Chapter 1063: Lao Li next door
The consequence of the 6-pounder guns being carried onto the city wall was that they had to be filled with human lives, but now, as long as the guns are set up, stamped for firing, and loaded with shotguns, a single shot can immediately sweep away a large area of recalcitrant enemy troops.
The divine power of the big killing weapon is really too terrifying, it can be described as invincible and overwhelming!
The remnants of the forbidden army on the city wall were killed and bloodied, ghosts cried wolves, hugged their heads and scurried, and did not dare to turn around again.
Li Zhongyi received the news that the four city walls had been controlled, and couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, with the help of bronze artillery, whether it was a siege battle or a brutal street battle, it could greatly reduce the casualties of the troops.
After so many years, among the troops that Li Zhongyi has tried his best to pull, the more veterans who have been in the army for a long time, the more precious they are.
Veterans who have been killed for a long time will have one less if they die, and it is difficult to replenish them in a short time. According to the objective law summarized by Li Zhongyi for many years of leading the troops, it will take at least two years to grow from a rookie to a veteran.
In an army, if the well-trained and experienced grass-roots officer corps is the core backbone force, then veterans are the indispensable flesh and blood.
Yang Lie, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, had already entered the city, and Li Zhongyi simply became the shopkeeper, got into the exclusive carriage, and fell asleep with his head covered.
The battle is not over yet, Li Zhongyi, the master of the three armies, can actually cover a thin quilt and sleep soundly, which is really an alternative wonder!
Of all the armies in this era, except for the Li Jiajun, who dares to act so recklessly? Who can be so relaxed?
In addition to being obsessed with the feeling of being in power, Li Zhongyi is also a guy who likes to enjoy life, with beautiful women, beautiful clothes, exquisite cuisine, indulgence in mountains and rivers, etc., all he wants.
If, dragged down by the mountains of official documents all year round, he can't even enjoy a good life, Li Zhongyi asked himself, even if he controls the world, what's the fun?
Therefore, as long as Li Zhongyi has a little free time, he will think about improving the regulations.
After so many years of taking charge of the army and pacifying the people, Li Zhongyi profoundly realized that because the regulations were not perfect, a large part of the military and government affairs documents on his desk still did not have the significance of instructions.
For example, the Confucian scholars led by Kong Kun are very fond of presenting sycophants and auspicious recitals every once in a while.
In order to leave a good impression on Wenchen, Li Zhongyi would take it very seriously at first, and he would always approve half a page and write a bunch of polite nonsense.
Later, Li Zhongyi became more and more tired of this kind of nonsense, and simply ordered Han Xianglan and Ye Xiaolan that as long as they received similar nonsense in the future, they would all be archived, and there was no need to send it to his desk.
To tell the truth, in terms of government affairs, Li Zhongyi is most concerned about the suppression of land annexation, compulsory military service, fair trial, reasonable apportionment of conscription, and reasonable taxation.
In addition, Li Zhongyi also attached great importance to a major event: the local tyrants and inferior gentry took advantage of natural disasters to lend usury, and then annexed the fields of homesteaders without capital.
The fundamental background of Wang Anshi's reform is actually the financial revenue of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is already an extremely serious crisis of making ends meet!
Therefore, the fundamental purpose of Wang Anshi's reform of the law was not to beautify the so-called relief of the people's difficulties, but to collect the special interests that originally belonged to the scholar class into the state treasury.
Blocking people's money is more hateful than killing parents, so after Wang Anshi offended all the scholars in the world, he could only step down gloomily!
After so many years of practical operation, Li Zhongyi has a deeper understanding of the so-called law of chaos cycle.
The peaceful scenery with smooth wind and rain, one acre of medium paddy field, is worth more than ten times, or even dozens of times.
When a natural or man-made river bursts, homesteaders are forced to borrow money to get by.
In this era, except for Li Ji Qianzhuang, a copy bank run by Li Zhongyi, the vast majority of yeoman farmers could only borrow money from relatives and friends, and in most cases, they could only go to the big landlords or wealthy merchants in their own village or township to borrow usury.
Wang Anshi has been in the local government for more than 20 years, and he can see this disadvantage very clearly. Therefore, after Wang Anshi took power, the Qingmiao Law and the Loan Law promulgated were both goodwill in terms of legislative intent, and they really wanted to relieve the suffering of the people.
However, Wang Anshi's means of relieving the suffering of the people was very wrong, and it was a mess!
The government offices in various places were originally violent institutions sent by the imperial court to manage and suppress the people, and what they did all day long was to deceive the superiors and subordinates and eat and take cards.
Corrupt officials and corrupt officials in various places, even if they do not have the policies of the imperial court, must create conditions and dig out their minds to take advantage of them.
