Mystery Makes Me Strong

At the foot of the green mountains, Liujiazhuang.

The land in Liujiazhuang is not overly concentrated, mainly because the Liu family clan is very powerful.

Landlords are not allowed to purchase the land. Even if a family is going bankrupt and wants to sell the land to survive, they have to sell it to the clan.

At the same time, the family can also get some protection.

The power of the clan leaders and elders here is very great.

This day.

Patriarch Liu and the third uncle, the second uncle, and the first uncle were discussing the bandits on Qingyun Mountain.

"Uncle, those bandits sent people down the mountain and said they wanted to open a chicken farm in our village. What do you think this is about?"

The uncle shook his head and said, "Throughout history, has this bandit ever done anything good?"

"This chicken farm, I think, is just a den. They claim to raise chickens, but in fact, they are gang members who treat people as chickens."

The second uncle also said: "That's right."

"That's what it is."

"Should we refuse?" asked Patriarch Liu.

"We can't refuse. If we refuse, we will be killed!"

"Yeah, they're bandits!"

"What kind of people are bandits? They kill people without blinking an eye, rob things without paying, kidnap and extort, and do all kinds of evil!"

After listening to the elders' words, Clan Leader Liu felt very embarrassed.

In the end, most people were still afraid and decided to accept it temporarily and let them build this chicken farm on a wasteland far away from the village.

The reason is very simple, that is, they are afraid of retaliation from the other party.

In this way, the so-called collusion is actually just one party being afraid at the beginning and having to cooperate.

As for why not report to the police?

Officials in the feudal era were even more cruel than bandits.

The bandits can still be negotiated with, but most officials are exiled and will not punish people for forcing them to death.

Once the report is made, the yamen runners will come and entertain and pay them.

After several attacks, the bandits were not driven away and the village was eaten up.

This is also the root cause why banditry can never be stopped despite repeated bans - the people have no way to rely on the government.

In this way, Qingyunshan and the local big households used coercion and inducement one by one, and after the chicken farms were built and the big households saw the profits, they were finally tempted.

I also know that this group of bandits is different from ordinary bandits.

They can collude.

County officials do not go to the countryside.

One big household after another colluded with Qingyun Mountain.

Those who refused naturally had to eat flat noodles or wontons.

Qingyunshan is not a saint, she holds a knife in one hand and money in the other.

Those who don't obey will be beaten with a knife.

This is also the key to rising in the feudal era: you have to make people fear you.

It's nonsense to expect them to believe you by talking about those big principles.

Because many people are uneducated, they don’t understand reason and logic, and they don’t even know what is good or bad. They only know the most primitive logic: whoever has the bigger fist has the authority.

Now the bandits in Qingyun Mountain have the bigger fists, so naturally we have to listen to them.

This is also the basis for foreign races to enter the Central Plains - the foreign races have bigger fists, so just listen to them.

If the democratic consciousness is truly awakened, then foreign races will not be able to enter because the cost of ruling them is too high.

No government has the time to wipe them out.

Moreover, when the officer heard that they were bandits, he naturally lost 70% of his vigilance - he knew that bandits would not be able to accomplish anything.

If it is a secret society, they will be highly alert.

After all, this thing can cause a lot of noise, such as the Yellow Turbans in the Three Kingdoms period.

The bandits are local residents who roam around a small area and cause little harm.

The key is that they only extort the people and have no impact on their masters.

Qingyun Mountain took advantage of this mentality and used the appearance of bandits to accumulate wealth.

With the help of these big households, they first set up breeding farms.

By raising earthworms and chickens, the basic meat problem has been greatly solved.

With meat, it can be said that victory is half won.

Soldiers eating meat and eating vegetarian food are two different levels.

Simply put, I can run a hundred miles a day, and you can only run fifty miles at most.

I can keep fighting for an hour, but you can only fight for a quarter of an hour.

Many times, the key battle is decided in a hard fight.

In fact, both sides were evenly matched at the beginning, but later in the tough battle, whoever couldn't hold on first collapsed.

Death comes after the collapse.

The Ming Dynasty was not unable to defeat the Qing Dynasty from the beginning, but it was unable to defeat the Qing Dynasty after a hard fight.

