Chapter 257 Feng Changyu's Choice
The spring and summer of the fifteenth year of Tianyou was the most torturous half a year for Feng Changyu, the former commander of Qianyang County and the head of the Feng clan in Xuzhou.
In the thirteenth year of Tianyou, Han Daoxun entered Shixuzhou, and the state prison was planned by his son Feng Jin, Feng Changyu later learned that it was too late to stop it, so he could only urgently contact Xi, Yang, and Xiang to urgently withdraw the clansmen of the three clans in Qianyang City, hoping that the prisoners would riot and expel the new assassin Han Daoxun from Xuzhou.
Who would have thought that Han Daoxun, Han Qian's father and son would be able to suppress the prisoner riot in the state prison that night with the force of thunder and thunder, before all forces reacted.
No matter how deaf and dizzy Feng Changyu was, he also knew that Xi Ying, the little scumbag, had completely forgotten the revenge of killing his brother, and threw himself into Han Qian's arms to make fun of him, and the Xuzhou Boat Gang secretly collected the Xi clan through redemption, and he was not unaware of it.
However, the weak Xi clan, even if thousands of people regather under Qianyang City, what kind of climate can it become?
After Ji Kun, the head of the Ministry of Staff, was captured and killed by Han Qian, Feng Changyu thought that he would endure for a few years, and when the imperial court transferred Han Daoxun to another post, he would not have to worry about the difficult father and son.
It's just that he never thought that Han Qian would flee to Xuzhou with his people when he was proud of the spring breeze, intending to stand on his own feet with his father in Xuzhou.
What Feng Changyu didn't expect was that the imperial court acquiesced to this fait accompli, and also rewarded the Han family father and son, and the Han family's father and son's adjustment of the officials in Xuzhou should also be recognized by the imperial court, so that at this time, the more important official positions in Xuzhou were occupied by the henchmen and cronies of the Han family's father.
Next is the land tax reform.
Although the current field tax reform only touches the interests of the large Hakka households in Qianyang County, the Han family father and son want to raise nearly 3,000 elite combat forces in Xuzhou as the foundation for their secession of Xuzhou.
At this time, the father and son of the Han family also began to take action against the Fanzhai in Qianyang County, and even did not hesitate to send troops to suppress the two small Fanzhai that resisted resolutely, and also wanted to promote the field tax reform to the heads of the native Fanhu.
This also means that the possibility that they want to temporarily pretend to be attached to the Han family's father and son does not exist.
And it's going to happen sooner rather than later.
When Han Qian led Feng's slaves and maids into Wuliuxi, and recruited the homeless Ding Zhuang to dig canals and build weirs, no one thought that Han Qian could succeed, thinking that this matter would only consume the few resources in the hands of the Han family's father and son.
After all, for hundreds of years, I don't know how many people have thought of taming Wuliuxi in order to be able to reclaim Dawankou, but after so many years, there are only a dozen small Fanzhai in the Dawankou area.
The diversion weir of Wuliuxi was built in early April, and then it was the rainy season of Xuefeng Mountain and Longya Mountain, and in early May, Longya Mountain was pouring heavy rain for days, but after the diversion of Shahe River and Wuliuxi, there was no flood at the mouth of Dawankou at the southern foot of Longya Mountain.
The surnames realized that the ability of the Han family father and son to repair the weir and control the water was indeed beyond the reach of Fanzhai, but this also meant that every day they delayed, the foundation of the Han family and father and son in Xuzhou would be deeper.
Three or four hundred ploughing cattle were transported into Dawankou, and Longya Mountain created a new type of Quyuan pear and a large number of sturdy and durable iron utensils, and concentrated manpower to cultivate three or four hundred acres of new fields on both sides of the Shahe River and Wuliuxi in one day, and dig three or four miles long irrigation branch canals.
The fertile soil is silted along the Wuliu River and Shahe River, which flood every year, and the seeds are sown without the need to take care of them, and the seedlings will grow out of the soil.
The displaced people who have poured into Xuzhou since last year have quickly taken root under the new recruitment and naturalization policy just implemented by the Han family's father and son, and the strength of the Xuzhou camp has also been sharply expanded to 2,500 people.
