Li Yunze originally thought that Wang Chongrong was a small person and could be solved in just one battle.岶
However, what surprised him was that Wang Chongrong was actually a very decisive person.
When he learned that Li Yunze was coming with his troops, Wang Chongrong, who was furious, immediately stood up and mobilized his soldiers to abandon Hezhong Mansion and head north to Jin.
Others don't know it, but he, Wang Chongrong, knows it.
Huang Chao's elite main force were basically destroyed by Li Yunze.
Previously, Qin Zongquan was wiped out in one battle. How could a man who could sweep thousands of armies with his golden cudgel fight head-on? He didn't have a water curtain hole!
Such decisive behavior really surprised Li Yunze.
Although he had thousands of armored horses at his disposal, he had to cross rivers, climb mountains, and pass through obstacles along the way, so there was no way he could catch up.岶
As for bringing all the soldiers and horses together, that is a joke.
With hundreds of thousands of people following him, how could Li Yunze have the time and energy to play hide-and-seek with Wang Chongrong.
He had no choice but to take out a small notebook and write down Wang Chongrong's words in bold and bold words, and also drew a circle to show the key points.
After so many worlds, no one who got into his little notebook had an easy time.
The name before Wang Chongrong was Zhu Wen, but because the gifts he gave were very popular with Li Yunze, Zhu Wen's ranking fell behind Wang Chongrong.
As for the other people in the notebook, such as Emperor Li Xuan, the leader of the eunuch group Tian Lingzi, and the members of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes family, they are all small figures who are not worth mentioning.
The incident in Hezhong Town was an episode, but the effect was still significant.岶
On Li Yunze's next journey to Bianzhou, no one in the military towns dared to be careful. Even when the common people took the initiative to defect, they turned a blind eye.
After all, in this troubled world where force is the most important, being able to fight with fists is the most effective passport.
Bianzhou, you will know where it is just by looking at the name.
That's right, it's Bianzhou in Bianliang City, which will also be the famous Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo in the future.
This place is famous because it was the focus of competition for all forces during the war era.
The reason why it is the focus of competition is because it is located in the middle of the world and has developed transportation. Anyone from the southeast, northwest and northwest wants to fight.
Of course, while it is convenient to send troops to attack others, it is also extremely vulnerable to attack.岶
Li Yunze is too familiar with this place. Although it is very different from more than two hundred years ago, it is Bianzhou and Kaifeng Prefecture after all. No one in the world is more familiar with this place than him.
The army arrived in Bianzhou and quickly took over the city defense.
The first thing Li Yunze did after entering the city was not to recruit girls to enrich the backyard, but to drive away all the people in the previous yamen and replace them with people he brought from Chang'an City.
This is very important. One thing that China has been unable to change for thousands of years is the intricate local power.
No matter how they behave, whether they are good people or good people or evil people, the root cause is that local snakes are entrenched in the place.
In the past, they were called powerful people, now they are called powerful people, and in the future they are called gentry.
Li Yunze believed that with his strong strength as the backing, no one in the local forces would dare to cause trouble, and he would even take the initiative to help, giving money, food, tribesmen and girls, just like the Great Magister Guangwu.岶
But this is not what he wants.
When he was here, the local forces were naturally honest, with the dragon coiled up and the tiger lying down, no one dared to stab them.
But after he leaves, as time goes by, his true colors will inevitably be revealed and he will become a moth that corrodes the country.
So every time he went to a place, the first thing he had to do was to uproot the local forces.
Things are progressing smoothly, although there are some obstacles, but in the face of tens of thousands of soldiers' swords, any kind of obstacles are nothing worth mentioning.
Moreover, Li Yunze could take advantage of the opportunity to clean them up for spitting on the ground, walking the dog without a leash when going out, stepping with his left foot first when he came to see him to complain, etc.
The family's property was naturally confiscated, including all the houses, not to mention the fields.岶
While cleaning up local forces, the crackdown on urban foxes and dynamic groups in various parts of Bianzhou was also carried out simultaneously.
It is easy to deal with these urban foxes and rats, but what is difficult to deal with is actually the local forces behind them.
With the covert support of local forces, dynamic groups can do all kinds of evil.
But if the local forces are dealt with first, then these urban foxes and social rats will really be beaten by everyone, and even a group of farmers can be dealt with with hoes.
As for the candidates to replace them, they were all recruited and arranged by Li Yunze when he was in Chang'an City, as well as retired military sergeants.
The scholars he recruited knew very well what kind of thing the Tang Dynasty was. If they stayed, they would definitely not end well. After all, the positions were limited, and they could not stand without a foothold.
So everyone followed Li Yunze.岶
Moreover, Li Yunze opened literacy classes in the military to teach sergeants how to read and write.
When marching during the day, everyone carried a wooden board on their backs. On the wooden board were written the words that the comrades behind them wanted to learn. They read and learned as they walked.
Before going to bed at night, the scholars accompanying the army would gather the soldiers in battalion units to teach them knowledge for an hour.
There is no requirement to be proficient in the words of saints, as long as you can read and write.
Moreover, sergeants who retire due to injury, retire due to age, or apply on their own initiative will be properly arranged.
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Either join the yamen in various places, or work in the fields as village officials.
Therefore, the sergeants were very enthusiastic about learning, and Li Yunze provided sufficient resources such as pens, inks, paper, inkstones, and wooden plaques. The entire Xuanwu Army was rapidly transforming into an educated army.岶
The good treatment of retired sergeants has in turn stimulated the enthusiasm for learning in the military. At the same time, morale and support for Li Yunze are also rapidly increasing.
The most intuitive manifestation is that every time sergeants perform meritorious service, fewer and fewer choose to exchange their meritorious service for financial rewards. Everyone is accumulating meritorious service and preparing to arrange a good future when they retire.
