Chapter 228: Murderous
"This time I went south, but I asked for hundreds of thousands of heads from His Majesty. Then ask them if their lives or their money are important. ”
Li Hao's words are murderous, the war in Quanzhou Mansion over the years has always been supported by the government independently, and those rich businessmen and big families do not say support, and it is already very good not to pull back their legs, and some even sell food and weapons to Shanyue people.
Li Hao can guess this kind of thing without careful investigation, no matter what era, there will always be such a person. They made a fortune by exploiting the country's loopholes, and after they got rich, they were full of malice towards the country.
Zheng Tingshi was also very angry about this thing, if it weren't for the lack of manpower, he would have attacked those people a long time ago, Li Hao said this now, which made Zheng Tingshi's confidence fuller. "From today onwards, not a grain of grain or a weapon will enter the hands of the Shanyue people!"
Li Hao has an advantage over Zheng Jianshi is that he controls the entire Lingnan Road, and the Guangzhou Mansion has now been swept away, and it is much easier to deal with the Quanzhou Mansion left. Moreover, Li Hao has a good relationship with Li Ke over there in Tanzhou, and can order the people over there to cooperate.
As long as these things are prevented from entering the hands of Shanyue people, and the living space of Shanyue people is compressed step by step. As long as this plan is implemented step by step, the Shanyue people have only two ways to go, that is, surrender or die in battle, and there is no other choice.
The situation in Lingnan Province has undergone tremendous changes because of Li Hao's arrival. Although great achievements were made in Guangzhou Mansion, after arriving in Quanzhou Mansion, Li Hao did not rush to attack, but rearranged the entire defense area.
The people who took the land road from Guangzhou Mansion also came to join Li Hao and them at this time, and they experienced several battles when they came here, and each battle was not easy. This made the people who led the team feel that the Shanyue people here were completely different from those in Guangzhou Prefecture, and they were very careful all the way, and there was no damage to the enemy.
When Li Hao sent the people who came to pick them up to join together, he was full of surprise after looking at this team that had already gone through several battles. At this time, they understood how accurate Li Hao's order was, these Shanyue people were not so simple, and it was too difficult to fight in one battle.
"It's okay! They don't dare to fight head-on, so we just force them to fight head-on. Although there are many mountainous areas here, these Shanyue people always have to eat and see a doctor, and there is no food and medicine to enter the mountains. ”
Li Hao has confidence in this, he will be a southerner in his later life, although there are many mountains here, but it is useless to hide in the mountains without food. There's a lot to eat in the mountains, but that's not food!
After another group of people came over to converge, Li Hao had more than 10,000 more troops in his hands, and several thousand Shanyue prisoners. Coupled with the prisoners that had not been dealt with before by the Quanzhou Mansion, Li Hao divided them into hundreds of people, and then used a large army to open the way, urging these captives to build roads and build earthen buildings around the fort.
Each ring fort can accommodate thousands of people, and all the people in the vicinity of the radius moved to the ring fort. Then build a large ring fort every few miles, and each ring fort has wolf smoke in it to inform the enemy, and all the ring forts are connected by cement roads.
This form of ring fort is somewhat different from the original tulou in Fujian Province in Li Hao's memory, but the nature is the same. From the perspective of historical and architectural research, the construction method of tulou is a self-defense style of living for the safety of the ethnic group.
The original tulou was under the situation of war, and the Hakka people who moved from thousands of miles to other places chose this building method that was not only conducive to family reunion, but also able to defend against war. The descendants of the same ancestor form an independent society in a tulou, coexist and prosper, die and humiliate together, so the imperial outside and the inside are probably the most appropriate induction of the tulou.
Li Hao has pushed this thing out in advance now, and the purpose is the same. However, with cement, the tulou on his side can be made larger and accommodate more people. And after having enough manpower and absorbing more experience, he can also make this kind of tulou more practical, reasonable, and stronger.
The foundations are made of boulders mixed with cement, while the walls are made of red bricks burned with yellow mud, and then two layers are poured inside and out, and the middle is filled with cement mixed gravel. Except for the four gates on all sides, the rest of the place is a solid wall, and there are observation windows and arrow stacks on the upper floor.
Once this kind of earthen building is built, if the Shanyue people come over, they will not be able to capture it in a short time. And the repaired cement road made it convenient for Li Hao's cavalry to rush to the aid, once the layout was completed. The people around them live here, and their food crops and lives are secured.
And those rebellious Shanyue people wanted to kill and loot the way to get food was controlled, they wanted to attack a ring fortress but had to beware of Li Hao's cavalry galloping to help. If it goes on for such a long time, Li Hao can easily force those mountains to jump out of the decisive battle.
"General, the fundraising thing is not going well, and I am worthy of the general's trust." After Li Hao reorganized and divided the troops in his hands, he handed over the rest to his lieutenant general, there is no big battle to fight here for the time being, and there is no need for Li Hao to keep an eye on it.
