Nanyue City, the state city of Yuezhou, prosperous and lively, needless to say, at this time, the city of Nanyue is a desolate and desolate scene, some houses in the city are burning, some houses have been burned into a charred ruins, there are still some dead bodies on the street, some people around are lying on the corpses crying, and the people around are miserable one by one. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves and footsteps came from the direction of the west gate of Nanyue City, and the people on the street were all startled, one by one they hurriedly ran into the houses, closed the doors and windows, and looked out in horror through the cracks in the doors and windows.

Xiao Tianlei rode along the street with a steel mane, and checked the scene in Nanyue City, but there was no surprise, two days ago, Xiao Tianlei led people to clean up some spies lurking in the masters and other forces sent by the imperial court, and sent Bingfeng to investigate the movements of the southern army, as a result, I saw a scene that surprised Xiao Tianlei, and the southern army actually looted in the city of Nanyue.

Although he didn't know what the situation was, after the matter at hand was dealt with, Xiao Tianlei brought some soldiers and horses to Nanyue City to see the situation. After arriving at Nanyue City, he found that Nanyue City was completely unprotected, a soldier could not see it, the city gate was wide open, and Xiao Tianlei led the soldiers and horses to swagger into Nanyue City.

"Why did Song Shixiong suddenly change careers and rob our brotherhood of business? Find someone to ask! Dispose of these corpses! ”

Xiao Tianlei gave an order, at this time, if these corpses are not disposed of in time, in case of a plague, it is not a joke. The soldiers in the rear received the order, dispersed, gathered some of the corpses, found a big cart, and prepared to pull them out of the city to dispose of them, at this time, some people rushed out of some houses, holding the bodies of their relatives and crying, for such people, let them dispose of the bodies of their relatives themselves.

After a while, a group of soldiers brought a few officials to Xiao Tianlei, and Xiao Tianlei asked, "Can any of you tell me, how could the southern army loot Nanyue City?" ”

"Hmph, traitor of the Brotherhood, don't want to ask a word from the mouth of this official!" An official snorted coldly and said proudly, looking like he would rather die than give in.

Xiao Tianlei was stunned, and he didn't ask about any secrets, this guy put on an uncooperative appearance, too lazy to talk nonsense, and ordered: "Drag it down, fight!" ”

The official's face fell, he just wanted to show his integrity, but he didn't expect Xiao Tianlei to let him fight without saying a word, the official didn't have time to argue, and the two wolf-like Shanyue soldiers had already dragged him aside, regardless of three, seven or twenty, the fists and feet were added, and the official screamed again and again.

"Which of you still has nonsense to talk about?" Xiao Tianlei asked nonchalantly, and those officials were silent one by one, scrambling to tell Xiao Tianlei everything they knew.

Speaking of which, the fact that Nanyue City has become what it is today also has a great relationship with Xiao Tianlei's encirclement and suppression of those masters of the imperial court in Xinling City.

A butterfly fanned its wings, which could cause a storm, and the Brotherhood solved a master of Xuanwuwei, which indirectly caused the current situation in Yuezhou City. It can be regarded as the officials of Yuezhou and some local big families who suffered on their own, and the imperial court sent some officials and military guards, who had the confidence to cooperate in squeezing and blaming Song Shixiong, and playing the game of civilian officials to balance the generals. Originally, because of the suppression of the masters of Wuwei, Song Shixiong was extremely angry, but he didn't dare to attack, and learned that those masters were killed by the Brotherhood, Song Shixiong had no scruples, and suddenly broke out, and took his subordinates to chop off the heads of officials and big households in Yuezhou, and then, the arsonists ransacked the big households in Yuezhou City, and after that, Song Shixiong took the southern army and left Yuezhou directly.

Not to mention where Song Shixiong led the troops, the southern army left, Yuezhou basically had no defenders, most of the chief officials in the state died, and Yuezhou can be said to have become a borderless land.

As long as Xiao Tianlei wants to, he can take the opportunity to occupy Yuezhou, but in the end, whether to take Yuezhou or not, Xiao Tianlei is a little undecided, it's not that he doesn't want the territory of Yuezhou, but now he has sent a lot of personnel to Funan, Lingzhou can't divide manpower at all, Yuezhou is not like Lingzhou to defend the city, and the manpower and troops needed to occupy it are not a small number, however, Yuezhou can be regarded as a waste at this time, do you want it?

Xiao Tianlei was thinking about it, and a soldier came to report: "Chief, some gentry in Yuezhou ask to see." ”

"Oh, let them come." Xiao Tianlei said, he wants to see what these gentry want to do, if the Brotherhood wants to occupy Yuezhou, external defense is a problem, and another is that these gentry in Yuezhou, if they want to implement the policy of Lingzhou in Yuezhou, they will definitely be resisted and rebounded by these people, maybe they will gather some peasants who don't know anything to make trouble.

