Chapter 692: What do you want to do

There was no solemn funeral, and not even many people participated.

The coffin of the big dog was placed on the pedestal of the dragon chair in the main hall of Yongzhou Palace, and the four people of Fang Jie, Qilin, Mu Xiaowaist, and Shen Tilt Fan stood under the pedestal, looking up at him.

When he walked out of the main hall, Qilin wanted to close the door of the main hall but was stopped by Fang Jie, he shook his head and said in a very light tone: "Open the door, if he can still see, he should also want to see the scenery outside." ”

The big dog was silent and rubbed his nose.

The sudden death of the big dog made Fang Xie lose interest in attacking Nanyan. For the next nearly a month, the Black Flag Army rested in Yongzhou City. The generals of the various armies took the soldiers for routine training, and Fang Xie would sit in the main hall for a while every day, talking to himself. Some people are worried about his performance, and naturally some people are gloating. Those so-called nobles in Yongzhou haven't died yet, and when they heard that Fang Xie had been in a trance recently, they were extremely happy, and they wished that Fang Xie would go crazy like this.

It's just a pity that as long as Fang Xie is still in Yongzhou City for a day, they can only be people with their tails between their legs.

In the blink of an eye, the spring flowers are blooming, although the changes of the four seasons in Yongzhou are not obvious, but the four seasons will not change because of people's will, and what should come will still come.

The first to come was the battle report of Huangyang Road, Cui Zhongzhen led his troops to besiege Xinyang City, and unexpectedly, Tian Xin, the defender of Xinyang City, actually surrendered in Kaicheng. I thought it would be a fierce battle, but I didn't expect it to be won so easily.

Chen Xiaoru walked quickly to the outside of Fang Jie's study with the battle report, and Fang Xie heard the words and called him in. Fang Xie has lost a lot of weight in recent days, and the coldness between his eyebrows has disappeared a little. Chen Xiaoru knew how hard the departure of the big dog was to Fang Jie, this general who now commanded the three armies would not cry in front of people, but he pressed the wound in his heart like this, I was afraid that it would hurt even more.

"General, good news!"

Chen Xiaoru handed over the battle report: "The news just sent that Tian Xin, the guard of Xinyang City, sent someone to contact General Cui, and proposed that as long as the lives of the defenders in Xinyang City were guaranteed, Tian Xin was willing to sacrifice Xinyang City. ”

Fang Xie didn't expect this battle to end so quickly, so he took the battle report and glanced at it: "Still talking?" ”

"Well, it's still talking."

Chen Xiaoru replied: "This is the military information that Dugu Wenxiu asked the Xiao Cavalry School to transmit at the fastest speed, and I want to ask the general, but even if it is the transmission method of the Xiao Riding School, it will take at least half a month on the road, and within this half a month, the matter should have been over." ”

Fang Xie nodded: "Send someone back to tell Cui Zhongzhen that the location of Xinyang City is dangerous, and you can't be taken lightly." Luo Tu's hundreds of thousands of horses are on the north bank of the Yangtze River, only seven or eight hundred miles away from Xinyang City, once the news of the loss of Xinyang City reaches Luo Tu's ears, he will inevitably react. No one can guess whether it will go down to Jiangnan or fight Xinyang. Tell him to break up the original defenders of Xinyang City, choose the elite among them to stay, and send a sum of money to the old, weak, sick and disabled. ”

"Ling, Dugu Wenxiu is the head of Huangyang Dao, except for military affairs, other matters are decided by him. Distribute the silver taels of those dismissed soldiers, and let the wealthy families in Xinyang City donate it, don't think about anything to win people's hearts, I don't need these. Whoever doesn't pay the money, then they will directly copy who's house. ”

"Whoa"

Chen Xiaoru responded.

"Tell Dugu Wenxiu, no matter who they are, they want to win over some local gentry families in order to expand their strength, he doesn't think so, I don't need the so-called support of those people, I just need them to be obedient and obedient. If you are not obedient, there is no need to be polite. ”

This is Fang Jie's second confession, so Chen Xiaoru wrote it down.

