On the wall, Li Wei's brows were furrowed as he watched the door slowly open under his command, and the troops of the Japanese army began to enter the city one after another.
When Peng Li saw it, he asked: "General, Bianjing's imperial edict clearly stated that there were 10,000 Japanese troops, and the imperial court only borrowed 10,000 troops from King Yun.
Now we are letting 20,000 troops enter the pass, will the imperial court..."
Li Wei shook his head and said helplessly: "Then what can we do? People must say that they are auxiliary soldiers. I have always had the habit of bringing auxiliary soldiers with me when I go to the army. Without auxiliary soldiers, we are just civilians."
Sometimes there are more auxiliary soldiers and civilians than regular soldiers. People say they are auxiliary soldiers and they are in compliance with regulations. What can we do? "
"But those ten thousand Tatars are clearly..."
Peng Li was about to say something, but Li Wei raised his hand to stop him.
"Okay, don't say more. We just have to deal with the orders issued by the court. As long as they can give a reason, we can deal with them. Let the officials in the court do the rest. , has nothing to do with us.
Let's go down and meet Li Dingguo, the commander of the Japanese army.
I saw that he was not very old, but I didn't expect that he had already led ten thousand people under King Yun. I wonder if he was really capable or just a idiot? "
After Li Wei finished speaking, he took the first step to walk down the tower. Peng Li stood there and his eyes flashed, and then quickly followed.
As soon as the two people came down from the city tower, they saw Li Dingguo waiting quietly by the city gate. Apparently the other party had guessed that they would come to him and had waited here beforehand.
"Hahaha, General Li has been waiting for a long time. I have been waiting for a long time. Li Wei, the guard of the Liaoyun Pass, just did what he did as usual. Don't be surprised!"
After a while, Li Weidang was the first to speak up and introduce himself.
Li Dingguo looked aside, and Peng Li immediately raised his hand and said: "Peng Li, deputy general of Liaoyun Pass! I have met General Li!"
Li Dingguo immediately returned the greeting and said to the two of them: "Li asked the name of the general guarding Liaoyun Pass a long time ago. When I saw General Li today, he was indeed well-deserved!"
"really?"
"nature!"
Li Dingguo is not a character who doesn't know how to adapt.
Soon they started chatting with Li Wei and others until late at night, when Li Dingguo left Li Wei's house.
As soon as Li Dingguo left, the two people who were still drunk immediately woke up. Looking at the direction in which Li Dingguo left, Peng Li said: "General, how are you?"
Li Wei sighed and said: "I don't know where His Royal Highness King Yun found this talented person.
From my previous communication with him, I could tell that this was Ye Luzi who spoke out.
He has not received any systematic education as a military commander, but from what he hears, he has his own unique set of tactics. He has long gone out of formalities and blazed his own path.
From this point of view, it is a good thing that there is no systematic learning alignment. "
After speaking, Li Wei couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that such a talented person fell into the hands of King Yun. How great would it be if he could serve the imperial court?"
Looking at Li Wei with a pity look on his face, Peng Li curled his lips secretly:
"If this were in the imperial court, Li Dingguo wouldn't be able to get ahead at all.
Without family and background, how could a mere commoner be able to enjoy the shade under today's big Song tree? Nowadays, the space under this big tree is crowded, and no one is willing to give it up. "
"It's a pity..."
Li Wei shook his head and sighed again, then went back to rest.
After a night of silence and repairs, and after replenishing some supplies at Liaoyun Pass, Li Dingguo continued on the road with the Japanese troops.
Now that spring has begun, I'm afraid there will be a lot of things encountered on the road. On weekdays, I can go as quickly as possible so that I can reach northern Jiangsu as soon as possible.
The army's marching route had already been sent by the imperial court. After entering the customs from Liaobei County, they detoured directly to Gaodong County, and finally passed through the entire Gaodong County to Xu County, the northernmost part of Subei County, and entered Northern Jiangsu.
The subsequent affairs of pacifying Japan will be decided by the commander of the pacifying Japanese army on his own.
Therefore, after entering the customs, the Ping Japanese army will not stay in Liaobei County for too long this time. They will stay in a city in Liaobei County for one night at most and then directly transfer to Gaodong County.
On the march map, the next target city of the army was Xining City, the capital of Xining Prefecture in Liaobei County.
