A stable environment, a large population, and prosperous commerce are the basis for increasing prosperity. Tianyuan County now has these three things. With the increase in foreign businessmen, the local people are gradually waking up, abandoning their prejudices, and joining forces with Bei.
The exchanges between the city-states of Sasha are increasing day by day.
Trade is reciprocal. Tianyuan County sells Feng Country's specialties to Besa, returns Besa's specialties, and resells them to other counties after returning, earning a huge price difference. The same goes for Bessa City-State, which sells Feng Country's specialties.
The specialties are sold to inland people or resold to other surrounding countries to earn more profits.
Pingyuan County, which was once devastated by war and was said to be the worst county in Feng Country, is now the most prosperous. Not only Hengcheng and the border towns are overcrowded, but even the original ordinary towns are booming rapidly. You can see the former people everywhere on the streets.
The Besa people who came to Feng Country to do business and traveled here.
The prosperity of commerce has brought huge revenue to the county's finances, but Shangguan Yuanji did not dare to forget his roots, which is agriculture. Agriculture is the basis of everything. Without agriculture, everything is just a cloud. Without food, there is no army. There is no army.
Without the ability to protect themselves, the peace and prosperity in front of them will only be short-lived. Since business is profitable, many farmers in the county have abandoned their land to do business. Shangguan Yuanji allocated a large sum of money from the county treasury.
Farmers were rewarded heavily with gold and silver to maintain the sustainability of agriculture in the county.
At this time, Shangguan Yuanji's talent for internal affairs came into full play. His foresight was accurate, he knew how to assess the situation, and adjusted policies in a timely manner, so that the development of Tianyuan County would be stable and there would be no trade-offs between various industries. If you want money, you will have food, and if you have food, you will have food.
This provided the strongest support for Tang Yin's large-scale military expansion.
Even Tang Yin later admitted that 70% of his achievements were attributed to Shangguan Yuanji. Without him, he would not have been able to support such a large and powerful army.
The Ningguo army fought with the Feng army in Yancheng for three full months, and it was only then that Tang Yin was ready to actually send troops for reinforcements.
At this time, the Tianyuan Army was well-organized and manned, with a total of 230,000 people. Among them, the Pingyuan Army, which had the strongest combat power, accounted for 100,000, the Sanshui Army, and the Chifeng Army each accounted for 50,000, and the direct-affiliated army accounted for 30,000. Now
Tang Yin's ambitions were much greater than when he first became the county governor. He planned to send his army south to help Wang Ting defeat the Ning army in one fell swoop and gain a higher status.
In the past few days, the army gradually moved south, and batch after batch of Tianyuan troops came out from various counties and gathered in Tianguan. Tang Yin and his generals headed by Qiu Zhen also left Shunzhou and went to Tianguan.
Tianguan is not small, but the gathering of more than 200,000 troops at this time still seems cramped. There are barracks and tents everywhere inside and outside the pass, and Fengjun wearing black leather armor can be seen everywhere.
Tang Yin did not plan to stay longer in Tianguan. He wanted to leave 30,000 troops to guard his home, and he would command an army of 200,000 to go directly to Yancheng.
On this day, when he was discussing the march route with Qiu Zhen and others in the camp, soldiers outside reported recently that Shunzhou had received a letter from Yancheng Fei Ge, which was specially sent to Tang Yin for review.
Tang Yin was very surprised. Who in Yancheng would send a message to Feige? Could it be Miss Wu Mei? After all, he and Wu Mei have not seen each other for a long time. He will definitely see her when he goes to Yancheng this time. When she
When she sees that she is already a county guard and commanding 200,000 troops, what kind of expression will she have from time to time?
Thinking of this, Tang Yin couldn't help laughing, stretched out his hand and said, "Give me the letter!"
"Yes! Sir!" The Shunzhou official who delivered the letter hurried forward and handed the letter to Tang Yin respectfully.
Tang Yin took it and was disappointed just by looking at the envelope. It was not Wu Mei's handwriting on it.
Since the letter was delivered by flying pigeons, the envelope and the letter paper were connected together and rolled into a ball. There was a wax seal on the outside, but the words "personally addressed by Mr. Tang" were written on the outside of the letter paper.
He took the fire twister from Shangguan Yuanwu, lit it, melted the wax seal, unfolded the letter, and looked down at it carefully.
The generals did not pay much attention to the content of the letter. The letter from Yancheng was most likely to urge reinforcements. They were still discussing which route was faster and which route was not conducive to the march, but Qiu Zhen was the first to discover it.
Tang Yin's expression changed, and the hand holding the letter was trembling slightly.
It was so rare for Tang Yin to show such a change. Even when he faced a life-and-death decision with one enemy against many, Tang Yin didn't even tremble. What's going on now? Could it be that something big has happened? Qiu Zhen frowned secretly.
, stopped the discussion with the generals, raised his eyes and looked directly at Tang Yin.
At this time, everyone also realized that something was wrong. They straightened their bodies and stared at Tang Yin with big eyes and small eyes.
I don't know how long it took, but Tang Yin finally finished reading this short letter. Then he looked around at everyone, said nothing, lowered his head again, and was silent.
Seeing this, everyone became even more anxious. Qiu Zhen couldn't help but ask: "Sir, what is the content of the letter?"
Tang Yin didn't answer, he held the letter between his fingers and handed it to Qiu Zhen.
The latter quickly took it. After he read it from beginning to end, he was stunned and froze on the spot, unable to recover for a long time.
