"Behead Wang Yue." Li Kaiming said indifferently: "Check their belongings and fill them into the public account, the cavalry blockade the surrounding gentry and grain households, slowly torture and raid one by one, immediately seal up the inventory of the city, and confiscate the city's medicine shops, cotton cloth, medicinal materials, refined grain, miscellaneous grains, weapons, shields, armor, bows and arrows, all need to be checked and checked." Send a herald to ride around the city to proclaim, telling the people, we will not disturb the people, do not kill innocents, the people can not go to the street if they have nothing to do, wait for the town guards to arrive, and ask the people to push the chief of the first armor to maintain local order and order, and then handle it in all parts of the city, and the taxes should be paid and collected by the officials we sent. ”

Under his order, several scribes at once wrote all the words into the vernacular, and then sent dozens of cavalrymen, either posting the post or proclaiming loudly, and estimated that the commotion and unrest in the city would generally cease before it was dark at night.

It was a beautiful surprise attack, and it took over the city almost without blood. In the city of Jianzhou, there are three armies of the Xiang army, more than 6,000 people have surrendered one after another, and were escorted back to the barracks to take care of them after the weapons were collected, this is an out-and-out victory, get the city, the rest of the counties may all fall to the wind, the entire Jianzhou seven counties, the city of Jian'an, Ouning two counties, there are Jianyang, Guanli, Songxi, Pucheng, Chong'an five counties, now Li Kaiming and his department have occupied four counties, the rest of the counties, at any time to decide.

The land of seven counties, with a population of about 2 million people, millions of yuan in cash, and hundreds of thousands of stone grains, is enough to occupy one state and enter other states according to Li Kaiming's previous plan, and within a few years, the entire Fujian, Zhejiang, two lakes and two Guangzhous will be covered.

"Shigeruchi." Li Kaiming turned his head and said to Liu Maoqi: "You bring a hundred fine horsemen, prepare more tung oil and other fire-starters, and immediately rush to Gukou, Shuikou, and Nan'an Towns, and set fire to these towns to the ground." ”

"Yes, Generalissimo." Liu Maoqi immediately clenched his fists and agreed, with a solemn expression.

Luo Zhenbang said: "Generalissimo, his subordinates want to let the wind go, the king of Zhongshan is afraid of the generalissimo's prestige, cowardly the enemy to avoid the war, and leads his subordinates away to the Eastern Domain, but asks the life and death of the gentry and people in Fujian...... I don't know if it's okay to let off wind like this? ”

"Feasible." Li Kaiming said coldly: "In front of the big thing, I don't care what kind of means I use, as long as I can use it, you all say it, and I will obey it." ”

Everyone nodded awe-inspiringly, knowing that Li Kaiming had scared Xu Zixian to the extreme, and as long as there was a little way to strike and suppress, he would definitely use it.

"I'm not afraid of him." Li Kaiming said in a deep voice: "I have been in the battle formation for more than ten years, experienced a hundred battles, marched and arranged, and boasted that I was not under anyone. If he leads his men to battle, I will fight him. It's just that in this world, in the hearts of the people, in the clan and the nobles, we still have to fight for the first line, and if we can't win the hearts of the people, it will be difficult to achieve the great cause. ”

"My subordinates understand." Liu Maoqi, Luo Zhenbang and others are all handed over, as thieves for many years, of course they understand Li Kaiming's words.

……

"Your Highness, the fire has become smaller."

The night was quieter, and the weather on Fujian Road in October was also cooler, but King Zhao had to wear a military uniform, stand on the tower of Fujian Road East Road with a knife, and watch the fire more than 20 miles away.

An official was furious: "The thieves are really bold, knowing that a large number of troops are gathering in Fuzhou, and the forbidden army is also armed, they dare to go to Nan'an and burn down the Nan'an Courtyard!" ”

Everyone glanced at the official, and some people thought: You know what a fart!

Someone answered: "Liu An'er, Liu Anle and others, as well as this Li Kaiming, fell back to Germany in the ninth year of Chongde, didn't burn down the ancestral tombs, the palace and the courtyard, what is it." ”

This remark caused everyone to discuss, of course, they were all saying that the thieves were bold, and it seemed that they really didn't expect Zhao'an.

