Chapter 2545 The Dead Traveler

At this time.

Soon, the refugee traverser, after being encouraged by the old Taoist priest who was the incarnation of Wu Zetian, he made up his mind.

He quickly began to explore the power he had.

He was now a bandit with a mountain stronghold, colluding with local landlords, gentry, merchants, and officials.

He had more than 200 core followers and more than 2,000 surrounding gangsters.

He began to learn from the Water Margin to kidnap teachers and old students to be his own fools.

After setting up a set of reward and punishment measures and promotion measures, he fooled those gangsters every day, telling them to follow him, have meat to eat, and have pensions when they die.

These days, even the soldiers of the court basically died as a result of the pension being swallowed up.

And as long as he did a little better than the court, these gangsters and minions would have fighting spirit.

Then he won over one local force after another.

In short, he took the most revolutionary path.

In this feudal society, he was not interested in pursuing those brilliant and advanced ideas.

And he didn't want to do that either.

He worked hard for decades, so should he work for others?

He would not think so.

This is human nature.

Human nature can only change gradually after the material and environment change.

Just like the morality of modern people is several dimensions higher than that of ancient people.

In a word, modern people do not use people as food, which can be summarized.

It is not that modern people's human nature has evolved, but that the material is extremely abundant.

Eating people is too troublesome, too costly, and too dangerous.

The refugees and time travelers annexed the surrounding lands on a large scale, buying what they could buy and robbing what they could not buy.

And Wu Zetian also gave him a golden finger.

Wu Zetian made him free from all diseases and turned danger into good fortune.

These two means are to ensure that he will not die.

As long as he does not die, he will keep tossing until the dynasty is affected.

The reason why many promising rebels did not succeed is actually a kind of accident from a historical perspective.

Died too early.

History is originally a mixture of necessity and chance.

It must be said that in a certain feudal stage, no matter whether Zhang San or Li Si succeeded in rebellion, they would eventually establish a feudal dynasty and use big landlords and gentry to rule.

Occasionally, it depends on whether Zhang San or Li Si succeeds.

Whether it is the beggars or the hooligans who succeed.

Or the gentry, officials and foreigners who succeed, it depends on their luck.

In short.

As Wu Zetian increased her support for the refugees, the other party's power expanded rapidly.

This refugee traveler naturally has advantages.

First of all, he is a traveler, and his knowledge is broadcast.

First of all, he knows to get information.

He established many spies in hundreds of miles around.

Shops, beggars' dens, roadside black shops, boatmen...

He gave the other party more benefits than before.

Giving information with one hand and taking benefits with the other.

In view of copper coins, silver and food, these idle people played a huge role in information.

Strangers, news from the court, news from big households...

He set up a sticking pole office, claiming to "cover everything wherever he went".

At the same time, he also began to build dams, maintain water conservancy, and use some modern knowledge to increase grain production.

So that the landlords who depend on him can get more benefits.

Increase the total grain production.

At the same time, he also began to impose slight restrictions on rural landlords so that the people can have a way to survive.

Only by maintaining order can development be achieved.

If the people want to have a way to survive, they must create more jobs.

Only when there are many jobs can there be enough products.

In terms of economics, he can beat the prime minister of the current dynasty by ten streets.

There is one way to completely beat the other party, that is, he knows to let the products circulate and let the grain of big households circulate to the market.

Let the common people buy grain from the big households and get jobs in exchange for money to buy grain.

For this, he started to use allicin and other simple antibiotics.

Drugs are the rigid needs of big households.

He even started various invisible taxes to harvest the grain of big households.

They can't directly divide the land and rob food, but the refugees from modern times have various means to harvest the big households.

After the harvest, the food will be distributed to the people as much as possible.

In this way, the power of the refugees is getting bigger and stronger.

But he does not directly confront the government army.

According to the spies at this time, the government and the county magistrate only regarded him as an ordinary big bandit.

The court is not afraid of bandits.

Bandits are coming one after another, too many, and it is impossible to suppress them.

What the court is afraid of is the kind of mobile rebel bandits.

That is the most harmful.

As a bandit, the refugee can even collude with local officials.

From the county magistrate to the landlord, many people want to have a relationship with him.

They need bandits to do some dirty things, and they also need big bandits to stop more bandits, and even help them suppress and kill refugees.

