Just when Cheng Biting Jin was in retreat and penance, the world was also in turmoil. Before Yang Xuangan's uprising, due to today's poor military force and overheated infrastructure, the people of the Sui Dynasty were already very embarrassed, and there was famine everywhere. Discontent against those in power is widespread among the people.

After Yang Xuangan's tossing, first, the huge military disaster made it even more impossible for ordinary people to survive; second, the emergence of the provocateurs has also allowed some bankrupts to find a new way out; Third, Yang Xuangan's army weakened the overall military strength of the imperial court to a certain extent. Fourth, the dispatch of troops and horses carried out by the imperial court due to the pacification of the chaos also caused the emptiness of the local garrison.

The first two points further strengthened the willingness of the common people to rebel, while the last two points further reduced the difficulty of rebellion. Therefore, although Yang Xuangan's rebellion was extinguished, the rebellion of the people everywhere became stronger and stronger. All of a sudden, large and small separatist forces sprung up one after another.

In just over a month of Yang Xuangan's rebellion, Han Xiangguo, a civilian from Liang County (with more than 100,000 people), and Liu Yuanjin, a civilian from Yuhang, (with tens of thousands of people) raised troops in response. In August, Zhu Xie of Wu County and Guan Chong of Jinling led more than 100,000 disciples to rise up in Jiangzuo. In September, Peng Xiaocai, a civilian, led tens of thousands of followers to rise up in Donghai County.

Song Zixian, a native of Tang County, claimed to be the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha in order to gather disciples to cause trouble. There are so many rebels that there is no need to go into details. In short, one word can be summed up: one after the other.

In the face of the chaotic situation in the world, Emperor Yang of Sui responded to all changes with the same, that is, one word: kill! After Yang Xuangan's defeat, the imperial court immediately proceeded to liquidate the participants in the rebellion. Today, Zi also said to the minister Pei Yun: "Yang Xuangan raised his arms and shouted, and there were more than 100,000 servants. This shows that there can't be too many people in the world, and too many people will rebel. If we do not kill all these rebels, there will be no way to punish future generations. ”

As a result, after the edict was issued, the imperial court immediately began a bloody killing, a total of more than 30,000 people called "Yang Xuangan's henchmen" died under the butcher's knife (most of them were unjust, false and wrongly convicted), and more than 6,000 people were exiled (more than 30,000 people were killed, all of whom were from their families, half of them died in vain, and more than 6,000 people were exiled). When Yang Xuangan was besieging Luoyang, he opened a warehouse to release grain and help the people. Anyone who has received rice will be buried alive this time.

For a time, all the people who rebelled did not dare to accept the court's recruitment, and fought with the officials and soldiers, fighting to the death. Especially when today's sentence 'There can't be too many people in the world, too many people will rebel', and people with their families joining the rebels abound. For a time, the Great Sui River and Mountain were already stormy, and the sun was setting.

On this day, Cheng Yanjin reluctantly walked out of the practice room and stretched his waist in the dazzling sunlight. He had already remembered the running line of the exercises on "Heaven and Earth", as long as he practiced daily.

And the illustrations on the peerless martial arts cheats brought out from that ancient tomb, with his current state, he can't remember the changes in the later moves clearly without being familiar with the first three moves.

Since the retreat was no longer effective, he didn't want to stay in the practice room. And there is another reason for him to get out of the customs, that is, there is something wrong with the business of the Salt Gang, and the Tang brothers told him that he needs to solve it himself.

went to ask the old lady for a goodbye, and Cheng Yanjin ran to the salt gang headquarters. This huge salt gang was built by him with great painstaking efforts, just like the children he raised, so he naturally didn't want any accidents to happen to it.

When he arrived at the main altar and met the Tang brothers, Cheng Biting Jin Fang knew that because there were too many people who had rebelled recently, the world was in chaos, and as a result, the business of the Salt Gang in the north plummeted, and the road to the south was very unsafe, and within three days, the goods of the Salt Gang were robbed twice. After several gang leaders discussed, they had no choice but to suspend business in the south.

