Chapter 123: Each Mind Three

Fengling Port, on a departing sea ship, a figure with a blue nose and swollen face that could not hide the scarred body was also looking back at the port market in the fjord, but it was a complex thought with mixed feelings but containing bitterness and indignation.

He is the Fujian maritime merchant Suo Luomeng who was detained in Hong Kong, and the old man Suo who is privately called "Aconitum fish"; His ancestor is said to be one of the three cool officials from the Wu Zhou Dynasty, who framed others with his clever name, and was fortunate to be a supervising imperial history and guerrilla general, known for being good at killing people with torture tricks, but in the end he cocooned himself and died under the naturalized Hu man Suo Yuanli who invented the torture instrument;

As a dirty glove that will be thrown away when it is used up, Suo Yuanli, Zhou Xing, and Lai Junchencheng are also killed by all kinds of liquidations after the fall of the lost sacred heart in the capital; Even if you ask for a first-class nine thousand miles within five suits, you can't get it, and you will die tragically in prison.

Only one descendant born to the servant girl escaped by luck, and was able to change his face and flee all the way south to the relatively geographical and closed Fujian region, and mixed with the local mountains and barbarians to reproduce his branch again.

It is also because of the fact that he relied on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water, and the sea to eat the sea, and after he was born by making documents and interpreting for the Shanhatou people, he made a living on the sea; And then as an outsider who has not taken root for a long time, after defeating many rivals and pretenders, this laid the foundation of his current maritime heirloom.

Now that his generation also has hundreds of clansmen, and has a net worth of several fields and more than a dozen boats, he used the time of marching to the throne to spend money for his father to redeem the title of an original feudal man, so he also has the qualification to be called the master.

Because he was accustomed to running the route to and from the Lingnan coast, and was forcibly requisitioned by the local government when he stopped in Zhangzhou, he had to personally press the ship south to transport the officers and soldiers and their needs; Originally, he said that he could let them go after returning the opportunity, and there would be corresponding compensation and rewards, but he didn't want to be able to return to the ship the last time he went ashore.

The seizure of this incident also seems to involve a power struggle in his family, and some people did not want him to return safely, but took advantage of this opportunity to bribe and collude with the officers and soldiers on the same ship, and as soon as he landed on the shore, they put him under house arrest on the grounds of preventing leakage of military information, and cut off the news inside and outside;

and found a reason to carry the forbidden objects, and took the sailors, boatmen, and men who had brought him out for many years into custody and interrogated them one by one, and it was said that after many people could not survive the death, they were able to bite him; actually accused him of concealing weapons on the ship and plotting against him, and he was suspected of being a thief; This is really a great miracle in the world, the family that has been walking in the maritime business for generations, the one who does not prepare some self-defense swords and bows in the warehouse.

From this, he also confirmed one thing, this is a means for someone to collude with the government to frame and murder him, and according to the familiarity of the thieves seized from the corresponding ship, I am afraid that it also involves important members of the family who may know, so I don't know who was involved; Then, because he was always more stubborn and did not let those officers and soldiers easily squeeze out their lobbying and other values, he was able to live with the scars on his body until now.

He was almost desperate and gave up, but these grass thieves who suddenly attacked and killed him gave him a chance and a wedge. As one of the victims of the official army, he was able to regain his freedom, but this freedom was rather bleak and full of tedium of nothing.

Therefore, if he wants to go back completely and regain everything that belongs to him, he must make up his mind to think about these grass thieves who control all the situation in Fengling Port; Including negotiating with the other party and even reaching a follow-up behind-the-scenes deal, in exchange for the possibility of getting out of the other party and even the opportunity to make a comeback,

Since those dog-raised officials and soldiers have to slander him for the crime of thieves, then he might as well really be thieves. For this reason, he squatted all night to guard the leader of the grass thieves who went out, and when he was almost killed as a bad intention, he got the opportunity to say a few words to his face.

Then, as if there were many difficulties and hardships in his life, this adventure also made him gamble right. After making a contract for follow-up exchanges, the other party did not disappoint him, not only released his old subordinates who were still alive, but also re-recruited the men to operate the ship, and even let him take away the largest sea ship in the harbor, as well as the selected goods as capital and assistance.

