“Eat his mother, wear his mother, open the gate to welcome the king of Tang, and divide the fields when the king of Tang comes!
The rent is heavy, the interest is high, and it is hard to protect your wife and daughter. The thieves are too vicious these days, and it is difficult for the poor people in Nanyang to make a living. It is better to open the door and pay homage to the king of Tang..."
In the summer of the third year of Dashun Yongchang, in the eastern part of Nanyang Prefecture, which had been ruled by the Dashun Dynasty for more than two years, on the bank of Bishui, the people seemed to be singing the wrong lyrics!
The good "Welcome the King of Tang" soon turned into "Welcome the King of Tang"! And not only singing, but actually taking action. On the south bank of Bishui, on the official road from Queshan County in Runing Prefecture to Biyang County in Nanyang Prefecture, countless ragged people appeared at this time, making pots of wine and singing ballads to welcome the king of Tang...
This scene was unbelievable not to mention the Tang King Zhu Yujian who had the courage to lead thousands of royal guards into Nanyang. Even the poor and lower-middle peasants singing on both sides of the official road felt unreal!
They would actually oppose King Chuang of Renyi and welcome back the Ming and Tang princes who had oppressed them for more than two hundred years... This is really unimaginable!
But the problem is that although King Chuang is benevolent, the noble master under him is too shameless. He has occupied all the land in Nanyang Mansion by staking the land. Regardless of whether he was a landlord, rich peasant or poor lower-middle peasant, he has become a noble man now. People's tenants.
Moreover, this group of nobles who came from bandits are even more greedy and cruel than the original gentry and landlords! Not only the rent is as high as the sky, but there is no room for default. Anyone who cannot pay on time will have their wife and daughter captured as collateral... In the past, bandits here in Nanyang generally did not tie up flower bills (that is, Women), they Dashun nobles are really worse than bandits! If a good girl is caught and put to sleep, even if she is put back, it will be difficult for her to marry!
Even if everyone gritted their teeth and paid the rent, the Dashun nobles would not give up and wanted everyone to go work for nothing - building forts!
Dashun nobles are different from the original landlords. If you can't live in a nice house, why live in a burg? They all live together in groups of more than ten or twenty families, in forts made of rammed earth. And they don’t study either. All men, women and children practice martial arts and are eager to fight. Every home has armor and weapons, and they often gather in groups to practice battles. They look particularly ferocious...
Therefore, the poor and lower-middle peasants here in Nanyang now don’t even dare to resist rent and interest rates and take advantage of large households! What's more, even the fallen grass and bandits have nowhere to go.
Because the mountains in Nanyang Prefecture either surrendered to King Chuang or were wiped out by Master Dashun who was sent to Nanyang - what kind of fighting power do they have? Li Zicheng is the number one criminal in the world! How can we defeat the local bandits in Nanyang?
What is even more confusing to the poor and lower-middle peasants in Nanyang is that while the Dashun gentlemen are ruthlessly oppressing them, they are allocating land to Chengtian, De'an, Jingzhou, Hanyang and other prefectures in the south to forgive debts!
In addition, news also came from Kaifeng, Ruzhou, Henan and other places occupied by the Tatars, and they were also planning to grant land to them!
What's this? Do you think Nanyang people are easy to bully?
But there's no use trying to figure it out - there's nothing Li Zicheng can do. If he doesn't feed these vicious people under his hands, the team will disperse!
Moreover, the military service of these "old camp warriors" in Dashun comes at a cost. They have to prepare their own weapons, armor, horses, followers, part of the military rations, etc. In addition, they must build forts in the "fiefdom", live together as a group, purchase defensive equipment, and train their families to ensure that after a large number of "old camp warriors" go out to fight, Nanyang Mansion still has the strength to defend.
If such high service costs are not passed on to the shoulders of farmers below, who else can bear them?
So at the end of the second year and the beginning of the third year of Yongchang in Dashun, the poor people in Nanyang finally realized the fact that at least for them, Li Zicheng, the benevolent and righteous king, was not as good as the Ming Dynasty!
And at this time, the song "The king of Tang comes to divide the fields" actually spread in the countryside of Nanyang Prefecture!
The King of Tang Dynasty of Ming Dynasty obviously got the wrong script and came to make decisions for the poor and lower-middle peasants of Nanyang Prefecture...
At the beginning, everyone didn't believe it. How can this be? It was obviously a rumor. Even if the Tang Dynasty king came back, he should return the land to the original landlord! How can it be distributed to poor farmers?
