This flag turned out to be related to the Lin Shuangwen uprising a few years ago.

In the 51st year of Qianlong (1786), Sun Jingsui, the governor of Taiwan, banned the Tiandihui and arrested the uncle of Lin Shuangwen, the leader of the Tiandihui, who led the army to rob the prison to launch an uprising.

Lin Shuangwen captured Changhua County in an instant, killed Sun Jingsui, the governor of Taiwan, and stationed in the Yamen of Changhua County. At the same time, the Heaven and Earth Associations across Taiwan have responded. On January 16, Lin Shuangwen launched an uprising, on the 18th he captured Changhua, and on the 20th, Wang Zuo and Li Tong of the North Road also led the people to revolt, and successively captured Tamsui and Zhuqian City. The time interval is only four days, so the connection between the Heaven and Earth Societies in various places is actually very close. The response from the South Road was a little later, but it was also within ten days. The center of the South Road Heaven and Earth Society is in Fengshan County, and the leader is named Zhuang Datian, who broke through the county seat of Fengshan and grew to several thousand people within a few days, becoming the largest force of the South Road Heaven and Earth Society.

In just one month, except for Taiwan Prefecture, Zhuluo County, and Lukang, the central seaport, the entire city of Taiwan fell into the hands of the Heaven and Earth Society.

The forces of these uprisings are nominally headed by Lin Shuangwen, but in this era of information transmission, in fact, all places are independent, and the leaders of all places are proud of a certain marshal, and even Lin Shuangwen calls himself "the generalissimo of the alliance leader", and the name of the generalissimo of the South Road Auxiliary State is the self-proclaimed title of Zhuang Datian, the leader of the Tiandihui who rebelled in Fengshan County that year.

That's interesting.

When Chen Guanghui sent this flag just now, he told Zhou Lang that without a banner, it was difficult to unify the order, so this flag was specially made to celebrate the victory. When he first saw these big words, Zhou Lang immediately asked what Chen Zhouquan's banner was, and Chen Guanghui told Zhou Lang that he was the generalissimo of the alliance. Chen Zhouquan's banner is the generalissimo of the alliance leader, but he sent Zhou Lang the banner of the generalissimo of the auxiliary state of the South Road, but from the literal meaning, it shows that the two sides have an obvious superior-subordinate relationship.

Zhou Lang thought that this was Chen Zhouquan's small means, but he still accepted it, although the name is not right, it is not good, but excessive fame may kill people, and Zhou Lang still understands the truth of building a high wall and slowly becoming king. So at that time, he didn't care about Chen Zhouquan's word games, but felt that Chen Zhouquan gave himself such a name as the Heaven and Earth Society, so that he could have a very reasonable name, and if he became Chen Zhouquan, the marshal of the South Road appointed by the big boss of the Heaven and Earth Society, wouldn't it mean that he would be one of the leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society in the future.

Zheng was worried that he didn't have the name to secretly recruit the group of Tiandihui soldiers trained by Colin, so he gladly accepted it, secretly sighing that he was entering the Tiandihui in disguise, and from then on, he had the name of using the fame of the Tiandihui to absorb the lower-class people who were most dissatisfied with the status quo of society.

However, Wei Lianli's explanation after seeing this flag made Zhou Lang suddenly understand that maybe Chen Zhouquan asked Chen Guanghui to send this flag, and the meaning he wanted to express was probably other meaning.

Now Chen Zhouquan has played the banner of Lin Shuangwen back then, and gave Zhou Lang the banner of Zhuang Datian, which probably means that he is recognizing Zhou Lang's status, Zhuang Datian was the number two person in Lin Shuangwen's Tiandi Society, and everyone is not subordinate to each other, they are doing their own thing, at most they cooperate with each other. The meaning expressed is that Chen Zhouquan will not interfere with Zhou Lang's actions, but everyone can cooperate with each other.

Of course, Zhou Lang figured out the truth before, and Chen Zhouquan was indeed using this matter to create an illusion that Zhou Lang was under his command, as long as Zhou Lang accepted this banner, he literally recognized Chen Zhouquan's status as the leader of the alliance, and Zhou Lang was rewarded with Chen Zhouquan admitting that he was the number two person in the Heaven and Earth Society.

Chen Zhouquan used the banner of Lin Shuangwen and let Zhou Lang use the banner of Zhuang Datian, which has another layer of deep meaning. At that time, these two, one was the leader of the Taiwan General Alliance, and the other was the leader of the South Road Heaven and Earth Society. This also means that Chen Zhouquan is hinting that if he can become the leader of the Taiwan General Alliance, he can make Zhou Lang the leader of the South Road, which means that once Chen Zhouquan occupies the entire Taiwan, then Fengshan County can be handed over to Zhou Lang. The meaning behind it is obvious, that is, Zhou Lang wants to continue to help him seize the world.

After understanding this, Zhou Lang suddenly felt that there was some unexpected gain, because when he accepted the flag, he did not think that Chen Zhouquan regarded himself as the number two person of the Heaven and Earth Society, which was already a very certain name, as for whether he could get the actual territory of Fengshan County, it depended on whether he could help Chen Zhouquan to conquer Taiwan. Whether to help Chen Zhouquan or not, Zhou Lang still has to take a good look at the development of the situation and make a decision, but what he has obtained now has made him very satisfied.

It is not Zhou Lang's habit to hold resources in his hands, he hates to put resources into production immediately and produce greater benefits.

Therefore, now that he has the name of the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society, he will immediately raise this banner, let Wei Lianli and the three of them hype up his identity, and attract more Heaven and Earth Society personnel to come and take refuge. But in the vicinity of Fengshan County, they obviously can't attract enough manpower, because Chen Zhouquan, who is even more attractive, is right in front of them. So Zhou Lang asked Wei Lianli to take people with them to the surrounding areas for recruitment, in addition to high salaries, they also made crooked moves, promising to recruit ten people to be awarded the general, to recruit a hundred people to be awarded a thousand generals, and to recruit a thousand people to directly appoint generals.

This series of official positions appointed by Zhou Lang completely inherited the title of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is completely different from the title within the Heaven and Earth Society, but Zhou Lang thinks that this is more effective, first, this is obviously much more formal than the official position system within the Heaven and Earth Society, unlike the Heaven and Earth Society is full of various generals, marshals and other titles that sound very exaggerated, in fact, it is very empty, with a strong cottage taste, maybe a leader of the Heaven and Earth Society with only two hundred subordinates dares to call him a marshal. This kind of vain thing is indeed easy to motivate the people at the level of knowledge in a short period of time, so as to rapidly expand its power, but after all, it is too vain and frivolous, resulting in a very chaotic internal power structure; Second, the official positions of the Manchu people are more clear, and even if they have seen these officials, they all know how majestic a general is, and how domineering a general is, and the people will understand their treatment more intuitively. It may not be attractive enough for those who don't have much capital, but always want to eat a big fat man all at once, a person with only three or two brothers wants to be a general, then of course he will go to Chen Zhouquan, but it is more attractive to those who are more rational, such as the real powerful faction may choose Zhou Lang.

Through these measures, the speed of the expansion of the army exceeded Zhou Lang's imagination, and in just a few days, thousands of people came to take refuge, and there was an endless stream of successors.