received military training and implied strong military resources and military potential, when they first migrated to the coastal areas of the south of the Yangtze River in a big way, they were gratified to the people with brains in the Mo Sect, and they were originally the targets of the Mo Sect and tried their best to win them. It's a pity that the preaching and agitation of this force, somehow, the effect is too poor, and I have been working hard, but I have been making progress.

Many of the missionaries sent to demagogue did not return, either because the officers of the Xiang army in the town did not interrogate them and found out the results after they were arrested, and they were killed in a fit of rage, or they did not incite the Xiang army but were disgusted by the Xiang army and died.

In the blink of an eye, this big fat piece of meat became a pirate's subordinate. It made the bamboo basket of Mojiao draw water, and it was empty, and it was blind and happy.

How good is the pirate-ruled wild overseas island country consisting of a small island in the east and a small island in the west?

What is a good way?

A realm ruled by murderous pirates is more attractive than the fair, rich, and bright world that our Holy Sect wants to establish in the vast homeland?

The Mojiao sect has tried to find out the details of pirates for so many years, and it really doesn't understand this phenomenon.

However, after learning about the terrifying and powerful sea transportation capabilities of pirates and the terrifying combat effectiveness of blockading the sea, the leaders of the Moroccan religion at least realized one thing very clearly: Defeating pirates at sea is limited by the shortage of craftsmen and shipbuilding technology, and there is no need to think about it in three years, five years, or even ten or eight years.

Nor is it worth putting energy and strength on confronting and fighting pirates who do not have a conflict of interest in their political nature.

Fang La now only needs to overthrow the Great Song Dynasty, gather the strength of the whole country to build warships and naval armies, and then take away the pirates in one fell swoop with an absolute advantage.

The only point to consider at the moment is how to overthrow the Great Song Dynasty.

Lu Shibao went north to sell horses, and brought back not only the situation of the Liao State, the news of the military and civilians in the north, but also the combat effectiveness of the Western Army that he had heard about, which can be said to have opened the horizons of the Mojiao people and enhanced the Mojiao people's deeper and farther knowledge of the world.

In the past, the people of Jiangnan knew almost nothing about these things that were too far away from them, and they didn't care.

Jiangnan merchants who went to trade in the north occasionally talked about this, and the people in the Mojiao sect only regarded it as an exaggeration of the strength of the Western army by hearsay.

What kind of military do businessmen who only have money in their eyes, only value profits, and only know how to do business with tricks?

Listening to the wind is rain, it's ridiculous.

In the past, including Fang La, the people of the Mo Sect felt that not to mention the Northern Army of the Great Song Dynasty, it was the most powerful Western Army, and if they really came to Jiangnan to conquer and rebel, they would first lose their sharpness if they did not accept the water and soil.

The advantages of the time, place and people are all in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is nothing to fear when the western army comes.

But now, at least Fang La and the core figures in the sect are psychologically clear: the northern border army of the Great Song Dynasty is indeed not easy to mess with.

Just a Qingzhou army that killed Liao's elite cavalry like a dog is fearful.

I heard that the Western Army is much more elite than the Cheongju Army, and the number of soldiers who dare to fight is several times that of the Cheongju Army, so it is naturally more terrifying.

If you want to overthrow the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, it seems that you can't act rashly until you take advantage of the advantages of Jiangnan to defeat the forces of the Northern Border Army of the Great Song Dynasty.

There is a threat of pirates in the east and south, a border army in the north, and a large population in the west of Shuzhong, which is difficult to capture.

This feeling made him very uncomfortable, but he couldn't crack it effectively.

There is no other way, let's train hard.

Since we have cracked the destructive power of pirate immigrants to the expansion of our religion, we cannot effectively promote the doctrine in Jiangnan on a large scale, and we cannot quickly gain broad popular support, we should let it go, no longer devote a lot of energy and backbone forces to missionary work, and the top priority is to train the soldiers.

He immediately ordered the vast majority of the monks who had taken refuge in the sect but had taken refuge in the temples in various parts of the Jiangnan to move to the nearest cottage set up in the local area, form a regular army, and conduct strict military training. Only a few monks remained in the temple to maintain the foolish people and absorb offerings.

This is also conducive to keeping the secrets of the Mo-religion and protecting its forces.

It was saved that these monks and sectarians committed murders in various places but did not do things secretly, and they were caught by the government and found flaws in the first trial, which led to the vicious waves.

Now there are a large number of soldiers.

It doesn't matter if it's difficult to get a large number of sophisticated weapons, the instructors must first dare to kill people and be able to fight, and when the time comes, there will be three or four hundred thousand elite divisions that are well-trained, and they will be able to defeat the vulnerable officers and soldiers, get weapons and equipment, and destroy the Jiangnan government.

As long as they rule Jiangnan, the foolish women of the small people who are shallow and only know how to blindly obey taste the benefits brought by this religion, they will naturally believe in it and follow it, and they will not worry about money and food to support the war.

In this way, they are not afraid of the border army of the Great Song Dynasty and the pirates who can only shake their prestige on the coast, and the great cause can be expected.

After arranging this, Fang La breathed a sigh of relief and pondered Wen Chenghou again.

He felt that Marquis Wen Cheng had received the harvest of Lu Shisang's troops in Liao, but he had transferred thousands of war horses as compensation, was this a conspiracy?

Did Marquis Wen Cheng perceive the powerful trend hidden in the south of the Yangtze River, and wanted to maintain the credibility of Cangbei's opening up, and wanted to use thousands of horses as bait to lure the government and robbers along the way to the south to loot, and to kill people with knives to destroy Lu Shisang's department?

