After hearing this, Zhong Mingliang was the most intelligent leader among all the leaders of the Ming Cult. How could he not understand what Di Fan meant?
Only then did he understand the iron rule that Fang La had set for the successor to the leader!
[Mingjiao leader, your father cannot be a member of the Mingjiao! ]
It turns out that Saint Fang La had known about the drawbacks long ago and had already set up obstacles for the position of the leader of the Ming Cult!
(PS: This is a bit of a fabrication...well, purely for plot integration!)
At this moment, Zhong Mingliang was disheartened. He waved his hand and signaled everyone to disperse... Then, he asked the waiter to set up a table of wine and food, and did not want anyone to accompany him. He only left three people in the hall and drove the rest out.
During this period, apart from the necessary instructions, Zhong Mingliang did not say a word, nor did he look at the top leaders of the Ming Cult again!
After everyone left, Zhong Mingliang invited the two to sit down. "Alliance Leader Long, Mr. Di, you two shouldn't be afraid that I might poison the food and wine, right?"
"Master, you are joking. Please!"
"please!"
The two of them sat down generously, and at the banquet, they drank happily, clinking glasses.
After drinking a few jars of rice wine, Zhong Mingliang was a little tipsy... He relaxed and chatted directly with the two of them about his past.
"Alliance Leader Long, Mr. Di, you don't know how hard I've been..."
It turns out that Zhong Mingliang's original surname wasn't Zhong at all! His real surname was Zhong! Yes, you read that correctly. It was the Zhong family army that fought a desperate battle against the Western Xia during the Northern Song Dynasty, nearly annihilating them, and even held off the Jin army at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty!
And he is Zhong Jiajun, the great-great-grandson of Zhong Shidao! Zhong Mingliang!
After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Zhong family also became a family that the Jin Dynasty wanted to kill. In desperation, they had to change their names and flee to the south...
In the past, when Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and other four generals who restored the Southern Song Dynasty once led the army to defeat the Jin army and even attacked Huanglongfu, the Zhong family was extremely excited and wanted to make a comeback... But when the army was at its peak, Yue Fei was recalled by twelve golden medals and died unjustly in Fengbo Pavilion, which instantly completely destroyed the spirit of the Zhong family. Zhong Mingliang's grandfather and father both died of depression, leaving only the two brothers to depend on each other.
The family suffered a drastic change, and the Zhong family's original loyalty to the emperor and patriotism was completely wiped out! Zhong Mingliang, at the age of seven, watched his grandfather die before his eyes and made up his mind to overthrow the corrupt Song Dynasty!
So, when he was 12 years old, he ran away from home, changed his name, and looked for a way to destroy the Song Dynasty... Finally, by chance, he met the Xuanwu Altar of the Ming Cult. After learning about the teachings of the Ming Cult, especially the overthrow of the Song Dynasty as his life goal, he chose to join the Ming Cult and worked hard to climb up. Finally, with the excellent talent of the Zhong family, he broke through and became the leader of the Ming Cult as he deserved!
Everything they saw today was the product of Zhong Mingliang's family knowledge! Especially the military training method that even Di Fan admired, it came from the most elite Zhong family army in the Song Dynasty!
[I was wondering why the Ming Cult's Five Elements Flags became so stingy in the later period, completely different from what they are now. It turns out that the current Five Elements Flags' training methods came from the Zong Family Army!]
[I imagine that if the six major sects had besieged Bright Summit during the Yitian Tulong era and encountered these Five Elements Flags... hehe! Even those ragtag groups would have been dispersed with just one charge.]
[No, I finally got to see the descendants of the Zhong family army. I must find a way to take down Zhong Mingliang and the Ming Cult!]
Di Fan made up his mind to capture Zhong Mingliang... and Zhong Mingliang's narration was nearing its end.
"So, after I become the leader, I must overthrow the Song Dynasty... But, Mr. Di's words today made me realize that it was all just a dream! Haha!"
Zhong Mingliang laughed wildly towards the sky, picked up a jar of fine wine and was about to drink it in big gulps.
But when he raised the wine jar, Di Fan suddenly stretched out a hand and held it down...
"Master Zhong, have you really given up hope?"
"If I don't give up, what else can I do?"
Sect Leader Zhong laughed, not knowing whether he was addressing Di Fan or himself.
"If you have given up the idea of overthrowing the Song Dynasty, why not listen to our rebellion plan?"
Di Fan was still looking at him with a smile... Zhong Mingliang stared at the clear and confident eyes, then looked at Xiaolongnu who was emitting a slightly domineering aura, and chuckled!
"Haha! I originally wanted to convince you to join me, but you saw through my words. I didn't expect that you would want to subjugate me now? Interesting!"
"Tell me about it!"
"Then I will have a good talk with Master Zhong!"
In the following moments, Di Fan repeated to Zhong Mingliang what he had said to Huang Rong. Unlike Huang Rong, who was simple and intelligent but lacked experience in Party and imperial politics, Zhong Mingliang, who came from a distinguished family, always asked crucial questions.
There are issues such as how to manage and train the army; how to supervise military rations to avoid waste and corruption; how to train non-commissioned officers and counselors; and how to deal with conflicts between the aristocratic families and the common people.
Many of his questions made Xiaolongnu, no, it should be said that even Di Fan, make great progress, and even had many new insights into the entire uprising plan.
It turns out that a dynasty can't be established by just talking about it! Without saying too much, the key issues facing the Song Dynasty today, how to deal with redundant officials and soldiers, and how to balance the contradictions between civil and military affairs, made Di Fan rack his brains.
It's not that methods from later generations are useless, but rather that the common people and farmers of today are not qualified to learn. Their literacy rate is not even one-tenth of that of the early Chinese nation. Many methods that are useful in later generations wouldn't necessarily have been effective in the feudal era.
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