Chapter Ninety-Eight

"King Shuntian, let's do it this time! It seems that this Yidu army is coming, there are a lot of officers and troops in the south, and the road into the mountain in the west is also blocked by the officers and soldiers, so let's fight here! When it's done, it's a new world. At that time, we will decide whether to continue to fight Yidu, or to fight Dizhou and Jinan! Yu Shichang was very enthusiastic on the side.

Liu Zhengfeng thought for a while, and then asked Yu Zhilong: "How does General Fei think about it?" “

Yu Zhilong has also been considering the surrounding situation in the past few days, and replied: "Up to now, our army has reached more than 10,000 people, and all the surrounding roads have been blocked. Besides, even if you have to leave, what will happen to so many family members? Do you want to stay here? Since the officers and soldiers were willing to take the initiative to attack, they simply fought against them here. It's just that our army has a lot of new soldiers, and they don't practice battle formations, and they don't have enough training, so how to fight needs everyone to work together! ”

Liu Zhengfeng nodded: "If you give up this city and leave with the whole army, so many family members will definitely not be able to accompany you, and there will not be so many mules, horses and vehicles to pull the baggage, if you leave these family members, I am afraid that the morale of the army will be weakened immediately." I thought about it repeatedly, and in accordance with everyone's suggestion, our army fought a decisive battle with the enemy here. Looking at the situation, the Yidu army will come over soon, and today we will assign all the new soldiers to everyone, let the veterans bring the new soldiers, and take advantage of the fact that there is still some time to quickly familiarize themselves with how to fight; If there are not enough weapons, they will prepare more wooden spears and bamboo guns. Tell the whole army that this battle is a matter of life and death, and those who do not obey orders and retreat and flee without authorization will be killed! ”

"Yes, whoever dares to coax the bag at this time, I will cut off his head first!" Qin Zhanshan shouted viciously.

"If you want to live, you have to kill the officers and soldiers for me! You might as well offer a reward, and under the heavy reward, there will be a brave man! When do you need to wait for the gold and silver in your hands? The big guy takes it all out! Wan Jinhai proposed.

"Simply, the first ten taels of an officer and soldier, the thirty taels of a hundred households, and the hundred taels of a thousand households! As long as you win this time, there will be more money in the future! Liu Qidao.

"That's it!" Liu Zhengfeng slapped his thigh and agreed.

"Now that we've decided to fight, everyone, let's figure out how to do it." Yu Zhilong proposed.

These leaders all gathered around the table, and according to the information from the investigation and the existing situation, they began to discuss in detail how to deal with it, and this secret conversation took at least an hour, and finally a general battle plan was determined.

After the discussion, Yu Zhilong returned to his room in the county office, where many subordinates such as Zhao Shi, Qian Zheng, Wu Side, Huang Er, Ma Yunlong, Mu Chun, Luo Cheng, Mingxiong, Xie Lin and Fang Xue were already waiting. Yu Zhilong informed the generals of the results of the meeting and their operational ideas, and everyone once again deliberated on the details of the actions of their various departments.

Knowing that now that the officials and troops of Yidu City are gathered, they may soon go south, Yu Zhilong has canceled the inspection and suppression of bandits in the surrounding towns and towns, and almost all of them are concentrated outside the city, with Mingxiong as the main force, and begin to train soldiers with all his might.

After several battles, Yu Zhilong's soldiers and horses outside the city already had nearly 2,000 people, but what Liu Zhengfeng, Liu Qi, Qin Zhanshan and others did not know was that among the remaining personnel who Yu Zhilong stayed in the quarries in Liujiazhuang and Hujiazhuang, there were originally thousands of people, most of these people were old, weak, sick and injured, and after these eight or nine days of recuperation, more than 500 people recovered physically, and most of them voluntarily joined Yu Zhilong's command. At present, most of the exercises are carried out in Liujiazhuang.

In addition, many people in the surrounding villages took the initiative to directly join Yu Zhilong's subordinates after knowing Yu Zhilong's division of fields, cattle and sheep in Liujiazhuang and Hujiazhuang, and the abolition of lamb's rest and various miscellaneous labor.

When Zhao Shi led his troops to sweep away the original villages and towns and bandits, he adopted the same means for the villages around these two villages, and for a while, the peasant households, slave households, artisan households, military households, etc. applauded, and happily received their own acres and land deeds, and also received a lot of grain, money, cattle and sheep.

Not only will they have property and even acres of land to divide this time, but Yu Zhilong has clearly issued an order that the taxes to be collected in the next five years will only be one-eighth of the current one, and there is no need to pay in the first year, but the labor that should be paid will still be paid, but according to the original estimate of the county Yin Xie Lin, the labor apportioned in the future will not reach half of the current one.

Yu Zhilong originally did not plan to apportionment labor and collect taxes in the next few years, but in order to win the hearts of the people, he was determined to spare no money.

However, after Xie Lin knew about it, he came to advise him that it was not a long-term plan to act like this, although the previous taxes and labor were as heavy as a mountain, and he completely ignored the life and death of the people, but he canceled these all at once, and the people were indeed happy, but there was no source of military and political expenses, how to govern the government and march and fight in the future?

Besides, Shengmien, Dou Miqiu, now that the opening is so big, it will be difficult to have a more effective stimulation method in the future!

Hearing the words of Shengmien and Dou Miqiu, Yu Zhilong thought for a long time and sighed, or officialdom like Xie Lin understands people's hearts better! Say whatever you want.

