Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 895
Chapter 901

As a general of the Wei State, Ji Polu knew better what monsters were hidden in Qingzhou.Ran Ming opened a large number of workshops in Qingzhou, employing millions of young and strong men and women. Although some of them supported the Southern Conscript Army to go south, there were not many people left behind.Wei County was originally one of the bases of the Central Guards of the State of Wei, and four battalions of the elite Central Army of the State of Wei were stationed here at most, but these four battalions were all transferred away by Ran Ming. There are less than a thousand soldiers left, and they are still newly formed recruits.But in the same way, neither Ran Min nor Ran Ming and his son put much effort into managing Wei's fortifications. From the analysis of their personalities, neither of them belonged to the kind of people who like passive defense. In fact, they prefer to strike first.Due to the low city here, Ran Yuanjie reflected on the mistakes he made during the siege of Lechang and changed his tactics.In fact, his troops were not all Japanese, but there were also many Goguryeo and Buyeo people.

At this time, the opening of Wei State's commerce, the restrictions on the Hu people are not so strict.It is common to see blond and blue-eyed barbarians in the streets and alleys.Ran Yuanjie ordered more than a hundred of the most elite warriors, disguised as Koguryo merchants, to enter Wei County with a batch of Korean ginseng and furs.However, Wei Guo's policy of protecting the people made it easy for Ran Yuanjie to take advantage of the loopholes.Because there are strict orders, whether they are naturalized or barbarians, as long as the war comes, the Wei army must protect their safety.Seeing that the pursuers were already in sight, Wei Guo's defenders were not screening them, so they easily let these more than a hundred warriors enter the city gate.

However, as soon as they entered the city gate, these more than a hundred Japanese warriors drew their swords and guns and hacked at the soldiers of the Wei army guarding the city gate.The unprepared soldiers of the Wei army suffered a big loss. When a group of recruits, especially when fighting in close combat, how could they be the opponents of these Japanese warriors with rich combat experience and fearless death.When Wei County defenders quickly supported the city gate, Ran Yuanjie also led a large force to the city gate.

After fighting fiercely for nearly an hour, more than half of Wei County's defenders suffered casualties, and they were defeated and retreated.

With the fall of Wei County, Ye City set off a magnitude 120 earthquake.Wei County is only 120 miles away from Yecheng, and within this [-] miles there is an eight-foot-wide concrete highway, even infantry can easily approach the city of Yecheng within a day.There is a saying that snakes have snakes, and rats have rats. All kinds of news flooded into Yecheng.Needless to say, gentry officials, they all have their own news channels, especially merchants big and small, they are all well-informed.

Ever since Xiao Guan Yu was summoned by Wang Meng, he has intentionally moved closer to Wang Meng.Just after dinner that day, a confidant found Xiao Guan Yu quietly: "Brother, it seems that something happened."

Little Guan Yu asked, "What happened?"

The younger brother said: "Brother, you also know that I have a younger sister who works as a maid in Cheng'an Huang's family. It seems that three days ago, Cheng'an Huang's family had an abnormal situation."

"Cheng'an Huang's family?" Little Guan Yu was a little surprised.Although Cheng'an Huang's family is not a first-class rich family, they are also full of talents.The current head of the family is Huang Yan, with a small character of only virtue.His grandfather, Huang Chen, was good at astronomical secret arts, and his father, Huang Hong, learned from his grandfather and his father, which is more subtle than his grandfather.He has extensive knowledge of classics and history, and is especially proficient in the study of Yi etiquette.After the tyranny of Zhao, his father, Huang Hong, avoided disaster in Youzhou. He was valued by Murong Jun, and he was introduced as a general of strategy, and later promoted to Taishi.Astronomy and calendar belonged to the emperor's secret science. Huang Yan entered Taichang after his father came to Yecheng with the descendants of Yan Kingdom.For Dr. Taichang.

Although Dr. Taishi has a small official position and no power.But Huang Yan is very proficient in divination and has always been very effective.It has a good reputation among the people.But Ran Ming, as a person of later generations, actually doesn't believe in this at all.If there is something good at the top, the bottom must follow it.Since Ran Ming didn't believe it, Huang Yan naturally didn't get along well in Taichang Temple.However, although Huang Yan's official career was not going well, the Huang family in Cheng'an was also a wealthy family, with seven to eight hundred Huang's children and thousands of fertile land.

