Sandao Village, a small village on the edge of the western plains of Jizhou. In the era of the Republican Army's great economic development, it seems that some of the development here cannot keep up with the pace of this era.

The land here is still scattered, with about 15 to 20 acres of land per capita, and it is enough to eat and drink. But it's hard to have bigger developments.

The land resources were supposed to be concentrated, but the negotiations between the local residents and the banks seemed to be going very badly, believing that the price offered was too low, and at the same time, some of the people entered the city with hardship and hard work, while others stayed here, and they thought it was very good to keep it well. As a result, they lack the motivation to develop further.

"These guys, they're too full." Second lieutenant officer Zhang Zheng looked at some of the people who were escorted out and said that they were all Wudoumi Sect people, and they amassed money in the name of teaching people to ascend to the fairyland. They became deplorable.

"They are all poor people, and the higher ones will not dispose of them, at most they will be fined and imprisoned for a certain time. There won't be much like that. Lieutenant Li Qing said. He is the police officer in charge of this area.

Religion, the Republican Army is not opposed, but religion has a bottom line, Chinese have their own beliefs, they believe in God, ancestors. But if you use something like this to do something with ulterior motives. The IRA will definitely intervene.

The power of religion can never be ignored and cannot be ignored.

"It's so cheap for them. We're developing so well here, I really don't know why they do it? Second Lieutenant Zhang Zheng said helplessly.

"All people have faith, just like we did before, and they will live well. That's what we're going to encounter. Li Qing said.

"But there are some things that go too far, and we still have to oppose them." Li Qing continued.

This is a scene that happened in Jizhou, under the control of the Republican Army.

Wudou Mijiao continues to spread here, but his influence is not too great, mainly because most of the old people, children, and even some women in many rural areas will not gather in the countryside, and the rapid development of cities and towns will bring greater development and provide greater production value, while agriculture needs less manpower because of the development of agricultural technology, and more labor is concentrated in the towns.

The Wudou Rice Religion can only develop in some marginalized small rural areas, and in the larger towns, they have no market, because people are unusually busy and cannot take care of this place at all, coupled with the further development of education, medical and health care, people's material content is generally satisfied with some of their current situation, in such a situation, the influence of the Five Dou Mi Religion is extremely limited.

The benefits of urbanization are like this, the population is becoming more and more concentrated, and the teachings of Wudou Mi Sect can no longer have a large market, as long as people are materially rich, they will seek higher spiritual needs, in contrast, Wudou Mi Religion is happening in a desperate situation.

Li Jiazhuang, inside the War Department.

"According to the news from Luoyang, armed uprisings of different scales have also taken place in Yizhou, Jingzhou, and some places in Qingzhou. The local government is constantly increasing their already small number of troops, and at the same time the landlords are increasing their military power. In this way, the situation is a bit chaotic. We should also note that some of these situations have occurred. Although we have three cases like the Five Dou Mi Sect, we should be careful. Shang Wu said with some reports.

The situation at the imperial court was not too favorable. In the original history, it took some time for the Yellow Turbans to revolt again, but the problem is that after the Yellow Turban Army revolted. The imperial court did not completely suppress it. On the contrary, a republican army emerged that was getting stronger and stronger, although it was nominally peaceful. But in reality, it has completely become a state within a state, and the local government is divided.

Not only the Republican Army, but Han Sui in the northwest. The same is true, the weakness of the imperial court made many ambitious people see opportunities, and some people with ulterior motives and reckless began to actively launch uprisings, and the uprisings in Yizhou and Jingzhou intensified. There were many people who had long been dissatisfied with the actions of the imperial court, and the uprising broke out like dry firewood.

At the same time, some landlords also had ulterior motives, and they actively organized their own armed forces to resist the insurrectionary forces in various places, and they rapidly rose up among the armed forces they organized. Drastic changes are taking place in the central and local forces, and it is already possible for the local forces to overwhelm the orders of the central government. Because their power is more developed.

