Qian Song

Chapter 32
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Although Niu Meng was not a very outstanding military talent, Li Cun used the excuse that he led his troops to take down the Wang family village, and made Niu Meng's leader post a regular one, and he followed him to attack the Wang family. Zhuang's soldiers were rewarded.

At the same time, Li Cun arranged for Lang Zhong "invited" from all over the country to try his best to help the wounded, and promised that no matter how badly they were injured, the Huben Army would take care of them to the end.

As for the deceased, they still received generous burials plus generous pensions for their military families, and promised that if anything good happened to the Huben Army, the military families of the martyrs would give priority.

With Niu Meng's successful example reappearing, other soldiers of the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army saw the hope of defeating the remaining three Zhuangzi, and then followed Niu Meng's example of crowd sea tactics.

——Some generals couldn’t find 2000 soldiers from the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army to attack Zhuangzi with him like Niu Meng, so several generals joined forces and forced out more than [-] people to attack Zhuangzi with crowd tactics. The remaining three Zhuangzi.

Li Cun was speechless when he saw it, and thought: "This group of idiots, the experience I taught them and the tactics I taught them have all been fucking forgotten, and the only one who knows how to use people!"

Li Cun really couldn't stand it anymore!

In addition, I have seen the performance of almost all the soldiers of the Huben Army and the Fang Baihua Army.

The point is, there are still a lot of things at home waiting for Li Cun to go back to deal with.

Li Cun simply out of sight and out of mind (just as he didn't need to feel guilty about those soldiers who were sent to use life and death to temper the skills of killing the enemy), he explained to Fang Baihua, and then handed over all the affairs on the front line to Li Cun. With Fang Baihua in charge, Li Cun led the Ma Jun back to Yujiazhuang.

After Li Cun came back, he immediately went to inspect the equipment, military supplies, medical supplies, barracks supplies, general supplies and other military supplies. How is the production going?

——On the second day after Yujiazhuang was captured, Li Cun took the time to make a list of military supplies, and asked Fang Wuji and Xie to lead the military subordinates, under the leadership of military craftsmen who had served him, to use the few that had already been captured The things in Zhuangzi should be produced in a hurry.

Li Cun only started to inspect here, and Zhang Shi rushed over there in a hurry.

As soon as the two met, without waiting for Zhang Shi to speak, Li Cun asked Zhang Shi first: "How is the recruiting going? Is it going well?"

Zhang Shi replied: "According to what the general said, I burned the IOUs confiscated from various villages in public, exempting everyone from their debts, and then promised that as long as they vote for my Tiger Army, they will share ten acres of good land." , He also said that those who voted for our Huben Army would be paid, eat meat, and be allowed to bring their whole families to work in our Huben Army. Sure enough, followers gathered. In just three days, they recruited more than 5000 brave and more than 5000 Military."

During this period, paddy fields in the south produced more than two stones per mu.

This is still unprocessed millet, and it will be less after processing.

If calculated according to the minimum standard, a large mouth needs about four shi of rice a year, and a small mouth needs about two shi of rice a year.

If you eat a full meal, you need about five shi rice a year for a big mouth, and about three shi rice a year for a small mouth.

In this way, a family needs at least [-] acres of fertile land to survive.

(The above data comes from a certain call.)
Li Cun wanted to allocate ten acres of fertile land to each recruit of the Huben Army, which would definitely not be enough for a family to eat and drink, unless there were two or more soldiers in the Huben Army in the family.

It's not that Li Cun can't allocate more fields to the soldiers of the Huben Army.

But everything can't be done overnight-all the soldiers of the Huben army are full at once, how can they still follow themselves wholeheartedly to work hard?

So we must give these recruits some room to work hard.

What needs to be explained is that Li Cun agreed to distribute the fields to the soldiers of the Huben Army, and he also got the land deeds from the families of big landlords such as Yu Yancheng, but Li Cun had no plans to distribute the fields of Qingxi to the soldiers of the Huben Army at all. It is the field in the area that I plan to distribute to them and prepare to use it as my base camp.

