Chapter 123: Three thoughts

On a departing sea boat, a figure with a bruised nose and a swollen face that could not hide its scars all over. It was also looking back at the port city in the fjord, but it was a bit mixed with emotion but also complicated thoughts of bitterness and anger.

He was Solomeng, a Fujian maritime merchant detained in Hong Kong, and was privately known as "aconite fish". His ancestors were said to be one of the three cruel officials from the Wuzhou Dynasty. They used their clever names to frame others, and were lucky enough to become the supervisory censor and guerrilla general. They were known for their torture and killing the most, but in the end they were tied up and died in the naturalized Hu Suo Yuanli who was invented by himself;

As a dirty glove that was thrown away after use, the three cruel officials of Suo Yuanli, Zhou Xing and Lai Junchencheng were killed one after another after losing their holy hearts and fell in the capital. They even wanted to be exiled for nine thousand miles within the five regiments and died tragically in the prison of sin.

Only one descendant who was born to the maid escaped by chance and was able to change his appearance and flee south to the relatively closed Fujian area with geographical isolation and traffic. The local Shanha Tumans were mixed with the local Shanha Tumans and were able to reproduce his branch again.

Because he relied on the mountains and rivers to eat water and the sea, he was born by making documents and interpreting the people of Shanhatou, and then he made a living on the sea with great difficulty. Then, as an outsider who had not been rooted for a long time, he defeated many competitors and pretenders, which laid the foundation for his current maritime business heirloom.

Now that he is in his generation, he has hundreds of tribesmen, and has a wealth of more than ten ships of land and a large number of ships. He even spent money on his father to redeem the title of the original Feng Weng on his marching. Therefore, he has the qualification to be called the master.

Because I was accustomed to running routes to the coast of Lingnan, I was forced to requisition by the local government when I stopped in Zhangzhou, so I had to personally press the ship south to transport the official army and all my needs. I had originally agreed to let them go after the opportunity to return, and there were corresponding compensation and rewards, but I didn't expect that I could not return to the ship when I got ashore the last time.

The detention incident seemed to involve the power struggle in his family. Some people did not want him to go back safely. They took this opportunity to bribe and collude with the officials on the same boat. Once he landed on the shore, he put him under house arrest on the grounds of preventing the leakage of military information, and thus isolated the inside and outside news;

He found another reason to carry the physical objects of prohibition, and the water husband and boatman he brought out for many years were detained and interrogated one by one. It is said that after he could not survive many people, he was able to bite him. He even sued him for hiding weapons on the ship and making misconduct, and was also suspected of being a thief from outside. This is really a great mistake in the world. People who have been walking in the sea merchants for generations, the swords, weapons, bows and arrows that are not prepared in the Chuang warehouse.

From this he also confirmed something, which was a means of collusion with the government and trying to frame and murder him. And according to the familiarity of the robbery on the ship, it was afraid that it would involve important members of the family who might be aware of the matter, so he didn't know who participated during the participation period. Then, because he always showed a tough look, he did not allow the officers and soldiers to easily squeeze out their lobbying and other values, so he was able to survive until now with scars all over his body.

He was almost desperate and gave up, but these thieves who suddenly attacked and killed gave him a chance and a wedge. As one of the victims of the official army, he was able to return to freedom, but this freedom was quite bleak and full of nothingness.

Therefore, if he wants to go back in full and retake everything that belongs to him, he must make up his mind to think of ways in these thieves who have mastered all the situation in Fengling Port; including negotiating with the other party and even reaching subsequent behind-the-scenes transactions in exchange for the possibility of getting out of the way and even the opportunity to make a comeback.

Since the dog-raised officials insisted on slandering him for committing a crime of robbery, he might as well be able to really get involved. For this reason, he squatted all night before guarding the leader of the robbery who went out. When he was almost killed as a ill-hearted person, he got the opportunity to say a few words in person.

Then, just like many difficulties and difficulties in his life, this adventure made him bet right. After making a subsequent agreement, the other party did not disappoint him. Not only did he return his old family members who were still alive, he also recruited all the ship-carrying staff for him again, and even allowed him to take away the largest seaship in the port and the selected goods as capital and support.

