After leaving Luoyang, Li Yan rode a horse and took five young entourages selected by himself to Kaifeng. Soon, he arrived at the city of Kaifeng. At this time, no one in Kaifeng City knew that he Li Yan was the former Li Xin, but it was impossible for him to enter Kaifeng City.

Because, for the time being, he can't storm his identity. His enemies are still in Kaifeng City, and he doesn't have enough power for revenge in his hands. Zhang Zhun said very clearly and clearly, he only gave Li Yanhu the name of the army, "but he will not give him any personnel, materials, any weapons and equipment." Everything "has to be made by Li Yan from scratch."

He could only stand in front of Kaifeng City and try to remember everything before. Last autumn was the last time he entered Kaifeng City. At that time, he was still named Li Xin and had a complete family.

He still remembers the scene vividly.

Standing in front of Kaifeng City, Li Yan remembered a lot of things: "Many people. He thought of Song Xiance, Niu Jinxing, Tang Fu, Tang's mother, and the sister of the Tang family. If it weren't for Zhang Zhun, these people and things, perhaps, would not have changed. However, Li Yan did not regret it, he always felt that it was his blessing to meet Zhang Zhun.

The state of mind of a year ago is very different from his current state of mind. A year ago, I was in a state of mind, anxious, and uneasy. The current state of mind is calm, calm, and has deep sustenance. A year ago, "standing in the city, he felt unsure. A year later, "standing outside the city", he felt very down-to-earth.

A year ago, in the autumn of Chongzhen, "although the autumn harvest has just ended", the streets of Kaifeng were full of refugees fleeing the famine, they helped the old and the young, and gathered beside the road. Looking at the past, all the black pressure is human heads. There are refugees waiting to be beaten at the door of almost every house, and the cries are endless, and it is unbearable to listen.

At that time, Li Xin "was a guest in the Tang Mansion in the city. The relationship between the Tang family and the Li family is very good, and the grandmother of the Tang family, that is, the Tang family's mother, is very satisfied with Li Xin and "wants to marry her daughter to him." The sister of the Tang family also has a soft spot for Li Xin, but Li Xin doesn't like it very much. However, for the sake of the face of the Tang family and the Li family, "he still has to respectfully serve the Tang mother."

In the past two or three days, Li Xin has now opened the city of Kaifeng, and there are many more victims than a month ago, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he thought that by the winter and next year's great long wilderness spring, the miserable situation would be so serious, and how many people would starve to death.

This eastern Henan area in the province's 12 states in the 100 single six counties, the war is relatively few, natural disasters are relatively light, and now it has become such a situation, it can be seen that the vast Central Plains, there is no longer a piece of paradise! If the bad situation continues to spread, "I am afraid of the impact of Kaifeng City", it will be even greater.

Li Xin was also worried that "if someone raises his arms again and calls for the hungry people, the overall situation in the Central Plains will be out of control." For the sake of the court and for himself, he didn't want the Central Plains to be in turmoil. The Tartars of Liaodong, Zhang Zhun of Shandong, and the Liukou of Shaanxi are enough to destroy the whole country. As he walked towards the Song Gate, his heart was sad, and his face was very heavy.

Just out of the Song Gate" crossed the suspension bridge and saw a large number of people gathered at the crossroads. He rode his horse closer and looked, "I could see that it was a merchant who was beating a scrawny kid from the wilderness, so that the boy had grabbed a baked cake from his hand and ran." The boy was beaten and bleeding from his nose and mouth, and he was lying on the ground, still kicking and scolding: "You play dead!" You play dead! I'm going to beat you so that you don't dare to grab anything to eat in the future! ”

Li Xin drank the merchant, jumped off the horse, separated the crowd, and the kid who approached the desert raised his head and glared at the merchant sternly, and said with a cold face: "You are so angry for a baked cake? He's so thin that he can't take a human shape, can he withstand your punches and kicks? What do you do if you hurt someone? ”

The merchant looked at Li Xin's clothes and spirit, and saw him riding out of the city on a tall horse, following the servants and grooms, "so frightened that he did not dare to speak, and slipped away from the crowd." The rest of the people who watched the excitement dispersed, "and only a few idle thugs were left standing there."

