It was only the first month of this year. In the Central Plains, Liu Yu carefully fulfilled his responsibilities to the Jin Dynasty and sent his prince Liu Lin to lead his troops across the Huai River to attack Wu. At the same time, the envoy of the Great Qi went north to the Jin Dynasty and persuaded Wu Qimai, Zonghan, Zongfu and others to send troops to fight south. This was not the first time. In the past two or three years, Liu Yu knew that it was impossible to fight the Wu Dynasty with his own strength, and was worried that the black flag spies in the court might take their lives anytime and anywhere. He always looked forward to the Jin Dynasty going south and solving all problems once and for all.

However, in March, something big happened in the Jin Dynasty. Wu Qimai had a stroke and could no longer stand up. Although he was still dealing with state affairs every day, the discussions about the southern expedition closed the envoys of the Daqi.

When the emperor got sick, even the Jin Kingdom had to stabilize its internal affairs first. The matter of Nanzheng was naturally put on hold.

Liu Lin was defeated across the river and returned with the defeated general Yangyang. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the Jin Kingdom and the southwest, the two terrible forces were quietly without movement, which was fine.

For a period of time, everyone was able to get over it carefully...

It was also when the flowers were blooming in spring. From Daming Prefecture to Zhengzhou, fugitives with family members passed through towns and passes with panic eyes. Nearby governments organized manpower to block, drive away, or kill, trying to keep these hungry people out of their territory.

In relatively wealthy areas, the people in the towns experienced the scattered taxes by Liu Yu's court and barely survived. Leaving the town and entering the mountains and forests, they gradually entered hell. The bandits and horse gangs plundered everywhere, and the fleeing people left their hometown and had no shelter. They gradually gathered to the place where the rumored "Ghost King" was located. The government also sent troops and broke up the refugees led by Wang Shitong twice in the Huazhou area. The refugees were like a pool of turbid water, and were hit by their fists a few times, pounced on them, and then gradually began to gather.

This refugee tide occurs every year, compared to the Jin Kingdom in the north and the black flag in the south, it is not a big deal. After killing twice, the army will no longer be enthusiastic. Killing is not only a killing. Sending troops to ask for money or food, but ultimately, you have to manage your own land one acre and three-point basis. Even for the sake of the world, you cannot spend all your time.

Development is also important.

The Yellow River turned a big bend and rushed all the way to the northeast, from the fields near Zhengzhou to the mountains and rivers near Daming Mansion, and in many places, there were no roosters crowing thousands of miles. Compared with the prosperous Wu Dynasty, the population of the Central Plains was four times gone at this time. Small villages were covered with mud walls and abandoned and deserted. Groups of migrants were walking in the wilderness. The bandits who occupied the land of kings and the horse bandits who gathered together came and went, and most of them were ragged and had dish-like faces.

In the surviving villages, the capable landlords built arrow towers and high walls. Many times, they were visited by the government and the army, dragging carts of goods away. The horse thieves also came, and they could only come, and then the horse thieves were scattered by birds and beasts, or the high walls were broken, killing and fires continued. The woman holding the baby walked in the mud, and she fell down at some point, but she could never stand up again. In the end, the child's crying gradually disappeared... In the world of losing order, not many people could protect themselves.

The world of trade routes once opened, silk and satin has gone far away in my memory.

To the north of Puzhou, Wang Shitong was wearing a tattered black suit and had messy hair. She squatted on the stone and stared at the dark and messy sea of ​​people. Her eyes had turned into blood.

"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer..." he murmured to his deputy who had lost one of his arms.

Spring is in full bloom, and many of the people who went south last year froze to death that winter. More people gather here every day. Sometimes they can find edible leaves, fruits, small animals, and fish in the water. Some of the people who left their homes and went south after spring still have some food.

They are not hungry enough.

I'll always be hungry.

North of the Yellow River, the territory of the Tiger King, after Tian Shi succeeded to the throne, he carried out extensive killings and a series of reforms. General Yu Yulin held the plow in the field and ploughed himself. He came up from the field and washed the mud, and saw Lou Shuwan wearing black clothes sitting in a straw hut by the side of the road watching the information coming.

In the past few years, she has dealt with a lot of things at hand. Every night, the woman who works under the light oil lamp has hurt her eyes. Her eyes are not good and myopia, so she holds paper in her hands and looks like an old man. After reading it, she straightens her body and walks over, and only then does she realize that it is the third iron cannon transaction with the black flag on the south side.

After last year's coup, Yu Yulin held heavy troops and held a high position, and his relationship with Lou Shuwan became closer. However, since then, he has been stabilizing the situation in the north for most of the time, focusing on Wang Juyun, who is not a good person, as an "ally", and the two sides have not met much.

