Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 212 Christians and Bandits ([-])
The way of sneak attack has a long history since ancient times.From bare-bottomed primitives to modern robbers, there are no more than three principles for beating Sap, fast, ruthless, and quiet!

When a primitive man tried his best and failed to catch the prey, but a grandson nearby caught it; or when someone decides one day that he doesn't want to hunt hard but must have meat, the idea of ​​​​hitting the grandson with a sap Nature came into being.

According to this way of thinking, perhaps the earliest killer was a guy who didn't like hunting very much, and in the end he was very good at playing sap.

In the deliberations of later generations, when primitive people saw the female they liked, they just knocked it down and brought it into the cave to make a good deed, which is the source of the bridal chamber.This legend is basically pushed back several hundred thousand years according to the customs of a certain ethnic group. There are too many loopholes and it is not enough to convince others.

In the primitive society, the sap was probably made of bones or stones of large animals.However, wood is the most suitable weapon to use as a sap. It is light but not too light, and not too heavy. The material is easy to find, and it can be of any thickness.In a word, sap is not born to be wood, and wood is born to be sap.

In the Song Dynasty, the sap began to enter the history books and became a standard weapon in the hands of officials.

The way to hit the sap is to approach quietly or wait for someone to walk by, and hit the back of the neck with two fingers unexpectedly from a dark place, that is, the part of the brain stem.If you hit it high, you will hit the deadly Tianling Gai. If you don’t get dizzy, you will be bleeding hard; if you hit it low, you will hit the strong back of the neck or the mitral muscles. After it is cured, the opponent's combat power will skyrocket by [-] points. If you come to a bare-handed sword, if you don't do it, you will die.

Xu Dayong is a very talented sap master.This guy had just heard Zhao Xin's bad idea, and immediately understood it, and then found a hard and soft mallet-shaped elm, which was heavy and very heavy, and wrapped several layers of cotton cloth on the outside, and ten including the second cabinet. Several water bandits were all knocked down by Xu Da with a sap, and then his subordinates quickly followed up, tied them up, and threw them into the woodshed to finish.

The water bandits in Luoma Lake never expected it!There is no real rich man in this Zhuangzi of Sheyang Lake, but a group of rebels from the imperial court!Those who cheated, kidnapped and blackmailed met those who murdered and set fire without blinking, and failure was inevitable.

As more and more people were thrown into the firewood room, those few people who hadn't eaten much noodles already noticed that something was wrong.At this moment, only Sun Guiyuan, great disciple Zhan Zhenglin, the pretty woman and the girl were left.

As the senior brother of Shouyuan Sect, Zhan Zhenglin first felt something was wrong.He originally wanted to take a look outside, but when he arrived at the entrance of the flower hall, he was surprised to find seven or eight strange faces standing outside.These people were tall and tall, and when they saw Zhan Zhenglin coming out, they all showed smiles uglier than crying, and greeted, "Are you always going to the latrine?"

"No, no, no." Zhan Zhenglin shook his head like a rattle.The situation in front of him made him feel uneasy, so he hurried into the room and told Sun Guiyuan in a low voice.

"Master, something is wrong outside! Why don't we withdraw?"

"What are you panicking about!" Sun Guiyuan was called "Real Man", but he was actually a rural liar.At this time, he also felt a little guilty, and felt that he should not come to the door rashly.

However, he wanted to leave but was not reconciled, so he managed to recruit a few apprentices to scam money everywhere, and it would be difficult to find someone.After all, people looking for friends these days are usually local people who know everything.

When they were struggling secretly, they only heard the sound of footsteps outside the door, and turned their heads to see that Zhao Xin led seven or eight people into the flower hall with smiles on their faces.

"Hey, Sun Zhenren is still here! Are these noodles delicious?"

When Sun Guiyuan and the others heard this, they knew in their hearts that the other party had tampered with the noodles.

Zhan Zhenglin strengthened his courage, stood up and shouted, "What are you waiting for?! My master has celestial clairvoyance, and when he saw evil spirits in your house, he kindly came to help ward off disasters!"

"Yeah, I like wine and the hospitality of white noodles with meat, what do you think I mean?"

"Zhenglin, don't need to say too much. As the saying goes, Jin Danjiu reincarnated in the mortal world, so how can no one hear about it." Sun Guiyuan raised his hand to signal, then turned to Zhao Xin and said, "Mr. Zhao, thank you for your hospitality. I won't read Fengshui, The noble mansion is prosperous, and development must not be far away. Please call my apprentices, and I will leave later."

"Hehe. Want to leave? Don't leave! Since Sun Zhenren has profound magic power and has the eyes of the sky, then come with me."

Sun Guiyuan pondered for a moment before asking: "Where are you going?"

"Overseas. Just use your heavenly eyes to help me find coal mines." Zhao Xin said with a smile, then turned to Xu Dayong and others behind him and said, "Tie up these two grandsons!"

