Uncle Zhang and the two of them had been on a long journey before they arrived at the tea shed, and when they arrived in this town, they were sleepy and tired, and seeing that it was getting late, they decided to rest here for the night.

The three of them found a hostel to stay in, went up to the second floor, and gathered in a room to wait for dinner.

Li Chaoyang went out for a short while, and after he came back, it didn't take long for dinner to be delivered, but there were still a few pieces of paper sandwiched in the dinner tray.

Su Hanshan glanced at it and found that the words were vague, and in the words of ordinary greetings, it seemed that poetic idioms were being used indiscriminately, and the meaning was unclear, and he already understood in his heart that most of them were some kind of specific code words.

He now knew that Li Chaoyang was from Fuyao Mountain, and Fuyao Mountain was one of the two largest gangs in the Southern Song Dynasty today, with manpower all over the country, operating tea, silk, medicinal herbs, orchards, and maritime business, connecting martial arts, business roads, and folk villages, and was well-informed.

Su Hanshan originally thought that Li Chaoyang must have exaggerated when he talked about his own gang, and it would be too much to believe five points.

But when Li Chaoyang first arrived in this town, he was obviously not very familiar with this place, and he had to ask someone to find the hostel.

This method made Su Hanshan can't help but look sideways.

"You probably don't know the origin of Fuyao Mountain."

Zhang Bo said with a smile, "Fuyao Mountain was originally not a gang, but a academy opened by a minister during the reign of Huizong and Gaozong. ”

"The minister's name is Li Chunnian, he cherishes his family and country, during the period of Emperor Huizong, he saw that the world was eroding, the Liao State was about to be destroyed, and the Jin State was powerful, so he proposed reform to Huizong in order to support the people and strengthen the country, but Huizong ignored it."

"When it came to Emperor Gaozong, he was finally reused, implementing the meridian boundary law in various places, re-measuring the land, finding out the hidden fields and hidden households of those officials and gentry and wealthy families, and putting the taxes that should have fallen on their heads but were passed on by them to the ordinary people, and put them back on track."

"At the beginning of the imperial court, he used a few places to let him try it out, and when he saw that it was really effective, he strongly supported him, so that he was able to send people to make fish scale maps in various places, the big ones are mountains and rivers, and the small ones are Toda houses, which are wide and narrow, and they are all depicted one by one, so that they are connected to the east and west, and the north and south are photographed, each has its own reality, and then it is combined into a map of a capital, and a map of a county."

"In this way, the peasants, whose fields have long been encroached upon and cannot afford to pay taxes, have finally been able to put things right."

Su Hanshan was surprised and said, "Gaozong, Zhao Gou? Can such a thing be done at that time? ”

Li Chaoyang was interpreting the code words, and when he heard him call Zhao Gou, he couldn't help but look up at him.

Zhang Bo laughed: "Yes, so after doing this for a few years, Li Chunnian noticed that some people continued to occupy the land, distorted the law, and used the old map to no longer conform to reality, and there were even people who wanted to directly tamper with the local map." ”

So he proposed to send someone down to check it out, and then ...... He was belittled by Gao, Heh, Zhao Gou and Qin Hui. ”

Zhang Bo snorted lightly, "After Qin Hui died, he was activated again and was quickly demoted, but among his heirs, there were truly shrewd people. ”

"Relying on the benefits brought to the people everywhere by the initial practice of the Jingjie Law, and the relationships left in various places, his descendants gradually turned Chunnian Academy into Fuyao Mountain, from the head of the academy to the mountain master of Fuyao Mountain."

"When Fuyao Mountain was passed to Li Qiumian, firstly, his own talent was extremely high, and secondly, he caught up with the situation that had been quite good for more than ten years, so the strength he developed was far greater than that of his predecessors."

When Uncle Zhang said this, he took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said with a smile, "When Li Chaoyang introduced it to you, the part about his own family was the part that could best guarantee the truth, and the other parts, although they could not be extremely detailed because of the limited information they had, there were not too many exaggerated words. ”

Su Hanshan frowned slightly, and said, "If that's the case, the martial arts force of the Southern Song Dynasty is too huge." ”

Although Fuyao Mountain is one of the two largest gangs, there is also a more arrogant Kuanggutang existence.

