Chapter 569 – There is a Change in the Heavenly Numbers

Without hesitation, Deng Da then took out the secret letter and handed it to Wu Er to read.

Wu Er pinched the epistle and squinted through the last bit of remaining light from the evening sun, reading it carefully several times before looking up.

Something flickered in his eyes, eyes that had both an eagerness to read, yet carried a skepticism about everything because of his years as a boat-dweller.

Deng Da since he understands that he must have concerns in his mind at this time, so he did not rush, but said, “This is the edict of His Highness the King of Song, what is His Highness the King of Song, there is no need for me to say it, you are the one who often reads the diaries.”

Wu Er looked at Deng Da and said, “Your Highness …… what he means ……”

“His meaning is very clear, that is to cut out the rebels immediately, to get rid of the evil, the rebels both wrapped up the ignorant people, then …… since there should be reckless aspirants to rise up. Your situation, His Highness the King of Song is aware of! And the Di Di newspaper, you also read so much, naturally clear what is the policy of the new government?”

Wu Er said with a complex expression, “The boat dwellers …… are also the same as the other people?”

Deng Da’s face frankly said, “The boat-dwellers are also my Daming subjects, since the most ordinary people are all the same, the boat-dwellers are naturally treated equally.”

Wu Er bit his lip, still looking hesitant.

Deng Da said, “If you don’t trust it, that’s fine. I still have many things to do now, and I have to go to other villages later.”

“And wait.” Wu Er said, “Mr. Deng, if you go alone, I’m afraid it’s not safe.”

Looking at the look of concern on Wu Er’s face, Deng Da smiled and said, “I am confident that everyone still trusts me.”

At this time, Deng Da, although the face is still pleasant, but at the moment, this pleasant color, but also more than a few points under the color of pride.

While nothing else can be said, Dundar is convinced that he has gained credit here.

Wu Er hesitated for a moment and smiled bitterly, “This matter is too big, I need to discuss it with the big guys.”

Deng Da nodded, turned to a tone of seriousness: “The time is not to wait, these rebels, and those scholars, you know in your heart. They became a thing, then the boat-dwelling people will never turn around, think about it, you have been drifting in the sea for hundreds of years, aggrieved and begging for life, generations, which generation is not blood and tears, miss this time, teach them to really resist the new policy, then …… it is really all doom and gloom.”

He paused, then said: “Deng someone from a prestigious family in Jiangxi, this Xia Xiaodi, is also a famous family, without the New Deal, we do not lose a future, the clothes and food, since not to mention. But if there is no New Deal, the real generations of begging for food, feet without a place to stand, but you. The implementation of the new policy is to benefit the people of the world, if we are numb and sit back and watch someone use the name of rebellion to hinder the new policy, then ……”.

Deng Da s tone began to aggravate, said; “Then …… you are willing to live your life like this, but what about your son, what about your grandchildren? Also like you like this? You are already considered a scholar, and are sensible.”

If he said that Wu Er was still hesitant after some great reasoning, but when he was cross-examined about his son and grandson, he could not help but shiver.

Wu Er sank his eyebrows and said, “The two gentlemen give me a few hours, tomorrow morning …… at the latest tomorrow morning, the two gentlemen will wait for me here, I will give the two gentlemen an explanation.”

Deng Da and Xia Xuan glanced at each other, and Deng Da nodded, “Very well.”

That Wu Er was already preoccupied, but with the other men gabbing away, the crowd did not sell fish, still carrying bamboo baskets, they went back to the boat, and soon after, it entered the bay and gradually disappeared.

The sky had already darkened, and as he watched the ship gradually disappear into the sea horizon, Xia Xuan couldn’t help but say, “Elder Deng, are we really waiting?”

Without hesitation, Dundar said, “Wait!”

Xia Xuan’s face was deeply puzzled, and he couldn’t help but say, “But why are these boat-dwelling people being sought first?”

Deng Da said, “Because the boat-dwelling people suffer the most and have the least way back.”

Xia Xuan then said, “But …… this Wu Er can really ……”

Deng Da nodded and said, “He has read books and seen what this world is like, if it is an ordinary people, we may need to patiently explain to the other side countless times, and the other side may not be willing to gullibly believe us, but Wu Er understands.”

