Dang Ruichen can read the mood of the people.

These peasants, who have lived off the land for generations, cannot survive without land. However, the land that should have been owned by the peasants was forcibly annexed by many officials and tycoons, and then leased to the peasants for cultivation, and then all kinds of taxes were imposed on the common people. So the more land grows, the poorer the people become, and finally the whole family is bought and still can't pay off the debt.

Now it is good that with the land that belongs to the peasants, the peasants have hope for life. The division of land is to reassure the people, and the people will work on this land in peace and stability from now on, why can't the court think of such an obvious reason, and it has to be implemented by a group of thieves?

Dang Ruichen's mood was infected by the enthusiasm of the scene, and his heart was warm, and the people would live a good life from now on. In the blink of an eye, his heart was cold again, how would the court treat these people who were allocated land? Repression or submission to this distribution? Dang Ruichen sighed, it is more difficult to make this court obedient than to climb the mountain, if it is suppressed, there will be a large-scale peasant rebellion...... Song Jiang is digging a grave for the imperial court!

Alas!

May the people plant hope in the spring and harvest hope in the autumn, instead of disappointment or even despair.

The public trial made Dang Ruichen even more dumbfounded, he knew that these rich squires were inextricably linked with the imperial court officials, and sometimes people like him did not pay attention to the prefect. In the eyes of Dang Ruichen, they are just some villains who are tied to the court officials, eagle dogs who can make high-ranking officials come forward to wipe their buttocks, a group of dog legs who exploit money for court officials, at best, they can be greedy for a lot of property. But as a result, he couldn't keep his tongue down, these guys have so much property that their wealth can't be described at all.

Take Zhu Qi, who has just been tried publicly, for example, he first hooked up with Yang Jian, infiltrated the Xicheng Institute to verify the land deed, and even deceived and robbed a lot of land. After Yang Jian's death, he went to Cai Jing again, plundered land in the name of Cai Jing, and forcibly occupied private houses. Now he has more than 30,000 acres of land under his name, and the mansion is outrageously large, which is enough to have ten large state yamen, and there are pavilions and pavilions inside, strange rockeries, and its luxury is not inferior to that of the capital. He has more than 130 concubines alone, and he also keeps more than 500 guards.

There are such moths in a county town, it can be seen how many big moths there will be in the entire Great Song Dynasty, and the party prefect can't help but secretly applaud Liang Shanbo's actions.

While the imperial court was still lingering in silence, Liangshanbo quickly completed the land reform in Yizhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou, and Puzhou. Because Cai Jing continued to suppress the twists and turns and was unwilling to let Huizong know these troublesome things, there were few resisters in the war in the four states, and the prefect and the county had to clamp their tails in the face of Liangshanbo's strong strength and actively cooperate with the movement.

In the minds of these officials, the movement of Liangshanbo was different from the rest of the bandits, they did not aim to occupy the city, divide the land, defeat the bullies, and leave an agrarian revolutionary committee composed of official, non-governmental, and Liangshanbo personnel to retire, and they remained the imperial palace. Of course, in the future, they will have to work for the people under the supervision of the committee, and they will not be able to exploit and oppress the people arbitrarily as before.

Liangshanbo also benefited a lot from this movement, and all the horses of the officers and soldiers who occupied the city were brought back to Liangshan, and after some of the most heinous officials and bullies were executed, the land was distributed to the people, and the rest of the family property was partly distributed to the poor people, and some were brought back to Liangshanbo.

When it was time for spring planting, the peasants had more land but had no seeds. In response to this situation, Liang Shanbo set up convenience service departments in various villages and towns to borrow crop seeds for the people, under the pretext of grain and money, and only charged a small interest after the autumn harvest. In this way, the people have no worries about the future, and they are all sown in a hurry, because they are now tied to Liangshanbo, and with such a powerful backer, they are no longer afraid of the oppression of the government and bullies.

Cai Jing finally didn't dare to suppress it, because Qingzhou, Murong Prefect was the uncle of the country, and he couldn't eat and walk around if he had a mistake.

The war in Qingzhou began in the middle of the four-state movement, and was carried out by troops from Qingfeng Mountain, Erlong Mountain, and Taohua Mountain. During this period, Song Jiang was worried about Hua Rong and Huang Xin, if the war was together, their identities would definitely be exposed. However, the two strongly demanded to return to the embrace of the cottage and no longer mix in the officials, so the Qingzhou War broke out.

