Chapter 13: The Demon World in Cao Huachun's Eyes

Generally speaking, Yun Zhao believes that the founding emperors and generals in Chinese history were full of accidents when they won the world.

If there were no such accidents, Liu Bang should have been killed by Xiang Yu, Sima's family should have been beheaded by Cao Cao, Li Yuan should have been destroyed by his cousin Yang Guang, and Zhao Kuangyin should have been shown to the public by Chai Rongxiao.

There were many people who could kill him, but unfortunately none of them succeeded.

In fact, these people defeated the strong with the weak and then dominated the world.

Yun Zhao didn't want to do this, he didn't want to make his rebellious career dangerous, no matter how brilliant the victory was, it would be his siblings who died, which would be very boring.

Yun Zhao firmly believes that there is no irreconcilable contradiction between the people of Daming!

There is a contradiction among those in power who coerce the people, slander their opponents, and finally make all the people pay with their lives for their ambitions.

Therefore, Yun Zhao has high requirements for himself, he is working hard to build Lantian County, to make this county the future benchmark of the Ming world, so that all Ming people can see that a good life should be like life, and how a person should live is right.

When there is no irreconcilable contradiction between one's own people, Huairou is a very good strategy.

People's desire for a better life is unstoppable, and at the same time, this is also the general trend of the world.

So it's so important to lay the foundation.

The reason why Daming Taizu was able to succeed is that he built a high wall, accumulated grain, and slowly became the king!

Yun Zhao is faithfully implementing Zhu Sheng's suggestion, this is a very useful suggestion, since Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a monk, can listen to it, how can a person like Yun Zhao not listen to it?

History has developed to the point where it is now, and it has long been an era when one or two super famous generals in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period could dominate the battlefield.

When firearms appeared, individual martial arts gradually withdrew from the battlefield, and if they continued to develop, weapons would be more important than people.

The contrast between the army and the army will be to see who makes the least mistakes!

Whoever makes fewer mistakes will win, and whoever can withstand the loss better will win the eventual victory.

This is also the development trend of history, and it is also unstoppable, Yun Zhao is very clear.

At present, Lantian County seems to be strong, but it is not strong enough to make people all over the world fearful, so the necessary development is still needed.

In the spring, the caravans were about to leave Lantian County, and the shopkeeper of the caravan took his men to worship the gods and embarked on their own journey along the road under the gaze of Yun Zhao.

Their footprints will travel all over the land of Daming, and even far beyond the territory, it is these caravans that make the prosperity of Lantian County a real myth.

Cao Huachun stood on the side of the road, watching the endless stream of caravans leave Lantian County, with a light expression on his face, but a pair of green hands showed his anxious mood.

"How many caravans have left Lantian County in these ten days?"

Yuan Min said: "A total of three hundred and twenty-four caravans. ”

Cao Huachun sighed slightly and said, "It's only ten days." ”

Yuan Min shook his head and said: "There is no statistics for the whole year, most of the caravans in Lantian County are halfway caravans, and in farther places, they have more caravans. ”

Cao Huachun said: "They are also robbers at the same time!" Yuan Min, do you know, in these places in Yungui and Guizhou, there are countless thieves, they specialize in dealing with caravans, robbing goods, all evil, at the beginning, the caravans in Lantian County were also looting, but later the caravans found that these robbers have become a bit of a rule, they no longer rob the goods and kill everyone, but collect very expensive tolls from these caravans.

It is usually double the price of the goods, or pay half of the goods for the toll, this price will make the caravan people very painful, but they will not abandon the goods because of this price, because, even if they pay such a price, they still have some money, but a little less.

It is said that the caravans in Lantian County are also paying such expenses, but when the caravans in Lantian County come back, they can always sell the goods at a much cheaper price than the same goods in other places.

As a result, people are wondering if the Yun thieves have eliminated the previous thieves and replaced them.

Hehe, half of the people are the king of the mountain to collect tolls, and half of the people are doing legitimate business transactions, so if this continues, the caravans in Lantian County will definitely make other caravans have no way to live, although it seems to give these people a way to live, but so many caravans have no livelihood, just die some time later.

