Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Battle of Luoyang (1)

The area of Jeju Island is not small, but the cultivated land area is not much, only more than 30,000 mu, which is less than one-thirtieth of the area of wasteland that can be reclaimed on the island, so in addition to those saline-alkali land, mountainous land, and forests, at least more than 800,000 mu of land can be reclaimed on the island, at least 30,000 or 40,000 households can be resettled, and the cultivated land on the whole island can support 300,000 people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Jeju Island is an island formed by volcanic eruptions, there is a dormant volcano on the island - Hallasan Mountain, the height is 1980 meters, due to the existence of the volcano, and the location of Jeju Island is relatively close to the south, so its temperature is relatively high, the average temperature of the year is about 16 degrees Celsius, the rainfall on the island is very rich, and the soil formed after the volcanic eruption contains relatively rich minerals, which is very beneficial for the growth of plants, so the vegetation on the island is luxuriant. The yield of crops is relatively high, but last year, due to the continuation of the drought, the farmers on Jeju Island also suffered a lot of losses, their main crop is rice, which is a relatively high yield crop from southern China, but it needs a lot of water to grow, and a long time of water shortage will greatly affect the yield of rice, resulting in reduced or no yield.

"Sir, are we really going to kill Wang Zheng? After all, he is the king of Tamna, and I am afraid that if we kill him, it will cause a revolt from the islanders! ”

After hearing what Wang Jian said before, Liu Zhi also immediately began to investigate this matter, and the results obtained were basically not much different from what Wang Jian said, so he suggested to Qin Qiong that Wang Zheng be beheaded in front of the people of the whole island, and the crime was that he was tyrannical, greedy, and careless of human life, and the advantage of this was that he could buy people's hearts and make it easier for the people on the island to accept them.

"General Qin is too worried, although Wang Zheng is the king of a country, but his actions are completely devoid of the demeanor of a king, so even on the island, not many people are loyal to him, but because of his series of inappropriate measures, he is hated by the residents of the island, we kill him not only will not offend the people on the island, but will make the people applaud, which will be of great help to us to buy the hearts of the people!"

Qin Qiong sent people to gather the people on the whole island, gathered all the residents of the island, and then publicly announced the crimes of the former king of Tamna, beheaded him in front of the people of the whole island, and then took the opportunity to announce the abolition of those laws formulated by Wang Zheng and the previous Tamna State, and govern it in accordance with the laws of Sui, abolish the Tamna State, and change its name to Jeju County, which belonged to the rule of the Great Sui, while he himself proclaimed himself the county guard and general, but in fact he was the supreme leader of Jeju County.

After Luo Shixin's 20,000 horses arrived, the strength of the Sui army reached 30,000, and Qin Qiong followed Liu Zhi's suggestion, while sending soldiers to assist the people in reclaiming wasteland, while sending a fleet to Shandong and Jianghuai to absorb the population, the Central Plains broke out in war, and at this time Wang Shichong and Li Mi had already broken out a fierce battle around the control of Luoyang City, so a large number of people hiding near Luoyang also began to escape, so it is very easy to absorb refugees, although the fleet of the Sui army is not large, There are only more than 100 ships, from the coastal area of the Great Sui to and from Jeju Island, it takes more than half a month at a time, however, because the number of refugees in the Central Plains is very large, so basically every time they can receive seven or eight thousand or even tens of thousands of people to come, after a long time, even Yang Guang, the Yang Emperor of the Sui Dynasty who was in Jiangdu, also knew that there was a fleet of people transporting people overseas, but he didn't know where these people were transported, and most of the people transported were refugees, if these people fled to the south, they also needed to be vigorously settled by the imperial court. Otherwise, they will easily become homeless, and once they become homeless, then it will be easy to gather people to rebel and harass the local area like in the north, so he would like to have fewer refugees.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui attached great importance to the people's livelihood, the population and the people's lives, vigorously improved the people's livelihood and infrastructure, equalized the land, changed taxes, and reduced a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so that the people could quickly recover from the turmoil of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the country's national strength gradually accumulated and strengthened during this time.

And to the period of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, he attached far less importance to the people's livelihood than his father, he was so happy, after ascending to the throne, he was eager to launch a war to establish his own merits, so he annexed Tuyuhun, sent troops to the Western Regions, divided the two Turks, and conquered Goguryeo in the east, a series of foreign wars also followed, the combat effectiveness of the Sui army is very strong, its strength lies in the fact that they often fight, almost constant wars, plus the support of strong national strength, the weapons and equipment of the Sui army, especially the equipment such as armor and protective gear, have made rapid progress, The Mingguang armor of the Tang Army was produced during this period.

In such a good situation, it is not impossible to start a foreign war, but Emperor Yang of Sui is obviously a little anxious.

However, this matter can be big or small, regardless of it, it is definitely not possible, and it coincides with the inexplicable disappearance of the empire's army in Shandong, although Dou Jiande claimed that the Sui army in Shandong was completely annihilated by his general Liu Heimin, but there is no exact eyewitness, and the spies of the Sui army did not collect any news of the battle between the two sides in Shandong, but found that the Sui army had collected a lot of ships before disappearing, which made Emperor Yang of Sui a little puzzled, could it be that this Sui army ran overseas, And then came back to the Central Plains to absorb the population and want to develop themselves?

In order to investigate this matter, Yang Guang sent the navy Dajiang to protect his son, and led his navy fleet to investigate, mainly focusing on the coastal areas of Shandong, to see if he could find the whereabouts of the Sui army, and by the way, to harass and reconnoiter the military intelligence of Dou Jiande and others.

After coming to Hu'er to take the order to leave, Emperor Yang of Sui did not pay attention to this matter anymore, because at this time there was a fierce battle in the Central Plains, Yang Tong, the king of Yue who stayed in Luoyang, and Wang Shichong, the general who defended the city, were resisting the attack of hundreds of thousands of Wei troops, and the two sides had exchanged fire at this time, the Wei army won first and then defeated, and at this time it had temporarily withdrawn and prepared to rest, and the weather in the north at this time had reached a severe winter, and it was snowing heavily on a large area of land in the north, such weather was very unfavorable for the attacking side, because the transportation of materials was very difficult, Ox carts and carriages are difficult to move in the snow, so the army's grain, grass and clothing can not be transported to the front line, although the number of Wei troops is quite a lot, the amount of food is also sufficient, but they lack clothing, because there is no cotton clothing at this time, so the soldiers generally need to carry a marching blanket to protect against the cold, this blanket is very thick, wrapped around the body is not very warm, and it is easy to get damp, so the soldiers often hide in the barracks in the winter to roast the fire, basically do not want to go out, even every drill is not willing to do, As a result, there were big problems with the morale and training of the army, which made Li Mi feel very worried.

And what made Li Mi feel even more angry was that there was a strategist named Wei Zheng under him, who kept persuading him to withdraw his troops at this time and let him give up attacking Luoyang, but at this time, the army had been fighting for a long time, wouldn't the withdrawal of troops at this time be wasted? So Li Mi was very unwilling in his heart! (To be continued.) )