In Fengzhou,

the door of a warehouse of a certain landlord outside Qiyun Mountain was broken open. Inside was a mountain of rice and bags of milled rice, which stunned a group of former refugees.

"Evil thief, the people outside are starving to death, but the grain in your home is so much that it is moldy, and even the dog in your home is so shiny, I will kill you..."

A righteous man was furious and wanted to kill the tied landlord, but was stopped by Lin Jiang. Killing people is meaningless. The important thing now is to get food.

"What are you standing there for? Thank you for the gift from the master."

Lin Jiang shouted, and everyone agreed to go to the master's house to harness a cart. The master not only has food, but also precious horses, cattle and other large livestock. It is better to use a horse-drawn carriage to pull it than to carry it on people's backs.

Three horse-drawn carriages and two ox-drawn carts were filled to the brim. Each person carried a bag of grain, but only one warehouse was filled. There are several such warehouses.

"Tian Xiong, let the volunteers put down the food on their backs, mobilize the people, let them help transport the food, and give 50 kilograms of rice to those who help."

"Sir, absolutely not. If the people take the rice, once we leave, these people will definitely retaliate,"

Tian Xiong said hurriedly. Not every rich family is as kind as him. Once they leave, how can these rich families let go of the mud legs outside.

"Look at the weather, it's getting colder and colder. Without food to fill their stomachs, how many of them can survive the winter? Even if they die, give them a chance to be a full ghost. Go, do as I say,"

Lin Jiang said. These landlords may retaliate afterwards, but can they be blamed on Lin Jiang and others? Why not blame these landlords? Why blame kind people like Lin Jiang? Is it because Lin Jiang and others are kind?

Seeing Lin Jiang's firm attitude, Tian Xiong wanted to persuade him several times, but he didn't know how to start. The people outside saw the food and had already coveted it.

"Forget it, forget it, so be it,"

Tian Xiong sighed. He felt that if it was a little darker, it would be better to do so. The more oppressive the landlords were, the more help they would have in the future.

A large number of people were mobilized, and bags of food were taken away, and even their other properties were not spared. These were the people's hard-earned money, and Lin Jiang felt no guilt in taking them.

Two days later, Lin Jiang said to the rich family, "In two days, I have received more than 200 complaints, including 38 cases involving human lives. I don't know how many people were forced to death by you. I originally only wanted to take money, but now I have to take lives. In the name of heaven and earth, I sentence you to death."

Lin Jiang really wanted to keep them at first, but in the past two days, the nearby villagers regarded Lin Jiang and his men as saviors and came to report the evil deeds of the rich family. There were 38 people who were directly killed by them. Hearing that the anger of the rebels also soared, Lin Jiang decided to execute them.

"Tian Xiong, leave fifty people as guards, the rest of you come with me, and continue to ask for the master's favor."

"Sir, this, or we should stop while we are ahead, in case the soldiers come after us."

"I am here, what are you afraid of? You know how much food 100,000 people need to eat a day, this is nothing."

Lin Jiang didn't care at all, and was not afraid of soldiers coming. The government system of Chen State was no different from before. At the county level, the jurisdiction was very large. As for their current town, it was more than 100 miles away from the county. The transportation in this era was not so convenient.

Even if there were, how many soldiers and horses were there in the county? At most, there were a few hundred constables and clerks. When they came, Lin Jiang would have left long ago. Even if he was caught up, Lin Jiang was not afraid.

Tian Xiong was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed again. He was still a little unaccustomed. Now they have a martial saint in charge, and Chen State only has a few martial saints. Even if they attack the city, it's okay.

So the action continued, and they went to other places to look for the master's favor. After a month, winter came and it was getting colder and colder, so everyone was able to return to the mountain.

In the barracks of officers and soldiers on the first hill, there were mountains of food, cloth and other supplies. People from all towns were mobilized, and the food was piled here. Dozens of looted ox carts and horse carts were transporting food to the mountains day and night, but they had not yet finished transporting it.

"Sir, many people from several towns outside the mountain have sent their children here, saying that they are afraid of revenge from the rich, or that they can't feed them. You see..."

"How many people are there?"

"More than 600, but I'm afraid that once..."

Tian Xiong said, he was afraid that if this hole was opened, there would be a steady stream of people sending people, and they couldn't feed so many people.

"Stay."

"Ah, sir, you really want to stay."

"Stay, Tian Xiong, you sympathize with the people in your neighborhood, but I sympathize with people in the whole world. Now I don't have the strength, so if one person can survive, then one person can survive. Everyone stay. Convene the high-level leaders of the rebel army to discuss matters tonight,"

said Lin Jiang. Tian Xiong's kindness is limited, and he is kind to those who follow him. Lin Jiang is teaching him to have a bigger picture. Lin Jiang himself does not want to be the emperor, but if Tian Xiong shows enough qualities, Lin Jiang does not mind letting him be the emperor.