In addition to the adjutant generals brought over from the Military Academy, some of Li Hao's students also successfully entered the officer level during this period of time because of their military exploits, plus the veterans who had been fighting with the Shanyue people on the Quanzhou Mansion, Li Hao broke them all up and regrouped.
Each team had veterans and officers who had fought against the Shanyue, so that the new soldiers would not make mistakes because they were not familiar with the Shanyue people's way of fighting. Li Hao, the 5,000 cavalry, did not move, and also drew some people who were good at riding and shooting from Quanzhou Mansion to join in.
Although the cavalry is not very suitable for the mountainous area here, Li Hao is still not ready to disperse this mobile force, and his plan needs to be carried out smoothly, and the mobility of this team is also needed. Moreover, the cement roads he built are all standard cement roads that can ride dozens of times wide side by side, and it is not difficult to launch a quick charge with this width.
Zheng Tingshi didn't know that Li Hao had come to relax when he retreated from the front line, because the war here was not over so soon for the time being, so Li Hao arranged for someone to go to Guangzhou Mansion to pick up Wu Shun and them, and even transferred a lot of materials from there.
Seeing Li Hao appear at Quanzhou Port with his own soldiers, Zheng Tingshi thought that Li Hao ran over to ask for the crime because the material and the plan here were not going well. So he smiled bitterly and pulled everything out, he has been urging things here, but the effect is very poor.
"Huh? Do these people really have no money, or are they unwilling to help the government? Or is my Li not enough face? Did you tell them that I was going to borrow money, and I had to pay it back after I borrowed it? ”
Li Hao glanced at Zheng Tingshi obliquely, with murderous aura in his eyes. The battle on the front line was good, the official won a few battles, and pushed the front forward a bit. But the rear was so unhelpful, and Li Hao's murderous intent immediately started.
There are many big households here in Quanzhou Port, after all, it is a large international port, and there are many Hu merchants. Now that the Quanzhou government is in difficulty, they are still so uncooperative in asking them to sponsor some money, which is too bad for Li to save face, and he said that he would have to repay the money after borrowing.
You must know that whether Li Hao is in Tanzhou, Chang'an, or Shudi, as long as he waves his arms and says that he has no money, a lot of people rush to send money to Li Hao. They never had to worry that Li Hao would have no money to pay back, nor did they worry that Li Hao would repay the debt, because Li Hao was a golden signboard.
Pulling a coin, he came to Quanzhou Port, and his name had no effect at all, which made Li Hao really murderous to the people in Quanzhou Port. Especially those Hu merchants, you must know that at the end of the Song Dynasty, those Hu merchants even killed the Song imperial clan and surrendered to Meng Yuan.
At that time, the emperor of the Song Dynasty did not treat these Hu merchants badly, and even made high-ranking officials, but in the end, he was still stabbed by those Hu people. Although this is a problem in the future, it is still Li Hao's historical memory, but this makes Li Hao have no good impression of Hu Shang here in Quanzhou Port, so he moved to kill, and these people have no good life.
"You go back to the Assassin Mansion first, this matter has stopped for the time being. They don't want to donate money, and that's okay, soon they'll be honest with the money. Li Hao chuckled lightly, and asked Zheng Tingshi to retreat, and if he didn't eat the toast, he would eat the penalty wine.
"Is Lang Jun going to attack those people? These people are all people of the Tang Dynasty, and if they are treated like this, they are afraid that they will go to the court to complain. Wanwan was serving Li Hao on the side, and after listening to Li Hao's words, she asked curiously, her heart full of worry.
"Do it with them? They don't deserve to be who they are! I'm going to make them kneel outside my house and beg me!" Li Hao sneered, looking murderous. It's not impossible to kill directly, but this thing is too troublesome. Li Hao let them die, and let them die clearly! But there is nothing they can do.
Li Hao thought about it and wrote two warrants, one for the military camp and one for Zheng Tingshi. He went to Quanzhou Port to meet Wu Shun and them, and he would stay in Quanzhou Port in the future, and have a lot of time to play with those people.
The order to the barracks and Zheng Tingshi was simple, block all the roads on the front line, and then clean up those who secretly funded the Shanyue people, plus what Zheng Tingshi had in his hands. The Quanzhou government can directly send people to arrest people first, and then prohibit all goods from circulating in Quanzhou government.
On the other hand, Li Hao was ready to let his students get stuck outside the port of Quanzhou with a fleet of ships, waiting for all the overseas merchants to pass by, and then intercept all their goods. And the things that come ashore on the Guangzhou side of the government, as long as they are merchants on the side of the Quanzhou government, all of them are heavily taxed. Take a two-pronged approach and see how long these people can hold out!