Chapter 658 655, Fantasy Life (Part 2) Becoming King of the North
"When I'm not on the mountain, you should find something for everyone to do. Don't rebel every day when you have nothing to do... Now is not the time."
"I understand, brother."
Zhixing promised more.
Regarding what Lu Lin said, he was more concerned about the latter sentence.
Now is not the time.
After all, the Dafeng Dynasty has existed for hundreds of years, and the world has returned to its center. If no major accidents occur, the rule of the Dafeng Dynasty will be stable, and there will be no chance for them to rebel.
But Zhi Xingduo knows that based on the situation in recent years and comparing it with the collapse of other dynasties in history, it is obvious that the Dafeng Dynasty has reached the end of its rule.
After returning from the mountain, Lu Lin changed his name and surname, and lived in Ping County to accompany the old man.
He is now a guilty person and has no way to take part in the imperial examination.
The old man was quite sorry about this. Two years later, a few months before the imperial examination was about to take place, the old man Lu Zhenweng left Lu Lin with full of regret.
Since then, Lu Lin has no relatives in this world.
He stood in front of the old man's tomb and sighed.
After that, Lu Lin used his connections to make up a new identity for himself, and used this new identity to participate in the imperial examination.
Provincial test.
Will try.
Palace examination.
Relying on his knowledge, Lu Lin passed through the border and became a manor appointed by the emperor of the Dafeng Dynasty. The news spread back to his hometown, and countless people rushed to tell the news.
The emperor specially built thirty-six archways for Lu Lin in his hometown to show his favor.
Later, Lu Lin entered Qinggui's Yushitai and became an imperial envoy.
But if you didn’t enter the core of the dynasty, you wouldn’t know that once he got involved, Lu Lin was really shocked.
Selling officials and winning titles, running rampant in the countryside, bullying men and dominating women, and aristocratic families abound...
On the one hand, the upper echelons of the Dafeng Dynasty were drunk and dreaming, immersed in the peak of the dynasty, enjoying themselves and drinking all day long.
On the other hand, it is true that the people at the bottom have no means of livelihood, they have to exchange their children for food, and disasters are everywhere.
Lu Lin tried to impeach two minor county magistrates, who were only ninth-rank magistrates, but they encountered the hostility of the Department of Civil Service Examination.
The reason was that one of the county magistrates had some close relationship with a junior official in the examination department.
At that time, Lu Lin's rating was rated as low-middle and he was sent to the northern frontier to serve as a county magistrate.
Although he was not a heavy-handed person originally, he was at least a seventh-grade nobleman. Logically speaking, he should be respected when he was transferred to another place. As a result, such a nonsensical transfer order was unanimously approved by the court.
Go to your post immediately without any delay.
After Lu Lin went to court, he didn't even have time to return to the house he rented in the Imperial Capital, before he was put on a carriage, one person at a time, heading for the northern border.
Knowing that he was so humiliated, the brothers in the village couldn't bear it.
Everyone said they wanted to conquer Dafeng and make Lu Lin emperor.
However, Lu Lin shook his head and said it was not yet time.
In the past two years, he had been sitting in the Imperial Capital. Although he had done nothing to benefit himself, Shanzhai actually opened a caravan to the Imperial Capital in order to contact Lu Lin at any time.
In two years, whether it was a long time or a short time, the Longshan Chamber of Commerce under Lu Lin turned out to be a considerable force in the Imperial Capital.
In addition, the checkpoints were cleared along the way and seventy or eighty hills were collected, and the armed forces were further strengthened.
At this time, as long as Lu Lin is willing, he can definitely set off a storm within the Dafeng Dynasty.
But Lu Lin knew that it was not the time yet.
Arriving at the northern border, Lu Lin was even more disappointed with Dafeng when he saw the scene here.
All the gentlemen in the court drank wine and ate meat, and their heads were fat and their bellies were round.
But the soldiers on the border couldn't even afford winter clothes.
Even the soldiers are like this, let alone the common people.
Ten rooms and nine vacancies may be an exaggeration, but if there are five out of ten households, it is considered that the local officials are doing a good job.
Moreover, Lu Lin also discovered that in some counties behind the border, there were a large number of shadows and handwriting of the central and central families. They were actually trading ironware and paper with foreigners...
Lu Lin became more and more frightened as he watched, but he was powerless to change.
He believes that he is just a spectator in this world.
However, when Lu Lin came to a village that had been massacred by foreign cavalry, his heart trembled.
Even though these people are virtual existences, they are so real in Lu Lin's eyes.
He couldn't do it and turned a blind eye.
"kill!"
After Lu Lin had been working for three months, the progress in government affairs was not very great, but he actually raised a team of 3,000 people.
