Lu Ming

"There is no need to discuss this issue!"

A slender face with a protruding forehead across the crowd, after winking with a few other people in the room, he raised his hand and said.

Chapter 41 Power is King

Zou Guoqing: I was a technician at a metropolis power repair factory before crossing the road. I was pessimistic about whether I could own a commercial house before I died, so I fell into the clutches of some people and was packaged and brought to the Ming Dynasty. It is one of several engineering dogs that have traveled through the community.

"First of all, my next words are the common views of our industrial colleagues."

After looking around for a week, I felt that my family's momentum had risen a little bit, and Zou Guoqing continued: "The so-called farming and industry are nothing more than those places along the coast of Daming, which will inevitably face the following problems: population, malaria, Raw materials, but also military pressure. These problems will exist more or less, but the severity will vary.”

"Everyone's discussing and discussing these days is nothing more than wrangling between these issues."

"However," said this, Zou Guoqing's tone suddenly raised a level: "These are only secondary issues, and even if these issues add up, they are not decisive factors."

Seeing everyone staring at him, Zou Guoqing then continued: "Everyone has come from the information age, and they all know what the Industrial Revolution is all about. And our power, because there is a steady stream of 'imports' Materials' do support, so it is capable of starting with a small and delicate internal combustion engine system in this wild world."

"Taiwan, the initial base can only be Taiwan!" Having said that, Zou Guoqing looked around and found that some people seemed to have understood it, so he raised his mouth slightly: "From a strategic point of view, no matter how crazy malaria is, How many lives need to be put in, no matter how bad the external environment is, these factors are not as important as that barrel of diesel. No matter how good the starting conditions seem, sooner or later, the industrial development speed brought by the internal combustion engine and electricity will be overtaken. Certainly."

When Zou Guoqing talked about this, his eyes glowed: "As long as you survive the difficult early stage, you can arrange people to go to Miaosu to dig oil. Even the simplest local method of oil refining is considered petrochemical! Humph, let's put it this way, If you plan to drive a battleship to dry a bowl of Thames water in 20 years, then from now on, you should honestly consider how to dig that barrel of oil, instead of wrangling over those secondary issues waste time."

"Believe me, with diesel, you can really do whatever you want..."

A problem that was originally considered to require a lot of debate to reach a consensus was dropped by KO.After discussing for a while, Zou Guoqing looked at the nodding passers-by and felt complacent for a while.

Now that the strategic direction has been determined, the next step is much easier. The conspirators then discussed three subsidiary issues: First, the plan to collect refugees.Second, the solution for the Pingfengzhai forces, and third, the plan for where to settle in Taiwan.

The meeting continued until two in the morning.

It is not an exaggeration to describe the first general meeting of the transmigrators with good words such as victory, unity, historicity, etc. At least on this night, everyone was thinking with a problem-solving attitude. After discussion, the formation was formed after the meeting. It is also the result that everyone agrees on.

Regarding the status of this meeting in history, it is definitely important, and in the distant future, the bear children will be dragged into the office to be roared: "Even the opening meeting can be answered in which year. Wrong, call your father tomorrow!"

... That's right, the first general meeting of the traversers, another name is "opening meeting".

At the end of the meeting that night, there was a little episode - a traveler asked to exercise the rights of a partner: spend some public money to buy a "secretary", everyone can have it.

The CEO understood as soon as he heard it: This guy is asking for salary!I don’t know if my brother has done real estate?

So Old Xia Lue pondered, and casually brought out five or six reasons, such as "Now that Zhuangzi is in such a mess, can't we wait for the craftsmen to finish the project before thinking about it?" When Xia went from the shallow to the deep, and started to argue the dialectical relationship between "the blue thread of the road and our own career", Bai Hongda had already smelled a strong ominous atmosphere.

However, when he looked left and right, he realized that those people with thick eyebrows and big eyes had disappeared at some point... Bai Hongda was filled with grief and indignation for a moment, and he saw that the big hat of "wearing rape" was about to be lifted the next moment. Come out, in desperation he can only go away...

The above episode was snuffed out in the official history.