What's more, Wang Anshi gave the policy, allowing them to find a once-in-a-lifetime excellent excuse to pick up chicken feathers as arrows. If they don't read the good scriptures crookedly, how can they, the powerful monks, eat fragrant and drink spicy food?
The so-called Yamen opens to the south, and there is no reason to come in without money, which is an absolutely profound and incisive historical summary!
Wang Anshi wants to make the government, which originally drank the blood of the people and sucked the people's ointment, become a herbivore, which is simply a big joke.
Why was the early Tang Dynasty able to prosper? The core point is that if you don't go to Lizhou County, you can't serve as prime minister!
In other words, officials who have served as state and county officials must be eligible to be elected prime minister.
The state and county officials, collectively known as the herdsmen's officials, were at least familiar with the people's sufferings, even if they were greedy. Not only that, but the states and counties know best how the good policies of the imperial court will be deliberately misread by the crooked-mouthed monks.
To a large extent, this avoids the vile act of harming the people under the banner of relieving the people's worries.
In order to truly curb land annexation and avoid intensifying social contradictions, there are several necessary conditions: first, and most importantly, the officials who implement the policy well must be all over the prefecture and county, and hold real power, that is, the selection mechanism for good officials must be perfect; The second is that when a yeoman farmer suffers a natural disaster, he can get a long-term loan of less than five years from Li Kee Qian Zhuang in various places.
As long as these two points are achieved, the local tyrants and inferior gentry in the prefectures and counties will not be able to grab dozens or even hundreds of times the windfall profits through natural and man-made disasters.
Summing up the political gains and losses of the past dynasties, they only talked about land annexation, which led to the loss of land by homesteaders, and the loss of a benign tax base for the country.
However, few people can see more clearly than Li Zhongyi that the usury exploitation of the bureaucratic landlord class by means of finance is one of the main banes that caused a large number of yeoman peasants to lose their land and become serfs!
However, although Li Zhongyi saw this layer, he could only choose to forbear for the time being, and did not restrict usury in the Pinglu area. If he did that, the enemy he would have to face would not be just as simple as the imperial court forbidden army.
It is no exaggeration to say that Li Zhongyi really dared to ban usury immediately. Then, the military leaders of the whole world, the scholars and doctors of the whole world, and the local tyrants and inferior gentry of the whole world will definitely unite and fight to the death with him.
With the current strong strength of the Li Jiajun, it is indeed expected to defeat all forces. However, the entire Central Plains scuffle, one of which ruined the prosperous Central Plains, and the other must have traitors to lure the Khitans south, this is the worst choice, and the wise man will not do it.
After Li Zicheng entered the city of Beijing, the reason why he was driven off the dragon chair again was that the fatal mistake he made was actually very clear.
Li Zicheng wants to change the dynasty, but it is only the Zhu family who died, and the military generals of Wenchen are counting on surrendering to continue to be officials.
But he didn't think that Li Zicheng did not restrain his subordinates and copied the homes of the gentry in Beijing, which offended the civil servants and generals all over the world and became the public enemy of "the people of the world".
As one of the representatives of the military general class, Wu Sangui, it has become a natural thing to introduce wild boar skin into the customs, how can there be anything with Chen Yuanyuan?
However, fortunately, in Li Zhongyi's memory, there is already a perfect frame of reference.
As a mature politician, Li Zhongyi chose to temporarily forbear and engage in a united front with great fanfare, with the aim of paralyzing those so-called people in the world.
When Li Zhongyi really grasped the military and political power in the world, he trained 300,000 elite iron troops, plus hundreds of thousands of township troops firmly controlled.
Hehe, at that time, those so-called people in the world will only have two choices. Either obediently give up the windfall profits of financial usury and the privilege of legally engaging in land annexation, or before the army succeeds, it will be wiped out!
Li Zhongyi slowly woke up from his dark and sweet dream, and after washing and changing, he saw Chu Xiong leaning over and whispered: "Master, Liu Heyang, that kid doesn't know where to find a bunch of delicate beauties, all waiting outside." ”
Li Zhongyi smiled dumbly, Liu Heyang had his eyes on the title of Marquis of Qianhu, and deliberately delayed the time for the artillery to enter the city in order to grab merit, but he ran into a bloody head.
Liu Heyang sent a beauty to offer his hospitality at this time, hehe, do you take him Li as a fool?
Li Zhongyi knew very well in his heart that the beauties sent by Liu Heyang must be the little ladies of the official gentry in Bozhou City.
Hmph, borrow him Liu Heyang's eight hundred courage, forgive him for not daring to rob the good family girls of small families.
If the moral preaching that wears out the skin of the mouth is really effective, then there is nothing to do with the "Regulations" and military judges!