Li Xinyou's child, who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, "was beaten to pieces in a broken bowl for begging, holding a dog-beating stick in one hand, and tightly clutching the baked cake that had been bitten twice in the other, and looking at him with a pair of eyes open, as if he was afraid of him, and felt his life-saving grace." Like a disaster victim like him, Li Xin has indeed seen too many children these days.

After pondering for a while, Li Xin asked him where he was from, only to learn that he had escaped from Qi County, and that the village where he lived was only twenty miles away from Li Xin's Lijiazhai. Speaking of which, the two are still fellow countrymen. Li Xin couldn't help but feel a little emotional, and immediately ordered the servant to help the child to sit down at the gate of the Guandi Temple in Lubei, "buy him a bowl of hot soup and two steamed buns to satisfy his hunger, and then buy him a black tile bowl for begging, so that he can continue to beg."

At this time, a large number of people surrounded the intersection and did not ventilate, and there were vendors and "passers-by" who loved to watch the bustle, as well as groups of refugees fleeing the famine. Many of the refugees were from Qixian County, and some had seen Li Xin before. The people immediately spread in the field, and they all knew that he was Li Gongzi, who had set up a porridge factory and opened a warehouse for relief every winter and spring for two consecutive years.

I heard that some people were asking for almsgiving, "the refugees, the old and the young, the men and the women, crowded to the front, and the number of them grew larger and larger, and they surrounded him." Some shouted: "Li Gongzi, you have accumulated blessings, save us!" Some people simply stretched out their hands and waited for him to fight.

In an instant, a large area was encircled in front of him. Li Xin only brought two or three taels of broken silver with him, took them out and gave them to a servant, telling him to buy steamed buns and roasted cakes, "two for each person, and a few more yellow coins for the old and sick, so that they can buy bowls of hot soup."

When he had finished giving the command, he parted the crowd and "prepared to mount their horses and leave." In the face of so many refugees, Li Xin is also powerless. When he had just taken the reins from the groom, he suddenly heard someone in the crowd ask, "Which Li Gongzi is this?" ”

Another voice replied, "It's Li Xin from Qi County." His son Li Jingbai once served as the governor of Shandong, and first built a shrine for Wei Zhongxian, which was very shameless. Today, he ascended to the pole, Wei Eunuch was ambushed, and Li Jingbai was convicted of another second-class, and soon died of illness. Because this person is the son of the eunuch party, he is not valued by Shilin, "so he likes to help the hungry, fight grievances, and do something to sell his reputation and reputation" to win people's hearts. ”

After Li Xin heard this, he turned his head suddenly, "I can't wait to beat these two people who talk about him to death with three punches and two kicks, and at this time, the people watching the excitement are scattering, and many people are looking back at him while leaving." There were two scarves in the crowd, and the Confucian students walked slowly towards the suspension bridge with their hands behind their backs. He guessed that one of the two men must have made a malicious comment on him," but he remembered a few words from the "Treatise on Staying in the Marquis", took a breath, jumped on his horse, and whipped it, "and walked south."

"On Staying in the Marquis" is an essay by Su Shi, and Li Xin thought of the following sentences: "The so-called heroes of the ancient times must have a festival of excellence." People can't endure it, and when the husband sees the humiliation, he draws his sword, and he fights with "tǐng body, which is not enough to be brave." There are great brave people in the world, who come suddenly and are not surprised" without being angry for no reason, so the people they hold hostage are very large, and their ambitions are far away. He was already very unhappy in his heart, and this man's words stabbed him even harder. The interweaving of state affairs and the sense of life experience made him disheartened by the world, and even his interest in going to Yuwangtai was suddenly unexpected. In the third year of the Apocalypse, when the Donglin Party began to impeach Wei Zhongxian, his father Li Jingbai was an official in the court, and he was also a person listed for impeachment. However, somehow, Li Jingbai changed and secretly colluded with the eunuch party, and became the governor of Shandong within three or four years.

