Chapter 233: Tuoba Civil Strife
In the cool autumn breeze, since Yongjia, the people of Youzhou finally ushered in the first bumper harvest in nearly ten years, and the farmland is full of busy figures. In addition to guiding local farmers to complete the autumn harvest, the government will also be responsible for collecting agricultural taxes.
As Wei Shuo abolished all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the peasant households under his rule only had to pay a certain amount of agricultural taxes in accordance with the principle of 15 taxes and 1 tax, which greatly reduced the burden on the yeoman peasants. Moreover, both the Hanmen and the wealthy families must pay agricultural taxes according to this principle, and in order to curb land annexation, Wei Shuo also levied a progressive land tax on large landowners.
After this transformation, coupled with Weishuo's refinement of the rules for the collection of commercial taxes, Liaodong's fiscal revenue did not decrease due to the reduction of certain tax sources. On the contrary, because of the expansion of the collection objects and the expansion of overseas trade, the financial recovery of Liaodong has increased.
Just when Wei Shuo was busy guiding the autumn harvest in various places, he suddenly received a secret letter from Mo Han from Shengle. In the letter, Mo Han told Wei Shuo in a rather eager tone that civil strife was about to break out in the Tuoba tribe, and let him prepare as soon as possible.
It turned out that under the intentional or unintentional provocation of Mo Han and Liaodong, the relationship between Tuoba Liuxiu and Tuoba Yilu became more and more tense. Some time ago, at the suggestion of Mo Han, Tuoba Yilu gave him his own chariot reward on the grounds that Tuoba Biyan had made meritorious contributions to the management of Daixian Rongchang, and also forced Tuoba Liuxiu to give gifts to Tuoba Biyan in public, in an attempt to determine his status.
Tuoba Liuxiu turned his face in public, ignored Tuoba Yilu's threat, and returned to Xinping City with his own escort. Since then, the father and son have been strangers, Tuoba Yilu has repeatedly summoned Tuoba Liuxiu to Shengle, but Tuoba Liuxiu has refused under various excuses, not only that, but he also reorganized his troops and horses in Xinping, intending to seize the position of Da Dan Yu by force.
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Late at night. Shengle City at the foot of the Great Wall is silent, and a few sounds of cattle, sheep and horses can be heard from time to time in the distance, lingering over the empty and windless grassland, and have not dissipated for a long time.
The Xianbei people in the city had already slept peacefully, but no one expected that this pearl city would be on the edge of the grassland tonight. There will be an unprecedented catastrophe. The bright red blood will soon stain the whole city, and many years later, when the Xianbei people recall everything that happened tonight, they know that the fate of the Xianbei people has changed from this moment on.
Tuoba Liuxiu looked at the dark night and was silent, surrounded by a group of fierce Xianbei warriors. In addition to the excitement and excitement, Tuoba Liuxiu also had a small worry, a kind of worry about the fate of the future. Since he decided on the strategy of seizing the throne by force, he has not been able to sleep soundly for a single day in the past month, and every time he is awakened by nightmares in the middle of the night.
Rao is the right virtuous king of the Tuoba tribe, and Tuoba Liuxiu is also used to seeing strong winds and waves. But it was only at the moment of the coup that he realized that starting a rebellion was not an easy matter.
However, there is no turning back for Tuoba Liuxiu at this point, not to mention that Tuoba Biyan will not let him have a better time in the future, even now it seems that his father Tuoba Yilu is afraid that he will not let him live in peace.
Thinking of this, Tuoba Liuxiu gripped the handle of the knife with his hand, as if he had drawn infinite power from the sword, and even his body couldn't help but tremble.
"Are you all ready?"
"Qiyu Youxian King, 10,000 cavalry have lurked thirty miles away from Shengle City. As long as the Right Virtuous King gives an order, you can kill Sheng Le in half an hour! ”
"Good. Inform everyone to go now! ”
Tuoba Liuxiu's eyes shot a fine light, turned over and led the 10,000 cavalry of the headquarters to drive silently towards Shengle City.
"Drive!"
The sound of horses' hooves broke the silence over the grassland. On the originally dark and silent grassland, there was a black pressure on a fierce cavalry, a chaotic sound of horses' hooves, and the sound of swords, spears and swords colliding. Let the quiet grassland suddenly become noisy.
Less than five miles from Shengle City, the cavalry extinguished the torches, and the ten thousand men and the same number of horses did not make a sound, and when they got closer, they found that the horses were all tied with strips of cloth in their mouths.
