Delong
Chapter 185
第185章 侠客行(15)(8k2合1还债)
At the time when Miss Bai was acting recklessly and unscrupulously in Dongdu, Zhang Sanlang was spending his Mid-Autumn Festival peacefully in a village outside Puyang City, and held a forum with some new people he met by the way.
The total number of these people is no more than 400, all of them are from Hebei, most of them are from Qinghe County, 200 of them belong to Zhang Jincheng's core soldiers, and were picked out by Niu Da, and the remaining more than 100 belong to a man named Wang. The little leader of Da Scaru, who was in charge of leading a small number of mixed cavalry under Zhang Jincheng's command.
You know, before Niu Da was summoned by Zhang Xing, he only took a dozen or so cavalry to cross the river. He was doing the work of a messenger, but he immediately got the command of this cavalry after he surrendered Wang Dabao's troops at the beginning of the battle. After the war, he obtained the priority to select captives, and finally he was responsible for escorting the excess ordnance captured and crossing the river to support Shan Dalang, Wang Wulang, and Xu Dalang.
Under various arrangements, when he turned around and returned to Puyang, he had already turned from a black chicken into a phoenix.
With three or four hundred strong people in hand, plus three or four hundred mules and horses, as well as sufficient ordnance, and 20 of them are practitioners, it is enough for Niu Da to stand in front of the four big leaders Shan, Wang, Cheng, and Xu. There is a detached attitude.Even Niu Da's father who was a county lieutenant, although he never showed up outside the city, still handed over all the manors outside the city to his son to take care of, and his attitude became very obvious.
Of course, according to the mountain top doctrine, this belongs to Zhang Jixing, the right leader of the Dragon Clan, using his authority and his meritorious service in this battle to give Niu Da, the leader who is completely regarded as his direct line, a share of the real benefits.
Therefore, whether Niu Da reciprocated, or got closer to each other, they all in turn showed great obedience and respect to Zhang Xing.
Zhang Xing was also so happy. When he left Putai directly after the autumn harvest, he chose the Niu's Manor outside Puyang City as his temporary foothold in Henan.
And a short pause here, where some of his weird behavior begins.
But let’s be honest, some work extremely well and some work extremely poorly.
Among them, the good thing is to work together, eat and live together... Although Niu Da expressed a little worry that this would make these people despise Zhang Sanlang, who is so powerful in the world, the fact is that these people who were forced to hastily create The rebellious young people in Hebei are mainly farmers, and a small number are small traders and urban residents, otherwise they would not be arrested. Therefore, they still hold on to a big leader who can do farm work and at least seems willing to do farm work. There is a trace of approval, so I am willing to let go of the most obvious layer of barriers to communicate.
Of course, what I have to say is that the premise of all this is that Zhang Xing is a master who has both the governor and the governor, and he just defeated the powerful Zhang Jincheng before the autumn harvest.
That's right, as soon as Li Ding left, Zhang Xing had already unilaterally announced that he was in command of the Battle of Douzigang.
With the undoubted strength, the blessing of military victors and conquerors, and the direct power to determine the treatment of these people at will, it seems that the effect of doing this kind of thing of eating, living and working together seems to be outstanding.
In stark contrast, it is the follow-up further attempt, which is the so-called open communication with a completely open heart.
Not to mention that it didn't work, it was basically a mess.
"My family... I have nothing to say. Just like Brother Wang Qi, he did farm work when he was a child, and then served as a servant in the county a few times, and this time he said he was going to conquer Dongyi. My mother and I The concubine said no...it was impossible, because my uncle went there for this the year before last, and then he didn't come back, so he told me to run away...at first I didn't run away, and then when we arrived in the military city, everyone walked I was too tired, so I ran away, and I ran away, too... I just ran away, and then I got home, the house was in chaos, the war, the village burned, my mother died, and my concubine also died. It's gone... Then Zhang Datou happened to be the leader... Zhang Jincheng recruited troops, I had nowhere to go, and I brought a guy with me, and said I would give food, so I followed."
On the threshing field, a team of 50 people was having an exchange meeting, and when a young sergeant babbled and talked nonsense, no one was listening carefully except Zhang Xing, and he felt frustrated, so he kicked his butt Sitting down made Zhang Xing also feel frustrated.
It is said that this complaint... Uh, the exchange meeting is a magic weapon, but Zhang Xing did not expect this magic weapon to bring him a reborn army.
After going through so many things, he already has the consciousness to face the difficulties. The so-called want to solve the problem, you have to face the problem first... But the reality is that everyone is following the logic of personal attachment. They were willing to talk to Zhang Communicating and accepting the current arrangement is also acquiescing to follow the new anti-thief narrative structure of Zhang Longtou-Niutouling, following fame and fortune.
Therefore, according to Zhang Xing's understanding and expectation, this so-called exchange meeting is mainly for everyone to narrate their own life context clearly, and figure out why they were forced and turned back, and who forced them.
The so-called firm determination to rebel, don't be a traitor; get in touch with each other, get a better understanding of who is the leader, and know how to obey orders next time you meet.
That's it.
However, even such a simple demand seemed a little powerless, which made Zhang Sanlang, who was determined to walk the road first, feel a little frustrated... For a while, he wondered if he should give up temporarily.
"My name is Huang Pi, and everyone calls me Huang Erpizi. I am similar to other brothers... I just live a good life, farming at home, and selling donkeys with my uncle in the slack... Then there is Sanzheng, escaped, and Zhang Datou led the way when he came back. After we have defeated Gaotang, we will follow." Another person stood up according to Xiao Zhou's roll call, speaking in a particularly hasty and impatient manner.
However, it was this person who aroused the interest of Zhang Xing, who was sitting in front of him holding a notebook and pretending to be pretending, because this person's accent and way of speaking were obviously different from others. The information is not clear, it seems to be covered up.
This is also in line with Zhang Xing's impression of this person - this is a lower-class urban vagrant, not a farmer's son like others.
"Huang lo..."
So, Zhang Xing suddenly interrupted. "Your family and parents are still there?"
"Not anymore." Huang Erpizi, who had already sat down, was stunned for a moment, first answered in a low voice, and then suddenly raised his voice on the threshing floor. "It's long gone! I was gone when I was fifteen!"
"Then followed your uncle to sell donkeys, and traveled all over the world to see a lot of markets?" Zhang Xing thought. "Won't you be farming anymore? Just hang out in various cities and villages?"
"Yes." Huang Pi's voice lowered.
"Why are the parents gone?" Zhang Xing asked suddenly.
Huang Pi hesitated to speak, and his face was a little tense.
"I feel a bit like exposing a scar, I don't want to talk about it?" Zhang Xing laughed. "This kind of thing should be kept in my heart for the rest of my life. Is it possible to cover up the past and make a false statement? You should also have heard about me from your captain Jia, right? I am like you, and my parents have no parents. , lived with my uncle, and then refused to obey my uncle's control, and fled from the north to become a soldier... We have almost the same way."
