Longmen Temple was destroyed by bandits, and when Squire Huang went out to inspect his own fields, he was robbed and killed by Zhenshan Tiger and exposed his corpse in the wilderness, and two terrible tragedies quickly shocked the gentry of Baokang. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, they all know who did it.

Anyway, the Zhenshan Tiger and the Huang Squire are brothers, the Huang Squire has sold the stolen goods over the years, and the Zhenshan Tiger has done dirty work for him, and the two of them are so good that they are about to wear a pair of pants, and the Zhenshan Tiger let the donkey kick his head? Robbing your most important business partner? As for Longmen Temple, it's even more nonsense, those bald people have been at peace with Zhenshan Tiger for many years, and the two have cooperated, so he has nothing to do to run to destroy which sect! The only one who can do this is to worship God, the bald head of Longmen Temple just went to the county to accuse them of plotting a rebellion, Huang Squire just suspected their motives, and then one was killed and the other was hacked to death with a knife, these guys are indeed ruthless enough.

I'm afraid this is a real rebellion!

Knowing this, the gentry of Baokang shut up instead.

If they continue to inform, then the result can only be that the government sends troops to suppress, and then their hometown becomes a battlefield, and they all understand the truth that thieves are like combing soldiers and bandits are like shaving, and the ferocity of these officials and soldiers is second only to bandits, so the thieves are still slightly stronger than them, not to mention that in that case, they are the first to take revenge on the God Sect. It can be said that no matter what the result of the final rebellion is by worshipping God, they must be the most unlucky, since this is the case, then continue to pretend that they don't know anything, anyway, these man-made rebellions are to grab the territory outside the mountain, and they will definitely not stay in the poor ravine of Baokang, people are just temporarily preparing here, not to say that they are ready to occupy Baokang, everyone is safe, and they can also take the opportunity to make a fortune by selling grain and meat, it is precisely because of this psychology, The Gentry of the Baokang Sect turned a complete blind eye to the activities of the Worship of God.

Yang Feng then continued to train his first army at Huanglongguan, while constantly making new flintlock pistols and arming more recruits recruited through the grievance meeting.

By the early summer of the year, his Holy Cult army had grown to five hundred.

As for the followers of the Holy Religion......

It's hard to say how much this is, but at least a quarter of the population of the entire Xiangyang Prefecture has been converted to Haotian God, and the Baokang and Fang counties of Yunyang Prefecture will not be lower than this ratio, and even Nanyang, Suizhou and other places have many believers, which can be said to be like a big religion, but it still has not aroused the vigilance of the Manchu Qing officials. First, Qi Lin sent the money in these official mansions in a timely manner, and secondly, the Manchu officials were originally so efficient, and the Bagua Sect spread in Shandong for nearly a hundred years before it aroused the alarm of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

I have to say that these Qing officials also have their cute side.

That's ......

They generally don't care about anything other than their bosses, and they don't think about their responsibilities other than making money for themselves.

Even if there is a rebellion under their rule.

As long as there is money to be made, they will also turn a blind eye.

In other words, Yang Feng didn't believe that the prefect of Xiangyang and An Yun Xiangjing Bingbei Dao Yunyang General Soldier couldn't guess his intentions, last time An Yun Xiangjing Bing Beidao deliberately released the news of the vacancy of the Baokang County Order, which is probably to test his purpose, after all, if it is not for other purposes, it is impossible for a Taoist priest to take out 10,000 taels of silver to buy a poor county magistrate, but even so, the officials of Xiangyang continue to ignore him.

Anyway, if they leave in office and make enough money during their term of office, even if he rebels, he will be unlucky for the next term.

This is the same as the Wang family's entrenchment in the stone Buddha's mouth.

It is said that the Wang family of Wenxiang Sect is still happy in Shifokou, but it has been renamed Qingchamen.

Even if this kind of rebellion had a record in the previous dynasty, and it was explicitly designated by the imperial court, it was ignored, not to mention that his definition was still somewhat vague God worship.

"This is the official!"

Yang Feng said disdainfully.

At this time, he was on the boat on the Han River, on the dock in front of Fancheng, the prefect of Xiangyang was saying goodbye to the officials who saw him off, and the prefect had received him a total of nearly 10,000 taels of silver last year.

Anu, who was beside him, also watched this scene with hatred.

It is estimated that at this time, Princess Gulun also deeply felt that she was not an official in the Qing Dynasty, and she was not an official or a corpse, and she was inevitably a little angry at this time, after all, she saw how Yang Feng was big, and 10,000 taels of silver made a prefect ignore a Xie Sect rising under her own rule, where did your loyal monarch serve the country.

Such a corrupt official and corrupt official, this Qing Dynasty will be a pill sooner or later!

"Immortal Venerable, do you want to sail?"

The boat boss asked Yang Feng respectfully.

A silver chain fell from his chest, and underneath it was embellished with a striking five-colored star.

"Let's go!"

Yang Feng nodded and said.

"It's sailing!"

The captain of the boat immediately shouted.

Immediately afterwards, this large inland sand boat with a length of nearly 10 zhang slowly left the wharf, dragged by the soaring water of the Han River, and went straight down the river to Hankou.

