Governor please stay

Chapter 183 Die, Die, Die!
Liang Zoucheng, also known as Zouping City, was built along the water, and it is a key place at the junction of Beiji River and Long River.At the beginning, the Southern Song Dynasty established a military town here, but it was captured by the Northern Wei Dynasty, and it still maintains a small military town here.

Of course, the current Northern Wei court is like waste. Five years ago, the Nanliang army visited Qingxu for a while. Liang Zoucheng had long been destroyed by the war, leaving only an empty shell.

Taishou Lin chased Xing Gao's army all the way, and got an urgent report from Licheng, saying that Xing Gao's army had attacked Licheng, and now Licheng has fallen, and other cities in Jinan County are also in danger.

So he led his army to garrison in the nearby Liang Zoucheng, and the fleet also docked on the shore. He sent people back to Licheng to find out the truth, and waited for news from Jinan County.

On the night when the army entered Liangzhou, Xing Gao's army, which was too numerous to count, besieged the surrounding area.They made the encirclement relatively large and loose. It seemed that it would not be a big problem for a few people to escape, but it was absolutely impossible for an army of more than a hundred people to escape from this place.

On a hill on the north bank of Jishui River, Xing Gao in a white robe, holding a feather fan, stared at the abandoned city of Liangzou on the other side of the river. Under his feet were all unknown white wild flowers, swaying with the wind in the spring sunshine, Quite beautiful.

"Do you know what's special about Liang Zou?"

Xing Gao gently shook the feather fan and asked.

"The end will not know."

The lieutenant shook his head, not knowing what Xing Gao was talking about.

"Liang Zou is also the place where the emperor hunts. I set the hunting place at Liang Zou. In fact, it's just to suit the occasion. Lin Taishou's tomb is just a dry bone, and he can be slaughtered anywhere. Jinan County is really difficult to deal with. , still in Licheng!

The funny thing is, I don't even know who he is! "

Thinking of being ambushed by an unknown army in the Yinyang Canal, and the five thousand elite army was wiped out with only his own body, Xing Gao felt a throbbing pain in his heart.

What the hell is wrong?After fleeing back in a hurry, Xing Gao was very worried that the soldiers of Jinan County would show their power, but found that the opponent was walking step by step towards the ambush circle he had planned, which is Liangzhou City where the two rivers meet.

Completely unaware of what was coming next.

Prefect Lin may still have a few skills in fighting, but he only has the vision of a county. It is impossible for him to think of ambush in Yinyang Qu, and his skills are still far behind.

Who the hell is that person?
This question is almost going to become Xing Gao's heart demon!

He lost that battle so much that he didn't even see who his opponent was, how could he be reconciled!

"Forget it, pass on the order to besiege Liang Zou from all sides tonight. You don't have to hold back, you must take it, in case the night has long dreams. I lost for a while before, and I will find the victory in Liang Zou. If you can't capture Liang Zou tonight, the team All above, beheaded!"

Xing Gao handed his feather fan to the lieutenant general, patted him on the shoulder, turned around and left.

The fiasco of Yinyang Canal made Xing Gao understand a simple and popular truth: If you have a lot of people, you can just press up and fight unreasonably. Anyway, if the soldiers under your command die, you can recruit them again.If he died, it would be over once and for all, and nothing would be left.

It is more important to live by yourself, and you will never be able to risk yourself in the future.

……

Suspected to be a "wild fishing" fishing spot on the shore of Xiaogushan Reservoir, Liu Yishou, wearing a sports suit, pulled up a pole and caught a basketball shoe.

"Oh, fisherman, catch everything but fish!"

He sighed, threw the rotten basketball shoe aside, and clapped his hands.Then, he sat down to fish again, only to see a human-like "object" floating from the upper reaches of the reservoir.

One after another, in droves, beyond count.

Liu Yishou was so frightened that he stood up hastily, stepped forward to observe carefully, but found that these people were ancient soldiers, wearing red military uniforms that he had never seen before, and their bodies were already swollen in the water.

"Mom! What's all this?"

He quickly stepped back and fell to the ground...

"My lord, my lord, wake up!"

Liu Yishou sat up straight and stretched, it turned out that what happened just now was just a dream.He looked sleepily at Wang Wei who looked excited but had dark circles under his eyes, and asked doubtfully, "It's dawn?"

"Uh, no, no, that's not what I'm going to say."

Wang Wei pointed to the thick stack of letters on the table in front of Liu Yishou and said, "These are all letters written by a wealthy family in Jinan County to Xing Gao, and the words are extremely flattering."

Liu Yishou looked at the stack of papers that had been placed on the table at some time, and it was actually piled higher than the height of the table, with a white jade paperweight pressed on it.

"That's a bit of an exaggeration."

