The location of Zhu Ticheng is very important. On Yunchu's map, this place was marked as "the key to southern Yunnan and the throat to western Shu". However, Sheng Luopi did not attach great importance to this place, so that Zhu Ticheng was destroyed by a group led by Nong Yan. The rogues broke through.
Of course, this is also due to Sheng Luopi's insufficient power here, and also related to Sheng Luopi's mentality of wanting the Tang army to go on an expedition.
There are endless mountains around Zhuti City. Only the area near Zhuti City is flat land. However, this flat land is also covered by forests. In addition, there are many rivers. The products nearby are quite rich. It is also on an important business road. The village is also relatively wealthy.
The seventeen villages had no objections to the ten pigs that King Nongyan wanted. In six days, one hundred and seventy pigs were carried over in baskets by the Wuman people in the village.
Yun Jin has seen these 170 pigs, but they are not very big. It is very rare for a wild boar to weigh about 100 kilograms.
The seventeen villages were able to deliver these pigs on time, which meant that it was not too difficult for the people in those seventeen villages to ask for such taxes. At least, no one objected.
Each village will send another ten tons of rice.
After checking and counting the number of pigs, he said to the person who sent the pigs.
An elderly Wuman man said: We have no extra food.
Chahei said expressionlessly: "It doesn't matter. If you don't send it, I will take people to your village to look for it."
The old man Wuman looked at Zha Gang sadly and said: It's winter now.
Cha Gang said: I know it’s winter.
You can't do this, people in the village will starve to death. The people in the other villages also began to beg.
Cha Gang said: You should thank me. I allowed these people to stay in Zhuti City and did not run out to harm you. Now, they want rice, and you'd better send it. If they are allowed to go down, they will want more than just a little rice.
He also pointed to Nong Yan, who was lying naked on a bamboo bed and basking in the sun, and said: Look, that is our king. In order to capture this city, he got wounds all over his body. How many pigs do you think? Can it satisfy him?
Everyone looked in the direction of Cha Hei's finger and saw a strong man with scars all over his body and fine stitches all around the scars. Nong Yan with this appearance was enough even if he was lying there snoring loudly, let alone standing up. Make these people scared.
Go ahead and bring the rice here as soon as possible. Don't wait for him to wake up. Once he asks for it, your village will be destroyed.
The people in the village who came to deliver the pigs all went back with their heads drooped and ashen faces.
Yun Jin and his group were right in front of him. When Cha Hei was talking to the old man, they also talked to the other people, although everyone was complaining.
Wen Huan still said: They can barely bear ten loads of rice.
Yun Jin said: They cannot bear the mediocrity of renting.
Di Guangsi said: The prerequisite for accepting rent is to give them land and protection. If you don't give them land or protect them, why should they accept rent?
Just because you can kill them anytime, anywhere?
If that's the case, just become a robber.
Li Chengxiu also said: Land and protection are the guarantees given by the dynasty to the people. Taxation and labor are the concrete manifestations of the people's return to the dynasty. If you do not pay, you should not get rewards. This is common sense.
Yun Jin said: This is a social practice under extreme conditions. After they deliver the rice, they can start the next step.
Wen Huan frowned and said: What are you going to experiment next?
Yun Jin closed his little book and said: The original law is binding on the people.
Di Guangsi said angrily: In other words, you will put forward more stringent conditions next time. If these people can't meet them, you will send out the beasts here to enforce them?
Yun Jin sighed and said: This is something that can't be helped. Don't forget that while carrying out social practice, we also have to coerce them forward and use them to completely break the original social structure of the Southwest people and make it easier for the future. The reign of Tang Dynasty paved the way for further development.
I just hope that you will not forget that our ultimate goal is to achieve long-term peace and stability in the southwest.
The price these people pay now and the hardship they endure will become inexhaustible blessings for their descendants.
Wen Huan, who had the most out-of-the-box temperament among them, sighed and said: If you can't live well now, how can you talk about the future? Unless a few of us are willing to be local officials in the jungle, it's a pity that none of us can give this promise. Therefore, doing evil is just doing evil, and there is no need to whitewash it.
Di Guangsi, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly raised his head and said: Okay, I'll stay!
Wen Huan sneered and said: "After this trip back, we will have to participate in the imperial examination. The result of participation will be all high schools. You, Aye, have always hoped that you can return to your hometown in Bingzhou. Where do you start from? You stay in This Southwest man is among the savages and is not afraid of others laughing at him.
Di Guangsi said: I will not go back to my hometown in Bingzhou, and I will not participate in the scientific examination. I will stay here as an official until I see with my own eyes that the price paid by the people here is rewarded. Otherwise, I will feel uneasy.
