Chapter 64: Miracle

After arranging matters for Jebe, Guo Jing and Nie Huaishang returned to their own tent to sit in meditation and practice their arts, while also contacting Zhang Chu'an and Zhang Xiaofan in Shandong.

Guo Jing: "The warhorses we captured from Temujin have been sent to you via the chat group's red packet; remember to receive them shortly."

Zhang Chu'an: "Thank you, two wealthy big brothers, for your generous gifts; this humble one is deeply grateful."

Nie Huaishang: "Stop talking nonsense; how is the situation over there? Has the Jin Kingdom sent troops to surround and annihilate you? After all, you have already developed a force of two thousand people."

Zhang Xiaofan: "How could they manage? The Jin Kingdom nowadays is in decline; uprisings and revolts by the people are constant within the country. Compared to them, we are considered relatively well-behaved."

Zhang Chu'an: "Exactly. In the eyes of the Jin rulers, we are at most just a large group of Shandong bandits. We usually only attack local tyrants and distribute land in the countryside; we do not raid prefectures or pass through cities. Moreover, given the tense political situation in the Jin Kingdom currently, they simply have no energy to pay attention to us."

Nowadays, the Jin Kingdom faces constant uprisings and revolts by the people within its borders, and must also constantly worry about the Northern Expedition of the Southern Song, after all, the voice advocating for a Northern Expedition has always existed within the Southern Song.

At this moment, although the Jin Kingdom has reached its peak in politics and culture under the rule of two wise emperors, Jin Shizong and Jin Zhangzong.

However, in the middle to late period of Jin Zhangzong, it gradually went downhill. The combat effectiveness of the Jin army continued to decline, and even though the rulers provided generous military pay, it could not be stopped.

Furthermore, the Jurchen nobles massively occupied farmland in North China and enslaved the Han people, intensifying the conflict between the two sides, so uprisings and revolts by the people within the country have always existed.

Therefore, Zhang Chu'an and Zhang Xiaofan usually operate low-key in the countryside, attacking local tyrants and distributing land, so the Jin Kingdom does not bother to manage them.

Nie Huaishang: "Then you should recruit people widely. In the coming time, we will continue to support you with warhorses to facilitate your cavalry training."

Guo Jing: "Besides the cavalry, find a suitable time to build the firearms factory as well. After all, we will need your support for our firearms in the future; it is simply not suitable to build a factory here."

There are too few craftsmen here. Moreover, since they have already been exposed to Temujin's gaze, if they produced weapons on the grasslands, Temujin would quickly acquire their technology.

After all, they are currently Temujin's number one enemy; how could Temujin not pay attention to them?

However, if these advanced weapons like firearms are produced by Zhang Chu'an and his group, Temujin would at least have to wait ten years until he attacks the Jin Kingdom before he could come into contact with them.

As for the people of the Jin Kingdom, they are not worried; after all, the upper echelons of the Jin Kingdom are mostly corrupt and decadent, so who has the mind to care about new-style weapons?

The only one who is still decent, Wanyan Honglie, is still trying his utmost to obtain the Wu Mu Legacy in hopes of re-elevating the combat power of the Jin soldiers.

Regarding Wanyan Honglie's thoughts, Guo Jing could only scoff; given the current situation of the Jin Kingdom, let alone a single Wu Mu Legacy, even if Yue Wu Mu himself came, he could not save such a critical crisis.

After all, the crisis of the Jin Kingdom involves not only military matters but also politics; regarding political problems, even Yue Wu Mu is powerless.

The Jin Kingdom's policy of ethnic oppression has made the Khitans and Han people harbor deep resentment against them; otherwise, how could uprisings by the Khitans and Han people erupt as soon as the Mongols invaded?

Zhang Chu'an: "So Zhang Xiaofan and I plan to be honest and straightforward within these five years, developing our forces low-key, and opening up more self-sufficient bases."

Zhang Xiaofan: "Building high walls and accumulating large amounts of grain is our strategy for both of us; at that time, we can provide supplies for you, such as weapons and food."

Nie Huaishang: "Alright, then you must hurry. Calculating the time, we will likely launch a surprise attack on Temujin in about two years. If we cannot succeed in killing Temujin, we will have to go to war with him completely."

After all, since they have forced Temujin into a desperate situation twice, Temujin must fight them to the death.

By that time, to fight against Temujin, a generation's prodigy, one must have advanced weapons to have a chance of victory.

Zhang Chu'an and Zhang Xiaofan logged off at this point, and as soon as they logged off, they received the two thousand warhorses sent to them by Guo Jing and Nie Huaishang.

Looking at this group of warhorses, Zhang Chu'an and Zhang Xiaofan were very happy; in the future, they would not worry about lacking warhorses for training cavalry. After all, warhorses are a scarce strategic resource, and Shandong lacks places suitable for raising horses.

They need warhorses to help them train cavalry, after all.

These two thousand warhorses are a secret weapon for them; moreover, these two thousand warhorses are Mongol horses.

Do not look down on them because of their small stature and unimpressive appearance; they are short with short legs, but they excel in endurance and can withstand long journeys. The speed of the Mongol Western Expedition, like a lightning war, was achieved thanks to the Mongol horses.

Moreover, living in a semi-wild state, they do not need comfortable stables or exquisite fodder; they are very easy to raise.

"In the future, we can also train cavalry."

Zhang Chu'an said excitedly to Zhang Xiaofan beside him; after all, training cavalry also requires a certain amount of time.

Otherwise, even with warhorses, they would just be infantry riding on horses, which would completely make them easy targets for cavalry.

After the two walked out of the council hall, they discussed the matter of training cavalry with everyone, looking at the extra warhorses in the Shanzhai.

Looking at these, the crowd did not show much surprise.

After all, in the past half year, the two leaders had brought them enough miracles; even in their view, the current life is a miracle itself.

Although they have to wake up early and work late every day doing much physical labor, and then study knowledge at night, busy until they are exhausted in body and mind every day.

But at least here they can live like human beings; in the places of the past, who treated poor people like them as humans?

In the eyes of the Jurchen noble masters, they were just a group of slaves; how could they be counted as humans?

And in the eyes of the Han landlords and powerful families, how could these lowly mud-legs be counted as their compatriots?

Working hard for the masters all year round not only exhausted them to death, but they also had to suffer their beatings and scoldings from time to time.

But even so, they could not support their entire families, old and young; they could only helplessly watch their loved ones leave them.

At that moment, they felt they were so useless.

Where in such days could one count as living like a human? Not only was there no human dignity, but one did not even have the right to live.

But here, there are no so-called masters who beat or scold you; people are equal. Even when the two leaders communicated with them, there was not the slightest air of arrogance; they respected every person in the Shanzhai.

In this place, as long as they work, they do not have to worry about starving.

Because under the leadership of the two leaders, they successfully opened up a large amount of land in the back mountain, and at this time, they also possessed land that belonged to them.

How can living like a human being in this world not be counted as a miracle?