Yang Feng was going to find a partner.

Zhu Li.

The name of this modern Yunxiao man, the largest smuggler on the southeast coast at this time, or it can also be said to be a pirate, is actually a pirate in the definition of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a big pirate leader, a pirate leader who harassed the coastal government and made the people uneasy.

At this time, it was the time when the Manchu Qing sea ban was the strictest, and there was only one port in Guangzhou in the whole of China that allowed foreign trade, and in order to make a living, the people along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang had to join the smuggling ranks, driving small boats to brave the wind and waves and the Manchu Qing Shui Division's ban on running to the sea, trading with European merchant ships on those small islands, and forming large and small boat gangs, which can be said to be both merchants and thieves. In fact, this situation has been accompanied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty sea ban period, more than a hundred years of continuous succession, one fell and the other rose, and Zhu Li is the leader of the largest boat gang in it, he has even developed to the point that he can fight naval battles with the Qing army and naval divisions, until the Jiaqing period was killed, and when his younger brother led his subordinates to surrender, there were thousands of people and dozens of warships, hundreds of large and small artillery.

And Yang Feng now wants to support this Zhenhai King, who even occupies a large area of territory in Taiwan, and then develop European trade through him.

By the way, build your own navy.

The best choice for him to go on the Northern Expedition is to take the route of the British and French forces, land at Dagukou from the sea and then take Beijing directly, and he is now deep inland, even if he develops at most in Xiangyang, he can only develop an inland water division, and if he wants to have the ability to land at sea, he must at least have a working sea fleet, and the pirates led by Zhu Li are his best choice. Even he can use Lin Shuangwen's identity to help them win Taiwan first to develop their strength, originally Zhu Mian was entrenched in Taipei in history, as for how to subdue Zhu Mian, this is not worth mentioning, the big deal is to show the identity of the immortals, these outlaws at sea are usually extremely superstitious gods, go back and put a Mazu on them, and then say that Mazu is also an old friend of his heavenly realm.

Fujianese people believe this.

Zhu Li didn't believe it, and his subordinates definitely believed it.

Xiangyang to Hankou is only six or seven hundred miles, a line of the Han River is obliquely inserted in the past, Yang Feng's boat down the river arrived at Wuchang on the third day, here into the Yangtze River to continue downstream, soon across the Jiujiang Wuhu all the way unimpeded to Nanjing.

There are also believers in the worship of God here.

"Whose portrait is this?"

In front of the Dinghuai Gate in Nanjing, Yang Feng looked at the portrait of Lin Shuangwen on the wall in front of him and asked knowingly.

"Back to Xianzun, that is Lin Shuangwen who kidnapped the Qing Demon Princess."

Disciple Lin Sheng said in a low voice.

He didn't know that the fairy boy next to him was the Qing Demon Princess, and he knew that Yang Feng borrowed Lin Shuangwen's body to make trouble in Beijing, and there were only a few high-level people in the sect who borrowed Lin Shuangwen's body to make trouble, and middle- and low-level disciples like him didn't know, in fact, this portrait was also in Xiangyang, although Yang Feng used his original face in Tianjin, but I don't know why, the portrait of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was arrested, and he continued to use Lin Shuangwen's portrait.

After all, Beijing's flag bearers are more memorable to this face.

Lin Sheng was a merchant in the finance department under the jurisdiction of Xiangu, who was responsible for selling the luxury goods provided by Yang Feng, amassing wealth for the Holy Sect, and then used it to support the disciples. However, this is too far away from Xiangyang, and Yang Feng's most important means of preaching cannot be radiated here, so he has not made much progress in preaching, but he has made great achievements in making money, and this year alone has earned 200,000 taels of silver for Yang Feng, which is only what he handed in, and he must have earned more.

Yang Feng is not the only one in this area, there are several disciples who are doing the same thing.

Nanjing, Yangzhou, Suzhou and Hangzhou are setting off a boom in such luxury goods.

Whether it is silver-plated mirrors, plastic products, stainless steel tableware, and even modern fabrics, etc., are making these idle guys who have no hobbies except to show off their wealth flock to them, a salt merchant in Yangzhou even bought the largest silver-plated mirror for five thousand taels of silver to give to his beloved famous prostitute, Jiangning Weaving spent 10,000 taels of silver, bought three colorful cloths as gorgeous as clouds, or modern man-made fiber calico, Xiaoqian black into the monitoring system, and then in the jewelry store to sweep the jewelry, In particular, those gemstone jewelry, whether natural or man-made, is sweeping the wealth circle of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and even the merchants of the Thirteen Lines in Guangzhou have come to buy it, and they must have resold it to Europeans.

The silver exchanged for these things poured into Yang Feng's hands, and then used to buy officials and relief believers to make munitions to train the army, waiting to overthrow the Manchu dynasty in one fell swoop.

"Hmph, sooner or later, you have to let the blood of the Qing Demon stain this Ming Imperial City!"

Yang Feng sneered.

He didn't notice that at this moment, a man in official uniform on the city wall was looking at his Anu.