On the day of the attack, Zhao Ning saw more displaced people during the day than in the past combined.

The Central Plains of Henan, fertile fields for thousands of miles, prosperous in ancient times, on the prosperity of people, non-imperial dynasty other places can be compared.

Therefore, those who have won the world since ancient times must first be the lord of the Central Plains. The so-called competition for the world, the core is to compete for the Central Plains.

The princes of the troubled times who arose in the corners of the chessboard of the world, the first strategic goal after stabilizing the foundation must be to plot the Central Plains. If you don't map the Central Plains, you can't map the world. And those who can't enter the Central Plains, no matter what kind of hegemony they have for a while, will inevitably be wiped out in the end.

Bianliang, also known as Bianzhou, the state of Kaifeng County, extends in all directions, wealth is concentrated, is the Central Plains of the Central Plains, the heart of the heart.

Bianliang is so important that at the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, it was established as Tokyo, one of the four major capitals of the dynasty, with 100,000 permanent troops, many officials, powerful people gathered, rich people fighting, and countless cultivators.

The control of the Great Qi court over Bianliang was far from being comparable to a place like Yunzhou.

For the national war, if it is said that Beihu gets Yanping is equivalent to getting Hebei, then getting Bianliang Beihu is equivalent to winning the Central Plains.

During the national war in the previous life, the emperor who relied on the Yellow River moat to temporarily block Beihu once called on the Quartet to volunteer soldiers in Bianliang to call on the Quartet to fight the king, and in a short period of time, countless local heroes gathered from all directions with the civilians on the Central Plains to defend the country and the society with one heart and one mind.

Bianliang is so important and prosperous, will the officials here be very clear, and the people here will live very well?

The answer, of course, is no.

The tens of thousands of ant-like homeless people on the riverbank once again reminded Zhao Ning that the so-called prosperity is just that there are many rich people in the world, and the city's Zhuji Hu Ying Luoqi only belongs to the rich and has nothing to do with the common people. The officials, on the other hand, were busy mingling with the rich who could bring them money, and did not care much about the feelings of the common people.

The more prosperous the place, the more rich the place, the more people at the bottom will live on the back of the glossy, dark oppression.

During the day, the people of Tsing Yi learned through investigation that this summer's heavy rain continued, the Yellow River burst its banks, Henan suffered floods, hundreds of people lost their grain harvests, although the government provided relief, although the imperial court exempted taxes, did not let the vast majority of the people starve to death, but there is no way to ensure that the people have food that can spend a year, the people are still difficult to survive, and the rich people take the opportunity to buy and annex a large number of civilian land at low prices, so it has caused the current situation of displaced people everywhere.

When the disaster comes, everyone has a loss, and after the disaster, the loss of the big rich people is compensated for by the cheap annexation of land, and their wealth increases, and it is always the people who have been suffering, and the losses of the disaster are finally passed on to the common people by the rich.

Of course, it is easy for the government to provide disaster relief and soup kitchen, but the key is not to let the people quickly rebuild their homes after the disaster and return to a normal working environment. And the officials in Bianliang, Tokyo, did not do this well, and they did not even force the big rich to prevent the big rich from wantonly annexing land.

It's only an hour into the night, far from midnight, Siye has just been quiet, Zhao Ning is still on the deck under the stars, blowing the cold wind and looking at the night to think about the next arrangement, the dark river and riverbank, suddenly the lights are everywhere, a torch is lit up, and the fishing boats and boats are from far and near, strange screams, whistles, shouts, and cold sounds suddenly explode around, and in the blink of an eye, a wave of waves is formed to the building boat.

The building boat is docked at the wharf, there is a small market and village nearby, there are many fishing boats, and now these fishing boats have become "war ships", from the east and west to the building boats of the first product building, the cargo ships of the long river boat line are coming quickly.

In the dim light of the torches of the fishing boats, Zhao Ning saw men armed with harpoons, knives, hoes, hammers and even wooden sticks, they were poorly dressed, skinny, and sallow, but their faces were resolute and fierce, and their eyes were full of madness.

On a larger ship headed by the leader, several big men raised the long knives in their hands, pointed at the building boat and shouted orders, so that the people on the building boat could be captured, but if there was a slight resistance, beware of their lives.

Although the boats are small, with the rafts and bamboo rafts, there are as many as dozens.

Although the men above are not all strong, they are all in high spirits, and they are besieged by so many people at night, even if the building boat is bigger, it looks like it is just a big piece of fat.

Yang Jiani, Hu Honglian and others came out when they heard the movement, and when they saw the scene in front of them, they were all speechless.

No one needs to explain anything, everyone knows that these homeless people are here to loot, and the other party treats the building ship and the cargo ship as meat on a plate. has been hoeing the strong and helping the weak for so long, and doing chivalrous deeds, but I didn't expect that now I have become the target of robbing the rich and helping the poor.

Seeing that the other party was getting closer and closer, and the distance between the two sides was less than a hundred steps, Hu Honglian waved his hand, and several people in Tsing Yi immediately jumped out of the boat, their toes were a few points on the water, and they were like birds, and they quickly got on the ship headed by them.

No matter how stunned and shocked the big men who were still shouting and warning just now, the people in Tsing Yi shot unceremoniously, and a few hand knives went down, and they lost their combat power softly, and then they still flew back from the boat with their back collars.

Zhao Ning glanced at these strong homeless men who were thrown on the deck by the people in Tsing Yi, with a frightened, angry, and unwilling expression, without much interest in talking, waved his hand, and asked Hu Hong to get some meatloaf out. These strong men are only big skeletons, there are not a few catties of meat on their bodies, although they are quite imposing, but they are just like wild wolves about to starve to death.