It's just that if it goes on like this, I'm afraid that it won't be long before the salt gang will close down. In desperation, they had to invite Cheng Da, the founder of the Salt Gang, to think of a way, even if they wanted to break up, they had to say the final word!

After figuring out the situation, Cheng Yanjin frowned and thought about it for a while, and asked, "Haven't you ever thought about using a ship to transport goods from the sea to the south?" ”

Tang Guoren, the boss of the Tang family, said with a bitter face, "Why not, but our ships are too small, and they are intercepted by officers and soldiers at sea, so we can only occasionally reach our destination safely and soundly, and the rest are either sunk by officers and soldiers or capsized by big waves!" ”

After pondering for a long time, Cheng Yanjin still hadn't come up with a safe way to solve the current predicament of the Salt Gang. Looking at the brothers below, Cheng Yanjin asked, "Then have you come up with any ideas?" ”

As the saying goes, 'three stinkers, race over Zhuge Liang', listen to everyone's opinions and brainstorm, take its essence, remove its dross, and maybe find a way to save the fate of the Salt Gang.

The brothers below looked at each other a few times, and finally the boss of the Tang family said stubbornly, "The brothers have a whimsical idea, but I don't know if you can agree with the helper?" ”

"Oh? What's the idea? Tell me about it! Cheng Yanjin became interested.

"Brothers, if we can get in touch with the big family in the south, the Song valve in the four major gates, and with the influence of the Song valve in the south, then our business will naturally flourish!"

Listening to his words, Cheng Yanjin was speechless for a long time. Good fellows, these bastards really dare to think of it! He also knows that the Song valve is the most powerful clan in the south, and the lord of the "Heavenly Knife" Song Que is known as the world's first sword master.

At that time, Yang Jian ruled the world and established the Great Sui, because he was afraid of the power of the Song people, he adopted a policy of appeasement towards them, and named Song Que as "Zhennan Gong", and Song Que also knew that the general trend of the Southern Dynasty had gone, so he deceived and bowed down to protect the family.

Among the four major gates, the other three gates are mixed with Hu blood, and this fruit is the only one left, and the southern clans that maintain their prestige have always adhered to the tradition and strictly forbade the clansmen to intermarry with people other than the Han people, so they are regarded as Han orthodoxy in the rivers and lakes.

Now these bastards dare to hit the Song family with their ideas, and they are really newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers. Although his salt gang dominates the land of Qilu, he is just a stronger ant in front of the Song family, where can he be compared with the other party.

And according to Cheng Yanjin's past experience, these bastards must have to go out to the Song family to contact each other by themselves, otherwise they came up with a way but didn't implement it, but invited themselves out, and made it clear that they would drive the ducks on the shelves!

But looking back, it seems that this is also the best way, the war in the north is raging, where there will be people to pay for salt, everyone is out to rob it. The only place that can be sold is in the south, which is relatively calm for the time being.

And that Song Valve, as the spiritual leader of the entire southern warrior clan, has a great influence, not to mention that the two brothers of 'Heavenly Sword' and 'Earth Sword' are famous in the rivers and lakes, and no one dares to provoke them.

As for persuading the Song valve to do this private salt trade with himself, Cheng Yanjin also has a certain amount of confidence, firstly, no one in this world hates a lot of money, and secondly, he has long heard that the head of the Song valve family, the 'Heavenly Knife' Song Que, is ambitious and unwilling to be subordinate, and wants to rule the north with the south and be the first person in the world.

And if you want to compete in the world, how can you do it without strong money as a backing! Therefore, he is full of confidence in how to persuade the Song family. It's just that he, a small family in the salt gang, has never had anything to do with the Song valve, how can he catch the line of others?

Cheng Yanjin asked this question in public, and as a result, the following group of people glared at me, I glared at you, and in the end, everyone spread their hands, Lord Helper, it doesn't matter to us, you old man can figure it out by himself!

glared viciously at the gang of bastards below, seeing that they looked like dead pigs were not afraid of boiling water, Cheng Biting Jin was defeated, okay, you bastards are ruthless enough, when grandpa goes to the south and contacts the Song family, let you all roll up and get out, and all go to the street to ask for food!

