Zhao Wen also felt that the world was about to be in chaos, if it was before, he would never have any ideas, being a landlord with peace of mind is the biggest goal of his life, as for things like rebellion, there is no attraction to them.

That's why he regretted abandoning the identity of Zhou Lang's henchman and returning to his hometown with a total of 3,000 taels of military salaries and various subsidies he had saved over the past few years. He bought a house, bought land, and lived a happy life with his beloved wife.

But now, his mentality has changed.

Because that little happiness went too quickly, it was soon replaced by shame.

Zhao Wen's love story is full of fairy tales.

Zhao Wen's father was a poor scholar, and the family still had a few acres of thin fields in the early years, making a living from farming, occasionally opening a museum to accept apprentices, and his life was passable.

A large local landlord has a solid family and is also a farmer and heirloom, but he can't get a person who can pass the imperial examination. The landlord was optimistic about Zhao's father's talent and intended to make friends, and soon the relationship between the two was irreversible. and hired Zhao's father to be a Xixi (teaching) at home, and married his eldest daughter to the only son of the Zhao family.

Year after year, Zhao's father studied hard, but he never passed the exam again, and he died of depression just after middle age.

The landlord was atmospheric, and when Zhao Wen's mourning period expired, he immediately kept his promise and married his daughter to Zhao Wen, who was surrounded by his family, despite the opposition of his old wife.

Zhao Wen is a man with strong self-esteem, if it is another marriage, he may refuse because of his own situation, but he can't refuse the landlord's family. Because his father brought him into the landlord's house to teach since he was a child, he had already secretly fallen in love with the landlord's daughter who married a baby.

So although he felt inferior to his own situation, Zhao Wen couldn't refuse love, he married the landlord's daughter, and swore to his lover that he would let the other party live a good life. Zhao Wen worked hard to study, farm, and work, but he was destitute day after day.

The family's house was leaking from rain, and they didn't have the money to fix it.

The most difficult thing for him to accept is that the white face of his lover's mother's family, every time he goes to his mother-in-law's house to congratulate during the New Year's holidays, he has to suffer a belly of anger, he can bear the anger, he can't bear the crying of his wife.

Every time she came back from her mother's house, her wife was in a very bad mood, because the landlord had also passed away, and her mother, who was in charge of the family business, was dissatisfied with her marriage, and her brothers and sisters in the house and Wu also disliked her. The contempt and rudeness of her brother to her husband made her most uncomfortable, but it was her sisters who married into good families who disliked her in their words that she didn't care about herself, so every time she cried, she also cried for her husband.

Zhao Wen didn't know this, he always thought that his family was poor and there were no generous gifts, which caused his wife to be unable to raise his head in her mother's house, he was a self-respecting man, which made him the most unbearable.

Finally, one day, it was raining heavily, and the couple woke up in the middle of the night by the rain in the house, busy resisting the high connection, the pots and pots at home were used, and they still couldn't receive so much water, and the two couldn't sleep on the wet bed, hugging each other and crying.

Since then, Zhao Wen has been burdened with a heavy psychological burden, and the relationship between husband and wife has become unharmonious, and poor couples mourn everything. Soon a friend from a neighboring village invited him to go to Nanyang, and Zhao Wen ignored his wife's crying and left resolutely.

He didn't make a fortune in Nanyang, he was blackmailed by various taxes and gold mining prices from Lanfang Company, and he didn't save much money after two years, which made Zhao Wen feel disheartened and understand that going to Nanyang was not a smooth road. At this time, Xie Qinggao came to recruit workers, and the salary he gave was very high, Zhao Wen thought, anyway, it was better than digging gold for others in a gold mine, so he was recruited.

After that, he helped Zhou Lang fight, but all along, he didn't forget his original intention, saved enough money, and happened to be on the side of Duzhen in Xiamen, so he fortunately left a letter to confess his intentions, and then returned to his hometown.

When he returned to his hometown, when he saw his home for the first time, the sourness in his heart made him feel guilty and unstable, holding on to the dilapidated courtyard gate, his voice choked many times and he couldn't make a sound, he saw his wife was facing away from the door, rubbing the clothes piled up with wooden basins, he saw that his wife's back was already stiff, and the hair was repeatedly blooming in the bun coiled up, and he saw that the old house at the end of the yard had half collapsed, and he saw that the roof of the main house was covered with thatch......

His wife looked back at him, trembling her wet hands, and stood up tremblingly, and the two of them looked at each other without saying a word, except for a thousand tears.

For so many years, my wife has been washing and sewing for a living, one person, one family, she has not remarried, she has not gone to her mother's house, she has been guarding, not guarding the house, guarding the person who is not around.

The young couple reunited after a long absence, and they couldn't take care of Qingqing and me, Zhao Wen was full of spirits, bought land, and built a house, bought a hundred acres of paddy fields, built three big houses, and filled up with friends every day, and old friends were present.

But Zhao Wen didn't forget his wife's maiden home, bought heavy gifts, wore silk and satin, hired two sedan chairs, and went to his parents' house with full confidence, but this time Zhao Wen was injured again.

His wife's mother's family still looked down on him, because the tide was also rising, and the youngest son in the family was admitted to the Jinshi and went to the capital to be an official, and he was an official eunuch.

The brother-in-law is the head of the family, unlike those old friends who are very envious of Zhao Wen's story of making a fortune, the brother-in-law doesn't care about where Zhao Wen goes to get rich, but just educates Zhao Wen vigorously, saying that they shouldn't come in a sedan chair, and they should be honest when they are rich.