In the last years of the Apocalypse, shrines were established for Wei Zhongxian everywhere across the country. Li Jingbai first and Cao Yun envoy Guo Shangyou built the Zhaozhong Temple for Wei Eunuch in Jining, and then built the Longxi Temple in Jinan. At that time, not only the scholars of the landlord class thought it shameless, but even the ordinary citizens hated it.

A year ago, in the name of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, the eunuch party sent the Jinyi Banner School to Suzhou to arrest people, and tens of thousands of citizens were mobilized to beat the Jinyi Banner School, killing one person on the spot. As for the establishment of an ancestral hall for Wei Zhongxian, it is considered to be "shameless".

When Li Jingbai built a shrine for Wei Zhongxian in Shandong, Li Xin lived in the countryside of Qixian County, and when he learned of this, he immediately wrote a letter to his father, persuading his father to give priority to the name of the Thousand Autumn Festival and abandon the official and return to the country as soon as possible, but Li Jingbai's big mistake has been made and cannot be reversed. Li Xin was so angry that he cried for a few days, avoiding guests, and he couldn't wait to decide the water of the East China Sea to wash away this stain on his father. Before Wei Zhongxian's defeat, he promoted Li Jingbai to the rank of secretary of the military department to reward him for building the Jb of the Ancestral Hall.

Due to Li Xin's bitter admonition, Li Jingbai returned to his hometown after illness, and at the same time his relationship with the eunuch party was slightly estranged. Soon Chongzhen ascended to the pole and exterminated the eunuchs, because he knew that Li Jingbai did not have a deep relationship with the eunuchs, he was sentenced to three years in prison, and "lost for the people".

When Li Xin was 20 years old, he was selected for the Ding Mao imperial examination in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and due to his family relationship, he did not go to the examination. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the prejudices and factions among the scholars and doctors were very fierce. Although Li Xin was a well-rounded scholar and military talent, he was discriminated against and excluded by the local gentry because his father was in the eunuch party.

In particular, Qixian County is only more than 100 miles away from Shangqiu, and many of the gentry in this county are related to the Hou family of Shangqiu. The Hou family was once ranked in Donglin, and they boasted of themselves. This Hou family" is the family of Hou Sui, the head of the household, and Hou Fangyu, the fourth prince of the late Ming Dynasty, also walked out of Shangqiu. Anyone who spoke with the Hou family discriminated against Li Xin even more. The more Li Xin was discriminated against by the gentry in power, the more he liked to fight grievances and "help the poor, make friends in the rivers and lakes, and talented "cloth people".

The people who discriminated against him "couldn't grasp any tricks" because he was upright, and because he was a rich man after all, and he had some powerful relatives and friends, so they couldn't do anything to him. Because of these reasons, Li Xin's life is also chic.

Li Xin saw the chaos in the world, and loved to read, "for the world", the book. The more clearly he saw the fundamental problem of the country's chaos, the more he ridiculed the gentlemen and doctors who only knew how to sing and drink and flaunt each other, including the Hou Gongzi Fang Yu, but "the finch was in the hall".

Now he has been ridiculed for helping a group of refugees who have fled the famine, and the revelation that his father is a eunuch "makes him very painful and angry, but he is also helpless." The stain on his father is the biggest pain in Li Xin's life. However, a father is a father after all, and he has a lot of blood and water. What's more, "after his education, his father has come to his senses."

From the Song Gate to Yuwangtai to pass in front of the Dongyuan Gate of the Dajiaochang, this road is also the Guanma Avenue leading to Chenliu, Qixian, Suizhou, Taikang and Chenzhou. Now there are groups of refugees walking on this road, "and there are also those lying on the side of the road." Li Xin was shocked, unwilling to see more, and kept riding his horse, "until he stopped under the stage of King Yu." A servant has been looking here for a long time, saw Li Xin come over and immediately came up to lead the horse to lead the Yu Wangtai place, according to legend, the musician Shi Kuang of the Jin Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period had been here to judge the sound, so since ancient times it is called the ancient blowing platform. In the Ming Dynasty, "because the Bixia Yuanjun Temple behind the stage was changed to Yuwang Palace, so this place is also called Yuwangtai."