Little Guan Yu asked, "What happened to the Huang family?"

The younger brother said: "Huang Hao, the third son of Huang Yan, the head of the Huang family, has been working in the military inspector. It seems that he was robbed by someone. The Huang family didn't dare to say anything. It seems that this person is not young, and the Huang family can't afford to provoke him." .”

Little Guan Yu said disapprovingly, "What could be the matter?"

The younger brother said: "The Huang family in Cheng'an is also a wealthy family, and eating is a master who is easy to suffer. Their third young master was kidnapped, so naturally they have to find their way back. There are hundreds of Ding Nursing Homes in Huang Yan's family. In order to rescue his third son, Huang Yan sent a head of the nursing home to rescue the man with all the servants, but instead of saving the man, he seemed to have suffered a big loss. More than 100 people went out, and only the one in charge when they came back seemed very embarrassed."

Little Guan Yu said: "Then the manager of the Huang family came back and said anything?"

The little brother said: "No, the Huang family has already ordered to seal the mouth, did not say anything, and did not report to the official."

Xiao Guan Yu was very concerned about this matter, and it would make the Huang family, which has seven or eight hundred people, suffer. Only one of the more than 100 people came back, obviously it was a report.Little Guan Yu is a local snake, he doesn't seem to have heard of any tricky ideas around Yecheng.However, Guan Yu still reported the situation to Wang Meng.

When Wang Meng heard the news, he didn't pay attention at first.But then he felt scared, because others didn't know Huang Hao as Ran Ming's confidant.But Wang Meng knew very well that on the surface, Huang Hao was just a member of the Military Arms Supervision and Jiafang Department from the eighth rank straight.A low-level official, but in fact Huang Hao is the foreman directly under Gunpowder.

Although the Gunpowder Administration is very strict in the management of gunpowder, it is very difficult to bring out the gunpowder, but as a director, equivalent to the director of the production factory, Huang Hao knows the production process of gunpowder very well.Some people want gunpowder, and this purpose is self-evident.

The queen Xie Daoyun in the palace has been worried for the past two days. At the critical moment when the world is about to be unified, there are problems within Wei.

Ran Yu declared his rebellion, and then captured Lechang.

Following the fall of Wei County, Yecheng was in a hurry.

Xie Daoyun was very anxious, but at this time, he received another message.Yecheng Commander Wang Meng made another change. This Wang Meng, whom Ran Ming cited as his confidant, actually summoned all the managers of Yecheng's major companies overnight, and sent troops to surround his Yecheng government office where the meeting was held. The firm killed more than [-] people.Order other merchants and gentry to hand over all servants and workers.

In just one night, Wang Meng organized countless young and strong troops. The four equipment warehouses in Yecheng were all opened by Wang Meng forcefully and distributed.

Xie Daoyun couldn't sit still any longer, so she asked Wang Zhi to lead a group of soldiers from the Luan Guards, and went directly to Wang Meng's mansion.

Xie Daoyun's face was like sinking water, looking at the calm Wang Meng, he said: "Wang Jinglue, you want to call out from the thief!"

"Chen, don't dare!"

Xie Daoyun was very irritable. Hearing Wang Meng's indifferent words, he said angrily, "Why don't you dare? You already have the power in your hands. You can kill whoever you want, and now you have an army of [-] armed. Do you want to capture our mother and son?" , give credit to the thieves?"

"I don't dare!" Wang Meng hurriedly said: "This is His Majesty's secret order, and I have the right to make a decision on the fly."

Wang Meng then said to Wang Zhi: "General Wang, please protect the queen and return to the palace, Yecheng will not be in chaos!"

Just when Ran Ming was about to send Zhang Wen to the east to attack Sima Dan in the temporary court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Wuxi with Shi Yue, a shocking news came.Lechang and Wei counties fell, and Ran Yu's rebel army approached Yecheng.When the news came out, the world was shocked.

The more shocking news came that there were many doubts about the death of Emperor Lie Wu, the founding emperor of the Wei Kingdom, and all doubts pointed to Ran Ming.Almost at the same time, another terrible news came that Ran Zhi's [-] troops surrounded Ye City.Ran Zhi declared the crime of suspending the people.

