Chapter 90 The past years, the beginning of an era
Uncle Zhang and the others had been traveling for a long time before arriving at the tea shed. After arriving in this town, they were exhausted and it was getting late, so they decided to rest here. One night.
The three of them found a hotel to stay in, went up to the second floor, and gathered in a room first, waiting for dinner.
Li Chaoyang went out for a short while. After coming back, not long after, dinner had been delivered, but there were still a few pieces of paper sandwiched in the dinner tray.
Su Hanshan glanced at it and found that the words were ambiguous. In the ordinary greetings, there seemed to be random use of poetic idioms with unclear meanings. He already knew in his heart that it was probably some kind of specific code word.
He now knows that Li Chaoyang comes from Fuyao Mountain, and Fuyao Mountain is one of the two largest gangs in the Southern Song Dynasty. They have people all over the country, operating tea, silk, medicinal materials, orchards, maritime business, and connecting martial arts, business roads, and folk countryside. Be well informed.
Su Hanshan originally thought that Li Chaoyang must have exaggerated when he talked about his gang, and it would be enough to believe him at least five points.
But when Li Chaoyang first arrived in this town, he was obviously not very familiar with it. He had to ask someone to find the hotel. Just now, he was able to contact someone in less than a cup of tea. Sending so much information.
This method made Su Hanshan look askance.
“You probably don’t know the origin of Fuyao Mountain.”
Zhang Bo smiled and said, "Fuyao Mountain was not a gang at first, but an academy founded by a minister during the reigns of Huizong and Gaozong."
"The minister's name was Li Chunian, who cared about his family and country. During the reign of Emperor Huizong, , seeing that the world was in ruins, the Liao Kingdom was about to be destroyed, and the Jin Kingdom was powerful, he gave advice to Huizong The reform was aimed at nourishing the people and strengthening the country, but Huizong ignored it. "
"It was not until the time of Emperor Gaozong that he was finally put into important use. He implemented the boundary law in various places, re-measured the land, and eliminated those officials and gentry. Hidden house of the wealthy family was found out, and what should have fallen on them was instead The taxes they passed on to ordinary people were put back on track."
"The imperial court initially used several places for him to try it out, and when it saw that it was really effective, it gave him strong support and allowed him to send people to various places. The fish scale pictures are made of mountains and rivers on a large scale, people's houses, fields and houses on a small scale, acres and acres of land. Draw them one by one to connect the east and west, and the north and south, and then combine them to form a map of one capital, and combine all the capitals to form a map of a county. "
"In this way, those fields have long been occupied. , farmers who could not afford the taxes were finally able to put things right. ”
Su Hanshan said in surprise: "Gaozong, Zhao Gou? Can such a thing be accomplished at that time?"
Li Chaoyang was interpreting the code words, but when he heard him address Zhao Gou directly, he couldn't help but look up at him.
Zhang Boze laughed: "Yes, so after several years of doing this, Li Chunnian noticed that some people continued to occupy land and distorted laws. The old maps were no longer consistent with reality. Some people even , wanted to directly tamper with the local map."
"So. He proposed to send someone down to review, and then...he was demoted by Gao, He, Zhao Gou and Qin Hui."
Uncle Zhang snorted, "After Qin Hui died, he was demoted again. He was promoted and soon demoted, but among his descendants, truly shrewd people emerged. ”
"Relying on the benefits brought by the initial implementation of the Jingjie Law to the people in various places and the relationships left in various places, his descendants gradually turned Chunnian Academy into Fuyao Mountain, from the mountain of the academy to the mountain of Fuyao Mountain. Lord.”
“Wait until Fuyao Mountain arrives. When Li Qiumian took over, firstly, he was extremely talented, and secondly, he had been in a relatively good situation for more than ten years, so the power he developed was far greater than that of his predecessors."
When Uncle Zhang said this, he took a sip of tea to moisturize it. Voice, smiled and said, "When Li Chaoyang introduced you, the part about himself was the part that could best guarantee the truth. The other parts, although they couldn't be extremely detailed due to the limitations of the information they had, there wasn't much. Exaggeration of empty words.”
