Qiming 1158

Chapter 246 Zhao Kaishan is not satisfied

Zhao Xiang, like Zhao Kaihe, hates him very much because he has been cleaned up by Zhao Zuoliang, does not respect Zhao Zuoliang, and calls him by his first name in private.

Hearing Zhao Kaihe complain about Zhao Zuoliang, he seemed to remember something, and the expression on his face became very proud, like a monkey who stole a high-quality banana.

He approached Zhao Kaihe and spoke in a low voice.

"There's something you don't know yet, right? It has something to do with Zhao Zuoliang."

Zhao Kaihe's eyes lit up.

"whats the matter?"

"This pension and bounty money is not only from outsiders, but also from our own people."

"My own?"

Zhao Kaihe was still thinking about who was so daring not to show it to Zhao Kaishan when he suddenly realized something.

"You mean..."

"Zhao Zuoliang's eldest son, Zhao Xiuye, this brother of our clan is not as light as outsiders, and he starts earlier, and more people help him hide it. If it hadn't been for me and everyone, I wouldn't have known that there was Zhao Xiuye ​​behind this matter. participate."

Zhao Xiang told this matter, which made Zhao Kaihe happy.

He suddenly felt as if he had the initiative to fight back.

"Tell me in detail, how does Zhao Xiuye ​​do things?"

Seeing that his eyes were shining, Zhao Xiang happily told Zhao Kaihe that Zhao Xiuye ​​had colluded with his servants and the officials in charge of the matter, and shared the spoils with everyone.

Zhao Xiuye ​​lived a luxurious and expensive life on weekdays. Zhao Zuoliang was able to control him when he was at home. Zhao Zuoliang was gone, and his mother doted on him very much and obeyed his words, so no one could control him.

He also has a problem with gambling. As soon as he has a gambling habit, he will go out to gamble with a lot of money. A group of friends and friends accompany him to gamble, which makes him even more obsessed with the excitement brought by gambling.

But this guy has bad luck in gambling, he loses far more than he wins. He owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt a few months ago. The other party asked to use Song money to repay the debt. He told his family that he was afraid that Zhao Zuoliang would kill him if he found out.

At this time, someone around him mentioned the money to him, so he quickly set his sights on the money.

As soon as the money arrived, he sent people to contact the governor in charge of the matter, endorsed himself with Zhao Zuoliang's power, and asked to share the money with everyone.

The local officials were all appointed by Zhao Kaishan, and the wealth and wealth all pointed to the Zhao family. Zhao Zuoliang was a worthy celebrity beside Zhao Kaishan. His eldest son made a request, who could refuse?

So everyone hit it off, and the entire government participated in it, actively helping with operations, making false accounts, and soon divided the money into seventy-eighty-eight, and the rest was taken out to deal with errands.

It's hard for this amount of money to actually get into the hands of military families. Basically, seventy-seven-eighty-eight is given to small officials. What really goes into the hands of military families is only a hair in the nine cows.

Zhao Xiuye, who took the big head, paid back the money, and there was still money left to continue spending time and drinking, living a happy life, and continued to gamble.

The result, of course, was a mess again, and it was impossible to extend a sinful hand to the pension and bounty money again.

When Zhao Xiang came to Yizhou to be in charge of armed conscription, he made good friends with the local big clans and had many contacts. At a certain banquet, this matter was said as a joke.

It is said that Zhao Zuoliang, the eldest son, likes gambling very much. He has just paid off his arrears, but he started gambling again. He doesn't know which state he will target for pensions and bounties next time.

Zhao Xiang felt that the opportunity had come.

"Our clan brother didn't follow Naifu to learn other things, and gambling luck is not good, but this ability to make money is self-taught, it's called a quick start, hahahahaha!"

Zhao Xiang laughed, causing Zhao Kaihe to laugh too.

"Hahaha, okay, okay, this old man, I've wanted to deal with him for a long time! Let him embarrass me by relying on the old man! This time, I will use his son to give him a trick! "

"Wonderful!"

Zhao Xiang and Zhao Kaihe smiled at each other, full of pride in their hearts.

