Zhao Gonglian no longer serves the Great Song Dynasty, and the happiest person is Tian Hu Wang Qing, who is in the midst of a military famine, and the extreme shortage of population under his rule is almost unsolvable.

For Tian Hu, who is in Hebei, he has always been very clear:

If he really made a big fuss, and the Great Song Dynasty was too ruthless, forcing the imperial court to spend money to clean him up as soon as possible, then it was not the Western Army that was most likely responsible for exterminating him, but the Cangbei Army that Zhao Gonglian had reorganized and trained and commanded.

The Western Army has a large number of generals, with a total of hundreds of thousands of horses and horses in the six divisions, and its combat effectiveness is strong, and it is the most powerful armed force in the Song Dynasty, but to protect Gansu, Shaanxi and a part of the northwest Xinjiang region of Shanxi, the men and horses are majestic and can take care of the territory, and it is still coerced by the Western Xia army, which still maintains a fierce and strong force, and it is difficult to draw enough troops into the interior to specifically recruit and suppress a relatively powerful anti-thief like Tian Hu.

On the surface, the Liao State is still surprisingly vast and has a large population, and the Liao army is still brave and good at fighting on the surface, and it is not to be taken lightly, but in fact it has been irrefutably decayed, and it is attacked and pinned down by the beast Jurchen Jin army in the north from time to time, and the main force is actually not as strong as before.

Ignorant and short-sighted mainland anti-thieves and grass kings like Tian Hu and Wang Qing naturally don't have the sense of international vision to see the world at all.

But even if they only focus on the things in front of them at home, and don't care about foreign developments that have nothing to do with them, and they don't have the intelligence system and ability to understand foreign information, because of the attention caused by the fall of the Liao State and the spread of the Jurchen threat theory in the Song State put forward by Zhao Gonglian in his early years, plus the rumors of the north, they also roughly understand the current foreign situation.

Therefore, Tian Hu, including Wang Qing of Huaixi, who was far away in the southern interior, understood that if Zhao Gonglian was ordered to enter the interior to suppress bandits, he could completely draw enough troops from the 100,000 Cangbei army to quickly come and exterminate them.

The two grass kings are vulgar and arrogant, but they also know Zhao Gonglian's ability, and they know that their own family is also talented, and their forces are not weak, but they are afraid that they are far from being opponents.

The name of a man, the shadow of a tree.

That Hou Ye became famous too early, and his prestige spread to the world very early, but he was very young, and now he is full of energy.

What's even more terrifying is that the ruling leader is fully mature, and the government and the army are all incomparable to the masters and strongmen of the Great Song Dynasty, and they are extremely bold and ruthless, bold, and have a strange vision and strategy, invincible, and invincible, and have quietly become the only person who really has the talent of the commander in the Manchu Song Dynasty recognized by everyone in their minds in recent years.

The famous veteran commanders of the six divisions of the Western Army, including the old and small brothers who are known as the best at managing the army, are just generals.

They belong to the contemporary famous generals, but in real terms, they don't even have the talent of real generals, otherwise they would not have such a strong national strength and strong support of the Great Song Dynasty, and they used to be unable to fight with the excuse that they always couldn't go out - the war horses also have them, but after so many years, they still can't do anything about the Western Xia, but they are still beaten by the Western Xia army to passively defend everywhere, either this was robbed or the population wealth of that was robbed of a lot, and even caused a big scandal that the 100,000 elite army was wiped out in a war.

Facts have long proved that the commanders of the six majestic departments of the Western Army are not at all comparable to the main forces of the Western Xia, and none of the Western Army is really a commander-in-chief who can lead hundreds of thousands of troops to coordinate and control the overall situation of the entire northwest, that is, the tens of thousands of troops who can play with their own jurisdiction lead the passive defense of the border to fight.

As for Tong Guan, the so-called chief eunuch of the Northwest Commander who supervises the entire Western Army, he does understand military affairs and can fight, but he only has a little military talent, let alone that.

In comparison, the backbone generals of Western Xia who can suppress them may be worthy of being called a contemporary general.

And Zhao Gonglian is a character who is in and out of the picture,

In the north of Yucang, under so many civil and military constraints and even insidious confrontations placed by the imperial court, he can still command the government and unify the army like an arm, everything is in order, firmly suppress the frontier, and can also wander leisurely and leisurely from time to time to inspect the people's feelings, the army's heart, make friends, drink and feast, and be leisurely, not so busy that the bowl is facing the sky and the pot is facing the ground.

