Qiming 1158

Chapter 326 "People's Heart" is just a piece of shit
For this special operation, Su Yonglin arranged for Zhao Zuoliang's "old friend" Zhou Shaoning to lead his operation team to cooperate with Zhao Zuoliang.

At the same time, two platoons of Huben battalion soldiers were arranged as guards to protect Zhao Zuoliang's safety. They were all equipped with horses and emergency dried meat as food.

Anyway, no matter what, it is necessary to ensure Zhao Zuoliang's safety first, and above that is to realize Su Yonglin's strategic goal.

Because Zhao Zuoliang had held a position in the Restoration Army, had some old deployments in the army, and led troops to win battles, so the task of winning over the forces in the Restoration Army who were willing to follow him and oppose Zhao Xiang was personally completed by Zhao Zuoliang.

As for the task of persuading the actual power holders of the state capitals and counties in Zhao Kaishan's ruling area to join him, Su Yonglin personally sent people to do it.

After all, the ruler who needs their recognition is Su Yonglin himself, so Su Yonglin naturally handles this matter himself.

He will send reliable people to visit these people with his sincerity, and persuade them to follow him, turn to each other, don't help Zhao Xiang, and change their flags directly.

Su Yonglin will organize them into independent battalions one by one, following the examples on the land of Hebei, and become independent combat organizations, which will be unified into the battle order of the Restoration Army.

They will be trained, organized, and cared for by Su Yonglin himself.

Su Yonglin will not ask for their benefits, everything will remain as usual, as long as they follow orders and fight together.

In that way, they will have a bright future.

Su Yonglin originally thought that this might require a period of ups and downs, bargaining with these people, and making certain compromises to achieve the goal, so he was also ready to compromise.

But the facts proved that Su Yonglin was naive.

It may be that Su Yonglin did not stay in the area ruled by Zhao Kaishan personally, and it is difficult to personally understand the true feelings of the landlords and gentry who supported Zhao Kaishan's uprising only by relying on the literal reports of the intelligence personnel.

Su Yonglin couldn't really feel how regretful and desperate those landlords and gentry were when they faced Zhao Kaishan's failure and willfulness.

When things were going smoothly at the beginning, everyone felt that Zhao Kaishan was a good leader who could lead everyone to the top, so one or two followed him and invested in him.

After defeating the main force of the Shandong Golden Army and occupying Shandong, they felt that Zhao Kaishan was very successful, the future was very promising, and the chance of victory would be very high.

They seem to have seen the dawn of prosperity.

But soon, the departure of Su Yonglin and Sun Ziyi made them feel a little bad. The split of the Liberation Army actually came earlier than imagined.

In particular, Su Yonglin, who has always been able to fight, also acted separately from Zhao Kaishan, which made some people even more suspicious.

The situation after that was as expected, after acting separately from Su Yonglin, Su Yonglin was doing well in Hebei, while Zhao Kaishan was struggling in the south.

The people who invested in Zhao Kaishan suffered heavy losses. Not only did they fail to recover their investment costs, but they also lost a large sum of money. What's more, their families were destroyed and lost all their money.

Afterwards, although Zhao Kaishan blamed Zhou Zhizhi and promised to compensate the damaged people, but the dead could not be brought back to life. Many people were quite disappointed with Zhao Kaishan, and further suspected that he was not capable of leading the Liberation Army to go further.

Then at this time, news came that Su Yonglin had successfully occupied Hebei.

Comparing the two, everyone understands.

Zhao Kaishan was able to achieve such a great achievement before, except for his personal ability and luck, there is a high probability that the contribution made by Su Yonglin was counted in Zhao Kaishan's head.

The one who can really fight and move forward is Su Yonglin, not Zhao Kaishan.

Zhao Kaishan is just a banner, it looks good, that's all, the one who can really make things happen is Su Yonglin.

Then, Zhao Kaishan died.

After Zhao Kaishan died, his son Zhao Yucheng was not in charge, and the leadership of the Guangfu Army fell into the hands of the Zhao clan headed by the new commander Zhao Xiang. The Zhao clan headed by Zhao Xiang controlled the main force of the Guangfu Army.

And what can this group of people bring to them and the Liberation Army?

chaos.

and extortion.

What the Zhao clan did after taking power really repeatedly refreshed the lower limit of these local forces.

They thought that what Zhao Kaishan did before was the limit of what this group of people could do, but they didn't expect that it was just the beginning.

Since Zhao Kaishan died of illness and Zhao Xiang seized power, the Zhao clan in power has extorted local forces more than ten times.

The reasons are different, the amount is different, and the object of extortion is different, but they are all aimed at making money.

It is said that once the power is in hand, the order will be carried out. These people seem to think that they have the power and must use it in time, otherwise there will be no such shop after passing this village.

The specific method of operation is to hold back the money that Zhao Kaishan originally wanted to compensate the severely damaged local forces in various places, and use this money to make a fuss.

After the golden army cavalry marched in the rear of the Guangfu Army, the landlords and gentry who suffered losses put pressure on Zhao Kaishan to pay him money. Zhao Kaishan couldn't bear the huge political pressure and could only agree to pay compensation.

