The sun is shining all over the earth, and it is rare to have good weather in winter. This winter is always overcast, and the wind is cold and humid, and it is cold to the core. The people in Zhuangzi are thinking about finishing their work and sitting in the square to enjoy the sun. , It's best to get the mattress out and dry it in the sun. The south is humid, and I always feel that the quilt is also dirty.
It's just that not even half an hour after going to work, a gong was struck, echoing in the square.
"Have you heard? There is a drill today, we can all watch it."
"Exercise?"
"It's the new group, the one with the surname Chen, who brought a hundred and twenty brothers here to practice with the people from our side!"
"It's just sparring, but don't touch the vitals. You can't get up again when you fall to the ground. The weapon is a wooden stick. Let's see who is more powerful."
"Then I have to go check it out!"
"It's the first time I've encountered something like this!"
Lin Yuan was also sitting on a high hillside watching, and Jiang Gui was sitting beside him.
As for Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Bosong, they commanded 100 men to fight each other.
Although there were only a hundred people, Lin Yuan also wanted to see if the other side was more powerful when the number of people on both sides was similar.
Jiang Gui looked at the person below, chewing fried soybeans with salt, and asked Lin Yuan, "Which side do you think will win?"
Lin Yuan said, "You'll know when you look at it."
Zhu Yuanzhang was only a young man in his twenties at this time, and he had never fought any battles. In addition to a small amount of theoretical knowledge, he led the battles with practical training. The practical training he had experienced was only once or twice. It's a small battle, maybe it's not much different from a group fight between two villages.
But Chen Bosong was different. He survived by fighting against different bandits and bandit villages. He had no theoretical knowledge or even a lot of literacy, but he was rich in experience.
The more Lin Yuan looked, the more he felt that Zhu Yuanzhang still needed to learn.
In history, Zhu Yuanzhang was just a soldier at the beginning, and he rushed to the forefront in every battle and took the lead.
All his experience and decision-making about war come from the experience of passing by the gate of hell again and again.
In fact, Lin Yuan also thought about it, maybe one day Zhu Yuanzhang would not be willing to be subservient to others, and maybe one day he would establish his own business.
But Lin Yuan didn't want to never promote Zhu Yuanzhang because of this, or kill him directly.
He was not from this era at first, and since he came here, his first thought was to save his life.
I don't have the wealth of my family, I just want a place to live where I can take care of the original owner's family.
Later, I wanted Zhuangzi to develop his conscience and become self-sufficient.
Now he feels that the general trend is the trend. Zhuangzi now has more than a thousand people, and he has food and money. Although it is fake jade, it is an easy-to-eat fragrant bun. He feels that he needs to strengthen his strength to protect himself and let Everyone in Zhuangzi can survive.
Lin Yuan lowered his head, he didn't know if he was ambitious.
But how many men have no ambition
Lin Yuan clenched his fists.
It is never wrong to have ambition, but to have ambition but not enough intelligence to match ambition.
Lin Yuan rubbed his neck and continued to watch the battle situation below. He thought that from the moment he took the first step, he was ready to walk into chaos.
The final result is acceptable to him no matter what.
Let him take someone to join the Red Turbans? That's unrealistic. The problem with the Red Turbans is internal contradictions. Guo Zixing and Sun Deya fought fiercely within themselves.
He asked Brother Dao Yang Zian Li Da and the others to go to Xinghua with Zhang Shicheng. The purpose was that Zhang Shicheng would understand Xinghua and make good friends with the lower-level salt people. Brother Dao and the others could also use this to break into the Yan people. The Yanmin rebelled internally, and when the time comes, the inside should cooperate with the outside, and it would not be difficult to win Xinghua.
The reason why he didn't tell Zhang Shicheng the truth was because he couldn't believe it.
He trusted Brother Dao, and he also trusted Yang Zian and Li Da.
