Chapter 26: Study Tour (2)
Zhao Chongyang continued to arrange: "Cloth and other materials will be handed over to the local area for disposal, and the grain will be left here to be boiled and sprinkled, and after the ship is repaired, a small amount will be left at each wharf for self-use, and the rest will be brought back to Nanjing." The captives asked the bodyguard team to send some people back to dig coal and iron mines, and they were fed up, and they were not paid, and those who dared to run were all executed. Three years later, those with good performance and strong physique joined the bodyguard team, and those with poor physique worked in paper mills, docks and construction sites, and their wages were still paid. ”
"All the seized materials, horses, and boats, like the last time they seized, will be converted into half price for your bodyguard corps, and will be credited to your account like the captured gold, silver, and copper coins. In addition, you go back this time to tell my father and Uncle Wang that you can accept the Four Seas Dart Bureau to join the bodyguard corps. A few years ago, the chief dart head of the Four Seas Dart Bureau in Nanjing, Mr. Nangong Tianqiao, had the intention of joining our bodyguard team, and once asked Uncle Wang, because the business was not very busy at that time, and he did not give them a clear answer for the time being. When I went back this time, I told Uncle Wang that the bodyguard team would be expanded, because one platoon should be left in newly developed places such as Zhenjiang and Changzhou, and at least two platoons in Suzhou, Yangzhou, Chuzhou and other places to help transfer goods, protect shopping malls and docks, and prevent local underworld forces from bullying and dominating the market, and forcing them to buy and sell. If so, warn them first. After the Four Seas Dart Bureau joined, Mr. Nangong served as the deputy captain and head coach of the bodyguard team, and was in charge of the bodyguard team together with Uncle Wang and others. In addition, two more battalions were formed, and the battalion commanders were Nangong Tianxiong and Nangong Yongjie. The rest of the battalion and company platoon commanders are also mainly arranged by them, and you send people to assist them in training according to the regulations and drill codes. ”
Nangong Tianxiong mentioned in Zhao Chongyang's mouth is Nangong Tianqiao's brother, and Nangong Yongjie is Nangong Tianxiong's son. The Nangong family's martial arts are their own and are quite famous in the Jiangnan martial arts. The martial arts of the two brothers Nangong Tianqiao and Nangong Tianxiong are on par with Wang Zhennan and Zhou Daxing, and they can be called first-class masters in the rivers and lakes. Nangong Yongjie is the number one master in the young generation of Nangong Jiaqing.
The battle of the bodyguard team of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce to exterminate the Hailong State is of far-reaching significance, and since then, the ships of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce have not dared to provoke any water village on the waterways north and south of the river, because many of them are not as strong as Yu Hailong.
The water thieves have been eliminated, and there is no big addiction in the south of Suzhou and Hangzhou. Unless the water of Taihu Lake flows up the canal, but it has never appeared before this. Zhao Chongyang asked Qian Xiaobo and Company Commander Wu to lead the first and second platoons of the first and second platoons to escort the captured and captured ships back to Nanjing, and the first and third platoons stayed at the Changzhou wharf, which was renamed the Changzhou Independent Platoon, and the fourth platoon stayed at the Zhenjiang wharf and was renamed the Zhenjiang Independent Platoon. The battalion directly under the company was renamed the recruit training camp, and one of the tasks was to train new recruits and fill the source of soldiers.
The second company led 20 speedboats to escort the merchant ships south to Suzhou. After the people from the firm left, Zhao Chongyang stayed in Changzhou for another day, on the one hand, the person in charge here to deal with some things, and on the other hand, to wait for Wang Daping and the seven sons.
The land bought by Wantong in Suzhou is larger than that of Zhenjiang and Changzhou, and the first phase of the project has not yet been fully completed, so when they arrived in Suzhou, they temporarily lived in a farm compound not far from the new wharf.
There are many scenic spots and historic sites in Suzhou, especially Hanshan Temple and Fengqiao, which have been famous for the Tang Dynasty great poet Zhang Ji's poem "Fengqiao Night Park": "The sunset is full of frost, and Jiang Feng fishes and fires to sleep." Hanshan Temple outside the city of Gusu, the bell rings in the middle of the night to the passenger ship. "Therefore, when you arrive in Suzhou, it must be a big pity not to visit Hanshan Temple and Fengqiao. Therefore, the day after they arrived in Suzhou, they went to Hanshan Temple and Fengqiao to have a visit. It's just that Zhang Ji went to play in autumn that year, and the season they go to play now is early summer.
