I had no choice, I could only grit my teeth and lead the villagers to live, Li Yu's heart gradually calmed down, and strode towards the front of the rebel army, Mo Rige and the new guard Wu Xianxian followed left and right - Wu Daxia also joined the Fengzhou army under the encouragement of Sun Shoufa, Li Yu pushed them away and stood in front of the rebels.

"I know that you can't survive to rebel, it is the court and the dog officials who forced you to abandon your family and business and wander around, I am a poor egg born in farming and hunting, and I have tasted the taste of cold and hunger, that kind of day will drive people crazy, you are not thieves, the person who scolds you for being a thief is a thief himself, let them starve for a few days and try it, go to ******Zhao'an, the court should have let us live an upright life, and it is the court that should apologize," Li Yu's rebellious words came out, and the rebel brothers were stunned, This is not like what the officials and military officials said, but everything is reasonable, and the words in everyone's hearts are spoken, and Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong and other leaders heard it with tears in their eyes.

Li Yu continued: "I don't have this bullshit official position, I ask for food and money for you, those who are willing to go home will send food home, and those who are not willing to go home will live together, I often say a sentence in Fengzhou outside the customs is no slavery, no nobility and cheapness, no one is allowed to bully anyone, the scholars call this freedom and equality, there are Han people, Mongolians and Zhushen of the Jin State in Fengzhou, we get along like brothers, we work together to share the harvest, we still survive in the bitter cold land, and the days are getting better and better day by day, we can do it, You can do it, brothers, we have to live, see how the way of the world will change, I don't believe that God will not give us a way to live. ”

"Live!" "Live", the ranks of the rebels were boiling, people regardless of men, women and children shouted over and over again, their eyes were full of tears, and at this moment they came out of despair and felt the hope of life again.

"My lord, we listen to you!" Wang Jiayin took Wang Ziyong, Bai Yuzhu, Hui Dengxiang and other leaders to kowtow to Li Yu.

"When I was in Toyosu, I had already abolished the kneeling ceremony, and no one was allowed to kneel and kowtow." Li Yu smiled and helped Wang Jiayin up, and said to the leaders sincerely, "It depends on you to appease the people, there will be many headaches in the future, get up quickly, we should be busy with business." ”

"My lord, I have entrusted my brothers and people to you, and God will bless you to live with your fellow villagers," Wang Jiayin smiled at Li Yu, patted the saber on his waist and said, "Now please give me a face, let's make a decision!" ”

"Brother Wang, what are you kidding!" Li Yu looked at Wang Jiayin, who was a head shorter than him, and shook his head, Hui Dengxiang, Li Wanqing, Zhang Yichuan and other leaders also hurriedly dissuaded Wang Jiayin, everyone could see that Wang Jiayin's challenge to Li Yu was almost looking for death, but Wang Ziyong and Bai Yuzhu lowered their heads sadly.

"I know my own ability, but I must die, otherwise the adults will not be able to pass the court level, and use my life to keep everyone safe, I admit it!" Wang Jiayin glanced at a group of people who came from the Fengzhou military formation, and said to Li Yu with a wry smile, "This is fate, it is destined from the day of the rebellion, I have been to Liaodong as a soldier, but I am a deserter, it is a shame to say, I am not afraid of death but I don't want to die for the court, today please fulfill me, let me die like a soldier in a dignified battle." ”

"Brother Wang, I can let you go away and fly high, or I can take you to hide outside the gate, the days to come will be long, you have to live well!" Li Yu sincerely persuaded.

"The imperial court can let others go, but it will never let me go, the imperial court will rest assured when I die, you can help the villagers, the adults don't want me to be tied up and executed in Jingshi Lingchi, I'll go first." After Wang Jiayin finished speaking to Li Yu, he bowed to the leaders of the rebel army, said please, and after whispering a few words to Zhang Liwei, he strode towards his war horse.

"Brother Wang, you are a northwestern man, there is no shame in being a deserter, and I don't want to fight for the court." Li Yu shouted at Wang Jiayin's back, took his horse and jumped up.

"Hermes-Epitek, killing this thief is a great achievement!" Zhang Daojun rushed over and shouted, the thief asked Li Yu to surrender, how could he miss this opportunity to make meritorious service, with Tiger Dawei, fierce as a tiger two meritorious guys and a few family members ran over, they heard that Wang Jiayin was going to challenge Li Yu, and immediately burst into joy, this bold thief is dead this time.

Wang Jiayin came over, holding a war knife in his hand, with a smile on his face, his eyes looked directly at Li Yu, at this moment he was a real warrior, Li Yu sighed, took out the bow and arrow from the sack, and aimed at Wang Jiayin.

