The Richest Man in the Heavens Starts from Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 78 Land of the Five States
Du Yu was not as smooth as Bian Xiang, and Fenyang Mansion was much more difficult than Weisheng Prefecture.

However, with two thousand cavalry troops and the strength of Luan Tingyu and others, they were able to flatten many counties along the way.

In particular, the counterweight trebuchet drawings he found in modern time and space often have miraculous effects when attacking a city, and can bombard the city wall outside the range of the Song bed crossbow.

Because he has system space, this inconvenient heavy-duty siege machine can carry key parts with him, and when he uses it, he can cut trees around the city and assemble it on site.

As for the siege stones, they don't need to be polished, as throwing them on the city walls will have a good effect.

Take the attack on Wenshui as an example, the unknown county magistrate and county lieutenant were really stubborn, and they summoned the young and strong in the city to fight against the rebels to the end.

After Luan Tingyu commanded the army to take a tentative attack on a ladder, he was forcefully repulsed. His subordinates suffered a lot from gold juice, bed crossbows, rolling logs and rocks, and lost more than 200 people in one attack.

Seeing this, Du Yu immediately stopped this clumsy engineering model, and immediately took out the blueprint of the counterweight trebuchet to guide its assembly.

The army installed more than a dozen of them outside the city, and began to bombard the city non-stop.

At the beginning, the defenders dared to go up to the top of the city to defend, but after a few rounds of stones and some people were smashed to pieces, no one dared to stand on the top of the city anymore.

The county lieutenant of Wenshui was a man. He personally led the army to open the city gate to destroy the catapult, but Luan Tingyu beat his brains out with a stick, and wiped out all the officers and soldiers who left the city.

Du Yu felt a little pity for that person's loyalty, but he thought that this kind of person was often a diehard loyalist of the dynasty, and he would definitely not follow him even if he was captured alive.

After breaking the city, return the body of the man to his family and pay for their burial.

He didn't expect this move to win the approval of Wenshui City, and he didn't have so much prejudice and hatred for the rebels.

After properly handling Wenshui City after the war, Du Yu continued to advance with the army.

After more than three months of hard work, they broke through one city after another with sharp weapons, and finally when they broke down Fenyang Prefecture, the rest of the counties lost their will to resist.

If it is said that Bian Xiang relied on clever tactics to win the whole way, Du Yu's way is the prestige of real fighting.

After occupying Fenyang Mansion, the army did not stop. According to the sphere of influence of Tianhu in Water Margin, he began to attack Jinning Mansion again.

Perhaps because of the reputation of the rebel army now, the resistance encountered in this attack on the city was obviously much smaller. Most of the cities raised their flags and surrendered after a little resistance.

Two months later, Du Yu captured the Jinning Mansion and successfully joined Bian Xiang's army in Gaizhou.

So far, Fenyang Mansion, Jinyang Mansion, Weisheng Prefecture, Zhaode Mansion, and Gaizhou occupied by Tianhu in the Water Margin novels have all been captured by the rebels.

The 56 counties in five prefectures have become his pocket.

Even so, Du Yu was not the primary target of the Great Song court, because Song Jiang from Liangshanbo had just broken through the Daming Mansion, one of the four capitals of the Great Song Dynasty, and the world was shocked.

Even Zhao Ji was rarely furious at Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and others. The breach of the Daming Mansion was almost a slap in the face by the court.

Du Yu learned from the information collected by Shi Qian that Liang Shanbo was indeed as written in the novel, Chao Gai went to attack Zengtou City and was shot to death.

Afterwards, Song Jiang and Lu Junyi led an army each, and whoever followed Chao Gai's command to capture Shi Wengong alive would be the master of Liangshan Po. ' Last words.

But what I didn't expect was that Song Jiang beat Zengtou City, but Shi Wengong was captured by Lu Junyi.

After sacrificing to King Chao Tian, ​​Hei Sanlang lived up to Chao Gai's last words and wanted to give up the throne to Lu Yuanwai, but as expected, "everyone" refused to accept it.

Therefore, Song Jiang said: "So everyone's will is uncertain, and I feel uneasy. At present, the cottage is short of money and food, but there are two state capitals in the east of Liangshanbo, but they have money and food. One is Dongping Mansion and the other is Dongchang Mansion. Today I write down two There is a lottery, and Lu Yuanwai and I each cast a lot. If the first to break the city, how about being the owner of Liangshan Park?"