On the afternoon of the seventh day after the kick-off meeting, Chu Jianli and a few minions wandered around the private port in front of Tangzhuang Gate.The third master probably had something in his heart, he kept pacing on the shore and couldn't stop looking away.

Since Cao Chuan invited him to the back house a few days ago, and told him amicably that he wanted to "reminisce" with the two masters in the mountain, the third master knew that the job was coming.

These days, when "friends from West Kunlun" kept appearing out of thin air in Tangzhuang, the people who accompanied Cao Chuan to Pingfengzhai in Hangzhou had realized what Cao said about "experienced in the world" It's not that simple.As for Cao Chuan running back to the "West Kunlun" when he was "retreating", probably Chu Jianli and the others also guessed it.

However, this is useless, and now they can't see Chairman Cao in a hurry.All kinds of monks carrying AKs, Toutuos, Taoist priests and burly men haunt Tangzhuang. The back house has gradually become a restricted area for Ming people.

Of course, the relationship between the two forces is still very harmonious.Although there are few people passing through, they are not short of money. Chu Jianli and the others originally came to fight Xian Changqiufeng, but later on, they became a little embarrassed with each other - a partnership is not like a partnership, and an owner is not like an owner.

The third master watched with cold eyes these days, and also saw some eyebrows: Cao Shenxian is still the ghostly Cao Shenxian, but the "friends" he invited have now gathered together, and the person in charge is the one who first showed his face, "Xia Xia". gentlemen".

Seeing the travelers buying boats and going out to sea, building large-scale construction projects, and having a faint smell of doing a major event, the third master is very clear that this kind of confused situation will not last long, and sooner or later, there will be a showdown. There are few such things in the arena ?

Regarding the showdown, he himself does not feel that a catastrophe is imminent. Everything shown by the traversers has already far exceeded the concept of "strong dragon" in the traditional sense of the rivers and lakes. This is what the people in Pingfeng Village feel most deeply— They know best what AK47 is.

Since the strength gap is so big, it is not necessarily a bad thing for several leaders to "reminisce" with Cao Dazhen. Isn't this idea of ​​red top white just the specialty of the dwarf mules?

Chapter 42 The Rebels

Just as Chu Jianli was standing on the bank of the Tang River worrying about gains and losses, a half-old Wu Peng slowly descended from the upstream and stopped in front of the unfinished private port in a short time.

As soon as the boat docked, five or six strong men jumped down first, and the first one was the one who was sent to the mountains to report the situation a few days ago. Seeing Chu Jianli coming up to meet him, he hurriedly crossed his hands: "Third Master!"

"Where's Uncle?" Chu Jianli chuckled.

Before he finished speaking, a loud shout floated over from the bow of the boat: "Old third!"

Chu Jianli looked up and saw that Zhou Tong, who was wearing a bamboo hat, a short earth cloth robe, and a square face and short beard, was standing on the bow of the boat, looking at him with a smile.The short man next to him with a tiger's beard and eyes, and a pig-killing knife across his waist, who is it if it's not Chen Erye?

They haven't seen each other for many days, and taking advantage of the unloading time from the ship, the three leaders began to greet each other—Zhou Tong knew some people's hobbies, and this time they brought ten pickles of chicken blood stones with the ship...

After listening to Chu Jianli's slightly worrying situation report, Zhou Tong waved his hand vigorously: "It's okay, you have been worrying too much about this matter. With Mr.'s supernatural powers, why should you pay more attention to the brothers, there is only a lack of manpower left and right That's it."

Speaking of this, Zhou Tong sighed before continuing: "Didn't the brothers try it out after taking down Baizhuang that day? But they insisted on traveling far away. Looking at it now, the Pingfengzhai Temple is too small to accommodate the real Buddha. Now Mr. Seducing a confidant might be a big scene. Sigh... In short, let's meet up first, it's also a chance."

A group of people called back and forth, carrying the famous and excellent local products of Tianmu Mountain, went straight to Tangzhuang, and went to Cao Chuan to "reminisce".

