4. True and false daughters
“What?!”
After hearing Lin Xiaotang’s words, everyone was stunned.
This group of bandits never imagined that they would kick the iron plate today.
Where is this gentle and gentle little lady, this is clearly a big robber who is more murderous than them!
Faced with Lin Xiaotang’s request, some people were moved, while others were not very happy.
But Lin Xiaotang didn’t care about their thoughts at all.
They couldn’t beat her anyway.
In this kind of place, isn’t it just whoever has the bigger fist, listens to whoever?
So, under the coercion of her force, these bandits had no choice but to nod and agree to her request, and took them to their stockade.
On the bright side, it’s not bad that this woman promised to raise them.
Under the guidance of these people, Lin Xiaotang quickly came to the mountain and saw their so-called stockade.
She glanced at it and saw that there were only a few relatively simple houses here, most of which were thatched cottages, and a few were made of stones.
A little further away, there are two caves.
Some elderly women are working in a small field with agricultural tools.
Before, after seeing these bandits, Lin Xiaotang still disliked them for being weak.
But when she went up the mountain, she realized that they were already the strongest people in this stockade.
Old women in ragged clothes, gray men, skinny children…
It is better to say that they are refugees rather than bandits.
“Ahu, who are these people?”
While Lin Xiaotang was observing the place, an elegant scholar came over and asked in confusion.
“Mr. Li, this is Miss Lin, the owner of the stockade in the future.”
The young man named “Ahu” told the general story.
When he heard Ah Hu said that Lin Xiaotang was going to occupy the stockade to support these people, Mr. Li showed a suspicious look: “Isn’t this really a joke? You haven’t been cheated of money, have you?”
Lin Xiaotang: “…”
It doesn’t have to be so straightforward.
But when he confirmed again and again that Lin Xiaotang was not lying, but seriously wanted to be a bandit leader, Mr. Li finally let go of his vigilance.
However, although he didn’t say anything, his gaze towards Lin Xiaotang became rather strange.
In more detail, it’s like looking at someone who is stupid and has a lot of money.
Lin Xiaotang: “…”
However, although Mr. Li has a strange attitude, he is quite useful in introducing the situation of Hulu Mountain.
Through Mr. Li, Lin Xiaotang quickly knew how this group of “bandits” appeared.
They were originally villagers in a village at the foot of Hulu Mountain, but the local government and miscellaneous taxes were harsh, and they happened to encounter a drought and had no harvest.
When the county magistrate’s son beat the villagers to death and forcibly took away the women in the village, their situation became even more embarrassing.
Mr. Li is a scholar. Because his family was poor, he did not continue to study, but set up a school near the village to teach the students in the village to read.
It was he who, when the resentment of the villagers deepened, offered to let them be bandits on the mountain to avoid taxation.
Compared with the ignorant villagers, Mr. Li, who has read books, is smarter.
Today’s world is not peaceful, internal and external troubles, bandits and bandits emerge in endlessly.
For robbers like them who are simply trying to make money and don’t hurt people’s lives, as long as there is no major incident, the court mostly turns a blind eye.
As for the local county magistrate, in order to obtain top grades in the performance appraisal, he would only hide the affairs of Hulu Village to the death, and would not send troops to deal with them at all.
“I know it’s wrong to do this, but this year’s harvest is really too small. Two children in the village starved to death.” Speaking of which, Mr. Li was also a little helpless, “If they go up the mountain, they may only survive a few days at most. In the next year, they will be wiped out, but if they don’t go up the mountain, they won’t survive this year.”
His remarks were deliberately miserable, but Lin Xiaotang still listened.
She could feel that this Mr. Li was a very kind person.
A scholar, as long as he has the heart to mess around, he can’t have a miserable life, especially a teacher like him who has run a school.
But in order to help these villagers tide over the difficulties, Mr. Li gave up his comfortable life and took the initiative to run up the mountain.
Moreover, being able to make such a suggestion shows that he is not a foolish and loyal person, but rather has the courage.
It’s just that it is not an easy thing to raise this group of people, but also to raise them up.
“Mother, what should I do…”
Looking at this desolate place, Lin Yiyi couldn’t help but asked in a low voice.