While the two were busy preparing for the conspiracy, Zhao Kaishan finally conquered Nanle City.

The reason is simple. Civil strife broke out in the city due to lack of food, and a starving army opened the city gates to allow the recovery army to enter the city.

In the end, Nanle City was not taken by the Restoration Army, but was betrayed by the people in the city.

Zhao Kaishan's siege measures were very firm. After nearly three months of siege, he was unwilling to withdraw. During the period, he repelled several small-scale reinforcements, so the city soon ran out of food.

The soldiers in the city ate almost everything they could eat.

After the grain is eaten, the horses are eaten, and after the horses have eaten, they start to eat the dogs and other livestock.

After eating all these, they began to eat grass roots and bark, and the limited wild fruits in the city were also eaten up. In the end, they could not find anything to eat, and soldiers began to starve to death.

Those starving soldiers also began to ignore them and attacked the corpses of their starved companions, lingering on.

Zhao Kaishan paid a huge price to besiege the city, and at the same time pushed Nanle City to its limit. Both the defense weapons and the willpower of the soldiers were consumed to the limit.

Under such circumstances, there was finally an army that did not want to sit still. They secretly opened the city gates to welcome the Liberation Army into the city, and were then killed by the furious soldiers of the Restoration Army, together with everyone in the city.

Jin Bing was pushed to the limit, and the Restoration Army was struggling in pain.

The months of torture almost drove the Restoration Army into a frenzy. After the city was broken, they couldn't wait to enter the city to burn, kill and loot, but Zhao Kaishan wisely did not do anything to stop it.

It is a pity that there are not many living people to kill in the city, but there is a lot of money, so the soldiers of the Liberation Army who got the money burned Nanle City with torches, and finally recovered their senses.

Zhao Kaishan did not enter the city from beginning to end, and the senior officers hardly entered the city. The fire burned for two days and two nights before it was slowly extinguished under the invasion of a winter rain.

Nanle City was reduced to ruins, and everyone in the city died.

Zhao Kaishan did not hold the soldiers and the grass-roots officers accountable after the incident, and avoided talking about the matter, pretending that it never happened.

The Restoration Army finally got what it wanted, won Nanle County, and opened up the road to Damingfu.

But Zhao Kaishan was not satisfied, he ordered the army to immediately march towards Damingfu City, preparing to attack Damingfu City, and wanted to take down Damingfu City in one go.

This caused great dissatisfaction in the army.

Because it will be the New Year's Day soon, even if it is a time of war, the New Year's Day is a day of truce without fighting, and the soldiers must have a good meal.

Now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, many people are thinking about finishing this battle, taking the spoils home with their family members, and celebrating the New Year, but in the end they still have to fight?

Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even many officers were extremely dissatisfied with this.

Many generals approached him, asking him to give the soldiers a few days to recuperate, eat more delicious food, and preferably take an annual leave.

Otherwise, the war weariness of soldiers is quite high now, and if the army is forced to move forward, it may cause dire consequences.

Zhao Zuoliang also felt that this was impossible, so he dissuaded Zhao Kaishan from the fact that Song Taizong immediately asked the army to go north to attack Liao after the expedition of Northern Han.

"Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty led an army northward to crusade against Han in Taiyuan. The army fought hard for a long time. After finally conquering Taiyuan and destroying Han, Emperor Taizong did not let the army rest, but continued to lead the army northward to crusade against Liao.

A general in the army made Jin Yan, thinking that the soldiers were tired and could not bear the long battle, and they should rest, so as to better crusade the Liao state in the future, but Emperor Taizong was unwilling, so he continued to attack Liao in the north, and the result was a disastrous defeat under the city of Youzhou.

Right now, our army has been besieging the city for nearly three months. Everyone has been pushed to the limit. Whether physical or mental, they really need to rest. Soldiers escaped from the army and went home.

I thought, at least let the soldiers have a New Year's Eve, have a good meal, or give the soldiers the opportunity to go home and visit relatives, so as to boost morale and make the soldiers willing to continue fighting, instead of just finishing fighting here, they have to continue there go north. "

(End of this chapter)