Brother Dao is reckless, but he has brotherly loyalty. This is a rare personal charm. It is not a problem to call him a brother to the salt people. Let alone six or seven months, it is estimated that six or seven months are enough for him to make hundreds of righteous brothers.
Yang Zian has a brain. Among the righteous brothers, Yang Zian is the most sober. He can analyze the pros and cons, and he can read and understand the truth. At the critical moment, Yang Zian is the finale.
As for Li Da... This is completely because they are afraid that they are not enough, and Li Da's wife is still in Zhuangzi.
The role played by Zhang Shicheng is just a guide.
And Zhang Shicheng's brothers are still in Zhuangzi.
As for Chen Youliang, Lin Yuan never thought about this person from the very beginning. Chen Youliang is a single husband and is called a loner. He is similar to Zhu Yuanzhang in the field of tactics. it is good.
Ambitious and brainy, but suspicious and trusting no one, if he takes refuge in Chen Youliang, Chen Youliang will eventually become emperor again.
Lin Yuan touched his neck.
It is estimated that his head will not be guaranteed, let alone Brother Dao and the others.
Today's plan, take a step by step.
Having the armed forces to protect yourself is the most important thing.
"It's almost over." Jiang Gui said aside.
Lin Yuan concentrated his attention and stared at the battle situation below.
Chen Bosong won, as expected.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang commanded very well, but one side was an ordinary person, and the other was a gangster, and the fighting strength of the two sides was completely different.
In addition, Chen Baisong's command was not bad, and it was not surprising that Zhu Yuanzhang was defeated.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang has not yet experienced the baptism of war.
The winning side can eat meat for extra meal today.
When Lin Yuan went down, he happened to see Zhu Yuanzhang sitting next to him. He lowered his head, making it difficult to see his expression.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yuan also sat on the ground, watching Chen Bosong and the others cheering excitedly next to him.
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head, with a smile as always on his face: "It's nothing, if you lose, you lose."
Lin Yuan asked, "Where did you lose?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment: "Shouldn't we just split into teams to flank?"
…seems quite right… not right!
Lin Yuan said: "You just lack experience, Chen Bosong and the others used this to make a living, and we have only suppressed bandits once or twice, so it's not as normal as they are, and it's not just about the commander, but also against the commander. Soldier's abilities."
"right?"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "The owner is right."
Lin Yuan patted his shoulder: "Don't be discouraged."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Lin Yuan, and he asked, "Master, is your temper born?"
Lin Yuan asked, "What temper?"
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "I never saw you lose your temper."
He just thought that Lin Yuan was going to reprimand him.
Lin Yuan reacted and said with a smile, "Why am I losing my temper? There's nothing to be angry about."
Zhu Yuanzhang: "You're not angry if I lose?"
Lin Yuan: "It's better to lose now than to actually lose on the battlefield in the future?"
Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a low voice, "When you asked Brother Dao and the others to go to Xinghua, I wanted to ask, are you going to... win Xinghua?"
Lin Yuan knew it but couldn't hide it from Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was smart, he knew how to be a man, and he knew how to handle things.
Lin Yuan asked him, "Did you want to ask why I didn't ask you to go?"
Zhu Yuanzhang: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from the boss, but I also know that the boss can't trust me."
Lin Yuan shook his head: "It's not that I can't believe you, it's that the fewer people who know about this, the better. Even Brother Dao and the others, I asked them before they left. When they leave, there must be someone in Zhuangzi."
Whether Zhu Yuanzhang believed it or not, at least this time he couldn't show any doubts on his face.
He nodded and said, "The owner has been painstakingly."
Lin Yuan said to him, "You are also the battalion commander now, and you have more than 200 people under your control. I won't say much else. Believe it or not, you decide for yourself."
"I'll go first." Lin Yuan said to him.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "You go."
Compared with the low morale on Zhu Yuanzhang's side, the people on Chen Bosong's side were much more excited. After they knew that the reward was meat, their expressions became vivid, and they gathered around Chen Bosong, discussing whether to eat the meat directly Part of the light remains.
