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The world is vast. From the Central Plains to the Jiangnan region, hundreds or even thousands of miles separate one force from another. The spread of news always lags. While the people in Lin'an were tentatively exploring the clues of the world situation and waiting anxiously for developments, the negotiations in Xicheng County and the reforms in Fuzhou were advancing relentlessly.

The negotiations in Xicheng County were initially regarded as a strategy of retreat by the China Army. People who harbored deep-seated hatred and wanted to kill Dai Mengwei fantasized that the China Army would use public opinion to its advantage, reveal its true colors, and kill Dai Mengwei in Xicheng County. However, as time went on, such expectations gradually faded.

This might be a development that even Dai Mengwei himself had not expected. However, while harboring a fluke mentality, his actions did not stop. On one hand, he had people publicize the news that tens of thousands of people in Xicheng County, upholding great righteousness, had forced the Black Flag Army to retreat. On the other hand, he stirred up more public opinion, attracting more people to gather towards Xicheng County.

The common people are blind. Although those who have just escaped the shadow of death dare not be enemies with the Black Flag Army that defeated the Jurchen army, when they hear the story that public opinion outside Xicheng County is as strong as a mountain and even fierce people like the Black Flag Army have to give way, a sense of heroism inevitably rises in their hearts - we are standing on the side of justice, and we are so invincible!

People enjoy such emotions. As a result, more common people came to Xicheng County to confront the Black Flag Army. When they realized that the Black Flag Army was indeed reasonable, the "justice" in their hearts was further stimulated. This confrontation might become a highlight of their lives.

These scenes later became Dai Mengwei's political influence. In his alliance with Liu Guangshi, he was able to gain more initiative. At this time, he also received promises from Wanyan Xiyin regarding Bianliang and other places.

The changes in the world are most bizarre. As Wu Qimei and others remembered, Dai Mengwei in the past was just a pedantic scholar. In terms of influence and network of relationships, he was probably far inferior to anyone who had ascended to the political centers of Lin'an and Fuzhou. But who would have thought that, relying on a series of repeated operations of borrowing flowers to offer to the Buddha, he could ascend to the core of the entire world? Even forces like the Jurchens and the China Army had to yield to him. In a sense, this really gives people a feeling that when the time comes, the whole world will work together.

Later, some people also lamented: in the past, the Wu Dynasty's military strength was weak. It played tricks and sowed discord between the Jin and Liao, thinking that relying on some strategies, it could bridge the gap in strength, but in the end, it set itself on fire, and the country was destroyed. But now it seems that it was just that those people's strategies were too clumsy. If Dai Mengwei had seven-tenths of his current ability, I am afraid that the vast Wu Dynasty would not have been in such a situation.

The China Army gave Dai Mengwei enough face by retreating. Under this appearance of gaining widespread support, most people did not understand the persuasion and advocacy of the China Army when it agreed to negotiate. For more than ten years, people had been accustomed to the principle of seeing the truth between knives and guns as victims of aggression. They regarded the seemingly peaceful exhortations as weak and incompetent talk. Some people therefore adjusted their evaluation of the China Army, and some people went to Hanzhong to directly protest to Ning Yi and Qin Shaoqian.

Jin Chenghu and Scarface, who responded to the gathering of righteousness under Fu Lu's advocacy, were among the representatives of the protest.

After arriving in Hanzhong, what they saw in the China Army's Hanzhong camp was not much of the festive atmosphere that should have resulted from the victory. Many soldiers of the China Army were helping the people to clean up the mess in Hanzhong City. Ning Yi received them on the seventh day of May and conveyed to them the China Army's willingness to follow the wishes of the people. Then, he invited them to Chengdu in June to discuss the future direction of the China Army. Such an invitation moved some people, but the previous views could not convince Jianghu figures like Jin Chenghu and Scarface. They continued to protest.

Ning Yi listened quietly from above, and was silent for a long time.

