Outside Cangzhou City, at a roadside teahouse on one side of the official road, more than a dozen refugees in ragged clothes and dusty faces were leaning against a low earth wall, holding up a broken bowl in their hands and weakly repeating these sentences.
Cangzhou has been in turmoil. Some people have lost their homes and are living a difficult life. They can only flee everywhere. Along the official road, refugees like this are common.
The waiter in the teahouse was annoyed by the noise. He strode over, kicked a person by the wall and said angrily: "Go away, go away, don't disturb our business!"
This teahouse opened next to the official road. It had not been opened for half a year because of several bandits nearby. A few days ago, those bandits were taken away by someone who didn't know who. They waited and watched for a long time before they dared to open the door again. But these
The refugees who couldn't be driven away were piled here like mud, which seriously affected business.
"They are all poor people, why bother them." In the teahouse, a man couldn't stand it any longer. He took out a few pieces of dry food from the bag he carried with him, distributed them to the refugees, pointed to a certain direction in front of him, and said
: "Thirty miles further along this official road, there is Dongjia Village. Go there to do some work, at least you can make a living. It's still early, so don't delay on your way. Before dark, it's too late.
It’s time…”
"thanks, thanks……"
A group of refugees shared the rations and immediately knelt down and kowtowed in thanks. After kowtowing a few times, they got up and walked in the direction pointed by the man.
The guy was happy to see this, shook his head, and went back to work.
The man also sat back down again, and a person sitting next to him suddenly asked in a low voice: "General Wei, it's already this time, why hasn't General Fan come yet? Is there something wrong?"
Wei Liang drank a cup of tea and said, "What's the rush? There's still a quarter of an hour. That guy Fan Xiazi always puts off doing things until the last minute."
"Wei, I heard you saying bad things about me from afar. I haven't seen you for more than a year. You must have this skill!" A loud voice came from outside the door. A man walked in from outside and sat down.
Opposite Wei Liang.
This man was tall and powerful. He was blind in one eye and had a scar slanting through his eye. He looked a bit scary.
Behind him, there were more than ten people riding on horses, and a wave of evil aura swept over them, making the few people in the shop immediately feel excited.
Wei Liang glanced at him and said calmly: "I haven't seen you for more than a year. Fan Xiazi, you have become more capable. If you don't know, you might have thought that some bandits came down from the mountain..."
The teahouse waiter came over nervously and asked in a trembling voice: "Guest, what do you want, sir?"
Wei Liang put a few copper coins on the table and said to the one-eyed man: "Go out and talk."
The group of people walked out of the teahouse, down the official road, and walked straight to a forest not far ahead.
Wei Liang stopped, and the dozen or so people behind him quickly dismounted, knelt on one knee, and loudly shouted: "I've seen General Wei!"
Wei Liang waved his hand, and several people stood up immediately.
The one-eyed man took a step forward and asked in a deep voice: "Where is the princess?"
"Your Highness has arrived in Cangzhou." Wei Liang looked at him and said, "When we were suppressing the bandits, we heard that there was a blind and powerful guy who occupied the top of the mountain a year ago and controlled all the forces within a thirty-mile radius.
Once I subdued him, I guessed it was you."
The one-eyed man nodded and asked: "The people in Cangzhou are saying that His Highness Prince Jing was assassinated. Is this possible?"
Wei Liang nodded and did not deny it.
The one-eyed man's expression changed and he said: "Then Your Highness..."
Wei Liang waved his hand: "Just think that His Highness Prince Jing is dead."
The one-eyed man took a few steps back and said in shock: "Then we, aren't we..."
"Prince Jing is dead, but we still have the princess." Wei Liang looked at him and said, "Do you think Her Royal Highness the Princess is inferior to Prince Jing?"
The one-eyed man wanted to say something else, but Wei Liang waved his hand and said, "If anything happens, I'll tell you when I see the princess."
Several people let go of their horses and rode on the same horse as the people around them. Wei Liang and several of his men got on their horses and climbed onto the official road. The group of people galloped away, throwing up a trail of smoke and dust.
A remote village in a county in Cangzhou.
More than ten horses stopped in front of the village entrance. The one-eyed man got off the horse and looked into the village, with excitement on his face.
Wei Liang looked at him and said, "Let's go."