Great Wei has not always been peaceful, for more than 200 years and nearly 300 years, there will always be ambitious people jumping out. But before Liu An'er and Li Kaiming, no rebel thieves dared to kill high-ranking officials or burn the imperial tomb.

Taizu of the Great Wei Dynasty started in the south, but his ancestral home was the Guide Mansion on Henan Road, after the establishment of the Great Wei Dynasty, he built the imperial mausoleum area in Guide, and after the Liukou laid down the Guide, the ancestral tomb of the Great Wei Dynasty was burned to the air.

For this reason, Emperor Chongde was greatly frightened, and it also greatly damaged the prestige of the official family. After all, even among the people, the people who dispute and hurt the ancestral tomb are also enemies of the heavens, and the whole family can't save face if they don't kill the other party.

Li Kaiming even dared to burn the ancestral tomb of the Great Wei, how could he not dare to burn a palace?

Moreover, King Zhao has deployed more than 30,000 Xiang troops to be stationed along the periphery, Fuzhou is close to the Min River, near the sea, the territory is mountainous but not high, it is a large plain area, many Xiang army officers and soldiers are stationed along the mountains and rivers outside the city, most of them are stationed on the side of the official road, in order to facilitate the transportation of money and grain. After receiving the alarm, King Zhao immediately ordered many generals to be on guard, and the forbidden army was also on guard at the same time, although the possibility of the rogues coming to Fuzhou was not very large, and King Zhao's reaction was also a little too serious.

Later, a sentinel cavalry came to report that only more than 100 rogue elite cavalry had burned down the towns, but King Zhao thought that this was a plan to lure the enemy, and sent people to the various departments with orders, strictly prohibiting all departments from fighting.

It was unlikely that the Xiang army would take the initiative to invite the battle, and King Zhao's military order was in line with the public's wishes.

When the sky was light, the fire finally turned smaller.

King Zhao pressed the knife in his hand, he didn't sleep all night, his face was still majestic, he said: "Jianzhou is a moment of carelessness, was won by thieves to open the city gate and lost the city, tonight the towns are on fire, it should be the enemy's strategy to lure the enemy." I have already played the Beijing Division, and I should go to battle with a large army in the near future, and go to Jianyang with a dignified and upright division, in order to defeat the thieves in one fell swoop. ”

Everyone bowed and said, "After the king has made up his mind, he will be able to fight the rabbit with a lion." ”

The fall of Jianzhou shook the government and the opposition, after all, Fujian Road has always been peaceful, and Jianzhou is the foundation of Fujian Iron, and it is not insignificant. After the fall of Fucheng, Guanli and other counties also fell, Tongzhi Lu Wenxian and other officials fled in the Chong'an area, recruited the regiment to practice in the city, Li Kaiming sent a partial division to the past, the rest of the counties all fell, only Chong'an is still there, Jianzhou is a government and seven counties, only one county remains.

In addition, Wang Yue was martyred, although this guy is mistaken, but he became the first high-ranking official of the Great Wei Dynasty to be martyred when he conquered the thieves, and it was not that no county officials were killed before this, but Wang Yue was such an old Qingliu, and the palace post was posted, and he had the identity of a palace bachelor and a magistrate, and the local officials of this status, at most a few people along the way, their qualifications were not under Lin Douyao, and Wang Yue's death also shook the government and the opposition.

Many court officials have a sense of sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox, and Wang Yue's perverse behavior is actually a crime in the eyes of the people, and it is not a pity to die, but in the eyes of the court officials and gentry, after all, it is a kind of thing that hurts it, and Wang Yue can be killed, of course, they are the same, it is Wang Yue's death, but it is more shocking than the fall of Jianzhou.

The Son of Heaven did not embellish the dynasty because of Wang Yue's death, Wang Yue's official position was not enough, and after all, the Jianzhou Rebellion was caused by this person, but Wang Yue was martyred and died, and he was posthumously awarded Longtu Pavilion Straight Bachelor, Yinqing Guanglu Doctor, and gave a thousand dollars, Wang Yue's son gave Tai students, who could be exempted from the examination and directly should take the entrance examination.

The martyred minister, generally speaking, will be more grand and more beautiful than this posthumous gift, and Wang Yue's posthumous gift can be regarded as lowering the grade.

In addition, in the name of the two governments, the edict ordered King Zhao to quickly send troops to quell the rebellion of Jianzhou before the year.

The imperial court still has considerable confidence in quelling the rebellion, after all, the beginning of the Jianzhou Liukou, with the experience of the Son of Heaven and the important ministers of the court, the beginning of the Liukou is also the weakest time in battle, and the king of Zhao with 60,000 troops and more than 10,000 forbidden troops, it is not difficult to seek peace.

King Zhao himself also thinks so, last night Nan'an Town was burned and the Zhongshan Wangfu was destroyed, which was a good thing for King Zhao.

It can make the gentry and people in the city support the dispatch of troops and share the same hatred of the enemy, after all, the rogues did not burn, kill and loot in Jianzhou before this, the place is relatively calm, and the hostility of the gentry and people everywhere is not strong.

Burning down several towns, so that many people woke up, after all, the rogue is a rogue robber, the destructive power is extremely strong, last night can burn a few towns, the entire Jianzhou, Xinghua Army and Shao Wujun's towns and cities, it is also very likely to suffer this catastrophe.

"The matter of collecting donations from officials and gentry and businessmen in Xiangcheng should be carried out as soon as possible." Zhao Wang Zhenyi went down to the city, and when he went down to the city, he said to Xu Ziwei, Li Gu, Liu Guangsi and others who followed closely: "I heard that the heart of the Xiang army is unstable, and the money and military supplies donated by the officials and gentry and businessmen should be allocated to the Xiang army......"

"Your Highness." Liu Guangsi grinned and said, "The soldiers of the forbidden army are not only rewarded with a few dollars, and they are also quite dissatisfied. Instead of scattering the money and food, and there are not many people, it is better for His Highness to give a heavy reward to the forbidden army. Does a slap hurt or a fist? With all due respect, even if the Xiang army has morale, what use should it be? It is the use of filling the knife head on the battlefield first and disrupting the enemy's formation. It's really a tough battle, gnawing hard bones, and you still have to rely on the forbidden army. ”

"This also makes sense...... King Zhao instantly changed his mind and said, "Let's raise money and food first." ”

Liu Guangsi and other generals of the forbidden army were all happy, and they bowed down one after another to thank King Zhao.

Xu Ziwei is indispensable, and he is very shallow in the way of military and political affairs.

Only Li Gu shook his head slightly, he knew that Xiang Jun's dissatisfaction was like a volcano, and it was a matter of time before it burst out, but this matter was indeed as Liu Guangsi said, Xiang Jun was originally a miscellaneous fish, and it was not impossible to give up.

It's just that King Zhao is such a big man, and after the decision, he is easily overthrown, many people have figured out the pulse of King Zhao, Fujian Road is really chaotic now, the contradiction between the forbidden army and the box army is born, the government and the gentry are extremely dissatisfied with the decision of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and everyone is just forbearing.

Li Gu sighed, and only wished that he could quickly send troops to drive the Liukou out of Jianzhou, as for the great victory and meritorious service, now he no longer dares to make such an assumption.

The only gain may be that the towns of Nan'an were burned, so that Xu Zixian's prestige declined.

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"Although the prospect is good, I am afraid that it will not last."

A Jingnan merchant spoke with a strong Tanzhou accent and said worriedly: "The king of Zhongshan defeated the pirates, and the gentry in Tanzhou and Fuzhou are all rejoicing...... My generation has suffered from a group of thieves for a long time. In the mountains of Jingbei, in the deep mountains and dense forests that stretch for thousands of miles, there are dense groups of thieves, among which there are many thieves who go south, and the magistrates cannot control them. Originally, after the rise of the King of Zhongshan, my generation was extremely happy, thinking that the King of Zhongshan would take charge of Fujian first, and then send troops to exterminate the bandits in Jingnan. Now it seems that my generation is too optimistic, and when King Zhongshan faces the thieves, he is afraid that he is also a little afraid of fighting. ”

"Zhu Lao, when do you say the king will send troops?"

"The foundation has been destroyed, and it will be rebuilt here in Qizhou, if the thieves come to Qizhou again, will they run away?"

In front of him was a group of businessmen and gentry from Jingbei, Jingnan, and Jiangxi Road.

Chen Duzhu, Wei Jiuzhen, Xu Yanda and others were all surrounded in the port wharf of the Eastern Domain, and the roads have been unquiet recently, and the trade routes in the rest of Fujian Road can continue to be bought and traded, but the roads to Jiangxi and Jingnan are temporarily closed.

Merchants buy salt products, can only from the sea to Zhejiang Road, and then from the waterway to Jingbei, and then to Jingnan, Jingbei merchants originally walked this road, Jiangxi waterways are also many, quite convenient, suffering is Jingnan merchants, the price of goods because of the distance has become farther, rose at least three percent.

Of course, they can also raise the price, but after the price increase, it is not so quick to act, and it affects the reputation, so everyone is dissatisfied in their hearts.

From Li Kaiming's erection of the flag to the isolation of traffic, and then to the capture of Jian'an, Wang Yue's death, and then the burning of Nan'an towns, more than a month has passed, and many people are waiting quite impatiently.

Many businessmen complained, why did the king of Zhongshan not send out the army to exterminate those rogues who were just starting to rise?

Then there was the destruction of Nan'an, and rumors spread that the king of Zhongshan could only kill the scoundrels and fight the pirates of the rabble, but he was afraid of the rogue and abnormal, and even the foundation was destroyed, and there was nothing he could do.

The news gradually spread in the Eastern Domain, and the merchants felt quite uneasy, coupled with the war on the Fujian Road, the maritime trade in Quan, Zhang, and other places was also affected, and the number of merchant ships docked in the Eastern Domain and Qizhou also began to decrease, and people's hearts became more and more fluctuating.

Chen Duzhu and others did not think so, these gentry and businessmen from outside the road did not understand the situation inside Fujian Road, but they were also quite anxious in their hearts when they saw that commerce and trade were not prosperous.

"Fighting a war is about money and food...... Chen Duzhu ignored the noisy gentry and merchants from outside the road, and turned his head to Wei Jiuzhen and the others: "I don't know if the fleet that is trading with the Japanese country has lost its goods?" ”

"It shouldn't be too much of a problem." Wei Jiuzhen's face showed a sad color, pointed to the warehouse area in the port, and said: "There are at least tens of thousands of barrels of soybean oil over there, which were originally planned to be taken out of Liangzhejiang and Fujian Road, but this is squeezed out of hundreds of thousands of stone beans, and it took less than two months, which is really fast and amazing." Originally, it was said that it would be profitable and quickly get out, but now it seems that there is no way to get rid of the oil that is squeezed except for exchanging a large number of beans for refined grains. There are also a lot of deerskin, sand gold, flax, most of these goods are to be taken out of the Japanese country, but a single shipment, easy to be depressed by the Japanese people. In order not to affect the overall situation of the cotton, these goods were also ordered by His Highness to be stored in the warehouse first......"

Chen Duzhu, Xu Yanda and others all frowned, and Xu Yanda said: "The uneasy hearts of the merchants and gentry are also extremely detrimental to the great cause of the king......

"These guys can't figure it out." Chen Duzhu has been running the dock for many years, and has developed a good temper and personality that is not shocked by honor and disgrace, but he can't help but scold at this time.

Businessmen are a little anxious for quick success, too much pursuit of profits, and eager for everything to not change unpredictably. When things don't go their way, they seldom think deeply about the underlying causes...... In fact, except for some super merchant families who are rich enough to rival the country and have been rich for three generations, ordinary businessmen are generally swayed by politics, and the rumored capital is quite difficult and full of unpredictable variables.

Haishu Yunjuan, it is a good season, but many businessmen are worried, and not far from them, near the public hall of the wharf, Li Yi, Kong He, Fu Qian, Chen Jie and others are also gathering to discuss.

