Guo Song walked to the window with his hand in his hand, and looked out of the window for a long time, the feudal town has plagued Hebei and the Central Plains for many years, as the feudal town is gradually exterminated, all parts of the country must also turn from chaos to great governance, the original policy set by the imperial court is to rule by inaction, but from the current situation of Wei, the effect is not ideal, not that the direction is wrong, but that it has been weak for too long, and it takes time to recover slowly.

Of course, it is also related to the continuous disasters in Hebei in recent years, but what annoys Guo Song is that during the secession of feudal towns, a large number of people have fled into the empty gate in order to avoid taxes and forced labor, and almost every county in Hebei has several monasteries, each of which has hundreds or even thousands of people, and they occupy a large amount of labor and land, which has become a cancer that seriously affects economic recovery.

Guo Song now understands why Tang Wuzong wants to destroy Buddha, the root is population and land, of course, Guo Song does not intend to be like Tang Wuzong, large-scale extermination of Buddha, Guo Song should take strict restrictive measures, limit the land, limit the monks, limit, whether it is the land occupied, the number of monks, or the number of monasteries, it will be reduced by more than ten times compared with now.

The next step is to start implementing the three restrictions on Buddhist temples........

Coming out of the official room of King Jin, Pan Liao asked puzzledly: "Why didn't Du Xiangguo let me continue just now?" ”

Du You said lightly: "Pan Gong is going to oppose the plundering of bronze artifacts from the temple!" ”

Pan Liao nodded, "I have always been against plundering the wealth of the people, even if the bronze is insufficient, you can think of other ways to make up for it, instead of plundering the people." ”

Du You said with a smile: "What His Highness said is that he collected from the temple and purchased from the people, he didn't say that he was plundering the people, but only targeting the temple, and Pan Gong still couldn't hear His Highness's voice?" ”

Pan Liao was taken aback, "Does His Highness want to follow Emperor Zetian to destroy the Buddha?" ”

Du You nodded, "It's not about destroying the Buddha, it's just about restricting the Buddhist temples, especially the land and population, last time His Royal Highness was very angry that there were too many monasteries in Hebei, which affected him to re-promote the Juntian system and affect the military merit award, I estimate that the next step will be to start restricting the temples around the country." ”

Pan Liao heard that it was not to destroy the Buddha, and he was slightly relieved in his heart, and said to Du You: "I have no objection to limiting the Buddha, but we must pay attention to the ways and means, I am worried that many places will loot the Buddhist temple in the name of limiting the Buddha. ”

"Your Highness should let the government hall discuss this matter, and then discuss this matter properly and come up with a safe plan."

"That's right!"

The two walked as they talked, and gradually walked away.

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Three days after Wang Ling and Zhang Qiu'an drafted the text, Zhu Zhu replied to Wang Ling in the form of a pigeon letter, unconditionally agreeing to the two conditions put forward by the other party, and handed over 5.6 million catties of copper and 300 craftsmen and their families, nearly 2,000 people.

Zhu Jun has not been in a hurry to send troops these days, he must arrange his heir properly before sending troops, before he has announced the abolition of the crown prince Zhu Sui for the crime of participating in the rebellion, on the first day of the seventh month, Zhu Jun officially announced that his son Zhu Chun was canonized as the crown prince, and once again granted amnesty to the world, this is the second amnesty in just a few months, in fact, there are only four states and one government left in his world.

On the fifth day after the canonization of the crown prince, Zhu Zhu received the official reconciliation text, and his copper had been sent to Liyang Cang, and the craftsmen and family members also sent people to escort them to Chang'an.

With the withdrawal of the Jin army from Mianchi County, Zhu Zhu also confirmed that Guo Song began to abide by the peace treaty, and he began to transfer troops in Luoyang, leaving only 30,000 troops to defend Luoyang, and he himself personally led the Hu Benwei and Qianniuwei more than 100,000 troops to drive the expedition in person, and the army left Luoyang in a mighty way and killed in the direction of Chenliu County.

After Qiu Jingzhong defeated Wang Zhongmou, his ambitions burst out, he also sent troops to send generals, he sent his second son Qiu Wen to lead 30,000 troops to the north to take Caozhou, and sent his third son Qiu Pai to lead 20,000 troops to seize Weichi County in Bianzhou, and he himself personally led 50,000 troops to force Chen Liu, provoking Wang Zhongmou under Chen Liucheng, Wang Zhongmou did not dare to go to war, hung up the war card, and closed the door.

Qiu Jingzhong's 130,000 troops basically poured out, and in Songcheng County, there were only 20,000 troops led by his eldest son Qiu Yuan, and Xuzhou was garrisoned by 10,000 troops led by Qiu Jingzhong's confidant Li Mian.

In the darkness of the night, a cavalry of 30,000 men marched rapidly in the wilderness, this was an army of 30,000 led by Li Bing himself, and he was ordered by the king of Jin to take Xuzhou.