Su Hanshan frowned slightly and said: "If this is the case, the martial arts power in the Southern Song Dynasty is too huge."
Although Fuyaoshan is one of the two largest gangs, There is another Kuanggutang with even more arrogance.
In addition, there are the forty-two escort agencies mentioned by Li Chaoyang, the sixteen strange sects in Lingnan, the seven sects in Sichuan and Sichuan, the fourteen villages in Xiangjiang, the many gangs in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, etc., there are too many to mention.
If the numbers of these gangs are not too exaggerated, then if people in the martial arts world are thoughtful, they can raise more than a dozen powerful rebel armies at any time.
How did the Southern Song Dynasty maintain its power? Didn’t it think about control, suppression, or recruitment in the early days? "The huge power in the martial arts world is mainly due to two reasons."
Although Uncle Zhang had lived in seclusion for some years, he had a transcendent status in the martial arts world and had extensive knowledge, and he knew these things very well.
"Firstly, it was because the Mongolian cavalry was conquering everywhere, and many khanates were constantly fighting. For example, in the years after the fall of the Jin Kingdom, most of the Jin Kingdom's territory was destroyed, and ordinary people were unable to travel far."
"But anyone in the martial arts world who can achieve success , and don’t like places that are too turbulent. Many forces have tried to go south, and they can be regarded as sects of the Song Dynasty by changing their names.”
“There are even people from other small countries who are fleeing the war. , pouring into the south from sea, water, etc. , some stayed in the Song Dynasty, and some went to Dali, that is, the Annan Kingdom is full of miasma and the jungle is too dense, otherwise a large number of people would have to move there directly."
"Chapter 2. The second reason is mainly martial arts.”
"More than a hundred years ago, even the so-called master-level figures in the world, if they did not seek to escape and were alone on the battlefield, fighting two to three hundred swords, shields, spears and crossbows, the elite soldiers would inevitably be seriously injured, or even Died on the spot.”
"But in the past hundred years, with the discovery of completely new martial arts methods, only those who have crossed that boundary can be called a master."
"A strong master can defeat a thousand with the strength of one. , the deeds of drilling through military formations can be found in all countries, and there are more than 100 Once."
"The status of people who practice martial arts has been greatly improved. There are naturally too many people in the world who are willing to practice martial arts and insist on practicing martial arts. Even if the court really wants to control it, it will be difficult. It’s too big.”
Su Hanshan thought about it.
Because he was in the Southern Song Dynasty, he still subconsciously connected this world with the situations in his previous life.
But in fact, the world is in the early stages of transition to the Chu Dynasty.
Even with the powerful fighting power of the top brass of the Great Chu Dynasty, in addition to successfully expelling the sworn top sects such as Xiji Buzhou Palace at the founding of the country, they later faced those martial arts holy places, only for They rewarded the territory and maintained a tacit understanding of indifference.
However, the territory of the Chu Dynasty is really vast, and they can maintain it without interfering with each other after the rewards are given.
Now in the Southern Song Dynasty, the warriors happened to be in a budding stage where they could not ignore ordinary soldiers yet, but their status was already involved in the upper class.
As a result, so many people escaped from the Mongolian front and gathered in the south, which led to more frequent fights between them.
"Okay."
Li Chaoyang had figured out all the code words at this time, put down the charcoal, picked up the pieces of paper he had scribbled on, and said with a serious look on his face, "Our troubles are far away. It’s bigger than expected, and it’s not just people from Leng Youming’s family.”
“Huh?”
Su Hanshan and Uncle Zhang stopped talking and listened carefully.
“The news that I found the old man, as well as our route of action, has been leaked. Most of the people secretly sent by the mountain master to respond were encountered by Kuang Gutang.”
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Li Chaoyang had an ugly expression on his face and explained, "They have set up several halls at the thirteen entrances on the main roads to Lin'an Prefecture."
"When these people move, all the surrounding martial arts sects will The forces, like sea sharks that smelled the smell of blood, also moved into action!"
(End of this chapter)