Chapter 254: The Battle for People's Hearts

"No, no!" Dou Jiande shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Since Wang Shichong and below, the Wang family has no more talents, but I am afraid that they will not be able to delay for long." Conspiracy and intrigue can only succeed in a momentary victory, I want this world, I have to be upright and bright. Those who have attained the Tao have more help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help, I just want to compare with Li Yuan, this "Dao", is he more or I have more! ”

"Your Majesty is naturally destined for heaven, this is an indisputable fact!" Ling Jing said respectfully: "Your Majesty is naturally a Daoist one, while Li Yuan is a Daoist one. ”

"You're wrong!" Dou Jiande shook his head and said: "I am different from Li Yuan's Tao, his Tao is the world's wealthy, seven sects and five hopes, and Guanlong nobles, but my Tao is the world's Li Shu, billions of people ascend to the people." ”

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the thirty-six roads against the king, the seventy-two roads of dust and smoke, turning over their foundations, you must be surprised to find that these anti-kings and the so-called righteous people, there are not a few peasants who can't survive at all, but the clan has carried out a new round of power reshuffle. Dou Jiande is far inferior to Li Yuan in terms of family background and prestige, but Dou Jiande has one thing that Li Yuan does not have, he is from a humble family of the Shu family. He knew what the people wanted.

Originally, the Hebei clan and the local heroes did not look down on Dou Jiande, however, when attacking Hedong, in order to expand the source of troops and increase the strength of confrontation with Li Tang, Dou Jiande was also expanding his army.

But to expand the armament, you need armor, you need food, you need blades. In the era of the small-scale peasant economy, these resources, without exception, were in the hands of the clans and the gatekeepers. It was impossible for Dou Jiande to obtain the support of these materials and wealth, so Dou Jiande adopted another way of conversion.

The Xia army not only distributed 100 acres of military field, but for each soldier killed on the battlefield, an additional 60 acres of bereavement land was issued, and this 160 acres of land could be passed on to children and grandchildren to inherit, or it could be bought and sold. Dou Jiande also didn't have any land, of course, when he saw that all the clans and wealthy families did not support him without exception, he took tyrannical countermeasures. Directly in the name of the enemy and the enemy country, the families and heroes of the newly acquired land will be raided in the same number.

On the sixth day of the fifth month of the third year of Wude, the general under the command of Dou Jiande conquered Luzhou City, beheaded thousands of gentry and officials in Luzhou City, and used the confiscated property and grain as military funds, and the land owned by these clans was confiscated.

"Participate in the Xia Army and distribute 100 acres of Yongye Field!"

"Another 60 acres of bereavement fields will be issued for the dead!"

"Forty acres of additional disability!"

"Twenty acres of land for minor injuries!"

"Behead the enemy one level, and fold it from five acres of land!"

In fact, Dou Jiande had no intention of opening up an alternative land reform, and in modern times, revolution was not an easy task. Countless revolutionaries have complained that the Chinese people are too numb, too cowardly, and have no spirit of resistance at all; no matter how much propaganda and encouragement they make, no matter how much effort and sacrifice they make, they just look indifferent, look like they have nothing to do with themselves, they are purely a group of pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and they will not succeed in carrying out the revolution with such people for a hundred years. They were wrong, the Chinese spirit of resistance has always been the strongest, as early as the Qin Dynasty Chinese farmers issued a roar of "the emperor will have a kind of Xiangning", after more than 2,000 years, peasant uprisings one after another, one by one so that they could not live the dynasty was buried.

Dou Jiande has already repaid the sweetness of this kind of division of land and expansion of the army. You must know that even in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, the price of land in the Tang Dynasty was not low. One mu of production, even in Hedong, is worth more than 300 mu. In this way, they can exchange their lives for more than 400 yuan worth of land, and these proletarians and tenants and homeless people suddenly went crazy.

At the beginning, they naturally didn't believe that Dou Jiande would have such a good heart, but after the temptation, these people who joined the army got the land deed issued by the government at that time, and now, the people of Hedong went crazy in an instant. Two days later, after a bitter battle, Cao Zhan's subordinates, the general under Dou Jiande, captured Huzhou and smashed open the gates of the three towns in southern Jin. At this point, Dou Jiande, who had an army of 100,000 marching westward, had swelled to 300,000 horses and 31,000 cavalry.

