Panyu City, built hundreds of years ago, after many times of construction, can be said to be the economic center of Jiaozhou, the exchange of various materials is relatively developed, is a caravan must pass through.

There is no war here in peacetime.

As the economic center of Jiaozhou, not far from the coast, it has always been the most peaceful place.

There were 4,000 garrisons in the county, mainly for trade inspection and protection, and there were not many battles in military affairs.

In Ping, these defenders of Panyu are not low in vigilance.

The arrival of the army led by Ding Huchen was too fast.

The army led by Ding Huchen is more than twice as high as the defenders in the city, and before the defenders of Panyu have reacted, Ding Huchen's 10,000 army has arrived before the county seat!

The soldiers led by Ding Huchen are cavalry first, all of them are strong and strong, and the banner soldiers in the mountains are all screaming, which is obviously not only comparable to the Panyu defenders who collect taxes in Pingyue.

Just after Ding Huchen's cavalry blocked the four gates, the infantry had also arrived outside the city.

10,000 people, blocking the city tightly.

First of all, it is impossible to call for a battle and persuade the other party to surrender, which is something that almost every siege general will do, and before showing the other party a huge force, it is basically impossible to make the other party surrender without a fight.

After the battle was not called, it was a rapid siege.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!" A loud bang resounded outside Panyu City.

Wang Hongyi sent Ding Huchen to attack Jiaozhou this time and allocated him five thunderbolt cars.

When the Thunderbolt attacked Xiangyang City, the Thunderbolt continued to bombard, and the Xiangyang City Wall was so strong that it was still shot out of a gap!

The city wall of Panyu is not a little worse than Xiangyang City, and the power of the thunderbolt is really too great, just an hour's attack, and a city wall will be blasted out of the broken gap.

Ding Huchen was riding on a horse, and when he saw this scene, he stopped the bombardment of the thunderbolt and said to the people on the left and right: "Attack!"

"No!" a large number of soldiers, like sharp knives, plunged into the city and rushed inside.

"Kill!" The rolling iron stream approached, and when they arrived in the city, they collided with people, and there were hundreds of casualties in an instant, but the driving army, one after another, paved the road with their bodies, and more soldiers rushed up, scattering the enemy's resistance, forcing the enemy army to retreat.

The drums of war grew faster and faster, the surging tide poured in, and people kept falling, and people kept filling in, and after only a few moments, the defenders were crushed.

There are generals who take the lead, and their mouths burst into tears, like thunder: "Those who descend will not be killed." ”

Then, a large crowd of soldiers shouted in unison: "Those who descend will not be killed." ”

The thunder of countless people shouting in unison was enough to make the enemy soldiers tremble.

Even if there were a few resolute resisters, they were slashed and killed one by one, screaming to the ground, and when they saw this contrast, suddenly a captain shouted: "We are willing to surrender, and we ask the general to spare us from death!"

Those who surrendered suddenly, one after another.

The captain dropped his weapon and fell to his knees and surrendered, and the ordinary soldiers would not fight hard.

Who doesn't have parents and relatives? If there is an opportunity, who wants to die in vain?

The sound of surrender continued, and half an hour later, the defenders of Panyu had all surrendered to Ding Huchen.

"Those who surrender will not be killed! Wait for the darkness to surrender to the light, and this general will not be to blame for the past!" Ding Huchen said in an annunciation, specially sending cavalry to patrol and keep shouting.

At this moment, all the captains and soldiers who surrendered were relieved.

The officials in the city, some of whom would rather die than surrender, were killed by Ding Huchen's subordinates on the spot.

The city guard of this city had long been frightened and pale, and was pulled out of the corner of the mansion, wearing the clothes of a servant, if it wasn't for the fact that he really didn't look like a subordinate, he might have let him fish in troubled waters and run out.

As a result, the housekeeper in the mansion came forward to identify him, and was brought to Ding Huchen by the captain who searched the mansion.

"Get on your knees!"

was heavily pushed down in front of Ding Huchen's horse by two pro-soldiers, and the city guards turned pale.

There was no need for Ding Huchen to ask anything, he just withered on the ground, constantly begging for mercy.

"Take him down, and take him into custody, and report it to the king, and ask him to decide. Looking at the kneeling man with some disdain, Ding Huchen said in a deep voice.

Although I don't like this kind of soft bones, the other party's official position is here, and such a person is still left to the lord to deal with!

As soon as his words fell, a soldier stepped forward, picked up the man and left.

Ignoring the other party's pleas for mercy, Ding Huchen instructed the military judge: "Order people to quickly clean up the battlefield, guard the four gates, and maintain order in the city, and no one must take advantage of the fire to rob or do illegal things!"

"No!" this kind of thing is very common, and the military judge who was ordered almost did not hesitate to take someone to deal with it immediately.

Ding Huchen rode on a horse, looking at the scene in the city, watching the army constantly cleaning up the battlefield, watching the prisoners being escorted and imprisoned collectively, and watching the ground gradually being swept away, he was relieved.

Laying down this city, not far from the whole territory of Pingding Jiaozhou, below are scattered cottages and county seats.

Ding Huchen was relieved at this time, the lord has great ambitions, of course he understands that this Jiaozhou taught him to fight, it is the lord's trust in him, if he can't complete the task, he will lose the trust of the lord, as a general who also has great ambitions, this is the last thing that can not be allowed to happen.

This city is the economic center of Jiaozhou, and if you knock down this city, you can control the Jiaozhou trade route and take the entire Jiaozhou.

