Chapter 125 took advantage of his illness to kill him

Chen Ying was a little surprised, he didn't expect that Hou Mo Chen Qian would send his henchman Yu Qing to rush to the north plateau of Hangu Road overnight. However, seeing Yu Qing's arrival, Chen Ying also knew that it seemed that there was a way for him to ask Hou Mo Chen Qianhui for something.

Otherwise, Hou Mo Chen Qian would not have to send Yu Qing to come at all, and could even find an excuse to send him away. Chen Ying also knew that Hou Mo Chen Qian would help him, and it was his duty not to help him. After all, Luoyang is Wang Shichong's lair, and he must have been run by him for a long time. Carrying out the task of rescuing Shan Xiongxin's family is undoubtedly a tiger's mouth to extract teeth, even if he can be surprised and successfully steal Shan Xiongxin's family out of Luoyang City, and march to Guanzhong along the way, he will definitely be surrounded and intercepted by Wang Shichong's department.

Carrying out this task, whether it is successful or not, will not be light.

Chen Ying looked at Yu Qing and looked at him directly, without saying a word.

Chen Ying sneered and said: "I know that this matter is a bit difficult for a strong person, if Hou Mo Chen is not capable of doing this, I also understand." Now that you are here, what the eldest brother means, I also understand, say, what does this trip require me to do, as long as I can do it, I will never say anything! ”

Yu Qing smiled lightly, but still didn't speak. made Chen Ying a little inexplicable, I don't know why.

After a long time, Yu Qing sighed and said: "In the second year of Wei Yongan (529 AD), a rebellion broke out in Qingzhou, hundreds of thousands of thieves, like locusts crossing the border, destroying villages and destroying villages all the way, slaughtering countless cities, when Ling Zu pacified the Qingzhou rebellion with Dazai Yuan Tianmu, thousands of people in Licheng of Qi County in Qingzhou followed Ling Zu, and fought dozens of battles, and finally pacified the rebellion in Qingzhou. Survived 300 people, became the ancestors of the righteous followers, since then the world, Dou Tai, Fu Hongnong, Kesha Yuan, Zhanhe Bridge, Pingji Hu across the world. Later Lingzu was promoted to the general of the Zhu State in the fifteenth year of the Great Unification (549) and transferred to the rank of young master. Ling Zu's personal retinue has expanded from more than 300 to 3,000 people......"

Listening to Yu Qing's eloquent words, Chen Ying gradually understood.

There is a way that one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, which is roughly the truth. After Hou Mo Chen Chong became the general of the Zhu State, he gave his property and land to these surviving righteous soldiers.

In other words, as long as the Hou Mo Chen clan is still there, the more than 3,000 righteous soldiers do not need to worry about life problems. This is certainly grateful, but more than that, it is a measure to buy people's hearts.

It was only later that Hou Mo Chen Chong was killed, and these righteous servants also sacrificed themselves to avenge Hou Mo Chen Chong, and killed all of Yuwen Hu's family, either openly or secretly. However, during the period of Yuwen Yong and Yang Jian, the Hou Mo Chen clan gradually recovered, and the descendants of these righteous servants also became the retainers of the Hou Mo Chen clan and followed them from generation to generation.

The two sides have formed an alliance of interests to advance and retreat together, but with Yang Guang's ascension to the throne and vigorously suppressing the gate valve, Hou Mo Chen's family, as a generation of generals, has been suppressed by a new round of suppression, and Hou Mo Chen's industry has gradually shrunk over the years, and Hou Mo Chen's family has no talents who are good at management, so life is getting more and more difficult. After decades of development, although the war has decreased, now these 3,000 families, all the population, there are more than 40,000 people in all parts of the country, more than ten times.

At this time, the provision of these 40,000 horses has become the biggest burden of the Hou Mo Chen clan, especially when Chen Ying wants to see the dock fort and controls so much land around it, Hou Mo Chen Qian will think about transferring this burden to Chen Ying.

Looking at Yu Qingqi Ai Ai said, "I don't know...... Gorou, what do you think? ”

There are more than 40,000 people, equivalent to the population of the four upper counties of the Tang Dynasty, and most of them are still old, weak, sick and disabled. With such a large population, it is necessary to eat more than 400,000 stone of grain every year, plus oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and consume almost 50,000 or 60,000 yuan a year (ordinary people have always spent more than enough for a year.) Not to mention the Hou Mo Chen clan in the West Mountain, even if it is a gate valve like Hongnong Yang, he can't afford it.

However, Chen Ying was not only not afraid, but worried about his shortage of manpower. After this battle, Chen Ying knew that the internal contradictions of the Tang Dynasty would become more and more acute in the next period of time, and Chen Ying was ready to withdraw from the court and run his business empire well in Qinglin. The development of the economy is good, but the shortage of manpower is Chen Ying's shortcoming, there are more than 40,000 loyal and reliable people, Chen Ying is confident that before the Xuanwumen Change, he can build his business empire.

