When I got back to Zhuangzi, the sky had turned cold. On the way back, many people stuffed withered grass into their rags. Fortunately, there were so many people that they slept together in the middle of the night, and no one was caught by the cold. Putting it down, the women also slept together with the men.
"It's finally here." After walking out of the woods, he finally saw a patch of fields. There are not many crops that can be harvested in winter. Now there are only cabbage and spinach in the field.
These dishes are a rare green on the table in winter.
However, it can only be eaten for a period of time. Most of the cabbage still has to accumulate into sauerkraut. The salt in Zhuangzi was bought by Brother Dao, and the private salt dealer he found was much cheaper than the official salt, and Brother Dao kept a lot.
Sometimes Brother Knife takes his brothers to hunt in the woods - the only harvest is a pheasant and a hare. They are not thin enough to be stuffed between their teeth, but they are meat anyway.
There are no livestock and no meat to eat in Zhuangzi.
Seeing that Lin Yuan came back with the food, everyone in the village breathed a sigh of relief. There was a lot of food in each trolley, and it was stacked full. Four strong men were needed to pull it in front and a few people to push it at the back. The grain they harvest in autumn is enough for them to eat for a year or two.
This is the advantage of fewer people, but it also has disadvantages.
They don't have weapons. Now let alone iron, copper can't be bought. The price of iron is higher, and a single iron pot will drain all the savings of a small family.
Lin Yuan was thinking about how to get the iron, but even if he got the iron, it would be useless without a blacksmith.
The sharpness and durability of a sword require the hard work of a blacksmith.
If the casting skills are not good enough, and the tempering is not good, the sword is very easy to break. If you really fight with people, a sword that is easy to break will not increase the chances of winning, and may even be lost in vain.
In fact, the axe is pretty good. Lin Yuan touched his chin, it was not easy to break, and it was easy to use force. It didn't need any tricks, and it was just a slash when grabbed, but it was heavy.
The most important point is - these farm workers take it easy.
Although they make hoes quite well.
Lin Yuan rushed to Jiang Gui who had just got off the carriage and said, "Third brother, do you know where I can buy an axe?"
Jiang Gui: "In the past, there were connections in the yamen, but now..."
I don't know if the yamen is still there.
Lin Yuan sighed and could only push back.
"Axe?" Zhu Chongba suddenly stuck out his head, revealing his white teeth, "No one sold it?"
Iron-related, basically can not buy.
Lin Yuan sighed and felt very desperate. Where did the rebels loot the iron tools, he seemed to want them too!
"But I know about the iron ore." Zhu Chongba added, "It's just heavily guarded. Even if you steal it, you may not be able to steal it."
Zhu Chongba: "But now the four places are in chaos, and the troops are not as much as they used to be."
Lin Yuan's eyes lit up.
"Big brother! Second brother!" Lin Yuan shouted at Brother Dao and Yang Zian, "I have something to discuss! Go to the meeting room!"
The meeting room, as the name suggests, the place where the meeting was held, Lin Yuan took the name, he is not a real ancient person, although he has the memory of the original owner, but having a memory does not mean that he can remember all the books read by the original owner, so it is more popular, or the meeting room .
Brother Dao stood on the ground with his hoe and patted the back of his head: "It's weird, I didn't come back to rest, and I have to discuss things again. The fourth brother is made of iron?"
Yang Zian made a sarcastic statement: "It's better than you go around to worship."
Brother Dao was unhappy: "How can you ask me to worship the handle everywhere? I am a brother-in-law. I tell you, this world can be even worse. It is better to have more brothers in a group than fighting alone."
Yang Zian: "It's okay, it's okay, you're right, let's go."
Brother Dao didn't move, he stood in the same place and behaved like "I won't leave if you don't apologize".
Yang Zian was not used to him: "Do you like to go or not."
Brother Knife sullenly followed.
Lin Yuan first introduced Zhu Chongba, but he didn't introduce it in detail. He only said that Zhu Chongba was from a beggar gang, and he trusted him.
