Chapter 403. The thief is the official
The love of later generations must first have a house, then a car, and then a few buns to deposit, and then have a mood, have good looks, a lot of this and that, but the love of this era, a strong arm is enough at the most critical moment.
Wen Meng showed his man's reliable side at a critical moment, he was originally given to Liu Zeqing as a gift, and Yuan Xiang'er, who didn't care about it, is it made by you now? I declare you!
But the romantic scene doesn't seem to be suitable here, with tears in his eyes, Yuan Xiang'er is holding Wen Meng to death, the little leader of the rebel army below, those old farmers of the homeless army, and Song Xiance, the big-headed guy who runs around every day and is still a single dog, looked at the side stupidly.
"That, girl, let's go back and hug again! Look, Lord Song's eyes are red!"
"Ahem!"
The beard trembled a little, and Song Xiance, who had eaten a mouthful of dog food, turned his head aside in resentment and annoyance, and then came back to his senses, a melon seed face instantly turned red like a small pepper, and his head drooped, Yuan Xiang'er replied shyly and hurriedly stretched out his hand to Wen Meng to dodge a bunch of light bulbs were also like no one else, and scattered in all directions, but the little leader of the Wandering People's Army was so excited that he was like seeing Iron Man.
"Strong, you are really a god!"
"These are the subordinates of He Renlong, the chief soldier of Yulin, who are the most vicious on weekdays, killing people like hemp, and even eating people alive! You have killed more than 20 people, you are really the reincarnation of the overlord! ”
"Little presumptuous, please be our leader!"
It seemed that the little leader had read some books, but he was holding his fists there full of anticipation, but Wen Meng was muttering with his head down.
"He Renlong? Shaanxi Army? Hey, what a good soldier!"
"This brother, thank you for saving your life yesterday, but a few of us are here to find the leader of Yuan Shizhong in the small Yuan camp, this is your leader, let's be exempt!"
Instead of Wen Meng, where did Song Xiance follow a fist and salute, who knew that after saying this, the little leader slapped his thigh even more excitedly.
"That's right! We just went to the leader of Xiao Yuan Ying, isn't it just right for you to be our leader? ”
Time to run? Looking at each other, Song Xiance asked in surprise.
"Do you know where Xiao Yuan's camp is?"
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I really don't know how the four Dongjiang messengers sent by Song Xiance last time were found, the three of them came to operate at a rare time, this time it can be regarded as following the right person, walking north along the Qin River, walking for more than a day, in the outermost complex mountain road of the Taihang Mountains, it can be regarded as finding the famous Xiao Yuan Ying.
This little Yuan camp is really weird, Liukou Liukou, how to call Liukou if he doesn't flow, but he just has a fixed base, hidden between the mountains, usually haunted and robbed between Kaifeng and Kaizhou, and returned to the mountains after the robbery.
Although there is certainly no wealth and prosperity of Mao Jue's Dongjiang here, it can be checked by the thief troops in the mountain pass, and after entering the mountain pass, Wen Meng vaguely feels like he has returned home.
The sorghum millet on the mountain is full of vigor, from time to time you can still see farmers carrying hoes up and down, busy loosening the soil and weeding, and each small village is also quietly distributed in several corners of the mountain valley, the influence of the Dongjiang River is really everywhere, several old ladies gather in the village square, while peeling vegetables, while smoking Dongjiang cigarettes.
Idleness doesn't feel like a post-apocalyptic world.
What Yuan Shizhong did was a bit like Mao Jue and Yu Dacheng in Dengzhou, restoring the production of the peasants, restoring the previous feudal system, and ensuring that the peasants could have a safe production environment.
It's just so simple, even a thief can do it, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, one by one on the way to the imperial examination, the head of the head to get ahead, the thief seems to be an official, in the protection of the territory and the people, but the authentic Ming government outside the mountain is desperately rampant, those officials and soldiers are bandits, burning, killing and plundering, and even eating people and drinking blood.
It's really the end of the world.
But after all, it is a troubled time, and on the hillside, you can still meet a man in a raged cloth shirt holding a black cut, and the electric knife ghost dream blade is practicing chopping.
Xiao Yuanying's camp is on the highest peak of this valley, just like in the TV series, the village surrounded by wooden fences stands at the dangerous place at the crossing, and a team of people is already waiting at the door.
The small leader of the exile army that Wen Meng met was called Zhao Huaiqing, a complete little person, born in Ji County, and studied for a few days, but he was not admitted to Xiucai, did not eat the county's food, and did not even have the qualifications to call himself a poor scholar.
There are too many such thieves, if it were normal, it is estimated that Yuan Shizhong would not even be able to see the toes of his feet, at most a small leader would be co-opted, and a piece of land would be divided for the old and weak to farm, and the young and strong would be pumped, and then they would be cannon fodder when they were robbed.
But this is not ordinary, ninety-six Shaanxi cavalry heads were raised, or the most fierce He Renlongbu in the old Qin army, there are sixty horses, fifty knives, seventy-one guns, even if it is the end of the Ming Dynasty when wars are frequent, the most dead are the infantry who are cannon fodder, and the results are rare to be able to kill such a pair of cavalry, including personal soldiers.
This Yuan Shizhong looks white and clean, his hair is combed into a top bun, he still has three long beards, and his face is also a talent, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, talents are rare in this era, and he is waiting at the door with great expectations.
