Li Yu stared at the corpse in front of him in shock, a man with messy hair and beard. He couldn't help but take two steps back. He couldn't believe that the culprit who created this rebellion that almost destroyed the Tang Dynasty was actually
Here, he was thrown into the corner like an ordinary corpse. Shouldn't such a villain and the mastermind behind the scenes stand high in the hall? Then after they finally knocked him down, he could be killed by his subordinates, holding the head.
Offer it up?
"How could this be An Lushan? Did the Lieutenant see it wrong?"
Li Siye turned around and saw the angry and suspicious expression on Li Yu's face. He smiled and comforted him and said, "It's hard for me to believe that the rebels are still there, but An Lushan was killed by their internal struggle. This is a big deal for us.
Good thing. Your Highness can send someone to inform the capital. Your Highness and I will go up together and take advantage of the fact that the rebel camp is leaderless and attack Yecheng and Changshan in the north. Then we will send Li Guangbi out of the well to prevent the rebel general Shi Siming from joining forces with him. It will take less than three months.
In one fell swoop, Fan Yang of Youzhou was pacified."
Li Yu nodded and said: "The lieutenant is right. I will report it to my father later. If he knows the news, he will be very happy."
Li Siye ordered the executioner to chop off An Lushan's head and put it in a brocade box and send it to Chang'an. I remember that when An Lushan had just rebelled, the imperial court issued a notice offering the title of lord to reward An Lushan's head.
Head, then should the position of marquis be awarded to two people in the An Lushan camp?
They continued to walk deeper into the Ziwei Palace. Fortunately, the damage to the palace was not very serious. An Lushan himself still liked this place very much. Anyone who came to Luoyang would be attracted by its splendor and majesty. Luohe
As the jade belt floats past the palace city, the cylindrical tower composed of the shining blue glazed tiles and red palace pillars around the Wanxiang Shrine reaches straight into the sky. This heavenly palace satisfies all the fantasies of the ruler.
What Li Siye cares most about is Hanjiacang City, which is a national granary located on the west side of the palace city. It is used to store grain collected from all over the country. In the eighth year of Tianbao, the storage capacity of this granary exceeded 5 million.
The number of stones increased year by year in the next few years, and now it is more than seven million stones.
What is the specific number of seven million shi? During the Tianbao period, the Tang Dynasty's various military governors had a total of more than 600,000 frontier soldiers. They consumed 1.9 million shi in food and grass every year. Seven million shi was enough to supply the entire country's troops for three months.
Years or more. The current population of Luoyang City is between 700,000 and 800,000. This food allows Luoyang to hold on for three years even if it is besieged.
If the rebels occupy Luoyang for a long time, they will definitely attack the grain in Hanjiacang. Li Siye doesn't know how much of these strategic material reserves are left.
After entering from Duanmen, he did not follow Li Yu to Yingtianmen, but went from Dongjia City to the location of Hanjiacang City.
The entire terrain of Hanjiacang City is the highest in Luoyang, with a thick layer of red soil. The granary was dug out of the ground, tamped with heavy objects and then dried with firewood. The walls and bottom of the granary were covered with wooden boards.
Chaff and quicklime are poured into the gap between the wall and the wall to keep it absolutely dry. There are straw mats between the accumulated grains. The diameter of such a warehouse is more than 20 meters, and a granary can store several grains.
Thousands of stones or even tens of thousands of stones.
When Li Siye arrived at the scene, he saw a mess. Most of the warehouses had been evacuated, leaving a big dark pit. He ordered someone to find the grain officer who managed the city. Because the grain officer was
Statistical knowledge-based talents, so both the rebels and the Tang army needed them, so they survived by luck.
The grain officer looked very calm, with neither the guilt he felt after sacrificing his life as a thief, nor the joy of welcoming the army's recovery. He also looked very calm and lazy in front of Lieutenant Li, as if he would answer whatever you ask me.
What does it look like.
"How much food is left in Cangcheng?"
"Reporting to the Lieutenant, there are a total of 1.1 million stones of grain and grass left in the entire Hanjiacang. Since the rebels captured Luoyang, they began to transport grain to Youzhou, the upper reaches of the canal, through waterways. Up to now, they have probably smuggled more than 5 million stones.
Stone. Almost 70% of it is new grain collected just this year."
"Five million stones of grain and grass were hoarded in Fan Yang?" Li Siye was surprised. He knew what this meant. According to the technology at that time that japonica rice could be preserved for five years, it meant that the rebels had a strong ability to recover within five years.
