Chen Hua lifted Ruan Hu up. You have been teaching for more than 30 years and now you say you are illiterate. Who are you trying to fool?
"Tell me, what's engraved on it?"
Chen Hua was very curious.
Ruan Hu felt aggrieved and looked at Chen Hua and others with sad faces: "I still have children and grandchildren. I don't want to die. This has nothing to do with me. You can find someone else."
Chen Hua became angry and immediately drew the knife: "Nian, if I don't, I will let you die now!"
Ruan Hu was not a tiger at all, but more like a cat. Under Chen Hua's coercion, he said: "This is a petition written by the Ming Dynasty army. It is called "Complaint to Annan Officials, Military and Civil Affairs". It says that the father and son of the Hu family must be counted. Twenty crimes, here, there are three crimes written on this board..."
Chen Hua stared at the sergeants around him, gritted his teeth and said, "Find more planks and put them up."
The sergeant salvaged it and put together several wooden boards, and the contents were complete.
Ruan Hu had no choice but to read out the content:
"The thieves Hu Jizhu and his son killed the former King of Annan to take over his country, which is the first crime; the thieves killed the Chen family's descendants and wiped out the clan, which is the second crime; they did not obey the imperial court and changed the name of the country to Dayu. They used the honorary title in vain. Holy, there are three crimes: treating the people of the country like enemies, punishing the country with harsh laws, killing innocent people violently, extorting heavy taxes, and exploiting endlessly, leaving the people helpless, hungry and helpless, either filling the ravines with death, or escaping to other places alive, sin Si Ye..."
Although Chen Hua and others were illiterate, they could still understand. Even the sergeants around them lowered their heads to listen.
Ruan Hu read one by one, each of which was the crime of Hu Jiyou and his son. Finally he read: "The Ming army was ordered by Emperor Jianwen to punish the people and punish them. I hope that the people of Annan will understand the righteousness..."
"What does it mean to punish the people and punish the people?"
Chen Hua asked after listening.
Ruan Hu had a headache and said: "The crime of punishing the people and punishing it comes from "Mencius: Teng Wengong Xia". It has a saying: punish the crime and punish the people. When the rain falls, the people will be happy. That is to say, to punish the guilty monarch. Condolences to the suffering people."
Chen Hua looked at the river. More and more wooden boards were flowing in it. These words would surely spread throughout the Sanjiang area in a short time, right?
"What do you think?"
Chen Hua asked in a low voice.
No one spoke, and the sergeants around him lowered their heads.
Seeing this, Ruan Hu seemed to have seen through Chen Hua's thoughts, and said quickly: "We were all forced into the army, and we have no killing skills. We were sent to the river to resist the Ming army. Isn't this asking us to die?"
Chen Hua saw that the sergeant was being persuaded, but he did not dare to open his mouth, so he whispered: "Are you going to punish the people?"
The river was flowing, and the wooden planks continued to float down from the river and entered various waterways. The Ming army listed Hu Ji Ya's twenty major crimes. Documents condemning the people's crimes soon spread, and some people even cried bitterly holding the wooden planks. Crying, looking forward to it.
Hu Jishen was unpopular. This had nothing to do with his usurping the throne, but to do with his reforms.
To be honest, Hu Ji Ya was not a good-for-nothing person. He had his own political ideals and revenge. In the late Chen Dynasty, Chen Yuzong ignored state affairs after he succeeded to the throne. The political principles and discipline of the government gradually deteriorated, and the country's power declined greatly. In addition, slaves and civilians in Annan were Conflicts with the nobles intensified, and civil uprisings occurred one after another.
It was under such circumstances that Hu Jisao killed the king and seized the throne and established the Dayu Kingdom.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jiyou also carried out a large number of reforms in addition to eliminating the Chen family and the remaining forces, hoping to build Annan into a truly powerful country.
Hu Jiyou was very insightful in reforming Annan's bad government, and some of his measures were even more advanced than those of the Ming Dynasty!
