"Heavy?" Zhao Wende sneered: "Gong Lu, you were also an official in Shaanxi at the beginning. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Inspector Yang appeased the thieves, but the court had no silver taels, so he had to sell salt to raise money, what happened to him? You should have heard of the people behind it, right? As a result, the strategy of appeasement failed, and the thieves crisscrossed more than ten provinces, spending tens of millions of food and salaries, and millions of dead. How can a family cry like crying all the way? ”

"This-" Lu Boqi was dumbfounded for a moment, he naturally knew that what Zhao Wende said just now was the truth, but after all, he was also an official eunuch and a gentleman, and he had long been accustomed to those things over the years, and Liu Cheng had almost uprooted the entire gentry class like him, and he had never even dreamed of it. He hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Jiansheng, I also know that what you said is reasonable, but everything in this world can't be rushed, otherwise it will inevitably backfire, although there are only four or five hundred people on this list, but their relatives and friends are all over the world, if you act rashly, I am afraid that there will be too many enemies, and it will be quite unfavorable to the great cause of King Jin, right?"

"Lu Gong, Lu Gong!" Hearing Lu Boqi's answer, Zhao Wende shook his head and smiled: "Aren't you coercing King Jin?" If it weren't for you, with just this one sentence, the King of Jin would have been able to punish his clan! ”

Lu Boqi hurriedly defended: "I, I am also out of good intentions!"

"There is a scale under the dragon's throat, and if a man has a baby, he will kill. The human lord also has reverse scales, what is the identity of King Jin now? How can it be the same as in the past? When Zhao Wende said this, his expression was already extremely serious: "Gong Lu, you are a loyal elder, I will say some things directly." You and I are only the capital of the Chinese people, if you have to meet the king of Jin, the position is not the state and county, you can have today's power is not your own strength, but it is caused by luck, and people have self-knowledge! ”

When Lu Boqi heard this, he was already sweating profusely, and Zhao Wende's meaning was very clear: You and I are both average, and you are on the right side to get mixed today, but don't be so confused that you sit on the opposite side of Jinshen and Liu Cheng, and hurriedly said: "I don't mean that-"

"Lu Gong!" Zhao Wende interrupted Lu Boqi's words and said with a smile: "Am I still the villain who waits for the King of Jin to slander?" I'm just reminding you. Besides, after so many years, didn't King Jin plan and then move? You don't think that King Jin didn't leave a back move, right? ”

"And a trick?"

"Naturally, there is a back-up move!" Zhao Wende took out a few more pieces of paper from his sleeve and handed them over: "Lu Gong, look! ”

As soon as Lu Boqi read the two lines, his hands trembled, and he said, "This, this, isn't this to—"

"Yes, it's going to cut off the life of the gentry in the world!" Zhao Wende sneered: "But it also restrained their lives, as soon as this order comes out, it is too late for the gentry in the world to protect themselves, where is the time to go against the King of Jin?" ”

If Lu Boqi was still sweating profusely, then he would breathe more than the dead now. Originally, several decrees were written on those pieces of paper: abolishing the untouchables, abolishing the artisan households, prohibiting slavery, prohibiting the landlord from selling the land together with the tenants, prohibiting the landlord from restricting the personal freedom of the tenants, and the equality of the four people; As well as strictly check whether the land exempted by the gentry is exceeded, as well as the historical tax arrears, if it is found that the tax arrears exceed three stone of grain, or more than ten taels of silver, they will be deprived of their fame and confiscated property for auction to offset the taxes!

After about half a sound, Lu Boqi grabbed Zhao Wende's arm as if he was crazy, and said in a loud voice: "Jiansheng, how can this work, I want to write a letter to King Jin, I want to meet King Jin!" ”

"Lu Gong!" Zhao Wende's voice was not loud, but the content inside made Lu Boqi immediately let go of his hand: "Before parting, King Jin had already told me that these laws and regulations cannot be changed by a single word, and they will only become stricter and stricter in the future, and there will never be a little relaxation!" King Jin finally told me that he would rather kill all the soldiers in the world than make the slightest concession! ”

"This is against the world's scholars!"

