"The seeds have been sown, and now we are waiting for them to blossom and bear fruit." Wen Yanbo also felt a little sad in his heart, and his voice couldn't help but lowered.
"Take your time, Duke Wen, don't be anxious. The war situation is now very favorable to us. With us as a threat, Yelu Hongji's heart should have been confused. Yelu Yixin is now staying on the edge of Fengsheng Prefecture, neither fighting nor doing anything.
The purpose of retreating was to wait for Yelu Hongji's military order.
Their defeat at Tongtou Pass clearly illustrates the problem. Yelu Yixin thinks that he has done everything he can, and now he is waiting for the emperor's order to withdraw his troops!"
Wen Yanbo sat on the chair and leaned his whole body on the chair and said lazily: "I can see this. The reason why the general stationed troops at Tongtou Pass is to wait for victory without fighting."
Yun Zheng shook his head and said: "There is no such thing as victory without fighting in this world. Even if there is, it is fabricated. People only see the surface, not the deep things, and do not see the blood flowing in the daytime.
, you will subconsciously think that there is no war, but you don’t know how many innocent souls there are in the world under the cover of night.
Just like what we are doing now, Mr. Wen, do you dare to say that there will be fewer people dying than those who died in the military battle? It’s just that the people who died were not my Yun Zheng’s subordinates, so I pretended not to see it.
Save an effort and save a point."
Wen Yanbo sat up, rubbed his face hard twice, looked at Yun Zheng and said: "The prince and I agree that our movements should follow the pace of the army and slowly advance towards Yanzhou. Marquis Yun's army will sweep away Yanzhou."
All the external enemies of the state, and those internal enemies will be dealt with by me, the prince, and Li Chang.
I only hope that after this great change, Yanyun Land will always be my vassal of the Song Dynasty."
Yun Zheng smiled and said: "As you wish!"
After a light rain, a very small thing happened in Huai'an County, not far from Tongtou Pass. Chen Dongping, a wealthy man in Huai'an County, issued an order to close the mountain.
In fact, there is nothing excessive about this mountain closure order. It is just an annual practice. Every July is the dry season in Huai'an County. During this period, wildfires are very easy to occur. No one is allowed to go up the mountain to cut firewood.
Hunting is a good arrangement.
Chen Dongping issued this customary decree without hesitation. As a result, some people did not abide by this rural rule and people's agreement and went up the mountain to cut firewood during the dry season.
The caught woodcutter was punished by whipping. This punishment has not been used for many years. Chen Dongping believed that in these war-torn years, he must strengthen his presence in Huai'an County, so fourteen
Those who went up the mountain to chop firewood, ranging from old men in their sixties to seventies, to young men aged eleven or twelve, all received twenty lashes in full view of the public.
The whip was struck so hard that everyone's backs were bruised and bloody...
I don’t know who shouted that Chen Dongping has no conscience and deserves to die!
Then, the family members of those who were punished rushed forward to beat Chen Dongping angrily. This kind of thing is actually normal. The people of Yanyundi have strong folk customs, and Chen Dongping doesn't care. As long as the thugs he supports can beat these people.
After dispersing, things will return to their original track.
However, a weight flew out from the crowd and hit Chen Dongping on the temple. Chen Dongping, who had always been strong and powerful, fell into a pool of blood without saying a word.
Everyone was shocked.
The butcher who threw the weight was also frightened. The weight belonged to him. He didn't remember that he had thrown the weight out just now. Just when he was about to defend himself, a man came out and took the butcher's hand and asked Chen
Jiabao ran, shouting as he ran: "Chen Dongping is dead, his family's gold and silver mountains are ours. The government has said that the land must be equalized, grab it, and whoever grabs it belongs to whoever!"
With two leaders, others will follow. Three or five people rushed to Chenjiabao first. Their joyful look made people envious, so everyone rushed towards Chenjiabao.
It seemed easy to break into Chenjiapu. There was no one guarding the gate. After breaking into Chenjiapu, everyone went crazy. There were scattered copper coins everywhere on the ground, and occasionally a few pieces of broken silver could be seen.
