Later, I became the prince of the group

Qu Laotie and his party were stunned by Chu Yan for a moment, and it took a long time to realize: "That's not right, we only recruit people like this, how can we rob others?"

Chu Yan said calmly: "So we need to recruit people first. The large and small bandit villages near Jing'e, not to mention Hutou Village, can gather about 2000 people. When you learn simple and effective tactics, you will attack them one by one."

Qu Laotie was a little worried: "What if they don't want to rebel?"

Chu Yan said: "Hatred, worry, and the general trend can all shake their fear of rebellion. First, let them believe that the inactive Southern Jin court is the enemy. Then mention their situation, and then let them believe that following us is the only way out." This is the trend of the times, so someone will stand up. If it doesn’t work out, they will eat a large piece of meat and drink in a large bowl in front of them. Some people are actually just begging for a bite.”

Qu Laotie: "..." I felt like I saw the whole process of being fooled.

The people of this dynasty are all numb and ignorant, they are timid, fearful of the imperial power, and dare not make mistakes, and a yamen servant as big as a sesame can scare them enough.

If Chu Yan had come to do such agitation a year ago, I am afraid it would have had no effect at all.At that time, although they were forced to become bandits, they were still ordinary people in their hearts. They dared to injure or even kill people for food, but they dared not really resist the emperor.

However, this year has passed. From the beginning, they vented their anger and killed the magistrate, and later robbed things from the government office. They gradually lost their respect for the government. .

In this way, it is easier to accept rebellion, and it is easier to be incited.

When the oppression reaches the extreme, some people will always wake up.

Chu Yan had already decided which village to attack from. He handed over the drawings to Qu Laotie, and asked him to tell his brothers about the future plan, and then conveyed what he said just now to the brothers several times.

After the group of people went down, Lu Yuncheng finally couldn't help but said: "Brother, I think..."

Chu Yan looked at him.

Lu Yuncheng regained his composure: "I don't think it's right."

"What's wrong?"

Lu Yuncheng opened his mouth, knowing clearly in his heart, but he didn't know where to start.

It was Liu Qi who took the words: "The granary and the regular soldiers are the most important things. Once they are robbed, the government will definitely be recruited. We are short of manpower and horses now. If it is exposed, let alone stockpiling grain, the Southern Jin court will directly send several Ten thousand people will come and wipe us out."

Chu Yan nodded: "You are right, so we can't be in Ming Dynasty."

Liu Qi was stunned: "How can such a big matter as robbing the granary not be explained?"

Chu Yan said: "Snatching the granary and robbing the rich are two separate things. The rich can be robbed by bandits, but the granary can only be the work of a spy, a traitor, or an enemy."

Liu Qi had an idea: "My father's [-] troops at the border are all for this purpose?"

"Aqi is smart. Up to now, I have basically thought out my strategy. Although the details need to be added, I can tell you first..." Chu Yan said, "In general, we will divide our actions into five..."

Lu Yuncheng:?

Wait, he didn't sort out one head, where did the five heads come from?

When the meeting here was over, Lu Yuncheng squatted on the wall, holding a branch, and drawing circles on the ground melancholy.

He felt that his brain was incompatible with that of the prince and princess, and he was not stupid. He could read and recite the art of war, but why... he just couldn't keep up with those weird thoughts of King An?

Ah bah, the lord's way of thinking is not weird, it's called unfathomable.

After a while, the young bandit who was in charge of taking care of Qu Er also squatted beside him, sighing with him.

Lu Yuncheng looked at him with a puzzled expression.

The little boy had nothing to say: "Little Ninth Brother, why are you ranked ninth?"

Lu Yuncheng looked around and pointed to a certain place: "Did you see it?"

As far as the eye can see, the little wolf is bullying a brood of chickens.Its camouflage skills are superb now, and it opens its mouth to say "Wow", the pronunciation is so standard that even the watchdogs in the town have to bow down, and a string of "Wow" comes down, scaring the chickens to run around.

The young boy was at a loss: "Dog?"

Lu Yuncheng said lazily, "That's my starling."

Little boy: "..."

The young man looked at the dog, then looked at Lu Yuncheng, endured it, endured it, and finally couldn't hold it back: "How did your family get this ranking?"

Lu Yuncheng said casually, "Look at the order in which my elder brother picked us up."

The boy wondered: "You are not brothers, that's why, I said you don't look alike! But that dog looks only a few months old..."

Lu Yuncheng paused, and wrote: "My elder brother has loved dogs since he was a child. The previous dog died of old age and illness, so he adopted another one. In order to see the dog and miss the dog, he named it Xiao Ba, pretending that it was not dead. Pass."

The boy looked at him sympathetically: "Then you will always be a dog brother."

Lu Yuncheng: "..." Although there seems to be nothing wrong with it, it's weird.

"Why are you sighing again?" Lu Yuncheng asked.

The boy let out an "ah" and his expression became dazed: "It was just when I was eating... I saw... I saw..."