"The first, second, and third armies of the government army have begun to mobilize," Li Yi sat at the top of the left side, the chair in the middle was empty as usual, Kong He sat opposite Li Yi, and Fu Qian, Chen Jie, and others sat opposite each other.

"The method of mobilization is that Qin Dongyang acts according to the king's orders, and we just need to cooperate." Kong He pursed his lips a little unhappily and said, "It's just too expensive to spend money and food!" ”

"The king has always been stingy with money and food for the affairs of the army and the soldiers."

"Four, six, seven, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen...... Ten newly formed troops are stationed in Penghu and the Eastern Domain, and they should be fine. ”

Many civilian officials were not very obvious about the military affairs, but everyone still nodded.

The newly organized army has been organized into more than 20 armies, with more than 40,000 people, plus the original 10,000 soldiers, the Zhongshan army of the Eastern Domain has reached the scale of 50,000 people.

Compared with the projected size of 100,000 people, it is still far from the projected size.

And in the current financial situation, it is very difficult to support 60,000 or 70,000 people, let alone recruit more soldiers into the army.

Fu Qian bowed slightly, and said loudly: "In terms of armor and weapons, the plate chain armor of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry cannot be prepared, but all the archers are equipped with chain mail, all the guards are equipped with plate armor, all the shield hands wear iron scale armor or piercing armor, and the weapons they hold are all made of stainless steel. If you want to fully arm the officers and men of the new army of dozens of armies, the craftsman department cannot do it for the time being. ”

Li Yi nodded slightly and said, "To be able to do this in a short period of time, Fu Qian, you have done your best." ”

That's true, the chain mail is fine, the shield man's armor and scale armor are the old armor before, the chain mail is new, but there are wire drawing machines and machines for rolling iron rings, and there are enough manpower and equipment, and it is not too difficult to make more than 100 collar chain mail in a day.

However, more than 3,000 pieces of plate armor were made in less than two months, and the water flowed day and night, and Fu Qian also led craftsmen to build armor day and night, almost exhausting all the spirit of this craftsman chief.

Fu Qian is now walking and fluttering, everyone has lost more than ten pounds, and the original rich body has returned to the thin appearance when he was poor, all thanks to the gift of making plate armor.

There is a large amount of plate armor and chain mail, and the original armor and archers are all replaced, and the shield bearers are given double or triple heavy armor.

After being made into heavy armor that connects the armor and plate armor, these shieldmen, that is, the equipment of the heavy infantry, can be upgraded again, and the old armor they have eliminated can be handed over to the new army soldiers or eliminated to the guards.

The new army of more than 20 armies has also been organized according to the new organization, and it has been stationed on the island for training in various ways.

Every ten people are a team, with a team officer and a team deputy, and every three teams are a sentry, with a sentry officer, a deputy sentry officer, a herald, a secretary, a flag and other soldiers.

Every three posts are a capital, in addition to the traditional flag soldiers of the secretary, there are also official positions such as military commanders, quartermasters, military and political officers, military judges, etc., every three are a battalion, and the battalion is equipped with a staff officer, every three battalions are a regiment, each regiment has 1,000 people, and each army has 2,000 people from four battalions, expanding to more than 3,000 people in three regiments.

Every six armies are a box, about 20,000 people, to the level of the commander of the box, also known as the general of the army, that is, the general of the Tang Dynasty.

If necessary, several chambers are in command of the battle, above the chambers, Xu Zixian is impossible to send civil officials as envoys, but plans to re-establish the commander-level generals above the chambers, in the court as the captain, and when going out as the commander-in-chief, this is the Great Wei military system of the Taizu ancestral system, this is the real civil and military equal.

In the new military system, the battalions were reduced, regiments were added, and the generals were expanded.

In fact, Xu Zi first planned to set up a division and then an army, but considering that the military system of Dawei has been many years, everyone can adapt to the small changes, and if the big changes are made, add an extra layer, I am afraid that there will be a delay in command, that is, only the regiment is added above the battalion, and the change is not too big.

The establishment of the regiment is not too surprising, the army of the Tang Dynasty went out to fight, and the most basic combat unit was the regiment under the Zhichong Mansion.