From this point of view, the big families in Jinan County have long thought about what to do when Xing Gao comes.Sure enough, the road to surrender is reassuring and heart-warming. The so-called "battle faction" should all go out with Taishou Lin.

The so-called regard death as home does not exist for these people.

"They didn't think about it. Xing Gao was afraid that he would receive a lot of letters a day. I guess they didn't even bother to read their letters. What a waste of expression."

"No, my lord, when Xing Gao captures Jinan County, these letters may save the lives of the whole family. They wrote these letters just to show a gesture."

While talking, Wang Wei took out a few letters from his arms very seriously: "The real critical point is here. I have already controlled the person. Do you want to interrogate the criminal?"

"It's interesting, so go to the trial?"

Liu Yishou suddenly regained his spirits.

"Oh, by the way, the Beijing Temple outside the gate should be withdrawn at dawn, it's weird." Thinking of that dream, Liu Yishou couldn't help but feel a chill.

The two came to the Fuya Prison, and as expected, the jailers here were all replaced by sergeants under their command.Yu Jin has led people to take over the city defense in an all-round way. As for the county soldiers guarding the city, they were sent home directly.

A row of people were tied to wooden stakes in the torture room, but their mouths were gagged to prevent them from colluding confessions and committing suicide by biting their tongues, and they were not tortured.Wang Wei felt that Liu Yishou was smart and knew he was smart.Sometimes when the subordinate finishes the work, he will feel a little uncomfortable instead.

People always need to achieve personality shaping in the midst of continuous success.

Sometimes letting the lord "show off" is also a skill of being a courtier.

"Who is this?"

Liu Yishou pointed to a middle-aged man on the far left and asked. He had a little impression of this man, and he had met him once during the banquet.However, the other party was very low-key, and was not among those who made a fuss.

It really verifies the old saying: A dog that bites does not bark.

"This is the Jinan Ning family, named..."

"Okay, the dying person doesn't deserve my name."

Liu Yishou waved his hand and blocked what Wang Wei wanted to say.

The faces of all the people who were tied to the pillars changed drastically!

With a little disgust, he pulled the rag off the mouth of someone from the Ning family, and that person shouted loudly: "General Liu, I say, I can say anything! Please spare my life!"

Liu Yishou glanced at Wang Wei and Wang Wei, his expression seemed to say: That's it?
Anyway, you should also struggle.How can you give in so quickly?

"But, I don't want you to tell me that it doesn't matter if you have an affair with Xing Gao. As you can see, I want to control Jinan County, so I need some people to sacrifice the flag and scare Xiaoxiao. It just so happens that you dance again It’s embarrassing if you come out.”

Liu Yishou said to Wang Wei: "Take it down, and behead it tomorrow. Relatives within three servings, males will be killed without mercy, but females, there are quite a lot of lieutenants and soldiers without wives, let's see who wants it."

So simple and rude?
"Liu Dudu! I will dismiss my army and distribute my land to the tenants. I just ask the governor to spare my family."

A certain man from the Ning family who was tied to the pillar shouted loudly, his tone seemed to be that of the head of the family.

"Wang Wei, come and untie him."

Liu Yishou smiled and patted the non-existent dust on the man's shoulder and said, "Knowing your mistakes can make a big difference, right?"

"Yes, yes, Governor Gao Yi, Governor Gao Yi!"

Ning's head was about to drop off.

"Wait for me in the lobby of the government office. You must explain to me clearly about the affair with Xing Gao. Be lenient when you confess, and strict when you resist, understand?"

"I understand, I understand very well! Thank you, Dudu, for your kindness!"

Ning, who had already been untied, probably because she had been tied for a long time, knelt down and begged for mercy.

Wang Wei's face was dull, he didn't understand at all why the bones of these aristocratic family members were so soft.Why was it that when I led someone to arrest them just now, everyone was still stubborn, but after Liu Yishou came, they looked like this?
"Take it down, don't embarrass him, it's not interesting to beat him up, isn't it?"

Liu Yishou walked up to the second one, pulled off the rag from his mouth, "suddenly realized" and said, "Oh? It's you, didn't you say you want me to look for Xing Gao's bad luck, and not come to you?"

"Captain, please forgive me, I am willing to dismiss the county soldiers and tenants, hand over the family property, and return to the mountains and forests."

He could see that Liu Yishou didn't care about the collusion between the people of Jinan County and Xing Gao, or he was not afraid of their troubles.The goal of this Dudu Liu has always been to control the soldiers of the county and the aristocratic family in Jinan County.

"Since you are so knowledgeable, you are the same as the one just now. Wait for me in the lobby of the government office. Wang Wei, untie him."

