Chapter Twenty-Four: To Stay?

"What?" Zhang Xuan was shocked.

He thought he would hide in the mountains for a few days, but he never thought that he would leave tomorrow.

"Do the wounded have to stay? Am I going to stay too? Zhang Xuan asked.

"Don't you understand? The wounded stayed. Most of the old and weak will also be placed in the mountains. If you want to stay, you won't care. Rodain said with a slight pause.

Zhang Xuan's heart suddenly moved, he was fed up with such endless marches. Even if he was riding on a horse, from Huangling City in Kaixian County to here, Zhang Xuan felt one thing along the way, and it was even more difficult to walk without anything.

What the? If you don't experience it, you can feel it like walking a thousand miles.

Zhang Xuan couldn't be moved by the thought of staying in the mountains.

"Although there are restrictions on the development of the mountains and the output is not much, with my ability, it is not a good way to farm in the mountains well, be more stable in the future, and then find a way to go to the south of the Yangtze River to the sea? Why follow Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and his party are running around? ”

The more Zhang Xuan thought about it, the more excited he became.

However, he still had to get up and make arrangements first, and handed over the wounded to the people in the Huanglong cottage.

Cao Zongyu also got up to help. After being busy, the sky was slightly white, and the sun had not yet risen, Zhang Xuan asked Cao Zongyu: "Brother Cao, what do you think of me in the mountains?" ”

Cao Zongyu said: "Stay in the mountains? ”

"Yes, I don't hide it from Brother Cao, I am a scholar, I say that I have no power to restrain the chicken, some are too much, but I am indeed not a talent to charge into battle, in the army, there is no place to use, and stay in the mountains, if there is a square inch of land, let me do it, I dare not say that the cottage soldiers are full of food, but in the troubled times, it is still okay to ask for food and clothing. So I feel like I'm better suited here. Zhang Xuan looked at Cao Zongyu and said, "What does Brother Cao think?" ”

Cao Zongyu said: "It's not very good. ”

Zhang Xuan doesn't know much about this world, and what is written in the history books is never very different from the reality. Zhang Xuan asked Cao Zongyu, but he was not confident in his judgment, but he never expected to be vetoed by Cao Zongyu.

Cao Zongyu said: "In the mountains of Yunyang, the displaced people are in turmoil, which has lasted for hundreds of years, there have already been countless cottages, and the good places have been occupied. In the mountains of Yunyang, there are hundreds of cottages, although there is a consensus on the matter of confronting the government, but it does not prevent each other, for various reasons, vendetta against each other, the fierceness of the fight, may not be inferior to the army of conquest. It's even more cruel. You think that the world will be peaceful in the mountains, but you are very wrong. And those old cottages with years of age, all of them are family clusters, there are several old surnames passed down from generation to generation, it is simply impossible for you to win a big position in the cottage, even in the cottage of Huanglong and Yao Tiandong, you will not be reused, because as long as he stays, he will be regarded as the person of the eight kings. Think about it, if the Eight Kings want to stay, how should Huang Yao and the others deal with themselves? The eight kings had no intention, but Huang Yao and the others would not be unguarded. You stay, you can live, it's hard to make a difference. ”

"But with the army, I think it's hard for me to survive." Zhang Xuan blurted out.

Cao Zongyu's eyes were a little disappointed, and he said: "In this case, you have to watch and do it yourself." ”

"Uncle? What's going on? Luo Yujiao also secretly drank some wine yesterday, and also knew that it was impossible for the mountains to be attacked by the official army, so she slept a little deeply, so after the sun rose, she could be regarded as getting up, and when she came together, she saw the chaos outside.

Many people want to stay, many people are packing up their horses, and even countless people are making dry food, this scene Luo Yujiao is very familiar with, it is the scene of the army going out.

"Yufeng?" Luo Dain was busy with his feet on the ground, and was grabbed by Luo Yujiao, and said: "Last night, I ordered that the old and weak people in the army, as well as all the baggage, should stay here, and this morning, the army will go out." I asked Zhang Xuan, listen to his voice, he wants to stay, since this is the case, there are not many people in your medical camp, so I didn't call you to let you sleep well. ”

"What?" Luo Yujiao's face changed suddenly, and she didn't look like she was awake, but suddenly became solemn. said: "Zhang Xuan wants to stay? ”

"He asked, can he stay?" Rodain said.

