Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 92 0087 [Zhu Tianwang]

From the crossing point to Tian Er's house, the father and son spent ten days overcoming obstacles along the way.

Now I am going on the bandit's main battleship, and I found that tributary that afternoon.After resting on the shore overnight, at around [-]:[-] the next morning, Zhu Ming suddenly ordered the boat to dock.

According to the shape of the peaks on both sides of the strait, he already has a little impression.

Zhang Guangdao led his people to disembark, not knowing what he was going to do.

In more than three months, the weeds have grown back.Zhu Ming drew his sword and slashed for a while. After about 10 minutes, he finally saw three piles of stones.

It was the mark left by the father and son. On the cliff directly above the stone was Dean Zhu's new BMW.

Ju Ming looked up, but he couldn't see the car at all. It might be the newly grown leaves and vines that completely blocked the car.

"The night before last, I had a dream."

Zhu Ming retracted his sword back to its sheath, and said in a godly voice, "One day the king entrusted me with a dream, saying that he left a precious armor in the world. After waking up from the dream, I was half-believed, so I brought you here to find one or two."

After saying this, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Bai Sheng!" Zhu Ming shouted.

"I'm here." Bai Sheng hurried forward.

Zhu Ming ordered: "You lead three people and stay here. I will use a rope to drop the treasure armor. There are other things besides the treasure armor. If you find anything falling, untie the rope after receiving it." .”

"Okay...okay!" Bai Sheng felt that Brother Zhu was in a daze.

"The rest, take the boat with me." Zhu Ming said.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the boat sailed to a bend in the river.Ju Ming quickly recognized that this was the place where he threw the branch to determine the direction of the river.

Take out the dry food, rest on the shore, and leave tomorrow.

The bonfire was lit, and the sun was setting.

Zhang Guangdao approached Zhu Ming and asked in a low voice, "Brother Zhu, is there really something on the mountain?"

Zhu Ming nodded and said, "Maybe."

Zhang Guangdao didn't believe that the heavenly king entrusted the dream. He guessed in his heart that it was probably a treasure hidden by the father and son in the mountains.

There were quite a lot of mosquitoes, so everyone found some mugwort and threw them on the fire to cover the smoke to repel the mosquitoes.

Take turns keeping vigil and sleep through the night.

Waking up in the morning and continuing on the road, Zhu Ming cleared the way ahead with a sword, while Tian Er, Tian San, and Lu Wang held hatchets and chopped thorns with him.Zhang Guangdao followed with a large bundle of ropes on his back, and more than a dozen people behind him were armed with spears.

Two of them still held a gong, and they would ring it when they encountered a tiger. Most of the tigers would be scared away.

With nearly 20 people working together, the speed of going up the mountain is much faster.

In the afternoon, the mountain was already extremely steep, and Zhu Ming reckoned to go east.

"Hey, what is this?" When Tian Er was chopping a branch, he saw a white thing with some patterns and words printed on it.

Ju Ming looked happy.

It was a plastic bag used to hold snacks. When the father and son left the cliff section, they tied it to a tree as a mark.

"You stay here, Brother Zhang and I will go there... Forget it, it's getting late, we'll go tomorrow."

It was not too late, it was only after three o'clock in the afternoon.

But at this time, I went to get the armor, and it was probably dark when I encountered the car.

After another night of rest, there were still tigers coming and going in the middle of the night, and I was frightened by the sound of the gong and fled in panic.

morning.

Zhang Guangdao followed Ju Ming, climbing the cliff and walking sideways.He became more and more confused, Zhu's father and son were too cautious in this treasure place.

Moreover, how did the treasures be transported there?
Zhu Ming was familiar with the road, climbed for a while, and quickly jumped to the raised stone platform.He once urinated here, encountered a king snake, and even saw melon seed shells on the moss on the stone platform.

"Take a rest." Zhu Ming sat down and rested.

Zhang Guangdao couldn't hold back his doubts, and asked again: "Is there really a treasure armor?"

"Yes!" Zhu Ming nodded.

Zhang Guangdao asked again: "Brother Zhu intends to rebel?"

Zhu Ming smiled and said, "This is not a nonsense."

