Back To The Beginning Of Ming To Do Charity

In the end, it was the third son who went out. Lin Yuan didn't let go because of Wu Yuelian's initiative to invite Ying. From his point of view, the third son was obviously better at this kind of action than Wu Yuelian. As a small bandit, the third son was not too courageous. He described him as thin, with short hands and feet, and barely moved when he ran, but his eyesight was very good. Lin Yuan gave them a simple vision test earlier.

Most people here have different degrees of vision problems. Many people think that the ancients did not have access to electronic products, and they worked from sunrise to sunset, so their eyesight must be better than most modern people.

But in fact, a group of them were malnourished since childhood, and wanted to do some work after nightfall. The poor lived by the moonlight, and the rich lived by oil lamps. They didn't have glasses, and the weakening of their eyesight was unstoppable.

Many people have night blindness, but it's just a matter of severity.

The third son left after turning his head three times at a step. He bowed his waist and shrunk his neck, and went out through the small narrow door at the back.

This narrow gate can only allow one person to pass through. This person should not be too fat or too strong. The third son is considered thin among men, but it is still difficult to get out.

Sitting on the open space, Lin Yuan felt that his mood had calmed down a lot. It seemed that he was no longer afraid of having enemies, as if he had completely accepted this fate.

From his time travel to the present, he tried his best to do what he could do, although he told himself that the Yuan Dynasty was coming to an end, this land was going to be chaotic, and capable people could get a share of it.

But he still couldn't help doubting himself.

Yes, doubt it.

He wondered if he could do it.

In fact, when I think about it carefully, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, had a very rough first half of his life. The education he received was not standardized, not formal education. In this era, any scholar could blow him up, but he became The emperor, and countless scholars can only look up at him.

Can the theoretical knowledge of modern people really take advantage of ancient times?

Talk about equality between men and women?Everyone would probably think he was crazy.

He had mentioned a joke to Qiuniang earlier, "Who says women are inferior to men", Qiuniang looked at him with incredible eyes.

Inventing the train cannon?He'd thought about it, but the truth was he didn't know anything about it.

He knows about steam power, but he doesn't know how to build a steam locomotive.

If an all-round engineering master comes, maybe he can open up another path.

But God just sent him, a liberal arts student.

Is he better than Zhu Yuanzhang?Are they stronger than Fang Shicheng?

Lin Yuan asked himself, he is no better than anyone else.

To be precise, he was weaker than them, and much weaker.

Because even if he knows the history, he can actually do very little, and Zhu Yuanzhang and the others don’t need to know the history, they seem to be born with a gene that prompts them to do different things in different situations.

Most people in this world are profit creatures, they pursue personal interests and family interests, they can't do big things, but they won't make big mistakes either.

Zhu Yuanzhang and the others are the smallest group of people. They are born creatures of power and politics.

They have sharper insights than ordinary people, and they also understand better than ordinary people how to get more support from the crowd.

Lin Yuan looked at the white clouds in the sky, and was fiddling with grass leaves in his hands. His mood became more peaceful. It seemed that since he felt that he was not that strong, the burden in his heart was much lighter. Come on, standing on the shoulders of giants, he will definitely do better than the ancient natives, so every time he does something, he will think over and over again.

But after he figured it out, he let go.

One step is one step, anyway, this life is for nothing.

Even if in the end, he was submerged in the torrent of the times, that was an established fate.

The third son was crawling in the grass, he was very scared and nervous, it was his first time to act as a scout - that's what the owner called him, he still didn't understand what scouting meant, he lay motionless in the grass, the bug crawled into the grass On his body and face, his body didn't shake at all.

As if he were a stone on the side of the road.

He was still looking around, listening carefully for footsteps and movements around him.

After he confirmed his safety, he quickly stood up and Sa Yazi started to run.

While running, Sanzi also observed the road ahead. He could see clearly where there were branches and where there was mud. He was on the soft soil and stepped over all the branches. There should be no one around, and he won't make a sound.

Timidity and fear became his survival capital at this time.

After finally seeing Brother Dao and Zhu Yuanzhang, the third son's heart finally fell to the ground.

"Captain Li, Captain Zhu." The third son felt safe, and his back straightened up a little. He reported the gangsters stationed outside Zhuangzi in a straightforward manner, and then quickly said Lin Yuan's confession What he does.

Sanzi has a very good memory. He doesn't need paper and pen. Once he says he has memorized, he can repeat it verbatim: "My boss said, when you get closer, Zhuangzi will raise a big red flag, which is an instruction." , the gates of the city will be opened, and these people will be attacked from both sides."

