The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

The two met in private, and what followed was when he was most shocked, everything was impacting his inherent understanding of the world.

In the end, he made that ridiculous bet with Liu Tao.

"Years ago, Zhang Niujiao from Boling sent someone to find me." Chu Yan said slowly, "I said that I will raise troops on Boling next month, and I invite you to join."

"Why would he want to invite you?" Liu Tao asked jokingly.

"I'm not going to hide it from you. The two of us actually knew each other earlier. We worked together for a while before. The Taiping Sect raised troops. He happened to be in another place and couldn't respond." Chu Yan replied.

After a pause, he continued: "Only returning to his hometown, he found that the local gentry did not treat the people better because of this incident, but worsened. He couldn't see it anymore, so he decided to raise troops a month later and invited me to join .”

"Then what do you think? After all, whether you want to respond or not is your decision." Liu Tao asked back.

"You, can you really see the future?" Chu Yan was a little scared. The future is full of unknowns, which makes people awe-inspiring.But having your future known to others is another level of fear.

"Don't worry, I'm not a god. I just glanced at the long river of time by chance, and I didn't see much." In front of Chu Yan, Liu Tao insisted on pretending to be a god to the end.

"..." Chu Yan heard the words, although she felt a little hard to let go, she still felt relieved.Taking a deep breath and asking, "So, what should I do next?"

"Our bet is not over yet, so what you do in the future is up to you to decide." Liu Tao laughed.

"I'm going to respond, if he really hits Yingtao with an arrow, and I can successfully take over his followers." Chu Yan replied.

"Then go!" Liu Tao nodded, "Make a big fuss and let the world know your name. But you have to think clearly, after the incident, you will no longer be Chu Yan, but Zhang Yan .”

"Wonfang, since there is going to be an incident, it must become the enemy of the Han court. Changing the surname can also prevent the relatives in the family from being affected." Chu Yan obviously had plans long ago.

Bandits and rebels are two different concepts. The former kills at most one person, while the latter kills the barbarians.In order to avoid implicating the clansmen, Chu Yan felt that it might be a good choice to change the name.

"As long as you don't feel burdened, that's fine..." Seeing this, Liu Tao couldn't say anything more.

"If possible, I don't want him to die." Chu Yan hesitated for a while, and finally expressed her thoughts.

"I can only tell you that when he attacked Yingtao, he would be killed by an arrow. When this future is known to you and me, there will only be two directions for the future. One is that he will still be shot to death in the end, even if You have worked hard; otherwise, you will change because of your hard work, all of which are beyond my control." Liu Tao was taken aback, then explained.

"In this case, no matter what the result is, I will try." Chu Yan felt a little relieved, "Of course, in terms of betting, even if I give up on my own initiative."

After a pause, he bowed solemnly to Liu Tao: "My lord, if there is an order in the future, the subordinates must do their best!"

Zhang Yan recognized the Lord in this place. To be honest, Liu Tao was a little surprised, but felt it was reasonable.I have been pretending to be a magic stick for so long, it seems that I have fooled him after all.

"You and I don't need to be so polite. In the next few years, I will wrong you to continue to stay in the Taihang Mountain area, and it may even last for more than ten years." Liu Tao stepped forward and helped him up.

"Your Majesty, do as you please!" Chu Yan nodded.

"I need you to unite the hermits and thieves in the entire Taihang Mountains in the past ten years, and then become the largest and strongest thieves in this area." Liu Tao said slowly.

The problem of hidden households is actually the biggest problem of the great Han. For example, in the area of ​​Wuyue, many people hid in the mountains and even fought against the imperial court in the mountains.

Although the imperial court generally refers to such thieves as 'Shanyue', according to the actual situation, there are actually some differences.

Those who couldn't bear the exploitation of the local gentry and had to flee to the mountains and forests were not necessarily Wuyue people, but also Han Chinese;

In addition, some people who originally lived in this area are descended from the ancient Yue people, such as Peng Yue.It is said that he is a descendant of Peng Zu. He lived in the Wuyi Mountains for a long time. He has opposed Sun Wu many times. The leaders are: Peng Qi and Peng Shi.

Strictly speaking, there are similar hermits in Taihang Mountains and Qinling Mountains. As far as Taihang Mountain is concerned, it is rumored that there are more than one million hermits.Zhang Yan accepted the recruitment and was appointed to manage these hidden households as a general in the middle of the disaster. At the same time, he could recommend Xiaolian to the imperial court.

It is equivalent to the king of the mountain recognized by the court.What Liu Tao wants is to collect the millions of hermits in the Taihang Mountains for his own use. At critical moments, some of them can be relocated to live in the cloud.

