When Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, received a notice from the city inviting him to enter the city to discuss the attack on Jiangling, his mood suddenly lifted, and he hurriedly entered the city with several subordinates.

In the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion, Xiao Jing did not see Zhongshan Gongyu Wenhu, but was received by Li Mu, another Wei army forward general, Duke Wu'an. In addition, there was another person who surprised him, that is, Li Tai's subordinate Liang Shiyan.

Seeing that Liang Shiyan was also in the hall, Xiao Jing's face couldn't help but flash a little embarrassment.

Liang Shiyan was stationed in Wuning for a short time, and it could be regarded as helping them to defend the southern border of Xiangyang, and the original Jingzhou Governor's Mansion had increased its troops before and after Wuning, and it was not inferior to the forward men and horses led by Yuwen Hu. However, because Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, led the people of Xiangyang to join Yuwenhu's side, Liang Shiyan was forced to withdraw from the city and turn to the edge to station.

Liang Shiyan naturally had no good impression of Xiao Jing, the treacherous and temporary anti-water King of Liang, but after all, the other party was the King of Liang canonized by the imperial court, and the next thing also depended on him, so he could only stand up and salute respectfully.

King Liang knew that he was at a loss, and after a simple perfunctory greeting from Liang Shiyan, he quickly turned his gaze to Li Mu, and said with a smile: "May I ask Duke Wu An, where is Duke Zhongshan? I, the soldiers of Xiangyang, are waiting for the Emperor, eager to kill the thieves of the family and the country, and I can go straight to Jiangling after the order of the Duke of Zhongshan!"

After Li Mu heard this, he smiled and said, "His Royal Highness King Liang is jealous and hateful, and he doesn't want to wear it with thieves for a day, this feeling is admirable. The Duke of Zhongshan has other important matters, and I don't have time to come to see him, and this time I invite His Royal Highness King Liang to the palace for discussion."

As he spoke, his gaze shifted from King Liang, who looked puzzled, to Liang Shiyan, and said, "Doesn't Liang Kaifu have a letter to present to His Royal Highness King Liang?"

After hearing this, Liang Shiyan took out a handwritten letter from General Li and handed it to King Liang's desk, and said in a deep voice: "My lord Lang already knows about this matter, and the special envoy will present this letter to His Royal Highness King Liang. A few days ago, my lord Lang was out on a campaign, and some things were difficult to communicate with His Royal Highness King Liang in a timely manner, perhaps because of this misunderstanding, now that Lord Lang has returned to the town, and when the Zhu Kingdom Changshan Gong contracted a disease on the way and authorized my lord Lang to take charge of the conquest army......

"Is that so?"

After King Liang heard this, the embarrassment on his face suddenly turned into panic, and he hurriedly took the letter with both hands and quickly browsed it, his face kept changing, but his heart was like a thousand horses galloping, and he couldn't sort out a clue for a long time.

Li Tai's letters did not explain anything important, or threaten and condemn him, but only briefly described the experiences since they met. King Liang looked at the content of this letter, and the scenes of the past also appeared in his mind.

After a long time, he lowered his head and sighed, "I am in a hurry to destroy my enemy, but I have broken my promise with my good friend. I am really ashamed to see each other, and I am willing to retreat back to Xiangyang, and wait until the Boshan Xiongshi triumphs and then congratulate and ask for forgiveness!"

The power struggle within the Western Wei Dynasty was neither understood by King Liang, nor did he feel caught off guard by the change, but looking at this situation, it seems that Li Boshan has won the victory and regained the leading power to conquer Jiangling.

But this is obviously not a good thing for King Liang, on the one hand, he has just reneged on the agreement with Li Boshan, and on the other hand, he himself feels that Li Boshan is too shrewd and capable, and I am afraid that he will not give him too many opportunities to take advantage of the opportunity. Moreover, Li Boshan has just regained the initiative, and he is afraid that he also needs to be powerful, in such a situation, King Liang feels that it is safer to avoid it for the time being and watch the future situation.

However, how could Liang Shiyan give him a chance to retreat, when he took out another letter and handed it to King Liang and said, "Since His Royal Highness King Liang has led a large army to the south, Xiangyang must be a city defense. Because of the fear of being disturbed by foreign enemies, my Xingzhou boat division came south along the Han River and entered the city of Xiangyang to guard the city for His Royal Highness King Liang. This letter was sent to His Royal Highness King Liang in the back handwriting, and what His Highness wants, it is better to read the letter before making a decision."

