Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Li Shimin's heart was moved, but he said: "General Qin, how can this be done!"

Qin Qiong said: "Old Cheng was injured, and his body has not recovered yet. Apart from me, no one is more suitable than me."

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In Yanshi, Chen Ying boarded the watchtower.Although Chen Ying adopted an offensive strategy to shake the morale of Zheng Jun Wang Shiyun and the army's morale, but that's all.

Chen Ying didn't see his next move for a long time, and Li Xiuning also felt anxious.In fact, Chen Ying was not idle either. He also got the news that the Zheng family in Xingyang, Chang'an had impeached him. Although this hurdle had passed, Chen Ying did not take it lightly. Zheng Jian exposed Zheng's strength, which made Chen Ying vigilant.

"Are you in the mood to enjoy the scenery here?" Li Xiuning's tone was full of dissatisfaction.At this moment, Li Xiuning found that Chen Ying was holding a box in his arms, and he was also accompanied by guards, but he was not willing to let the guards help him carry these books. Li Xiuning asked curiously: "What is it that you are holding that you are holding so tightly?" ?”

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "Naturally it's a treasure. Guess what it is?"

Li Xiuning thought that Chen Ying was going to give her a gift, so she rolled her eyes and asked, "Could it be a rare jade?"

"Forget it, let you guess, you probably won't be able to guess it." Chen Ying paused and said, "It contains important treasures related to the Great Tang Sheji!"

Li Xiuning frowned, and gently took the box from Chen Ying's hand, only to find that it was a book of account books.

"This is?"

"The land records of the Zheng family in Xingyang." Chen Ying said, "Guess how many properties are there under the name of the Zheng family in Xingyang?"

"How much?" Li Xiuning asked.

"Including Jihu, the Zheng family in Xingyang has occupied almost all the fields around Henan Road, with more than 26 hectares! Most of them are good cultivated land," Chen Ying said.Li Xiuning was secretly taken aback: "In order to avoid taxes, the sender sent the land and tenants under the name of the aristocratic family. This is not a secret, and I didn't expect that so much land was hidden under the name of the Zheng family in Xingyang!"

More than 26 dumps, that is, 600 million mu.This figure is quite shocking, because the area of ​​Henan Province in later generations is only about 17 square kilometers, and 600 million mu is equivalent to one-tenth of the entire Henan Province.Although one-tenth of [-] square kilometers is really not that big, the key point is that Henan Province only has [-] million mu, and almost a quarter of the cultivated land is under the name of the Xingyang Zheng family.

As long as there is no disaster in the middle and high-grade fertile land, the annual harvest of one mu of land is about one stone and five buckets.Tenant farmers rent land and pay rent, tax and food, which account for almost 700% to 500% of the annual harvest.Although, in this era, because there is no chemical fertilizers and pesticides, in order to ensure the soil fertility of the fields, it is necessary to rotate cultivation, that is, to let one-third of the fields go fallow. [-] million shi of grain.Even with the reduction of grain production and other factors, the income of the Zheng family in Xingyang will not be less than [-] million shi.

Only at this time did Chen Ying feel afraid. If he had 500 million shi of grain for him to operate, then he could easily engage in the grain market across the Tang Dynasty. Because of this grain, the Zheng family is fully capable of supporting an army of about 50 , the strength to become a king on his own is more than enough.These days, having fields means having food, and only food can support soldiers.

"First find out which properties are owned by the Zheng family in Xingyang, and which properties are posted by nearby farmers and landowners in the name of the Zheng family in Xingyang, so don't spread any rumors..." Chen Ying said to Li Xiuning: "Give this account book to Your Majesty. , Your Majesty, you should be happy."

Li Xiuning shook his head and said: "It's not as simple as imagined. The Zheng family of Xingyang and the Seven Sects and Five Wangs have been married for generations. If the Tang Dynasty can't guarantee their interests, or if the Tang Dynasty has a little intention of dealing with them, they Immediately switch to Wang Shichong or Dou Jiande, if so, both Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande will wake up laughing from their dreams."

Chen Ying asked: "Why, let the Zheng family of Xingyang occupy so many fields? Can't you return them to the senders? If Your Majesty distributes these fields directly, even if the land yields five liters of grain or eight liters of grain per mu Taxes and apportionments will also make farmers happy!"

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, land mergers were serious. Most people became tenants and rented land from the landlord. The rent for the field was about five liters of wheat and one stone of rice per mu. They also had to bear small taxes and various apportionments. Life was very difficult.If he can distribute the land to them and reduce the actual burden by about half, it will be difficult for Li Tang not to get the support of these farmers.

Chen Ying is very familiar with the sufferings of the people at the bottom, and prefers to directly allocate these fields to farmers who support Datang, and directly consolidate the foundation of Datang in the Central Plains. He is really unwilling to return the land to those who eat people's blood and food. Aristocratic family.

