Chapter 233 Southern Song Dynasty

The successive rebellious deeds of the king finally stabilized his position in Jiangnan for the great painter......

Originally, he was indeed not popular in Zhenjiang.

He already had a bad reputation in Jiangnan, especially the last time Tong Guan canceled Huashigang, but he ordered the restoration of the matter that made the people of Jiangnan scolded, and now he suddenly came in this way, putting the officials in Jiangnan in an embarrassing situation. In any case, he abdicated after all, and the current emperor is his son, so he should honestly retire behind closed doors, instead of him coming to set up another court, and he made it difficult for everyone to make such a fuss.

Which one to listen to?

Or to whom does Jiangnan's tax go?

To him?

That would offend the emperor in the north.

To the emperor of the north?

That offended him again.

Give it to everyone?

The gentry are not doing it yet!

Why should we feed two courts?

In short, although no one openly expelled him, the officials in various places were not enthusiastic about him, and they were against his will, and the gentry of the people were full of complaints against him, and some people openly ridiculed him.

But now it's good.

Wang Yue's miraculous operation made the Jiangnan gentry instantly feel the same hatred.

Bloodbathing the academy, torturing the gentry, and even burning the Confucian Temple, jumping on the grave, what kind of heart-wrenching evil deeds are these!

And soon the gentry who fled from Huaibei also arrived one after another.

Then Wang Yue was added to rob women, and Lin Chi, the governor of Suzhou who abandoned the official and fled, ran to the emperor and cried and blamed himself, and forced Wang Yue's minions to lead the way with knives, and went to the gentry's house to loot The evil deeds were also complained.

The country will not be a country!

What's more, he will definitely continue to torture after crossing the Huai River!

So at the same time that Wang Yue stayed in Bozhou and continued to poison the gentry, a big drama of official and civilian petitions was also staged in Zhenjiang, headed by Yan Shenggong, Jiangning Governor Lu Xiang, Yangzhou Governor Mao You and other local officials, together with some representatives of the folk gentry, knelt down outside the Zhenjiang Mansion as a palace to petition, and asked the Emperor Taishang to supervise the country in the name of Wang Yue's hijacking of the holy car to endanger the society.

Then the Emperor Taishang pretended to resign, and then everyone continued to kneel on the ground, and the Emperor Taishang resigned, and everyone continued, and finally the Emperor Taishang accepted it helplessly......

"Poor acting!"

Wang Yue commented on this with contempt.

At this moment, he has arrived in Sizhou, but the Huaihe River pontoon bridge has been burned, so he is just a vast eastward river in front of him, and the Xuyi City on the opposite bank is faintly visible, and even can see the people who are repairing the city wall.

This is the core of the defense along the Huai.

The Bianhe River from Kaifeng to the south is to enter the Huai River in Sizhou, so Sizhou is two small cities in the east and west, and the Bianhe River enters the Huaikou through the city, not far next to the Huaikou, it is also the location of the south of the city of Sizhou almost out of the door, it was originally the Huai River pontoon bridge to connect the opposite bank of Xuyi, but now it is gone, not only the pontoon bridge is burned, even the iron chain is chiseled and fell into the Huai River.

"What is the deployment of troops on the other side of the strait now?"

He then asked.

"Emperor Taishang to Longtu Pavilion straight bachelor, Jianghuai, Jingzhejiang, Fujian Seven Road Economic System Chen Yu as Huaidong Xuanfu Envoy, has now reached the length of the day, with Liu Guangguo as the capital to control Xuyi, Liu Guangshi to control Chuzhou, Liu Guangneng to follow Chen Yu for the control, the three add up to 30,000, but in fact, it still relies on the 3,000 people of the Liu family. In addition, Nie Shan, the former household servant, was the Xuanfu envoy of Huaixi, with Cao Jin as the commander, and led 20,000 people to enter Haozhou, but what could really be fought was 2,000 Western Army infantry.

This western army was under the command of Chen Di, a general of the Yao Gu Army.

He was bribed by Emperor Taishang in Kaifeng before and led part of the western army south.

As for the other armies, they were all originally from the southeastern generals, and even a few generals who had stayed in Zhejiang to suppress Fang Layu's party had been transferred.

However, although there are many people in this generation, it is actually useless.

The last general had previously followed Tong Taishi to conquer Fang La, and did not return to the division until Yu Daoan and other troops were exterminated, and the southeast generals were unusable, not to mention our cavalry, even the farmers under Fang La's armor who had no armor, could chase these officers and soldiers. If it weren't for the reinforcements led by the last general, I am afraid that the official army would not even be able to hold Wenzhou, and even the righteous courage organized by the gentry was not as good as the righteous bravery, who defeated Fang La's henchmen many times and even recovered the city. ”

Yao Pingzhong said.

He is now Wang Yue's main assistant.

This guy has extremely rich combat experience in Jiangnan, he is different from Tong Guan, Tong Taishi took Yang Weizhong, the main force of the Western Army, in fact, after capturing Fang La, he withdrew to the north, but Yao Pingzhong and Zhi Yanzhi and other departments did not withdraw from Jiangnan to the north until near the end of the year, completely purging the rest of Fang La, especially after Yu Daoan and Lu Shinang. And it was already October when Yu Daoan and the others were exterminated, and Fang Ladu had been dead for two months at that time, Yao Pingzhong's department was really hard working, but because of his bad relationship with Master Tong, the reward was not as good as others, but he was really familiar with Jiangnan.

