August of the ninth year of Jinghan in the Wu Dynasty, early autumn, Jiangnan, Hangzhou.
The lake is shining brightly, and the mountains and rivers are initially level.
Half a month has passed since Fang La's army took over Hangzhou, an important town in the southeast.
Looking from a distance, the city walls that collapsed during the earthquake and war were being rebuilt, and the pavilions, courtyards, streets and lanes everywhere in the city also looked like they were in need of renovation.
During the military disaster half a month ago, the entire city of Hangzhou was filled with awe-inspiring blood and chaos. However, recently, it has gradually become lively again. People gathered from all over, except for the original
There are soldiers and generals under Fang La's command who are scattered in various places. They also have a name. Groups of travelers who look like farmers or small traders, some are in ragged clothes, and some have families with them. This has become the recent trend.
For some time, it has been the most common sight on the road leading to Hangzhou.
In the past, the gorgeously dressed traders, officials, high-spirited rich men, and scholars who used to be on the Jieˉ post road leading to Hangzhou can no longer be seen today. Most of the people gathering on these roads at this time are naturally because of the Holy Duke.
When he was about to become emperor, there were many farmers who brought their families with them because they were serving in the army. Among them, there were ragged vendors, odd-looking men, or large and small groups of troupes and buskers.
But it's a little different from what you've seen in the past.
These people may have arrogant looks, or may be wretched and low-key, but many of them carry various weapons with them, including gold, metal, iron and stone, made of various materials. During the journey, some ordinary people can find that these people
Some of them often greet each other, hug each other, fist each other, and say some weird words after meeting. Anyone who really knows the business will know that when these people from the three religions and the ninth stream gather together, their name is Jianghu.
, these people are also what ordinary people call "quack people".
Speaking of which, in the past two years, since the Holy Gong uprising, many people have been rising up and responding to the uprising in Jiangnan Green Forest. Some of them have been actively contacting the Sheng Gong army from the beginning. Some of them saw an opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity after the Sheng Gong army arrived, so they launched an army.
follow.
Of course, rivers and lakes and green forests are not necessarily the same thing. Most of these green forest heroes who raised troops to follow were originally bandits. Since there were people who rebelled and the momentum was huge, they followed the trend. And more people from rivers and lakes followed.
, they are the kind of practitioners who are hidden in the mountains or in the markets, or have some weird skills. They have three teachings and nine streams. They don't break the law on weekdays. They live a small life doing small businesses, and maybe they can't live a good life.
Okay. But since I have an art career, I may not have any contacts with those green forest people.
When Fang La revolted, he relied on the momentum of Manichaeism. He had a good reputation among the Jianghu people who lived in a gray area, but rebellion was a matter of beheading after all, even if he desperately called for it.
, there is naturally a limit to the number of people who will actively gather around them. But this time, under the planning of Fang Qifu, the Shenggong army took Hangzhou, and then Shi Sheng, Lu Xing'er, Lu Shinang and other people who already had a lot of reputation came to
Everyone in the country responded, shocking the southeast. When news came out that Fang La wanted to proclaim himself emperor and recruit talented people from all over the world, many people who originally had a wait-and-see attitude finally changed their minds.
These Jianghu people have not always had a good life. Although it is a little late this time, Fang La proclaims himself emperor. Naturally, a large number of talents will be needed to fight against the imperial court. Once successful, they will always have the reputation of being the founding ministers of the country. So this
In addition to the many refugees who wanted to protect their family members in the army, most of the people who gathered in Hangzhou this time were all kinds of strange people and strangers. Around the time when Fang La was about to found the country, the whole of Hangzhou seemed to have a trace of life that had only been seen in books.
The taste of a past martial arts competition.
The situation is chaotic and mixed. After the great cleansing of Hangzhou by the Po City, and the military chaos, it can be said that most of the land and property in Hangzhou have become ownerless. Although there is no question about the interests of the Po City.
The distribution had been negotiated before, but people's hearts are boundless. A post-earthquake city of Hangzhou is actually not big enough. To say the least, ten days and a half is too little time for the formation of a new order.
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The gold Kun you eat can be taken out again, and the land and property in the hands of some people can naturally be taken by others. At this time, when it comes to order in Hangzhou City, it is still just a matter of competition.
The fists are just bigger. Leaving aside the matter of superiors eating subordinates, after the city of Hangzhou was destroyed, according to Fang La's "rebel" self-proclaimed, there were still some surviving residents in Hangzhou who were able to legally keep their small property.
