"Eat his mother, wear his mother, open the door to welcome the king of Tang, and divide the fields when the king of Tang comes!

The rent is heavy, the profit is high, the ladies and daughters are difficult to protect, the thieves are too vicious recently, and it is difficult for the poor people in Nanyang to survive, so it is better to open the door and worship the Tang King......"

In the summer of the third year of Dashun Yongchang, in the east of Nanyang Mansion, which had been ruled by the Dashun Dynasty for more than two years, on the bank of the water, the people seemed to have sung the wrong lyrics!

's good "Welcoming the King" didn't become "Welcoming the Tang King"! And not only is it being sung, but it is also really taking action. On the south bank of the water, on the official road leading from Chengshan County of Runing Prefecture to Piyang County of Nanyang Prefecture, there were countless ragged people at this time, making pot pulp, singing songs, and welcoming the Tang King......

Not to mention this scene, Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty, who had the courage to lead thousands of palace guards into Nanyang, felt unbelievable, and even the poor middle peasants who stood on both sides of the official road and sang had an unreal feeling!

They would actually oppose the king of benevolence and righteousness, and welcome back the Ming and Tang Dynasty palaces that had oppressed them for more than 200 years...... It's unimaginable!

But the problem is that although King Chuang is benevolent and righteous, the nobles under him are too disagreeable, and they have taken up the land of Nanyang Mansion cleanly, and no matter whether they were landlords and rich peasants or poor middle peasants, they have now all become tenants of the nobles.

Moreover, these nobles from rogues are even more greedy and murderous than the original gentry and landlords! The rent is high in the sky, not to mention, and there is no room for arrears, and whoever can't pay it on time will catch someone's wife and daughter to make a mortgage...... In the past, the bandits here in Nanyang generally didn't tie flower tickets (that is, women), and they were really inferior to the bandits! The good girl was caught and put to sleep, even if she was put back, it would be difficult to get married!

Even if everyone gritted their teeth and paid the rent, those Dashun nobles would not stop, and they would have everyone to work for nothing - to build a fort!

Dashun nobles are different from the original landlords, they don't live in a good house, what kind of fort do they want to live in! They all live in groups of ten or twenty families, living in a fort made of rammed earth. Moreover, they do not study, men, women and children are all martial arts and aggressive, every family has armor and weapons, and they often gather in crowds to practice battle in battle, which looks particularly ferocious......

Therefore, the poor middle peasants here in Nanyang now don't even dare to resist rent and interest and eat big households! What's more, there is nowhere to go even if the grass falls.

Because all the mountains in Nanyang Mansion have either voted for King Chuang, or they have been exterminated by Lord Dashun who was sent to Nanyang - what kind of combat power do they have? Li Zicheng is the No. 1 thief in Tianzi! How can the bandits in Nanyang be beaten?

And what makes the poor middle peasants in Nanyang even more incomprehensible is that the old men of Dashun oppressed them viciously, but on the other hand, they divided the fields in Chengtian, De'an, Jingzhou, Hanyang and other prefectures in the south to exempt debts!

In addition, news also came from Kaifeng, Ruzhou, Henan and other places occupied by the Tartars, and they were also planning to teach the fields!

What's the matter? Do you think Nanyang people are easy to bully?

But it's useless if you can't figure it out - Li Zicheng can't help it, if he doesn't feed these murderers under his hands, then the team will disperse!

Moreover, these "old battalion warriors" in Dashun have a cost for military service, and they have to prepare their own weapons, armor, horses, retinues, some military rations, and so on. In addition, they must also build forts in the "fiefdom", live in groups, add defensive equipment, and train their families to ensure that after the "old camp samurai" go out in large numbers, Nanyang Mansion still has the strength to defend it.

If such a high cost of service is not passed on to the shoulders of the peasants below, who else can be put to bear?

So at the end of the second year and the beginning of the third year of Dashun Yongchang, the poor people here in Nanyang finally realized such a fact - at least for them, Li Zicheng, the king of benevolence and righteousness, is not as good as the Ming Dynasty!

And at this time, the countryside of Nanyang Mansion actually spread the ballad of "the fields when the Tang King came"!

The Tang King of the Ming Dynasty obviously took the wrong script and was going to make decisions for the poor middle peasants in Nanyang Mansion......

At first, people didn't believe it. How is this possible? It is clearly a rumor, even if the Tang King comes back, he should return the land to the original landlord! How could it be distributed to the poor peasants?

But in early April, the facts are in front of the big guys!

