Soon the refugee time traveler, after being encouraged by the old Taoist priest who was transformed into Wu Zetian, strengthened his decision.
He quickly began to discover the power he possessed.
He is now a bandit who owns a cottage, colluding with local landlords, squires, businessmen, and officials.
The power at hand includes more than 200 core minions and more than 2,000 peripheral gangsters.
He began to learn from the Water Margin to be a teacher, and the old boy became his fool for many years.
After setting up a set of reward and punishment measures and promotion measures, he just fooled those gangsters every day, telling them to follow him, they would have meat to eat, and they would get pensions when they died.
These days, even if a soldier of the imperial court dies, his pension will basically be swallowed up.
And as long as he does a little better than the court, these gangsters and minions will have fighting spirit.
Then he won over local forces one after another.
In short, he took the most exciting path.
In this kind of feudal society, he has no interest in pursuing such advanced and advanced ideas.
And he didn't want to do that either.
He has worked hard for decades, why should he work for others?
He wouldn't think so.
This is human nature.
Changes in human nature can only gradually change for the better after changes in material and the general environment.
Just like the morality of modern people is several dimensions higher than that of ancient people.
In one sentence, modern people do not regard humans as food, which can be summed up.
It’s not that modern people’s human nature has evolved, it’s that their material resources have become extremely abundant.
Cannibalism is too troublesome, too costly, and too dangerous.
The refugee travelers annexed the surrounding land on a large scale, buying what they could and grabbing what they couldn't.
And Wu Zetian also gave him a golden finger.
Wu Zetian made him immune to all kinds of illnesses, and she even managed to turn disaster into good fortune.
These two methods are to ensure that he does not die.
As long as he doesn't die, he will keep struggling until the dynasty is overthrown.
The reason why many promising rebels failed was actually an accident historically.
Die too young.
History is inherently a mixture of necessity and chance.
Inevitably, it means that in a certain feudal stage, whether Zhang San or Li Si succeeded in their rebellion, they would only establish a feudal dynasty in the end, and they would only use big landowners and big country gentry to rule.
By chance, it is whether Zhang San succeeds or Li Si succeeds.
Which one succeeds, the beggar or the hooligan?
Whether the country squires, officials, and foreign races succeed depends on their luck.
all in all.
As Wu Zetian stepped up her efforts to support the refugee travelers, their power expanded rapidly.
This refugee time traveler naturally has advantages.
First, he is a time traveler, broadcasting his knowledge.
The first thing you need to know is to get information.
He established many spies for hundreds of miles around.
Shops, beggars' dens, roadside black shops, boat dealers...
He gave each other more benefits than before.
Give information with one hand and get benefits with the other.
For the sake of copper plates, silver and food, these idle people played a huge role in news.
Strangers, news from the court, news from big families...
He set up a stick-sticking station, claiming to "stick to everything wherever he goes."
At the same time, he also began to build dams, maintain water conservancy, and use some modern knowledge to increase food production.
This in turn allowed the landowners who relied on him to get more benefits.
Increase total food production.
At the same time, he also began to impose slight restrictions on rural landowners so that the people could have a way to survive.
Only by maintaining order can we develop.
And if people want to have a way to survive, they must create more jobs.
Only when there are many jobs can there be enough products.
His understanding of the economy is far beyond that of the current chief minister.
There is one thing that can completely overwhelm the opponent, and that is that he knows how to circulate products and let the grain of large households circulate to the market.
Let small people buy food from big households and get money to buy food in exchange for working.
For this, he developed allicin and other simple antibiotics.
Drugs are what the wealthy people urgently need.
He even instituted various invisible taxes to harvest food from large households.
It is not possible to directly divide the land to grab grain, but the refugees from modern times have various means to harvest the big households.
After harvesting, the grain is distributed to the people as much as possible.
In this way, the power of the refugee time-travelers is getting bigger and stronger.
But he did not directly confront the officers and soldiers.
According to the explanation given by the spies at this time, the officials and county magistrates only regarded him as an ordinary mountain bandit.
The court is not afraid of mountain bandits.
Bandits were coming one after another, there were too many and they were overwhelming.
What the court was afraid of were the mobile and rebellious bandits.
That is the most harmful.
As bandits, refugee travelers can even collude with local officials.
From the county magistrate to the landlord, there are many people who want to have relations with him.
They need bandits to do some dirty things, and they also need big bandits to stop more bandits, and even help them suppress and kill refugees.
What to do if there are a large number of refugees under the rule?