There is a high pavilion on the west side of Yuwangtai, the plastic fairy and the prince of the east, called the Nine Immortal Hall. There is a tower behind this Nine Immortals Hall, there is a well behind the tower, the water is extremely sweet, and it is called Yuquan. There are many houses around Yuquan, forming a courtyard called Yuquan Academy. In fact, no one lectures here, but it has become a place where the poetry and wine of the literati of Daliang are gathered.

At this time, ten days have passed in Chongyang, the west wind is bleak, the leaves are shaking down, and Yuwangtai is sparsely populated. Because it was Li Gongzi and Chen Liuchen Juren of Qixian County today, the Taoist priests invited friends to drink and compose poems, and they cleaned up the Yuquan Academy early in the morning and did not let idlers enter.

Li Xin came back from Jiangnan because of Song Xiance, and originally wanted to talk to him about world affairs in the Houle Hall today. Later, because Chen Zishan and several friends went to him in the evening, he must come to Yuwangtai today to make up for the climb, "He couldn't refuse, so he had to agree." In addition to Chen Zishan, who is a lifter, "there are two Xiucai and three people who have no merit."

This group of friends has one thing in common, that is, they deeply feel that the state affairs are out of control but there is nothing they can do, and when they talk about state affairs together, they are generous and sad in vain, and some people often cry bitterly after drinking. Li Xin likes to be close to them and join their poetry society. But sometimes I am tired of the uselessness of the empty talk of this group of people. When Li Xin followed the servant into the Yuquan Academy, the members of the society were already impatient to stop talking and began to compose poems and lyrics.

As soon as Chen Zishan saw him, he complained and said, "What is holding you back in Boyan Tang Mansion?" You see, it's almost noon, and we can't wait for you, so we've lit incense and started composing poems. Today, there is no proposition, no rhyme, and you don't want to write poems to fill in the words, but you must have some sustenance, and you have the arms to help the world. Seeing today's rout, the sea is crossing, how can you leisurely see the time of Nanshan? Sit down and compose a poem! What is it that makes you late? ”

Li Xin said with a smile: "Mother Tang occasionally felt unwell, and my brother went to say hello." Who knew that her old man had been defeated by the official army against Zhang Xianzhong in Luo Monkey Mountain two months ago, and the chief soldier Zhang Renxue had already been questioned. Zuo Liangyu cut his post and took up his work. Xiong Wencan was also severely reprimanded, fearing that sooner or later he would arrest Beijing and punish him. She's younger brother is an official in the Yamen of Xiangyang, and he can be regarded as a close confidant of Xiong Wencan. ”

"Mother Tang is very worried that he will also be implicated in the crime, and she is very worried, so my brother can't help but stay in Tang Mansion for a while" to try to comfort. When he came, he was surrounded by a group of hungry people fleeing the famine outside the Song Gate, "Many of them are our fellow villagers in Chenliu and Qixian County, so they have to be delayed for a moment." Brother Lao waits for a long time, forgive your sins and forgive your sins! ”

Chen Zishan said disappreciably: "With the strength of you and me", how can we save so many victims? You sit down and compose a poem, one stick of incense has been burned and one stop. ”

Li Xin smiled bitterly and said, "Zishan, don't urge me to compose poems in a hurry, let me talk to Mr. Song first." How, "Where is Mr. Song?" ”

Chen Zishan said: "Mr. Song talked to us about the situation in Jiangnan, which was very emotional. He was too modest to compose poetry, so he went to the old Taoist priest to chat. ”

Li Xin immediately went to Yuwangtai to find Song Xiance. The two have been friends for four or five years, and they are very familiar with each other. The two climbed the Nine Immortals Hall hand in hand, and looked at the railing for a while, Li Xin said meaningfully: "Brother Xian Ce, I originally wanted to talk about the world's major affairs with my feet, and listen to the high opinions, but unfortunately I invite the friends of the society to be rich in poetry, and this is not a place to discuss state affairs, so I have to move to the cold fast in the afternoon." Yesterday, Brother Yun had a matter that he needed his brother's help, can you take advantage of this to make it clear so that he can serve? ”