"How dare you compare with the big leader?" Huang Pi was stunned for a moment, his expression softened, and he finally said it while chewing a piece of straw in the threshing floor. "It's not that I insist on breaking up with Dalongtou, but that my parents died... They were visiting relatives, and they encountered water bandits on the way. At that time, I was not sensible, and I didn't know who the water bandits were. …Later, I got a little older, and wanted to find a hero to help me take care of it. My enemies didn’t know where to look for it, and I was ashamed to ask my parents how they were at home, and I didn’t even have a place to go to the grave… What can I do? ?”
Zhang Xing was a little embarrassed... He thought it was a plot of bitterness and deep hatred, but it turned out to be a simple criminal case... Although this matter can also be used to play, is the bad law and order the fault of Wei?Is it because the Wei officials are incompetent that the case has not been found out?
If there is a problem, it must be that the Wei system is not good!
But no matter how you think about it, it's a bit deliberate.
What's more, wasn't he, Zhang Sanlang, also from Jing'antai before?Do you want to come out and bow and take responsibility?
After thinking up to this point, Zhang Xingzhang acted as if nothing had happened, he just sighed: "Indeed, but this kind of thing can't be blamed on you, the world is like this, and you still think that your parents are already amazing... What about your uncle?"
"Uncle died too." Huang Pi calmed down a little. "The young man who was arrested with my uncle...he died on the way back...I'm a rambunctious bastard with nowhere to go, so I voted for Zhang Jincheng."
Zhang Xing was taken aback for a moment, and immediately wrote down a few notes in his notebook, and then asked seriously: "Your uncle is a donkey dealer, so there should be some explanations, how did you get caught as a young man?"
"It's just being blackmailed." Huang Pi finally became a little anxious again. "In the beginning, some helpers in the county office who worked in the yamen knew that my uncle had a few donkeys and wanted to blackmail us, but my uncle resisted them. General Zhonglang of Hejian Daying sent an urgent order to the county. The county magistrate was scared and let the helpers arrest people. As a result, the donkeys were divided and the people were dragged into the army. Gao Tang Many people were arrested like this..."
"Do you remember that General Zhonglang?" Zhang Xing finished the record and raised his head to ask. "Know what his name is?"
"Remember the grudge, I will hate him for the rest of my life, but I don't know what his name is."
"Then do you remember those gangsters and county magistrates?"
"Remember the grudge."
"Want revenge?"
"If I can see it, I will be slaughtered... The county magistrate has already been slaughtered by Zhang Jincheng, but the few helpers can't be seen, and I don't know where they went."
To be honest, the result was still unsatisfactory, but Zhang Xing nodded again and again, as if he had caught some trick: "General Zhonglang, county magistrate, and helper, can you see who these people are?"
"No……"
"They're all from the Great Wei court... right?" Zhang Xing guided a bit uneasily... All I can say is that it's okay, after all, it's back to the logic of the fixed body question... But it doesn't seem so far-fetched.
"Correct."
"Then do you hate the court?"
"Why don't you hate it?" Huang Erpizi's tone softened a lot, probably because he said it well. "But usually I don't dare to hate, I just remember those people."
"But you've become a rebel... You've turned against Zhang Jincheng, and you're here with our Dragon Clan. What else can you not hate?"
"That's true." Huang Erpizi nodded, and then asked seriously. "But Da Longtou, I still have something to say. I would like to ask boldly today. If they are all rebels, why did they beat Zhang Jincheng before? Zhang Jincheng killed the imperial court magistrate!"
"Because he slaughtered the city." Finally got a question that he had been longing to be asked, Zhang Xing was shocked, quickly put down the notebook in his hand, and confronted loudly. "It's all about rebellion to make a living, but we are different from the other rebels. Our rebellion is to lead everyone to drive away the Wei court, and then live a good life; other rebels are still big leaders and leaders. Our family wants to rob money, rob food, rob women, and never thought of letting you live a good life... And in this, Zhang Jincheng is especially too much. He is as contemptuous as that dog emperor. Killing the county magistrate today seems to be for the sake of it. You have avenged your revenge, but if you massacre the city tomorrow, tens of thousands of people like you will be homeless... So you have to kill him, and you have to clean up the door of the rebel army! You have to go back to the normal way! Rebellion is also about rules and righteousness. Contradictory!"
Huang Erpizi stood there in a daze, as if he didn't expect to get such an answer, and it was obvious that he didn't understand it well.
The others, too, heard the discussion here, but they still seemed a little out of tune and confused.
However, Zhang Xing didn't care. In his opinion, it was indeed a success to be able to naturally lead to this issue through this communication method, which was actually far away from the standard complaint meeting in his mind.
Moreover, he also realized the problem, that is, it is meaningless to rigidly ask these people to talk about themselves, and he needs to be the "host" to actively guide and communicate in order to achieve good results.
At this point, Zhang Xing continued to nod, but after his voice gradually subsided, he looked at the person in front of Huang Pi: "Zhou Jiu...you just kept talking about your mother, your concubine, and your uncle, why didn't you mention your father? "
"My father... I don't think much about my father. I lost my father when I was five or six years old, so my uncle took care of me." The man quickly agreed, and his tone was much sharper than when he was talking about himself. "I'm different from Huang Erpizi. It's too early and I moved too."
"But why is uncle carrying it?" Zhang Xing suddenly asked with a smile. "You too, me too, Huang Pi too..."
"It's all brought by my uncle." Someone couldn't help shouting in the crowd. "Everyone in the big clan relies on the clan. For our small family, only my uncle's family is willing to help!"
Suddenly, Zhang Xing came to his senses, quickly remembered this point, and then continued to ask: "Zhou Jiu, according to what you said, your uncle died during the Second Conquest of Dongyi, right?"
"Yes."
"It was the same time for me... I was the only one in the whole army who came back alive... Your father died early, so your uncle is the pillar of the family, right?"
"Sure."
"Your uncle is gone, the old lady and sister-in-law are having a hard time, aren't they?"
"Why isn't it difficult? I'm just a strong man..."
"Did you hate the court at that time?"
"To be honest, I don't hate, and I don't know how to hate. The main reason is that I was able to get through no matter how difficult it was at that time. I worked hard to plant two lands, and I could still have some money after paying taxes... It was only after the third levy of Dongyi that I became afraid and felt that I can't survive."
"You farm two lands by yourself...does your uncle have no children?"
"There is a daughter, who is my cousin..."
"I know why you are not tired of planting two lands... I promise you?"
There was a roar of laughter, Zhou Jiu laughed too, and then lowered his head.
"What about your sister?" Zhang Xing continued to ask.
Zhou Jiu almost blurted out: "My mother and sister-in-law are gone, and my sister must be gone too."
After saying a word, Zhou Jiu seemed to come back to his senses, and suddenly started to cry, the tears fell like uncontrollable raindrops, and then quickly covered his face, but he still couldn't hide it... The people who were laughing just now also couldn't hide it. stopped abruptly.