The rest of the state capitals can open the city and surrender, but Qingzhou cannot, because Murong Yanda is the uncle of the country. If he surrenders, even if he passes the Liangshanbo pass, he will not be able to pass the Huizong pass, and he will implicate Murong Guifei, and the Murong family will be in a state of collapse from now on.

He didn't want to resist, but he had to.

Qingfeng Village was lost, and Huang Xin had led his troops back to Qingzhou. On the one hand, Murong Yanda quickly asked the court for help, and on the other hand, he made every effort to organize forces to defend Qingzhou City.

Shi Jin surrounded Qingzhou City, and according to the plan, Hua Rong opened the south gate to welcome the Liangshanbo team into the city on the grounds of facing the battle, but there was no movement for a long time. He picked up the clairvoyant mirror and watched, and saw that the guard of the city head was not Hua Rong, and his heart was suddenly alert, could it be that something had changed?

He quickly ordered the four gates to observe whether there was Hua Rong among the guards, and the results were both happy and worried, and there was no Hua Rong in the east and west gates, and there was no doubt that there was Huang Xin in the north gate. This shows that Hua Rong is still unharmed, otherwise how could Huang Xin help guard the north gate. Although I don't know the situation in the city, the army has to respond in time, and it is a big deal to capture Qingzhou City. Shi Jin ordered the southeast and west sides to attack the city, and the north gate waited, and the cannon rumbled in an instant.

There was indeed a change in the city.

Hua Rong is the commander of Qingzhou soldiers and horses, and the defense of Qingzhou City should have been deployed by him, and he planned to guard the south gate with Huang Xin, open the door to welcome the army, and take Qingzhou without blood. But somehow, Murong left Hua Rong idle and personally deployed defense. Chen Yu and deputy general Cao Peilin guarded the east gate, Feng Wanjun and deputy general Jiang Jiamin guarded the west gate, Zang Hongchao and deputy general Lan Wu guarded the south gate, Yao Tailai and deputy general Huang Xin guarded the north gate, and the prefect and Hua Rong jointly commanded the overall situation and inspected the battle situation. The family members of the four guards and Hua Rong's family all moved into the yamen of the state capital, and it was obvious that the family members were hostages, which showed that Murong was suspicious. Pen in Chinese

It was Chen Yu and Yao Tailai who were responsible for this, both of whom had not been favored by Murong and Hua Rong since they were captured by Liang Shanbo. Hua Rong despised him as a person, turned over the clouds and rain, fell into the well, put all the responsibility on Qin Ming, and turned his head to show favor to himself, this kind of person will eventually throw stones at himself, so Hua Rong has always been lukewarm to the two of them. Murong is a civil official, and he especially looks down on military generals, and even more so on military generals who have been taken prisoner, but Murong can afford silver. Chen Yu and Yao Tailai kept smashing Murong with silver, and the two of them were slowly promoted, and now they are both deputy commanders of soldiers and horses.

Hearing that Liang Shanbo's military horses were going to besiege Qingzhou City, the two of them thought that the opportunity had come, and they took the opportunity to take Hua Rong down and they had a chance to be promoted. So the two of them went to see Murong secretly, first praised the prefect greatly, and then Chen Yu said: "Lord Prefect, the war is coming, we should be united to fight the thieves together, but there are people with bad intentions, trying to dedicate the city to the thieves, I hope the lord will see it!" ”

Murong was shocked and hurriedly asked, "Who is so bold?" ”

Yao Tailai said: "My lord doesn't know, Hua Rong's sister Hua Ziwei married Song Jiang, the head of the Liangshan Bo thief, as his wife, and Hua Rong will definitely cooperate inside and outside and present Qingzhou City." ”

Murong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and said: "The two generals are too worried, Commander Hua is the right-hand man of this mansion, how can he have a second heart." His sister was taken captive by Song Jiang to do the matter of suppressing Mrs. Zhai, and this mansion knows best. As soon as he mentioned this matter, the commander of the flower folded his wrists and sighed, his heart was like a knife file, he gritted his teeth with hatred for Song Jiang, and he couldn't wait to kill Liang Shanbo and take down Song Jiang's bones and ashes, how could he be with the thief? This remark catches the wind and catches the shadows, there is back unity, and I will have to mention it again in the future! ”

Chen Yu saw that the prefect of Murong trusted Hua Rong very much, so he provoked: "Lord Prefect Mingjian! People's hearts are not as good as water, and the flat ground is rippling. How do adults know that the captivity of Hua Ziwei is not a lie. Now that the war is imminent, adults should be careful, you must know that people do not hurt the tiger, the tiger is harmful to people's hearts, and the heart of defense is indispensable! If the adults are careless and lose Qingzhou, it will be too late to regret it! ”

Yao Tailai saw that Murong was silent in thought, and knew that he was already suspicious, so he added fuel to the nonsense, and brought Huang Xin in, saying that he was the apprentice of the anti-thief Qin Ming, and he must also be a thief.

