And on the trestle bridges of various land and water piers outside Jiangling City, they have been crowded by boats, carts and horses from all directions.
"This is the real peace of the world!"
Standing on the long dike watching the increasingly prosperous and noisy scene of the marina market, Xu Wen, the envoy of the Shouhao Army who had been stranded in the local area for more than a month, also sighed half-truth to the escort:
He is a native of Qushan, Haizhou (now Donghai, Jiangsu). He was convicted by the government for participating in the township party's salt-trafficking business. As a result, he moved to participate in the defense of Shuofang (now Lingwu in Ningxia) and got acquainted with the nobles in his life. , Together with the hometown of Nangui. Therefore, he became one of the thirty-six Xiangdang/paoze who followed Yang Xingyun and started an uprising in Luzhou.
Of course, in contrast to the 36 Xiangdang parties that Yuan Cong started, Liu Wei, Tao Ya and others have been able to survive today. He has always been out of the little-known existence in this group. Because he looks simple and even a little ugly, he was not known for his bravery and martial arts when he was in the army; therefore, he could only rely on a little skill in book calculation, staying behind the scenes and managing food and grass, without any military exploits at all.
Therefore, when he was first detained by the replacement, he had a secret idea. Is it possible that his own value can be compared to that of a field loggerhead that has been following for many years? Or these peaceful thieves want to win over and buy themselves. Then, after the forces to which the old master Yang Xingyu belonged failed, in his hometown, Luzhou and other places, would he use his own name and means to soothe and stabilize the place? After all, he is dealing with this aspect of things, and he has little experience.
Then he waited left and right, but never waited for any means of wooing and favoring by the thief army; instead, he was relatively loosely controlled within a range, except for the normal supply of food and clothing, and responding to some of his initiatives. Apart from the requirements and negotiations, there is no more attention and disposal. This makes people feel uncomfortable outside the roots.
So he couldn't help but think of another idea, do these peaceful thieves want to get a glimpse of the inside story of Shou Haojun from his own body? Speaking of which, I'm also good at writing the name book. However, during this period of time, no one had frequent contact and friendship with him at all; instead, he was taken out to see some public activities, and he was able to glimpse a lot of the daily virtual reality of the peaceful thieves.
However, as he can understand more and more aspects, he will inevitably be affected by different degrees of sensory, and become a little frustrated and frustrated. Because with his experience and vision, the daily transportation scale of land and water that he saw outside of Gangneung City alone was enough to support several times the needs of the Shouhao army; and the population and property rich in the vicinity of Gangneung, Even Shou Haojun's site accounts are hard to match.
And from the densely distributed water conservancy workshops along the river, those towering huge transmission mechanisms and various iron utensils conveyed like flowing water; red light and heavy smoke are forged all day long, and it is like an angry volcano splashing. Below, the blazing molten iron flows like a river in a blast furnace and a flat furnace; in the weaving and dyeing joint camp, there are mountains of silk and cloth piled up. . . It made him inevitably wide open his vision, and he couldn't help being afraid of the mighty power of man-made industry on the spot.
However, in those central villages that were regarded as models of transformation, he was shocked by another kind of shock. It claims to be the rural situation maintained even if there are not those well-dressed families with rich surnames and the homes of local subordinates. You can also rely on the peaceful thief's plan to become a family that can live and work in peace and contentment and have enough food and clothing.
As the saying goes, the more you know, the more shocked I will be. Especially after being arranged to see it with his own eyes, he was being kept in captivity in the monastery on those old court festivals, Lianshuai deity, and had a brief talk with him. Xu Wen seemed to have a thread in his heart suddenly broken, and it was as if he was crushed and overwhelmed by some terrible reality. He sighed and blocked his chest. For several days, he couldn't ease his strength.
He finally understood how the Shouhao Army group he belonged to was playing against a huge and unfathomable monster without knowing it. On the contrary, the news came that the Shou Hao Army suffered successive defeats on the battlefield and could only be trapped in Guangling City, which made him suddenly awakened, and it turned out that the opponent did not pay attention to his power at all.
But this also aroused him a certain stubborn or partial temperament; and revived from the original dazedness and loss. Since these thieves obviously look down on their own forces, they can't even see signs of being busy for the Huainan war under the general rule. Couldn't I use the contempt of these thieves to me, and for Shou Hao Jun, I can find out more about the inside story and the truth
Therefore, he also began to take the initiative to put forward more tentative requests, thinking of trying to figure out the attitude and bottom line of these thief forces towards him; in order to take follow-up countermeasures. However, the results obtained made him somewhat unexpected and surprised. He was mixed with a bunch of real appeals full of compliments and admiration, and a small part of it was allowed.
