Lujiazhuang is a large village protected by tall walls and thick wooden doors. It is actually a fortress. There are also a lot of people living in Zhuangzi, with three to four hundred families living there.
However, the people in Lujiazhuang built such walls and gates not to defend against enemy attacks, but to prevent floods.
Thanks to the "Sanyi Huihe River", the Damingfu area, which was not prone to floods in the first place, began to experience frequent floods from the time of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty. Until a few years ago, when the Yellow River's ten-thousand-year-old new embankment burst and the subsequent diversion of the Yellow River's course, This area has just returned to normal.
The people of Damingfu, who have been tormented and threatened by repeated floods for decades, have no choice but to deal with the overflowing Yellow River. In order to survive, they can only build life-saving earthen fences outside the Zhuangzi where they live.
The previous owner of Lujiazhuang, Mr. Lu, was a well-known rich man in Daming Mansion. Of course, he had to build a tall and strong fence to protect his life, so it looked like a castle from a distance.
It was precisely because of this tall and solid earthen fence that Li Jian and Li Xiucai could rely on. After the old village owner Lu was killed, Han Chang, who was sent by Wanyan Zongwang to rule Daming Mansion, "recruited" Li Jian and Li Xiucai, and was granted the title of Sesame Official of Zhizhai. He became the "little bully" in Lujiazhuang and Weidian Town.
It was also because of this tall fence that it attracted more than a hundred red scarf cavalry led by Liu Da, the eighth team of the cavalry general of the Ninth Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Song Dynasty.
This Liu Da is from Lijiazhuang, the old town next to Lujiazhuang. He is the "filial son" of Li Daguan in Lijiazhuang!
However, his "filial son" was at a loss, because not long after he recognized his "wild father", Daming Mansion was occupied by Jin soldiers, and he followed Zhao Kai's team, so he could not inherit Li Daguan's legacy. family property.
And this journey lasted eight full years!
When he left Daming Mansion, he was still a simple farmer in his twenties. He didn't know anything except that he had to repay the loan sharks from Li Daguan...
And now, he already has the rank of sergeant, and he has also been awarded the rank of Shoichirou, the ninth rank, and has also received the actual post of cavalry captain - according to the promotion chart Zhao Kai drew up for the soldiers, the rank In addition to being exchanged for land, position also meant qualifications for being an official. However, having qualifications does not mean that you can be an official. After you have the honorary title, you must pass the corresponding training or assessment before you can get a rank. Only with a rank can you receive actual duties.
And the honorary title is easy to obtain, but the assessment is difficult!
In theory, with the rank of corporal, one has the qualifications to serve as a ninth-grade officer, but the vast majority of corporals are still serving as soldiers.
Only the corporals with truly outstanding abilities and the corporal who passed the officer assessment can obtain the rank of ninth grade or full ninth grade officer.
However, if the soldiers of the government are willing to "give higher honors and lower positions", they can still pass the assessment easily (you can get extra points) and get an official position.
Liu Da is a typical example of a senior military officer with low status. With his rank of sergeant, he can be regarded as a seventh-grade military officer - in Zhao Kai's army, a seventh-grade military attache can be a deputy general (the deputy position of a general) at most, and Liu Da was just a cavalry officer.
But Liu Da is still very satisfied with his current treatment, and the cavalry is a position where it is very easy to earn merit. After the Northern Expedition is over, as long as he doesn't die, he can be promoted to a doctor.
No matter how low you are, you can have an eighth-grade official with the rank of a senior official... and serving as the vanguard of the entire army and capturing Lujiazhuang, an important stronghold south of Damingfu City, is a big job. Credit!
However, Liu Da led cavalry, which was not suitable for siege, and he did not have artillery or siege equipment. The thunder (formerly known as the bombing pot) was a bit good, but it could not blow up the siege of Lujiazhuang. If the gold thief's lackey in Lujiazhuang (of course he already knows that the gold thief has escaped) wants to resist Master Wang, Liu Da really has nothing to do.
So now he had no choice but to rely on coaxing and threatening tactics to first trick the gate of Lujiazhuang Tuweizi into opening...
Therefore, Liu Da asked all his men to wear armor, mount tall horses, hold flags, and march in in formation, as if they were being inspected, and arrived outside the earthen fence of Lujiazhuang in a high-spirited manner. He even asked someone to shout for the owner of Lujiazhuang to come out and speak!
With a creaking sound, the door of Lujiazhuang finally opened slowly, and then Liu Da saw a few rich men wearing Confucian turbans and Dongpo scarves leading one to two hundred people wearing short shirts. , holding a wine pot and a basket full of bread and meat, came out of the door to greet the king.
Seeing this scene, Liu Da smiled and said to his left and right: "I have received a lot of credit!"
His team deputy asked in a low voice: "Captain...what should we do with those people? Are they all arrested?"
Liu laughed and said, "Have you forgotten what the people from Zhenfusi taught us when we were in Kaifeng Mansion?"
Zhenfu Division is the original Imperial City Division!
It has now developed into a rather large-scale secret service agency, with Zhao Kai's original favorite, Xiaode, as the chief executive.
In the previous training camp in Kaifeng, the Zhenfu Division also played a very important role - they were responsible for training grassroots officers on how to use the ruthless tactics of "lock, beat, and kill" to catch all the local gentry who had taken refuge in the gold thieves, and then support them by the way. Become an eagle dog who obeys the imperial court!