Zhang Xing was silent for a moment, sighed, and announced that he would be temporarily disbanded today... This effect exceeded his expectations. He should have been chasing after him, but he couldn't bear it because of the surprise, and he also saw it for a moment. A few people who were waiting outside the threshing ground... As for Zhou Jiu, he was also helped up by Huang Erpizi and a man named Wang Qi, and turned back to the residence.
"Master Zhang is a man who can do great things."
After the crowd dispersed, Zhang Xing put away his small notebooks, turned around with Xiao Zhou, and met Niu Da, Taoist Wei, and the purple-faced heavenly king Xiong Bonan...the latter two only came today The one who praised him was naturally Daoist Wei who had changed into a new set of clothes.
"I'm not afraid to show my timidity in front of Duke Wei." Zhang Xing said seriously. "I don't know if it's right to do this, and if it's useful... But you can't do nothing here, right? Just do it if you think it's right. Do it first and then talk about it!"
Daoist Wei, who had changed into new clothes, shook his head again and again: "Master Zhang, why should you be humble? Since selling water, which one of you has done is not earth-shattering? If nothing you do is effective, then we are all useless?"
"What Duke Wei said is true." Xiong Bonan also nodded. "Corporal Li Xian, let's gather the morale of the army. They are all first-class soldiers with donkeys and horses, and there are more than a dozen practitioners. I think it's good to work hard... I saw those middle-aged soldiers in the Hejian camp... It's the same way that General Lang raises his own soldiers and servants."
This was some cognitive misunderstanding, but Zhang Xing was too lazy to correct it, and even wished that his actions could be integrated into these things that everyone took for granted.
Niu Da, on the other hand, couldn't help bringing up the old story again: "Third brother, I know that you want to clean up people's hearts, but before Wei Gong and Chief Xiong didn't come, you should eat and live with the sergeants. Come out and discuss important matters with the two of you? Otherwise, it will be difficult to talk to you."
"Okay, move out for now!" Zhang Xing glanced over Wei and Xiong, thought for a moment, and nodded slightly. "But it's still the same sentence, don't give up halfway, and try to come here every day during the day, at least let me go through a few hundred people, so I have a bottom line."
Niu Da could only nod his head.
In this way, several people left the threshing ground, walked deep into the village, and then began to speak along the way. With Xiong Bonan's character, he naturally opened up and talked about his experiences in the past few months. He regretted missing Li Shu and Zhang Xing's formation of the gang in Jiyang, and praised Zhang Xing and Cheng Dalang for making a name for themselves in the battle against Zhang Jincheng in Douzigang. In the end, he couldn't wait and expressed his desire to do something.
Of course, you must want to be an officer!
When it was Daoist Wei's turn, his speech and structure became more appropriate, and the amount of information increased:
"Zhang Longtou has done a great job. The Battle of Douzigang not only resolved the matter of Zhang Jincheng that was previously discussed, but also took over a piece of Hekou territory for us, recruited an army of troops, and invited Cheng Dalang to join the gang. But Mr. Li was not idle either... When I went to my hometown to find Xiong Tianwang and some old friends, he went directly to Qinghe and stayed in the homes of Fang and Cui for a long time. In matters of caution, he is the one in Li Gong's pocket, so he naturally agrees with each other...Even the Cui family is said to have allowed a few of their children to associate with Li Gong."
"So, our situation, except for a few nodes, has gradually spread along both sides of the river?" Zhang Xing didn't feel any pressure, but laughed instead.
"That's true." Daoist Wei couldn't help but look at Zhang Xing... No matter what, this superficial demeanor is still like a big deal.
"However, the Qinghe Cui family is so arrogant, why do you want to work with us?" As a native of Hebei, Xiong Bonan naturally knew the Qinghe Cui family's reputation, but he felt uneasy.
"Naturally, there is resentment against the imperial court." Taoist Wei Nianxu sneered. "Back then, the grandmaster of the Cui family was almost on the verge of becoming a great grandmaster, but because of Dongqi's crushing defeat, he fell into a slump, but the late emperor was still dissatisfied, and he wanted to kill the grass and roots, forcing the whole clan to die... ...But even so, the Cui family still cannot get the approval of the Zhang family, and it is difficult to be a county guard, and even more resentful, they simply do not allow their family members to serve as officials."
"So, does the Cui family have a real foundation, or an empty foundation?" Zhang Xing interrupted suddenly and asked.
"He has a real foundation." Taoist Wei answered seriously. "Cui's family has a long history of education, and his children are well organized. Everyone doesn't mention their studies and practice. What's more terrible is that those of us from Hebei, who want to learn and exchange cultivation, most of them still have to cross Qinghe... ..."
"But I haven't seen a person with such outstanding cultivation as Xiong Tianwang, and there is no one as talented as Wei Gong, right?" Zhang Xing asked again seriously.
"It's not like that." Daoist Wei simply stopped and became more serious. "I'm not humble either. I feel that I'm no worse than those nerds. But since ancient times, most of the outstanding ones are people with more experience. It's not surprising. The key is that once the scene unfolds, we will use the old land of Dongqi as the foundation, Everywhere needs people to do things, and it is inevitable to ask for those who are not outstanding, but who are not inferior... Moreover, it is not that there are no practitioners and scholars from poor families in the state and county, but how can they be easily gathered? And the family is naturally one-hearted. "
"Even in terms of cultivation, my wild way is not as good as Cui's." Xiong Bonan also sighed. "I'm just a person who is about to achieve alchemy, but there are rumors in the Cui family that there are three or four who are said to be able to achieve alchemy. I vaguely heard that there is also a person who is a quick master, but I just don't want the court to know..."
"But if this is the case, why did you avoid Zhang Jincheng before?" Zhang Xing was very curious.
"There is indeed a master, Cui Xiu." Daoist Wei smiled, and then looked at the curious Zhang Xing. "As for avoiding Zhang Jincheng... I can only say, don't underestimate these Hebei aristocratic families, and don't overestimate them... Let me tell you something, and Mr. Zhang will understand what's going on."
Zhang Xing immediately cupped his hands solemnly: "Duke Wei, please speak."
Others are also curious.
Daoist Wei was also polite and didn't return the salute. He just walked slowly with his hands behind his back and said:
"Yang Shen's eldest son married the granddaughter of Cui Xiu, a small house of the Cui family in Qinghe... At that time when the marriage was arranged, Yang Bin was still there and stationed in Xingyang, suppressing the Kanto, and had the right to appoint the old land of the Eastern Qi... ...Therefore, when they got married, it was said that the wedding banquet was extremely extravagant, and there were countless ministers of civil and military affairs, famous and noble families, and the ostentation was huge...In the end, after waiting for half a day, the bride's grandfather, that is, Cui Xiu, rode a hairless bald The donkey with the tail came to the banquet, and left after eating, and no one said a word... After Yang Bin sent him away, he specially presented Cui Xiu with a thousand taels of gold and five thousand taels of cloth, but he did not appoint any of Cui's children as officials."