Another one was released, and Liu Yishou said to Wang Wei in a dispirited manner: "Ask them if they would like to dismiss the county soldiers and hand over their family property. If they are willing, let them go to the hall of the government office. Follow the rules over there."

After speaking, he walked out of the dark and damp dungeon and came to the streets of Licheng.After a while, Wang Wei also came out, sighing silently.

"The trial is over?"

"There's nothing to judge, every bone is as soft as something."

It was only after Wang Wei spoke that he realized that Liu Yishou might have known such a result long ago.

"The land snakes in Jinan County are very powerful. They temporarily succumbed. After we leave, although those tenants got the land, they would lose it very quickly. If there is no government to support them."

Liu Yishou looked at the starry sky and thought of many things.

The owner-peasant and the emperor are the real parental relationship.Owner farmers pay taxes, while aristocratic families take advantage of various loopholes in court rules to evade corvee and taxes, forming their own system.

However, if the emperor wants to govern the place, he is limited to the technical conditions of ancient times, so he can only rely on the aristocratic family.The reason why the Qin Dynasty collapsed so quickly was because the county system at that time was too "advanced", concentrating imperial power, human and financial resources in the hands of the emperor unprecedentedly.

This is like saying that there is only one boss in a company, and all the others are wage earners who don't have any shares. So how loyal are these wage earners when something happens to the company?This is the disadvantage of not having a powerful family.

As another example, the transition from chaos to order in the Northern Wei Dynasty was accomplished when Emperor Xiaowen reached a compromise with the northern family.Its transition from rule to chaos was also due to the fact that the power of the aristocratic family grew stronger, causing the people to live in dire straits.

One body with two sides, success or failure is just a blink of an eye.

"Judging from the performance of those people just now, Xing Gao should have succeeded. The soldiers of Jinan County will not come back again. This is a good thing for us, and of course it is also a bad thing."

The interior has been infiltrated into a sieve, and every move of the soldiers of Jinan County is naturally under the surveillance of Xing Gao. It is obvious what will happen in the end.

Of course, Liu Yishou was able to successfully ambush Xing Gao precisely because he was not a power in Jinan County, so he belonged to Xing Gao's "black hole of intelligence".It was Xing Gao who believed too much in the news from Jinan County that he lost his sense of proportion in the most critical place.

In short, this person is quite powerful, and Liu Yishou was lucky to win last time.

"Write a memorial to Yuan Ziyou, saying that in the land of Qingxu, the government has disappeared, and Qingxu Xingtai on my side will temporarily manage government affairs and uniformly deploy materials to fight against Xing Gao."

"My lord, do you want to adjust the taxation of the owner-peasants?"

Wang Wei seemed to understand Liu Yishou's train of thought.

"That's right, in order to buy off the tenants, the Jinan County family set the land rent lower than the imperial court. Of course, this was also set up by the prefect Lin. The government collected [-]% of the rent, which is unreasonable!

When we adjust the land rent back, the benefits of owning the land will be revealed.Those tenants controlled by the aristocratic families, as well as the county soldiers, seem to be monolithic, but they are actually vulnerable! "

It turns out that the breaking point is here!
Wang Wei nodded and said, "I will take care of this matter."

"Also, Xing Gao brought the refugees from Hebei to the south to oppress the locals, but many of these family members in Jinan County are willing to cooperate with him. Do you know why?"

Liu Yishou asked Wang Wei a question that was difficult to answer, or that he hadn't thought about.

"Things are not static, and Xing Gao is the same. Ge Rong in Hebei is gone, and the land is rich and wasteful. There are not many people who are willing to go south to follow Xing Gao."

Liu Yishou looked at the stars in the sky and said with emotion.

The Hebei Rebellion lasted for several years, the population dropped sharply, and the land problem was no longer prominent.Now Ge Rong is gone, Dading, Hebei.In order to resume production, the local aristocratic family will also slightly reduce exploitation and oppression.

At this time, how many people are still willing to listen to Xing Gao's flickering, and become refugees going south to Qingxu?
"My lord is saying that Xing Gao may also change his strategy, focusing on winning over Qingxu's local aristocratic family, supplemented by pleasing the refugees?"

"That's the case, so I can't deal with the family in Jinan County like I did with the family in Dongping County, because the enemy has also changed its strategy.

I heard that the troops of Li Yuanzhong and Feng Longzhi have arrived in Qingxu, it's time to contact them and fight together. "

Wang Wei thought for a while, then took out a letter from his pocket, handed it to Liu Yishou, and said, "Yuan Ziyou, write a letter to let the lord take us back to Luoyang Suwei. Worrying about Mrs. Yuan talking about it, I didn't show it to the Lord."

Yuan Ziyou asked him to bring his troops back to Luoyang?
Liu Yishou couldn't help but asked back: "Did he eat too much?"

(End of this chapter)