Li Xiuning shook his head slightly, and did not say anything directly, and said: "Let the emperor and the officials discuss this matter, and we can't make a hasty decision at this time..." At this point, Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying suspiciously and said: "What do you mean now? Do you really want to sit back and watch Erlang be captured alive by Wang Shichong?"

"Heaven and earth conscience, I absolutely have no such idea!" Chen Yingdao: "You also know my arrangement, Beiwei Army Liu Tong and Xiangxiang Department, as well as Yue Cavalry Army Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui Department have been dispatched, as long as they arrive at the designated position , you can give Wang Shichong a fatal blow, and if there are no accidents, there will be good news within three to five days!"

Li Xiuning looked into Chen Ying's eyes and found that he didn't mean to lie: "Chen Lang, I'm really scared. I had a dream. I dreamed that Erlang lost another battle. He was caught by Wang Shichong and hung on the flagpole... ..."

Chen Ying said with a smile: "Dreams are the opposite. Maybe it's either Wang Shichong or Wang Xuanying hanging on the flagpole!"

Li Xiuning said: "But, how did I hear that there are thoughts in the day and dreams in the night!"

Sitting side by side with Li Xiuning, Chen Ying said, "Believe me, His Royal Highness the King of Qin has great fortune and destiny, and he will surely be lucky!"

In the Gongxian county government office, Xunxiang, Liu Tong, Yang Dazhuang, Hu Kui, etc. were sitting together, surrounded by countless mutilated corpses, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of blood.

While wiping the horizontal knife in his hand with a piece of cloth, Xun Xiang kept looking at Liu Tong and said, "Old Liu, tell me, what should we do next?"

Since Liu Tong met Yang Dazhuang and others, Xunxiang and Liu Tong decided to change their action plan to help these miners and refugees who were about to survive. In just three days, six groups of miners and refugees gathered around Liu Tong Counting the soldiers of the Beiwei Army, the team has more than 5000 people.

By the way, Liu Tong and Xun Xiang ambushed a conscription army of about a thousand men from the State of Zheng, hijacked the generals of this army, and successfully defrauded Gong County.

Liu Tong said: "How many people do we have now, how many are young and strong, and how many weapons and equipment do we have?"

Hu Kui, who was in charge of the logistics of the entire army, said without hesitation: "Now there are 950 people in the army, of which no less than 500 are young and strong!"

Xun Xiang was also very surprised and said: "How can young and mature people account for such a high proportion?"

Hu Kui sighed and said: "In this world, how can the old, weak, sick and disabled survive?" He sighed heavily again, took a sip of wine, and threw the jug to Yang Dazhuang.

Xun Xiang said: "I think 500 people are enough, we should do it right away...Damn it, I don't want to wait any longer, the more I look at it, the more breathless I get!"

Liu Tong said calmly: "I'm holding my breath too! Seeing those idiots walking down the mountain talking and laughing with the heads of civilians in their hands, as if they had made great contributions, I was about to explode! But, We must train them first, let them eat a few good meals, they are too weak, taking them to fight is tantamount to forcing them to die!"

Those miners were not necessarily weak, on the contrary, they were also very strong. They were all burly, muscular, with thick joints, and looked powerful.However, if you look closely, you will find that their skin is an unhealthy blue-gray color, and their joints are deformed to varying degrees.This kind of strength is bought at the price of overdrafting the body. Their nutrition can't keep up at all, and they have to do heavy labor, which will shorten their life span for many years.They may not be able to see anything when they are young, but after they are 35 years old, their bodies will have various problems. A series of diseases such as joint pain, rheumatism, stomach problems, and anemia will come to torture them. They rarely have Those who can live past 40 years old.

"Can't wait, we don't have time!" Xun Xiang said: "It will take at least three months for them to recover their physical strength and nutrition. We don't have that much time, and we have no way to get supplies. Wang Shichong's soldiers are too ruthless. Scrape away everything that can be scraped, and we will go down to Gong County, and we will get less than a thousand shi of grain in total, and I am afraid that we will eat up all the grain in three days at most!"

Liu Tong said: "Then let's do it. In our first battle, we will use the Beiwei army as the main force. We will take down the Luokou warehouse first, and everyone will have a full meal."

Bei Weijun is familiar with sneaking in the dark and playing sap.In this era, no army is used to such calm battles without drums and slogans.

Luokou warehouse was basically empty of food at this time, and the army guarding here was only one Yingyang mansion, and this Yingyang mansion was still dissatisfied with the establishment.The result was very tragic. Taking advantage of the darkest moment before dawn, the Beiwei army used the method of building a ladder to enter the Luokou warehouse. However, the soldiers captured all the defenders without bloodshed, and successfully occupied the Luokou warehouse.