These people have nothing to rely on. For more than twenty days, they have naturally become a fragrant bun that anyone can step on, and everyone wants to eat the fragrant bun. Once someone from this army comes to bully them, they will
There will also be people from another army to "protect" them, but the price is not cheap. When the interests of each other conflict, these days, a famous rebel leader in Hangzhou City pulls the army to the streets or into the city.
It's not uncommon for people to open a film outside and call it a formation.
Hangzhou is a place that wants to be emperor, and it cannot be too chaotic. This is the tone set from the beginning. So Fang La issued an order, and there was a stir in the city, and the law enforcement team began to work. The leader was Fang Qifu.
His disciple, named Chen Fan, was very powerful in the battle formation, but he was too young. He arrested several groups of people without interrogating them. He took the leaders of both sides and punched them in the street.
, most of them were killed alive, including the nephew of General Zhang Wei, the cousin of Guo Shiguang, etc. It is said that a group of people went to the "Imperial Palace" to make trouble in front of Fang La, and then they wanted to catch each other.
Fang La also had a headache due to the fighting. He was recently worried about the war in Jiaxing in the north and was also busy with the matter of proclaiming himself emperor. He wished he could yell, "What's the fuss about? I didn't see that people here are busy being emperors." Then he drew his sword and chopped down all the people in the group.
Death. Painlessly, it was dealt with, but the aftermath of the war was not over. A large number of seven aunts and eight aunts entered the city, and then groups of strange people and strangers entered the city. They all saw those who had interests.
I want to get a share. I don’t have a place to live, so go grab it.” I have done a lot for the Holy Government. Now, my family has come and has no place to live, so I have to build a bunkhouse on the street... and so on. Chen Fan continued to receive
The law enforcement team beat people on the street, and killed anyone they caught who was not pleasing to the eye. In Hangzhou, some shops finally opened under such circumstances, and various waterways, which are crucial to the city's water transportation,
Land transportation also struggled to operate under this chaotic situation, maintaining the basic operation of the city and beginning to prepare for order and closure.
This city is like an extremely shabby carriage, with no roof, rotten beams, rotten frame, and missing rivets. It begins to move forward with difficulty under the burden of the last batch of skinny horses.
Wait for someone to come over in time and slowly fix it all before it completely falls apart.
Of course, where there are people, order will always be re-formed...
"But they say that the bloody-handed man Tu Ning Liheng is eight feet tall and has an eight-foot girth..."
Generally speaking, this kind of description of someone as suspicious of a cylinder at the beginning means that most of the following stories are false. But even so, every time someone speaks loudly, there are still many people around who are willing to listen. Right now In a relatively intact tea hibiscus in Hangzhou, a man lowered his voice and told the people around him what happened not long ago.
"... That day at Shiqiaodu in Huzhou, this man organized a tired army, put it to death, and then resurrected it. Using the strategy that the overlord of Western Chu used to defeat Ao and sink his troops in sinking, he first allowed his own army to count thousands of people. "The place of death" and then...then went back and forth twice near Shiqiaodu, breaking through the siege of the three generals, Lu Sheo, Yao, Yi, and Xue Dounan. If it weren't for General Anxi Fu'an's Black Ling Guards to deal with it, I'm afraid Mi Quan, Shen The two Zhucheng people have lost their luck... Damn, these people are simply monsters..."
At this time, the tea cakes in Hangzhou promoted how powerful the people in the imperial court were, which was naturally a bit treasonous in a sense. However, the city of Hangzhou at this time had no control over this aspect, and secondly, it dared to say this blatantly. There is some background to the matter. What a group of people mentioned just now was actually about the war that was still raging in Jiaxing, and then they talked about the failure in Huzhou some time ago. This person was probably a relative of a certain general in the army. At this time So he pretended to be mysterious. Of course, most people still didn't believe it. What kind of bloody-handed man Tu Ning Liheng? I have never heard of such a silly name in Jiangnan Wulin. For a while, some people laughed at it, while others refuted it, and some people took it. The smoker laughed "hehe" a few times, counted, and started the almanac.
