Huang Chao set off a bloody storm in Chang'an, and suddenly the sky was waiting to step on the bones of the minister.

But after the people are killed, life has to go on. Zhao Zhang, who is also a member of the Tongping Zhang, entered the palace and said: "Chang'an is only a city, and the ministers are expected to need six million stone of food a year. Just to supply the soldiers of Chang'an, at least three million stones are needed, in addition to the families of the army, as well as the people in Chang'an City. Today, there are less than 500,000 stones in the warehouse, which can last for a month at most. ”

Huang Chao frowned, "After searching Chang'an, only this bit of food?" ”

Zhao Zhang bowed his head and was silent, in fact, no matter how empty Chang'an City was, it was impossible to go without food. The soldiers of the Qi army searched and robbed in this city for several months, and the grain they found had to be two or three million stones, but in fact, most of the food they grabbed was privately hidden by the soldiers, and most of the food they took out to the Qi Emperor was some silk brocade, gold, silver and copper money, but only a little bit of grain was taken out.

"What is the best way to solve it?" Huang Chao is not ignorant of this, but although the generals of the Qi army are also his courtiers, they all have heavy troops, and there are some things, even if Huang Chao knows the way, he is helpless.

"For the sake of today's plan, there is no other way, but to order the generals of the various armies to lead their troops out to hunt grass and grain, and collect grain and grass. The heavy troops gathered in Chang'an were sent to various prefectures and counties, firstly, to let them guard the prefectures and counties, and secondly, to let them eat locally and solve the problem of grain and grass by themselves. ”

"Feasible." Huang Chao nodded, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Chang'an, and eating was a huge problem. It is better to leave the elite troops of his cronies in Chang'an and send other troops to various prefectures and counties, first, to let them take the opportunity to expand their territory, and secondly, to let them solve the food problem in various places.

"Also, the people of Chang'an should let them fend for themselves. The imperial court no longer pulls out grain. Zhao Zhang said again.

Huang Chao hesitated for a moment. At present, only the Qi army has food in Chang'an. If the Qi army no longer sells grain and relief grain to the people, then the remaining hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an are estimated to run out. But think about it carefully, now that the Qi army has nothing to eat, where can he still take care of these people, so he nodded and agreed immediately.

Zhao Zhang thought about it and continued: "Besides, use gold and silver money to buy grain from the surrounding feudal towns. ”

"At this time, grain is the most expensive, who is willing to sell our grain? Moreover. Even if we sell it, it will be extremely expensive, and we don't have much money in our hands. "In times of war, food is life. This is also one of the important reasons why Li Jing sent food and money to the emperor every year, and the emperor favored Li Jing so much, and in just a few years, he continued to give Li Jing an official and a knight. Li Jing is a good hand at fighting wars and governing the people, but if he hadn't provided the emperor with a lot of money and grain, how could he be today.

Huang Chao occupied Luoyang and Chang'an, and did get a lot of money. But most of them were distributed to his soldiers. Now in Guanzhong and Henan, the price of grain has already risen to 10,000 yuan of rice. And often there is money and nowhere to buy it. There is no market.

"Although money is heavy, it is not as useful as food at the moment. No matter how expensive the grain is, as long as someone sells it, you can buy it. If His Majesty is worried about the lack of money, the minister has a plan to solve it. ”

"Say!"

"Your Majesty, have you ever heard that Cao Cao fought in the world at the end of the Han Dynasty, and once set up the post of General Zhonglang of Faqiu and the second rank of Captain Jin?" Zhao Zhang said with a smile.

"Gravedigging?" Huang Chao was a little surprised. In any case, digging people's graves is a trick that is not authentic after all. Although Huang Chao has been a salt seller and a rebel, he is now also the respect of a country, and when he goes to dig graves, he feels a little out of identity after all.

