"Hey, it's getting messy!" In the evening, Zhang Shihua was in his own private study in the shop, looking at the newspaper he got from the county government and the information collected by the archers these days, and sighed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but seeing it, Zhang Shihua felt that it was really not in vain to build this intelligence network.

As for this so-called intelligence network, although Zhang Shihua has spent most of his time with his wife and family since he got married, Zhang Shihua has not done nothing in the past half a month. After all, knowing that the world would be in chaos in a month, Zhang Shihua naturally couldn't be like a scholar and not ask about things outside the window.

In fact, as early as last year, Zhang Shihua had already come up with the idea of establishing an intelligence network throughout the county, but due to the lack of funds and manpower, this idea was not officially launched by Zhang Shihua until March this year.

After that, although the construction of the intelligence network was carried out, but because of a series of problems such as the shortage of professional talents, it was not until the beginning of April that Zhao Er led the archers to establish an intelligence network covering the whole county, although the coverage of the intelligence network is only one county, and the intelligence personnel are not professionals, but this is already the limit of what Zhang Shihua can do, after all, Zhang Shihua's current identity is a rich family, and there are so many talents who do intelligence in his hands, and the funds needed to build a huge intelligence network, It's nice to be able to make the intelligence network like this.

However, although the scope of the intelligence network is small and there is a lack of professional talents, the archers who are engaged in intelligence are still very loyal to Zhang Shihua, and Zhang Shihua's requirements are not high, just let the archers pay more attention to the movements of the towns and villages in the county, and investigate the thoughts of the people at the bottom, so the archers can also actively complete these tasks.

As for the county newspaper, relying on the status of Zhang Shihua's father and second uncle in the county government, it is not simple to get a newspaper.

Judging from the newspaper of the Yuanmeng Imperial Court, there are rebels everywhere in the world now, especially in the northern province of the Henan River, in order to suppress the people who resist taxes, local governments such as Bianliang Road and Guide Mansion even dispatched troops to suppress them, but the more they suppress the situation, the more chaotic the situation becomes, especially Bianliang, which has now become a pot of porridge.

Compared to these places, Taihe County is still good, but it is not much better. According to the intelligence collected by Zhao Er, now the White Lotus Sect can be said to have reached the point of fighting with open fire, in Xucheng Town, the White Lotus Sect even killed the errand who came to collect taxes, although Xu Ming in Xucheng Town reported that the people resisted taxes and there was a riot, but what kind of person Xu Ming Zhang Shihua is clear, the people's riot is still in Xucheng Town, there is such a coincidence in the world, anyway, he Zhang Shihua does not believe it.

If you remember correctly, that is, at the beginning of this month, Liu Futong and others will revolt again in Yingshang, and then the rebel army will capture Yingzhou City, and then it will completely open the chaotic era at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. This troubled era will last for a long time, if you want to protect your family in the troubled times, then you must grasp the opportunity of Liu Futong's uprising.

Although Liu Futong finally failed in the uprising, in the first seven or eight years of the troubled times, Liu Futong was the strongest among the many rebel armies and the nominal leader of the rebel army in the world, so he chose to take refuge in Liu Futong at this time, and then under his protection, the benefits to himself definitely outweighed the disadvantages.

After all, wasn't Zhu Yuanzhang just a personal soldier under Guo Ziyi at the beginning. Before I crossed over, I studied history in college, and I also had some research on history, and if I look at the people who have successfully rebelled from ancient times to the present, I know that rebellion is not the earliest thing to jump out.

Besides, I don't want to be the emperor, I just want to protect my family, and when the sky falls, let the tall one stand up first, he is not the kind of great man who "supports the building and the general falls".

Thinking of this, Zhang Shihua reached out again and picked up a copy of the information sent by Zhao Er and them from the paper on the table, looking at the content written on the paper, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but show a smile on his face: "It seems that my inspection for half a year is really not in vain!" ”

With that, Zhang Shihua put away the paper on the table, sandwiched it in a book, and then Zhang Shihua left the store.

As for the information, will it be seen by others because of this. Zhang Shihua is not worried about this problem at all, after all, it is not important news, and Zhang Shihua is not afraid of others seeing it.

Let's talk about the piece of paper that Zhang Shihua looked at at the last, there was actually only one sentence written on that paper, which was about the general thoughts of the people at the bottom, and it was written; "The people are looking forward to you, young master, to be able to inspect again."

That's why Zhang Shihua said that the inspection was not in vain, at least the people in the county recognized him, which also shows that Zhang Shihua still has a great prestige in the hearts of the people at the bottom, and this is obviously of great benefit to Zhang Shihua's next plan.

And when Zhang Shihua was watching the information in the shop, in the backyard of Zhang's house, in Zhang Liewu's study, Zhang Liewu and Zhang Liewen were also discussing something related to Zhang Shihua at this time.