When Daoist Wei said this, everyone seemed to have realized something.
And Wei Xuanding also twitched his beard and laughed: "To put it bluntly, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and if the Eight Great Families in Jiangdong are completely lean camels, these Hebei families are still lean camels..."
"There is a huge difference between living and dead." Zhang Xing stopped with his hands behind his back, and stood directly under the wall of the village, sighing for a while. "Especially now that it's time for the rain again."
"Who says it's not?" Wei Xuanding also stopped and sighed for a while.
"However, when Yang Shen rebelled that day, the Fang family participated, but the Qinghe Cui family, as an in-law, didn't participate?" Zhang Xing suddenly became curious again.
"Yang Shen lost too quickly." Daoist Wei sneered. "Many people guessed that Yang Shen contacted at least one great master at that time, and if there was a little continuity and momentum, the Cui family would definitely respond...Because Yang Shen's style is very similar to that of Wenxiu back then... ... just lost too quickly."
Wenxiu, Zhang Xing is no stranger to this word, similarly, there are martial arts, spiritual cultivation...the latter two are not mentioned, among them, Wenxiu refers to the war between the successors of the ancestor emperor after the Eastern Expedition, the Tang emperor Winning, created a core dynasty that occupied [-]% to [-]% of the world and lasted for hundreds of years. With the long-term peace, the huge social class, and the gap between the rich and the poor, the practitioners became more and more concentrated in the middle and upper classes...they Began to pay attention to the so-called family studies, pay attention to the sense of ritual in various practices, and pursue the unity of cultural etiquette and cultivation.
Even on the battlefield, he pays attention to the posture of a cultural person who commands from a distance and does not touch blood.
Of course, you can imagine the result even if you close your eyes. In the end, the border was in turmoil, the clothes went south, the Tang Dynasty changed to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and then the north was in chaos for hundreds of years.
This is also an important reason why Zhang Xing has always felt that this world is particularly direct and cruel. In the past few hundred years, it was a process in which the etiquette and morality were destroyed, and the victors did not even know how to rebuild it.
But on the other hand, cultural inheritance itself has vitality, and history is a reactionary reaction, and people gradually hate those naked predatory gestures, demanding morality and dignity... and many noble families are still adhering to the so-called Some of Wenxiu's routines.
"Did Duke Wei go that day?" Zhang Xing pondered for a moment, walked forward a few steps, and came to the threshold of the inner courtyard of the manor, and then stopped again to ask.
"Yang Shen? Or the Cui family?" Wei Xuanding sneered, simply. "I'm poor, how can I be qualified to enter the door? So I didn't go that day, but I came to see you today."
"Then are you Wenxiu or Wuxiu?" Zhang Xing continued to ask curiously. "Or is it a divine cultivation?"
"Good question." Daoist Wei smiled when he heard the words, and stepped directly on the threshold, spreading his hands. "I can fix whatever is useful!"
After saying that, the man laughed loudly, turned his head and went into the inner courtyard.
Zhang Xing also raised his head and laughed... And this is the reason why he likes Taoist Wei, and it is also an important reason why he decided to establish a system on the spot after accepting Wang Wulang's invitation.
After all, Daoist Wei and the great powers in the old land of Eastern Qi these years are all essentially the so-called ruined ruling class, and the thing is wonderful because of a ruin...Because it is ruined, it means that these people are forced to sink to the bottom and lose their political power. In the process of seeking economic benefits, the horizons have been broadened, and things have become more practical.
For example, Taoist Wei, even sank to the bottom, without even a clean clothes, so that once he gained some momentum, he changed into new clothes every day.
Of course, these are bad examples, and there are good examples.
For example, Daoist Wei's pragmatism at this time, and his concern and aversion to the big clan's participation in the cause of rebellion.
For another example, when chaos broke out at the beginning, Xu Dalang's first reaction was to drive the bandits away to ensure the safety of the surrounding villages and towns.
For example, before Zhang Xing raised his troops in Putai, he asked the troops to help the surrounding people harvest crops, check the land, and distribute the fled land to some eliminated soldiers... Cheng Dalang not only did not object to this measure, but Be more active than anyone else.Going back to Niu Da, although Niu Da had some resistance to Zhang Xing's behavior, it was more out of confusion, and in essence he was able to approve of this kind of behavior of winning people's hearts.
Daoist Wei did not mention that the reason why the latter few tyrants are like this could not be simpler, that is, although they are undoubtedly exploiters, but as former nobles transformed into manor owners, they know better than anyone where their power comes from. of.
They know who raises the horses, who makes the armor, where the soldiers come from, knows that even a grand master can't go hungry, knows the importance of farming, and understands that ten low-level practitioners can always kill a high-level practitioner. By.
At the same time, coupled with the indoctrination of a little so-called feudal principles and the tempering of real life, they lead them to respect the rules and understand the usefulness of righteousness and principles.
The insightful people among them are even willing to pragmatically and actively transfer benefits to the bottom farmers to ensure the farmers' right to survival, and are also willing to compromise with others to establish organizations and seek growth.
The last two points are especially precious after the troubled times began... Zhang Jincheng, a lower-level tyrant, has no such insight at all, but he is as strong as the great master Cao Huangshu, or even the leaders of the Guanlong army and the Shandong aristocratic people. They also regard the bottom as nothing, and at the same time take everything for granted.
Of course, in the end, in the end, these ruined ruling classes still do this because they want to become real masters and return to the ruling class... It is difficult to change this matter in a short time, and Zhang Xing is not prepared to make sure If you want to change, you can take one step at a time.
If we really want to pursue change, we still need the times, use the collapse of the whole world, use blood, iron and humanity to beat them up several times, maybe some people are willing to undergo some essential changes... Li Ding is like this, these people are also in this way.
However, if possible, Zhang Xing, who has no foundation, is still willing to intimidate, lure, deceive, and sneak attack, so as to force these people to contribute to his ideas.
Because this group of people is really good, and it is the only elite group that can be counted on at present.
"Gao Shitong and Sun Xuanzhi's 15-strong company crossed the river from the mouth of the sea, and Wang Hou led [-] troops from Yimeng Mountain to the north. It seemed that the north and the south were attacking and heading towards Dengzhou..." Zhang Xing read the paper Throw it aside, continue to pick up the porridge and take a sip, before speaking to Taoist Wei, Xiong Bonan, Niu Da, Zhou Xingfan and others. "Both sides are asking if Cheng Dalang will go? The Dengzhou government is also asking Cheng Dalang if he will go? The Bohai government is also asking Cheng Dalang if he will go? Cheng Dalang himself is asking me if I will go? Do you think I will go or not?"
Almost all the people present lost their composure.
Only Zhang Xing stretched out his hand and unscrewed a chicken leg, and gnawed on it... No way, don't look at some people who eat and live with soldiers these days, pretending to be tall, but in front of a small stove, they just Momentary nature exposed.
