On the treks of water and land piers outside Jiangling City, ships and cars from all directions have been piled up with piles of ships and cars from all directions.

This is the real world of peace!

Standing on the long dike, looking at the increasingly prosperous and noisy scene in the market on the wharf, Xu Wen, the envoy of Shouhao Army who had been stranded in the local area for more than a month, also sighed to the accompanying staff half-true and half-false:

His original name is Dunmei, and he was a native of Qushan, Haizhou. He was punished by the government for participating in the salt-trading business of the township party. He then moved to the garrison of Shuofang and met the nobles in his life. He went south to his hometown together. Therefore, he was able to become one of the 36 township party members who followed Yang Xingmin and started a crime in Luzhou.

Of course, compared with Liu Wei and Taoya, who were able to survive to the present day among the 36 village party members who were able to survive to this day, he has always been an unknown existence in this group. Because he looks simple and even a little ugly, he was not known for his courage and martial arts in the army. Therefore, he could only rely on a little skill that was good at writing and calculating, and stayed behind the scenes to manage food and grass affairs without any military achievements.

Therefore, when he was just replaced and detained, he had some ideas secretly. Could it be that his value is comparable to Tian Pei who had followed him for a long time? Or these peaceful thieves wanted to win over and buy him. Then, after the power of the former leader Yang Xingmin failed, he used his name and means to comfort and stabilize the place in his hometown, Luzhou and other places? After all, he was in charge of this kind of thing, which was considered to be a little experienced and experienced.

Then he waited, but never waited for any means of winning over and getting along from the thief army; instead, he was restricted and closed within a range of relatively loosely. In addition to the relative supply of food and clothing as usual, and responding to some of his proactive requests and negotiations, he did not pay more attention and deal with it. This made people feel uncomfortable if they could not understand it.

So he couldn't help but think of another idea. Could it be that these Taiping thieves wanted to see the inside story of Shouhao's army from themselves? To be honest, it was also what he was good at writing famous books and accounts. However, during this period, no one had frequent contact and friendship with him; instead, he was taken out to see some public activities, and he was able to see a lot of the daily reality of Taiping thieves.

However, the more he could understand all aspects, he could not help but feel a little shocked to varying degrees, and became a little discouraged and depressed. Because with his experience and vision, the daily transportation scale of water and land that he saw outside Jiangling City was enough to support several times the needs of Shouhao Army; and the population and wealth that were enriched near Jiangling was even more difficult to reach the territorial household registration of Shouhao Army.

From the densely distributed water conservancy workshops along the river, all kinds of iron utensils transported from huge transmission mechanisms like mountains and flowing water; they spewed red light and thick smoke and clouds all day long forged, and they were like blast furnaces and rivers flowing under the splatter of angry volcanoes; mountains of silk and cloth piled up in the weaving and dyeing joint camp... It made him even more open his horizons, and he was afraid of the power of artificial industry.

However, in the central village, which is regarded as a model of transformation, he was shocked another way. He claimed that even if there were no families with rich families with rich families and local clerks, the situation in the village was maintained. He could rely on the planning of the peace thief to build a family that could live and work in peace and contentment.

As the saying goes, the more I know, the more I am shocked. Especially after being arranged to see with my own eyes, and being kept in captivity in the temples and having a brief chat with him. Xu Wen felt like a thread in his heart broke suddenly, and as if he was overwhelmed by some terrible reality, he yelled and blocked his chest, and he couldn't recover for several days.

He finally understood that the Shouhao Army group he belonged to was fighting against a huge and unfathomable monster without knowing it. On the contrary, the Shouhao Army suffered defeats on the battlefield one after another and could only trap Guangling City, which made him suddenly realize it. It turned out that the other party did not take his power seriously at all.

But this also aroused his stubbornness or biased nature; and he regained his original confusion and loss. Since these thieves obviously looked down on their own forces, and even saw no signs of being busy with the war in Huainan under the vast majority of rule. Then could he take advantage of the thieves' contempt for him and lead the substitute Shouhao's army to find out more inside information and facts?

