Chapter 1214 Huang Tian Ying Ming

In Lianshan, nearly twenty days had passed, and the number of people under Zhao Cheng had expanded to more than 2,000.

During this long period of time, Zhao Cheng continued to gather the remnants of Huang Tian who had fled into the mountains, and on the other hand, he took eleven days to capture Lianyun Village among the hundreds of villages in Lianshan.

In this era, unless they were truly uncivilized savages, they would never be completely disconnected from the outside world even though they were in the mountains.

Lianshan is also the border between Nanhuang and Qingzhou. The mountains are high and the roads are dangerous, like a natural moat. It is difficult to travel, and relatively speaking, there is less contact with the outside world.

The mountain people of this era are fundamentally different from the mountain people of modern times.

In the modern world, the so-called mountain people only live in remote areas, have household registration, and are governed by the court, while the mountain people of this era are people from the mountains. In order to avoid taxes and labor, they either fled to the mountains with their entire village or their entire clan. They have no household registration and do not obey the king.

Survival in the mountains is difficult. If it is not really impossible to survive, ordinary people will not make such a choice.

In this case, those who can survive in the mountains are naturally the best among ordinary people. As they are passed down from generation to generation, the people in the mountains are naturally more and more fierce.

As time goes by, there are always some new generations of mountain people who forget the reasons why their ancestors entered the mountains and are eager for the colorful world outside. However, the mountain people are undisciplined and unruly. They are usually regarded as unstable factors by the court. Even entering the city is very difficult.

For a long time, it is not that no one has seen the basic qualities of the mountain people's strength and wants to use them as an army, but there are few who have really succeeded.

On the one hand, the mountain people's clan concept is too strong. On the other hand, the mountain people are a closed small circle. People outside are always polished by various etiquette and better tamed during their growth. The mountain people, because there is no court, grow more freely, do not know power, do not know virtue, only know themselves.

But in the army, military orders are the earliest, and those who violate them will be killed, which is anti-self.

Wu Qi was able to establish his Tiger and Leopard Cavalry with mountain people as the main force, which was the result of many factors.

On the one hand, the foundation of the Wu family was that they were born as mountain people, and later because of the achievements of the Wu family's ancestors, their identity changed.

On the other hand, the establishment of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was not the work of Wu Qi alone. The Wu family began to assimilate some mountain people imperceptibly several generations ago. On the one hand, they still guaranteed the independence of the mountain people, and on the other hand, they used kindness and power to establish prestige among the mountain people little by little, giving all the mountain people a subconscious feeling that they would have meat to eat if they followed the Wu family.

It took several generations of domestication to achieve the great power of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Zhao Cheng naturally did not have such a long time to domesticate this group of mountain people. The Wu family used mountain people to build a strong army, passed down from generation to generation, and imperceptibly, which was undoubtedly the kingly way.

As for Zhao Cheng, he took a different approach.

Lianshan Baizhai has few external contacts. Except for some villages that occasionally do some roadblocking and robbery, there are also some bold and powerful merchants who take caravans deep into the mountains and exchange salt, iron, oil, spices and other scarce things in the mountains with the mountain people for the furs of various wild animals and precious medicinal materials.

After a business trip, there can be ten times the profit.

In addition to this external communication, there are more frequent internal exchanges between villages.

Among them, some powerful villages are the hubs for mutual exchange between villages.

In addition to the exchange and transaction of various materials, the more important thing is the intermarriage between villages.

However, the mountain road is difficult, and the basic quality of the mountain people is indeed better than that of ordinary people, but not all mountain people are strong enough. Those who want to get out of the mountains are also outstanding among the mountain people.

As for ordinary mountain people, most of them live in the village all their lives and have never left the village within a radius of ten miles.

Many mountain people only get married once in their lives, and they will follow the strong men in the village to go on a long journey, using their half-life savings to exchange for a wife.

In this case, the importance of the village as a hub is naturally beyond doubt.

Lianyun Village, which Zhao Cheng chose, is one of them.

The total population of Lianyun Village is about a thousand people. With the troops in Zhao Cheng's hands, it is not difficult to attack it by force, but it is useless except for losing troops after the attack.

If the mountain people can be made to surrender in this way, there will be no mountain people in the world. After all, the troops of the court are not for show.

The reason why the court allows the mountain people to be free is simply that it is difficult to use troops in the mountains. Even if a group of them are killed, as long as the court does not reduce the heavy taxes, there will never be a shortage of new mountain people. Once the troops are moved, the gold and silver consumed will far exceed the gains.

This is a loss-making business.

Killing is useless, so Zhao Cheng spent eleven days.

After approaching Lianyun Village, Zhao Cheng began to perform Taoist magic.

If he were outside the mountain, under the rule of the imperial court, if he performed Taoist magic on many people at the same time, it would definitely trigger the imperial court's repression. Under the human immortal, if he used Taoist magic to seduce a hundred people, they might die suddenly.

But the mountain people were not the people of the imperial court, and they were independent from the outside, which gave Zhao Cheng an opportunity.

The method Zhao Cheng chose was to use Taoist magic to forge the dream of the ancestors.

Among these mountain people, the clan concept is strong. They do not worship false gods and Buddhas, but their own ancestors. Even if a mountain person commits a serious mistake, it must be publicly judged under the witness of the ancestral tablets.

Of course, the gap between the void and the earth is difficult to cross. Even if the king who ruled the entire earth during his lifetime, lived forever after death and controlled a larger territory, he could not show his holiness in the world, let alone the ancestral spirits in the village.

But the mountain people don’t know this, or don’t believe this. They only know that the spirits of their ancestors after death have been protecting them.

For several days in a row, the young children and the elderly in the village first dreamed of their ancestors. In the dream, the ancestors first told them that they went into the mountains because they couldn’t survive outside, so they escaped into the mountains, but there was no way out for them to live in the mountains for a long time. Over a long period of time, many villages died silently...

In short, talk about the past first, then talk about the future, in order to create a sense of reality, a sense of crisis, and most importantly, empathy.

When the sense of crisis emerged, the ancestors said that they saw a group of people who were destined by heaven and drifted to this area. If you just want to live a safe life, you don't have to pay attention to it, but if you want to get out of the mountains and win a fortune, don't hesitate.

At the beginning, only some children were shouting, mainly because they were scared, but the old people used it as a topic of conversation, and it soon spread.

The people in the village were all surprised. Some people were skeptical, but some people had already believed it.

For two consecutive days, the matter became more and more fermented, but the ancestor's dream did not appear again.