At the entrance of Tangzhuang, a "monk" with a horse face, long and narrow eyes, and fair skin was waiting for Zhou Tong to go.

Feng Jun, former foreman, lobby manager, and head of the human resources department, is currently the person in charge of the immigration program across the company.

After the two groups greeted each other nondescriptly at the entrance of Tangzhuang, Master Feng spoke in Hangzhou dialect that was only half-cooked and came from "Hangpu" quickly, showing his professional, somewhat soft voice, leading the conversation. With the three leaders all the way back to the house.

As soon as he entered the backyard, Chen Huoding's small eyes instantly jumped to the biggest ones - under a straw shed, seven or eight grown men, shirtless, surrounded by the case, were playing with a pile of firearms, and there were still standing in the distance. wooden target.

A traverser who is obviously a rookie is holding a horse and practicing guns. The M9 pistol's crisp crackling sound keeps ringing out. The provocative Chen Erye is very itchy. Willing to be pulled away.

When he came to the door of the main room, Feng Jun signaled a few people to wait a moment. Not long after he entered, the people at the door were brought into the inner room. After Zhou Tong entered the room, he looked up and saw that sitting alone in the center of the main room was Cao, who had not seen him for many days. gentlemen.

Cao Zhenren's attire today has some characteristics: the upper body is a bright yellow Tang suit with colorful embroidery of five dragons, the lower body is also a pair of bright yellow trousers, and the Dama Jindao sits on the top chair.Standing on the left and right were CEO Xia and Master Pudu. Seeing the three masters of Pingfengzhai enter the door, Mr. Cao gave a strange smile, bowed slightly and said, "Is Master Zhou safe?"

...Cao Chuan really can't be blamed for pretending to be like this.According to his own temperament, he had already gone out to greet guests, and then everyone had a drink of beer and said whatever they wanted.

Today's script, which is full of inferior psychological hints, was created by a few people who claim to have profound research on ancient culture. Mr. Cao is only responsible for the performance, and even the subsequent lines are written by others...

According to the spirit of the kick-off meeting, the crossing forces are expected to set sail in the season when the north wind is blowing on the sea after the Mid-autumn Festival, and set sail on the corps of the Dutch to build their first base for crossing the regime.

Now is the fourth month of the lunar calendar, and there are still more than four months before the north wind season. During this time, the travelers must organize a collection and supply channel for personnel and materials.However, no matter what the next step is, the Pingfengzhai gang, which can be called "our own people" to some extent, are the human resources that the company must use now.

This is why Zhou Tong and the two came to Tangzhuang today.

Seeing that several people in the room have finished introducing each other, divided the tea bowls, and sat down.Cao Chuan brewed his emotions, put on a sympathetic expression pack, sighed up to the sky, and then slowly said to Zhou Tong: "Brother Zhou, I'm about to be the emperor."

……

Rao Shi Zhou Tong had some vague guesses about this aspect before, but at this moment, he was still struck by this simple and unrestrained style.Looking at Cao Chuan, who was sitting on the top seat, with a short dragon jacket on his upper body and about dragon trousers on his lower body, Zhou Tong's lips twitched a few times, but he was speechless.

The script designed by some people is completely stuck here, and the force is too strong, and the impromptu performance does not know how to cooperate...

At this embarrassing moment, Chen Erye, who was sitting idle by the side, suddenly said loudly: "Mr. Heng is not upright, and he didn't want to share wealth and wealth with his brothers. Now he has to make trouble, so he thinks of me waiting. Hmph, I Today, I’m going to talk about it in the head, if you want to go to Hangzhou, the 'Lianzhu Gun' will always assign a rule to the brothers!"

Chen Huoding said the last sentence, his voice was obviously much lower, after sneaking a glance at Cao Chuan, who was at the top, he added in a low voice: "Just now, the short guns of the outside world are also needed, otherwise no one will die. "

When Zhou Tong heard this, he almost spat out a mouthful of blood: "Shut up! What nonsense!"

After scolding Chen Huoding, Zhou Tong hurriedly handed over to Cao Chuan and said, "The second child is a scumbag and makes strange noises. Sir knows it, don't blame it, don't blame it."