Brother Wang, you can rest assured, I will take care of the villagers, Li Yu thought silently in his heart, let go of the bowstring, and the sharp arrow flew out and nailed it heavily to Wang Jiayin's throat, Wang Jiayin shook on the horse, and fell headlong, the tiger was mighty and fierce as a tiger immediately pulled out a knife and rushed forward, this head is much more valuable than the head of nine dragons.

"Get out, you both get out of here!" Li Yu rushed up and kicked one by one, kicking the tiger Dawei and the fierce tiger to the side, Wang Ziyong, Bai Yuzhu and other leaders of the righteous army came and knelt on the ground, and the Qinshui River immediately cried, Li Yu closed his eyes for Wang Jiayin, bowed to him, and whispered to Wang Ziyong and Bai Yuzhu, "You bury Brother Wang, find a hidden place, don't let people hurt the corpse." ”

On the side of the Qinshui River, 150,000 righteous soldiers surrendered, the giant thief King Jiayin was killed, and he was going to give up some money and food and kill some people, but now he is all free, the bosses of the Zezhou Thief Joint Defense Bureau were ecstatic, and immediately reported to Zezhou, Zhang Daojun went to Taiyuan on the same day - it is a pity not to go to Song Tongyin to blow such a big credit.

As soon as the gentry were happy, Li Yu's most worried about the dismissal of the displaced people was solved very smoothly - Fan Erxi came again, this guy hugged Li Yu's thighs and didn't let go, selling private goods under the sign of the General Military Mansion, and now he has become a person who can eat both black and white in Shanxi, and his name far overshadows his master Fan Yongdou, and the rich tycoons in Shanxi also have to give him three points of face, Fan Erxi and the bigwigs in Zezhou hid in a dark room and discussed sneakily for a day, and Zhang Pengyun, an old man, came out to speak.

The old man thinks that there are a lot of lessons in Zezhou's banditry, Zezhou's rich are not hundreds of thousands of people who are not rich, but the gentry only care about their own wealth, but they are reluctant to give the people benefits, so that the rich are even strange, the poor have no place to stand, the rogue responders gathered, bandits are rampant and the place is erosive, and in the end it is the rich who suffer, so we have to do good things for the villagers from now on, those people who are recruited are extremely poor, and the thieves are also forced to do so, they are now lost and return, and their livelihood in the future is in need of our help, If the court doesn't pay for it, we will pay for it, not only to give them food, but also to let them live and work in peace and contentment.

Zezhou gentry responded to the call of Zhang Laoyuanwai, immediately took action, voluntarily contributed money and efforts, and the prisoners' meals and dismissals were all covered, and Li Yu was deeply moved by his deep understanding of righteousness, and publicly said that in the future, Zezhou people will be given preferential treatment to Fengzhou to do business and open workshops, but Li Yu did not know that Zezhou gentry did not have so many good hearts, they would never suffer, the summer harvest was about to begin, and the iron factories and workshops everywhere would also be reopened, they were short of manpower to work, and the vast majority of the captives were Zezhou locals. Repatriation is labor, so why not? Moreover, the Joint Defense Bureau of Suppressing Thieves also secretly ordered that all thieves should be handed over to the village chief and grain chief for strict control, among which those who committed obvious crimes and those who did not change their hearts could be killed by the village elders and patriarchs of each village, and there was no need to report to the government, and they did not want to take care of the Shanxi people from other towns at all, and planned to send them out of the territory of Zezhou to the local government, and the most troublesome thing was the thieves from Shaanxi, and they did not dare to do the matter of killing prisoners, but these people staying in Zezhou were a scourge, so they simply reluctantly paid some money to let the acting chief soldier quickly take people away.

The gentry were heartbroken when they gave money and food, the money had to be recovered, they put the idea on the head of the government, Wang Zhaosheng and Zezhou Zhizhou came to celebrate when they learned the news of the victory, and just showed up in Yangcheng, they were dragged into the black room by the bigwigs of the Joint Defense Bureau of Suppression of Thieves, and no one knew what they were secretly discussing when the door was closed, anyway, these two officials went in with a sad face, and came out with a red face, and since then Zezhou's taxes and additional payments to the imperial court have never exceeded seventy, and they are getting lower and lower, and finally they simply dragged it out.

