"Boom—" A thunderbolt pierced the sky, and the dark clouds rolled in the air, and the sassy river wind became stronger and stronger.

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning stood on the Wangjiang Tower, their clothes fluttering, their long hair flying, like a fairy couple.

"We've finally come this far." Li Luo looked at the changing sky, and there was a hint of the artistic conception of the starry sky and the sea in his eyes, as if he was standing in the clouds, pointing out the rivers and mountains.

On the empty upstairs, only a couple of men and women looked at the railing. Even the guards are on the next floor.

"My dream was to be a master in the industry. Wash the white and go ashore, never look at the eyes, these eight words are what I, a cultural relics practitioner, have pursued all my life. ”

"It's just a dream, I don't dare to think about the hegemony of the king, I can't think of my turn to be the savior, and I can't think of ......" The man said this, looked left and right, and then lowered his voice and spit out the last three words that he hesitated to say: "... crossed. ”

The man continued to express his emotion to the only female audience: "Fortunately, God sent you to me too, let us come together, otherwise, how lonely and lonely you say, even if you are not the emperor, you are alone!" ”

"It's different with you. Even if he becomes an emperor, he is not alone! ”

"Then do it vigorously, I must sit in this world! Meng Yuan, I'm done! The Zhao family is not angry, so let my Li family come! ”

Cui Xiuning squinted like cutting her eyes, trying to cover the wind blowing her face with her long and dense eyelashes, and the shallow pear vortex destroyed her cold temperament. "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be here in this era. But to be honest, even now that I have the opportunity to go back, I won't go back. ”

"I didn't take the position of queen and queen, I didn't take it seriously at all. I don't regret it for two reasons. The first thing you know, is that I don't want to leave you and your children. It's good to have you with me. ”

"The second reason, you don't believe it, but that's what I say in my heart, that is... Liability. I can't see so many people living under tyranny, so many people suffering like slaves and animals. ”

"Now, we've finally gotten this far. We must be steady, and we must not lose a single step. There are more than 1 million people in Haidong counting on us, and more than 10 million people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang counting on us. ”

After Cui Xiuning finished speaking, he patted Li Luo on the shoulder.

"Don't think so." Li Luo's voice was in line with the wind and rain outside the building, faintly revealing the sound of gold and iron, "You can't afford to lose!" It's the same with the world! Xiang Yucai can't afford to lose, I, Li Luo, am not afraid of losing! ”

"I've lost, I've been defeated, but I've been able to win in the end, that's what I'm capable of. Xiuning, you take the problem seriously. To use the monk's favorite words, it is that you are in the face. ”

Cui Xiuning choked when she heard this, and then thought about it, and felt that she was really in love.

That's right, you can't afford to lose. If you can't afford to lose, you can't afford to win. Her personality is more delicate and cautious than Li Luo, and because of this, she also lacks Li Luo's tenacity and bearing.

Just then, footsteps were heard on the stairs.

"Your Excellency, Madam, the banquet has been prepared, can you ring the bell to start the banquet?"

Zhen Liangxiu, who was already in the palace of the Guogong Mansion, climbed the Wangjiang Tower, she received an oil-paper umbrella, and approached with small steps to report.

"Ring the bell and have a feast. While the heavy rain did not fall, let them enter the palace and go upstairs. Li Luo commanded. It turned out that in addition to climbing high and looking far away with Cui Xiuning today, he also had to feast on Wen Tianxiang and Chen Shuzhen, who had returned triumphantly, in Wangjiang Tower.

Wangjiang Tower is the most beautiful place in the Song Palace, climb high and overlook, this river scenery and mountains, Lin'an style has received the bottom of the eye, it has the meaning of "looking at the rivers and mountains".

Back then, Zhao Guan's family often entertained ministers in Wangjiang Tower, watched the scenery and drank, and the monarchs and ministers enjoyed together.

"No. Then the slave and maid commanded that the wine and food should be served first, so that it would not rain heavily and miss the feast. Zhen Liangxiu took the order and retreated.

"Aunt Zhen." Li Luo stopped her, "Li Jian has returned to Goryeo Inju." If Aunt Zhen wants to go back to see him, I can let Aunt Zhen go back. ”

Zhen Liangxiu's expression was a little gloomy, but he said firmly: "The slave and maid will not go back, time has passed, things are not people, and the current masters of the slave and maid are only the king and his wife." ”

Of course, she already knew that Li Luo was not Li Jian's son. Although he was quite sad at the beginning, he has now figured it out, and even put himself in Li Luo's shoes.

Li Jian Langjun was her master when she was young, and the two did have a deep relationship back then. But more than 30 years have passed, and Li Langjun should not have remembered himself for a long time. And he was sold cheaply by the Li family, but the king saved himself, and only the king was really good to himself.

The king is the master he should serve faithfully.

"I see. Aunt Zhen will have difficulties in the future, but she can tell me, or she can tell Madame. Li Luo said when he heard this.