On this day, Xiao Lezi was called up by the attendants at the fifth watch as usual, and then he washed, changed and ate in an orderly manner.This kind of rhythm of life was cultivated by Xiao Lezi since he was a child. Even though he is now the general enlisted in the army of tens of thousands of soldiers in the Jin Kingdom, he still does not change his rhythm of life.

The attendants prepared the sedan chair.Speaking of this sedan chair, it is also related to Ran Ming.When Ran Ming was the hostage in Jiankang, he fiddled with the sedan chair that only appeared in the Song Dynasty.However, as Ran Ming improved the carriage, he changed the original two-wheeled carriage into a four-wheeled carriage, and installed bearings and shock absorbers on the wheels that had no bearings. In this way, a light and comfortable carriage sedan came into being.This is not Ran Ming's invention, but an ancient craftsman who assembled the top of the sedan chair and the base of the carriage together.The sedan chairs that are becoming popular now abruptly overwhelm the sedan chairs that are just about to become popular.

Don't look at Xiao Lezi's relaxed and ordinary appearance, in fact he is very disturbed in his heart.Even if he adopted the "people's war" and mobilized the powerful gentry in Jingkou and Jinling to add chaos to him behind Shiyue.Shi Yue was helpless for a while.However, when the news of Shi Yue's embarrassment reached Ran Ming who was living in Chibi, Ran Ming was not surprised.As a person of later generations, Ran Ming naturally knew that China had serious regional discrimination. The reason why the Eastern Jin Dynasty was able to win the battle of Feishui was because the south of the Yangtze River had been developed by the Eastern Jin Dynasty and had already seen a clear scene of prosperity.But later, the two bastards, Sun En and Hou Jing, were destroyed.It was not recovered until the Southern Song Dynasty.But the north is different. Since Yongjia traveled to the south, the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom first unified the north, but the good times did not last long. However, in 28 years, under the leadership of Shi Le, the Jie people defeated the Huns and became the overlord of the north, followed by Xianbei After the rise, the Murong family went south, and later the Fu family with 20 Di clan entered the Central Plains. In just seven or eighty years, the north experienced four wars of destroying the country.The Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was in the southern part of the country, was naturally unwilling to unify.Because the most important reason is that the south is rich and the north is poor.

Originally, Ran Ming was still troubled by the power of the gentry in the south of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but at this time Xiao Lezi successfully mobilized the gentry's power and dared to directly oppose the Wei army.This gave Ran Ming the best excuse.Ran Ming directly issued an order to the General Staff, ordering the General Staff to formulate a strategic and tactical arrangement of "strike the local tyrants and divide the land".

If Xiao Lezi really launched a people's war and used the vast majority of poor people to oppose Wei, Ran Ming would really have a headache, because it is impossible for Ran Ming to kill all the rebels in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. If that is the case, his unification war this time , doesn't make any sense at all.But the powerful and the gentry are different.

Ji Li didn't have any objections, because he was born as a retainer of the Ran family, and he didn't have any strong backing. If the Neihuang Ji family wanted to rise, it would take at least three generations.The staff officers in the staff department are different. Although most of them are talents trained by the martial arts hall, they all have a bit of status.Somehow, the news leaked out. Upon hearing the news, Wang Jian, Xie An, and even Xi Pijiang, who had just become Ran Ming's secretary, became anxious.Although they are officials of the Wei state, they are even the children of the gentry.Especially Wang Jian, who is a descendant of the Wang family in Taiyuan, or a direct branch.Don't look at the fact that the Wang clan of Wang Sima and the world is not the Taiyuan Wang clan, but in fact they are from the same clan.Wang Li was defeated and captured in the Battle of Julu. His two sons Wang Yuan and Wang Wei ran away for fear of harming them.Later, Wang Yuan became the ancestor of the Langya Wang family, and Wang Wei became the ancestor of the Taiyuan Wang family.As for Xie An, let alone, most of their relatives were still in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.Although Xi Bijiang is only a wealthy family in Xiangyang, the relationship in China is about the right family. What kind of prince and Cinderella, what kind of poor boy, marrying a rich girl is just something made by poor literati.If it is not true, whoever believes it will be over.

