Chapter 218: General Trend
(Commuter Pass)
At the beginning of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, Yu Wenshu died of illness in the Eastern Capital, and the last thing he did for the emperor was to build the dragon boat.
This year, Li Mi, a guy with a backbone in the back of his head and nine lives with him, took refuge in the Wagang Army, puffed up his tongue, subdued many small groups of rebels, and persuaded Zhai Rang, who was chased by Zhang Xutuo everywhere, to officially start a confrontation with Zhang Xutuo.
Zhang Xutuo was also very angry, due to the increasingly severe edicts from the eastern capital, he had to throw down Shandong, Hebei ignored, and brought all the men and horses to Henan, which was consumed with the Wagang army.
The rebel army in Hebei, Shandong was beaten by Zhang Xutuo, and at the beginning, the leaders of the rebel army, either dead or fled, gradually disappeared into the ranks of the rebels.
Dou Jiande gradually annexed all kinds of rebel armies, and his power expanded faster and faster.
At this time, Emperor Yang Guang jumped out again and told people that he was still alive.
He ordered Piling to guard tens of thousands of soldiers from the county government and repaired the palace room for him, which is said to be very wrong.
It is estimated that the people below lied to him, at this time, who would dare to gather the soldiers to repair what palace?
Jiangnan has been in chaos, people from all walks of life have risen up, of course, the rebel army in Jiangnan is very different from the rebel army in the north.
The northerners did not have enough to eat, and there were too many dead, and there was no way to live, so they rose up to resist tyranny.
Jiangnan people are different, they can still live, in the end it is the land of fish and rice, but after the chaos in the world, the people of Jiangnan also began to rise up, they are not aimed at the rule of the Great Sui, but the world lords in Jiangnan.
All the time. The Jiangnan lords tightly guarded the rules of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, and they were relatively successful.
Emperor Wen was in power. The Jiangnan Shivalve has reined in, but in the last years of Emperor Wen. Because of his friendship with Yang Guang, the king of Jin, the world lord gradually became bigger.
By the time of the Great Cause, the land annexation in Jiangnan was already very serious.
The oppression of the common people by the world lords has also reached a certain extent, and the emperor Yang Guang has patrolled the river capital twice, both of which are hundreds of thousands of people, and they have consumed countless money and food, where do these come from?
The various lords felt that it was difficult to pass it on to the people.
As the emperor ran east and west, plus the three expeditions to Goguryeo. The taxes in Jiangnan have gradually increased to a certain extent, and the people have become increasingly poor.
But the worldly lords are also maintaining their privileged and extravagant lives.
They are indeed not very afraid, and they have no scruples, because their roots have extended to every corner of the south of the Yangtze River, marrying each other, and under the intertwined roots, even the emperor cannot dig up their foundations at once, let alone some mud legs.
But they were wrong. When the chaos in the north followed, the bandits who crossed the river quickly found allies here.
Almost with a wave of his hand, there was a crowd of applicants.
The first thing they had to do was to kill the officials who were stationed in the local area. Rather than opening a warehouse to release grain.
Then there is the non-stop fight against the landlords, and the people of the Jiangnan Shiba are different from the big lords in the north, they are used to chanting poems and paintings. There are a lot of talents, but wait until the war is chaotic. They are proud of their talents, in the face of the swarming rebel army. Useless.
They were killed one after another, and there was almost no resistance to it.
The Jiangnan lords mourned all over the country, so they remembered their savior, who had protected their faith and regarded Jiangdu as an emperor like his hometown.
So, they wrote to the emperor one after another, asking the emperor to be happy in Jiangnan again.
This time, what they wanted was not to show their talents in front of the emperor and let the emperor know that Jiangnan's articles were prosperous, but to ask the emperor to save their lives.
In fact, this also contributed to Emperor Yang Guang's third visit to the capital of the river in disguise.
It just so happened that Yuwenshu died, the emperor was very sad, and he repeatedly issued edicts again, wanting to conquer Goguryeo but couldn't, and he became more and more uncomfortable in Luoyang.
In April and May of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, a side hall in Luoyang caught fire, and Emperor Yang Guang seemed to understand what the world had become like if it was chaotic, and thought that the rebellious army had killed it, so he took people to hide.
At this time, the emperor, who was full of rumors and soldiers, was completely insane, and it is said that even sleeping requires people to shake like a baby to sleep.
In short, he had no nostalgia for the eastern capital of Luoyang, and in June of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, he finally took his newly built dragon boat and went down to the south of the Yangtze River again.
Speaking of which, this emperor is also a king who has been on the throne for more than ten years since ancient times, but the total number of days he has stayed in Beijing has not exceeded one year.
In this regard, no one can compare, he is the only one.
With such a traveler-like emperor, it is really difficult for him to govern the country to what extent.
And at this moment, although the Kansai lords are not as unbearable as the children of these big clans in Jiangnan, they are also anxious, and their heads are about to catch fire.
Bai Yusa disappeared, and the rebels in the northwest were divided.