"And ......"

Fang Xie was silent for a while and asked: "After you go back in a while, call Zhang Xi, I asked him to count the population of Pingshangdao, it has been more than a month, and it is estimated that there is an approximate number." ”

"Well, then the subordinate will retire first."

"What are you busy with these days?"

Fang Xie suddenly asked.

Chen Xiaoru replied: "Sanjin Hou has been touring the mountains and rivers for a while, and sometimes he goes out for six or seven days before coming back. With only two or three entourages, I just left Yongzhou early this morning, and it is said that I want to go to Mochi Mountain to see. ”

"It's not peaceful on the ground in Yongzhou, send some elites in the Xiao Riding School to protect Sanjin Hou, don't hide it from him, so as not to misunderstand."

"Whoa"

"There you go"

Fang Xie waved his hand: "That's right...... Let Sun Kaidao come to Yongzhou. ”

Chen Xiaoru agreed, and just walked out of Fang Jie's study, he suddenly saw a hundred households of Xiao Riding School running over in a hurry.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Xiaoru stopped the hundred households and asked.

"Back to the commander, something happened on Huangyang Road!"

Chen Xiaoru's heart sank, and he suddenly panicked.

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"Message Analysis ...... from Now"

Chen Xiaoru's voice was a little low, because he really didn't expect that the happy event that he had reported to Fang Xie just now would become a disaster a moment later.

"General Cui fell into Tian Xin's ambush, and when he entered the city to be surrendered, he was surrounded by rebels who were ambushed on the street, and hundreds of elites who accompanied him into the city were all killed, and General Cui was seriously wounded...... However, because General Cui's personal soldiers fought to the death and reopened the city gate, General Cui was able to escape. ”

"But ......"

Chen Xiaoru secretly glanced at Fang Jie's face and continued: "General Cui was seriously injured and fell into a coma, Tian Xin led the rebels to take the opportunity to attack, and the army was defeated, retreating forty miles, injuring more than 5,000 people. If it weren't for the Flying Eagle Army's general Chen Yishan leading the cavalry to rescue him, I am afraid that the losses would be even greater. ”

"Where's Dugu Wenxiu?"

Fang asked.

"It is said that Lord Dugu had repeatedly dissuaded General Cui beforehand and not to trust Tian Xin. It was when General Cui convened the generals to discuss the meeting, Lord Dugu also said that although Tian Xin was not well-known in the left avant-garde before, since Luo Yao had left this person to guard his faith, this person must have his merits. However, General Cui thought that Xinyang was a lonely city, and now that the rebels of the Luo family had been defeated in successive battles, Tian Xin had no reason or courage to resist. ”

Chen Xiaoru looked at the military newspaper and said: "The news sent by the Xiao Cavalry School said that when General Cui entered the city, Dugu Wenxiu once ordered the whole army to be on guard, but he was a civilian official, and most of the generals in the army didn't care, so that when the rebels went out of the city, our army didn't have time to line up......

Fang Xie took a sip of the teacup, his eyes a little fluttering.

"Order, remove Cui Zhongzhen from all military positions, and send him back to Suzaku Mountain to recuperate. Dugu Wenxiu is the head of the Xinyang march, and Chen Yishan is the deputy marshal...... Whoever loses it will pick it up, and let them find a way to win this battle. I will give Dugu Wenxiu another month, if you can't take Xinyang City within a month, let him and Chen Yishan come to see him. ”

"Whoa"

Fang Xie took the military newspaper and looked at it, and threw it aside.

"In every battle, there will naturally be victory and defeat, I will not cut off your heads because of the defeat in the first battle, everyone has a time when they do something wrong. But this incident also tells you a truth, arrogance and negligence are always your own worst enemies. ”

"Subordinates remember!"

Xiahou Baichuan, Chen Dingnan and others replied with fists.

"Another ......"

