Chapter 247: Yunzhou Rebellion
This victory was easier than any previous one, but Li You's heart was extremely heavy, didn't those hungry people who tried to attack them know that they were eggs hitting stones? They don't even have weapons, how can they fight with these elite soldiers? They must have known, but they also had no choice, either to starve to death or to die on the spot, they just chose a path that they would inevitably choose. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
With a long sigh, he came to Zhou Shou's boat to greet him, but the old gentleman did not hate those hungry people, but rebuked the leading gods, "Instigating the hungry people to rebel with their own selfish desires, these people should be guilty." ”
"Father-in-law, even if there are no such people who pretend to be gods and ghosts, the hungry people can't take care of so much." Li You said with a gloomy expression, fortunately, he killed a few hungry people today and retreated, if it was not these gods who led the army but hungry people like them, this level would definitely not be as easy to pass as just now.
"Hey, in recent years, God has not blessed my Great Wei, natural disasters have continued, and the ministers of the court only care about party disputes, and no one cares about disaster relief, if it continues like this, the consequences will be unimaginable." Zhou Shou was also not used to seeing those smoky things in the court, so he would tell the old man to return to his hometown under Li You's persuasion, who knew that what he saw along the way was more serious than what he heard in Beijing, and he couldn't help but become more and more worried about the future of Great Wei.
"Father-in-law, according to my son-in-law, natural disasters can only account for three points at most, and the remaining seven points are probably deliberately done by someone." Li You did not fully agree with his point of view, "I don't know how many people have made a fortune by taking advantage of natural disasters, grain merchants hoarding and maliciously raising grain prices, and landlords taking the opportunity to raise rents and squeeze the people; The rent is high, there is not much harvest in the land, in order to survive, these people can only go to loan sharks, under the rolling interest and rolling interest, no family can bear it, only to take out the land handed down by their ancestors to exchange for a few days of rations, and then go down only to sell their sons and daughters. ”
Every catastrophe is the hell of the people at the bottom, the carnival of the landlords and gentry; After each disaster, there would be a few more pieces of land in their names, and a few more slaves and maids in the house, and the people who had been deprived of their land and driven out of their homes would either starve to death or rise up.
If it was when the Great Wei was still strong, these victims would be like those moths that put out the fire, and they would be suppressed by the Great Wei army in an instant, but now that the Great Wei has lost their most powerful ruling weapon, the Jingying Forbidden Army, coupled with the constant disputes in the court, this popular uprising may not be so easy to extinguish.
Presumably, Yang Jiefu and the others also saw this, so they would use the suggestion of setting up a group training to preserve their family's strength in this upcoming chaos, right?
After all, Zhou Shou was born as a literati, and he has held a literary noble position in the court for many years, and he does not have much experience in specific administrative affairs.
From his ship to another ship, Fan Li and Yao Guangxiao's expressions were different, Fan Li couldn't help but shake his head when he looked at the hungry people who were far away, as if he remembered the homeless people he met when Wu Yue was fighting for hegemony; And Yao Guangxiao was full of compassion and mouthed the Buddha, as if he was praying for them, but there was a hint of indescribable meaning in his eyes, perhaps because his talent was about to be useful.
"It's not difficult to defeat the rebels in Yunzhou, but it's not easy to completely pacify the rebels, and I hope you two will teach me." Li You arched his hand and asked, he had already read the information from Yunzhou, although there were as many as 10,000 displaced people who made trouble, but there were probably not many of them who had combat effectiveness; Even if the regimental training had not yet begun to be recruited, the three hundred gold soldiers he led would be enough to defeat them from the front.
Not to mention anything else, as soon as Zhou Bofu and his more than 100 Mo Dao teams came out, they could frighten these chaotic people who had not been tempered on the battlefield, and if they rushed to kill them twice, they should also retreat.
But it is easy to defeat the rebels, but it is even more difficult to completely quell the chaos, you don't see the end of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is Sun Chuanting or Hong Chengchou, they can defeat the exiles again and again, but these exiles have gradually grown stronger in their victories again and again; Li You couldn't do anything to kill more than 10,000 people, so how to deal with the aftermath became the most headache.
Fan Li and Yao Guangxiao exchanged glances, and finally Yao Guangxiao said, "Since ancient times, pacifying the rebellious people is nothing more than suppressing and appeasing; I think those demon monks who fanned the flames couldn't stay, and they had to be killed; and those who have tasted the sweetness of rebellion, I am afraid that they will not think about living a good life in the future, and these people should also be put to death; As for the rest of the victims who were just being carried, it would be better to be comforted, as long as they were given a way to live, they would definitely not think about making trouble again. ”
Yao Guangxiao, as a monk, did not shy away from killing, perhaps in his opinion, exterminating these thieves and allowing the people to live a peaceful life is the great mercy, right?
"If you want to comfort the victims, you have to have food to keep them from starving, and you have to have land for them to cultivate; And now I have enough food to take these people for myself, and there is no food to save my life, and there is no land for them to cultivate. Li You sighed.
"It's hard to say, but it's actually easy." Yao Guangxiao continued to say slowly, "It's not that Yunzhou doesn't have enough land, it's just that these people don't have land, as long as the gentry in Yunzhou are willing to share some land for the displaced people to cultivate, they can live." ”
"But who wants to give the land they get to someone else?" Li You shook his head, asking those gentry to distribute the land to the homeless people was even more uncomfortable than killing them.
"The lord is responsible for commanding the military affairs of Yunzhou, and if he wants to drive the displaced people there, isn't it the lord's final say? If these people are reluctant to give up the land, then let it be turned into an ownerless thing. Yao Guangxiao's tone of voice was extremely flat, but the meaning was murderous.
Also, it's time for life and death, if these people are still hard to give up, then let them die with the title deed; Well, after arriving in Yunzhou, first inquire and select a few notorious gentry to make an example of them, after seeing the style of the gentry on both sides of the canal, Li You has no good impression of these people.
After experiencing this small twist and turn, Qian Sa ordered the fleet to speed up, and did not get off the ship unless it was absolutely necessary, and the fleet arrived at Qiantang in a short time; Qian Sa took most of the fleet off the ship and went home, while Li You and the others rested in Qiantang for two days and returned to Yunzhou. (To be continued.) )