"Boss, the general has confiscated all the land of all the big families in Changzhi County according to your wishes, and those who are willing to leave bring their own furniture are thrown elsewhere, and those who do not want to leave their hometowns will retain part of the houses to live in, and give them 1,000 acres of land to live in. Most of the people here knew about the new land law imposed by the lord, but it did not provoke a popular uprising. "The flower knife general Wei Wentong was talking with Pei Yun in the Changzhi Mansion, and the two had already discussed, and Pei Yun pretended to be white-faced and responsible for appeasing the people. He Wei Wentong is a black-faced thug, responsible for dealing with the big families of the Shi clan, and if he disobeys the slightest, he Wei Wentong will open the killing ring and do not hesitate. The two have been working well together since they entered Changzhi County. At this time, Pei Yun was taking dozens of Wen Li, who had come from Luzhou, Hedong, to do the statistics of land and seized money and grain.

"General Wei! This Changzhi County is really poor and poor! The dozen or so big families of the scholar clan that you have laid down have not found much grain. Most of the land here is close to the Taihang Mountains, and there is not much available land, but as long as the policy is effective, it can stimulate the enthusiasm of the people to reclaim wasteland. Although there are many slopes and mountains, after reclamation, you can grow corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, or it will not be long before this place will become a big granary in my Hedong! Pei Yun looked at the documents handed in by his subordinates, and chatted with Wei Wentong. There is no shortage of water in this Changzhi County, several rivers such as Fen River and Qinshui run through the county, if the mountains, slopes, etc. are all developed, there will be fertile land, which is very suitable for planting corn crops, Pei Yun is more and more optimistic about this Changzhi County, and his face is full of smiles.

"Boss, if the Tang army doesn't attack, I have tens of thousands of soldiers here, and I waste food if I'm idle, so I have to find something for them to do. If you don't let them be here first, there are too few people here, and it will take a long time for so many barren slopes and mountains to be reclaimed. Wei Wentong was originally a general who couldn't be idle, and when he saw that all the civil officials were busy, he also wanted to find something to do, so he gave Pei Yun an idea of a military camp.

"Hmmm! All right! I don't want General Wei, as a martial artist, to be able to look at the overall situation, this Changzhi County is not short of land, but there is a shortage of young people who expand the land. The strategy of the military tun is really the best policy! Hehe! Pei Yun put down the Chinese book in his hand, looked at Wei Wentong and said excitedly.

"General Wei, this commander expects Li Yuan not to move lightly, even if he sends generals to fight, there are generals such as the Xiongkuohai who are guarded by the boundary, there is really no war here, if the Japanese commander will send his subordinates to your army to discuss the matter of the military cantonment, divide the area, and move as soon as possible, what do you think?" Pei Yun continued to discuss with Wei Wentong the specific matters of this military tun.

"Okay! I will allocate 50,000 elite soldiers here first, and abandon the armor for farming. If you plant well, you can also make meritorious contributions. It's a big deal that tonight I asked my subordinates to drink wine and eat meat, so I told them about it at the wine table to see who dared to disobey. Hehe! Okay, boss, you get busy first, I'll arrange it. Wei Wentong seemed to have finally got a job, and walked out of the mansion happily.

The capital of Chang'an Wenhe Palace.

In the past two months, there have been too many things related to Hedong County, except for the fact that Hedong took the lead in digging the Guangtong Canal, which was praised by Emperor Wen, the rest of the things were quite a headache for Emperor Wen. On the desk of the study are all the transcripts of the accusations of the Jin King of Hedong from all over the country, and none of them are easy to deal with.