Li Bing knows very well why the King of Jin asked to seize Xuzhou, mainly because the pressure of refugees is too great, the people of Songzhou have basically run out, and the people of Xuzhou, Bianzhou and Caozhou have also begun to flee, the number of refugee camps in Yanzhou has exceeded 600,000, especially the populous Xuzhou, if Xuzhou is not captured, I am afraid that the number of refugee camps will exceed one million, there is no harvest in the autumn, every household will run out of food, and they have to take care of them until next year, the imperial court can not bear such pressure.

The army marched along the official road, less than thirty miles away from Pengcheng County, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, the silver light paved the ground, and the outline of the county seat could be vaguely seen in the distance.

At this time, a soldier shouted: "General Zhou is here!" ”

Not long after, Zhou Fei rode forward and saluted Li Bing with his fists, "Come back from your humble duty to restore your life!" ”

This time, Li Bing decided to implement a powerful strategy, so he didn't need Zhou Fei to lurk into the city in advance as an internal response, but he needed Zhou Fei to investigate the enemy situation in advance.

"How's it going in the city?"

"General Hui, there are only 10,000 defenders in the city, which is the original Xuzhou scattered army, and the main general is called Li Mian, who is Qiu Jingzhong's right-hand man."

"Are there patrolmen in the city? How strong are the gates? ”

Zhou Fei shook his head, "There are soldiers in the city, but there is no patrol, one of my subordinates came out of the city, he said that he did not see a patrol soldier in the city, the city gate is a wooden gate, it has been about twenty years, it is a very ordinary wooden city gate, it can't withstand the impact of heavy battering rams, and the suspension bridge is also some years old, the wood is a little rotten, and it can be blown up with hanging mines." ”

Li Bing nodded and ordered: "The whole army slows down and slows down!" ”

The 30,000 cavalry slowed down, and the feeling of earth tremors disappeared, and half an hour later, the army arrived two miles outside the northern city of Pengcheng County, with a large wheat field in front of it, and the high city wall stood two miles away.

Li Bing led the 5,000 cavalry to continue to move forward, and finally stopped at 300 paces away, the city was very quiet, the moonlight was bright, sprinkled with silver light all over the place, if there were soldiers looking outside the city, they could see 300 paces of 5,000 cavalry.

It's a pity that the whole city has lost its vigilance, which is of course related to the quality of the soldiers, the quality of the scattered army is really criticized, the army is sloppy, lazy, greedy for life and afraid of death, unwilling to work hard, Qiu Jingzhong collected these surrendered troops, but he can't improve their treatment, he has no tax income for the time being, and the scattered army that followed him to fight may promise a little benefit, as for the scattered army left behind, Qiu Jingzhong didn't even have the idea of making a promise.

Don't give the horses grass, but also the horses run fast, that's obviously unrealistic, even the main general Li Mian has no way, although the city is stationed at night guards, but the defenders are all hiding in the corner of the wall and sleeping, who will stay up and tired to patrol the city?

Li Bing waved his hand, more than a dozen soldiers carried a very large wooden box to the north city gate, the iron fire thunder in the wooden box weighed one hundred and sixty pounds, this time it was the order of Guo Song, the king of Jin, to show his power to Qiu Jingzhong, all to use the iron fire and thunder to blow up the door.

In a moment, a dozen soldiers rushed to the moat, they silently dived into the water, and at the same time put the wooden box into the water to push, the moat was not wide, the soldiers went ashore, carried the iron fire thunder to the city gate, and used a wooden support to put the iron fire thunder on the city gate.

At this time, two soldiers climbed the drawbridge and hung two chain mines on the corners of the drawbridge.

"Do it!"

The commander of the brigade made a gesture, and two of his subordinates took the lead in lighting the hanging mines, and they jumped directly into the water, and the soldiers by the city gate also lit the fire rope at the same time, turned around and ran along the city wall.

The defenders at the head of the city were still asleep, and no one was awakened by the movement under the city, at this time, a soldier happened to get up at night, turned over and climbed up the battlements to pee on the city, he inadvertently glanced into the distance, and saw that two or three hundred paces away were all black and oppressive cavalry, so startled that he almost fell off the city.

"Hurry up, there's an enemy army under the city! There are enemy troops under the city! The soldier jumped off the battlements and shouted.

That's when it's like, 'Boom! Rumble! Two huge sounds, the hanging mine exploded first, blowing the two corners of the drawbridge to pieces, and two iron wedges came out of the wood and flew into the sky, and the drawbridge fell with a bang.

Immediately afterwards, the iron fire and thunder at the city gate exploded earth-shatteringly, and the strong explosion sound could be heard dozens of miles away, the city gate was blown away, the city wall collapsed, black smoke was filled, dust was flying, and the people in the entire city were so frightened that they got up from their beds.

Li Bing waved his sword, "Attack!" ”

Five thousand cavalry took the lead and swept towards the city gate, and the twenty-five thousand cavalry behind also launched, and the horses galloped, and the whole earth trembled.