What if a large number of refugees appear under their rule?

Let the bandits kill and rob.

And the refugee begins to play the role of this big bandit.

At the same time, in order to solve financial problems, he began to focus on salt.

In ancient times, there were many cases of rebellion through the sale of private salt.

Moreover, selling private salt is a business with many benefits and great risks.

Zhang Shicheng and Huang Chao were both like this, but they failed at the last moment.

They were able to become the overlord of a region and stir up the world, which was actually a success in selling private salt.

The reason why they could not succeed was, firstly, a matter of luck, and secondly, they were used to thinking about problems in the way of selling private salt.

They did not think of the ideas of the big landlords, and did not change their thinking in time.

It is not that they were not born well, in fact, selling private salt is still a good way.

Firstly, salt is a common thing in the world.

Secondly, salt has no shelf life, and it can be transported any time and any distance, and at most there will be some loss.

Thirdly, there is food if there is salt.

If there is salt, food can be exchanged from the hands of big households.

For ancient rebellion, this is a better path.

You can get economic income by selling private salt.

Moreover, the price of salt in ancient times has always been very high, so there is absolutely no worry about not being able to sell it.

There is no worry about losing money.

As long as the order is stable, the people with a little money will definitely eat salt.

And places that cannot afford salt are basically collapsed.

By selling private salt, you can also collude with officials and train a group of brave warriors.

Many people dare not rebel, but dare to sell private salt.

Both are capital crimes and will also be implicated.

Because selling private salt requires people who are absolutely confidential, it is something that the clan does together...

Private salt dealers have never been truly eliminated, and the court will never send out a large army to fight for a team selling private salt.

Because the consumption is far higher than the income.

What's more, when the emperor heard that it was selling private salt, he was fighting for profit, not his imperial power.

Compared with the rebellious refugees, the importance has dropped by N levels.

What's more, if one private salt team is eliminated, there will be a second one.

What the court can do is to set up as many checkpoints as possible.

At most, the local salt merchants and other private salt dealers can attack their peers.

And the refugee traverser can take this opportunity to gradually expand from a small scale.

After all, he has the business mind and business methods of modern people.

So he began to collude with those officials who could not get the bonus from the salt merchants.

After all, there were too many officials and too little salt, so there must be some who could not get the bonus.

As long as the silver was enough, there would definitely be someone who would do it.

Among these feudal officials, you don't have to think about how high their awareness was.

Why did private salt continue to be banned?

Of course, it was because the salt merchants themselves were also engaged in private salt, and the officials of the court were also engaged in it.

The officials in charge of inspection in the court also turned a blind eye.

Unless it affected related interests.

In fact, the struggle between salt dealers was the most tragic and fiercest.

The cruelty of killing and abuse between each other was jaw-dropping.

They were the real enemies.

It was like two salt merchants were doing salt business privately.

The competition between them was bloody.

It was much more cruel than the ban of the court.

In this kind of private salt trafficking and localization transformation, the refugee traverser gradually became stronger.

He worked hard to accumulate for a full ten years!

It is similar to the accumulation from the second year of Chongzhen to the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

The refugee time traveler finally accumulated a force.

He began to build his mountain stronghold bigger and bigger.

And used various ancient defense methods seen in modern times.

Not only set up various traps, but also began to build firearms.

He tried every means to reserve gunpowder.

This can be secretly purchased from officials.

At the same time, he accumulated troops.

When he accumulated 5,000 people, he could no longer support them by business.

No matter how big the boss is, he can't support the consumption of an average army.

You must have territory and productivity.

Finally, he began to occupy the villages at the foot of the mountain.

Occupy the villages and build your own manor.

He did not attack the county directly.

As long as he did not attack the county, the local officials would turn a blind eye and would not report it.

After all, it is the end of the dynasty now.

It is better to do less than more.

Many officials are even too lazy to be greedy, and they just live one day at a time.

They don't come to work at all, just sleep, eat, drink and have fun every day.

They will only move when they need money.

If the county is attacked, the local county magistrate must report it for his official position and his family.

Because not reporting it will also lead to death.

In fact, as long as they don't kill the other party, they may not report it.

That's it.

With the support of Wu Zetian, the number of refugees and time travelers is increasing.

Its development trajectory is much better than that of Li Zicheng in history.