Let the bandits kill and rob.
And the refugee time traveler began to play the role of this kind of big bandit.
At the same time, in order to solve financial problems, he began to put his tentacles on the salt.
In ancient times, there were many people who rebelled by selling illegal salt.
Moreover, selling illegal salt is a business with many benefits and high risks.
Zhang Shicheng and Huang Chao were like this, but they failed in success.
The fact that they can reach the position of overlord and disrupting the world is actually a success of selling private salt.
The reason why they cannot succeed is, firstly, a matter of luck, and secondly, they are accustomed to thinking in the way of selling private salt.
I didn't think about the big landowners' thoughts, so I didn't change my thinking in time.
It’s not that their background is not good, in fact, selling private salt is still quite possible.
First of all, salt is a common thing in the world.
Secondly, there is no shelf life for salt. It can be transported for any length of time, and at most it will suffer some loss.
Third, if there is salt, there is food.
If you have salt, you can exchange it for food from big households.
For ancient rebellions, this was a better path.
Economic income can be obtained by selling private salt.
Moreover, the price of salt has always been very high in ancient times, so there is absolutely no need to worry about not being able to sell it.
Don't worry about losing money either.
As long as the order is stable and the people have a little bit of money, they must eat salt.
And a place that cannot afford salt is basically a place of collapse.
By selling private salt, you can also collude with officials and train a group of warriors who dare to fight.
Many people don't dare to rebel, but they dare to sell private salt.
Both are equally serious crimes of decapitation and will also be implicated.
Because selling private salt requires someone with absolute secrecy, it is something the clan does together...
Private salt dealers have never been truly eliminated, and it is absolutely impossible for the imperial court to allocate a large army to conquer a team of private salt dealers.
Because that kind of consumption is far higher than the income.
What's more, when the emperor heard that he was selling private salt, he was fighting for profits, not his imperial power.
Compared with the rebellious refugees, the importance has dropped by N levels.
What's more, if one illegal salt team is eliminated, a second team will appear.
What the court can do is to set up as many checkpoints as possible.
At most, only local salt merchants and other private salt dealers can attack their counterparts.
The refugee travelers can take advantage of this opportunity to gradually expand from a small scale.
After all, he has a modern business acumen and business methods.
So he began to collude with those supervisors who could not receive the salt merchants' dividends.
After all, if there are more officials and less salt, some people will definitely not get a share of the rewards.
As long as you give enough money, someone will definitely take the bait.
Among these feudal officials, you don't even have to think about how highly enlightened they are.
Why is illegal salt banned so often?
Naturally, it was because the salt merchants themselves were also engaged in private salt production, and so were the court administrators.
The supervisors responsible for inspections in the imperial court also turned a blind eye.
Unless it affects related interests.
In fact, the fight between salt dealers and salt dealers is the most brutal and fierce.
The cruelty of killing and torturing each other is jaw-dropping.
They are the real enemies between them.
It's like two salt merchants who privately engage in salt business.
The competition between them is cut to pieces.
It is much crueler than the imperial ban.
It is through this kind of private salt sales and localization transformation that the refugee travelers have gradually become stronger.
He worked hard to accumulate it for ten years!
It is similar to the accumulation from the second year of Chongzhen to the twelfth year of Chongzhen.
The refugee time travelers finally accumulated a force.
He began to build his cottage bigger and bigger.
And use various ancient defense methods seen from modern times.
Not only did they set up various traps, but they also began to make firearms.
He tried every means to stockpile gunpowder.
This can be purchased secretly from officials.
At the same time he accumulated troops.
When he had accumulated 5,000 people, he could no longer support himself through business.
No matter how big the boss is, he cannot support the consumption of an even team.
You must have territory and productivity.
Finally he began to occupy the countryside below the mountain.
Occupy the countryside and build your own manor.
He did not directly attack the county seat.
As long as the county town is not attacked, local officials will turn a blind eye and will not report it to the superiors.
After all, this is the end of the dynasty.
The less trouble, the better.
Many managers don't even bother to be greedy, and they just keep doing it day by day.
I don't come to work at all, I just sleep, eat, drink and have fun every day.
You will only move when you need money.
And if the county town is attacked, the local magistrate must report it for the sake of his official position and his family.
Because if you don’t report it, you will die.
In fact, as long as they don't kill the other party, they may not report it.
that's all.
With Wu Zetian's support, the number of refugee travelers grew bigger and bigger.
