From the crossing point to Tian Er's house, overcoming obstacles along the way, the father and son spent a total of ten days.

Now I went to the main battleship of the bandits, and I found the tributary that afternoon. After resting on the shore for the night, at about nine o'clock in the morning the next day, Zhu Ming suddenly ordered the ship to dock.

Based on the shape of the peaks on both banks, he was already a little impressed.

Zhang Guangdao led people to get off the boat, and he didn't know what he was going to do at all.

In more than three months, the weeds have regrown. Zhu Ming drew his sword and slashed for a while, and it took about twenty minutes before he finally saw three piles of stones.

It was the mark left by the father and son, and on the cliff directly above the stone was the BMW that Dean Zhu had newly bought.

Zhu Ming looked up and couldn't see the car at all, maybe the newly grown leaves and vines completely blocked the body.

"The night before, I had a dream."

Zhu Ming put the sword back into the sheath, and the god chattered: "One day, the king, I asked me to say that he left a treasure armor in the world. When I woke up from the dream, I was suspicious, so I took you and others to look for one or two. ”

When these words were spoken, everyone looked at each other.

"Bai Sheng!" Zhu Ming shouted.

"I'm here." Bai Sheng hurriedly stepped forward.

Zhu Ming instructed: "You lead the three people, stay here, and I will use a rope to drop the armor." There is something else besides the armor. If you find something falling, untie the rope when you receive it. ”

"Good...... Good! Bai Sheng felt that Brother Zhu was in a daze.

"The rest of you, come with me on a boat." Zhu Ming said.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the boat sailed to a river bay. Zhu Ming quickly recognized that this was the place where he threw the branch to determine the direction of the river.

Take out the dry food, rest on the shore, and leave again tomorrow.

The bonfire is lit and the sun sets.

Zhang Guangdao leaned over to Zhu Ming's side and asked in a low voice, "Brother Zhu, is there really something on the mountain?" ”

Zhu Ming nodded and said, "Maybe." ”

Zhang Guangdao didn't believe in the dream of the king, and he guessed in his heart that most of them were the treasures hidden by the father and son in the mountains.

There were a lot of mosquitoes, so everyone found some mugwort and threw them on the fire to cover the smoke to repel mosquitoes.

Took turns keeping vigil and slept all night.

When he woke up in the morning and continued to hurry, Zhu Ming opened the way in front with a sword, and Tian Er, Tian San, and Lu Wang held firewood knives and chopped thorns with him. Zhang Guangdao followed with a large bundle of ropes on his back, and more than a dozen people behind him were holding shuttle darts.

Two of them were still holding gongs, and when they met a tiger, they rang it, and the tiger was probably scared away.

Nearly twenty people joined forces, and the speed of going up the mountain was much faster.

In the afternoon, the mountain was already extremely steep, and Zhu Ming estimated the direction to go east.

"Hey, what is this?" When Tian Er was chopping a tree branch, he saw a white thing with some patterns and words printed on it.

Zhu Ming's face was happy.

It was a plastic bag for snacks that the father and son tied to a tree as they left the cliff section to mark it.

"You guys stay here, Third Brother Zhang will come with me...... Forget it, it's getting late, I'll go tomorrow. ”

It was not late, it was just after three o'clock in the afternoon.

But at this time, I went to take the armor, and it was estimated that it was dark when I met the car.

After another night's rest, there were tigers in the middle of the night, and they were frightened by the sound of a gong and fled in panic.

Morning.

Zhang Guangdao followed Zhu Ming, climbed the cliff and walked sideways. He became more and more confused in his heart, the treasure land of the Zhu family's father and son was inevitably too cautious.

Moreover, how did you transport the treasure?

Zhu Ming was familiar with the road, climbed for a while, and jumped to the raised stone platform. He once soaked urine here, and even encountered a king snake, and even saw melon seed shells on the moss of the stone platform.

"Take a break." Zhu Ming sat down to rest.

Zhang Guangdao couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and asked again: "Is there really a treasure armor?" ”

"Yes!" Zhu Ming nodded and said.