Cao Chuan blinked his eyes, and after a while, he suddenly laughed out loud: "No, no, the second master is straightforward, only if you have a gun, you will be willing to die, haha, haha."

Just after he finished laughing, a gentle voice sounded next to him: "Amitabha, seeing a hundred things is better than seeing them a hundred times. The two leaders are really good-natured people, and they are about to go to Hangzhou City while they are talking."

Chen Huoding didn't notice the sharpness in Feng Jun's words at all, and he didn't care much about what these people were discussing, he still showed his literary talent there: "Ever since ancient times, the emperor is not bad for hungry soldiers, and there is no one who takes advantage of it, um, this Hangzhou is not Good fight."

——Seeing that the second child has cleared his brother's mind for a "magic weapon", Zhou Chu and Chu looked at each other and could only smile bitterly, the original little thought of bargaining has faded away. many.

Talking to this level, Cao Chuan and the others already knew what they knew. It seems that the brothers in the mountains do not reject the organization.

Feeling that the script could go on again, Cao Chuan coughed and looked at Zhou Tong: "After I arrived in Hangzhou, I changed my previous rhetoric and started recruiting troops. Are the brothers saying something?"

Zhou Tong was shocked when he heard the words: "There is no such thing, Mr. is a man of immortals, and he has his own rules and regulations. How can I wait for the wild people to talk about it!"

Chapter 43 Cooperative Mode

Cao Chuan chuckled and waved his hand: "They are all brothers of their own, and they will conspire together in the future. Some secrets don't need to be hidden from you now. It's just that the reason is a long story, so please allow me to elaborate."

Taking a sip from the tea bowl, and recalling the "outline" written by some people for himself, Cao Chuan began to slowly tell the story: "Some of you don't know, when I settled here in Hangzhou, I didn't want to do too much trouble. of."

Speaking of this, his tone became heavy: "Unexpectedly, this city of Hangzhou, known as the great city in the south of the Yangtze River, is starving everywhere, and corrupt officials are rampant. It looks prosperous and beautiful, but it is actually corrupt, hehe, I saw it in the sect. The paintings and shadows of Hangzhou City are not as rotten as this."

After a pause, Cao Chuan said, "I'll watch the qi at night, and as I expected, the place in Hangzhou is full of hostility and murderous intent, and the dragon qi of the Ming Dynasty seems to be unstable. Alas, the Jiangnan chief All good lands look like this, if you think about it, the rest of the prefectures and counties under the rule of the Ming Dynasty are probably not much better..."

"...Pindao saw this vision that day, and he didn't dare to delay, so he reported the matter to the sect. You don't know, my disciples have a duty of 'watching the wind' when they go out to travel in the mountains... "

"...Now the prime minister of the Qing Palace in West Kunlun and the general servant in the lower realm is Lord Wujie Yuan." When Cao Chuan said this, he clasped his hands together and bowed in random directions. , the three of Zhou Tong were fascinated by what they were listening to, seeing this posture, they hurriedly bowed to the sky in response to the situation.

...After the fuss, Cao Jiangshu continued: "Coincidentally, this Wujie Yuanjun ascended in this world 3000 years ago, and he is also the ancestor of the Han people. After hearing the news, Yuanjun raised his hand One lesson, I found out that there are no Daoist monarchs and ministers in the Ming Dynasty, and there are foreign races spying outside, if we don’t rectify the source in time, the dragon spirit of the Han people may be taken away by evil spirits from outside the territory, and they will not return within 300 years!”

After pausing for a while, after Zhou Tong and the others had finished digesting it, Cao Chuan sighed and continued: "After Yuan Jun noticed this, he immediately issued a decree, ordering me to devote myself to the robbery, open a new dynasty, revolutionize the world, and fight against the external demon. To fight, keep the Han people from falling. In addition, Yuan Jun has selected a group of civil and military personnel to come down the mountain to assist me, and these two are enough."