In the study, the Zhang Liewu brothers still wanted to sit in their seats as before, as before, when the brothers discussed, they were used to holding a cup of tea in their hands.

I saw Zhang Liewu sitting on the main seat, holding a teacup in both hands, and said to Zhang Liewen who was sitting next to him: "Kailai County Yin really has no choice, today Liu Hua actually came to me and said that County Yin wants to borrow a group of people from our Zhang family." ”

"Oh, who?" Zhang Liewen asked curiously.

Hearing his brother's question, Zhang Liewu took a sip of tea and said: "It's not the same group of men who used to be archers in the inspection department, and now the county has been slow to collect taxes, and yesterday the robbers attacked and killed a Lizheng, and he Feng Fule is naturally eager to have a group of suitable manpower in his hands now, after all, the group of errands and officers and soldiers in the county can't be used at all." ”

"Then, did you promise him, big brother?" When Zhang Liewen heard his eldest brother's words, he asked in an urgent tone.

When Zhang Liewu heard his brother's words, he didn't answer immediately, but said with a smile: "I thought that you would **** next, what conditions Feng Fule would offer." ”

When Zhang Liewen heard this, he saw his eldest brother's expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and he also knew that he was worried in vain just now, so he also smiled and nodded and said to the eldest brother sitting in the main seat: "If only I would have asked before, but now it is different, the situation is different." ”

When Zhang Liewu heard this, he also said with a sigh: "Yes, the situation is different, I don't know why, when I see the current situation in Henan, I can't help but think of the great uprising of Emperor Taiding more than 20 years ago (Note 1), the situation at that time is simply too similar to now." And even now the situation is even more erosive than before. ”

When Zhang Liewen heard this, his eyes looked out of the window for a while, as if he was reminiscing about something, and then he seemed to subconsciously say: "Yes, there were really a lot of dead people at that time." ”

Then Zhang Liewen turned his head to look at his eldest brother and said, "So, eldest brother, you refused." Although it was a question, the tone was very affirmative.

And Zhang Liewu, who heard his brother's words, didn't say anything for a while, but got up from his seat and walked to the window, looked at the world outside the window and said: "That's right, since then I have understood that in this world, if a family wants to continue for a long time, it must have someone in its hands, and as long as there are people in its hands, everything else is not a problem." ”

Zhang Liewen, who was sitting next to him, heard this and said in agreement; "yes."

Then there was silence in the study, Zhang Liewen did not ask the conditions offered by the county Yin again, and Zhang Liewu did not say any more, after all, for the brothers, no matter what conditions the county Yin offered, they could not agree, since this is the case, why bother to say it.

Zhang Shihua didn't know all this, and Zhang Liewu didn't tell him about this son, after all, this matter was not an important matter in Zhang Liewu's opinion, and more importantly, Zhang Shihua was his son, and it was impossible for a father to report anything to his son.

But this little episode still indirectly changed the situation, but naturally it did not change the situation for the better, but made the situation worse and worse.

At the beginning of May, the situation in Henan and other places became even more chaotic, because the robbers had begun to stop fearing the officers and soldiers, that is, at the end of last month, Yingshang sent a group of officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits, and this force numbered more than 300 officers and soldiers, but such a "strong" group of officers and soldiers was defeated by a group of more than 50 robbers in Yingshang, and nearly 100 officers and soldiers were killed by the robbers.

Although this robber is pretending to be the most elite backbone of the White Lotus Sect, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that other people don't know, the officers and soldiers don't know, the common people don't know, and the other robbers don't know, so the thoughts in the hearts of these people naturally changed.

The officers and soldiers began to become afraid of the robbers, and they would think, "The robbers are so powerful, what if I am killed by the robbers, I still have a family and children?"

The common people began to become disappointed in the Yuanmeng court, and subconsciously gave birth to a heart of resistance, it turned out that the court was so incompetent, three hundred people beat fifty people and couldn't beat them, so why should we still be oppressed by the incompetent court.

The robbers, on the other hand, were more confident. It turns out that we are so powerful, they can beat 300 people with 50 people, and I can't beat 100 people.

And once this kind of mind is born, it will grow more and more vigorously in everyone's hearts like weeds, especially when these similar things appear more and more, the fearful will be more afraid, the oppressed will want to resist more and more, and the robbers will be more unscrupulous.

I have to say that Liu Futong is really a talent, he really has a good grasp of people's hearts, and he is tantamount to planting a seed in everyone's hearts, which will continue to feed this decadent dynasty until this seed grows into a towering tree and destroys this decadent dynasty, which is the terrible heart of the human heart.

Note 1; "Emperor Taiding, in June of the second year of Taiding, that is, in 1325 AD, Zhao Chouwei and Guo Bodhisattva, who were from Xizhou in Runing Prefecture, revolted, and the uprising was extremely huge, and it took half a year for the Yuan and Mongolian courts to defeat the rebel army."