What kind of letter is this? Why are everyone in a daze after reading it? The generals gathered around Qiu Zhen and asked all kinds of questions: "Master Qiu, what happened?"
Qiu Zhen came to his senses, grinned, and handed the letter to everyone.
Everyone lowered their heads and took a closer look. This letter was written by Deng Mingyang, one of the captains under Tang Yin when he was the commander of the regiment. This letter was nothing, but the content of the letter was so shocking.
The letter clearly stated that General Zhong Tian of the Feng Kingdom colluded with the palace guards, ambushed a large number of troops in the palace, openly rebelled, killed Feng King Zhanhua, Prince Zhan Zhen, and killed the Zhan family in the city, and restrained Liang Xing and Wu.
Yu, the dignitaries of the royal court headed by Ziyang Haochun, proclaimed themselves king, changed the country's name to Peng, and sent envoys to negotiate peace with the Ning army, ceding the two hundred miles of windy land west of Tongmen to the Ning state.
"Ah?" After reading this letter, the generals were also dumbfounded, and they were all astonished.
I don't know how long it took, but Bai Yong came back to his senses and said tremblingly: "I... my country has been destroyed by Dafeng?!"
Wow - as soon as this statement came out, everyone was awakened and immediately caused an uproar in the big tent.
The king was killed, Zhong Tian proclaimed himself king, and changed the name of the country to Peng. This news is really shocking and incredible. In this way, there will be no Feng Kingdom in the future, but Peng with Zhong Tian as the king.
country?
Qiu Zhen shook his confused head, waved his hands to everyone, and said: "Quiet, please don't mess up!" As he spoke, he grabbed the letter and asked Tang Yin: "Do you think this letter is true?
Fake?"
Tang Yin raised his head and asked: "How could it be fake?" After a pause, he said: "This letter was written by Deng Mingyang. He had no reason to lie to me, and he didn't have the courage to do such a big thing.
Dare to write randomly."
"That's right! This news is probably true." After speaking, Qiu Zhen rolled his eyes quickly, then his eyes lit up, and he couldn't hide the excitement on his face, and said anxiously to Tang Yin: "My lord,
The opportunity has finally come!”
Tang Yin was stunned, and the other generals were also stunned. Now that the country has perished, I don't know why Qiu Zhen is still excited.
"What do you mean?"
Qiu Zhen leaned forward, clenched his fists subconsciously, and said word by word: "Crush the rebels and replace them!"
When Tang Yin heard this, he trembled, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Qiu Zhen doubtfully. Everyone also looked at Qiu Zhen.
"Zhong Tian kills the king, which is a great treason and injustice. If anyone can punish him, it will definitely arouse the public outrage in the world. You can take advantage of this opportunity, take Tianyuan County as the foundation, hold high the banner of rebellion, openly and honestly recruit the heroes of the world, and look for opportunities.
Move, wait until the time is right, attack Yancheng in one fell swoop, and kill the traitor Zhong Tian. At that time, you will restore the title of Feng Kingdom and sit on the throne of the king." Qiu Zhense said.
"This..." Tang Yin is not a simple-minded person. The throne of the king is certainly tempting, but can things be as simple as Qiu Zhen said?
He believed that Zhong Tian did not suddenly attack, but had already planned it. Even the invasion of Ningguo's army was done in secret with him.
Now, many things can be explained clearly.
When Feng State launched troops against Ning State, there was a spy in the royal court who reported to Ning State. That spy was probably Zhong Tian. His purpose was to weaken the military strength of Feng State's powerful people, and the final result did lead to the most powerful son.
The Yang family collapsed; Princess Yin Rou was assassinated by an assassin on her mission to Feng State. This was Zhong Tian's attempt to continue the war between Feng and Ning countries, so as to further consume the strength of the Feng court and the powerful; Zhong Tian's disciples sneaked into Hengcheng to capture Fan Min.
That was to control Fan Ju. As long as he got the financial support of the Fan family, the country would be able to stabilize quickly after he usurped the throne. Zhong Tian proposed to replace the Tongmen guard, which caused Tongmen to fall overnight. The purpose was even more obvious, which was to fight with Ning Guo.
They colluded and deliberately lured Ning's army into the country to create opportunities for him to usurp the throne.
Tang Yin felt that he had already had the intention to rebel before he even arrived in this world. This old fox had been planning for many years and had been hiding for so long, just waiting for the opportunity. Now he finally waited for the opportunity. He couldn't say he could destroy it just by destroying it.
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Taking a deep breath, Tang Yin knocked on his aching forehead and said slowly: "The situation is not clear yet, and it is too early to make a conclusion. Let's just wait and see what happens!"
Qiu Zhen still wanted to speak, but Tang Yin waved his hand impatiently, interrupting his next words.
Originally, Tang Yin was planning to send his troops south to assist Wang Ting in a decisive battle with the Ning army, but Deng Mingyang's flying pigeon letter completely disrupted his plans and deployment. More than 200,000 troops were stationed at Tianguan, waiting for Yancheng.
The exact message is sent back.
A few days later, the exact news from Yancheng came back. Everything was as written in Deng Mingyang's letter. Zhong Tian committed regicide and rebelled, proclaimed himself King Peng, and changed his name to Peng. In addition, Zhong Tian also used his identity as King Peng to
Each county sent a decree asking the governor of each county if they were loyal to him. Tang Yin, as the governor of Tianyuan County, would naturally receive Zhong Tian's decree.