PS: Good night everyone.
(End of this chapter)
At the time when Miss Bai was acting recklessly and unscrupulously in Dongdu, Zhang Sanlang was spending his Mid-Autumn Festival peacefully in a village outside Puyang City, and held a forum with some new people he met by the way.
The total number of these people is no more than 400, all of them are from Hebei, most of them are from Qinghe County, 200 of them belong to Zhang Jincheng's core soldiers, and were picked out by Niu Da, and the remaining more than 100 belong to a man named Wang. The little leader of Da Scaru, who was in charge of leading a small number of mixed cavalry under Zhang Jincheng's command.
You know, before Niu Da was summoned by Zhang Xing, he only took a dozen or so cavalry to cross the river. He was doing the work of a messenger, but he immediately got the command of this cavalry after he surrendered Wang Dabao's troops at the beginning of the battle. After the war, he obtained the priority to select captives, and finally he was responsible for escorting the excess ordnance captured and crossing the river to support Shan Dalang, Wang Wulang, and Xu Dalang.
Under various arrangements, when he turned around and returned to Puyang, he had already turned from a black chicken into a phoenix.
With three or four hundred strong people in hand, plus three or four hundred mules and horses, as well as sufficient ordnance, and 20 of them are practitioners, it is enough for Niu Da to stand in front of the four big leaders Shan, Wang, Cheng, and Xu. There is a detached attitude.Even Niu Da's father who was a county lieutenant, although he never showed up outside the city, still handed over all the manors outside the city to his son to take care of, and his attitude became very obvious.
Of course, according to the mountain top doctrine, this belongs to Zhang Jixing, the right leader of the Dragon Clan, using his authority and his meritorious service in this battle to give Niu Da, the leader who is completely regarded as his direct line, a share of the real benefits.
Therefore, whether Niu Da reciprocated, or got closer to each other, they all in turn showed great obedience and respect to Zhang Xing.
Zhang Xing was also so happy. When he left Putai directly after the autumn harvest, he chose the Niu's Manor outside Puyang City as his temporary foothold in Henan.
And a short pause here, where some of his weird behavior begins.
But let’s be honest, some work extremely well and some work extremely poorly.
Among them, the good thing is to work together, eat and live together... Although Niu Da expressed a little worry that this would make these people despise Zhang Sanlang, who is so powerful in the world, the fact is that these people who were forced to hastily create The rebellious young people in Hebei are mainly farmers, and a small number are small traders and urban residents, otherwise they would not be arrested. Therefore, they still hold on to a big leader who can do farm work and at least seems willing to do farm work. There is a trace of approval, so I am willing to let go of the most obvious layer of barriers to communicate.
Of course, what I have to say is that the premise of all this is that Zhang Xing is a master who has both the governor and the governor, and he just defeated the powerful Zhang Jincheng before the autumn harvest.
That's right, as soon as Li Ding left, Zhang Xing had already unilaterally announced that he was in command of the Battle of Douzigang.
With the undoubted strength, the blessing of military victors and conquerors, and the direct power to determine the treatment of these people at will, it seems that the effect of doing this kind of thing of eating, living and working together seems to be outstanding.
In stark contrast, it is the follow-up further attempt, which is the so-called open communication with a completely open heart.
Not to mention that it didn't work, it was basically a mess.
"My family... I have nothing to say. Just like Brother Wang Qi, he did farm work when he was a child, and then served as a servant in the county a few times, and this time he said he was going to conquer Dongyi. My mother and I The concubine said no...it was impossible, because my uncle went there for this the year before last, and then he didn't come back, so he told me to run away...at first I didn't run away, and then when we arrived in the military city, everyone walked I was too tired, so I ran away, and I ran away, too... I just ran away, and then I got home, the house was in chaos, the war, the village burned, my mother died, and my concubine also died. It's gone... Then Zhang Datou happened to be the leader... Zhang Jincheng recruited troops, I had nowhere to go, and I brought a guy with me, and said I would give food, so I followed."
On the threshing field, a team of 50 people was having an exchange meeting, and when a young sergeant babbled and talked nonsense, no one was listening carefully except Zhang Xing, and he felt frustrated, so he kicked his butt Sitting down made Zhang Xing also feel frustrated.
It is said that this complaint... Uh, the exchange meeting is a magic weapon, but Zhang Xing did not expect this magic weapon to bring him a reborn army.
After going through so many things, he already has the consciousness to face the difficulties. The so-called want to solve the problem, you have to face the problem first... But the reality is that everyone is following the logic of personal attachment. They were willing to talk to Zhang Communicating and accepting the current arrangement is also acquiescing to follow the new anti-thief narrative structure of Zhang Longtou-Niutouling, following fame and fortune.
Therefore, according to Zhang Xing's understanding and expectation, this so-called exchange meeting is mainly for everyone to narrate their own life context clearly, and figure out why they were forced and turned back, and who forced them.
The so-called firm determination to rebel, don't be a traitor; get in touch with each other, get a better understanding of who is the leader, and know how to obey orders next time you meet.
That's it.
However, even such a simple demand seemed a little powerless, which made Zhang Sanlang, who was determined to walk the road first, feel a little frustrated... For a while, he wondered if he should give up temporarily.
"My name is Huang Pi, and everyone calls me Huang Erpizi. I am similar to other brothers... I just live a good life, farming at home, and selling donkeys with my uncle in the slack... Then there is Sanzheng, escaped, and Zhang Datou led the way when he came back. After we have defeated Gaotang, we will follow." Another person stood up according to Xiao Zhou's roll call, speaking in a particularly hasty and impatient manner.
However, it was this person who aroused the interest of Zhang Xing, who was sitting in front of him holding a notebook and pretending to be pretending, because this person's accent and way of speaking were obviously different from others. The information is not clear, it seems to be covered up.
This is also in line with Zhang Xing's impression of this person - this is a lower-class urban vagrant, not a farmer's son like others.
"Huang lo..."
So, Zhang Xing suddenly interrupted. "Your family and parents are still there?"
"Not anymore." Huang Erpizi, who had already sat down, was stunned for a moment, first answered in a low voice, and then suddenly raised his voice on the threshing floor. "It's long gone! I was gone when I was fifteen!"
"Then followed your uncle to sell donkeys, and traveled all over the world to see a lot of markets?" Zhang Xing thought. "Won't you be farming anymore? Just hang out in various cities and villages?"
"Yes." Huang Pi's voice lowered.
"Why are the parents gone?" Zhang Xing asked suddenly.
Huang Pi hesitated to speak, and his face was a little tense.
"I feel a bit like exposing a scar, I don't want to talk about it?" Zhang Xing laughed. "This kind of thing should be kept in my heart for the rest of my life. Is it possible to cover up the past and make a false statement? You should also have heard about me from your captain Jia, right? I am like you, and my parents have no parents. , lived with my uncle, and then refused to obey my uncle's control, and fled from the north to become a soldier... We have almost the same way."