"The previous month, An Xifu, under Wang Juyun's command, came to discuss the military affairs of the garrison with me and talked about Li Xizhi. I saw that Wang Juyun was determined to start a war with Li Xizhi and came to test our intentions."

Yu Yulin sat down on the chair next to Lou Shuwan. Speaking of these things, Lou Shuwan folded her hands on her knees, thought for a while, and smiled and said, "War is your business. What do I know as a woman? Please tell me the good or bad things about it."

Lou Shuwan's words seemed apart, but Yu Yulin had long been used to her alienated attitude and did not care: "When the Tiger King was there, there were three of us in the north of the Yellow River. Now our two families joined forces to push Li Xizhi. One of Wang Juyun's meaning was that Li Xizhi was a ovumless person. When the Jurchens came over, they must beg for mercy. Wang Juyun showed that the carriage and horse were against gold. At that time, Li Xizhi would probably slap coldly in the back."

"That's it's good for them, it's gone for us?" Lou Shuwan smiled.

South of Yanmen Pass, the north bank of the Yellow River has three forces, and generally speaking, they are naturally the territory of the Daqi. In fact, the east is controlled by Liu Yu's confidant Li Xizhi, and Wang Juyun occupied the most chaotic place near Yanmen Pass. They did not verbally submit to the Jurchens. The best-developed Tian family forces in the middle are because they occupied the difficult mountainous land, but they were able to get along with each other.

Yu Yulin, Lou Shuwan and others who presided over the killing of the Tiger King this time were considered rationalists in the power. In addition to the radical Tian Shi and others, they could no longer stand the many drunken scums who depended on the relatives of the Tian family. The Tian family had not yet formed a complex network of interest relations. After a killing, the internal excitement was somewhat effective, especially the transaction with the Black Flag, which allowed them to grow their private strength a lot. However, due to the ambiguous position before, as long as they did not immediately break up with the Jurchens, there was still some room for improvement in the face of the Jurchens.

"Last year, hungry ghosts made a big fuss. Nine out of ten houses in the east are empty. Now they are no longer like this. As long as there is food, they can eat it. Moreover, with these iron cannons, it is necessary to pick a soft persimmon to train troops. But the most important thing is not this..."

Yu Yulin spoke, and Lou Shuwan interrupted with a smile: "All things are waiting to be done, there is no surplus grain. If you pick up soft persimmons to train troops, just pick him. Anyway, we are good people under the Jin Dynasty, so it is natural to attack the chaos."

Yu Yulin also smiled: "This is not the most important thing. Wang Juyun, An Xifu and others want to mess with Li Xizhi and stimulate the black flag to take action."

Lou Shuwan was stunned: "Dayan Yanyan, what's the matter with those people?"

"The black flag is in Shandong and has some business."

Lou Shuwan looked at Yu Lin with deep eyes, not confused.

"It's not just the Black Flag... Ning Yi used a trick to break Liangshan, but borrowed the power of several Dulonggang Zhuzis. Later, he also trained troops in Dulonggang and had a lot of connection with the two Zhuzis on the Shangshang. Zhujiazhuang Zhu Biao and others also worked under him. Three years later, the Black Flag fled south. Although Li Xizhi occupied Shandong, Hebei and other places, the people were strong and he could not take many places. Dulonggang, Liangshan and other places were among them..."

Lou Shuwan actually knew what Yu Yulin said. When Ning Yi broke Liangshan and made friends with Dulonggang, which was a tough folk custom, everyone did not realize much. When Ning Yi killed the lord, many things were traced back to the past, people suddenly realized that Dulonggang was actually one of the origins of Ning Yi's armed forces. How much he left there was difficult to explain clearly later.

The three-year battle in Xiaocanghe was afraid of the people of the Central Plains. Li Xizhi, who had attacked Xiaocanghe, naturally used troops to Dulonggang after taking control of Shandong, but to be honest, the battle was extremely difficult. Zhu and Hu families in Dulonggang had to destroy Zhuzi under the front promotion of the officers and soldiers. After that, they wandered around the Liangshan River and swept into bandits, which made Li Xizhi extremely embarrassed. Later, he burned Dulonggang to white land and did not occupy it. The area became an extremely chaotic and unbroken land.

On the outside, the forces behind the bandits in Dulonggang and Shuibo are now Nanwu, the mortal enemy of the Black Flag Army. Ning Yi was involved in the lords, and the female family of the great scholar Wang Qisong family survived with the protection of the prince Zhou Junwu. Wang Shanyue, who was a single-born man from the Wang family, was originally an official in Jiangnan. After the lord murder incident, he was protected by his wife Hu Sanniang and harbored to Hujiazhuang. After the fall of the Central Plains, he did not forget to worry about the country, and always led everyone to deal with the Jurchens and the soldiers of the Great Qi. Therefore, on the surface, this was actually a resistance force in Nanwu.