On the third day, several people went to Tiger Hill for a whole day. Tiger Hill is also known as Haiyu Mountain, Situ Wang Xun of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and his brother Sikong Wang Min built villas on both sides of the sword pond, and the house is a temple after the house, named Tiger Hill Temple. The temple is built along the mountain, the mountain is hidden in the temple, there is a temple in the mountain, and it is also a place where there are more tourists in Suzhou. A few people played in the mountains and temples. I also looked at the sword pool, and from above, the entire sword pool looked like a tiled giant sword. This is the place where King Wu buried his bones in the legend, and there are 3,000 swords of Bian Zhu and fish intestines for burial, and it is said that Qin Shi Huang and Sun Quan have come here to dig up the sword......
On the fourth day, several people took 20 bodyguards as escorts and drove four speedboats to swim in Taihu Lake. They first went to the Xishan Yuwang Temple to pay homage to the sage of water control, King Dayu, which is a great hero who has covered Kyushu and is famous in China. Next, a few people roamed in Taihu Lake, having fun, during which everyone inevitably recited poems against each other and showed their talents. Zhao Chongyang was not here, and it was rare to have a good sentence for a while, so he barely wrote a few sentences to suit the situation......
That night, the group continued to return to the farmhouse yard to rest. In the second half of the night, there were bursts of shouting and fighting in the city of Suzhou, and at the same time, some officers and soldiers were heard shouting loudly, but they could not hear what they were shouting. When I woke up the next morning, many neighbors were talking about it: "Taihu Lake Shui Yan attacked the Jiangsu Yingfeng Bureau last night, robbed many rare treasures, strange stones, flowers and plants that were going to be paid tribute to the official family, and fled into the depths of Taihu Lake by boat......
The eight of them spent four days here before taking a boat to Hangzhou. After Zhao Chongyang and the others arrived in Hangzhou, on the one hand, they were playing, and on the other hand, they sent someone to secretly inquire about a middle-aged man named Fang Lafang Thirteen.
Because he knew from the history of another time and space that Fang La had begun to recruit cronies, cultivate dead friends, and develop his followers more than ten years before the Jiangnan Incident. In his early years, there was a sixty-year-old man who called himself Wang Gong Lao Buddha, who wanted to be a Jiang Ziya-style character, claiming to be able to know the future and past events, after he met Fang La, he saw that Fang La was dignified, strong in martial arts, and anxious for justice and righteousness, and there were a group of brothers who dared to go to the soup for him. So the old man surnamed Wang fooled Fang La Fang La, saying that he was extraordinary in appearance and would be unspeakably expensive in the future......
Actually, this person's name is Wang Laoqi, and he turned out to be a fortune teller. When I was a child, I followed a Taoist priest to travel all over the world and learned a good kung fu. He was originally an orphan, and after the death of the Taoist priest, he had nowhere to live, and became a monk for several years. During this time, Maitreya Buddhism was prevalent, and he also entered the religion. Maitreya was originally a branch of Mingjiao (also known as Zoroastrianism) transmitted from Persia, and after it was transmitted to the Central Plains, it was carried forward by some people with ulterior motives, and added countless deceptive magic, attracting countless middle and lower class people to believe in religion, and gradually endangered the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, and was later suppressed by the imperial court.
In this way, Wang Laoqi can only die in the rivers and lakes. During this period, by chance, he became acquainted with Zhang Tianshi, the head of the Heavenly Master Sect. The emperors of the Great Song Dynasty all believed in Taoism, believed in the Taoist art of immortality, and rewarded Taoist priests of all sects. The Orthodox Church, which is said to be able to drink wind and rain and sweep away the plague, is even more favored.
