On a good and auspicious day, it is appropriate to break ground, travel far, and launch an expedition.
On the south bank of Jingang River in Baimafang, teams of carriages and horses are transporting supplies and equipment into the mountains.
During the battle between Shi E and Xueduo Luo, both sides showed their horses and identities. Due to the suppression of the so-called secret agreement of the three religions, both sides took a step back. Lu Qian successfully obtained his family's treasure from Ma Qianli.
That land deed, house deed.
Lu Cai acted in a military style, and he could be said to be vigorous and resolute.
After getting all the land deeds for a forest on the south bank of King Kong River, he immediately spent a lot of money, hired tens of thousands of workers, and purchased a huge amount of construction materials. In just a few days, a lot of materials had been transported to the mountains.
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Today is a good day.
Lu Qian, Lu Wei, Shi evil, Panman and others gathered together. Early in the morning, Shi evil set up the altar and prepared to break ground for the construction.
Lu Qian also met other disciples of Vajra Temple besides Shi evil.
Like Shi Evil, these five masters from the previous generation of the Vajra Temple were all tall, skinny, and stern, giving Lu Qian a strong sense of oppression and danger.
In addition to Panman, there were dozens of other princes and princes from Nanman State who also came over secretly.
Like Panman, these noble princes are disciples of Shi Nan and others.
Lu Qian also just learned that the main gate of the Great Vajra Temple is located in the Million Gods and Demons Mountain in the extreme south of Nanman Prefecture, close to the border between Nanman Prefecture and the Extreme Southern Wilderness Prefecture.
Smoke filled the air, and three animals were sacrificed.
Shi evil and other five bald old monks chanted sutras and mantras, danced around the altar and made trouble for ghosts for a while. They held shovels and gently moved a shovelful of soil on the top of the mountain.
The hired workers from all around cheered in unison. They carried various tools and struck ruthlessly at several villas near the top of the mountain. After a few random smashes, several originally beautiful villas were completed.
The ruins were removed, and all kinds of construction waste were transported out like water.
At the same time that the construction of the outer courtyard of the Great Vajra Monastery in Haojing was started, Anping Prefecture, Changping County, and the county seat Changping City stretched for tens of thousands of miles to the southwest of Haojing and surrounded by mountains.
The plan for the year lies in spring, and spring plowing is undoubtedly a very important matter for the Dayin Dynasty and the wealthy families of the Dayin Dynasty.
Early in the morning, Zhuge Lu, the governor of Changping County, had summoned all subordinate officials to gather on a piece of prime farmland outside Changping City.
Drums and horns were blaring, and gongs and drums were noisy. Beside the field ridge, Zhuge Lu set up an altar to worship the God of Agriculture and the God of Grain, and offered three kinds of animal sacrifices, melons, fruits, wine and other sacrificial items.
After kneeling down and praying, Zhuge Lu took off his official boots, rolled up his trousers, and with more than a dozen personal guards waiting on him, he walked barefoot into the fertile field in front of him, which could be as large as a hundred acres. He held the plow in his left hand and a whip in his right hand to drive.
He was driving a big, fat bull, plowing two portions of the fertile field in a decent manner.
There was thunderous applause in private. Officials from various yamen in the county and city, accompanying yamen servants, guards, village heads, farm heads, etc., all with rosy faces and high spirits, applauded and praised Zhuge Lv for his "diligence in farming and mulberry farming", which was quite ancient.
A virtuous person with a demeanor of "working hard" is a true gentleman of culture and education, and a "good minister and general" of Dayin.
Surrounding this fertile field, tens of thousands of naked farmers with disheveled faces gathered in a dark crowd.
These farmers, regardless of age or sex, were all lifeless, standing there like wooden stakes, staring blankly at Zhuge Lu pretending to be in the farmland.
When the officials, village heads, and farmers applauded and cheered, no one moved or made a sound among these farmers, just like a group of dead people standing still in place.
The vast Changping County is filled with fertile plains as far as the eye can see, not even a small hill or small soil bag.
Thousands of miles of fertile fields have been opened up into fertile fields, fine paddy fields, mulberry fields, pastures, fish ponds, etc., totaling hundreds of millions of acres.
Just outside Changping City, there are no less than 30 million acres of top-quality farmland.
But in the entire Changping County, all the fields are the property of the Zhuge family, and all the farmers are serfs of the Zhuge family!
In Changping County, the Zhuge family implemented the "Baojia Law" and the system of "if one person is in trouble, he will stay with him". All serfs were only allowed to move on their own fields and were strictly prohibited from leaving within three miles of their own fields. Anyone who violated the rules would be killed.
When farmers farmed, no matter whether it was a good year or a bad year, they only distributed grain rations according to a fixed amount, and all other harvests belonged to the Zhuge family.
Not only that.
During their leisure time, the farmers built palaces, pavilions, forests and gardens for the Zhuge family to enjoy.
In farmers' families, if their daughters are born with some beauty, they must be sent to the Zhuge family's mansion, where they can be enjoyed by all the masters and young masters as they wish.
Once the elderly farmers lose their labor force and are considered useless people who only waste food, the farmer head will come to the house with his thugs and drive these old people into the wilderness, leaving them to fend for themselves.