These three thousand people were selected by Lu Lin from among the young adults in the county. After three months of training, Lu Lin saw that they already had some shadows of warriors.
However, training alone cannot form an army.
If you want to become an army, you need the experience of blood.
After wiping out eighteen groups of caravans pretending to be thieves or thieves pretending to be caravans, Lu Lin knew that his three thousand men could fight.
Just in time for autumn.
It’s the time of year when foreigners come to Dafeng to enjoy the autumn breeze.
With the help of the intelligence system, Lu Lin's movements were erratic, and he actually killed tens of thousands of elite foreign warriors in the Dafeng Dynasty.
His reputation spread throughout the grasslands and gave hope to the people on the northern border.
The battle reports were sent out one after another. Although the gentlemen in the court looked down upon them, they continued to promote Lu Lin.
Three years later.
Lu Lin was named the Great General of Zhenbei and was in charge of all military and political affairs in the twenty-eight prefectures of the four counties of the North.
Lu Lin was granted the title of Marquis of Beihe, with a settlement of 10,000 households.
However, the so-called food towns were all in the territory of foreigners in the North. The emperor was giving Lu Lin a big deal.
Similarly, his nickname, Beihe, is also located in the far north of the North, a glacier that is frozen all year round, which is the birthplace of the grassland aliens.
After this incident, Lu Lin became even more desperate for the Dafeng Dynasty.
In this case, then...
Lu Lin was preparing for war in the North, conducting transactions and purchasing trade, gathering refugees in the North, and gathering intelligence about the North. At the same time, he used the Longshan caravan as a tentacle to infiltrate all the counties in the Dafeng Dynasty.
Wealth in one hand, force in the other.
Lu Lin's forces grew like a snowball.
Ten years later.
When Lu Lin was thirty-four years old, he had been raising food and grass for many years, and when he could finally carry out a devastating attack on the North, war broke out within the dynasty.
Thirty-six groups rebelled against the king, and seventy-two groups of smoke and dust gathered in Dafeng Imperial Capital, intending to attack the imperial capital and capture the old emperor alive.
Lu Lin hesitated for a while, but finally chose to go to the Northland.
Not to mention whether that ragtag group of people can capture the Imperial Capital, even if they do capture it, they will not be able to hold it. The teams of King Qin from all over the country will arrive in a month at most. They can only loot once and then have to leave.
Information keeps coming.
After Lu Lin annihilated twelve grassland tribes, he heard news that there was a conflict among the rebels.
Unexpectedly, when they were about to conquer the Imperial Capital, they started an internal strife.
It's really a mob.
Lu Lin no longer worried about things here, and moved forward bravely, fighting all the way to the far north of the North.
When he saw the frozen glacier, he felt a sense of relief.
After more than thirty years in this world, Lu Lin feels that he has never lived for himself.
Now, when he saw the glacier, Lu Lin finally felt that his mind was clear and his thoughts were clear.
Lu Lin also figured out some things that he couldn't understand in the past.
What is virtual and what is real.
If Lu Lin has to stay in this world for a hundred years this time, it is impossible for Lu Lin to regard this place as an illusion.
Every brother under his command died in battle, the aliens died under his sword, and the crying compatriots.
Lu Lin finally accepted this world from his heart.
"Bros!"
"Kill cattle, slaughter sheep, drink wine, and cut stones to record merit."
"Long live!"
Lu Lin's order was cheered by all 300,000 sergeants.
In this team, Lu Lin is their unique king.
Thousands of soldiers went out to find a huge stone.
It took thousands of war horses and manpower to pull the boulder over.
There are soldiers in the army who have been stonemasons, and they gather together to cut, polish, and carve.
"In the Dafeng Dynasty, on September 26, the thirty-seventh year of Sui Yue, Lu Lin, the general who conquered the north, destroyed the Golden Horde Khanate here. He killed one of the small Khans, followed by 3,524 people, collected 300,000 horses, and hundreds of cattle and sheep.
Wan, record your merits with stones. I hope those who come after you will know that those who offend our Dafeng Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away they are."
"Lu Lin, the great general who conquered the north, stood firm with 300,000 tigers."
This huge boulder looked fine when placed on the ground, but when it stood upright, even Lu Lin was shocked.
It is twenty meters high and eleven meters wide.
There is still a height of thirty meters buried deep underground.
On the day when the monument was erected, the sky was covered with dark clouds and a storm was approaching.
Many superstitious soldiers in the army couldn't help but frown, thinking that this was not a good sign.
But when a bolt of lightning struck straight from the sky and hit the stone monument, everyone panicked.
God does not allow them to do such a thing, so is it necessary to destroy their achievements and achievements?
"Don't panic, everyone, look at the words on the stone tablet!"
A sergeant exclaimed.