Not long after, a group of gentry came to Xiao Tianlei, and Xiao Tianlei asked, "What are you looking for me?" ”

An elder walked out of the gentry and arched his hand: "Presumably this is the leader of the brotherhood, sure enough, the hero is a young man, a talent, and the old man is a ......."

Xiao Tianlei had a cold face and interrupted: "I'm not interested in knowing who you are, you don't have to be polite to me, just say it, it's best to explain it to me in one sentence!" ”

The elder gentry groaned for a moment and said, "The leader must want to take Yuezhou, and we are willing to help the leader to appease the people and let the county governments surrender, just hoping that the leader can keep our family business." "These gentry also know the policy of the Brotherhood, if the Brotherhood takes Yuezhou, and also carries out all the land to the Brotherhood, divide the land and divide the land, but they want their life, but now there is no one in Yuezhou who can compete with the Brotherhood, and the court is estimated to be unable to count on it, so they learned that the leader of the Brotherhood arrived in Nanyue City, and they rushed to ask for a meeting, they thought that the Brotherhood would take the opportunity to take Yuezhou, and always appease the people, so they had to rely on them, the gentry, to negotiate with the leader of the Brotherhood.

Xiao Tianlei couldn't make up his mind about whether to take Yuezhou before, but at this time, he no longer hesitated, grinned, and said: "It seems that you haven't figured out the situation, the army obeys the order, go to visit these people's homes, old rules!" ”

The people's hearts in the mouths of these gentry are actually the thoughts of these landlords and gentry, and the people below are just grass on the wall, for the general dynasty, the gentry's "people's heart" can be said to be one of the foundations of the rule, but where would Xiao Tianlei tolerate such a group of people on his territory, for the system of the brotherhood, this group of people is basically waste and moths. Now that the southern army has left, Yuezhou is also the biggest fist of the brotherhood, and they can do whatever they want, these people still don't know the situation, they want to bargain, and they don't know whether they are alive or dead!

Xiao Tianlei has already decided not to actually control Yuezhou for the time being, but to clean up on a large scale according to the original plan, gradually advance, and use some of the measures of Lingzhou to Yuezhou. Of course, all kinds of resources in Yuezhou still had to be moved back to Lingzhou, and the southern army only looted a few major cities such as Nanyue City, mainly gold and silver, but did not take much grain. Looking at the posture of these gentry, even if the house was ransacked, it is estimated that there is still a lot of hiding, Xiao Tianlei started by robbing these guys, and he is clear about the measurement of these guys.

Xiao Tianlei ordered, no longer pay attention to these people, a group of gentry looked at each other and didn't know what the old rules were, but their intuition would not be a good thing, muttering to the older gentry to discuss with Xiao Tianlei again, a group of soldiers had already pounced, together with those officials who had been arrested before, and interrogated their names and home addresses and other information one by one, and then, visited one by one.

"You wait for a traitor, you can't die well!"

"I'll fight with you!"

"You will be punished!"

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Regardless of whether these gentry resisted, abused, cried, spoke harshly, or secretly held a grudge, with a little cooperation, the brotherhood would also leave them some rations, household money, if they did not cooperate, they would be completely removed, not to mention a violent beating, these gentry had no food, gold and silver, no economic base, the original status was a fart, in addition, it was also announced that the land was distributed to each family according to the head, and at the end of the year the brotherhood came to collect rent and tax, after that, the cadres of the brotherhood left, as for these people to carry out the orders of the brotherhood, Or do you give the land to the gentry as usual, then you don't care about the affairs of the brotherhood, and the brotherhood does not give the land for nothing, and you don't fight for it yourself, and you still expect the brotherhood to give it to them?

A large number of porters from Lingzhou entered Yuezhou, and the grain in the official warehouse of Yuezhou was emptied, plus the grain in the granaries of other large households, and the road from Yuezhou to Lingzhou was full of vehicles transporting grain.

When the Brotherhood looted unscrupulously, the news of Song Shixiong's killing of officials and looting also spread to Maozhou, knowing the situation in Yuezhou, and there were also some conflicts between the civil and military generals in Maozhou. In this kind of season, the military generals have no elbows, and the losses are naturally civil officials, and some military generals also learned from Song Shixiong to cut some civilian officials and control Maozhou.

Let's talk about Song Shixiong, the reason why Song Shixiong left Yuezhou was also thoughtful, Song Shixiong also wanted to establish his own foundation, Yuezhou is not a good place, not to mention remote, and next to the evil neighbor of the Brotherhood, the Brotherhood continues to harass Yuezhou, no matter how you look at it, there is not much future. Song Shixiong also had no foundation in Yuezhou, so he decided to lead the troops back to his hometown Liangzhou, but to Song Shixiong's surprise, he had a smooth journey, and he also got acquainted with some heroes and heroes, and pulled some people into the gang, and the team continued to grow.