There were even young men from various Zhuge families who went on outings in the spring. They were extremely bored and formed groups like bandits, breaking down houses and destroying homes in villages and towns. They raped, plundered, killed and set fire to farmers, and treated farmers as prey!
Just like Zhuge Lv's eldest son, he went on a spring outing one year, destroyed three farms in a row, led his personal guards to kill nearly 10,000 "mountain bandits", and returned with a triumphant song. After recording his merits, he was awarded the title of General of Fighting Bandits of Changping County, and was recommended by Zhuge Lv.
, was promoted to Haojing and entered the Haojing City Defense Army Lieutenant Palace. I heard this year that he was already a powerful general who commanded an army of 100,000 people!
There are so many kinds, so unbearable, they are countless.
Zhuge Lu summoned tens of thousands of farmers to watch him start the first plow of spring plowing. He and a group of Zhuge officials had fun, but these farmers were filled with despair. Who could laugh?
Zhuge Lu, who was plowing the fields, looked around with a gloomy expression.
In the peasant team, the farmers, the village head's confidants, and the thugs suddenly began to scold in a low voice: "You bunch of scoundrels, hurry up and applaud, hurry up and cheer for the county governor!"
"If you shout well and loudly, there will be one mixed-noodle bun for each person!"
"Quick, quick, quick to applaud, quick to applaud... Whoever dares not to do as we are told will have your legs broken later!"
Following the instigation of these people in the crowd, the peasants with disheveled faces and numb expressions began to applaud.
"Wow!" applause spread everywhere, and someone took the lead in shouting slogans praising Zhuge Lu. Scatteredly, some farmers followed him and shouted.
Zhuge Luzhi smiled proudly.
He turned around, smiled at the officials who were waiting for him to plow the fields, and said, "My sword is still there... eh?"
Zhuge Lu saw that not far behind him, the gate tower of Changping City suddenly burst into flames.
One after another, the soldiers howled and fell from the city wall covered in blood. It could be faintly seen that there were many big men in armor holding sharp knives, chasing these soldiers wildly and slashing at them.
Flagpoles were erected on the city wall, and then white flags were hung.
In the center of the white flag made of burlap is a red lotus surrounded by red flames.
‘Pah~pah’!
Fireworks rose into the sky, exploding into clusters of red, lotus-like fire.
A high-pitched roar came from the direction of the city gate tower: "The red lotus appears, enjoy peace, the red lotus comes to the world, and the world is at peace!"
Zhuge Lu and a group of officials turned around at the same time, staring blankly at the city gate tower surrounded by fire and smoke.
'red lotus'?
What red lotus?
They racked their brains and frantically searched their memories, but even the most well-read among them could not remember where they had seen records related to the 'Red Lotus'.
Tens of thousands of farmers gathered around the farmland and were summoned by Zhuge Lu to serve as backgrounds. Their expressions suddenly became extremely strange.
Their numb expressions gradually became more lively, and in their dull eyes like those of a dead person, wisps of crazy flames emerged out of thin air.
'red lotus'!
Someone was shouting in a low voice.
'red lotus'!!
Someone raised their hands.
‘The red lotus comes to the world to subdue demons; the red lotus appears to enjoy peace’!!!
A group of men who were no more than forty years old, but looked as haggard and old as 60- or 70-year-old men suddenly jumped to their feet with a roar.
Like crazy demons, they hugged the village heads and farm heads' henchmen around them, opened their mouths, and bit the big blood vessels on their necks fiercely.
Blood spurted out, and the thugs screamed in pain.
The farmers who were summoned roared and raised long and short hoes or other farm tools.
They waved their farm tools wildly and plowed down the thugs around them who were dressed in fine cloth, cleanly dressed, and trained to be strong and powerful.
The terrible sound of bones breaking came from all directions, and thousands of thugs were beaten into a pulp in an instant.
The farmers roared and shouted the slogan "Red lotus appears, enjoy peace" loudly. Like crazy beasts, they rushed towards Zhuge Lu and other Changping County officials from all directions.
"Civil coup!" Zhuge Lu was so frightened that he trembled all over. He shouted hysterically, a word that had never appeared in his nightmares!
‘Civil uprising’!
How could these despicable sons of Anping Prefecture dare to rebel?
who is it?
who is it?
Who is instigating this?
"Come out!" Zhuge Lu no longer cared to think about the mystery behind this. He grabbed the guards around him tightly, roared hysterically, and ordered them to protect him and rush out.
Tens of thousands of peasants rebelled, but there were also thousands of accompanying soldiers guarding the scene.
It may not be possible to suppress this sudden rebellion, but it should be no problem to protect Zhuge Lu and rush out!
A general wearing armor rushed over with a group of soldiers. He waved his long sword and easily chopped down a dozen of the fastest peasants: "Uncle Ninth, rush out with me quickly. These mud legs
Son, let’s look at them later!”
Before he finished speaking, a sharp sound broke through the air.
An iron bullet roared through the air with a white trajectory clearly visible to the naked eye, and blasted the general's head into a ball of blood mist with one blow.
"Zhuge Lu, where are we going?"
February 15th, night.
Hundreds of messenger hawks flew into every square in Haojing in a chaotic manner.