When she just heard that her mother was going to rob the stockade, she was still very excited, thinking that her mother was going to do something big.
As a result, these people’s houses look more shabby than their small home?
“Don’t worry,” Lin Xiaotang was much calmer than her daughter. “Let’s continue doing what you do.”
Lin Xiaotang didn’t want to use her special abilities to bully these ordinary people.
In the previous worlds, she has also been working hard to use the knowledge she has learned to deal with the enemy.
However, it now seems that her terrifying ability has finally been used.
“Old business?”
Hearing what Lin Xiaotang said, Li Xiucai showed a confused look: “Miss Lin, are you not going to let us continue to be bandits?”
“Of course.” Lin Xiaotang said.
It is boring to be a bandit, and it is easy to be targeted by the court at first sight. If the cause is big, 80% of them will be sent to destroy it.
If you want to do it, it is better to do something obscure and make it difficult for others to notice.
“Then what do you want to do?” Li Xiucai quickly asked when he noticed something was wrong.
Lin Xiaotang smiled slightly: “Build a religion.”
…
Time passed quickly, in a blink of an eye, three years have passed.
In the past three years, the drought has not been relieved, the treasury is still empty, and wars have broken out in the border areas from time to time.
Some civil uprising organizations emerged one after another, and they were suppressed by the imperial court one after another.
Compared with the turbulent north, the southern regions are generally much more comfortable.
In these days, a sect called “Tanghua Sect” quietly spread among the people at the bottom.
The origin of this sect is unknown, but it is said to be a group of desperate poor people who dreamed of a hell scene during a sleep.
And when they were frightened by those frightening scenes, the goddess of Tanghua Sect appeared.
The goddess descended from the sky, drove away the darkness, drove away the fear, and saved them from hell.
She told those poor people that as long as they believed in her and became a member of Tanghua Sect, they could get food and knowledge.
In the face of such a strange dream, those poor people chose to join Tanghua Sect without hesitation.
But when they woke up one after another and came to the Holy Land of Tanghua Sect according to the guidance of the goddess in the dream, they actually saw a woman who looked exactly like the goddess and got the food she gave!
The woman said that she is a believer of the goddess, the messenger of the goddess in the mortal world, and the saintess of the Tanghua Sect.
As long as their hearts are pious enough, after seven days, she will give them a crop called “potatoes” and teach them how to grow and nurture them.
And this kind of crops can easily reach the yield of 1000 kilograms per mu, enough to feed their family.
“We don’t need you to provide money and sacrifices, as long as you sincerely believe in the goddess,” the saint said, “what the goddess needs are believers who truly love her.”
People know her existence.
Therefore, once they joined the Tanghua Sect, they could not tell outsiders about the existence of the sect, otherwise, it would attract the wrath of the goddess and take back everything she had given.
In order to be able to eat enough, these poor people strictly abide by the teachings.
If it weren’t for a cultist who drank too much alcohol and slipped his tongue a few days ago, the outside world wouldn’t even know that such a secret sect existed.
Once the story of Tanghua Sect was published, it instantly caused an uproar among the people at the bottom.
Stories with some mythological flavors in such legends have always been very popular with the public.
One pass ten, ten pass a hundred, and within a while, ordinary people in many areas have vaguely heard the name of Tanghua Sect.
They look forward to joining Tanghua Sect, becoming believers, and receiving the grace of the goddess.
Thousands of miles away, in the former Hulu Mountain, now inside the Tanghua Sect Holy Land, a woman is sitting there, quietly watching the secret information in her hand.
Most of the above content was collected privately by the oldest group of Tanghua Sect believers, and the main content was information in various regions, as well as the degree of Tanghua Sect’s publicity among the commoners.
Especially recently, the story of Tanghua Sect has become very popular, and many people have a clear tendency to join the sect.
“The information of the Tanghua Sect will soon reach the capital,” said a scholar beside the woman, “Saint Lin, what will you do next?
” If they intend to target us, then prepare to attack the nearby towns.”
They have recharged their batteries for so long for the day of the uprising.
“Follow your orders.”
The scholar’s expression did not change in the slightest after hearing such outrageous words.
He nodded calmly, indicating that he understood.
This “Saint Lin” also scholars, naturally Lin Xiaotang and Li Xiucai.
