In the sixth year of Zhongping, the state officials from all over the country entered Beijing to worship the emperor according to the routine, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty gathered together to congratulate the New Year for the Han Emperor Liu Hong. At that time, it can be said that Tianjie was full of ministers, and the eyes were all vermilion, which was better than in previous years.

After being forcibly reborn by the Qi Refiner of Zhongnan Mountain, Emperor Liu Hong's body improved greatly, after all, he walked between life and death, and his mentality changed slightly, and he seemed to be thinking about his posthumous name, and he was ready to cheer up and do a career.

However, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the power was delegated to the localities, and the princes of various states and pastors had become de facto separation, and the Han Emperor slightly revealed his intention to take power, and was immediately resisted and even confronted by the ministers tacitly.

Seeing the raging feelings, Liu Hong was indignant in his heart, but he had to retreat and laugh with a word. At this point, the pattern of the imperial court was roughly formed, the monarch's power was weak, the power of the ministers rose sharply, and there was a tendency to connect with each other, which was almost uncontrollable.

Ye Zhiqiu looked at this situation coldly: "Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty is still here, and the chaotic ministers and thieves can't make big waves, but the weak lord and the strong minister are always a big trouble. Although decentralization of power can quickly quell rebellions in various places, it is really deplorable that the pattern of warlords separating and forming feudal towns has always been a way to quench thirst. ”

After the New Year's Festival, this group of "loyal ministers" immediately left Beijing, just like the spring python woke up, the tiger and leopard came out, the dragon qi became weaker and weaker, coiled up and chose to hibernate and wait, the power of the law was loosened more and more, and the clamp on the qi refiner was also less heavy.

Not only the disciples of the Xuanmen Orthodox Great Sect came out to walk around, but even the monks of the left side of the sect, the three mountains and five mountains, and the Taoists of the overseas Penglai Islands also walked in Kyushu in the Central Plains, waiting for an opportunity to select the "Ming Lord", trying to further consolidate the pattern of the government and the opposition.

Liu Bei, the Duke of Xuande who entered Beijing, became a member of the clan, and the amount of weapons became greater, but the actual control scope of the Han court was further reduced, which was already an indisputable fact, and people with long-term vision returned to the local area to seize power and prepare for the coming troubled times.

Ye Zhiqiu estimated that Liu Bei at this time probably did not have the ambition to encompass the world, but the idea of reviving the imperial court and recreating the prosperous era of the Han Dynasty was the majority.

It's a pity that in today's capital Luoyang, the power of the gate valve family is intertwined, Liu Bei wants to come out to do some small work, collect the displaced people for work relief, but they are all criticized and have to die halfway, which shows that in order to fight for power, Wenchen's discipline is worse than the prostitutes of generations of happy households.

The left and right are all elbows, and they will be impeached if they move slightly, Liu Bei's mind is not in Luoyang so far, and within a few days, he is ready to lead his subordinates out of Beijing and return to Qing'an County, Zhuo County, his own territory.

On the night before leaving, Ye Zhiqiu had a long talk with "Xuande Gong" Bing Candle, analyzed the situation with a heart-to-heart and lungs, exhausted the "foreknowledge" in his memory, and finally persuaded Liu Bei that he was entrusted with a heavy task and stayed in the capital Luoyang, which was a cold move.

Ye Zhiqiu, who was alone, watched the team leave in the hustle and bustle of smoke and dust, and waved his hand until he could no longer see the horsetail dancing in the wind and could not hear the rolling sound of the sparkling wheels.

He turned around and looked at the twenty armor soldiers left by Liu Bei, the Duke of Xuande, all of whom were specially selected loyal people, with the meaning of assisting from the side, and also the meaning of supervision and even surveillance, after all, Ye Zhiqiu was a scattered qi refiner who got on the bus halfway, and his loyalty had not been tested.

Ye Zhiqiu didn't care, without the assistance of these people, the next thing would become tricky. He obtained the inheritance of the five poisonous Dao veins, not only became attached to the ancient beasts of the Dao veins, but also learned the refining method of the Dao soldiers, so he prepared to use the village where the Liu Jiajun was stationed as a base to collect elite strong men among the homeless people and train them into an army in the shortest possible time.

There are a lot of displaced people outside Luoyang City, all of them are poor people who have to leave their hometowns due to disasters and famines, soldiers and bandits, and they always think of the best place in the capital, and the Son of Heaven will definitely not abandon the people during his reign, so they spontaneously form large and small settlements on the outskirts of the city, ranging from hundreds of thousands of people to tens of thousands, at least 100,000 people.