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This little episode did not affect Zhou Huai'an's mood and decision to act next.

Anyway, it's just a casual hand of chess and tricks, and if it fails or looks away, it's just a loss of a sea ship and some supplies that the rebels can't use at all; But if you can succeed by chance, you will also get a channel to obtain information and resources from the outside world.

Since the coastal problem was initially solved, he was not in a hurry to return Chaoyang; After calculating the remaining stocks of grain and grass, in order to recover and clean up the remnants of the officers and soldiers, as well as various local forces that aided and abetted the abuse, they continued to sweep a large area along the coast again, as a training and sentry food in a sense.

Don't look at Chaozhou/Chaoyang County, there are only three counties, but because of the proximity to the sea and the close exchanges between Yufu and Fujian, the number of Tuzhai towns, towns, communities and villages under various counties is much more than that of Xunzhou. Some of them were missed or ignored by friendly forces before, so they took the opportunity to clean up together.

Some places have already been cleaned up by the rebels once, and when you pass by, you can see the achievements of the past, or the after-effects left behind. After losing the upper echelons entrenched in these villages and towns, led by the powerful clans and the servants of the officials; The corresponding change is also a trend of polarization.

Either the population will soon be scattered and flee and show a trend of decay and abandonment; Either some local well-off families took the lead to restore order and daily life, and even glow with a new vitality and momentum;

After all, although the rebels stole all the valuable food and materials they could use, they also left them with food to buy people's hearts and captured weapons to use for self-defense and self-preservation. Moreover, the righteous army could not take away the land, property, houses and properties owned by those who had been raided and exterminated.

Therefore, in this case, they either break up in the face of continuous internal turmoil, and go their separate ways to avoid trouble; Either someone took the initiative to fill the gap left by these upper strata, or even carved up the legacy of those old upper strata and became a new leader with prestige and appeal.

and as a group of vested interests directly or indirectly under the actions of the rebels; Their attitude and stance towards the rebels were basically between relative neutrality and relative intimacy, and they took the initiative to come out to negotiate and inquire about the situation when the rebels passed by.

After all, it is the people who have witnessed the interests of Zhou Huai'an and the rebels under his command, and those who want to be safe and sound, and even seek benefits are the main streams.

Although, judging from the standards of the next generation, this result is inevitably a bit of an accident when it is cooked into raw rice, but no matter how nondescript the raw rice is, it will never be much more sad than their previous unchanging stagnant life.

Perhaps the new leaders of these villages and towns will become the new accomplices and minions of the ruling class in the future because of the annexation of land and property, the new wealthy families and large households, and even the re-alliance and connection with the government.

But for a long time to come, most of the lowest groups who are exploited and oppressed will be able to loosen the heavy shackles around their necks and breathe a little breather, without worrying about the consequences of selling their children and their families.

The root cause of the ignorance of the broad masses of people in this era who are afraid of change and resist change lies in the inherent fragility of the small-scale peasant economy, which makes them really not have much courage and confidence to withstand the risks and accidents after change.

But once you have no choice but to accept reality and irreversible changes, you will be like the most tenacious weeds, trying to adapt and get used to new changes, so that you can continue to survive and continue; Therefore, it is really difficult to say whether these results brought by the rebels are good or bad for them, and can only be slowly verified in the future.

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From time to time, "Chaoyang Zhi" said: "Lingnan thieves are trapped, and there is a demon monk Yuan Xuan attached, and the demons are good at confusing the small people,。。。 Gather together and plunder the land, give a little charity, and the hungry will obey. All large wealthy families and wealthy families are not exempt... Since decades of non-return. ”

"Why is a fake monk of unknown origin enough to pry into the rise and fall of an entire dynasty?"

"Why would an inconspicuous little person steal the final fruits of Wang Xianzhi and Huangchao's peasant war;"

"Why can anyone still break the traditional inertia of the origins and backgrounds of the emperors of all dynasties."

"This proves that the vast number of ignorant and ignorant ordinary people have never been the driving force that creates the wheel of history forward, but only the blind inertia of following the trend."

"And all this obviously started with a trivial 'thief' in the coastal areas of Chaoshan in Lingnan."

Later generations of conscientious historians have researched and said: "The Millennium Dynasty: 100 Historical Truths You Don't Know"

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