Chapter 139: Planning and Action
The temperature in the early morning of the early spring season is still very low, the north and south of the river are warm but cold, but the valley in front of Hushan Manor and Ziyang Temple is crowded with people and bonfires.
Groups of artisans and hired farmers gathered in groups of 100 and began to eat.
Two hundred guards and four hundred craftsmen who received Zhu Daolin's three-hour emergency training, in groups of five, returned to each team with bamboo poles and large slogans made overnight. Lines. Wei activities are about to kick off in the cold spring city of Nanjing.
Next to the bonfire in front of the Ziyang Guanling Palace, Zhu Daolin swallowed the last mouthful of fragrant meat buns, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, turned to the master Xuanqing Daoist and the three uncles and uncles who were sitting beside him, and said in a low voice:
"It's six fifty o'clock, it's almost dawn, I'll go into the city in a quarter of an hour and make arrangements, and the rest will all set off at half past seven."
"Are all aspects connected?" Second Master Bo Xuanji asked again.
Zhu Daolin has already made a decision: "It's all connected...... The Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, Yulinwei and Jinyi Wei are on guard in the open and take care of them secretly, and the major city gates will be opened on time and unimpeded. ”
"Wei Guogong, Marquis Longping and Xin Chengbo have already made arrangements, and only five hundred officials from two counties and one government can be mobilized in the hands of the Donglin Party, but most of these officials were frightened yesterday afternoon, and a few dared to jump out to fight against each other?"
"I'm afraid that the famous Liu Zhutou is still lying on the bed and trembling."
Daoist Xuanji was much more relieved, he, like Senior Brother Daoist Xuanyue and the others, had never experienced such a big scene.
Although his nephew Zhu Daolin persuaded everyone with various facts and reasons, he quickly came up with a series of unheard of but quite meticulous strategies, and in an hour, he could make the 300 guards who had never received a large gathering understand what they should do, showing amazing planning and control ability.
However, Xuanji and Xuanyue were still worried. It is deeply feared that tens of thousands of people will be difficult to restrain and cause uncontrollable chaos.
Only the upright, young and vigorous Xuanfang Daoist supported Zhu Daolin's actions from beginning to end, believing that only by taking the initiative to attack, picking out contradictions, and making things known to the world was the best way to deal with it.
As for whether it will cause chaos. Xuan Fang's words made everyone's hearts settled: "At the beginning, the tens of thousands of homeless people who suddenly flocked to my Ziyang Temple did not have an accident, and now more than 10,000 craftsmen and people with one heart and one mind are dispatched, what can happen?" ”
Daoist Xuanqing agreed with the decision of his beloved disciple Zhu Daolin from the bottom of his heart, otherwise it was not enough to deter those invincible Donglin Party members, but as the head of the Shangqing Sect's medical divination sect, he must show a cautious and cautious side, but also dare to act:
"The matter has come to this, it is difficult to ride a tiger, and if you don't sing, it will be amazing!"
"After the brigade entered the city. Dao Lin, you try not to show your face, just sit behind you and control the overall situation, always maintain contact with the Duke of Wei, never leave a chance for the opponent to breathe, let alone have a bloody conflict with the government. ”
"As long as you do these two things, your whole plan will be considered successful."
Master Bo Xuanyue couldn't hold it back, and asked curiously, "Dao Lin, from last night to now." I've always wanted to ask you, why did you come up with such a bold and ruthless plan? ”
"From planning to implementation. It seems that this is not the first time you have done this kind of thing, and every sentence of your rhetoric that inspires the people has hit the hearts of the people, making tens of thousands of people willing to follow you with all their hearts. And strictly follow your orders, in order and without chaos, even in the army! ”
"Where did you learn these imperial techniques?"
Zhu Daolin thought that if you also stayed in the revolutionary melting pot for three or two years, you would not feel that it was an imperial technique. can think about it, but I can't say it, I can only avoid the important and give a vague answer:
"This kind of thing is really common on the side of Tianshu Pavilion, they attach importance to public opinion, are good at guiding the people's hearts, and gather people's strength, so they can work together to forge ahead and create brilliant achievements in various fields, so that their ordinary people are far more prosperous than my Ming landlord's old wealth."
"It can be seen that their strategy is correct, and the disciple is just painting a gourd according to the scoop."
Xuan Yue and the others were shocked in their hearts, and they were even more curious and yearning for the Tianshu Pavilion that Zhu Daolin said.
Zhu Daolin didn't want to talk about these things anymore, so he checked with Uncle Xuanfang again about the candidates for the senior brothers who were assigned to the various teams of 100 people to serve as supervisors and guides, so he stood up and said goodbye to the master and the two uncles, and took the junior brother Yuhu to take the lead in the carriage. He wanted to enter the city from the Shence Gate in the northeast of Jinling City, meet with Ying Changpei and the henchmen sent by Wei Guogong and Marquis Longping who were waiting there, and then go directly to Kuixinglou to take command.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the officers and soldiers defending the city opened the Jinchuan Gate in the north of Jinling City on time, and more than 13,000 craftsmen, hired farmers, and young people from the five villages and towns east of Ziyangguan who had already marched in place let out a huge cheer.
"Oh my God! How so? A group of vegetable vendors carrying large bamboo baskets and empty baskets on their backs turned pale with fright, fearing that there would be a big chaos in Jinling City.
The middle-aged trader on the side was very knowledgeable: "Don't be afraid, they are all people from Ziyangguan, the two young Taoist leaders who walked in front of me have seen my mother and taken medicine, I know, it is estimated that the government annoyed them yesterday, and today I went into the city to ask for an explanation." ”
"Wouldn't it? So many people came into the city to ask for an explanation? Aren't you afraid of the government's killing stick? The rickshaw driver on the other side was surprised.
Another young hawker retorted loudly: "Why can't it be? Others don't dare, not necessarily the respected Ziyangguan doesn't dare, their previous generations of Maoshan ancestors are all Taoist masters of the Yongle Emperor and the emperors of the following generations, and Taoism is my Ming state religion, believers are all over the north and south of the river, is it easy to bully? ”
"There are so many flags, and I'm afraid there aren't so many Imperial Guards, white, red, blue...... And the black ...... How nice would it be to make clothes? ”
"It seems that a piece of cloth is hung directly on the bamboo pole, both horizontal and vertical, and there are big characters written on it!" Several rough-skinned mothers-in-law were distressed.
"What's written on the flag? Who can read? Who reads? A tall, dark coolie asked eagerly.
The young peddler spoke again: "It's too much to say, haha!" Let's just say that the first flag raised by the eight young Taoist leaders who walked in the front, the white cloth read, 'Heavenly Reason is clear and undeniable, don't do treachery and evil', it seems that yesterday the government must have injured a lot of craftsmen and local guys who delivered goods, and the practice was too hateful, which angered Ziyangguan. ”
"Didn't you say that all the five hundred officials in the two counties and one government were beaten away by Daoist Xiao Zhu?"
"Yes! I heard that the famous Liu Zhutou was also scared stupid, and rode this big horse and brandished a sword to kill Xiao Zhu Daochang, but he couldn't stop Xiao Zhu Daochang from making a move, and even people took the horse to lie down, and the big sword in Xiao Zhu Daochang's hand was not out of the sheath yet! ”
"Go back and go back, watch the excitement, today Lao Tzu didn't do anything, follow and watch the excitement."
As soon as a few excited coolies left, a large group of people around them also turned around and followed the continuous flow into the city. Line the line, ask as you go.
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