"What? You actually took my Xiangyang!"

When King Liang heard this, he immediately stood up in shock, picked up the letter and browsed it, his face suddenly became extremely blue, and he stared at Liang Shiyan with wide eyes, and Liang Shiyan was not afraid at all, but looked at King Liang calmly.

After a long time, King Liang was depressed

He sighed, bowed his head, and said, "What do you want from me?"

Li Mu and Liang Shiyan glanced at each other, and even put forward their request, that is, to ask King Liang to cooperate in controlling Hou Mo and Chen Shun.

Hou Mo Chen Shun was mainly responsible for supervising the battle of Xiangyang men and horses this time, and he did not carry many men and horses from his headquarters, and he had been staying with the Xiangyang army since he came south. And in order to get a better arrangement in the next battle of Jiangling, King Liang has also been bribing Hou Mo Chen Shun to make money.

Hou Mo Chen Shun knew that he was just acting as a foil this time, and the overall situation was controlled by Zhu Guoyu, and the specific implementation was completed by Yuwen Hu and other Yuwen Taishi's cronies and nephews, and he had very little room to play, so he was arranged to supervise the marginal force of Xiangyang people. Therefore, his people did not have too high a pursuit of military exploits, and the bribes of King Liang were all laughed at and enjoyed.

When King Liang personally led his subordinates to send a batch of money to Hou Mo Chen Shun today, Hou Mo Chen Shun also did not doubt him, and asked people to invite King Liang and his party into the account with a happy face.

However, today, there were swords and staff buried under this batch of money, and after the attendants of King Liang entered the account, they quickly grabbed their weapons and controlled all the people in the tent.

Later, Liang Shiyan also led the armor soldiers to march in, and said to the shocked Hou Mo Chen Shun, "General Li of Taiyuan Gong has taken over the army in Shicheng, and the special commander invited An Ping Gong to Shicheng to discuss military affairs."

"Li Boshan, how dare he!"

Hou Mo Chen Shun immediately glared and said in shock when he heard this, he never expected that the situation would be reversed like this anyway.

When Liang Shiyan heard this, he sneered: "Crusade against other countries and expand the borders for the country, why don't we dare to be loyal and brave people in Jingzhou? An Pinggong is a heavy person, but he has a reputation in vain, and he does not take what he does, but only coerces allies and asks for bribes, and the general will definitely be in vain to General Li in the end of the matter, and let him be punished!"

As the brothers Yuwen Hu and Hou Mochen were controlled one after another and sent to Shicheng, the army on Wuning's side was completely controlled by Li Tai. Next, they were no longer stuck, Li Mu finally made a veritable forward, first led the elite cavalry all the way south, made a detour from the west of Jiangling to the riverbank, and blocked Jiangjin. As for Liang Shiyan, he sent troops together with Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, who was in a nervous mood, and slowly pressed towards Jiangling.

Compared with the control of the armies on the front line, the transition was quickly completed without moving, and the struggle in the rear seemed a little bloody and out of control.

Although the army from the south crossed the city without entering and went straight south, the military and political management functions of the city as the capital of Jingzhou were also deprived and transferred to Xinye, where Wei Chi Hui was stationed.

Including the previous government officials who were recruited by Yuwen Hu in the name of the Guandong Dao Daxingtai, they were also forced to assist Wei Chi Hui in managing the affairs of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion.

It is now October, and it is an important time for the subordinate parties of the Governor's Office to pay taxes. Wei Chi Hui entered the country at this time, and he could collect taxes and materials from all parties on the spot, on the one hand, to lay a material foundation for taking over the Jingzhou Prefecture in the coming days, and on the other hand, to raise materials and supplies for the front-line army.

In particular, the latter is more important at the moment, although Yuwen Hu previously provided a plan for the armies to disperse and eat on all sides, but after all, this is only a flexible equity plan, not a normal military supply plan.

In the end, the armies must gather around Jiangling to launch an attack, and Jiangling is an important town of Jingxiang that Nanliang has operated for many years, and it is difficult to predict when it will be able to conquer it. Once the front-line army is short of food and causes any riots, the consequences are absolutely very deadly.

