Chapter 184: The Superstitious Wang Lun

"Lord, a big discovery, a big discovery!"

Wang Lun ran over quickly, holding a sandalwood box that was locked tightly.

Looking at his cautious appearance, Zhang Jie knew that the things inside must be very precious.

"Oh?

What makes you so happy, Zhengdao?"

Zhang Jie became interested and asked with a smile.

For him, he didn't care about gold, silver, and jewelry;

he only cared about the money, grain, warhorses, and livestock of the Zhu Family Manor.

Gold, silver, and jewelry were just a pile of metal and stones with no great use in this era.

Only grain could fill the stomachs of the soldiers under him,

and only horses and livestock could allow Liang Shan's farmland to be cultivated,

and the cavalry under Lin Chong to no longer be an army only on paper.

With cavalry, Liang Shan's combat power would inevitably increase greatly, and he could use more tactics.

"Lord, this box is so valued by the Zhu family; I'm afraid there is a big secret inside!"

Wang Lun presented the box like a treasure.

"Could it be a treasure chest?"

Zhang Jie laughed in surprise.

Although he didn't have much interest in gold, silver, and jewelry, it would be nice to enjoy the fun of treasure hunting.

The box Wang Lun brought was locked tightly by several locks.

If one key was missing, the box couldn't be opened.

Just looking at these locks, one could see how much the Zhu family valued the things inside.

"Lord, this subordinate guesses that it should be large-denomination Jiaozi (paper money),

or the land deeds of the Zhu family's fields, letters of collusion between the Zhu family and the government, etc."

Wang Lun, who was a bit excited, calmed down and analyzed calmly.

Zhang Jie took the box and weighed it slightly in his hand, finding Wang Lun's analysis very reasonable:

This box was not very heavy, so it shouldn't contain high-density things like gold and silver treasures.

And other things that the Zhu family could protect so tightly

were naturally the land deeds that landlords and wealthy people regarded as their lives;

or evidence of collusion with the government, having done some shameful things,

secretly collected to avoid the government turning against them and killing the donkey after the millstone was used.

In a feudal dynasty, one can never overestimate the bottom line of those bureaucrats at any time.

To ordinary people, the Zhu family were local tyrants and local emperors,

but to those bureaucrats who were used to being high and mighty, the Zhu family was just a chess piece,

at most a chess piece that couldn't be discarded at will because it had some power.

Crack.

Zhang Jie stretched out a finger and tapped lightly on the locks, and several locks broke in response.

It was him directly using Qi to form sword energy to cut the lock beams made of gold and iron.

His sword energy could easily break even heavy armor, so a few locks were naturally not a problem.

Wang Lun, who was on the side, saw this scene that exceeded common sense, but his expression was calm, with no great abnormality:

Having been with Zhang Jie day and night for such a period of time,

he naturally knew more or less about the extraordinary aspects of his Lord.

However, although there was no abnormality on his face, a trace of fanaticism flashed in Wang Lun's eyes:

Isn't Zhang Jie's extraordinary aspect the best proof that he is destined by Heaven?

Led by Zhang Jie, who is destined by Heaven, our Liang Shan will inevitably be able to achieve a great cause!

And he, Wang Lun, will also be recorded in history books along with Zhang Jie, immortal for all ages!

Zhang Jie took in Wang Lun's performance, and had no intention of explaining.

Appropriate mystery can greatly increase the loyalty of subordinates.

And this kind of thing indeed involved the extraordinary power of internal energy, which simply couldn't be explained clearly.

Even if he taught a basic internal martial arts book to Wang Lun, Wang Lun still insisted that he was a god descending to earth,

and the son of destiny who was going to lead them to do a great cause.

Moreover, the superstition of the Great Song, or rather mysticism, still had a market.

When the Prince of Duan, who was packed and taken to Wuguocheng by the Jin people, was besieged by the Jin people for the second time in Bianliang,

didn't he count on Guo Jing, who could summon "Six Jia Divine Soldiers," to retreat the enemy?

This Guo Jing, who was actually a frustrated soldier in the Forbidden Army,

recruited 7,777 street ruffians (mostly from the three religions and nine schools) according to their birth dates,

called them "Six Jia Divine Soldiers," and demanded the withdrawal of the city-defending soldiers to prevent "magic failure."

The Prince of Duan and his son really believed Guo Jing's bragging,

withdrew the city-defending soldiers, and made room for Guo Jing's "Six Jia Divine Soldiers,"

causing the already mediocre city defense to be even more riddled with holes.

As a result, the divine soldiers were scattered as soon as they went into battle, and Guo Jing took the opportunity to escape;

the Jin soldiers took the opportunity to climb the city, the outer city of Kaifeng fell, the Great Song court fell into collapse, and it was difficult to resist,

eventually triggering the "Jingkang Incident," where the Hui and Qin emperors were captured, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.

Zhang Jie withdrew his divergent thinking, opened the box, and took in the things inside.

"It's actually this thing."

Recognizing what was inside, he couldn't help but shake his head.

"This Zhu family is actually like this?"

Seeing what was in the box, Wang Lun was also shocked.

This Zhu Family Manor, accurately speaking, the Zhu family headed by Old Master Zhu, was really not a good thing.

"Zhengdao, gather the people of the Zhu Family Manor; I want to give a speech."

Zhang Jie took a deep breath and ordered.

"This subordinate accepts the order."

Wang Lun, whose expression could not be calm for a long time, went to handle the matter with a complicated expression.

"The Zhang Zhaizhu has an order: every family in the Zhu Family Manor must send a representative to the drill ground for a meeting!"

Clang, clang, clang!

"The Zhang Zhaizhu has an order: every family in the Zhu Family Manor must send a representative to the drill ground for a meeting!"

Clang, clang, clang!

Dozens of Liang Shan messengers, under Wang Lun's coordination, walked through the entire Zhu Family Manor with gongs.

"Should we go?"

"These Liang Shan bandits..."

Someone was about to blurt out the derogatory term for Liang Shan, but thinking that Liang Shan was powerful now,

and their Zhu Family Manor was in Liang Shan's hands, they had to change their words.

"These Liang Shan people don't look like good people!"

The villagers still had concerns, fearing that Liang Shan gathering them was to pit-kill them or something.

"We can't beat them. Old Master Zhu and his sons all died at the hands of the Liang Shan bandits.

The corpse of the eldest young master, Zhu Long, is still lying at the gate of the Zhu Family Courtyard, and no one is collecting it!

Besides, some of our children are still being held by Liang Shan!

If our strength is not as good as others, what can we do?"

Several village elders who had quite a reputation in the Zhu Family Manor discussed,

and found that when people are under low eaves, they have to bow their heads!

When Liang Shan broke through the city gate, most of the servants saw that the situation was not good and fled directly,

ran home, hid their weapons, changed their clothes,

and turned from murderous Zhu Family Manor servants into honest farmers.

Liang Shan couldn't really kill all the strong men of the Zhu Family Manor,

so they turned a blind eye to this and did not pursue it to the end,

preparing to establish effective rule before solving this problem.

But there were still some unlucky ones, either because they didn't run fast enough,

or because their reaction was a beat slow, and they didn't escape in time.

For this credit delivered to their door, the Liang Shan soldiers grinned and accepted it directly.

Now these prisoners were temporarily detained in the side rooms of the Zhu Family Courtyard. ===== CHAPTER 185 =====