Having lost their leader, the displaced people did not disperse, nor did they stop moving, but they were only slightly surprised for a while, and they roared louder and rowed harder, and the situation of the encirclement quickly turned into a siege, and the state of the wolves attacking the elephant had been formed.

"We have already shown the strength of the cultivators, and they dare to continue to get closer, are they really not afraid of death?" Yang Jiani couldn't quite understand the other party's behavior.

Hu Honglian's face was gloomy, and there seemed to be sadness in his eyes, Huang Yuandai touched his beard and said, "They are not fighting, they are trying to survive."

"For most of them, if they don't take us tonight, they'll starve to death. Our building ships and cargo ships are not small, so they naturally have escort forces, and if they dare to do it, they are ready for the dead. Dead people take it for granted, so they are not so afraid of death. ”

The meatloaf was brought out, and the plate was placed in front of several captured homeless, they looked at the meatloaf and Hu Honglian, all of them looked puzzled and dazed, and couldn't understand what Zhao Ning and the others were intending to do.

In their opinion, even if they are not immediately hacked to death, they should be beaten beyond recognition, and now they are being robbers and thieves, how can there be any reason to be treated kindly?

"Eat. "Hu Honglian doesn't care what they think, just let them eat cakes. So these men suddenly realized that Hu Honglian was going to poison them! The aroma of the meatloaf was very attractive, so that these men who had not eaten seriously for a few days couldn't help but swallow again and again.

But who would dare to say that they would die if they ate it? Everyone hesitated.

"If you want to kill you, you will not waste food. Hu Honglian coldly said that the meatloaf was not poisonous.

This is convincing, and the men will be skeptical, and one of the thinnest and oldest guys suddenly shouted, "I'll come first, you will eat if I don't die", grabbed the meatloaf and stuffed it in his mouth, and saw that he looked determined to fill himself before being poisoned, and knew that he was testing poison for his companions with a mortal heart.

The surrounding fishing boats rowed the water waves and approached rapidly, and the huge shouts of killing were already like a tide, submerging the building ship and the cargo ship, and the sharpened bamboo poles began to be thrown out of the boat, and one by one the hook locks were also nailed to the side of the ship, and the distance between the two sides was only one or twenty steps, and these men were about to attack the ship.

Zhao Ning still stood still, no need for him to tell anything, Hu Honglian brought the men who were grabbing the meatloaf one by one to the side of the boat, seeing that they were still just burying their heads in eating, he kicked them a few times angrily, "Hurry up and shout, don't need them to attack the ship, everything on the ship is theirs, just send someone to get it." ”

When several men heard this, they all came to their senses, and immediately danced loudly to greet their companions, constantly repeating Hu Honglian's words, and also holding up the meatloaf in their hands to show their delicacies to their companions, proving that what they said was true.

The homeless people who were about to fight for their lives on the upstairs ship and cargo ship were a little dazed when they saw this scene at first glance, they were ready to pay the price of human lives to achieve their goal, but now they were told by the robbery target with the escort of powerful cultivators that they could get what they wanted without much effort, especially when they saw those few homeless people, holding up meat patties and even wine jugs one by one, their brains were a little insufficient.

Some men who had been blinded by blood and carried away by hunger and appetite did not pause in their movements, but still climbed towards the boat with knives and hooks, but they were given a little name by the people in Tsing Yi on the boat, and the ghostly figure stepped on their heads, and they kicked them back into the river without effort, without any chance to get on the boat.

As a result, the displaced people who temporarily turned into bandits all stopped their attacks one after another, and chose to wait and see for a while, but they could not lose their momentum, they were still holding harpoons and wooden sticks and shouting, so that the building boat would be captured, and not to make useless resistance.

A few men who were almost filling their stomachs, under Hu Honglian's order, went down from the boat to the boat, and after a while, they took a group of men on the boat.

When they reappeared with rice, grain, wine and meat, and returned to the boats, the earth-shaking cheers rang out on the boats and rafts. So the gangplanks appeared on the building boats, cargo ships and small boats, and more men stepped on the wooden planks to carry food back and forth, and the scene suddenly became orderly.

A strange order.

"Thank you Gongzi for squandering money, I am grateful, dare to ask Gongzi's surname, if there is a chance in the future, we will repay the favor!"

The old man who tried the poison by himself won the respect of the homeless people with his behavior and established a good prestige, and when the other homeless people were happily carrying food, he took the previous few men to Hu Honglian to find out who the master was, so he hurriedly came over to thank him.

This is a man with gray stubble, who looks to be in his fifties, but is actually only in his forties, with dark skin and calloused rough hands, and unwashed fingers, proving that he has been facing the loess with his back to the sky all year round.

Thanking the person who was robbed is a ironic thing, but this man named Zhang Dazhuang takes this matter seriously, which is even more absurd.

After living for more than forty years, Zhang Dazhuang's eyesight is still there, there are many people in Tsing Yi on the boat, all of them give him a great sense of oppression, obviously they are all cultivators who have killed people, if Zhao Ning is unwilling to take out food, the hundreds of homeless people who have besieged him, the end of tonight will definitely be very miserable. So he knew that there was a harvest tonight, it was not that they were outnumbered and powerful, and the other party was afraid, just because Zhao Ning was benevolent.

Benevolence, perhaps, Zhao Ning actually didn't want to kill people, especially a group of hungry and crazy low-level people, compared to it, a little wealth is not worth mentioning.

He asked Zhang Dazhuang to get up, and was about to ask the other party some questions, when Yang Jiani's surprised voice suddenly came from the side: "Look there!"