On the Huai Shui, Huang Chao looked at the boats that were weaving back and forth, and then slowly stepped on the arranged pontoon bridge. Taking off the soft silk cedar and cotton robe that he seemed to be used to, and the heavy feeling of putting on the armor again after more than half a year made Huang Chao feel a little uncomfortable but faintly felt a lot more at ease.

After all, the foundation he built out of horseback was not enough to hide in the high-gate mansion and courtyard behind him, and the "strategic planning" of remote control and command was not enough, nor was it what he was good at and won at; After all, all this has to return to the horse, in order to push this great cause to a new climax;

Of course, what really moved him to continue to march in the end was not the stakes and gains and losses that the other party painfully stated, but the sentence that the messenger from the king of Changshan inadvertently left behind:

"The Yellow King acts according to his fortune and destiny, so why should he hope that the ruined court will be famous."

Therefore, he couldn't help tossing and turning and asked himself, he seemed to have only a bit of qi and luck to bless in the dark; Therefore, whenever we are on the verge of despair, we will encounter the turning points and variables of life.

At that time, there was a ballad of "golden toads fighting for their eyes, but Caozhou was against the world" and the world was in a commotion. Thieves rampant Chen, Xu, Xiang, and Deng Shuzhou, "all the young and long are captured, and the number is 300,000".

However, the other leaders of the rebel army, who had traveled all the way or even earlier, like themselves, obviously did not have this kind of opportunity and way out; It is because after the fall of General Wang, there are quite a few people who continue to raise the banner of rebellion, and in the end, only themselves have come to such a step, isn't this some kind of potential proof of the destiny of heaven?

Not to mention that he met the "monk" son-in-law outside the mountains, and once again knew how strong his own capital was, and how many things could be done and realized; It's a waste of what good things and opportunities have been wasted again.

In comparison, the little gains and losses of the petite wife and child, and the intrigues in the back house are nothing. As long as you take advantage of the time and have more authority and prestige, are you afraid that there will not be more and more outstanding daughters of famous families to give birth to their own children and serve the pillow?

I was really too happy with the comfort of my children and didn't want to make progress, and I actually believed that a mere marshal was the apex of my own and what I finally wanted. But he didn't know that the court, which had been cornered by himself several times, was now weak and weakened to the point where he seemed to have it at his fingertips.

Especially the old thief who is known as the world's famous general has to avoid the battle, and when he sits back and watches Huainan is eroded everywhere, those Fang towns in Heshuo are also ill-intentioned, and the officials and soldiers he has seen are just like this, he really can't think of anyone who can block his way back to his hometown.

With this mood in mind, the moment he stepped on the land on the north bank of Huaishui, he heard the echo of the mountains and tides.

"King Huang."

"King Huang."

"Your Majesty..."

Suddenly, in front of him was a military formation of people of all colors all over the mountains and valleys, countless heads raised their arms and waving weapons of various colors, shouting in unison over and over again to obey his instructions; It is like the turbid waves of this rushing water, filling the main colors of the entire field.

"This is my destiny, this is my general trend."

Huang Chao silently sighed in his heart at this moment, and his steps towards the horse became more and more firm.

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In Yingzhou, Henan, on the other side of Shouzhou, Huainan, a new military horse that has not crossed the river for a long time; He also trooped and rolled on the road, and the wheels whirled on the road. On the banner that swaggered in the center, there were two big characters of "balance" embroidered in white on a black background.

Under the Cao Zi general banner in the rear, the Tianping Army Festival Envoy and Jiangxi Recruitment Envoy who supported the horse march in front of him and the deputy capital of the east were beside Cao Quanxi; The envoy from Wang Jingchong, the envoy of the Chengde Army (Zhenji Jiedu envoy), and Li Chou, the Confucian official of the Inner Court, also spoke bitterly and persuaded him.

"Cao Gong, on the Cao Festival, why are you selling your death power so much. The imperial court has always treated soldiers lightly, and it is good to use it urgently, and abandon it if it is not used. ”

"It can be known that a few years ago, Zeng Yuanyu, the commander of the camp and Zhang Zimian, the deputy commander of the thief, who made the first contribution to pacifying the king (Xianzhi) thief; At the beginning, Cao Gong broke the thief army in Jiangmen, and how did the imperial court treat the festival. ”

"I, Cao Wenxuan, have always acted calmly, but I have a clear conscience; Now that the country is in trouble, how dare you not go all out. ”

Cao Quanxi was unmoved and refuted.

"I only hate my selfishness at the beginning, and I stopped moving forward for a while, so that the thieves in Jiangxi will become bigger again; Is there a disaster that is now all over Jiangdong and Huainan? ”

Speaking of this, he glared at the other party without anger and said coldly:

"I'll spare your life and go back to talk, just say that a certain person is ashamed to only ignore the country's favor and corrupt the world. Let your Uighurs wash their necks all over the house. In the future, there will be few battles to see each other. ”

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Before the words fell, there was Cao Quanyang's second son, Du Yu who followed, Cao Xiang suddenly made a move, and quickly picked up the envoy of the Chengde army from his horse, and regardless of the other party's dancing struggle, he flew to the side of the road and threw it, and in an instant, with exclamations and screams, he rolled and disappeared into the grass.

However, Cao Quanxi sighed invisibly under Luandou's covered expression.

It must be known that since the Qianyuan period, among the three towns in Hebei that began to be divided, the successive envoys of the Chengde Army are the most stable, and they have only changed their surnames twice before and after; And the current Jiedu envoy Wang Jingchong, since the naturalized general of the Abusi tribe of the extinct Uighur kingdom Wang Ting, is now the fourth generation of the commander of the father, son and brother.

