Chapter 279: The Alliance of Soldiers
Finally, five days later, Yang Zilu and her husband met on a small island on the Yangtze River. Although this time the alliance is still on a small island on the river, but after two years, the positions of both sides have been reversed, and the previously strong husband is now obviously in a weak position, and his face is much worse, seeing Yang Zilu's angry eyes, but he still restrained his emotions and did not say anything excessive, but in Yang Zilu's opinion, he dared to be angry.
On the other side, Yang Zilu is the opposite, with a red face, looking like a groom official, and the alliance is very atmospheric. Of course, after all, as a winner, Yang Zilu will have a bit of grace in dealing with losers.
The two sides made a bloody alliance and declared that in the future, Wu and Han would be fraternal states and would not invade each other. But this oath is obviously more than the same. The woman's membrane is not much thicker.
But in any case, the Han and Wu kingdoms also nominally became brother states, and the war between the two sides ended. Originally, according to Fucha's idea, Yang Zilu gradually ceded the land north of Gusu City, including Gusu City, within ten days, and Fucha himself handed over the ransom to Yang Zilu in batches within ten days.
But Yang Zilu was unwilling, so Yang Zilu swore an oath. Only then did he gain the trust of the husband, and the husband paid the money first, and Yang Zilu gave up the land north of Gusu City, including Gusu City. When the husband crossed the Yangtze River and saw those tofu scum fortresses, he was immediately so angry that his eyes were round, and he almost vomited blood. He now knows why Yang Zilu must insist on doing this, not because Yang Zilu is ready to cheat him out of ransom and not give him land. It's that Yang Zilu is completely fancy.
However, at this time, the husband was helpless, because the news of the alliance came out, and the morale of the soldiers had already been discharged, and they had been fighting since last year. The soldiers of Wu are homesick, and they are willing to continue fighting, even if they are forced to fight, they are demoralized. The husband had no choice but to swallow this evil breath, and he must take revenge after he happened.
But after Fucha returned to Gusu City, the reality was not as rosy as he thought before. What a lie to try the guts, trying to revenge. All turned into illusion in the beauty country, and the husband really couldn't stand the empty Wu Palace, so he endured it for a long time. Of course, this long time refers to the husband's own feelings, which is actually three days. Whatever the husband decides to recuperate, he will first build Gusutai. So the husband recruited the people again, and in order to build Gusutai faster, the husband used 50,000 people to build it.
The excitement that the people of Wu Guoguo originally arose because of Fucha's return was immediately replaced by resentment because of Fucha's behavior this time. But the disaster of the people of Wu was not over, and the scholars and doctors of Wu returned to their homes, and they immediately became red-eyed, and the money and property that were originally hidden in the family were gone. It is said that the healer in Gusu City was very busy that night, and he had just come out of the door of a certain doctor, and was immediately taken to another doctor for treatment.
Naturally, these scholars were not willing to count it themselves, and when they learned that a quarter of their wealth had been obtained by the untouchables, the scholars immediately turned red-eyed, and they united to beg the husband to take back the wealth from the untouchables there with tears and snot at the court meeting. Wang Sunluo and a group of people of insight naturally vigorously opposed it.
But as Yang Zilu expected, the greed of the scholar class has made them ignore everything, and even things that Yang Zilu did not expect have happened. A doctor who objected to the recovery of the goods from the countrymen was killed on his way home. And I don't know who killed him, and the murderers have fled and don't know where to go. However, it is obvious who did it, which immediately made the already weak opposition group immediately mute, and Wang Sunluo is still insisting on his opinion.
However, the husband can no longer take care of Wang Sunluo's opinion, and the doctor's action has sounded a wake-up call for the husband. As the saying goes, people die for money, and birds die for food. For the sake of this quarter of the wealth, these scholars and nobles dared to kill the doctors, and they would rebel if they didn't do it well.
The husband calmed the resentment of the scholars and nobles, and although he knew the danger, he still agreed to their request. However, the husband is not stupid, he knows what kind of virtue these doctors under his command are, so the husband sent Wang Sun Luo to be responsible for this matter, but his people still have to use this ordinary scholar doctor, after all, Wang Sun Yu is just one. Naturally, these scholars and doctors had set Wang Sun Yu in the air, originally wanting to take a quarter of their wealth from the untouchables in their eyes.
But people's greed is like an abyss that can never be filled, and in order to make up for their losses, the scholars began to take wealth from the people who did not belong to them, which made many people of Wu destitute and even had to sell their sons and daughters. As a result, the class contradictions in Wu became more acute. Wang Sunluo naturally went to the husband to complain, but the husband had no choice but to pretend to be stupid and couldn't see anything, which made Wang Sunluo feel very sad.
