Chapter 227 Wang Shichong's backyard caught fire

Yanshi, Chen Ying climbed the watchtower. Although Chen Ying adopted a strategy to attack the heart, the morale of Zheng Jun Wang Shiyun was shaken and the morale of the army was weakened, but that's all.

Chen Ying didn't see the next move for a long time, and Li Xiuning also felt anxious. In fact, Chen Ying was not idle, he also got the news that the Zheng family in Xingyang, Chang'an impeached him, although this hurdle passed, Chen Ying did not take it lightly, there is a way that the open gun is easy to dodge, and the hidden arrow is difficult to prevent, just from Zheng Jian, the strength of the Zheng family was exposed, which made Chen Ying vigilant.

"Are you in the mood to see 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 there were guards around him to follow, but he was reluctant to let the guards help him take these booklets, Li Xiuning asked curiously: "What are you holding onto, looking at it so tightly?" ”

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

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

"Forget it, let you guess, I guess you can't guess." Chen Ying paused and said: "There is a heavy treasure related to the Tang Dynasty in this!" ”

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

"What is this?"

"Xingyang Zheng's field book." Chen Ying said: "Guess what, how much land is under the name of the Zheng family in Xingyang?" ”

"How much?" Li Xiuning asked.

"Including the host households, the Zheng family of Xingyang has almost occupied all the fields around Henan Province, with more than 260,000 hectares! Most of them are good and familiar," Chen Ying said. Li Xiuning was secretly taken aback: "In order to avoid taxes, the tenants put their fields and tenants in the name of the clan gatekeeper, this is not a secret, and I didn't expect that there is so much land hidden under the name of the Zheng family in Xingyang!" ”

More than 260,000 dumps, that is, 26 million acres. This figure is quite frightening, because the area of Henan Province in later generations was only about 170,000 square kilometers, and 26 million mu, equivalent to one-tenth of the entire Henan Province. Although one-tenth of 170,000 square kilometers is really not large, the key is that Henan Province has only 122 million mu, and almost a quarter of the cultivated land is under the name of the Zheng family in Xingyang.

In the middle and upper grade fertile land, as long as there is no disaster, the annual harvest of one acre of land is almost about one stone and five buckets. Tenant farmers rent land and pay rent taxes and grain taxes, accounting for almost 5 to 60 percent of the annual harvest. Although it is said that in this era, because there are no chemical fertilizers and pesticides, in order to ensure the soil fertility of the fields, it is necessary to rotate tillage, that is, let one-third of the fields be fallow, even so, Xingyang Zheng can receive six or seven million stone grain under the condition of good wind and rain. Even if factors such as reduced grain production are added, then the income of the Zheng family in Xingyang will not be less than five million stones.

Chen Ying only felt scared at this time, if there were five million stone grains for his own operation, then he could easily engage in a grain market across the Tang Dynasty, because of these grains, the Zheng clan had the strength to feed an army of about 500,000 people, and the strength to establish himself as a king was more than enough. In these years, having land means having food, and having food can feed the soldiers.

"First find out which fields are owned by the Zheng family in Xingyang, and which fields are sent by nearby farmers and landowners in the name ......of the Zheng family in Xingyang, don't let any rumors go out first," 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 Xingyang Zheng family and the Seven Sects and the Five Generations are married, one is prosperous, and the other is lost, if Datang can't guarantee their interests, or if Datang has a little intention of dealing with them, they will immediately switch to Wang Shichong or Dou Jiande, if so, Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande will wake up laughing in their dreams." ”

Chen Ying asked, "Why, do you still want to let the Zheng family of Xingyang occupy so many fields?" Can't return it to the sender? If Your Majesty directly distributes these fields, even if the high taxes and apportionments of five liters of grain and eight liters of grain per mu are collected, the peasant households will be rejoiced! ”

In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, land annexation was serious, and most people were reduced to tenants, renting land from the landlord to cultivate the land, paying about five liters of wheat and one stone of rice per mu of rent, and also having to bear the Ding tax and various apportionments, and the life was very difficult. If the land can be distributed to them and the actual burden can be reduced by about half, it will be difficult for Li Tang to win the support of these farmers.

Chen Ying is very familiar with the suffering of the people at the bottom, and prefers to directly distribute these fields to the farmers who support the Tang Dynasty, directly consolidating the foundation of the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, and is really unwilling to return the fields to those family gates who eat the blood and ointment of the people.

Li Xiuning shook his head slightly, didn't say anything directly, and said: "This matter, let my father and the ministers discuss, you can't make a hasty decision at this time, ...... " Speaking of this, Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying suspiciously: "What do you mean now?" Do you really want to sit back and watch Erlang be captured by Wang Shichongsheng? ”

"Heaven and earth conscience, I definitely don't have this idea!" Chen Yingdao: "You also know my arrangement, Liu Tong and the Xiangxun Department of the Weiwei Army, as well as the Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui Department of the Yue Cavalry Army have been sent out, as long as they arrive at the established position, they can give Wang Shichong a fatal blow, if nothing else, there will be good news within three or five days!" ”

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying's eyes and found that he didn't mean to lie: "Chen Lang, I'm really afraid, I dreamed that Erlang lost the battle again, was caught by Wang Shichong, and hung on the flagpole ......"

Chen Ying said with a smile: "The dreams are all opposite, maybe it's not Wang Shichong or Wang Xuanying hanging on the flagpole at this time!" ”

Li Xiuning said: "But, how did I hear that I think about it every day and dream at night!" ”

Chen Ying and Li Xiuning sat side by side: "Believe me, His Royal Highness King Qin has a great fortune, and he will definitely have his own heavenly appearance!" ”

Gongxian County Ya, Xun Xiang, Liu Tong, Yang Dazhuang, Hu Kui and others sat together, and there were countless mutilated corpses lying around everyone, and the air was also filled with a pungent smell of blood.