Luo Yujiao let go of Luo Dain and immediately left to find Zhang Xuan.

Luo Dain looked at Luo Yujiao's distant back, saw Aunt Tian follow, sighed, and was busy with his own affairs again. When the army was preparing to go on the expedition, Luo Rucai's camp, and Luo Dain, who was in charge of general affairs, was the busiest.

Luo Yujiao was thinking heavily along the way, and said secretly: "How can I persuade him?" He never liked to fight and kill, and I can tell that if he didn't have that compassion, he wouldn't have read medicine. And if the army travels hundreds of miles in a hurry, his body and bones may not be able to withstand it, what should he do? Perhaps, it would be a good choice for him to stay. But he's staying, what should I do? My dad wouldn't let me stay. ”

Luo Yujiao sighed leisurely, her eyebrows squeezed together.

As far as Luo Yujiao herself is concerned, she also has a dream in her heart, that is, to settle down, male farming and female weaving. No one likes to be on the move, especially women. It was precisely because of this that Luo Yujiao didn't know how to persuade Zhang Xuan to dispel the idea of staying.

Women in love think that their men are omnipotent. It will not be like Cao Zongyu to persuade Zhang Xuan with practical problems, in Luo Yujiao's mind, these things are difficult for Zhang Xuan.

In fact, Luo Yujiao only needed to ask Luo Dain for a password, and Zhang Xuan couldn't stay, but she subconsciously ignored this idea.

Zhang Xuan sat alone on a rock, as if pondering something.

"Are you going to stay?" When Luo Yujiao came, she seemed to have a lot of clues, and she didn't know how to say it, but after coming to Zhang Xuan's side, she suddenly blurted out, and after she finished speaking, Luo Yufeng felt a little remorseful, as if she shouldn't have said it so directly.

It's just that Luo Yufeng doesn't know how to speak tactfully.

Zhang Xuan said: "Don't prepare. ”

Zhang Xuan also figured it out, but didn't think much about it. Zhang Xuan thought about the situation in the past few years, he didn't remember much history, but Chongzhen was only seventeen years old, and the little emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the Qing court just after he ascended the throne.

Then the Qing court fought for a long time in the south of the Yangtze River, and the era name of Yongli also lasted for more than ten years. That is, from today to the next ten years, it will only be more chaotic than now, not better than now. There are no peaceful days.

Zhang Xuan also wanted to understand where Yunyang was at the junction of the three provinces, although he was not sure that they were now in the middle of the thousands of miles of mountains in Yunyang.

But just from Yunyang to Jiangnan, if you take a plane for a few hours in modern times, it will only take a day to take the high-speed rail, and this generation is not like this, first of all, Zhang Xuan ran to the south before the Ming order was completely chaotic, and he needed a road guide. How could Zhang Xuan, a black household, have a way out.

If you wait for the collapse of the Ming order before walking, Zhang Xuan walks alone, and he is simply looking for death. If Zhang Xuan can't have a position in the mountains within a year or two, he has the combat strength to protect his cronies. He can't leave Yunyang to go to Jiangnan now when the world is still peaceful, as for the chaos in the world, even if Zhang Xuan has dozens of cronies, can he block the chaos on the road?

The world went from 50 or 60 million in the Ming Dynasty to more than 10 million in the Kangxi period, and Zhang Xuan was not sure if he would become one of the few numbers that were eliminated. And that's just the official numbers, and it's always the official numbers.

In this era, many people do not have the freedom to choose how to live, only the freedom to choose how to die.

Zhang Xuan, as a modern person, can be said to be well-informed, let him sit in the mountains for a lifetime, he is absolutely unwilling, so if he wants to complete his victorious escape at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he must follow Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, at least, Zhang Xianzhong will be able to do the position of the king of Daxi in the future, and Zhang Xianzhong, as long as he holds his thighs, it should not be so easy to die.

Luo Yujiao swallowed all the remaining words in her stomach for a while, and she didn't know what to say.

"Has the army been drawn up?" Zhang Xuan said: "Then let's go." ”