Therefore, he began to actively put forward more tentative demands, thinking that he could figure out the attitude and bottom line of these thieves toward him; in order to take subsequent countermeasures. However, the result was unexpected and surprised. He was mixed with real demands filled with compliments and admiration, and a small part of them were approved.

Therefore, he could apply to go outside Jiangling City under the supervision of his accompanying personnel to better understand and admire the customs and livelihoods under the Taiping Army. Then he thought, maybe this was the test of these thieves' troops on themselves? As long as he showed signs of escape, perhaps the other party would kill him rightfully?

However, the attitudes of the next encounters and contacts made Xu Wen understand again, and he obviously thought too much. These peaceful thieves did not take him seriously at all, or they were already familiar with such things that allowed people to visit and arrange visits.

So much so that when he took the initiative to visit the village, when he proudly asked some sharp or unrespectful questions, these people also treated them calmly with a careful and ill-minded expression; or no matter how they used words to tease them, they were all very uncomfortable sympathy and pity, which made him suddenly feel that he was the ignorant one.

That is, when he accidentally couldn't help but say something, questioning whether all this was created specifically for painstaking efforts, thinking that the special place was decorated with peace and decorate the storefront, but was surrounded by those farmers with unpretentious expressions, sprayed saliva and even filled with old fists, and then intervened in time to free him.

But after this incident, Xu Wen, who had originally wanted to take the opportunity to escape, stopped thinking. Since these thieves looked down on him and had no scruples, how could he easily fulfill their intentions and make the right decision? He should have kept a useful body and contributed more to the Shouhao Army group.

Therefore, when he saw the gathering of people and material resources due to the upcoming Taiping National Games, he was still shocked and unable to calm down for a long time. Because if some forces were used to guide Huainan, who could still resist the huge 14 prefectures and 57 counties in Huainan?

However, these peaceful thieves did not hesitate or stingy to use them all in this noisy and extraordinary strength declaration activity. This made the families in Huainan who had fought for the land and land in each prefecture and county, and how could they bear the feelings of the families in Huainan that had been fighting for. Thinking of this, Xu Wen became increasingly dissatisfied with Yang Duru and other comrades trapped in Guangling City.

You should know that every day they were trapped in the city, the peaceful thieves outside the city could have been pacified, and they were constantly replenished and transported, becoming more prepared and strengthened, and further widened the strength between inside and outside the city. As a result, he also felt a little shaken and disappointed for the first time in the judgment of the strategic vision and pattern of the upper class of the Shouhao Army led by Yang Du.

The only good news for him that is comforting is that the epidemic has broken out in Huainan. Although there are no signs of impact in Jiangling, the pace of the thief army's expansion in Huainan will slow down and have no time to take care of it? Now that things have come, he can only smile and say some congratulations that are not so unwilling to his will.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Xu Wen discovered his value; only the only thing left was that when Shouhao Army and the Taiping thieves fell into a certain way of retreating and maintaining sufficient distance and buffering due to the plague, they had to fight for the others to have a slightly better peace agreement. As for what would happen in the further future, he was no longer willing to think about it and could not take it into consideration.

After standing on the embankment with a slight blew and a cold autumn wind, Xu Wen couldn't help but feel some face numb and his body stiffened. He wanted to go back, but he suddenly saw a group of people with large cloth bags and double-breasted hip shirts coming down from a boat in the distance. He was holding some colorful flags in his hands and asked involuntarily:

I dare to ask, who are these people?

The accompanying military officer glanced at him and said:

These people should be the messengers who came to greet Qianzhou Observer Gao Tai!

When Xu Wen heard this, he suddenly realized it. However, he did not expect that after these peaceful thieves left the ridge, they had only been laying the foundation in the Jianghan area for a few years, but they had quietly reached out to a remote place like Qianzhong Road. It was really a big idea.

Thinking of Gao Wen, the governor of Jiaozhou who surrendered in Xiancheng during his expedition to Annan, Gao Maoqing, the observer of Jiangxi who was captured in the Battle of Raozhou, Gao Yue, the military commander of Chuzhou who was captured in Jiangdong, and Gao Pian, the governor of Huainan, who was captured in Guangling, Huainan. It can be said that the contemporary figures of the Gao clan of Bohai were all killed.
Chapter completed!