It was hard for him to speak, he gritted his teeth and said, "Your eldest brother fed your seventh brother, wiped his mouth, and... was very close..."

Lu Yuncheng: "..."

"Last time I saw them holding hands. Although, although they are not relatives, even if they are adopted...it's not very good."

Lu Yuncheng: "..." I'm sorry Your Highness, I really can't explain this to you.

It didn't take long for the first head to start moving.

Chu Yan sent a letter to Lord Liu, and it didn't take long before the news of the Northern Qi sending more troops to the border spread to Jinling and Jingzhou at the same time.

Before March, the imperial court issued an order to recruit soldiers and food.

It may be that the superiors realized that the matter is serious, or it may be that there was no food shortage at the beginning of the war, and the court did not go to Jingzhou, which was already short of food, to collect food, but people still had to be collected.

Chu Yan arranged the people in advance, and let the [-] masters he brought under him replace the [-] places in Jingzhou, and mixed into the barracks. This is the second head.

In order not to reveal their secrets, the one hundred peasants who were replaced all went to Bandit Mountain to farm for Chu Yan.

Even if they go up the mountain, there will still be no labor at home, but they are still very grateful to "Mr. Yan".

There is no need to consider which one to choose between farming safely on the mountain and taking care of food and housing, or dying on the battlefield. What's more, Chu Yan also promised them that if the yield is high and there is surplus food, they are allowed to take it back to their families.

At the same time, 1000 people under Liu Wen pretended to be land merchants, entered the Southern Jin Dynasty in batches, and went to Jiangcheng to stand by. They were the third.

At the fourth head, the village master Qu led the Yan family army, ran around the surrounding villages, and quickly expanded the Yan family army to a thousand people.Every 200 people are counted as a team, and they set up their homes in different places, while their families gathered in Xiaozhuang Mountain, and built a granary in a hidden place at the foot of the mountain.

By April, almost all the [-] bandits around Jing'e had been merged into the Yan family's army, and from the outside world's point of view, it was just that one group of bandits was conquered by another group of bandits, and no one thought of an uprising at all.

After the busy farming season in April, a tentative battle was fought at the border.

The Prime Minister of the Southern Jin Dynasty who has always held power and the King Huaibei of the Southern Jin Dynasty who wanted to seize power temporarily maintained a superficial peace due to the pressure of the Qi army, but they did not forget to fight secretly. They both wanted to send the soldiers under the opponent's general to die first.

As a result, when the two sides were at a stalemate in the court, the new emperor of the Southern Jin Dynasty casually pointed out a well-known defeated general on the border to meet the enemy, and sent half of the newly recruited soldiers to him.

As a result, both the prime minister and King Huaibei shut up.

The defeated general was a relative of the imperial concubine's mother's family. He held the rank of general for nothing. He didn't have the skills of a general. If he went, he would die.

But so what?Anyway, it’s not their people who died, and they didn’t lose their soldiers. The emperor was as ridiculous and stupid as ever, and they were happy to stand aside and watch jokes. For them, it’s better for the young emperor to commit public anger every day and kill himself .

As for the border?It's just a loss of one or two cities.

But no one thought that the border would be won by the Southern Jin Dynasty.

The often-defeated general made frequent mistakes on the battlefield, and was beheaded by the enemy. The heads of his adjutants and several young generals fell on the battlefield. The soldiers were leaderless and forced into the mountains.

Just at this time, a strange person among them stood up and led the group of recruits. Relying on roundabout tactics, they actually fought a victory and defended the pass.

When the news spread to Jinling, Emperor Jin was overjoyed, and directly gave this person an official position.

After that, Liu Wen led only 5 people, and attacked the border several times in a row, but they were all guarded by this person.

Officials in the Southern Jin Dynasty all saw that Liu Wen's attacks were feints and probing, and he was not serious at all. Except for the incompetent and often defeated general, any general would be able to defend him, but the emperor couldn't stand the stupidity of the emperor. A natural general was born, if the ministers hadn't tried their best to oppose it, they would have wished to make him a general or something.

Seeing this, the King of Huaibei went to the palace to meet the Emperor Jin, and proposed to let his people guard the border town, but was ridiculed by the Emperor Jin: "I told you to go before, but you refused to go. Did you get credit? Let’s save it, little emperor uncle, I really can’t trust the people under your command, if you can’t hold the city, will you pay with your head?”

The corner of Huaibei King's mouth twitched and his eyes were dark: "Your Majesty, please don't say such nonsense."

The smile on the corner of the young emperor's mouth disappeared, and he slowly lowered his legs from the shoulders of the beauties who were kneeling on the ground, and waved his hands aside, Yingying and Yanyan immediately backed away and filed out.

This place is clearly the emperor's bedroom, but it is as lively as a brothel.

Emperor Jin asked coldly: "Are you ordering me?"

The face of Huaibei King remained unchanged: "Don't dare, Your Majesty is the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, above ten thousand people, and you are the only one who orders others. I am just worried about the shortage of troops on the border, so I just ask Your Majesty if there is any need."