The condescending posture of his wife and brother made Zhao Wen's heart very traumatized. Then he began to be depressed, and he found that the rich life and the gentle wife did not satisfy him.

At this time, he realized that he went to Nanyang, it turned out that he had saved money, and he had always thought that he was fighting for his wife, but in fact, it was to satisfy himself, and sealing his wife and son was always just a man's ambition, and his wife and children had never wanted it.

Zhao Wen recognized himself clearly, his opportunity also came, Fujian fell, the governor of Liangguang ordered Heng Chuan and powerful people to hold group exercises, Zhao Fei did not hesitate to take out his last net worth, and recruited a group of idle young people in Sili and Eight Townships.

Then he used the military technology and experience he learned when he was by Zhou Lang's side to train these young men very well, and then he obeyed the dispatch of the government, followed the officers and soldiers to Dapu and other places to fight with the Fujian army, and confronted it head-on, his soldiers could not beat the Fujian soldiers, so he kept harassing the other party out of nowhere, but made a little contribution.

As a result, Guangzhou was soon blocked by Fujian soldiers, and the news of the White Lotus Sect across the Central Plains also spread to Guangdong, and there was news continuously, more and more serious each time, and finally everyone began to feel that the Qing Dynasty was going to end, and most landlords chose only to protect themselves, arm the men in the family, arm their own long-term workers, run regimental exercises, and protect the township.

There are also a very small number of guys who have untimely thoughts, Zhao Wen also has other thoughts, the mind of making contributions, but he is different from those unreasonable people, he is not naïve enough to think that he can really be the emperor in the ravine, he intends to rejoin the old master, but he knows that he has betrayed, and it is difficult to get a new appointment from the other party.

Even if the old master doesn't care about his past suspicions, he doesn't have the face to go back like this, even if he goes back, how can he gain a foothold in the group of cronies who have been following the old master's side.

In the end, he decided to accept a letter of nomination, a letter of nomination that allowed him to get status, and a letter of nomination that the old master could not refuse.

He wants to seize the Chaoshan region and give it to the old master.

When Zhou Lang received Zhao Wen's news, he was very surprised, he almost forgot about this person.

But when this person just defected, he was really shocked, and he was suspicious in his heart, feeling that none of the people around him were reliable.

With a thorough foothold in Fujian, Zhou Lang's mentality is also more confident and tolerant, and he has forgotten the unhappiness of the past, but he has also forgotten Zhao Wen, an old subordinate.

Seeing the letter that Zhao Wen handed over to him through Wei Lianli, Zhou Lang was full of emotion for a while, time flies so fast, things become so fast.

When he read Zhao Wen's letter, he was still quite surprised, the other party's posture was very low, and he expressed remorse for his betrayal back then, hoping to serve Zhou Lang again. The posture was very low, but the tone scared Zhou Lang, and he actually said that he would seize the entire Chaoshan and dedicate it to Zhou Lang.

The Chaoshan area, of course, Zhou Lang wants, is geographically connected with southern Fujian, but separated from Guangdong by heavy mountains, so Chaozhou dialect is more similar to Hokkien dialect than Cantonese. After controlling Chaoshan, Zhou Lang's current control territory has really become a monolith.

However, the Chaoshan area has almost realized the armor protection system, and the degree of militation of the landlords is more serious than that of Fujian, and Chaoshan is surrounded by mountains, and the Hakka people and Chaoshan people are relatively brave and very united.

Therefore, Zhou Langcai gave up the plan to seize Chaoshan, and now that he is internally stable and has spare strength, he did not take it by force.

Whether Zhao Wen can seize the entire Chaoshan and dedicate it to himself, Zhou Lang really doesn't know, because he doesn't know what kind of capital Zhao Wen has, he didn't know much about this person in the past, and he doesn't know much about it now.

But he didn't take it to heart, and only told Wei Lianli that he knew.

Whether Zhao Wen can win Chaoshan, he is just bragging, Zhou Lang doesn't care.

One Fujian province is enough for him to toss, and he attaches more importance to the accumulation of power than blindly expanding his territory. Zhou Lang knew very well in his heart that Chen Zhouquan had hundreds of thousands of troops like that, the good and the bad were uneven, the finances were unstable, and he seemed to be strong, but in fact he was weak.

Fujian has a population of more than 13 million, and although it has two or three million fewer people than Guangdong, the difference in arable land between the two provinces is even greater, and Fujian has long had a surplus population, otherwise it would not have been possible why so many people were forced to go to the sea, and it would not have been possible to become the province with the most serious phenomenon of infant drowning in the country, resulting in the Qing government setting up nurseries in 45 of Fujian's 56 counties.

The overpopulation is so serious, which makes Zhou Lang have enough human resources, it is very easy to recruit soldiers, what he lacks now is material resources, otherwise he will not be able to transform human resources into military strength at all.

So Chaoshan is not indispensable for Zhou Lang, it is better to have it, and it will not hurt his muscles and bones, as long as the Chaoshan people do not come to him for trouble, he is not willing to go to the trouble of the Chaoshan people before he reserves enough strength to seize the world.

Therefore, Zhou Lang didn't take this matter to heart at all, but paid attention to the changes in the mentality of the Fujian gentry caused by the spread of the White Lotus Sect.