On the day Dasheng dismantled Qingshi Station, the last order Lin Ye received was to turn off the lights and leave before sunset.
But that night, a sandstorm blocked the road, and a caravan carrying thirty-four people and fifty-one animals got lost in the wilderness. Lin Ye burned the family's last can of winter lamp oil and relit the post lamp that had been abandoned by the court.
This point points to huge trouble.
When there was no water, he demolished houses and dug canals; when there was no food, he reopened the circuits. Fugitives, miners, business travelers, remnants of soldiers, all people with nowhere to go came following the light. Pei Zhaoyue, the young owner of the caravan, also pledged his horses, goods and future, and worked with him to build Poyi into a market and the market into a border town.
Lin Ye originally just wanted to let the people who followed him survive, but the court came one after another to collect taxes, requisition grain, requisition horses, seize military power, and finally pointed at the people in the city and said:
"Lin Ye, are you planning to rebel by gathering a crowd to station troops?"
Lin Ye turned around and glanced at the lights of thousands of families behind him.
"They just want to live."
"If this can be considered counterintuitive, then it is counterintuitive."