"Taifu! A few days ago, you only went to the book to show that my emperor's newly occupied land, Wagang Mountain, was attacked by a group of green forest and grass thieves, and was forced to counterattack. This has not yet had a result, why did he gather tens of thousands of troops from Hedong to invade Changzhi County, to which Li Yuan belonged in Jinyang? Just to provoke a war for the people of the border counties? What do you think, Taifu, that student? "Emperor Wen summoned Taifu Yu Wenshu alone in the study this time, so he wanted to ask what happened in Hedong? As a result, the Hedong Army resisted the entire Great Sui Green Forest alone and fought with Tang Duke Li Yuan.

"Your Majesty, the king of Jin Chitose is not in Luzhou, Hedong now, and he went to Luoyang and other places in the spring. Despite this, he still maintains contact with Sima Pei Shiju, the big camp in Luzhou. This time, when the Tang Gong of Jinyang took advantage of the green forests and grass in the nine provinces to attack Wagang Mountain, and Luzhou in Hedong Province was fully resistant to the green forests, he sent his soldiers and horses to pretend to be Turks to the northern counties of Hedong County to plunder the people's grain. In order to prevent the people in the territory from being plundered by foreign soldiers, the Luzhou battalion in the east of our river had to send soldiers and horses to drive away the enemy who entered the country. The soldiers entered Changzhi County to recover the tens of thousands of people who had been taken captive, and it is said that they did not engage Li Yuan's soldiers and horses stationed in Changzhi County along the way. In this way, the people of Hedong County were also taken captive, and nearly 200,000 people were taken captive. That Changzhi County is located on the edge of the Taihang Mountain, the land is barren and the people are poor, the land tax is very small, the income is not enough, in the hands of Li Yuan has always been negligent in management, the Jin King Chitose could not bear the suffering of his people, so as the revenge of Li Yuan's southward exile action, delineated to the Fenyang River as the boundary, the south of Fenyang belongs to the jurisdiction of my Hedong County, and the north still belongs to the Tang Duke of Jinyang. At present, it has become a fact that our Hedong army is stationed in the border to prevent the Jinyang army from moving south. I also hope that His Majesty will allow King Chitose of Jin to possess Changzhi County! In order to show the punishment for Li Yuan for sending troops south without permission to provoke disputes. Yu Wenshu was neither humble nor arrogant in front of Emperor Wen and said the reason for the incident.

"Having said that, Taifu, how do you want me to tell Jinyang Li Yuan? In the past, he cut off the whole county east of the river to give me the emperor, he was especially unwilling, but now he has forcibly occupied his Changzhi County, can't you divide the two places? Emperor Wen couldn't help but smile bitterly and said to Yu Wenshu.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that if the Duke of Tang asks His Majesty for Changzhi County, His Majesty simply agrees. Is King Chitose of Jin willing to obey the order? Whether or not to let King Chitose of Jin decide himself has nothing to do with His Majesty. Yu Wenshu lowered his head and whispered to Emperor Wen. It's just that this statement made Emperor Wen laugh suddenly.

"Huh! Taifu's method is not bad. This Li Yuan is like an aggrieved concubine, who only cares about complaining. Then I ordered my emperor to return Changzhi to him, and then send someone to appease him, so that he would not always be verbosing in my ears. "Li Yuan's complaint was sent to Emperor Wen early in the morning, and Emperor Wen summoned Yu Wenshu because of this matter. Now I have an idea, although this idea is a bit laid-back, but it is indeed to throw this hot potato to his son. Let this one prince and one son solve it by themselves.

"That's it, I still have the occupation of the territory that Wang Shichong of Luoyang and Tangbi of Jinan talked about. That's it! I'll do the same. Let them go and ask my emperor for it. Emperor Wen thought about it, and these two complaints against the Hedong Army for encroaching on the territory should be handled in accordance with the method of dealing with Changzhi County. If you have the ability, you will go to the king of Hedong Jin to ask for it, is it possible that I will send troops to fight my son?