The reason why Li Cun dared to do this is, first of all, because Li Cun has always kept his word before, so his reputation is extremely good, and the soldiers of the Huben Army will definitely believe what Li Cun said; secondly, it will be winter soon, and it is useless to divide the fields now. Therefore, the soldiers of the Huben Army should not be in a hurry to divide the fields; in the end, Li Cun will definitely distribute better and more fields to the soldiers of the Huben Army in the future, and they should not care about these details after they know the truth.

After Li Cun asked all the things he was concerned about, Zhang Shicai said: "Fang Fei is here, and I have been waiting for the general for three days."

Li Cun estimated that Fang La should send someone to talk to him.

This is actually inevitable.

Under the premise that Fang La could not easily wipe out Li Cun, if Fang La wanted to succeed, he must make peace with Li Cun, and then work together to overthrow the rule of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

After all, at the current stage, even Li Cun and Fang La are far from being the opponents of the Zhao Song Dynasty, let alone fighting among themselves.

Taking a step back, even if Fang La wanted to fight Li Cunxian to decide the outcome, Fang La's subordinates would not agree.

All in all, at this stage, no matter how much conflict there is between Li Cun and Fang La, they can only unite first.

Although Fang La is narrow-minded, Li Cun believes that there will still be Fang La in view of the overall situation.

Therefore, Li Cun concluded that Fang La would definitely send someone to talk to him, and that person was probably the most suitable Fang Fei.

Facts have proved that Li Cun guessed right again.

"Every time you face a major event, you must be calm. After you are calm, you can be at peace. After you are at ease, you can worry about it. Only after you think about it can you achieve success."

Therefore, knowing that Fang Fei was waiting for him, Li Cun went to inspect the training of the recruits first, and then took Zhang Shi to meet Fang Fei.

As soon as he met Fang Fei, Li Cun decisively shifted the responsibility for being late to Zhang Shi: "Second brother misunderstood me too!"

Fang Fei heard the words, and asked with a smile: "Why did my nephew say that?"

Li Cun said without blushing and heartbeat: "After I came back, the second elder brother only talked to me about small things, but he didn't tell my uncle about the big things that have been here for three days. It's too much to miss me!"

When Zhang Shi heard this, he quickly explained to Fang Fei: "It's not that I despised my uncle. It's because the general has been away for three days, and all urgent matters at home need to be decided by him. Here, when the general heard this, he immediately blamed me for not saying earlier that uncle has been here for three days, which has scolded me all the way."

Fang Fei would never believe that Li Cun and Zhang Shiyi would sing together, but he still smiled and said, "It's okay, I've been tired in the past few days, so I'll take a few days off at your house."

Li Cun said with a smile: "Otherwise, Uncle will stay at my house in the future. It just so happens that Xiaohua misses Uncle very much."

Fang Fei reacted for a moment, then thought in astonishment: "This fellow wants to dig me too, right?"

Fang Fei guessed right, Li Cun, who is now eager to seek talents, really has this idea.

You know, although Fang Fei can't be regarded as a top-notch talent, he is better than the guys in Li Cun's hands who have nothing to do with talents.

Therefore, if Fang Fei could really come over, Li Cun would definitely welcome him.

Fang Fei didn't pick on Li Cun, but smiled and said, "Nephew, it's not a good name if you don't have a proper name."

Li Cun knew that what Fang Fei was talking about was about himself and Fang Baihua, but he still pretended to be confused and said, "I don't know what uncle means."

Fang Fei knew that Li Cun had already obtained Fang Baihua's body, and had actually annexed Fang Baihua's team, so he was definitely not in a hurry, they were the ones who were in a hurry.

Therefore, Fang Fei did not beat around the bush with Li Cun, but said bluntly: "Although that child Xiaohua is not very beautiful, she has deep affection for you. He acts like a man, but he wants to live up to his heart and live up to his beloved. Nephew, do you think what the old man said is true?"

"As long as I have no morals, no one can kidnap me!"

While using this sentence to hypnotize himself, Li Cun said: "Uncle, don't worry, I will live up to Xiaohua, and I will make her a happy woman."

