The army crossed the river in a mighty and mighty manner.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, plus the accompanying auxiliary soldiers and civilians, can be said to be as far as the eye can see.
Li Yunze left behind the Ruan brothers and led the navy to block the river and maintain the logistics supply line.
Then the troops and horses were slightly repaired, and the troops were sent straight to Runzhou.
The person stationed in Runzhou was Lu Shinang, the privy envoy under Fang La.
Lu Shinang was originally a wealthy man in Shezhou. After Fang La's uprising, he took the initiative to serve and contributed money and food, and was awarded the position of privy envoy.
It is said that this man was familiar with military literature and was good at using a snake spear that was eight feet long.
There are also twelve heroes under his command who are famous in the land of Jiangnan, called the Twelve Gods of Jiangnan.
This name really doesn’t exist anymore.
As the army marched over, Li Yunze naturally wouldn't do anything to cut off the food road, nor did he send anyone to fake a surrender.
Directly, the army besieged the city, and siege equipment was built to prepare for the siege.
As a veteran on the battlefield, Li Yunze has extremely rich combat experience.
The Runzhou City in front of him was not an indestructible city, and its defense capabilities were average in his opinion.
There are naval forces blocking the river and just knocking them down.
The process of siege was uneventful. The Central Plains Dynasty had already become proficient in siege tactics. Even if Li Yunze didn't go to C4, as long as he used the trebuchet to smash the city and cooperated with many siege equipment, it would soon be over. Then he conquered Runzhou City.
The so-called twelve gods of Jiangnan were all killed in one battle in the city.
As for Lu Shinang, when the city was broken, he grabbed a boat and tried to escape by water.
Unexpectedly, they encountered the navy of the Ruan brothers. After the ship was hit and sunk, it was completely submerged.
Lu Shinang's army, which was said to be tens of thousands, was actually basically composed of people from all over the country. After the city was breached, most of them surrendered.
After Li Yunze ordered people to screen them, the people each received some money and food and went home.
The whole battle was a good one, it was a crushing battle based on strength.
Li Yunze didn't care about it, it was just an appetizer, not even a warm-up.
After that, the army continued to send troops and successively recovered Huzhou, Xuanzhou and other places.
Fang La's Changzhou garrison could not withstand the pressure and took the initiative to surrender.
Then the army besieged Suzhou and recaptured this famous city within two days, and also eliminated Fang La's brother Fang Mao and a group of named generals.
After that, it’s Fang La’s last home base, Hangzhou City.
In the original work, many Liangshan heroes were killed on the battlefield along the way, most of them shot to death by random arrows.
But this time was different. Li Yunze provided a large amount of armor and stomach equipment for his soldiers and horses.
Not only are there so many of them that even the Death Soldier Battalion can wear them, but they are also of excellent quality and have super defensive capabilities.
Many sergeants were shot like hedgehogs, but they were still able to jump around.
During the war, Li Yunze was not idle in terms of people's livelihood.
Every time he regained a place, Li Yunze would reorganize the local government and arrange for the accompanying imperial students to do things.
At the same time, a group of retired veterans divided their fields and became officials in the local area and village elders in the countryside.
All land, whether government or local, was collected and redistributed.
Not only can the common people be distributed fifty acres of land per head, but they are also exempted from tax for at least three years.
Of course, this kind of thing will definitely not go smoothly.
When the local gentry and landlords came to ask for land deeds, Li Yunze would assign them the title of Fang La spies and hand them over to the Xin family, who served as guards and defense envoys in various places.
The powerful gentry were extremely sad and angry. They wanted to go to Bianliang City to find officials to punish Li Yunze, but they did not know that Li Yunze also had the final say in Bianliang City.
Li Yunze has done a lot of things like cracking down on the powerful gentry and distributing acres of land, so he has long been rich in experience.
He could tell immediately who was meddling in it and who was doing it perfunctorily.
No matter who dares to undermine his plan to stabilize the world, he will be in trouble.
Even three members of the Xin family were killed by him because of this matter.
The Xin family has a large population, and the remaining people were in a panic and did not dare to mess around. They could only express their stance to Li Yunze in an aggrieved manner. This was what they did when they were in Guanzhong.
Li Yunze was too lazy to pay attention to them and only replied: "From now on, anyone who dares to reach out will be beheaded." '
When the army besieged Hangzhou City, Li Yunze came to Feilai Peak.
In front of him was Lingyin Temple, the most famous place in the south of the Yangtze River.
This place is backed by the North Peak, facing Feilai Peak, with the West Lake next to it, and further away you can see the famous Qiantang River tide.
There are many trees on the mountain, and the pines are tall and green.
The surface of the lake at the foot of the mountain is like a mirror, with microwaves rippling and willows circling the embankments.
Li Yunze couldn't help but praise, "It's really beautiful mountains and clear waters, a beautiful scenery in the world."
He was lamenting the picturesque scenery here, but the many monks from Lingyin Temple around him were looking at the large group of Taoist priests not far away in panic as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
The Taoist priests all had kind faces and seemed to be very talkative.
But what they were holding in their hands was not mahogany swords, but real sharp swords, which made the monks’ eyes twitch.
The abbot of Lingyin Temple proclaimed the Buddha's name, stepped forward and said in salute, "The Prime Minister has come to suppress the rebellion of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. We deeply respect him. The small temple is willing to donate 30,000 guan of money and 30,000 dan of food to the army to help the Prime Minister."
"Hehehehe~~~"
After hearing this, Li Yunze, who was holding his hands behind his back, immediately laughed.