However, Yuan Shizhong's expectations this time were obviously less, this head greeted everyone, and before Yuan Shizhong showed a leader's tolerant smile, when he greeted him, a scream of surprise had already sounded in the crowd.
"Brother!"
"The Third !!"
Looking at Yuan Xiang'er's figure running out quickly, Yuan Shizhong almost didn't scan out his eyes.
"Why are you back?"
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During the Ming Dynasty, three of the four famous books have been written, especially "Water Margin" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which deeply influenced these grass-headed heroes.
Unlike other leaders of the peasant army, Yuan Shizhong was born as a landlord and had read some books, Yuan Xiang'er was his own person, and he didn't hold any welcome meetings, and those who went out to welcome were dismissed, Wen and Meng followed directly into the back hall and went to Yuan Shizhong's study.
When he was at the door of the stockade, Yuan Shizhong was high-spirited, looking confident and slow, but when he sat down in the study, his face was obviously tired and anxious.
The last time Song Xiance sent a letter, Dongjiang had already cleared Liu Ze, but his information was not so backward, and he nodded straightforwardly.
"The two of you are the adults under the command of Dongjiang Mao Shuai!"
"I've seen the head of Yuan, the official Dongjiang praises Song Xiance, this is the Dongjiang general Wen Mengwen, is Mao Jue and Mao Shuai's uncle, Yuan forgive me, make my sister virtuous and virtuous, my family Wen Ye can't help it, it has been privately decided for life, so this trip to visit the door in person, to meet my uncle!"
No wonder before leaving, Song Xiance asked Wen Meng to "take" this Yuan Xiang'er, this level of kinship was calculated by him into the price, and he deserved to be a figure who could show his talents in the history of the late Ming Dynasty.
It's just that Wen Meng is a little stupid, why does he have an inexplicable brother-in-law? didn't come back to his senses for a long time, so Song Xiance hurriedly slapped him behind him and slapped him on the root of his hind legs.
"I've seen my uncle."
Such a relative also made Yuan Shizhong stunned, and after a while, when he greeted Wen Meng, his eyebrows raised.
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This small Yuan camp under the governance of Yuan Shizhong is really a bit similar to Mao Jue's Dongjiang, or another copy of the Ming Dynasty's official mansion, he took his subordinates to open fields in this Taihang Mountain area, and divided his subordinates into villages, led by the famous village guys in the peasant army, and set up a town in several villages, led by an old master, this old master served as the county official and the commander of the guard, usually in charge of farming and harvesting grain, once there was an official army crusade, he was responsible for gathering the young and strong in several villages, and followed Yuan Shizhong to resist.
In addition to these, Yuan Shizhong also has a core force of 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the entire small Yuan battalion is in good order under this management, and the population of several county towns has rarely maintained a happy land in this troubled era.
followed Yuan Shizhong to inspect his small kingdom, and while walking, Song Xiance was still persuading.
"The leader is also a great man for a while, protecting the territory and the people, and maintaining one side, why bother to bear this thief name? My general's father is now expanding his territory in Liaodong, and he lacks the help of a capable person like the leader, so he came to Liaodong and joined hands with my Mao Shuai to capture the captive, drink the blood of Hu with a knife, and leave a name for the ages, wouldn't it be happy? ”
This is face, you have to give it to Lizi after giving face, after looking at Yuan Shizhong's quite handsome head and nodding secretly, Song Xiance shook his three-inch tongue even harder, and then gave Lizi.
"If the leader of Yuan is willing to accept Zhao'an, the land of Liaodong, each person will be awarded ten acres of land, and ten taels of silver will be awarded to settle down, and before the autumn harvest next year, all the grain will be provided by the Dongjiang River, and the tax will be the same as that of the Dongjiang River, ten taxes and three, and those who are willing to serve in the army will be listed separately for ten regiments, and you will be a general, Leader Yuan, what do you think?"
This condition, in the Ming Zhao'an has been quite affordable, and shows the sincerity of the Dongjiang, the first implementation of the appeasement policy is the trilateral governor Yang He, but Yang He's Zhao'an is more like a face project, out of a Zhao'an holy decree, Yang He can not take out any silver two grains to settle the Zhao'an refugees, and there is not enough land to settle them, so that the Ming Dynasty's Fu Bureau ended in bankruptcy, had to be replaced by Hong Chengchou, relying on extremely bloody killings to eliminate the excess population.
Song Xiance promised a year's worth of grain, ten acres of land, and ten taels of silver, which was countless times more favorable than the Zhao'an conditions opened by Lu Xiangsheng, Song Xiance, Yang Sichang, etc.
This sister is still married to Mao Jue's uncle, if Mao Jue is called the emperor, he will be counted as a relative of the emperor, and Song Xiance came in person, and the face was given to the extreme, this Yuan Shizhong was obviously moved, however, after hesitating for a long time, Yuan Shizhong bowed heavily to Song Xiance.
"Lord Song, please come with the villain!"
Changed two horses in the cottage, rushed along the mountain road to another section of the mountain, ran for more than half an hour, climbed three ridges in a row, stood in front of a wooden tower, Yuan Shizhong is stretched out his hand and pointed downward.
"Lord Song, look!"
"So many !!"
took out the telescope he had brought in his arms, and Song Xiance exclaimed incredulously.
He will be the flag, the tiger will be the flag, the Cao will be the flag, and the brightly lit camps are like Go, densely spread on the plain outside the Taihang Mountains......