Xunxiang wiped the horizontal knife in his hand with a cloth, and always looked at Liu Tong and said, "Old Liu, you say, what should we do next?" ”

Since Liu Tong met Yang Dazhuang and others, Xunxiang and Liu Tong decided to change the plan of action to help these miners and displaced people who were about to survive, and in just three days, Liu Tong gathered six large and small miners and displaced people's teams, counting the soldiers of the back army, it has exceeded 5,000 people.

Liu Tong and Xun Xiang ambushed a Zheng conscription army of about 1,000 people, hijacked the generals of this army, and successfully defrauded Gongxian County.

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

Hu Kui, who was in charge of managing the logistics of the whole army, said without thinking: "Now there are 6,955 people in the whole army, of which no less than 4,500 are young and strong!" ”

Xun Xiang was also very surprised and said: "How can Qingzhuang 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 flask to Yang Dazhuang.

"I think 4,500 people are completely enough, we should do it right away...... Damn, I don't want to wait any longer, the more I watch, the more I hold my breath! ”

Liu Tong said calmly: "I also hold my breath!" Seeing those dogs walking down the mountain with the heads of civilians in their hands, as if they had made a great contribution, I was about to explode! But we must train them first, let them eat a few good meals, they are too weak, and to take them to battle is to force them to die! ”

The miners were not necessarily weak, on the contrary, they were strong, all of them burly, muscular, with thick joints, and they looked 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 kind of strength is bought at the cost of overdrawing their bodies, and their nutrition simply cannot keep up, and they have to engage in heavy labor, which will cost them many years of life. When they are young, they may not see anything, but after the age of thirty-five, their bodies will appear in one way or another, and a series of diseases such as joint pain, rheumatism, stomach problems, and anemia will come to torment them, and few of them will live past the age of forty.

"Can't wait, we don't have time!" Xunxiang said: "They want to recover their strength and nutrition, it will take at least three months, we don't have so much time, and there is no way to get supplies, Wang Shichong's soldiers are too ruthless, they scrape everything that can be scraped away, let's fight down Gongxian, and get less than 1,000 stone of grain in total, I'm afraid that in three days at most, we will eat up these grains!" ”

Liu Tong said: "Then let's do it, let's fight the first battle, with the Beiwei army as the main force, take Luokoucang first, and everyone will have a full meal." ”

The Beiwei army is familiar with sneaking in the dark and beating stuffy sticks. In this day and age, no army has ever been accustomed to such quiet, no drums, no slogans.

At this time, the grain in Luokoucang was basically empty, and the army guarding here was only an Eagle Yang Mansion, and this Eagle Yang Mansion was still a lower house that was not satisfied with the establishment. The result was very tragic, taking advantage of the darkest hour before dawn, the Beiwei army used the way of building a ladder to touch into Luokoucang, but the soldiers were bloodless, captured all the defenders, and successfully occupied Luokoucang.

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

At this time, Li Shimin had already lost the outer camp, less than 40,000 horses, and was compressed by Wang Shichong in the narrow area between Cijian Shirenwa and Yaojialing, a radius of only a few miles.

Yaojialing is a village formed by the people who built Luoyang after Yang Guang moved the capital to Luoyang in the Sui Dynasty, with the surnames of Tian, Xu, Qi, Li, Zhu, Zhang, Wang, Zhao, Wu and He, among which the three surnames of Tian, Xu and Qi are more populous. The key place is too small, and it can be said unceremoniously that as long as the trebuchet fires stone projectiles, Li Shimin will not even have a place to avoid at this time. Wang Shichong obviously knew that Li Shimin only had half a breath left at this time, and it only took three or five days, even if it took two days, he could beat Li Shimin to his knees and beg for mercy.

However, at this critical moment, it rained heavily. The torrential rain was pouring down, and in this kind of weather, not to mention burning redstone bullets, even the legs fixed by the trebuchet were softened by the rain, and there was no way to launch them.

Although Wang Shichong is a pity that this opportunity to annihilate Li Shimin as soon as possible, but the deadliest chaos still appeared, the miners and displaced people in the Songshan Mountains of Gongxian County rebelled, and the miners and displaced people who participated in the rebellion were not too many, only more than 5,000 people, which was nothing, the problem was that the troops that could fight near Luoyang could not be drawn, and Wang Ren commanded more than 30,000 men and horses to top the Beibi Mountain, using layers of trenches, rejecting horses, deer barricades, and earthen barriers to trap Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and Qu Tutong on the Beibi Mountain. And Wang Shiyun's more than 20,000 men and horses guarded Yanshi City, but Wang Shiyun and Chen Ying's more than 40,000 men and horses were facing each other, and they couldn't mobilize the army at all.

The emptiness around Luoyang was extreme...... This rebellion hit Wang Shichong's vital point, which meant that Wang Shichong not only had no way to increase the troops of Yanshi, but also had to find a way to transfer troops to quell the rebellion in Gongxian.

There is a rebellion in this critical place, and if this rebellion cannot be quickly strangled in the cradle, I am afraid that Luoyang, where the people's resentment is boiling, will soon form a spark and become out of control.

This rebellion did not exist in the original historical time and space. It was indirectly caused by Chen Ying, an otherworldly butterfly. In order to resist the military pressure from Li Tang, Wang Shichong had to drink to quench his thirst, frantically exploit and oppress the people, forcibly recruit the people into the army, rob the people's property, and use them as military supplies. It's just that because of the demagogy of more than 600 elite soldiers such as Liu Tong and Xunxiang, the dissatisfaction and resentment of these people under Wang Shichong's rule finally began to break out, and the rebellion in the Songshan mining area of Gongxian County was just the beginning.

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