As soon as Lin Yuan came over, the bandits moved away—they had already heard that Lin Yuan was an immortal.
And I don't know why, they believed it very quickly, Lin Yuan felt that there must be Chen Bosong's handwriting.
"Aren't you happy to win?" Lin Yuan asked Chen Bosong, who was expressionless.
Chen Bosong said, "Victory is not by force."
Lin Yuan smiled: "In a few years, you won't be able to win."
Chen Baisong turned his head to look at Lin Yuan, his eyes were bright, like a wolf like a tiger, his eyes seemed to be glistening: "Young master underestimates me?"
Lin Yuan knew that he had said the wrong thing, and said quickly, "I never underestimate it, I'll just say it later."
Chen Bosong narrowed his eyes.
The two walked and chatted.
"What do you think of Zhu Yuanzhang?" Lin Yuan asked.
Chen Bosong pondered for a moment and then said: "Have courage and strategy, dare to fight, you can advance or retreat, given time, you will be a fierce general."
Lin Yuan looked at him strangely after hearing what he said was so professional.
Chen Baisong noticed Lin Yuan's gaze and asked, "Why does the young master look at me like this?"
Lin Yuan: "Where did you learn these words?"
Chen Bosong was exposed and admitted frankly: "There is a scholar in my stockade, and that's what he said about me."
Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, and he just said, Chen Bosong doesn't know many words, and he is still a bandit leader. How can he praise people like this
Lin Yuan said, "When you are free, go talk to Zhu Yuanzhang more, and you two can communicate more and learn from each other."
Chen Bosong is not a arrogant person either. He could naturally find out the benefits of Zhu Yuanzhang during the battle just now. Now listening to Lin Yuanyi, he nodded and replied, "Okay."
"Strive to train all the existing more than 1,000 people." Lin Yuan said, "When the spring begins, I will organize a training session."
Chen Baisong asked, "Is it really a zipper?"
Lin Yuan: "It's field training. You can't bring anything except weapons."
Chen Bosong half-understood and nodded in agreement with a confused expression.
The training of a thousand people can only go to the deep mountains and old forests. In addition to exercising the body, it is more important to exercise the mentality. If you encounter bandits and cottages, you can just use it to practice your hands.
It can be said to accomplish many things with one fell swoop.
It's almost half a month back and forth.
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"This is Xinghua." Li Congrong looked at the city wall in front of him and sighed, "It really is a big city, but it's different from Wucheng."
Li Da said next to him: "Wucheng is so small."
Zhang Jiusi said from the side, "Let's go first."
Because they were dressed neatly and tidy, and they also gave some money to the soldiers guarding the city, saying that they would go to their relatives, it was not difficult to enter the city.
Population migration in the Yuan Dynasty was very convenient. Except for merchants who needed road guidance, there were no restrictions on ordinary civilians traveling from south to north.
Zhang Jiu Si first took them to a cheap inn, and then said: "My brothers are all outside the salt field, they must be working now, we will go to them after dark."
"Okay." Li Congrong agreed, "But I think Xinghua is really good."
Pedestrians are bustling on the road, vendors and stalls are very lively, and the wealthy households in the city live in large mansions with lanterns hanging at the door.
Wucheng is a remote town with a small population, and even at the busiest time, it is not as busy as Xinghua.
Zhang Jiusi said, "This is just where the rich gentlemen live."
In Xinghua, there is a clear distinction between the rich and the poor, the salt folks can't even get enough to eat, but the rich gentlemen are very rich.
The wine and meat of Zhumen stink, and the road has frozen bones, which is the true portrayal of Xinghua.
It was a salt man for a while, and a salt man for a lifetime.
Generations can't turn around.
It was getting late, and Zhang Jiusi took Li Congrong and the others to the place where the salt people lived. There was no mansion with carved beams and painted buildings, and the only thing you could see was a low flat house. In a hurry, everyone has a bitter look on their faces.
