Chapter 2545 The Dead Traveler
At this moment.
Soon the refugee traveler, after being encouraged by the old Taoist priest who was transformed into Wu Zetian, he firmed up his mind.
He quickly began to discover the power he possessed.
He is now a bandit who owns a cottage, colluding with local landlords, squires, businessmen, and officials.
The power at hand includes more than 200 core minions and more than 2,000 peripheral gangsters.
He began to learn from the Water Margin to be a teacher, and the old boy was born to be his fool.
After setting up a set of reward and punishment measures, and after the promotion measures, he deceived the gangsters every day, telling them to follow him, they would have meat to eat, and they would get pensions when they died.
These days, even for the soldiers of the imperial court, their death is basically the result of having their pension swallowed up.
As long as he does a little better than the court, these gangsters and minions will have fighting spirit.
Then he wooed local forces one after another.
In short, he took the most exciting path.
In this kind of feudal society, he has no interest in pursuing such advanced and advanced ideas.
And he didn't want to do that either.
He has worked hard for decades, should he work for others?
He wouldn't think so.
This is human nature.
Human nature can only change for the better after changes in material and general environment.
Just like the morality of modern people is several dimensions higher than that of ancient people.
It can be summed up in one sentence, modern people do not use humans as food.
It’s not that modern people’s human nature has evolved, it’s that they have become extremely materially rich.
Cannibalism is too troublesome, too costly, and too dangerous.
The refugee travelers annexed the surrounding land on a large scale. They bought what they could and grabbed what they couldn't.
And Wu Zetian also gave him a golden finger.
Wu Zetian made him immune to all kinds of diseases, and she even turned disaster into good fortune.
These two methods are to ensure that he does not die.
As long as he doesn't die, he will keep tossing until the dynasty is overthrown.
The reason why many promising rebels did not succeed is actually an accident from a historical perspective.
Die too soon.
History is a mixture of necessity and chance.
Inevitably, it means that in a certain feudal stage, whether Zhang San or Li Si successfully rebelled, they would only establish a feudal dynasty in the end, and they would only use big landowners and big squires to rule.
By chance, it is whether Zhang San succeeds or Li Si succeeds.
Which one succeeds is the beggar or the hooligan.
Whether the squires, officials, or foreign races succeed depends on their luck.
In short.
As Wu Zetian stepped up her efforts to support the refugee travelers, the other party's power expanded rapidly.
This refugee time traveler naturally has advantages.
First of all, he is a time traveler, broadcasting his knowledge.
The first thing you need to know is to get information.
He established many spies for hundreds of miles around.
Shops, beggars' dens, roadside black shops, boat dealers...
He has given each other more benefits than before.
Give you information with one hand and benefits with the other.
For the sake of copper plates, silver and food, these idle people played a huge role in news.
Strangers, news from the court, news from big families...
He set up a sticky bar, claiming to "stick to everything wherever he goes."
At the same time, he also began to build dams, maintain water conservancy, and use some modern knowledge to increase food production.
This will allow the landowners who depend on him to get more benefits.
Increase the total production of food.
At the same time, he also began to impose slight restrictions on rural landlords so that the people could have a way to survive.
Only by maintaining order can we develop.
If people want to have a way to survive, they must find more jobs.
Only when there are many jobs can there be enough products.
With regard to economic understanding, he can surpass the leader of the current government by ten streets.
There is one thing that can completely overwhelm the other party, and that is that he knows how to circulate products and let the grain of large households circulate to the market.
Let small people buy food from big households and get money to buy food in exchange for working.
For this, he developed allicin and other simple antibiotics.
Drugs are what the big players urgently need.
He even set up various invisible taxes to harvest the grain of large households.
You cannot directly divide the land to grab grain, but the modern refugee time travelers have various means to harvest the big households.
After harvesting, the grain is distributed to the people as much as possible.
In this way, the power of the refugee time-travelers is getting bigger and stronger.
But he did not directly confront the officers and soldiers.
According to the accounts given by the spies at this time, the officials and county magistrates only regarded him as an ordinary mountain bandit.
The imperial court was not afraid of bandits.
Bandits were coming one after another, there were so many that it was impossible to suppress them.
What the court was afraid of were the mobile and rebellious bandits.
That is the most harmful.
As bandits, refugee travelers can even collude with local officials.
From the county magistrate to the landlord, there are many people who want to have relations with him.
They need bandits to do some dirty things, and they also need big bandits to stop more bandits, and even help them suppress and kill refugees.
