Chapter 321: The Wang Brothers on
In the Nanshanbao meeting hall, Li Mengkong, Zhang Wanli, Xiong Chengwen, Deng Yushun and other middle and senior personnel were all present to listen to the "Summary of Experiences in Jiangnan", which was originally written by Fang Weiliang and later joined by the officials.
"Summary of Experiences in the South of the Yangtze River" is Nanshan Fort, and perhaps the first new-style discourse that appeared in the entire Yanhuang land. It's not so much an article as an investigation report, and it's very particular about evidence and figures.
In view of the causes and growth reasons of the Fang La Incident, the article mainly talks about three things, and tells why hundreds of thousands of small people rebelled with Fang La from three aspects.
Redundant officers and redundant personnel.
On the surface, there were very few officials in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and there were only a few officials in a county, including county orders, county lieutenants, teachings, and master books. However, the number of government departments, duplication of functions, and many favors that could not stand the Great Zhou Dynasty led to the expansion of the group of officials from the imperial examination several times compared with the previous dynasty. The so-called "rule by inaction" is nothing more than the combination of large gentry and generations of officials to control the civil order.
On the surface, the taxes of the Great Zhou were very low, but they could not stand the various miscellaneous taxes collected by the local government, as well as the indiscriminate apportionment, transfer of taxes, and transfer of forced labor in collusion between the large officials and the government, so the life of the small people was too hard. In addition, the monopoly of salt and iron is also an important source of suffering for the small people.
Grassroots collapse.
In the early years of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there was a period of strong control over the local government through the armor protection law. However, with the Shidafu group putting the warriors in cages, there was finally a situation in some places of the Great Zhou Dynasty where "the imperial power did not go down to the county".
Whether or not the will of the court can be carried out, and to what extent, depends mainly on the local gentry. This meant that any policy that harmed the interests of the gentry could not be implemented, and policies that only benefited the small people had to be greatly discounted.
The number of small households is increasing day by day, but the land is becoming less and less. The exploitation of the small people by the local interest groups formed by the local gentry, big households, wealthy merchants, powerful people, and officials became more and more cruel, and the small people could do anything under unbearable circumstances when they encountered a catastrophe.
People's livelihood is divided.
Some people say that the industry and commerce of the Great Zhou Dynasty were prosperous, and landless peasant households could go to the cities to work. However, the reality is cruel, and the carrying capacity of the Great Zhou city is limited.
Most of the landless peasant households are still reduced to tenant households. If there is a major flood in Jiangnan and Jianghuai, the small people who run to the vicinity of the city will be starved to death even if they sell their children and daughters. Before there was a huge breakthrough in agricultural production efficiency, Bianjing could not provide much food to help hundreds of thousands of victims.
On the whole, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Great Zhou has reached the point of splitting people's livelihood. The group of scholars who control everything and the industrial and commercial groups that create a prosperous and prosperous world enjoy the fruits of civilization, and millions of industrial and commercial workers are building their own civic culture, while the farmers who dig in the fields seem to have been forgotten by the times, have no right to speak, and belong to the majority who are silent and suppressed to the extreme.
From time to time, various questions and doubts are raised. Fang Weiliang and the officials tried their best to give examples, list numbers, and make comparative answers, so that the public middle school personnel in Nanshan Fort could have a clearer understanding.
Now no one asks any more questions, and all the public high school personnel are deep in thought.
There must be a big problem with Da Zhou, but where is the problem? Aren't those scholars, especially the rulers of Bianjing, extremely intelligent, why do they let the lives of the small people be so miserable? According to the content in "Summary of Experiences in Jiangnan", the biggest problem in Da Zhou is that people's livelihood is completely separated, except for a few lucky people, it is basically a pool of stagnant water, so how to explain the industrial and commercial prosperity on the surface?
Li Mengkong and Zhang Wanli dismissed most of them, leaving only the most senior and infallible public servants.