On the second day, when the court was discussing politics, Han Hong, the right prime minister in charge of the household department, mentioned the change of ownership of Changzhi County in court. Emperor Wen pretended to be angry, and immediately planned to severely reprimand Yang Guang, the king of Jin, and ordered him to immediately withdraw from Changzhi and return it to Li Yuan of Jinyang. Emperor Wen's attitude surprised the princelings led by Yang Su, and Emperor Wen, who has always protected his calves, was ruthless this time. But when he heard that Emperor Wen still used the same method to deal with the land dispute between Luoyang and Jinan and the King of Jin in Hedong, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Who else can't hear what the emperor means? Let's ask, which feudal town gate lord dares to tear his face and ask for it from King Jin? Who would dare to send troops to attack? Attacking the King of Jin, is it not to rebel?

In the 4th year of the opening of the Great Sui Dynasty, the whole territory of Jizhou, Hebei Province was isolated in Zhuozhou after the surrender of Yanshan Luo Yi, blocking the southern invasion of the northern ethnic minorities, and the western side was close to the vast Taihang Mountains to block the Northern Turkic attack, and the east was bordered by the sea, and only the south was bordered by the Tangbi forces in Shandong, but the Tangbi itself also had to balance the forces of the counties and did not dare to invade the north. It makes the whole territory of Jizhou today like a country within a country, with many powerful and powerful in the territory, and each county is in charge of politics alone, and is not subject to the suppression and co-optation of the adults appointed by the Sui court. For the sake of national stability, it was inconvenient for the Sui court to send troops to exterminate the powerful and powerful departments, so they had to let their own development, and they had nothing to do for several years.

Until the second year of the emperor's reign, Jizhou Hejian Mansion produced a hero, named Dou Jiande, this person is sympathetic to the people, heroic by nature, in the chaos, after selling the ancestral industry, he summoned nearly 10,000 people to form a people's army, and divided the counties of Hejian Mansion as their sphere of influence, protected by it, and called himself "King of Hejian" to the outside world. The surrounding counties are not very powerful, and they do not dare to make trouble in other places. There are people who have a difficult life and also heard his name and went to Hejian Mansion to make a living, so in the past two years, the power of Hejian Dou Jiande has gradually grown, and it has become a feudal town that is not bound by the Sui Dynasty.

On this day, a middle-aged wealthy businessman in his early 30s came to the city of Hejian Province, accompanied by a follower who was about 25 years old. This wealthy businessman is thin and tall, with the corners of his eyes down, his eyes are slightly cloudy, three locks of short beard, a white face, a light cyan robe, and a folding fan in his hand. The young man's follower followed, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a light green smock, a heroic scarf on his head, and a sword at his waist, looking fierce and capable.

This wealthy businessman is the deputy commander of the Hedong Military Intelligence Department, and the young warrior who follows him is Dong Ke, a thousand households of the Hedong Military Intelligence Department. Half a month ago, Yang Guang, the lord of the Jin Dynasty who was on a tour outside, sent a letter to the headquarters of the Luzhou Military Intelligence Department by taking the communication route of the Military Intelligence Department, instructing Dou Jiande of Hejian Prefecture in Jizhou to salute first and then to make a forced landing. The two bosses of the Military Intelligence Department thought about it again and again, but they didn't think of a suitable candidate to go to Hejian Mansion to recruit Dou Jiande. Yu Wenhua and then sent out to invite Ying, and personally came to this Hejian Mansion to meet this grassroots party Dou Jiande. If you can't say that you can move it to surrender, then you can only use the Taihang army to make a forced landing.

"The city between the rivers is also lively, follow me to the streets." After registering in the most famous restaurant in Hejian Province, Yu Wenhua and he had to go out to look around and learn about the life of the people under Dou Jiande's rule. Seeing that Yu was cultural and about to go out, Dong Ke hurriedly put his baggage on his back, pressed his sword and followed him out of the restaurant.

“Duang、Duang、Duang----”

As soon as he walked a few steps out, there was a sound of gongs behind him, and he saw the people walking beside him and the vendors on both sides of the street hurriedly taking shelter on both sides. Yu Wenhua and Dong Ke also hurriedly walked to the aisle between the two brick houses and hid.