"Senior Fu Lu and I are also old friends. Before the war, I invited him to come out of the mountains and called on the Green Forest people to participate in the anti-Jin war. He came happily. Now that the Battle of Hanzhong has been won, I am very sad not to see him," he said. "Regarding the Xicheng County incident, I know that many of you don't understand why we didn't kill Dai Mengwei, who could have been killed easily. You don't know how letting him go will comfort those dead heroes. But south of the Hanshui River, there are millions of living people. They don't know why the China Army is here, they don't know what the China Army is. They want to live a good life. If we kill Dai Mengwei today, they will always think that they can live a better life by following Dai Mengwei."

"...Of course, the real reason is more than that. The China Army is named after China, and we hope that every Chinese person can have his own will, a mature will, and live according to his own will. For these millions of people, we can of course choose to kill Dai Mengwei and then explain the truth clearly. But the problem now is that we don't have so many teachers who can explain things clearly. That can only be letting Old Dai govern one area and we govern another area, and in the future, let the comparison between the two sides explain this principle clearly. At that time... the debt will be repaid."

"...I know that you may not understand or agree with my statement, but this is already the decision made by the China Army and cannot be changed."

He paused slightly: "Everyone, there is a principle in this world that is difficult to make everyone happy. We everyone has his own ideas. When the China Army's ideas are promoted, we hope that more people have more ideas, but these ideas must be condensed into one direction through a method, just like the China Army you see, gathering together can condense into a rope, and when dispersed, everyone can fight the enemy. That twenty thousand people can defeat the Jin Kingdom's one hundred thousand people."

"...In the future, we also hope that the entire China can be like this, everyone knows why they live, so that everyone can live for themselves, then when the enemy attacks, they can stand up and know what they should do, instead of trembling in front of the Jin Kingdom's one hundred thousand people like Bianliang did in those years. They didn't dare to move when the butcher knife was cut down. After the killers left, they went to the streets and splashed feces on their own people who couldn't resist."

"...How did it become like this? How to weigh when everyone's ideas conflict? How will a regime or court in the future do these things? We have had some ideas in recent years. We will prepare in May, and we will announce them in Chengdu in June. Everyone is a hero who participated in this war, so I hope you will go to Chengdu to understand, discuss, and say anything you think. Even the matter of Dai Mengwei, at that time, we can talk about it again."

After he said this, there was whispering in the room. Some people understood some of it, but more than half of the people still understood it vaguely. After a while, Ning Yi saw a man with a scarred face stand up among the people sitting below.

"Mr. Ning, I am a rough man and don't understand things like the country and the court. I... I have something I want to tell you today."

Du Sha leaned over slightly and said something in Ning Yi's ear. Ning Yi nodded: "Eighth Master, please speak."

"I can't afford the title of Eighth Master. Mr. Ning can just call me Old Ba... Some of you here know me. Old Ba is not a hero. He is a low-down gangster in the Green Forest who makes money by helping people settle debts. I have done evil all my life, and it's not a pity if I die at any time, but when the Jin dogs came, Old Ba still had some blood in his chest. He and several of his brothers and sisters got a letter from Master Fu Lu and started last year to specialize in killing Jurchens!"

Half of the people present were Jianghu people, and at this time, some people shouted:

"He's a real man."

"A hero!"

Ning Yi listened quietly. Old Ba cupped his hands: "At the beginning of this year, the old dog Dai Mengwei pretended to resist the Jin and summoned everyone to Xicheng County. Everyone knows what happened, but in the middle of it, his anti-Jin name was exposed. The Jin dogs said they wanted to kill the old dog's secretly hidden pair of children. We got the news. Several of my brothers and sisters disregarded their lives and protected his son and daughter to meet with Senior Fu Lu and all the heroes. At that time, we were ambushed. This old dog's son colluded with the Jurchens and summoned troops to surround us. Senior Fu Lu... he was protecting us at that time and fell behind..."

When he said this, his words became difficult. Many people present knew about this matter, and their expressions became solemn. Scarface gritted his teeth: "But there are some small things in the middle that you don't know."

He said: "Dai Mengwei's son colluded with the Jin dogs. We don't know if his daughter did. On the way to escort these siblings, we were ambushed several times. His sister was kidnapped on the way. One of my little brothers went to rescue her. He got separated on the way. They took several days to find us and join the main force. My little brother doesn't like to talk, but he is a really good person. He has an irreconcilable hatred with the Jin dogs. He has saved my life in the past..."