But the disaster of Wu is not over, but it is intensifying. Because the wealth of ordinary Chinese people in Wu has shrunk severely, the purchasing power has naturally dropped significantly, and most of the small traders have gone bankrupt and have to change careers. But that's all there is to the land, and that's all there is to work. As a result, some people began to be idle and became so-called rangers, which led to a surge in rangers in the Wu Kingdom.
Under the hint of Yang Zilu, Jiantai took the opportunity to play the slogan of robbing the rich and helping the poor, and encouraged the rangers to rob the nobles.
For a time, the crime of Wu increased sharply, and in order to protect himself, the scholars of Wu State on the one hand had the number of private soldiers in their own country, and on the other hand, they hoped that the husband would organize soldiers to arrest these people. At this time, Wu did not get the slightest rest and recuperation, but recruited a lot of soldiers to maintain stability. But this is like a cycle of evil surnames, the increase in soldiers has also led to an increase in military spending, where is the increased military spending? Naturally, ordinary people came, which made the already depressed economy of Wu even more bleak, more people went bankrupt, and coupled with the hatred of the aristocracy, they became the so-called rangers who 'robbed the rich and helped the poor'.
The big businessmen also had to withdraw from the state of Wu, first, at this time the state of Wu could no longer sell the goods, and the simple purchase of export, but increased the cost of freight, some of which could not be counted. Second, those rangers in Wu State are not all righteous just now, most of them are bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, playing the slogan of robbing the rich and helping the poor, and bullying businessmen. After all, compared with the nobles, the number of private soldiers of the merchants, or after the robbery, the strength of the government's use of troops to arrest them is much worse than that of the nobles.
But at this time, Fucha had not yet woken up, and he was bent on building Gusutai as soon as possible.
At this time, Yang Zilu led his troops to settle accounts with Gou Jian in Tianmu Mountain, but Gou Jian was not stupid, taking advantage of the time when Yang Zilu had no time to take care of him, he took about 10,000 Chinese people and 3,000 gentlemen's army to take refuge in the Chu people. Gou Jian still has some skills, and when he went to Chu Guoguo, he met Ling Yin Zixi, and let Zixi sympathize with Gou Jian's experience with tears and snot. In addition, the Yue State has been an important chess piece of the Chu State to contain the Wu State since ancient times, and the friendship between the two sides has been for hundreds of years.
Zixi placed Gou Jian in Peng, which is now the area of Jiujiang, but in ancient times it was a lake of the Yangtze River. Go south here, it doesn't take long to meet one of the tributaries of the Yangtze River, go upstream along it, that is, Bai Gongsheng opened up the road to the country of Gumi, and now the road has been opened up a fork, to the south is the original country of Gumi, to the east, there is not much distance is the upper reaches of Zhejiang, when Goujian was to go here to the country of Chu.
And Zixi placed Gou Jian here, in fact, he also had the intention of letting Gou Jian defend the southern frontier of Chu for him. Of course, these are all later words, and at this time, Yang Zilu didn't know that Gou Jian was placed in the place of 'Peng'. I just know that Gou Jian took some of the countrymen to Chu State. Yang Zilu can only lead the troops to leave in a huff, he can't lead the troops to kill the Chu State!
Back in Huiji City, after Yang Zilu gave a reward, he announced that the army would rest for ten days. After that, some of the soldiers and their families will move to the Wuyuan area to guard against the Wu State.
But no matter what, compared to the people of Wu who lived in dire straits, the people of Han were much happier.
Following Yang Zilu back, the soldiers' money bags were bulging. As for the family members of the soldiers who died in the war, Yang Zilu also used the three million money he got from his husband as a basis to take care of their children until they were 16 years old.
Immediately afterwards, Yang Zilu placed 70,000 Qi prisoners of war separately, and each of them was allocated 50 acres of land. In addition, Yang Zilu also encouraged women to marry these prisoners of war, especially now that there are more women than men in the Han Kingdom.
This is not caused by Yang Zilu, but the war between Gou Jian and Fucha at the beginning, so that tens of thousands of women are widowed, although eight years have passed, there are still some women who are widowed. In addition, most of the Chinese people taken away by Gou Jian are men, after all, it is very difficult to cross the mountains and mountains with the old and weak women and children, and this is a part of women.
Yang Zilu was handed over to Zigong and a few students of Confucius to be responsible for these things, and Yang Zilu was afraid that Confucius would oppose it, after all, according to his memory, it was a Confucian idea to encourage women to be widowed, and in the end it became that women could not even show their heads. Yang Zilu didn't want Confucius not to oppose this, but encouraged Zigong to do a good job.
After Yang Zilu learned about the report of the remnant bamboo, he was dumbfounded, what is this? In fact, Yang Zilu didn't know that encouraging women to be widowed was advocated by Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In this day and age, remarriage is a very normal thing. Even because of the war, many vassal states encouraged women to remarry and have more children in order to maintain the country's population. So when it came to remarriage, Confucius was very open-minded.
(To be continued)