Chapter 227 Wang Shichong's backyard caught fire

In Yanshi, Chen Ying climbed the watchtower. Although Chen Ying took the attacking plan to shake the morale of Wang Shiyun, the army under Zheng’s army, and the morale of the army was dispersed, that’s all.

Chen Ying was not seeing the next move for a long time, and Li Xiuning felt anxious. In fact, Chen Ying was not idle either. He also received news that Zheng's family in Xingyang, Chang'an impeached him. Although this hurdle has passed, Chen Ying did not take it lightly. It is said that it is easy to avoid the open guns, but it is difficult to prevent the hidden arrows. Just exposing Zheng's strength from Zheng Jian made Chen Ying alert.

"Are you in the mood to see the scenery here?" Li Xiuning's tone was filled with dissatisfaction. At this moment, Li Xiuning found that Chen Ying was holding a box in his arms, and there were guards around him who were following him, but he was reluctant to let the guards take these books for him. Li Xiuning asked curiously: "What are you holding? You see so tightly?"

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "Of course it's a baby, guess what this is?"

Li Xiuning thought Chen Ying was going to give her a gift, and her eyes turned: "Is it a treasure jade artifact?"

"Forget it, let's guess, you probably can't guess it either." Chen Ying paused and said, "There is a treasure that concerns the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Xiuning frowned, gently took the box from Chen Ying's hand, and found that it was actually a book book.

"This is?"

"The land list of Zheng's family in Xingyang." Chen Ying said: "Guess how much land is there under the name of Zheng's family in Xingyang?"

"How many?" Li Xiuning asked.

"Including the consignees, the Zheng family of Xingyang occupied almost all the fields around Henan Road, with more than 260,000 hectares! Most of them are the best and mature land," Chen Ying said. Li Xiuning was secretly surprised: "In order to avoid taxes, the consignees placed the land and tenants in the name of aristocratic families. This is not a secret, nor did he expect that so much land was hidden under the name of Zheng family of Xingyang!"

More than 260,000 square kilometers were 26 million mu. This number is quite terrifying, because the area of ​​Henan Province in later generations was only about 170,000 square kilometers, while 26 million mu was equivalent to one tenth of that of the entire Henan Province. Although one tenth, one tenth, seventy thousand square kilometers was not large, the key is that Henan Province only had one 1.22 billion mu, and almost one quarter of the arable land was under the name of the Zheng family in Xingyang.

For medium and upper-class fertile land, as long as there is no disaster, the annual harvest of one mu of land is about one stone and five dou. Tenants rent land and pay taxes and taxes, accounting for about 50% to 60% of the annual harvest. Although in this era, because there are no fertilizers and pesticides, in order to ensure the land capacity of the fields, one-third of the fields are fallow. Even so, the Zheng family in Xingyang can receive six or seven million stones of grain under good weather. Even if there are factors such as grain production reduction, the Zheng family in Xingyang will not be less than five million stones.

Chen Ying felt scared at this time. If there were five million stones of grain for his own operation, he could easily build a grain market across the Tang Dynasty. Because of these grains, the Zheng family had the strength to support an army of about 500,000, and it was more than enough to establish himself as king. Nowadays, having fields means having food, and only with food can we support soldiers.

"First find out which land belongs to Zheng's family in Xingyang and which land belongs to nearby farmers. The landlord is under the name of Zheng's family in Xingyang. Don't make any noises out..." Chen Ying said to Li Xiuning: "Transfer this account 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 hopes have been married for generations. One prospers and one loss has both prosperity and one loss. If the Tang Dynasty cannot guarantee their interests, or if the Tang Dynasty has some intention to deal with them, they will immediately turn to Wang Shichong or Dou Jiande. If this is the case, Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande will wake up in a laugh in their dreams."

Chen Ying asked: "Why, can the Zheng family in Xingyang occupy so much land? Can't they give it to the subsidiaries? If Your Majesty directly allocates these land, even if you collect five liters of grain per mu of land, the high tax and levy of eight liters of grain will make the farmers happy!"

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, land annexation was serious, and most people became tenants, renting farmland from the land owners. The rent for each mu of land was about five liters of wheat and one stone of rice, and they had to bear taxes and various levies, making their lives very difficult. If the fields could be distributed to them and the actual burden was reduced by about half, it would be difficult for Li Tang to not get the support of these farmers.

Chen Ying was very familiar with the suffering of the lower class people, and was more inclined to directly allocate these fields to farmers who supported the Tang Dynasty, and directly consolidate the foundation of the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains. He was really unwilling to return the fields to those aristocratic families who ate the blood and ointment of the people.

Li Xiuning shook her head slightly, and said nothing directly, "You must let your father discuss this matter with the ministers. You can't make too hasty decisions at this time..." Speaking of this, 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 by Wang Shichong?"

"The conscience of heaven and earth, I absolutely don't have this idea!" Chen Ying said: "You also know my arrangement. The Liu Tong and Xunxiang troops of Beiwei Army, as well as the Yue cavalry troops Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui troops have been sent out. As long as they arrive at the established position, they can give Wang Shichong a fatal blow. If nothing unexpected happens, good news will inevitably come within three or five days!"

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying's eyes and found that he had no intention of lying: "Chen Lang, I am really afraid. I dreamed that Erlang was defeated again and was caught by Wang Shichong and hung on the flagpole..."

Chen Ying smiled and said, "Dreams are the opposite. At this time, maybe the one hanging on the flagpole is either Wang Shichong or Wang Xuanying!"

Li Xiuning said: "But, why did I hear that there is something to think about the day and dream about the night!"