Qingyun Mountain’s approach is to focus on logistics first and then increase the number of troops.

This has one big advantage.

That is to follow Liu Bang’s path – fail a few times and then rise again.

Because in the feudal era, labor resources were too abundant.

Too cheap.

In fact, it means that military resources are cheap.

As long as there is food, we can recruit soldiers continuously.

In ancient times, information flow was slow, and Qingyun Mountain had been expanding for a long time, but several nearby counties were still unaware of it.

Just treat them as bandits.

Some people say that "the bandits in Qingyun Mountain are very powerful, so you have to be careful when passing by there."

"If you can get around it, get around it."

The local county magistrate actually knew some inside information and knew that these bandits were good at governance.

It was outrageous that those impoverished villages could become prosperous—even to the point where they could eat meat.

Things like earthworm farming, giant maggot farming, mushroom farming... It's simply outrageous and unheard of.

The county magistrate was too lazy to send anyone to investigate.

Anyway, he still has one year before he has to be rotated.

Making money quickly is the important thing.

This was the characteristic of the county town in that feudal era.

If you can ignore it, just ignore it.

Until things become so big that no one can cover it up.

…

This model expanded rapidly.

Only three years had passed, and hundreds of villages at the foot of Qingyun Mountain had been built.

And everyone in the village joined the gang.

These villages must obey Qingyunshan's orders.

Whoever doesn't listen will die.

The local residents cannot defeat the bandits.

But so far, it has reached its limitations.

Unless they send people out to open branch bases.

Otherwise, due to distance and communication issues, their Qingyun Mountain would no longer be able to expand outward.

It takes ten days or half a month to transmit information once, leaving no time to react to anything.

Moreover, people sent outside are also easily dragged down by big investors.

Because the information is not flowing smoothly enough.

This day.

In Qingyun Mountain.

Secret meeting in the village.

"If we continue like this, we can only open a few dozen villages at most, and that's it." Number Two took out the most recent bill and showed it to everyone.

Due to communication problems, there were obviously many errors and omissions on the bill.

Those people are too greedy and unscrupulous.

He really thinks of himself as a bandit.

"It seems that we must solve the communication problem. Otherwise, we won't be able to monitor them in real time. The internal friction has already increased." Number One nodded.

"We have only been operating for a few years?" No. 3 said dissatisfiedly, "These people just can't stand the silver in their black eyes."

“It’s ridiculous.”

Vincent didn't say much, he just said: "We have to solve the communication problem."

"So how do we solve the communication problem?"

"Carrier pigeons, manpower, beacon towers?" asked No. 1.

"Use radio." Vincent said directly.

"Radio? Isn't this too far ahead of its time?"

"Haha, in fact, the simplest radio can be made by amateurs." Vincent smiled, "The difficulty in inventing radio lies in the theory, and we all happen to know the theory."

"Electric current, whether it is turned on or off, can generate radio waves."

"And to receive radio waves, you can use a crystal radio."

"The communication distance can be extended to hundreds or even thousands of kilometers in an instant."

"I think you all know the principle behind this."

Number One nodded and said, "The crystal radio is indeed very simple. It only uses a few crystals and a coil, and can be made manually."

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“Yes, early radios were made by hand.”

Everyone nodded, and they decided to cheat for themselves.

Radio is something that has very high technical barriers.

If you don’t know the theory, you will never be able to replicate it.

In other words, they can master a communication technology that is epoch-making.

It can be said that radio is a hack they have given themselves in this era.

This thing is native to the local area and there is no way to deal with it.

It is not like a musket, which ordinary natives can imitate by getting a sample.

Because the principle is very simple: gunpowder propels the projectile, and it is easy to understand at a glance.

But radio equipment is a combination of hardware and software.

The hardware is the sending and receiving of radio waves, and the software is the encryption and decryption of Morse code.

If the natives want to understand it, they must obtain the training materials of four people and understand the principles of radio before they can truly learn how to use it.

Otherwise, it can only be regarded as an expensive toy, fun to watch but cannot be used in practice.

This is completely different from muskets and cannons.

Soon the four of them were training personnel while developing radio transceivers.