Although in the eyes of the surnames, most of the soldiers and horses in the Xuzhou camp are still a rabble, but the money and food collected by the Han family father and son during this period were all invested in the training of these two thousand five hundred soldiers.
This also means that every day of delay, the strength of the soldiers and horses mastered by the Han family father and son will be stronger.
The Fanzhai to which the Feng family, the Xiang family, the Xi family, and the Yang family belong are scattered in the mountains and rivers of Langxi and Tanyang, even if the four families can draw two or three thousand elites, Feng Changyu also believes that the soldiers are brave and good at fighting, but how can the troops gather and rendezvous in order to give the Han family father and son a fatal blow?
It is unrealistic to storm the dangerous Qianyang City with a high city wall, and the four families will attack together to face the Yushu Bay, which is completely open to Yuanshui?
Feng Changyu walked out of the walled hall and stared at Fan Yong, who was training day and night in front of the walled building.
The Feng family controls more than 20 Fanzhai villages in Langxi, and there are more than 1,400 native Fankou households under his rule, and there are only more than 7,200 people in Dingkou on the surface, but Feng Changyu knows in his heart that this is the number of Wuzong in the previous dynasty.
Six Ding drew one, Feng's six hundred soldiers, which made the villages above and below Yuanshui frightened, and also made him taste what kind of ecstasy and bone-destroying taste of Gao Xi's plump and charming body.
Thinking of this, Feng Changyu regretted giving Xi Yi's little slut to Han Qian's grandson.
Although he was old and powerless about men and women, and he thought that he would not worry about it anymore when he sent it out, it turned out that he was wrong.
Even if he doesn't have the strength to spare, he can reach out and touch the delicate body that is as white as silk and milk, feel the soft elasticity of the tentacles, and feel the youthful breath is so charming, which can make his mood much younger; After sending that little cheap goods out, Feng Changyu realized that the taste was so unforgettable.
And the young woman in the stockade, not to mention her rough skin, and her demeanor was still coarse, far from being comparable to that little slut.
Feng Changyu pondered for a moment, turned around and walked back to the walled hall, listening to the "oh oooo" someone coming upstairs, turned around and saw his son Feng Jin and Gao Bao coming over, and asked, "Have you seen the envoy of the prison army?" ”
"I've seen it, the envoy of the prison army said that my Feng clan can eradicate the Han family's father and son by sending troops, and he will ask his father to replace the old thief Han." Feng Jin couldn't help but say excitedly.
Feng Changyu couldn't help but want to glance at his white son, if he could really eradicate the Han family's father and son, and Xuzhou fell into the hands of the four surnames again, was he still worried that he couldn't replace him?
The most important thing now is what kind of help Zhang Ping can provide.
"Did the envoy say how we should get rid of it?" Feng Changyu asked.
"The father and son of the Han family are heavily guarded in Qianyang City, it is difficult to storm it, and the defense of the supervising army envoy is also extremely meticulous, and my Feng clan sneaked up on Wuliuxi, or severely damaged the guests who settled along Wuliuxi and Shahe, but they can't capture Longya City and Wuliuzhai at the first time, and they can't gain a foothold at the southern foot of Longya Mountain, so it is easy for the Han family father and son to send troops from Qianyang City to counterattack," Feng Jin said, "The supervising military envoy advocates that we sneak attack Eagle Fish Village!" ”
"Eagle Fish Village?"
Eagle Fish Village is the Chinese city occupied by Tanzhou soldiers and horses at the foot of the western foot of the Chinese mountain at this time.
Feng Changyu was suddenly shocked, it was hard to imagine that Zhang Ping, the envoy of the prison army, would advocate that they sneak attack Eagle Fish Village!
"The military envoy has been aware that the Han family father and son have long been secretly colluding with Tanzhou, Han Daoxun Tianyou released the ban at the end of the thirteenth year, in fact, it is to let the people of Tanzhou infiltrate in, and the Eagle Fish Village is the people and horses infiltrated into Tanzhou, and it is built by gathering displaced people, which is ironclad evidence of the collusion between the Han family and Tanzhou. And Zhao Zhixian, a state medical doctor, is the nail that Tanzhou has secretly buried in Xuzhou over the years, and has been the liaison between the Han family and Tanzhou for the past two years. The father and son of the Han family now propose to establish a new Chinese county under the Chinese mountain, and intend to recommend Zhao Zhixian to serve as the Chinese county commander......