"I will finally meet Her Royal Highness the Princess!"
A moment later, in the courtyard of a private house in the village, a one-eyed man knelt down on one knee, the muscles on his face trembling, and he could not control himself with excitement.
"Get up." Yang Liuqing smiled and said, "General Fan has worked hard this year."
After the one-eyed man stood up, he shook his head and said: "As long as His Highness is fine, it will be fine, and this subordinate will not have to work hard!"
He met several lieutenants with whom he was familiar before, and Prime Minister Wang. Before he had time to rest, he was pulled aside by Wei Liang.
"Don't you want to ask about His Highness Prince Jing?" Wei Liang looked at him and said, "Prince Jing is indeed alive, but he can no longer support our great cause..."
Wei Liang spoke slowly. After a moment, the one-eyed man came back to his senses, sighed, and said: "I have been worried about this a long time ago, but I didn't expect that even Prime Minister Wang could not let Prince Jing walk.
The right path..."
After saying that, he looked at Wei Liang with sharp eyes and asked: "What you just said is true. Is His Highness really planning to start an uprising?"
Wei Liang looked at him: "What do you think?"
A sneer appeared on the one-eyed man's face and he said: "Except for Your Highness, I will not accept anyone!"
Wei Liang nodded, but the one-eyed man looked at the thing hanging on his chest and asked, "What is this?"
Wei Liang took off the "Sky Eye" given to him by King Jing and handed it to the one-eyed man.
The one-eyed man took it in his hand and looked at it over and over for a long time until Wei Liang taught him how to use it.
He opened a small lid and put it up to his eyes, and surprisingly he could clearly see the expressions on the faces of people hundreds of steps away.
"This, this is Jingguo's telescope!" He looked at Wei Liang and said in shock: "This thing is hard to find, where did you get it?"
"What's this?" Wei Liang looked at him with some contempt and said, "Lend me your knife."
A look of vigilance appeared on the one-eyed man's face, and he asked: "What do you want my sword for? We are familiar with it, and I will not give it to you!"
"I haven't seen you for a long time. Let me broaden my horizons again." Wei Liang shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I don't want your things."
After Wei Liang said this, the one-eyed man had no choice but to untie the long knife from his waist. Wei Liang held it with one hand and pulled out the knife from his waist with the other hand. After several sounds of gold and iron, the one-eyed man's sword was
On the top, several gaps appeared.
In the one-eyed man's unbelievable eyes, he handed him his knife and said: "It's a pile of scrap metal, let alone a precious sword. This knife is given to you. Don't embarrass His Highness when you go out..."
…”
The one-eyed man clenched the knife in his hand, looked at it carefully, looked up at Wei Liang, and asked seriously: "Tell me honestly, what happened to you in the past year or so?"
Wei Liang smiled and said, "Come here and I'll show you another good thing."
The two walked into a house, and when they walked out again, the expression on the one-eyed man's face could no longer be described as shocked.
"God's punishment..." He looked at Wei Liang, took a deep breath, and asked after a long time: "Damn it, tell me honestly, did you rob these things from Jingguo?"
Without waiting for Wei Liang to answer, he showed excitement on his face and said: "With this thing, what are you afraid of? The garrison in Cangzhou is less than two thousand. Your people plus mine, plus these
God's punishment, we can capture Cangzhou tomorrow night!"
"Capture Cangzhou?" Wei Liang looked at him and asked, "What about after capturing Cangzhou?"
"Of course we keep fighting forward!" The one-eyed man looked at him and said: "With heaven's punishment, what do we have to fear!"
Wei Liang looked at him and suddenly asked: "Do you know what the main contradiction is and what the secondary contradiction is?"
The one-eyed man was stunned for a moment, then he took out his ears and asked doubtfully: "What?"
"Do you know what unified thought is and what a united front is?"
"..."
"Do you know how to establish a revolutionary base area, how to fight an agrarian revolutionary war, how to mobilize the power of the people, how to do a good job in diplomacy and united front work..."
"..."
The one-eyed man was stunned and asked: "What are these?"
"You don't know anything, you just know how to fight and kill..." Wei Liang looked at him disdainfully, letting out the long-standing suffocation in his chest, and asked: "Are you a pig?"
