"You seem to be worried," Yang Fan said to Tu Shanyue.
Yang Fan and Tu Shanyue rode together and returned to Zunhua City.
"I kind of regret asking you to come here and become a householder," Tu Shanyue said quietly.
"Uh, isn't this what Lord Tushan meant?" Yang Fan was a little surprised.
"Hmph, you really think highly of yourself. Who do you think you are? Do we need you to wipe our butts?" the little girl snorted coldly.
"Is there any hidden secret here?" Yang Fan said with a smile.
"I recently asked my father to ask you to come here for something I was doing. I just need you to have the status of a military attache. But I didn't expect that you, as soon as you have the power, will carry out the orders. What a trick. I think I’m a piece of shit.”
"I just can't watch them being killed and not do anything."
Yang Fan came from a later generation, and his first reaction in such a dangerous situation was to evacuate everyone and protect everyone's safety first.
"Do you think those horse bandits are really just horse bandits?" Tu Shanyue sneered.
"Then who are they?" Yang Fan asked strangely.
"Don't you have a soldier who came from Liaodong? You can ask him. Who can have such good riding skills and charge with two guns? He doesn't control the horse with his hands."
"Are you saying they are slaves of the establishment, or are they just members of the establishment?" Yang Fan was shocked.
What's wrong with this Ji Town? It was disturbing enough that the secret cavalry of the slave establishment infiltrated in before, but now there is actually an entire regular army lurking in to act as horse bandits and occupy the mountain as king.
So thoughtful!
What a great plot!
A deep sense of crisis came to mind.
He must become stronger as soon as possible and have an armed force in his own hands.
At least when a crisis comes, we can have troops to defend ourselves. Keep yourself safe.
"Since last winter," Tu Shanyue said, "the tops of the mountains in Yongping, Luanzhou, Jixian, and Zunhua, which dominate the mountains, have disappeared without warning. There has been no businessman for a whole winter. The team was robbed. At that time, it attracted the attention of Jin Yiwei and Dongchang."
Yang Fan understands that this is an extremely abnormal situation. In winter, everything dies, birds fly away from thousands of mountains, and people disappear from thousands of paths. These years have been getting drier and winterier each year. Bandits are also hungry and cold in winter. If they don't grab anything, it is not unheard of for the entire village to starve to death.
If no one comes out to rob all winter, there is only one possibility.
They are all dead.
The dead don't need to eat, so there's no need to go out and rob them.
Yang Fan turned to look at Xiao Niangpi and asked: "In other words, these fake horse bandits are not just this one, there are many more."
"Who knows how many there are, and it's impossible for the government to check every cottage. Onion Ridge is just a relatively large one."
"I think Jiannu may want to take action, and may have to attack in a detour from Duoyan Sanwei. These people are sent to respond internally. We should report it immediately. And mobilize the border troops to come in and kill them."
"Ha! That's easy to say," Xiao Niangpi sneered: "Don't forget, we are just Dongchang and Jinyiwei. We can arrest people and torture them, but we do not have the power to mobilize the army. Do you think those military leaders will listen to us? Yes, they are all pretending to be deaf and mute, refusing to admit until death that there are slaves in their territory."
"Yes, if so many Jian slaves infiltrate, I'm afraid they may not only lose their official positions, but also their heads." Yang Fan nodded. "However, it is time to report the situation to the princes of the court."
"Imperial court, you know what is going on in the imperial court now. The emperor has just been established, and the people are uneasy. The Governor of Wei is now a clay bodhisattva who cannot save himself when crossing the river. The ceremonial supervisor is facing a purge, and the commander of the Jinyiwei has defected to the Donglin Party. The Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, and the The princes of the Dang, Donglin, Gan Dang, Xungui, and Eunuch Dang are gearing up and preparing for a big fight. Do you think that a few cattle were robbed and killed in your rocky beach residence? A cripple, what will they do if you report him?"