But the offensive suddenly became fierce, and the most terrifying thing was that they asked the Turks for a seal one after another, and received strong support from the Eastern and Western Turks.
The people of Kansai were sitting on wax at once, the treasury was empty, there were rebellions everywhere, and even people in Chang'an began to gather to rebel.
As a result, the Kansai lords could no longer care about staring at the emperor or the chair under the emperor's buttocks, and in addition to sending people everywhere to ask for help, they finally began to send troops to quell the rebellion in earnest.
However, the chaotic army has risen one after another, its momentum has become large, and the troops are overstretched, and the children of the Kansai lords have finally felt the deep sense of powerlessness of the guards in other places.
What they could do was to shrink their defenses as much as possible so that the rebel army would not rush into the hinterland of Kansai.
As the leader of the Kansai world, the Li lord, who is now in Taiyuan, has also suddenly shown signs of returning to Kansai in the 12th year of the great cause.
There's no way, it's all forced.
If both Guanxi and Shuzhong are as quiet as ever, even if the Li clan has a deeper foundation in Guanxi, it will not be like this, and maybe how many people can be ranked in front of Li Yuan.
But now, both the Li family's in-laws and the Li family's friends very much hope that Li Yuan, who was left behind in Taiyuan, can lead his troops back to Guanxi and calm down the chaos.
Yes, these gate valves, who started with military merits, are also a little unbearable.
They didn't pin their hopes on Yang Guang, the loser, but found Li Yuan.
In addition to the fact that many people in Chang'an are working hard in secret, it is also because they have always been a group full of the spirit of resistance.
Among these people, there are many wealthy families with Kansai surnames such as Dugu, Dou, Gao, Li, Yuwen, Yang, and Yuan.
Of course, at the beginning of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, these were still in the ascendant.
Li Yuan, who stayed in Taiyuan, did receive some secret letters, but they were all shelved by him, because the Jin land was also in chaos, and at this time, if he brought troops back to Chang'an, he would only be detained as a rebellious minister and thief, and then ...... Probably crushed to death by this hat.
However, it is necessary to recruit troops and horses, relying on the alliance of the Li family and the Wang family, at the beginning of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, Li Yuan appeased some Jin land rebels.
Then he did a more reliable job, rewarding officials, distributing fields, pacifying the homeless, and beginning to try to curb what was already almost unattainable.
But the obstacles he encountered were not the slightest, he wanted the Jindi clan to take out the saved grain to stabilize the grain price, but was resolutely resisted by the Jindi clan headed by the Wang family.
He wanted to recruit government soldiers on a large scale, but found that the food and grass were a little stretched.
After checking it, he almost crooked his nose a little, and it goes without saying that Yanmen Mayi Lou is annoying such a border county, and they are all waiting for relief.
But where did all the grain in Jinyang Warehouse and Fenyang Warehouse go?
As a result, the answer I waited for was the northern expedition to Goguryeo.
This is obviously a bit unreasonable, these warehouses of grain should be piled up, but now there is only a small half left, is it all transported to Zhuo County?
It's unlikely to think about it, then the matter is obvious, someone gave it a share, who shared it? Does this need to be asked?
Li Yuan thought about it, but he still swallowed this breath, but he made an account of these Jindi clans in his heart.
Actually, don't look at him smiling so gently all day, but he has a black list in his heart.
In other words, there is a limit to this person's tolerance, and Li Yuan is definitely not a benevolent person, his decisiveness in killing, and his various taboos are deeply hidden by him under a polite smile.
It's just that he has never been too powerful and has no chance to vent.
Just when he was bored and abnormal, he made a real friend in Jinyang, Pei Lian, the deputy supervisor of Jinyang Palace.
Li Yuan's criteria for making friends, this guy has them all.
Born in the Pei family, a large family in Jindi, he has a handsome appearance, a good conversation, and is not inhibited by etiquette, and the most important point is that this person has not much ambition, when he served in the locality, he did not have many political achievements, and when he served as a Beijing official, he was not very brilliant.
In other words, this person doesn't have much talent, and he doesn't have much ambition, and he stays very honest in the position of deputy supervisor of Jinyang Palace.
Therefore, when there are troubles, Li Yuan likes to drink and laugh with this person, and he can feel much more comfortable after that, so to speak, this is a good bosom friend.
What especially makes Li Yuan grateful is that this person, unlike the Wang family, has a lot of support for him.
Under Pei Lian's persuasion, the Pei family in southern Jinnan took out a lot of grain to enrich the Jinyang warehouse, and also persuaded some rebel rebels to take refuge in Li Yuan.
This eased Jinnan's situation, and the most reassuring thing was that Pei Lin never mentioned his own merits in front of him, showing the humble nature of standing out from the crowd.
Li Yuan trusted this person more and more, but what he didn't know was that many years later, this person was the one who liked to mention the credit of the year.
It can be seen that time has changed, and no one can say for sure what it is.
There is another one who sent charcoal in the snow, but this person's experience is completely different from Pei Lian......
(Commuter Pass) (To be continued.) )