This research and development took another year and a half.

It can be said that they have been patient long enough.

Of course, compared with many peasant uprisings in history, it was actually not long.

For example, the Yellow Turbans’ early missionary work went through more than ten years of secret preparation and gathered a large number of congregants.

The key is that many people in the local government know of its existence and believe in it...

This is due to lack of experience and immaturity.

The imperial court later became highly wary of this kind of organization and could only carry it out secretly in the countryside.

Even so, it still had a great momentum from time to time, enough to shake an entire province or even the imperial court.

By the end of the dynasty, it would become even more powerful and would often merge with various forces to grow stronger.

Now, they have finally developed a radio transceiver.

"This is the clairvoyance God gave us!"

"We, the Qingyun Society, are chosen by the gods to change the world!"

When the radio successfully sent and received a telegram hundreds of miles away, the shock it caused inside was enormous.

Before, those minions only regarded the four leaders as teachers who knew a lot about them.

But now, they were truly in awe.

After all, the previous raising of chickens and mushrooms was not shocking enough.

But radio is a real artifact!

There is no denying that in this technology that is comparable to that of the sixteenth century, the technology from the nineteenth century is a magical artifact.

With radio transceiver equipment, they can finally extend their reach to a wider range.

It can travel at least 500 kilometers in one breath.

This is mainly due to signal problems.

Although the electromagnetic environment is very clean in this era.

But they lacked a high-power generator, so the electromagnetic signal was not strong enough.

This problem exists even if it is installed on the highest mountain.

Fortunately, at least this solves the problem of disobedience in various places.

The military supervisors they sent out could generate electricity every day.

Just the simplest two words will do.

"Yes or no."

"Yes, it means there is something abnormal."

"No, it means there is nothing abnormal."

Once a place says "no", they can quickly send people to check it out, followed by severe punishment.

With this timely intervention of the radio, this created a furnace effect below.

It burns your hand if you touch it.

People's reverence for laws does not lie in their severity, but in whether they provide timely feedback.

Immediate feedback upon offense will make people think a lot.

In this way, the communication problem is solved.

Soon Qingyun will begin to expand rapidly.

…………

This day.

Another two years passed.

The Qingyun Society has spread throughout the government and the country.

They have tentacles everywhere, and every bandit den regards Qingyun Society as their leader.

It looks like it has a scale of hundreds of thousands.

"It's time to rebel!"

"There is another severe drought in the west, and the government has not reduced taxes. We should rebel!"

"Well, let's start a riot!"

Soon, everyone used Qingyun Society's radio equipment to send the code to all parties:

"0, 0, 0".

This means something’s going to happen!

Because there was no need to send people around, they were not exposed in advance like the Yellow Turbans.

Soon all parties finally started the uprising.

The first to rebel were in the drought-stricken areas.

There were more than four million people affected by the disaster.

In the past, a disaster would not be over until at least two million people had starved to death.

It seems that there are a lot of people like this, but in fact, this is how feudal society is.

Even in prosperous times, there are still many people who die accidentally.

Soon, uprisings broke out on all sides.

People in the disaster area quickly gathered tens of thousands of refugees, and they were all rallied together by the Qingyun Society.

Then came hundreds of thousands, then millions of people.

These people were like a torrent, sweeping directly into the vicinity.

The court then sent out a large army.

As a result, the 30,000-strong army was directly defeated by this torrent.

Because these are not ordinary refugees, but organized refugees with core military forces.

Therefore the court was defeated.

The imperial court then sent another 60,000 troops, including tens of thousands of young and strong men.

But they were still defeated.

Because of the radio, Qingyun will know the movements and marching routes of the imperial army in advance.

Directly contact Qingyun Society members in various places by radio and cut off the court's logistics.

The 60,000-strong army was in a stalemate for only a month before its food and supplies were cut off and it collapsed.

More than half of them defected and surrendered to the Qingyun Society.

The power of radio is evident from this.

And this is just the beginning.

Soon the four continued to order attacks in various places and cooperate with each other.

The transfer is very convenient.

This is the advantage of having radio, which can transmit orders to every force in real time.

And these people are still very afraid.

Because it is a divine weapon.

It's actually cheating.