During this period, there were hundreds of encirclement and counter-encirclement and suppression with the imperial court and rebellion, and hundreds of large and small wars with neighboring military states to invade and counterattack, even when Cao Quanyang was still under the command of Zhang Pigong of the Tianping Army, he did not fight less. Therefore, the intentions of this generation can be said to be well known to passers-by.

However, these Heshuo marshals have always acted on their own for many years only in the name of the imperial court, but they have always tabooed the righteous name of the imperial court, and never dared to take the last step that became the target of public criticism. Now it is obvious that they can't bear it anymore, which is undoubtedly some kind of bad omen for Cao Quanyang, and his mood is becoming more and more heavy.

After all, Zeng Yuanyu, who had leveled Wang Xianzhi back then, was first promoted to the rank of knight and then reprimanded for being out of state, and Zhang Zimian was deprived of his post and convicted, and finally he could only be saved by asking Zhishi; But these are indisputable facts.

However, thinking that a few days ago, the Eastern Capital Zheng Xianggong specially sent someone to his army, and the rhetoric about rebuilding the right way of the court and pushing it to the world because of the situation, Cao Quanyang's heart became hot and agitated again.

It's like going back to the time when I was a teenager, I just passed the examination and exposure test of the imperial court, and as the governor of Henan, I took the troops to ask for the glorious years of catching the bandits in the north.

And in the direction they were far away, in the grass that was rolled out of a scattered trail, there was also a man who slowly got up with his hands on the ground, and then staggered a few steps before falling to the ground. But it was Li Chou, the Confucian officer of the inner courtyard of the Chengde Army who was thrown off his horse.

Although his ashen body was scratched and torn in many places; But it didn't affect him with a strange smile, muttering to himself to the army marching on the main road:

"It's really worthy of Cao Tietou, who has a rock-like heart. I still want to do a little bit of personnel.,But it's a pity that this good clothes.。。 ”

At last a few more attendants on donkeys and mules came after him, put him back on one of the mounts, and asked cautiously:

"Kongmu, what should we do now?"

"Of course, continue to the west, and go to Xuzhou... Do you still pass the word back as it is, and let the king tear you and me apart?"

Li Chou said without hesitation.

"I don't believe it, it's hard to see that people in the world are as dead-eyed as Cao Pifu."

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The news that the Huangchao Formation had crossed the Huaishui River, along with the sentry posts left in the territory, flew to Jiangning with pigeons, and quickly rolled into the hands of Zhou Huai'an, who was on the way back; He couldn't help but sigh loudly. After all, because he had already turned around and deviated from the wheel of the times on the right track of history, he finally went in the direction he was familiar with.

With the transmission and transmission line from Shaoguan (now Shaozhou, Guangdong) to Hongzhou (Nanchang, Jiangxi) gradually opened up and put into use many times, the delay in news from Lingwai was shortened to less than two days by the original three or five days (depending on the weather).

He is dealing with slices of honey-smoked fish and beef rolls with lettuce leaves on his plate, one of the fruits of which comes from the catch and animal husbandry of the Chaoshan region.

In the emerging coastal marine fishing industry, large trawls made of wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant sisal fibers have replaced the traditional small nets that are easy to soak in coarse cloth and linen, avoiding the so-called historical tradition of "three days of fishing and two days of drying nets";

The large fishing boats, which are specially designed to operate collectively and are more resistant to wind and waves and seaworthy for a longer time, also replace the traditional single-door single-family small fishing boats; On the other hand, they can go deep into the large offshore fishing grounds with higher catches to carry out fishing operations and chase fish for a longer period of time.

Coupled with the improvement of the details of the roulette wheel, sail cable, and rudder, it can be said that the efficiency ratio of the corresponding single sea trip and the activity cycle of the four seasons of the year in the coastal fishing teams, operations and processing bases under the management of the Rebel Army today are far from being comparable in the past.

Therefore, in most of the garrisons, fish and meat, as the source of protein weight and trace elements, have overtaken the traditional poultry and egg farming industry, and have become the largest source of raw materials and meat products for the food processing industry.

Of course, the best thing to do is to take a modified bed crossbow out to sea and try to kill whales or something; This thing can be described as a treasure all over the body, and there is almost no waste to be wasted, as long as one can be salvaged, it is a month's worth of meat for thousands of people. Not to mention the multiple uses of whalebone, whiskers, tongue, skin, fat, and offal as industrial raw materials and medical prescriptions.

At present, the income generated directly or indirectly by the fishing team at sea is mainly invested in the supplement, maintenance and training of the near-shore inspection fleet, and the boatmen and fishermen trained by these fishing teams are also a potential source of replenishment for the gradual expansion of the sea surface force in the future.

Under the strict management and organizational efficiency of the collective farms, all kinds of agricultural and sideline products produced by sericulture, fruit forests, fish ponds and rice fields, as well as the leftovers and wastes of their reprocessing, were also fully utilized. After the fish is processed, the bones, scales, and internal organs are ground to make a variety of added ingredients.

In turn, every household can have spare energy to keep a more or less flock of birds, or small carnivorous fur animals such as pikas. As for the mixed farms specially set aside according to local conditions, these additional feeds can also be used to feed larger carnivorous livestock such as pigs, cattle and sheep; The accumulated stock and meat yield are also gradually improving.

Therefore, even in Xuanzhou, which is far away at the junction of Jiangxi and Jiangdong, it can also maintain multiple supply lines and provide a relatively rich variety of non-staple food supplements; This is undoubtedly a very comfortable and comfortable thing for the Taiping army who are returning and cleaning up the surrounding area.

However, this kind of comfort and relaxation was slightly interrupted when it arrived at the city of Hongzhou.

(End of chapter)