Zhen Liangxiu was full of warmth, and said with a more suffocating voice: "Slave and maid thank you for your mercy." ”

When Zhen Liangxiu went downstairs, Cui Xiuning said: "You are very good to her, take her as an elder?" Well, I understand. This is a typical psychology of a lack of maternal love. You have a good vision, Zhen Liangxiu is smart and capable, and he is a person who values affection and righteousness. The trivial matters in the palace were handed over to her, and I was relieved. ”

Li Luo nodded. He couldn't help but feel a little gloomy when he thought that he still didn't know who his biological mother was.

A warm plain hand reached over, grabbed Li Luo's hand, and shook it, "Okay, don't think about the past." I know who they are, but I can never see each other again, and I'm sadder than you, right? ”

Li Luo thought about it too, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly. Isn't that so?

At this time, a pair of maids holding wine and delicacies, went upstairs, set up seats in the building, and then stood on both sides, holding their breath and coughing. It can be seen that they are being conditioned by Zhen Liangxiu and are becoming more and more like palace maids.

"Boom—" Another flash of lightning exploded. The two of them couldn't help but be a little worried, this rainstorm would make it inconvenient for people attending the banquet.

Fortunately, the heavy rain has not yet started, and the ministers have already come downstairs. Looking down, it turned out to be a long dragon with an oil-paper umbrella.

Wen Tianxiang was obviously familiar with Wangjiang Tower, he went upstairs, and immediately a maid saluted him and helped him collect the umbrella.

"Weichen Wen Tianxiang, meet your lord..."Wen Tianxiang was just about to bow down, but was held by Li Luo, "Mr. Wen is exempt, let's sit down." Today is a small feast for widows, just feel free. ”

Wen Tianxiang said with a smile: "Speaking of which, this is the third time that Weichen has come to Wangjiang Tower to participate in the banquet. ”

Wen Tianxiang came to Lin'an to take up his post, and in a few days, he will return to Jiangning and preside over the overall situation in the north.

Today's small banquet in Wangjianglou is said to be a wine banquet, but it is actually a meeting.

Soon, Du Lie, Chen Shuzhen, Jiang Tu and other generals all went upstairs in turn, in addition, there were Zheng Sixiao, Lin Biju, Ma Zhiyuan and other ministers.

Everyone saluted Li Luo and Cui Xiuning one by one, and then sat down one by one.

Li Luo raised his glass and said: "Today's small banquet in Wangjianglou can be regarded as a send-off for Zhuqing. Qing and the others will soon leave Lin'an, there are some things to say, the widow has to explain one or two, and at the same time listen to what you mean. ”

"Now although I, Tang, have taken Jiangnan, but I have only won the large and medium-sized cities, and this vast countryside is not in my Tang's hands. When you return to the station, you must recruit new soldiers, and second, you must suppress the rebellion and completely take over the power of the village. ”

Du Lie stood up and said: "What the king said is very true, now Weichen occupies Huizhou City, but Huizhou City has a total of seven cities in six counties in one state, and Weichen only has five thousand soldiers and horses, and each county is only garrisoned with four or five hundred soldiers and horses, and outside this county, it can't be taken care of." ”

"But outside this city, there are all the gentry and big families, controlling the township. For example, the Mei family, the Wang family, the Wei family, the Hu family, the Wu family, etc., are all Yuan court officials, and there are tens of thousands of tenants in the family. ”

"The people in the countryside, both intimidated by its accumulation of power and confused by that mouthful of money and food, actually regard Haoqiang as the main and me Tang as a thief, which is really not angry!"

"Eight days ago, Weichen led an army of 2,000 out of the city to encircle and suppress the Wei family, but before the soldiers and horses arrived, there were foolish people who reported the news, and the small people in the countryside were still digging pits and setting up obstacles on the road, and the Wei family had already prepared, and thousands of militia groups were all scattered into the mountains, and Weichen had to return in vain."

When Du Lie mentioned this, he was indignant. Other generals have also mentioned this.

Jiang Tu also sneered: "Who said it's not a mile!" I restored the Han family and rescued the people from fire and water, but not only did they not support it, but they also resisted with Haoqiang, which was really stupid. ”

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning are both silent.

They had actually thought of this before. But I didn't expect it to be so serious.

After the news of Wen Tianxiang's arrival in Jiangnan spread, the wind direction of Jiangnan Shilin changed greatly, except for the children of the gentry who were favored by the Yuan court, most of the scholars supported the Tang State and Li Luo, and many people even began to sing praises and take the initiative to promote the Tang Army.

However, it was precisely the rural people who should have supported the Tang Army the most that they reacted coldly to the Tang Army.

Fortunately, Li Luo never imagined that under the banner of restoring the Central Plains and driving out the Tartars, the people would listen to the scenery. What ascends to the heights and shouts, and the responders gather, that's all nonsense.

It is true that the people's hearts are like water, but the problem is that the water is in the well, and the wind cannot move it.

Why?

Because they are afraid of being killed, and they are afraid of being bullied. Although the Tang army was strong, it was far away in the city. But the old man and official in the countryside are close at hand!

Who knows if the Tang Army is an autumn grasshopper? The ghost knows that Tang Jun, how long can Tang Guogong stay? What would they do if the Tartar army returned?