"How dare you!" Zhan Zhenglin was startled, his heart sank, and he touched the sleeve of his left hand with his right hand, and a bright sharp knife came out.Holding a knife, he yelled at the two people approaching: "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Sun Guiyuan and the woman dragged the child, hurriedly hid behind Zhan Zhenglin, and said to Zhao Xin and the others: "I don't know Mount Tai, I offended you heroes, please let me out!"

Zhao Xin crossed his arms and sneered, "Since you dare to engage in a cult to deceive people, you have to prepare for today's end. Be honest, who in this yard has joined your Yuan Sect?"

"Who are you?"

Xu Dayong behind Zhao Xin said with a smile: "This is our boss."

Sun Guiyuan asked in surprise, "Isn't the owner here surnamed Xu?"

"Hey, that's all a lie to you turtles!"

Sun Guiyuan thought for a while and said: "Zhao Dong's family, you have gone all over the world in poverty, today you really lost your mind! According to what you said, let us go after you say it?"

"That depends on my mood."

"You fool me!"

At this time, Zhao Xin was sitting at the table, and Xu Dayong and others were forced to retreat by Zhan Zhenglin holding a knife, and they were about to retreat outside the door. "Chirp~!" With a soft sound, Zhan Zhenglin yelled, and the sharp knife in his hand fell to the ground.He clutched his thigh and rolled all over the floor, wailing in his mouth, "It hurts me to death!"

Seeing this, Xu Dayong at the side picked up a rag from the coffee table, stuffed it into Zhan Zhenglin's mouth, and held him down firmly.

Ding Guofeng flashed out from behind Wang Changsheng with a pistol equipped with a silencer, and said dissatisfiedly to Zhao Xin, "What are you dawdling about?"

Zhao Xin curled his lips and said, "It's okay to be idle, let's have some fun."

"The house that pretends to be a person almost stinks to death!"

"It's okay, let this 'Sun Zhenren' clean it up in a while, if there is a little smell, let him lick it up."

"Hurry up, Doctor Hong almost fainted just now!"

"Forgive me! Grandpa, forgive me!" At this moment, Sun Guiyuan knelt down on the ground with a plop, begging for mercy while kowtowing.He knew that he had entered the den of robbers today!He didn't know why the other party was holding a weapon, but the blood dripping from the apprentice's leg was real.The woman holding the girl was also terrified, curled up on the ground, and began to cry.

Zhao Xin said indifferently: "Take them all to the back and let them tell who are the Shouyuan believers in Zhuangzi. If they don't tell, they will knock off their fingers one by one, and if they don't tell, they will cut off their five limbs."

"Five limbs?" Xu Dayong asked curiously, thinking that adding one piece of hands and feet is not enough for four limbs.Zhao Xin turned around and glanced at his crotch, Xu Dayong immediately understood!He only felt a gust of cold wind whizzing past between his legs, and he wished he could go back to the house and put on another pair of cotton trousers.

Chen Jishan pointed to the woman and the child and said, "Then what should they do?"

Zhao Xindao: "Take them away! Check it out!"

The smoky farce was finally over, what was left was a house full of messy cups and dishes, and the wind in the backyard stinks ten miles away!

The twelve water bandits in Luoma Lake and a few disciples of the Shouyuan religion almost collapsed after pulling down their trousers; the skinny and bald man who was beaten first rolled his eyes.All the water bandits wanted to yell loudly after waking up, but unfortunately, their mouths were all covered with tape.

Sun Guiyuan couldn't bear the torture at all, and after breaking off two fingers, he confessed with snot and tears.At dinner time, Zhao Xin not only learned from Xu Dayong who the Shouyuan disciples in Zhuangzi were, but also learned about the situation of the mother and daughter.

"My lord, that woman's surname is Li, from Henan. Her husband's surname is Wang. She died the year before last, and she dragged a child around to set up a team to perform. Last year, I met Sun Guiyuan and fell in love with this guy. Sun Guiyuan frightened and deceived, that woman It was very hard to drag a child, so I joined the religion and worshiped my godfather."

"Oh. Where's the kid?"

"The girl's name is Wang Cong'er, she is seven years old. She studied arts with Mrs. Wang and Li, and she is also a trick of the rivers and lakes."

"Wang Cong'er" Zhao Xin felt familiar when he heard the name, and always felt as if he had seen this name somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it for a while. "Forget it, let's take the mother and daughter back to Jeju Island together."

Two nights later, when another group of refugees passed the inspection and began to board the ship, Mrs. Wang Li, who looked terrified, took her daughter into the cabin and found a corner to sit down.

Under the dim light, seven-year-old Wang Cong'er asked in a low voice, "Mother, where are we going?"

Wang Li said with a sad face: "Cong Niang is good, I don't know where to go."

A woman wearing a filial piety next to her said: "Sister, don't be afraid, I heard what the old man said before. This is to take us to farm on a big overseas island."

"Ah? Farming?" Wang Li's family is a woman. Although she doesn't have her feet bound, she doesn't know how to farm.

The woman in mourning said: "What are you afraid of? As long as I can eat enough, I have plenty of strength. In the past, in the village, I would clean up the land of my house with the men."

