Although Liu Bei has a good reputation in Shu, in order to support the Hanzhong front line, Yuan Ji has been searching for grain and grass in Shu for 2 years. In these two years, the young and strong men in Shu are either going to the battlefield or transporting grain. There are even many women doing such things on the road. There are only more than 3 million people in Shuzhong, but 20-30% of the people are transporting grain and grass. A large number of people maintain Liu Bei's army in the later period, so that the entire There are not many young people to be found in Sichuan.
Such cruel exploitation has left the fields of the people in Shu barren, the people's wives and children dispersed, and the entire city of Shu has quickly become depressed. Liu Bei's prestige in Shu has been quickly eroded in this year. Now the people in Shu have begun to curse Liu Bei. .
It can be said that the entire Shuzhong has become a land of hay, and the small team Xu Wei sent out is Xinghuo. This kind of thing is what Daqian is best at. When these small teams came to Shuzhong, they encountered the areas destroyed by the war. The suffering people, as soon as the two sides joined forces, the entire Shu region began to burn, the people began to get angry, and they began to vent their anger!
Under the organization of the soldiers of the Daqian Army, the local people refused to continue to perform corvee service in Hanzhong and evaded military service. In order to solve the problem of survival, the people in Shuzhong, led by the Daqian detachment, began to think of ways to attack the powerful gentry in Shuzhong. Wubao and the city.
The crowbar, which had not been used for a long time, appeared again, and the noble clans in Shu had not experienced the wars that the Han clan had experienced. They were helpless against the crowbar, a new siege weapon.
Any Wubao that was targeted would be surrounded by local people, who would then use crowbars to pry off the bricks of the Wubao little by little. Soon, with the efforts of tens of thousands of people, a small hole would expand into a huge trench. Countless people rushed in from the trench, killed the owners of Guangwu Fort, and robbed them of all their food and money!
Each of these forts has a large amount of money and food, enough to feed tens of thousands of people! Although Liu Bei carried out certain reforms on the Han Dynasty, such as sharing the land with the peasants and strictly supervising the taxation of the nobles. This greatly enhanced the power of the Han Dynasty. Taxes, after all, in the past, the wealthy families of the Han Dynasty did not pay taxes.
But even with such a policy, as long as the fields are not divided, the nobles and nobles still occupy the best land, and they still have a large amount of food income every year, even because of the emergence of a large number of new agricultural tools from Liu Bei, as well as struvite, soil fertilizers and other production-increasing products. With this method, the wealthy nobles in Shu quickly discovered that the increase in grain production not only offset the taxes they were charged, but even made them more income! Therefore, under Liu Bei's policies, the family wealth of the wealthy nobles in Shu continued to grow. !
While the people in Shu were in great pain, the powerful nobles in Shu were still living a good life. They could even curse Liu Bei in their respective Wubao for not being able to repel the Thunder Lord, not to mention causing their families to bear a large amount of taxes. Let Shu wither.
At the same time, he also cursed Yuan Ji for ignoring the interests of the clan and increasing the taxes and corvee for the mud-legged people. He actually did not let them go even for the noble clan. It was still unprecedented for them to be able to pay taxes. Now, he even raised taxes. They actually showed up here with the powerful clansmen in Shuzhong. This is bullying them because they have no one in the court in Shuzhong!
But they never thought that the people in Shu could no longer survive, and they could still eat and curse Liu Bei in their own forts!
Not only did they not understand the situation around them, they even added fuel to the flames, pushing the corvées belonging to their families onto ordinary people, and trying to annex the land in Sichuan where there were not many people! At the same time, they were worried about the vicious rebellion, so they hid in Wubao early Among them, they did not think that the hungry skinny mud-legged people could break through their fortress!
As for the Da Gan Army! If Liu Bei’s hundreds of thousands of troops were not blocking Hanzhong, then the Da Gan Army would not be able to enter Shuzhong. What are they afraid of? If Liu Bei is defeated, what will they resist? They might as well surrender early!
As a result, the people who endured the disadvantages completely overthrew them, and now they were asking for trouble!
Yuan Ji soon discovered that several counties in central Sichuan could no longer be contacted. When he learned about the situation, he found that many villages in Guanghan County and Ba County had been controlled by Dagan. If they had not lacked the strength to attack the enemy, they would have lost control of the country. Even the county seat will be captured by them!
However, many Wubao in the countryside of central Shu were breached by them. Now the wealthy families in central Shu came to him one by one and cried to Yuan Ji, hoping that Yuan Ji would help them regain their family property!
When Yuan Ji heard about this, he immediately understood that this was a method used by the army. This was not the first time they had faced such a situation. Lei Gong was particularly good at deceiving the people. Rich people were poor people. At that time, in Bingzhou and Jizhou There are all such methods. Before the front line was defeated, the rear was bewitched by Lei Gong and became the enemy. Then their army completely collapsed. Now Lei Gong used this method on Yizhou.
As a general and envoy, Yuan Ji naturally understands how heavy the taxes and corvees have been on the people of Shu in the past two years! Now he is trying to persuade them to rebel. He even begins to rejoice that all the young people in Shu are under his control. Incorporated into the common people, even if the people in Shu want to rebel, not many young people will follow the Dagan people. To a certain extent, the momentum of rebellion in Guanghan and other places has not expanded yet, thanks to this reason!
But soon Yuan Ji stopped laughing. His men ran over and said: "Yuan Changshi, something bad happened. The rebels defeated our team transporting grain and grass. Tens of thousands of people joined these rebels!"
"What!" Yuan Ji stood up in horror when he heard this. If the civilian husband is involved, these rebels will not only affect the food transportation on the front line, but the civilian husband's family income will also increase the combat effectiveness of these rebels. You must know that there are people in Sichuan There are more than 3 million people. If they continue to be deceived by Daqian, the whole of Sichuan may be conquered by these rogues!
Faced with this critical situation, Yuan Ji had no choice but to contact Liu Bei on the front line.
Liu Bei was shocked when he heard about this situation. He was very familiar with Lei Gong, and this was Lei Gong's usual method. Thinking of the fate of the Jizhou clan and the Sili clan, he was greatly frightened. He knew that if he could not eliminate these powerful people now, Qian's army, soon the whole of Shuzhong will be captured by Daqian's army, and his soldiers on the front line will be cut off from food and grass, and the army of hundreds of thousands will be defeated by Daqian! And if the center of Shu is captured by Daqian, the army of hundreds of thousands of Dahan will be defeated. With the annihilation of the Qian dynasty, the countdown to the demise of the entire Han Dynasty will begin.
So Liu Bei sent Zhao Yun to lead 10,000 Han troops to clear out the large Gan army in Shu, so that they could not continue to spread! By this time, the competition between the two sides had reached its most intense level, and Liu Bei no longer dared to retreat.