Seeing that the Xia army was like a locust crossing the border, sweeping away all the clan gates in the place where it passed, the officials and gentry of the entire Hebei were frightened.

Dou Jiande's division of the distinction between the clan and the common people is simple and crude, more than 500 acres of land is Haoqiang, which is the object of suppression, of course, do not resist, hand over the land, and leave a life.

Just after the three towns of southern Jin were conquered, Dou Jiande's army rushed all the way to the north, and at the same time, the powerful people in Bingzhou were frightened, and they were desperately selling their fields...... This thing used to be property, but now it's a talisman, and the more land you have, the faster you die, this is the experience they have summed up. A large piece of fertile land is sold as if it doesn't want money, and it has been discounted, but now at this critical juncture, who still buys a large piece of fertile land, it is purely because his brain was kicked by a donkey, and he thinks that he died too slowly.

The news of the loss of peace in the three towns of Hedong and Jinnan shocked the Li Tang court in Chang'an, Guanzhong, and the Tang Dynasty was not without defeat, like Xue Ju defeated Li Shimin at the shallow water plateau, and Zong Luohu's troops reached Jingyang City, which was eighty miles away from Chang'an, like Liu Wuzhou's defeat of Li Yuanji, almost the entire Hedong heart was taken, in fact, losing the city and losing land was not a rare thing for the Tang Dynasty.

However, this time Dou Jiande was different.

Everywhere Xia Jun passed, there were scenes of husbands sending their wives and fathers sending their sons to the battlefield.

The peasants are eager for the land they rely on for survival, and now they finally have the land, if they don't want the land in their hands to fly away, they can only follow Dou Jiande all the way to the black.

Hedong is the place where Li Yuan started, when the Hedong clan and the gate lord were killed by Dou Jiande's army, and the blood flowed like a river, the court transferred Chen Ying to cross the river to the north, and the call for the Shu army under Li Xiaogong to go north was very high. At this time, Li Yuan was also in a dilemma.

Why is Li Yuan in a dilemma?

Actually, the answer is very simple.

Because Li Xiaoer was too angry, he lost his face twice. At this time, Li Shimin's reputation was far worse than Li Jiancheng, and even inferior to Li Yuanji. This broke the balance that Li Yuan had worked so hard to produce.

Dou Jiande played this hand in Hedong, which was very beautiful, and it also caught Li Yuan off guard. However, this matter is also a mixed blessing for Li Yuan, there are as many as forty-three Hedong clans and Haoqiang who support Li Jiancheng, and more than half of the Hedong clan officials under Li Jiancheng's command.

Dou Jiande opened a killing spree in Hedong, on the one hand, he was eradicating Li Jiancheng's descendant forces, and once Hedong was really lost, Li Jiancheng could only rely on Jingzhao Wei. In contrast, Li Shimin still has Xingyang Zheng and Shandong Haoqiang to rely on.

Wrong Dou Jiande's weakening of Li Jiancheng's wings, on the one hand, does not affect their father-son relationship, and can also achieve the purpose of balance. Isn't Li Yuan in a dilemma?

In fact, Li Yuan didn't really want to lose Hedong. As long as Chen Ying led the army to attack Hebei, even if he couldn't take Hebei, he only needed to force Dou Jiande back to help, and Li Yuan's goal would be achieved. In fact, in his heart, he was more inclined to Chen Yingqi to attack Hebei.

In the face of the angry ministers, Li Yuan adopted a peaceful approach: "I think about it!" ”

"Consider it!" In fact, it is a very famous diplomatic phrase in later generations, which can be interpreted as I will not consider it at all.

Chen Ying didn't think so much at all, he led his command of more than 50,000 steps to ride a Cao transport boat all the way down the Yellow River.

Only two days later, that is, on the ninth day of the fifth month of the third year of Wude, the army under Chen Ying had arrived at the city of Liyang.