Chapter 187: Peeking into the East, Mu Zuodu, the army returns to the west

Let's say that this Gaotang Prefecture has been occupied by Liangshanbo for a while, and it is calm. The first time the leopard head led the troops to break Gaotang Prefecture, he first passed down the general's order: "Hugh has to hurt the people." "On the other hand, he asked people to spread notices and put out the list to calm the people, and the autumn did not commit any crimes.

In addition to confinement of Gao Lian's family in the past few days, he swept away all the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the city, and then raided the homes of three or five profiteers and gentry who were very angry with the people.

Now that the foreign enemy has been leveled, Liang Shanbo organized prisoners of war to transport grain and grass materials to the south on the one hand, and held a public trial meeting on the other side.

The first one to be pulled to the stage was Yin Tianci.

This crime is extremely evil, relying on the power of his brother-in-law's high price, he has done evil in Gaotang Prefecture, and I don't know how many sins he has created in two years. Even though the people of Gaotang Prefecture were afraid of Gao Lian's comeback, there were also a few descendants who couldn't help but laugh, jumped on the stage, and counted the sins of Yin Tian.

In the end, Chai Jin, who had a makeover, personally concocted him. Little Whirlwind's injuries have not healed, but he hates Yin Tianzhi to the extreme. Yes, he endured the pain, cut open Yin Tianci's chest with a knife, and took out his heart and liver to pay tribute to his uncle's death in heaven.

Then the corpse of Yin Tianci, who was thrown into the crowd, was beaten into meat paste by the people of Gaotang Prefecture who scattered in a hurry. Nineteen of the gang members who had followed him in their crimes, along with the steward of Gao Lian's house, were beheaded, and the rest were fined for silver and beaten with fifty to one hundred sticks.

At the same time, the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the city who were taken into custody, as well as the profiteers and gentry, were all beheaded and confiscated of their property. And the suffering lords who are still in the city have all been compensated. More or less, the amount varies, but it is all convincing. It can be said that in just a few days, it has won the hearts of tens of thousands of ordinary people in Tang Prefecture.

That's just the way it is. The people of all dynasties and dynasties did not ask for much, and what they asked for was what they deserved. But it is such a request, and it is difficult for anyone to do it among the emperors of the ages. Among the tens of thousands of officials over the past thousands of years, few of them really care about the people's gains and losses.

It's realistic, and it's sad.

This is also a difficult problem that Lu Qian can't solve, because in the era of the Great and Celestial Empires in later generations, this question is still unsolved.

In just five days, Lu Qian's army withdrew from Gaotang Prefecture. However, it was loaded up the mountain with the income from the raid of Gaotang Prefecture, as well as the treasury of a state, and the grain and rice of the warehouse.

At this time, he had already reported that Yanzhou, Dongchang and Jeju had arrived at Yuncheng with a combined army of five or six thousand people, and they set up camp near Shuibo to cut off Jishui.

Lu Qian only didn't care, he only needed the army to drive back, what was the six thousand rabble?

On the occasion of parting, Lu Qian set up a feast, if there is no firewood, it will be a rich wine and food, some of the leaders eat and drink, some laugh, and have fun. But today, with Chai Jin, and it is still in the filial piety period, it is a vegetarian banquet fruit wine, and the leaders have also advanced the etiquette in the spiritual seat of Chai Huangcheng early. Chai Jin had nothing to say, and there were countless thoughts in his heart these days, as if a big stone was blocking his heart.

Parting today, I saw Lu Qian and his group, and the matter was done thoroughly, and there was no involvement in the Chai family. Although I know that this ending is the best, I can't help but feel three points of sentimentality in my heart. But when he was doing something, he didn't have anything to say. The Chai clan is a large clan with lush foliage, and as the patriarch, he can't be rash. There are too many bonds.

Eating too much fruit wine is as intoxicating, Chai Jin has something in his heart, and everyone is drunk if the wine is not drunk. Sitting on the ground in the guest seat, I heard Lu Qian talk about the high fortune in Tokyo City, and the boss in his heart was angry, and said again and again: "My family has not been underestimated for a hundred years, and I have never suffered such a big loss since I was born. ”

Lu Qian said: "The big officials should not be depressed, and they will eat and drink by themselves, and calculate the day after tomorrow." I, Brother Liangshan, will share in with you. So it was agreed that a life would be cheap.

Chai Jin received such a great kindness from Liang Shanbo, and he couldn't repay it, so he spat at the banquet and wanted to send 300 good horses to the cottage. Lu Qian now has a war horse in his hand, so he doesn't covet Chai Jin's promise. On the contrary, I hope to be able to get a few characters who go to the sea from Chai Jin. Now Chai Jin in this time and space is no better than only one uncle in the original book of Water Margin, which is a big business. Their own people have a glimpse of the benefits of the sea route. Lu Qian had already made people buy two sea boats in Dengzhou, but the surging sea was no better than a river, and it was not possible to break into it if there were boats and people, and they also needed guides.

Chai Jin agreed.

His Chai clan is in the north of the Heng River, although the long house of the descendants has always stayed in Cangzhou, but the side branches have already spread out, covering most of the north. The Chai Imperial City in Gaotang Prefecture is an example. The more distant Denglai two states also have branches of their Chai clan.

"Liangshanbo wants to open a sea route? Denglai's soldiers and horses made Ma Zhengnai Chai enter the world. The big boss only needs to ask his brothers to follow the nature of the crime, and act under the banner of my Chai clan, and they will be unimpeded. ”

This kind of thing is unknown to Lu Qian. The envoy of Dengzhou Soldiers and Horses is the important minister of the Governor Dengzhou Naval Army, and his position is still above the Soldiers and Horses Supervisor, and it is by no means comparable to Sun Li's Soldiers and Horses.

