The news of Chen Xinglong's proclamation of the king quickly spread all over the world, and the government and the opposition were shaken.

In Lin Fan's room, Lin Fan, who got the news, and An Ning Wang Hu got together to discuss this matter.

Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Lin Fan was speechless for a long time.

After a long time, he said: "It seems that this time the world is really going to be in chaos!" From now on, I don't know how many people in this world will be called emperors and kings! ”

An Ning nodded, "Yes! Let Chen Xinglong do this this time, I'm afraid that other thieves from all walks of life won't be able to sit still, if they don't react, I'm afraid they can only succumb to others. However, in this way, the imperial court will inevitably focus most of its energy on exterminating Chen Xinglong, and with him in front, the other thieves can also breathe a sigh of relief. ”

After Wang Hu followed Lin Fan, he made great progress, but he still didn't understand the situation in front of him.

He asked: "After all, Chen Xinglong claims to be a descendant of the royal family of the previous dynasty, and now he is already the king, so he has a righteous name, and a small group of displaced people have submitted to him, and he is the most powerful among the rebels from all walks of life. No matter how unwilling the others are, I'm afraid they can only take him as the leader! ”

Lin Fan said with a smile: "Brother Wang Hu is right, if nothing else, from now on, Chen Xinglong will become the common leader of the thieves everywhere, and the rebels everywhere will be nominally headed by him." But at the same time, he must also carry the banner of confrontation against the imperial court, he will become a thorn in the side of the imperial court, a thorn in the flesh, if he is not pulled out, the imperial court will have trouble sleeping. ”

"Moreover, these people who are nominally subordinate to him have their own power, and how many of them will really obey him? Under the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court, these people are struggling, and now it is okay, there is a person who has attracted most of the attention of the imperial court, they only need to verbally express their submission, they can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and develop their own power, why don't you say they are happy! ”

Wang Hu was still puzzled, "In that case, why did Chen Xinglong take such a big risk to become the king?" ”

Lin Fan smiled: "I think there should be a bit of a last resort!"

"First, because among the rebels from all walks of life, Chen Xinglong was the first to raise the anti-flag, and he was called the royal family of the previous dynasty, even if he was not the king, he was the one that the court wanted to destroy the most. Now being the king just makes the court hate it a little more, but it also preempts the name of righteousness. ”

"The name of this thing doesn't seem to be worth much now, but if he can really withstand the pressure of the imperial court, when he competes for hegemony in the future, this will be the capital that commands the world."

"The second is that he is now strong and strong, he has defeated the imperial army several times, and he has an unstoppable power in the Central Plains Road. His command is known as an army of 300,000, although most of them are rabble, but the power of victory must have given him some confidence to resist the attack of the imperial court. ”

"There is also a third point, that is, those elite soldiers and strong generals under him, who follow him desperately to eat and enjoy glory and wealth. Now that the territory has been laid, the people under his command should think about adding officials to the knighthood and paying homage to the marquis. ”

"But if you want to be promoted, you have to pry Chen Xinglong to be the king, or even the emperor. Only in this way can these people be promoted and make a fortune in a straightforward manner. ”

"Even if Chen Xinglong wants to develop his power first, lay a bigger territory, and then slowly try to do it. But there are these small rich people under their hands, and those who don't want to make progress are forced, so they have to be the king first and divide the generals under them. ”

"Only in this way can we unite people's morale, after all, we have to rely on these people to fight, how can we do it without giving some benefits!"

"Of course, the above points are just my random guesses, what the situation of this matter is, I'm afraid Chen Xinglong himself knows best."

An Ning suddenly smiled and said: "In any case, this Chen Xinglong's next days will definitely be difficult, don't say that he will be the emperor, whether he can survive or not!"

Lin Fan nodded, he, like An Ning, also thought that Chen Xinglong might not be able to resist the next offensive of the imperial court.

Wang Hu was confused again and asked, "What do you mean by this, isn't he in power now?"

An Ning teased him and smiled: "Brother Wang Hu, I have already asked you to read more books, but you just don't listen, now it's okay, hahaha!"

Wang Hu touched his head and said honestly: "You don't know, I don't know much, I don't know much, just brute force, it's okay for you to let me charge into battle, it's really embarrassing for me to let me read." You better don't bother me, just tell me. ”

Lin Fan knew that Wang Hu was from a humble background, which did affect his pattern, and persuaded him: "Brother Wang Hu, you still have to read more books, you can understand a lot of things that you don't know, if you don't understand anything, you can ask An Ning and me." Besides, you can't just be a guard behind me for the rest of your life. ”

Wang Huhan laughed, "If it weren't for the adult, I would have starved to death, I can follow the adult for the rest of my life, and being an adult's guard is already very satisfying, and there is no other luxury." ”

Lin Fan was helpless, laughed and scolded, and no longer embarrassed him, and said directly: "Since Chen Xinglong is the king, he will become the target of everyone, even if it is to deter other forces that are ready to move, the imperial court will destroy him no matter what."

"Otherwise, whether it is the displaced people from all walks of life, or the powerful and ambitious clans in various places, it will be difficult for the imperial court to suppress them. When the time comes, I am afraid that there will be anti-kings everywhere. Do you think that the imperial court will still think that these thieves are just petty fights, as it has done in the past? ”

Without waiting for Wang Hu to answer, Lin Fan continued: "For Chen Xinglong, the imperial court will no longer let it go, and will inevitably devote the whole country to exterminate him, and it is estimated that he will face the heavy encirclement and suppression of the imperial court next."