What if there are a large number of refugees under the rule?
Let the bandits kill and rob.
The refugee time traveler began to play the role of this big bandit.
At the same time, in order to solve financial problems, he began to put his tentacles on the salt.
In ancient times, there were many people who rebelled by selling illegal salt.
Moreover, selling illegal salt is a business with many benefits and high risks.
Zhang Shicheng and Huang Chao are like this, but they fail in success.
The fact that they can reach the position of domination and stir up the world is actually a success of selling private salt.
The reason why they cannot succeed is, firstly, a matter of luck, and secondly, they are accustomed to thinking in the way of selling private salt.
I didn't think about the big landowners' thoughts, so I didn't change my thinking in time.
It’s not that their background is not good, in fact, selling private salt is still quite possible.
First of all, salt is a common thing in the world.
Secondly, there is no shelf life for salt. It can be transported over any distance, and at most there will be some loss.
Thirdly, where there is salt, there is food.
If you have salt, you can exchange it for grain from big households.
For ancient rebellion, this is a better path.
Economic income can be obtained by selling private salt.
And the price of salt has always been very high in ancient times, so there is absolutely no need to worry about not being able to sell it.
Don’t worry about losing money either.
As long as the order is stable and the people have a little bit of money, they must eat salt.
A place that cannot afford salt is basically a place of collapse.
By selling private salt, you can also collude with officials and train a group of warriors who dare to fight.
Many people do not dare to rebel, but they dare to sell private salt.
Both are equally serious crimes of decapitation and will also be implicated.
Because selling smuggled salt requires someone who has absolute secrecy, it is all done by the clan...
Smuggled salt dealers have never been truly eradicated, and it is absolutely impossible for the court to sell smuggled salt for the sake of a branch. Salt's team, and allocate a large army to conquer.
Because that kind of consumption is far higher than the income.
What's more, when the emperor heard that he was selling private salt, he was fighting for profit, not his imperial power.
Compared with the rebellious refugees, the importance has dropped by N levels.
What's more, if one illegal salt team is eliminated, a second one will come.
What the court can do is to set up as many checkpoints as possible.
At most, only local salt dealers and other private salt dealers can attack their peers.
The refugee time travelers can take advantage of this opportunity to gradually expand from a small scale.
After all, he has a modern business acumen and business methods.
So he began to collude with the stewards who could not get the dividends from the salt merchants.
After all, if there are too many officials and too little salt, some people will definitely not be able to get a share of the dividends.
As long as you give enough money, someone will definitely take the plunge.
Among these feudal officials, you don’t even have to think about their high level of consciousness.
Why is illegal salt banned so often?
Naturally, it was because the salt merchants themselves were also engaging in private salt sales, and so were the court administrators. The supervisors responsible for inspections in the imperial court also turned a blind eye.
Unless it affects related interests.
In fact, the struggle between salt dealers and salt dealers is the most brutal and fierce.
The cruelty of killing and torturing each other is jaw-dropping.
They are the real enemies between them.
It’s like two salt merchants both doing salt business privately.
The competition between them is cut to pieces.
It is much crueler than the imperial ban.
In this kind of private salt sales and local transformation, the refugee time travelers have gradually become stronger.
He worked hard to accumulate it for ten years!
Similar to the accumulation from the second year of Chongzhen to the twelfth year of Chongzhen.
The refugee time travelers finally accumulated a force.
He began to build his cottage bigger and bigger.
And use various ancient defense methods seen from modern times.
Not only did they set up various traps, but they also began to build firearms.
He tried every means to stockpile gunpowder.
This can be purchased secretly from officials.
At the same time he accumulated troops.
When he had accumulated 5,000 people, he could no longer support himself through business.
No matter how big the boss is, he can't support the consumption of an even team.
You must have territory and productivity.
Finally he began to occupy the countryside at the foot of the mountain.
Occupy the countryside and build your own manor.
He did not attack the county directly.
As long as the county town is not attacked, local officials will turn a blind eye and will not report it to the superiors.
After all, this is the end of the dynasty.
It is better to do less than to do more.
Many managers don't even bother to be greedy, just living it up day by day.
I don’t come to work at all, I just sleep, eat, drink and have fun every day.
He will only move when he needs money.
If the county town is attacked, the local magistrate must report it for the sake of his official position and his family.
Because if you don’t report it, you will die.
In fact, as long as they don't kill the other party, they may not necessarily report it.
That’s it.
With Wu Zetian's support, the refugee travelers grew bigger and bigger.