"So what?" Zhao Wende sneered: "Could it be that the Four Books and Five Classics can still stop the Jin King's bird cannons, strong bows and crossbows, and ironclad cavalry?" The Tartars, the thieves, the pirates, the frontier soldiers, and the Franky under his command didn't take those things seriously. And think about it, which of those gentry doesn't have hundreds or thousands of domestic slaves in their family? Shade thousands of acres of land? If it weren't for the prestige of the imperial court, would they be able to suppress the house slaves below? Will others willingly put their own property in their name? I don't think they can even collect the tenants' rent, right? ”

Zhao Wende was speechless for a moment, he was also a person who had been admitted to the ten-year cold window, so he naturally knew that Zhao Wende's words were not false. Many people will find a very strange phenomenon when they read ancient Chinese history, once the central government collapsed during the Qin and Han dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the local heroes could immediately organize an army with considerable combat effectiveness, or divide one side, and even gain a considerable advantage over the surrounding barbarians; In the Tang and Song dynasties, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, once the central government was finished, it collapsed, and the locally temporarily organized army was vulnerable to both the rogue and the surrounding barbarians. Some people interpret it as the decline of the martial spirit of the Chinese nation under the suppression of autocratic imperial power, but in fact this is just a completely wrong interpretation. It is important to know that the military is highly organized violence, and the greatest impact on the strength of its combat effectiveness is not the strength of the individual, but the organizational strength of the group. From the Qin and Han dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ming and Qing dynasties, the social structure of ancient China underwent profound changes. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the system of selecting officials by the state was the system of inspection and examination, and the system of nine products and zhongzheng, and from the Sui and Tang dynasties, the imperial examination system gradually became the main way for the state to select talents. There is no doubt that the imperial examination system is a more advanced and fairer system than the systems such as the inspection examination and the Jiupin Zhongzheng. However, under the system of probation and the nine products of the central government, it is easy to appear that the scholars who have been officials for generations, and these scholars occupy a large amount of economic and human resources at the grassroots level by virtue of their privileges, and once the central power collapses, they can immediately form an army with the patriarch as the commander, the children as the generals, and the subordinates as the soldiers. Under the imperial examination system, due to the high degree of uncertainty in intelligence, it is rare for a certain family to have members who continue to become officials for a long time, wealth and power are highly mobile, and it is difficult to appear at the grassroots level as strong as in the Middle Ages, so once the central power collapses, it will take a long time for the local government to have a core to complete the integration of resources and establish a highly organized military force. In other words, the imperial examination system actually strengthened the centralization of imperial power at the cost of opening the channels of power to the Shu landlord class and providing military protection to the state, thereby strengthening the centralization of power. In the Yuan Dynasty, when the imperial examination system was weakened, the local military strength was greatly restored, and the most powerful enemy of the peasant rebel army was not the central army of the Yuan, but the "righteous army" composed of powerful landlords; Also in the Ming Dynasty, the Tusi region, which did not have an imperial examination system, was able to provide a fairly strong military force (such as the famous white pole soldiers), not because of the strength of the individual, but because of the high degree of organization of its social structure. (Weber makes an analogy here, the same is the arrears of rent and taxes, the landlord of the Ming Dynasty generally sent a piece to the yamen, and asked the officials to drag the tenants to play the board and sit in the class room, at this time the state is on the side of the landlord, without the power of the state, the landlord himself often has no way to take the tenants.) In the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the peasant households were the tribes of the Haoqiang, and even the people belonged to the local Haoqiang, and many times the state tried to prevent the Haoqiang from infringing on the yeoman farmers. It is not difficult to see that the relationship between the Shu landlords and the feudal state in the Ming and Qing dynasties has become more harmonious, and there is no longer the fierce conflict between the imperial power and the local tyrants in the Han Dynasty. ）

"Hey!" After thinking for a long time, Zhao Wende sighed and said, "Jiansheng, you are also a scholar, why do you want to do such a thing?" King Jin, he trusts you so much, if you give you a hard advice, he won't disobey you! ”

"Lu Gong, two reasons!" Zhao Wende sneered: "First, the King of Jin is right to do this, the Ming Dynasty got such a field, the biggest problem is that in these scholars, they have so many rights but do not fulfill a little obligation, how can the country not weaken after a long time?" You have also seen that the Ming Dynasty is not without money and food, but even the 300,000 combatable soldiers are stretched! Why was King Jin able to raise such a tiger and wolf army? It's not that his subordinates don't have to support these readers? ”

"And what is the reason for that?"