Yun Zhao's purpose is very clear, he wants to monopolize these business routes, the more prosperous Lantian County is, the more the rest of the places will wither. ”

Yuan Min said in a low voice: "Since we can't fight head-on with Lantian County, then, can we send a large number of people to cut off these hands stretched out by Lantian County?" ”

Cao Huachun shook his head and said, "I have done it, and many people will never go back...... In the end, we couldn't afford such a loss and took the initiative to stop. ”

Yuan Min said: "Since many of our people have never returned, does this mean that most of the strength in Lantian County is not in Lantian County, are we ......?"

Cao Huachun smiled bitterly: "All the people in Lantian County are soldiers, the farmers who work in the fields, the vendors who do business in the market, and the scholars who study in the academy, as long as they have a blade, they are all qualified soldiers.

These people spend more time in the military every year than we spend in the East Factory.

This is the reason why Lantian County does not leave the road behind and does not close the house at night, their county is actually a huge robber's den, if there is still theft in the robber's den, the robbery is really a big joke.

However, leaving Lantian County...... All of them are thieves who do all kinds of evil.

Lantian City, which is lonely and suspended, why is it lonely and suspended? The biggest reason was that they killed all the Mongols within a radius of 500 miles from Lantian City.

From the lower reaches of the Sanggan River, Dongchang Fanzi saw a horrific scene - the corpses of Mongols, men, women, and children blocked the river......

People say that locusts are the soul of the unjust, if this legend is true, last year the locust plague that covered my Daming Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong was the soul of those Mongols.

Yuan Min, the Lantian County you see is a good place for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, in my eyes, this is a ghost shrouded in black fog, and all the people walking here are ghouls!

They are devouring the flesh and blood of the Ming Dynasty!

All the prosperity of Lantian County was supported by the people of the rest of the Ming Dynasty with flesh and blood.

And Yun Zhao is the Demon King of the World who sits on dry bones and drinks human blood! ”

Listening to Cao Huachun's words, Yuan Min looked around suspiciously, and then looked at the gradually blazing sun in the sky, where spring and Jingming were bright, the sun was shining, although the people who came and went were different, but they all dragged their shadows, talking to each other, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with a smile on their faces.

He knew that this was a metaphor for the factory, but he tried hard to put his thoughts into the world described by the factory, but he always failed.

"That's the terrible thing about demons, they create illusions, they blind our eyes, they blind our minds...... When the demon kingdom is formed, everyone in the world is just a meal on his plate. ”

Cao Huachun's words kept ringing in Yuan Min's ears, and Yuan Min still had no way to substitute himself into Cao Huachun's world.

After all, the world here seems to be more like heaven than the rest of the Ming Dynasty.

Curses are one of the most incompetent forms of attack!

Somehow, Yuan Min suddenly felt that the factory was completely old.

Yun Zhao met this famous eunuch in the afternoon, although he had seen countless eunuchs in the Qin Palace, and he had also seen Wang Chengen, but it was the first time that he really came into contact with a eunuch like Cao Huachun.

To be precise, this old eunuch is not old, and even looks younger than ordinary people, with delicate and fair skin, a pair of eyebrows are very neatly arranged, although he is old, he is still wearing a rolling dragon robe, but the dragons on the robe only have three toes, which at first glance look like chicken paws.

Cao Huachun saw Yun Zhao's gaze fall on his robe, so he smiled and arched his hand: "This is the robe that Your Majesty has rewarded the old slave for some hard work." ”

Yun Zhao glanced at the rolling dragon robe with black seals on a white background again and said softly: "I heard that Wei Zhongxian was wearing this kind of robe back then?" ”

Cao Huachun said with a smile: "Wei Zhongxian deceived the Son of Heaven and deceived the monarch, and when he committed suicide by hanging a beam in Hejian Mansion, he only had a shirt on his body, and there was no python robe. ”

Yun Zhao sighed and said: "I heard that most of the people who have lost power to the country have no place to be buried, and Cao Gong can retreat with his whole body, which is gratifying." ”

Cao Huachun said with a smile: "Wei Zhongxian's matter should be a precept for latecomers, although a certain family is also a person from the inner government, but everywhere thinks of the Three Treasures eunuchs, but he is loyal to the monarch and does not dare to have his thoughts." ”

Yun Zhao invited Cao Huachun to sit down, returned to the desk, put his hands on the table and said: "If you want, do good things to the end, take away the fine work you planted in the palace, these are some poor people, don't want to trouble them, so that they can live quietly in Lantian County, this is also a merit." ”

Cao Huachun smiled: "This is a merit, but it is not mine, it is the benevolence of Her Majesty the Queen, Cao Huachun is just a slave, how can he be the master of the master."