The strategy of "beating the local tyrants to divide the land" is too broad. Although it is clear that they will not be implicated, it is difficult to guarantee that their own relatives will not be implicated.So the three of them took the lead and contacted a dozen accompanying ministers to kowtow to Ran Ming.The ministers' collective admonition is regarded as loyalty and righteousness, which is the so-called death festival of the country's supporters.But in the period of Xiongnu Han Dynasty or Shihu period, no minister dared to play like this, because the Hu people did not cherish feathers, they only believed in fists, and the ministers who dared to speak out, without exception, died.Of course, they didn't dare to play this trick with Ran Min, because they knew that Ran Min was also very ruthless in killing people, and they dared to play like this only when the ruler was weak and his subjects were strong.Ran Ming had just ascended the throne, and his throne was unstable. This was the real reliance of the ministers.

This time it was Xie An who really took the lead. Although the Taiyuan Wang family also had people in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they were from the Nanqian branch, and the relationship with the Liubei branch was in dire straits. Wang Jian wished for them to die.Ran Ming was reminiscing about the historical sites in Chibi, and by the way plagiarized a song about the ancient times of Chibi, which attracted a lot of flattery.Of course, when Ran Ming saw a group of ministers coming, he kindly asked You Yi to lead them over.

However, at this moment, Xie An suddenly walked out quickly, walking several feet.Then he stretched out his arms to stop the crowd from saying: "Everyone can know that there are villains around your Majesty. Your Majesty was deceived by the villains and wanted to destroy the cornerstone of our great Wei. What is the cornerstone of the country? The gentry. If there is no gentry to help The emperor, how can the country be prosperous and the people safe? However, there are treacherous villains plotting wrongdoing, wanting to make your majesty do things that hurt your loved ones and make your enemies happy. If we turn a blind eye to this, the country will be in danger."

Hearing this, all the ministers looked at each other in blank dismay, the gentry is the cornerstone of the country, and it's not like they don't understand the truth.Recently, there have been faint rumors that Shiyue's southern conquest army was blocked in Jinling, north of Wuxi. It is said that these gentry and tyrants did everything they could to prevent Shiyue's army from going south, pouring poison into water sources, throwing livestock corpses, and even It's feces.Although Shi Yue's army suffered little loss, their morale suffered, and General Shi was very angry.Everyone also gradually formed a consensus that these gentry tyrants who opposed the Wei state must be severely punished.

But when these words came out of Xie An's mouth, something was wrong.Why is it impossible to allow these gentry and tycoons of the Jin state to slaughter the soldiers of the Wei army so wantonly?In fact, it is unreasonable to say that they slaughtered the soldiers of the Wei army. After all, the Eastern Jin gentry suffered much more losses than the Wei army, and at best they were just disgusting people.

However, Ran Ming said disapprovingly: "What Xie Qing said is very true, but I don't know what to do with General Shi?"

Xie An didn't seem to see that Ran Ming's face was about to wring water, and continued: "According to Your Majesty's plan, it is certainly a good solution, but the killing is too heavy, and it may harm the peace of heaven. The only solution now is to be kind to Down!"

Ran Ming could see Xie An's disappointed expression at a glance, causing all the officials to look sideways.Ran Ming ignored Xie An, but asked everyone: "Do you mean the same?"

Xie An was also uneasy at the beginning. Normally, with his status and reputation, he could call on many people, at least among the more than a hundred officials accompanying him, not to mention all of them, there should be dozens of them.However, to Xie An's surprise, not only Wang Jian who shouted to support Xie An, but also Xi Zouchi and Wang Ya, the new surrenders, watched coldly.However, Xi Pijiang thought he was in solidarity with Xie An, but was so frightened that he even retracted his head when Xi Chiuchi gave him a stare.

Xie An was very puzzled. How could this happen?At this moment, Xie An became nervous.Sweat dripped down his face.And more and more, in the current situation, Xie An is really in a difficult situation, in a dilemma, how can the people of the world not figure it out?
In fact, Xie An is absolutely different in Wei State and Jin State. The rise of the Xie family in Chenjun relies on Xie Shang and Xie Zhenxi. First, Xie Shang ran Yuzhou and was the only force in the Eastern Jin Dynasty that could counter Huan Wen. Zhen, Yin Hao and his like were all muddy and couldn't support the wall, so they were cleaned up by Huan Wen.

(End of this chapter)