But this suspicion was denied by his uncle Fang Fei.

Cangzhao's style is known all over the world, not bullying the weak, not afraid of power, people don't offend me, I don't offend people, I value righteousness and trustworthiness, loyalty and patriotism.

The family has always acted decisively and straightforwardly, and has a lot of courage and courage.

They were not even afraid of the powerful Liao army, how could they know that the Mojiao sect was anti-willing, but because they were afraid of opening up and damaging their reputation, they used the euphemistic means of sending horses?

In Cheongju, with the military power of Marquis Wencheng, what is so difficult to wipe out such a person as Lu Shilang silently?

Still bothering to play with a borrowed knife to kill?

If you know the secrets of the Mo Sect, what if you kill Lu Shilang and these people?

With the ethics and style of Marquis Wencheng, he would only take Lu Shilang and others for severe interrogation, and immediately report the details to the imperial court, reminding and urging the emperor to issue an order to eradicate Mojiao as soon as possible.

This is the right way, and it is both meritorious and trouble-free.

The fact is that the Jiangnan government is a little jealous of Manichaeism as always, but it is still as common as grass people who believe in Taoism and Buddhism and pursue spiritual sustenance, and they do not attach importance to the rebellion of Manichaeism that is occasionally exposed, and there is still no serious investigation and action against Manichaeism.

This only shows that Wen Chenghou did not understand the situation in the distant south of the Yangtze River at all, and did not see through the true nature of Lu Shibao.

Fang La thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Nowadays, the once prosperous Cangzhao business in the emperor has the intention to suppress, the court bureaucracy has the intention to squeeze out and plunder, pirates and bandits to destroy the trade routes and other unfavorable factors are increasingly collapsed, in Tokyo business is rare, the two Huai and Jiangnan business points have completely disappeared, Cangzhao business is basically only in the hometown waiting for merchants from all over the country to purchase goods, no longer send people everywhere to set up sales, no one in Jiangnan, how can it be possible to know the secrets of the Mojiao that the Jiangnan government does not know.

Zhao Gonglian really had no intention of getting rid of the remaining Lu Shinang, otherwise he would have ended the matter directly at the border.

He sent horses, but he used a rare big force like Mojiao to send a large number of war horses to the people in the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty in disguise.

When the people get the northern horses, they will naturally try their best to breed and grow, rather than directly castrating them to death like the government, forget it.

As for whether Lu Shinang and his gang can bring the horses back to the south, it doesn't matter.

War horses flowed into the mainland and could be used to improve the quality and quantity of horses in the Great Song Dynasty.

These more than 1,000 northern horses are there, which are better than the horses of the Great Song Dynasty, which are not fast and short, but also as short and weak as donkeys.

There were still a few years before the Jin army entered the Great Song Dynasty, and with the buffer of this time, the horses that flowed into the interior could breed many horses that could be ridden and warn. When the time comes, even if you run away or move, you will have a good horse to help.

Zhao Gonglian didn't expect that in the end, the most beneficial move was Chao Gai's department.

Fang La has a bad feeling of a caged bird, and the old thief Cai Jing also has a bad feeling now.

He learned that the van troops along the south coast of Jiangnan had fled, and only then did he truly realize the horror of pirates.

Think about the Great Song Dynasty now, there are strong enemies of the horseback nation in the north, there is the fierce Western Xia in the west, there are several powerful anti-thieves rushing to the state and even tearing the land to claim the king, the eastern coast and the south where there was no threat and worry, there is also a threat of pirates who are difficult to know the details but not weak, and the situation in the Great Song Dynasty is unprecedentedly pressing.

He simply simply does not have the ability and energy to reverse this passively dangerous situation, let alone change it completely.

He is too old, in order to control the phase, keep the wealth and glory, that little bit of energy and mind is focused on how to control the dangerous situation of the yin wind to deal with the emperor, in the face of the rapid and endless new changes, just like suddenly encountering the free market mechanism, the enterprise restructuring, and losing the iron rice bowl; Housing prices have skyrocketed, the money saved for half a lifetime is not enough to buy a new house toilet, and so on, the rich political experience in the past is not good, the brain is not enough, Lao Cai is dizzy, and he is exhausted day by day, and the prime minister's seat is really not as enjoyable as others imagine, it is completely a kind of pain and suffering.

But no matter how uncomfortable it is, in order to keep the benefits of power, Lao Cai also gave full play to Lao Ji's ambition and spirit to persevere.

In this way, as if he denied his decision to withdraw his army to defend against pirates, it seems that he is incompetent in governing the country and the country, and all the news that is unfavorable to him and related interest groups, he and his traitorous ministers can naturally hide it from the emperor.

Let's toss, I believe that with the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty, it will not be so easy to collapse.

The old man is so old, and he still has to work hard for the Great Song Dynasty, he is hard enough and meritorious, and he can't be in power for a few years, so leave those headaches to future generations to solve.

Isn't Zhao Gonglian extremely talented?

is young and vigorous, if there is the life of the prime minister, let him bear the trouble.

There is no need to worry about the large amount of vacant land left behind after the southern Xiang army fled, and I heard that a large number of landless or disaster-stricken people spontaneously ran to fill it. As long as there are people farming, the local taxes are guaranteed.

That's good. There is no need to think about the new Zhao Ming Emperor to relocate those empty places. It's easy to hide from the emperor. (To be continued.) )