Lu Ming

Chapter 43 Cooperative Mode
Cao Chuan chuckled and waved his hand: "They are all brothers of their own, and they will conspire together in the future. Some secrets don't need to be hidden from you now. It's just that the reason is a long story, so please allow me to elaborate."

Taking a sip from the tea bowl, and recalling the "outline" written by some people for himself, Cao Chuan began to slowly tell the story: "Some of you don't know, when I settled here in Hangzhou, I didn't want to do too much trouble. of."

Speaking of this, his tone became heavy: "Unexpectedly, this city of Hangzhou, known as the great city in the south of the Yangtze River, is starving everywhere, and corrupt officials are rampant. It looks prosperous and beautiful, but it is actually corrupt, hehe, I saw it in the sect. The paintings and shadows of Hangzhou City are not as rotten as this."

Cao Chuan paused for a while and then said: "When I look at the qi at night, as expected, this place in Hangzhou is already full of savage qi, murderous intentions are secretly born, and the dragon qi of the Ming Dynasty seems to be unstable. Alas, the head of Jiangnan The good places are like this, and if you want to come to the rest of the prefectures and counties under the Ming Dynasty, it is probably not much better."

". The poor Daoist saw this vision that day, and did not dare to delay, so he reported the matter to the sect. You all don't know, my disciples have traveled in the mountains, and they have the duty of 'watching the wind'."

".Now the Prime Minister of the Shangqing Palace in West Kunlun is the one who is in the lower bounds, and it is the Yuanjun Wujie." When Cao Chuan said this, he folded his hands, pointed in a random direction and bowed, and the two next to him also followed in time. The three of Zhou Tong were fascinated, and when they saw this posture, they hurriedly bowed to the air.

After the fuss, Cao Jiangshu continued: "Coincidentally, this Wujie Yuanjun ascended in this world 3000 years ago, and he is also the ancestor of the Han people. After hearing the news, Yuanjun took a lesson. , I found out that there are no Daoist monarchs and ministers in the Ming Dynasty, and there are foreign races watching outside, if we don’t rectify the source in time, the dragon spirit of the Han people may be taken away by evil spirits from outside the territory, and they will not return within 300 years!"

After pausing for a while, after Zhou Tong and the others had finished digesting it, Cao Chuan sighed and continued: "After Yuan Jun noticed this, he immediately issued a decree, ordering me to devote myself to the robbery, open a new dynasty, revolutionize the world, and fight against the external demon. To fight, keep the Han people from falling. In addition, Yuan Jun has selected a group of civil and military personnel to come down the mountain to assist me, and these two are enough."

After finally finishing the script according to the outline, Cao Jiaoshu also let out a sigh of relief, picked up the tea bowl and poured two sips, and then said to Zhou Tong, who was still reminiscing about it, "The cause and effect are all here."

Zhou Tong woke up from his meditation with a jolt: "Oh, dare to ask Mr. when the trouble? This is just the opposite. Isn't it a bit more prudent?"

Cao Chuan laughed: "Yuanjun's hexagram has a cloud: the dragon and snake rise to the land, and the benefit is in the southeast. Every big change is about to happen, and there are omens: at the beginning, natural disasters and man-made disasters will warn you, and then there will be smoke and dust in various ways. After that, there will always be Some grass-headed kings have to open the way, and after ten or eight years of trouble, we can achieve the title. Right now, we naturally have to dormant in the southeast according to the hexagram of Yuanjun. Well, this place already exists, the brothers in Pingfengzhai. If you are willing to share a career with Cao, you can discuss it in detail later."

When Zhou Tong heard this, he knew that the flop time had come. He wanted to sacrifice his life for Cao Daxian to fight for the future, but he backhanded the lives of hundreds of people from Pingfeng Village. Zhou Tong turned his head, and Chen Chu and the other two After staring at each other for a few moments, I was confused and didn't know what to do.

In the end, Zhou Tong only stayed in Tangzhuang for three days, and then hurried back to the mountain.There are still many things to do after returning: shrinking forces, propaganda and mobilization, selling movable and real estate...etc, etc.

Since you want to follow Emperor Cao to conquer the world, you have to go back and inspect the property. Those who defected to the lord in the storytelling, don't all sell property first, and then recruit the children of the village to join in the act of righteousness.
Having said that, if a man with a big killing weapon, not short of money, and the forces of various "Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals" are not worthy of being a brethren, then the Pingfengzhai's grade in the bandit world is too low. , obviously Zhou Tong and they are not such people.

Of course, there are some things that need to be made clear in advance. Zhou Tong has also made his own efforts on this point. At least when he returned to the mountain, Zhou Dazhai thought that he was worthy of the old and young men in the mountains. of.

During the few days they stayed in Tangzhuang, Zhou Tong, Xia Xianze and others held several rounds of talks, and the talks achieved satisfactory results for both parties: the travelers happily supported Zhou Tong to set up a "copycat labor export company" with separate accounting , and the original leadership team will remain unchanged by default, and the original power structure will not be shaken.To put it simply: once based on the cognition of Mingren, the standard joint-stock process on the rivers and lakes began to start.

Comrade Erlangshen has a famous statement about this method of joint stock: listen to the tune but not to the propaganda.Also known as: Guanjiangkou model.

Of course, maybe one day in the future, when the elderly Zhou Dazhai is sitting in the office of the CPPCC, and sees the historical data that reads: "Zhou XX began to cooperate with the organization to a limited extent in [-]", he will feel It's hard to help, and there are many regrets; however, it can't be blamed on him. In this era, no one can imagine what kind of change they will bring to Cao Chuan.

The traversers are quite satisfied with the agreement reached by the two parties, which is in line with the plan - a dozen people have to forcibly lead a group of "Yan Ye people" with a stable organizational structure, which will only cause internal friction. A kind of cooperation similar to employment is good.

As for someone who missed out on the title of "the leader of the old rebel family who crossed the regime in the early stage", everyone can only laugh at it - if you don't have the courage to put all the last coins on it, don't complain about the small profit after opening the leopard.

A month later, one afternoon in June [-], outside the city of Hangzhou, in the back garden of Tangzhuang, a dozen or so travelers were having a small meeting in a small building with bright windows.

In the state of paying the project funds that can be regarded as kind, Mingren craftsmen did not disappoint the owner. After nearly two months of overtime construction, the four projects originally planned by Tangzhuang have been completed.

The backyard is now officially known as the "Company Headquarters", but in private, a group of people mockingly call it the "Repost Center for Mentally Handicapped Humans" - every once in a while, there will always be confused people like the mentally handicapped. The traveler was dragged out of the sealed box.
The former barren back garden now has some things that could not have appeared in this era: four angular two-story long buildings that are common in later generations have been built, and two of them have been built in bluestone. Large glass windows are installed on the walls.The cement floor slabs were laid by the people themselves. As for the other two buildings, since the reinforced concrete is too precious at the moment, we can only use wooden beams and columns to make a living.

(End of this chapter)