Fang Xie looked at Chen Xiaoru and instructed: "Send people to Yongbei, Beihui, and Nanhui, and invite Zhong Xin, Chi Haonian, and Du Jianzhou, the three governors, to come to Yongzhou to discuss matters, and say that I am waiting for them in Yongzhou, and ask them to leave immediately." ”

"General...... I'm afraid that these three people may not dare to come, right? ”

Xiahou Baichuan said with a deep groan.

Fang Xie snorted: "Naturally, they didn't dare to come, and I didn't expect them to come." I asked Zhang Xi to count the population of the people of Pingshangdao, although there is no specific figure yet, but after the war and natural disasters, it is an indisputable fact that the people of Pingshangdao have gone to six or seven out of ten. In the four southwest provinces, Pingshang Road is the richest, and the people have lost so much that most of Pingshang Road has been abolished...... I plan to transfer people from Yongbei Road, South Hui Road, and North Hui Road to Pingshang, so naturally I want to put some pressure on those three people. If they had said it directly, they would have tried every means to excuse themselves. ”

"I invited them to come, but they didn't dare to come, and then I sent someone to talk about it, and they didn't dare to refuse."

Fang Xie paused for a moment and continued: "Send people to post notices in the counties and counties of Pingshang Road, calling on the people to return to their homes to reclaim the land, when the southern barbarians came, those rich families fled with their families, I don't deny that those lands used to belong to them, but after I took them back, it was mine." All the people can plant on my land, and they can plant as much as they can...... It is distributed according to the ration field of one acre per person, and no money and grain are charged for this acre of land. If you want to have a variety of things, you can rent, and those who rent more than five acres will receive two percent of the tax, those who rent more than ten acres will receive three percent, and those who rent more than 15 acres will receive half of the tax. After our Black Flag Army has sufficient money and food and has all the soldiers, this tax will be lowered. ”

"The Great General......

Chen Dingnan persuaded: "In this way, I am afraid that many people will oppose ......"

"As I said, I will not touch any of them if they obey me. I will not leave a single piece of land for those who oppose me. Let's arrange it and get production back up and down as soon as possible. ”

At this moment, Sanjin Houwu hurriedly came in from outside.

"General, is this matter a little delayed?"

He said as he walked: "The subordinates didn't go far out of the city, and they were chased back by the people of the Xiao Riding School, saying that the general had something important to discuss, but the subordinates didn't dare to delay, and rushed back non-stop." ”

"Master Hou, what do you mean?"

Fang asked.

Wu Yi said eagerly: "The return of the general to the people is a great thing for thousands of years and a blessing for the people." But is this a bit of a rush? The subordinates did not oppose the general's military order, but felt that this matter still needed to be considered in detail, and it would not be too late to implement it when a specific charter came out. ”

"I understand what I mean."

Fang Xie was silent for a while and said, "Although you say this, you are actually still opposed to my practice of returning the land to the people. Because in doing so, all the big families in the Central Plains will be offended. In the future, if the Black Flag Army wants to expand outward, it will be difficult to climb to the sky. ”

Wu Yiyi opened his mouth, not knowing what to continue to say.

"There's no need to wait."

Fang Xie said indifferently: "I used to think that although this thing was a good thing, it was not yet time to implement it, and I would implement it when I had the strength to make everyone dare not oppose me." But after the big dog died, I suddenly understood a truth...... There are some things that it is better to do them later than to do them early, so as not to regret them later. That's right, by doing so, I have offended all the rich families in the world, and they will surely treat me as an enemy. But now, even if I don't do this, how many families still regard me as a friend and family? ”

"I have offended them, but I have won the hearts and minds of the people."

Fang Xie stood up and walked to the door of the study to look at the clear blue sky outside: "I'm here...... You have to do something about it. ”

The inner meaning of this sentence is understood by no one but himself.

There is a voice in Fang Jie's heart that keeps saying, no matter what God has asked you to do in this world, what you want to do, you have to do it. You may anger the whole world, but you are not here to please the world. Not everyone is a Great Wheel King and can live for a thousand years......