This city was the small city that stood in front of Li Xiang's army. It was the junction between Zhangye County and Anding County. At this time, all the centurions and thousands of captains in the city gathered together.
The lord of the city, the general of this army, sat on the main table with a solemn expression.
He said in a serious voice: "I have some bad news for you. The Xiliang army is quickly approaching Yishuicheng."
"What!"
"How can it be!"
"No way!"
"Don't they want Fufeng County?"
The general's words caused the commanders and centurions in the hall to immediately become confused. They heard the sound of the Seven Yuan Army approaching, and they could no longer calm down at this time.
They are all well aware of the fame of the Xiliang Army in this small town. He is a member of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry led by Li Xiang himself, a coalition of three families.
According to the information they have obtained now, they have never lost. What kind of enemy am I? As long as I face the Xiliang cavalry led by Li Xiang on a frontal battlefield, the final result will be defeat and death or the army will be routed.
I haven't heard of anyone who can stop the ideal cavalry yet.
Even though there was a high city wall outside their small county town, that wall gave them not peace of mind, but a great deal of fear.
Can the city wall stop the Xiliang cavalry?
Judging from the information they have obtained now, it is very likely that the city wall cannot stop it. No, it is not very likely, but it will definitely not be able to stop it.
The city wall cannot stop the Xiliang cavalry, but it may make the Xiliang cavalry angry.
The fate of the Xiliang cavalry when they got angry was usually the massacre of the city and the annihilation of their clan. Xiliang came from outside the Northwest Pass, although now Prime Minister Li has not done much killing.
However, from the nickname of Li Xian back then, we can see how murderous Prime Minister Li was outside the Pass. It is said that the forces that opposed Prime Minister Li back then usually disappeared after the defeat.
There are rumors that those people have been killed by Li Xiang. This rumor may not be very reliable, but on the other hand it shows how bloodthirsty Li Xiang was back then.
Now Li Xiang has not been exposed to killing, perhaps because Li Xiang has become the master of the northwest land, and now he is the consort of the Daqian Dynasty and the governor of Liangzhou in the land of Liangzhou.
With so many identities, he now needs some reputation. With the killings he has caused, you may be covered up by the literati under him.
Moreover, if Li Xiang wants to kill everyone in their city, he can easily do it. After killing everyone in Chenzhong, he can also grandly throw these charges on the prairie tribes.
Who told them to be so close to the grassland, and there were several grassland tribes nearby? Anyway, there would be no one alive by then, and the grassland tribes were easy to kill.
It may be difficult to destroy a small city with the power of the grassland tribe, but when the time comes, Li Xiang will first kill everyone in their city, then throw the blame on the grassland tribe, and finally kill everyone in the grassland tribe.
In this way, wouldn't he become people's hero?
Because he avenged those who were massacred in the city by the steppe tribes, he will become a hero in the hearts of many people.
As for the truth, at this time, who would be willing to offend a powerful man in the sky for a group of dead people. Under this powerful man, he also has an extremely powerful army and an extremely large territory.
Isn't it just asking for death to offend such a strong man?
There may be some stupid young people who will help them, but those who want to curry favor with Prime Minister Li will make these people disappear without a trace. If the last message is not published, it is even possible that they will be slandered.
This is human nature, this is the foundation of strength.
Thinking of all the generals in the hall, their faces were extremely solemn, because one of their decisions would lead to the entire city, and the lives of the poor people and soldiers in this city all depended on their thoughts.
If they choose to fight to the death with the Xiliang army, everyone in the city may be buried with them later, if they choose to seek refuge with Xiliang.
They will most likely survive.
Many people are already inclined to surrender to Xiliang, because in their eyes, King Li Xiang of Xiliang is the real ruler of Liangzhou.
He was personally appointed as the governor of Liangzhou by His Majesty the Emperor. He is the true ruler of Liangzhou and the most orthodox, formal and legitimate ruler.
