Chapter 869: The Taiping Dao's Gold Content Gradually Increases!【3】

Early the next morning.

Inside the Youzhou Camp.

Bian Xi, wearing bamboo armor, walked toward Cheng Yuanzhi's main tent with a joyful face and hurried steps.

"Commander, Commander!"

As soon as he entered the tent, Bian Xi looked at Cheng Yuanzhi, who was sitting inside, and said impatiently: "Commander, good news! The Saintess has sent me a message saying she is coming to visit you immediately!"

Hearing this, Cheng Yuanzhi immediately perked up.

"Good, good, good!"

After calling out "good" three times, Cheng Yuanzhi stood up from his seat, looked at Bian Xi, and said happily: "Brother Bian Xi, you have performed a great service this time."

"Rest assured, if things are truly as we imagined, once we rescue the Great Virtuous Teacher and the Saintess, you, Brother Bian Xi, will be the greatest contributor."

"When the time comes, I will certainly report to the Great Virtuous Teacher and the Saintess and have them reward you."

"Perhaps by then, Brother Bian Xi, you will be just like me, holding the power of a camp!"

Cheng Yuanzhi's words made Bian Xi laugh uncontrollably, rubbing his hands together in excitement: "Commander, rest assured, even if I hold power in the future, I will never forget your kindness."

Cheng Yuanzhi smiled and nodded: "Brother Bian Xi, your martial arts are superb. I will need you to take action later, so you should stay here."

"Good." Bian Xi nodded without hesitation.

Afterward, Cheng Yuanzhi called Deng Mao and made arrangements.

He mobilized hundreds of elites from the camp and deployed them around the main tent.

Besides this, he also selected some of the best among the elites to be inside the tent.

As for Cheng Yuanzhi, he followed what Bian Xi had reported back earlier and began to pretend to be ill in the main military tent, waiting for Zhang Ning's arrival.

Outside the Youzhou Camp.

At this time, Zhang Ning's carriage and horses had already arrived near the Youzhou Camp.

Along the way, whenever they saw Zhang Ning's carriage, the nearby Taiping Dao followers would kneel on both sides and worship Zhang Ning's carriage devoutly, as if on a pilgrimage.

Ever since these Taiping Dao followers arrived at Xiaquyang and began their migration.

Along the way, although they couldn't eat their fill every meal, at the very least, they wouldn't starve.

The 500,000 shi of grain that Duan Yu had extorted from the Zhen clan solved the food problem for this journey.

In this era where rituals and music have collapsed, natural disasters are constant, and the starving are everywhere, if you can keep a group of people following you from starving, at the very least, having food to eat.

Then you can easily command these people.

If you go a step further, if you can let these people have clothes to wear, houses to live in, and food to eat, then good, these people will be willing to sell their lives for you.

If you go a step further, if you can let these people eat their fill and have no worries, then in the eyes of these people, you are the Emperor, and you can be crowned with the yellow robe at any time.

Before he transmigrated, Duan Yu did not understand.

Why, during the Eastern Han period, as long as there was grain, one could recruit soldiers.

Only after living in this era personally did Duan Yu understand the gold content of grain in this era.

Most people in later generations only know that the late Ming Dynasty was in a Little Ice Age.

But most people do not know that, in fact, the Eastern Han Dynasty was also in a Little Ice Age.

In this environment, temperatures plummeted, spring, summer, autumn, and winter were reversed, and natural disasters occurred frequently.

Not only were there often no harvests in the fields, but the people also had to face diseases, plagues, and temperatures with reversed seasons.

And now, Zhang Ning, in the name of the Taiping Dao Saintess, gave these migrating Taiping Dao followers a bite to eat.

The gold content of the three words "Taiping Dao" was also constantly increasing.

In the past, when Zhang Jiao used porridge mixed with Taiping Dao spirit talismans to save the world, it took ten years to accumulate countless prestige, which is why he had a response to every call.

And now, along this journey, the Taiping Dao followers all had a bite to eat.

The Taiping Dao followers became more and more grateful and devout to the Taiping Dao.

Besides this, Duan Yu also discovered.

Walking along this way, refugees were constantly joining in.

The team of hundreds of thousands migrating not only did not decrease in number due to hunger.

Instead, it increased because as long as they came here, they could have a bite to eat.

Zhang Ning was riding in a white carriage, and the horses pulling it were also two white horses.

The carriage was covered with white thin gauze, looking as if it had an extremely holy aura.

Especially walking on the muddy road and among the ragged Taiping Dao followers on both sides, it was like a white lotus blooming in a mud pond.

On both sides of the carriage, there were more than a dozen maidservants holding yellow triangular banners, wearing yellow long skirts, and tying yellow silk ribbons on their foreheads. ===== CHAPTER 871 =====