Song Xiance said with a smile: "The eldest prince has a township test in the same year, his surname is Niu, his name is Jin Xing, and his name is Qidong, can you remember?" ”

Li Xin nodded and said, "Naturally, I remember." It's just that since the seventh year of the Apocalypse, "we haven't seen each other again in twelve years." Last year, when my brother came to Kaifeng, he met a man from Lushi County, and heard that he was in prison for a lawsuit with others, and he lost his fame. Last month, I heard how he voted for Li Zicheng, and he was sentenced to death in Lu's prison." A scholar, even if he is depressed and oppressed by corrupt officials and gentry, "should not go to the thief." Do you know that he has committed an unforgivable sin? ”

Song Xiance said: "My brother knows very well. Niu Qidong came back from Beijing and made a detour to Xi'an to visit friends. Li Zicheng admired him very much, "and was very unfair about what happened to him, and took advantage of his passing through Shangzhou and took him by surprise" and forcibly invited him to go. Niu Qidong had to go home with a lot of tongues. The local gentry were jealous and hated Qidong, and "the county magistrate Bai Ying wanted to make meritorious contributions to this case", so he sent Qidong to prison, sentenced him to death, and confiscated his family property. It's a pity that Qidong is really knowledgeable, and he holds the ambition of "Liang, Ping, Xiao, and Cao Zhicai, and ends up like this!" ”

Li Xin said with some worry: "I also know that he is very talented and ambitious, but I heard that he did vote for Li Zicheng and came back to steal his home, so he was captured." ”

Song Xiance smiled and said disapplausively: "And regardless of what the son heard, it may not be credible" Even if it is true, "My brother must also try to save him." Now the world is boiling, and the heroes are competing for "Anzhi Qidong's path is not the right one?" ”

Li Xin was taken aback and hurriedly said, "Why did my brother say this? ”

Song Xiance calmly replied, "Childe don't be surprised. The younger brother took a closer look at the providence of the people, "The days of this dynasty will not be long. ”

Li Xin hurriedly asked, "What is the providence of God?" ”

Song Xiance said inscrutablely: "Providence itself is the heart of the people, why should the son ask?" Li Yan said sincerely: "No, there are no outsiders here, please tell me bluntly." Song Xiance said: "My brother only knows that in recent years, landslides, earthquakes, locust droughts, and haze have continued one after another. In addition, the red air passes through the sky, and the white rainbow enters the purple micro wall, and the emperor star is often dim and unknown. Is all this a sign of the prosperity of the nation? In addition, the people are in dire straits, "those who have been chaotic cannot be stopped, and those who have not been chaotic are confused." The general trend is like this, doesn't Childe understand? ”

Li Xinsi said heavily: "My brother is looking at the past history, and disasters such as landslides and earthquakes also existed in the prosperous era, so it is not surprising. From the perspective of personnel, it is true that there are signs of the country dying everywhere, and I can't see a little turnaround. However, today's food and clothing do not seem to be the king of the dead country. ”

Song Xiance said: "This is luck" can not be recovered by the power of one or two people.

Nowadays, there are many suspicions, stubbornness, and trust the eunuchs to "not use direct ministers, but to donate heavily" at the expense of the people's lives. "He can't be blamed." Nowadays, the general trend of the country is like a game of chess, with a slotted horse in the near area, a ribbed car and a head cannon in the distance, and they are restricted everywhere, and they make mistakes one by one. Today, I have a headache and a doctor's head, a pain in my feet, no owner in my heart, and my footwork is chaotic. So the defeat is decided, but it will take time. ”

After all, Li Xin was the son of a family, and although he was dissatisfied with the reality that "there were deep contradictions with the local authorities, he and his family, relatives, and friends, and the relationship with the Zhu Ming Dynasty were complicated and blood-linked." Therefore, every time he talked about state affairs with his friends and talked about some phenomena of the loss of the country, he "felt indignation in his heart" and "was disappointed, there was pain, and he held on to a glimmer of hope" which was very contradictory. Now that he heard Song Xiance say that the fall of the Ming Dynasty was a foregone conclusion, his emotions were very shaken and he was silent.