When the news reached Shendu, it naturally shocked the government and the opposition, and gave the crumbling Great Xia Dynasty a heavy blow.

Originally, now the Great Xia court is extremely unstable, and the newly promoted ministers of Emperor Yongchang, in order to save the decline of Great Xia, have implemented some measures and carried out some small reforms, which have indeed achieved some results, but they are facing more opposition and obstruction, and the family background of the Great Xia court has been emptied and drained by Emperor Yongchang and some officials, and the common people do not have much oil and water, so they can only try to think from those big families, and the interests of these people are so easy to touch? In the face of all kinds of obstructions in the court and at the local level, reform is difficult.

Fortunately, the various battlefields have stabilized, especially the war between Northern Xinjiang and Beiliang, Daxia lost Bailuyuan again, however, relying on the original Guancheng, the Beiliang army could not attack, and a part of the Northern Army and generals could be transferred to conquer the rebellion. But Song Shixiong's sudden rebellion, not only caused turmoil, but also greatly stimulated Emperor Yongchang, now the military generals who are in command of the army are not only Song Shixiong, the original means of checks and balances, can play a limited role, if the generals are willing to rebel, who can stop it? Emperor Yongchang had to ask some of the founding nobles to send some generals to lead the armies, and also sent some imperial relatives and even princes to supervise the army.

At this time, Song Shixiong had already returned all the way to Liangzhou, united with the local rebel forces in Liangzhou, and took the state city of Liangzhou at once and occupied Liangzhou.

As soon as the news spread, it was like igniting a fuse, and some other rebel forces attacked the city one after another, and within a few days, several county capitals fell one after another, and some rebel forces rose one after another.

The whole Great Xia is becoming more and more turbulent, and it can be said that the world is in chaos.

For ordinary people, this is not a good era, life and death are not up to them, but for some people who want to get ahead, for some martial artists, this is a good era, they have taken refuge in some forces, ready to give it a go, and leave their footprints in this troubled world.

Many people pay attention to the various forces in the world, and the Lingzhou Brotherhood is of course a force, but the attention is not high, Lingzhou is located in a remote area, congenital insufficiency, and the Brotherhood is not enterprising enough, after occupying Lingzhou, there is no recruitment, recruitment, but a vigorous building and road, empty manpower and material resources, Yuezhou has become a borderless land, and the Brotherhood has not taken the opportunity to occupy it, it is still a bandit act in the past.

It is also the Brotherhood that has cleaned the spies of other forces in Lingzhou, people don't know much about Lingzhou, if they have been paying attention to Lingzhou, even if they don't understand some economic development and knowledge, they will definitely notice that Lingzhou is becoming more and more prosperous day by day.

In the Funan area, the Brotherhood has pacified the Funan Kingdom, during which the king of the Funan Kingdom sent envoys to ask for help from other countries, including the envoys to the Great Xia Imperial Court, as a result, the Great Xia Imperial Court did not pay attention to it at all, and the Great Xia Dynasty is now a mess, countless affairs, how can there be time to take care of Funan. Even if Great Xia is more chaotic now, with the mentality of the above country, he still looks down on a small barbarian country like Funan, and besides, the envoy of Funan is talking nonsense, the barbarians are making a fuss, and the army of Great Xia is called the Heavenly Army by them, and they don't care, and they casually send things away.

Funan also sent envoys to the Naga Dynasty in the west, which was a large country and the birthplace of Buddhism, but at this time, the Naga Dynasty was fighting religious wars in the country, and it was also too busy to take care of itself.

The Brotherhood successfully occupied the Funan country and controlled three-quarters of the Funan region, and the other small countries were not to worry about and could be pacified soon. The area of the Funan region is equivalent to ten states, however, many places are undeveloped, most of them are deep mountains and dense forests, and all the habitable and cultivated land and population are estimated to be equivalent to the land of the four states in Great Xia, which is already a huge territory for the Brotherhood, and it takes time to digest.

Although the Funan people are easier to rule, but that is the traditional way of governance, the Brotherhood wants to completely control Funan, establish a new ruling mechanism, it is difficult to do it in a short time, fortunately, the Witch God Cult spread very smoothly, the Brotherhood's various policies and the teachings of the Witch God Sect have won the welcome of the Funan people, so that the time for the Brotherhood to control Funan can be greatly shortened. At present, the Brotherhood has been able to mobilize a lot of manpower and material resources in Funan, and with a large amount of loot, gold, silver, grain, spices, craftsmen, a large number of Funan slave laborers, etc., have been transported to Lingzhou as nourishment for the development of Lingzhou. (To be continued.) )