Chapter 254: Fighting for the Heart of the People

"No, no!" Dou Jiande shook his head and smiled bitterly: "From Wang Shichong, the Wang family has no more heroic resources. I am afraid they will not delay it for long. Conspiracy and tricks can only lead to a temporary victory. I want this world to be upright and upright. Those who have attained the Tao will have more help, and those who have lost the Tao will have few help. I want to compete with Li Yuan, a common man. Is this "Tao" he or I have more!"

"Your Majesty is naturally the destiny of heaven, which is an undisputed fact!" Ling Jing said respectfully: "Your Majesty is naturally the one who attains the Tao, and Li Yuan is a one who is incompetent."

"You are wrong!" Dou Jiande shook his head and said, "I am different from Li Yuan's way. His way is the wealthy family in the world, the seven sects and five hopes, and the nobles of Guanlong, but my way is the common people in the world, and billions of dollars are promoted to the people."

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, thirty-six rebels against the kings and seventy-two rebels. After looking through their foundation, we must have been surprised to find that there were not many peasants who could not survive at all. Instead, the aristocratic races carried out a new round of power reshuffle. Dou Jiande was far inferior to Li Yuan in terms of family background, but Dou Jiande had something that Li Yuan did not have. He was from a poor family of common people. He knew what the people wanted.

Originally, the Hebei aristocratic people and local tyrants looked down on Dou Jiande. However, when attacking Hedong, in order to expand their troops and increase their strength to confront Li Tang, Dou Jiande was also expanding his army.

However, to expand the armament, armor, food, and weapons are needed. In the era of small peasant economy, these resources were in the hands of aristocratic families and clans without exception. Dou Jiande could not obtain the support of these materials and wealth, so Dou Jiande adopted another method of conversion.

The Xia army distributed 100 acres of military field, and for every soldier killed on the battlefield, an additional 60 acres of pension fields were issued. These 160 acres of land could be passed on to descendants to inherit or trade. Dou Jiande had no land either. Of course, when he saw that all the aristocratic families and wealthy families did not support him without exception, he adopted a violent countermeasure. He directly confiscated the families and powerful people in the newly obtained land in the name of directly investing in the enemy and connecting with the enemy country.

On the sixth day of the fifth month of the third year of Wude, Dou Jiande's general conquered Luzhou City and beheaded thousands of gentry and officials in Luzhou City, and used confiscated property and food as military funds. All the land owned by these aristocratic races was confiscated. Wang Xiaohu raised the banner of recruiting troops according to Dou Jiande's order.

"Associate the Xia army and distribute 100 acres of permanent land!"

"Another sixty acres of pension land were distributed when they were killed!"

"The disability is issued forty acres of additional issuance!"

"Twenty acres of land were distributed in minor injuries!"

"Cut the enemy's head at one level and turn it into five acres of land!"

In fact, Dou Jiande accidentally opened up an alternative land reform. In modern times, revolution was not an easy task. Countless revolutionaries complained that the Chinese people were too numb and cowardly, and had no spirit of resistance at all. No matter how they promoted, encouraged, or made great efforts and sacrifices, they just looked indifferently, and looked like they were not in their own way. They were purely a group of pigs and sheep to be slaughtered. They took such people to do the revolution and could not succeed in a hundred years. They were wrong. The Chinese people's spirit of resistance has always been the strongest. As early as the Qin Dynasty, Chinese farmers roared "Will the emperor, general, and ministers be willing to be planted?" For more than two thousand years, peasant uprisings have been one after another, and dynasties that made them unable to survive were buried.

Dou Jiande had already paid off this kind of sweetness of dividing land and expanding the army. You should know that even in the late Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty, the land price in the Tang Dynasty was not low. One acre of yield was more than 300 acres even in Hedong. In this way, they could exchange for land worth more than 400 chunks of yuan in one life, and these proletarians, tenants and refugees suddenly went crazy.

