"Xuzhou is in a corner, your father and son clear the acres of land, and spread the miscellaneous donations into the field tax, no one can stop you, but you have intensified this time, you want to recruit slaves and maids into the camp in Jingzhao Mansion, and you will also be awarded military meritorious fields, do you have to offend the whole world and the world?"

Li Pu returned to Xiaomaofeng after seeing Zhang Ping, Lin Haizheng and others, mainly because he didn't want to be embarrassed when Han Qian introduced the situation in Jinling to Zhang Ping, Lin Haizheng and others, but he never thought that Han Qian regarded himself as a Jiangdong envoy, and copied the letter of the towns around Maoshan in the afternoon, and even directly wanted to stab the hornet's nest with a rod.

After Han Qian and his father Han Daoxun successfully suppressed the Xuzhou surname by force, the new policies such as the field tax reform and the Tuke nationality were still caused great controversy in Jinling, and finally Emperor Tianyou personally issued a decree to clarify that the new policy was limited to Xuzhou to settle the controversy.

What Han Qian has to do now is ten or a hundred times worse than the new policies he and his father had implemented in Xuzhou before.

The new system of land tax can also be said to be intended to clean up the evasion of households and sort out the source of taxation.

However, including the family soldiers, slaves and maids are the private property of all families, and now Han Qian wants to directly recruit slaves and maids into the camp, not the biggest hornet's nest, what is it?

Even when Emperor Tianyou's military power was at its peak, he never thought of banning the family soldiers in the hands of the families, but only strictly restricted the rewards of the family soldiers.

Even if he was convicted of rebellion against the Feng family and confiscated the family property, Emperor Tianyou did not take away more than 5,000 slaves and maids of the Feng family, but allowed these slaves and maids to move to Xuzhou with the Feng family.

Not to mention the Jingzhao Mansion and the large and small clans of Jiangnan Dongdao, which family in Yueyang does not have dozens or hundreds of slaves and maids in their hands?

The Zheng family is a wealthy family with more than 10,000 slaves in Huangzhou; Zhang Han, Gao Long, Miao Yong and others who had made meritorious achievements during the war period of the cutting of the feudal domain, their clans in Langzhou and Tanzhou were also wealthy families who owned thousands of acres of land and kept thousands or even thousands of slaves.

And even if Han Qian and his father Han Daoxun were incorruptible, before the Jinling Incident, the accumulation of domestic slaves and maidservants added up to more than 300 households and more than 2,000 people.

These slaves and maids, as well as the scouts and children of Zuo Si who were deceived into going to Xuzhou, were the basis for Han Qian's rule in Xuzhou at this time.

Yue Yang was sending envoys to Jingzhou and Xiangzhou at this time, intending to persuade Zhang Ji and Du Chongtao to join Hunan Xingtai, and Zhang Ji, Du Chongtao and his most descendant core generals, how many people did not raise hundreds of slaves and maids in their families?

Besides, if he didn't keep slaves and maids, where could he cultivate hundreds of loyal soldiers and guards?

Not to mention that if the third prince really wants to enter Jinling, he must also get the support of the clan forces of the Jiangdong family.

Li Pu didn't know which medicine Han Qian had taken wrong, so he dared to poke this hornet's nest at this time?

Even if he felt that there were not enough enemies to deal with in Maoshan with three thousand remnants, and they were not strong enough?

Yu Yanlingbu was seized by Han Qian, Li Pu felt a little unburdened in his heart, and he was not as angry as he is now, he stood in front of the hall, and when he spoke, his thin face was trembling and trembling slightly.

"During the Anshi period of the previous dynasty, the rebels besieged Suiyang and ate everything, Zhang Xun and the generals had to cook and kill their concubines and servants to reward the soldiers, and the world still remembered its righteousness for hundreds of years. What did I do to make Marquis Li so sad and angry? Han Qian sat in front of the desk, looked at the indignant Xinchang Marquis Li Pu, and asked calmly, "Could it be that Marquis Li has a better plan to solve the current dilemma?" ”

"Then do you know that when this matter spreads, how many family lords in Jinling alone will have an enmity with you?" Lipp asked.