After all, Li Zicheng does not have so much vision and no external support.

He has several ups and downs.

The saddest time is being chased everywhere.

Then running away becomes a habit and he is unwilling to fight hard.

Some people say he is a bandit.

The problem is that he rebelled in a dynasty with stable order and was beaten every day.

If he didn't move, he would have died long ago. This was all forced out.

In the later period, he also thought of establishing control and establishing a base.

He established his own base in the Xiangyang area.

But his biggest problem is that his thinking mode is limited to the entire Ming Dynasty, and he only wants to bear the burden of the two capitals and 13 provinces in the Han area.

His thinking mode still did not extend to the whole of East Asia.

So from this point of view, his vision was not broad enough.

He did not expand the whole of Yazhou, which was also related to his own background.

He was born in poverty and had a narrow vision.

Later, he was always fighting against the Ming Dynasty internally, and never really fought against the Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, the think tanks he got were not good enough, and they did not see the goal very clearly.

For example, his think tank suggested that he fight back to his hometown, start from his hometown again, and get good soldiers.

He should have gone straight to Jiangnan.

As a result, considering that there were still resistance forces in Jiangnan, he did not do so, and the failure was foreshadowed.

In fact, he had many ways.

Go to Jiangnan and copy Zhu Yuanzhang's way.

Suppress other rebel forces, annex them, and strengthen himself.

He chose the path that seemed to be the simplest and fastest to destroy the Ming Dynasty, but it actually contained huge hidden dangers.

His learning ability was not enough, and he could not keep up with the changes in the situation. He could not recognize that the most fierce enemy was the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, he fell under a good situation.

He obviously had enough energy to establish a grassroots management system.

Moreover, when he attacked the Ming Dynasty, he dispersed his forces greatly.

He only brought tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and the rest were temporary surrender soldiers.

In order to suppress various places, he sent a large number of elite soldiers.

It can be said that he only brought 1/3 of his core forces, and the other 2/3 were scattered in various places.

Relatively speaking, the Qing Dynasty had long seen clearly that the rebels were the biggest enemy.

They concentrated almost all the soldiers who could be drawn.

It can be said that every family drew men, except for those who really couldn't walk.

They gathered all the soldiers from teenagers to 60 years old, and finally gathered 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers.

Together with other vassals, the total force was more than 100,000.

It can be said that if Li Zicheng brought all his troops, he would have a great chance to repel the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, the Qing Dynasty also suffered a lot of losses.

They relied on Wu Sangui to lead the charge and consume Li Zicheng's troops and physical strength, so that they succeeded in one fell swoop.

And they realized that Li Zicheng was the biggest enemy, and chased him all the way.

Chased from the capital to the west, and then to the south, and chased Li Zicheng to death.

He was not given a chance to breathe.

But history has no ifs.

The reason why Li Zicheng had such insight was because it was inevitable.

In fact, even if Li Zicheng succeeded, his own insight was limited, and at most he could copy the Ming Dynasty.

But the Ming Dynasty would be more likely to absorb Western knowledge, at least there would be no literary prison.

In fact, Western culture has already penetrated deeply into the Ming Dynasty.

Many Ming officials had already chosen the West.

This was impossible for the Qing Dynasty, which did not absorb the West until it was about to die.

Real success is determined by vision.

The refugee time traveler naturally did not have these problems.

He knew very well who to unite and who to fight.

So the refugee time traveler became more and more powerful.

Then he began to stir up the storm.

And the big landlord time traveler, after enjoying a full ten years, was at the tip of his expansion.

The two of them had not met yet.

The big landlord time traveler died.

He died inexplicably.

The cause of death was very simple.

Just when he took his concubine out of the city for an outing, a group of soldiers of the refugee time traveler attacked the nearby wealthy families to seize food.

His military discipline was not that good.

He relied on promotion, wealth, eating, drinking, and entertainment, and clear rewards and punishments.

The result was the death of the big landlord.

The big landlord regretted before he died.

"If I had known, I would have gone overseas to seek refuge earlier."

"I was so stupid."

"I just thought that I would kneel down when the enemy came, but I didn't know that I might not have the chance to kneel down if I wanted to."

"Not all big landlords can survive the change of dynasties smoothly."

The big landlord was very depressed before he died.

Damn it, how could it be like this?