After a while, he sighed deeply and said helplessly: "Astronomy, star changes, the principle of the five elements, my brother doesn't understand it very well, and he doesn't believe it very much." The ancients said that the way of heaven is far away, and humanity is far away, "Brother Throughout current affairs, the country is in danger." As the old man said, at present, the court is making one wrong move, and the whole game of chess is getting worse and worse. ”

"The country is already boiling with resentment, and there is no time to save the dead, and recently the imperial court has levied 7.3 million taels of training salaries" Isn't this drinking to quench your thirst? At present, the general trend is like putting a stone on the hillside, only to roll down "more and more down, unstoppable" until the abyss. ”

"The emperor has all kinds of intentions, but he wants to drag Shi Yan and stop rolling down, but not only does it backfire, but sometimes he uses the wrong force to push Shi Yan. The reason why the stone is rolling down is inevitable. In my brother's view, the so-called luck is an inevitable trend that accumulates gradually, and it cannot be resisted by human beings. Dude thinks so? ”

Song Xiance nodded and said: "Childe said that luck is an inevitable trend, and this statement is the most understandable. But the starry changes and earthquakes, and the five elements are different, which is indeed related to the fortune of the country. The younger brother and the son take care of each other with all their hearts and know each other", so they dare to tell each other the truth. If it is a general acquaintance, my brother will not dare to talk nonsense. ”

Although Li Xin also saw clearly that the Ming Dynasty was like a "building about to fall", his background was different from that of Song Xiance, and he was both afraid and unwilling to see the fall of the Ming Dynasty with his own eyes. After a moment of silence, he said worriedly: "Brother Xian Ce, although my father was guilty and punished in his later years, he gave up his next life to receive the grace of the country" is not comparable to the humble family. Seeing the country fall and being unable to return to heaven, it is sad to say. …… Let's take the matter of my brother helping the hungry people in our county, and I didn't even forgive the gentry of the township, and there was a lot of gossip behind it. ”

Song Xiance said a little strangely: "This is a strange thing! My brother has been uncertain in the past two or three years, and "I am not very clear about the situation in Zhongzhou." The eldest prince helped the hungry people in Guixian County", although he heard a little, but I don't know what gossip someone is saying behind his back. ”

Li Xin smiled reluctantly, and said helplessly: "The reason why my brother provides food for disaster relief" sometimes persuades large households, but one can't bear to see the people displaced and starve to death on the road, and the other is also afraid that the poor people will be forced by hunger and cold. Today's world is "like a pile of dry wood everywhere, as long as one person sets fires, it will immediately burn everywhere, and it is not easy to extinguish." ”

"The hateful gentry of the township are all short-sighted, they only know that they are knocking on the people, and they don't know that the catastrophe is coming, but they say that the younger brother deliberately sells his reputation and attracts people's hearts" seems to have ulterior motives. Amusing! Amusing! From the imperial court to the squire, all actions are to force the people to rebel, as the ancients said, to drive the fish for the abyss, and to drive the birds for the cong! Lamentable! Alas! ”

Song Xiance said in a low voice: "Yes, the government and the opposition" are everywhere a sign of the country's demise. The current situation is only delaying for a while. ”

Li Xin sighed, frowned deeply, lowered his head, and asked bitterly: "Look, it can be delayed for a few years at most?" ”

Song Xiance said affirmatively: "Within ten years", there will be great changes. ”

Li Xin looked at Song Xiance's self-confidence, and then pondered on the railing. National affairs and the future of his family, all kinds of problems "came to his mind with an old mind", making his heart even more chaotic and "heavier". After a while, he looked at the offer again, and said with emotion: "Since the fortune of this dynasty is coming to an end, the people are so miserable." ”

Thinking of this, he lowered his voice very low, leaned close to Song Xiance's ear and asked, "So, has the new saint been born?" ”

Song Xiance smiled slightly, and said incomprehensibly: "The heavenly machine is profound, and my brother doesn't dare to talk nonsense, so he will naturally know when the time comes." ”

Li Xin didn't ask. But "a determination had been formed in his heart, and that was to travel the world in search of this new saint." As a result, on the ground in Cao County, he met Zhang Zhun. Since then, his fate has completely changed.