The Ming army that marched into Piyang County from Queshan County (Runing Prefecture) clearly waved the banner of "the arrival of the Tang King and the division of the land", and also posted notices in all townships and villages, announcing that the land would be granted orally and that debts and interest would be waived...... Of course, it is not unconditional, but it requires every household to send strong men to accompany the expedition. If you are not willing to give up, then you can divide the land, but you must pay a ransom, and you have to pay one stone to two stones for one acre of land - of course, within five years of getting the land.

This time, everyone can be regarded as believing that there is no rice eaten for free in the world, and since the Tang King can use everyone, he should allocate land as a reward.

So when the palace guards led by King Tang drove into Piyang County, what they saw was a scene of unreal welcome from all the people!

"Mr. Feng," Zhu Yujian still couldn't believe that the people of Nanyang would miss him so much, so he asked Feng San, who was walking with him, "The Lone King is not mistaken, right?" Are they welcoming us? ”

Feng San laughed, he was brought out by Li Yan and Red Lady, two thieves who are good at demagoguery, of course he knows how to mobilize the masses.

"The king is not mistaken," Feng San said with a smile, "they are just welcoming you!" Because you will divide the land among them...... They were pressed by Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers and had no hope, and when they saw that the neighboring state capitals were planning to teach the fields, could they not be itchy? ”

"Li Zicheng can be regarded as lifting a stone and hitting his own foot this time......" Zhu Yujian sighed, but his thick eyebrows were tightly twisted, "But if we do this, why aren't we doing the same thing as Li Zicheng?" ”

Yes, the people of Nanyang have divided the fields and land, will the people of Runing and Fengyang be hot-eyed?

"Don't think about it so much," Feng San waved his hand, "The county seat of Piyang is almost here, let's enter the city tonight, and the king's order flag will be raised in Nanyang Mansion...... Li Zicheng's backyard is on fire! ”

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It was not only Tang King Zhu Yujian who got the wrong script, but Zhu Cihong's military advisor Li Yan and Jing Muqing, the black genius of Jing Xiang, took the script that should have been given to Li Zicheng, led the troops to march along Dahong Mountain, and entered Zaoyang County, which belongs to Xiangjing Prefecture.

Zaoyang County belongs to the core of the Dashun Dynasty and is next to Xiangjing City. Naturally, the poor and middle peasants here were also extremely oppressed - there was no way, and the grange of Li Zicheng's most confidant imperial battalion soldiers was extremely heavy in Zaoyang County, and their equipment was better, and the burden of military service was heavier, so the oppression was a little more fierce.

At the same time, Suizhou in De'an Prefecture, which is adjacent to Zaoyang County, and Zhongxiang County in Chengtian Prefecture have carried out "land reform" in the past few months.

And the poor peasants in Xiangjing Mansion, who have been "following" the king for the longest time, are forced to be like this, and they can't be relieved when they think about it!

Therefore, when 10,000 soldiers of the New Army who were heavily armed to overcome difficulties suddenly drove into the territory of Zaoyang County under the banner of "the prince arrives and divides the land", and quickly defeated the small number of Dashun army troops left behind in Zaoyang, the entire Zaoyang County immediately boiled.

The common people don't care whether the promise of "the prince arrives and divides the land" can be fulfilled, and it is good to make a fuss with it, even if the hair can't be fished, it can still be a bad breath!

At the same time that the Ming army invaded Xiangjing and Nanyang under the banner of "dividing the land", Yuan Zongdi and Bai Wang, who were left by Li Zicheng to guard their hometown, were all in chaos.

They were not worried about the Tang King's guards who attacked Nanyang (the Tang King's guards were Zhuwei Army, or the more traditional Ming Army), but they could not underestimate the Left Division of the New Army led by Li Yan, who broke into Xiangjing Mansion along the Dahong Mountain.

This division came all the way from the east of Huangzhou Prefecture, and had already defeated many partial divisions of the Dashun army, and all of them won complete victories in a very short period of time, and also caused great casualties to the Dashun army that fought against them.

Yuan Zongdi, who did not have much capital on hand, did not dare to fight a decisive battle with Li Yan, so he had to shrink while recovering the families of the armies scattered in Zaoyang, Guanghua, Yicheng and other counties in Nanyang and Xiangjing Mansions to Xiangjing City. While sending Jiangling to Li Zicheng, he was in a hurry...... It's not a good thing, the prince of the Zhu family is going to kill the rich and help the poor!