Fang Fei was not annoyed by Li Cun's intentional answer to the wrong question, and still patiently chatted with Li Cunmo, "Xiaohua's parents died young, and it was her brother and sister-in-law who worked so hard to raise her, and she was raised so tall. Although she is not her parents, she is far away. Sheng's parents, especially the eldest wife of the Shisan family, never asked Xiao Hua to do the housework, she knew Xiao Hua liked to practice martial arts, so she asked Xiao Hua to teach Xiao Hua how to practice martial arts, and she even taught Xiao Hua to read and write, and her mother was just like that..."

Li Cun, who hadn't practiced to the point of being really immoral, couldn't listen anymore, and stretched out his hand: "Uncle, if you have something to do, please speak up, if you can obey you, I will obey you, if you can't, I will tell you the truth Of."

Fang Fei cupped his fists: "General Huben is really quick to talk."

Then Fang Fei stopped talking nonsense, and directly picked the most important one and said first: "On the first day of next month, our rebel army will reform the system and elect Thirteen as Shenggong. I don't know what my nephew thinks?"

After tapping his fingers on the armrest of the Taishi chair for a while, Li Cuncai said, "I will ask my second brother to deliver a congratulatory gift on my behalf."

——Li Cun's meaning is very clear. He does not object to Fang La's reform of the Yuan Dynasty, but he will not be Fang La's courtier. There is no affiliation between him and Fang La.

Hearing Li Cun's statement, Fang Fei felt relieved - this at least ensured that Fang La could establish a political power smoothly.

Then, Fang Fei persuaded: "Nephew, why don't you come and have a drink with Thirteen in person, and then discuss your marriage with Xiao Hua, how about it?"

Later, Fang Fei added another sentence: "If I remember correctly, my nephew hasn't had a drink with Shisan yet? Why don't you take this opportunity..."

Li Cun interrupted Fang Fei and said, "If Brother Thirteen wants to have a drink, you can come to my house. I will sweep the bed and wait for Brother Thirteen to come and enjoy himself."

Seeing that Li Cuntie was determined to make a clear distinction with Fang La, Fang Fei knew that he could not persuade him anymore, and it would be useless, so he said the second thing directly: "Then how about you and my two being an offensive and defensive alliance?"

Li Cun nodded: "I will ask my second brother to go to your house to discuss a charter with you later."

At this point, the event is almost settled.

No idea, but at this time Fang Fei said again: "Hey, my nephew should discuss with me about Xiao Hua's betrothal gift?"

Li Cun was noncommittal: "If there is a betrothal gift, there will naturally be a dowry?"

Fang Fei smiled and said, "Didn't my family already give the dowry to General Huben?"

Li Cun knew that Fang Fei's dowry was Fang Baihuajun.

This is barely a fact.

The key point is that Li Cun kept in mind the story of Zhu Yuanzhang who started with a bowl but finally won the world by relying on the nine words of "building walls high, accumulating grain widely, and becoming king slowly".

Therefore, it's not that Li Cun can't compete with Fang La for the position of leader of the rebel army, but that Li Cun doesn't want to compete with Fang La at all.

To put it bluntly, Li Cun deliberately gave up the position of the leader of the rebel army to Fang La, letting Fang La use the name of Shenggong to attract the firepower of the Song army, and Li Cun could use this opportunity to develop another wave.

And if you want Fang La to better complete the task of attracting the firepower of the Song army, you must strengthen Fang La's strength.

Furthermore, after all, Li Cun made his fortune by taking advantage of Fang La's uprising, and only by returning Fang La's favor can he really have a clear conscience.

What's more, Li Cun also hopes that the silly girl Fang Baihua can marry him in a good way.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Li Cun has made a fortune recently, so he doesn't care about such trivial things at all.

In short, in the end Li Cun agreed to take out [-] shi of grain, as well as iron bars, ox horns, cowhide, beef tendon, sheepskin, arrow shafts, feathers and other urgently needed items as Fang Baihua's dowry.

The betrothal gift that Li Cun offered was not insincere, it could be said that no one could tell Li Cun was wrong.