Even if they hope that the Tang army can win, they will still be at the mercy of the gentry in action, hating the big landlords while following the big landlords against the Tang army.

Chen Shuzhen said worriedly: "Your Majesty, the countryside in the south of the Yangtze River is all in the hands of the wealthy gentry. Weichen suppressed the Shi family's rebellion in Qingyuan, and the Shi family's entire family was ambushed. But when Weichen distributed 70,000 acres of fertile land to the nearby people, they didn't accept it and didn't dare to ask for it! ”

"Not only did they not plant the fertile land allocated to them, but they also said everywhere that they did not ask for the Shi family's land and let others testify. I was afraid that the Yuan army would come back to settle the score. ”

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning had already received a secret report from the Special Investigation Bureau, but now they are still a little annoyed when they hear Chen Shuzhen's anger.

These people... It's so angry.

They are really not optimistic about Tang Jun.

Originally, Li Luo also wanted to improve class contradictions by fighting local tyrants and dividing the land, so as to gain the support of the broad masses of the people. But now it seems that it is simple.

You killed the gentry and divided the land, but others didn't dare to ask for it.

This is the biggest dilemma of the Tang Army at present: it is difficult to control the grassroots level due to the lack of troops.

Why is it difficult for successive dynasties to control the grassroots? One of the reasons for this is the lack of soldiers. Officers and troops are generally stationed at the state and county level at most.

Especially for the Tang State, under the new south of the Yangtze River, the powerful people in various places occupied the countryside, held the people hostage, and fought against the Tang army in the city, trying to counterattack. Although the Tang army is elite, it can be dispersed to more than 100 prefectures and counties in the huge south of the Yangtze River, how can it control the grassroots?

Jiangnan is densely populated, with a county with a population of 60,000 or 70,000 and a population of more than 100,000, and ninety percent of them are distributed in the countryside. This means that although the Tang army occupies Jiangnan in general trends, it actually controls two or three percent of the population at most. The remaining seventy or eighty percent of the population is still controlled by the gentry clans.

That's embarrassing.

Wen Tianxiang saw Li Luo's unhappy expression, raised his glass and smiled: "Don't worry, although many villagers around the country are like this, there are also many people who enthusiastically support my Tang." As long as I Don has a firm foothold, they will naturally know what is wrong. ”

Li Luo nodded and said, "This is also what the widow wants to say today. Next, recruits have to be recruited, and the battle still has to be fought. Hit whom? Of course, it is the rebellious gentry. ”

"The charter is: Qingxiang. Disperse the troops, suppress one township after another, and suppress one county after another. Those who support our Tang will hand over the land they have occupied, and pay money, food, and labor. Those who resist will be killed. The people did not dare to ask for their land, so it was taken by the state or distributed to those who joined the army. ”

"Hmph, the widow doesn't believe it, and there are those who don't want the field. This thing must be done quickly, recruit troops and Qingxiang to do it together. Xiao Yin, Zhao Liangchao and the others couldn't hold on for too long. Before the Yuan army attacks Jiangnan, it must completely control every township and village in Jiangnan! ”

Cui Xiuning also said: "I will send people to various places to publicize and educate, and then send the monks of the Dharma Hall, set up a roving Dharma Hall, publicly try the bad gentry in various places, clarify the canonical punishment, and encourage the people to take the initiative to expose their crimes." ”

"When the township is cleared, the township officials and village officials and village officials will be placed and selected from the local people, so that they will have the opportunity to become officials."

"These major events must be done within two months. Within two months, the countryside was all in my hands, and 100,000 new soldiers were trained, so that they could fight the Yuan army. ”

"The garrison soldiers and horses in each city are slowly handed over to Japanese military slaves and recruits, and the main force of our Tang Army must be reassembled and cannot be used for public security. The matter of law and order will soon be taken care of by the sergeant. ”

Everyone knows that within two months, most of the Yuan armies in various places will converge to encircle Jiangnan, and the number of troops may be hundreds of thousands.

These two months will be critical. After returning home, you must immediately follow the regulations of the king and his wife.

Wen Tianxiang said: "Doesn't the king want to help the homeless? Once the displaced people received the assistance, they were persuaded to return to their villages. As soon as these people preach it, everyone is a word of mouth, and I am not afraid that there will be no more people who support me. ”

Li Luo sighed: "This is a good method, but the effect is too slow, and it is not urgent." They'd better be used for work. ”

After discussing this matter, Yang Xu suddenly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, now that I have restored Jiangnan in the Tang Dynasty, there are more than 10 million people in Lin, and the monarch is enough to be the king!" Weichen implores the king to ascend to the throne of Tang King! ”

Everyone seemed to have a tacit understanding, and they stood up unevenly, imploring Li Luo to be king.

Even Wen Tianxiang and Zheng Sixiao were no exception this time.

ps: There is an urgent delay today, and the number of words updated is not much, so I will make up 3,000 words tomorrow! Crab crab everyone support, ask for tickets! Does Li Luo want to be king? Will he refuse?

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