Because of the vigorous assistance of Xie Lin and the public officials, Yu Zhilong implemented various measures well in the villages under his control, and the collection and registration of various materials were carried out in an orderly manner. On the other hand, in the city and surrounding areas, Liu Zhengfeng and others achieved significantly worse results because of their selfishness and lack of active action.

Soon, the rumors of General Fei's benevolence and righteousness, and the might of the Jing'an Army quickly spread to all directions in these areas. Because of this, more and more villagers rushed directly to Liujiazhuang and Hujiazhuang to ask to join Yu Zhilong's command, according to Fang Xue's statistics, counting the new quarry, there are nearly 1,000 new soldiers.

Yu Zhilong wanted to inform Liu Zhengfeng of this matter, but at night, after Xie Lin, Zhao Shi, and Qian Zheng found out, they immediately rushed over to dissuade him.

Xie Lin asked to retreat before he said: "The general is benevolent and righteous, so that the people of the four townships can be attached to their hearts." I Guanshun Tianwang and the rest of the generals are all busy people, since entering the city, they are more indulged in wine and food, fighting for gold and silver and high-rise mansions, and the military affairs under his command are also negligent, and his subordinates sometimes disturb the people. If it weren't for the general's presence in the city, there would still be some Jing'an soldiers and soldiers patrolling every day to deter Xiaoxiao, but I am afraid that the current public security in the city would have already eroded. ”

"Although King Shuncheon is the commander of our army, his political philosophy and ability since entering the city are mediocre, and he has neither the virtue of recruiting wise men nor the courage to strictly restrain his subordinates, and most of the strategies he has taken are recommended by the general after careful consideration. Although the villain has not been deeply acquainted with the king of Shun, he has the courage to say it today, and he also knows that this is not a person with grand plans. If the general informed King Shuntian of this matter today, the number of soldiers assigned to the general this time would definitely be reduced, and it would be very unwise to see that a great war was imminent. Moreover, the king of Shuntian set up a banner in the city to recruit troops, but now there are many villagers who are willing to go directly to the general's command, although this is the trend of the general's expectations, but it is also easy to be suspicious of the king of Shuntian, and the rest of the leaders will not like it. ”

"Why don't you put this matter down for the time being, and everything will be decided after the war?"

Yu Zhilong hesitated for a while, and then discussed with Zhao Shi and Qian Zheng, and both of them echoed Xie Lin's statement.

Qian Zheng said indignantly: "Liu Qi and Qin Zhanshan are too careful, we handed over all the county treasury to them, who would have expected that they would be swallowed so much by these two birds!" If it weren't for the fact that we seized a lot of them in Liujiazhuang and Hujiazhuang, this food and clothing would soon become a problem now! Thanks to our kindness in saving them, we gave them so much money and food! Leader Liu doesn't say a fair word either! Qian Zheng has an opinion on Liu Zhengfeng, and he doesn't say anything about the title of King Shuntian.

"General, now that the big war is coming, one more person will have more strength, I see if this battle can be won, the key depends on us!" Qian Zheng continued.

"Yes, now our department is the strongest in actual strength, and we also attach the most importance to the training of new pawns. With Mingxiong's help this time, the training effect of each department is very good! It's a pity that there is too little time! Although the morale of each department is high, the battle still has to rely on the old soldiers! Zhao Shidao, "According to the general's strategy this time, the final decisive force must be our department." It's better to have a lot of soldiers. Now tell King Shuntian and the others that it will only increase their suspicions, it is better to suppress this matter and see the results of this battle. ”

"In the past few days, the king of Shuntian has demanded a lot of money from large families outside the city, and according to the report from the yacha, in fact, many small households have also been forcibly expropriated by him, and many small households have not been able to pay such a large amount of money for a while, but have been detained by him, and his family members have to pay enough before they are willing to release them." Schelling said.

"Oh, that's it? Seriously? Yu Zhilong was a little surprised, he was busy with the trilogy exercises these days, and he was mostly outside the city, so he really didn't know about it.

Yu Zhilong looked at Zhao Shi and Qian Zheng again, and the two of them also shook their heads, and the two of them, like Yu Zhilong, stayed in the barracks for many days and nights. Yu Zhilong immediately ordered his guards to summon Fang Xue and ask him about it.

Fang Xue didn't know what was going on, and hurried over, these days he and Gao Shang and Tong Kui were busy with logistics statistics and allocation, and they had not been able to rest well for several days, Yu Zhilong saw that his eyes were red, his skin was white and messy, and he couldn't help but be startled, he hadn't seen him for two days, how Fang Xue was already haggard.

Hearing Yu Zhilong inquire about Liu Zhengfeng's recourse to everyone in the city, Fang Xue swallowed his saliva and said in a dumb voice: "What Xie County Yin said is true, his subordinates do know something in the past few days, and when he saw that the adults were busy with military drills, he was worried about disturbing the thoughts of the adults, so he did not tell the adults." ”

"Confused, both military and political affairs are major events, both are indispensable, I have been in the army outside the city for the past few days, and I have not paid attention to the affairs in the city, and it was decided to collect part of the tribute from these people, how could this happen?" Yu Zhilong said urgently.

Fang Xue was a little arrogant, and said: "This matter was presided over by King Shuntian, and later General Liu Qi also took the initiative to participate. At first, it was implemented according to the list provided by our ministry, but soon the scope was expanded, and even some small merchants along the street began to collect it. His subordinates inquired about the reason, and reported that King Shuntian and General Liu Qi were worried that the number of people who had surrendered was too large, and there was not enough money in the city to settle them, so they levied some of them to supplement the army. ”

"Being so hasty and asking for too much will inevitably hurt public opinion." Yu Zhilong thought for a while and sighed: "This wise man doesn't take it!" ”

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