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"This time when we went down the mountain, eleven lords donated to us. The food and cloth we got are countless, and I can't count them. I don't know if it is enough for the rebels in the mountain to spend the winter."

"Enough, enough, sir, it is definitely enough,"

Tian Xiong said hurriedly. They did not measure how much food they had, but they had millions of kilograms, plus what they had stored before, they would definitely not starve to death.

"Not enough, I have seen the situation of the rebels, almost all of them are malnourished. My goal is not to keep you from starving to death, but to make you full and strong."

"Sir, this..."

Everyone was moved. In this world, except for those corrupt officials and wealthy families, who dares to say that they can eat enough, not even those wealthy families with more than ten acres of land dared to do so.

"Listen to me, don't interrupt me, I will make arrangements for you"

"Yes, sir"

"Qin Yong, all the money in the mountain is given to you, you still have to go down the mountain to buy things, mainly food, cloth, medicinal materials, be careful not to be eaten" "Do

n't worry, sir, I am familiar with Fengzhou City"

"Well, Tian Xiong, you are responsible for the affairs in the mountain. You have experience on how to spend the winter, I won't say more"

"Yes, sir"

"Military Advisor, you call all the literate people in the mountain here, and at the same time gather all the people aged eight to eighteen in the mountain here, regardless of gender"

"Sir, you want..."

"Let the righteous army be reborn, in one winter, I will teach them to read and write"

Lin Jiang said, one winter is not enough to turn them into martial arts masters, but it can make them the basic base and backbone of Lin Jiang in the future.

Everyone looked at each other, they never had such an idea, is this the pattern of the Martial Saint?

"I have prepared for adults as well. I will give you enough martial arts secrets, simple sword techniques, inner strength skills and everything else. So except for the old, weak and disabled, no one in the mountain is allowed to be idle. You must practice and eat as much as you want. Each person must eat at least two kilograms of food a day."

"Sir, we can't survive this way of eating."

Tian Xiong felt dizzy. Tens of thousands of people, two kilograms of food a day, that's two hundred thousand kilograms a day, how can they eat it all? They used to have one or two taels of food a day, plus some stored wild vegetables, tree bark and the like, just enough to avoid starvation. In the past few years, there was not even one or two taels of food.

"Let's talk about it later. How can you not eat enough when studying and practicing martial arts?"

Lin Jiang waved his hand. If it's not enough, just think of a way. You can go to a deeper place to hunt, or go down the mountain to continue looking for the master's favor. Can a living person be suffocated to death by urine?

Lin Jiang forcefully suppressed everyone's opinions and asked them to carry out the order.

The efficiency of the righteous army was very high. It took only more than ten days to send all the children in the mountains to the barracks here. Together with the people sent from outside the mountains, there were more than 5,000 people in total.

During this period, another army came from outside the mountains, with 7,000 to 8,000 people. Most of them were servants and guards of the noble families in Fengzhou. They also invited a martial arts master, who was easily defeated by Lin Jiang and received a batch of weapons and supplies. The big men outside the mountains were really kind-hearted, and Lin Jiang was almost moved to tears. There were

more than 5,000 teenagers. Lin Jiang organized a hundred classes with 50 people in each class, and asked them to read and learn to write first. A few wooden boards were nailed to become blackboards.

The writing of the Chen Kingdom was the simplified Chinese characters that Lin Jiang had passed down in those days. After all, he didn't know traditional Chinese characters very well, but Lin Jiang didn't teach them pinyin earlier. This time, Lin Jiang also taught pinyin, first teaching the more than 20 people who knew the characters of the military advisor. Lin Jiang taught the more than 20 people who knew the characters at night, and they taught the children during the day. Everyone learned, and the more than 20 teachers just taught while learning.

In the first twenty days, they only studied and did not practice martial arts. Most of them were too weak to withstand the training, so Lin Jiang tried every means to supplement their nutrition. Most of the fat and livestock he got from the master went into their stomachs.

Tian Xiong and his friends had no objection. Parents always have a different tenderness for their children.

But Lin Jiang was very strict with them. They had to learn twenty words a day. Those who couldn't learn would be punished, such as standing, slapping the palm, and running. Those who learned quickly would be rewarded, such as an extra piece of meat, or being able to meet with Lin Jiang alone and have a heart-to-heart talk with them.

Lin Jiang promoted those who learned quickly to class monitors, and they also had the obligation to teach others, so Lin Jiang had another group of little teachers.

These children also studied very hard. It was not the case that they were lazy and slept in class. It was normal to gather around the campfire at night to continue learning. After twenty days, more than 3,000 people had mastered 400 words proficiently, and basic reading and writing were not a big problem.

Afterwards, Lin Jiang began to teach them to be familiar with the human body's meridians, acupoints and other knowledge about the human body, and was ready to teach them martial arts. The external kung fu trained the hands and feet, and Lin Jiang only planned to teach them the most advanced internal kung fu from the beginning to see if he could cultivate a few masters.