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This easy-to-go episode did not affect Zhou Huaian's mood and decision to act next.

Anyway, it is just a casual move and trick. If it fails or misleads, it will only lose a ship and some supplies that the Rebels cannot use at all. But if they succeed by chance, they will get a source of information and resources from the outside.

Since the coastal problems were initially solved, he did not rush to return Chaoyang; and after calculating the remaining food and grass stocks, he continued to sweep a large area along the coast again as a training and whistle-food food in a sense.

Although there are only three counties in Chaozhou/Chaoyang County, because they are close to the seaside and have close contacts in Yumin, the number of Tuzhai towns, towns, villages and towns under various counties is much more than that in Xunzhou. Some of them are fish that were missed or ignored by friendly forces before, so they took the opportunity to clean up together.

Some places have been cleaned up by the rebels once, and when you pass by, you can see the achievements made before or the sequelae left behind. After losing the upper class entrenched in these villages, towns, powerful clans and clerks, the corresponding changes are also a trend of polarization.

Either the population is soon separated and fled, showing a decay and abandoned momentum; or some local wealthy families took the lead, restored order and daily life, and even brought out another new vitality and situation;

After all, although the rebels confiscated all valuable food and available materials, they also left them with food that bought people's hearts and weapons to protect themselves for self-defense and self-protection. Moreover, the rebels could not take away the land, land, houses, property, etc. of the wealthy families who were confiscated and destroyed.

So in this case, they either disperse themselves in a situation where internal disturbances are constantly being disturbed, and go their separate ways to avoid disaster; or someone takes the initiative to fill the gaps left by these upper classes, and even divides up the legacy of the old upper classes, and becomes the new leaders with prestige and appeal.

As a group of vested interests directly or indirectly under the action of the rebel army, their attitudes and positions towards the rebel army are basically between relatively neutrality and relatively closeness, and when the rebel army passes by, they take the initiative to negotiate and inquire about the situation.

There was no one who actively resisted or turned against others. After all, he had witnessed the interests of Zhou Huaian and his rebels with his own eyes. The main trend was to be at peace and even seek benefits.

Although, according to the standards of the future, it is a bit unexpected to cook the rice with raw rice, no matter how inappropriate the rice with raw rice is, it will never be much more sad than their previous life of constant stagnant water.

Perhaps the new leaders of these villages and towns will become new wealthy families and wealthy families in the future due to the merger of land and property, and even join forces and connect with the government, becoming new accomplices and minions of the ruling class.

But for a long time now and in the future, most of the lowest groups who have been exploited and oppressed can somehow release the heavy shackles strangled on their necks and take a breath, and there is no need to worry about the consequences of selling children and women and destroying their families.

The root of the ignorance of the general public in this era is that they are afraid of change and resist change lies in the natural fragility of small peasant economy making a living by nature, which makes them really not have much courage and confidence to bear the risks and accidents after change.

However, once you can't help but accept reality and irreversible changes, you will work hard to adapt to and get used to new changes like the most tenacious weeds so that you can continue to survive and continue. Therefore, it is really hard to say whether these results brought by the Rebels are good or bad for them, and they can only be left to be verified slowly in the future.

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At that time, there was a "Chaoyang Zhi" saying: "The thief in Lingnan was trapped, and a demon monk Yuan Xuan attached himself to him, confusing the common people with his strange and good deeds... gathering things to plunder the land, giving a little charity, and all hungry people follow. All the wealthy families, gentry and wealthy families cannot be spared... They have never returned to the government for decades."

"Why can a fake monk who has no knowledge of his origin be able to leverage the rise and fall of the entire dynasty?"

"Why would an inconspicuous little person steal the final fruits of Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao's peasant war?"

"Why can anyone break the traditional inertia of the origins and backgrounds of emperors, generals and ministers in all dynasties."

"This can prove that the vast majority of ignorant and ignorant people have never created the driving force for the wheel of history to move forward, but have just blindly followed the flow of inertia."

"And all this obviously started with a small 'thief' in the coastal areas of Chaoshan, Lingnan."
Chapter completed!