Li Zhongyi is a mature politician, not a moral table that plays lip service, and he understands the truth of wealth and gathering people better than anyone else.
The sons and daughters tied their heads to the waistband of their trousers and followed Li Zhongyi to fight the country, how could it really be for the sake of equalizing the wealth and poverty of the world, but let the poor in their family only drink the northwest wind?
Therefore, on the basis that all seizures should be returned to the public, after a fair and objective assessment, Li Zhongyi will also distribute a certain proportion of the spoils such as silver coins, shops, antiques, and land deeds according to the military merits made by the soldiers.
It's just that the soldiers all know that Li Zhongyi suffers from a serious widow's disease, and he especially likes to collect stunning beauties.
Therefore, because it is difficult to identify the beauty and ugliness of the captured beauties, Li Zhongyi can only make a plan for distribution after Li Zhongyi looks at them.
Of course, there is a necessary premise that the spoils of war can only be obtained from the gentry's house. Those who dare to mess around, no matter how great their military merits are, will definitely have their heads cut off and become shameful prisoners on death row.
Liu Heyang has captured a lot of beauties, Li Zhongyi doesn't choose first, who dares to trespass?
This is the same logic as in the bandit cottage, the good things are picked by the king of the mountain first, and then the spoils are distributed in turn according to the seat of the leaders.
It's just that the distribution of the spoils of the Li family army is not based on seniority or seat, but is determined by military merits. Guys who have not made military achievements, no matter how high the official is, can only watch others eat fragrant food, drink spicy food, and comfortably hug the beauty.
This is also the source of motivation for Liu Heyang to grab the merit and plan to capture Fu Zhaoxin with his own hands and get the title of Marquis of Qianhu!
"Master, when you were sleeping, the maid beside Mrs. Du's concubine came several times. The little one asked her, but she refused to say what she wanted to see. The report with a knife and a kiss to the teeth made Li Zhongyi's spirits lifted.
Liu Heyang just sent a lot of beautiful girls, Du Qinniang in the other room, and sent people around him to look for him, hehe, aren't you worried that he will be dazzled, but forget Du Qinniang, right?
The more Li Zhongyi pondered it, the more he felt that this idea was very reasonable, hum, Lao Li next door was invited to move so easily, so it was better to simply change it to "Silly Li".
"Come on, bring the most beautiful little lady, come in, let me see."
Since you want to hang Du Qinniang's appetite, Li Zhongyi simply fakes the real play, by the way, how beautiful are the so-called beauties in Bozhou City?
Li Zhongyi's indiscriminate orders made the relatives and sword servants around him have a special headache.
Everyone's aesthetics are different, some people like huanfei, some people prefer Yan thin, and some people are willing to visit Qinglou.
The beautiful girls around Li Zhongyi can be described as varied, including those with long legs, thin waists, big breasts, and those who are particularly good at serving men, and so on.
How dare the people below make their own decisions?
At this time, Chu Xiong, as the head of the guards, was forced to have no choice but to bite the bullet and come to Li Zhongyi, like a leper dog, salivating and saying: "Master, the little ones are all dirt buns from the countryside, and they know what is beautiful and ugly." ”
Li Zhongyi was amused by Chu Xiong's scoundrel appearance, he slightly curled the corners of his mouth, showed an evil smile, and hummed: "Lord likes a young lady with long legs, long waist, fine skin, and white talent, well, it's almost the same as Han's, and that's fine." ”
Han's? Oh, it should be Han Xianglan, Chu Xiong rolled his eyes, racked his brains and recalled Han Xianglan's voice and smile, damn, he thought about it, and only had a vague general impression.
Nima, the pillow man on the Lord, even if he Chuxiong eats the bear's heart and leopard gall, he doesn't dare to take a closer look!
"Master, the small one is really stupid, do you want to add the condition of melon seed face?" Chu Xiong knew that Li Zhongyi was in a very good mood, so he simply gaged, salivating and teasing the lord to be happier.
Li Zhongyi, the old Li next door, and Du Qinniang's J relationship, can hide it from anyone, but it can't hide from Chu Xiong's eyes.
The reason is actually very simple, no matter where Li Zhongyi goes, Chu Xiong, a follower, must be nearby, and he can't get rid of it.
Thinking that at the beginning, Chu Xiong could smoothly ascend to the throne of the commander of the throat reprimanding battalion, if his brain was not flexible, his martial arts were not strong, his eyes were not bright, and his mouth was not closed, let alone being promoted and making a fortune, he would have been squeezed out by all kinds of immortals who were full of talents.
Li Zhongyi smiled brighter and brighter, Chu Xiong, this kid is worthy of being a ban ghost, he cooperates very tacitly, now wait for Du Qinniang's mermaid to take the bait!
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