[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse":3,"chapter-from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-chapter-82":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","From Special Forces to the Multiverse",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2315132,4527,"Chapter 82","from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-chapter-82",82,"\u003Cp>After more than two months of long-distance travel, Zhang Chu’an and Zhang Xiaofan finally arrived in Shandong, the place where the Red Jacket Rebellion would later erupt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the rise of the Mongol state, the Jin dynasty was repeatedly attacked by the Mongols and forced to cede territory and pay reparations; the exploitation and oppression of peasants by Jurchen nobles and landowners of all ethnic groups grew increasingly severe, prompting farmers in Shandong and Hebei to rise in revolt—rebels marked themselves by wearing red jackets, hence the name “Red Jacket Army.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Major rebel forces included Yang An’er in Yidou, Shandong; Li Quan in Weizhou (modern-day Weifang, Shandong); Liu Erzu in Yimeng Mountain; and Zhou Yuan’er in Hebei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This rebellion was massive, with forces numbering from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands; its intensity stemmed not only from the Jin dynasty’s defeat at the Battle of Yehuling but also from the extreme social tensions in this region—otherwise, why had the Red Jacket Army never been fully suppressed, instead being first absorbed by the Song and later by the Mongols?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for why the Red Jacket Army betrayed the Song and surrendered to the Mongols, it was because Qin Gui’s policy of “Southerners return south, Northerners return north” had pushed North-South antagonism to its peak; the Southern scholar-official class simply did not care about or accept the peasant uprisings from the North.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People like Li Quan and Yang Miaozhen ultimately overestimated the Song dynasty; to bureaucrats and landlords, resisting exploitation was a crime, deserving death—your suffering, helpless and ignored, mattered far less than their frivolous pleasures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What other organization had been betrayed, besides Li Quan and Yang Miaozhen’s Red Jacket Army? Wasn’t Hong Qiugong’s Beggar’s Sect the same? Before joining the Beggar’s Sect, Hong Qiugong, during the fall of the Northern Song, had been captured by the Jurchens with his family and made their slave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Hong Qiugong earned the title “Northern Beggar” through his superior martial arts at the Mount Hua Sword Contest, he led the Beggar’s Sect in constant resistance against the Jin army, while Wang Chongyang’s Quanzhen Sect continuously preached and incited rebellion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hebei, near the Jin capital, was so sensitive that any disturbance triggered large-scale Jin military crackdowns; Shandong, however, was far from the Jin political center and teemed with proletarians like Li Quan and Guo San who could become comrades, even allowing alliances with anti-Jin forces like the Beggar’s Sect and Quanzhen Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as they arrived in Shandong, Nie Huaishang and Guo Jing sent messages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nie Huaishang: “Zhang Chu’an, Zhang Xiaofan, when establishing a revolutionary base, pay close attention to ideological education—there’ll be a pleasant surprise.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Xiaofan: “What kind of pleasant surprise? Come on, Huaishang, don’t just half-speak.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guo Jing: “Simply put, if you promote Marxism-Leninism during base-building and cultivate firm Marxist-Leninists, you’ll earn points—lots of them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Chu’an: “Lots of points? How many?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guo Jing: “Roughly fifty points per proletarian revolutionary.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifty points? Zhang Chu’an and Zhang Xiaofan were stunned—they’d killed the Yellow River Gang boss Yellow River Ghost King Sha Tongtian, the Four Ghosts of the Yellow River, Hou Tonghai, and the Thousand Hands Butcher Peng Lianhu on their way to Shandong and earned only seven hundred points total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was only because the Four Ghosts had once attempted to assassinate Temujin, so each earned 120 points; the Thousand Hands Butcher Peng Lianhu and Yellow River Gang boss Hou Tonghai earned 80 and 90 points respectively, while Hou Tonghai himself earned only 50.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d initially been satisfied with these prices, since basic necessities and modern firearms were cheap in the system store—a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle cost only two or three points, ten points for ten thousand rounds of ammunition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rice, pork—all priced by tonnage; seven hundred points were more than enough for their startup capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only regret was that such high-value experts were rare; though their performances in The Legend of the Condor Heroes seemed clownish, there was no choice—fighting consistently within the top ten would inevitably make you look like a clown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from an ordinary person’s perspective, these few were terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the Jiangnan temple, Hou Tonghai, worth fifty points, easily overpowered Lu Guanying, leader of the Taihu bandits, and Cheng Yaojia, disciple of Sun Bu’er of the Quanzhen Seven; only when Yin Zhiping, representative of the third generation of Quanzhen, joined did the three manage to defeat him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His senior brother Sha Tongtian’s martial arts far surpassed his; even the newly arrived Huang Rong could mock Hou Tonghai but not Sha Tongtian—Sha’s Body-Switching Technique could easily block Huang Rong’s superior lightness skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Thousand Hands Butcher Peng Lianhu was a notorious bandit in Hebei and Shanxi, commanding countless thugs, and even capable of wounding Ma Yu with poisoned needles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You consider them clowns in The Legend of the Condor Heroes only because you view them from Guo Jing’s perspective; from an ordinary person’s view, Peng Lianhu and Sha Tongtian were the top bosses of their province’s foremost criminal syndicates, protected by the Jin’s Sixth Prince—throughout the realm, only the Five Greats, the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan, and the Quanzhen Seven dared challenge them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such high-point experts were likely fewer than five per province; just as they worried how to purchase weapons and fully arm their troops, Guo Jing and Nie Huaishang delivered this huge surprise—developing comrades not only aligned with their goals but promised more stable, even growing, point returns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their point source might be more reliable and keep increasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Chu’an: “Whoa, Brother Chu’an, Brother Huaishang, you must’ve earned a ton of points—I remember a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle costs only two points, ten points for ten thousand rounds, and basic supplies are sold by the ton. Yet you get fifty points for each Marxist-Leninist you cultivate. With all these surplus points, shouldn’t you lend your brothers some support?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nie Huaishang: “What good would supporting you do now? You haven’t recruited a single comrade yet—giving you supplies would be useless. And once you do recruit them, you won’t need our help anyway. Besides, we still have to deal with Temujin—he’s the Heavenly Khan who conquered all of Asia; we’ve only five hundred men, while Temujin already has tens of thousands.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Chu’an: “Then forget it. Dealing with Temujin has too many variables—his strategy and command are nearly at the peak of human capability. Most crucially, strictly speaking, Temujin is the true protagonist of this era. Even if your weapons, troop quality, and organization utterly crush his, he might still pull a ‘meteor from heaven’ like the Great Demon Master Liu Xiu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meteor from heaven? Guo Jing and Nie Huaishang froze at this—normally, wind, rain, lightning were fine, but a meteor from heaven? That was just too cruel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nie Huaishang and Guo Jing couldn’t help looking up at the sky—please, don’t you dare pull this on us.\u003C\u002Fp>",1140,"2026-06-20T13:48:22.834Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b133a7ee2fa47e2a31b03a92bdd7a82f1a983fde42ed40ed1b5869b527cad7c7","from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-chapter-83","from-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-chapter-81",205,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffrom-special-forces-to-the-multiverse-cover.jpg"]