"Saint, it's already out ......"

Li Yan looked at Kaifeng City and silently muttered to himself.

Regarding the task given to him by Zhang Zhun, "Li Yan cares very much. This is not only a question of avenging his family, but also a matter of changing the status quo of the whole of Henan. The Tiger Army has already taken Luoyang, and as long as he takes Kaifeng, he can control half of Henan in the hands of the Tiger Army. When the time comes, the barns will be opened and the grain will be released, and the poor people will be able to eat enough.

However, to complete this difficult figure, there must be people, there must be troops, there must be equipment. None of these things fell from the sky. Since Zhang Zhun said that he would not transfer to himself, he had to figure out everything by himself. Along the way, "Li Yan has carefully sorted out all the things he wants to do and determined what he wants to do.

First, there must be someone. This person does not mean to raise his arms and recruit all the refugees in the vicinity. For refugees everywhere in Henan, as long as someone raises their arms and shouts, it is really not a problem to gather thousands or even tens of thousands of people. This is also the basic reason why Zhang Zhun let go and let Li Yan form the legion by himself. As long as there are soldiers, everything else is easy.

However, what Li Yan needs at present is not refugees, but talents, real talents. These talents must understand the strategy, must know the basic way of leading troops, and must also have a certain understanding of the general trend of the world. When it comes to literacy, that's not to mention.

Almost without thinking, Li Yan thought of two people. One is a fellow countryman Niu Jinxing, and the other is a good friend Song Xiance. These two people are both really talented and learned, not ordinary talkers. What is rare is that "the two of them are already dead to the court." Both of them are also looking for a new saint.

Niu Jinxing was locked up in the prison of Lushi County, as long as he asked Zhang Zhun to ask for it, the Tiger Ben Army sent troops to rescue Niu Jinxing, and it was not a big problem. Lushi County is not far from Luoyang, such a county seat, and the warring sides hardly noticed.

It's not easy to do it. Song Xiance has always been a lonely hún wild ghost, often appearing in places that others don't expect. I don't know where Song Xiance is now? The top priority is to find this ghost. As long as Song Xiance helps and takes Kaifeng City, it is not a big problem.

"Childe, Song Xiance has news."

Suddenly, an entourage of inquiring news hurried to report.

"Oh? Song Xiance? ”

Li Yan was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly asked him if he was about to find Song Xiance, and there was news of him so soon?

"Song Xianlai is locked up."

The entourage who inquired about the news said in a sweaty report.

Li Yan asked carefully, only to learn that it turned out that he was rescued by Zhang Zhun and left Qixian with the Hu Benjun, and the government sent people back to Qixian to continue to search for people related to "Li Xin". Song Xiance was arrested by the government because of the news of Li Xin.

However, this is not the end of the story. At the end of the story, the government came back and arrested Song Xiance, "As a result, the Tiger Ben Army came again." When Zhang Zhun left Qixian, he left a heart: "Let the commander of the Gangzi Battalion send Wu Qingliang to lurk here to see if there are any valuable clues."

As a result, the people from the government arrested Song Xiance in a row, and the Tiger Army attacked the people from the government and rescued Song Xiance. The government couldn't afford to provoke the Tiger Army, so it had to retreat in disgrace. Right now, Song Xiance is working as a cultural instructor for the Tiger Benjun.

Wu Qingliang made a big mistake here, that is, he did not report Song Xiance's name to Zhang Zhun "Therefore, Zhang Zhun did not know the existence of this person." Okay, this can't be regarded as Wu Qingliang's fault" He doesn't know where Song Xiance is sacred, he can't report to Zhang Zhun for screening every time he rescues someone.

"Go back to Qi County!"

"Drive!"

Li Yan shook his spirits and galloped away in the direction of Qixian County.