Zhang Guangdao asked again: "Brother Zhu plans to rebel?" ”

Zhu Ming smiled: "This can't be nonsense. ”

Zhang Guangdao was very active: "If Brother Zhu rebels, I will definitely follow, and I will be the first to rush into the county government and kill the bird official!" ”

"Why do you have to rebel?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhang Guangdao's thoughts are extremely simple: "The government is full of bird officials, and the city of Tokyo is also the bird emperor." In the past, I wanted to rebel, but I wanted Brother Yao to be the emperor. Brother Yao is dead, and Brother Zhu is also benevolent. If Brother Zhu becomes the emperor, the life of the common people will definitely be better. ”

Zhu Ming asked: "If you are given thousands of acres of land and made you a rich and big landlord, do you still want to rebel?" ”

Zhang Guangdao sneered: "My ancestor is also a landlord, what can I do when I encounter corrupt officials?" ”

Zhu Ming was silent and pondered.

The specific situation of the Northern Song Dynasty seems to be different from what he imagined.

The biggest contradiction here is not the contradiction between man and land, but the contradiction between the government and the people. The government exploited too much, resulting in large areas of wasteland along the river being uncultivated. The peasants at the bottom also had to rely on or rely on the big landlords in order to barely resist the exploitation of the government.

In many cases, although the big landlords also exploited the small people, they played another role: the protector of the peasants!

Customers and small people, based on the village, defend one or several large landowners. The big landlords took advantage of this power to fight with the government and try to escape taxes and exorbitant taxes, controlling the peasants while protecting them. In addition, when resisting natural disasters, it is also like this to huddle together for warmth.

A...... Very peculiar rural political ecology.

Of course, there is no shortage of inferior gentry outside the little white staff, which really squeezes the peasants to death.

The specific situation is more complicated than Zhu Ming imagined.

For example, Kuizhou Road, and even the widespread feudal slave estate system. A manor owner, raising dozens or hundreds of private soldiers, controlled the cultivation of a large number of serfs. There is also an agreement between each other that my serfs have fled to you, and you should send them back.

In the face of the government, the big landlords are also an exploited class.

To give a simple example, after Zhao Gou gained a foothold in the south, the first thing he did was not to regain the lost territory, but to ...... Occupy the field!

The emperors, concubines, clan relatives, and magnates who fled south forcibly occupied the land of large landlords in the south in the form of almost horse racing. The land occupied by the royal family is called Yuzhuang, which has been extending from the vicinity of Hangzhou to the Taihu polder area, and even to Anhui.

Even the land of Wang Anshi's family was occupied by the royal family.

Wang Anshi's descendants owned a large amount of land in Xuancheng and Wuhu, all of which were "bought" by eunuchs sent by the emperor. The name of the eunuch, recorded in the history books, was Chu Yi.

For the landlords of Jiangnan, Zhao Gou is not an emperor, but the No. 1 bandit in Tianzi!

Every time there was a war, they frantically expropriated, bought, and bought money, and forced the landlords into bankruptcy. Then, the royal family and magnates took the opportunity to buy land and frantically expanded their own land area.

What Northern Expedition?

What reconquista?

When the landlord in Jiangnan heard these two words, he was so frightened that he couldn't sleep. The Jin soldiers have not been destroyed by the imperial court, and they will be killed by the imperial court first!

And the landlords who were far away from the Jiangnan area and encountered Jin soldiers and bandits also had a hard time. For example, Lu You's father-in-law Tang Zhongjun, a figure who raised his family to resist gold, and his grandfather also served as a deputy prime minister, but he starved to death in his hometown in Hubei.

"Let's go, the rebellion will be talked about later." Zhu Ming got up and said.

Zhang Guangdao followed Zhu Ming and continued to climb, and he was tired enough with his physical strength.

Suddenly, I saw Zhu Ming split the vines with a sword, revealing something strange - the headlights of a BMW.

Swinging the sword continuously, splitting the vines and leaves, Zhang Guangdao's mouth opened wider and wider: That monster can actually move on its own!

Well, sensing the car key, the mirrors turn on automatically.

It seems that the battery still has power.

Zhu Ming pulled the car door and got in, turned around and shouted, "Take the rope!" ”

Zhang Guangdao was still in a state of shock, and subconsciously handed the rope forward.