In an era when order collapses, people's needs are reduced to survival. Controlling food means controlling the right to survive. Endless people will turn to the rebels because of hunger. This means that as long as the place where the rebels store food and grass can be held,
, as long as they have a moment to breathe, it is possible to recover. For both the enemy and us, whoever occupies the food has nine lives like the cat demon.
Therefore, any favorable situation that may eliminate the rebels should not be missed. Taking advantage of the death of An Lushan and the lack of a leader, and the fact that the center of gravity of the rebels' power has not yet been established, it is best to rush north to pursue the rebels and break the rebel camp again.
The only way to win as quickly as possible.
Li Siye suddenly realized something and quickly ordered: "Hurry up and send people to Zuozang Palace and Shangyang Palace in Dongjia City to see how much property is left inside?"
Zang Xiye sent cavalry to Shangyang Palace, and Feng Changqing sent troops to occupy Zuozang Palace and piled all the looted property in front of the palace gate. The rebels had previously transferred a lot of Luoyang's property to Fan Yang. These are
For the rest, in addition to paying the friendly troops, he also had to fulfill his promise to his own soldiers. When fighting the enemy in Shaanxi County, Li Siye once publicly encouraged and rewarded the soldiers who had made military achievements by beheading them, with a head and a dou of rice.
, ten heads are worth the same amount of money.
The Tang army had very strict military merit requirements for beheading. It had to be proven by a bystander, and a superior had to guarantee that it was an enemy you killed with your own hands, rather than a corpse picked up from the sharp arrows of a crossbowman. So they risked their lives.
Among the merits earned, apart from the twelve official titles from the imperial court, the most anticipated rewards were rice grains and money.
He immediately asked Zang Xieye and Feng Changqing to submit a list of all beheaded heads from generals to soldiers. As a result, a total of 23,000 heads were beheaded, which would be converted into rice and grain for 2,300 shi.
The money was only 2,300 guan, and the heads of various rebel officers were worth twice as much, and the total was only more than 10,000 guan. The skinny camel was bigger than the horse. Even though Luoyang had experienced the robbery of the rebels, Luoyang had to collect it to give to the soldiers.
The reward is more than enough.
Li Siye flipped through the beheading list handed over by Feng Changqing in his hand, and found that two people he was familiar with were at the top. One was his adopted son Li Chongbao, who had beheaded thirteen levels, including two school captains, ranking third, and the other was Zhang Xiaojing.
Beheading level 16, killing an officer is a brigade rate, ranking eleventh.”
He was a little unbelievable and pointed to Li Chongbao's name and asked Feng Changqing: "Didn't you take care of him and deliberately let people piece together thirteen heads and get two captains?"
Feng Changqing flatly denied it and said: "What is needed to deduce meritorious deeds is absolute fairness. How can I be so selfish as to make the soldiers feel cold? Every head here was killed by him with blood all over his body. If you don't believe it, you can personally
Call him over and ask him. He will never lie to you, my grandpa."
"No need." He shook his head and said, "He did a good job. I believe in my son."
He glanced at the number of Zhang Xiaojing's beheadings again, and actually felt nostalgic for the time when he was a grassroots officer leading soldiers to kill. At that time, every step was bloody.
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Soon the emperor's imperial edict arrived in Luoyang from Guanzhong. First, rewards were given to the heroes who participated in the war. The biggest problem was what to do with those who had been promoted to the top. Li Siye was already the king of Xiliang and a Taiwei, and Guo Ziyi was also rewarded.
There is such a problem with the rewards. In the early stages of the war, because of the desire for victory and the urgent need for the help of generals, they were desperate to seal the rewards. When the situation was almost stable, it was discovered that among the military teams involved in the recovery of the two capitals, the virtual ones of the third grade and above were
There are already so many actual titles.
Li Heng asked his think tank Li Mi about this, and Li Mi gave two answers. One is that the merits of being a father should be rewarded to his son or even his grandson. As long as he dares to think and do, the newborn child will be rewarded.
You can also be a fifth-rank official. The other way is to reward the fiefs to pass on to your descendants. You don’t need too many fiefs, Baili County is enough. If An Lushan had the fiefs to pass down to his son, he might not have rebelled.
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Although the emperor disagreed with some of Li Mi's opinions, he still agreed with Li Mi's statement. Now he had no more choice.
At the same time, some people must be punished. Zang Xiye, who was involved in the incident, never dreamed that his just act could be the reason for being dismissed from his official position.