"Fellow villagers, there is a habitual offender who steals and ploughs cattle today, Gou Liu, steals a ploughing ox, sells it to others, violates the laws and regulations of Hejian Prefecture and sentences him to be beheaded, and he is escorted to the entrance of Ximen Vegetable Market at three o'clock in the afternoon to ask for beheading, and Lord Hejian Wang personally supervises the beheading." The gong striker walked at the front, shouting loudly while striking the gong, and then a group of more than 20 people slowly walked down the street around a horse-drawn cage cart. The sound of the gong gradually faded away, and the street gradually returned to its original state, and Yu Wenhua and the two went to walk on the street again.

"My lord, the decree of the king of the river is harsh, and stealing the ploughing ox is a capital offense. In my Hedong, it's just 3 years in prison. Dong Ke followed Yu Wenhua and walked slowly, whispering to Yu Wenhua and gossiping.

"Huh! But you don't know, this river is far less rich than the people in my east of the river, and all families are under the management of the local government for spring planting, and those who lack cattle in the family do not need to steal, they only need to rent it from Lizheng, and the rent will be retained from the harvest after the autumn. For more than a year, the official has not heard of a case of cattle being stolen by others. It seems that this Hejian Mansion has not implemented the law of our Hedong, so there is such chaos, and it is not wrong to re-enact in troubled times. Yu Wenhua and shook the paper fan all the way to watch the flowers and walked slowly.

"It's almost noon now, so it's better to find a hotel to drink a bowl of wine, and I'm a little hungry and thirsty."

"It's okay, when you and I are full of wine and food, we can go to the entrance of the vegetable market to see what the king of the river between the rivers, Dou Jiande, looks like."

There is a wine shop with a curtain right at the intersection, and there are already several tables of customers eating and drinking. Yu Wenhua and the two of them walked in and found an empty table near the window to sit on. After Dong Ke greeted the store with a table of wine and food, he talked with Yu Culture and while drinking.

"Guys, Gou Liu of Nadong Village at the entrance of the vegetable market is about to be beheaded at three o'clock, but it's a pity that his family has old and young, how to feed him in the future!"

Suddenly, an old man's voice came from the next table, Yu Wenhua raised his eyes and looked over, only to see that there were 4 old men of similar age sitting at the table drinking a little wine, talking about the upcoming killing of the cattle thief at the entrance of the vegetable market.

"It's a felony to steal cattle anywhere these days, if it weren't really impossible, whoever would do the act of stealing cattle, come, drink."

"The old man heard that the king of the river, Prince Dou, has always cherished the people, and he has not opened the killing ring in vain. It is said that the old mother of Gou Liu's family has been settled, and the daughter-in-law and young children will also choose a husband to marry. Gou Liu's house saw that the king of Hejian had arranged it well for his family, and he had nothing to say. ”

"Okay, don't talk about this, I'll go over and have a look after eating."

The people at this table stopped continuing the topic and drank by themselves.

After listening to Yu Wenhua, he couldn't help but think in his heart: What kind of person is this Dou Jiande? This killing and stroking is actually quite popular!

When Yu Wenhua and the two came to the Caikou Execution Ground in Xishi, the surrounding area was already surrounded by people watching the excitement. On the high platform in the middle, there was already an executioner dressed in red, holding a large knife standing on it. At his feet knelt a man with loose hair and bound arms. There were several tables and a few Taishi chairs under the pergola on one side of the torture table, and it was obvious that the officials who were in charge of the beheading had not yet arrived. There were only a dozen or so civilian soldiers with knives and guns but not armor around.

When Yu Wenhua and the two of them were watching left and right, suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves not far behind them. The people around him hurriedly flashed out a passage, and saw a strong man riding a tall horse rushing straight into the center of the execution ground.