After looking away from the march map and identifying the direction, Li Dingguo immediately reached the front of the army and led more than 20,000 people towards Xining Mansion.
The journey still takes about a day, and if we go slower, it might take even longer.
At this time, Xining Mansion was completely different from usual.
In the past, Xining Prefecture had a population of 50,000 or 60,000, although it could not be said to be that large. It could also be said to be a city with a medium population among the surrounding prefectures.
But since the previous prefect Ma Denghe and the delegation from Yunzhou County started trading, everything has changed.
Originally, there was a severe drought in our mansion, and most of the people in the mansion had no food to eat, and there were many refugees.
Ma Denghe was unable to settle these refugees, and just as a visiting delegation from Yunzhou County arrived, he suggested that they could engage in human trafficking, which immediately touched Ma Denghe's heart.
The deal was agreed immediately.
What he didn't expect was that it was easy to agree to the deal, but not so easy to stop it.
Originally, thousands of people were conducting transactions in batches, and soon helped Ma Denghe take away the unstable factors in the city.
Let Yunzhou County get the population it wants, give the refugees a way to survive, and allow yourself to ensure the stability of Xining Prefecture.
Everything is so harmonious and beautiful.
But soon, some gentry came to complain to me and asked me to stop selling people because no one was farming their land!
It turns out that when these landowners and gentry saw the natural disaster at first, instead of being afraid, they were actually very surprised.
People like them have food stored at home. It's just a natural disaster, so they don't panic at all.
It's the ordinary people who don't have much food stored at home who should be panicking.
On weekdays, these mud-legged people cover the ground so hard that they won’t sell them no matter how much money you pay.
When this natural disaster comes, in order to survive, they will rush to sell it to you even if you lower the price, and they will be able to smoothly annex the land.
After collecting the land from these mud-legged people, he also collected their people and made them tenants for him to farm for him. In this way, he would expand his industry and manpower.
But this year is different. They just bought the land from those mud-legged people, and found out that the mud-legged people were "sold" by their master!
This also led to the fact that although they harvested a lot of new land, there was no one to plant it, so it could only be left uncultivated.
At first they didn't pay much attention to it, and just sold it. There weren't many people in these days, except for the homeless. If you just go out and look around, you can find a lot of tenants.
But what they didn't expect was that when they went out to search, they discovered that they couldn't even find a beggar, let alone a refugee!
From all over the country, apart from landlords like them and rich peasants with considerable wealth, there was no one left!
The skinny men with mud legs who struggled to survive on weekdays and the beggars huddled in corners begging in the streets and alleys all day long were all gone.
When I inquired about it, I found out that they had all been packed up and sold out by their master!
At this time, the gentry were panicked and hurriedly sent people to the government office to ask Mr. Fu Zun to stop selling it.
But they were already late. They didn't find out until Madden and He reacted and checked.
The entire Xining Prefecture and even the surrounding villages and towns were almost empty.
Everyone was taken away by Yunzhou County, leaving Xining Mansion as if it were a ghost town.
Now he was dumbfounded!
He hurriedly sent people to chase the people who wanted to go back to his mansion, but they were told that those people had already left the country and had settled in Yunzhou County and were unwilling to come back.
As a result, the entire Xining Prefecture suddenly changed from an upper-middle-class prefecture with a population ranking in the entire northern Liaoning to a prefectural city with a population of no more than 5,000 people.
It’s not an exaggeration to describe it simply as vast land and sparsely populated areas.
The landowners and gentry in the countryside had no choice but to keep their land idle. After all, land that was left idle would be taxed, and it was still heavily taxed, so they had no choice but to roll up their sleeves and work in the fields.
But how could they have done this without touching Yang Chunsui on weekdays? They all complained endlessly, and their resentment towards Yunzhou County and Ma Denghe was soaring to the sky.
If they hadn't engaged in some kind of human trafficking, would they have gone to the ground in person?
This work has long been done by the tenant farmers.
They are no longer powerful gentry. They are clearly inferior to ordinary landowners.
Fortunately, news soon came that Xining Mansion was not the only one who encountered this situation. Countless places in Liaobei County were like this.
There were at least hundreds of landlords and gentry who had the same experience as them.
In this comparison, they suddenly discovered that there were other people suffering along with them, and they felt much more comfortable. They didn't know what their psychology was!
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(End of chapter)