"How dare you compare with the big leader?" Huang Pi was stunned for a moment, his expression softened, and he finally said it while chewing a piece of straw in the threshing floor. "It's not that I insist on breaking up with Dalongtou, but that my parents died... They were visiting relatives, and they encountered water bandits on the way. At that time, I was not sensible, and I didn't know who the water bandits were. …Later, I got a little older, and wanted to find a hero to help me take care of it. My enemies didn’t know where to look for it, and I was ashamed to ask my parents how they were at home, and I didn’t even have a place to go to the grave… What can I do? ?”
Zhang Xing was a little embarrassed... He thought it was a plot of bitterness and deep hatred, but it turned out to be a simple criminal case... Although this matter can also be used to play, is the bad law and order the fault of Wei?Is it because the Wei officials are incompetent that the case has not been found out?
If there is a problem, it must be that the Wei system is not good!
But no matter how you think about it, it's a bit deliberate.
What's more, wasn't he, Zhang Sanlang, also from Jing'antai before?Do you want to come out and bow and take responsibility?
After thinking up to this point, Zhang Xingzhang acted as if nothing had happened, he just sighed: "Indeed, but this kind of thing can't be blamed on you, the world is like this, and you still think that your parents are already amazing... What about your uncle?"
"Uncle died too." Huang Pi calmed down a little. "The young man who was arrested with my uncle...he died on the way back...I'm a rambunctious bastard with nowhere to go, so I voted for Zhang Jincheng."
Zhang Xing was taken aback for a moment, and immediately wrote down a few notes in his notebook, and then asked seriously: "Your uncle is a donkey dealer, so there should be some explanations, how did you get caught as a young man?"
"It's just being blackmailed." Huang Pi finally became a little anxious again. "In the beginning, some helpers in the county office who worked in the yamen knew that my uncle had a few donkeys and wanted to blackmail us, but my uncle resisted them. General Zhonglang of Hejian Daying sent an urgent order to the county. The county magistrate was scared and let the helpers arrest people. As a result, the donkeys were divided and the people were dragged into the army. Gao Tang Many people were arrested like this..."
"Do you remember that General Zhonglang?" Zhang Xing finished the record and raised his head to ask. "Know what his name is?"
"Remember the grudge, I will hate him for the rest of my life, but I don't know what his name is."
"Then do you remember those gangsters and county magistrates?"
"Remember the grudge."
"Want revenge?"
"If I can see it, I will be slaughtered... The county magistrate has already been slaughtered by Zhang Jincheng, but the few helpers can't be seen, and I don't know where they went."
To be honest, the result was still unsatisfactory, but Zhang Xing nodded again and again, as if he had caught some trick: "General Zhonglang, county magistrate, and helper, can you see who these people are?"
"No……"
"They're all from the Great Wei court... right?" Zhang Xing guided a bit uneasily... All I can say is that it's okay, after all, it's back to the logic of the fixed body question... But it doesn't seem so far-fetched.
"Correct."
"Then do you hate the court?"
"Why don't you hate it?" Huang Erpizi's tone softened a lot, probably because he said it well. "But usually I don't dare to hate, I just remember those people."
"But you've become a rebel... You've turned against Zhang Jincheng, and you're here with our Dragon Clan. What else can you not hate?"
"That's true." Huang Erpizi nodded, and then asked seriously. "But Da Longtou, I still have something to say. I would like to ask boldly today. If they are all rebels, why did they beat Zhang Jincheng before? Zhang Jincheng killed the imperial court magistrate!"
"Because he slaughtered the city." Finally got a question that he had been longing to be asked, Zhang Xing was shocked, quickly put down the notebook in his hand, and confronted loudly. "It's all about rebellion to make a living, but we are different from the other rebels. Our rebellion is to lead everyone to drive away the Wei court, and then live a good life; other rebels are still big leaders and leaders. Our family wants to rob money, rob food, rob women, and never thought of letting you live a good life... And in this, Zhang Jincheng is especially too much. He is as contemptuous as that dog emperor. Killing the county magistrate today seems to be for the sake of it. You have avenged your revenge, but if you massacre the city tomorrow, tens of thousands of people like you will be homeless... So you have to kill him, and you have to clean up the door of the rebel army! You have to go back to the normal way! Rebellion is also about rules and righteousness. Contradictory!"
Huang Erpizi stood there in a daze, as if he didn't expect to get such an answer, and it was obvious that he didn't understand it well.
The others, too, heard the discussion here, but they still seemed a little out of tune and confused.
However, Zhang Xing didn't care. In his opinion, it was indeed a success to be able to naturally lead to this issue through this communication method, which was actually far away from the standard complaint meeting in his mind.
Moreover, he also realized the problem, that is, it is meaningless to rigidly ask these people to talk about themselves, and he needs to be the "host" to actively guide and communicate in order to achieve good results.
At this point, Zhang Xing continued to nod, but after his voice gradually subsided, he looked at the person in front of Huang Pi: "Zhou Jiu...you just kept talking about your mother, your concubine, and your uncle, why didn't you mention your father? "
"My father... I don't think much about my father. I lost my father when I was five or six years old, so my uncle took care of me." The man quickly agreed, and his tone was much sharper than when he was talking about himself. "I'm different from Huang Erpizi. It's too early and I moved too."
"But why is uncle carrying it?" Zhang Xing suddenly asked with a smile. "You too, me too, Huang Pi too..."
"It's all brought by my uncle." Someone couldn't help shouting in the crowd. "Everyone in the big clan relies on the clan. For our small family, only my uncle's family is willing to help!"
Suddenly, Zhang Xing came to his senses, quickly remembered this point, and then continued to ask: "Zhou Jiu, according to what you said, your uncle died during the Second Conquest of Dongyi, right?"
"Yes."
"It was the same time for me... I was the only one in the whole army who came back alive... Your father died early, so your uncle is the pillar of the family, right?"
"Sure."
"Your uncle is gone, the old lady and sister-in-law are having a hard time, aren't they?"
"Why isn't it difficult? I'm just a strong man..."
"Did you hate the court at that time?"
"To be honest, I don't hate, and I don't know how to hate. The main reason is that I was able to get through no matter how difficult it was at that time. I worked hard to plant two lands, and I could still have some money after paying taxes... It was only after the third levy of Dongyi that I became afraid and felt that I can't survive."
"You farm two lands by yourself...does your uncle have no children?"
"There is a daughter, who is my cousin..."
"I know why you are not tired of planting two lands... I promise you?"
There was a roar of laughter, Zhou Jiu laughed too, and then lowered his head.
"What about your sister?" Zhang Xing continued to ask.
Zhou Jiu almost blurted out: "My mother and sister-in-law are gone, and my sister must be gone too."
After saying a word, Zhou Jiu seemed to come back to his senses, and suddenly started to cry, the tears fell like uncontrollable raindrops, and then quickly covered his face, but he still couldn't hide it... The people who were laughing just now also couldn't hide it. stopped abruptly.