Its development trajectory is much better than that of Li Zicheng in history.
After all, Li Zicheng does not have that much vision and no plug-in support.
He has ups and downs.
The saddest time is being chased around.
Then running away becomes a habit and you are not willing to fight hard.
Some people say he is a bandit.
The problem is that he rebelled in a stable dynasty and was beaten every day.
If it hadn't flowed, he would have died long ago. This was all forced out.
At a later stage, he also thought of establishing controls and establishing base areas.
He established his own base in the Xiangyang area.
But his biggest problem is that his thinking mode is limited to the entire Ming Dynasty, and he only wants to bear the burden of the 13 provinces of Han and two capitals.
His thinking model still has not extended to the entire East Asian world.
So from this point of view, the vision is not broad enough.
The fact that he did not expand to the entire Yazhou is also related to his own origin.
He himself was born into poverty and had narrow vision.
Later on, they were always fighting against the Ming Dynasty internally, and never really fought against the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
And the think tank he got was not good enough, and his goals were not very clear.
For example, his think tank suggested that he return to his hometown and start again from there to obtain good soldiers.
We should have gone straight to Jiangnan.
As a result, considering that there were still resistance forces in Jiangnan, they did not do this, and the failure was laid.
In fact, he has many ways.
Go to Jiangnan and copy Zhu Yuanzhang's path.
Destroy other rebels, annex them, and strengthen yourself.
But he chose the easiest and quickest path to destroy the Ming Dynasty on the surface, but in fact it contained huge hidden dangers.
His learning ability is not enough and he cannot keep up with the changes in the situation. He cannot recognize that the most ferocious enemy is the Manchu.
So he fell into a good situation.
He obviously has enough energy to establish a grassroots management system.
And when he attacked the Ming Dynasty, he greatly dispersed his power.
He only brought tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses, and the others were temporary surrender soldiers.
In order to suppress various places, he sent a large number of elites.
It can be said that he only brought 1/3 of his core strength, and the other 2/3 was scattered everywhere.
Relatively speaking, Man Qing had already seen clearly that the rebels were the enemy.
They gathered almost all the soldiers they could mobilize.
It can be said that every family draws soldiers, except for those soldiers who really can't walk.
They all gathered together from their teens to their 60s, and finally gathered 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers.
Including other vassals, the total strength is hundreds of thousands.
It can be said that if Li Zicheng brought all his troops together, he would have a great chance of repelling the Manchus.
In fact, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties also suffered a lot of losses.
They relied on Wu Sangui to take the lead and consume Li Zicheng's troops and physical strength before they succeeded in one fell swoop.
And they realized that Li Zicheng was their biggest enemy and pursued him all the way.
Chased from the capital to the west, then to the south, chasing Li Zicheng to death.
He was not given a chance to breathe.
But in history they have no if.
The reason why Li Zicheng had such insight was because it was inevitable.
In fact, even if Li Zicheng succeeded, his own knowledge was limited and he could only copy the Ming Dynasty.
But it would be easier for the Ming Dynasty to absorb Western knowledge, at least there would be no literal prison.
In fact, Western culture has penetrated deeply into the Ming Dynasty.
Many administrators in the Ming Dynasty have long chosen the West.
This was impossible for the Qing Dynasty to do. It did not absorb the West until it was about to die.
Real success is determined by vision.
Refugee time travelers naturally do not have these problems.
He knows very well who he wants to unite with and who he wants to fight against.
So the refugee time travelers became more and more powerful.
Then he started stirring up trouble.
And that big landowner, the time traveler, after enjoying it for a full ten years, was on the spearhead of his expansion.
The two of them haven't met yet.
The big landowner time traveler is dead.
Died inexplicably.
The cause of death was simple.
Just when he was taking his concubine out of the city for an outing, a group of soldiers from the Refugee Travelers attacked nearby large households to seize food.
His military discipline is not that good either.
It relies on promotion and wealth, eating, drinking, having fun, and clear rewards and punishments.
The result directly led to the death of the landowner and the time traveler.
The big landowner who traveled through the world regretted it before he died.
"If I had known, I would have gone overseas to seek refuge early."
"I am so stupid."
"I just thought that when the enemy came, I would just kneel down, but I didn't know that I wanted to If you have to kneel down, you may not even have that chance.”
“Not all big landowners can survive the change of dynasties smoothly.”
The big landowner who traveled through the world was very depressed before his death.
Damn, how could this be?
(End of this chapter)