…Finally finished the script according to the outline, Cao Jiangshu let out a sigh of relief, picked up the tea bowl and took two sips, and then said to Zhou Tong who was still thinking about it: "The cause and effect are all here."

Zhou Tong woke up from his contemplation in a jerk: "Oh, dare to ask when the incident started? That's the opposite... isn't it too serious?"

Cao Chuan laughed: "Yuanjun's hexagram has a cloud: the dragon and snake rise to the land, and the benefit is in the southeast. Every big change is about to happen, and there are omens: at the beginning, natural disasters and man-made disasters will warn you, and then there will be smoke and dust in various ways. After that, there will always be Some grass-headed kings have to open the way, and after ten or eight years of trouble, we can achieve the title. Right now, we naturally have to dormant in the southeast according to the hexagram of Yuanjun. Well, this place already exists, the brothers in Pingfengzhai. If you are willing to share a career with Cao, you can discuss it in detail later."

When Zhou Tong heard this, he knew that the flop time had come. He wanted to sacrifice his life for Cao Daxian to fight for the future, but he backhanded the lives of hundreds of people from Pingfeng Village. Zhou Tong turned his head, and Chen Chu and the other two After staring at each other for a few moments, I was confused and didn't know what to do.

……

In the end, Zhou Tong only stayed in Tangzhuang for three days, and then hurried back to the mountain.There are still many things to do after returning: shrinking forces, publicizing and mobilizing, selling movable and real estate...etc, etc.

Since you want to fight the world with Emperor Cao, you have to go back and check your belongings. In the storytelling, those who defected to the lord first sold their properties and then recruited children from the village to help in charity...

Having said that, if a force with a big killer weapon, no shortage of money, and the assistance of various "heavenly soldiers and generals" is not worth fighting for brothers, then the grade of Pingfengzhai in the bandit world is too low. It is obvious that Zhou Tong and the others are not such people.

Of course, there are some things that need to be made clear in advance. Zhou Tong has also made his own efforts on this point. At least when he returned to the mountain, Zhou Dazhai thought that he was worthy of the old and young men in the mountains. of.

During the few days they stayed in Tangzhuang, Zhou Tong, Xia Xianze and others held several rounds of talks, and the talks achieved satisfactory results for both parties: the travelers happily supported Zhou Tong to set up a "copycat labor export company" with separate accounting , and the original leadership team will remain unchanged by default, and the original power structure will not be shaken.To put it simply: once based on the cognition of Mingren, the standard joint-stock process on the rivers and lakes began to start.

Comrade Erlangshen has a famous statement about this method of joint stock: listen to the tune but not to the propaganda.Also known as: Guanjiangkou model.

Of course, perhaps one day in the future, when the elderly Zhou Dazhai sits in the office of the CPPCC and sees the historical materials: "Zhou XX began to cooperate with the organization in 1627 to a limited extent." Can't help it, regretful; however, it can't be blamed on him, in this era, no one can imagine what kind of change Cao Chuan and the others will bring.

The traversers are quite satisfied with the agreement reached by the two parties, which is in line with the plan - a dozen people have to forcibly lead a group of "Yan Ye people" with a stable organizational structure, which will only cause internal friction. A kind of cooperation similar to employment is good.

As for someone who missed out on the title of "the leader of the old rebel family who crossed the regime in the early stage", everyone can only laugh at it - if you don't have the courage to put all the last coins on it, don't complain about the small profit after opening the leopard.

One month later, one afternoon in June 1627, outside Hangzhou, in the back garden of Tangzhuang, a dozen or so travelers were having a small meeting in a small building with bright and clean windows.

In the state of paying the project funds that can be regarded as kind, Mingren craftsmen did not disappoint the owner. After nearly two months of overtime construction, the four projects originally planned by Tangzhuang have been completed.

Backyard is now officially known as the "company headquarters", but in private, there are a group of people who mock themselves and call this place: "Reposting Center for Mentally Retarded Humans"-every once in a while, there will always be people who are confused and look like mentally retarded people. The traverser was dragged out of the sealed box...

