Chapter 75: The Queen Mother Bai who is full of palace fighting skills
ps: Boss Mighty, thank you ‘Xuan Yu’ for the reward!
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When none of these prisoners surrendered, they all had the same status as prisoners and could only eat half a meal a day.
At that time, everyone was the same unlucky prisoner, and no one was better than anyone else.
But now it's different.
Those soldiers who surrendered not only became members of the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty, and lived a happy life with plenty to eat from then on. They also became members of hundreds of households and became the immediate superiors of those prisoners who refused to surrender.
On the contrary, those who refused to surrender continued their life as captives. Not only did they not have enough to eat, but from now on, they had to engage in heavy physical labor every day: opening up wasteland!
At the same time, the bigger change is: in the past, those companions who were as hardworking as them suddenly became their immediate superiors, and even yelled at them and urged them to work hard.
This difference in treatment and the huge gap in status between the two will bring great psychological shock to these two groups of people.
With this obvious gap comparison, the dozen or so people who surrendered first will be even more grateful for their original choice, and may become more loyal to the Tang Dynasty in the future.
And those captives who are unwilling to surrender will slowly change their minds when they see that the captives who were like them before are now living a life of masters. Unless they are those who are stubbornly loyal to the Ming Dynasty, otherwise
It will be difficult to continue to hold on to the thoughts in your heart.
It is very possible for these people to slowly change their mentality and surrender.
Regarding the final effect of such a routine, Madam Bai, the Empress Dowager of the Tang Dynasty, was very confident. After hearing that a group of captives were already submissive, facing Bai Yunqi who came to report, she showed a calm expression.
He said to his younger brother:
"I used to be able to take care of those mud-legged women in Lijiazhuang, but now it's not easy to take care of dozens of prisoners!"
Even Emperor Li Xuan didn't know that Madam Bai was behind all of this, but he was still the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty anyway, and even if he was a puppet, he could still learn a lot of information from Liu Bagou and other ministers.
After hearing that the prisoners had been taken care of obediently, and then learning that Bai Yunqi had been running to his mother, Mrs. Bai, every day in the past few days, he had already made some guesses in his mind. There must be someone behind this incident.
Madam Bai took the lead, and Bai Yunqi was just the executor.
However, he did not stop her. Instead, he secretly supported Mrs. Bai's actions. Even when Liu Bagou said: The harem is an important place and even if Bai Yunqi is the uncle of the state, he cannot run to the harem every day, Li Xuan pretended not to hear it.
Because he knew that everything Mrs. Bai did was for her son.
It has been more than half a year since I came to this time and space. Li Xuan is not sure how other people think of him, but he is absolutely sure of how Mrs. Bai thinks of him. That is, in the eyes of Mrs. Bai, he is the only treasure like Li Xuan.
son.
In other Tang dynasties, even the daughter-in-law Dong Yunyun is just a scrap, not even as important as a hair of Li Xuan.
Now Mrs. Bai is using her uncle Bai Yunqi to recover the prisoners and try to establish an army that is directly loyal to the 'royal family' and loyal to the emperor Li Xuan. How could he, Li Xuan, object?
As for Liu Bagou's hint that the harem's interference in politics would lead to national crisis, Li Xuan didn't even bother to refute him. The Tang Dynasty was just a big deal, and it didn't deserve to talk about such a high-level issue as the harem's interference in politics?
If all this can be explained, then everyone should stop playing the house game of the Tang Dynasty, because there are too many similar problems.
There are countless 'major' issues in the Tang Dynasty. If you pick any one of them, it can endanger the country and the country. For example, the bureaucracy has thousands of years of history at home and abroad. Find one for me.
Prime Minister, General Wu will take over the formal power of the army?
For another example, who has ever seen himself proclaiming himself emperor in a dream? It happened that the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan and his father Li Erbi, did just that!
If Li Xuan or his sons or grandsons in the future are really lucky, develop and defeat the Ming Dynasty and become the lord of China, those historians will have a headache how to record the dark history of the early Tang Dynasty. If this is recorded truthfully,
I'm afraid it will make future generations laugh for a thousand years.
I guess I have to play some word games like killing the White Snake and revolting, gods entrusting me with dreams, etc.
Therefore, Li Xuan sneered at Liu Bagou's various worries and hints, secretly continued to support his mother, and gave Bai Yunqi various conveniences.
However, as a puppet emperor, Li Xuan watched his mother take back the bandits step by step with the help of his uncle Bai Yunqi, and established a standing army rear army. He also admired his mother, Mrs. Bai, for this series of tricks.
Speaking of intrigues, in the huge Tang Dynasty, there is probably no one who can match Mrs. Bai. She is worthy of being a landowner's wife, so she must have already maxed out her palace fighting skills!
While Bai Yunqi was busy playing with his standing army rear army, Li Xuan also received news from the front line, saying that Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren had arrived and launched an attack on Jiguan Mountain. As for the results, there would be no results for a while.
I have to fight for a while longer.
However, Li Xuan knew that Fang Dongquan and the others had a high chance of success in attacking Jiguan Mountain this time. The more than 200 people they brought with them were better equipped than the last time they went to Jiguan Mountain.
In the last battle of Luohu Valley, more than 500 Ming troops fled in panic. When they fled for their lives, they threw away everything they could throw away. Needless to say, military rations and other baggage, even the weapons they carried were thrown away.
All gone.
When cleaning the battlefield, the Huangzhushan bandits not only obtained a large amount of Ming army rations, but also obtained a large amount of weapons and equipment.
With these captured weapons and equipment, the bandits in Huangzhushan suddenly switched from shotguns to cannons, hoes, sticks, sickles, etc., and rolled them as far as they could. Now they used the standard weapons of the Ming army.
There are not only conventional weapons such as steel swords and spears, but also firecrackers and more valuable armor.
The ordinary guard soldiers of the Ming Army wore tattered commoners, but some officers and a small number of backbone soldiers were well-equipped, and a few of them even wore armor.
Even the most common cotton armor is still a weapon of defense. There is even a set of chain armor originally worn by Zeng Ziyun. Later, this set of chain armor was snatched away by Butcher Chen.
Although the quality of the Huangzhushan bandits with sharp weapons and thick armor is still the same as before, their combat effectiveness has definitely been improved.
Therefore, Li Xuan believed that it was only a matter of time before Fang Dongquan and the others returned victorious.
However, even if Fang Dongquan and the others defeated Jiguan Mountain, there were still Huanggui Mountain and Black Tiger Village waiting for them to recover, so the Tang Dynasty's external expansion war could not be stopped for a while.
Although the continuous war is suspected of wasting people and money, and may even affect land reclamation and spring sowing, the Huangzhushan bandits cannot control so much.
Because they all know very well that the next attack of the Ming army will come soon, and no matter how stupid they are, they all know that the Ming army suffered a big loss last time, and even one thousand households were lost.
We will definitely pay more attention to it, and more Ming troops will come by then.
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty must take advantage of this precious time in winter to expand as much as possible and enhance its strength!
Their guess was indeed correct, and Ming Ting's reaction was indeed considerable.
No, at this moment Zhengtai County welcomed an unusual guest. He was Su Jiakang's immediate boss, the master of Song Zhiwen, the prefect of Xingquan Prefecture.
After seeing Su Jiakang, this middle-aged scholar wearing a green shirt and holding a folding fan in winter directly handed him a letter written by Song Zhiwen, the prefect of Xingquan Prefecture.
After Su Jiakang saw the letter, he took it back and burned it to ashes with a candle.
Then he seemed not to see Su Jiakang's frowning expression, but said directly: "Since you have read the letter, you must know what to do!"