Chen Tingxiao looked happily at the city of Yizhou that was in riots. At this time, the cry of 'kill the tax collectors' had already resounded throughout the city.
Moreover, the riots among the people in Illinois also brought out a group that was most dissatisfied with the tax collectors, and that was the merchants on the trade road.
On the current Silk Road, the commercial tax in Hexi is the most reasonable. When entering Dunhuang, Shazhou, you must declare it to the officials of the Liang State Household Department in Dunhuang City. The Household Department also has skilled old businessmen to do the valuation.
Most of these old businessmen are old or have inconvenient legs and feet and cannot continue to do business. Their valuations are generally very accurate.
After appraising the value, you need to go to Liangzhou to pay commercial tax with the receipt given by the Ministry of Revenue.
Before this, merchants did not need to pay any business tax, and only had to pay a small amount of transit tax when visiting a state or city.
In other words, no matter how many goods there are, as long as you pay a commercial tax, you can avoid being plucked by geese everywhere.
But it's different in Gaochang Uighurs. They have been collected in Qiuci, and they have also been collected in Gaochang City. When they get to Yizhou, there will still be no shortage.
And as if it were a competition, one place was more important than the other, and the merchants had long been miserable.
At this time, the people of Illinois set off a wave of rebellion against the tax collectors, which was directly exploited by the merchants.
Most of them are not natives of Illinois. They can just kill people and run away. Moreover, their goods are huge, and if they can evade tax once, it will be a huge sum of money.
Soon, due to the participation of these merchants with strong martial arts, this storm quickly swept through the entire Yizhou City.
Not only the tax collectors below, but also several members of the Pugu family who had the title of judge, their families, and the local people who had taken refuge were all killed.
"Brother, it's time for us to enter the city. As long as we control the situation, this Yizhou will belong to our Chen family again!"
A group of Chen family brothers congratulated Chen Tingxiao with happy smiles.
They have long been extremely dissatisfied with the deprivation of Illinois' power, especially the power to collect taxes.
In his smile, he imagined that he could become a tax collector in the future and show off his bravery in front of Ye Niang and me.
But at this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from behind them.
Chen Tingxiao ran up a hill in surprise and looked in the direction of the sound of horse hoofbeats. At least three hundred cavalry were approaching them from all directions, and they were flying the flag of their Chen family.
Chen Tingxiao was dumbfounded because he saw that under the huge banner with the Chinese character "Chen", it was his father Chen Huiyao.
"You traitor! What a good thing you did!" Chen Huiyao struck Chen Tingxiao with a whip without much anger, and then waved his hand.
“The second room controls the east and north doors, and the children of the fourth and fifth rooms control the west and south doors respectively.
Hachiro went directly to inform Saburo, who was guarding the city, and asked him to immediately quell the harassment. All the merchants who had killed people were captured and no one was let go. They will have to compensate for the loss."
Chen Tingxiao suddenly felt empty in his heart. He had spent many days planning this.
It seems..., it seems like his father picked peaches for him!
Seeing the clan relatives around him following the instructions, Chen Huiyao returned home with a proud face and slapped Chen Tingxiao on the head.
This was the first time Chen Tingxiao saw such an expression on the face of his father, who had always been serious and steady.
"With your three-legged cat skills, you thought of killing the tax collector to force your father to rebel, but you didn't think of how to control the situation?
If I don't come, can your few brothers suppress the already violent people? Can they make the merchants with armor and swords listen to you?
If I don't come today, Yizhou City will fight among itself."
Chen Tingxiao was stunned when he heard this, "Yeah, you...you already knew that?"
"Of course I know. Otherwise, why do you think your third uncle, who is guarding the east gate, would listen to your orders? Have you grown all hairy? Would you dare to give orders to your third uncle?"
"But since your lord knows all this, why didn't you agree when the Great Liang Angel came?"
For the first time, Chen Tingxiao felt that he didn't recognize him, the father who always shied away and gave in in his heart.
Chen Huiyao chuckled, "Would you still cherish a wild horse that can be tamed by throwing a lasso?"
Zhang Tianwang and I had fought each other in Loulan City ten years ago. The angel who came to our family was the brother who had cheated thousands of people in our family back then.
If you follow such a king, how can you sell it at a good price if you don't let him see your importance?"
Chen Tingxiao was speechless. For the first time, his 'young' mind at the age of sixteen was taught a good lesson by his father.
What he thought was a genius plan was almost nakedly exploited.
"What are you still doing? I'm going to stabilize Yizhou City. You quickly take the most skilled archer and horseman among the clan and Pegasus to contact the Angel of Liang Kingdom.
Just say that I have seen through your plan. Although I now control Yizhou City, I am hesitating.
If you say this, I believe that the rewards from the King of Heaven will be showered down from the sky."
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Mohe Yanqi, outside the mouth of Xingxing Gorge, Zhang Zhao personally led 30,000 troops. After less than three days of rapid march, the 30,000 troops walked out of the more than 300 miles from Dunhuang to the west of Mohe Yanqi.
Once here, the army will march separately into the northern and southern armies.
Bai Congxin and Murong Nobunaga took 4,000 people with them. After just a short rest, they immediately started heading north.
Not only did they want to quickly reach Xianquan Town outside Shatuo Qi, they also needed to build roads and bridges along the way and leave marks.
Zhang Zhao was assigning tasks to Feng Hui who was full of excitement. He left Barbarian Bear, Dunzhu and Wang Tongtong to Feng Hui.
