Chapter 0529. Never abandon
"Agree, or disagree?"
This question of Palava silenced everyone, now the rebels in Qunu City are disheartened, and it is a matter of time before the Min State attacks the city, if there are 70,000 returning people as the main force, it is possible to resist it, and drive out all the less than 300,000 residents in the city who are not the same heart as themselves at all, and save some food. [Eye-fast reading book new domain name., initials, previously registered accounts can still be used]
In particular, there were more than 5,000 Kshatriyas among the captives, these people were either army commanders who retreated and left behind by the river, or ambushed captured chariot soldiers in the pursuit battle outside the city, and this time the main force of the rebellion was almost all the old children of the bureaucrats and nobles of the former Ring Dynasty, including the children of the deposed 30 vassal states of Monsata Xiaowang family, and most of the 5,000 Kshatriya warriors were related to these heads, and some were even direct descendants.
If they don't exchange, they are likely to be executed by the Min State, and no one wants to watch their children die.
"Lord Pallava, I can't agree! The hand of the Min State is obviously to consume the food stored in the city, and now that it has defeated Sha Louqi, the Min State has enough financial resources and time to besiege Qunu City, and our food is already stretched, and if we receive another 70,000 people, we will no longer be able to support it for a few days. It was Zheng Lun who was the first to jump out and refuse loudly, and he couldn't help frowning when he heard that all the heads of the chaotic army couldn't help frowning.
"If only we could get people back, then we could get food."
I don't know which brahmin lowered his head and muttered, but Zheng Lun sneered at this sentence, and retorted disdainfully: "Li Jie, the king of Fujian, is not a fool, and ransom people is just a gesture to show his benevolence and righteousness, so there is such a good thing." ”
"Not necessarily, it depends on how much Li Jie, the king of Fujian, attaches importance to these untouchables in the city." Unconvinced, the muttering brahmin got up from his seat and retorted, the speaker had no intention, the listener had a heart, and the thought of the Shiva great brahmin elder sitting beside the Pallava rose in his heart and muttered.
"What if the redeemed person adds the person whom the King of Min particularly wants? Maybe urgently, King Min will also agree! ”
Everyone who said this was stunned, and the next moment, everyone focused their eyes on Zheng Lun who had half of his face, and Zheng Lun's soul was in a big swing, and he jumped up at once, and before he could scream something, the copper rod of the Kshatriya nobleman behind him had smashed into the back of his head......
With the conditions of Pallava and other rebellious nobles, Xiao Sheng and his entourage came out of the encirclement of Qunu City at noon, and in the afternoon, it aroused monstrous discussions in the court of Fujian.
"Impossible! These thieves want to be beautiful, and they want to get people, and they want to get food, Zheng Lun's rebels and a group of traitors have the opportunity to take them, and you must not agree to this condition, His Royal Highness the King of Min! ”
Feng Ge ordered Wang Wei to be the first to jump out, and the veteran Dugu Zhen, who was one step late, simply knelt down on one knee and asked for battle: "Your Highness, please give your subordinates a soldier and horse, and within three days, your subordinates will definitely take back Qunu City for Your Highness." ”
"The last general is going to fight!" As soon as Dugu lost this, Xue Qing, Wang Fangyi, Li Jingye and other generals were all on the ground, the military ministers had monstrous killing intent, and the civil ministers collectively fixed their angry eyes on Xiao Sheng, and the sound of attack continued.
Surrounded in the center of anger, Lao Xiao Sheng was really aggrieved.
It was really with the purpose of consuming the food of the rebels that he entered the city with the conditions of the Min State after some arguments, and Li Jie was willing to exchange 5,000 Kshatriya prisoners and 70,000 prisoners of the rebel army in exchange for 300,000 people in the city to leave the city.
That night, Wu Meiniang's reaction was timely, and she did escape from the encirclement of the rebels in Qunucheng with as many as 190,000 people, but most of these people were scholars, magnates, big businessmen, big businessmen with interests in Fujian, and Tang families, no wonder, people always think of their relatives first in the panic season.
However, Qunucheng has a permanent population of 500,000, plus a floating population of 800,000 people, in addition to the Brahmins, Tianzhu people, family members, there are nearly 300,000 Tianzhu locals, Tang small handicraftsmen, Persian refugees, Tibetan people, etc. are trapped in the city, these rebels can't take care of it at all, there is not enough food to distribute to them, and they come out to give them a way out.
However, Pallava is not stupid, and put forward an exchange condition for this condition, and asked the Fujian State to give 100,000 loads of grain, for fear that the Fujian State would not be exchanged, and the Brahmins such as Pallava took the initiative to hand over all the Tang ministers who rebelled against the Min State in the city, including the traitors who were hated by the whole court, and Zheng Lun in the former imperial history.
Seeing that the city is about to be broken, with such a condition, it is no wonder that the ministers are boiling against the sky, but from head to toe, he Xiao Sheng is just a messenger, and he is also tired of this condition, who did he recruit to provoke whom?
The sound of attack and invitation to fight was chaotic for a while, I don't know who started to slowly calm down, slowly, the ministers in the quarrel all focused their eyes on Li Jie, who was pinching his chin and pondering, and was silent for a long time, until the quiet needle in the simple room could be heard, and Li Jie raised his head.
"Are you waiting for the king to decide?"
Isn't this nonsense? When Jean, the red-eyed ministers did not dare to say it so bluntly, but respectfully bowed in unison, and praised: "Respectfully the Holy Judge!" ”
"So good, what do you think this exchange did?"
