Sanli Temple, ten miles southeast of Lingshan Temple, seven miles southwest of Yiyang County.

This is a very prominent mountain, known locally as Zumiao Mountain, overlooking the Luo River in the north.

According to the plan of the old master and Miao Sanguan, Xiong Chu left the large army fifteen miles southwest of Jiudao Villa, and then rode north alone.

All the way over the mountains and mountains to the ancestral temple mountain, the road did not hide the tracks, and also stopped at the Guandi Temple in Baiyangli, Yiyang County for half an hour.

In half an hour, Xiong Chu drank three catties of roasted knives, gnawed two elbows, and asked the counter to prepare five catties of braised beef and five catties of roasted knives, which seemed to be going to rush overnight.

Hulei Leopard was waiting on the side of the road outside the store, all of which were concentrated, and half a catty of burning knives was added, which made passers-by look sideways.

In these years, the Yellow River broke its embankment every year, and there has been a severe drought inside and outside the Guanguan for three consecutive years, coupled with the rebellion of Xu Hongru in the east this year, it has made a thousand miles of abandonment, and the people are not able to make a living, and many victims have not seen rice and white flour for a whole year.

Ten catties of soybeans, even if they are placed in an ordinary family, plus some acorn noodles and elm leaves, that is the food of a family of five for ten days, is wasted by a horse.

It's early winter now, and I don't know how many people are worried about how to survive the cold winter. Although this horse looks like a BMW, there is no human life value, right?

No matter what class of people, there are times when they vent their resentment. Especially when you are about to lose your life, this feeling is even stronger.

After a short time, the pedestrians near the Guandi Temple began to discuss.

"The common people are going to starve to death and freeze to death, the court doesn't care, the prince doesn't care, and the government doesn't care. Look at those princes of the Hou Ye, as well as those second-generation officials and second-generation rich disciples, spending money all day long, showing off their wealth all over the world. ”

"What is this? Haven't you heard Mr. Storyteller say? Zhumen stinks of wine and meat, and there are frozen bones on the road. That's what it looks like. ”

"Yes, yes, it's no wonder that there was a rebellion in Shandong, and they couldn't survive anyway. Sooner or later, it's a death, so why don't you break the rich man's house and become a full ghost?"

The word of mouth spread from person to mouth on the road, and the speed of information spread far exceeded the six hundred miles of the imperial court. In the blink of an eye, everyone in the vicinity knew that there was a rich man in Guandi Temple.

This rich man didn't look serious, he didn't learn well at a young age, he had a broken sword with a rusty scabbard pinned to his waist, and he drank like drinking water, and he didn't have any grace at all.

"You say, this guy should be rich, right? But why doesn't he buy a beautiful and good sword? The third young master of the rich man Liu in our village, the sword of the family is good-looking, and the jewels can be seen from afar. Who is this guy scaring with a broken sword with a rusty scabbard pinned to his waist?"

Xiong Chu turned a deaf ear to the comments of pedestrians on the road.

For a few dying people on the side of the road, the corner of Xiong Chu's eyes twitched, and he hesitated for a moment when he walked towards Hulei Leopard.

In the end, as if he had made up a huge decision, Xiong Chu turned over and returned to the tavern, and slapped a silver ingot of twenty taels on the counter: "Shopkeeper, hurry up and prepare some hot food, let the villagers on the roadside live." ”

Does the bear prince only have twenty taels of silver on him? Of course not.

The problem is that he looked carefully for a long time, and all the belongings of this tavern were not worth fifty taels of silver.

A tavern that is not worth fifty taels of silver can take out twenty taels of food at a time, which is already the sky.

Xiong Chu's goal is not this Guandi Temple, this is just a part of today's plan, his target is the Sanli Temple in the north.

It's not right, Xiong Chu's real goal at his next stop should be Yiyang County, and he should have dinner in the county seat.

Thirty or forty miles of mountain roads are not so easy to walk, even if Hulei Leopard crosses the mountains and mountains like walking on flat ground, it took Xiong Chu more than two hours to arrive at the west gate of Yiyang County.