For such a large number of displaced people, it is impossible for the official to not give them relief, but the opening of the warehouse and the release of grain will not let the displaced people be fed, and two meals of vegetable porridge a day barely hang their lives. Even so, under the pressure of hunger and cold, there are people who freeze to death every day, so in order to find a way to live, there are naturally smart people who fend for themselves. The displaced people get up in the morning to work in the city, and leave the city at dusk with food and meager salaries, and come together with the grass market that spontaneously forms on the outskirts of the city, thus integrating new industries.

Ye Zhiqiu cut in at this time, he wandered around the camp of various homeless camps, followed by twenty soldiers in iron armor, and everywhere he passed, everyone looked sideways, and they all took the road to avoid and give way.

The environment of the homeless camp is bad, not only the sewage is cross-flowing, but the corpses that are too late to be disposed of also live side by side with people, Ye Zhiqiu relies on the "five poisonous beads" in his body, not only can absorb and remove the residual poison in the body, but also can pull out the plague miasma on others, and start to choose people by himself.

Ye Zhiqiu knew how to look at qi roughly, and when he saw that a person's qualifications were met, he stretched out his finger and tapped it, and the armor soldier behind him immediately stepped forward to ask. Most people didn't know why, but they didn't dare to confront the armor, and watched their neighbors and friends being taken away, and chose to endure in silence.

"People have no permanent birth, no perseverance, and no family is uncertain. Since you have joined our army, you will take away even the women of your family, lest you be restless and sneak away in the middle of the night to become deserters. ”

Ye Zhiqiu knew that the homeless people were determined, so after performing like this, the news suddenly spread, and soon spread through word of mouth, throughout the entire homeless camp. It didn't take long for the originally sparsely populated camp to become crowded.

It's a pity that Ye Zhiqiu only selects people according to his own criteria, they are all brave people who are contaminated with miasma and have poor health, and those who are strong and strong are not treated by him.

This strange selection criterion made the displaced people completely confused, but they could not stop it, and watched as the "military candidates" selected more than 100 people, and by the way, more than 700 dependents were taken away, and they panicked to get out of the way, and watched the group leave.

On the way, some people fell to the ground due to physical exhaustion, and their family members reached out to help them up, forcibly squeezing their physical strength, and only then did they sit on the ground and remain motionless until they reached their destination.

When Liu Bei, the Duke of Xuande, left Beijing, the three hundred gold left for Ye Zhiqiu was immediately used as start-up capital. The sense of belonging of the same Han people, and for the sake of money, the dilapidated village accepted all the displaced people, boiled porridge and soup, and the village regained its lively popularity in a blink of an eye.

Ye Zhiqiu relied on the "Five Poison Beads" in his body, and began to do it on the road, brushing the bodies of all the homeless people to ensure that he would not carry the plague miasma. After entering the village, he asked the homeless people to bathe in warm water, thoroughly clean their bodies inside and out, and change all their clothes, and then gave a banquet at Liu Jiajun's station.

Looking at the homeless people who dragged their families and their families, sitting in the open space of the military camp in one place, Ye Zhiqiu slowly got up and replaced the wine with tea: "From today onwards, your lives will be sold to me." ”

The displaced people, who were still a little apprehensive, were relieved when they heard the words of the "military waiter", and they regained hope for the future, and they all got up, bowed their heads and expressed their loyalty.

Ye Zhiqiu drank hot tea and motioned for everyone to sit down, but no one dared to move, he could only sit down cross-legged first, move the chopsticks and pick up the vegetables, and then the soldiers began to eat, followed by the homeless people who were selected into the Five Poisons Dao Soldiers, as for their families, they were all distributing vegetable porridge to each family's house, not thin clear soup, but thick hot porridge.

There are well-boiled wild vegetables on the table, evenly cut into several sections, and there is no fear that someone will not be able to chew it thoroughly. The whole steamed fish, add a few slices of ginger to remove the fishy flavor, and pour a large spoonful of soybean paste to boil the hot soup, everyone eats with relish, even the armor is greedy.

Ye Zhiqiu allowed them to take away the food that they couldn't eat, so all the plates were clean and slippery, as if they had been washed with water.

The next day, Ye Zhiqiu immediately arranged manpower, but instead of training Taoist soldiers immediately, he asked the displaced people who settled down to work in the abandoned fields outside the village, borrowed farm tools and ploughing cattle from the villagers, hoeed the grass, ploughed the fields, and then divided the fields according to the population of each household.

This won the hearts and minds of the displaced people, and also relieved the villagers of fearing that these outsiders would seek to seize their own land. Taking advantage of the good time of the bright spring, the people of Liuyang Village went to work in the fields one after another, and the two sides were naturally distinct.

Ye Zhiqiu stood on the ridge of the field, looking at the depressed and decayed look on the faces of the homeless people, replaced by laughter and joy, and was relieved in his heart: "The people's hearts are available!"