Yang Fan was speechless, but he always felt that there was something wrong with this sentence, and he couldn't remember what was wrong for a while.
"Although I am your commander, I think we are also friends. I respect your choice, but I also want to remind you that you are playing with fire. At this time, if you are not careful, you will be involved in the whirlpool of party strife. You can't extricate yourself. Maybe you are talented, and Xiong Tingbi is also talented. What will happen? Their promotion and demotion, life and death, honor and disgrace are all affected by the party struggle in the court. Once you cause trouble and enter the sight of the court princes, you will not be able to extricate yourself. It’s not you who can control your own destiny.”
Yang Fan is silent. When you are unwilling to admit the facts, and you are unwilling to tell lies, you can only remain silent.
"You lack a sense of security. You want to raise troops to defend yourself. You want to use these horse bandits to train troops." Xiao Niangpi said without even looking at Yang Fan.
"But you don't dare to take these people to fight, because you know that if these people encounter the enemy, they will probably run faster than a rabbit."
Yang Fan continued to remain silent.
"So you came up with a damaging move. You want to gather all these people. If the horse bandits have nothing to grab, they will definitely surround you. By then, none of these people can run away, even if they don't want to resist. After a big battle, they will die. Don't worry about the ones who have died. Those who survived have experienced the war, and you just need to recover from the water, bring in these veterans, and turn this hundred households into a team that has seen blood and been on the battlefield."
"But you're playing too big a game. I'm afraid you won't be able to chew this hard nut off. You have a share in the destruction of a hundred households."
"Everything you said is right, but I don't have such a dark psychology. I just think that troubled times are coming, and we must train a soldier. These people are so weak. They died of starvation, were killed by bandits, or were frozen. Death is caused by the plague, and many people are going to die. Maybe in forty or fifty years, there will still be twenty million left of the Ming Dynasty's twenty million people." Yang Fan said calmly.
In the first year of Chongzhen, according to historical statistics, the population was no less than 190 million. According to statistics from the Cambridge History of China in the UK, the population is no less than 150 million. In the seventeenth year of Kangxi's reign, according to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the country's population was 19 million. Thinking of these numbers, Yang Fan sighed in his heart.
"I just want to train them and make them stronger so that they can survive. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Han people have become weaker and weaker. This is because every time the world collapses, those who have conscience and morality are They were eliminated, and those who remained were all surrendered, enslaved, and contented. When the Song Dynasty died, those who survived did not dare to resist. Many of the brave ones were killed. Some jumped into the sea and died. . Some committed suicide and died for their country, while the rest lingered, hiding here and there, working as slaves and maids, as slaves and slaves, so they could save their lives. If we don't change our way of living, this nation will be doomed if this continues."
"Let me tell you a story. In the far west, there is a nation called the Hebrews. Their ancestors have been slaves of the Egyptians for generations. The emperor of Egypt is called Pharaoh. They do the hardest and most tiring work for the Pharaoh."
"Later, they rebelled," the little girl pouted, telling the same old story.
"Later, a man named Moses led them to escape from Egypt and go to find the homeland of their ancestors, Canaan. The legendary land flowing with milk and honey. However, when they arrived at the city of Canaan, Moses did not lead them directly Go and occupy Canaan. Instead, they led these people, old and young, into the wilderness and wandered in the wilderness for fifty years, causing them to suffer a lot."
"Haha, this Moses is sick. He doesn't go to a good place. Instead, he leads everyone to the desert to eat sand. Will the people below have no brains to follow him and do such stupid things? Instead of rebelling against him, kill him and happily kill him. Go to Canaan and enjoy the blessings.”
Yang Fan said: "But Moses got this done."
"What benefit did he give these fools? He actually tricked them into dying."
"He gave them nothing but faith."
"Hmph, you are pretending to be a ghost. There are so many of them everywhere." Xiao Niangpi said with disdain.
"I didn't understand why Moses did this before, but now I understand," Yang Fan said.
