The southernmost point of Nam Do, Dongnae-gun.

Cheng Luogui of Donglai County came back from the yamen, and after entering the mansion of Zhongluo Mansion in Penglai City, he looked a little absent-minded.

"I just received the news that the emperor's car has left Luoyang for Xijing, and I heard that the emperor will not stay in Xijing for a long time, and will soon go down to Jiangnan through Jianghan to visit the Jiangdu. Your brother and daughter-in-law are still in Luoyang City, and I am really a little worried. Now Li Mi's rebel army is strong, and he has captured half of Henan Province, and he doesn't know when he will enter Luoyang City. ”

Luo Jizu and Luo Chengzong listened to it, "If you just take her to Donglai County, we shouldn't have rebels here for a while." ”

Because Donglai County is in the easternmost part and has always been the base of the sailors of the Eastern Expedition, it has always been relatively stable here, even if the rebellions that have broken out in recent years have not affected much here.

"I also have this intention, Chengzong, you personally go to Luoyang and bring your brothers, daughters-in-law and children, the third daughter-in-law is a princess, follow the emperor, don't care. The daughters-in-law of the fourth, fifth, and sixth are still in Luoyang, you bring them all, as well as the families of your two uncles, remember not to leave the Yan family and Changqing behind. ”

Step-ancestors should be next.

Luo Gui told his son again that he should not go to Henan, but to go to Hebei, and cross the Hejin Bridge from Hanoi County to Luoyang.

"Go now, go back quickly."

"Dad, what about me?" Seongjong asked.

"If you stay, we have to make some preparations, maybe when the rebels will come here. The Governor is now driving with him, and the soldiers of our Donglai Governor's Mansion are also following him outside, so we have to recruit some more soldiers, fortunately, we have ships and ordnance here in Donglai, as long as we quickly recruit soldiers and horses, and then train quickly, it should still be available. ”

"Dad, we can also arm the slaves and tenants at home, these people are our own family after all, so it's more comfortable to use."

The father was very satisfied with his son's suggestion, in this kind of troubled times, officers and soldiers are not as reliable as private soldiers.

"Okay, you take out the money and silk at home and give it to them, train them, and train them well."

Daddy was worried.

At this time, the port was frozen, and I didn't know what was going on in Liaodong, and I couldn't go to Liaodong from the sea to inform my son.

By February or March, I was afraid that the situation would be out of control.

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Luo Gui, in the name of the governor of Donglai Prefecture and the governor of Donglai County, convened officials, scholars, Haoqiang, and wealthy businessmen from the four counties of Donglai, Gaomi, Beihai, and Qi County to discuss and discuss.

Originally, there were 12,000 soldiers in the four counties, but the governor came to protect the children and went to King Qin, and almost all the soldiers and horses were taken away.

Now the rebels are coming all the way east, unstoppable.

It's about to hit Qi County.

You don't have a good impression of those rebels.

Although Li Mi claimed to be the Duke of Wei, he was under the command of Meng Rang, the king of Qi. Meng Rang is now attacking cities in the Huaixi area, although Meng Rang and Li Mi used to be officials and nobles, but their subordinates are still mainly bandits and outcasts.

Especially now, Li Mi's men and horses are expanding rapidly, which makes his subordinates mixed, good and bad.

His headquarters is quite good in military discipline, but the other people who joined him don't have such good military discipline, such as Wu Guogong Zhu Cang, where he passes, he is still the same old-fashioned, burning and looting everywhere like locusts crossing the border, and even when he became Wu Guogong, he didn't change his preference for eating babies.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the traitor Li Mi now claims to have millions of people, sending bandits to loot everywhere, and everywhere he passes, he not only kills officials, but also does not let go of the noble clan. I believe everyone has heard that Li Mi shouted the slogan of Juntian land grant to the people who defected to him, but where did he Li Mi come from? Isn't it all the land in the hands of the powerful landlords and wealthy businessmen here? ”

Now the imperial court has sent Wang Shichong as the pacification envoy of Henan, and asked Jianghuai to pacify Li Yuan and Fan Zigai, the eastern capital, to work together to encircle and suppress the Henan rebels. But we can't sit back and wait, after all, the official army is in the west, and we are in the east, so we have to save ourselves. ”

"Everyone has money to pay, some people to pay, let's recruit our own people, organize soldiers and horses, and defend our hometown by ourselves."

In the face of a rebel like Li Mi, there are few warriors who are willing to support it, why? Because his men are made up of rebels, and they bring not order, but plunder.

No one wants these fields, industries, ancestral houses, etc., which their families have accumulated for generations, to be plundered and occupied by the rebels.

This is also the reason why, in ancient times, peasant revolts often failed in the end, while those led by bureaucrats and scholars often succeeded.

The peasant uprisings often came from the bottom up, overturning the whole society, and naturally did not deliberately give any privileges to the nobles, bureaucrats, clans, and landlords who had pressed on them in the past. But whether the nobles and bureaucrats revolted or rebelled, they were directed against the man who sat on the throne, and all they wanted was to change the dynasty.

Therefore, they will keep the interests of the nobles, bureaucrats, and nobles in order to gain support.

Li Mi is a nobleman, but he is now leading a complete peasant army, composed of all kinds of bandits, homeless people, etc., and the political program he is playing now is also to overthrow the Great Sui, and then grant land to those who follow him, so that those who follow him can get the land.

It's appealing to those people.

But for the powerful landlords and businessmen of the four counties convened by Luo Gui now, it is very bad news. Li Mi wants to equalize the land, where does the land come from?

Of course, it comes from the landlords who own the most land.

Again, Li Mi's rebels attacked cities and plundered land everywhere, looting and looting everywhere they passed, and there was no preferential treatment for them.

If Li Mi can really have enough binding force on his so-called million-strong army to prohibit those people from robbing them and not taking away their money and land after breaking the city, then many of these people here actually don't care who will be the emperor.

As long as they can ensure that their interests are not violated, they are also willing to support Li Mi.

It's just that Li Mi can't do that.

So when Luo Gui called on everyone here to have money and power to form a new army to resist the rebels, no one hesitated, and everyone responded enthusiastically.

Especially when Luo Gui told everyone that his son Luo Cheng defeated the 300,000 army of Shibi Khan in Mayi, and now he has returned to Liaodong victoriously, saying that as long as they can hold on to the thaw at the port, then Luo Cheng can lead the elite loyal army of Liaodong to cross the sea into Donglai at any time.

With Luo Cheng, the god of war, behind them, these officials, scholars, and powerful businessmen in the four counties are very confident.

Everyone actively raised money and negotiated the recruitment of soldiers and horses for self-protection.