A large-scale secession of the region is no longer stoppable.

"Such things should indeed be noted, but I think that the threat is not very great, and most of the armed uprisings are concentrated in some areas where land annexation is extremely serious, and the contradictions cannot be reconciled, and can only develop in this way, and through the three cases, we should see that the contradictions between our material abundance and the people are not irreconcilable. On the contrary, people have a great sense of initiative, and in such a situation, their development is far from a result that we can hardly imagine, and in such a situation, we should pay attention to some new developments. In this way, whether you are a five-bucket rice sect or a seven-bucket rice sect, they have no market to speak of, and what I noticed is that they are mainly concentrated in remote areas, where the economy is relatively underdeveloped. But basically they can meet their basic needs, and the target groups are very limited, beyond that. Their main purpose is not to rebel and have ulterior motives, but to accumulate money. Jia Xu said with the report that had been written.

"Well, it seems that our worries are unfounded." Shang Wu said.

"Yes. They don't have a market, religion and so on, how to say, we can't suppress too much, and at the same time we can't completely suppress it, we should comply with them, if they suppress it too much, it will produce some extreme practices, of course, they do something illegal, we have to take some situations to deal with. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to do some of these things. Jia Xu said.

"Well, okay. This is also a huge step forward for us. Shang Wu said. This kind of thing can be big or small. After all, his influence is so great, and no matter how much he fights, the situation of his influence development cannot be too great.

Shang Wu can't let some of these situations continue.

"We have noticed the constant riots in the localities, which has given the localities an important excuse to increase their troops, and by taking advantage of such an opportunity, the development of the local armed forces will enter a new stage." Shang Wu said. After all, the influence of the Five Doumi Sect is too limited. They lack effective discipline and organization. At the same time, most of them are at the bottom, and the places with sharp contradictions will give them the greatest opportunity for development, and once they develop and cannot quickly transform such power, they will completely collapse.

While they are destroying the local economic order, they also need to redevelop their new economic order. This is an important reason why they can develop in the long run, but unfortunately, the Yellow Turban Army uprising lacks such a momentum. They simply undermine the economic order and lack the necessary ability to improve it, which dooms them to be only the destroyers of the order, not the builders. This determines their longevity.

What Shang Wu and Jia Xu noticed was that under such an influence, some of the changes they produced, such changes, and how they should deal with them, this is the situation they should pay attention to the most.

"Well, this gives us an opportunity for a great need, and the local landlords will not be too strong to be armed, after all, if it costs too much, it will be difficult to maintain. And their burden will not be too much, so we can take the opportunity to export our weapons and equipment. In addition to this, iron resources are also an important export. But what kind of resources can we get in exchange? Jia Xu has gradually understood the importance of trading, which is to change. But how to achieve the value of exchange, this is a very important thing.

"Hmm. What resources do you think are important to them? Shang Wu asked.

"People. The common people in the world are important. Jia Xu said.

"Huh. Thought of a piece and went. People are important, but we have to think about how to develop, to migrate them. We have to think of some of these situations. Shang Wu said.

"Our goals should be more long-term. Hedong and Luzhou have solved the problem of a part of the labor force, but these are still not enough for us, we should pay attention to the occurrence of some other situations, for example, Hexi Prefecture, the proportion of Han and Xiongnu in Hexi Prefecture still cannot occupy a great advantage, which means that when we use troops in Hexi Prefecture against the north, we are still in an unfavorable situation, and we cannot solve the fundamental problem by garrisoning troops alone. Jia Xu said.

"Yes, sooner or later we will have to reclaim the Loop. Open up the entire northern defense line, in this way, our population needs are very large, and the population is the market. Shang Wu said.

"Yes. So, some of these situations are very beneficial to us, and we can take the opportunity to provide some advantages in weapons, and then develop a bigger situation. We have to stock up on more people now, and some, once killed, will turn out to be extremely unfavorable. Jia Xu said.

Shang Wu nodded, this can be regarded as a rescue operation.