Therefore, Wei Chi Yuan, who stayed in the rear, also needed to urge the subordinate parties of the Governor's Office to hand over this year's grain and materials as soon as possible, so as to raise sufficient supplies for the army.

Because the area under the administration of the Jingzhou Governor's Office is very vast, the management system implemented in different regions is also different.

The Chubei area under the rule of Jingzhou was the place where the main implementation of the household and land was carried out, so the amount and date of the payment of money and grain were also the most stable, and it was the base camp itself, even if the upper ruling personnel had changed, the administrative system of the subordinate counties was still running, so the money and grain were also in place the fastest.

But in addition to the irrigation system in the northern part of the country

In addition to the considerable scale of agricultural production, there is another special point, that is, the handicraft industry employees are also very considerable. These handicrafts also require a great deal of food consumption and do not produce food themselves, so they can only be bought and sold in the market and subsidized by the state government.

The Jingzhou Governor's Office will purchase a large number of goods for these workshops, and some orders will be delivered with money and silk, and some will be delivered with the new grain received that year, so that a public and private balance can be achieved. Some orders have already been traded in the first half of the year, and those workshops have already delivered their products to the state capital, just waiting for the balance to be paid for this autumn with grain.

However, this year, the sky has changed in the north of the country, and naturally all aspects will inevitably be affected, including the balance of the grain that should be paid.

When the counties and counties of Chubei successively delivered taxes this autumn, seeing that the treasury was gradually filled, Wei Chi Yuan was naturally overjoyed, and he couldn't help but feel that he was fortunate that Li Boshan's management of Chubei was in a good way and everything was running in an orderly manner, which made his task easier.

But soon the creditors of those workshops poured into Xinye with IOUs from the state capital, hoping that the new administrator, Wei Chi Yuan, would fulfill the previous agreement and pay the balance of the payment, and the craftsmen of their respective workshops were still waiting for the rice to be cooked.

When he learned that there was such a thing, Wei Chi Yuan couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. With the previous lesson in Shuzhong, he didn't dare to treat these debt collectors roughly, but asked his cronies to summarize and record these debts, and found that the grain arrears that needed to be delivered within this month alone reached more than 100,000 stones!

If these debts are to be fulfilled, the treasury that has just been filled will be emptied again, and the military rations of the front-line soldiers will also disappear!

Of course, Wei Chi Yuan can't accept such a situation, not to mention that these IOUs are all signed by the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, and now he has neither seen those goods, nor has he officially entered the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, how can he take these burdens on him!

He then ordered that he should no longer be allowed to see those who demanded debts, and that none of those debts should be paid, and that they should negotiate with whoever they signed. As for the taxes collected in Jingzhou this year, not a single grain of rice will be used in this regard!

If the old debts of the previous government can still be shirked, then the next thing is within Wei Chi's own position.

Since there was not enough food reserves in the north, the armies of the various roads diverged south and ate along the way, which inevitably caused a lot of nuisance to the localities. This is especially true between land-based and mainland areas.

There has not been a relatively thorough arrangement of households and land between Suilu and Lu, and many county magistrates are simply local powerful clans. Over the years, they had become accustomed to obeying the management of General Li and the Jingzhou Governor's Office, but they were relatively unfamiliar with the newcomer Wei Chi Yuan.

The Western Wei Dynasty came to the south to eat in the local area, and it was these local tyrants who suffered the greatest disturbance and loss, and they mastered the local administrative responsibilities.

Although they didn't dare to clash with the army in person, they couldn't swallow this breath behind their backs, so they thought about running to the north to complain, hoping that the Jingzhou Governor's Office could administer justice for them. However, after coming to Chubei, they found that the sky had changed here, General Li was still not in the town, and the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion did not even have a manager, so they could only go to Xinye and ask Wei Chi Hui, the new left-behind governor, to provide them with shelter.

It just so happened that Wei Chi Hui was also looking for these people, asking them why the money and grain in the northern prefectures and counties had been delivered to the warehouse, but there had been no movement between them and the land?

Wei Chi also learned from the former subordinates of the Governor's Mansion that there was a difference between the Governor's Office's management of Chubei and Suilu, but in his opinion, it was nothing more than Li Boshan's move to invite people to buy people's hearts.

