Chapter 117: Ambition
Jingzhao County's devastating and dry style of successive extermination of bandits created an illusion for the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang.
That is, it is really easy to suppress bandits, and Li Zhongwen, who is the happiest in jumping, is still Li Mi's uncle! As a result, it is vulnerable.
As for Li Mi, many people said it and said with a contemptuous smile: "As soon as the army arrived, they all knelt down and surrendered. ”
As a result, the military and civilians of Luoyang despised Li Mi, and the noble families all thought that Li Mi was a mobile credit, and they enthusiastically signed up to join the army, and they all wanted to share this huge credit.
"Wei Shangshu has just come back from Daxing City, and the journey is tiring, so Wei Shangshu will be allowed to take a day off, go back and have a good rest!" Yang Tong no longer gave Wei Jin a chance to speak, and said directly.
"Thank you, King Yue!" Wei Jin stopped talking and thanked him.
Soon Wei Jin left these behind, and it was not his own business anyway.
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Xingluocang is located in today's Gong County, and the construction began in the second year of Daye.
It is located in a hilly area, the situation is dangerous, the soil is hard and dry, and it is convenient for water transportation.
From the Luohe River, it can reach Luoyang, the capital of the time, up to Tongguan and Chang'an in Shaanxi Province against the Yellow River, and up to Shandong to Haikou along the river, and at the same time communicate with the Grand Canal, and connect Jiangdu to the south.
Xingluocang has convenient transportation and dangerous terrain, and is an important strategic place in the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Guang hoarded all the grain transported from Jiangnan through the Grand Canal here. There are more than 20 miles around Cangcheng, a total of 3,000 cellars, each cellar stores 8,000 quintals of grain, and 2,000 officers and soldiers are set up to defend the granary.
Xingluo warehouse can hold about 24 million quintals of grain, which is the largest granary in the country.
Li Mi had already taken a fancy to this place and had been persuading Zhai Rang to attack Xingluocang.
"The people are hungry, and the amount of grain stored in Luokou is huge and easy to attack. If Xingluocang is captured, the Wagang army calls on the heroes of the world to use the grain, and the leaders of the various uprisings in the world must respond to the Wagang army and obey the orders of the village owner, and then the village owner can be called the emperor and pacify the Central Plains. ”
Li Mi used the imperial throne to impress Zhai Rang.
Li Mi and Zhai Rang led 7,000 elite soldiers from Yangcheng to the north, crossed Fangshan, and attacked Xingluocang from Luokou.
The mottled city wall, still with a little brown blood remaining, and the smell of blood is fragrant, indicating that this place has undergone a baptism of fire not long ago.
It was captured! Even standing in front of the mountain-high granary, the bandits still have the feeling of dreaming.
Zhai Rang was extremely proud in his heart, he was blinded by lard at that time, followed Li Mi's advice, and came to attack Luokoucang.
Where did he know that the Dao had really been attacked, tens of millions of deniers of grain were placed in front of him, and the huge feeling of happiness made him feel like he was floating in the clouds.
After letting those brothers who were accustomed to living a hard life eat for two days, the people of Wagang finally realized that they could not eat all this food in a hundred years.
What to do if you can't finish eating!
"Open the warehouse and release the grain!"
Historically, every rebel has used a common trick, that is, to open a warehouse and release grain.
The government is corrupt and the people are hungry. Killing corrupt officials, opening warehouses and releasing grain, the people who had never eaten a full meal suddenly tasted sweet and delicious food, and every stomach was round.
The mellow flavor of wheat and the feeling of eating a full meal make the poor people who have been hungry all their lives never forget, and for this feeling, the people who have suffered all their lives can work hard for it.
Standing on the city wall, looking at the dense crowd in front of Xingluo Cang, Li Mi nodded with satisfaction.
He was emaciated, and his long exile life made his originally round figure quickly deflated, but it was even more mentally abnormal......
"The lord is wise! Opening a warehouse and releasing grain will definitely attract more displaced people to join Wagang, which is probably no less than 200,000 people! ”
Behind Li Mi, Mr. Yin, dressed in green clothes, looked at the terrifying crowd below and exclaimed.
"The faint monarch has no way, the levy is tyrannical, the Xingluo warehouse has countless grains, and the ordinary people are on the verge of starvation, and the Yang family can't do it for a few days.
Li Mi looked at the people competing for food and sneered.
"This world is still saved by the lord!" Mr. Yin complimented.
"Ha Lu Ha ......" Li Mi laughed loudly, and his mood was also extraordinary.
"How's that going?" Li Mi asked.
Mr. Yin looked left and right, and Qin Qiong, who served as the guard, willingly separated everyone, leaving enough space for Li Mi and Mr. Yin.
"Everything has been prepared, General Zhai Rang has loosened, I believe that as long as the lord defeats the attacking Luoyang army, under the guarantee, he will definitely be able to let Zhai Rang jointly promote the lord as the master." Mr. Yin looked excited and said in a low voice.
"That's the best!" Li Mi nodded.
Zhai Rang is just a small official, how can He De let him Li Mi be subordinate, but now after all, Zhai Rang is the owner of the village on Wagang Mountain, and his prestige is very high, if Li Mi rashly acts, it is easy to cause the split of Wagang.
Li Mi, who has always regarded Wagang as his forbidden descendant, will never allow such a thing to happen, so only letting Zhai Rang take the initiative to back down is the king.
Now Li Mi has defeated Zhang Xutuo with a plan, and he has offered a plan to capture Luokoucang, and has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and in the hearts of ordinary soldiers, he is like a god-like figure.
In contrast, Zhai Rang's shortcomings are revealed, indecisive, greedy and lustful.
The shortcomings of being a small cottage owner were not obvious before, but now Wagang is powerful, and there is a hero like Li Mi again, compared with the two, Zhai Rang has been left behind a few streets.
As long as the invading Luoyang army is defeated, the people of Wagang will naturally be able to distinguish clearly, who can lead Wagang to go further, and take advantage of Zhai Rang's inferiority, everything will definitely fall into place.
Li Mi's heart was happy, and even the people under the city felt kind.
Looking at the city, for a quarter of an hour, Li Mi was full of smiles.
In two quarters of an hour, Li Mi's smile disappeared.
For half an hour, Li Mi's brows tightened.
An hour later, Li Mi's face was furious......
"Lord!"
Mr. Yin looked at Li Mi's uncertain face and shouted in a low voice.
Li Mi did not answer, turned around and walked quickly down the city wall.
Mr. Yin and Qin Qiong looked at each other and immediately followed, not knowing what happened to Lu Dao.
Under the city wall, the news of the opening of the warehouse and the release of grain has already spread, and the hungry people can tell what is the official food and who can tell if it is eaten in their stomachs.
There was an endless stream of people who came to pull food. The old man and the woman came with the children on their backs.
Hungry children grab grains of rice and put them in their mouths, all of which are polished rice from the south along the Grand Canal, all full of grains and fragrant.
Snow-white rice grains were sprinkled all over the road, and no one cared, because there were still countless grains in the Luokou warehouse, which could not be eaten and used.
An old woman with white hair struggled to drag a bag full of rice and moved forward step by step.
I'm already exhausted, but I still don't stop to rest.
"Old woman, you are expensive this year!" Li Mi stepped forward and asked in a harmonious voice.
The old woman saw Li Mi coming and stopped, and behind him there were several people in armor to protect her.
Zhilu said that he was the leader of this gang of bandits, and quickly put down the sack in his mouth
"Back to the king's words, the old woman is already sixty-one years old." The old woman replied respectfully.