"The army rests in the city, and after the rest is over, continue to march!"

Ding Huchen said loudly.

From May to July, Ding Huchen's troops attacked the city and plundered the land one after another, and the momentum was like a bamboo!

In less than two months, the army took the entire territory of Jiaozhou (equivalent to the second wide area on the earth, excluding Vietnam).

Subsequently, the military newspaper that reported the victory was quickly sent to Xiangyang.

On August 10, Wang Hongyi of Xiangyang City looked at the bell at three o'clock in the afternoon.

At this moment, the officials of the Secret Literature Pavilion sent information, Wang Hongyi took a cursory look at it, and asked, "When will this be delivered?"

"Your Majesty, the morning has arrived, and it has been sent after the archive. ”

"Waterway or dry road?"

"First by land, when I arrived at Jingnan Youhe, I went all the way from Hebei to Xiangyang, a journey of fifteen days!"

Wang Hongyi nodded and said, "Call Yu Liangbo over." ”

After a while, Yu Liangbo came over, Wang Hongyi had already finished reading it, and when he saw it, he said: "July 20, Jiaozhou is flat." ”

"Congratulations, Your Majesty. Yu Liangbo hurriedly said happily.

"Don't be in a hurry, I'm thinking about it, it's been seven hundred years since the establishment of Jiaozhou, and all the dynasties have exiled criminals to Jiaozhou, once three hundred years, there are always more than 100,000 people, but why has the population of the Han people in Jiaozhou not been able to grow in large numbers for seven hundred years?"

It is said that after ten years of household registration surveys in Jiaozhou, the Han population is only 114,000 households, and the growth rate in ten years is even less than 300 households. ”

"Yes, the minister also thought that Jiaozhou is a place full of epidemics, and there are many people who have Gu disease, their abdomen is swollen, and the sick author is wailing and dying, and there must be five or six of the ten rooms, and the people are suffering a lot, and it is difficult to gain a foothold, let alone reproduce. Prefectures, counties, and counties are accustomed to it, but officials dare not go, and when they hear that they go to Jiaozhou, there will be those who abandon their officials. Yu Liangbo thought about it and said stiffly, thanks to which he could come up with it immediately.

Wang Hongyi knew in his previous life that this was actually a factor, that is, plague and schistosomiasis, and the damage of schistosomiasis to the labor force would be very large, and the Han people would never be able to digest Jiaozhou, which was the reason.

"Yu Qing, the problem is this, Jiaozhou has a large number of special products, spices, and ports, and after Jiaozhou is alone, it wants to develop spices on a large scale and transport them from the seaport to meet domestic needs. ”

The spice and silk business has always been a major money-making transaction with Western Qin, and even the country has a strong need.

won the Jiaozhou territory, and Wang Hongyi immediately had real confidence.

At this time, Wang Hongyi stood up and instructed: "This method is difficult to solve, but it is not difficult to improve, it is nothing more than burning the ground and killing snails." ”

"The plague comes out of the jungle wetlands, and the settlements must clear the jungle wetlands and burn them with fire to get rid of the plague. ”

"Gu diseases come out of snails, and as long as the snails are killed in the settlement, the Gu worms can be removed. ”

Both of these are set to be permanent, and they must be included in the performance appraisal of officials, especially in the first five years, and all those who fail to pass will be judged by the following performance. ”

And when many traversers lacked confidence and tried every possible way to explain why they did this, Wang Hongyi could directly promulgate the decree of the law.

Of course, this cannot last long, but five years is enough, and such a clean-up will be effective, which will lead to the fact that there is no need for administrative oppression in the future, and the people will naturally do it automatically.

Wang Hongyi doesn't bother to popularize science, as long as he scares - why does the Gu God come? It is that it likes snails, and the snails can exude the aura that attracts the Gu God, and if there are many snails at home, the Gu God will come, and if he comes, he will die!

In history, the people did not know the reason, and if they knew the reason, even the four evils could be extinct, and as soon as this rumor spread, the sparrows flying around were almost extinct, not to mention the snails?

In the countryside, there are many traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation, and it is these mystical experiences that the people in the countryside carry out unconditionally.

In Wang Hongyi's view, the county's crackdown on snails is really not as good as this rumor, and in fact this is also the reason, so as long as it is implemented for a few years, there will be a large number of examples to prove this legend.

The people mobilized themselves because it had their vital interests at stake.

Why did the Gu God come? It is that it likes snails, and the snails can exude the aura that attracts the Gu God, and if there are more snails in the family, the Gu God will come, and when it comes, not only will people die, but the family will also be poor—this is a fact, who can be rich when they are sick?

If modern medicine and technology are deducted, in terms of manpower alone, it is countless times stronger than the government mobilization, and it can automatically become a custom, passed down from generation to generation, and can be so-called cracked down hard every year.

And as long as you say one sentence at the end, saying "Burn the snail for the Gu God, the Gu God will be satisfied, and he will not cast a spell, but will also bless", it will be more effective.

Thinking of this, Wang Hongyi has decided to send the thirteen divisions to supervise, and send the curse and prohibition divisions to complete this task, presumably there must be a large number of professional gods to fool, and it is not difficult to carry out this matter.

Build a Gu temple, burn snails, and then Jiaozhou can develop rapidly - sometimes solving the problem is as simple as that.

Wait, Wang Hongyi remembered another thing, that is, this method has a drawback, that is, in the process of culling snails, the people have no protection and may be infected.

To solve this problem, rubber gloves and boots are required.

I couldn't help frowning and pressed this beforehand.

(To be continued)