He led his troops to entangle with Yu Daoan and others in the mountains and mountains of southern Zhejiang for several months.

"Don't take it lightly, this generation will be in danger of Changhuai after all, and our cavalry will not be able to throw a whip and cut off the flow!"

Wang Yue said as if he had made a mistake.

"Huh?"

Yao Pingzhong looked at him in amazement.

"Marshal, it's just a bunch of scum, and there will be a brigade of cavalry enough to sweep at the end!"

Yang Zaixing said.

"Nonsense, can you fly across this Huai River? General Yao, this place is temporarily handed over to you and Yang Gong, and the marshal needs to return to the capital to discuss the advance and retreat! ”

Wang Yue said strangely.

"Marshal, why do the enemy need to discuss this again?"

Yang Zaixing was obsessed.

"I said that if I discuss it again, I will discuss it again, and don't think that they are just this little bit of people, this is for us to see, I am afraid that there are several times or even ten times if we can't see it, the Emperor Taishang has been laid out for a long time, only the Qinwang army stranded in Zhenjiang before reached 30,000, plus nearly 40,000 with it to the south, and there are nearly 10,000 generals in the two Huai generals, these alone are already 50,000, has there been no more soldiers in the past two months?

One hundred and fifty thousand!

At least 150,000 troops along the Huai!

150,000 troops, our army is only 20,000, not to mention that there is a risk of Changhuai on the opposite side, and the south of the Huai River is densely covered with swamps, this season is not conducive to cavalry, it is best to wait until the winter is frozen, then even the Huai River can be passed.

It's about sticking to it for now.

You wait to stay here temporarily, and continue to collect military salaries in various parts of Huaibei, this Bozhou Suzhou can also go to other places after the collection, such as Huaiyang, Yizhou and other places, and even to the west, a few prefectures on the North Road of Beijing are also possible, don't stick to one place, we are cavalry, how many days can it take to go to Chenzhou to collect military salaries? However, it is important to remember that you must not harass the common people, and the common people have no money, so they can only find those scholars, and if you don't give them, you will be put on a stick.

It just so happened that the autumn harvest had also begun in various places, and if any gentry fled south and betrayed the official family, then their fields would be temporarily filled with troops.

Those customers who pay rent to them pay directly to us.

But there is no need to give us five of the original rent according to the rent amount of previous years, and the rest is their own! ”

Wang Yue said.

"The last general still doesn't understand?"

Yao Pingzhong said in a somewhat strange tone.

"Still don't understand? Haven't a large number of gentry fled south recently? These people have betrayed the official family, although what to do with them still needs to be decided by the official family, but their land has to be taken over by us for the time being, and those customers who originally rented their fields, of course, still have to pay the taxes that should be paid after the autumn harvest, but the rent handed over to these gentry in addition to the taxes will definitely not be given to his family.

This is directly handed over to us as a military.

But there is no need to follow the rent of previous years, and the official family is not those local tyrants and inferior gentry, how can they ask for such a high rent, so they only need to exchange half of the annual rent, and all similar situations in the future will be based on this example. You and Yang Gong don't need to worry about this matter, just hand it over to Zaixing, and allocate 5,000 cavalry from the Changsheng Army to be responsible for this matter. ”

Wang Yue said.

Well, there must be a superfluous.

There are more than 100,000 households in Bozhou alone, plus more than 200,000 households in Susi Prefecture, and this area is a plain agricultural area, even if the escaped gentry only control one-fifth of the land, it is more than one million mu, and the average arable land of the Song Dynasty is more than 30 mu, not to mention that at this time, the gentry began to flee in the surrounding prefectures, and even accelerated their escape. In the end, the harvest of millions of acres was very easy, and the original rent of these lands and the customers who planted the land were equally divided, that is, the tenants, which not only harvested the hearts of the people but also harvested enough military rations, and even the 20,000 cavalry could not eat it at all.

Then it can be transported to the north to make up for the gap caused by the temporary truncation of the water transport.

After all, that's six million stone of grain a year.

So far, Wang Yue's goal has actually been realized, he divided the Great Song Dynasty into two halves, in fact, a Southern Song Dynasty has been born, that is, some places are not enough to make a choice for the time being because of the distance, but in fact the core of the Great Song Dynasty has been divided into two parts, the north and the south.

The next most important thing for him is not to take the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Southern Song Dynasty is there and can't run, on the contrary, the reform of the Northern Song Dynasty should be completed quickly, as long as the reform of the Northern Song Dynasty is completed, and then the Southern Song Dynasty is just destroyed, and the driving force of the reform of the Northern Song Dynasty is naturally the threat of the Southern Song Dynasty, so not only can not solve the Southern Song Dynasty, but to exaggerate the strength of the Southern Song Dynasty, exaggerate the threat of the painter to Zhao Huan, as the driving force for the reform of the Northern Song Dynasty.

That's what's really imminent.

He had to go back to Kaifeng, use his father's knife to force Zhao Huan to be at his mercy, and go forward on the road of the king of the emperor.

(3rd Watch)