In April of the sixth year of Yongding in the Holy Han Dynasty, on the sea surface of Yuezhou.
The huge waves did not stop Zhang Xiaowu and others from sailing. Although their Saga boat was small but very strong, they rode the sea breeze and arrived at the Shenghan coast in only three months. However, this voyage
It was not very smooth. The main reason is that
The sea breeze changed and pirates appeared from time to time. In the end, only one of their three ships survived. Liu Mang was still frightened and said that he never expected that the road would be so bumpy. He didn't feel it was hard when he was a child.
Dai Viet knows the danger.
Others said that there were not many pirates originally, but as the seven countries of the South Island fought, many defeated soldiers became pirates, resulting in many pirates encountered along the way.
"Although it has been a difficult journey, I'm finally home!" Zhang Xiaowu was filled with emotion. Looking at the increasingly clear coast, he couldn't help but laugh loudly, "To the shore, to the shore! I'm back again!" Thinking of the past two years, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
He couldn't help but regret his experiences abroad. At first, he was exploring hibiscus to find the elixir nectar for his wife. But after two years of searching without success, he returned home sadly after going through all kinds of difficulties and dangers.
Of course, it would not be a shame to say that he was depressed. At least he received half of the jewelery wealth from Queen Xixi. Three treasure ships originally prepared for the failed coup were taken away by him, with a value of up to 500,000 taels.
Unfortunately, one ship was sunk by the hurricane, and another ship storing grain also sank. Fortunately, the land was already visible.
"Master, have we arrived at the Holy Han Empire now?" Liu asked excitedly, "I heard that the Holy Han Empire is full of gold, and everyone is as rich as the country. Everyone wears silk and satin, and every household
They all have huge yards and dozens of servants and maids." The sea breeze blew on his dark face, making his face tremble, but he could not suppress his excitement, and his whole person was exuding excitement.
Zhang Xiaowu couldn't help but laugh: "Every family is so rich, who will be the servants and maids?" This is the outside world's misunderstanding of the Shenghan Empire, but perhaps because the Shenghan Empire has been strong for so long, this lie actually became the truth.
"It's all Nandao people and Siyi who are working as servants." Liu Mang said innocently, "That's why everyone wants to go to Shenghan and eat well and drink hot food, including us descendants of Shenghan who live outside.
To be proud of.”
"As long as you are happy." Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and smiled lightly. Shenghan is not as powerful as the legend says, and her strongest point may be that she has occupied the best place in the world, so that people can live peacefully.
Thousands of years. With thousands of years of reproduction, the civilization of the Central Plains can continue to flourish and dominate the world.
Suddenly, a sailor stood on the lookout and shouted loudly: "There is a massacre on the seaside, a massacre is happening on the seashore! Sir, do you want to go up there and have a look?" Others hurriedly ran over to look over, and the one with good eyesight immediately saw it.
, couldn't help but exclaimed, someone shouted: "Bandit! Are you a bandit?"
"Save someone?"
"Bandits are the most abominable!"
"Go up and take a closer look." Zhang Xiaowu frowned. It was simply unreasonable that bandits massacred people in the mighty Holy Han Empire.
When the ship was still a thousand steps away from the coast, it stopped approaching. Everyone could clearly see that people in official uniforms were massacring a group of people with swords and guns. It was not bandits who were killing people and stealing goods.
Although the people resisted to the death, they were still no match for the brave officers and soldiers. Soon they were compressed to the beach. A big man saw the ship from a distance and shouted: "Swim over, swim over, swim over and you will survive."
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The "common people" threw themselves into the sea and swam over. The sailors on the ship were very nervous and asked what to do. Zhang Xiaowu frowned and said, "Get your weapons ready and prepare to fight."
Everyone quickly prepared their weapons and looked nervous. There were only about thirty people on their ship, but there were nearly a hundred people swimming over. What if they captured the ship? Everyone looked at Zhang Xiaowu in panic, but
Zhang Xiaowu looked indifferent and sat on the boat holding a long bow.
Liu hurriedly put the quiver beside him. Everyone was calm. In the past three months, they had not encountered pirates, but the pirates were driven away by the captain's sharpshooting and died at the hands of the captain.
There were eighty pirates if not a hundred. Seeing him so calm, everyone felt relieved.
The officers and soldiers were obviously a little unprepared when they saw "common people" throwing themselves into the sea. They did not carry many bows and arrows. Although they shot at the people in the water and used stones and spears as spears, they still did not kill many. However, the seaside was still dyed.
It was red. Some people may have lost their physical strength. They had already sunk to the bottom of the sea halfway through swimming against the waves. Only about thirty people swam to the water's edge. They grabbed the floating boards thrown from the boat and threw their weapons into the sea.
In the water, he begged loudly.
However, the accent of these people was a Yuezhou accent, and Zhang Xiaowu could not understand what they were saying. Fortunately, Liu Mang grew up living with the descendants of Yuezhou people who fled overseas, so he could understand roughly, so he acted as a temporary translator.
An old man, a leader of the people, said: "Sir, please save us. We are just resisting heavy taxes, not treason!"
"Rebellion? Can you also rebel?" Zhang Xiaowu was puzzled at first, then looked at the group of people and said disdainfully: "The governor of Lingnan is Mr. Shi? It is really disgusting that such a bad case happened under Mr. Shi's rule.
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When all the people heard the title Master Shi, they were immediately shocked, lowered their heads, and did not dare to speak.