Zhang Xing was silent for a moment, sighed, and announced that he would be temporarily disbanded today... This effect exceeded his expectations. He should have been chasing after him, but he couldn't bear it because of the surprise, and he also saw it for a moment. A few people who were waiting outside the threshing ground... As for Zhou Jiu, he was also helped up by Huang Erpizi and a man named Wang Qi, and turned back to the residence.
"Master Zhang is a man who can do great things."
After the crowd dispersed, Zhang Xing put away his small notebooks, turned around with Xiao Zhou, and met Niu Da, Taoist Wei, and the purple-faced heavenly king Xiong Bonan...the latter two only came today The one who praised him was naturally Daoist Wei who had changed into a new set of clothes.
"I'm not afraid to show my timidity in front of Duke Wei." Zhang Xing said seriously. "I don't know if it's right to do this, and if it's useful... But you can't do nothing here, right? Just do it if you think it's right. Do it first and then talk about it!"
Daoist Wei, who had changed into new clothes, shook his head again and again: "Master Zhang, why should you be humble? Since selling water, which one of you has done is not earth-shattering? If nothing you do is effective, then we are all useless?"
"What Duke Wei said is true." Xiong Bonan also nodded. "Corporal Li Xian, let's gather the morale of the army. They are all first-class soldiers with donkeys and horses, and there are more than a dozen practitioners. I think it's good to work hard... I saw those middle-aged soldiers in the Hejian camp... It's the same way that General Lang raises his own soldiers and servants."
This was some cognitive misunderstanding, but Zhang Xing was too lazy to correct it, and even wished that his actions could be integrated into these things that everyone took for granted.
Niu Da, on the other hand, couldn't help bringing up the old story again: "Third brother, I know that you want to clean up people's hearts, but before Wei Gong and Chief Xiong didn't come, you should eat and live with the sergeants. Come out and discuss important matters with the two of you? Otherwise, it will be difficult to talk to you."
"Okay, move out for now!" Zhang Xing glanced over Wei and Xiong, thought for a moment, and nodded slightly. "But it's still the same sentence, don't give up halfway, and try to come here every day during the day, at least let me go through a few hundred people, so I have a bottom line."
Niu Da could only nod his head.
In this way, several people left the threshing ground, walked deep into the village, and then began to speak along the way. With Xiong Bonan's character, he naturally opened up and talked about his experiences in the past few months. He regretted missing Li Shu and Zhang Xing's formation of the gang in Jiyang, and praised Zhang Xing and Cheng Dalang for making a name for themselves in the battle against Zhang Jincheng in Douzigang. In the end, he couldn't wait and expressed his desire to do something.
Of course, you must want to be an officer!
When it was Daoist Wei's turn, his speech and structure became more appropriate, and the amount of information increased:
"Zhang Longtou has done a great job. The Battle of Douzigang not only resolved the matter of Zhang Jincheng that was previously discussed, but also took over a piece of Hekou territory for us, recruited an army of troops, and invited Cheng Dalang to join the gang. But Mr. Li was not idle either... When I went to my hometown to find Xiong Tianwang and some old friends, he went directly to Qinghe and stayed in the homes of Fang and Cui for a long time. In matters of caution, he is the one in Li Gong's pocket, so he naturally agrees with each other...Even the Cui family is said to have allowed a few of their children to associate with Li Gong."
"So, our situation, except for a few nodes, has gradually spread along both sides of the river?" Zhang Xing didn't feel any pressure, but laughed instead.
"That's true." Daoist Wei couldn't help but look at Zhang Xing... No matter what, this superficial demeanor is still like a big deal.
"However, the Qinghe Cui family is so arrogant, why do you want to work with us?" As a native of Hebei, Xiong Bonan naturally knew the Qinghe Cui family's reputation, but he felt uneasy.
"Naturally, there is resentment against the imperial court." Taoist Wei Nianxu sneered. "Back then, the grandmaster of the Cui family was almost on the verge of becoming a great grandmaster, but because of Dongqi's crushing defeat, he fell into a slump, but the late emperor was still dissatisfied, and he wanted to kill the grass and roots, forcing the whole clan to die... ...But even so, the Cui family still cannot get the approval of the Zhang family, and it is difficult to be a county guard, and even more resentful, they simply do not allow their family members to serve as officials."
"So, does the Cui family have a real foundation, or an empty foundation?" Zhang Xing interrupted suddenly and asked.
"He has a real foundation." Taoist Wei answered seriously. "Cui's family has a long history of education, and his children are well organized. Everyone doesn't mention their studies and practice. What's more terrible is that those of us from Hebei, who want to learn and exchange cultivation, most of them still have to cross Qinghe... ..."
"But I haven't seen a person with such outstanding cultivation as Xiong Tianwang, and there is no one as talented as Wei Gong, right?" Zhang Xing asked again seriously.
"It's not like that." Daoist Wei simply stopped and became more serious. "I'm not humble either. I feel that I'm no worse than those nerds. But since ancient times, most of the outstanding ones are people with more experience. It's not surprising. The key is that once the scene unfolds, we will use the old land of Dongqi as the foundation, Everywhere needs people to do things, and it is inevitable to ask for those who are not outstanding, but who are not inferior... Moreover, it is not that there are no practitioners and scholars from poor families in the state and county, but how can they be easily gathered? And the family is naturally one-hearted. "
"Even in terms of cultivation, my wild way is not as good as Cui's." Xiong Bonan also sighed. "I'm just a person who is about to achieve alchemy, but there are rumors in the Cui family that there are three or four who are said to be able to achieve alchemy. I vaguely heard that there is also a person who is a quick master, but I just don't want the court to know..."
"But if this is the case, why did you avoid Zhang Jincheng before?" Zhang Xing was very curious.
"There is indeed a master, Cui Xiu." Daoist Wei smiled, and then looked at the curious Zhang Xing. "As for avoiding Zhang Jincheng... I can only say, don't underestimate these Hebei aristocratic families, and don't overestimate them... Let me tell you something, and Mr. Zhang will understand what's going on."
Zhang Xing immediately cupped his hands solemnly: "Duke Wei, please speak."
Others are also curious.
Daoist Wei was also polite and didn't return the salute. He just walked slowly with his hands behind his back and said:
"Yang Shen's eldest son married the granddaughter of Cui Xiu, a small house of the Cui family in Qinghe... At that time when the marriage was arranged, Yang Bin was still there and stationed in Xingyang, suppressing the Kanto, and had the right to appoint the old land of the Eastern Qi... ...Therefore, when they got married, it was said that the wedding banquet was extremely extravagant, and there were countless ministers of civil and military affairs, famous and noble families, and the ostentation was huge...In the end, after waiting for half a day, the bride's grandfather, that is, Cui Xiu, rode a hairless bald The donkey with the tail came to the banquet, and left after eating, and no one said a word... After Yang Bin sent him away, he specially presented Cui Xiu with a thousand taels of gold and five thousand taels of cloth, but he did not appoint any of Cui's children as officials."