Xia Xuan said, “It’s just …… just one Wu Er Understanding …… so what …… can you do?”

“You don’t understand.” Deng Da revealed a hint of a smile and said, “Under this sky, do you know why they honor the readers? Because they are good at reasoning, they know right from wrong, Wu Er can read and write, among the boat-dwellers, he must have extremely high prestige. The boat dwellers may not trust other people, but Wu Er is both one of their own and knowledgeable, His Majesty’s will, they may not believe it, His Highness the King of Song’s edict, they may be skeptical, the words of you and I may not be listened to, but if Wu Er is determined to do it with us, then …… it will be different. ”

“The two of us, we believe in His Highness the King of Song; Wu Er believes in us, and the boat-dwellers believe in Wu Er.”

“This is why, the implementation of the New Deal, but also to popularize the knowledge, alone a New Deal statute, if there are not thousands of tens of thousands of Wu Er such a person, but it is just a piece of paper, which is also the responsibility of our Postal Department, now …… you understand that we are not just running errands. ”

Xia Xuan didn’t answer this question directly, but said, “I wonder about the others, if they are going well.”

The other people he was talking about might be the other stagehands of Pingtan Stage, or the thousands of stagehands in the whole of Fujian, in sixty-seven stations of all sizes.

Dunda patted him on the shoulder and said, “Don’t think about anything else, just do our own thing.”

Early the next morning.

The two were back on this beach.

In anxious waiting, at dawn, the mists were just lifting from the sea.

But at that moment, on the sea, a ship appeared.

These ships, most of them simple and dilapidated, they rushed onto the beach, and immediately, it was a crowd of people, pouring up.

Hundreds of feet.

Stout Wu Er, the first to jump off the boat, but holding a harpoon in his hand, the rest of the people, holding a variety of guys, have also followed Wu Er over.

Wu Er came straight to them, yelling as he did so, “Two gentlemen, we figured it out.”

Deng Da had a smile in his eyes, the anxiety of the party was swept away, and he looked at Wu Er and said, “Figured out what?”

Wu Er said with a bit of determination, “Let’s listen to His Highness the King of Song, and to Mr. Deng and Mr. Xia.”

Looking at more and more people, Deng Da has been surging, these boat-dwelling people, a barefoot, dark complexion, usually cowering, but now, a hand with a guy, but more than a few points of pugnacity.

Deng Da still said, “This trip to fight the thieves is going to kill people.”

Wu Er was silent for a moment, and then he stuck his harpoon dead center into the sand, a look of determination overflowing from his eyes as he said, “Sir, do it.”

Dundar laughed and said, “Good!”

Xia Xuan suddenly felt her blood heat up.

When he had come here to run an errand for no apparent reason, it was probably more like the result of a rebellious teenager’s impulsive attempt to get angry with his own father.

And since then, he has gradually adapted to this kind of work, but also found this also quite interesting.

But even if it was fun, such work was hard work, and now, it was very different, and he saw with his own eyes that people like himself, just by raising their arms, were really crowded up.

At this point he was feeling a little giddy.

“Elder Official Teng, I will go to Shangjiao Li and recruit young men.” Xia Xuan volunteered, a light called hope gathering in his eyes.

He also wished he could contribute as much as he could, he had been running around the Upper Jiao Li area lately and was familiar with the people there.

“Be careful.” Deng Da urged, “Teach Wu Er to allocate dozens of people to protect you, I’ll take people on my side and head towards Tan Dong, we’ll meet up three days later.”

“Good.”

At first if you say you are a little rusty, but after one experience, you get a second.

Deng Da chose to recruit the boat-dwellers first because the boat-dwellers have the highest success rate, after all, taking the first step is the hardest and extremely dangerous because no one can be sure that someone will not kidnap the duo and send them to the rebels.

But now, with the first bucket of gold, it is completely different, with men and horses, to other villages, villages are familiar with the road, and the local village Hanzi women and children, but also familiar with a team of people to do the guards, looking for the local readers of the newspaper, directly convey the meaning of His Highness the King of Song, if you are not willing to participate in the, but also no obstacle, since it is to take the people to go.