Hearing this, Yun Jin hugged her knees and squatted on the ground, rocking back and forth again. After a long time, she said to Di Guangsi: I can't stay, I must go back to Chang'an.
Wen Huan and Li Chengxiu remained silent.
Di Guangsi said enthusiastically: "Okay, let's make an agreement. You go back and I will stay alone. There may be many, many things that I need your help with." Yun Jin and the three of them were a little ashamed.
In ten days, Yunchu's army advanced a hundred miles.
The reason why the army advanced so slowly was because there were too many deserted villages that needed to be rebuilt along the way.
Perhaps the women and children here knew about what was done in the previous village. When the soldiers completed the bamboo building, these women and children took the initiative to live in it.
Just like a bird's nest built in the wild can attract birds to live in it, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty did not even ask if they were from this village, so they gave them beautiful new green blankets produced by the Chang'an Second Textile Factory. They were also given iron pots, bamboo spoons, grains, and even newly caught wild boars.
The strong soldiers of the Tang Dynasty helped them burn mountains and cultivate fields, helped them reclaim land suitable for farming, helped them kill wild beasts in the mountains and forests, and helped them build bridges on small rivers. Yun Chu even gave them a few dirty tricks that could not be distinguished. child eats candy.
Yun Jin and the others had done all the bad things in the front by coercing the rioters, but Yun Chu couldn't do even the slightest bad thing here.
Now, all the women and children living in the new village know that it was the Tang people who saved them from danger, it was the Tang people who built the new village for them, and it was the Tang people who gave them warm blankets, iron pots, and food, and even gave them to their children. The people who sell candy bars are also from Tang Dynasty.
It’s just that the power of candy cubes is too great. After learning that this sweet thing is called sugar, the people of Tang Dynasty became sugar people in their hearts, which means people who can bring them sweetness.
These sugar men are very powerful. There were originally some spicy-drinking men in the mountains and forests who did not follow the big army to gain popularity. They bullied these homeless women and children even more brutally.
The Sugar Man caught them and beheaded them all in front of the mutilated women and children.
Seeing those heads falling to the ground, Yun Chu saw hatred and relief in the eyes of these women and children. Fortunately, the hatred was directed at the bandits, while relief was directed at the Tang army.
Yunchu found that capturing bandits in the mountains and forests was more convenient for him to win people's hearts. So, as the army passed by, some bandits in the mountains and forests were arrested one after another, and eventually died under the sword of the Tang Dynasty.
A clean environment cannot allow stains to enter.
The newly built village is the new world created by Yun Chu. When Datang officials gradually arrive here, Datang's rule over the southwest will enter a new node.
In less than twenty years, this place will become the mainland under the rule of the Tang Dynasty. Yun Chu has learned from the children more than once that they also want to become people like the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.
This is good, a new world, new soldiers, this is what Yunchu really wants. Even if the old ones have declined and decayed, there will always be new soldiers joining in, and a brand new world will be created.
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After coming back, he saw Yunchu warming himself by the fire and reading a book. He rubbed his hands and came to the edge of the brazier and said: People are really strange. They seem to be addicted to doing good things.
Yun Chu raised his head and glanced at Zhang Donghai and said: For a long time, I have always believed that the duty of the army is not necessarily to resist foreign enemies and expand territory. It must also become a group of people who are useful to the people and become a group of people that the people can rely on. .
Zhang Donghai said: Why?
Yun Chu took his eyes back from the book, glanced at Zhang Donghai and said: Whenever there is a disaster and the army comes, the people cheer and say that they are saved, but in an inaccessible place, the lost people dare to follow the soldiers without even thinking. As long as the army comes, the people dare to open their homes and invite the soldiers to come in for a drink of water.
The reputation of the Tang Dynasty's army externally should be frightening to its enemies. The reputation of the Datang's army internally should be that of being as cordial as one's own son-in-law.
Only in this way can such an army be worthy of the name of our Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Donghai sucked in cold air like a toothache and said: How is this possible? The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty make a living by robbing.
Yunchu looked at the elephant wearing two blankets eating leaves outside the big tent and said: "Take your time, these goals can be achieved, as long as we are willing to do it."
Zhang Donghai rubbed his hands and said: So, such an army is invincible.
While the two were talking, Li Si came in from the outside with a lacquer plate, placed the plate on the edge of the brazier and said: Aye, can you like this brand?
Zhang Donghai curiously picked up a gold medal, weighed it in his hand habitually and said: It's too light.
Yun Chu said: Look at the badge and words on it.
Zhang Donghai looked at this gold coin, which was about the same size as a penny, and said: Soldiers from the Tang Dynasty?
Yun Chu nodded and said: The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty under the dragon totem!