In addition, there are also the forty-two dart game alliances mentioned by Li Chaoyang, the sixteen strange factions in Lingnan, the seven major sects in Sichuan and Shu, the fourteen villages in Xiangjiang, many gangs in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, etc., which are really too numerous to mention.

If the number of these gangs is not too exaggerated, then, if the people in the martial arts have the mind, they can pull up more than a dozen powerful rebel armies at any time.

How did the Southern Song Dynasty court maintain it, didn't you think about controlling, suppressing, and soliciting at all in the early days?

"There are two main reasons for the huge strength of martial arts."

Although Uncle Zhang lived in seclusion for some years, he had a transcendent status in the martial arts back then, had a wide range of knowledge, and treasured these things.

"First, it is because the Mongol iron cavalry is conquering everywhere, and many khanates are constantly fighting, for example, in the years after the fall of the Jin State, most of the territory of the Jin State was destroyed, and ordinary people could not afford to go away."

"But anyone in the martial arts who can achieve a scale will not like a place that is too turbulent, many forces have tried to go south, and if they change their names at will, they will become the sect of the Great Song Dynasty."

"There are even people from other small countries, in order to escape the war, from the sea, waterway, etc., poured into the south, some stayed in the Great Song Dynasty, and some went to Dali, that is, the country of Annan is full of miasma, and the jungle is too dense, otherwise I am afraid that there will be a large number of people who will move there directly."

"The second reason is mainly martial arts."

"More than a hundred years ago, even the so-called grandmaster-level figures in the world, if they didn't want to escape, they were alone on the battlefield, and the elite soldiers who fought two or three hundred swords, shields, guns and crossbows in a row would inevitably be seriously injured, or even killed on the spot."

"But in the past hundred and ten years, as the reborn way of martial arts has been explored, only those who have crossed that boundary can be called the grandmaster realm."

"The deeds of the strong grandmaster who chiseled through the military formation with the strength of one enemy and a thousand have been in all countries, and it has been more than once."

"The status of people who practice martial arts has been greatly raised, and there are naturally too many people in the world who are willing to practice martial arts and insist on practicing martial arts, and even if the imperial court really wants to control it, it is too difficult."

Su Hanshan came back to his senses.

Because he was in the Southern Song Dynasty, he still subconsciously connected this world with the situation in his previous life.

But in fact, the world is in the early stages of a transition to the Great Chu Dynasty.

Even with the strength of the high-level combat power of the Great Chu Dynasty, in addition to successfully expelling the top sects such as the West Pole Buzhou Palace when the country was founded, in the face of those martial arts holy lands, it was just a tacit understanding to reward them with territory and ignore them.

However, on the side of the Great Chu Dynasty, the territory is really vast, and it can be maintained without interfering with each other after the reward.

And now on the side of the Southern Song Dynasty, the martial artists are just in a kind of embryonic period when they have not been able to ignore ordinary soldiers, but their status has been involved in the upper echelons.

As a result, there was a situation where so many people fled from the Mongol army and gathered in the south, which led to more frequent fights between them.

"Alright."

Li Chaoyang had already solved all the code words at this time, put down the charcoal, picked up the few pieces of paper that he had scribbled, his face was very solemn, and said, "Our trouble is far greater than expected, not just people from the cold and netherworld family. ”

"Huh?"

Su Hanshan and Uncle Zhang stopped talking and listened carefully.

"The news that I found the old man, as well as our course of action, has been leaked out, and most of the people secretly sent by the mountain master to receive it have been intercepted and blocked by Kuang Gu Tang."

Li Chaoyang's expression was ugly, and he explained, "They are located here to go to the thirteen halls on the main roads of Lin'an Mansion, and there are already several halls of people dispatched. ”

"As soon as these people moved, the forces of the surrounding martial arts factions, like sea sharks smelling blood, also moved!"