Chapter 780: Pure Thoughts Zen (Part 1)

Listening to the shrill cries of Zhu Jie and his daughter, Shen Fei had no intention of turning back. With what Zhu Jie and his daughter did, such an ending was appropriate.

In the cities ruled by Zhu Jie, the Emperor of Chu, it can be said that nine out of ten houses were empty. Compared with them, even the four major bandits seemed kind.

However, even so, Zhu Mei, the poisonous strain, relied on his outstanding appearance and had a large number of followers. One of them was one of the ten generals of Kou Zhong Shaoshuai's army. Unfortunately, he had no chance to turn to the light this time. Shen Fei had killed him directly before.

Killing and arson for a golden belt was really true in some cases in ancient feudal society, especially in the chaos of the dynasty. The so-called killing and arson to be recruited was probably like this.

Don't look at Zhu Jie like this. If he surrendered to certain people, he could still be in a high position. As for what he did, except Shen Fei, basically no one would care in this era. Even Li Shimin would gladly accept his surrender, of course, on the premise that he did not betray.

However, for Shen Fei, there is only one result for such people, that is death. It is not just Zhu Jie, but also those who surrendered to the Turks and became his subjects, such as Liu Wuzhou, and the like, and the result is the same.

"There is a lot of wealth."

Looking at the wealth stored in Zhu Jie's palace, Shen Fei shook his head gently, and then took away all the wealth with an incredible large scarf. Zhu Jie plundered a lot of wealth, but unfortunately, in his rule, wealth is the most worthless thing.

In a city where nine out of ten houses are empty, the social system has collapsed long ago. Those who can escape have already escaped, and the rest have no way to escape. In this case, even if you have wealth, you can't buy what you need. Even because of Zhu Jie's reputation, even some big families don't want to do business with him. It's not that they don't want to make money from Zhu Jie, but because Zhu Jie doesn't know any morality at all. Basically, he is just robbing people and goods.

Boom.

Shen Fei, who took away all of Zhu Jie's wealth, burned the palace and the corpses inside with a fire. There is no need to stay in such a sinful place.

"The next step is to rebuild this place."

Although Zhu Jie left a lot of messes for Shen Fei, it was not only bad, but also good. That is, the power of the family here is very weak, and those who can escape have escaped. In this way, the policy of Luoyang will hardly encounter any obstacles here.

Even if those families come back later, some things are lost and lost forever.

"Fortunately, many people came from Pegasus Ranch, otherwise it would be really troublesome."

After dealing with Zhu Jie, the rest was simple. This time, in order to attack Zhu Jie, Shen Fei mobilized 10,000 people from Luoyang. Even though Zhu Jie had more than 200,000 soldiers under his command, after losing Zhu Jie, the leader, these 200,000 people immediately became a mess. Before he started to attack, he started a civil war, and most of them were killed or injured.

After the Tang army pressed on, the remaining people fled or surrendered. Soon the Tang occupied the entire territory under Zhu Jie.

In the subsequent rule, there was not much trouble. First, Shen Fei had been preparing relevant talents, mainly training people from Pegasus Ranch. As for those Confucianists, Shen Fei would naturally accept those who were willing to surrender. However, he did not even pay attention to those who wanted to raise their status and play the trick of visiting the thatched cottage three times.

Secondly, compared with Zhu Jie's brutal rule, Shen Fei's rule was simply a saint. They naturally cherished their current life. In this case, those who wanted to make trouble could not get the support of the people at all. Without the support of the people, these people were just jumping clowns.

"What, how is it possible?"

Shen Tang captured Zhu Jie's territory like lightning. After the news spread all over the world, almost everyone who heard the news could not believe it, including Li Shimin.

Zhu Jie was not a man of great talent, but he had 200,000 troops under his command. Even if his combat effectiveness was very weak, with such a large number, even if he could not win, he should not be defeated so quickly.

No matter how they thought, Shen Fei used the decapitation tactic to directly wipe out the upper echelons of Zhu Jie's army. Although there were rumors about this in the martial arts world, no one believed such unreliable remarks. It was not so easy to assassinate Zhu Jie in the midst of thousands of troops. Even the three great masters could not do it.

Shen Fei did not want to use this method to unify the world, but it did not mean that others did not want to. Even if Li Shimin could solve this situation by assassination, he would also adopt it. After all, it was simple, fast and quick.