In his early years, Emperor Tianyou led the Huainan army to cross the river, which was considered to be relatively peaceful, and took over Jinling City, which was still the seat of the Shengzhou Jiedu Embassy at that time.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty, Wu has accumulated nearly a thousand years of family scholars, and the foundation inheritance in Jinling City has not been completely severed, plus the upstarts who entered Jinling with Emperor Tianyou, the tradition of raising slaves and maids in Jinling has been the ultimate in the ten years since the founding of the Great Chu.

Counting the slaves and maids raised by the farms and workshops in the various mansions and outside the city, they account for nearly sixty percent of Jinling's million population.

For example, the Feng family has more than 5,000 slaves and maids in Jinling; When the third prince Yang Yuanpu was named the king of Linjiang County, he was rewarded with thousands of households and more than 6,000 slaves and maids at one time.

Seeing that Han Qian was silent, Li Pu continued to reprimand: "Previously, you were able to collect grain from the surrounding towns and ports according to Maoshan, but from today onwards, not to mention the family gate valves in Huainan, Huaidong, Jingxiang, Jiangdong, and Jiangxi, there are nearly a thousand large and small gate valves inside and outside Jinling, all of whom are in danger and regard you as an enemy, and they will gather the soldiers of the Qu clan to be enemies with you and Yueyang, how do you deal with them, how do you want Yueyang to deal with them?" ”

Han Qian looked at Li Xiu and Li Mo, who came with Li Pu from Xiaomaofeng, sitting behind the long cases on both sides of the hall, and they all looked concerned, but he was not surprised at all, Li Xiu and Li Mo put aside their close relationship with Li Pu, as the children of the Jiangmen sect, they wanted them to sit on the side of the lowest and most despicable slaves, how could it be possible?

However, in the face of Li Pu's aggressive questioning, Han Qian didn't have the energy to entangle with him, Huo Ran stood up, stared at Li Pu fiercely, and said: "Jinling and Jiangzuo Zonghao, even if they ride the wall and watch, in the end, they will either be attached to Chuzhou or serve in Anning Palace, none of them will serve Yueyang, I have sent an order to recruit Jiangdong and Jinling slaves and maids into the camp, what is the difficulty of Yueyang?" ”

"But Jingxiang, Jiangxi, and Hunan clan families don't think so." Li Pu said that at this time, there were more than 400 absolutely loyal elite cavalry led by Li Xiu standing behind him, and he was much more confident in speaking.

Han Qian snorted coldly: "I entered Jinling, vowing to advance and retreat with the 50,000 women and children behind me, from this moment on, there is a cliff behind me, no matter how difficult and dangerous the road ahead is, there is only a way to survive forward." If you want to be afraid, you can retreat to Yueyang, saying that all this is my own initiative, and all the consequences in the future will be borne by me Han. ”

Han Qian has said this, what else can Xinchang Hou Li Pu say?

He turned to look at the generals present, and seemed to be indifferent to his bitter words, so he saved the lineage that Han Qian had cultivated over the years, such as Lin Haizheng, Feng Xuan, Zhao Wuji, and Guo Nuer, as well as the generals newly promoted by Shi Ji, Wei Chang, Xiao Dahu, and Dou Rong, were actually from humble backgrounds.

Xinchang Hou Li Pu looked at Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei and asked, "Lord Zhang, Lord Yuan, do you have no opinion on this matter?" ”

Don't talk about Zhang Ping, Li Pu believes that Yuan Guowei stands on the position of the three princes and Yue Yang, and he should not let Han Qian do anything wrong.

The spread of this letter will not only cause great disputes within Yueyang, but also cut off the possibility of Yueyang recruiting surrounding forces.