The most intuitive manifestation is that after Fang Baihua learned about this, she served Li Cun comfortably. Some of the positions that Li Cun wanted before and Fang Baihua was embarrassed to do were all satisfied this time.

On the day of delivering the betrothal gift, Li Cun personally ordered that the fleet of nine large ships that sent the betrothal gift be affixed with big red happy characters, and wherever they went, the drum band in wedding clothes would play there.

The result can be imagined, everyone in Qingxi knew that Li Cun proposed marriage to Fang Baihua with the dowry gift of nine big boats.

Fang Baihua became the most expensive woman in Qingxi.

Beautiful marriage!

By the way, Li Cun also advertised for himself.

Of course, the reason why Li Cun made such a high-profile engagement with Fang Baihua was not only to let Fang Baihua marry him in a good manner and to advertise himself so that he could recruit more brave men, but more importantly, Li Cun was afraid Fang La regarded the betrothal gift he sent as a gift, so Li Cunke would suffer a big loss, and the key point might end up with a bad reputation as a traitor.

in fact--

Fang La really had such a plan.

——Fang La always claimed to the outside world, even Bao Kang, who was also a teacher and friend to him, that Li Cun was his subordinate. Of course he intends to continue this lie to boost his status, at least when he is completely sure that he is a rebel Before becoming a leader, he definitely hoped so.

It's a pity that Li Cun didn't give Fang La this chance at all.

There is no other way, Fang La can only honestly explain the real relationship between him and Li Cun.

At this point, Bao Kang and others finally knew that Qingxi's rebel army was not one, but two, and the leader of the other rebel army was Li Cun.

But from the perspective of the number of people and fame, Fang La still has the advantage.

The key point is that Fang La's reputation has spread, and she is the spiritual symbol of the uprising.

Furthermore, although Li Cun and Fang La are two families, after all, with the bond of Fang Baihua, they can still unite with each other to fight against the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, whether it is Bao Kang, Wang Gong, Laofo, or others, in the end they still choose to continue to support Fang La in establishing a political power.

The first day of November in the second year of Xuanhe.

Fang La announced: Abolish the dark rule of the Zhao Song Dynasty and establish a new regime.He called himself "Shenggong" and Jianyuan "Yongle". He used this month as the first month, set up officials and generals, and used headscarves to distinguish grades, red scarves and other colored headscarves as symbols.

Fang La also led the Rebel Army Generalissimo.

Fang Fei is the prime minister.

Bao Kang served as military adviser and deputy marshal.

Wang Gong Laofo is a military advisor.

Fang Hao is the prince (known as the second prince Hao).

Fang Wu's official name is "Fang Wu Xianggong".

Fang Qi's official title is "Seven Buddhas" (known as Fang Qi Buddha).

Lu Wan also gave himself the title of "Eight Great Kings".

Guan Sunzhong, Fang Shizong and other rebel generals also had famous names.

In addition, in order to tie Li Cun, Fang La named Fang Baihua the Buddha's mother.

It has to be said that Fang La Jianyuan's restructuring is still very effective.

This measure clearly reflected the resolute break of the rebel army with the Zhao and Song Dynasty, established the determination to overthrow the Zhao and Song Dynasty, and greatly enhanced the determination of the majority of people who were dissatisfied with the Zhao and Song Dynasty's rule to revolt.

The most intuitive reaction is that righteous men from far and near Qingxi rushed to respond to the uprising after hearing the news, and all parts of the southeast region were also undercurrents surging to prepare to uprising in response to Fang La.

Seeing such a commotion next door, even ordinary rebel generals have become kings, and Li Cun still calls himself "General Huben", which is too shameless. Niu Meng couldn't help leading a lot of envious soldiers to come. Ask Li Cun to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

Even Zhang Shi and Fang Wuji were a little ready to move.

As a result, Niu Meng and others, including Zhang Shi and Fang Wuji, were all driven away by Li Cun on the grounds that "they couldn't even defeat the three Zhuangzis, and they still wanted to be high officials like others."

When the room was empty except for Li Cun, Li Cun said to himself: "The time left for me is getting less and less..."

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(End of this chapter)