When he said this, his tone was slightly choked.

"...At that time, the dog son of Dai Mengwei was colluding with the enemy, and the Jurchen army had already surrounded us. He wanted to bewitch people to surrender. Senior Fu Lu slapped him to death. His sister, it seemed that she didn't know whether she knew or not, but in that situation... my little brother, at that time, stood in front of the woman. The Jin dogs were about to kill him! He couldn't tolerate the kindness of women! But when I looked into my little brother's eyes, I knew... my little brother, he really, he was moved..."

Scarface had licked blood from his knife's edge all his life and killed countless people. At this time, his face was ferocious, but his eyes were red, and tears fell down his face. He gritted his teeth:

"...My little brother, he really, he was moved..."

The hall was silent. Some people wiped their eyes. Scarface didn't tell the next story, but as it developed to this point, everyone could guess what would happen next. The Jin soldiers besieged a group of Green Forest people, and the blade was close at hand. There was no time to distinguish whether the Dai family woman was an enemy or a friend. In fact, distinguishing was useless. Even if the Dai family woman was really innocent, there would naturally be those with weak will who would regard her as a way out. In that situation, there was only one choice that people could make.

In the more than ten years since the Jurchens went south, everyone had heard more than one or two similar stories.

Scarface looked up at Ning Yi, staring at him, letting tears flow down his face.

"Mr. Ning, you killed the emperor and rebelled in those years because the fatuous emperor wronged good people! You said that your heart was hard to calm, so you killed the old emperor with a stroke of your knife! Today, you have said many reasons, but Old Ba is a rough man. I don't know what you are going to say in Chengdu. It has nothing to do with me! If you don't kill Dai Mengwei, my heart will be hard to calm for the rest of my life!"

He knocked his fist on his chest. Ning Yi's eyes met his quietly, without saying anything. After a while, Scarface cupped his hands slightly:

"If you don't kill him, I will kill him myself! I vow to kill Dai Mengwei's entire family with my own hands. You go to Chengdu and talk about that China!"

He turned and left, and then more people turned and left. Someone spat in Ning Yi's direction.

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The meeting with Jin Chenghu, Scarface, and others on the seventh day of May was just a small episode in the past few days. Some things were indeed moving, but in this vast world, it was difficult to shake the trajectory of the world.

At the end of April, there was still a lot of optimism in the Seventh Army of the China Army stationed in Hanzhong after defeating Zong Han. This optimism was something they had won with their own hands, and they were more qualified than anyone else in the world to enjoy the optimism and ease of the moment. However, after meeting a large number of combat heroes at the end of April and talking with them for half a day, serious meetings were successively launched under the leadership of Ning Yi on the first day of May.

The issue of Zou Xu's corruption and defection was put before the senior military officers. Ning Yi then began to enumerate the troubles of the China Army to the surviving senior officials in the Seventh Army. The area was too large and the personnel reserves were too small. Once there was any slack, corruption problems similar to Zou Xu's would occur on a large scale. Once immersed in an atmosphere of enjoyment and relaxation, the China Army might completely lose its future.

The real test will really come after each stage of victory. This kind of test is even greater and more difficult to overcome than the considerations people encounter on the battlefield.

While the meetings to unify thoughts were being carried out at all levels, the surviving troops of the Seventh Army of the China Army also began to enter Hanzhong City in large numbers to help the people carry out systematic reconstruction work. This was a combat practice of overcoming self-enjoyment and slack emotions after defeating strong enemies on the battlefield.

While Ning Yi seized this practice to count and deal with the military problems reflected in various details, he also began to explain the Southwest's preparations for the Chengdu Conference in June. At the same time, suggestions for the future of Jin and the handling of the next Liangshan situation had also reached a critical point.

Zong Han and Xiyin were already defeated soldiers. Returning to Yunzhong from Jin might be relatively easy to deal with, but Zong Fu and Zong Bi's East Route Army had already crossed the Yangtze River and would soon cross the Yellow River and pass through Shandong. It was summer at this time, and the two armies of Liangshan had not even gotten real respite from the large-scale famine, but the East Route Army was strong and well-equipped.

This great battle was imminent.

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