Chapter 12: Let the Bullets Fly a Little Longer
Li Jie tossed for most of the night, and then he squinted on Liu Xingshen's soft collapse for less than two hours, and Gu Mancun woke him up covered in blood.
"Your Highness, the rebel army is still in Dongfang, and it has not crossed Suzaku Street, and the ten generals in the four guards of the North Ya and the sixteen guards of the South Ya are waiting to see you!"
Li Jie yawned a few times and frowned: "This king is just a nominal chief official, do they also want to ask me about this march and war?" ”
Gu Mancun showed a mouth full of big yellow teeth, "Without you in charge, they don't dare to use a lot of strength!" ”
"Oh, that's weird, why don't you dare to use it? Are you afraid that you won't have merit in killing the enemy? ”
Gu Mancun shook his head again and again, "It's not a matter of killing the enemy, this group of rebels is looting everywhere, and ordinary people are also forget it, but they like to rob big households, and now many mansions of nobles in the DPRK and China have been ransacked, and nearly 100 nobles have fallen to the ground!" ”
Li Jie had already stood up and was about to follow, but when he heard this, he sat back down.
"You come carefully, this king is slow."
Gu Mancun's eyes widened and he was a little anxious,
"Your Highness, let's talk while walking, I'm so anxious that I'm about to scratch the wall."
"Listen to them or listen to me, where is so much nonsense, tell me how they robbed the big ones!"
The next moment, through Gu Mancun's stumbling account of the specific incident of the chaos in Chang'an last night, Li Jie breathed a sigh of relief.
Although these Boye soldiers are like mountain bandits and ferocious like wolves, they are not stupid and know how to make trade-offs.
knows that robbing ordinary people's homes not only does not have much oil and water, but also wastes time.
At the beginning, he set his sights on the home of the rich gentry in the city.
Last night, Bai Heng's information was inaccurate, and the people in his mouth turned out to be these people...
The wealth accumulated by these people accounts for almost eighty percent of the entire Chang'an, who will they rob if they don't rob them?
Li Jie feels that if it were him, he would do the same!
Chang'an City takes Suzaku Street as the axis, and in addition to Miyagi, the city is divided into two counties, Chang'an and Wannian, and Dongxifang City is set up.
In addition to the ordinary people living in Chang'an Dongfang, basically all the nobles and wealthy merchants and tyrants are concentrated on this side, representing the gathering of wealth in the world.
Wannian Xifang, which is the area where he is currently located, is mostly official eunuchs, representing the concentration of power in the Tang Dynasty.
Although these nobles in Dongfang rarely participate in the government and become officials in the court, if they dig deeper, they basically have a special connection with officialdom, with prominent status and privileges.
The sixteen guards did not dare to press too hard, for fear that these tooth soldiers would be ferocious and kill the nobles and lords, and they would not be able to bear this responsibility.
Therefore, as soon as I heard that now all the troops in Gyeonggi Guannei Province were under the command of King Shou, and he was a stunned young man who dared to cut Tian Lingzi, he hurriedly looked for him to carry the thunder.
Although Li Jie is mentally prepared to help Li Yi carry the thunder, if it is said that these chaotic troops are crazy and ordinary people will not let go, he will definitely rush out immediately.
And if it's these local tyrants and inferior gentry...
He rolled his eyes, stretched out his hand to the charcoal basin beside him, and began to warm his hands.
"Don't worry, let the bullets fly a little longer!"
"What's a bullet? Still flying for a while? ”
The sweat on Gu Mancun's head came out.
He is honest by nature, but he is far less scheming than those great generals, and he is really anxious for the people in the city.
But King Shou was reluctant to go, and he didn't dare to urge, so he could only spin around in place.
Li Jie warmed his hands while thinking about the peasant army of Huangchao.
It can be said that Huang Chao has similarities with Liangshan and Song Jiang in the Northern Song Dynasty, but the difference is only the scale of the uprising.
But in essence, they all used the peasant uprising to achieve their own promotion and wealth, and glorify the lintel.
The bitter peasant rebels were just a stepping stone for them to gain a high position.