At this time, it was getting late, and the Xiong Chu did not enter the city, but asked for a bowl of noodles at a small stall outside the west gate, and then he began to eat and drink.

Unlike the situation on the side of Guandi Temple, Prince Xiong seemed to be very nervous at this time. After a bowl of noodles, I asked the shopkeeper how to get to the Lingshan Temple, and then pulled the horse and left, and the target was the Lingshan Temple in the west.

At the time of Dingchangtian, Xiong Chu had already appeared at the foot of the mountain north of Sanli Temple, less than six miles away from Lingshan Temple.

At this time, the mountain was already pitch black, and Xiong Chu left the path by the river and headed south into the mountain, and the target was the Sanli Temple.

"Is it Hachiro Hero?" a deep voice came from a dark forest.

"It turned out to be Cao Ming, the helmsman of the Zhongzhou beggar gang Luoyang rudder. It's me, what's going on now?" the bear prince hung the reins on the saddle, and then turned over and dismounted.

Cao Ming, a disciple of the beggar gang of six bags, is in his thirties.

Seeing Xiong Chu dismount, Cao Ming finally came out of the dense forest and led the Hulei Leopard in.

"Childe come in, this is a secret point of contact for our rudder, if you have anything to say inside. ”

Xiong Chu entered the dense forest and walked more than twenty feet before he knew what was going on here.

A huge rock dozens of feet high, I don't know how to split it in two from the middle. I don't know how much time has passed, and a cave has formed at the bottom.

Torches were lit inside the cave, so the bear prince knew that the ordinary was full of magic, and this place turned out to be a huge inner space that could accommodate four or five hundred people.

But now there is no one else, except for Xiong Chu and Cao Ming, there is only one Hulei leopard left.

"Gongzi appeared in the Guandi Temple, and sure enough, it attracted the attention of people with a heart, and the flying pigeon passed the book out. Cao Ming took the beef and wine sacs handed over by Xiong Chu, and said while eating and drinking: "Manager Miao is really clever, Luoyang Fuwang, Jiudao Villa, and Shaolin Temple are not idle. ”

"I just received the news that this time the general capital is the head of the East Factory, the great eunuch Shang Pingfu. It is said that he has the sword of Shang Fang in his hand and is able to mobilize all the soldiers and horses around Luoyang. ”

"Judging from the current situation of our beggar gang, the Shaanxi Governor's Mansion dispatched 1,000 guards, Luoyang Fuwangfu sent 1,000 households Wang Shiming to lead 600 people, and the chief soldier of Hugaoguan personally led 300 people. ”

"Pu Changnian, the young owner of Jiudao Villa, suddenly appeared in Qinglong Village, and secretly brought out more than 400 people, and it was Duan Hu who took the lead. It was followed by the thirty-six disciples of the Shaolin Temple Warrior Monk Hall, and Pu Changnian was in it. ”

"At the current rate, it should surround Bears Ears from eight directions at dawn tomorrow. Now it is no longer an ordinary green forest dispute, but an encirclement and suppression by more than 2,000 officers and soldiers. ”

"Although it has now been fully confirmed that the previous qiē was designed to deal with Childe alone, it will definitely not work on a single person in the future. Once there is a mistake, it may involve the lives of many people. ”

When Prince Xiong heard this, his face was already very unsightly: "What is the use of this imperial court? I did not gather a crowd to rebel, nor did I go to Beijing to make trouble. Even if you kill a few corrupt officials and local tyrants and gentry, is it necessary to use a large army?"