Li Congrong and the others came back with the things Chen Banxian and the others needed, so they had to find a place to hide them now—these things are not easy to buy, and people can’t get enough to eat these days, let alone these inedible things. Having said that, it is not uncommon for dignitaries to raise a few Taoist priests, and there are quite a few alchemists, but not every dignitary raises them, nor does everyone raise a large group of them.

They still bought it from an old Taoist priest. The old Taoist priest didn't ask for a high price, but he only needed grain, coarse grain and fine grain. Coarse grain was the best, and the quantity was large.

The old Taoist priest has more than himself to support. There are more than 20 little radish heads in his Taoist temple. They are all children without parents.

Taoist temples are different from temples. Many Taoist temples are actually wild temples. In difficult times, the imperial court will not give them a grain of rice.

There are also wild temples in temples, but as long as you can enter a regular temple, such as Huangjue Temple, the imperial court will provide food.

Li Congrong really wanted to bring back the old Taoist priest and the group of little radishheads. He was smarter now, and he felt that if he brought these people back, the fourth brother must have something to use them for.

It's a pity that the old Taoist leader didn't agree.

But these days, it's normal to disagree.

The life outside is even more difficult now. When they came back, they passed by a village. The men rushed out to stop them, and the women opened their arms and told them to touch them. If they touch them, they will give them some beans. I have to give a handful of whole grains.

They do it for a living.

Before that, they were probably just little villagers who were husband and wife, and other men would beat their wives if they looked at their wives.

Li Congrong watched them numbly waiting for his wife and other men to finish their work, and when they bowed their waists to ask for food after the event, a chill rose from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads.

Not only women, some good-looking men are also sold.

All they want is a morsel of food to survive.

He also saw with his own eyes a boy with slender hands and feet being pressed down by a strong man. After the strong man left, the boy spattered blood on his buttocks, and then lay on his stomach and grabbed the food left by the strong man. Boil and chew directly in your mouth.

As for whether he will die, he probably doesn't care about it himself, he only cares about whether his belly can be full.

It's clearly spring, but the vitality still seems to have not arrived.

Everyone thought that after the beginning of spring, with wild vegetables, everyone would be able to live a better life.

But thinking is just thinking.

Li Congrong didn't know why, but he also felt a sense of sadness. If he hadn't been lucky, if it wasn't for his fourth brother's good seat in Zhuangzi, where would he be now?

Did he become a bandit, or did he become a bandit, or did he find a daughter-in-law like those people in the village, and asked the daughter-in-law to sell her skin and meat for food?

"Brother Dao?" Zhu Yuanzhang called him.

Only then did Li Congrong come back to his senses.

Zhu Yuanzhang said to Li Congrong: "We're going here, they're here."

Zhu Yuanzhang drew a simple map on the ground, which Li Congrong could understand.

After determining the direction and tactics, they hid the things they wanted to bring back first, and then the group proceeded cautiously like thieves. They were all wearing green rattan armor, which is also a natural vine armor in the spring forest. Protective coloration.

Kind of like camouflage.

Lin Yuan stood on the observation deck and watched carefully. Now he was not the only one on the observation deck, and everyone had to look around intently. After all, they didn't know where Li Congrong and Zhu Yuanzhang would come out from.

"Here we come!" someone yelled.

Lin Yuan: "Raise the flag!"

A large red flag was raised from the watchtower.

Brother Dao and the others saw it, and so did the group of people waiting outside the city wall.

The moment Lin Yuan raised the flag, the city gate opened.

Everyone rushed out at that moment. They were used to obeying Lin Yuan's instructions. Wherever Lin Yuan pointed, they rushed there. Some people were timid, but when everyone around them was rushing, they could only follow. The flow of people rushed past.

Holding the knife, Zhu Yuanzhang kicked away the person standing in front of him, with the point of the knife pointing down, piercing the enemy's chest.

Then someone raised a knife behind him and attacked him. Zhu Yuanzhang was about to draw the knife, but the man was turned upside down.

Li Congrong's face was stained with blood: "You should change this habit."

Zhu Yuanzhang pulled out the knife: "Remember next time."

These people are not as easy to deal with as the people they met before. They are a group of real desperadoes. They are well-armed and tall and powerful. Maybe they saw Lin Yuan's Zhuangzi when they passed by and set up a stronghold. They have their own thoughts, they don't have a siege weapon, so they can only stay near Zhuangzi temporarily, waiting for their prey to show their flaws like snakes.

Maybe it was because of the rattan armor, or maybe it was because of other reasons. The casualties this time were not as tragic as Lin Yuan thought. Although nearly 20 people died and more than a dozen were seriously injured, the rest were all minor and large. hurt.

But none of the gangsters survived.