Of course, the reason for killing all the gentry under the rule of the gold thieves was not because Zhao Kaizhen did not tolerate traitors at all...but because of the land!
The land in Hebei, Jingdong, and Yanshan is at least 100 million acres... All the expenses of Zhao Kai's Northern Expedition will eventually be recovered from these lands, and he will have to "make a huge profit" "Previous vote!"
In this way, he could collect enough military expenses to defeat Zhao Huan.
So Zhao Kai's master Wang... he does not provide free "expulsion of Tartars" service!
This king master provides paid, high-priced, and mandatory "expulsion of Tartars" services!
Although this formula sounds very incorrect... The people and landlords of Hebei, Jingdong, and Yanshan are so pitiful. They have been enslaved by gold thieves for so many years, and the Yanshan people also let the Liao people They had been enslaved for many years. After the imperial army regained it, they should be exempted from taxes, should receive relief, and should win over people's hearts. How could the land be confiscated?
Isn't this more "thief" than a gold thief?
But Zhao Kai was so "two", he had to charge fees and expel the Tartars, and he didn't care what the people and gentry in Hebei, Jingdong, and Yanshan thought.
Because now he doesn’t even have a job with an annual salary of 6 million! We can't make ends meet, and we can't let the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and brothers below work in vain! Looking at the equipment and horses of those people, you can see that they have invested money, and many of them may have borrowed debts!
If Zhao Kai does not charge fees, then he will have no land to distribute. Without land distribution, the Fu Bing brothers below will lose money... If they lose, it will be a loss. Zhao Kai's Fu Bing system is inherently a bit "employee" "Holding shares" means that if you really lose, you can only lose money together. But if you win and then lose money, your heart will be broken.
Therefore, Zhao Kai would rather lose the hearts of the world than let his followers lose money.
In fact, Zhao Kai was not very popular in the Yingtian Fourth Road and Zhuanyan Road under the jurisdiction of the Northern Song Dynasty court. He only gained the support of more than 400,000 military households.
For the gentry and wealthy businessmen of the Sixth Route, Zhao Kai robbed their land and collected a lot of more taxes. He could not compare with the Song Dynasty court before the Xuanhe disaster, let alone compare with Zhao Huan, the emperor of Jinling. .
As for the poor people on the Sixth Road, Zhao Kai has nothing good to offer them... If we insist on saying it is good, it is to prevent the golden thieves from going south and the future Mongolians from going south, giving themselves or their descendants a chance. Reproduce and survive.
However, the people who survived did not know the tragedy of death, so they did not love Zhao Kai because of this. The only people who loved him were the hundreds of thousands of soldiers holding sword handles.
"Little Li Jian leads all the gentry and people of Lujiazhuang to welcome Master Wang... Master Wang, we have finally welcomed you!"
"Master Wang, you are here..."
"We are finally looking forward to Master Wang!"
"Woooooooo..."
Li Jian and Li Daguan still don’t know that Master Wang’s situation has changed now, and he is leading a group of gentry and common people pretending to be righteous people crying!
As soon as Liu Day opened his mouth, Li Jian was frightened.
"What's going on? Why is the owner of Lujiazhuang named Li? Where is the old owner of Lujiazhuang?"
After hearing this, the sweat on Li Jian's forehead broke out! And I also heard that "Master Wang leader" say something famous!
This is Master Wang whose name has gone out... I wonder if there is a "filial son" of Master Lu?
I heard that Mr. Lu adopted 20 filial sons to become king masters. Couldn't this one be one of them?
"Lu, Mr. Lu was killed by a gold thief..." Li Jian stammered.
"Then what's the matter with you? Why did you become the owner of the village? Where is the son of the old village owner Lu?" Liu Da continued to ask - he is no longer an honest farmer. What kind of thing is Li Jian? He can tell at a glance Out!
Asking these questions now is just to find an excuse to arrest someone!
Master Wang, you can’t confiscate it without any reason!
In addition, in order to encourage people with the surname Lu in Lujiazhuang to stand up and become the eagle dogs of the imperial court...
"Old Village Owner Lu has no son..." Li Jian said, "I have no biological son. The younger one married the widow of Old Village Owner Lu, so he became the owner of the Village Village."
"Haha..." Liu Da sneered twice, "Is that true? There are no men in Lujiazhuang? Are you just watching outsiders come in and take over the property?"
Speaking of which, the people below all understand what's going on!
This Master Wang is "Da Qingtian" and he comes to the Tilu family to make decisions!
Sure enough, a man in short clothes stood up and said, "Master Wang, Mr. Wang! Young Lu Xiaoliu wants to cry out for Mr. Lu and sue Li Jian and Mr. Lu's wife, Jia... .In order to seize the Lu family’s property, they sold official Lu to a gold thief! The thief Li Jian even became an official of the gold!”
Liu Da sneered and waved his hand, "I will capture this traitorous traitor Li Jian!"
Immediately, two soldiers in iron armor rushed forward and caught Li Jian like a chicken. One of them even knocked off the Dongpo scarf on Li Jian's head, revealing his bald head.
When Liu Da saw it, he sneered again: "Okay, I'll also shave my parents' hair...you unfaithful and unfilial person!"
As soon as he said this, the other landowners who came out with Li Jian trembled... They were all bald!