A large group of Taoist priests nearby also laughed, and their eyebrows became more and more beautiful, and their smiles were charming.
"Don't you see, in Qiantang Lake, the splendor of King Qian is gone now. There are piles of gold and pearls in the house. When the luck is exhausted, I will break the simple call. Officials from all over the country scatter their children, and the palaces are left to entertain the idlers. The rise and fall of sorrow and joy can last for only a moment, so why worry too much Yu Yu. There are huts everywhere in the mountains and rivers, but I love Lingyin Feilaigu the most.
The green beards and beards of trees are hundreds of feet tall, and the laughing willows and cattail trees are disturbing the trees below. Thousands of people gather for food in the high hall, ringing bells and drums to make a noise in the afternoon. "
After reciting a poem, Li Yunze clicked his tongue and said, "Scholar Dasu has a very accurate vision. He has long known that your house in Lingyin Temple is filled with gold and pearls."
Having said this, Li Yunze turned to look at the bald and sweating abbot, "May I ask the abbot, where did the gold and pearls in your temple come from? Could it be that the soil and water here are good, and they can grow if they are planted in the ground? ?”
"This, this, this..." The abbot, who was sweating profusely, stammered in explanation, "This is all a joke made by Bachelor Da Su. It is a joke. The small temple is a pure place of Buddhism, where did the gold and pearls come from?"
This man was so disrespectful that Li Yunze was too lazy to pay attention to him and simply turned around to admire the surrounding scenery.
The kind-looking Taoist priests over there came over in groups carrying sharp swords.
In the past, Lingyin Temple was naturally not afraid of these bullshit.
Not only are there temple-protecting monks in the temple, but there are also many temple tenants at the foot of the mountain who can mobilize.
Not to mention that they can correspond with the big shots in Bianliang City and have close relations with local states and counties.
But not now.
Not to mention the North Peak, even the entire city of Hangzhou was surrounded by the army.
Behind those ferocious Taoist priests, there were fully armed soldiers!
If a monk dares to come out, his legs will be broken immediately and he will become a sweeping monk.
The abbot, who was anxious in his heart, hurriedly said, "Prime Minister, Prime Minister! The small temple is willing to offer one hundred thousand guan, one hundred thousand guan!"
When he said this, the abbot's heart was bleeding.
That's a hundred thousand dollars of wealth, and they have to borrow money for a long time to earn it back.
That's right, just like the Daxiangguo Temple in Bianliang City was the largest private creditor in the northern part of the Song Dynasty, the largest in the southern part of the Song Dynasty was Lingyin Temple.
There is no need to elaborate on the specific origin. Anyway, just like the Daxiangguo Temple, it has accumulated astonishing wealth through erosion year after year.
Su Dongpo has already made it clear in his poems: There are piles of gold and pearls in the house!
Li Yunze ignored him and directly looked at Lu Zhishen.
Lu Zhishen, who looked like the real Skanda in the world, walked over carelessly, raised his hand and put a slap on the abbot's shoulder, "Don't say anything. It's useless no matter how much you give. Everything in the temple belongs to the prime minister." "
The abbot looked blankly at the ferocious strong man in front of him, "May I ask this elder, how do you call him? Where do you place orders?"
"The religious name of the Sa family is Zhishen." Luda chuckled. "The abbot of Daxiangguo Temple is still the great monk Zheng of the Song Dynasty."
"Da...Sengzheng?!"
The abbot was dumbfounded. The great monk had to be an enlightened monk to do this. The guy in front of him had no trace of an enlightened monk. He could clearly be a strong man cutting paths as soon as he took off his cassock and carried a knife!
"Abbott, you're in trouble." In these days, Lu Zhishen didn't know how many temples he had paid money to. He really saw this kind of look too many times. "We practice Buddhism. How can one judge a book by its appearance?"
Abbot'w(?Д?)w'
What he said was really high-level, and he sounded a bit like an eminent monk.
However, Lu Zhishen immediately changed the topic and said, "Hand over all the acres of land in the temple, only fifty acres are allowed to be kept. All monks who have not given ultimatums must return to secular life immediately. All property in the temple can only be kept Leave a year's worth of food for each person, and the rest
All collected. All the IOUs in the temple were burned and rendered invalid..."
Lu Zhishen said many measures in one breath. Looking at the completely dumbfounded abbot, Lu Zhishen had seen a lot.
He persuaded Haosheng with sincerity, "Be honest and obedient, and just do as the prime minister tells you. If you don't obey..."
"Ahem~~~"
Over there, Li Yunze had to remind him loudly again, "This is the official intention. The host is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Province, Mr. Cai You."
Although I have never seen Jiutian Xuannv running out to help Song Jiang, the world in the original work is quite strange after all.
Just in case, Li Yunze asked Zhao Ji, Cai You and others to take the blame for many things.
If it were an ordinary parallel world, there wouldn't be so much nonsense, and it would all be solved with a fire.
It would be nice to leave some food and a broken bowl.
Uh~~~Monk? Broken bowl? Start with a bowl?
Lu Zhishen quickly responded and said yes, scratching his head and motioning to the Taoist priests over there, "The fellow Taoists over there are all responsible for the work. If they are obedient, they will work lightly; if they are disobedient, they will work harder." Some."
Speaking of this, Lu Zhishen seemed to have remembered something, "Last month at that so-and-so temple, the abbot would rather die than hand over the land and IOU, and then he really died. Oh, it was the fellow Taoists who helped him pass away."
Hearing this, the abbot of Lingyin Temple couldn't bear it anymore. He immediately heard a "clack" in his throat, his eyes turned white and he fainted.
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