Cao Ming sneered: "Childe, the imperial court has a clear rule that the two military merits are of the same level to eliminate rebellion and pacify border passes. In the eyes of those literati, it was always easier and safer to suppress rebellion, so they constantly encouraged the emperor to desperately send troops to suppress it. ”

"You know, when the army moves, there will be no peace in all directions. But those who are mad only care about their own merits, and don't care about the lives of ordinary people at all. It is already an open secret to kill good people and take risks, so the emperor said that all the people in the world are Diao people. ”

"No matter what the identity of the prince is, as long as someone below declares to the court that it is a rebellion, those people in the court are desperately fighting for the right to command the army, and then lead the troops to quell the rebellion. Regardless of whether there is a rebellion or not, as long as the army comes out, the final result is to kill more than 100,000 rebels. ”

"Shandong's Xu Hongru is finished, and his head has been sent to Jingshi. The gang boss came with news that this time, in addition to the 100,000 chaotic people, more than 40,000 ordinary people were killed, and the entire Runan area had been emptied, and not even half of the human hair was left. ”

Xiong Chu shook his head: "Alas, the officials forced the people to rebel, and they had to rebel." Why is it that no one understands such a simple truth? If the imperial court continues to do this, in the end it will be certain that all the common people will be rebellious. No wonder Li Xin, Old Master, and other scholars said that the Ming Dynasty was over, and there was no way to save it. ”

Cao Ming snorted coldly: "In the past three years, the drought and floods have become more and more intense, and there has been no harvest for three consecutive years, how can the common people not rebel? This year, there has been a whole year of drought inside and outside the Guanguan, and there has hardly been a drop of rain, and in addition to the breaking of the embankment of the Yellow River and the three major earthquakes for the fourth year in a row, there is still a way for the common people to live?"

"What is hateful is that the disaster relief money allocated by the imperial court this year is only 200,000 taels, which is not enough for even the children in the disaster area to take care of one day. Even so, Zhu Changxun did not take out a single tael of the 120,000 taels of silver allocated to Luoyang's Fuwang Mansion for disaster relief, and swallowed all of them privately! This is also the root cause of Xu Hongru's rebellion. ”

"Good! good!"

Xiong Chu's right hand clenched the hilt of the sword on his left rib, and he gritted his teeth and said a few good words in a row. His face was distorted, as if he was about to eat someone.

At this time, a teenager named Hanako came in: "Helmsman, Hebei has already started fighting, and there are torches all over the mountains." There are about a dozen people in the first batch to cross the river, and they have now gone ashore to enter Lin San Temple. ”

Cao Ming nodded: "Keep staring, Deputy Sect Master Yan will come to report after crossing the river!"

Xiong Chu didn't react: "Deputy Sect Master Yan?"

"Hehehe, it's Yan Erniang, the wife of the son, isn't she the deputy head of the Purple Cloth Sect?" Cao Ming smiled: "As soon as she moves, the officials and soldiers will definitely let them cross the Luo River according to the original plan." is to tell the son, they still have a chance of life, if you want to save people, you should save people as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late. Hahaha-"

"But they forgot one thing, Manager Miao had already asked Yan Erniang to take Lingshan Temple first. Moreover, the red lady of Wenyue Villa has already set off, and they will ambush the officials and troops of the Shaanxi Governor's Mansion on the front line of Lushi County. ”

The more Xiong Chu listened, the more confused he became: "Who is the red lady, when did you ask such a person to appear in Yueshan Villa?"

Cao Ming smiled slightly: "Red lady, it's the little red who originally followed Li Xin and Li Gongzi." She is now famous, and the rivers and lakes are called the Red Lady. There were 360 Girl Scouts and 480 Boy Scouts, each more powerful than the other. Coupled with Li Xin and Li Gongzi's planning, hundreds of officers and soldiers were ambushed by them, and they would definitely break their muscles and bones. ”

Xiong Chu was taken aback: "Did the old master and Li Xin join forces this time?"

"Why not join forces?" Cao Ming smiled: "When I went to the Black Dragon Temple to attend the secret meeting, I listened to the meaning of Chief Miao's words, this time after the East Factory came out, it seemed that Li Xin was still behind the scenes, for fear that the East Factory would transfer too few people. ”

"There is no doubt that Li Xin figured out that this big battle completely weakened the strength of the officers and troops on the front line of Shangluo. Therefore, Mr. Miao told us to be careful, this Li Xinqi's ambition is not small, and he is far-sighted. ”K