People in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hu and Han respected together

Chapter 69

There are few people in Liangzhou, Jincheng County is one of the counties in Liangzhou, and Lingju County is one of the counties in Jincheng.

Although Lingju's geographical location is very important, the population is pitifully small, with just over 400 households, barely over 2000 people.

(There are only 10 households with about 3858 people in the 18947 counties of the county.)
Of course, these are registered Han people, not counting hermits and Diqiang, Yicongying, and Huqiangying. They are also not counted as frontier troops.

Now these Lingju people are all gathered outside the government. Of course, they did not come voluntarily, but were arrested by others.

Surrounded by Yi Cong soldiers, they are all well-armed and powerful, making people dare not confront them.

At this moment, Li Wenhou grabbed Ling Zheng and walked in front of these common people, and the former spoke first:
"Fathers, folks, I called everyone here today to announce a major event. Why are taxes getting heavier? Why are there more and more corvees?"

No matter what Li Wenhou said, these people were indifferent. After all, they were arrested here for no reason. If they didn't have weapons in their hands, they would have wanted to fight back.

But Li Wenhou didn't care, so he continued to say loudly:
"It's because there is a bad guy around the emperor, as long as we can kill this bad guy, then we can live a good life..."

Speaking of this, Li Wenhou looked at Ling Zheng, and signaled the latter to speak immediately with threatening eyes. At this time, Ling Zheng was extremely complicated, but he didn't dare to resist at all, otherwise he would be killed.

Therefore, Lingzheng could only obey. At this time, he still had a bit of majesty. Looking at these people, he shouted loudly:

"I am Lingzheng, the imperial court's protector of Qiang, the imperial court's kindness to me is as great as a mountain, and I am loyal to the imperial court. In order to repay the king's kindness, I will raise troops today..."

"On the side of the Qing emperor, punish the eunuch!"

As soon as these words came out, these people discussed a lot, but no one responded, which shows that Ling Zheng is unpopular.

At this time Li Wenhou was also frowning, he felt that Ling Zheng was not as useful as Li Yao said, so he could only resort to the last resort.

Li Wenhou waved his hand, motioning for others to push open the gate of the official residence.

With a creak, the door was pushed open, and the entire interior of the county government office was exposed. At this time, it was full of grain, including millet, wheat... and all of them were shelled.

Ling Zheng saw blood in his heart, because all the food belonged to him, but now it no longer belongs to him.

At the same time, the people around are all staring straight, and even breathing more and more heavily.

Where have they seen so much food? After all, they are just poor people. At this time, they couldn't help but say:

"A lot of food, I can eat it for the rest of my life, if you can give it to me, I will be willing to die!"

"It's all shelled. These are refined grains. If you can take a bite, you will know what it tastes like!"

"What are you trying to do? Why are you showing us so much food!"

"..."

At this time Li Wenhou said again:
"These grains are all for you. If you send one soldier, you can get five dou, and if you send two soldiers, you can get one stone..."

"Now the emperor has been bewitched, so the people everywhere are living in dire straits. Follow us, kill the enemy and serve the country, and punish the eunuchs on the side of the Qing emperor!"

The voice fell, and after a short silence, a voice suddenly sounded:
"Can you really give it to us?"

Li Wenhou said categorically:
"Give it on the spot!"

After another short silence, someone finally tried to speak, although not very firmly:

"Mr. Qing's side..."

When Li Wenhou heard this, he was naturally overjoyed, and then said in a deep voice:

"Qingjun's side!"

Until this time, people continued to echo, and their voices became more and more determined, and finally even turned into waves of voices soaring into the sky:
"Mr. Qing's side..."

"Mr. Qing's side..."

"Qingjun's side!"

Among these common people, Ling Zheng's face was pale, his eyes were lifeless, and his lips trembled, because he knew that he was completely finished.

If the people did not follow the thief, then he would kill himself at most. Now that the people are all rebellious, the whole family will be implicated.

But Li Wenhou just wanted to laugh out loud. With the support of these people, why worry about big things failing in the future!

Because survival was difficult in ancient times, family affection and nostalgia were the most important. Once something happened, the only people who could lend a helping hand to you were relatives and villagers.

Therefore, even if it is a rebel army, it will generally not harm the hometown, otherwise, the rootless duckweed will be defeated sooner or later.

People take food as their heaven!
It can be seen that food is the support of the people, and Lingzheng is actually unpopular because he always robs the people of food; Li Wenhou is gaining the support of the people because he will distribute food to the people.

With the support of the people, Li Wenhou began to expand his army, selecting brave people from among the people.

Liangzhou is a mix of Hu and Han, and most of the people have warriors. Although they have not been trained, they still cannot be underestimated, because they are all excellent soldiers, and the key is that they are Han Chinese.

Under Li Wenhou's men, the strength of the Hu people is too large, and more Han people must be introduced to face the powerful chiefs in the future.

After three days like this, Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu, the two of them already had three thousand cavalry, of course the main force was still one thousand Huang Zhongyi Cong, and the other two thousand were the common people of Lingju and the soldiers guarding the Qiang camp.

Originally, the two of them should step up their training to ensure that the other 2000 people can have the strength to fight.

But now time is running out, they still have to go south to Yunwu, join Li Yao and Bei Gongli, seize this place as soon as possible and occupy Jincheng entirely.

Therefore, they can only go south while consolidating the army. Of course, Lingju can't give up either. There is still a lot of money and food here.

They were all found from the homes of officials, big and small, five beads, gold cakes, silk, grain... because they needed to pack lightly, they didn't carry them at all.

Moreover, if there is no barrier in the north, the Hexi cavalry can go south at any time, which is very unfavorable for the separatist Jincheng.

Lingju has already been captured, as long as Yunwu is captured again, the entire Jincheng will be under control.

　In the original history, Li Wenhou would probably not do this
　　As for now, it is the protagonist's influence on him

　　If you want to separate the regime, you must also cut away the hearts of the people, otherwise if you lose, you will never get up again

　　
　
(End of this chapter)