Zhao Zhang said beside him, "Your Majesty, Wei Wu is also a generation of heroes, but he has not done this. ”

Huang Chao thought about it for a long time, and nodded after the last moment: "Okay." But since you want to dig, let's dig a big one, don't those people in Chang'an City happen to be idle, and take them all to dig the tomb. I see, let's just dig up the Qianling Tomb in Fengtian first. The other imperial tombs of the Li family have also been dug up, and those famous families in Guanzhong are not willing to give me the honor, so well, they will simply dig up the ancestral graves of those people. ”

Qianling is a super tomb, and it is also the only mausoleum in history where two emperors are buried together, here is buried Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, empress Wu Zetian. Zhao Zhang didn't expect that Huang Chao was still hesitating just now, but now he didn't make a sound, and he was a blockbuster. not only agreed to dig the tomb for gold, but also went so far as to dig up the imperial tomb. Digging the imperial tomb is not counted, but the largest one must be dug first, and even the ancestral graves of those famous and wealthy businessmen in Guanzhong will not be spared.

Ruthless, really ruthless!

Killing people is not enough, how can there be more ruthless and desperate digging people's ancestral graves.

"Well, just send people to the feudal towns of Daqi that belong to me, and let them deliver grain to Chang'an. Since he is already my courtier, if the Son of Heaven has something, how can the courtier sit idly by! Huang Chao thought of those feudal towns that were called annexed, but in fact they had been waiting and watching, and their attitudes were uncertain. Originally, if things hadn't come to this point, Huang Chao wouldn't have planned to send someone to ask for food, but now, he can't manage so much.

On the same day, dozens of envoys from Daqi in Chang'an City galloped out of the city and rushed to various towns.

Fengxiang, the beginning of the Tang Dynasty in Qizhou, the first year of Tianbao, changed to Fufeng County. In the second year of Germany, Su Zong was fortunate to come to Fufeng County, recovered Chang'an and Luoyang in the same year, set up Fengxiang Mansion in December, called Xijing, and Chengdu, Jingzhao, Henan, Taiyuan are collectively called Wujing. The Tang system, where the Son of Heaven is stationed, is generally renamed the mansion, which is one level higher than the state.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Xingping Festival was made, and the early Kangtai was changed to the Fengxiang Festival, which belonged to the Guannei Road, Fengxiang County, Lingqi, Long, Jin, Shang, Qin five states, and the location was in the west of Chang'an, so it was also called the Jingxi Festival Degree.

Among the towns in Guanzhong, Fengxiang Town is extremely important, not only the Xijing of Tang Wujing, but also the arch of Jingxi. In addition, Fengxiang Town also controls Wuguan, an important gateway to the southwest of Chang'an. However, soon after, the imperial court divided the two states of Jin and Shang and set up a Jin Shang Festival envoy to control the Wuguan and protect the southwest gateway of Chang'an. Yiqi and Longzhou set up Fengxiang Festival to envoy and defend the west of Beijing. In addition, the three prefectures of Qin, He, and Wei were used to set up the Tianxiong Army Festival Envoy.

Although the territory of the Fengxiang Army was divided into three towns, Fengxiang Town, which is close to the west of Chang'an, is still very important.

Fengxiang Town's current envoy is the former prime minister Zheng Jin, a loyal minister loyal to Li Tang.

Zheng Jin, the word Taiwen, was born in the Zheng family of Xingyang, a famous family in the Tang Dynasty. Born in the purple. The hairpin family. Great-grandfather and grandfather are both Jinshi. His father, Zheng Ya, was well-known for his talent and learning, and he was deeply valued by Li Deyu, a famous minister in the late Tang Dynasty, and was cited as a confidant. Zheng Zhen himself, known in history as "beautiful and beautiful, as colorful as jade", is a beautiful man with an outstanding image, and his talent is even more blue than his father. During the reign of Wuzong Huichang. It was the golden age of Li Deyu's dominance in the political arena, and Zheng Jin, who was only 18 years old, was ranked as a jinshi, creating a record of the youngest jinshi of Li Tang's generation. The young man has ambition and a bright future!