The county respected something that the Hakka family secretly hid eight palace people with special colors, who were impeached for wanting to do Lu Buwei's deeds, and were ordered by the queen to die in the Huanyi Bureau, and since then, no one dares to keep the palace people privately. ”

Yun Zhao waved his hand and said: "That's it, even if you let it go, you won't say it, so be it for me, thank Your Majesty the Queen for your grace."

Xu Wu thought, go to my gift list. ”

Xu Wu wanted to bring a gift list soon, Yun Zhao ordered Xu Wu to give the gift list to Cao Huachun and said: "There is actually only one thing on the gift list, that is, food, I think, Her Majesty the Queen can't look down on the head and face jewelry made in the rough land of the northwest, so he simply gave all the food."

It is strange to say that the southeast transports 4 million quintals of grain to Beijing through the canal every year, why is there such a big shortage of rice and grain in Beijing?

Isn't it possible to be self-sufficient near the capital? ”

Cao Huachun said: "How can the Son of Heaven defend the country be a lie, since the emperor ascended the throne, there have been no less than six battles around the capital, and the land of war and war, even if there is a fertile field, there is no way to cultivate.

Since the county is sympathetic to His Majesty, he should serve the country everywhere. ”

Yun Zhao was silent, thought for a moment, picked up a pen and wrote a letter and handed it to Cao Huachun: "This is my reply to Your Majesty, with this reply, I think Your Majesty may be able to sleep well." ”

Cao Huachun took the letter with both hands, and when he saw that the letter was not sealed, he arched his hand and said: "Please use fire paint and seal the letter." ”

Yun Zhao waved his hand and said, "No, you can watch it, everyone in the world can watch it." ”

Cao Huachun opened the letter, glanced at it, and said with some sadness and indignation: "The county lord has humiliated His Majesty too much. ”

Yun Zhao said lightly: "If anything happens to Your Majesty, Yun Zhao should raise troops to avenge Your Majesty!" Kill all the thieves in the world!

The loyalty of this sentence can be expressed every day, what is offensive? ”

Cao Huachun got up and left Yun Zhao's study without saying a word.

Cao Huachun left, Yuan Min naturally followed, he looked back at Yun Zhao's astonishing size of the study, and left thoughtfully.

Xu Wu wanted to see Yun Zhao silently drinking tea, looking at Yushan and falling into deep thought, so he didn't bother him anymore, waved his hand, and all the people in the big study quickly left, he closed the door of the big study, leaving this place completely to Yun Zhao alone.

There is no need to be cowardly, Yun Zhao has begun to get tired of giving Zhu Youxiao some false hope.

This time, he bluntly told the emperor that at this time, Lantian County was his ally, no longer his courtier, and as long as he lived, Lantian County would not be unfavorable to him.

In doing so, we can put an end to the idea of some people at both ends of the rat, and the idea of continuing to be loyal to the imperial court, and begin to consider the new situation that Lantian County will face as a real Lantian person.

All changes come from the emperor's attitude.

Yun Zhao hoped that the emperor could concentrate on facing Huang Taiji, Li Hongji and others, and it was best not to regard Lantian County as a target that needed to be dealt with first.

In the evening, Cao Huachun left Yushan and went straight to Xi'an City, where he stayed for two days, and his two requests to see the King of Qin were refused, so he had no choice but to leave Xi'an City and set off for Tongguan.

In Tongguan, he took the 50,000 loads of grain that Yun Zhao gave to the queen's mother, and marched to Beijing on a starry night.

Yun Zhao waited for a long time, but he didn't hear any news about his letter, and it seemed that Cao Huachun wanted to hand it over to the emperor directly.

Yun Zhao convened a strategy to deal with possible crises, and as a result, on the map of the Ming Dynasty, Guanzhong was obviously a land abandoned by the Ming Dynasty, and around Guanzhong, the Ming Dynasty's military strength was less than 20,000 border troops.

Whether it is the Ming army, Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong, these people are unwilling to approach Guanzhong, no one can know what Yun Zhao thinks in his heart, judging from the situation in Guanzhong, Yun Zhao has the reason and motivation to attack everyone.

In this situation, for the emperor, Li Hongji, and Zhang Bingzhong, the best choice is to join forces to kill Lantian County first, and then fight to the death, but unfortunately, they can't form such an alliance no matter what.

