Gao Yingxiang and the others were puzzled, but He Renlong in the city knew it, and said angrily: "Fuck, Zuo Liangyu and Zu Kuan, the two kings, they want to preserve their strength, they don't want to be the first to fight with the thief army, they are waiting for others to fight with the thief army first and then go up to pick up the cheap." ”

Gao Jie smiled secretly in his heart beside him, but said in his mouth: "General He, I would have known what I said and wouldn't have told them." ”

He Renlong was annoyed in his heart, but that sentence was that he wanted to be generous, and it didn't hurt to let Gao Jie say it, and it was too late to regret it now. He looked at the thieves outside the city, and snorted coldly: "Even if they don't do it, it doesn't matter, I have five thousand elite soldiers under my command, and it is no problem to hold Luoyang, although the thief army is numerous, it is impossible to capture Luoyang, as long as it drags on for ten days and a half months, the main force led by the governor arrives, there will be no problem." ”

On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang invited to fight again and again, but Zuo Liangyu and Zu Kuan retreated all the way east, and in the afternoon, Zuo Liangyu retreated to Xuchang, and Zu Kuan also retreated to Zhengzhou, and the two simply ignored Luoyang.

The thief army did not dare to attack Luoyang rashly, but surrounded Luoyang and stationed it outside the city.

He Renlong ordered the soldiers to light torches at the head of the city and illuminate the city as if it were day, so as to prevent the thieves from stealing the city at night. There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, He Renlong got up to take a look, but saw that the outside of the city was empty, and the thief army had disappeared without a trace. It turned out that the 50,000 thief army had already left the camp overnight, because this time the thief army did not take the old and weak women, so the night march was also extremely fast, and the night effort had gone out more than ten miles away, He Renlong hurriedly sent scouts to chase west, looking for the traces of the thief army.

He Renlong sent people to the west. Originally, he thought that the thief army must have retreated to the west, but this time he guessed wrong, if the thief army went west, it was equivalent to returning to the encirclement network of officers and soldiers, and there was no point at all, what they had to do was to use speed to tear apart the encirclement network of officers and soldiers, how could it be possible to go west?

At this time, under the guidance of Zhu Yuanzhang, the main force of the thief army was marching southward.

After getting rid of the old and weak women, the thief army can travel a hundred miles in a day. On the night of the second day. The thief army took Ruyang County with lightning speed, this small county town only had 200 officers and soldiers, 800 villagers, and saw 50,000 thieves coming all over the mountains. The officers and soldiers were so frightened that they peed their pants. In just one hour, the city was destroyed.

Night. The thief army rested in Ruyang County for a night, replenished their energy, and continued to advance to the southeast. A day later, it fell into Baofeng County and approached the south of Xuchang. Zuo Liangyu closed the city gate, refused to go out of the city, and sat back to watch the county seat being broken. The thief army shook another shot in Xuchang and continued to march south, and two days later, came to Runing Mansion.

Runing Mansion is located in the south of Henan Province, two hundred miles south of Xuchang, including most of today's Zhumadian area, as well as part of Xinyang, where there have been many floods since ancient times, and the people lived in hardship...... It's really laughable.

Zhu Yuanzhang's army, as the vanguard of the joint camp of the thief army, took the lead in coming to the land of Runing Mansion, only to see that a large area of land here was abandoned, and there was no family within a radius of several miles, and the soldiers and horses were walking on the road, still entering the dead city.

Xu Renjie couldn't help but be surprised: "Have there been thieves here who have come to loot before?" Why do you see desolation and not burned villages? ”

"No, the thieves haven't come here to loot!" Zhu Yuanzhang said bitterly: "It is the royal family who plundered here. ”

"Royalty?" Xu Renjie was puzzled.

Although he was puzzled, Wang Er, Xue Hongqi and the others knew what this sentence meant, and the two couldn't help but ask together: "Here is a feudal vassal king?" ”

"Yes, the sixth generation of Chongwang, Chongshu King Zhu Youqiao is in charge here." Zhu Yuanzhang said unhappily: "Since the Chongwang family was divided into Runing, it has been six generations and two hundred years, and for two hundred years, Chongwang has been occupying the land of Runing, and by this time, he has occupied more than 6,000 hectares of land......

"More than 6,000 hectares?" Xu Renjie was taken aback and almost fell off the horse.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very sad in his heart, but he had to say this clearly, and he said seriously: "How much land can Runing Mansion have in total?" King Chong's family occupies 6,000 hectares, how do you say the people here live? ”

Wang Er snorted coldly next to him and said: "The land belongs to Chongwang's mansion, and the people can only be tenants for Chongwang, and it is just a matter of ordinary years, at most eat less, wear thinner, and live a better life, once there is a flood and drought, the tenants will have a hard livelihood." Now that it's been eight years of drought, the tenants are afraid that they're all dead, right? Runing has become a wasteland, and it is a matter of course. ”

Only then did Xu Renjie understand why Wang Er and Xue Hongqi, two people with not very good brains, could understand Zhu Yuanzhang's words, but he couldn't understand them. It turned out to be limited by his identity, after all, he was a surplus businessman, and he didn't know enough about the oppressed people at the bottom of the society, and he didn't understand the things about the poor. Wang Er and Xue Hongqi understood, so as soon as they heard Zhu Yuanzhang say that the royal family had looted here, they immediately thought of going here to divide the vassal king and occupy the land.