When this information was passed to Li Mi, Li Mi's face became very ugly at the first time. Facing his upcoming attack, Shen Tang seemed to not care at all. Even the front line facing him seemed to have no major changes. This was simply looking down on him, or not caring about his attack at all.

When Li Mi thought that it might be this, he was very upset. Reason told him that the second possibility was very large. Shen Tang's strength exceeded his expectations, but unfortunately, Li Mi was already in a difficult situation at this time.

Not to mention the purpose of those who supported him later, he had made so many preparations in the early stage of attacking Luoyang. Once he gave up, it would be a fatal blow to his reputation and the morale of the army.

Poor Li Mi still estimated the strength of Luoyang based on the strength of Luoyang when Wang Shichong was in power. It must be said that he made a fatal mistake. Shen Fei is not Wang Shichong.

When he took over Luoyang, the army began to slowly reorganize and expand. Speaking of this, it must be said that Wang Shichong is indeed not a material for dominating the world. No wonder Yang Guang chose him to be the general manager of Luoyang. He probably saw this aspect.

What is the first element of dominating the world? Naturally, it is the army. The army that attaches equal importance to quality and quantity. Insufficient quality means insufficient combat power. Such an army is naturally not good, but quantity is equally important. Without sufficient quantity, once the territory increases, there is no way to hold on.

In the original work, Wang Shichong's army and territory have not changed much. The only change is probably that he became king. With the army in his hands, after Yang Guang's death, he can further expand the territory.

Whether it is Du Fuwei, Li Zitong, Shen Faxing and others, they have been attacking other cities, expanding the territory and army. Only Wang Shichong has been staying in Luoyang calmly.

At present, except for those minor forces, the armies of all the major forces in the Central Plains are basically larger than his army occupying Luoyang. Even Zhu Jie has 200,000 people under his command, and the number of Li's army is as high as hundreds of thousands.

"Brother Shen, this is the eldest lady."

After Shen Fei handed over all the affairs in Guanjun City to Xu Xingzhi, he returned to Luoyang. Kou Zhong brought him an acquaintance of his, Zhai Rang's daughter Zhai Jiao. Because of Su Su, the two have always called Zhai Jiao the eldest lady.

"What a unique eldest lady."

After seeing Zhai Jiao's appearance, Shen Fei immediately thought of Gongsun Linglong in the Qin Dynasty. The two are somewhat similar in some aspects. Of course, strictly speaking, Zhai Jiao is much better than Gongsun Linglong.

Shen Fei has seen many eldest ladies, basically all of whom are excellent in appearance. Like Zhai Jiao, this is the first one. Of course, he did not look down on the other party's idea, after all, appearance is innate.

"Meet the King of Tang."

When Zhai Jiao saluted Shen Fei, a burly young man behind her also saluted Shen Fei. His eyes looked bright and he obviously had considerable strength.

"You want to seek revenge on Li Mi, no problem. It's better to say that this way, my chances of winning are higher." After Kou Zhong's explanation, Shen Fei figured out the purpose of Zhai Jiao looking for him, which was to avenge Zhai Rang.

Originally, Zhai Jiao had hoped that Dou Jiande would help her with revenge. After all, Zhai Rang and Dou Jiande had a very good relationship back then. But unfortunately, Dou Jiande had no intention of avenging Zhai Jiao at all, and even wanted to annex the last power left by Zhai Rang for Zhai Jiao. So Zhai Jiao left Dou Jiande in anger.

Perhaps because of the butterfly effect brought by Shen Fei, Dou Jiande, who should have taken good care of Zhai Jiao at this time, has become suspicious now, perhaps because of his increased power.

Because of Shen Fei's relationship, the power of the Wagang Army is far less than that of the original work, so Dou Jiande took the opportunity to rise.

"Dou Jiande wants to take Luoyang in one fell swoop while I am fighting with Li Mi. His ambition is not small."

This is the information brought by Zhai Jiao, and it is also the fundamental reason why Zhai Jiao broke away from Dou Jiande. In fact, Dou Jiande wants to annex Zhai Rang's remaining power. It is very simple. Zhai Jiao originally surrendered to Dou Jiande with this intention. After all, in the original book, they still have the Shaoshuai Army to surrender to, but now the Shaoshuai Army is impossible to appear. In addition to surrendering to Dou Jiande, there is almost no other choice. After all, Zhai Jiao is unlikely to come out to dominate the world again.

Unexpectedly, Dou Jiande wanted to annex them. Taking the initiative to surrender and annexing are two concepts.