It is a bit unreasonable to take advantage of the fact that the land of Handong has been obtained for several years, but it is still the same as the old law, and it is time to take advantage of the moment when the army is crossing the border and intimidating all sides to implement the new law, solve the military needs and establish his authority at the same time.

As for whether it will arouse the resistance of these local tyrants who follow the land, Wei Chi Yuan is not worried about this. He didn't come alone, although the entire 60,000 elite army was mainly to attack Jiangling, it was also enough to deter the Suilu Haoqiang who were close at hand

More than enough. Moreover, some of these people who are stronger with Lu Haoqiang were already requisitioned to Huainan by Li Boshan, and they did not have the courage to stir up any storms when they left them.

Therefore, instead of upholding justice for them as these powerful men expected, Wei Chi Yuan detained them, severely reprimanded them, and ordered them to transport money and food to Xinye as soon as possible, otherwise if he waited until he led a large army to inspect the township, he would not only increase the punishment, but even deprive them of their official positions!

Such a rude approach is naturally full of complaints, whether it is the workshop owners who were refused to pay their debts, or the local tyrants who were extorted money and food, they were all worried, and gradually gathered in the Hongbin Building in the city by people with good intentions.

Hongbin Building is the official guest house of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, and also welcomes customers. Now that the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion is completely suspended, there is naturally no official guest reception task, and it has become a relatively lively news distribution center in the city.

"Brother Xu, how are you injured?"

In the Hongbin Building, someone looked at a young man who was walking with a slight limp and asked.

The young man's name is Xu Huaizong, who was born in Anlu Haozong, and his relatives served as an official in the township, while he took care of the workshop industry in the north of the country. This Xu Huaizong was also unlucky, first went to Xinye to ask for the balance and was driven out, and then because Wei Chi Hui urged Lu Haoqiang to pay money and grain, he was arrested in the city and tortured with a cane, and the family urgently sold the products of the workshop in exchange for money and silk before redeeming it.

Hearing his friend's question, Xu Huaizong's face suddenly turned sad and indignant, and he couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "Although he is not dead now, but with that faint official in charge, his livelihood will not be long!" I'm here today to inquire when General Li will return? Do you want to continue to allow these unscrupulous officials to do evil in the territory and greatly damage the peaceful old state of Jingzhou?"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but sigh. Most of them gathered here for this purpose, and each of them was damaged like the young man Xu Huaizong, and some of them were even worse than this Xu Huaizong's situation.

"I heard from the old officials of the state government that General Li was too strong and was envied and framed by the female cadres in the country, so he sent tens of thousands of troops and the thief lieutenant Chi Yu to take advantage of the general's expedition to seize power. If nothing happens, General Li is afraid that it will be difficult for him to return to the town to manage affairs, and the current comatose government will continue......

"I'm afraid it's not the worst yet! Do you know who this captain Chi Yuan is? It is said that the corpses killed in Chengdu are all over the field, countless dead and wounded, and even the Jinjiang River is full of blood.

Everyone in the building is sharing the situation from various sources, but the more they listen, the cooler their hearts become, it seems that this good day in the north is coming to an end!

Just when the masses were all pessimistic and depressed, some people were indignant and shouted angrily: "General Li Da is wise in governing things, and the masses are working hard, so that there is a peaceful and prosperous situation in the north today, do you really want to let these thieves eat and destroy? We villagers don't have the courage to defend the country, and here we sigh who can we hope for rescue!"

"If it's just that captain, what's the point of fear? The husband was angry, ambushed the two corpses, and bled five steps! But now it is tens of thousands of troops entering, and if they are angered, those soldiers will do evil to the country and torture the people!"

Someone sighed again.

"What about tens of thousands of troops? All those soldiers went south, but few remained in the north. Now General Li is exiled, and a certain villager has been favored for many years and does not know how to repay, and now he gathers villagers, attacks and kills evil people, and welcomes the general back to the town! With General Li, a famous general, who leads the villagers to resist the enemy, there is no need to be afraid!"

Suddenly, someone shouted like this again, and the originally noisy environment in the hall suddenly became silent, and everyone looked left and right in some fright, not daring to continue the discussion, and each got up and left in a hurry.

Although the meetings were dispersed, there were many smaller gatherings in other parts of the city, and everyone who attended them was filled with indignation and determination.