Xu Renjie said a little embarrassedly: "This Chongwang is not greedy enough to swallow elephants, and he occupies too much, if it is me, I will be satisfied with 6,000 acres." But he occupies 6,000 hectares, tsk......"

Wang Er's eyes widened and said: "Bullying men and women and forcibly occupying land, even if it is six acres, let alone six thousand acres." Generalissimo, I said ugly things in the front, if you also learn from these vassal kings to occupy the land and take away people's wives and daughters, I will beat you with a big fist. ”

Xu Renjie's face showed embarrassment, and he said curtly: "I don't do these things, my family can make money every day by relying on rice, why do you want to do those dirty things again?" Oh no, it's turned to a taro line now. ”

Xue Hongqi saw that he was embarrassed, and said helpfully: "Second brother Wang, what are you doing to him?" This monkey ...... Cough...... Although this guy has a hippie smile and an oily tone, he is still a good guy in general. ”

Wang Erdaqi: "Huh? You actually helped him speak? Didn't they usually fly up and kick him down? The sun is coming out in the west today? ”

Xue Hongqi was ashamed and quickly shut up.

Xu Renjie was in a good mood when he saw Xue Hongqi helping him speak, and the embarrassment just now was swept away, and he said: "In the future, we can't set up these kings and other things in the places we occupy, otherwise it will really hurt the people." ”

This time it was Zhu Yuanzhang's turn to be embarrassed, and he coughed lightly and said, "Hmm! When we had settled the world, we ordered all the vassal kings' lands to be given to the people to cultivate. ”

Wang Er asked again, "Then what should these vassal kings do?" Kill with a knife? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly, and thought secretly: These are my children and grandchildren, some of them are not angry, and it doesn't hurt to kill them with one knife. But if you can't kill all your children and grandchildren, how can you have a reason to make yourself desperate? You have to choose a few decent children and grandchildren to keep, alas...... We'll talk about that then.

The army marched to the left of Runing Mansion, near the city of Fucheng, and finally it was not so desolate, and villages began to appear along the way, and there were also a small number of people living in it, and when they saw the arrival of Zhu Jun, these people were not very afraid. It turned out that these people were too poor to survive anyway, and there was no difference between dying at the hands of drought and dying at the hands of thieves. They have long heard that the thieves in the world are rampant, but they have not reached Runing, and now when they see the arrival of the thief army, they show a look of "kill me, give me a good time", and they look very single.

The more daring ones simply ran to Zhu Jun's side and shouted loudly: "King, do you still accept people into the gang?" Count me in! ”

Zhu Jun's junior colonels smiled and said, "Of course I accept it." ”

Those who were bold went back to the house, came out with a small burden, and threw themselves into the Zhu army, they had no land, because the land in this place belonged to the king, how could they have their share? So packing all your belongings is just a cloth bag, which is sad.

Because Zhu Jun's military formation was neat, unlike other rogue armies that could insert people casually, these people followed behind Zhu Jun's ass, or on both sides of the army, and followed casually, and within half a day, there were hundreds of them.

When it was time to camp at night, the soldiers of the Zhu army specially built a temporary camp for them, and distributed some military food for these people to eat, but I didn't expect a cry to come out of the camp, and some people said in tears: "We helped King Chong work all day long, but we couldn't get a few mouthfuls of food...... Woo......"

Someone next to him said, "Alas...... I don't know who the thief is......"

"It was the right thing to do to join the army of thieves...... I hope that I will have food every day in the future, and even if I die, it is worth ......."

The sighs of the people fell on Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, and they felt extremely sad. After he established the Ming Dynasty, in order for his descendants to live a good life, he divided the kings and gave them land, and also stipulated that these descendants should all share the land, so that they could live a good life without working.

At that time, his children and grandchildren were still few, such a policy was not a problem, I did not expect the speed of the clan to give birth to children is comparable to a mouse, from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, more than two hundred years, the number of the clan swelled to hundreds of thousands, these people do not produce, but want to live a good life, reach out to the court to extort excessively, and rely on the identity of the clan to bully men and women, forcibly occupy the land, hundreds of thousands of people each share a piece of land, to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the land in the world has fallen into the pockets of the vassal kings, they do not have to pay taxes...... In other words, seven or eight out of ten of the country's land is not taxed, can the country's finances not collapse?

The division of the clan not only brought great pressure to the country's finances, but also brought great harm to the common people everywhere. If you want to choose which of Zhu Yuanzhang's policies back then was the most stupid, it must be this one. When he wandered in the sky for hundreds of years, he had already been dissatisfied with his own policy, and it was becoming more intense at this time. I only hope that the country has already been settled and these erroneous decrees will be cured as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )