It took the father and son a total of ten days to walk from the crossing place to Tian Er’s house.

Now I am on the main battleship of the bandits. I found the tributary that afternoon. I rested on the shore for a night. At around 9 o'clock the next morning, Zhu Ming suddenly ordered the ship to dock.

Based on the shape of the mountains on both sides of the shore, he already had some impression.

Zhang Guangdao took people off the boat, and had no idea what he was going to do.

In more than three months, the weeds had grown again. Zhu Ming drew his sword and slashed for a while. It took about twenty minutes to finally see three piles of stones.

That was the mark left by the father and son. On the cliff directly above the stone was the newly bought BMW by Dean Zhu.

Zhu Ming looked up and couldn't see the car at all. It might be the newly grown leaves and vines that completely blocked the car body.

"I had a dream the night before."

Zhu Ming put his sword back into the sheath and said, "One day, the king asked me to dream and say that he left his armor on earth. After waking up from the dream, I was skeptical, so I brought you and others to find one or two."

This was said and everyone looked at each other.

"Bai Sheng!" Zhu Ming shouted.

"I'm here." Bai Sheng hurried forward.

Zhu Ming ordered: "You lead three people and guard here. I will use a rope to drop the armor. Besides the armor, there are other things. If you find something falling down, untie the rope after receiving it."

"Okay... OK!" Bai Sheng felt that Brother Zhu was confused when he was sleeping.

"The rest of the people, take a boat with me." Zhu Ming said.

At around 4 pm, the boat arrived at a river beside. Zhu Ming quickly recognized that he threw out the branches to determine where the river water flowed.

Take out the dry food, rest on the dock, and leave tomorrow.

The bonfire is lit and the sun sets.

Zhang Guangdao approached Zhu Ming and asked in a low voice: "Brother Zhu, is there really something on the mountain?"

Zhu Ming nodded and said, "Maybe there is."

Zhang Guangdao didn't believe in the dream of the Heavenly King. He guessed in his heart that it was probably the treasure hidden in the mountains between father and son.

There were a lot of mosquitoes, so everyone found some mugwort and threw them on the fire to cover the smoke and repel mosquitoes.

Take turns vigiling and slept all night.

When he woke up in the morning, he continued his journey. Zhu Ming held a sword and drove the way forward. Tian Er, Tian San, and Rwan held hatchets and chopped the thorns with him. Zhang Guangdao followed with a large rope tied up, and more than ten people behind him were holding spears.

There were two people holding gongs and ringing when they met a tiger, and most of the tiger would be scared away.

Nearly twenty people worked together, and the speed of going up the mountain was much faster.

In the afternoon, the mountain was already extremely steep, and Zhu Ming walked eastward with an estimated direction.

"Hey, what object is this?" When Tian Er chopped the branch, he saw a white thing with some patterns and words printed on it.

Zhu Ming showed joy on his face.

It was a plastic bag used to hold snacks. When the father and son left the cliff section, they tied it to a tree to mark it.

"You guys stay here, Brother Zhang and I come with you... Forget it, it's too late, I'll go tomorrow."

It was not too late, it was only around 3:00 p.m.

But at this time, I went to get the armor and it was probably dark when I encountered the car.

I rested for another night, and there were tigers appearing in the middle of the night. I was frightened by the sound of gongs and fled in panic.

morning.

Zhang Guangdao followed Zhu Ming and climbed the cliff and walked sideways. He felt more and more confused. The treasure-hiding place of Zhu's father and son was too cautious.

And, how did you transport the treasures?

Zhu Ming was familiar with the road, climbed for a while, and jumped quickly to the raised stone platform. He once urinated here and encountered a Wang Jinshou snake. On the moss of the stone platform, he could even see melon seed shells.

"Let's take a break." Zhu Ming sat down and rested.

Zhang Guangdao couldn't help but ask again: "Is there really a treasure armor?"

"Yes!" Zhu Ming nodded and said.

Zhang Guangdao asked again: "Brother Zhu intends to rebel?"

Zhu Ming smiled and said, "You can't talk nonsense."

Zhang Guangdao was very active: "If Brother Zhu rebels, I will definitely follow you and will be the first to rush into the county government to kill the bird official!"

"Why do you have to rebel?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhang Guangdao's idea was extremely simple: "There are bird officials in the government, and the bird emperor in the city of Tokyo. In the past, I wanted to rebel, so I asked Brother Yao to be the emperor. Brother Yao died, and Brother Zhu was also kind and righteous. If Brother Zhu became the emperor, the people would definitely have a better life."

Zhu Ming asked: "If you give you thousands of acres of land and you are a wealthy landlord, do you still want to rebel?"

Zhang Guangdao sneered: "My ancestors are also landlords. What are the solutions to meet corrupt officials?"

Zhu Ming was silent and thought hard.

The specific situation of the Northern Song Dynasty seemed to be different from what he imagined.

The biggest contradiction here is not the conflict between people and land, but the conflict between officials and the people. The government has too much exploitation, resulting in large areas of wasteland by the river without anyone to cultivate. The lower-level farmers also have to rely on or rely on the landlords to barely resist the exploitation of the government.

Many times, although the big landlords also exploit the common people, they play another role: the protector of the farmers!

Customers and ordinary people, based on villages, protect one or several big landlords. The big landlords use this power to fight wits and courage with the government, try to escape taxes and donations, control farmers while protecting farmers. In addition, when resisting natural disasters, they also form a group to keep warm.

A... very strange rural political ecology.

Of course, there are also many evil gentry like Xiaobai Yuanwai, who really squeezed the farmers to death.

The specific situation is more complicated than Zhu Ming imagined.

For example, on Kuizhou Road, feudal slave manor system even exists widely. A manor owner raises dozens or hundreds of private soldiers and controls a large number of serfs to farm. There is an agreement between them. If my serfs flee to you, you should send the serfs back.

Facing the government, the landlords are also exploited.

To give a simple example, after Zhao Gou gained a foothold in the south, his first thing was not to prepare for the loss of land, but to... occupy the land!

The emperors, concubines, clans, and powerful people who fled south forcibly occupied the land of the southern landlords in a nearly horse-drawn form. The land occupied by the royal family was called Yuzhuang, which extended from near Hangzhou to the Taihu pier area, and even to Anhui.

Even the land of the Wang Anshi family was occupied by the royal family.

Wang Anshi's descendants owned a large amount of land in Xuancheng and Wuhu, all of which were "buyed" by the emperor. The eunuch's name was recorded in history books and was named Chu Yi.

For the landlords in Jiangnan, Zhao Gou is not an emperor, but a bandit number one in Tianzi!

Every time they fought, they frantically collected and bought money, and forced the landlords to go bankrupt. Then, the royal family and the powerful took the opportunity to buy land and expanded their own land area frantically.

What is the Northern Expedition?

What to recover lost land?

When the landlords in Jiangnan heard these two words, they were so scared that they couldn't sleep. Before the Jin soldiers were destroyed by the court, they were going to be killed by the court first!

Landlords who were far away from the Jiangnan region and encountered Jin soldiers and bandits were also having trouble. For example, Lu You's father-in-law Tang Zhongjun was a figure who fought against the Jin Dynasty with his family. His grandfather also served as deputy prime minister, but starved to death in his hometown in Hubei.

"Let's go, let's talk about the rebellion later." Zhu Ming stood up and said.

Zhang Guangdao continued to climb with Zhu Ming, and with his physical strength, he was also exhausted.

Suddenly, Zhu Ming saw a sword splitting the vine, revealing something strange - the BMW headlights.

He waved his sword continuously and split the vines and leaves. Zhang Guangdao's mouth widened wider and wider: That monster could actually move by himself!

Well, when the car key was sensed, the rearview mirror automatically opened.

It seems that the battery has electricity.

Zhu Ming opened the car door and crawled in, turned around and shouted, "Take the rope!"

Zhang Guangdao was still in a state of shock and subconsciously handed the rope forward.

Zhu Ming chose a slightly thicker branch and threw one end of the rope out. He tried twice before he succeeded. He poked out again, used a scabbard to pull the rope back, and used the branch as a fixed pulley.

The King of Heaven Armor was put in a cardboard box, and Zhu Ming tied it with a rope and said to Zhang Guangdao: "The rope is weighing dozens of pounds!"

Zhang Guangdao finally came to his senses, grabbed the rope tightly, stepped on the cliff, and stepped on the trunk in front of him.

Zhu Ming pushed the cardboard box out of the carriage and fell down suddenly. The pulling force was too strong in an instant, almost pulling Zhang Guangdao out of the cliff.

Zhu Ming quickly went over to help, and the two of them pulled the rope together and put the armor down little by little.

"Brother Bai, something has come down!"

Under the cliff, Bai Sheng looked up and saw that something dark fell.

Then, it stuck in the tree branch and stopped moving.

It was more than ten meters high from the ground, and Bai Sheng did not climb up stupidly. He picked up the axe, climbed only two or three meters, and then swung the axe and started cutting down the tree.

As the tree fell, the carton containing the armor continued to fall.

When it fell to four or five meters left, the rope was not enough. It was too short.

Bai Sheng asked someone to cut off the branches and tie them to the dart to make hooks. Then he climbed up, hooked the box, pulled apart the knot, and the armor fell to the ground with a bang.
To be continued...