There are many forces in the Central Plains that are concerned about the Southern Dynasties, but they are more easily tolerant. Li Xizhi failed to conquer several times, so he let go of his mind and no one mentioned too much. However, this year, there was movement in the south, and speculations of this kind have risen again.

"Wang Juyun thinks that there are black flags in the north now, of course there are. Unlike the black flag spies in the army, the Shandong stockpile is likely to be the elite black flags that have been hiding from the female. If Li Xizhi is in chaos, with Ning Yi's shrewdness, it is impossible not to take advantage of him. If he wants to take advantage of him, he will have to take risks. In the future, the Jurchens will pay the most attention to the future. At that time, he will have to rely on you and me, and at least he will hope that we can hold on for more time."

"What if the black flag doesn't move."

"The interests of Shandong and Hebei are evenly divided. If the Jurchens go south, we can naturally hide back to the mountains. Shandong...is great."

"…He was determined to fight the Jurchens."

"The Han people's country can be confused by you and me, and not by the barbarians. Is it the original words of cherishing blessings."

"...Shangshu Wang." Lou Shuwan thought for a while and laughed. She had seen the Secretary Wang Yin, who was the Yongle Uprising, had been in Hangzhou. However, she was young at that time. The memories of more than ten years ago were blurred when she remembered it, but she felt a different feeling in her heart.

At that time, the innocent young woman was only in fear. When she saw the people entering Hangzhou, she felt that they were rough and unscrupulous mud legs. At this time, after seeing the fall of the Central Plains and the overturn of the world, holding the livelihood of millions of people in her hands, and facing the fear of threat from the Jurchens, she suddenly felt that among the people who entered the city, there seemed to be a great hero standing upright. This hero was very different from the heroes at that time.

"Like an amazing man." Yu Yulin said, then stood up and took two steps, "But at this moment, this hero, you and me, the people in the court, millions of troops, and even the world, seemed to be played with by that man and applauding."

Lou Shuwan's eyes were calm and she didn't say anything. Yu Yulin sighed: "The fact that Ning Yi is still alive is confirmed. From this point of view, he was also manipulating the chaos last year. It's ridiculous that we beat and die, and it is related to the life and death of millions of people, and they have become other people's puppets."

Yu Yulin said this, but there was not much depressed look. Lou Shuwan pressed her thumb gently in her palm: "Brother Yu is also a master of the world, why should she belittle herself? The world is prosperous and all for profit. He took advantage of the situation and we got the profit, that's all." After she said this, Yu Yulin looked at her and raised her head and murmured softly: "As an applause..." For this description, I don't know what she thought of, a bitter and charming expression flashed in her eyes, which was fleeting. The spring breeze blew the hair of this woman with independent temperament, and there was a continuous extension of green fields in front of her.

"I met Master Lin of the Great Guangming Cult a few days ago and agreed to them to continue building temples and preaching here. Soon, I want to join the Great Guangming Cult." Yu Yulin looked over, and Lou Shuwan looked ahead and said calmly, "The teachings of the Great Guangming Cult are under Mingzun, and we can control the high and low rudders of the Great Guangming Cult here. The Great Guangming Cult cannot intervene too much in military and political affairs, but they can recruit monk soldiers from the poor. To the north of the Yellow River, we support them and help them develop on the territory of Wang Juyun and Li Xizhi. They will collect food from the south, and we can also help them to protect and transfer... Master Lin has great ambitions and has agreed."

She smiled and said, "After a while, people will know that the king is also a god from heaven and descending to earth. He is the living Xuan King. Brother Yu, you are also a god general who is patrolling the heavens. King Tota is also a king of kings in power. Brother Yu, you might as well choose it yourself."

Yu Yulin looked at her for a while: "That monk is not a good person either, be careful."

"In this world, I can't bear to leave my children, so how can I catch a wolf? I can save it. If he or she eats me or I or she or she."

Yu Yulin stopped talking. The two of them stood and sat there, and looked forward for a long time. At some point, a low murmur floated in the air.

“…in the palm of your hand…”

"... Sooner or later, I will bite him a piece of meat down..."

The two big men talked in the fields outside for a long time. When they were riding a carriage all the way back to the city, the bright sunset had already rippled in the sky, which fell on the wall of Weisheng. The road was bustling with people, and there were beggars by the city gate. However, compared with the Central Plains land at this time, after more than ten years of peace, this town showed an unspeakable stability and peace. After leaving despair, they could always gather vitality and vitality in this corner.

"Defend one territory and keep the people in the four realms. Miss Lou, all these are all thanks to you. You are so good." Yu Yulin said this when he lifted the curtain of the car.

Lou Shuwan looked at the crowd outside with a calm expression, just like she had been doing for many years. In fact, there were no more vivid expressions on her face.

There is no one to share these with her...
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