In the next Xingyang counties, a large number of merchants rebelled, gathered servants to guard, and opened the door to dedicate the city, Mai Mengcai and Xue Wanbei were almost as Yang Tong said, they received the city all the way, but in five days, the whole county was owned by the Great Sui, and the family under the rule was also swept away by Eryi in this game of cat and mouse. The former is responsible for the slaughter, and the latter is responsible for collecting and publishing the black materials of the family, and publishing their dark history in front of the people one by one.

The public order in the counties was also quickly pacified under the maintenance of 2,000 county soldiers.

Most of these county soldiers were soldiers who were eliminated from the standing army after Yang Tong implemented the elite soldier policy.

Although the rank of the county soldiers is low, there is also a clear plan and promotion channels, which are under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Department, and there is also merit evaluation.

In troubled times, a large number of people will die every day, murderers, robbers, and bandits are countless in the Central Plains region where the perennial war is torn, as long as they are not too excessive, the southern princes will not make any effort to manage, but it does not work here in Yang Dong, with the improvement of the law, a large number of high-quality soldiers eliminated from the standing army are put in various places to be responsible for public security, and kill people outside, but as long as they enter Yang Dong's territory, whether they settle down or not, killing people at will is absolutely fatal.

The greater advantage is that these county soldiers who were sent to various places were directly lowered from the army and belonged to the Criminal Department, and the local officials had no right to appoint and dismiss, which further strengthened Yang Tong's control over the locality.

If the other princes knew that Yang Tong would eliminate a large number of high-quality soldiers to do this, it is estimated that they would definitely collapse and hit the wall, now whether it is Li Yuan Li Mi, or Xiao Mi, they are all trying to recruit troops and expand their military strength, Yang Tong's approach is indeed a bit strange in troubled times, but there is no way, the equipment of the standing army of the Great Sui is replaced almost every year, and the advanced equipment eventually improves the combat power of the soldiers, not to mention the Standing Ten Army of the Great Sui, even if it is a local county soldier, in the face of the enemy's main battle strength, it also occupies an advantage in equipment, This is the horror of the elite army policy, Yang Tong has the confidence to make the combat strength of the army under his command increase instead of decreasing while being elite soldiers.

As the first base area of the Great Sui in the south, Yang Tong naturally hoped that the Great Sui could completely control it at the first time, so after taking the whole county of Xingyang, he asked Xue Wanbei to take the county soldiers to suppress bandits in the county, and at the same time conduct a public trial of local illegal officials and local ruffians and hooligans to win the hearts of the people.

Bishui County, a gathering of heroes.

Although Yang Tong did not participate in the battle to recover Xingyang, but he had a clear view of what happened, and after getting the battle reports of Mai Mengcai and Xue Wanbei, he smiled disapprovingly at the surprise of the generals and said: "Wang Shichong concentrated on Luoyang, intending to trap the lonely city, and Xingyang has been abandoned by him. The family led by the Zheng family tried to give Xingyang to Li Yuan, but they didn't want our army to suddenly go south... The power of the Maisons is deeply ingrained here, but their private army is too weak to do much harm to the regular army. But my Great Sui is overwhelming the world, and the people also yearn for the national policy that everyone in the Great Sui has land to cultivate and everyone to read, plus we have been propagating the exploitation methods of the family for many years, and they have somewhat awakened. As soon as I go to the Sui army, how can the poor people be willing to fight against the imperial court with the big clans? As long as we release the nursery rhyme of 'fighting the local tyrants and dividing the fields equally, and the serfs turn over and sing', it will make the recovery of all parts of the country much less troublesome." ”

"Then ......" Luo Shixin and the others don't know what to say now, everyone was originally gearing up and preparing to do a big job, who knew that the land of a county was taken down almost bloodlessly, so that they couldn't vent in one breath, looking at Yang Tong with a light face, Luo Shixin smiled bitterly: "Saint, is it the same for other counties?" ”

If this is the case, then everyone doesn't have to fight, and go back to Yecheng to sleep.

"Of course not!" Yang Tong said with a smile: "The six counties of Xingyang, Dongjun, Dongping, Jibei, Qijun, and Beihai are full of disasters and difficulties, and they are only separated by a river from my Great Sui, and they are deeply affected, so it must be easy to recover, as for the land far away from my Great Sui, the influence is far from enough." ”

Yang Tong's words made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, but then, it made the hearts of a military general rise: "The next thing is to see how Li Mi reacts, I really want to see what Li Mi, who is allied with Li Yuan, will do next, and whether he will be stupid to fight with my Great Sui." ”

For the first time, all the generals had an urgent hope, hoping that Li Mi would be stronger and that he would be able to make some covenants with Li Er...... How can you say that Li Mi is also the third in the world, at least there should be a battle, right?

Although it is said that in order to avoid the misery of the living souls, it is better to fight less, but the feats of the generals are all won by the sword, although for the imperial court, it is the best result to be able to take the city without blood, but for these generals, it is a little panicked.

And in Luoyang, when Wang Shichong got the news that the whole territory of Xingyang had fallen, the family welcomed the Tang army into the country, and was bombed away by the Sui army, he was also dazzled by the dazzling operation, but then there was a kind of anger that he had never felt before.