Zhang Guangdao was very active: "If Brother Zhu rebels, I will definitely follow. I will be the first to rush into the county government office and kill the bird official!"

"Why do you have to rebel?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhang Guangdao's thinking is extremely simple: "The government is full of bird officials, and the city of Tokyo is also the bird emperor. I wanted to rebel before, and I wanted Brother Yao to be the emperor. Brother Yao is dead, and Brother Zhu is also benevolent. If Brother Zhu becomes the emperor , the life of ordinary people will definitely be better."

Zhu Ming asked, "If you were given thousands of acres of land and asked to become a rich and powerful landlord, would you still want to rebel?"

Zhang Guangdao sneered: "My ancestors were also landlords, so what can we do if we encounter corrupt officials?"

Zhu Ming was silent and thought hard.

The specific situation in the Northern Song Dynasty seems to be different from what he imagined.

The biggest contradiction here is not the contradiction between people and land, but the contradiction between the government and the people.The government exploited too much, resulting in a large area of ​​wasteland along the river being uncultivated.The lower-level peasants also had to attach or rely on the big landlords in order to barely resist the exploitation of the government.

In many cases, although the big landlords also exploited the small people, they played another role: the protector of the peasants!
Customers and small people, with the village as the unit, guard one or several big landlords.The big landlords used this power to fight wits and courage with the government, try to avoid taxes and exorbitant levies, and protect the farmers while controlling them.In addition, when resisting natural disasters, they also hold together to keep warm.

A...very peculiar rural political ecology.

Of course, there are also evil gentry like Xiaobaiyuanwai, who really squeeze the peasants to death.

The specific situation is more complicated than Ju Ming imagined.

For example, on Kuizhou Road, there is even a widespread feudal slave manor system.A manor owner raised dozens or hundreds of private soldiers and controlled a large number of serfs to farm.There is also an agreement between each other, my serf escaped to you, you should send the serf back.

Facing the government, big landlords are also exploited classes.

To give a simple example, after Zhao Gou gained a firm foothold in the south, the first thing he did was not to recapture the lost ground, but to... occupy the land!
The emperors, concubines, clan relatives, and dignitaries who fled to the south forcibly occupied the land of the big southern landlords in a form of almost staking land.The land occupied by the royal family is called Yuzhuang, and it extends from the vicinity of Hangzhou to the polder area of ​​Taihu Lake, and even extends to Anhui.

Even the land of the Wang Anshi family was taken over by the royal family.

The descendants of Wang Anshi owned a large amount of land in Xuancheng and Wuhu, all of which were "bought" by eunuchs sent by the emperor.The eunuch's name was recorded in the history books as Chu Yi.

For the landlords in Jiangnan, Zhao Gou is not an emperor, but the number one bandit in Tianzi!
Every time there is a war, they expropriate, buy, and buy money frantically, forcing the landlords to go bankrupt.Then, the royal family and dignitaries took the opportunity to buy fields and crazily expanded their own land area.

What Northern Expedition?
What regained lost ground?
When the Jiangnan landlord heard these two words, he was so frightened that he couldn't sleep.The Jin soldiers have not been wiped out by the court, they will be killed by the court first!

Landlords who were far away from the Jiangnan area and suffered from golden soldiers and bandits also had a hard time.For example, Tang Zhongjun, Lu You's father-in-law, a figure who fought against gold with his family, and his grandfather was also a deputy prime minister, but he starved to death in his hometown in Hubei.

"Let's go, let's talk about the rebellion later." Zhu Ming got up and said.

Zhang Guangdao followed Ju Ming and continued to climb, even with his physical strength he was exhausted.

Suddenly, Zhu Ming split the vine with a sword, revealing a strange thing—the headlight of a BMW.

Swinging the sword continuously, splitting the vines and leaves, Zhang Guangdao's mouth opened wider and wider: That monster can move by itself!
Well, the car key is sensed, and the rearview mirror opens automatically.

It appears that the battery still has power.

Zhu Ming opened the car door and got in, then turned around and shouted, "Bring me the rope!"

Zhang Guangdao was still in a state of shock, subconsciously passed the rope forward.