A gentle word, but the ministers who had finally calmed down fried the pot again.
"Your Highness, no, this is an enemy!"
"Yes, Your Highness, the rebellion has caused chaos in my Fujian country so far, don't make any more extraneous branches!"
The military generals of Wenchen have all cried admonitions, and the howling advice of fifty or sixty-year-old men is indeed confusing, but Li Jie, who is usually the most tired of waiting, is surprisingly patient for the first time, and just looks at the ministers quietly until they calm down again.
"Okay, now let's talk about the reason for Lone, although Zheng Lun and other traitors are also eager to eat meat and sleep skin, but it is a trivial matter in front of life, if your family is trapped in the city waiting to starve to death, can you still oppose it here so confidently?"
Li Jie's rhetorical question all the people lowered their heads dumbly, people in this era are still simple, even these scholars are no exception, not to mention some local officials in Tianzhu, there are still some profiteers who are exceptions, such as Wang Wei, who is in charge of finance, but before he was unconvinced, Li Jie waved his hand again.
"In the long run, it is not a bad thing to rescue this group of people, I just discussed it in the morning, to build a new capital, there is a lack of manpower, and we can no longer recruit conscripts, with them, our new city will be built more quickly, and even if a person can live for another twenty years, the value created is far higher than 100,000 loads of food, and now we have trapped Qunu City to death, why not wait a few more days?"
"The country of Min is made up of these lives, 300,000 lives! Ladies and gentlemen! ”
Seeing that Li Jie actually bowed and bowed, this made all the hundred or so ministers panic, and they all bowed to the ground with their sleeves bowed, and their neat praise was raised again: "The ministers are at the mercy of His Highness!" ”
Although some ministers were still not convinced, Li Jie was still very happy to persuade most people, looking at Wang Wei, who had a pair of eyes bulging and feeling sorry for food, Li Jie couldn't help but smile and shook his head: "Of course, Lone doesn't plan to accept it all, Xiao Qing, I have to bother you once, tell Pallava that Lone can exchange food for people, however, there are only 10,000 stones, which is Lone's bottom line." ”
Nine-tenths of the province was saved, Wang Wei also breathed a sigh of relief, you must know that most of the grain in Fujian is now transported from Fujian, Linyi and even Southeast Asia, and every stone of grain from the production area to here needs to be consumed more than usual, and the cost is amazing.
"The minister commands." sighed, and the old Xiao Sheng, who had been depressed for a long time, also bowed and bowed.
The conditions were negotiated surprisingly fast, 10,000 stone of grain, Pallava agreed that night, in the middle of the night, the noise resounded through the huge Qunu City, the people in the city did not belong to the rebels, the rebels carried out the last round of looting, the next morning, the Tang army and the rebels were carefully on guard, the trench suspension bridge and the city gate of the Qunu City that had been closed for many days together opened and fell.
The east and south of the city were divided into two passages, and tens of thousands of defeated prisoners lined up in a long line carrying a bag of rice from outside the ditch in the east of the city to slowly enter the city of Qunu, who had been away for a long time, and the noble Brahmin Kshatriya personally greeted him at the door, which excited these Brahmanical fanatics to tremble, but after a while, they found that except for the noble Kshatriya warriors who were greeted, the rest were waiting for themselves, and the Shudra was only called aside to collect the rice bag, and he did not wait for anything.
On the other side, the real skinny, countless hungry people relied on each other and walked out of the Qunu City that had trapped them for many days, some of them were so thin that they only had a layer of skin, and finally they were looted once, these people were completely destitute, and they swayed out of the trench with confusion about the future.
Among these people, the most ironic thing is that there are thousands of Tang people in shackles, Xingyang Zheng's family, Qinghe Boling Cui family, Fanyang Lu family and other big families, especially Xingyang Zheng, almost all the main members of the long house who migrated to Tianzhu were all wiped out.
The Min State divided their huge land with good intentions and gave them the opportunity to enter the court as officials, but because of their insatiable greed, they took risks once and again, but they did not expect that the great wealth was not gained, and after harming countless people of the same clan, they were completely betrayed.
The long crowd did not finish slowly until noon, both sides were afraid of the other party's spies, everyone who entered and exited was on the side of the economy, the noon sun hung high overhead, and the Qunu City gate and the Fujian State trench suspension bridge of the last person who entered and exited were once again pulled up in the creaking sound and closed.
Originally, it was estimated that there would be 300,000 refugees in Fujian, but in fact there were only more than 198,000, and at least 150,000 people had died of hunger in the city.
The loud cry spread to the refugee camp built outside the city, and even the ministers of Fujian who went to condolence were saddened in their hearts, this scene was too miserable.
Whenever the King of Min drove by, the hungry people on the side of the road always put down the bowls, kowtowed like pounding rice, looked at the suffering of all beings, religion finally played some role, one by one, Taoist and Buddhist medical officers hurriedly separated from the team, and were busy diagnosing and treating.
After watching a circle, Li Jie suddenly broke away from the big team, turned around and got on the drum platform, picked up the drumstick, and the ministers beat the drum heavily under the stunned gaze, and the rumbling drum sounded loudly, and it came out of a radius of several miles, and even the victims were stunned to put down the porridge bowl and look over.
"Listen, you are the people of my Min country, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, the Min country will not give up on any of his people! Lone here guaranteed! ”
After beating the drum for a long time, dropping the drumstick, Li Jie looked back and roared out all the depression that had been suffocated in his heart for many days, and the roaring voice echoed far and wide, and after a while, he was greeted by a full ...... of crying.