Zhang Pingqing coughed, pretending that it was only at this time that he knew about the letter, and said in a muddy manner: "Maybe send someone to Yueyang and ask His Highness to decide?" ”

Li Pu's eyes stared at Zhang Ping with gloomy eyes, but he didn't expect that he was unwilling to stand up directly to question Han Qian's behavior with a clear banner, but pushed the matter to Yueyang for a decision, didn't this help Han Qian delay and make the matter of conscripting slaves and maids into the army an established fact?

Li Pu regretted leaving in a hurry just now, and he didn't know what Han Qian had said or promised to Zhang Ping in the past half a day.

Of course, Zhang Ping is the former official of the Shenling Division, at this time his public identity is the military envoy sent by Yue Yang to Han Qian's side, Li Pu can't hold his neck and make him sing a duet with Han Qian, he looked at Yuan Guowei sitting behind the case without saying a word, knowing that he is weak, and today I am afraid it is impossible to ask Han Qian to take back his fate.

"Since Lord Han is bent on going his own way, I don't have a problem with you, but I still hope you can think twice!" Li Pu said angrily, arched his hand, and withdrew from the conference hall with Li Xiu and Li Qi again.

Walking to the courtyard in front of the porch, Li Pu asked Li Xiu in a low voice, "What will your father think of this?" ”

"Han Qian is bent on going his own way, and it is impossible for my father to come forward to stop him, maybe send someone to Yueyang first, and ask His Highness to strictly order it to stop, it is better." Li Xiu said.

Li Pu thought that his eldest brother couldn't stop it, and it would only damage the prestige of his Li family even more, so he could only leave this matter alone.

Although Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei didn't want to stand with Xinchang Hou Li Pu to oppose Han Qian, it didn't mean that they didn't have worries in their hearts.

When Xinchang Marquis Li Pu left angrily, Zhang Ping asked Han Qian: "If this matter spreads, the disturbance must be not small, can Lord Han have a way to deal with it?" ”

"I told Hou Ye Li that I swore to advance and retreat with the women and children of Taowuji, and there was a cliff behind me, and there was no possibility of retreating an inch,"

Han Qian knew that Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei did not stand up against him at this time, and they would be blamed when they returned to Yueyang afterwards, which also showed that the two of them were rare and valuable.

In particular, Zhang Ping is also the former official of the Shenling Division.

Therefore, Han Qian also explained more patiently to Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei,

"The Jinling Incident, the Jianghuai is in turmoil, and since the Chuzhou army crossed the river, the people have avoided Jinling City in the places where the war is fighting; In the counties west of Maoshan Mountain, the children of the clan lords have also avoided Jinling City, which has made Jinling City overcrowded. And with the spread of the war, it is not unimaginable that millions of people have avoided Jinling City, and at this point, the siege of Chuzhou can be regarded as complete. At that time, the villages and towns around Maoshan are empty, and we have nowhere to collect grain, let alone vainly trying to do anything with this bit of people, and we can only watch Jinling City become a desperate city full of despair and death. If you want to break the siege of Chuzhou, the only way is to attract all the slaves and maids who occupy fifty or sixty percent of Jinling's millions of people from Jinling City as much as possible, instead of letting them be driven into Jinling City like sheep. ”

"Maoshan has stored grain, and the supply of 40,000 or 50,000 women and children can barely last more than a month, if there are really thousands of slaves and maids to vote, how can the grain be solved?" Yuan Guowei asked.

"That can only be the enemy of the family lord in Jiangdong," Han Qian said, "This is something that cannot be helped." ”

Zhang Ping wanted to understand what Han Qian was going to do, but Yuan Guowei was a little sluggish and asked, "How do you make enemies of the Jiangdong Shilord?" ”

"Slaves and maids come to vote, take half a month to a month to form a battalion, and send them to Xuanshe Lake, Hangyuexiu and other states as much as possible to get food!" Han Qian said.

Scattered slaves and maids, like docile sheep, will only drag their families to follow the master's family and flee to Jinling City for refuge, usually they will not think of breaking free from the master's control, and flee to the states and counties hundreds of miles away to get food.

Not to mention that the Chuzhou army sent troops and horses to Jintan, Liyang and other cities to strengthen the blockade of the eastern front, not to mention that the prefectures and counties in Jiangdong are recruiting troops and horses, and will strictly control the influx of displaced people.

If there is no large-scale starvation, what Han Qian said may be the only feasible strategy.

Only the organized slaves and maids could drag their families and families to the state and county along the Taihu Lake to get food through the blockade of the Chuzhou army.

Yuan Guowei and Zhang Ping, if they were born in a family, it would be impossible for them to enter the palace as eunuchs, and they would not be able to hide in the Inner Government Bureau as officials in their later years, they still have sympathy for the poor and low-level, and they will not stand up fiercely against Han Qian in terms of their personal position, but they also have another layer of worry, and asked: "Yue Yang sent a letter of criticism, how should Lord Han deal with it?" ”

"Even if it is an explanation to the family in the jurisdiction, Yue Yang will inevitably send a letter of inquiry, but this is the position that Yue Yang must have, and we will be outside, and the king's order will not be granted, I believe His Royal Highness can also understand," Han Qian motioned to Lin Haizheng and Zhao Wuji to retreat first, act according to the plan drawn up, and said to the worried Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei, "The future matters, let's talk about it later......

At this time, Wang Jun walked over with a stack of books under the supervision of two healthy women, stood outside the hall door first, and waited for Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji and other generals to go out, and then walked in and said to Han Qian: "These are the few books I read in Yinyun Nunnery......

After the twelve to fifteen-year-old teenagers were assigned to the juvenile camp, in addition to training and practicing swords, bows, feet and fists on weekdays, Han Qian did not need them to take on the internal defense of Maoshan for the time being, and still hoped to organize them and seize the time to study and read.

In any case, although the military attachés at the grass-roots level say that the requirements for their education level are not high, in addition to being stronger than ordinary people's martial bravery, they must also be able to read and understand superficial letters and orders, master the basic military regulations of the battalion and army, and the methods of drill and training, so that they can truly become a qualified reserve force of the Chishan Army.

Most of the books in Maoshan are Taoist scriptures, but Wang Jun brought them to Yinyun Nunnery to read, and there are some books that have been used in the world, so Han Qian asked Wang Jun to take them and copy them as textbooks.

"......" Han Qian glanced at Wang Jun, and saw that she had changed into a light green bandeau skirt, her face was charming and delicate, her skin was white and greasy like snow, and she had a porcelain-like luster, and motioned her to put the book in front of the desk.

Wang Jun put a stack of books in front of the case, and when she saw a notice letter spread out on the long case, she also had no consciousness of being a prisoner, tilted her head and looked at it for a while, and exclaimed: "I didn't expect you to use this clever strategy to resolve my father's siege strategy!" ”

Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei are still worried about the strong rebound of the family's gate valve, hearing Wang Jun say this, they all looked at it in surprise, and they were puzzled.

"What's the trick?" Han Qian sat down, looked at Wang Jun with great interest and asked.

"You recruited slaves and maids into the camp in Maoshan, my father and they are clumsy because of the shortage of troops, and they probably won't be able to sit still for long in Jingshan Nunnery and Dantu, so they will be forced to do this, right?" Wang Jun tilted his head, his bright eyes, like a clear deep spring in the mountains, looked at Han Qian and said.

"......" Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei were stunned, and suddenly found that they had been worried for a long time, and they hadn't even seen Wang Wenqian's daughter think through it.

Yes, they were too worried about the strong opposition of the family's gate valve, and they didn't even think through the extremely shallow layer.

The reason why the Chuzhou army wanted to use the siege strategy was mainly due to the lack of troops, fearing that the strong attack would lose both, and eventually benefit the Yueyang fisherman.

However, Han Qian attacked Danyang and destroyed it, tearing his face with Chuzhou, forcing the Chuzhou army to divide more troops to deploy to the southern front, and the Chuzhou army's troops crossing the river were even more stretched.