On this day, Wei Chi Hui led a group of soldiers to leave Xinye and inspect a warehouse in the south of the city, and prepared to report the results of the materials he had collected during this time to the front, and asked Yu Jin to arrange for soldiers to come and transport them to the front line.

He was still carefully inspecting the treasury here, when suddenly a subordinate came to report signs of movement in a large group of men and horses a few miles to the west. Wei Chi Yu frowned when he heard this, and hurriedly arranged for people to go to investigate, and he himself walked out of the warehouse to inspect the defense here.

Before the men and horses sent out had returned, the smoke suddenly rolled in the direction of the north city, and Wei Chi Hui was shocked when he saw this, this was clearly a sign that the team of men and horses was galloping!

After Wei Chi Zhen groaned slightly, he led his own soldiers to rush out of the Cangcheng here, preparing to go to Xinye and other places to mobilize men and horses to deal with the change. However, when he rushed out of Cangcheng, he saw a large number of people emerging in the suburbs. The populace were not well armed, and all of them were wielding rudimentary staffs, but they were all indignant, and their fierce expressions were terrifying.

"What the hell is going on? Who is stirring up the riots?"

Wei Chi looked at the battle of the chaotic people, at least there were tens of thousands of people, and he only had hundreds of soldiers around him this time, even if he added the men and horses stationed in Cangcheng, it was less than 2,000 people, in addition to those emotional chaos people were difficult to deal with, and the people and horses rushing from the north were also difficult to guard against.

The rebels came very quickly, when Wei Chi Hui planned to ride his horse around these rebels and then gather reinforcements, the cavalry team in the north also appeared in the field of vision, the first lieutenant Chi Hui looked a little familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember, seeing that these armor soldiers were well-armed but there was no obvious mark, but he still guessed that this should be Li Boshan's arrangement.

"You and other thieves and soldiers want to cause trouble for your lord Li Boshan!"

He shouted and cursed as he led his troops around to avoid the enemy's edge.

Li Xiaoyong didn't answer, but just shouted: "Kill, don't leave a living mouth!"

With his order, thousands of elite soldiers behind him rushed forward on horseback, chasing and fighting with the men and horses of Wei Chi's department. Wei Chi Yuan and his own soldiers were also brave and extraordinary, but because of the haste of the incident, they were attacked before they had time to make sufficient preparations, and they did not even have basic bows and arrows and armor, so they naturally suffered heavy casualties.

"My lord, please take the first step, and stay here to stop the enemy!"

Seeing that nearly half of his own side had been killed or wounded, but the pursuing enemy still had not gotten rid of him, the captain of Wei Chi's own soldiers raised his sword in his hand and shouted loudly, preparing to use his life to intercept the enemy for Wei Chi Yuan.

As these people stopped fleeing, but stopped fighting to the death, Li Xiaoyong and other pursuers were also stopped. Wei Chi knew that there was no point in staying here, so he could only grit his teeth and continue to fight his horse and gallop, heading towards Xinye, secretly thinking that with such a big disturbance in his heart, the people left behind in Xinye would inevitably be alert, as long as they came, they would be saved.

However, there are too many chaotic people in the wilderness, and it is difficult for Wei Chi Yu to resist alone at the moment, so he can only avoid the detour as much as possible, and suddenly he does not notice any of them, and the front hooves of the war horses under his command fall steeply into the wilderness dirt pit. Wei Chi Yu did not notice anything, then he also fell off his horse and rolled into the ravine in front of him.

The nearest group of rebels was still a few miles away, and Wei Chi rolled over in embarrassment, returned to his mount, and tried to pull his horse's feet out of the mud puddle, and then get on his horse and leave before the rebels rushed up. However, the more urgent it became, the more chaotic it became, and he used all his strength here, but the horse foot fell deeper and deeper under the struggle of the war horse.

"The dog thief is here, kill it!"

A group of rebels had already rushed to the approach, each brandishing a bamboo and wood staff and surrounding him. Seeing this, Wei Chi Yu also gave up his efforts, and pulled out the saber at his waist and held it across his chest, but suddenly there was a sudden wind on the side, and he looked sideways and saw a flying stone being smashed towards him, and he hurriedly lowered his head to dodge.

The boulder grazed the back of Yu Chi Yuan's head, but then more earth and stones fell towards him, and before he could spin his heels, Yu Chi Yuan was submerged in it. Sticks and hoes rained down on him, and gradually his body stopped moving.

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