Seeing the silence of the other party, Zhang Xiaowu asked about the situation in Lingnan. The people learned that they had returned from overseas and were not familiar with the domestic situation, so they told the story in detail. It turned out that the so-called rebels were the Shi family and their followers. Three years
Before, the Shi family originally fought with the Lin family in Jiangnan.
, the Lin family was defeated and had no choice but to sue for peace. Shi Yong, the head of the Shi family, was suddenly in the limelight. For some unknown reason, the descendants of the Shi family may have lost their minds and suddenly launched a mutiny to force Shi Yong to proclaim himself emperor because he was known as the emperor in Yuezhou.
Emperor, he called himself the Emperor of Yue and stood on an equal footing with the Holy Han Empire.
"Shi Yong proclaimed himself emperor?" Zhang Xiaowu was shocked. He didn't expect that Shi Yong actually proclaimed himself emperor after he had only left the Holy Han Dynasty for two years. He quickly asked what happened next.
People also said that after Shi Yong proclaimed himself emperor, the imperial court immediately mobilized an army to go south to quell the rebellion. At this time, the Lin family in Jiangnan suddenly proclaimed themselves emperor and called themselves the Kingdom of Wu. Although Wu and Yue had been fighting unusually in the past few years, they immediately faced the imperial court's counterinsurgency.
become
Allies, the two sides formed a coalition to fight the decisive battle with the imperial army in Jinding Mansion, Jiangzhou. The two sides assembled millions of troops for the decisive battle. Unexpectedly, the decisive battle only lasted for two months. Chen Wubo and Li Cunyi led 400,000 imperial troops to defeat the 600,000 Wu and Yue allied forces.
Li Cunyi's younger brother Li Cunba was regarded as the most powerful general of the Holy Han Dynasty. He was invincible with a mace. He led an army of only 30,000 people and swept across the Wu Kingdom. Emperor Lin's family of Wu State did not expect that they would be defeated like a mountain. All his men surrendered to the Holy Han Dynasty.
The Lin family and their supporters were killed one after another, and the Jiangnan rebellion was put down in less than half a year.
Li Cunyi entered Lingnan with a great victory. Because there were many high mountains in Lingnan, the war was anxious, and the Shi family was better at fighting than the Lin family. However, as the Wu Kingdom was destroyed, Li Cunba went south with 30,000 cavalry.
He also killed Shi Zhidu, the eldest grandson of Shi Yong, the most powerful general of the Shi family, with one move. As a result, the Shi family lost the courage to resist and fled and hid in the rural forests of Lingnan.
The imperial army searched the mountains and ridges south of Lingnan and vowed to wipe out the remnants of the Shi family and the Lin family. However, the officers and soldiers who pursued them were inevitably mixed, so some people took the opportunity to ask for bribes, and they, the common people, were often unjustly accused of being the remnants of the rebels because they had no money to bribe the officers and soldiers.
Being persecuted.
The people who are being hunted now all belong to the same family. Their tough attitude in the face of demanding bribes led to the persecution of the whole family.
"It is the old man who has harmed our people. If I had known this, I would have regretted that I should have been stingy with money." The old man cried.
Compared with what happened to the old man, Zhang Xiaowu was more shocked by the Holy Han Empire. Especially the rebellion between Wu and Yue hit Zhang Xiaowu's heart. He never expected that Shi Yong and Lin Feng would become emperors so frantically, trying to change the entire country.
The original world. And their fate was also very dismal. They were quickly suppressed by the imperial army. In particular, the counter-rebellion army of Li Cunyi and his brother Li Cunba sang triumphant songs almost all the way. This shows how unpopular treason is.
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Zhang Xiaowu's boat carried more than 30 people all the way north along the coast. After a day, they got rid of the pursuers and arrived at a safe place. However, injured or sick people died one after another, and eventually
Only more than 20 people survived.
Along the way, Zhang Xiaowu also gradually learned more about the Holy Han. In addition to the Wuyue rebellion, various mountain kings and rebel armies also appeared in various parts of the Central Plains. In fact, although the imperial army was still extremely powerful, the place became increasingly dilapidated, especially
After the rebels were eliminated, the number of imperial guards increased to 600,000. In order to feed the 600,000 imperial guards, the imperial court had to increase various expenses.
“How is the situation in the north?”
"North? I don't know."
Zhang Xiaowu was anxious, but at this time the wind direction changed, the ship was moving slowly, and the land was full of imperial troops, rebels and bandit rebels from all over the country. They could only silently endure the slow speed of the ship. After all, it was safer at sea. The ship sailed to Vietnam
When they were in Zhouzhangcheng, Aji suddenly fell ill. The doctor on the ship was helpless, so they had no choice but to take the risk of docking.
Zhang Xiaowu dressed up in disguise and went to the outside of Zhangcheng alone. After asking the old people in the countryside outside the city, he found out that the wife of the magistrate of Zhangcheng was seriously ill and the best doctors had been invited to the county government office to consult her, so he
He was about to enter the city to investigate. Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the gate of the city, Zhang Xiaowu, who spoke with a northern accent, was stopped by soldiers who insisted on telling him his story and demanded a high amount of money.
In order to save Aji as soon as possible, Zhang Xiaowu had no choice but to pay more money. Unexpectedly, he was surrounded again just after entering the city. A man dressed as an official led a group of people and sneered: "I see that you are tall and strong. Kong Wu
If you are powerful, you must be a member of the military. Now when you enter the city, you will definitely assassinate the county magistrate. Take them for me, left and right!"