In terms of currency, Hu Ji Ya produced Tong Bao Hui banknotes, which was the first time in Vietnam's history that banknotes were issued. In terms of commercial policy, Hu Jisu unified weights and measures and set up city supervisors to closely monitor the illegal behavior of merchants. He welcomed foreign merchant ships and merchants, welcomed the wealth of the sea in an open manner, and levied only a certain commercial tax. .
Hu Jiyou also learned from the Ming Dynasty, carried out major infrastructure projects, opened up rivers, built official roads, and set up a large number of posthouses along the way, making Annan's domestic connections closer.
But the above measures are just childish. What truly reflects Hu Ji-yao’s courage, courage and wisdom are the following two reforms:
First, collect land as state-owned and strictly enforce land annexation!
During the Chen Dynasty, the king enfeoffed land on a large scale, numerous noble manors were established, and the people lost their land. After Hu Jiyou came to power, he quickly ordered that the land of the princes and nobles be confiscated and returned to the state, and the standards were re-established:
One person, ten acres of land.
Simple and easy.
But there is a line of small words at the back: Only the crowned king and princess can own unlimited land. This line is similar to the ultimate secret in the power of explanation, that is, everything I say is right.
But no matter how it is explained, the promulgation of this policy did win Hu Jishen a lot of public support. Even Zhu Yunwen did not dare to touch such a shocking feat of nationalizing land, which shows that Hu Jima is still a good man...
Second, restrict the maintenance of domestic slaves and liberate domestic slaves.
Although the Annan Chen family is orthodox, it is not a good bird. The king has tens of thousands of slaves, and some officials have more than a thousand slaves. Logically speaking, domestic slaves should work as long as they are given to work. They should suffer a little hardship and suffer a little fatigue. After all, they have food, so they can survive.
But King Chen bullies people, no, bullies slaves, and insists on using a knife to carve words on the faces of his slaves. If the king is bored and insists on finding a slave to study the performance art of carving words on his face, it is not a big deal.
But King Chen did not attack one domestic slave, but treated all the domestic slaves in the same way and very equally. They all had the words "slave on the seat" engraved on their faces. The emperor engraved the words, so how could the princes not follow suit, so the words "guest in the palace" came into being. Those who didn't know better thought they were guests in the palace, but in fact they were just domestic slaves.
The domestic slaves were tortured both physically and mentally, so they rebelled one after another. After Hu Jisao came to power, he released a large number of domestic slaves and did not allow a large number of domestic slaves to be raised.
Through his own wisdom and means, Hu Jishen used the land and liberated slaves to reform, and won the support of the people at the bottom, and gradually gained a firm foothold. Then, he discovered that something was wrong...
Yes, the lower class people and domestic slaves thanked Hu Jiyou, but the time for gratitude was limited. This is because the interests of the princes and nobles were extremely suppressed, and the conflicts between Hu Ji Ya and these people began to break out. In addition, Hu Ji Ya carried out military reforms. On the one hand, he wanted to conquer the Champa Kingdom and seize the southern plains and the sea. If the army wants to attack Guangxi, gain good depth and expand its territory, it must recruit a large number of sergeants.
All men between the ages of fifteen and sixty were required to enlist in the army, and deserters were punished with death.
This regulation completely ruined Hu Jima's popularity. In addition, the construction of Dobang City required hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, warships, firecrackers, weapons preparation, etc., all of which required labor.
The people were overwhelmed, the soldiers were also overwhelmed, and the aristocratic forces secretly counterattacked. Just one year after the implementation of the reform by Hu Jiyou and his son, it became riddled with holes and caused widespread resentment among the people.
The elders of the Chen Dynasty, local nobles, and prominent families all stood up to oppose and resist Hu Jima's reforms. In order to suppress this group of people, Hu Jima's method was to kill. He killed too many people, and people were panicked. Coupled with the policy, There are many countermeasures, and many innovations have become empty talk before they have been implemented.
Maintaining a huge military force inevitably requires taxes, and the source of these taxes is the elderly, children, and women. Many adult men are serving as soldiers, and there is really no way to harvest rice...
It was against this background that Zhang Fu sent troops into Annan. The people were full of dissatisfaction with the Hu family and his son, and hoped that the Ming Dynasty could end the Hu family's rule.
