Build the Traveler Alliance from Scratch.

Chapter 276 Yushan Martial Arts Academy
"You two masters, take your time, the little old man is going to do official work first!"

After sending off the Yamen's arrester, Master Xu pleaded guilty with a smile on his face, then picked up the portrait and prepared to post it in the most conspicuous place.

Zuo Yu glanced at his back, and there was a trace of coldness on his face, as if he had already committed murder to Zhang Xianzhong in the portrait.

Zhao Lihe said softly: "Don't worry, I transferred a satellite to the police department two days ago, he can't escape..."

Zuo Yu turned his head to look at Zhao Lihe, and said indifferently: "Why wait for your subordinates to arrest him, this guy is more or less a historical celebrity, why don't you and I go and see for ourselves, how about?"

Zhao Lihe thought for a while, then nodded lightly: "Alright!"

Hearing this, Zuo Yu got up immediately, threw down a silver dollar, and left the teahouse with Zhao Lihe.

These silver dollars are the newly issued currency of the Great Xia Dynasty. Since the Great Xia Dynasty was established not long ago, it has not cultivated enough credibility among the people, and it is difficult to be accepted by the people hastily issuing banknotes. Therefore, it is better to start with silver and copper dollars.

As the saying goes, it is easy to conquer the country, but it is difficult to rule the country, Zhao Lihe deeply believes it.

He has now discovered that the difficulty of governing people's livelihood after the founding of the People's Republic of China can be called geometric growth compared with the difficulty of conquering the world before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The scientific and technological tree of the Great Xia Dynasty was deformed, and it was a typical result of overthrowing the seedlings. Its military strength was comparable to that of the main warring states in the late World War II, but in terms of people's livelihood, it was at best the level of China at the end of the [-]th century, and it was not even comparable to the period of the Republic of China. .

The country was just established, the economy was in decline, and the talents Zhao Lihe needed hadn't grown up yet, so he couldn't achieve comprehensive development in people's livelihood, so he could only focus on the people's basic necessities of life.

Other aspects have not had time to develop.

Such as mobile communication, etc. Although the Great Xia Dynasty has sufficient technology and materials, it is too late to build communication base stations in various places. At present, only the local governments have pulled up telephone lines, and even landlines have not yet entered every household.

Because of this, in many remote areas, there are still many places that the power of the imperial court cannot reach.

This is also normal. After all, the Huaxia Jianguo in other worlds has not handled things well for decades, and it is expected that the Great Xia Dynasty will handle it in half a year. How is this possible?
But at the same time, this also gave Zhang Xianzhong a chance to run around and avoid being hunted down.

At the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, there is a place called Dongtangyu. This place has been a good place for bathing in Tangchi since ancient times. When the Ming Dynasty was at its peak, those rich and noble families built countless mansions here to cool off and bathe.

Later, with the gradual decline of the Ming Dynasty, there were more and more thieves and bandits entrenched in the Qinling Mountains, and the place was not as safe as before.

Until Shaanxi took the lead in the uprising, the bandits in the Qinling Mountains believed that the time had come, and they waved their flags to respond immediately. They kidnapped and even slaughtered many dignitaries who came to Dongtangyu to bathe, and threw their bones into the hot spring pool in Dongtangyu.

Since then, Dongtangyu has been inevitably abandoned.

Now that Daxia Jianguo has established a state, 90.00% of the bandits entrenched in the Qinling Mountains have been wiped out, but this place is still barren and inhabited.

This is not because no one survives in the nearby villages and towns, but because the surviving people are unwilling to return to live here.

Although the troubled times lasted only a few years, it was during these few years that the bottom of the hot spring pool in Dongtangyu was covered with white human bones.

Thousands of dead souls are entrenched at the bottom of various hot spring pools in Dongtangyu, making the people fearful of this place, and actively fabricating and spreading many horror stories.

Thanks to these horror stories, Zhang Xianzhong doesn't need to bother too much, as long as he pretends to be the soul of the unjust dead, he can scare away innocent passers-by who stray into Dongtangyu.

Of course, not all innocent passers-by can be spared, for example, today, a passer-by Orion was killed...

"Crackling-"

The precious fragrant wood dismantled from the high gate mansion continued to burn in the rising flames, and the flames licked the wild boar skewered with branches above, and the fat fat roasted the fist-sized pork until it squeaked.

In front of the bonfire, three big men sat on a stone they found randomly, looking greedily at the pork skewer that exudes a burnt aroma.

Behind them, there is a small Tangchi pool, in which there is a fresh human corpse.

The clothes on his body had already been stripped off, and a thick hemp rope was tied around his waist, and many large stones with scorched black marks were tied to the rope.

Glittering grease floated on the surface of the pool, exuding a disgusting and strange fishy smell in the steaming white air.

Ordinary people smell this smell, not to mention vomiting on the spot, at least it is unbearable, but the three big men in front of them did not respond, and devoted themselves to the pork barbecue in front of them, apparently already adapted to this weird smell .

Finally, the wild boar brought by the unjustly killed hunter was finished.

The big man in the middle immediately picked up a skewer and ate it regardless of the boiling hotness of the pork.

