Chapter 22: Where to Go?

Among the rebels.

Zhang Xuan and Luo Yujiao walked side by side.

The rebels did not stop their operations. After Luo Yulong's execution, the rebels moved to the north little by little like a giant python. The mountain road was not easy to walk, and the army had a lot more foot soldiers, and it was no longer all horses, so the speed of the march was not as exaggerated as it was at the beginning.

"My brother's words, don't take it to heart." Luo Yujiao said.

"I know." Zhang Xuan said. Although he said this, he didn't care about it, he remembered Luo Yulong's words in his heart: "What do you think is a war, as long as you train well on the battlefield, you can win the battle." Dreaming, I advise you to follow your uncle in An'an, anyway, I heard my uncle say that you did a good job, and you will take over your uncle's class in the future. Don't worry my sister, and don't expect me to save you, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and not every time I have a chance to save you. ”

Luo Yujiao said cautiously: "Otherwise, if you listen to my brother, you will stay in the back camp, right?" ”

As soon as Zhang Xuan heard this, he understood that it was not only Luo Yulong who wanted to keep him away from the battlefield, but Luo Yujiao.

In fact, if he had a choice, of course Zhang Xuan didn't want to fight. On the battlefield, victory and defeat are instantaneous, and no general can predict victory or defeat before going to battle. The same goes for Zhang Xuan. Is he willing to dance on the tip of a knife?

Of course he didn't want to. But it had to be done.

Now that Zhang Xuan is attached to Luo Rucai, he naturally has no worries about his life, but what will he do in the future?

In the bloody storm in the future, the lives of no soldiers in their hands are in the hands of others. Zhang Xuan didn't want to live in such a situation anyway. In troubled times, how can you rely on others? If it weren't the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xuan would also choose to rely on a winner, but let Zhang Xuan rely on the Manchus? Zhang Xuan couldn't do it, it had to be like this, and he didn't have his plan to flee to Nanyang. There is no one to rely on, Zhang Xuan can only rely on himself.

However, he also knew that Luo Yujiao was caring about himself. I don't plan to refuse outright.。。

"In this world, there is only this stupid woman left who cares about himself without regrets." Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart. He grabbed Luo Yujiao's hand.

Luo Yujiao was suddenly embarrassed, pulled out her hand, looked left and right, and suddenly felt that everyone looked at her strangely.

"Don't worry, even if it's for you, I'm going to live well." Zhang Xuan said.

"What nonsense?" Luo Yujiao's new daughter-in-law's shyness had not faded away, lest Zhang Xuan say anything embarrassing, so she immediately hurried to the front of the queue.

"Are you for her?" A horse squeezed in from behind and said, "For her sake, for her sake, give up our previous plans?" I think we should talk about it. ”

The person who spoke was none other than Cao Zongyu.

Since Zhang Xuan and Luo Yujiao got married, Cao Zongyu has obviously felt the changes in Zhang Xuan, and he has guessed that Zhang Xuan has given up his plan to go to Jiangnan. The so-called gentle township is a hero's mound, and Cao Zongyu is not a reluctant Fang Wan. That's it, let's live among the rogues.

But what Zhang Xuan has done recently is far beyond the chaos of life.

fought several times, and Cao Zongyu took on a lot of Zhang Xuan's burden. Whether it is fighting in front or protecting Zhang Xuan.

Cao Zongyu has never been afraid of fighting, but he doesn't want to fight meaninglessly. Cao Zongyu seemed to feel that Zhang Xuan seemed to be a different person. Are you a thief for the sake of a woman? He felt the need to communicate with Zhang Xuan, if he really couldn't get along, he had to part ways, anyway, Cao Zongyu was also well-known among the rebels, and his previous fight could be regarded as repaying Zhang Xuan's kindness for avenging him.

"Okay, I think we're going to have a good talk about it too." Zhang Xuan said. In Zhang Xuan's plan, Cao Zongyu is his right-hand man, an absolutely indispensable figure. Be sure to wrap it together. He must not be allowed to centrifuge.

"Now is not the time to speak." Zhang Xuan said: "After camping, let's have a good talk." ”

The mountains were flat, so when I camped, the camp stretched for miles, and the lights spread along the valley, and from a distance it looked like a wildfire.

Next to a big mountain, Zhang Xuan and Cao Zongyu sat opposite each other.