Another key point is that Prime Minister Li is the most powerful in Liangzhou. Perhaps under the rule of Prime Minister Li, the king of Xiliang, we, the people of Xiliang who can only struggle for food and clothing, can move towards a better future.
An era of prosperity.
The northwest land, which was considered a barbaric land by countless people at that time, has actually become a land full of vitality. What was once the wilderness of the northwest has now become a large warehouse in the northwest.
It is said that the grain output grown in the northwest is more than that in the Central Plains. Now many businessmen in Liangzhou have to go to the northwest to buy grain.
A large part of the food they eat now comes from the northwest land. We are very curious about how Li Xiang turned such a desolate land into the granaries it is today.
But if they can be under the rule of Prime Minister Li, in the future, their children will be like those children in the northwest. They will not have to worry about food and drink. When they reach a certain age, there will be special schools to train them.
Those who like to learn martial arts and are talented will enter the military academy, those who are talented in spiritual practice will enter the spiritual sect, and those who are both reading-minded will become scholars.
Everyone has their own purpose and the career they want to eventually become. They may not live a very free life, but can freedom be a living thing?
What they want now is to have enough food and clothing. Freedom only exists for those who have a lot of money. For poor people like them, all they need is food and clothing.
This ideal has been realized in the northwest. Now there is no beggar in the entire northwest. Even in the very cold winter, no one freezes to death in the northwest.
The northwest is even colder than Liangzhou. Why didn’t anyone go to the northwest before? Is it because that place is colder than any other place in the Central Plains?
But now no one has frozen to death in the northwest, so they have high expectations for ideal governance capabilities.
"Perhaps we can surrender Xiliang." A centurion suddenly said. The other centurions glanced at the centurion and all agreed.
They were afraid that the city lord would get mad and want to live and die with the Han family.
They did eat the food of the Han family. When they ate the food, they also paid a lot. They stabilized the city for this family.
They also provide a large amount of tax revenue every year. Even if the civilians under their rule have insufficient food and clothing, they still have to prepare a large amount of food and clothing for the Han family.
The Han family and the entire Anding County support the family, so the people of the Han family eat, drink, play, and are proficient in everything. The weapons and armor they use are the best among the best.
They have offered so many things to the Han family, which is enough to compensate for the treatment the Han family has given them over the years.
Now they should live for themselves and the common people who take care of themselves.
So they decided to surrender to Li Xiang, the king of Xiliang. It was not a shame to surrender to such an indomitable hero.
Many people want to meet Li Xiang on the battlefield, but they can't. They can be considered very lucky.
So when Li Xiang led the army to this small city, he had already thrown the banner of the Han family to the ground when he saw it. The soldiers in the entire city put down their weapons and lined up neatly on both sides of the city road. Behind these soldiers
It's a large number of civilians.
Those who came to welcome the Xiliang army were not only the soldiers in the city, but also the ordinary people in the city.
They all came spontaneously to welcome Li Xianghe, the governor of Liangzhou appointed by the emperor himself.
Perhaps he was an enemy in the eyes of those high-level officials, but in the hearts of ordinary people in Liangzhou, Prime Minister Li was their savior.
They were always looking forward to Prime Minister Li coming to their place as soon as possible and joining them under Prime Minister Li's rule.
Because the Zhangye County City captured by Li Xiang had now become a place that countless civilians yearned for and envied throughout Liangzhou.
Zhangye County basically had no agricultural tax revenue at this time. In this cold winter, many civilians had no food, drink, or clothing, so they relied on the supplies from the Xiliang army to survive.
And now they have begun to open up farmland, and they have reclaimed the desolate land into cultivated land that can be planted.
They can keep the food grown on the cultivated land for their own consumption. As long as they do not sell the food, they do not have to pay taxes to the government.
If you dare to sell this food to people from other forces, then you must first hand over half of the food, and within the next three years, you must hand over half of all the food you grow.
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Many civilians support this policy because the food they can grow is at most enough to feed their family. Even if there is excess, it will only give their family one more meal.