Before he accepted the bandits like the third son because they were located at the bottom of the village, that is to say, they were not really vicious people, they just wanted to eat their fill of food. They follow whoever they want, and Lin Yuan accepts such people easily. As for obedience and sense of belonging, they can only be cultivated slowly in front of them.

But these bandits are not.

Their butcher knives can be pointed at anyone.

Lin Yuan couldn't gamble.

There is such a big Zhuangzi behind him, and there are so many people in the Zhuangzi. If he loses the bet, he cannot afford the consequences.

For the nearly 20 people who died, Lin Yuan asked someone to prepare simple coffins for them overnight, and buried them not far from Zhuangzi. The seriously injured were moved indoors, and the women with the lightest hands and feet were asked to take care of them. It's simple, just tell them to change the medicine on time.

Li Congrong and Zhu Yuanzhang were also seriously injured. Fortunately, there are several kinds of medicinal materials bought from Jiang Guang before, and they are still very effective. After two days of use, the wounds turned pink. No more bleeding, no purulent infection.

Lin Yuan has always paid great attention to the hygiene of the ward.

The clothes of all the patients have to be boiled and disinfected, and the people who take care of the injured are all women who tidy themselves up.

Although there were not many oral medicines, Lin Yuan was so generous that he gave them meat porridge almost every meal.

Some people even think that if they can live in the ward forever, it seems that it is not a bad thing.

Of course... when they need to solve the emergency, it is the men who help.

Chen Banxian and the others naturally knew what happened. When the fight broke out outside, they hid in the alchemy room and shivered. After the incident was over, they got together and discovered the importance of frying stoves for the first time.

If, as the owner said, they could mix the formula and put beads in it, they would lose a lot less people in the face of such conflicts and attacks.

After getting the things that Li Congrong and the others brought back, Chen Banxian and the others had an unprecedented enthusiasm for work for the first time. They were bored in the alchemy room almost all day long. They didn't even make fake jade, and they just went to the cafeteria alone to eat. Hit it, then go back to the alchemy room and continue trying.

Lin Yuan also went to see it once, and found that their method of formulating the formula was actually quite scientific.

Because there is no accurate measuring tool, they use small wooden spoons. The size of these small wooden spoons is very consistent, and the error will not be too large. They will put it little by little, and the people next to them will record it.

When they felt that it was almost done, they took the small stove outside, sealed it, and then lit the lead rope.

It's a pity that most of them just catch fire, but they won't explode.

Lin Yuan stayed with them all day, and found that they were chewing steamed buns while eating, and doing things with their hands, which seemed to be a waste of sleep and food. If they thought of something in the middle of the night, they would rush to the alchemy room to continue working.

This group of people wasted away at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But their efforts paid off.

On a sunny day with clear blue sky, Lin Yuan received the biggest piece of good news in the past three years——

Soil explosives were brought out.

Although crude and not very lethal, it can explode and deter the enemy. To some extent, it is probably not qualified as a weapon, but as a tool of deterrence, its symbolic significance is greater than its practical value.

Just like in the animal world, many animals roar at each other before fighting to scare off the enemy.

In fact, humans are the same, but what humans fear is different from what animals fear.

Chen Banxian was also a little proud: "We have also thought about the method you mentioned. You see, this bag is filled with beads."

These beads were made by Wu Sansi. He has a lot of experience in blacksmithing, and it is not difficult to make beads of similar size.

In order to test whether this kind of explosive with beads was useful, Lin Yuan decided to sacrifice one of the simplest sheds, and then lit a fire and threw the explosive into it.

There was only a loud bang, and the top of the shed was blown away, but in an instant, a fire ignited.

However, the fire was not too big, and Lin Yuan went in to have a look after the fire was extinguished.

Many beads are embedded in the wall. Although the shed is simple, the wall is still very strong. If this is a human body, even if these beads cannot be pierced, they will still be inside their body.

The presence of beads will increase the attack range and lethality of earth explosives.

Lin Yuan was overjoyed, and as soon as he turned around, he hugged Chen Banxian, a bad old man, and patted him on the shoulder excitedly: "Banxian! You have made a great contribution!"

Chen Banxian himself was also a little dazed, he really didn't expect the beaded one to be so powerful.

"Master..." Chen Banxian swallowed, "Then... is it really the bag of gunpowder between me and you?"

Lin Yuan nodded fiercely: "Yes! Banxian, you are really amazing!"

Chen Banxian was praised, and finally became excited. He returned to the ground from the sky, and his feet finally landed on the ground.

There are also many onlookers.

They were chattering away.

"Good guy! Such a loud noise! ​​I thought it was the Dragon Lord sneezing!"

"You didn't see that the roof was blown off!"