"Although the imperial court is weak and difficult both internally and externally, its strength still exists. Although Chen Xinglong had many soldiers and horses, it was difficult to resist the all-out attack of the imperial army. If he doesn't get one or two big victories that can turn the tide, defeat is probably only a matter of time. ”

"And the other rebels are afraid of setting themselves on fire and becoming the next main target of the imperial court, most of them will choose to die and not save them, even if they send troops to save them, they are just putting on a show and buying people's hearts."

"Of course, if Chen Xinglong can resist the attack of the army, or even win the battle, by then, the general trend of his struggle to dominate the world has been achieved, and he will really have the confidence to command the world, and the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan may really fall on him."

"Brother Wang Hu, if you are replaced by Chen Xinglong, under the pressure of the army, what chance can you have?"

Lin Fan knew the result in his heart when he saw Wang Hu's face, and Lin Fan smiled: "So, unless Wang Hu can break this encirclement and suppression of the imperial court, it can be said that he will definitely be defeated." However, with the group of people under him, it can be said that it is extremely difficult to block the elite army of the imperial court that is above him in terms of numbers and equipment. ”

Lin Fan sighed: "However, we are just talking on paper now, as for how things will develop in the future, none of us can predict."

"The troubled times have come, and now this troubled times are like a torrent pouring down, with the power of ten thousand jun, enveloping everyone in it, and no one can escape."

"If you don't want to die penniless like a mustard in this troubled world, you must have the courage and determination to go against the current, and have the courage to fight to the death."

He paused for a moment, and when he saw that everyone's faces were solemn, he smiled softly and explained everyone: "You don't need to be like this, we don't have the ability to participate in it yet." Don't think too much, just do what is in front of you, and don't worry too much about the rest. ”

Everyone understands this truth, since it is useless to think about it, it is better to ignore him and pay attention to the present. So everyone nodded yes to Lin Fan's words, and then went down to do their own things.

Just after this discussion ended, Lin Fan continued to pay attention to the news from the north while dealing with the affairs at hand.

As the news continued to come, Lin Fan got more and more news.

At the end of May, Chen Xinglongfeng had already captured several cities in Shu, and Zhang Yanyan, the leader of the thieves in Shannan Province, was the general of Zhengnan and attacked Shu on behalf of King Xing. He also named Li Zhongdao, the leader of the thieves in Longxi Province, as the general of the expedition to the west, and conquered the land of Longxi on behalf of the king of Xing.

After the two received the reward, they both received the title and expressed their willingness to respect the king of heaven as the lord of the righteous army in the world and accept the dispatch.

As for the other rebels, Chen Xinglong also has their own rewards, and he has the momentum of claiming to be the lord of the world.

In June, the imperial court removed Ye Shiwen, the governor of Central Plains Province, who was unfavorable for the suppression of bandits, dismissed him from his post and sent him to prison, and replaced him with Zhou Chang, who was known as a Confucian general.

The imperial court put all the bandit suppression armies under the command of the new governor, and asked his prime minister to suppress the bandits.

With Zhou Chang's arrangement, the battle between the official army and the rebels in the Central Plains Road officially kicked off.

And the big war is imminent, and more and more people are fleeing south to escape the military disaster.

As a result, there is increasing pressure to resettle displaced people in various parts of Huainan Province.

Lin Fan couldn't do anything about the current situation, and he could only do what he could.

On the one hand, he begged to see Gao Wensheng, hoping that he would write to the imperial court to open the granary in Anzhou to release grain, and increase the efforts to help refugees.

It's a pity that Gao Wensheng didn't care about this, and directly said that the grain in the granary had been requisitioned by the imperial court as military rations, and had been taken over by the military department.

Lin Fan was helpless about this, and went to ask the major households in the county to help, but with little success. Lin Fan really had no choice but to take out all the money in his hand and raise some food to open a porridge shed near the station of the Inspection Department.

As soon as the war began, the price of grain skyrocketed, and the more than 1,000 taels of silver in Lin Fan's hand actually couldn't buy much food, but although it was a drop in the bucket, it was better than nothing.

In addition, he also ordered the inspection department to strengthen the garrison to prevent the homeless people from rioting.

On the other hand, he also wrote back to Jiangzhou, asking his family to prepare more food and prepare to absorb more refugees.

At the same time, he asked Lu Shaofu, Lin Fang and others to select the strong ones from the displaced people to enter the Xiangyong, and expand the scale of the Xiangyong, so as to prepare for the chaos that may come in the future.

Because of Lin Fan's series of measures, Lin Fan has won the reputation of Lin Qingtian.

Especially after the news came out that Lin Fan ran around for the refugees, but in the end he worked in vain and had to raise food out of his own pocket, the displaced people were even more grateful to him.

The people who gritted their teeth at Lin Fan because of Fu Tianlin's death also felt much better about him, reducing some of the resentment in their hearts.

And this really made Lin Fan embarrassed, after all, he was also ready to immediately use force to suppress if there was chaos in the people. Otherwise, once the situation expands, it will immediately become a catastrophe.

With so many homeless people, if it really gets into chaos, no one including Lin Fan can control it, and maybe even their lives will have to be explained here.

However, the homeless people did not cause chaos, but others did it first.

At the end of July, on this day, Lin Fan received news from the county government that an unknown number of bandits attacked Tian's house in Qingyang Town at night.

Not only was the Tian family's property looted, but more than 30 people from the Tian family, all of whom were killed, and none of them were spared.

Such a big case occurred in the jurisdiction, and Gao Wensheng had already led the three classes of officials to rush over. At the same time, he also sent someone to send an order for Lin Fan to go over immediately, check the scene, and discuss countermeasures.