The gentry and wealthy men of Zezhou merged, and the matter of dismissing the displaced people was immediately carried out efficiently, and there were 90,000 local people in Zezhou among the 150,000 captives, and 70,000 soon left, and 20,000 Shanxi people from other towns left Yangcheng, and Wang Zhaosheng specially sent guerrilla Xue Tianlu to send them to Pingyang Mansion for dismissal - most of these people were people from Pingyang Mansion and Lu'an Mansion, and Lu'an Mansion was also the jurisdiction of the Southern Hebei Military Preparation Road, Wang Zhaosheng wanted to force Pingyang Mansion to also have some blood, and half of the remaining 60,000 people were from Shaanxi, The other half were Shanxi people who did not dare to go home, and the gentry asked Li Yu to take everyone away as soon as possible, and they could bear part of the rations on the road.

Zhang Daojun came back, and also brought the official document of the governor Yamen, the imperial court learned of the great victory in Yangcheng, and immediately issued an order to remove Li Yu from the position of acting chief of the Shanxi army and the deputy general of the aid and suppression, and restored Li Yu Datong Jingyu deputy general, still hanging the title of governor, and at the same time ordered the governor of Shanxi to handle the aftermath of the thief, the holy decree arrived in Taiyuan only the day before yesterday, the veteran Ma Shilin had been ordered to rush to Ningwuguan to take over the Shanxi general army, and the governor Song Tongyin ordered Li Yu to immediately take the captured thieves to Baode to standby, and be ready to go out of the customs at any time, The Shanxi Suppression Army went to Taiyuan Mansion to be reorganized and merged into Shanxi Town.

Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief, Shanxi's work was finally done, and the restoration of Datong Jinglu's position as deputy general was actually to let him go home, he couldn't ask for it, Shanxi's thief army was dominated by Hequ people and Baode people, and he didn't plan to bring this team to Guanwai, and it was a good thing that Shanxi Town could take over, but Zhang Pengyun and other Zezhou bigwigs were very frustrated, they had secretly moved to let Li Yu officially take over as the chief soldier of Shanxi - Li Yu was lawless and a little stupid, this guy was sitting in Shanxi, it was still good for them, But I didn't expect the court to be so impatient to drive Li Yu away, and several bigwigs couldn't help but scold the court for being mean and unkind, unloading the mill and killing the donkey, Li Yu didn't bother to listen to their nonsense, and happily pulled out his legs and left.

"Hanmin, don't blame Lord Song, he is also very dissatisfied with the actions of the imperial court, there may be some changes in the middle, you stay in Baode for a while, maybe the imperial court will have a reward later." Zhang Daojun chased him out and said to Li Yu.

"It's a good thing to let me go home, the reward of the imperial court is of a fart to me, it's better to give me some food, Brother Zixuan, what is Lord Song's plan for resettle the homeless?" Li Yu replied with a smile.

"It's difficult to suppress thieves, it's even more difficult to resettle displaced people, Lord Song has discussed with Yansui Governor Hong Chengchou and Shaanxi Governor Liu Guangsheng to repatriate the displaced people, but the two adults refused, and ordered Shaanxi Yanhe Prefecture to strictly prohibit displaced people from entering Shaanxi, this road will not work, the displaced people you mentioned are not good in Baode and Hequ Tuntian, this requires cattle, farm tools, seeds and rations, and the court can't take it out. You plan first. ”

"Don't think about it, Fengzhou is struggling to feed 50,000 people, Lord Song forced me to give 20,000 people, I gritted my teeth and admitted, and now I still want to stuff people, do you plan to drag Fengzhou down? It can't be done. Li Yu left angrily.

"Li Hanmin, I'm afraid this can't help you!" Zhang Daojun shouted with a sneer.

Li Yu returned to the camp, immediately summoned the generals and the leaders of the rebel army, announced the order of the governor of Shanxi, ordered all the departments to prepare, and set off two days later, and the generals scolded and scolded for a while before they dispersed - went to ****** bullshit court, fought for more than half a year, and the military salary was still in arrears, so they couldn't wait to drive them out of the customs, which is also a human thing! Or the gentry and rich people in Zezhou have a conscience, and they gave some money, and finally they didn't have the time to go home, but the leaders of the righteous army were very calm, and the Shanxi people couldn't spare them if they stayed here, and the government was waiting for them with knives when they went home, and it was safer to go to Baode and fight the sky eagle and light the lamp together, and Hu Dawei and Mengru Tiger were quite satisfied, after all, the inside of the gate was much better than the outside of the gate, and it was also a good result to be incorporated into Shanxi Town.