After two years of soldiers, in order to one day, he can take the entire sixteen counties of the Central Plains, and then fight vertically and horizontally, but the damned enemy didn't give him this opportunity at all, Li Yuan directly took away his three counties as soon as he came up, Yang Tong took away one county as soon as he came up, and only Henan County also lost a few counties, which made Wang Shichong how willing.

"These damn families! All of them are people who forget their righteousness! After learning about the fall of Xingyang County, Wang Shichong's tyrannical mood grew even more wildly.

Wang Shichong's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness, and he snorted coldly: "The family family, hehe, what a family!" By now, I feel more and more that Yang Tong is right, and these big families are not a good thing at all. You see that Li Yuan's bastard is good to Webster! But what about it? Didn't I agree to ask people to ask for marriage? After agreeing, they still came to sway from side to side, and they were the most disloyal, and they still had the noble shelf of a family, which was extremely disgusting and shameless. ”

"Father, do you want to wipe out all the families in the city?" The third son, Wang Xuanqiong, flashed a trace of hideousness on his ugly face, "None of these children of these families in the city are good things, if Li Tangbing comes to the city, they will definitely try their best to sell our Wang family." Now that the war is imminent, it is necessary to encourage the morale of the army with money and food, and it is better to ...... than wait for them to betray."

Wang Xuanqiong didn't say any more, but the meaning was quite obvious, instead of worrying about the fire in the backyard, it was better to kill all these wall grass, not only to avoid intrigue with these people, but also to add a lot of wealth to the imperial court, to fight against Li Tang or the Great Sui, although in the long run, the people's hearts and livelihoods will inevitably be damaged, but the top priority at the moment is to deal with Li Tang's aggressiveness, if this is really done, it will be conducive to defending the city.

"Third brother, ...... you" Wang Xuanying looked at Wang Xuanqiong with a shocked face, this order, then Luoyang City is simply devastated.

Seeing that his father and emperor actually appeared, Wang Xuanying hurriedly said: "Father, no." If this is the case, then it will make everyone in the city natural, and without waiting for the enemy to attack, Luoyang City will be in chaos first. ”

"This!" Wang Shichong was a little hesitant.

"Those who achieve great things are not informal!" Yun Dingxing took a step forward and said, "Holy Lord, these people will definitely and will definitely become dark arrows and poisonous arrows in the defense of the city. The saint must not forget the rebellion of Daxing Palace encountered by Yang Tong, if he hadn't noticed it earlier, Yang Tong might not have escaped the death of tens of thousands of dead soldiers. When Yang Tong was in Daxing City, there was no external trouble, and he was still on the road, if we were defending the city, the family used dead soldiers and domestic slaves to launch a fatal blow from behind, what would be the result? Erchen thought that instead of being passive everywhere, it was better for the strong man to break his wrist and leave a clean Luoyang City to deal with the incoming enemy. ”

Wang Shichong's face showed a touch of ruthlessness, he knew that Wang Xuanqiong was not untargeted, this kind of thing would definitely happen at a critical juncture.

"Father!" Seeing this, Wang Xuanying hurriedly said: "Even if my father wants to kill, he only needs to kill some big families for the crime of colluding with Li Tang, as for the shops and peddlers and pawns under their names, they are all closely related to the people's livelihood, and if they are all killed, they will shake the people's hearts, which is not conducive to our army." ”

"The prince's words are wrong, from the perspective of micro-ministers, most of the families and forces of all parties are lurking among the peddlers and pawns, but those big merchants, because of the big business, dare not be the enemy of the saint. Saint, according to Weichen, those hawkers should be killed. And these people are like grass mustard and insignificant, even killing them is not enough to shake the foundation of Luoyang, but those big traders will have more influence, if you want to let these people go, it is reasonable. Yun Dingxing bowed.

Wang Shichong also thought that those Sui Dynasty works were hidden among thousands of peddlers and pawns, and his heart was immediately hateful, and he nodded immediately: "What Xuan Qiong and Taiwei said is good, implement it immediately!" ”

"Father think twice!" Wang Xuanying pleaded bitterly: "These peddlers and pawns are closely related to the people's livelihood and are an indispensable existence in Luoyang City. The people can't buy what they urgently need, so can't I let the royal people sell the goods? Besides, these peddlers and pawns don't have much money or food. ”

"There is no need to discuss this matter again!" Wang Shichong waved his hand to stop Wang Xuanying's persuasive words, and then ordered Wang Xuanqiong coldly: "Stagger the families of the officials in the court, and the rest will be killed in the name of collaborating with the enemy, and as for the peddlers and pawns, those in Beishi will be arrested." All, all of them will be put in prison, and those who dare to resist will be killed! Wang Shichong was full of murderous intent.

"The retainers obey!" Wang Xuanqiong responded excitedly and loudly, Luoyang North City is close to the palace, and all the things sold are some expensive things, and there is a lot of oil and water to be fished.

Wang Xuanying let out a long sigh and closed his eyes weakly, once this order is implemented, thousands of people, or even tens of thousands of people, will become unjust ghosts, and the father and emperor will only kill so many people because of a few unscrupulous traders, and the people's hearts will not be chaotic.

As soon as the people's hearts are scattered, no matter how big this Luoyang is, how long can it be held?

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