But Xaxuan soon realized that things were easier than he thought.

Often, he didn’t need to patiently explain anything; in fact, it only took three words to get his opponent’s blood boiling.

Through the Di Di newspaper, not only did it train a group of readers, these people could no longer settle down to fish and farm, they also wanted a prospect.

Some hoped to go to Nan Zhili, some hoped to be admitted to the University Hall, and some hoped to be admitted to the Model Battalion, the Railway Division, and the Postal Division.

What is even more frightening is that these wild readers of newspapers will certainly pass on the contents of the newspapers to those around them by word of mouth.

And these people, even if they don’t know the intent of the New Deal, can largely know that it is good for them.

At this time, the postman also played a great role, because weekdays, shuttle in the villages, familiar with each other, the townspeople are very simple, far away, the kind of invisible and unknowable things, for them, too far away, very not real, even if it is again how heavenly flowery, the Di Di said in the good, even if they believe in some, but will never be paid for action.

But once the familiar face of the postman appeared, everyone’s heart is solid, Xia is still very reliable, read a book, usually treating people also amiable, every day tirelessly to run to the village, but also read letters, write letters on behalf of people, is a real person.

Since those rebels don’t give a damn, let’s do it.

In this kind of matter, almost once they have made up their mind, whether they are boat-dwellers or ordinary tenants, they are more practical than anyone else, and when they have searched for the guys and brought some food that they can bring at home, they will not hesitate at all, they are not like Xia Xuan’s heart and mind, and they will occasionally have other thoughts, instead, at this time, it’s no longer that Xia Xuan is leading the guys to do something, but that the guys are pushing Xia Xuan to persevere to the end.

Three days later, the two men met and made peace, and on that day, Tannangxiang gathered two thousand men and proceeded to start an attack on Tandong, where a few rebels were entrenched.

There are no words to describe the battle here.

Because it’s purely rookie.

To call it a war is a bit of an overstatement.

More like a massive countryside armageddon.

And when it comes to armed fighting, they look extremely professional.

The vast majority of the time, are the mountains of people, a moment can not distinguish between the enemy and me, each other to charge a while, not yet dead or wounded how many people, the victory or defeat will have been revealed.

Ten days later, has gathered seven thousand people, but also with the other various stages of the convening of the men and horses will be and Deng, Xia people, etc., has been a combined army, the scale of 30,000 people, and immediately took the rebels occupied by several counties.

The capture of the two counties was followed by uncountable numbers of stagecoach postmen with their men and horses coming in droves to join them.

So much so that the big guys, themselves, don’t even know how many men they have.

Both sides of the conquest, although both are very vegetable, this is not because both sides of the battle strength is too low, but because, their advantages, is equal.

Whether it was the rebels, or the courtiers who were temporarily recruited, they were all native to the township, and they were all familiar with the local geography, understood the local people, and knew each other even better.

The so-called rebels, soon unable to sustain themselves, were cowed, on the one hand, by the fact that the official army had met with such a formidable opponent before they arrived.

On the other hand, the people that the rebels were holding hostage were mostly ignorant, and the middle and upper classes, mostly clergymen, or the gentry that the clergymen watched over, were more often than not just coercing the lower heads to rebel.

On the other hand, Deng Da and Xia Xuan side, is another scene, their backbone, most of them were followed by reading and writing people, they were originally ordinary grass and weeds in general people, both with the side of the soldiers can eat and sleep together, but also Deng Da, Xia Xuan and other people admire, every now and then, and then explain some of the situation of the new policy, the morale of self is greatly enhanced.

Ten days later, Fujian shook.

Far away from the main rebel forces in the siege of Fuzhou, but suddenly realized that, in all directions, the vast army, even from all parts of the advance, killing and running.

………………

And at this time, in the Song King’s mansion.

“Any news from Fujian?”

“Not yet.”

Zhang Anshi frowned up, carrying his hands behind his back and ferrying his steps back and forth in the bookstore with a few distractions.