These facts have repeatedly proved that he is qualified to rule the whole country and command the whole army as a general, and he is worthy of being a genius who may not be able to produce a single one in hundreds of years, commanding an army of millions, and coordinating the military and the people from top to bottom.

For this terrifying true pillar of the Great Song Dynasty, the grass kings of the Great Song Dynasty, especially Tian Hu in the north, have always been deeply jealous.

Zhao Gonglian quit, they were naturally the happiest, and they wished that the court would kill Zhao Gonglian in a fit of anger.

Damn, in the blink of an eye, Zhao Gonglian went out of the mountain again, and I heard that the military power is greater, not only the army of Gaoyangguan Road, but even the army of Hebei West Road has the right to supervise and train and interfere, and the prestige is undoubtedly higher, this is too disappointing, I am afraid that it will be fatal in the future, which is frightening.

They all slapped the table and sighed angrily: Zhao Gonglian, are you stupid? What kind of life did you sell for the Great Song Dynasty? Isn't the court bad enough to hurt your family? You have talent and no land, you can come to me, I will make you the prime minister and the commander, the status and power are only under me, to ensure your wealth and glory. I can pay your family's debts for you.

Even Fang La, the dark thief king who was lurking in the south of the Yangtze River, was angry and emotionally when he heard about it, to be precise, he was even more angry than Tianhu Wang Qing.

Fang La's life is even more difficult now.

During the summer harvest in Jiangnan, the pirates raided and robbed the Manichaean headquarters of the Manichaean headquarters for several years of hard work to accumulate the wealth of the uprising and the better weapons prepared, and the families of the parishioners who had been slowly accumulating after more than ten years of flickering into the Church also defected to the point that only those fanatical believers who had been poisoned and had fallen into the devil were left, and this kind of blow and loss was already unbearable, and who knew that the nearly 200,000 more fanatical followers (monks) who were scattered in Jiangxi, Anhui and other parts of the south of the Yangtze River who were scattered in Jiangxi, Anhui and other places in the south of the Yangtze River also underwent great changes.

Fang La's leadership group urgently negotiated and responded to the situation at that time, and originally planned to take advantage of the opportunity of the coastal sky to collect its strength inside and outside the cities and villages such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Taizhou, etc., occupy the shops, real estate, business, and tea plantations in the countryside, and continue to hide troops and ambitions for the people, and not take advantage of the convenience of the collapse of the chaotic rule of the Great Song Dynasty to pull the flag and rebel, but it was able to quickly form de facto control over these core areas and Manichaean base areas in the south of the Yangtze River, and become the de facto king of Jiangnan. In secret, he actually ruled Jiangnan, a region that was traditionally prosperous and wealthy, and it was easy to become rich and developed again, quietly and quickly accumulated strength, and then raised the banner of righteousness to obtain the cause of hegemony in the blink of an eye.

In fact, the pirates also let go, saying that they hadn't robbed enough of the Song Kingdom, and also made Fang La understand that the pirates didn't let them rebel now and delay the pirates to wantonly bully and rob the Great Song Dynasty.

Fang La was so angry that he vomited blood, but he was helpless.

The sailors he secretly trained in Taihu Lake, Dongting Lake and other places were only militiamen, lacking decent standard weapons, let alone ships, and did not dare to bark their teeth at pirates.

In addition, in order to quickly restore the economy of Jiangnan, he also wanted to use the pirates' coastal trade along the river to make a fortune and accumulate strength. He can only rely on pirates to grow his strength.

Inferior to others. In this way, he can only endure it, and he can only wait for the pirates to rob the Great Song Dynasty and the target turns elsewhere before he can rise up and reach out to seize power.

But there was a countermeasure, and the calculation was as expected, but what I didn't expect was that those monks and soldiers who were wielding swords and angry eyes by the Bodhisattva heard that the headquarters wanted them to go back to pretend to be civilians to farm, and they were immediately unwilling.

What are you kidding?

When I was a compassionate monk, I enjoyed the worship of the world and did not farm the land, joined Manichaeism as a martial artist, and did murder and arson, but I had to work hard to farm the land?