At this time, although Zhang Shundao, the head of the Heavenly Master Sect, was young, because he had followed his father since he was a child, he also had many Taoist supernatural powers and abilities: first, Taoist medical skills were also passed on, otherwise Zhang Shundao would not have been able to eliminate the great plague in Beijing a few years ago with his so-called spells. The second is that the Taoist internal strength is its own school, and it is easy to learn the natural light work, and the eaves and walls are not a problem, giving people the feeling of soaring clouds and fog. The Heavenly Master Sect also has one of its abilities, which is the ability to predict. The general trend of the country, that is, the direction, can generally be predicted in advance. But they think that this is a heavenly opportunity, and they dare not leak it casually, otherwise they are afraid of being sent by heaven. Of course, Taoism's ability to predict is also based on the exploration and practice of countless generations.
In fact, there are many strange people in the world, and the people with this ability are not only the Heavenly Master Sect Master. Like Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Yuan Tiangang predicted that after the death of Taizong and Gaozong, the Wu family would cause trouble to the dynasty and become the empress. And Chen Tuan Ancestor and Song Taizu met for the first time, and when they saw this person's appearance, they pinched their fingers and knew that he would be the emperor of Huaxia in the future, so they lured Taizu to play chess and lost Huashan to him as a place to cultivate the truth.
At this time, Wang Laoqi was almost fifty. People grow old and become fine. When the two met on the way to Beijing, Old Man Wang probed and tried to figure out the ins and outs of Zhang Shundao. Because Wang Laoqi also worked as a Taoist priest when he was young, he was also very clear about some of the insiders and secrets of Taoism, so the two talked very well all the way.
This night, after drinking a meal, the two became New Year's friends who talked about everything. Old man Wang positioned himself as a senior master with advanced Taoism, pretending to be a teacher, and asked Zhang Shundao if he knew about the future world events? Zhang Shundao also had seven or eight points of alcohol at this time, so he told him frankly that according to Zhang Shundao's father's deduction of celestial phenomena before the Heavenly Master Immortal left, the Great Song Dynasty would face great chaos in a few years. The first trouble will come from the north. The second is Jiangnan, but it is possible that Jiangnan will be in chaos first. After the chaos, the emperor's aura shone on Hangzhou.
Wang Laoqi was convinced of Zhang Shundao's words, and after leaving the capital, he kept thinking back to Zhang Shundao's words, trying to find a reasonable explanation: "The primary disaster came from the north, which may refer to the Great Liao going south to the Central Plains (because although the Jin State had begun to rise at that time, no one was aware of his threat) After the chaos, the emperor's anger was in Hangzhou, that is, the Great Liao went south to destroy the Great Song Dynasty. Then some people in the south raised troops to block the Liao people from going south, established a new dynasty, and set up the capital of Hangzhou. Right! It must be the case, the Hangzhou generation wants to produce a true son of heaven to replace the Zhao family to lead Huaxia.
So, he spent three years in Jiangnan to investigate and secretly visit, of course, focusing on Hangzhou and nearby Fuzhou County, and finally visited Fangla. When he saw Fang La, he looked at Fang La by the standard of his physiognomy: extraordinary appearance, sober mind, strong martial arts, and connections. There is a state of brothers under him who regard him as the eldest brother, has leadership skills, is tall and mighty, and can barely be regarded as a king. Other than that, he really didn't find a suitable lord. What's more, Fang La was surrounded by young heroes such as Shi Bao, Wang Yan, and Pang Wanchun at that time, although they had not formally established the state council at that time, it was estimated that it would be sooner or later.
Wang Laoqi came at the right time, he was a monk who returned to the world, boasted to people that he was proficient in Buddhism and Taoism, when he watched the sky at night, he saw that Muzhou had a king's spirit, so he found here, and finally found Fang La, and was willing to serve Fang La as the main prince and plan great things together. Wang Laoqi used the tricks of pretending to be gods and ghosts in Maitreya and Taoism to brainwash people, and soon won the trust of Fang La and Yibang's followers. So a demon sect with Fang La as the leader, Wang Gong Lao Buddha as the missionary elder, and Wang Yan, Shi Bao and others as the protectors of the Dharma was born.
Zhao Chongyang thought that if Fang La's gang were found now, they would only be a year or two after they established the Demon Sect, and their foundation was far from being deep, so they lured them to join the Wantong Chamber of Commerce with high profits. After they tasted the sweetness of making a lot of money, they slowly gave up the original intention of raising troops and rebellions, so that they could also retain a little more vitality for the Great Song Dynasty, so that they could have the strength to deal with the threat of annihilation brought by the Jin State to the Central Plains.