"Brother Zhao." Zhang Jiu Si knocked on the door of a house, the old wooden door could no longer see its original color.
The people inside shouted and asked, "Who is it!"
Zhang Jiusi lowered his voice: "It's me, Zhang Jiusi."
The people inside came to open the door.
After the wooden door was opened, a middle-aged man in his forties appeared in front of Li Congrong and the others, but his temples were already gray, his waist was hunched, and he was described as dead wood, his face was deeply wrinkled, and his skin was loose and thin: "Zhang Jiusi? you are still alive?"
Zhang Jiusi said, "Brother Zhao, let us in first, it is inconvenient to speak outside."
Big Brother Zhao just reacted and opened the door and called them in.
Seeing that Zhang Jiu Si, who had been missing for so long, brought three people he had never seen before, Big Brother Zhao's expression was a little puzzled.
There is a reason for Zhang Jiusi to choose him, because Big Brother Zhao is a bachelor. He has no father, no mother, no wife and children. He lives on his own. Apart from the Jiu Si friendship, there are no other close friends.
Zhang Jiusi was familiar with him because Zhang Jiusi helped him at the beginning and gave him food when he was out of food.
It's a life saver.
"They all said, you ran away with someone." Brother Zhao was sitting beside the bed. The room was very small, with only one table, a tattered wooden cabinet and a bed. He greeted Zhang Jiusi and the others to come and sit, "Yan Everyone said you must be dead outside."
Zhang Jiusi had a complicated expression: "I'm not dead yet."
Brother Zhao said with a smile: "I also know that your life is tough and you will definitely not die. Say, what are you coming back for this time?"
Zhang Jiusi: "Let's not talk about this first, I'll let you know them first."
Zhang Jiusi introduced Li Congrong and the others, and then asked, "How are the salt people now?"
Big Brother Zhao sighed and beat his legs: "What else can I do? It's still the same, after all, no matter how much work you do, you won't be able to eat enough."
Zhang Jiusi got angry when he heard this: "A group of dog-fighting people! They have a black heart."
Big Brother Zhao smiled bitterly: "What can I do? Can't I just endure it?"
Zhang Jiusi remembered his purpose, and said quickly, "Brother Zhao, I came back for this! I went back to explore the way. There is a living Bodhisattva in the south, and anyone who follows him will I can eat and wear warm clothes, and besides doing some work, I work every day at sunrise and rest at sunset, so I don’t have to worry about making a living.”
"He called me here because he heard that there are many brothers like me who are suffering, and asked me to take them back with them." Zhang Jiusi said with his chest out, "Brother Zhao, you can't trust others, can you trust me? ?"
Big Brother Zhao said suspiciously, "Is there really such a good person? Such a good thing?"
Li Da said quickly: "He's right! Our boss is a good god descended to earth!"
Brother Zhao: "Good God?"
What a fairy, never heard of it.
Li Da repeated the words that were circulated in Zhuangzi, and also gave some examples.
Including how the owner took in the refugees, how he struggled with ordinary people who were captured by the cottage, and how he cared for the weak.
It was almost impossible to call Lin Yuan a decathlon superman.
Big Brother Zhao, who had been staying in the salt field, was stunned for a moment.
He looked at Zhang Jiusi, who nodded in agreement, indicating that what Li Da said was true.
"Isn't there a false statement?" Brother Zhao finally asked.
Zhang Jiusi said quickly: "If there is a false statement, I will be struck by thunder."
Brother Zhao was stunned for a long time, and was overjoyed and sad: "My lord, there are still people like this in the world, they are really immortals."
"If you want to leave, there are too many people and it's hard to leave."
Yang Zian said at this time: "Before leaving, the owner asked me to stop and wait for him to send a letter."
Brother Zhao and Zhang Jiusi asked at the same time, "What letter?"
Yang Zi'an wanted to cover up and said: "The owner is a fairy, and naturally has the means of an immortal. Where can you tell us casually? The owner said that in May next year, there will naturally be a big change, and this change is our chance. "
"He told us to come here at this time, just to reassure the salt people that maybe by then, they won't have to leave their hometowns and they will be able to live a good life."
