Chapter 2 Jedi

The people who built the kilns and the people from many mine caves at the foot of Yushi Mountain gathered around the place where something happened. There were at least hundreds or thousands of people, but there were too many people to do nothing. People could only dig that small piece of place with hoes and shovels. Most people couldn't even squeeze in, so they could only surround there and worry. Even if the buried ones were not smashed to death, they would suffocate to death.

The north wind is still howling, and the wind is holding the lost relatives and friends, and it is a pure sad song on the white earth.

Someone shouted: If the government does not regard us as human beings, it is better to rebel than to die in a foreign land sooner or later!

When everyone heard this, they calmed down a little, looking for something with their eyes.

The officials and soldiers in the mine were outside the crowd and did not dare to squeeze in; what people were looking for was not the manager of the mine, but Cui Qigao, the eldest son of the dead Doctor Cui.

At this time, everyone knows that someone needs to take the lead so that they can have a chance to do things.

The slave exiled the government and the rebellion of the government were believed in the children of knowledge. Cui Qigao's identity as a gentry became the embodiment of wisdom and strategy in the hearts of everyone. At this moment, the identity itself was a kind of prestige.

Cui Qigao's relatives and friends gathered over, and a young man said: With just one word from the young master, we will start a trouble now and we can immediately raise a thousand and eight hundred people!

Cui Qigao was calm at this moment. His expression looked very serious. His face seemed more resolute than when he was a son of the scholar. His suffering experience and the turbulent Liaodong environment made him grow.

He was silent for a long time and said to the people next to him: As long as a team of horses is transferred to Ruluo City, all of us will be suppressed immediately!Even if we escaped the first round of attacks in Ruluo City, Liucheng still has more than 10,000 elite soldiers stationed in three towns, plus tens of thousands of border troops in Yingzhou. Our group of people will face the fully armed official army before they can grow and grow, and have no chance of winning.

After hearing this, people's expressions became dimmer and dimmer, and their despair spread in the wind.A voice said: Can we just wait for death here?

Cui Qigao reviewed the left and right and said: The supervisors in the mine did not dare to conflict with us at this time, but the only way to seize the opportunity to escape. They could not stop it and dared not stop it.Walking northeast, there are only two alert sentinels in front; leaving Yingzhou, run towards Liaoshui.Gewuzhou and Liaocheng areas are still areas where Hu people are active. Those Hu people fought a war with Du Xian's army a few months ago and had a bad relationship with the Liucheng government. They should not help the government to capture us back.

Someone said with concern: Du Xian killed so many Hu people. We are Han people and run to the territory of Hu people. Will they be cut off directly by them?

Cui Qigao gritted his teeth and said: I'm waiting for a seven-foot man. Even if I have a bamboo pole in my hand, I'll have to exchange my life for the Hu people if I want to kill them!

After saying that, I turned around and looked east. There was no sun in the gray east. There were only sand and snow flakes blown by the wind in the sky. The vast area was like an unknown future.

Let's go!Cui Qigao and others picked up shovels and other tools and left the messy coal mine accident site, and suddenly there were many miners who could not bear the hard and bad life of slaves.

The officials and soldiers who were arrogant before did not dare to go up to stop it at this moment. At first glance, they were rebellious and had so many people. Now they still want to go up and shout, aren’t they looking for death?

The officials could only watch the hard worker left the mine in a swaying manner, and a large group of people gradually drifted away in the desolate snow.

After half a day, a team of horses came from Ruluo City. When the miners arrived at the scene, they were almost finished.

The lieutenant who led the troops was a little surprised when he saw this situation, because it was not the first time he led his troops to suppress the rebellion. In most cases, the officials and soldiers at the location of the accident would be killed or fled early. This time, the situation was rare, and the officials at the scene were still guarding here.

After asking about the situation and the time of escape, the lieutenant led the army thought there was no need to chase after him anymore, because this place was very close to the border of Yingzhou, and even if he walked in half a day, he would have left Yingzhou long ago. Leading troops out of the country to fight was not a matter of authority by a lieutenant, even if he chased him out now, it would be easier to catch him.

They are the official army, so they have rules and a set of military laws. What the lieutenant should do now is to report the situation to the guard guard in Ruluo City and obey the guard's military orders.

Ru Luo Shouzhao did not pay attention to the fact that hundreds of people escaped. What he was most concerned about was completing the coking and cement issued by Liucheng. The new general manager was the emperor's confidant, and Zhang Wulang, who was named the Marquis, would be greatly beneficial to the future if Ru Luo Shouzhao could be appreciated by Zhang Wulang.

The matter in the mine was serious unless someone gathered to raise an army to attack Ruluo City. Now he has just escaped. He planned to transfer miners from other places and could not stop work for a day. In addition, the officials in charge actually watched the person run away without doing anything and would be questioned.

However, his aide couldn't help but ask the general who came to report: Who is the leader?

