Chapter 406: Liu Zheng's Trend

Trend.

Liu Zheng believes.

Liangshan is also a game.

Where there is a game, there is a trend.

If these Middle-Trouser-Legs are truly using opium to form a suppressive force in Liangshan, then this briefly formed trend can be easily broken.

This is a minor trend, not a Great Trend.

In later generations, opium was a sharp enough weapon in the hands of many hegemonists. But there is one commonality: these hegemonists would never be foolish enough, like Shama Zhuoyi, to use opium to make their own Warriors "invulnerable." Opium would be a tool they use for colonization, not for self-destruction.

Therefore.

Opium, when placed in someone else's territory, is a Great Trend.

When placed in one's own nest, it is a minor trend.

In other words, such an ethnic group cannot jump around for many days. What it is consuming is its own life force. This brief moment of glory will be followed by endless darkness.

Liu Zheng suddenly felt that he had come to Liangshan at the right time.

First, the Poppy.

This thing, he must take control of it.

Whether for medical purposes, pain relief in war, or for the necessity of future colonization—he even had an idea that if this Southwest region could be controlled by him, once this Poppy was planted on a large scale, it would also become one of his great weapons, or even a tool for accumulating wealth. Of course, he would control the flow of opium; this is of the utmost importance.

Second, the situation in Liangshan cannot be separated from the Wangbei Academy fanning the flames behind the scenes.

Liu Zheng even believes that this opium Divine Medicine cannot be separated from this Wangbei Academy!

This handle, he must grasp it well!

The current Longyan Dynasty, of course, has no laws regarding the prohibition of opium. But who is he? He is Liu Zheng! If he could demonstrate the terrifying nature of how this thing can create a Hell, what could the Wangbei Academy do even if he bombarded it with a few cannons?

He first popularized the knowledge of the Poppy to Qin Zhangfeng, Pei Yanran, and Huobu Quli.

The first to be frightened.

Was Pei Yanran.

"Young Master, this Divine Medicine, is it really, is it really..."

She felt that her own spine was a bit cold.

As a junior sister of the Academy, she knew that those fellow disciples of hers from the younger generation were killing each other on this Greedy Wolf Star Plate in Liangshan... If this Divine Medicine was truly as terrifying as Liu Zheng said, then... She gasped.

The second to be frightened was Huobu Quli.

He stared with those copper-bell-like eyes and angrily rebuked: "This Shama Zhuoyi is going to destroy my Liangshan!"

He felt great heartache.

Heartache for the nearly one hundred thousand Middle-Trouser-Leg army that, according to Liu Zheng's speculation, no longer existed... Whether they were Big-Trouser-Legs, Middle-Trouser-Legs, or Small-Trouser-Legs, were they not all our Yi people?

Why be like this?

Save Liangshan!

It is the trend of the times!

He understood what Liu Zheng meant by the word "trend."

Overnight.

Huobu Quli took his few attendants, drilled through several dense forests, crossed several mountain peaks, and arrived at the territory of the Big-Trouser-Legs.

"Young Master, then we..."

Qin Zhangfeng asked.

Liu Zheng chuckled and said: "I said, this time I brought the brothers here for a tour. If we can avoid fighting, we won't fight. This is a matter for the Liangshan People; we should just cheer them on, why participate?"

These words made Pei Yanran, who was beside them, burst into laughter.

Liu Zheng then straightened his expression and said seriously: "But remember, no matter how you play, ethnic unity is the top priority. Do not let the brothers use alcohol to act crazy and bully the local women, whether they are Black Yi or White Yi, whether they are free people or slaves!"

"If you want to station troops, you must win the hearts of the people!"

"If even the slaves do not submit to you, how can the slave owners submit?"

"Yes!"

Qin Zhangfeng replied seriously.

Pei Yanran gave a bitter smile. She once thought that those fellow disciples of the Wangbei Academy were all dragons and phoenixes among men, skilled at playing the game of chess.

Following Qin Zhangfeng these days, calling Liu Zheng "Young Master," she finally realized that this Young Master was the one who could truly control the Great Trend.

In front of him, those fellow disciples of hers were simply like children.

Stepping into Longyan for the first time.

Xie Chan's mood was still very complicated.

Strictly speaking, this was her second time coming to Longyan; the first time was to hunt down Zheng Yuxing. At that time, she was only a few dozen miles away from Rongshan Pass.

However, the current Xie Chan was no longer the previous Xie Chan.

At that time, she was innocent and naive, thinking that by infiltrating the Western Regions Construction Corps, she could assassinate the bad guy who had destroyed her father's thirty years of hard work.

Later, she realized she was wrong.

She did not wait for the "assassination tomorrow."

What she waited for was the complete transformation of her own thinking.

The Western Regions Construction Corps was the trend of the times. Even without those accidental events, her father would still have been the declining side. Or rather, those accidents were not accidents at all, but inevitabilities.

This is the Great Trend.

This is Liu Zheng's Great Trend.

It was Liu Zheng's Great Trend that made her throw her heart and blood into the great construction of the Western Regions Construction Corps, and it was Liu Zheng's Great Trend that made her the General Xie whom everyone flocked to.

It was Liu Zheng's Great Trend that caused her imperial father and mother to jump, locked in an embrace, from the high top floor of the Imperial Palace right before her eyes.

Should she hate him?

He actually knew from the very beginning that she was a Princess of Dayuan, right?

Why did he still give her the position of a general? Was he very confident in her, or was he very confident in his Great Trend?

"General Xie, how is the weather in our Longyan?"

As she was pondering, Ling Chen came over on horseback, laughing.

The two of them had received a summons from Liu Zheng to return to Liangzhou to report on their duties.

Both of them brought three hundred guards each.

Xie Chan smiled: "It is certainly much better than the Western Regions."

Ling Chen laughed heartily: "Seeing the excavation of this Grand Canal all along the way, I feel very gratified. When the day comes that the Grand Canal connects the north and south, how majestic will our Liangzhou Army be then?"

"We could reach Yangzhou in seven days, hahahaha!"

Xie Chan also laughed.

The two parties finally arrived at Liangzhou.

From afar, they saw Liu Dahao leading a group of civil and military officials to welcome them at the city gate; Ling Chen was startled and quickly dismounted to proceed on foot. Xie Chan had also met Liu Dahao and knew that he was now the red-hot Prefectural Governor of Liangzhou, Western Regions Commissioner, and First Rank Duke of the Longyan Dynasty, so she did not dare to be negligent.

Who would have thought.

Before Liu Dahao could even come over, a gust of wind had already arrived before Xie Chan.

This startled Xie Chan and her attendant Xiao Tao, and Xiao Tao had already drawn her sword, only to see a middle-aged woman whose face was trying its best to look "kind and loving," who at this moment, without a word, had already pulled Xie Chan's hand.

Those eyes were curved into crescent moons.

"Oh my, Dahao, is this the Chan'er that our son is always talking about? Isn't it? She is truly beautiful! Come, come, come, let us mother and daughter-in-law get close..."

Everyone at the scene was completely bewildered.

Liu Dahao's mouth twitched uncontrollably.

Talking about?

Who has been talking to you about it? You haven't been home or around for a year; how could he have talked to you about it?

Mother and daughter-in-law?

Xie Chan also blinked.

Who is this?

Recalling that "Dahao" she had just called out, she was instantly stunned.

This...

Is this Prefectural Governor Liu's mother?

A Second Rank Noble Lady?