When Daoist Wei said this, everyone seemed to have realized something.
And Wei Xuanding also twitched his beard and laughed: "To put it bluntly, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and if the Eight Great Families in Jiangdong are completely lean camels, these Hebei families are still lean camels..."
"There is a huge difference between living and dead." Zhang Xing stopped with his hands behind his back, and stood directly under the wall of the village, sighing for a while. "Especially now that it's time for the rain again."
"Who says it's not?" Wei Xuanding also stopped and sighed for a while.
"However, when Yang Shen rebelled that day, the Fang family participated, but the Qinghe Cui family, as an in-law, didn't participate?" Zhang Xing suddenly became curious again.
"Yang Shen lost too quickly." Daoist Wei sneered. "Many people guessed that Yang Shen contacted at least one great master at that time, and if there was a little continuity and momentum, the Cui family would definitely respond...Because Yang Shen's style is very similar to that of Wenxiu back then... ... just lost too quickly."
Wenxiu, Zhang Xing is no stranger to this word, similarly, there are martial arts, spiritual cultivation...the latter two are not mentioned, among them, Wenxiu refers to the war between the successors of the ancestor emperor after the Eastern Expedition, the Tang emperor Winning, created a core dynasty that occupied [-]% to [-]% of the world and lasted for hundreds of years. With the long-term peace, the huge social class, and the gap between the rich and the poor, the practitioners became more and more concentrated in the middle and upper classes...they Began to pay attention to the so-called family studies, pay attention to the sense of ritual in various practices, and pursue the unity of cultural etiquette and cultivation.
Even on the battlefield, he pays attention to the posture of a cultural person who commands from a distance and does not touch blood.
Of course, you can imagine the result even if you close your eyes. In the end, the border was in turmoil, the clothes went south, the Tang Dynasty changed to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and then the north was in chaos for hundreds of years.
This is also an important reason why Zhang Xing has always felt that this world is particularly direct and cruel. In the past few hundred years, it was a process in which the etiquette and morality were destroyed, and the victors did not even know how to rebuild it.
But on the other hand, cultural inheritance itself has vitality, and history is a reactionary reaction, and people gradually hate those naked predatory gestures, demanding morality and dignity... and many noble families are still adhering to the so-called Some of Wenxiu's routines.
"Did Duke Wei go that day?" Zhang Xing pondered for a moment, walked forward a few steps, and came to the threshold of the inner courtyard of the manor, and then stopped again to ask.
"Yang Shen? Or the Cui family?" Wei Xuanding sneered, simply. "I'm poor, how can I be qualified to enter the door? So I didn't go that day, but I came to see you today."
"Then are you Wenxiu or Wuxiu?" Zhang Xing continued to ask curiously. "Or is it a divine cultivation?"
"Good question." Daoist Wei smiled when he heard the words, and stepped directly on the threshold, spreading his hands. "I can fix whatever is useful!"
After saying that, the man laughed loudly, turned his head and went into the inner courtyard.
Zhang Xing also raised his head and laughed... And this is the reason why he likes Taoist Wei, and it is also an important reason why he decided to establish a system on the spot after accepting Wang Wulang's invitation.
After all, Daoist Wei and the great powers in the old land of Eastern Qi these years are all essentially the so-called ruined ruling class, and the thing is wonderful because of a ruin...Because it is ruined, it means that these people are forced to sink to the bottom and lose their political power. In the process of seeking economic benefits, the horizons have been broadened, and things have become more practical.
For example, Taoist Wei, even sank to the bottom, without even a clean clothes, so that once he gained some momentum, he changed into new clothes every day.
Of course, these are bad examples, and there are good examples.
For example, Daoist Wei's pragmatism at this time, and his concern and aversion to the big clan's participation in the cause of rebellion.
For another example, when chaos broke out at the beginning, Xu Dalang's first reaction was to drive the bandits away to ensure the safety of the surrounding villages and towns.
For example, before Zhang Xing raised his troops in Putai, he asked the troops to help the surrounding people harvest crops, check the land, and distribute the fled land to some eliminated soldiers... Cheng Dalang not only did not object to this measure, but Be more active than anyone else.Going back to Niu Da, although Niu Da had some resistance to Zhang Xing's behavior, it was more out of confusion, and in essence he was able to approve of this kind of behavior of winning people's hearts.
Daoist Wei did not mention that the reason why the latter few tyrants are like this could not be simpler, that is, although they are undoubtedly exploiters, but as former nobles transformed into manor owners, they know better than anyone where their power comes from. of.
They know who raises the horses, who makes the armor, where the soldiers come from, knows that even a grand master can't go hungry, knows the importance of farming, and understands that ten low-level practitioners can always kill a high-level practitioner. By.
At the same time, coupled with the indoctrination of a little so-called feudal principles and the tempering of real life, they lead them to respect the rules and understand the usefulness of righteousness and principles.
The insightful people among them are even willing to pragmatically and actively transfer benefits to the bottom farmers to ensure the farmers' right to survival, and are also willing to compromise with others to establish organizations and seek growth.
The last two points are especially precious after the troubled times began... Zhang Jincheng, a lower-level tyrant, has no such insight at all, but he is as strong as the great master Cao Huangshu, or even the leaders of the Guanlong army and the Shandong aristocratic people. They also regard the bottom as nothing, and at the same time take everything for granted.
Of course, in the end, in the end, these ruined ruling classes still do this because they want to become real masters and return to the ruling class... It is difficult to change this matter in a short time, and Zhang Xing is not prepared to make sure If you want to change, you can take one step at a time.
If we really want to pursue change, we still need the times, use the collapse of the whole world, use blood, iron and humanity to beat them up several times, maybe some people are willing to undergo some essential changes... Li Ding is like this, these people are also in this way.
However, if possible, Zhang Xing, who has no foundation, is still willing to intimidate, lure, deceive, and sneak attack, so as to force these people to contribute to his ideas.
Because this group of people is really good, and it is the only elite group that can be counted on at present.
"Gao Shitong and Sun Xuanzhi's 15-strong company crossed the river from the mouth of the sea, and Wang Hou led [-] troops from Yimeng Mountain to the north. It seemed that the north and the south were attacking and heading towards Dengzhou..." Zhang Xing read the paper Throw it aside, continue to pick up the porridge and take a sip, before speaking to Taoist Wei, Xiong Bonan, Niu Da, Zhou Xingfan and others. "Both sides are asking if Cheng Dalang will go? The Dengzhou government is also asking Cheng Dalang if he will go? The Bohai government is also asking Cheng Dalang if he will go? Cheng Dalang himself is asking me if I will go? Do you think I will go or not?"
Almost all the people present lost their composure.
Only Zhang Xing stretched out his hand and unscrewed a chicken leg, and gnawed on it... No way, don't look at some people who eat and live with soldiers these days, pretending to be tall, but in front of a small stove, they just Momentary nature exposed.
PS: Good night everyone.
(End of this chapter)
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