So this policy is not a problem for them, on the contrary, it still protects them.
When Xiliang implemented these policies, they spread on a large scale, and Li Xiang made all the common people in Liangzhou envious of Zhangye County.
Only in this way, when he attacks a certain place in the future, the people in that place will welcome him.
This is the power of people's hearts.
Sometimes it looks very weak, but at some point, it will become extremely huge.
Li Xiang now needs to learn to use these powers, but this power is very weak to help him.
It seems that this power is quite powerful today. Soldiers and civilians in a city are standing in front of each other to welcome him. What kind of influence is this?
The city lord was at the front. When he saw Prime Minister Li walking at the front, he knelt on the ground and said, "General Guilty, Luo Shide pays homage to the governor!"
"Are you surrendering to me?" Li Xiang asked.
"When I heard that the governor had arrived, I quickly left the city to greet him. I had been looking forward to the governor's arrival earlier. If you arrive early, we can get out of the sea of misery as soon as possible. I have been waiting for the Kuhan family for a long time.
." The city lord knelt directly on the ground and knocked his forehead hard on the ground. The flesh on his forehead became bloody and bloody due to the stones.
He was kowtowing really hard, and everyone behind him knelt on the ground and shouted: "Please accept me, Lord Governor!"
Li Xiang didn't know whether those officials were sincere, but Li Xiang felt the sincerity in the voices of the civilians wearing thin clothes and messy hair.
This person sincerely welcomes him and at the same time really wants to be under his rule. These people may want to come under his rule because of these policies.
But doesn’t this support what he wants?
Population will be very important in future wars, even though there are now more than 40 million people in the northwest, and this number is still rising every year.
In more than 20 years, the population will reach more than 100 million. These people are all talents cultivated by Xiliang. In the Central Plains, some people may say that they look very stupid.
But those people were educated by Prime Minister Li of Microservices. In some respects, they will appear to be very stupid and not as good as those in the Central Plains. But they will shine brightly in their positions.
This is not comparable to those all-rounders in the Central Plains. These people trained in Xiliang are like a big house, everyone has their own place.
Some are pillars, some are wooden walls, and some are nails. They may appear ordinary when placed everywhere, but once they are combined into a whole, they will shock the world.
There is no way around this. Who doesn’t want to cultivate an all-round talent?
How many people in the Central Plains are all-rounders today?
If you know everything well, you will appear to be ordinary in everything. It is better to cultivate elite talents in one aspect and also cultivate elite talents in another aspect.
Let them develop a certain tacit understanding and complement each other. If you cultivate an all-rounder, I will cultivate an elite who is proficient in a certain aspect.
Anyway, it’s because they overwhelm you with numbers.
"Everyone, get up!" Li Xiangzhan came down immediately: "Since everyone hopes to be brought under my rule, then everyone should know my rules. Let's make a three-law agreement first. Those who kill will die, and those who hurt others and steal will be punished!
After I, the officials from Xiliang, arrive, I will explain Xiliang's laws and regulations to you one by one. What do you think?"
"Everything goes to the Governor." At first, everyone's voices were a bit chaotic, but later they became a unified voice.
Li Xiang couldn't help but feel happy. Isn't this the picture that many people want?
This is the dream of many people, and now it has been realized. No, it has been realized before.
This feeling is still so wonderful that people can't help but indulge in it.
However, Li Xiang thought that there was a big battle waiting for him ahead, so he immediately woke up from this intoxicated state and said to the city lord whose forehead was full of blood: "I and the personal guards entered the city, and the army was stationed outside the city. You
Take half of the food in the granary and give it to the civilians, and then take 1/2 of the remaining half and send it to my army. As for the remaining bit, I will leave it to you."
"Someone will come to check you in later." Li Xiang looked at the officials who were slowly approaching and said: "As long as you perform well, your current official positions will continue, but you must also remember that there will be officials in Xiliang.
Come for the assessment, but do it in secret, so you have to do a good job in your political performance. As long as your political performance is good, everything will be easy."
