Even if he has a modern soul, to be honest, Li Xuan is not much different from the other bandits in Huangzhushan, they are all bullying the weak and afraid of the hard.

Those ordinary bandits naturally have a fear of the government, so although Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren shout every day about the revival of the Tang Dynasty and overthrow the pseudo-Ming, they have a natural fear of the Ming court government in their bones, and they will run no faster than rabbits when they encounter a large number of Ming troops.

As for Li Xuan, he is not very afraid of the government and the like, but he knows better than any bandit in Huangzhushan the horror of a unified dynasty!

Even if the Ming Dynasty has now entered the middle of the dynasty, the local guards have long been decayed, and even the Japanese and bandits whose combat effectiveness has declined cannot be defeated.

But they are a big place, and there are so many people!

Li Xuan, they were tired and tired, and they only made hundreds of bandits, but the Ming Dynasty could casually draw thousands or even tens of thousands of troops from the surrounding prefectures and counties.

If these tens of thousands of troops are killed, it doesn't matter, you can also transfer troops from other places, a few thousand in this place, a few thousand in that place, and finally you can easily transfer tens of thousands of troops to Zhengtai County again.

It is precisely because he has a clear understanding of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, the central dynasty that unified Kyushu, that Li Xuan has never dared to fight Zhengtai County.

To put it mildly, even if Zhengtai County takes the initiative to surrender and invites him to enter the city, he will not dare to enter the city!

However, if you don't enter the city, it doesn't mean that you have to give up the hundred miles of land in Zhengtai County, and the people of 100,000!

Zeng Ziwen's words just now can be regarded as igniting a trace of Li Xuan's ambition: Now Zhengtai County is incapable of stopping itself, if you don't take advantage of this time to develop and grow, when will you wait?

Zhengtai County, the county seat, is not fighting, and Longhua Town, a military town, is not fighting, but it does not mean that the vast Zhengtai County Baili Land cannot be pocketed!

After cleaning the battlefield, the soldiers all went to rest, but those high-ranking generals and officials were not able to rest, and Li Xuan gathered them together for a military meeting.

At first, Zeng Ziwen thought that Li Xuan convened a meeting to attack Zhengtai County, but he heard that something was wrong at the beginning.

Because Li Xuan said this at the beginning: "Now that the Zhengtai Ming army has been newly defeated, it is no longer able to stop our army from crisscrossing the countryside, which is a great opportunity for our army!" ”

Li Xuan's words did not say the county seat or Longhua Town, but the countryside!

In this regard, Zeng Ziwen said: "Your Majesty, can't I take this opportunity to take Zhengtai County?" ”

Li Xuan didn't bother to pay attention to this Zeng Ziwen, this person's war thinking is still stuck in the traditional war thinking, and he has not understood how to carry out a rebellion war at all!

As a red scarf that grew up under the red flag, the roots are red, and the successor of the party's state, he knew a word called 'the countryside surrounds the city' when he was very young.

If it is the industrial age, most of the production resources, especially the production resources to sustain the war, are concentrated in the cities, so the war needs to be carried out around the cities, and if it is a country with a small land area and a small population, its main population will also be concentrated in a few cities, so the war must also be carried out around the cities.

However, in the agricultural era, China was different, first of all, most of the domestic means of production were in the countryside, and this means of production included population and land, which could produce taxes, soldiers, food, weapons, and other strategic weapons needed to sustain the war.

Second, based on the special national conditions of China's traditional government decree not to go to the countryside, the government in the city has never been able to effectively rule the countryside for thousands of years, in other words, the weak foundation of the Ming Dynasty in the countryside is conducive to the Tang Dynasty in the countryside to indeed gain the support of the people.

Secondly, the key point is that the cities in these years are actually typical consumption cities, and the countryside does not depend on the city for support, but the city depends on the countryside for support.

As long as you control the countryside, indeed, you actually control the bloodline of the city!

Having said all this, in short, it is better to control the countryside than to control the city, and it is much better!

However, Li Xuan will not talk about these reasons to his subordinates for a long time, and he didn't even say the word "rural areas surrounding cities", they are all illiterate, and they don't understand what rebellion theory you talk to.

So what he said to everyone was very straightforward, very simple: If we don't fight Zhengtai County, we will first control the villages near the mountains, and then recruit troops and collect grain on the spot!

A group of bandits were relieved when they heard that they didn't need to fight Zhengtai County, as for looting in the countryside, that was their old job, and it was not a problem.

Although Li Xuan was talking about controlling the countryside, not looting, in the thinking of these bandits, he consciously converted Li Xuan's words into this: occupy the territory and collect protection money!

So after listening to Li Xuan's big talk, Fang Dongquan said like this: "Your Majesty said it is so good, now we just take advantage of the emptiness of the Ming army to occupy a few more villages and recruit troops to collect grain!" ”

Huang Xueren on the side also said: "Yes, it's time to occupy more territory!" ”

Listening to the people under his hand say that they grabbed land and collected protection money or something, Li Xuan didn't care, he had been with these bandits for a long time, and he also knew that these people's way of thinking was so direct, even if they were playing rebellion, they were not playing a few dirt, and they were not lofty at all.