The grain stored in the granary to the east is even more piled up.
Some people even saw Chen Dongping’s beautiful daughter running towards the backyard in a hurry...
From the beginning, the riots had no good outcome.
Li Chang stood under a huge locust tree and watched quietly what was happening in front of him. Soon, thick smoke began to rise in Chenjiabao.
After several strong men dressed as Han Chinese returned to Li Chang, they hugged their fists and remained silent.
Li Chang sat down, with no expression on his face...
This year's summer grain tax was surprisingly heavy. As the grain chief, Chen Fangping managed to collect the amount of summer grain that should be paid in a short period of time.
Li Chang knew that Chen Fangping himself had not paid a grain of grain, and the people who helped him pay for grain were the people near Chenjiabao, and he even made a lot of benefits from it.
The people didn't have much food in their homes, so they took the risk of violating the village rules and regulations and went to the mountains to cut firewood, preparing to sell it at Tongtou Pass in exchange for some money and food.
When Chen Fangping punished the people who were already full of resentment against him, the atmosphere of opposition here reached its extreme. All that was missing was a spark.
That strong man dressed as a Han Chinese is the spark...
"Lang Jun, the Chen Family Fort is over. When I came out of the fort, there were still people from all over the country running to the Chen Family. No one came back empty-handed.
The women of the Chen family also suffered a disaster..."
Li Chang glared at the strong man, then closed his eyes and said, "Do you think they have gone to other rich families' homes to rob them?"
The soldier whispered: "The butcher harmed the Chen family's daughter, and now he wants to go to the Liu family in Huai'an County. He said the Liu family's daughter is more beautiful."
Li Chang nodded and said: "After the butcher goes to the Liu family, find an opportunity to kill him. This civil unrest can only be carried out in an unorganized and purposeless way. You need to have ideas. Once a leader appears in the crowd,
, as long as they are not our people, we will kill them all!"
The soldiers clasped their fists and accepted the promise, then left. They were the ones who opened Chenjiabao. The butcher just got a big deal. The reason why they did this was to make the people think that robbing wealthy families was a natural and just practice.
Naturally, one Chenjiabao cannot satisfy the desires of all the people. Some people want to rob more after they have grabbed something, and some people want to rob even more if they have not grabbed something.
Until late at night, the entire Huai'an County was full of lanterns and torches, and countless people searched the world for the remaining wealthy households. All they wanted to do was rob and satisfy their own selfish desires.
Li Chang sat under the locust tree for a whole day and a whole night. The skin on his mouth was bulging and his eyes were as red as hot coals.
If he hadn't warned himself over and over again that this was for the long-term peace and stability of Yanyundi, he would have gone crazy.
The situation of the soldiers' reports became worse and worse each time, and each time became more cruel. When the soldiers reported that the rioters even threw babies under one year old to death in a rich family's home, Li Chang, who had reached the limit of his patience, felt a pain in his chest and gasped.
Blood spurted out.
The higher the official position, the better a person's endurance. Li Chang vomited blood, and Yun Zheng's face was expressionless, but his face twitched from time to time.
Wen Yanbo didn't seem to hear the scout's report, he just flipped through the pieces of paper, and from time to time he took the pieces of paper to compare with the named wealthy households marked on the map.
Wang Anshi's expression didn't change much. After comparing with Wen Yanbo, he knocked on the table and said in a deep voice: "The incident was bigger, more ruthless, and more thorough than we expected. Those people took all three people in the family and
Households with more than one cow are called rich households.
It's just that the wealthy families have suffered devastating blows, while those with modest wealth have received predatory treatment.
After this storm, there will be no rich households in Yanzhou."
Wen Yanbo looked up at Yun Zheng, who looked unnatural, and said: "The riot is not out of control. The general should have withdrawn the troops that blocked Huai'an County at this time.
The fire has already started. We cannot extinguish the fire in Huai'an County just because of a little mercy. We need this fire to burn down the rich households in the entire Yanzhou area, so that there is no difference between rich and poor here, and there is no such thing as a wealthy family.
, take local authority back into our hands.” (To be continued)