The reason why he and Wang Xianzhi parted ways back then was because the Tang Court recruited them and offered them different conditions.
Wang Xianzhi's official position is far greater than that of Huang Chao.
Huang Chao thought that he was only eight buckets high, and he was naturally dissatisfied with a small official the size of a sesame mung bean, so he made up his mind to continue the rebellion and make the momentum even bigger until he was exchanged for an official position that he was satisfied with.
So, he fought Henan from Shandong, from Hubei to Guiguang and then killed, almost turning the southeast of the Tang Dynasty upside down.
During this period, he had written three times to beg for surrender, and the highest only dared to say that he wanted to be an envoy of the Guangzhou Festival, but he died of no illness for various reasons, and he was angry, and scolded Tian Lingzi, Yang Fugong, Wang Duo and others.
And in the end, when the number of rebels reached 500,000, Huang Chao was enlightened.
What kind of official do you want, isn't it good for me to destroy the Tang Dynasty and become the emperor myself?
It was at this time that the meaning of the uprising had changed, and it had become a struggle for hegemony with the Tang court and the local jiedu envoys, and the inferior nature of the peasant uprising was completely exposed!
"Woo, it can't be said that this Huangchao has done nothing, such a fuss has broken the situation that Chang'an and these festivals make the monarch weak and strong, plus this person is extremely disgusted with the landlord Haoqiang, where the army passes, the corpses are almost piled up into Jingguan. In disguise, the land annexation has been alleviated, if the Tang Dynasty can survive this catastrophe, it will be broken and then established..."
He pushed open the door, the sky was slightly bright, the wind and snow had stopped for some time, and a round of warm winter sun was rising...
The officer of the military branch walked in with a bowl of thick soup,
"Your Highness, drink a bowl of ginseng and deer tendon white fungus soup, you..."
He stole a glance at the pair of urn hammers leaning against the soft couch, "You are still young and need to replenish your muscles and bones." ”
"Put it down, can you eat it?"
After receiving the affirmation, Li Jie casually picked up the Ru kiln white porcelain bowl, and asked while drinking porridge: "Has the treasury of the Duke of Xu Guo been counted?" ”
The ruler immediately took out an account book,
"The time is too tight, and I still haven't cleared it up, but judging from the experience of the following officials, 500,000 guan is only a lot more!"
Li Jie listened, so much?
Fighting local tyrants is really one of the shortcuts to making a fortune!
He set his eyes on Chang'an County, and his eyes almost turned into two copper coins.
You tooth soldiers are going to have to work hard, we've bought you a lot of time, grab more!
"Put away the list and account books, and these will be used as military salaries, and go back to the household department and the military department to report it."
Li Jie drank the porridge in a few sips, and clicked his mouth.
"Old thief Liu's soup is good!"
Getting up and coming to the courtyard, a bad guy was already standing at the foot of the steps waiting.
"How?"
"Back to Your Highness, time is in a hurry, and only five thousand men have been recruited in the city!"
Li Jie was shocked by the efficiency of these spies.
No wonder Lu Yan recommended the bad marshal's mansion to do this, and it was really many times stronger than his own code people!
This bad guy is not like Lu Yan, who came to the door and knocked on the side, and finally insidiously threatened the strong men and gentlemen who were hidden by these official gentry, and it would take at least a quarter of an hour to finish the family.
After the bad guy smashed open the door, he directly slapped the ledger that recorded the real population of each mansion into the face of his master!
To put it mildly, that is to conceal the population and evade taxes, Jingzhao Mansion will soon find you to drink tea and chat, and punish you for not being able to take care of yourself.
Speaking seriously, privately built soldiers, intent on rebellion, raiding the house and destroying the door!
Just these two items, plus the recruitment documents of the Shence Army, how many are not afraid?
The 300 people were divided into dozens of groups, and it took less than four hours to complete the assembly of 5,000 miscellaneous troops composed of the guards of various prefectures, which was a miracle.
"Very good, this king will definitely present this matter to the Son of Heaven, and you will take a credit!"
The sun had already risen high, and the morning was almost over, and then he waved his little hand,
"Let's go, it's time to collect the fruits of victory!"