Chang'an County, Shangluo County, Zhashui County, the boundary monuments of the three counties have been pushed far away, and Lantian County has directly expanded its area by one and a half times after this year's expansion, annexing half of the land of the three counties above.

The three prefects of the angry county jumped to scold the street, but they were helpless, and the prefect Zhang Jinru ignored the behavior of taking more and occupying more in Yulantian County, as if it was air.

And the political envoy Hong Chengchou was resigned, and even a little instigated in it.

This is actually not bad for Hong Chengchou, after this Lantian County annexed these lands, people paid taxes according to the regulations, and he Hong Chengchou was able to get the complete taxes of two and a half counties, which was too important for the 'poor' Hong Chengchou, without these money and food supplies, he could not maintain the encirclement and suppression of Wang Jiayin and other thieves.

This year's taxes in Lantian County should be able to support one-fifth of the military salaries of the army in northern Shaanxi, which is what Hong Chengchou needs.

This is a very simple multiple-choice question, to help other county commanders get back the lost land, then they will not get enough food, and these incompetent people can only pay three or four percent to themselves, which is not enough to support the army.

And these lands are given to Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng can give enough food, such a simple multiple-choice question, he Hong Chengchou is not a fool, won't he choose?

Therefore, these three aggrieved county orders could only sit on the county government scolding street with a bitter face, but they were helpless.

As for the officers and soldiers of a guard station stationed in Chang'an County before, because the elite was completely lost in the last attack on Li Chaosheng's Lantian County, Yang He urgently transferred them to northern Shaanxi to quell the rebellion, but they were defeated by the big thief King Kou himself, and the commander was almost caught and slaughtered by the thieves, but due to the dereliction of duty of the commander, the commander was dismissed from his home.

And Chang'an County also lost his guard and became a pitiful lamb to the slaughter.

Li Chaosheng was not in a hurry, and slowly encroached on the other party, and even Li Chaosheng didn't have to send soldiers to grab the territory, as long as the people spontaneously moved the boundary monument.

And Li Chaosheng is confident that as long as the thieves make more trouble and the people of Shaanxi live a more miserable life, the boundary monument of Lantian County may be moved beyond the border of Shaanxi, and Shaanxi will be Lantian at that time.

In the future, this boundary monument will be moved to BJ City, and since then, outside BJ City is Lantian, at that time, Li Chaosheng's county order is probably more powerful than His Majesty the Emperor in the capital.

This may be what Mencius said: Solidify the country and do not use the danger of mountains and streams, and the world does not take advantage of the military revolution.

Those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help!

This is what Yasheng wants to tell us, in fact, the way of Confucius and Mencius is not as pedantic as imagined, the pedantic is actually the later scholars, Confucius is not a weak scholar, the book records that Confucius is nine feet six inches tall, you must know that Guan Yu These fierce generals generally advertise themselves as dignified eight-foot men, and Confucius is a head taller than them.

And the strength of Confucius, the gate of the whole country, the ancient city gate that is all solid wood, the use of the formula to preliminarily estimate the weight of seven or eight hundred catties is there, you must know that the heaviest Qin Ding unearthed by us is only 424 catties, Xiang Yu is awesome, and he can carry the tripod, but he is in front of the master, maybe he is a younger brother.

Isn't it great to be a tripod? People raise the city gate, and Huainanzi also records that there is a strong man who is angry and can separate two fighting cows, you must know that the fierce general Xu Chu is dragging the tail of the ox to pull the cow away, and such a fierce man was impressed by the force of Confucius, so it can be seen that our master is likely to be a fierce man.

So you can imagine what it was like for Confucius to travel with his disciples.

A macho man whose force value may not be lost to Xiang Yu, with seventy-two core disciples who he subdued, followed by three thousand well-trained macho men who know the six arts of gentlemen, this stroll, like the boss who came out to inspect the territory, this is placed in the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch does not give some face, a slightly smaller country, maybe Confucius can take his disciples to destroy the country.

Therefore, the reason why Confucianism is corrupt, the person surnamed Zhu is mainly responsible.

Therefore, this is also Lantian Academy, to put an end to these rotten Confucianism to teach the way of Confucius and Mencius, not that the way of Confucius and Mencius is bad, but that these people interpret it blindly.

Lantian County harvest, on the third day after the end of the autumn harvest, Li Chaosheng's top boss, Xi'an prefect Zhang Jinru came to condole with the same knowledge in Xi'an City, and the news came that Li Chaosheng received him warmly, but this time Zhang Jinru was unusual, and he was not interested in the good wine and food arranged by Li Chaosheng, and his face looked businesslike.