These people are his confidants, among them there are four hundred infantry troops belonging to Hanshandu alone. They are the most important force around Zhang Zhao.
As for why the Barbarian Bears were not allowed to follow him on the northern route? This is because large-tonnage heavy-footed warriors like the Barbarian Bears are not suitable for long-distance raids.
Although it was not completely impossible, it was not the most suitable. They had to eat a lot, wear heavy clothes, and it would be difficult for the horse to hold them up, so Zhang Zhao simply asked them to go with Feng Hui.
And there is another reason, that is, after capturing Yizhou, the South Route Army will go directly to Gaochang.
In this way, they will definitely be fiercely attacked by the Gaochang Uighur army. They have more infantry and less cavalry, which is suitable for forming a stronghold to hold back the Gaochang people.
Of course Feng Hui also knew Zhang Zhao's intention of asking him to lead the Southern Route Army, but after all, Silver Spear was never afraid of fighting a vicious battle.
During the Liang-Jin Hu Liupo battle, Wang Yanzhang led the Liang army to form a formation. The Jin army collapsed in panic and even the fierce general Zhou Dewei and his son died in the battle.
Only the Yinqiang Xiejie Army withstood the pressure and attacked Liang Jun fiercely, allowing Li Cunxu to turn the corner.
Therefore, Yinqiangxiaojie is never afraid of a fierce battle, they are just afraid that you don't give enough money.
However, now that the effectiveness of the Silver Spear has long since disappeared, Feng Hui did not come to Zhang Zhao to make money as easily as he came to Liang Kingdom.
As a member of the non-Daibei Wuxun Group, Feng Hui and other Hebei people may only be able to become the top martial arts masters with Zhang Zhao and obtain the wealth of Fu Ze's descendants. This is his most important idea.
"Going west from Yizhou, about four hundred miles away, there is a city named Puchang, which was the headquarters of the Tianshan Army of Xizhou in the past.
According to the report from the merchant, this city is still habitable, and it is only one hundred and sixty miles away from Gaochang City.
You must arrive at Puchang before the first day of October and hoist the banner so that Jie Lipijia will think that our army has arrived.
If you persist for more than fifteen days, the main force of the Northern Route Army will arrive, and I will count the first contribution to you."
Puchang at this time was Shanshan County in later generations, which happened to be the gateway to the east of Gaochang.
As long as we can capture Puchang and Jielipijia in Gaochang City, we will definitely send out a large army.
At that time, the Northern Route Army that captured Tingzhou City arrived quickly, and the Gaochang Uighurs were finished.
Feng Hui cupped his hands and bowed down to the ground with a solemn salute, "Please rest assured, King of Heaven, let alone the 15th, even the 30th, I can hold it!"
Zhang Zhao was just about to talk about what to do if the Chen family in Yizhou was unwilling to submit, when he heard a guard coming from a distance to report that someone from Yizhou was coming.
The four tribesmen brought by Chen Tingxiao are all outstanding among the Chen family's men.
As the Nanchen clan moved from the south of the Yangtze River by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty in the early Sui Dynasty, the Chen family was actually very martial.
Different from the impression of later generations that Jiangnan is full of weak scholars, in fact the Han people in Jiangnan have always been very capable of fighting. Otherwise, how could they assimilate and annex so many Yue people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang?
The impression that Jiangnan was weak and weak was actually formed during the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was in distant Beijing, and Jiangnan also became the region with the highest tax revenue in the country.
If the people are still fierce and fierce, and everyone is as good at fighting as the Dongyang miners, the emperor in Beijing will not be able to sleep, and Jiangnan will definitely not be allowed to be martial again!
However, during this period, although there was a saying that Yang Yiyi Yier was better, overall, the northern economy still had the advantage.
Therefore, people from the south of the Yangtze River are still very capable of fighting. These Nanchen clans have been able to survive from the end of the Sui Dynasty to this time, for a full 450 or 60 years. If they could not fight, they would have been annexed long ago.
At this moment, Zhang Zhao looked at Chen Tingxiao and the other five people. They were tall and tall. Although their faces still had the downy hair of teenagers, they were covered in calluses. The marks left by wearing thumb rings for a long time were very obvious on their fingers. He was immediately very satisfied.
"Generals, when you look at Chen Dalang, does he have the demeanor of Zuo Yulin who led the army in the past?"
Zhang Zhao pointed at Chen Tingxiao and asked, this is an incredible comment.
When Zhang Zhao and others returned eastward, Murong Nobunaga was also about sixteen years old, and he almost defeated a veteran like Ma Shacai.
Of course, Chen Tingxiao was still a little far away from Murong Nobunaga, but all the generals knew the intention of Zhang Zhao's words and immediately praised him.
Chen Tingxiao was also very excited. The reputation of Liangzhou Xue Baipao and Wuwei Shengzilong was famous even in Yizhou.
"Are you willing to stay with me like a heroic boy?"
Zhang Zhao pointed to Zhao Kuangyin, Wang Shenqi, Li Xiaojie, Zhe Deyuan and others around him and asked. These are all young heroes around him.
Chen Tingxiao immediately knelt down and said, "I would like to follow the King of Heaven to rule the world!"
"Okay!" Zhang Zhao immediately decided to keep Chen Tingxiao by his side and also as a hostage to a certain extent.
At the same time, Wu Yuan'er was ordered to lead a hundred fine cavalry and go to Yizhou with the other two Chen family disciples. After taking over the city defense of Yizhou, he allowed the army to enter the city.
