The epidemic that occurred on the east and west roads of Jingdong this time made the entire Song Dynasty even kick in the direction of collapse. In the same way that Liangshan took this opportunity to accept many refugees to return to the mountain, the three Tian Hu brothers located on Hedong Road also took advantage of this opportunity to collect many soldiers to follow, and their power expanded day by day.

And not only that, even the traitorous ministers and Emperor Huizong in the city of Tokyo also postponed the conquest of the Liangshan bandits because of the spread of the epidemic. Although he had previously sent Hu Yanzhuo and Guan Sheng to conquer Liangshan, in the end, these two main generals had surrendered to thieves, which made Emperor Huizong angry.

However, as soon as this epidemic broke out, those loyal ministers and traitors all begged Emperor Huizong to put the overall situation first, ignore the small Liangshan that occupies the mountain as the king, and broadcast disaster relief funds to go to various places to appease the people's livelihood.

Hearing the unanimous petition of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, Emperor Huizong also had to temporarily suppress the matter. And he also heard Cai Jingjuan say, "Your Majesty, Jingdong East Road, where those thieves are located, is the place where this epidemic occurred, maybe that group of thieves has already died under this epidemic." And if Your Majesty sends a large army to that place at this time, it will also be detrimental to our army. ”

After listening to Cai Jing's advice, Emperor Huizong, who was still a little unwilling in his heart, also felt reasonable, so he completely stopped taking those Liangshan thieves to heart, and instead allocated funds to go to various places for disaster relief.

In this regard, it naturally made Cai Jing, Gao Yu and a group of traitors and corrupt officials make a fortune. In order to keep the people below shut up, these traitors directly did the matter and pocketed all the disaster relief funds, so that the people below did not know that there was disaster relief funds.

It is precisely because of the cooperation of these traitors and corrupt officials that the refugees were brought into the mountain for medical treatment and distribution of accommodation, and they also gave porridge to the past refugees in many places under the mountain, and Shuibo Liangshan, which served the people wholeheartedly, gained countless good reputations among the people, and even gained countless people to go to the mountain.

This is also fortunate that Shi Wengong had broken Zhujiazhuang before, and successively pocketed all the money and grain in the treasury of Huazhou and Dengzhou, otherwise, Shi Wengong would really be powerless about this opportunity.

However, after experiencing this incident, Shi Wengong also felt that outward expansion had become an inevitable trend. With this small pool of water alone, he really can't afford to support more than 600,000 people in Liangshan.

Originally, after the establishment of the army in Liangshan, there were already 100,000 soldiers, and now it has captured nearly 30,000 soldiers one after another, as well as the new soldiers who have recently been reported from the walled city, as well as the young and strong men selected from this group of refugees, so that now Liangshan has a total of 200,000 soldiers, 100,000 reserve soldiers, and the total number of people in the walled city has exceeded 600,000.

Looking at the Liangshan Walled City, which can no longer be described as prosperous, that Xu Guanzhong heard about Huanzhang, and even Zhang Shuye, who was appointed to serve as the Taishou in charge of the people's livelihood in the walled city, couldn't help but admire Shi Wengong's ability, and his sincerity to the people, these literati also saw it, and it was definitely a hundred times better than the dim and corrupt court that was high above.

After two months of busyness, the whole cottage event has finally settled. Shi Wengong was also extremely tired and lay on the bed, holding Hu Sanniang, who had been pregnant for seven or eight months, and slept beautifully.

However, after closing his eyes, he also secretly thought, "I didn't expect that I, the leader of the Liangshan Village, had really gathered to one hundred and eight, could it be that this is really providential?" ”

Although this time Shi Wengong not only forcibly forced people to go up the mountain, but also killed several leaders who were originally in Liangshan with his own hands, but now in the cottage, it still converges into the number of destiny, which makes Shi Wengong puzzled and puzzled, is it possible that even if things in this world have changed slightly because of his appearance, but he still can't stop the destiny that has been doomed?

Thinking of these questions that no one could answer for himself, Shi Wengong also fell asleep groggily.

On the second day, Shi Wengong summoned several of the most trusted military advisors, Xu Guanzhong, Wen Huanzhang, Wu Yong, and Gongsun Sheng, to discuss important matters in the secret room. Although Zhu Wu was also a military advisor, he was quite useful in the battle array, but it did not play a role in the next incident that Shi Wengong was going to discuss, so he did not invite him over.

Shi Wengong saw that these four wise men had arrived, and then said, "Now that my Liangshan power is expanding more and more, it is time to expand outward, Shi Mou called you here this time to discuss how we should announce this decision to the brothers." ”

Hearing what Shi Wengong said, these four people all knew it, because they had already seen some clues in their work with Shi Wengong. And even Xu Guanzhong, Wen Huanzhang, and even Zhang Shuye, who served as the Taishou in Wanzi City, had enough confidence in Shi Wengong after experiencing this epidemic incident.

And I believe that not only these four people, but even the other generals in the walled city also have some understanding of Shi Wengong's intentions, and they are all full of expectations, just waiting for Shi Wengong to announce it.

Subsequently, Gongsun Sheng said, "With my brother's current prestige, there is naturally nothing that cannot be done." However, we are afraid that the teacher will be unknown, but we should still make another thing to win people's hearts, so that we cannot be weak to the Song court above the righteousness. ”

"Yes, we have to make it seem that we are destined to belong to the people and produce a righteous army, otherwise, once we are branded as a rebel by the imperial court, it will be difficult for us to gain the support of the people." After Gongsun Sheng said a word, Wu Yong also followed suit.

After hearing what Gongsun Shengwu said with the two of them, Xu Guanzhong and Wen Huanzhang pondered for a while, and then said, "Although these things will be known to the people of the world in the future, in the early stage, they are indeed indispensable. ”

After hearing that these four gentlemen all had such opinions, Shi Wengong nodded and said, "It seems that in today's society, it is still useful to engage in some theocracy." ”

Shi Wengong's exclamation is indeed not wrong, thinking that when Han Gaozu beheaded the White Snake Uprising, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, they were not all theocratic used to win people's hearts, and its effect was also quite good and significant, especially the Han Gaozu Liu Bang, who still founded the Han Dynasty with a 400-year foundation.

After thinking of this, Shi Wengong handed over the roster of the current cottage leaders to the four people, and said, "This is the roster of the current leaders of our cottage, you can take a look, and go back first." After Shi Wengong left this sentence and the roster, he withdrew from this secret room.

He believes that with the wisdom of Wu Gongsun Sheng, he will think of what method to use to win people's hearts, and he no longer needs to worry about the next things.

After Shi Wengong was powerful, the four of Xu Guanzhong took the roster one after another to look at it, and doubted, "What does my brother mean by showing us this?" ”

Although they didn't understand what they meant, the four of them still checked it carefully, and when Gongsun Sheng took a closer look, he exclaimed, "This, now there are one hundred and eight leaders in the cottage, this is the number of destiny, is it possible that my brother is really the lord of destiny?" ”

(End of chapter)