Its development trajectory is much better than that of Li Zicheng in history.
After all, Li Zicheng doesn't have that much vision and no plug-in support.
He has several ups and downs.
The saddest time is being chased everywhere.
Then running away becomes a habit and you are not willing to fight hard.
Some people say he is a bandit.
The problem is that he rebelled in a stable dynasty and was beaten every day.
If it hadn't flowed, he would have died long ago. This was all forced out.
At a later stage, he also thought of establishing controls and establishing base areas.
He established his own base in Xiangyang area.
But his biggest problem is that his thinking mode is limited to the entire Ming Dynasty, and he only wants to bear the burden of the 13 provinces of Han and two capitals.
His thinking model still has not extended to the entire East Asian world.
So from this point of view, the vision is not broad enough.
It did not expand to the entire Yazhou, which is also related to his own origin.
He himself was born into poverty and had a narrow vision.
Later, they were always fighting against the Ming Dynasty internally, and never really fought against the Manchus.
Moreover, the think tank he received was not good enough, and his goals were not very clear.
For example, his think tank suggested that he fight back to his hometown and start again from there to obtain good soldiers.
We should have gone straight to Jiangnan.
As a result, considering that there were still resistance forces in Jiangnan, they did not do this, and the failure was laid.
In fact, he has many ways.
Go down to Jiangnan and copy Zhu Yuanzhang's path.
Defeat other rebels, annex them, and strengthen yourself.
However, he chose the seemingly simplest path to quickly destroy the Ming Dynasty, but in fact it contained huge hidden dangers.
His learning ability was insufficient and he could not keep up with the changes in the situation. He could not recognize that the most ferocious enemy was the Manchus.
So he fell into a good situation.
He obviously has enough energy to establish a grassroots management system.
Moreover, when he attacked the Ming Dynasty, he greatly dispersed his power.
He only brought tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses, and the rest were temporary surrender troops.
In order to suppress various places, he sent a large number of elites.
It can be said that he only brought 1/3 of his core strength with him, and the other 2/3 was scattered everywhere.
Relatively speaking, Manchu Qing clearly saw that the rebels were the enemy.
They gathered almost all the soldiers they could mobilize.
It can be said that every family draws soldiers, except for those soldiers who really can't move.
They all gathered together from their teens to their 60s, and finally gathered 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers.
Together with other vassals, the total strength is hundreds of thousands.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It can be said that if Li Zicheng brought all the troops together, he would have a great chance of repelling the Manchus.
In fact, the Qing Dynasty also suffered a lot of losses.
They relied on Wu Sangui to take the lead and consume Li Zicheng's troops and physical strength before they succeeded in one fell swoop.
And they realized that Li Zicheng was their biggest enemy and pursued him all the way.
They pursued him from the capital to the west and then to the south, chasing Li Zicheng to death.
He wasn't given a chance to breathe.
But they have no ifs in history.
The reason why Li Zicheng had such insight was because it was inevitable.
In fact, even if Li Zicheng succeeded, his own knowledge was limited and he could only copy the Ming Dynasty.
But it would be easier for the Ming Dynasty to absorb Western knowledge, at least there would be no literary prison.
In fact, Western culture has penetrated deeply into the Ming Dynasty.
Many administrators in the Ming Dynasty have long since chosen the West.
This was impossible for the Qing Dynasty to do, and it did not absorb the West until it was about to die.
Real success is determined by vision.
Naturally, refugee travelers do not have these problems.
He knows very well who he wants to unite with and who he wants to fight against.
As a result, the refugee time-travelers became more and more powerful.
Then he started stirring up trouble.
And that big landowner, the time traveler, after enjoying it for a full ten years, was on the spearhead of his expansion.
The two of them haven't met yet.
The landowner time traveler is dead.
He died inexplicably.
The cause of death was simple.
Just when he was taking his concubine out of the city for an outing, a group of soldiers from the Refugee Travelers attacked a nearby large household to seize food.
His military discipline is not that good either.
It relies on means such as promotion and wealth, eating, drinking, having fun, and clear rewards and punishments.
The result directly led to the death of the landowner who traveled through the land.
The great landowner who traveled through the world regretted it before he died.
"If I had known, I would have sought refuge overseas."
"I'm really stupid."
"I just thought that when the enemy came, I would just kneel down, but I didn't know that if I wanted to kneel down, I might not have the chance."
"Not all big landowners can survive the change of dynasty smoothly."
The great landowner who traveled through time was very depressed before his death.