According to the regulations of the Zhao and Song dynasties in the current time and space, such a position as an envoy must be established in a place of great significance. Generally speaking, it is the navy and the army!

The activities of the people of Liangshan in the two states of Denglai, if there can be a ruler envoy on their heads, it must be a great wish. Lu Qian was pleasantly surprised, he didn't want to mention it like this, and he got such a huge reward.

With a veteran to lead the way, Liangshan's action on the sea became much lighter. Maybe not this year, but next year, we won't be able to find out where Sado Island is.

The island is located in the upper-middle part of the western coastline of Japan's main island of Honshu, with a small jutting peninsula not far below, which should be easy to find. As far as Lu Qian's memory of this treasure island is concerned, in the current era, the gold and silver mountains on this island have not been discovered by the Japanese. For a long time, the island seemed to be a Japanese penal colony, and it was not taken seriously.

However, it seems that the shogunate period has not yet begun in Japan today. The wasteland, which was not valued at that time, was occupied by the Liangshan army, and it may become a place for the little devils to fight for every inch of land. In order to gain a firm foothold on Sado Island, Lu Qian must be fully prepared. The first is to secure its own force.

This requires a huge plan to prepare. This is just the first step!

Yes, Lu Qian peeped into Japan, what he wanted was not to land in Japan and show off his might, but to the mountains of gold and silver that the little devil had not discovered yet.

It seems that this kind of God's reward was not absent in the land of China thousands of years ago. Since ancient times, China has lacked silver, but there is no shortage of gold. Imagine the rewards of hundreds of thousands of gold in the Western Han Dynasty, it can be seen that there must have been mines like Sado Jinshan on the land of China at that time. (There is a saying that Buddhism in the Central Plains after the rise of countless gold) is just the times change, thousands of years later, such a treasure mine has long been deforested by the predecessors. Lu Qian's short-term plan was to occupy the Jiaodong Peninsula to the east, and to do so was to face the all-out backlash of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and he must be fully prepared.

That is, he needs money, large sums of money. That's an amount that ordinary people can't imagine.

Similarly, to win the hearts of the people of the Jiaodong prefectures and establish a set of consolidated rule on the land of Jiaodong, it also requires a lot of money.

It is not unrealistic to spend so much money on the capture of wars alone. After all, the gentry officials are fat. But walking on one leg is not without risk. Lu Qian racked his brains to come up with another 'leg' so that he could be insured. He finally hit the little devil with the idea. Looking around, only the gold and silver mountains there can put an insurance bolt on Lu Qian's financial expenses.

The gold and silver on Sado Island is only a part of the total gold and silver ore content in Japan, and with a foothold on Sado Island, Lu Qian can peek at Iwami Silver Mountain. Lu Qian didn't know much about the specific situation of the latter, but he only knew that there was a saying on the Internet that in the 16th century, one-third of the silver in circulation in the world at that time came from Iwami Silver Mountain, which shows its production.

And the location of Iwami Ginzan is not very far from Sado Island, just below that small raised peninsula. Next to it, or within it, there is an Izumo country.

If he could, Lu Qian also wanted to earn enough financial expenses through normal trade. But now he doesn't have that condition, does he?

In today's era, there are still a lot of non-governmental contacts between Japan and the Northern Song Dynasty, although the official ties are not too close, and the Zhao and Song dynasties have always adhered to the flexible diplomatic principle of "not refusing to come, and not chasing if you go". A similar change is Goryeo. Goryeo was founded in the Tang Dynasty after the fifth dynasty, and before 993 A.D., the Song Dynasty was Zhengshuo, and in 994 the Liao invaded Goryeo and subordinated to the Khitan. Song broke off diplomatic relations with Goryeo. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, he sent two envoys to Goryeo, and in 1069 he resumed diplomatic relations that had been interrupted for 40 years. As a result, on this basis, frequent half-government and half-civilian maritime trade between the two countries developed.

The same is true of Japan and the Northern Song Dynasty. The difference was only that there was no threat from the Liao state, and Japan was nominally only subordinate to the Zhao and Song states. It's just that the official exchanges are far less famous and numerous than those of the previous dynasty's 'envoys to the Tang Dynasty'. However, the name of 'Liangshan' is not guaranteed, and now it has spread to Japan.

Saving the time required for the exploration and development of gold and silver mountains, Lu Qian now wants to pursue an insurance measure, and at the same time, in order to be better than Manichaeism in the future, it is necessary to develop the navy.

Chai Jin spat out in his mouth, but it helped him a lot.

In this way, after half a month, the army of Liangshanbo finally withdrew from Gaotang Prefecture. The army returned to Dongpyeong Province without stopping, and in the happy eyes of the officials and gentry of Dongpyeong Province, they returned to Jeju from Dongpyeong City in great strides.

Uncle Zhang over there immediately received the news. Then the allied forces of the three governments retreated on the edge of the water pool.

Since ancient times, there is a cloud in the art of war: return to the master and do not stop.

Liangshan's soldiers and horses fought a big defeat, and the people won one victory after another, and their morale was bursting. It would not be wise to stop them from returning at this time.

Don't look at that Zhang Qing who is resentful of Liang Shanbo, but at this time, he is the first to agree with the "transfer" of the army.

Later, when the soldiers and horses in Liangshan had not yet opened Pingyin City, Zhang Shuye took the first step to stay in Yuncheng to replace the dead ghosts, and then led the soldiers and horses to turn south and return to the central capital.

Zhou Bin, who has been promoted to the deputy envoy of the Jeju regiment, looked at the back of Uncle Zhang's army in the distance, and smiled in his heart.