"This news is very timely. If possible, Li Mi can let you do it."

It must be said that Zhai Jiao's information came very timely. Although he was not afraid of Dou Jiande, if he was really attacked by him, he would suffer heavy losses. If possible, Shen Fei certainly wanted to minimize his casualties.

"Thank you, Your Highness, the King of Tang. This is Xuan Yong, my father's capable general."

Zhai Jiao was very excited to have the opportunity to kill Li Mi. Then she introduced the young man behind him to Shen Fei and told him her purpose, asking Xuan Yong to take the remnants of Zhai Rang to join Shen Fei.

Now, the people around Zhai Jiao are naturally very loyal to Zhai Rang. Otherwise, it would be bad if they kept thinking about revenge when Zhai Rang was dead and Li Mi was powerful.

Zhai Jiao naturally wanted them to have a good result. It was a bit too wasteful to follow her. After talking with Kou Zhong, she decided to let them join Shen Tang.

"General Xuan Yong is willing to come, and I am naturally very welcome. How about this, let's talk about the specific things after defeating Li Mi."

Shen Fei didn't have any impression of Xuan Yong, but he came with Zhai Jiao and was the one who ruled the remnants of Zhai Rang, which made Shen Fei guess that he should be one of the ten generals after Kou Zhong, and one of the rare talents.

"Thank you, Your Highness the King of Tang."

"Xiao Zhong, I'll leave the contact with them to you."

Originally, Shen Fei wanted to let Zhai Jiao and others contact Shen Luoyan, but considering that Shen Luoyan was previously under Li Mi's command, the relationship between the two must not be good, so he left it to Kou Zhong to handle.

With the remnants of Zhai Rang, the chance of winning against Li Mi is much higher. After all, Wagangzhai was established by Zhai Rang, and there are more or less people who miss Zhai Rang's old friendship. They may not dare to rebel against Li Mi, but they dare to leak information.

"So that's the case. It seems that I have to go to Luoyang."

In a small but elegant Taoist temple on a mountain far away from the world on Zhongnan Mountain, a tall old man in a Taoist robe looked at the newspaper in his hand, nodded thoughtfully, and then stood up and walked outside. At this time, there were two Taoists in the yard, boiling medicinal materials. If someone saw these two Taoists boiling medicine at this time, they would be very surprised, because these two people turned out to be Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, who were famous in Taoism.

"Uncle Master." After seeing the old man, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng immediately saluted at the same time.

"Okay, after these medicines are ready, you can leave. It's just right that I have to leave for a while."

"Uncle Master, are you going to Luoyang?" Just as the old man was about to leave, Yuan Tiangang said hurriedly.

"Yes." The old man nodded gently.

"Can you please wait a few days before going, Luoyang is now a place of turmoil."

"So you came here to stop me."

"Uncle, if it was just the Buddhist sect, it would be fine, but the things he did are not suitable for the Taoist sect to participate in."

Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng had already prepared to go to Luoyang after meeting Shen Fei last time, but after discovering the policies implemented by Shen Fei in Luoyang, they immediately gave up the idea.

As smart as they are, they know very well the consequences of doing so and what they will face in the end. This matter is too big, so big that neither of them dared to participate in it. For the two who are good at calculation, it is clear that this is simply against the general trend.

Since ancient times, those who go against the general trend have no good end.

"Not suitable to participate, do you mean that there are people in the Taoist sect who are accumulating land with those people?" The old man's face suddenly became serious when he spoke.

"Please rest assured, uncle, I have already asked someone to deal with it." There are naturally bad people in such a big Taoist sect, but there are far fewer such people than in Buddhism. Even if they want to make money, people in the Taoist sect rarely accumulate land on a large scale. This is determined by the concepts of both parties. After all, the Taoist sect does not have as many disciples as the Buddhist sect.

Moreover, the Taoist sect can immediately find out the problems in this regard and deal with them, but the Buddhist sect has no way.

"In this case, what are you afraid of? Forget it, you also have your difficulties, and you all leave." The old man wanted to say something, but in the end he sighed softly and said nothing. After all, he is also a Taoist. When deciding on something in such a big Taoist sect, it is natural to consider many aspects.

However, this did not dispel the old man's idea. The emergence of new medical concepts made the old man impatient to see more.

Even if it was not for this, but just the treatment of the plague published in the newspaper, he had to go there. After every chaos, the plague would be triggered, which was the first thing to deal with.