"Naturally, you and I are both good!" Zhao Wende said with a smile: "King Jin has already said that once it is executed, the patriarch has the priority to buy their property!" ”

Lu Boqi was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"Lu Gong, think about it, if these people are in arrears for more than ten years, where can they get cash for a while? At this time, their property will be confiscated and auctioned off to pay off the arrears and interest! ”

"You're saying we can buy these properties first?"

"Not bad!" Zhao Wende smiled: "Gong Lu, you understand. In fact, not only us, but also the soldiers who have served King Jin for so many years can also get a piece of the pie. Think about it, this is a change of dynasty and groundbreaking, if there are no hundreds of thousands of heads on the ground, how can it be worthy of such a big event? ”

Hearing this, Lu Boqi immediately made a decision: "Okay, I'll discuss it with Gonggong Hu tomorrow and use the seal as soon as possible." But is this going to be rolled out all at once? ”

"Naturally not, there are not so many people, and there is no need to offend too many people at once, start with Jingshi, and then Beizhili, and start with one place when you occupy one place!" Speaking of this, Zhao Wende said in a low voice: "Gong Lu, keep it a secret, I haven't told you anything!" ”

Lu Boqi smiled knowingly: "Fangcai? Aren't we talking about the Qingqi people of the Aromatic Building? ”

Nine gates.

Wu Sangui stood on the top of the hill and looked eastward, and there were some mountains on that side, about ten miles away, and there were faintly many fires. He knew that there was a great army facing each other on both sides of the rocky beach, and from time to time there was a cannon shot, and he turned around, and the dotted torches were strung together in a line, and walked on the winding mountain road, sometimes blocked by some hills, hoping not to attract the attention of the enemy!

"General Wu, how far is Jiumen Pass?" Suppilon asked in a low voice.

"Climb over the hill in front of you and you're there!" Wu Sangui replied in a very affirmative tone, he looked at the sky and added, "It's definitely no problem before dawn!" ”

"That's good!" He turned around and said in a deep voice to the soldiers behind him: "Pass on, speed up your pace, you must arrive before dawn!" ”

Wu Sangui heard a low herald voice floating in the night sky, looked at this Jurchen warrior, and said in a low voice: "The Jiumen Pass is very steep, if it doesn't work, then there is only-"

"Then attack hard!" Kupilon smiled: "Wealth is meant to be exchanged for life, what is there to be afraid of?" You and I are not dead in bed! ”

Wu Sangui was inspired by the other party's words, nodded, tightened his belt, and said, "Yes, but it's not like I'm dying here!" ”

As Wu Sangui expected, when he arrived at the Nine Gates, a piece of fish belly white had already appeared on the horizon. Luckily, the fog started to pick up at this point. In the blend of white fog and twilight, the Great Wall is silent, with only the occasional sound of birdsong and inquiry, and no human figure is visible. There are still flags waving in the cold wind on the top of the walled gate, and it is also very hazy. Most of the soldiers in the city were still asleep, and there was neither the sound of the trumpets of dawn nor the shouts. Wu Sangui immediately ordered his soldiers to cut down the timber necessary for the tools to climb the city in the forest not far away.

Soon, the ladder was built, and Wu Sangui took the selected fifty soldiers to cross the ditch with a ladder and came to the city wall, and then put the ladder up, and the first one climbed up to the top of the city, so smoothly that he almost couldn't believe that all this was true. After waiting for everyone to come up, Wu Sangui immediately ordered his subordinates to control the nearby enemy platforms, these fortresses seven or eight meters above the city wall can not only form side fire on the besieging enemy, but also suppress the enemy who has already landed in the city - the most important thing is that as long as the enemy platform is not occupied, it is impossible to go down to the city to open the city gate and enlarge the army into the city.

A few minutes later, a soldier with blood on his hands excitedly reported to Wu Sangui that the enemy was already in hand, and at the same time brought even better news - the guard general and most of his personal soldiers were in the village below the mountain, and they did not expect to be attacked here.

"Very good, quickly open the city gate and let the brothers outside into the city!" Wu Sangui tried his best to suppress his excitement, it seems that luck is still on his side!