"What kind of massacre with bloody hands... When it comes to martial arts in the world, I, Yan Qi, know best about this place in the south of the Yangtze River." Since then, with Sheng Gong as the leader, there have been Liu Dabiaozi who dominated the sword village, and Mo Mo, who has always been a loner. Chou Jian Bai Mo Yan, General Wang Yinwang's soul-locking spear also has unpredictable powers. The Buddha Commander can use eighteen kinds of weapons, but he is mainly good at boxing. His disciple Chen Fan is said to be able to pull out weeping willows! There are also # Quan Yuanjue# Quan Tathagata, Crazy Shi Bao, Li Tianrun, Si Xingfang and others are all good players. Now, most of them are under the command of Shenggong. When it comes to strategy, apart from Commander Fo, An Xifu is also an expert. , Liangshan in the north now, I heard that there is a man named Zhi Duoxing Wu Yong. As for the bloody-handed massacre, he said he was a scholar in his early twenties. You are really talking nonsense..."
The teahouse was noisy and full of smoke and smoke. Compared with the prosperity of Hangzhou before Fang La's army arrived, and the leisurely scene of tea and sweets, at this time in the shop, the only people who came were talking about how much background they had. , and all it showed was the aura of the well. At this time, on one side of the tea cake, a man dressed as a noble man stood up, whispered "a bunch of nonsense" and walked out.
This noble young master spoke not loudly, but people in the hall could hear him. Most of them were people from the world, and they always have the ability to see and listen in all directions. Although the young master was sitting in the corner, he was still very conspicuous. Some people frowned and were about to get angry, but when they looked again, as the noble young master stood up, there were also many people around the table who stood up, and it seemed that they were all The Lian family guarded the noble young master and went out together. Thinking that this noble young master also had some status, he restrained himself.
After the noble man went out, someone on the other side of the hall casually mentioned his identity: "This guy's name is Lou Shuheng. Hey, he's the original Lou family in Hangzhou. After joining the Shenggong family, he became very prosperous.
, he has the support of a handsome Buddha, and many people eat from his house. He was very cautious in the past few days, but he has learned to be domineering in the past few days. I heard that he even robbed a few women... Don't mess with him.
he……"
It was Lou Shuheng who came out of the tea hibiscus. After the fall of Hangzhou, in order to continue to maintain the operation of the city, the Lou family has now become one of the families that Fang Qifu and others rely on most, but in just twenty days
, they have shouldered heavier and heavier burdens, and at the same time they have gained more and more power. It is actually easy to deal with these rebels, at least when Fang Qifu is away, what they need is not to collapse, you can
Lou Shuheng has been aware of this feeling almost from the beginning.
Whether it's forced or voluntary, the Lou family actually doesn't have much way out at this time. Besides, it's impossible to quit. It's no longer clear from Fang La. If Fang La loses, the Lou family will probably die.
,. Lou Shuheng is a very smart man. At first, he was so frightened when he saw the soldiers in the city killing people, dragging officials and wealthy businessmen out, burying them alive, and rupturing their intestines and stomachs, but the same thing did not happen.
Above them, people began to take refuge in them, protect them, and help them under the instruction of Fang Qifu.
He watched the killing scenes in those days, and he was protected and could walk around. More than ten days ago, he saw a group of soldiers raping a woman in her twenties. He was just passing by, and several soldiers scolded him.
After a few words, he was beaten into a human shape by the guards who followed him. The woman knelt on the ground half naked and thanked him profusely. He thought about this in those days. A few days later,
He secretly went to the street with his guards and snatched a woman back home...
At first, he told himself that it was to test how much privilege Fang Qifu gave to his family, but this kind of thing was really exciting. He locked up the woman, and a few days later, he accidentally killed the woman... Chapter
It's always not very skillful at first... But that's how people are, once some things are opened, they can never be closed again. In that Wu Dynasty, he experienced the pleasure of such naked power, although at that time he
He was also powerful at home, but now, this feeling was really different... A few days later, he went out of his way to find the woman who was almost raped... and finished what the soldiers had failed to do.
thing……
That's all...
He was immersed in this feeling now. Today, the city of Hangzhou is really interesting. But today, when he came out, he suddenly heard the name that he didn't like to hear very much. It was really unpleasant. This thing made him feel
There is a gap. When I was doing these things in Hangzhou city, that guy actually beat several generals under Fang La's command like dogs in Huzhou.
So what is this that he has mastered now?
The distance was instantly widened.
If that guy is still in Hangzhou, he must die! Just like those officials and wealthy businessmen who were killed in Hangzhou twenty days ago, they died in misery...
This is what he thought as he walked through the decadent streets of Hangzhou with a few guards.