Although Murong was suspicious, he despised the two even more in his heart, and the two-faced person was not enough to believe, so he tentatively said: "According to the intention of the two generals, what should I do?" ”

The two were overjoyed, thinking that Murong had believed it all, so they said in unison: "Put the two of them in prison and torture them, recruit the inside story of the thief, and detain their families and punish them together!" ”

"Nonsense! Without evidence, just guessing and putting the court officials in prison, do you two have the laws of the Great Song Dynasty in your eyes? ”

Murong slapped the table and reprimanded angrily: "You two were also Qin Ming's subordinates, and you also went to war with him to be Liang Shanbo's prisoners, I can't doubt that you two are Liang Shanbo's internal responses, and you two are also in prison!" ”

The two were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and begged for forgiveness, and swore loyalty to the prefect. Murong didn't bother to listen, and reprimanded impatiently: "In the future, don't use these false speculations to confuse the official, what is the purpose of the two of you, the official is like a mirror in his heart, go back to the position of the two of you!" ”

The two of them trembled and retreated, but the doubts in Murong's mind continued to grow, and people's hearts were unpredictable, so they had to be guarded against. Hua Rong and Song Jiang, Huang Xin and Qin Ming, Chen Yu, Yao Tailai and Liang Shanbo, Gua Tian Li Xia, it is not possible to have contact. So after careful consideration, he decided to personally deploy the city defense, idle Huarong, and put under house arrest the families of all the generals who defended the city.

After a burst of artillery fire, Shi Jin tentatively attacked twice, and when he saw that the officers and soldiers were desperately defending, he stopped the siege. The situation inside the city is unknown, and it will not be attacked unless it is forced to do so.

Hua Rong in the city was very anxious, his family was under house arrest, and his military power was taken away by Murong. And he was always by Murong's side, it was obvious that he was suspicious of himself and had to find a way to get out of the tiger's mouth.

As soon as the battle stopped, Murong and Hua Rong inspected the city. The battlements of the city wall were shattered in many places, and many soldiers were killed and wounded. After the inspection, Hua Rong suddenly found that there was no shelling at the north gate, indicating that Shi Jin knew that the north gate guard had Huang Xin, and he did not attack for fear of accidental injury. Then make a fuss at the North Gate! Hua Rong wrote the strategy, crumpled it into a ball, and quietly stuffed it to Huang Xin during the inspection, waiting for Shi Jin's next attack, transferring Yao Tailai, and opening the north gate to welcome his comrades.

Zhang Feng is Hua Rong's close confidant and was arranged to lead troops to patrol the streets, and Hua Rong instructed him to secretly protect his family members under house arrest. Zhang Feng was already envious of the heroes of Liangshan, and he wanted to fall into the grass when he was in Qingfeng Mountain, but the time had not yet come, and Hua Rong wanted to do it in Qingzhou. Seeing Hua Rong arranged it like this today, he knew that the opportunity to defect to Liangshanbo had arrived, and he rushed to patrol the streets.

A few pigeons flew up above Hua Rong's house, and they flew out of the city, hovering over the Liangshanbo team, and when they saw the familiar markers, they fell.

The next day, the artillery fire was fierce, and Shi Jin made a feint attack on the east and west gates, mainly attacking the south gate. As soon as the cannon sounded, Murong fidgeted, wandering back and forth in the palace, every cannon sound was like an explosion on him, cold, timid, his liver trembled, and his heart trembled. In less than half an hour, all the city gates came to ask for help, and the spare soldiers and horses in Murong's hands were also sent out one after another.

Murong was shocked, the south gate came to ask for help again, how could there be soldiers to send, Murong was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, how could he have the slightest claim. At this time, Hua Rong arched his hand and said: "Lord Prefect, the last general is willing to lead his own troops to reinforce the south gate, and swear to live and die with the city!" ”

At this time, Murong couldn't care about doubting Hua Rong, so he hurriedly asked him to go to reinforcements, and told him to guard the city and wait for the imperial court to rescue the troops. Hua Rong picked up his gun and mounted his horse, led his soldiers to the south, and when he left Murong's sight, he detoured around the shortcut road and rushed towards the north gate.