Zhu Ming chose a slightly thicker branch, threw one end of the rope, and tried twice before succeeding. Then he leaned out, pulled the rope back with his scabbard, and used the branch as a pulley.

Tianwang Jia was packed in a cardboard box, Zhu Ming tied it with a rope, and said to Zhang Guangdao: "Pull the rope steadily, it weighs dozens of catties!" ”

Zhang Guangdao finally came back to his senses, grabbed the rope tightly, stepped on the cliff wall with one foot, and kicked the tree trunk in front of him with the other.

Zhu Ming pushed the carton out of the carriage and fell down suddenly, and the pull force was too great in an instant, almost pulling Zhang Guangdao out of the cliff.

Zhu Ming quickly went over to help, and the two of them pulled the rope together, lowering the armor little by little.

"Second Brother Bai, something has come down!"

Under the cliff, Bai Sheng looked up, and sure enough, something black fell.

Then, stuck in the branch did not move.

It was still more than ten meters high from the ground, and Bai Sheng didn't stupidly climb up. He picked up the axe, climbed only two or three meters, and then picked up the axe and began to cut down the tree.

As the tree fell, the cardboard box containing the armor continued to fall.

Falling to the point where there were still four or five meters left, the rope was not enough. Too short.

Bai Sheng had people cut down branches and tie them to the shuttle darts to make hooks. Then he climbed up, hooked the box over, pulled the slipknot open, and the armor fell to the ground with a thud.

Zhu Ming and Zhang Guangdao above felt that there was no pull, so they withdrew the rope.

After a while, another mess descended.

Bai Sheng didn't go to open the carton, but picked up a rectangular carton, and there was transparent paper of unknown material on the carton. He also knew a few words, and carefully recognized them: "China...... Smoking is harmful to health......"

Picked up another long box: "Kweichow Moutai ......"

What the heck?

Staying here, Bai Sheng waited for a day and a night, and Zhu Ming finally brought someone back.

It is impossible to dismantle the car, and it is difficult enough to get the king armor down.

Seeing that everyone was curious, Zhu Ming didn't hide it.

The scotch tape on the carton had been torn before it was crossed. Zhu Mingmali opened it and first took out the helmet of the Heavenly King Armor.

"Really...... What a treasure armor! Bai Sheng was trembling when he spoke.

Zhang Guangdao was surprised and delighted, he thought that Zhu Ming had already prepared, and the secret treasure armor must be for the purpose of rebellion.

One by one, the parts were taken out, perhaps protected by cardboard boxes, the cardboard absorbed the moisture in the air, and the whole set of Tianwang armor was as bright as new.

Zhu Ming fell into thinking, his and his father's physique became stronger, and the sword was also sharp and tough. So, will the set of Heavenly King Armor in front of you, as well as corn and sweet potato seeds, also mutate?

"Brother Zhu!"

"Village Chief!"

Zhu Ming heard the shout and instantly came back to his senses.

He took off his shoes and put on his combat boots and shin armor, then his armor until he fastened his belt and put on his helmet.

Standing in front of everyone, it is not like a general who leads the army to kill the enemy, but a heavenly king!

Truly practical armor would not have such a stylish shoulder armor and belt - the shoulder armor is two animal heads, and there is a ghost face in the middle of the belt. Even in modern times, it is very visually impactful, let alone in ancient times.

There is a temple on the mountain in the eastern suburbs of the county, Tian San has been there, and he has seen what the king of heaven looks like. His knees weakened, and he knelt down and shouted: "The king of heaven is above, I will kowtow to the king of heaven!" ”

"Brother Zhu is the king of heaven!" Bai Sheng also knelt down.

The title of Heavenly King was originally Taoist. For example, Pangu, known as the Yuan Shi Tianwang, finally evolved into the Yuan Shi Tianzun.

Later, Buddhism was introduced, and the Heavenly King was also used in translation.

By the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, the four heavenly kings had no distinction between Buddhism and Taoism, and were both Buddhist protectors and Taoist kings.

Qi Shushu knelt on the ground, Zhang Guangdao grinned, and he also knelt down: "If Zhu Tianwang goes to Tokyo, I will be a pioneer general!" ”

(End of chapter)