And he also refused to accept the gift given by Li Chaosheng, which made Li Chaosheng suddenly alert, this corrupt official does not love money, does not take advantage of it, and looks like he is doing business, obviously has a big plan.

Thinking that Li Chaosheng was vigilant in his heart, secretly found the grain, and asked the grain to immediately send someone to transport the grain from the grain depot, Li Chaosheng felt that these guys were coming for their own grain.

Li Chaosheng really guessed correctly, Zhang Jinru really came to Li Chaosheng's grain, this year Shaanxi is still a disaster, the victims are everywhere, only Lantian County is a bumper harvest, and Zhang Jinru, the prefect, is also very sad, this year's taxes have made Hong Chengchou cut off, causing his Xi'an Mansion grain depot to be empty.

So he, the prefect, has no choice but to come down to the county commanders to fight the autumn breeze, especially Lantian County, which is the place he focuses on patronizing, no way, he is the prefect of Xi'an, first of all, he must ensure that Xi'an City is not too short of food, at least let the rich families in Xi'an City eat enough, after all, these rich families have hands and eyes, and I don't know who has someone in the family who can be related to his future.

So he wanted to absorb the grain from the nearby county government and supply it to Xi'an Mansion, Li Chaosheng received the adults and was polite to everyone, at this time Zhang Jinru proposed to see the grain depot in Lantian County, and Li Chaosheng sighed in his heart.

So he dealt with these people first, but Zhang Jinru was iron-hearted, and sat with Li Chaosheng for half an hour, and even urged Li Chaosheng ten times, Li Chaosheng couldn't help it, so he took Zhang Jinru and two fellow acquaintances to the grain depot, and Zhang Jinru urged eagerly on the way, Li Chaosheng couldn't take it to the grain depot.

Gu Zi had already led people to greet him, and Zhang Jinru looked at the grain depot at this time and said, "This is the grain depot in Lantian County?" ”

Li Chaosheng nodded, and Zhang Jinru waved his hand: "Go in and have a look." ”

Li Chaosheng deliberately lagged one step behind, and Gu Zi came over and said, "The time is too tight, so I will transport 10,000 quintals." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this, looked at Gu Zi and said, "Okay, 10,000 quintals are 10,000 quintals." ”

Li Chaosheng said that Zhang Jinru entered the treasury, and was immediately dazzled by the grain in the treasury, staring at the pile of grain and couldn't help but say infatuatedly: "This is the most abundant grain depot I have ever seen. ”

The two Tongzhi adults also nodded, they went to the grain depot in Chang'an County this morning, and the grain depot in Nuoda only had 5,000 quintals of grain, which was placed in the grain depot empty.

Now there are as many as 40,000 loads of grain here, which dazzled the three of them, and then Zhang Jinru looked at Li Chaosheng and said: "Li Zhixian, we don't talk darkly, you and I are also old friends, and now Xi'an Mansion is short of grain, I will take all the grain here today." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng frowned and said: "Lord Zhang, this is not in accordance with the rules, we will pay taxes this year, we will pay them in full, you don't want the grain from our grain depot." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Jinru looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Li Zhixian, don't be angry, didn't I discuss it with you?" ”

Zhang Jinru's tone softened, now he can't move this Li Chaosheng, and he can't grab it, because not only he takes a fancy to Lantian Li Chaosheng, but now Hong Chengchou is also waiting for Lantian Li Chaosheng, and even Lantian County, where Yang He's army has one-tenth of the military rations to eat, if you offend Li Chaosheng, or even change Li Chaosheng, Lantian will not pay these grains in the coming year, and he, the prefect, will be considered to be the end.

Zhang Jinru looked at Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng looked at Zhang Jinru and said, "My lord, this is not in accordance with the rules." ”

Zhang Jinru said: "Isn't this an extraordinary period? Don't worry about Li Zhixian, this official can't let you suffer, you give me this grain, how about I exempt you from three years of forced labor in Lantian County? ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng was stunned, this business doesn't seem to be a loss, three years of conscription, but there are many people in Lantian, this kind of resource loss, Li Chaosheng can't do it, after all, the war is in chaos now, who knows if there will be large-scale conscription above.

Li Chaosheng doesn't want to fall out with the imperial court at present, so this grain is really given, but it's nothing, Li Chaosheng is not short of these 40,000 quintals of grain, and this year's harvest in Lantian County is much more than these 40,000 quintals.

Li Chaosheng thought about it and said to Zhang Jinru: "My lord, these are our rations, you take them all, I'm afraid that the people won't do it, how about such an adult's five-year conscription?" ”

Zhang Jinru heard this and thought about it, he can still work for four years, and you have to be forced for five years, so I will give it to you.