After arranging military matters, the next step is to arrange the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who followed him to Bianzhou.
Not only them, but the basic necessities, food, clothing, housing and transportation of hundreds of thousands of local people in Bianzhou also fall on his shoulders.
Most of the governors of the feudal towns don't care, as long as the men and girls can receive money and food on time, as for the people's life and death, that is their own business.
As for whether the farmers would starve to death after most of the grain was taken away, the imperial court and the governors in various places basically didn't care.
If you starve to death, you will starve to death. Anyway, there are many people in the Tang Dynasty.岶
Li Yunze can't do it. He's not here to come to the feudal town. He's here to save the people who are struggling in troubled times.
And he knew very well that population was the foundation of everything, so not only could he not starve the people to death, but he also wanted to make them live a better life as much as possible.
It is already July of the first year of Zhonghe, and it will soon be the autumn harvest season.
While Li Yunze was sorting out the fields and allocating them to the people who followed him, he also expressed his stance to the entire six counties of Bianzhou that this year's autumn tax would be waived.
As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar from top to bottom.
The people naturally cheered and called Jiedu the reincarnation of a saint.
But the civil servants under Li Yunze were dumbfounded.岶
Without the autumn grain, even if no taxes are sent to Chang'an City, what will they eat and use?
It is true that the previous seizures can support the grain harvest until next year, but everyone tacitly agrees that those seizures belong to the private property of the Jiedushi.
Which military governor these days would use his private property...
"Use these days' seizures to pay for the military and local expenses." Li Yunze's words made everyone unbelievable.
It's actually true!
A knowledgeable person will secretly think at this time, 'Jiedu's plan is very big! '
If you don't make money for yourself but use it to support soldiers and people, you must have a grand plan.岶
Suddenly, many smart people chose to take the initiative to take action, which was regarded as a kind of horse betting.
There have been too many such things throughout the ages.
Of course Li Yunze had an agenda, but he really didn't care about these things.
He can use gold, silver, various jewelry, etc. to exchange for massive supplies in the modern world to feed everyone.
Because there is a time and space gate, of course it is extremely calm.
If not, then you have to scratch your head into the Mediterranean Sea and think hard about how to improve productivity.
Official fields, fields confiscated by local forces, and fields that became ownerless due to wars were all divided up by Li Yunze.岶
Not only the common people, but also the military officers and soldiers were assigned to Yongye Field according to their respective military merits.
If the sergeants have relatives at home, they can take care of it themselves. If not, you can rent it to nearby people to plant and collect the rent.
With this division of land, the cohesion and loyalty of the army soared again.
Li Yunze made it clear to everyone, both the sergeants and the common people. He also wrote clearly in black and white on the land deeds that all the fields would be converted to Yongye fields and the oral subdivision of fields would be cancelled.
However, Yongyetian can only be inherited from now on and cannot be bought or sold.
Sons and daughters can inherit it, even if it doesn’t work, they can adopt a son.
You can grow it yourself, rent it out, or even abandon it. The only thing is that it cannot be bought or sold. Once it is discovered, not only will it be severely fined, but it will also be confiscated.岶
This is the method Li Yunze summed up after experiencing many worlds to deal with land annexation, the most serious problem in thousands of years.
In the past, he directly declared that all the land belonged to the emperor, but now he was just a military governor, so it was not easy to say this.
After the land was divided, a wedding trend quickly spread throughout Bianzhou.
It's very simple, there is constant production.
Once you have your own property, you must have an heir to inherit it. Naturally, there will be a trend of weddings, and even the price of local betrothal gifts will soar.
Fortunately, Li Yunze was exempted from taxes and paid. Whether in the military or local affairs, bachelors could basically afford wives.
If it doesn’t work out, let’s wait until next year to save money.岶
During the autumn harvest, Li Yunze showed his ability to make money.
He ordered a large number of ironware and a variety of agricultural tools from the modern world, including but not limited to sickles, rakes, iron plows, hoes, shoulder poles, baskets, carts, bamboo sieves, shovels, threshing machines, etc.
These things are then distributed to the people for free.
Even before the troubled times, not all people had access to these farm tools, let alone iron tools.
In times of war, iron tools were one of the most valued resources by feudal townsmen. Specially made agricultural tools were basically taken away and melted to make weapons.
People in many places can only use wooden farm tools to do farm work.
Not to mention the low production efficiency, the losses to users are also great.岶
It is difficult for modern people to understand how tiring farm work is. In an era of low productivity, this is really a matter of exchanging life for food.
Bend down to collect grain, harvesting one plant at a time. The scorching sun above my head lasted all day, and I couldn't straighten my waist.
Digging the land was really a matter of hoe after hoe, and my hands were so tired that they cramped.
Not to mention watering the land, carrying the bucket and running back and forth, the calluses on my shoulders were worn away layer after layer.
When threshing millet, one would not dare to throw away a grain of grain.
It was really tiring, and I had to sacrifice my body for food.
The agricultural tools provided by Li Yunze can greatly improve efficiency and reduce the hardship of the people.岶
He also built numerous waterwheels on the Bianhe River, led people to dig countless canals, and so on.
After the autumn harvest, Li Yunze also offered high prices to buy the surplus grain from the people.
Compared to directly requisitioning food, spending money to buy it made the people smile.
After working so hard to finish the autumn harvest, Li Yunze finally had time and energy to consider his expansion plan.
It was a tradition to go to war after the autumn harvest.
The first target Li Yunze set his sights on was Songzhou next to Bianzhou!
Received Zhang Hui, the daughter of Zhang Rui, the governor of Songzhou.岶