After everyone left, Bai An, Zhou Yuji, Ding Qiming and Jin Guoding and other officers returned to the big tent, Zhou Yuji and Ding Qiming expressed their position on behalf of everyone, never leave the Fengzhou army, Li Yu where they went, Li Yu glanced at them, except for Bai An, almost all of them were Beijing camp officers, he knew what was going on, the Yansui officers and the Beijing camp officers in the Shanxi thief army were always at odds, and the Yansui officers headed by the tiger and the fierce tiger were overwhelming, and the two horse thieves were arrogant and unreasonable, and they wanted to suppress the Beijing camp officers everywhere, The two sides have been in constant friction since the beginning of the stone building, if it weren't for Bai An, a kind person, to mediate from it, they would have fought a long time ago, and it would be a matter of time before they parted ways.

"Fengzhou's future life will be very bitter, you can follow me if you think about it, but you have to leave the soldiers recruited in Shanxi, I don't want to mutiny when I leave the customs." Li Yu nodded in agreement.

"Most of us are from Liaodong, our home is long gone, no matter what we can go, we can find a stable place to settle down and be content, this life depends on you, you can't ignore us." Zhou Yuji replied with a smile.

"Lao Bai, I know what you want to say, but you have to stay in Shanxi," Li Yu saw that Bai An wanted to speak with his mouth open, and waved his hand to stop him, "I can rest assured that the Shanxi thief army is in your hands, it is no problem for the two people with the head of the tiger and the fierce tiger to fight, but they take fame and fortune too seriously, I am really afraid that they will spoil the team in order to be rewarded for meritorious service." ”

Bai An sighed: "Then I'll stay, I'm just panicking in my heart, follow you to fight happily, fight how you want, in the future, the civilian officials will command us, I really don't know what the battle will be, I really can't bear the Black Eagle Flag!" ”

Li Yu stared at Bai An and said: "Brother Bai, you remember, the lives of the brothers are more precious than anything else, and you must not let people come nonsense, and when you are desperate in the future, Fengzhou is also your home." ”

Two days later, the Fengzhou army set off, Zhang Daojun, Zhang Pengyun, Zhang Guangkui and other Zezhou bigwigs led the gentry and people to send off, and Wang Zhaosheng and Yang Zhenyuan, the governor of Yangcheng, also ran to say a few nice words to encourage Li Yu, and by the way, handed over some of the money and grain they had made up to the Fengzhou army.

Wang came running with two carriages again, and when he saw Li Yu, he said: "My lord, look at it, two brand-new 500-pound iron cannons, gun carriages, and sub-guns are also complete, adults should remember Xiaomin, if you need iron tools in the future, come to me, and I will give you a big discount." ”

The Fengzhou army out of Yangcheng was divided into two roads, Bai An led the Shanxi thief army to Taiyuan, and Li Yu led the Fengzhou army and the displaced people to Pingyang Mansion - Song Tongyin did not allow the displaced people to enter the Taiyuan Mansion boundary, and could only detour more, more than 60,000 displaced people, a large number of men, women and children, long-distance travel is trouble, all the vehicles are concentrated and uniformly deployed, the old and weak women and children can save some leg strength if they have a car to sit, and the food baggage can only be handed over to the young and strong people in the homeless people to carry on their backs, the whole team drags and pulls for several miles, and the cavalry of the Fengzhou Army is responsible for opening the road and guarding it, The infantry worked hard to maintain order in the ranks, and the leaders of the rebels such as Wang Ziyong and Bai Yuzhu also worked hard, running back and forth shouting, beckoning their subordinates to speed up and keep up with the ranks.

Li Yu looked at the chaotic team and shook his head again and again, Wang Ziyong was very proud, the normal marching speed of the official army was only thirty miles a day, and we can now walk about fifty miles a day, which is unimaginable, Wang Ziyong also admitted that the rapid march speed of the righteous army is not slow, but the people must be thrown away, and when they escape, even their mother-in-law and dolls have to be abandoned, and there must be many of their families in the Baode camp.

When the team entered the territory of Pingyang Prefecture, suddenly a few groups of displaced people rushed to the team as if fleeing for their lives, and Sun Shoufa, who was standing in front of him, caught a few questions, and it was actually the Shanxi people who were sent to Pingyang for dismissal some time ago, and they had a big incident.

20,000 Shanxi refugees rushed to Pingyang Mansion to govern Linfen, the guerrilla Xue Tianlu handed over the official documents, hoping that Pingyang Mansion would take over the refugees as soon as possible, Pingyang Mansion promised to be simple, they could take over but they needed to prepare food for a day, Xue Tianlu thought that things were going well, and he went out of the city to wait with peace of mind, but he didn't expect that the next day was waiting for the official cavalry, followed by a massacre, the unarmed homeless people were killed all over the field, scattered and fled, and poor Xue Tianlu was also beaten to death by angry homeless people.

Li Yu was taken aback by the news, and immediately sent someone to Taiyuan to report to Song Tongyin, and at the same time ordered the whole army to be on alert.