Chapter 178: Not afraid of opponents like gods but afraid of teammates like pigs

In Beizhou City, Beizhou Governor Lu Chengqing frowned slightly.

Now Lu Chengqing is just twenty-eight years old and has become the fourth-rank governor of Mingzhou. Lu Chengqing's future will never be limited in the future. Of course, this is because Lu Chengqing has a good background. He is the legitimate branch of the Fanyang Lu family, one of the five hopes of the seven sects, and the eldest son of Lu Chisong, and the son of the dignified Duke of Fanyang County.

Lu Chengqing's father, Lu Chisong, was originally named Hedong Ling of the former Sui Dynasty, and had old friends with Li Yuan. Li Yuan led his army to raise an army. Lu Chisong went to Huoyi to welcome the Tang army and became the doctor of the Taiwan Ministry of War. During the Wude period, he was appointed as the prince's servant, and the prince's wife was appointed as the Duke of Gu'an County. He was promoted to the prince's order, and was appointed as the Duke of the Zhu Kingdom and the Duke of Fanyang County. Lu Chisong was virtuous, smart and handsome, with gorgeous rhetoric and outstanding literary style. He was highly praised by both elegant scholars and ordinary people.

Lu Chengqing had a good father and a huge family behind him, so his career path was smoother than that of ordinary people. After his twentieth year, Wude was appointed as the official of the Ministry of Personnel Examination and Examination and Examination and Examination and Examination and Examination in just one year. In the third year of Wude, he was promoted to the secretary-general of the secretary (from the fifth rank), and became the author of the book. He had just been two years old and was promoted to the governor of Mingzhou three months ago. Lu Chengqing entered the official position at the age of 23, and in just four years, he was promoted from the sixth rank to the fourth rank official, completing a height that ordinary officials could not achieve in their entire lives.

As the saying goes, a famous scholar, although Lu Chengqing was young, he was trained by the Lu family of Fanyang since childhood. He has good talent and worked very hard. He became familiar with the five counties of Mingzhou under his rule in just three months. Lu Chengqing's father was Li Jiancheng of the Eastern Palace, and the Lu family of Fanyang behind him was also a Youzhou clan. Lu Chengqing disdained corruption and devoted all his energy to governing Mingzhou.

Taking advantage of Chen Ying's spring breeze to reform fertilizers, Lu Chengqing used the clan power of the Lu family in Fanyang to not only get a lot of primitive phosphate fertilizers, but also various organic fertilizers and bone meal on the grassland. The grain growth in Mingzhou is very gratifying. According to the fundamental calculations of the staff, the five counties in Mingzhou will definitely exceed the tax tasks of the court this year.

The imperial court's evaluation of local officials' political achievements was nothing more than taxation, population and education. Taxation exceeded the task and the population increased by nearly 10%. As for the achievements of education, as long as the Lu advocates advocated him, it would be difficult to not become a good person. As long as the term of office expired for three years, according to the court's rules and regulations, he would need to be promoted to another level. If he was not transferred to a wealthy prefecture and county, he would have to be transferred back to Chang'an to be an official.

At that time, Lu Chengqing would not be promoted to deputy second assistant to the fifth supervisor if he was not a son of the three provinces and six ministries. Thinking that he could become a senior official in the fourth rank of the capital at the age of 30, he was just around the corner, and the title of marquis and generals was just around the corner, Lu Chengqing was so happy that he hummed a song.

Extreme joy leads to sadness. Just when he was intoxicated by his dream of getting promoted and making money, the staff rushed in with a panic expression and said anxiously: "If you use the county, disaster will be wrong, disaster will be wrong!"

Lu Chengqing frowned and shouted, "I'm so panicked, what do you think!"

The staff shouted: "Those mud legs...those mud legs rebelled!"

Lu Chengqing jumped up like a needle on his butt and screamed: "What? What did you say!?"

The staff smiled bitterly and said, "Those mud-legged rebelled. They ambushed the officers and soldiers who escorted miners into the mountains to mine, let the miners go, and killed hundreds of officers and soldiers without leaving any armor! They really rebel!"

Yongnian County under Mingzhou has a large semi-open-pit coal mine, which can mine more than 200,000 kilograms of coal per day. It is precisely because of the large amount of coal resources that Mingzhou has become a famous wealthy prefecture in Hebei Road in a short time.

Lu Chengqing was still young after all. He was fine, but when he encountered an emergency, he couldn't help but tremble all over. Lu Chengqing murmured to himself with a silence: "What should I do? What should I do? If the court knew that such a disaster occurred in my Mingzhou territory, although I would not move my head... it would also affect my future. Those mud legs were really hateful. Why didn't they make trouble elsewhere? They had to be unable to get along with me in Mingzhou. Damn it, it was damn it!"

Lu Chengqing was puzzled by all his thoughts. According to the saying that the people of Mingzhou live a good life now. Although they are not rich, at least they don’t have to worry about starving to death. He really couldn’t figure out why the peasants rebelled.

Liu Shishan looked at the quiet Mingzhou City, and Liu Shishan's eyes slowly turned red. As a fellow villager of Dou Jiande, the Liu family in Beizhou was also one of the absolute irons who broke their families and supported Dou Jiande. Liu Heita brought hundreds of clans of the Liu family in Beizhou to join Dou Jiande's troops. Among them were Liu Heita, who became the Donggong of Han of Xia, and Liu Jintang, who became the champion general. Of course, more Liu's children became one of the ten thousand bones that had been successfully destroyed by one general.

