The world is divided into nine counties, which are Hexi County, Guxi County, Qingyuan County, North County, Baoan County, South County, East County, Wu County, and the Imperial Capital.

Among them, Hexi County is west of Wang Xu's western capital, with a Yangtze River in between; Qingyuan County is in the southeast of the Western Capital, the North County is north of the Western Capital, and the Imperial Capital is south of the Western Capital, if you want the exact location, the Imperial Capital should be in the northeast direction, bordering the Northern County, located in the center of the entire Hongzhou Continent.

At this time, in Qingyuan County, the three cities in the north bordering Guxi County, which were now Hu Ling's territory, after months of hard work, he finally gained a foothold here.

He from the beginning of more than 4,000 soldiers and horses, expanded the army to more than 20,000 horses today, in Qingyuan County except for the royal city, there is no opponent, and in the west of Hu Ling, there is also a force, that is, the bandit Miao Zang, Miao Zang was bewitched by Hu Ling, also went down the mountain to capture the city, now has more than 8,000 troops, occupy a city.

Qingyuan County is different from Guxi County, Guxi County can be said to be the least populated of the nine counties in the world, because there are too many people who have fled to starvation, and there are less than two million people sitting thousands of miles on the ground; In this Qingyuan County, the population is huge, there are more than 100,000 people in a small county, and the area is very broad, but compared with Guxi County, it is poorer here.

Fan County, this county belongs to Hu Ling, at this time in the county Yazhong, Hu Ling convened all the people above the commander under him to discuss the matter, and the Yazhong was full of talents and gathered together.

With twenty commanders, four lieutenants, two generals, and a military division, Hu Ling's legion has begun to take shape.

A captain said: "The officers and soldiers are not invincible, we must learn from Wang Xu's army, first occupy all the counties of Qingyuan County, and then fight a decisive battle with Wang Cheng!" ”

Everyone was extremely excited, and shouted in unison: "Yes, decisive battle!" ”

Hu Ling pressed his hand and said with a smile: "Put aside the expansion of the territory in advance, I just got the news." The Qingyuan Royal City has already assembled an army of 30,000 to come to us, and I am determined to unite with Miao Zang and destroy them! ”

There was not the slightest hint of fear on Hu Ling's face. and the previous Hu Ling; He was very afraid of Wang Xu and Zhang Meng, but he was not afraid of the officers and soldiers of Qingyuan County, because he only knew about this fight. When he first came here to fight with the officers and soldiers, he also killed two enemy generals with his own hands, and it was precisely because of this that his confidence was greatly increased, and he occupied three cities in such a short time.

After discussing the matter of resisting the officers and soldiers, Hu Ling suddenly remembered Wang Xu, and then, he admired it a little and said, "Look at Wang Xu." Now that he has been crowned king, the court does not dare to do anything to him, and he is just as mixed. ”

A partial general said: "Lord, what's so difficult about this, the lord can also be called the king, I will follow him to the death!" ”

Everyone knelt on the ground and echoed the voice.

Hu Ling waved his hand: "There is no hurry to claim the title of king for the time being, we will defeat the officers and soldiers first." 30,000 officers and soldiers are not so easy to deal with. ”

The military advisor, who had not spoken for a long time, spoke at this time, and the military advisor said, "Lord." The subordinates felt that we should reach an alliance with Wang Xu and ask him to lead his troops to Qingyuan County, if he can come. Then it will be easy to defeat the officers and soldiers. ”

Hu Ling frowned: "I just came to Qingyuan County to avoid him, and I have a little holiday with him, and the relationship is not good, will he come?" ”

The military advisor thought for a moment and affirmed: "He will definitely come!" Because we are both anti-thieves with him, and we are both on the same front. And there are common enemies. ”

Then another man said, "What if he doesn't want to come?" ”

The military advisor said: "Then promise heavy profits, such as gold and silver, grain, grass and ordnance, etc., he will definitely come." ”

Hu Ling thought about it for a long time, and finally he made a lot of determination, it was best to have a good relationship with Wang Xu, and he really didn't want to be an enemy with Wang Xu. Besides, if Wang Xu can lead his troops into Qingyuan County, it will be much easier to defeat the officers and soldiers, and he will be able to preserve his strength and count in one fell swoop.

"Okay, send an envoy to the Western Capital, no matter how much it costs, you must invite Wang Xu to help in the war!"

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At the same time, somewhere in Beijun, Zhu Huan also mixed well, with the help of Cai Wenzhuo, he fought and won a success, from the initial hundreds of people, expanded to more than 10,000 people at this time, occupied two cities, and leaned to one side.

can have such an achievement, it is really thanks to Cai Wenzhuo, without him, Zhu Huanjun would have been wiped out long ago.

Now their location is very good, it is at the border of Bei County, bordering Bao'an County, and the Huai Mountain Bandits are only two hundred miles away, Cai Wenzhuo has already made contact with them, and they have agreed to be each other's horns, and the officers and soldiers of the enemy.

Of course, the Huai Mountain thieves agreed, their lives were not easy, and they were often attacked by officers and soldiers, although they had thousands of people and occupied a city, but it was always good to have more reinforcements.

In addition to Qingyuan County, North County, and Bao'an County, the number of thieves in other counties is also increasing, most of these thieves are mountain bandits, they do not dare to attack the city for the time being, they are all gathering in the mountains and forests, as long as there is a convoy from the mountain, they will go out of the mountain to plunder.

The homeless people have not broken every day, but they do not dare to rebel and are wandering around.

This current situation is all formed independently, Ye Xiong's Jinyiwei has not yet begun to incite, if the displaced people are instigated, then what the situation will become by then, it is unknown, I believe that at least those thieves who gather in the mountains and forests will come out of the mountains to rebel, and the displaced people are their source of soldiers.

Among the nine counties, only Dongjun and Hexi County were not polluted by Wang Xu's crooked winds and had no thoughts of rebellion, because these two counties were isolated from the Central Plains, and there was an incomparably wide Yangtze River in the middle.

There are also displaced people in these two counties, but they can not cross the river, they can only stay in this county, starving to death, I heard that the princes of these two counties are not bad, although it is not said that they treat the people with kindness, but they also allocate food to help the people many times.

However, the grain sown is really a drop in the bucket, and a large number of people still starve to death every year.

The root of it is still in the taxation, each prince has to offer 100,000 deniers of grain and grass to the imperial capital every year, tens of thousands of taels of gold, these money, so that the princes of each county have to levy the people, only in this way, their official positions can be kept.

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In the past few days, at the border of Beijun and Qingyuan County, which are close to the western capital, there are a large number of displaced people walking in the direction of the western capital, especially the nineteen cities occupied by Luyang in Guxi County, and there are more people going to the western capital, and the momentum is endless.

This is the consequence of Wang Xu's exemption from taxes, I heard that King Wen exempted all the people's taxes, what are you waiting for, go to King Wen.

For thousands of years, who will care about the life and death of the people?

Who would have rebelled so vigorously and boldly?

Who would have the courage to exempt all the taxes of the imperial court?

Who would be so considerate of the people and think about the people?

Only the king of the West is also the king! Only King Wen can do it! I heard that he is the son of heaven, and I heard that he can invite the gods of heaven!

Hundreds of thousands of people marched to the west, this kind of thing had never happened, and for a while, the imperial court, Wang Xu, and all forces were shocked! (To be continued.) )