Wang Lishi asked the woman: "Eldest sister, who is missing from the family?"

The woman in mourning sighed and said: "Who else can it be? I'm a man. I didn't come up in the autumn and left our mother and daughter. In fact, they were all hungry. He didn't want to eat. I left all the food for my mother and I." The woman's eyes turned red as she spoke.

"Then" Wang Lishi paused, and asked hesitantly, "Then why did you come on this boat?"

"Alas! It's my fault that I didn't live up to expectations and didn't give birth to a son. When my man died, all the poor people in the village came. What about us orphans and widows? Were they dragged to the market and sold. These gods Killed! Fortunately, I met Mr. Xu and bought me and my daughter together, otherwise."

There was a bad habit in the rural areas of ancient China, that is, there were no households.The pillar of a family died without leaving any children, or the heirs were younger and left some property.At this time, other families in the village joined forces and came to this family to forcibly occupy the property of this family, ranging from small sewing pots and pans to real estate and fields, completely taking all valuable things in this family for themselves.

If the relatives of the man's family do not support him, the widow and female heirs will be sold, and the money obtained will be shared among the whole village.

In the "Awakening Marriage Biography" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, it was described that a wife who ordered her to be wiped out, but fortunately her husband's concubine was pregnant, so she escaped the catastrophe.

The woman in Dai Xiao wiped her tears and said to Mrs. Wang and Li: "Sister, when we get to the place, our family will help each other. We can always get through it by taking care of each other."

"Hey."

The two widows share the same illness, and they become acquainted as they talk, looking forward to the future together.And Wang Cong'er has already held hands with the little girl from the other party's family and whispered.At this time, the hull of the boat shook slightly. Mrs. Wang and Li had a lot of experience in the rivers and lakes, so she knew that the boat had already sailed.

"Uh! Uh!." On another sandboat, a group of water bandits from Luoma Lake and Sun Guiyuan and others were still tightly tied up, curled up in the cabin and whimpered endlessly.A team member in charge of escort scolded: "You are so honest! Tell me to beat someone!"

Another action team member pointed at Sun Guiyuan and cursed: "You bastard, you are not enough to deceive people. You have dragged several people in Zhuangzi into trouble. From now on, I will beat you every time I see you!" After speaking, he followed Sun Guiyuan's instructions. He kicked his thighs a few times.Behind them, a group of refugees looked at these people in horror, not daring to ask a word.

At this time, Sun Guiyuan regretted it to death. He originally wanted to cheat some money, but he suddenly entered the den of thieves.After being broken with two fingers, let alone a believer in Zhuangzi, he even accused him of peeping at a woman taking a bath at the age of eight.Afterwards, enduring the severe pain, he pinched his nose and helped a group of guys who pulled their pants to clean it. It took two days to clean up the firewood room.In the end, after finishing his work, he was tied up and gagged again, unable to move at all, and was thrown into the cabin.Sun Guiyuan didn't know what the road ahead would be like, he only hoped that he would be content with what his interrogator said, not to be hungry again.

Standing on the private pier in the farm, Zhao Xin waved at the five sand boats that kept going away in the night, and said, "There are still too few boats! At least buy five more."

Lu Shoushan, who was holding a lantern behind him, asked, "Then this sailor is still looking for someone from Luo Jiao?"

Zhao Xindao: "You also go to Haizhou to look for them. Let's recruit some ourselves. Don't just use people taught by Luo."

After saying this, he turned around and walked back, and continued to Lu Shoushan: "We have too many people in the island country now, so this will not work. We must expand the number of Han people."

In the dark night, Lu Shoushan's heart skipped a beat. Looking at Zhao Xin's back, he couldn't figure out what his master was thinking.Since he followed Zhao Xin, he felt that people like Sheng Haizhou and Liji were pretty good, and they worked hard no matter they were working, training or fighting.Apart from feeling that these people are particularly concerned about their rank and status, and that they pay special attention to etiquette when they meet people with a higher rank than themselves, I don't think there is anything wrong with getting along with each other.

He thought for a while and asked, "What is the master worried about?"

Zhao Xin didn't answer him directly, but changed the topic and said: "The fertile fields north of Fuldan City are vast. Although only one season can be planted a year, the land is fertile and can feed tens of millions of people without any problem."

Lu Shoushan was surprised and said, "Really?"

"Refugees in Henan and Shandong need to be accommodated more. The more people there are, the more manpower we will have for land reclamation next year. In addition, people will also be sent to Ezo land, where millions of people can be fed. Our plate The shop is getting bigger and bigger, and there is a shortage of people. Do you understand what I said?"

Lu Shoushan suppressed the excitement in his heart, nodded and said: "Understood. The meaning of the master is that with people, we have the capital to compete with the imperial court."

The light and shadow of the lantern swayed gently on the ground, and the wild river beat against the river bank.As the north wind blew, Zhao Xin shrank his neck and said slowly: "There is more than one Qing Dynasty in this world!"

(End of this chapter)