"Here!" Chu Yan took the order, and he didn't bother with this concept for more than ten years.The most important thing is that Liu Tao did not send anyone to 'assist' him, which means that he is almost fully responsible for this matter.

In the rivers and lakes, what is important is faith. Chu Yan recognizes the Lord and can speak out, it is a lifetime thing.If one day he betrays, it means that he has lost his faith, and he is messing around in the rivers and lakes. Without faith, it means that he is finished.

Liu Tao believes in his faith, so naturally he will not disappoint his faith.

In fact, for Liu Tao, if he can subdue him, he can subdue him, and he can be used as a pawn to be placed in the Taihang Mountains.It doesn't matter if you can't subdue it, at most it will be more troublesome in the future.Naturally, I don't care too much about things that are not bad in themselves.

The two left with different thoughts, but when they were about to part, Liu Tao turned around and shouted: "When I see you next time, you will already be Zhang Yan, right?"

Chu Yan, Chu Yan, etc., I'm really not used to it.

"Probably so..." Chu Yan was taken aback for a moment, then nodded and replied. Since then, the two have truly separated.

"Brother..." Returning to their own position, Lu Yan and others stepped forward with concern.

"It's okay, it's okay, let's continue walking!" Liu Tao looked around, "We'll talk about setting up camp tonight."

At this time, another rider came from the front, came to the front of the formation, looked at Liu Tao and the others, and shouted: "My leader ordered you to proceed casually. My leader has already greeted the entire mountain range, and will not Someone is going to bother you."

After finishing speaking, he rode away directly without any intention of staying.

"Hey, I didn't expect such a surprise..." Liu Tao smiled to the left and right.

Chapter 237 The Confluence of the Eldest Son City

For the rest of the journey, the necessary precautions were still maintained, but it was true that there was no movement along the way.Occasionally startled some beasts became the team's extra meal at night.

With no risk, the group speeded up the next day. In less than half a day, they went out of the mountain and arrived in Gaodu County.The sudden arrival of an army, to be honest, the county magistrate was taken aback and ordered people to close the city gate from a distance.

It was later discovered that it was the army of the imperial court, and after Liu Tao revealed his identity, he reopened the door.Originally, Liu Tao could directly detour, but in terms of supplies, he needs to purchase them locally.

The supply troops are insufficient, so that there is no way to carry too many supplies, and more purchases are made locally. This situation will probably continue until the army arrives at the eldest son city.Fortunately, it is only 140 miles from Gaodu County to Zhangzi County.

"According to the speed of one hundred miles a day, how about arriving at the eldest son city in a day and a half, and then joining the supply troops there?" Liu Tao suggested that night.

"As far as the condition of the official road is concerned, it's not a big problem." In the evening, Zhang Fei took someone to check the road condition.

The real trouble was the mountain road before. The first twenty miles were fine, but the mountain road behind was getting more and more difficult.Sixty miles a day is already the limit, but fortunately, the whole journey is only about ninety miles.

Thanks to the lack of rain, otherwise, it would not be an ordinary difficulty to walk the mountain road in the muddy environment.Especially with the pits full of stagnant water everywhere on the ground, you never know how deep the pits are.

"It's just the beginning of spring, and the rain seems to be a little less..." Cai Yan was actually more worried about other aspects.It has hardly rained during this journey, so it is really good not to delay the trip, but the farmer's side is probably going to frown.

"Because of the turmoil last year, the people were short of food. If this weather continues for a while, the people will probably make trouble again." Liu Tao shook his head.

Perhaps Zhang Niujiao rebelled not because the local people were suffering and couldn't stand it, but because he really couldn't survive.

The inside of the big man is already rotten, but under the established system, as long as there are no changes, the people can still support it.This is based on the fact that Dahan has been in a state of peace.The invasion of foreign enemies, as well as natural disasters, will cause a major collapse of social order.

Obviously, due to traffic and other reasons, Dahan also lacks sufficient emergency measures... For example, the most critical Changping warehouse, which was planned to be established during the Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, failed in the end.

Just like the monopoly of salt and iron was broken, there was no Changping warehouse, so the local rich could manipulate grain prices at will.

No one wants to lose this convenience, especially compared to a carefully managed, self-financing business.Sitting at home, stable and profitable agriculture is valued by the family.A sentence of farming and reading heirlooms actually tells the face of the family.

Therefore, the objection to commerce is not only because they are not good at this thing, but the key is that commercial circulation will lead to fluctuations in food prices, which is not conducive to their manipulation of food prices. This is what they don't like to see.

"It was chaotic like this last year, and this year is still chaotic?" Cai Yan has been staying in Luoyang. She knows that there are people rebelling outside, and the scale is not small, but rebellion is still too far away from her.