Mystery Makes Me Strong

And at this time.

Soon the refugee traverser, 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 teach the teacher, and the old boy was born to be his fool.

After setting up a set of reward and punishment measures and promotion measures, he would fool the gangsters every day and tell them to follow him, they would have meat to eat, and they would receive pensions when they died.

These days, even for soldiers of the imperial court, their death is basically the result of having their pension swallowed up.

And 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, why should he work for others?

He wouldn't think so.

This is human nature.

Changes in human nature can only gradually change for the better after changes in material and the general environment.

Just like the morality of modern people is several dimensions higher than that of ancient people.

In one sentence, modern people do not use humans as food, which can be summed up.

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, buying what they could and grabbing what they couldn't.

And Wu Zetian also gave him a golden finger.

Wu Zetian made him immune to all kinds of diseases, and 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 failed was actually historically an accident.

Die too young.

History is inherently 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.

Occasionally, it is whether Zhang San succeeds or Li Si succeeds.

Is it the beggar who succeeds or the hooligan who succeeds?

Whether the country gentry, officials, and other races succeed depends on their luck.

all in all.

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 in him.

First, 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 gave each other more benefits than before.

Give information with one hand and get benefits with the other.

For the sake of copper, 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 stick-sticking station, 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 in turn allowed the landowners who relied on him to get more benefits.

Let the total food production increase.

At the same time, he also began to impose slight restrictions on rural landowners so that the people could have a way to survive.

Only by maintaining order can we develop.

And if people want to have a way to survive, they must find more jobs.

Only when there are many jobs can enough products be produced.

In terms of economic understanding, he can surpass the chief minister of the current government by ten blocks.

There is one thing that can completely overwhelm the opponent, 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 really need.

He even set up various invisible taxes to harvest food from large households.

It is not possible to directly divide the land and grab grain, but the modern refugee 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 bandit.

The court was not afraid of mountain bandits.

Bandits are coming one after another, there are too many, and it is 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 were like this, but they failed in success.

Their ability to become the overlord of one place and stir up trouble in 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 for any length of time, and at most it will suffer some loss.

Third, if there is salt, there is food.

If you have salt, you can exchange it for grain from big households.

For ancient rebellions, this was a better path.

Economic income can be obtained by selling private salt.

Moreover, 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.

And places that cannot afford salt are basically places 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 be implicated.

Because selling private salt requires someone with absolute confidentiality, it is all done by the clan...

Private salt dealers have never been truly eliminated, and it is absolutely impossible for the imperial court to allocate a large army to conquer a team of private salt dealers.

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 profits, 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 counterparts.

The refugee 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 more officials and less salt, some people will definitely not 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 always banned?

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 relevant interests.

In fact, the fight 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.

For example, two salt merchants are both engaged in salt business privately.

The competition between them is fierce.

It is much crueler than the imperial ban.

It is through this kind of private salt sales and localization transformation that the refugee time travelers have gradually become stronger.

He worked hard to accumulate it for ten years!

It is 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 below the mountain.

Occupy the countryside and build your own manor.

He did not directly attack the county seat.

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.

The less trouble, the better.

Many officials 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.

And 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 report it.

that's all.

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 doesn't have that much vision and no plug-in support.

He has several 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.

It did not expand to the entire Yazhou, which was also related to his own origin.

He himself was born into poverty and had narrow vision.

Later, they were always fighting against the Ming Dynasty internally, and never really fought against the Manchus.

Moreover, the think tank he received was not good enough, and his goals were not very clear.

For example, his think tank suggested that he fight back 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 down to Jiangnan and copy Zhu Yuanzhang's path.

Defeat other rebels, annex them, and strengthen yourself.

But he chose the seemingly simplest path to quickly destroy the Ming Dynasty, 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 clearly has enough energy to establish a grassroots management system.

Moreover, when he attacked the Ming Dynasty, he greatly dispersed his power.

He only brought tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses, and the rest were temporary surrender troops.

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 with him, 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.

Together with other vassals, the total strength is hundreds of thousands.

It can be said that if Li Zicheng brought all the 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.

They chased Li Zicheng from the capital to the west and then to the south, chasing Li Zicheng to death.

He wasn't given a chance to breathe.

But they have no ifs in history.

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 without the prison of words.

In fact, Western culture has penetrated deeply into the Ming Dynasty.

Many administrators in the Ming Dynasty have long since chosen the West.

This was impossible for the Qing Dynasty to do, and it did not absorb the West until it was about to die.

Real success is determined by vision.

Naturally, refugee travelers do not have these problems.

He knew exactly whom to unite and whom to fight.

As a result, 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 landowner time traveler is dead.

He 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 wasn't that good either.

It relies on means such as promotion and wealth, eating, drinking, having fun, and clear rewards and punishments.

The result directly led to the death of the landowner traverser.

The big landowner who traveled through the world regretted it before he died.

"If I had known, I would have sought refuge overseas."

"I'm so stupid."

"I just thought that when the enemy came, I would just kneel down, but I didn't know that if I wanted to kneel down, I might not have the chance."

"Not all big landowners can survive the change of dynasty smoothly."

The great landowner who traveled through time was very depressed before his death.

Damn, how could this be?