But in early April, the facts were revealed to everyone!
The Ming army marching from Queshan County (Runing Prefecture) into Biyang County clearly carried the banner of "the king of Tang Dynasty has arrived, and the fields will be divided." They also posted notices in every township and village, announcing plans to allocate land and waive debts. Interest-free... Of course, it is not unconditional, but it requires every household to send strong men to accompany the army. If you are unwilling to give birth, you can also divide the land, but you must pay a ransom, one to two stones of white flour for one acre of land - of course, it must be paid within five years after getting the land.
This time everyone believed it. There was no free rice in the world. Since the King of Tang needed everyone, it was appropriate to distribute land as reward.
So when the royal guards led by the King of Tang entered Biyang County, what they saw was an unreal scene of people welcoming them!
"Commander Feng," Zhu Yujian still couldn't believe that the people of Nanyang would miss him so much, so he asked Feng San, who was walking beside him, "Is the lonely king making a mistake? Are they welcoming us?"
Feng San laughed. He was led by Li Yan and Hong Niangzi, two thieves who were good at deceiving people. Of course he knew how to mobilize the masses.
"Your Majesty is not mistaken," Feng San said with a smile, "They are just welcoming you! Because you want to allocate fields to them... They were suppressed by Li Zicheng's old soldiers and had no hope, and they saw the approaching All the state capitals are planning to grant farmland to others, how can you not feel itchy?"
"Li Zicheng shot himself in the foot this time..." Zhu Yujian sighed, but his thick eyebrows were tightly knitted, "But if we do this, aren't we doing the same thing as Li Zicheng?" ?”
Yes, the people in Nanyang are dividing their fields. Will the people in Runing and Fengyang be jealous?
"Your Majesty, don't think so much," Feng San waved his hand, "Biyang County is almost here. Let's enter the city tonight. Even if your Majesty's flag is raised in Nanyang Mansion... Li Zicheng's backyard is on fire. Got it!"
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It was not only Tang King Zhu Yujian who got the wrong script. Zhu Cixang's military advisor Li Yan and Jing Xiang's black talent Jing Muching also took the script that was supposed to be given to Li Zicheng and led their troops to march along the Dahong Mountains and into Zaoyang County, which belongs to Xiangjing Prefecture.
Zaoyang County belongs to the core of Dashun Dynasty, close to Xiangjing City. Naturally, the poor and lower-middle peasants here were also severely oppressed - there was no way around it. The farms of Li Zicheng's most trusted imperial soldiers were located in Zaoyang County. Their equipment was better and their military service burden was heavier. The oppression became a little more fierce.
At the same time, Suizhou in De'an Prefecture and Zhongxiang County in Chengtian Prefecture, which are adjacent to Zaoyang County, have carried out "land reform" in the past few months. This is really a joy for all the correctional officers!
However, the poor peasants of Xiangjing Prefecture, who have "followed" the king for the longest time, are forced to suffer like this. Thinking about it, they can't be happy!
So when tens of thousands of heavily armed New Army soldiers suddenly marched into the territory of Zaoyang County under the banner of "Prince Arrives, Divide the Land", and quickly defeated the small number of Dashun Army troops who stayed in Zaoyang, the entire Zaoyang Army Yang County immediately became excited.
The common people don't care whether the promise of "the prince's arrival will divide the land" can be fulfilled. It's good to make a fuss along with it. Even if you can't make any money, you can still get a bad breath!
While the Ming army invaded Xiangjing and Nanyang in large numbers under the pretext of "distributing land", Yuan Zongdi and Bai Wang, who were left behind by Li Zicheng to guard their hometown, were all in disarray.
They were not worried about the guards of the Tang Dynasty who invaded Nanyang (the Tang Dynasty's guards were the guards, or the more traditional Ming army), but they could not underestimate the new left army led by Li Yan who broke into Xiangjing Prefecture along the Dahong Mountain. division.
This division came all the way from the east of Huangzhou Prefecture. It has defeated many partial divisions of the Dashun Army. They have won complete victories in a very short period of time and caused huge casualties to the Dashun Army that they fought against. .
Yuan Zongdi, who didn't have much money at hand, didn't dare to fight Li Yan, so he had to retreat and take all the family members of the soldiers scattered in Zaoyang, Guanghua, Yicheng and other counties in Nanyang Prefecture and Xiangjing Prefecture back to Xiangjing City. At the same time, he sent an envoy to Jiangling to report to Li Zicheng... Something bad has happened. The crown prince of the Zhu family is going to kill the rich and help the poor!