However, three years later, their identities have already undergone earth-shaking changes.
After learning that Lin Xiaotang was going to build a religion, Li Xiucai’s expression changed greatly, and he almost run away.
This kind of thing is no joke!
However, after seeing Lin Xiaotang’s force value and discovering that Lin Xiaotang was teaching people on the mountain how to plant fields, build houses and build roads, Li Xiucai finally stayed.
He had a hunch that this beautiful woman in front of him might really create a big career.
And his hunch was not wrong.
Lin Xiaotang’s next series of actions proved to him her erudition and intelligence.
At the very beginning, considering that Hulushan’s situation might be bad, Lin Xiaotang didn’t go directly to publicize any teachings.
The first thing she did was to try to make the people on Hulu Mountain stronger.
In the last world, Lin Xiaotang was a researcher who had won many heavyweight awards and had acquired a lot of knowledge.
Whether it’s smelting metal or forging iron, she knows a little bit.
Even if the ancient technology was backward, even if the starting point of Hulu Mountain was a bit poor, she never thought that these things would hinder her plan.
Thanks to her efforts, the number of residents on Hulu Mountain has gradually increased, and many people have settled here.
And when she had two or three hundred soldiers in her hands, and when she spent a lot of cultivation, and finally found the two crops of potatoes and corn, Lin Xiaotang’s religious plan finally began.
Her idea is to take the “poor route” and absorb believers at the bottom.
From Lin Xiaotang’s point of view, the situation of everyone on Hulu Mountain is not an exception at all.
In this world, there are many more people who are generally in a state of being bullied.
And what these desperate people want is to be able to eat and wear warm clothes and never have to go hungry again.
As long as they are given hope of living, they will become her most loyal followers.
Taking into account the characteristics of the people at the bottom, and in order not to frighten the snakes, Lin Xiaotang thought for a long time, and decided to imitate the plot of “immortals dreaming of dreams” often found in folk tales, and recruited his first group of believers.
It just so happens that she herself has the ability to control nightmares.
Under the design of the combination of dream and reality, those desperate people have invested in the Tanghua Sect founded by Lin Xiaotang.
After waiting patiently for seven days, after getting the legendary holy fruit “potato” from Lin Xiaotang, they were even more grateful and knelt down and kowtowed to her.
With this help, most of the commoners near Hulu Mountain became members of Tanghua Sect.
At the same time, Lin Xiaotang often used the name of the saint to assign tasks to those believers.
The most common is for them to build canals near their hometowns, or to dig wells and reclaim wasteland.
When they completed the task, as a reward, she told them how to grow crops such as corn and cotton.
On weekdays, she also does not forget to spread “oracles” to these believers in the form of dreams, telling some basic scientific knowledge to help them live a better life.
Lin Xiaotang sometimes felt that she was actually just putting on a religious veneer and was working on infrastructure.
If the name of Tanghua Sect was changed to “Science and Education”, it might be more appropriate.
However, that doesn’t matter.
What Tanghua taught, after all, was just a tool she used to attract people’s hearts and rise up.
The only problem is that the beliefs of these people seem to be a little too devout…
They strictly abide by Lin Xiaotang’s teachings, do not reveal the existence of Tanghua Sect, but just silently believe in themselves.
Two years have passed, and there are hundreds of thousands of followers of Tanghua Sect, and potatoes have gradually become one of the staple foods of the majority of the people.
But in the outside world, there is no rumor about Tanghua Sect.
Lin Xiaotang: “…”
She didn’t even know how they did it.
There was no way, she could only helplessly arrange someone to play the drunken man and announce the situation of Tanghua Sect.
When the court took action, she would have sufficient reasons to revolt.
After three years of preparation, they have prepared enough.
It’s not a problem to keep secret all the time. It’s time for her to be exposed in front of everyone and recruit more people in the name of the rebel army.
“Mother, I heard that we are finally going to fight?”
At this time, a girl’s clear voice suddenly came from outside.
Immediately afterwards, a young girl in smart clothes walked in.
Compared with other girls from aristocratic families who pursue fairness, her skin is a healthy wheat color, a pair of black almond eyes are piercing, and she is holding a long red spear in her hand.
