Before leaving, Ye An was a little worried that he would be discovered, but when he came out of the cave where he was, all he saw were people staggering around. Some of these people looked crazy, some were sleeping soundly, and most of them were covered in blood.
Smelling of alcohol, he was lying there swaying.
This was true for both men and women. Even Ye An, who was used to seeing hangovers in bars in later generations, felt that the scene before him was ridiculous.
At this time, no one cared who was walking in front of them. Ye An believed that even if there was no disguise on his face, no one would care.
These people who are so ecstatic will soon suffer backlash at the same price. The pain of being bitten by hundreds of insects will make them the most humble people, and even lose their qualifications to be human beings.
Tieniu breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw Ye An coming out, and whispered: "Master Hou, if you don't come out, I'm going to look for you! This bird has caves connected to caves, and caves connected to caves, which is really not good."
navigate!"
Ye An nodded slightly: "Ahem...that's true, so I asked you to stay here last night and not to wander around. You didn't wander around last night, right?"
Tieniu's head shook like a rattle: "No, I didn't go there either. These people are too scary. Lord Marquis, you don't know. Someone took the elixir last night and even bit their own flesh. It was bloody."
The appearance... sizzling, even I, who kill people on the battlefield without blinking an eye, feel frightened when I see it. What kind of bird thing is this White Lotus Society? It's too scary."
"Evil heretics! It's always been like this. If you can't scare people, how can you trust them? Besides, most of those seemingly unbelievable things are just deceptions. Do you believe that I can also do something about it?
Stab your buttocks with a knife, put your hand into the frying pan or something?"
Tieniu chuckled and said: "Believe! Believe! Lord Hou is the star in the sky descending to earth. You can't see any magic technique in front of you, let alone the trivial skills of Demon White Lotus? Hehe, let's go?"
Seeing that the people around him were still sleeping soundly, Ye An nodded slightly and said, "I should have left earlier, but if I could kill that scourge before I left..."
"You can't kill him! I have quietly inquired about it last night. Dai Dekun has a group of extremely capable men guarding him. These people are still sane. I just got closer and was driven back. I couldn't do anything!"
Ye An sighed slightly and said: "He is indeed a scheming person. We can't get rid of the evil now, so we can only dispatch heavy troops to encircle and suppress it. They need copper and iron to make arrows and other objects. It seems that they already have ordnance, so they can only dispatch the elite to attack.
Otherwise, if something happens, they may attack and plunder the nearby state capitals. If the state controls the outside world and is strong in the middle, even Liu Zhao's Baojing Army may not be able to match it!"
Ye An took Tieniu out of the cave and came to the valley. Only then did he realize that the village in front of him was not small. The front door outside was smaller, but there were many families in the valley. If you look closely, you can find that almost all of these villagers
They are young men and women, but there are very few old and weak women and children. Although they are poorly dressed, they are better than young.
The imperial power does not extend to the county, and this kind of village is an autonomous existence that is difficult for the government to govern. It is because of this that the White Lotus Society values this point before entering the village. At present, this small Tulong Village has been completely controlled by the White Lotus Society, within a radius of a hundred miles.
Most of the villages also believe in the White Lotus Society.
Affected by the disaster, the people believed more in the White Lotus Society than in the government, so the White Lotus Society was hidden so well among the people. After all, unless the imperial court banned religion, the White Lotus Society would continue to grow in this situation, and if there was an opportunity to take advantage of it,
If there is an opportunity, a single spark may start a prairie fire!
Even though later generations described peasant uprisings so brightly, in fact many of them were bloody. But when the docile people turn into chaos, the long-term docile character will undergo earth-shaking changes.
, the unlucky ones are always the people at the lowest level, not the high-ranking rulers.
Almost no real peasant uprising can succeed. From Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, to Huang Chao, and then to Li Zicheng, which one ascends to the throne?
The biggest role of this group of people is to push the people from one extreme to the other. Then another group of people successfully wins the hearts of the people, unites the world and completes the unification, and finally ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor.
As for the current White Lotus Society, if it becomes the Maitreya sect that sweeps across the country, the White Lotus sect and others may go one step further and become a peasant uprising that will be recorded in the history books. But if it remains like this, it will be nothing more than a small rebellion joke.
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You must know that in the Song Dynasty, there was a peasant uprising almost every few years, and these uprisings were quickly suppressed. They could not cause any waves at all, and they did not waver in the rule of the old Zhao family.
On the contrary, the painful lessons brought about by the unsuccessful peasant uprisings are deeply memorable...
Ye An doesn't pay attention to the current White Lotus Society, so why did he come to the White Lotus Society's home in person? It's not to analyze the risks of this cult society.
It is said that there is a figure who is like a leader, but Dai Dekun has a narrow vision and lacks courage. Although he has the ability to confuse people, he does not have great courage and a more rigorous organizational plan. The reason why he was able to grow the White Lotus Society over a period of time is, in the end,
The fundamental wish is that the people of Jianghuai are forced to survive this natural disaster.
The vast majority of the people affected by the disaster joined the White Lotus Society because it would bring them hope and relief. As long as the court exempted miscellaneous taxes and exempted this year's summer and autumn taxes, and at the same time appease the victims, they would provide disaster relief and food distribution.
Grain, how many people will follow the White Lotus Society by then?
Are you a fool? After eliminating miscellaneous taxes, you have achieved what you want. Your family has a house and land, and your life is endlessly joyful!
Planting land, harvesting grain, selling grain, and making a profit are the things that ordinary farmers like most. Who would give up these beautiful lives to rebel with you?!
It can even be said that even Dai Dekun himself did not want to rebel. He just wanted to entangle a group of forces for his own use. Who was he in front of the huge empire?
Ye An doesn't even bother to kill such people personally. He, Dai Dekun, just wants to be a powerful person. The people around him now believe in the White Lotus Society. Dai Dekun is crazy about strengthening himself. After he becomes big, the people around him will survive the disaster. If they don't believe it,
If the White Lotus Society is already here, then it’s not up to them!
Ye An saw through Dai Dekun's tricks. He wanted to be a powerful man, a powerful man that even the local county government could do nothing about. He was like a bandit on the mountain. Once he sat in the toilet, even the county magistrate had to show courtesy, because at that time
His tail is too big to fall off.
Even if you want to encircle and suppress him, you still need to mobilize the imperial army from the state capital, which may not be able to conquer. It will cost a lot of money, so it is better to serve him casually, and usually not look for his bad luck, and both sides will be in peace.
At that time, Dai Dekun can order his men to plunder the surrounding areas in the name of the White Lotus Society. The people and villages around him are like the piglets he raises. When they grow up and are fattened, they should be slaughtered and eaten.
And he himself became the nominal emperor of the country...
Wouldn't it be much less risky to rebel? Wouldn't it be easier to live without rebellion?