They didn't know that the headquarters of the Church had been robbed clean, nor did they know that the Church had been bullied to death by pirates, nor could they have known that the pirates would not let the Manichaeans rebel, but they had heard that a large number of people had defected overseas, and they had clearly seen the powerful invincibility and amazing influence of the pirates, and they were strongly disappointed that the Church had not been able to raise its flag for a long time, and felt that the Manichaeans still did not have the courage or ability to seize the power in Jiangnan under such a chaotic situation in the Great Song Dynasty. It is obviously unforeseeable to jump out of Buddhism and return to the world to fight bravely, and it is obviously unforeseen to seek a rich future with bloody hands, so why not follow the blind fart.

As a result, the nearly 200,000 Guardian Holy Soldiers scattered in various places were suddenly split into three parts.

A large part of them are murderous and like to do evil, and Wang Qing, who is optimistic about the founding of the country and the king, voted to be a soldier to seek a happy future.

One is a fanatical monk and soldier believer, who naturally obeys the order of the sect leader and sneaks back to the Manichaean lair to obey the arrangement.

The largest part went to pirates. Don't be surprised.

In the early days, there were too many young monks who were adopted by the temple or did not want to be monks but were forced to flee into the empty door to survive, and they all fled overseas intermittently to return to the world, or divided the fields to cultivate and graze, or became a favorite fisherman to play in the sea and water, or became a worker working in a factory as a technical apprentice...... can make money to marry a wife and have children, and the young ones are still raised by the pirate country to go to school, in short, I heard that they are living comfortably.

The most important thing is that I heard that the pirate state has a free faith, you can believe in anything, and the state does not restrict you from being a monk.

Therefore, these fierce monks have a heart, feel that they are monks, and the people in Buddhism are the compassionate and good people in the eyes of the world, and believe that pirates must think so, so they can take refuge in the pirates as monks, put down the butcher's knife and seek an overseas life as a free monk, and continue to enjoy the pious and generous worship of the world.

The pirate country is so rich, and the temple must be several times better than that of the Great Song Dynasty.

Let's also enjoy the taste of enjoying the legendary overseas paradise days.

Anyway, he is really a monk, he really knows how to chant scriptures and has a degree to prove his identity, when the bandits and robbers do evil, they are all covered with their faces covered and put on a headscarf, hat and makeup, no one knows that they are Buddhist gangsters who kill people without counting the crimes, and pirates who don't want to be bad don't know the secret and won't refuse to accept it, and they can't find out the problem and won't punish if they accept it.

What they don't know is that the pirate empire does not restrict beliefs, no one cares what kind of believer you look like if you shave your head and wear monk's clothes or dress up, that belongs to your personal hobbies and freedoms, in the eyes of the people of the pirate country, it only belongs to fancy clothes and alternatives, but it is not allowed to build temples of any religion, let alone believers are allowed to gather in groups and live together. You can't spread the teachings you believe in at will, let alone force people to join the Church, and you have to support yourself for whatever you believe, and you can't wander around and preach and cheat by relying on karma or something, and you are also indispensable to the national obligations and social responsibilities of other citizens who pay taxes and food.

The laws and regulations on religion are very detailed and strict, and the whole society is actively supervising them, and there are even special departments to supervise them.

In short, the new empire will not allow anyone to get something for nothing, let alone spread those ignorant and negative thoughts such as insensitivity, cowardice, and indifference.

If you break the rules, the punishment is terrible.

I also want to be a monk who travels around "at public expense", or occupy a beautiful mountain to live a free life as a god, and when I encounter it, I will be arrested and used as a coolie with South Asian slaves. If you are tired to death, you deserve it, if you are tired and don't die, you will be fated. There is little chance of forgiveness, repentance, and turning back as a new person. You'll just boil it slowly.

The empire is vigorously eliminating the dangers of religious dross to the new society.

The new state had the conditions to take the most severe and cruel measures at the most favorable initial period in order to quickly and effectively curb and guide the religious consciousness and to lay a new foundation once and for all.

In order to reduce the resistance of believers, and also in order to allow people to have a nihilistic spiritual sustenance, understand Zhao Laoer's intention of religious unity, and grasp the immeasurable Taoist who has mastered new ideas, he is the most active, leading the relocated Gongsun Sheng's master Luo Zhenren and other people with considerable wisdom to study the human body's own extraordinary potential, and according to what Zhao Lao Er said to his family back then, he founded Protestantism, and gathered and extracted the concepts of philosophical significance and positive energy in the world's major religious teachings to formulate a new Bible and spread the world.