Liu Shishan looked at the Tang-character flag on the city wall, gritted his teeth even though he hated him. He did not really act rashly. He knew that there were only a hundred detailed figures who sneaked into Mingzhou City. Once the city was captured, he would lose the opportunity to seize Mingzhou. Liu Shishan suppressed his inner impulse at the critical moment, but instead targeted the coal mine in Yongnian County.

There were only two types of miners in the coal mine in Yongnian County. The first was a prisoner of war from the Turks, but a core officer of the Xia army. The Xia army general whose hands were stained with blood from the Tang army soldiers.

These core Xia army officers had the hatred of destroying their families and the Tang Dynasty, and many of them were favored by Dou Jiande. They would rather die than surrender to the Tang Dynasty. These people were objects that Liu Shishan could use.

The staff hurriedly reported to Lu Chengqinghui: "According to a team that fled back, many miners joined the rebels on the spot. The rebels have greatly increased their strength. What should I do?"

Lu Chengqing's face was pale and trembled, "Hurry, hurry... I'll order the city gates are closed tightly, and no one can wait to enter or leave to prevent the rebels from scrambling into the city! Also, send someone to report to the politician and ask him to send troops to support him quickly!"

The staff responded and quickly went to make arrangements.

As the saying goes, true feelings are revealed in times of adversity, and true knowledge is revealed. Although Lu Chengqing is noble and has good talent. The key is that he has no experience of serving at the grassroots level. At normal times, Lu Chengqing can still follow the steps, but once he encounters a surprise change, he immediately becomes an ostrich and wishes to retreat into the cracks of the ground. From beginning to end, he did not expect to summon the officers and soldiers who escaped from death and saved their lives from the rebels' sword to understand the strength of the rebels. He only cares about closing the city gates, for fear of being taken advantage of by the rebels. He can be called a pig-like opponent. The most tragic thing is that such pig-like opponents are everywhere in the early Tang Dynasty!

Because at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan accepted the support of the aristocratic clans. This support was not free, but required a price. These costs included land, official positions, and titles. It was a little nicer. The court paid more salaries, and the land had actually revealed bad signs. However, after the world turmoil at the end of Daye, the population in the early Tang Dynasty dropped sharply, and the land could still support it for a while. However, these officials who had no grassroots experience in consolidating their work experience were very fatal to the Tang Dynasty.

In the Rabbit Age, there is a saying: "I call me a hero, a hero."

In fact, it is so common for tiger fathers and dogs and sons.

Just when Lu Chengqing was panicked, Liu Shishan returned to Chuxiushan Mountain Village with the coal miners rescued from Yongnian County. The first battle was won. Liu Shishan sent out to attack and escort miners into the mountains and mining, and returned one after another. They all won a great victory. They easily defeated the poorly equipped officers and soldiers, and the unvigilant Tang soldiers, and even wiped them out and rescued the miners.

Many miners learned that Liu Shishan's "real" purpose was to avenge King Xia. Many miners expressed their willingness to join Liu Shishan's team, which made Liu Shishan's team more than double. There were not many enemies in this battle, and most of the seized weapons were unbearable, which was really not worth mentioning. However, this was Liu Shishan's first battle, and it was of great significance. Seeing that the officers and soldiers were defeated under their own attacks, many traitor soldiers who were originally quite nervous were greatly motivated and believed that the Tang army officers and soldiers were not scary. This psychological advantage was very important to their subsequent battle.

Liu Shishan didn't say much. After returning to the parody, he ordered the seized weapons, shackles and other things to melt them, rebuild the weapons, and prepare for the next battle.

At this time, Hu merchants smuggling teams brought Liu Shishan only four thousand horizontal swords made of good steel, five hundred cavalry bows and arrows, and five hundred gun heads. These weapons made Liu Shishan cheer. What they lacked now were weapons! The list of new joiners of some military officers and soldiers was recorded, registered, and then distributed weapons, and started simple training. In short, they were very busy.

Although the flag was successfully opened, Liu Shishan's soldiers were very weak at this time and had serious weapons. He still had no chance to attack Beizhou City.

As Dou Jiande's old capital, the Beizhou Army was probably cleansed, especially those loyal to Dou Jiande, so Beizhou could only be defeated by wisdom and cannot be defeated.

Just as Liu Shishen was thinking about how to defeat Beizhou City, Lu Chengqing, a pig teammate, began to help.

On June 28, the sixth year of Wude, the third day of Liu Shishan's actions, Lu Chengqing could no longer sit still. He was worried that Li Shentong, the immediate boss, would be dissatisfied with him, so he decided to wipe out the group of mud legs first.

Under Lu Chengqing's coercion and temptation, the city gate of Beizhou finally opened. Dai Yuanxiang, the commander of the Beizhou Zhechong, led an army of more than 1,500 people, including two infantry and cavalry regiments, a Yue cavalry regiment, a village soldier and a yamen runners, and opened out of the city to prepare to go into the mountains to suppress bandits.
Chapter completed!