I only heard Li Mengkong ask meaningfully:
"Dragon slaying technique, did the proprietor take the initiative to let the two of you figure it out?"
Fang Weiliang and the clerk nodded, and a sound of inhalation sounded in the dim hall.
The proprietor has not expressed his position, but it turns out that he does mean that!
From this day on, the upper-class families of Nanshan Fort began to prepare various resources "intimately" for the "big event" of the proprietor.
At the same time, Li Yifu, who had retreated to Suizhou City, was breaking free from a fat man who was hugging his thigh.
Things have to start from the day Li Yifu arrived in Suizhou City......
After meeting Lord Yuezhang and grasping the overall situation of Wang Liu and Wang Qi, Li Yifu took the commanders of the township soldiers in different clothes to negotiate with the generals and colonels of the forbidden army and the box army.
Most of the warriors of the forbidden army agreed with Liu Chengdong's decision and did not want to fight in the mountains. The main reason is that the cost is too large, and it is difficult to coordinate with each other, and it is easy to be ambushed by Wang Liuwang and Wang Qi by relying on the familiar terrain, which is really detrimental to their "big break Wang Liuwang Qi". Sometimes they themselves forget that their so-called military exploits are just picking up Liu Chengdong's cheapness.
The forbidden army and the box army don't want to fight, but it doesn't mean that they will hand over their war exploits in vain.
Nearly a hundred stinky and noisy warriors crowded into a side room of the yamen, and they quarreled for most of the night before deciding on a plan to divide the spoils.
The "regular army" such as the forbidden army and the Xiang army were responsible for driving to various mountain roads to contain the movement of the remnants of the six kings and the seven kings and prevent the situation from getting out of control. In return, they were to take half of their exploits and the income from the prisoners of war.
Li Yifu and other dozens of township troops were responsible for the main attack, constantly entering the mountain, retreating, entering the mountain, retreating, and waiting for the remnants of Wang Liu, Wang Qi, to be consumed, and then they would enter the mountain in a big way. When the time comes, only tens of thousands of young and middle-aged captives will be a great credit and a lot of money!
Liu Chengdong guarded Suizhou City and did not participate in the competition for interests. After all, he is Li Yifu's father-in-law, the old owner of the Nanshan Fort family, and his appearance can't be too ugly.
On September 13, when the forbidden army and the box army were in place, Li Yifu led a messy 20,000 horses into the mountains to "suppress the thieves", but was defeated by Wang Liu and Wang Qi in a small mountain col and galloped back.
Li Yifu knew early on that 20,000 scum villagers with yellow faces and thin muscles, almost no training, and no blood had absolutely no chance of winning. But everything always has a beginning, and he can only be the first bird to take a group of unreliable guys into the mountains.
As a result, Li Yifu was almost killed by other villagers, and now he is afraid to think about it. I've seen those who have no combat power, and I've never seen them before they even engaged in battle, and they were scared by the other party and ran backwards!
If it weren't for the fact that the "village soldiers" of Nanshan Fort had already taken precautions, Liu Decheng and Liu Sheng protected the two wings and killed the "friendly army" when they saw the impact formation, and Yang Yingdong led hundreds of proprietor guards to fight back three times in a row, Li Yifu might have given his life to the mountains.
Li Yifu kicked the greasy fat man away, and roared angrily under the eyes of many civil and military people in the city gate tower:
"Did Lao Tzu remind you, remind all the township commanders, to strictly guard the formation, and not to underestimate the king, the sixth and the seventh? Yes! Do you have?! ”
"You only fucking have fat and no brains, and you rushed up with fat hulala, but you were killed in a few clicks...... Dare to impact Lao Tzu's formation, and want to kill Ben Zhongxunlang, right? I'm not hot yet! ”
"Your men are all gone, and it's useless to come and beg me. Where is Lao Tzu going to change a team of soldiers and horses for you? If you want to say that you are good enough, your brothers would rather follow the six kings and seven kings to rebel, and would rather flee in all directions than continue to follow you. Isn't it the fuck that I'm afraid of starvation? ”
Wang Liu, Wang Qi, is just a lot of people, but the weapons are too poor, and they have been hungry for so many days. What's more, Li Yifu retreated steadily with a thousand people to protect the whole army, and the township soldiers actually didn't die much.
can't stand the greasy fat man being too much, and all the subordinates who beat the bachelor are almost clean...... Not to mention continuing to stay by Li Yifu's side to make meritorious contributions and earn money, it would be good to go back and not be rectified by civilian officials to death!