After he finished eating a bunch, the two men next to him dared to reach out for the meat and began to eat greedily.

After eating and drinking enough, the big man in the head sat by the soup pool, holding pig bones shaved with a knife, throwing them into the soup pool one after another, and hitting the corpses at the bottom of the soup pool from time to time, it seemed that he was making fun of the bones.

But if you take a closer look, you can see that the focus of this person's eyes is not on the bones, but looking straight into the distance, as if he is thinking about something in a daze.

This person is the famous Zhang Xianzhong in the late Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Xianzhong, whose courtesy name is Bingwu, was born in Liushujian, Dingbian, Shaanxi. He studied in his youth, and later joined the army. He was a policeman in Yan'an Prefecture, but he was dismissed because of some incidents. His appearance was strange, and he begged for mercy. Wang Wei, the commander-in-chief, looked at Chen Hongfan's face and beat Zhang Xianzhong with a hundred army sticks, and then removed him from the name.

Since then, Zhang Xianzhong has lived in the countryside.

In the original timeline, this person should have gathered peasants from eighteen villages in his hometown in the third year of Chongzhen to form an uprising army, and since then he has moved to various places, and has grown into a giant bandit as famous as Li Zicheng in various battles.

But in this world, Zhao Lihe's rise was too fast.

When Zhang Xianzhong wanted to persuade his fathers and villagers to revolt, Daxia had already captured Guanzhong at an extremely fast speed. Those young officials who had come out of the League, relying on the books used to distribute land, easily gathered him together. It is easy to incite people's hearts.

Seeing those fellow villagers who were full of excitement, obediently cooperating with the officials in allocating land, Zhang Xianzhong only felt that he hated iron.

But he didn't dare to fight against Zhao Lihe and Daxia, so he could only leave his hometown with a few fellow villagers who were also unwilling, planning to go to other places to join the real rebels.

But I don't know if it was a coincidence, but Daxia's army followed him like a great white shark smelling blood.

Wherever he went, Daxia's army would push him there.

The rebel army he wanted to defect to had no resistance in front of Daxia's army, and was easily pushed flat.

Finally, after the same experience happened several times, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help yelling angrily. He felt that these people were full of money, so in a rage, he led his fellow villagers to recruit refugees, gathered mountains for a stronghold, and planned to form an army on his own.

But helplessly, Daxia's new army is too powerful, and the bandits are no match at all, so they can only be defeated and go down the mountain, wandering around.

In this way, Zhang Xianzhong, who had nowhere to go, took his two confidants and brothers, wandering in the countryside beyond the reach of the government, relying on his courage and a little cleverness to repeatedly commit major crimes, and has not been arrested so far.

But people walk by the river, how can they not get their shoes wet.

Zhang Xianzhong knew in his heart that sooner or later he would miss.

If he wanted to survive, he had to find a way to forge his identity and return to good faith, or he had to leave Daxia as soon as possible.

As for surrendering himself, Zhang Xianzhong never thought that he had already killed many people, and there was no turning back...

Suddenly, a man came hurriedly and said anxiously, "Brother, someone is here again!"

Zhang Xianzhong glanced at him, and said calmly: "What are you afraid of, look at your bear, quickly change into your clothes, and scare them away."

The man quickly explained: "Brother, the people who came this time are not the people from the bottom of the mountain, but a group of fast arresters!"

Zhang Xianzhong suddenly got up, frowned and said: "Da Xia's arrest?!"

The man nodded repeatedly, with a trace of fear and retreat in his eyes.

Zhang Xianzhong's heart also tensed up, and he immediately asked, "How many are here?"

The man hurriedly said: "Eight, it happens to be a fast-moving team."

Zhang Xianzhong thought for a while, and said decisively: "I'm not strong enough, prepare traps, see if I can trap a few first, if it doesn't work, hide in the cellar we found two days ago, and avoid the limelight for a few days."

"yes, Sir!"

The man responded quickly, turned around and left in a hurry.

At the same time, on the mountain road two miles away, a group of eight people were striding forward.

Beside them, a clear and bright mountain spring rushes down the valley, steaming white air is transpiring above the spring water, there are no fish in the water, and no insects can be seen, the shore and the stones at the bottom of the lake are full of sulfur Black marks left behind.

Smelling the smell of sulfur in the air, the young man holding a knife among the eight couldn't help frowning slightly.

"Brother Yun, do you really think Zhang Xianzhong would hide in this kind of place?"

"Yes, Brother Yun." The shorter boy among the eight shrank his neck and whispered, "I heard from the people in Tangyu Town that there are thousands of dead souls buried in East Tangyu, Zhang Xian Zhongzang is here, isn't he afraid of the dead souls claiming his life, and the evil ghosts haunting him?"

"..."

The heroic young man called Brother Yun glanced at the young man, and said calmly: "Good people are afraid of evil spirits, and evil spirits are afraid of evil people. It has been more than three months since Zhang Xianzhong fled and went into hiding. There are 17 items, and there are countless others who don’t know about it.”

"Such a person has long been a villain among villains. He only worries about the encirclement and suppression by the government. How can he be afraid of being haunted by evil spirits?"

(End of this chapter)