When Emperor Jin heard this, he smiled instead: "So it's not an order, it's a threat. Don't worry, little emperor. There are so many soldiers on the border, as long as the prime minister gives an order - they will all be deployed by him. How can it be insufficient? If I like it If the people can't defend the city, how can the prime minister care about it?"

King Huaibei pretended not to hear the sarcasm in his tone, and said coldly: "Since His Majesty has made up his mind, then I will not mind my own business."

After returning to the mansion, King Huaibei ran straight to the backyard, smashed a vase when he entered, and cursed: "How did the prime minister make him such a useless snack in the palace!"

Sitting in the room was a beautiful woman, calmly fiddling with the mechanism box in her hand, with a calm voice: "Isn't this just right? The emperor is a mediocre person, and it's justified for you to replace him."

King Huaibei sighed and said: "You don't understand...the emperor is nothing to be afraid of, but the dog prime minister is not so easy to deal with. I originally wanted to use the emperor's mouth to get back the jade seal and tiger charm in the prime minister's hand. It's justified, but he didn't accept the olive branch when I handed it over and over again. Hmph, he's not afraid that one day he will be gnawed by the prime minister until there is no bone left."

The woman smiled and said: "Your Majesty is the prime minister's grandson, probably because he thinks the prime minister will treat him kindly."

"Naive." Huaibei King embraced the woman while talking, "Is a grandson who has no blood relationship a grandson?"

Seeing him sticking close, the woman put down the things in her hands and said: "Since the prince thinks the emperor is useless, why not let him go far away, so that he is not out of sight?"

King Huaibei smiled and pinched the tip of her nose: "Xing Ji was joking, he is the emperor, where can he go?"

"Your Royal Conquest." The woman said with a smile, "It's best to die. At that time, as the only royal descendant, it will be logical for the prince to return to Yuxi."

Huaibei Wang Qi said: "You have always been smarter than I don't know how many staff members, why are you so stupid now? If the emperor dies, this king will compete with the prime minister for that seat, but now that the Qi army is under pressure, if you lose Isn't the country worth the loss?"

But the woman said: "The officers and men at the border are all those who hold jade seals and tiger charms. They have nothing to do with you. If your majesty dies, it will be the prime minister's fault. If the border gate is lost, it will be the prime minister's fault. When the time comes You just need to occupy Huizhou with troops and let them consume it. When both sides are almost consumed, you can steal the jade seal and tiger charm design, and then hold these two charges on the prime minister's head. That is the real occupation. You have the upper hand. In my opinion, the Southern Jin Dynasty may not be able to defend the troops of the Northern Qi Dynasty. At that time, the prime minister will probably push out the people under your command. Instead of doing this, it is better to stand on your own and protect your own people. .”

After hearing this, King Huaibei felt that it made some sense, so he couldn't help letting go of her: "Let me think about it..."

In Jingzhou, Xing Yi had just ordered the people in the village to set up organs on the mountain road, and was called back by Chu Yan.

He thought he was going to talk about the arrangement of organs, but he didn't expect Chu Yan to say: "You are indeed a capable person. If it weren't for you, the organs around this village would not have been arranged so smoothly. You have made a great contribution this time. What reward do you want."

After a moment of hesitation, Xing Yi said: "The young one has received ICBC, these are all his duties."

Chu Yan said lightly: "Don't be too busy to be polite, maybe this reward is your only chance to survive."

Xing Yi was surprised: "What did Mr. Yan say?"

Chu Yan slowly opened the drawing at hand. It was drawn by Xing Yi himself, and it was full of notes in small characters.

"I brought you here because I like your ability to design organs. I can see that you are not a carpenter, but a blacksmith. Of course, it is not accurate to say that blacksmiths are famous. There is a family named Xing who is famous in the Southern Jin Dynasty... ...Don't be surprised, I asked you to design a mechanism for me, so naturally you have to check your identity first."

"You came from a well-known bureaucrat, but you came to Yanjing all the way, and condescended to come to my little toy shop to make something to amuse children... Do you think it's strange?"

Xing Yi lowered his head: "It's not surprising. I eloped to Beiqi with the girl I love, and she abandoned me when I ran out of money. I had no face to go home. I happened to meet you hiring a carpenter and wanted to earn a living by myself."

"Oh——very good, the perfect reason." Chu Yan glanced at his left hand: "You eat, write, and even hold a knife with your right hand, but when you usually hold things, you often stretch out your left hand...you use your left hand Write a word."

Xing Yi paused, stepped forward to pick up the pen, and when he was about to put it down, Chu Yan's voice sounded: "You think about it before you write. I am not satisfied with this word, so don't take it. My reward, Only save your life, not your hands."

The author has something to say: It doesn't matter if you didn't figure out the plan clearly, after all, it hasn't been fully revealed yet, and I will figure it out when the plan is fully revealed.