Everyone looked up at the stone monument in the heavy rain.
I saw that the lettering, which was originally just dyed red with cinnabar, was actually changing.
The colors are changing.
The red color falls off.
Reveal the original color of the bluestone inside.
Then, a trace of gold appeared.
There was more and more gold, and the inscription was completely filled up.
Moreover, the gold only fills the text and has no effect on other places.
"This, this, this is..."
"The general has the appearance of an emperor."
"I saw it. First, the name of the general appeared in gold, and then it was contaminated by other words."
"General, you should be crowned emperor."
I don’t know who was the first to shout such a slogan, but gradually, it spread throughout the entire country.
The cold icy rain hit the faces and bodies of the three hundred thousand soldiers.
Their bodies trembled.
Their lips trembled.
But their hearts are burning.
In the years since Lu Lin came to the Northland, both the soldiers in the army and the people here have truly felt the changes in the Northland.
Even in the past two years, some people who could not survive in the Central Plains fled the famine and came here together.
In the past, this was unthinkable.
It's bitterly cold in the north, and everyone wants to escape from here and go to the warm south, instead of migrating from the south to the north.
"General, you should be crowned emperor."
The voice got louder and louder, but Lu Lin didn't say much.
Such a trick must have been done by the old brothers in Longshan Village.
Although the Dafeng Dynasty has repelled the rebels who came to the imperial capital, the flames of resistance have ignited a dry grassland.
The Dafeng Dynasty was in turmoil.
Lu Lin returned with 600,000 prisoners, but at the border, except for the civil servants under Lu Lin, only the people came spontaneously, but there was no official from the court.
It seems that the great lords in the imperial court have forgotten that there is a Lu Lin in the North.
After returning, Lu Lin strictly prohibited soldiers in the army from discussing what happened that day.
But the news still spread like wildfire.
After hearing such news, the officials, people, and soldiers in the North were all excited, and no one thought of informing or spreading the news.
This is a secret known to all Northlanders.
In the thirty-eighth year of Suiyue, the emperor, under the temptation of hundreds of officials, left the imperial capital and turned south to inspect the world.
Officials said that His Majesty's move would help calm the people's minds.
So, the emperor foolishly followed the officials out, patrolling all the way, and exhausted countless people's fat and money.
On a summer afternoon, the emperor and his officials were admiring lotus flowers in a lake. Just when everyone was feeling dizzy from the sun, a man suddenly emerged from the water.
He rushed to the emperor at a furious speed and stabbed him with his sword.
Although the emperor hid, the knife still pierced his internal organs.
That night, the emperor died.
All the officials were busy, and they did not bring any princes with them when they went out this time.
If you want to establish a new emperor, you have to return to the imperial capital.
But when they hurried back to the Imperial Capital, they found that the Imperial Capital seemed a little different.
Clean, neat and orderly.
However, the ministers did not think much about it. When they were about to enter the palace to look for the crown prince, they learned that the crown prince had given up his position as prince and passed the throne to one of his brothers.
At this moment, the new emperor is holding a coronation ceremony.
All officials were stunned.
The newly appointed emperor was just a baby who had just turned 100 days old.
Such an emperor is easy to control, but he is in the hands of someone they have never taken seriously.
Lu Lin.
This great general who had not returned to the imperial capital for ten years actually did such a big thing as soon as he came back.
Under Bingfeng's threat, Baiguan had no choice but to pinch his nose and admit the matter.
The new emperor ascended the throne and awarded hundreds of officials, and the biggest one was naturally Lu Lin.
Lu Lin also held the posts of Grand Master, Grand Protector, Grand Lieutenant, and Three Dukes.
At the same time, he was also granted the title of King of Beihe, and soon after, he was renamed King of Dingbei, King of Bei, and King of Qi.
Occupying the righteousness of the court, Lu Lin began to show off his talents. He was not in a hurry to fight the rebels.
But to lay a solid foundation.
Food, education, people's livelihood, medical care, transportation, roads.
The entire Dafeng Dynasty was on the verge of revival thanks to Lu Lin's methods.
Lu Lin's brothers told him more than once that Lu Lin should take advantage of this time to develop his own power.
But Lu Lin just shook his head, he couldn't do it.
Lu Lin felt that he was not born to be an emperor.
Because his heart is too soft.
While taking control of Dafeng, Lu Lin finally got married.
At the age of 35, he married three wives at the same time, all of whom were direct daughters of ministers. The youngest was only eighteen years old, and the oldest was just twenty-one.
Just when Lu Lin's first child was born, something happened to Dafeng.
A palace maid, while playing with the young emperor in the imperial garden, accidentally dropped the emperor into the lake, although she tried her best to save him.
But the final result turned out to be that both the palace maid and the emperor drowned in the lake.