Anyway, he didn't care about the last year, now he just needs to give me the food, Zhang Jinru agreed, Li Chaosheng directly asked Zhang Jinru to leave pen and ink, write this matter on paper, and then use the prefect's seal, which is not afraid of you cheating.

After signing these, Zhang Jinru instructed the soldiers who came with him to load the cart and transport the grain to Xi'an Mansion.

Zhang Jinru personally watched the loading, while Li Chaosheng quietly retreated, and Gu Zi said on the side: "The brigade commander just let them take the grain away, do you want us to rob them halfway and let them spit out what they eat." ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this, waved his hand and said: "No, I was originally going to give this grain to Xi'an Mansion, but I wanted to sell it to Xi'an Mansion in exchange for some silver, but now I have used it in exchange for five years of forced labor, which is not considered compensation." ”

Li Chaosheng said, and after hearing this, Gu Zi said: "Brigade commander, why do you have to give food to Xi'an Mansion." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "Xi'an Mansion is really short of food, Yuxian Lou Lao Tu reported that some of the people in Xi'an Mansion can only drink one bowl of gruel a day now, and this bowl of gruel may not be able to be kept in the future, and if they don't give them something to eat, they will really starve to death." ”

"If you starve to death, you will starve to death, and you are not from Lantian."

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "That's not possible, it's not Lantian people now, sooner or later it will be Lantian people." ”

Li Chaosheng said, followed by Zhang Jinru over there and said: "But there is only so much food we can give them, whether they can survive or not, it depends on their own, by the way, you go to inform Liu Airen, let him send a militia to organize some people, and surround the grain transport team on the road, this grain can be given, but they can't be transported out so easily." ”

"Understood."

Gu Zi nodded, and the two acquaintances on the other end said to Zhang Jinru: "My lord, this Lantian County is rich, these 40,000 quintals of grain are definitely not their limit, we can try to force Li Chaosheng and let him add taxes to the people, and it will not be a problem to squeeze out another 40,000 quintals of grain." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Jinru was a little hesitant on his face, after all, he still had some friendship with Li Chaosheng, and his daughter-in-law was still wearing the white fox fur given by Li Chaosheng.

But this grain is too tempting, Zhang Jinru thought for a while and said: "Ship this batch of grain out first, and you can try this thing later." ”

Hearing this, the two acquaintances nodded, followed by the food was loaded, Li Chaosheng came over to say goodbye to Zhang Jinru, Zhang Jinru was polite again and again, and promised that he would definitely give His Majesty a fold and commend Lantian County.

Li Chaosheng thanked him for his kindness, and after a pity, Zhang Jinru went on the road, Zhang Jinru brought five hundred soldiers this time, and at this time, as soon as he came out of Lantian County, he was instantly blocked by five or six thousand peasants, and the peasants gathered more and more, and the peasants held hoes and steel forks in their hands one by one, looking at the officers and soldiers, and an angry expression appeared on their faces.

The two acquaintances were frightened, now this year is not the first few years, the people are honest like pigs and dogs, the current people, especially the people of Shaanxi, may evolve into thieves at any time, Wang Er, Wang Jiayin These people have brought an extremely bad head to the people, let them find that officials can also be killed, and it is a big deal to rebel.

Anyway, they don't let people live, in fact, the officials in Shaanxi now, who is not afraid of the people, these people look harmless to people and animals, but when they get angry, they are really tigers and jackals.

"Great, sir, this ......"

Tongzhi saw that these people gathered around changed color, and Zhang Jinru also broke out in a cold sweat: "Don't panic, hurry, quickly send someone to find Li Chaosheng, go quickly." ”

Hearing this, the officers and soldiers immediately rode their horses to the city, and the people did not stop them, and the people did not say a word, but immediately surrounded the convoy little by little, and the five hundred officers and soldiers, facing the thousands of people with hoes, were also timid, and the hands holding the knives trembled.

They are ordinary government soldiers, with limited combat effectiveness, and they are considered the second line of the second line, and if they really fight, a soldier may not be able to deal with two peasants, and at this time the people surrounded Zhang Jinru's convoy.

Don't let the convoy go, the convoy shrank in formation, leaning in little by little, at this time Zhang Jinru wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and stood up and said: "Folks, I am Zhang Jinru, the prefect of Xi'an, why are you blocking our convoy, quickly give way." ”

When some of the people heard this, some of the people shouted: "Don't take our grain, put it down!" ”

One person took the lead, and the next moment suddenly the mountains cried out for a tsunami: "Put down the food, put it down, put it down!" ”

Don't die in silence, just break out in silence, Zhang Jinru was scared at this time, these mobs beat themselves to death at this time, it is estimated that they were beaten in vain, he remembered that he and Hong Chengchou killed the eunuch who urged grain, Zhang Jinshui!