The former barren back garden now has some things that could not have appeared in this era: four angular two-story long buildings that are common in later generations have been built, and two of them have been built in bluestone. Large glass windows are installed on the walls.The cement floor slabs were laid by the people themselves. As for the other two buildings, since the reinforced concrete is too precious at the moment, we can only use wooden beams and columns to make a living.

Chapter 44 The Beggar Gang

A row of solar panels is leaning against the root of the courtyard wall, and together with components including batteries, they are responsible for providing power. All kinds of gadgets in the hands of the passers-by, including computers, lights, as well as antennas and car radios, can now operate normally.

The prefab house built by several refrigerated trucks serves as a temporary warehouse.

The sun was shining brightly outside the window, and the people inside were sitting around a table of the Eight Immortals, listening intently to someone's speech.

Monk Feng Junfeng, with a bald head and a monk's robe, was talking eloquently at this time, and a somewhat feminine baritone reverberated in the room: "In this environment, it is simply not realistic to openly collect refugees. Even Master Jinshen, I just have nothing to do with a few bowls of porridge, not to mention that we people have no social status in Daming at all. Get some refugees back on the front foot, and even the janitor knows that there is a group of rebels in Tangzhuang. The trick is familiar!"

"Dangdang", Xia Xianze tapped on the table with his fingers and interrupted impatiently: "Tell me about the solution! Who doesn't know about these, your Human Resources Department has been investigating for a month, what is the solution?"

"There are already two plans, one short-term and one long-term."

Feng Jun tapped a few times on the keyboard of the laptop, and then began to explain: "The first is a short-term plan, going down the three paths. This process is short and the effect is quick, but if you want to kill some people, you may need to set a few fires depending on the situation."

"Huh?" After hearing what he said, many people became interested: "Tell me, what is the way of the next three ways?"

Feng Jun smiled lightly, and two words popped out of his mouth: "Beggars Gang".

Then he began to explain in detail: "The business scope of the beggar gang in the Ming Dynasty was very wide: cleaning up urban garbage, cremating corpses, drying horses on the street, wholesale criminals who were responsible for the blame... In short, this is a collection of civil affairs, gangs, and municipal affairs. A comprehensive criminal group with management functions, and our next plan will fall on the gang of beggars."

When Feng Jun said this, the audience already understood: "You mean to control the beggar gang to collect refugees?"

"That's right!" Feng Jun nodded: "First of all, the beggar gang itself is a huge unemployed alliance—there are no less than 3000 genuine beggars in Hangzhou City. Except for a few managements at the top of the pyramid, the rest of the gang The beggar gang is composed of the urban and rural unemployed, landless farmers, and seasonal refugees, which is equivalent to a reservoir to store floodwater for the government, and the beggar gang originally had the function of absorbing refugees."

"Secondly," Feng Jun continued, "a refugee started from entering Hangzhou, starved to death on the side of the road, and was finally carried to cremation. This series of procedures is inseparable from the beggar gang. And this set of open and honest procedures , which is what we need most right now.”

Speaking of this, Feng Jun smiled: "There are so many refugees, beggars, and roads, and there are so few in the middle, who knows? What can I do if I know?"

Seeing the contemplative look of everyone present, Feng Jun continued: "We have demonstrated this short-term plan. If you are careful, you can at least ensure the transfer of underground refugees within a year. We have also done a solid preliminary investigation, including preliminary testing. The cooperation attitude of Huizhou merchant Liu Yaozu, of course, the result is not very good, but it is not important, once this plan is passed, the company's resources are mobilized, there will always be a way for Liu Yaozu."

Feng Jun paused, then glanced at everyone with a smile: "So, is it time for us to discuss how to fight Hong Qigong?"

"Let's not discuss it now!" Xia Xianze stretched out his index finger and shook it: "Everyone has heard the short-term plan, and we will discuss it later. You can talk about the long-term plan first."

"The long-term plan is very complicated, and there are many steps." Feng Jun scratched his bald head in embarrassment: "My plan here is only [-] words, so let's read it for yourself first, and let's talk after reading it."

After speaking, Feng Jun took out a USB flash drive and threw it on the table.