With Zhao Yue, the most convincing signboard like a living god, the royal family of the Cangzhao family has an unparalleled benevolent image and appeal, and has the ability and practical actions to help the world, plus the royal authority and the government's intention to quietly cooperate, in fact, the people of the pirate empire believe in imperial Protestantism, and worship any god is also Protestantism.

Only Protestants had the power to build temples.

In fact, it is not a temple in the usual sense, but a civil society organization that complements the functions of the government, and is a non-profit organization that serves the society and charity.

You are a religious person or a member of some kind of religion, you can carry out psychological treatment here, you can use medical skills to heal people, you can help people in need or need, but all acts are free voluntary services, charitable acts, and no fees or benefits may be charged or received in any form.

This is under strict supervision, and no private goods can be sold.

Of course, anyone can do penance prayers or something here.

Beneficiaries and believers who want to give back or contribute to charity can donate money and materials here, but there are relevant professional organizations that manage it and really use it for charity.

Scenic spots are allowed to have such Protestant "temples", but part of the scenic tour is to provide convenient services for the people to travel leisurely, pray for blessings, food and lodging.

This is a fee, it is operated by professionals, it is actually a tourism industry, but it is also supervised by relevant professional institutions.

These Manichaean thieves who defected to the pirates heard that copper coins were not money in the pirate country, but the pirate country needed a large amount of copper for industrial use, and was exchanging copper (money) and grain from the Great Song Dynasty for extremely exquisite silver dollars, and even more rare precious gems in exchange for copper (money) and food, so they frantically destroyed and robbed the bronze statues and copper tripods in the temples and other bronze objects that the Buddhist sect disguised to hide money in. Roll away and run to join the pirates, thinking that it can be exchanged for money that the pirate country can use, and it is also a disguised vote for fame, which is a clever trick for self-interested pirates.

As a result, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fu and other places south of the Yangtze River, which had already been controlled by Manichaeism, were all unlucky, and the puppet monks and die-hard believers who fought hard were slaughtered and looted all the good things that Fang La maintained in the temples in various places to preach and cheat money.

As a result, these whimsical Manichaean monks successfully joined the pirate state, but they were all captured and used as road openers for the construction of the Burma-Yunnan road.

These people are standard monks. But the pirate immigration bureau and the members of the immigration ship, what kind of eyesight is that?

Having dealt with and seen countless immigrants of all kinds, these monks have killed many people and must be infected with a murderous aura, no matter how disguised it is, how can it be the same as a serious monk? How can you fool the sharp eyes of the people in charge of vetting the immigrants?

There are so many monks in a group, and they all carry knives and other murder weapons, saying that they are knives and self-defense weapons, you lie to the ghosts?

The empire occupies all the coastal countries of the southeast peninsula except for Annam, resettles new immigrants, and needs a lot of coolies to build the South Asian road, which is followed by a railway, and gradually connects the north and the south, and when the center of the empire returns to the ancestral land, it is convenient to strengthen the exchange of personnel and materials and rule control between East Asia and South Asia, but many South Asian monkeys (including Ah San) who can be caught are both stubborn and lazy, familiar with and adapted to the geographical life of South Asia, and are very difficult to control, and can only be trapped in mining or open new straits intensively, and cannot be used for the long stretch of roads to be built. Otherwise, they will burrow into the primeval forest to escape the coolie life, and it will become a hidden danger to survive.

It is impossible to send so many troops to monitor the work, and it is impossible to effectively prevent escape and capture.

It would be nice to have these hundreds of thousands of evil monks.

They are all fierce and powerful and capable of heavy work, and they are not familiar with South Asia, they don't know what to eat in the primeval jungles of South Asia, and they don't know what dangers in the forests are how to guard against them.

After serving the "pure heart and few desires" eunuch soup, the real four are empty, and he works hard to build roads and become a good road builder, just to offer compassion and strength to the society and complete the Buddha's practice.

The pirate construction department was happy, but Fang La cried.

Sect Leader Fang originally had the huge force of holy soldiers, especially weapons, and originally wanted to rely on this to secretly control Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, but who knew that there were only thirty or twenty thousand left in this force, and what was even more sad was that now there was not much left of the shoddy swords and guns obtained by the monks and soldiers when they robbed the homes of local tyrants and inferior gentry, and all of them were cheaper pirate iron smelting.