Brother Zhao and Zhang Jiusi were both confused.
"You guys just wait." Yang Zi'an said truthfully.
Of course, Yang Zian didn't talk in empty words. Lin Yuan told him several famous incidents, all of which had not happened yet. He only needed to say it eloquently, and those who believed it would naturally believe it.
Soon, there were rumors among the salt people, and they spread more and more widely.
It is said that there is an immortal in the south, who is born with the heart of a bodhisattva. Wherever his fingers point, the land will become fertile. Wherever his eyes look, the people will find peace. Can make people feel comfortable.
And this immortal found out that the salt people were suffering here, so he rescued Zhang Jiusi first—because Zhang Jiusi was a loyal, kind and generous person, he felt that Zhang Jiusi was a person worthy of saving, and naturally he felt The salt folks are also worth saving.
So they sent someone.
And this fairy is very considerate of them.
In order for them to be able to live a good life in the land where they have been living, so they cast a spell to make a big event happen in May this year, so that they can live a good life.
What's the big deal? This is a mystery, how can it be leaked
As for the secrets leaked out by the people he sent—these are all trivial matters, just to remind the salt people, so the living gods spend their lifespans leaking out, just to reassure them.
The salt people all believed.
Their lives are too hopeless, and now that there is such a little sustenance, naturally no one will fall into disbelief.
"Second brother, is that what the fourth brother told you? So accurate?" Li Congrong was also confused now, and he began to believe it.
Yang Zian himself was also shocked. He was skeptical at first, but everything that Lin Yuan said came true. He also felt that Lin Yuan might... Maybe... Is there really something strange, maybe he could be enlightened
Not only salt people believe it, but many ordinary people also believe it.
However, what they believed was different, and what Yang Zian told them was different from that of the Yanmins.
The people believed in Lin Yuan and felt that they could live a peaceful life if they believed in him.
They also named Lin Yuan "South Bodhisattva".
Because Lin Yuan is in the south.
If they knew that Lin Yuan was from the north, they would probably be the "North Bodhisattva".
Lin Yuan also didn't expect Yang Zian to have the ability to develop both salt people and ordinary people into believers.
He became the faith of the believers.
The salt people chatted privately, and the topic changed:
"It's only January, there are still four months left."
"I don't know what's the big deal, I'm anxious to wait."
"However the salt governors yell at me now, I can bear it. Just wait, wait, and we can live a good life."
Some people also asked, "So Nan Bodhisattva is so divine?"
"But God, you don't know, the people he sent to do the math, there's nothing wrong, it's different from a liar in the rivers and lakes."
"Besides, who is Zhang Jiusi? He won't lie to us. He also said that Nan Bodhisattva is an immortal figure. The people he brought over are now delicious and drinkable, and they don't live much."
Because of Zhang Jiu Si and Yang Zian's "prophecy" ability, the people of Yan and the common people especially believed.
There were even people who made a statue of Lin Yuan out of mud, and they had to donate some water and food every day.
Later, it became more and more outrageous. In less than three months, even the wealthy households in Xinghua began to believe it.
Especially the ladies.
Because some people say that Nan Bodhisattva can bless and give birth to a child, and can also win a man in one fell swoop.
In particular, there was a female believer who gave birth just a month after becoming a Christian. Not only did she give birth quickly, but she was really a baby boy.
More people believe.
The birth is not smooth, it is not a boy, it must be a lack of piety, and it is definitely not the problem of Nan Bodhisattva.
Otherwise, how can others do it, but not you
After the female relatives finished believing, the male masters also began to be suspicious.
At this time, some people said that Nan Bodhisattva is the omnipotent god, who can bless the weather and the fertile land.
Farmers began to believe.
By the time Xinghua officials found out, the wind had already blown all over Taizhou, not just Xinghua.
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