Li Xuan can't expect them to make a revolution or a national righteousness, and it is more suitable for them to grab land and collect protection money.

But then again, this rebellion for hegemony is more than grabbing territory, everyone grabbing it, and the last person with the strongest strength grabbed all the territory, so naturally the unification was completed, and a new central dynasty was born!

Everyone discussed for nearly half an hour before they dispersed, and everyone was tired and panicked in the past two days, talking early to play and going to bed early.

The next morning, Li Xuan and the others, who had slept in the middle of the night, got up, and after breakfast, Li Xuan listened to the report of the scouts, saying that most of the Ming army that was defeated last night did not know where to go, Su Jiakang and Wang Zhisigh They only collected two or three hundred people and fled back towards Zhengtai County, as for the remaining hundreds of fleeing soldiers, the ghost knows!

Those routs were like a drizzle that had infiltrated the Gobi Desert, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye!

However, Li Xuan and the others are too lazy to deal with Su Jiakang and the rest of the Ming army, they have big things to do from today onwards, and they have something to be busy with!

After eating and drinking, Li Xuan gave an order, and the new army of the Tang Dynasty continued to advance towards the south with more than 200 prisoners.

To the south is the mountains, and between the mountains and Zhengtai County and Longhua Town are vast and dozens of miles of countryside, and these grasslands are their goals.

These countryside in the south are close to the mountains, and for the Tang Dynasty, it is necessary to rely on the mountains to attack, retreat and defend.

Therefore, they did not travel south to return to Huangzhu Mountain, but to control these rural areas.

But how to actually control these vast rural areas is a problem, first of all, you a group of bandits run over to grab people and food, these people can run, people run away, why do you want a large piece of wasteland?

In order to dispel the peasants' concerns about their gang of bandits, Li Xuan put forward a serious military discipline requirement for the troops: no disturbance of the people, no looting!

This request may be normal for the military of later generations, but in this year, it is an epoch-making 'initiative'.

Are you in charge of officers and soldiers or thieves in these years? And what doesn't disturb the people?

Less, absolutely less, under normal circumstances it should be like this, whether it is an officer or a thief: the army has crossed thousands of miles!

Including the previous Datang New Army!

But now, in order to win over the hearts of the people, Li Xuan has strictly ordered not to disturb the people, but anyone who disturbs the people and looters will be beheaded!

This order made a group of bandits in Huangzhushan quite unaccustomed and even confused, it was better not to disturb the people, and not to let the women of good families not be molested, at most the one below was uncomfortable, and it could not be solved with their hands!

But the looting is gone, what will they eat in the future?

You must know that the food that the army eats now is all looted, and they have been eating the enemy in the past few months outside, and they will not starve to death if they don't rob the food!

But if you are not used to it, there is no way, the military order is like a mountain, the military order issued by Li Xuan personally, if you dare to disobey, his guards will dare to kill immediately!

While rectifying military discipline, Li Xuan also planned to put forward several other slogans to attract the masses to join the Tang Dynasty.

However, what slogan should be put forward to attract a large number of people to join the Tang Dynasty is a questionable question.

Because this kind of slogan can't be shouted casually, for example, the Qing monarch side and the like are not suitable for him Li Xuan, and he Li Xuan is not a clan or minister of the Ming Dynasty, mentioning this kind of slogan will make people laugh off their big teeth.

Although the people in these years are living in a rather difficult situation, this is the limitation of the times, low grain production, low production efficiency is caused, the world has not yet entered the troubled times, although many people will still starve to death, but starvation for thousands of miles has not happened.

There are also generals and princes, Ning You can't shout indiscriminately, he Li Xuan is the emperor, although he is only a ravine emperor, that is also the emperor, the kind of slogan shouted by the ** rebellion is not applicable to him.

Then Li Xuan wanted to shout the slogan of fighting the local tyrants and dividing the land, but reason told him that although such a slogan was pleasant to shout, it would also offend all the gentry and landlord class to death.

And there are a large number of scholars in these classes, although it shows that most of the scholars in the dynastic period have been brainwashed by the Baguwen, and all of them have become rotten goods, but I have to admit that these people have a huge influence in contemporary society.

Especially in rural areas, the scholars of the local village are extremely influential, and if they are offended to death, they will lead the villagers to engage in all kinds of armed resistance.

The Tang Dynasty is still so weak, but it can't withstand such a toss, even if it wants to fight the local tyrants and divide the land in the end, it will have to grow stronger, and after having a solid foundation and hundreds of thousands of troops, it will do this kind of thing again.

As for now, Li Xuan thinks that he should learn from our party, first unite all the forces that can be united, first hug the thighs of the local tyrants in order to overturn the Ming Dynasty, and then turn against those corrupt and degenerate local tyrants when the Ming Dynasty is overturned!

As for why you should turn your face with them?

Who made them local tyrants, and do they need a reason to fight local tyrants?

No, you don't!