10,000 horsemen suddenly came to Shengle City, a city that was still silent and speechless. Suddenly, there was a terrifying shout: "Yes...... Someone is sneaking up, and an enemy is coming, ...... quickly Quickly notify the big order. ”
The news of Sheng Le's attack soon spread to Tuoba Yilu's big tent, he was wearing a single robe, holding a sword in his right hand, and asked the guards who came to report with anger on his face: "Say, who dares to attack my Tuoba tribe in the face of the world's condemnation?" Aren't they afraid of my Tuoba tribe's revenge? ”
"Da Shan Yu, a lot of cavalry troops suddenly appeared outside Shengle City, they cut and killed people when they saw them, and now they are killing here, please Da Shan Yu evacuate quickly!" The guards hurriedly reported the incident to Tuoba Lu.
At this time, Tuoba Yilu didn't realize that it was his son who wanted to rebel against him, thinking that it was just an ordinary rebellion, so he rejected the proposal of the guards with a wave of his hand, and said disapprerovingly: "Just a rebellion, what is there to fear? This is to personally kill this group of rebels, so that I can vent the hatred in my heart. ”
Tuoba Yilu put on armor and held weapons, and led a group of guards out, until he walked to the street, he found that the entire Shengle City had already become a pot of porridge, and there were already torches inside and outside Shengle City, and the figures were longing, the sound of armor and weapons hitting each other, the neighing of horses, the screams of Xianbei people, and all kinds of sounds were in my ears.
Seeing Da Shan Yu come out, some of the defenders automatically moved closer to him, and in less than a moment, nearly a thousand people had gathered. Then Tuoba Yilu led the people to rush towards the place where the shouting of killing was most intense.
As he walked, he asked, "What about Tuoba Biyan?" Where is he? Have you figured out who started the rebellion? ”
"The young master of Tuoba is gone, and the rebels are ...... It's ......"
"Huh?! Who the hell is it? Say it! ”
"Yes...... It's the Right Virtuous King! ”
"What! Tuoba Liuxiu is a rebel! I'm going to arrest you and break your body into pieces! ”
As soon as Tuoba Yilu heard that his son was rebelling against him, he was immediately furious. He didn't like this eldest son in the first place, but now he hated the other party to the core.
Not far from Tuoba Yilu, Tuoba Liuxiu commanded the elite to massacre his own people, and batches of Xianbei people fell under the butcher's knife of their own people. Tuoba Liuxiu raised his eyes and found that a group of cavalry of no less than a thousand people was killing him not far ahead.
And the person who walked in front was his biological father who he had always hated, although he wanted to kill the other party at first, but when he really faced his father, Tuoba Liuxiu was still a little hesitant in his heart.
Tuoba Yilu here also found the eldest son who was leading the soldiers to fight, and as soon as he saw him, he couldn't wait to scold, "You rebel!" If you don't get off your horse and be bound, do you really want to kill your father? ”
Tuoba Yilu's scolding suddenly made some people's faces change suddenly, the situation in front of him is Tuoba Liuxiu occupies the initiative, if Tuoba Yilu says some soft words, maybe he can still stay alive, but he said such things at this critical moment can only further anger Tuoba Liuxiu and force him to take risks.
Sure enough, after listening to Tuoba Yilu's words, Tuoba Liuxiu's cheeks twitched, and a trace of madness suddenly appeared in his eyes, only to see that after he was silent for a moment, he suddenly shouted, "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ”
After Tuoba Liuxiu hit the horse knife and killed Tuoba Yilu, followed by all his henchmen. As soon as the two sides fought, Tuoba Yilu's subordinates were killed and retreated.
Tuoba Liuxiu looked at his disheveled, tired and panting father, a flash of fierceness flashed in his eyes, and he grabbed his saber and slashed at the other party. Perhaps Tuoba Yilu had never had his own son really do it to him, and at this moment he was dumbfounded, and even forgot to fight back.
The big knife flashed a white light in the air, rushing like lightning to slash at Tuoba Yilu's neck, seeing that Tuoba Yilu was about to die on the spot, only to see a guard desperately knock Tuoba Yilu away, and he himself was split in half by Tuoba Liuxiu's knife.
"Poof!"
A burst of hot blood suddenly sprayed Tuoba Yilu's body, and after being aroused by the blood, Tuoba Yilu finally came to his senses, his eldest son really wanted to kill him! After reacting, Tuoba Yilu couldn't help but feel a sadness in his heart, looking at his eldest son who was like a wounded wolf, he felt so strange and indifferent! (To be continued.) )