Therefore, he can apply to come outside of Jiangling City under the supervision of the escort, so as to better "experience" and "pay respect" to the local customs and people's livelihood under the Taiping Army. Then he thought about it again, maybe this is the temptation of these thief soldiers? As long as you show signs of fleeing. Maybe the other party will justify the killing soon afterwards
It's just that Xu Wen's attitudes, such as the subsequent encounters and contacts, made Xu Wen understand again that he obviously thought more. These peaceful thief hadn't paid much attention to him at all, or that he had become accustomed to such things as allowing people to visit and arrange visits.
So when he took the initiative to choose to visit the Zhuangzi, when he proudly asked some sharp or less respectful questions, these people also treated them with a caring and ill-fated look; or no matter how they used words. Fooling, it was an uncomfortable look of sympathy and compassion, and he suddenly felt that he was the one who was ignorant and ignorant.
That is, when he accidentally couldn't help "flip" in front of the dealers, questioning whether all this was specially created with great pains and effort, thinking that the special place for whitewashing and decorating the facade, but was surrounded by the dealers with a good face and sprayed When drooling or even full of old punches, will he intervene in time to free him.
But after all these things, Xu Wen, who originally wanted to take the opportunity to escape, gave up his mind. Since these thieves despised themselves so much and had no scruples, how could they easily accept their intentions? He should keep a useful body, and this has contributed more to the group of Shou Haojun.
Therefore, when he once again saw the flow of people and resources due to the upcoming "Taiping National Games". Still unavoidably shocked in my heart for a long time can not be calmed down. Because, if these forces were used to attack Huainan, who would be able to resist the huge 14 prefectures and 57 counties of Huainan
However, these peaceful thieves did not hesitate and cherish, and used all of them in this noisy and extraordinary power declaration activity. This also makes the Huainan families who have fought for the land and hukou of one state and one county to live and die. Thinking of this, Xu Wen became increasingly disappointed and pessimistic about Yang Durate and other colleagues who were trapped in Guangling City.
You must know that they are trapped in the city every day, and these peaceful thieves outside the city will be able to calm down the various places in the rear, constantly getting more supplements and transportation, and becoming more fully prepared and growing, and the strength inside and outside the city will be further compared. Widen it. As a result, he also felt for the first time a certain kind of vacillation and disappointment regarding the gap in the judgment of the enemy's strategic vision and pattern of the upper echelons of the Shou Hao army headed by Yang Du.
For him, the only good news worthy of consolation is that the epidemic in Huainan is said to have broken out. Although the Jiangling area has not seen any signs of being affected, the pace of the thief army's conquest in Huainan will be somewhat slowed down and there is no time for him to take care of it, right? At this point, he could only forcefully smile and say some congratulatory words that were not so contrary to his intentions.
Therefore, after thinking about it and thinking about it, Xu Wen found out his own value; what was left was when the Shou Hao Army and the Taiping Thieves had to retreat and maintain a sufficient distance and buffer due to the plague. I won a slightly better agreement for others. As for what will happen in the far future, he is already reluctant to think about it and can't take care of it.
Standing on the embankment, the slightly bleak and cold autumn wind blew for a long time, Xu Wen couldn't help but feel some kind of face numb and his body stiffened, and he wanted to go back with the bricks, but he could not help seeing a boat in the distance. A group of people with big cloth heads and chest shirts came down; holding some colorful flags in their hands, they couldn't help but ask:
"Dare to ask, who are these people waiting?"
The accompanying military officer glanced twice and said:
"These people should be the messengers of Qianzhou Observation Envoy Gaotai who came to greet him!"
Xu Wen felt a sudden in his heart when he heard the words, but he did not expect that after these peaceful thieves came out of the mountain, they would lay the foundations in this Jianghan land for a few years, but he did not say a word and stretched out his hand to the remote Guizhou Road. Go there, it's really superficial.
Recall that during the expedition to Annan, Jiaozhou Governor Gaoyu who surrendered the city, Jiangxi Observer Gao Maoqing who was captured in the Battle of Raozhou, Gao Yue, Chuzhou Soldier and Horse Envoy who was captured in Jiangdong, and Guangling in Huainan The deity of Huainan Jiedu is the deity of Gao Pian; it can be said that the contemporary figures of the Gao family in Bohai have been wiped out.
It's like some kind of malice caused by fate. (End of this chapter)