At the beginning, they naturally did not believe that Dou Jiande would be so kind, but after temptation, these people who joined the army received the land deeds issued by the government at that time, and the people of Hedong went crazy in an instant. Two days later, the troops of Cao Zhan, the general under Dou Jiande, captured the Zhouzhou after a hard battle and opened the gates of the three towns in southern Jin. At this point, Dou Jiande, who was expeditioning the west, had expanded to 300,000 troops and had 31,000 cavalrymen.

Seeing the Xia army passing by like locusts, sweeping away all the aristocratic families where they pass, the officials and gentry in Hebei were frightened.

Dou Jiande's troops distinguished the aristocratic races and the people simply and roughly. Those with more than 500 acres of land were tyrants and were targeted for suppression. Of course, they did not resist and handed over to the land to leave a living life.

Just after the three towns in southern Shanxi conquered, Dou Jiande's army rushed northwards. At the same time, the powerful people in Bingzhou were frightened and they were all desperately selling their land... This thing used to be property, but now it is a death talisman. The more land you have, the faster you die. This is the experience they have summarized. Large areas of fertile land are sold as if they are not money, and they have been sold to a 10% discount. But at this deadly moment, who would buy large areas of fertile land? It is simply because they were kicked by a donkey and thought they died too slowly.

The news that the three towns in Hedong and Jinnan shocked the Li Tang court in Chang'an in Guanzhong. The Tang Dynasty had not failed. For example, Xue Ju Qianshuiyuan defeated Li Shimin, Zong Luohu's troops rushed to Jingyang City 80 miles away from Chang'an. Like Liu Wuzhou defeated Li Yuanji, he almost took down all the entire Hedongxin. In fact, losing the city and land was not a rare thing for the Tang Dynasty.

However, Dou Jiande was different this time.

Wherever Xia Jun passed, there was a scene where husbands gave their wives and fathers sent their sons to the battlefield everywhere.

The farmers are eager to survive on the land they have finally owned the land now. If they don’t want the land they have obtained to fly away, they can only follow Dou Jiande and go to the dark.

Hedong was the place where Li Yuan started his career. When the Hedong clans and clans were killed by Dou Jiande's army, the blood flowed into a river, the court transferred Chen Ying across the river to the north, and the Shu army under Li Xiaogong was called to go north. At this time, Li Yuan was also in a dilemma.

Why is Li Yuan in a dilemma?

Actually, the answer is very simple.

Because Li Xiaoer was too unsatisfied, he lost all his face when he lost two defeats. At this time, Li Shimin's reputation was far worse than Li Jiancheng, and even worse than Li Yuanji. This broke the balance that Li Yuan had worked hard to achieve.

Dou Jiande was very beautiful in Hedong and caught Li Yuan off guard. However, this incident was also mixed for Li Yuan. There were as many as 43 Hedong clans and powerful families who supported Li Jiancheng, and more than half of the Hedong clan officials under Li Jiancheng were under Li Jiancheng.

Dou Jiande launched a massacre in Hedong, on the one hand, to eradicate Li Jiancheng's direct power. Once Hedong is truly lost, only the Wei family in Jingzhao can rely on Li Jiancheng. In contrast, Li Shimin also has the Zheng family in Xingyang and the powerful Shandong people can rely on.

Dou Jiande's weakening of Li Jiancheng's wings does not affect their father-son relationship, and can achieve the goal of balance. Isn't Li Yuan in a dilemma?

In fact, Li Yuan did not really want to lose Hedong. As long as Chen Ying led his army to attack Hebei, even if he could not take Hebei, he just needed to force Dou Jiande to return to the rescue, and Li Yuan's goal was achieved. In fact, in his heart, he was more inclined to Chen Ying to attack Hebei.

Li Yuan faced the angry minister and adopted a mixed approach: "I'm considering it!"

"Think about it!" is actually a very famous diplomatic rhetoric in later generations. It can be interpreted as that I will not consider it at all.

Chen Yingze didn't think so much. He led more than 50,000 infantry under his command to ride a canal ship down the Yellow River. On Chen Ying, the Leilifeng Conduct Association thoroughly implemented it.
Chapter completed!