Zhao Kaishan originally planned to distribute the money according to the loss of each family, but when it fell into the hands of Zhao Xiang and others, the distribution method of the money would be different.

Simply put, there is a sequence.

Some people get it first, some people get it later, some people get it more, and some people get it less.

Those who meet their needs get it first, and get more; those who cannot meet their needs get less, and may not even get it when it is too late.

They used this method to raise prices from the ground, and they just turned disaster relief compensation into a big auction with low prices, from planned distribution to market competition, and the highest price won.

Zhao Yi, the commander of the Right Army, took a fancy to the manor where the fertile land of Qian's family, a local tycoon in Yizhou, was located, so he asked the other party to give him the manor with various hints.

Otherwise, the money that Qian's applied for would be given to the Wang's family first because the damage was not as good as that of another local tyrant, the Wang's family.

According to gossip, the Qian family learned that the Wang family had given Zhao Yi a gift. Originally, the damage to their family was not too serious, but because of this, they were carried to the list of the first batch of families to receive compensation.

Another example is the Chen family, a local tycoon in Tengzhou, who urgently needs a sum of money to restore construction because of serious property damage in his home. Otherwise, many farmers will have no houses to live in and cause trouble.

However, Zhao Yiyuan, the rear military supervisor, said that if the Chen family did not gift him a manor, he would not grant him the money and let him wait.

The Chen family also learned through the gossip that the local tyrant family in the same county and the Qi family who had always had disputes with it sent treasures to Zhao Yiyuan, and asked Zhao Yiyuan to transfer the money that originally belonged to the Chen family to his own name, thinking of delaying Chen's death Let Chen's blood be bled, and take this opportunity to bite off the meat from Chen's body.

The Lee and Wu families in Jeju were equally damaged, and both sides needed a sum of money to make ends meet. As a result, Cho Kyung-hwan, the supervisor of the frontline army, said that there was not so much money to be allocated at the same time, so it depends on their respective performances.

Whoever performs better gets the money first.

In the end, Mrs. Wu gave her beautiful daughter to Zhao Jinghuan as a concubine, paid a sum of dowry, got the money, and was able to live on. However, Mrs. Li was annoyed and helpless, and was forced to sell the land at a low price to tide over the difficulties. .

These few incidents are just a microcosm of some incidents that have occurred intensively during this period of time.

In order to win everyone to support him, Zhao Xiang divided the power among everyone. Everyone who got the power can come to cash in a wave, let himself have a big meal, and satisfy his various desires.

It's just that no one thought of how to arrange the next stage of the mission of the Liberation Army.

They would talk about the "people's heart" with certainty to Zhao Yucheng, but in their own hands, the "people's heart" is just a piece of shit, how can there be land and property?

In just over half a month, the area occupied by Zhao Kaishan has been tossed by this group of people into a miasma.

No one would have thought that someone could do something more stupid and speechless than Zhao Kaishan. Compared with them, Zhao Kaishan is simply a wise king.

At least Zhao Kaishan will take the initiative to launch an attack on the Kingdom of Jin. He is not cowardly, and he can achieve some victories, which more or less gives people some hope.

But this group of people didn't attack, and they didn't do recovery work. They just wanted to make money everywhere, as if they didn't care about the recovery army at all, and didn't worry about whether the Jin people would call them or not.

As the new leader, Zhao Xiang didn't do too much business.

After receiving the guarantee of non-interference from Su Yonglin, he breathed a sigh of relief. The external environment is already safe, and the rest is to sort out the internal environment.

He first cleaned up Zhao Yucheng's pitiful few forces in the army, and then burned the files he worked overtime to sort out, and destroyed some original account books, destroying all the evidence of their corruption and breaking the law .

Then, he arranged for civil servants to compile a new account book according to the current state of the Zhao family's property, directly confirming the Zhao family's embezzlement of the uprising bonus, and turning the uprising bonus into the Zhao family's since ancient times.

He became the leader, but what he cared most about was the land, like a miser.

Handling "official duties" here, and "writing" the genealogy there impatiently, working overtime to bring his own branch into the major and main lines of the Zhao clan, and changing Zhao Kaishan's branch into a minor clan, which is insignificant the last flow.

So Zhao Xiang also logically became the leader and patriarch of the Zhao clan.

Holding the power of the leader and the patriarch of the family, Zhao Xiang suddenly felt that he was reloaded.

Zhao Xiang, who was reloaded, began his unscrupulous and domineering life.

Headed by Zhao Xiang, the puppet second-generation leadership group of the Guangfu Army began a life of boundless joy.

However, just as they were having boundless joy, the negotiation teams sent by Su Yonglin to various places in Zhao Xiang's control area had already started the first round of negotiations.

The first person to negotiate was the Yizhou Qian family who had been tricked by the Zhao family before.

The negotiation went smoothly unexpectedly, almost as soon as the negotiating representative expressed his intention to come, Qian tightly held his hand to express his heart to him, saying that they were extremely willing to accept Su Yonglin's leadership.

and further states that—

As long as Su Yonglin gave an order, they immediately organized an army to go to Linyi to chop off Zhao Xiang's head and dedicate it to Su Yonglin.

Even if Su Yonglin didn't do it himself, they could join forces and chop off Zhao Xiang's head.

(End of this chapter)