In fact, he is now also a little confused, counting the time, this is almost past a month, but because the rebels ravaged the ground, Fujian and Guangxi and other places, this is a rugged mountain road, many roads, have been cut off by the rebels.

Although it had tried desperately to find a way to restore transportation and restore contact, Nanjing was after all too far away.

Zhang Anshi’s mood at this time was inevitably a bit agitated, he suddenly stood still and looked at Zhang San, “It really can’t be done, it seems that the Model Battalion will have to be utilized.”

Zhang San is from childhood to follow Zhang Anshi, since it is more than others in Zhang Anshi’s heel a few points of proximity, at this time also do not shy away from saying: “I heard people outside said, His Highness got the decree, but still in the capital not move, also do not see the deployment of troops, said His Highness afraid of death …… ”

“Into the motherfucker, who said that?” Zhang Anshi sneered, “They just can’t see the good in people.”

Zhang San since is also worried, then said, “Your Highness, or not move it, even if …… with troops cantonment in Zhennan it, lest teach gossip.”

“You know shit.” Zhang Anshi shook his head, he quickly walked to the table and took a seat, muttering, “I don’t believe that these bullshit scholars can hold the people hostage, I, Zhang Anshi’s New Deal for so many years, am still inferior to them! Zhang San, if you were farming at home, who would you follow?”

Suddenly being asked this question, Zhang San had to think seriously before saying, “It might be …… the rebels. Ah ah ah …… your highness, I’m talking nonsense ……”

Zhang Anshi glared at him, “Why?”

Under Zhang Anshi’s glare, Zhang San hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to tell the truth, saying, “What did Your Highness say about the scholars, I also followed Your Highness to read for so many years, and by and large I also know some of the …… Think about it, the scholars have big roots in the local tree, and even trace back upwards, which can be hundreds of years, and these many People, grandparents, generations, do not rely on them to make a living?”

“Weekdays rent their land, free time young children for them to herd cattle, adult men for them to help labor, women for them to help or sewing. Your Highness, I speak you don’t not like to hear, this person ah, born to rely on people for a living, is not self-limiting, is accustomed to.”

Obviously, Zhang Anshi was in an even worse mood after hearing these words, and said irritably, “Get lost.”

Zhang San said in his heart, look, you are in a hurry again, as soon as you talk about the pain, your highness is in a hurry.

Zhang San of course understands that Zhang Anshi is very upset at this time, and does not intend to continue to be in the way again, and is about to leave, Zhang Anshi is again suddenly said, “Come back.”

Zhang San then turned around and said, “Your Highness.”

Zhang Anshi raised his eyebrows and said, “You Fang, did you see me dumbfounded, so your heart is still secretly happy?”

“Ah …… this ……” Zhang San was busy shaking his head.

“Don’t think I don’t know, I can tell by looking at you.”

“I …… I ……” Zhang San hurriedly tried to explain.

“So say ah ……” Zhang Anshi but suddenly laughed: “You say …… people will get used to it, but think about it, once upon a time, can you get used to so? When did you, start to lift the bar with me?”

Zhang San froze, somewhat not quite understanding what Zhang Anshi was trying to say at this point.

Zhang Anshi is said: “visible those books, you did not read in vain, and the atmosphere of this Zhili, you have not less dip, although you are still that Zhang San, but in fact, but early and before that Zhang San is not the same, you at least no longer regard me as a god, see my atmosphere does not dare to come out, but already know to argue, in the success of the inner can not help but will be secretly happy, Zhang San, ah, you changed. ”

Zhang San: “……”

Zhang Anshi then proudly up: “So, your set of habit becomes nature’s bullshit, simply does not make sense! Habit becomes nature, will only be cattle and horses, but as long as it is a person, such as the spirit of all things, how will be willing to be cattle and horses, everywhere obedience?”

When he said that, the agitation on his face seemed to relax a bit, and then he said, “Alright, no talking back now, give me a trip to the Postal Service and ask if there’s any news over there.”

Zhang San looked at Zhang Anshi, only to see that his Highness, the King of Song, was looking at him with wide eyes, Zhang San revealed a resentful look and had to say, “Yes, I’ll go then.”

With that, they fled with their tails between their legs.