I can only watch as the general trend of the world tilts towards Lantian County little by little.

This is a soldier who surrenders without a fight!

In May, Xu Wu wanted to get married, and his wife was Gong'e Su Dai from the Forbidden City.

Legend has it that the county was furious, and overnight he demoted Xu Wuxiang to the fourth level and assigned Dali County as the chief of Dali, and he was not allowed to return to Yushan if he had nothing to do.

Even so, there is still an endless stream of Yushan officials who marry Gong E, and what awaits them is the same treatment as Xu Wuxiang, and they are assigned to each county as the lieutenant chief, or the big lieutenant chief.

At this point, there are rumors that there is finally a crack in the ironclad Lantian County.

These people were sent out, and those who had already served as lieutenant chiefs and Dali chiefs for two to three years returned to Yushan and took up important positions one after another.

Xu Wuxiang left Su Dai five days after getting married, and at this time, Su Dai was crying and almost fainted.

She had just learned about her husband's high position, and she didn't have time to rejoice, so she was slapped on the head, because of her, this ugly monster in her mouth, lost the high-ranking official, and wanted to go to the countryside to farm.

"Hugh has to listen to those nonsense, Lantian County is different from other places, officials are like flowing water that always has to flow endlessly, and no one is allowed to stay in one position for a long time here.

I'm just at the time of circulation, I went to the countryside, I don't need to go to the field to farm, I'm still an official, just supervise others to farm, in addition, don't underestimate the mayor, this official position is basically equivalent to the magistrate of Dali County.

It's reuse, not denigration! ”

No matter how Xu Wu wants to explain, for a woman like Su Dai who grew up in the palace since childhood, as long as she is reprimanded out of the capital, she must have suffered.

The lieutenant chief, the eldest lieutenant naturally can't bring his family with him, Xu Wuxiang originally wanted to keep warm up when he left, but now that he has no chance, he comforted Su Dai for a whole night, and then took the two servants on horseback at dawn.

The consequence that the first stage of rectification did not achieve Yunzhao's hope was that everyone did not have enough understanding of this new thing, and they didn't know where to start.

Yun Zhao was extremely dissatisfied with this, this was the real intention of Xu Wuxiang for these central personnel to go to the countryside.

If you can't really bring people's hearts together, Yun Zhao thinks that no matter how big the territory is, it is useless.

Feng Ying vomited badly, and Qian Duoduo didn't have any.

It stands to reason that Feng Ying's body is much better than Qian Duoduo's, but Qian Duoduo grabs a large handful of green apricots all day long, which makes people drool, but Feng Ying even has a good night's sleep as a luxury.

Looking at Feng Ying's six-month-old belly, Yun Zhao didn't dare to have too high expectations for the IQ of the child in her womb, people generally start with morning sickness just after pregnancy, but Feng Ying started morning sickness after more than five months of pregnancy.

Master Xuan Jing, who has been growing her hair for half a year, gave Feng Ying a strict examination, and she couldn't tell what the reason was, and finally told Yun Zhao that the woman had all kinds of symptoms when she was pregnant, and it was not uncommon for such a situation to occur.

In fact, Mrs. Xuan Jing, who had a short bun, was also a pregnant woman, and seeing how she begged Qingxing from Qian Duoduo to chew together, even Yun Zhao's saliva could not extinguish the anger in his heart.

However, with her mother's permission, after Feng Ying slept in Yun Zhao's room, this symptom magically disappeared.

After seeing Feng Ying eat four chicken legs in one go, Yun Zhao finally couldn't help but say, "If you want to be with me, just say it earlier, what are you doing so much?" ”

Feng Ying raised his grease face and said innocently: "I don't know why this is happening, when I sleep in the inner house, as long as I smell a bad smell, I will vomit."

You don't have any taste here, so you don't vomit. ”

Qian Duoduo said disdainfully on the side: "This is a problem with the lack of men, but it's a pity that I have a big belly ......."

Feng Ying didn't care about Qian Duoduo's cynicism from time to time, and he didn't care that his hands were full of oil, and he grabbed Yun Zhao's hand and said to Qian Duoduo: "I don't think there's anything wrong with my man." ”

Seeing that Qian Duoduo was about to explode, Yun Zhao took Qian Duoduo's hand and said, "It's just right, we can talk about the affairs of Shuzhong." ”