Feng Jin licked his lips and said.
"Zhao Zhixian is from Tanzhou?" Feng Changyu asked in shock, but when he asked this, he felt redundant and motioned for Feng Jin to continue.
Feng Jin continued:
Gao Bao had also found out at this time that the troops gathered in Tanzhou in the Chinese village at this time were not many, less than 400 people, which was incomparably different from the number held by the military supervisor. If we can take the Chinese village by surprise, we will not only be able to cut off the connection between Qianyang City and Longya Mountain according to the Chinese village, but also further gather the soldiers and horses of the Xiang family, the Yang family, and the Xiang family according to the Chinese village, so that there will be no place for them to stand under the counterattack of the Han family's father and son. ”
"Tanzhou has not gathered many troops in the Chinese village, but Tanzhou is something we can provoke?" Feng Changyu had to consider the possible retaliation of Tanzhou after the sneak attack on the Chinese wall.
"The collusion between the Han family father and son and Tanzhou to plot Xuzhou has prompted the imperial court to make up its mind to take action against Tanzhou, and the imperial court has begun to gather troops on a large scale in Ezhou. The supervising military envoy suggested that we sneak attack the Chinese village, and also hoped that we would send troops from Xuzhou to contain Tanzhou at that time, so we promised that I Feng would inherit the position of Xuzhou assassin, and after we acted, the supervising military envoy would come over to meet us, and then we could invite the big surname forces of Chenzhou and Jingzhou to send troops......"
Feng Jin said anxiously,
"And at this time, the father and son of the Han family colluded with Tanzhou to seek Xuzhou, can we still distinguish the father and son of the Han family from Tanzhou now? Isn't it to do it to the Han family father and son? Or do we simply sit in the stockade and wait for the Han family father and son to send soldiers and horses over to forcibly levy autumn grain? ”
The vast majority of the native Fancun people in Xuzhou are attached to the big surname as slaves, so the Fanzhai controlled by the four surnames only pays more than 1,000 stone of money and grain every year, but relying on the new policy of field tax, the annual field tax will surge to more than 40,000 stone and more than 2,000 yuan.
This is actually to dig out the fat that the four surnames eat in their mouths every year to fill the bottomless pit of desire of the Han family father and son.
This is definitely not what Feng Changyu wants to see.
And since the Han family father and son have been colluding with Tanzhou since the end of last year, there is no difference between the Han family father and son and Tanzhou?
Could it be that after they eradicated the Han family's father and son, Tanzhou could still be indifferent?
Feng Changyu twisted his sparse beard, stared at his son Feng Jin and asked, "The imperial court wants to take action against Tanzhou, this is a definite thing?" ”
"The child sent another person to Ezhou to see, even if the imperial court does not do it in Tanzhou before this winter, it is a fact that the garrison has increased on a large scale, and I believe that Tanzhou is also aware of it - we have made a decisive move in Xuzhou, as long as we can control the situation in Xuzhou before Tanzhou reacts, I believe that Tanzhou will never dare to send troops and horses deep into Wushan." Feng Jin said.
Feng Changyu pondered for a long time, and then asked Gao Bao: "Is Feng Xuan reliable?" ”
Gao Bao swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "During the voyage to Jinling, the Han family father and son had a lot of contact with Feng Xuan, but the Han family's father and son often regarded us as foreign races and ridiculed us, and Feng Xuan often secretly sighed that Han Daoxun was the assassin of Xuzhou, and he was helpless to use it. Gao Bao felt that there might not be a need to rush to ask Feng Xuan to participate in such a secret matter, and after we took the Chinese city, we could order Feng Xuan to send troops. ”
"Father, without further ado!" Feng Jin suppressed his voice and persuaded.
"The city wall of Eagle Fish Village is strong, and it is difficult to storm it, and Eagle Fish Village is only more than forty miles away from Qianyang City and the garrison of the Han family father and son in Wuliuxi...... " Feng Changyu said anxiously, he wanted to do it, but if things were not thought through, where would he act rashly!
"You can lure them ......," Gao Bao said.