Zhu Ming chose a slightly thicker branch, threw one end of the rope, and tried twice before he succeeded.Leaning out again, he used the scabbard to pull the rope back, using the branch as a fixed pulley.

The Heavenly King Armor was packed in a cardboard box, and Ju Ming tied it up with a rope, and said to Zhang Guangdao, "Hold the rope steady, it weighs dozens of catties!"

Zhang Guangdao finally came to his senses, grabbed the rope tightly, stepped on the cliff with one foot, and kicked on the tree trunk in front of him with the other.

Zhu Ming pushed the cardboard box out of the carriage and fell down suddenly. The pull was so strong that he almost pulled Zhang Guangdao out of the cliff.

Zhu Ming hurried over to help, and the two pulled the rope together, lowering the armor bit by bit.

"Brother Bai, something has come down!"

Under the cliff, Bai Sheng looked up, and sure enough, something dark fell down.

Then, it got stuck in the branch and didn't move.

There are still more than ten meters high from the ground, and Bai Sheng did not climb up stupidly.He picked up the axe, climbed only two or three meters, and then swung the axe to start cutting trees.

As the big tree fell, the cardboard box containing the armor continued to fall.

When there were four or five meters left, the rope was no longer enough.too short.

Bai Sheng asked someone to cut off the branches and tie them to the spears to make hooks.Then climbed up, hooked the box over, pulled the slipknot, and the treasure armor fell to the ground with a bang.

Ju Ming and Zhang Guangdao felt that there was no pulling force, so they retracted the rope.

After a while, another pile of messy things came down.

Instead of opening the carton, Bai Sheng picked up a cuboid carton with transparent paper of unknown material on it.He also knew a few words, and carefully identified them: "China... Smoking is harmful to your health..."

Picked up another long box: "Kweichow Moutai..."

What the hell?

Staying here, Bai Sheng waited for a day and a night, and finally Zhu Ming brought someone back.

There is no way to dismantle the car, and it is hard enough to get Tianwangjia off.

Seeing everyone's curious faces, Zhu Ming didn't hide it either.

The scotch tape on the carton had been torn off before crossing.Zhu Ming quickly opened it, and first took out Tianwangjia's helmet.

"It's... really a precious armor!" Bai Sheng was trembling when he spoke.

Zhang Guangdao was both surprised and delighted. He thought that Zhu Ming had already prepared for it, and that he must have hidden the treasure armor for the purpose of rebellion.

The parts were taken out one by one, perhaps because of the protection of the cardboard box, the cardboard absorbed the moisture in the air, and the whole set of Tianwang armor was as bright as new.

However, Zhu Ming was lost in thought. He and his father's physique became stronger, and the sword was also unbelievably sharp and tough.So, will the set of Heavenly King armor in front of me, as well as the corn and sweet potato seeds, also mutate?
"Brother Zhu!"

"village head!"

Zhu Ming came to his senses when he heard the shout.

He took off his shoes, put on first his boots and greaves, then his upper body armor, until he fastened his belt and put on his helmet.

The one standing in front of everyone is not like a general who leads the army to kill the enemy, but a heavenly king!
A real practical armor would not have such a cool shoulder armor and belt - the shoulder armor has two animal heads, and there is a ghost face in the middle of the belt.Even in modern times, it is very visually impactful, let alone in ancient times.

There is a temple on the mountain in the eastern outskirts of the county seat. Tian San has been there and seen what the statue of the king of heaven looks like.His knees softened, and he knelt down and shouted: "Heavenly King, I kowtow to Heavenly King!"

"Brother Zhu is the king of heaven!" Bai Sheng also knelt down.

The title of Heavenly King originally belonged to Taoism.For example, Pangu, known as Yuanshi Tianwang, eventually evolved into Yuanshi Tianzun.

Later, when Buddhism was introduced, Tianwang was also used in translation.

By the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, the four heavenly kings had no distinction between Buddhism and Taoism. They were both Buddhist Dharma protectors and Taoist heavenly kings.

Qi Shuhua knelt on the ground, Zhang Guangdao grinned, and he also knelt down: "If Zhu Tianwang is killed and goes to Tokyo, I will be the vanguard general!"

(End of this chapter)