Brother Dao looked at Zhu Chongba's eyes and it was wrong - this is a good seedling who worships the handle!
"Big brother and second brother, as you all know, now the people are struggling and bandits are all over the place. I expect that the world will be in chaos soon. When we are here, it will not be safe." Lin Yuan narrated calmly, the people in front of him were all Trust me, besides, if they really have two hearts, where can they report it? Go to Wucheng? No one is that stupid, and they all know the bottom line, they really don't need it.
"How about that?" Li Congrong was taken aback.
The rest of the people just looked at Lin Yuan, everyone knew the truth, but they didn't know what to do.
Lin Yuan only remembered that Zhu Yuanzhang joined the Red Turban Army at the age of twenty-five. Now Zhu Yuanzhang is nineteen, which means that he will be recruited by Guo Ziyi in the thirteenth year of Emperor Yuanshun's reign, so the Red Turban rebellion should also be Before Yuan Shundi Zhizheng thirteen years.
There is not a single rebellion that can't be achieved in a year or two. After careful calculation, it should be a rebellion by Emperor Yuan Shun in ten or eleven years.
The leaders of the Red Turbans were Han Shantong, Liu Futong and Xu Shouhui.
Han Shantong is also the later emperor of the "Great Song Dynasty" who established himself as an emperor. He is not only the leader of the Red Turban Army, but also inextricably linked to the folk white lotus religion.
"Right now, we need more people." Lin Yuan said, "Only in this way can we be able to protect ourselves. These people must also have weapons. Otherwise, people will be knives and I will be fish."
Including Zhu Chongba, everyone swallowed.
Jiang Gui: "What does this... mean? Raising private soldiers? This, this is a brainless thing. If the court finds out..."
Brother Dao also echoed: "Yes, yes, how many soldiers are there in the court, shall we go and stuff them between their teeth?"
Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "We didn't rush to the court to raise them. We are surrounded by mountains and rivers, far away from people. We were originally hidden. As long as we act carefully, we will not be discovered by the court." I didn't say a word, not to mention that in a few years, the attention of the court will be attracted by those big heads.
Han Shantong died in the siege of the Yuan Dynasty court.
"If we want weapons, we must have iron." Lin Yuan looked at them, "Big brother, second brother, third brother, please listen to the younger brother, no one can be spared in a chaotic world, if not, we will follow the trend, this is also a way , but the world is in chaos, are we really a treasure beyond the world?"
"At that time, we won't have the ability to protect ourselves, we will be fat sheep to be slaughtered." Lin Yuan said, "Let's not talk about this, just talk about the bandits, can we fight the bandits?"
The only weapon is the hoe, and the bandits who are still in the weather now have weapons. Even if they are not sophisticated, they are better than the dozen or so hoes.
Everyone bows their heads and raises private soldiers... Their ancestors have been good people for generations, so what is the difference between that and rebellion!
Zhu Chongba killed his whole family, but instead said: "I think Brother Lin is right, even if you don't go against it, you have to have the capital to survive, food to fill your stomach, and weapons to resist bandits. into a group."
Brother Dao has an expression of the world collapsing: "I... I have to think about it."
Yang Zian didn't speak.
Jiang Gui was restless, and there was a thorn under his butt.
No one wants to rebel. If they can live in peace and smoothness, who would want to rebel
The author has something to say: White Lotus Sect:
The early White Lotus Sect worshipped Amitabha Buddha, advocated reciting the Buddha and keeping the precepts, and stipulated that believers should not kill, steal, commit sexual misconduct, lie, or drink alcohol. It calls on believers to worship their ancestors and is a secret group that is half monk and half layman. Its teachings are simple and the scriptures are relatively easy to understand. It is accepted by the lower class people, so it is often used as a tool to organize people to resist oppression. In the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the White Lotus Sect organized many peasant uprisings. It spread to the early Qing Dynasty and developed into an anti-Qing secret organization. Although it was repeatedly suppressed by the Qing government, in the first year of Jiaqing (1796), the White Lotus Revolt had developed into the largest uprising during the Jiaqing period.