If Han Qian recruits slaves and maids into the army in Maoshan and the rapid expansion of the army will put greater pressure on the southern front of the Chuzhou army, then the need for the Chuzhou army to recruit troops and expand its troops will become more urgent, right?

If Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, was forced to rapidly expand his troops, and also recruited slaves and maids from Runzhou, Yangzhou and other places under his control, would the gate lords in the world still stare at Han Qian and scold him alone?

At this time, Yue Yang's people looked at Han Qian's recruitment of slaves and maids into the army at this time, did it become a wonderful move to anticipate the enemy and be one step ahead of the enemy?

Thinking that Han Qian had this kind of calculation, Zhang Ping and Yuan Guowei's worries relaxed a lot.

Yuan Guowei couldn't help but ask, "Why didn't Lord Han explain this to Hou Ye Li just now?" ”

"What do you have to do with this idiot of him?" Han Qian said with a smile.

Zhang Ping smiled awkwardly, secretly thinking that Han Qian deliberately mocked Li Pu in front of him, perhaps hoping that he could draw a clear line with those people in the Xinchang Marquis Mansion, but not only him personally over the years, but the disciples he brought out were also entangled with the Xinchang Marquis, where could he draw a clear line if he wanted to?

Even if he doesn't like Li Pu, he feels that Li Pu's ability is not enough to lead the Jianghuai line of the Shenling Division, let alone hope to restore the country, but can he stand on the opposite side of Madame, Yao Xishui, and Jixiang?

Yuan Guowei didn't answer Han Qian's words, no matter how bad Li Pu is, he is also His Royal Highness's father-in-law, he is loyal to His Royal Highness, and he can't follow Han Qian to ridicule Li Pu, he looked at Wang Jun, diverted the topic and said to Han Qian: "Miss Wang's side, maybe you need to increase the number of guards......

Wang Jun stood aside a little sullenly.

Han Qian glanced at Wang Jun, he knew that Yuan Guowei was worried that Wang Wenqian would send someone to sneak in and rescue Wang Jun, even if Yuan Guowei had no intention of harming Wang Jun, he was also worried that such a smart Wang Jun would return to his father and see every move on their side thoroughly.

That's not fun.

"I will send additional people to protect Miss Wang's safety." Han Qian would not dismiss Yuan Guowei's kindness, and nodded in agreement.

To be honest, Han Qian could have thought in advance that he would recruit slaves and maids into the army first, and the Chuzhou army would be forced to follow, mainly because he had been thinking about how the Chuzhou army would besiege the city in the established historical process these days, and why it would fall short after besieging the city for several months.

It is obvious that in the established historical process, Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, defeated Anning Palace without the strength to fight back, but he did not win the support of the Jiangdong Gate Lords.

In the established historical process, in the course of the siege of Jinling, at what point did King Yang Yuanyan deeply hurt the gate lord clan in Jiangdong?

Yuan Guowei and Zhang Ping let go of the worries in their hearts, and also left the meeting hall, taking charge of the affairs in their hands according to the established plan, but Wang Jun was not in a hurry to leave under the supervision of the healthy woman, and saw Han Qian sitting there looking through the books she was holding, and asked, "Is it still useful?" ”

"These two books can be picked out for the juvenile camp as textbooks," Han Qian picked out two books and put them aside, looked up at Wang Jun's bright and starry eyes, and asked, "Do you want me to let you go back?" ”

"When I go to Dantu at this time, I will only make my father embarrassed. In addition, it is a hot summer day outside the mountain, and the mountain is still much shady. Wang Jun shook his head and said.

"Did you know I was coming to Jinling?" Han Qian asked suddenly.

Wang Jun didn't answer Han Qian's question, and asked, "Would you like to teach me the method of spinning cotton in Xuzhou?" ”

"I'm not my father." Han Qian shook his head and refused.

"Then I won't worry about you." Wang Jun said with a slight gloom, turned around and walked out of the meeting hall.

Han Qian stood in front of the porch, seeing that Wang Jun seemed to be looking at something in front of the mountain stream, he knocked on his forehead and walked back into the hall......