Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 510 Shepherd Nanshan? (Please subscribe!)

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Calculating the time, Liang Shanjun has gathered in Yunyou for more than three months.

The main reason for the delay in launching an attack on Yanjing is because Juyong Pass and Zijing Pass are too steep, and Yelu Dashi is a famous general in the world, so he doesn't give Xu Guanzhong and others the slightest gap. If it is a strong attack, it is bound to suffer heavy losses .

Therefore, without Li Yan's personal order, Xu Guanzhong did not dare to give the order to attack.

But what puzzled Xu Guanzhong and others was that Li Yan never issued an order to attack. Recently, he focused all his energy on people's livelihood, such as autumn harvest, dredging of rivers, tax exemption, commerce, education, and medical care. , like imperial examinations, like childbirth, like law and order, etc... In short, it seems that they are not going to attack Yanjing.

Under Li Yan's personal attention, and with the help of local soldiers, the crops were harvested earlier this year, but all the crops were harvested in time.

The people of Yundi ushered in a great harvest year.

In addition, the land distribution policy and tax exemption policy implemented by Li Yan.

Every household in Yundi is full of grain.

In particular, the people in Yundi were pleasantly surprised that the Champa rice that Shuibo Liangshan asked them to try out was high-yielding, early-maturing, and drought-tolerant, which was much better than the rice they had grown before.

Many families are already planning to plant Champa rice next year.

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The Sanggan River and Yanghe River, which have been causing disasters in Yundi for several years, finally did not cause disasters this year, even though this year's rain is more than ever before.

The reason for this is naturally due to the relentless governance of Shuibo Liangshan.

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Shuibo Liangshan exempted all taxes closely related to the people such as agricultural tax and salt tax, and the exemption lasted for three years, and only collected commercial miscellaneous taxes such as commercial tax, wine tax, and stamp duty.

Although commercial taxes are collected, Shuibo Liangshan does not prohibit commerce. On the contrary, it also greatly encourages commercial development-Shuibo Liangshan has also introduced a series of policies to encourage commerce, such as opening banks and issuing banknotes, like providing businessmen with projects Provide low-interest loans, such as opening large-scale centralized commercial places such as bazaars, grass markets, and night markets, etc...

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In terms of education, Shuibo Liangshan definitely spent the most effort. It built 2 schools in one go and accepted more than [-] students.

And this is only the first phase. Shuibo Liangshan plans to build another thousand schools in Yundi within two years. In fact, the school is easy to build. The key is that teachers are not easy to train. Fortunately, starting next year, Jeju, Lelang, The earliest batch of students in the three counties of Zhenfan began to graduate from elementary school one after another, and some of them were selected for basic education, which was barely enough.

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In terms of medical treatment, Shuibo Liangshan has also invested a lot of effort. At present, at least two large medical halls have been opened in each prefecture city, and each county has opened a medium-sized medical hall. A small medical hall is built in the village.

Moreover, the large and medium-sized medical halls established by Shuibo Liangshan broke the tradition and implemented divisional diagnosis and treatment—of course, there are also comprehensive management departments.

In addition, there is no charge for medical care for the time being—a certain fee will inevitably be charged in the future, so that it can last for a long time. Free medical care is really unaffordable, and it is not conducive to long-term development.

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The imperial examination has been held as scheduled, and many talents have been selected and more talents can be cultivated.

This group of talents, Zhao Ding allocated all of them to assist the officials in Shuibo Liangshan to manage the cloud land.

With their participation, the people of Yundi began to accept the governance of Shuibo Liangshan.

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In addition, Shuibo Liangshan vigorously encourages childbirth, and has set up heavy rewards-every child, regardless of gender, will be rewarded with three yuan in child support, and an additional year of agricultural tax and salt tax will be exempted.

This is what Li Yan insisted on.

In Li Yan's view, population is the last word. No one wants to develop, it is purely a dream, especially in this ancient society.

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Now the army is no longer in the sight of the people, and all those who maintain law and order have become the three classes of government servants that the people are familiar with.

Moreover, Shuibo Liangshan has promulgated strict laws and announced them to the public. When the government decides the case, everything is based on the law, and favoritism and fraud are not allowed.

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All in all, everything in Yundi is on the right track, and all those who suspect that Shuibo Liangshan only knows how to fight and don't know how to govern all shut up. Many people who fled to the mountains before have returned to Yundi one after another.

On this day, Li Yan, who was looking at the beautiful girl selected for him by the Ministry of Rites, suddenly received a report from his servant: "The Empress Dowager Xiao sent an envoy to ask for peace."

Li Yan continued to choose the beautiful woman he liked, and said: "Tell Hu Yanqing, let him tell the envoy sent by Xiannv Xiao Pu, I only accept unconditional surrender, and talk about everything else."

Xiao Huai and Li Mao stayed in Yunzhong Mansion for more than ten days, wanted to see Li Yan, and asked Li Yan face-to-face to pay the money but not the land, but all the replies they got were that Li Yan was busy and had no time to see them.

Later, Li Mao bribed the waiter who entertained them, and learned that Li Yan has been fooling around with Xinde's beautiful girl recently, and she doesn't even ask about court affairs, so how can she have time to care about them?

Xiao Huai and Li Mao were very disappointed!

On the one hand, they were disappointed that Li Yan did not accept their Liao Kingdom's surrender!
On the other hand, they were disappointed that Li Yan was obsessed with women and could not extricate himself-how could a capable monarch be so obsessed with women? Haven't climbed yet, just herding horses in Nanshan?

The next day, Xiao Huai and Li Mao left Yunzhong Mansion and returned to Yanjing.

As soon as Xiao Huai and Li Mao left, Li Yan walked out from Wenrou Township on the back, and then personally led Jie Fan Ma Jun and Ta Bai Army to Xinzhou.

As soon as he arrived in Xinzhou, Li Yan ordered: "Prepare for war, prepare to seize Yanjing by force."

Before that, Li Yan never ordered to take Yanjing by force. Firstly, it was because of dangerous passes such as Juyongguan, Zijingguan, and Gubeikou. Like in history, the Liao army will be defeated again.

Needless to say the first two, if there is a brutal attack, there will definitely be a lot of casualties, and if the third party happens, it will definitely be the most beneficial for Li Yan.

First of all, as long as the Liao and Song Dynasties are at war, Li Yan can benefit from the fight between the snipe and the clam.

Secondly, the Liao Kingdom lacked troops. If they wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Song Dynasty, they would have to take the risk of mobilizing the garrison troops in Juyongguan, Gubeikou and other places, so that the Liangshan Army could break through these dangerous passes at a small cost.

Thirdly, if the more than 50 Song army can't even beat the [-] to [-] Liao army, then the prestige of Zhao Ji's monarch and ministers will definitely be wiped out, and it will be much easier to seek the Northern Song Dynasty by then.

Therefore, Li Yan has been waiting.

Until three days ago, Chai Jin and Yan Qing suddenly sent back news to Li Yan: "The Song Army sent Guo Yaoshi, Zhao Heshou, Gao Shixuan, Yang Keshi, and Yang Kebi to lead a surprise attack on Yanjing with six thousand cavalry, and also sent Liu Guangshi to lead the army Accept."

Seeing this secret report, Li Yan looked up to the sky and laughed, "The opportunity has finally come!"

So, as soon as Xiao Huai and Li Mao left, Li Yan led the army to the new city, ready to personally command this crucial battle...

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(End of this chapter)