After Wang Zhong left, Manichaeism kept its promise, no longer incited the people to rebel, and devoted itself to developing religious affairs, stabilizing the power in Jiangnan, and preaching to the people.

The teachings of Manichaeism lie in helping the poor and helping the poor, although it is not inciting the people, but it has not stopped spreading the teachings among the people in Jiangnan.

Fang La took out the grain and grass that was originally prepared for the rebellion, relieved the people, developed believers, and prevented the beggars from being in front of the United States.

Under the spontaneous disaster relief of the beggars and Manichaeism, the land south of the Yangtze River gradually stabilized, and after the imperial court learned about it, Song Huizong felt that the beggars had been escorted, and specially issued a decree to praise, and personally wrote "the world's largest gang" to show his honor.

As for Manichaeism, Zhao Ji selectively forgot, if it weren't for the fact that Manichaeism was powerful in the south of the Yangtze River, just the assassination of the four Dharma kings, Zhao Ji wanted to send troops to exterminate Manichaeism, but unfortunately now the court is empty, and Manichaeism will be a man again, and it will gain a lot of popularity for disaster relief, so that Zhao Ji does not dare to move lightly.

As for asking the imperial court to reward the Manichaean disaster relief, don't even think about it!

Through the disaster relief, Manichaeism did not suffer too much, not only in the Jiangnan folk reputation is extremely high, but also developed more than 100,000 believers, although there is no rebellion, its influence has increased a lot invisibly.

The most beneficial is naturally the beggar gang, from the original reckless gang, to become the official certification of the Great Song Dynasty "the world's largest gang", the reputation of the world's major factions.

Of course, the beggar gang also paid a lot of price, at least nearly 30 million yuan for disaster relief, and almost all the money Wang Zhong earned in the eight years he was in charge of the beggar gang.

In the eyes of many Jianghu sects, the beggar gang's move was completely thankless, and they gave up so much money that they finally got a plaque of "the largest gang in the world", and they lost a lot of money.

But Wang Zhong was happy to do so, because only he knew how much he had gained.

First, through disaster relief, the name of the beggar gang was completely spread to the south, and after obtaining some of the power left in the south by the Murong family, the influence of the beggar gang in Jiangnan was no less than that of Manichaeism.

Second, Zhao Ji's plaque seems to be useless, but in fact, the benefits in it are great, because with this plaque, the business of the beggars will be greenlit all the way to the court in the future, and there will be no more corrupt officials who do not have long eyes and take the initiative to provoke the beggars.

Third, because there were too many victims in the south of the Yangtze River, the beggar gang took advantage of the situation to absorb a lot of gangs, which made the number of members of the beggar gang increase dramatically.

Fourth, the chivalrous reputation of the beggar gang in the rivers and lakes is even more prosperous, almost overwhelming Shaolin, and the heroes from all over the world come to vote, and the beggar gang has doubled its masters for a while.

Fifth, through disaster relief, the Dirty Clothes Faction and the Pure Clothes Faction within the Beggar Gang were completely eased, especially those who were dirty Clothes Faction, seeing that the Pure Clothes Faction took out the money they had earned over the years to relieve the disaster, they were all full of admiration, and no matter how stubborn people were, they no longer opposed Wang Zhong's reform of the Beggar Gang, so to speak, Wang Zhong's prestige in the Beggar Gang reached a record high, and he almost made a promise.

There are so many benefits, but giving up some money, Wang Zhong is naturally willing to do it, he has never been a miser.

Song Huizong wished that there would be more people like Wang Zhong, who were loyal to the imperial court, did not remember the loss, and could still give up their wealth at critical moments.

In Zhao Ji's view, the beggar gang has a meritorious role in rescuing the driver, and he naturally has his heart to the court, and he is the gang that supports him, but he doesn't know that the person Wang Zhong wants to kill most now is him, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

Yes, Wang Zhong has no good impression of Zhao Ji, the emperor, this outright faint monarch, who has governed the country into the current ghost, and more than ten years later, he has also urged the "shame of Jingkang", Wang Zhong can't wait to cut him with a thousand knives.

The reason why Wang Zhong has been helping Zhao Ji clean up the mess is just because now is not the best time to kill Zhao Ji.

Now the Great Song Dynasty is surrounded by strong enemies, internal natural disasters are continuous, rebellions are endless, once Zhao Ji is killed, the court must be in chaos, the people are not happy, and the unlucky ones are still the Han people.

