In the 11th year of Yuan Zhizheng, Emperor Shun issued an edict appointing Jia Lu as the chief envoy of the river defense with the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, and supervised 150,000 people from the 13th Route such as Bianliang and Daming and 20,000 troops from Luzhou and other places to govern the Yellow River together. The river repair project began. Under the scorching rainstorm, the people were forced to work day and night, but the funds allocated by the imperial court for opening the river were deducted by the officials who controlled the river. The people who repaired the river did not have enough to eat and wear, and the people's grievances were boiling, and the complaints were full of complaints.

I don't know when, a nursery rhyme suddenly spread all over the banks of the Yellow River, only a short fourteen words, Mo Dao Shiren one eye, instigating the Yellow River to rebel in the world! I don't know who spread this nursery rhyme, which caused panic on both sides of the Yellow River, and the officers and soldiers of Dayuan went around arresting it, but they heard the people around both sides of the strait say that the ballad came from the mouth of a madman.

People who have seen the madman say that the madman looks not very old, his clothes are pitiful, he does not feel cold when he opens his chest and his arms, his long hair is scattered, his face is full of mud and water, and he has a black ruler pinned to his waist. This madman suddenly appeared, he was a stranger, he had never seen it before, he was crazy, no matter what he saw, he could look stupidly for a long time, and he couldn't move, he laughed when he saw the grocery shopping, he saw the little daughter-in-law laughing, and he laughed even more when he saw the old cow pulling the cart.

At the beginning, I was very afraid of people approaching, but then I gradually let go, and the number of laughs was less, and I played crazy with a group of children all day, and taught them a ballad, which is these fourteen words, Mo Daoshiren has one eye, and provokes the Yellow River to rebel in the world. He has not been seen since.

The officers and soldiers of the Great Yuan Dynasty had a headache, and sent out everywhere to catch the madman, and the headache was also the head of the White Lotus Sect in the north, Han Shantong, the leader of the White Lotus Sect in the north, this time to govern the river, the world has been in chaos, it is a good time to take advantage of the chaos, but before the incident, there must be something to do, such as Liu Bang beheading the white snake, known as his son of the Red Emperor. For another example, Chen Sheng asked Wu Guang to lurk in a deserted temple near the camp, and in the middle of the night, he lit a bonfire next to the temple and pretended to be a ghost fire, imitating the voice of a fox, and shouted loudly, "Da Chuxing, King Chen Sheng"! Or maybe the sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand!

Han Shantong also has his own set, claiming that the world will be in chaos, Maitreya will be born, and King Ming will be born. But shouted for a few years, the effect is not ideal, the spread is not high, just when he pondered how to stir people's hearts, the nursery rhyme of the stone man with one eye spread, in just more than a month on both sides of the Yellow River everyone knows, no one knows, everyone will say, everyone believes.

What Han Shantong thought was, could it be that someone wanted to make trouble in secret? Which faction, that sect? It's no wonder that he thinks so, the world has not stopped over the years, as early as the second year of Taiding, Henan Xizhou Zhao Chouguo, Guo Bodhisattva's actions, shouted out the slogan "Maitreya Buddha should have the world".

In the third year of Emperor Shun's reign, there were Guangdong Zhu Guangqing and Nie Xiuqing's actions, called "the birth of Dingguang Buddha". In the same year, there was a Henan stick hu incident, the stick hu burned incense to gather the crowd, and the person who raised the matter "raised the Maitreya small flag". In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Monk Peng and Zhou Ziwang raised affairs in Yuanzhou, with more than 5,000 people, "all vests are written with Buddhist characters". By the beginning of the year, the uprisings and riots had spread all over the country, and there were more than 300 incidents in the Jingnan area alone. Most of the people who raised the trouble were Han and Nanren, so the Mongols were even more hostile to Han and Nanren. Yuan Cheng Prime Minister Boyan and others once proposed to kill the Han people surnamed Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li, and Zhao, and reiterated that the Han people were not allowed to hold weapons or arms, and they were not allowed to return the rewards for beating the southerners.

Most of the 150,000 people who govern the river are followers of his White Lotus Sect, and if someone is secretly doing things, he won't know that now that nursery rhymes are spreading all over the strait, it is a great opportunity to take care of things, as long as there is a fire, the world will really be in chaos.

But how to add this fire, he Han Shantong also had no bottom in his heart, and was in a dull mood, Liu Futong hurriedly walked into the tent, looked around, saw that there was no one, approached and whispered: "Sect leader, my subordinates have reported that someone has dug up a huge one-eyed stone man, and the back of the stone man is engraved with the folk song that is spread today, and Mo Dao Shiren has one eye, inciting the Yellow River to rebel in the world." ”

"Oh, the stone man really appeared?" Han Shantong's eyes lit up and stared at Liu Futong.

Liu Futong was in his thirties, short and concise, his eyes were bright, he nodded, and said in a deep voice: "That's right, on the section of the river in Huanglinggang, it was dug up by the people who dug up the silt, I sent someone to block the news, and the officers and soldiers still don't know, did the sect leader go to see?" ”

"Check it out!" Han Shantong groaned for a while, and followed Liu Futong out, rebellion is the same as eating, you can always eat early when you eat, and there will be some leftovers and water left when you are late, the same is true for rebellion, the reputation will be beaten out early when the flag is raised, and there will be many people who come to join it.