Chen Ying sat side by side with Li Xiuning: "Believe me, Your Highness, the King of Qin, is blessed and destined, and he will definitely be lucky and will have a good fortune!"

Gongxian County Government, Xunxiang, Liu Tong, Yang Dazhuang, Hu Kui and others sat together, and countless incomplete corpses were lying around them, and the air was filled with pungent smell of blood.

Xunxiang wiped the horizontal knife in his hand with a cloth, and 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, Liu Tong gathered around him with six miners and refugees of all sizes and groups of refugees, including the soldiers of the Beiwei Army, which has more than 5,000 people.

Liu Tong and Xunxiang were ambushing a recruiting army of Zheng State, which had about a thousand people, and held the generals of this army hostage, and successfully defrauded Gong County.

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

Hu Kui, who is responsible for managing the logistics of the entire army, said without hesitation: "Now the entire army is 6,955, of which there are no less than 4,500 young and strong!"

Xunxiang was also very surprised and said: "How could young and strong account for such a high proportion?"

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

Xunxiang said: "I think 4,500 people are enough, we should do it right away... Damn, I don't want to wait any longer, the more I look at it, the more I feel the more I breathe!"

Liu Tong said calmly: "I'm also holding my breath! I was almost angry when I saw those dogs carrying civilian heads in their hands, talking and laughing, as if they had made a great contribution! However, we must first train them and let them have a few good meals. They are too weak, and taking them to find war is equivalent to forcing them to die!"

Those miners are not necessarily weak, on the contrary, they are still very strong, each with burly body, well-developed muscles, thick joints, and look powerful. However, if you look closely, you will find that their skin is unhealthy blue-gray, and their joints are deformed to varying degrees. This strength is exchanged for overdrawing the body as a price. Their nutrition is simply not up to date, and they have to engage in heavy labor, which will make them live for many years. You may not be able to see anything when you are young, but after thirty-five years old, their bodies will have various problems, such as joint pain, rheumatism, stomach problems, anemia, etc., and they will torture them at the same time. Few of them can live beyond forty years old.

"We can't wait, we don't have time!" Xunxiang 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 can't get supplies. Wang Shichong's soldiers are too cruel and have scraped away all the scraps. We will capture Gong County and get less than a thousand stones of food in total. I'm afraid we will eat up all of this food at most three days!"

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

The Beiwei Army was familiar with stealth in the dark and scattered. In this era, no army was used to fighting like this calm, without drums and trumpets.

The food in Luokou Cang was basically empty at this time, and the army guarding here was only one Yingyang Mansion, and the Yingyang Mansion was still dissatisfied with the Xia Mansion. The result was very tragic. Taking advantage of the darkest moment before dawn, the Beiwei Army used the method of taking a ladder to touch Luokou Cang. However, the troops were not bloody and captured all the defenders and successfully occupied Luokou Cang.

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 40,000 troops, and was compressed by Wang Shichong in the middle of the Shirenwa and Yaojialing, a narrow area of ​​only a few miles in radius.

Yaojialing was a village formed by the people who built Luoyang after Yang Guang moved the capital of Luoyang in the Sui Dynasty. Tian, ​​Xu, Qi, Li, Zhu, Zhang, Wang, Zhao, Wu, and He surnames. Among them, Tian, ​​Xu and Qi have a large population. The key point is that this place is too small. It can be said without hesitation that as long as the catapult fires a stone bomb, Li Shimin will not even have a place to avoid at this time. Wang Shichong knew that Li Shimin was only half breathing at this time. It only took three or five days, and even two days could beat Li Shimin to kneel down and beg for mercy.

However, at this critical moment, heavy rain fell from the sky and rainstorms were pouring down. In this weather, let alone burning redstone bombs, even the foot of the fixed trencher was soaked in the rain, and there was no way to fire it.

Although Wang Shichong was sorry for this opportunity to annihilate Li Shimin as soon as possible, the deadliest chaos still occurred. The miners and refugees in the Songshan Mountains of Gong County rebelled. There were not many miners and refugees involved in the rebellion, only more than 5,000 people, which was nothing. The problem was that even the troops that could be defeated near Luoyang could not be drawn out. Wang Renze's command was more than 30,000 troops in Beim Mountain, using layers of trenches, resisting horses, deer villages, and turfs to trap King Li Yuanji and Qu Tutong on Beim Mountain. Wang Shiyun's troops guarded Yanshi City with more than 20,000 troops, but Wang Shiyun and Chen Ying were confronting each other and could not be transferred out of the army at all. As for Wang Renze, the entire encirclement had long been shattered by Qu Tutong's troops.

The surrounding area of ​​Luoyang was extremely empty... This rebellion hit Wang Shichong's key point, which meant that Wang Shichong not only had no way to increase troops to Yanshi, but also had to find a way to mobilize troops to quell the rebellion in Gongxian.

There was a rebellion in this vital place. If the rebellion cannot be quickly strangled into the cradle, Luoyang, which is filled with public resentment, will soon form a spark that will spread out of control.

This rebellion was not originally in history and time. It was indirectly caused by Chen Ying, a butterfly in another world. In order to resist the military pressure from Li Tang, Wang Shichong had to drink poison to quench his thirst, exploit and exploit the people frantically, recruit the people into the army, rob the people of the people of the people as military supplies. The evil consequences caused by Wang Shichong were really not so easy to break out. After all, the Chinese people are famously docile, and they will take risks unless they really can't survive. However, because of the bewitching of more than 600 elite soldiers of Liu Tong and Xunxiang, the dissatisfaction and resentment of these people under Wang Shichong's rule finally began to erupt. The rebellion in the Songshan Mine Area of ​​Gongxian was just the beginning.
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