Seeing Chen Ying hesitate, Yu Qing thought that Chen Ying didn't want to take on this heavy burden. He slowly put away the Golden Tiger Token and hobbled outside.

"Uncle Yu, why did you leave?" Chen Ying pretended to be surprised and asked, "How do you plan to place these people?" ”

Yu Qing was originally an eight-sided and exquisite character, and listening to Chen Ying's meaning, it didn't seem like he wanted to refuse. Yu Qing was overjoyed and said, "Wulang, are you willing to take over the Golden Tiger Order?" ”

Chen Yingdao: "What the eldest brother said is true, Yi has shed blood for Hou Mo Chen's family at the beginning, and now Hou Mo Chen's family can't let them cry anymore, even if it's difficult." In this way, the Golden Tiger ordered you to take it back first, but I am responsible for the more than 3,000 households and more than 40,000 people! ”

"However, Gorou now only has 50,000 acres of land under his name, which is probably not enough to accommodate so many people!"

"Yes, those fields can be taken care of by two or three thousand people at most, and they are still fine seeds!" Chen Ying smiled lightly: "But who said that there is only one way to farm in this world?" ”

"If they don't farm, what do they eat?"

"If you don't farm, you can work!" Chen Yingdao: "I now have a carriage workshop in Chang'an, a galloping workshop, a high-carbon steel workshop, a high-manganese steel workshop, and a spring steel workshop, whether it is high-carbon steel, or high-manganese steel, even spring steel is in short supply, if there is enough manpower, I am ready to increase the production capacity by ten times or even twenty times, every day looking at a lot of silver, flowing away from my eyes, you don't know how heartache I have." Uncle Yu, you can rest assured, I will now order Ge Tong to design Zhuangzi, start construction immediately in the spring, and build eight Zhuangzi in the periphery of Chen's Wubao, east, west, north and south, each Zhuangzi will house 5,000 people, and it won't be long before you will find that a city appears outside Chang'an City. ”

At this time, the Tang Dynasty cultivated too little land in Guanzhong, but there were too few people, and it couldn't be planted at all. However, a large amount of land is in the hands of the clan gatekeepers, and every time there is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, these gatekeepers use all kinds of means, either by force or by force, in short, they will first force these people to ruin their families, and then buy the land in the hands of the peasants at a very low price.

Chen Ying's purpose in establishing various factories was not to make money, but to give the gate lords and clans of this era another way to develop the industrial economy, so that they could understand that the output value of land was far lower than that of industrial manufacturing, and in this way, land annexation could also be delayed.

In the end, Yu Qing still left the Golden Tiger Order and left, but when he left, Yu Qing told Chen Ying that he would personally go out of Luoyang and prepare to personally command the dark pile in Luoyang to handle the matter.

After Yu Qing left, Chen Ying immediately summoned the four captains of the Beiwei Army and came to the Chinese army's tent to listen to the Hou's orders.

Although the battle on the first day of the first month of the third year of Wude caused Chen Ying to suffer a lot of losses, Wang Ren did not take advantage of it, if it is compared, it is still Wang Ren who suffers a big loss.

With the loss of the two generals under his command, Shan Xiongxin and Guo Qing, and more than 15,000 horses, Wang Renze's strength has been greatly damaged.

As the saying goes, take advantage of his illness and ask for his life.

Chen Ying naturally would not be soft on Wang Renze. Chen Ying looked at the four lieutenants under his command, and his eyes finally fell on Liu Tong: "Liu Tong! ”

"The last general!" Liu Tong responded in the queue.

Chen Yingdao: "General Ben has now promoted you to the left lieutenant of the Beiwei Army, commanding 1,200 soldiers and horses of the four regiments of the Beiwei Army, and let Xunxiang support you." You immediately march eastward, go down the ice surface of the Yellow River, wait for the opportunity to take Hangu Pass, and seal Wang Ren to retreat to the back road of Hangu Pass. ”

Liu Tong was very surprised, he was Chen Ying's confidant, but Chen Ying himself served as the lieutenant of the Beiwei Army, and he, the nominal deputy lieutenant, was actually the executive lieutenant of Beiwei. However, this lieutenant was two levels higher than the other lieutenants, and was on par with the deputy rate of the left and right guards, and suddenly made Liu Tong a senior general under Chen Ying, which made Liu Tong very uncomfortable.

However, he was not overjoyed, but said with a worried face: "General, although this Wang Ren is defeated and his morale is low, he still has more than 1,500 men and horses, and with only these more than 1,200 soldiers and horses, I am afraid that the strength is insufficient." ”

Chen Ying smiled lightly and did not answer.

Liu Tong is not leaving, nor is he staying.

For a long time, Chen Ying looked up at the sky and said indifferently: "The enemy enters me, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase" Do you understand? As long as you do sixteen words, Wang Ren can only stay in the fertile land of Hangu Road. ”