The two of them walked along the river, and they arrived at the Huanglinggang River in a small effort, Han Shantong wondered in his heart, if it was someone else's doing, why did he get so close to him? I always felt that something was wrong, and when I got closer, I saw that the fire in front of me was bright, and hundreds of people gathered around the river, but no one spoke, and they all looked at the huge stone statue in the middle of the river with complicated expressions.

These people are all White Lotus disciples, even the official who takes care of the people's husband, someone saw him coming, hurriedly got out of the way, Han Shantong had a gloomy face, and walked over with a worried heart, and saw a stone statue several feet high in the mud, with one eye standing between his eyebrows.

The stone statue is majestic, the shape is simple, like an ancient thing, it is by no means a craft of the past few hundred years, and it is not possible to create it overnight.

All the people were silent, but their eyes all looked at Han Shantong, Han Shantong was a little overwhelmed for a while, shocked by the majesty of the stone statue, and his heart was full of doubts. I wonder where this stone statue came from, is it really buried under the Yellow River? And this word is crooked, even irregular, and the writing is not good, like a naughty boy smeared on it, definitely not made at the same time as this statue, groaning, Liu Futong pulled down the corner of his clothes, and said softly: "Sect Master, don't lose the opportunity." ”

Han Shantong collected his thoughts, looked around, and saw that the people around him were gathering more and more, and everyone looked at him in addition to convincing, there was more awe, he knew that the opportunity was rare, not to lose, coughed, and said loudly to everyone: "Last night, King Ming gave me a dream, saying that today there is a god who will carry its will and pass on me." ”

Speaking of this, his voice suddenly raised: "Am I talking nonsense?" Look at ......" he pointed to the one-eyed stone man and said loudly: "This is the message that King Ming can't bear to see me and other believers struggling in the sea of suffering, and pass it on to the big guys, and now, I have nothing to hide, let's tell the truth, my surname is not Han, my surname is Zhao, but the eighth grandson of Emperor Huizong." He pointed at Liu Futong again: "He is a descendant of Liu Guangshi, a general of the Southern Song Dynasty." King Ming chose the two of us, just to let the two of us take you and wait for the trouble, and the world of the Great Yuan Dynasty is about to come to an end! ”

"We and the Han people, the fourth-class people, were killed by the Mongols, only one donkey was compensated, and those who were able did not even have to pay a donkey, we worked hard every day, but we couldn't even eat a meal, and the people were overwhelmed with miscellaneous taxes, and the people were not able to make a living. Now they have sent me and other brothers to repair the river, doing the dirtiest, hardest and most tiring work in the world, but what do you eat? The chaff and weeds, I can't even eat a full meal, I'm afraid that this river is not finished, I will be tired to death, starvation on the Yellow River, rather than sit and wait to die, it is better to kill a Lang Lang Qiankun with me, it is better than to linger, life is better than death......

Han Shantong said impassionedly, and everyone listened to it with enthusiasm, and someone whispered at the moment: "Anti-damn, we all listen to the sect leader...... Yes, yes, we listen to Brother Han...... I can't get by...... Yesterday I was tired of digging the river and dozens of people died, so instead of waiting to starve to death and die of exhaustion, it would be the other way around......"

In the midst of the noise and shouting, the crowd gradually boiled like collecting firewood and boiling water, and some people couldn't help but step forward to ask if it was the other way now? The excitement of the crowd is so much, which Han Shantong and Liu Futong did not expect, and there is an idea in their hearts, and the people's hearts are available.

But this is not the real time to do something, the daimyo still has 20,000 officers and soldiers, not far from here, now there is no knife or gun in his hand, no matter how many people there are, it is a life to be hacked, but the opportunity is missed, I really don't know when to come again, Han Shantong was a little hesitant, at this time a hand suddenly stretched out in the crowd, grabbed Han Shantong and left, Han Shantong frowned, wanted to break away, but felt that the man's arms were like iron, and he struggled at all, he was also calm, and looked at the man.

I saw a man in his twenties, dressed in tatters, with a black ruler stuck in his waist, and when he turned his head, he smiled lightly at him, showing a mouthful of white teeth, and said softly: "Hurry up, it's not the time for an incident, someone has gone to tell him." ”

Han Shantong's heart froze, jumped to look around, and sure enough, a few people took advantage of the night to escape, and the direction they went was where the Yuan Dynasty official office was, he knew that he couldn't stay here anymore, so he turned around and wanted to say something to the man, but there were still people there. Suddenly, he remembered the rumor, a madman, with a ruler stuck in his waist, not this man can be that?

At this time, Liu Futong chased after him, Han Shantong grabbed him, and asked quietly, "Can you see the man who dragged me just now?" ”

Liu Futong was stunned: "What man, I've always been by your side, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, the sect leader should hide for two days first, and then plan to ......"

Han Shantong muttered to himself: "Could it be that there are really gods and men to help me?" Could it be that I really have the destiny of the Son of Heaven? Thinking of this, his eyes suddenly lit up, his body immediately straightened up, and he said to Liu Fudao in a deep voice: "You pass it on to the congregation, and spread the news of today, no one will know it, no one will know it, and secretly select hardcover people to meet in Yingzhou, and you and I will not be far away." ”

Liu Futong nodded in response, and secretly ordered a few disciples to escort Han Shantong away, and he took a few disciples to act secretly, but the crowd next to the one-eyed stone man did not disperse, on the contrary, more and more people who heard the letter rushed over overnight.

This night, the dark tide surged, and this night, no one slept on both sides of the Yellow River.

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