It is said that anyone who talks about entrepreneurship must find a good partner, otherwise it will be half the effort. And Cao Zongyu is Zhang Xuan's partner, maybe not the best, but Zhang Xuan feels the best choice. Every entrepreneur has a talent for making big pies. What Zhang Xuan has to do now is to make a big cake for Cao Zongyu.

"Brother Cao, in fact, I was going to find a way to go back to Jiangnan, and then go to sea from Jiangnan." Zhang Xuan said.

"Out to sea?" Cao Zongyu said with a little doubt, he never thought that Zhang Xuan wanted to go to sea.

What kind of place is overseas in the eyes of the Ming people? Most of them are reckless places, Cao Zongyu is from an official family after all, and he doesn't think that overseas is a place where people have no way to stay, but he definitely doesn't think that overseas is a good place.

"Brother Cao, what do you think of the general trend in this world?" Zhang Xuan asked.

Cao Zongyu snorted coldly and said, "You don't want to say that Luo Ru has the power to win the world, right?" I have also been under Luo Rucai for a while, so I can't see that he can fight well under someone Luo. But there is no scribe under his command to assist, the predecessors said that they will win the world immediately, and they can't rule the world immediately, if they want me to say, purely by force, they can't win the world at all, I think Li Zicheng has a little hope of success than Luo Ru, after all, he has a few people with meritorious reputation. ”

Zhang Xuan patted his thigh and said, "Brother Cao is too right, spur in." ”

Cao Zongyu was indeed a knowledgeable person, and if a simple peasant uprising was not combined with the down-and-out literati, a new dynasty could not be born at all.

"So how long does Brother Cao think the big tomorrow can last?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"This ---" Cao Zongyu felt that as long as the Ming Dynasty exterminated the Liukou, he could not recover from recuperation, and on the other hand, he was in the bureau again, and he had seen the virtues of the court officials and soldiers, and vaguely felt that the Great Tomorrow might not last long. But the latter remark was reluctant to be spoken.

After all, Cao Zongyu still has feelings for Daming.

"Brother Cao doesn't want to say, for me, the next day is already full of holes. If the rogues just got up, there was still to appease the people and reduce the tax burden. In the world of the Ming Dynasty, there is still salvation. But now, since Yang Sichang suggested raising taxes, the next day has come to the edge of the cliff. Originally, the scholars did not pay taxes, and the taxes were pressed on the small people, and the north was ravaged by the bandits, and it has long been out of shape, and collecting taxes in these places is simply an official-forcing the people to rebel, and the people have fled, and the people who stay in place have to bear the tax burden of those who have fled, and who dares to stay at home. If the north is insufficient, it will be levied from the south, although Jiangnan is a rich land, but the tax burden in Jiangnan is also the highest in the world. How long can the southern provinces support such taxes? ”

Therefore, Yang Sichang's strategy is to drink water to quench his thirst. Daming is now a return to the light. If you can't destroy the rogue in the return of light. Daming is over. Because the people of the south will follow in the footsteps of the people of the north, the officials are forced to rebel - the people are opposed, and the people have to rebel. ”

"And Yang Sichang's strategy, has it been done?"

Cao Zongyu is not a fool, as soon as Zhang Xuan's words are said, he understands. He had this feeling before, but he couldn't say it, and Zhang Xuan's assertion was summarized from later historians.

Yang Sichang himself ended up committing suicide, what is his anti-bandit policy, do you need to say? After Cao Zongyu joined Luo Rucai, he participated in all the confrontations with Yang Sichang, and for a while, Luo Rucai was indeed in danger. Entering Shu with Luo Rucai, there are a total of nine camp heads, and now only one Cao Ying is left, which can see Cao Ying's original predicament.

But they always ended up breathing a sigh of relief, and now it was clear that the rogues had the upper hand. If it is as Zhang Xuan said, the death of the Ming Dynasty is just around the corner.

However, as Brother Cao said, the rebel army has no base and is purely a wanderer. It may be possible to extinguish the Ming, but after the extinguishment of the Ming, it will probably be the situation at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the end of the Han Dynasty, and the end of the Yuan Dynasty. The death of the Ming Dynasty is likely to be the beginning of troubled times, not the end of troubled times. Zhang Xuan said.