Packing up her bags and giving her a few pieces of jewelry that she brought back from Yang Gong's treasure house last time to her mother, Cheng Yanjin finally got her old man's approval, and took the two Tang brothers and a group of three people to ride fast horses to the south.

Songjia mountain city is located at the confluence of Yushui River, three sides of the water, the majestic mountain towers, the stone city is built from the mountainside according to the mountain situation, along the mountain graceful, the main buildings stand in the mountains to open up a large piece of flat land, the situation is precipitous, there is the momentum of a husband when the pass, the king is near the mountains and plains, and Yulin County looks at each other, symbolizes the dominant force for the safety of the entire Lingnan District.

Looking at the mountain city from afar, Cheng Biting Jin stuck out his tongue, "Good guy, isn't this a ready-made earth emperor!" The fisherman who was in charge of the boat next to him turned his head and admonished, "Guests, don't talk nonsense, this Song family is a Buddha in this Lingnan, and everyone admires it." Guests must not be desecrated! ”

Looking at the dozens of large warehouses and hundreds of large and small wharves built along the Yu River, staring at the endless traffic on the river, the momentum of prosperity and majesty, the majestic scene made Cheng Yanjin can't help but praise loudly, "The mountains are lingering, the water is circulating, rugged and dangerous, it is really a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack!" ”

Tang Guoyi, the second eldest member of the Tang family next to him, interjected: "It is said that this mountain city has consumed an unknown amount of manpower and material resources, and it will still take three generations and more than 100 years to build it to such a scale. The construction of this mountain city is mainly greedy for its strange and dangerous difficulties, but if there is no wealth of Yulin County, the mountain city only has a magnificent appearance, and now it can be multiplied by each other, and the benefits of water and land transportation can reach the whole country. ”

Cheng Yanjin nodded, "Yes, just this one can see the strong financial and material resources of the Song Valve, and there are still people in the Central Plains who call this Lingnan the hometown of barbarians, if they see this situation, I am afraid that their tongues will be scared off." It's just that we, the frogs at the bottom of the well, don't know how to climb this big tree? ”

The boat anchored, and the three of them bought three good horses on the dock, left the dock, and galloped up the mountain. Standing on the mountain road of the city, whenever you gallop to the dangerous place of the mountain cliff, it seems to be hanging in the void, and the river below is rolling, and the wonderland is endless.

The scenery along the way only saw Cheng Yanjin feel relaxed, and couldn't help but let out a long howl, and urged the horse to go. Behind him, the Tang family brothers should whip up, and the three of them ran through the mountain road like a whirlwind, and entered the mysterious Song family mountain city through the open gate on the suspension bridge.

The exterior and interior of Songjia Mountain City will give people two completely different feelings, if the former reminds people of attack, defense and killing, then the latter will only remind people of peace and tranquility. There are hundreds of houses distributed in the city, connected by more than 10 orderly and bluestone-paved avenues, the most distinctive point is that it rises layer by layer according to the mountain, and each floor is connected by stone steps and slopes respectively, which is convenient for residents to get off immediately.

Trees and flowers are planted all over the roadside, and the spring water on the mountain is introduced to irrigate into a stream, interspersed in the garden residence, forming a small bridge and flowing water, pond pavilions and other infinite beautiful scenery, the space is spacious and comfortable, the scenery of the Jiangnan garden is very large, and it is like a big garden on a mountain.

The main building group gathers on the large flat platform that reaches about two miles around the ninth floor of the highest floor, the pavilions are magnificent, the building is elegant, made of wood and stone, from the eaves to the flower windows, the wisps are meticulously decorated, creating a majestic style full of southern cultural atmosphere, and making people feel the pivotal position of the Song valve in the south.

Although they had already come to this Songjia Mountain City, but because there was no one to recommend them, Cheng Yanjin and the other three had to find an inn to live in first, and slowly thought about it. Anyway, everyone has already arrived here, so naturally they can't retreat.