I don't want to have a face at all, and the fat man, who was worried about harming his family, flew up again, hugged Li Yifu's thigh like a ball of mud, and cried: "I don't want this face anymore!" ”
"Commander Li, King Li. Brother, you will be my brother in the future! If you make me eat, I'll eat. I'm here for your fame, you can't leave me alone......"
"The brothers are too poor to marry a daughter-in-law, and too poor to be pants, and they can't blame me entirely. It's mainly the in my family, and those lazy wives and uncles, who suck the blood of soldiers all day long, and I can't stop my little brother!! ”
"Big brother saved my life. I will go in the water and in the fire, and if I lie anything, I will be tortured to ......death by the women of my house."
It's a farce. Li Yifu looked up at the city gate tower that was smiling crookedly, and he couldn't wait to slash the greasy fat man who was holding on tightly.
After dragging a few more steps, Li Yifu, who received the signal from Liao Shikai and Zhang Zhanjun, covered his head and made a helpless gesture, looking up to the sky and sighing:
"You don't take advantage of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu is just over twenty, you are in your thirties, who is your brother! ”
"Ouch...... Get up and talk about it! What a big man is crying and crying, what is it like! ”
On the tower of the city gate, there are not only civil and military officials, but also Mingyueji merchants waiting for the first batch of hard laborers. They picked up hundreds of laborers with ease, and then inquired through various doorways about the fiasco that had taken place the day before.
Night falls.
Li Yifu called dozens of township commanders together, first took out the bereavement pensions of the fallen soldiers and warned them not to be greedy for ink, and then stressed that he would not break the contract, so he reluctantly mobilized the fighting spirit of the township soldiers who had suffered major setbacks.
The brothers Liu Yuan and Liu Sheng were drinking in a clean big house.
"The proprietor is a family member who loves his family, so Lao Tzu is relieved. But our proprietor, are we too afraid of death? ”
Liu Yuan made a big bowl, remembering that Li Yifu would not take off his heavy armor when he arrived in the city, and asked a little funny.
"Can't be too careful!" Liu Sheng took a bite of the mountain fruit, frowned and said, "For example, the fiasco just passed." If it weren't for the fact that the proprietor couldn't trust the other villagers at all, and insisted on bringing more arrows and throwing guns, the casualties would have been great! ”
"It's not safe in the city either. Big brother, you didn't go to Jiangnan, I don't know some people's homes, you started to do it in the dark......"
In the back hall of the Yamen of Suizhou City, Liu Chengdong raised his eyebrows, "Oh? In this way, it was the strategy of you and that kid from Zhang Zhanjun to deliberately let that talentless, virtuous and shameless fat man stop Yifu at the city gate? ”
Liao Shikai laughed more ugly than crying, grinning and nodding.
Within a few days of Liao Shi's arrival in Qinling, he understood that Li Yifu was even more terrifying than Fang La's scheme! But he had already offended the gentry in Jiangnan, and he had no way out, so he had to actively make suggestions and add more jokes to Li Yifu's body to further reduce the vigilance of the gentry officials.
In addition to lowering the vigilance of the scholar class against the forces of Nanshan Fort, Liao Shikai also had another intention, which was soon analyzed by Zhang Zhanjun and Li Yifu:
Saving the fat, stupid and incompetent fat man who is certain to die is the best daughter to buy horse bones!