The general replied: According to the official's oral statement, this person's name is Cui Qigao, a descendant of the Cuimen in Huazhou. His father used to be a doctor in the Shangshu Province. He was executed for implicating the case of rebellion. His clan was exiled to Yingzhou, with more than 1,000 people.

The staff hurriedly advised the shouqiao: The escaped criminal is not simple. He knows how to avoid my sharp edge, bend and stretch. Leaving him no matter what, I am afraid it will be a disaster. The general will be able to move troops out as soon as possible to eliminate future troubles!

Ru Luo Shouchao disagreed and said: It was winter when the snow in the northeast was thousands of miles away, and there was not even a single grain of food outside. These Han prisoners could neither hunt nor nomadic, nor did they have any soldiers to loot, so what should they eat in the wild? If he doesn't come back and surrender, he will starve to death. What does he do?

The staff insisted: At least send a small group of people to find out where they are.

After hearing this, the guards had to order the scout camp to send a team out of the country to search for news. He turned around and threw this matter out of his mind.

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Cui Qigao led hundreds of people to flee to the northeast. After a few days, he did not find any pursuers, and the situation eased. However, at the same time, he had eaten up a little dry food from the mine, and there were no tents and other items. The biggest enemy he faced was the natural environment.

He gathered his tribe members and a few older people to form a center to discuss his next plan.

People were forced to solve the problem of survival only by robbing Hu tribes near Liaoshui and tents and livestock.

But someone advised: Even if you succeed once, the next situation will be a desperate situation!If they offended the Hu people, they would soon gather troops to attack. We only have a few hundred people, and we lack weapons and arrows, so we are definitely not the opponent of Hu soldiers.

First seize food from the Hu people, and then to the Khitan people!

Cui Qigao said firmly, he looked back and continued to say that in Liaodong, all forces are based on their own people, and the Han people have only established themselves in Yingzhou.We are Han people, but we cannot rely on Yingzhou. We can't survive by fighting alone. People have to bow their heads under the roof. Only by joining the Khitan can we survive.

Someone interrupted: The Khitan is discussing peace with Liucheng. Will they escort us back, or simply cut us down, and we will turn into sheep and enter the tiger's mouth?

Khitan Li Dehuo would never be willing to send Yingzhou to the point where he could gain a foothold in Liaodong.Peace talks?It was just a stopgap measure. They were now suffering from their strength and were unwilling to have a large-scale conflict with the Jin Dynasty.

Cui Qigao sneered, as long as the Khitans see our value, they are not afraid that they will not be willing to use it.We can provoke rebellions on the Yingzhou border and create opportunities for the Khitan troops to harass them; if our people can return to Hebei and Henan, they can also cause uprisings in China.Didn’t the Khitans want to retake Yingzhou?In Hebei, if some troops in the three towns of Yingzhou were transferred south, they would have a chance.

An older man nodded in favor: When I was escorted from Huazhou, I heard the wind that the imperial court would build the Great Wall in Hebei in the beginning of next spring, requiring a large number of people. They could only recruit them from Hebei, Hedong and Henan nearby, and the people complained.If the young master could use Huazhou as the fundamental cause, Huazhou would be approaching Hebei, which had the heaviest labor service next year, and the rebel army would soon advance towards Hebei Road.

Cui Qigao said: I am exactly the plan. We want to send people back to Huazhou to rebel. We can only rely on the help of the Khitans and then use Xi’s territory.Otherwise, there will be many castles on the front line of Yuguan, and we will never be able to get through as fugitives.This is the second reason why we must vote for the Khitan (the first one is to survive).

Third, if the uprising is serious in the future, the court will definitely transfer large troops from Guanzhong and other places to suppress it. At the beginning of the uprising, we have few villains and are not opponents of the official army, and it is easy to be eliminated at the beginning. As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. Only by avoiding the initial difficulties and making the situation stalemate, can we put the banner of restoring the Tang Dynasty in the name of the Xue family's injustice and levying heavy taxes to further do major things.

The Khitans also don’t want to see a strong Jin under their heads. In addition, if the Khitan can regain Yingzhou, we will also have the credit for supporting us.In the future, we can use the Khitan, Xi and other Hu people to jointly restrain the Jin army; we can also avoid the Jin army's advance and retreat to the outside of Yu Pass, and gain a foothold with the Khitan.

Cui Qigao was deeply and taciturn when he was working hard. His words shocked everyone today and made people look at him with admiration.

Tell me one set of strategies and make plans early. In everyone's mind, isn't this the one who does big things?

It is unquestionable that he became the leader of a crowd.

Cui Qigao never had such ambitions when he was a gentry prince. He didn't want to make any substantial moves for the Xue family to seize the country. At most, he could only talk verbally in private; but now he was forced to survive, and his courage and ambition were exponentially expanding...

Because there is nothing to lose.

When people have nothing to lose, it is the beginning of plundering.

As for helping alien races deal with suspicion of traitors in the Central Plains, what is the meaning of this to Cui Qigao?

There is no other righteousness in fighting, the only meaning is that you die or I die.