"It's still on fire!"

"That's a big deal."

"In the future, if anyone is still guarding outside our village, we will throw a few packs of these down to scare them to death."

"that is!"

Lin Yuan was in a good mood, and with a wave of his hand, everyone could taste some meat again today.

Although it's just broth, occasionally you can eat some minced meat, which is the supreme enjoyment.

As for the gunpowder, Lin Yuan felt that these half-immortals would not be able to keep up with the production. He was so old and if the work intensity increased, he was afraid that they would lose their braids that day. The talents who can definitely be exchanged must be well protected.

So Lin Yuan asked Wu Yuelian to take a few women who were not pregnant to apprentice.

Of course Chen Banxian and the others refused, who accepts female apprentices?What's more, it's not about entering the Taoist sect, it's about recognizing him as a master alone, and I don't know how Wu Yuelian did it, anyway, Chen Banxian and the others reluctantly began to teach.

Lin Yuan asked the woman to go for a reason.

Now that the number of men has decreased by nearly twenty, he must find a way to replenish them.

Moreover, men have to farm and train, and there is really no manpower available to ask them to learn how to make gunpowder again.

Wu Yuelian and the others are different, they don't have so much work, and they don't need to go out to fight. The logistics of making gunpowder is just right, and women always have to be more careful, and the possibility of making mistakes in deployment will be reduced.

After the division of labor was clarified, Lin Yuan asked Li Congrong, Jiang Gui, and Zhu Yuanzhang to discuss recruitment.

In fact, if you recruit people in winter, you can consume less food, but now Lin Yuan can't wait for winter, so he can only think of a way now.

"Where was that merchant from last time?" Jiang Gui asked, "Of course he has a way to buy someone."

Lin Yuan: "I don't know where his family lives."

There is nowhere to look for it.

Zhu Yuanzhang said again: "How about I take someone out again?"

Lin Yuan shook his head: "You still have to recuperate for a while, for such a serious injury, it will be more troublesome if it doesn't rupture."

Zhu Yuanzhang touched his waist. There was a knife wound there. Fortunately, it was treated in time. Now the scabs have begun to form. It is estimated that it will be almost healed in a short time.

"When Jiang Guang brings the horse over, I'll tell him to find someone for me." Lin Yuan said, "If he doesn't come, we have to go out and find someone by ourselves."

Jiang Gui suddenly said, "Why don't you ask me to go out?"

Several people looked at Jiang Gui.

Jiang Gui said with a smile: "You can still pretend to be a businessman, not to mention buying people, even inquiring about news is faster than you."

"That's a good idea."

"It still needs to be detailed."

Lin Yuan listened to their discussion, he needed people, and there were many, their granaries were full, and they also opened up all the wasteland nearby that could be opened up, so the harvest this autumn will be larger than in previous years.

Lin Yuan planned to admit another 500 people, and wait until winter to admit another 500 people.

Although 1000 people doesn't seem like a lot, in fact, the armaments in various towns are actually very small. With 1000 people, they can even fight a small town.

Lin Yuan is now waiting for Yang Zian to come back. If he can bring Zhang Shicheng and his brothers, he can proceed to the next step.

Take Xinghua down.

Xinghua has a salt field.

But we have to wait for the Red Scarf Army to raise the flag of rebellion.

Most of the court's troops will go to the Red Scarf Army.

Then he can hold Xinghua again.

Zhang Shicheng...

Lin Yuan now feels that it is hard to say, Zhang Shicheng is actually a very ordinary person, he has some talents and a little kindness, but at the same time, he also has the problems of ordinary people. After success, he is arrogant and self-proclaimed. With the transaction, sending food to Emperor Yuan Shun, on the one hand, he had to ask the court to recognize his status as King Cheng.

However, Zhang Shicheng earlier had a lot of leadership skills, and he would stand up for his brothers without fear of power.

Will also pity the weak.

Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, in order to keep more people alive.

But when the power in his hands increased, more and more people followed him, and no one sang against him, the whole person swelled.

Most of the leaders of the uprising will go through this stage, but some people have suppressed it, and some people have really expanded.

Lin Yuan didn't doubt Zhang Shicheng's original intention. What he wanted at first was not power. Being at the bottom, what he wanted was to live a life with food, clothes, clothing, and dignity without being beaten. , the desire will increase.

Lin Yuan didn't know if he would become like that one day.

I only hope that if there is that day, there will be someone around him to wake him up.

The author has something to say: In uprisings at the bottom, leaders are particularly prone to swell, and many of them are self-reliant kings before their heels are firmly established. Then there is the Sangong Sixth Court, the queen mother is also appointed, and the ministers are also appointed. success.