However, the good times did not last long, with the death of Emperor Wuzong, Li Deyu lost power, and Zheng Ya, Zheng Jin's father and son were included in Li Deyu's party by Bai Minzhong, Ling Huxuan and others, who were upstarts in the Xuanzong Dynasty, and naturally they were also unlucky. So Zheng Ya was degraded to Xunzhou, and Zheng Zheng went to the place to sit on the cold bench for more than 20 years. to the Yizong Dynasty. He was favored by his direct minister Liu Zhan and transferred to the Central Committee again. But soon because Liu Zhan was convicted of his outspokenness, he was implicated and relegated to the distant Wuzhou Thorn History.

Waiting for the emperor to ascend the throne, Zheng Jin, who was already fifty-one years old, was finally transferred to the court, first as a squire in the military department, and then moved to the ministry as a squire, and then became the minister of the country.

However, Zheng Jin's ability to become Xiangguo is not entirely his talent, he can recover because he has an important ally in the palace, that is, Ximen Sigong, the lieutenant of the Shence Right Army, who is the second great eunuch in the Qianfu Dynasty after Tian Lingzi. Ximen Sigong and Zheng Jin's father have a very good relationship, Zheng Zheng and Ximen Sigong are the same father and son, and call him uncle.

However, although he and his cousin Lu Xian relied on the eunuchs in the palace to finally become Xiangguo, one relied on Tian Lingzi and the other relied on Ximen Sigong. Tian Lingzi and Ximen Sigong are the No. 1 and No. 2 eunuchs in the palace, and Lu Xi and Zheng Ji have become the top two in the country. And just as the two eunuchs have always been hostile, the two cousins have always been rivals in officialdom.

However, in the end, in the struggle between Zheng Ji and Lu Xi, he was ousted at the same time, but Lu Xi's backstage Tian Lingzi was harder, so he later reverted, but Zheng Zheng was relegated to Fengxiang and became the envoy of Fengxiang.

Up to now, Lu has become Tian Lingzi's responsible bearer in the Huangchao Rebellion, and finally committed suicide at home when Huangchao entered Chang'an. And Zheng Zheng stayed in Fengxiang.

However, no matter how Zheng Zheng became Xiangguo, he can definitely be regarded as an out-and-out loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty. Whether it is high in the temple or far away from the rivers and lakes, he has been doing his best.

After being demoted to Fengxiang Town, Zheng Zhen not only managed Fengxiang Town in an orderly manner in a short period of time, but also strengthened military affairs and worked hard to train soldiers and horses to prepare for the purpose of saving the country in times of difficulty. In order to boost morale, he rewarded the army with his family wealth and asked his wife to personally sew military uniforms for the soldiers.

It's a pity that in the end, Chang'an was still lost, and the Son of Heaven still followed Tian Lingzi to hunt in the west.

After the Son of Heaven went west, Zheng Zheng once convened the generals to discuss the matter, hoping to lead the army to attack the rebels and recover the two capitals.

However, Feng Xiangjun saw that the Son of Heaven had run away, and which one was willing to counterattack Chang'an.

Marching Sima Li Changyan said very simply: "Now that the thieves are in full swing, we can't come out strongly, it's best to wait for the other feudal towns to send troops, and when King Qin's army gathers, we will discuss in detail the plan to recover the two capitals." ”

Li Changyan was the marching Sima of the Fengxiang Army, and he was also the leader of the Fengxiang Army with the highest prestige in fact, and his words represented the opinions of most of the Fengxiang generals.

At that time, Zheng Zheng was sad in his heart when he heard this, and he was so angry that he fainted.

As a result, when he was recuperating from his illness, Li Changyan and Yuan Jinrou, the envoy of the prison army, met with the envoy of Huangchao, accepted the reward of Huangchao, and led the Fengxiang army to join Huangchao. Zheng Ji was just a little better, and when he heard the news, he couldn't help vomiting blood several times, and his condition worsened.