Although Wang Zhong is not a good person, he still has a bit of national integrity, and he never wants the Central Plains to be ruled by foreigners, and he has no opinion on who will be the emperor.

Yes, Wang Zhong also wanted to rebel, but not now, he knew that now was not the best time to rebel, and he also understood that acting hastily could not succeed, at this time the national fortunes of the Great Song Dynasty had not yet exhausted, and the chances of success of the rebellion were not great.

Historically, the reason why the Liangshan Uprising and the Fangla Uprising ended in failure was because the land annexation of the Great Song Dynasty was not serious, and the people were not completely disappointed in the imperial court.

Over the years, the Central Plains has suffered from two things, one is the northern nomads, and the other is the internal land annexation.

Needless to say, the northern nomads have been the confidants of the Central Plains for thousands of years, and they have never been eliminated by the Central Plains Dynasty.

In the final analysis, this is a natural collision between the agricultural civilization of the Central Plains and the nomadic civilization of the north, and it is an unsolvable problem caused by the geographical environment.

The land of the Central Plains is rich and can develop agricultural civilization, so that the Central Plains is inherited in an orderly manner, but the land in the north is poor and cannot grow crops in a large area, and the northerners can only develop nomads in order to survive.

The limitations of the nomads are too great, it can almost be said that they rely on the sky to eat, if they encounter a catastrophe year, there is no way to survive can only choose to invade the Central Plains, seeking to survive, so that the collision of the two civilizations will never stop, unless the two civilizations are no longer limited by the natural environment, there will never be famine, otherwise this situation will not change even if it lasts for thousands of years.

The nomads belong to the external enemy, and the trouble of the Central Plains lies in the internal trouble, that is, the land.

The development of agricultural civilization is inseparable from the land, the land grows crops and grain, and the grain lives for the people, so it can be said that the land is the foundation of the agricultural civilization.

However, since the establishment of the dynasty, the unfair distribution of social resources has appeared, with the powerful getting more land and the common people getting less land.

The powerful account for less than 10% of the country's population, but they occupy 90% of the land resources, while the common people are the opposite.

What is even more terrifying is the inferior nature of people, even if the powerful still want to get more after getting ninety percent of the land resources, they can only choose to use various means to encroach on the people's land, that is, land annexation.

When the people no longer have land in their hands, there is no way to live, and there is only one way left, that is, rebellion and redistribution of land resources.

The establishment of successive dynasties mostly relied on peasant uprisings to achieve the redistribution of social resources, the old group of magnates were killed, the land and property were taken out, and the new group of magnates were obtained, and between the old and the new, the people became the new magnates and got the coveted land.

At the beginning of the establishment of each dynasty, the first thing that the founding emperor needed to do was to redistribute land resources, so that the people had land and a way to live.

The reason why the people have a way to live is not because the court is merciful, but because of the successive wars, the population of the people has decreased sharply, and the land resources have increased.

In essence, the establishment of each prosperous dynasty is the death of hundreds of people, resulting in more land and less population, that is, more monks and less porridge, and enough land to divide, so naturally there will be no more chaos.

In essence, the first premise of the decline of a dynasty is the explosion of the population, and there are not enough land resources to support the people.

Now that the Great Song Dynasty has not reached the time of population explosion, although the people are living in hardship, most of them can still survive, and they have no will to rebel.

Reluctantly rebelled, but also easy to be extinguished by the imperial court, according to history, more than ten years later, the difficulty of Jingkang broke out, the reason why the Great Song Dynasty was able to quickly stabilize half of the country, is also because the people have land in their hands, worried that after being ruled by foreign tribes, the way of life in their hands will be taken away, so they support the Northern Expedition of the imperial court.

The Ming Dynasty in later generations did not have that kind of good luck, after being driven to the south by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Southern Ming Dynasty was quickly wiped out, that is, it did not recognize the essence, the land annexation did not end, and the people had no way to live, so it was better to support the Manchu rule and seek a glimmer of life.

Today's Northern Song Dynasty, because of the developed commerce, the magnates do not take land very seriously, and the land annexation has not reached the last moment, so the prestige of the imperial court is still there, and rash rebellion is only defeated.

However, Wang Zhong also had the means not to rebel and overthrow the Great Song Dynasty.

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