Yang Pu's strategy achieved great success. When Zhang Fu led his troops to the Baihe River, the defenders surrendered directly. Many gray-haired civilians came with carts of food to support the Ming army.
The soldiers and civilians defected!
This allowed Zhang Fu to fully grasp the public sentiment in Annan, and ordered Han Guan, Yuan Yue and others to lead troops to capture the upper and lower reaches of the Baihe River, and then march into the Tao River, opposite Duobang City!
Looking at Duobang City in the distance, Zhang Fu, Tie Xuan, Yang Rong and others fell silent.
Without a telescope, you can clearly feel the pressure of Dobang City!
This is a stone city, made entirely of stones. The height of the city is more than two and a half feet. These are almost the two defendants of an ordinary city wall. There are also deep trenches dug under the city. Needless to say, they must be full of trenches. Thorns, bamboo spears, etc.
"It's not easy to fight."
Zhang Fu finally said with emotion.
Tie Xuan's Adam's apple twitched: "The small country of Annan actually has such a majestic city. It's beyond my expectation. If you want to take down such a city, you will have to lose a lot of money."
Zhang Fu gritted his teeth and said: "Although Annan has two capitals, the east and the west, in the whole country, only Duobang City is the strongest. Annan's elite army is stationed here. No matter what the cost, we must defeat it. Moreover, we need Wipe out all the defenders, only in this way can we stand firm in Annan!"
Loss of soldiers?
Zhang Fu knew that Dobang City was related to the success or failure of the Southern Expedition. It was the core of the core. As long as it was captured here, Thang Long City, the eastern capital, would be defeated in a short time. As for Thanh Hoa, it would also be leveled!
Casualties are an issue that needs to be considered, but it has taken a back seat to the overall strategy.
In a word, the multi-state city must be captured no matter the cost!
Tie Xuan also knew that now was not the time to care about the lives of the sergeants. If they could not completely annihilate the defenders of Duobang City, once these people escaped, they would definitely cause great trouble to the Ming army's follow-up operations. Once these deserters gathered in the mountains and forests, falling grass would cause Kou, relying on the terrain, tossing back and forth, then the Ming army fought back and forth, and they would be exhausted if they didn't kill them.
Yang Rong pointed at Duobang City and said: "It is easy to completely wipe out the defenders of Duobang City. The difficult thing is how to capture Duobang City."
Zhang Fu, Tie Xuan and others knew that Yang Rong did not contradict what he said. Duobang City is located to the south of the natural gorge of the three rivers of Xuanjiang, Taojiang and Tuojiang. It can be said to guard the intersection of the three rivers, with mountains behind it. This geographical location, It gave Duobang City an unparalleled defensive advantage and also cut off the escape route for the defenders of Duobang City.
In other words, as long as you break in, you will catch a turtle in an urn.
But how easy is it to get in?
There are countless camps and a large number of defenders on the south bank of the Tao River, but there are not even a small boat on the north bank. Let alone fighting, it is impossible to cross the river. The river here is very wide, more than two hundred steps away. The river does not seem to be turbulent, but it is sometimes There will be whirlpools.
Due to the width of the river and the camp on the opposite side, it was more than 700 steps to reach the bottom of Duobang City. It would be difficult to hit the city directly with the divine machine cannon.
Therefore, if you want to attack Duobang City, you must first cross the river, and you must have a boat to cross the river.
Just when Zhang Fu was at his wits' end, Mu Sheng's army finally arrived.
The two fronts of the Ming Dynasty, one sent troops from Pingxiang, Guangxi, and the other sent troops from Mengzi, Yunnan, successfully formed an alliance in just fifteen days! This result was five days earlier than the expected meeting time.
Zhang Fu personally led people to greet Mu Sheng. No matter what, Mu Sheng was the Marquis after all, so he should give him no less face.
When Mu Sheng saw Zhang Fu bringing people in person, a smile appeared on his lips and he took the initiative to salute: "Mu Sheng pays homage to the commander-in-chief!"
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