However, Li Changyan and the others are not simple, although they promised to belong to Huangchao, but in fact, they only agreed verbally, in fact, for several months, Fengxiang Town has remained the same, and even the flag has not been changed. Obviously, Li Changyan and other Fengxiang generals did not really surrender, but they didn't want to offend Huang Chao, so they just swayed on both sides of the wall. Even Zheng Jin, who refused to surrender, was still living in Shuaifu to recuperate at this time, and no one disturbed him.

After months of recuperation, Zheng Zheng finally recovered. But his spirit was still not good, and he cried to his wife: "The world is chaotic, traitors and males are rising, there is a rebellion in the feudal towns outside, and there is the dictatorship of eunuchs inside." Now there is a rebel rebellion, the Son of Heaven is forced to hunt west, and the two capitals of Luoyang and Chang'an have fallen. I am a Tang minister, I can't settle the society, I can't protect the people, I am ashamed of the world, and I have no face to see my ancestors after death! ”

Mrs. Zheng said: "All the ministers and soldiers in the world are Tang Lu, but no one can save the country? ”

Zheng Zheng sighed: "Today, there is only one person who has the ability to turn the tide and support the building to the future." ”

"Who can do this?"

"Naturally, it is the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, the envoy, the fake Huang Yue, the Shangshu Ling, the commander-in-chief of the world's soldiers and horses, the Northeast Dao Daxingtai Shangshu Ling, and the King of Qin, Li Jing!" Zheng Jin's voice was full of complexity.

Before he finished speaking, a person suddenly came in from the outside and said: "Old Zheng Ling Gong is worried, and he will bring good news to Ling Gong in the next place." Zheng Jin looked at it, but found that it was the staff who had followed him for many years, and couldn't help but be surprised: "What good news?" ”

The staff member took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it forward, "Ling Gong, please read this letter first and it will be clear." ”

Zheng Jin took the letter, opened it, and saw a beautiful thin gold font, reading it in a hurry, Zheng Jin's face was constantly changing, full of shock. After reading the name at the end of the letter, he raised his head, his eyes were blazing, staring directly at the staff who had followed him for many years, his voice seemed calm, but it was difficult to hide a trace of shock in it, "I really didn't expect that Mr. has followed me for many years, and now he actually came with a letter from King Qin." ”

The staff smiled: "It's not enough, I don't know how Lu Dao Linggong feels after reading the letter?" ”

"Very good, very good, the old man simply wants to look up to the sky and roar, sing to the wine, and dance the sword to cheer up." Zheng Zheng said, "Hahaha, happy, madam, quickly prepare wine for me, I especially want to drink two glasses now." ”

Mrs. Zheng was a little confused, but when she heard the two of them talk about King Qin just now, she guessed that this matter was probably related to Li Jing. And the husband was so excited and happy after reading the letter, I haven't seen him for many years, and then think about the husband who was still worried about the country's heart before, saying that when only the king of Qin can save the world today, could it be that the king of Qin sent troops to the king of Qin to recover the two capitals?

After Zheng Ji smiled, he felt much more comfortable.

After his wife left, Zheng Zheng took the hand of his staff and sat down in the study.

He stared straight at the staff, "Mr. has been following X for more than ten years, right?" ”

"It's been eighteen years!" The gray-haired staff members are about the same age as Zheng Jin, and they are all close to the sixtieth birthday. The two have known each other for many years and can be regarded as old friends.

The staff knew the meaning of Zheng Jin's words, and said calmly: "Actually, I have recently made a few friends. ”

"This friend is from King Qin."

"Hmm!" The staff nodded, not saying much.

Zheng Ji was silent for a while, and then chuckled, "In the future, between the old man and the King of Qin, the old friend will arrange contact." (To be continued......)