It has to be said that sometimes luck can change a person's destiny.Just when Wang Shichong was about to beat Li Shimin out of shit, a heavy rain fell from the sky.

At this time, Li Shimin had lost the outer camp, with less than 4 horses, and was compressed by Wang Shichong in a narrow area between Cijian Shirenwa and Yaojialing, a radius of only a few miles.

Yaojialing is a village formed on the spot by the peasants who built Luoyang after Yang Guang moved his capital to Luoyang in the Sui Dynasty. The three surnames have a large population.The key point is that this place is too small. It can be said bluntly that as long as the catapult fires stone bombs, Li Shimin has no place to hide at this time.Wang Shichong clearly knew that Li Shimin was only half breathed at this time, and it only took three to five days, even two days, he could beat Li Shimin to his knees and beg for mercy.

However, at this critical moment, heavy rain fell.The torrential rain was pouring down. In this weather, not to mention burning red stone bombs, even the fixed legs of the trebuchet were softened by the rain, and there was no way to fire them.

Although Wang Shichong regretted this opportunity to wipe out Li Shimin as soon as possible, the deadliest disturbance still occurred. The miners and refugees in the Songshan mountain area of ​​Gong County rebelled. Not too many miners and refugees participated in the rebellion, only more than [-] people. It's nothing, the problem is that the troops that can fight near Luoyang can't be drawn out, and Wang Renze's more than [-] troops are on top of Beimang Mountain, using layers of trenches, rejecting horses, deer villages, and earth barriers to trap Beimang Mountain. Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and Qu Tu communicated with each other, and Wang Shiyun's [-] men guarded Yanshi City, but Wang Shiyun and Chen Ying's [-] men faced each other, and there was no way to mobilize the army. As for Wang Renze, The entire encirclement had already been toppled by Qu Tutong's troops.

The surrounding area of ​​Luoyang was extremely empty... This rebellion hit Wang Shichong's vitals. It meant that instead of adding more troops to Yanshi, Wang Shichong had to find a way to mobilize troops to quell the rebellion in Gong County.

There has been a rebellion in this vital place. If the rebellion cannot be quickly killed in the cradle, Luoyang, where the people are boiling with dissatisfaction, will soon become a prairie fire, and it will be out of control.

This rebellion did not exist in the original historical time and space.It was indirectly caused by Chen Ying, a butterfly from another world.In order to resist the military pressure from Li Tang, Wang Shichong had to drink poison to quench his thirst, frantically exploited and squeezed the people, forced the people to join the army, robbed the people of their property, and used it as military supplies. The evil results caused by Wang Shichong were not so easy to break out After all, Chinese people are notoriously docile, unless they really can't survive, they will take risks.However, because of the bewitching of more than [-] elite soldiers, Liu Tong and Xunxiang, the dissatisfaction and resentment towards Wang Shichong among the people under Wang Shichong finally began to erupt. It's just a start.

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Luokou Warehouse is located on the Huangtu Ridge in Heluo Town, Gongxian County. It is located in a hilly, dangerous situation, with hard and dry soil, and it is convenient for water transportation.From the Luo River upstream, you can reach Luoyang, the capital at that time, the eastern capital at that time, upstream from the Yellow River, you can reach Tongguan in Shaanxi and Chang'an, the capital of Xijing at that time, and downstream, you can reach Shandong to Haikou.

Liu Tong used special tactics to successfully occupy the Luokou warehouse by surprise. This is equivalent to putting a knife on Wang Shichong's waist. As early as the 13th year of Daye, Li Mi captured the Luokou warehouse, and then built Xingluo City, with a circumference of forty miles, has become one of the super big cities.

After Liu Tong occupied the Luokou Warehouse, he immediately counted and seized the grain, but it was a pity that the Luokou Warehouse, which originally stored as much as 400 million shi of grain during the Sui Dynasty, had already sold out the grain.In the past, the grain cellars with 100 mouths that could hold [-] shi of grain were basically out of grain, but there were scattered grains scattered on the ground in many of the grain cellars, and almost none of the grain cellars could clear out three to five shi of grain.It took more than [-] people to clean up more than [-] grain cellars, and Liu Tong always got more than [-] shi of grain.

Although these grains are somewhat moldy and bitter, which affects the taste, but for the poor people who are already so poor and want to eat soil to satisfy their hunger, this is also a life-saving grain, so there is nothing to be picky about.However, after Liu Tong laid down the warehouse in Luokou, there was a lesson learned from Li Mi's opening of the warehouse to release grain. The refugees and common people's clans who couldn't survive around Gong County all came to seek refuge with their families. More than [-] people came to seek refuge, and this number must have multiplied over time.