Lu Junyi knew that he was an outsider, and he couldn't compete even if he fought, so he nodded in agreement.

In this way, because of a gambling fight in Liangshanbo, two more state capitals were broken.

However, Liangshan people didn't treat the land they had laid down as a basic one like Du Yu did. Hei Saburo just grabbed it and ran away. The unlucky people were naturally those people.

Du Yu didn't even know how Song Jiang got together. After 'Shi Jin', Zhu Wu, Shi Qian and others were gone, he still managed to make a big gathering of [-] generals.

In this way, Liang Shanbo and Song Jiang are still popular fried chickens in the Song Dynasty.

On the other hand, after Du Yu got the land of the Five States, he was going to stop and digest the results of the battle.

Having read so many books and read so many stories, he knows how to suppress a group, appease a group, and win a group over.

The first thing is to re-select officials for the 56 counties in the five states to manage, and of course a certain degree of reform must be carried out.

Du Yu knew that it was impossible for someone with a reputation to serve as an official for a rebel army like him who hadn't yet matured.

But he doesn't care either. In modern terms, 'you don't do it, someone else does it'.

He didn't believe that some outstanding talents could resist the temptation of being an official. You must know that they had no hope in life and could only be private school teachers in the countryside.

So when the rebel army posted notices widely in the five states to recruit talents, many down-and-out scholars made up their minds to seek a future.

Although the number of people is not large, it is a good start, and in Du Yu's view, the ancient education system is just like that, there are not many people who study poetry and poetry, and are really capable of doing practical things.Often the power that should have been the county magistrate and county guard is distributed to the masters and officials under him.

After Du Yu appointed a series of officials, he planned to become king, but after thinking about it, he felt that the name of the dynasty 'Jin' was too lax, so he finally decided to use 'Wei'.

After hoisting the banner of the King of Wei, he rewarded each of his subordinates for their meritorious service, which was the first dividend for the Wei Group after its establishment.

In order to make the people of the five states feel a sense of belonging to the Great Wei, Du Yu announced a series of reforms.

The confiscated official land and the amount of land obtained after cleaning up the tyrants with bad records were extremely large, so he decided to temporarily collect the land as the official land of the Great Wei.

Set a [-]-[-] share of the rent, gather refugees and poor people to cultivate, and provide seed farming tools.

This move stabilized the hearts of the people in Wuzhou, and made those who originally thought that the rebels were thieves change their views.

Not only that, he also preliminarily stipulated commercial taxes, giving those wealthy and powerful households who were originally Anshan a space for development in exchange for their support.

Although the effect depends on the long-term perspective, a series of new policies announced the birth of a new force.

In order to solve the economic problems of the five states, Du Yu returned to modern time and space, and bought a small commemorative coin workshop to make new coins for the newborn Wei.

The casting technology of modern time and space, coupled with the fact that copper is a very common industrial raw material, is more than enough to meet the needs.

Soon, Wei began to promote his own coins, and began to draw a clear line with the Song court.

It will take some time to digest and stabilize the basic market, but Du Yu still has a lot to do.

Taking advantage of the lack of military action during this period, he took Shi Qian and Jiao Ting to the Daming Mansion. Of course, he didn't want to see the desolate scene after being looted by Liang Shanbo. The purpose of coming this time was Xu Guanzhong.

Following the route he remembered, Du Yu quickly found the mountain where Xu Guanzhong lived in seclusion.

Originally, he thought that Xu Guanzhong would probably move because of such a big event, but he didn't expect that when he found the courtyard, the other party was quietly drinking tea and reading in the courtyard.

"Brother Xu, I haven't seen you for many years, but I still have the same demeanor." Du Yu said through the chai gate.

Xu Guanzhong was so engrossed in his reading that he was startled when he didn't realize that anyone came, he stood up to watch and found that it was the old acquaintance who had only met once.

"Brother Shi, why did you come to me so leisurely?" Xu Guanzhong said.

"To tell you the truth, Brother Xu, I'm so busy with everything. I heard that the Daming Mansion was in trouble, so I came here to see if my brother is safe." Du Yu said.

"Thank you, Brother Shi, for your concern. Let's have a cup of tea." Xu Guanzhong opened the door and invited the three of them into the courtyard.

After a while, Du Yu and Xu Guanzhong sat down and drank tea.

"Brother Xu, have you read the books left before?" Du Yu asked.

"Not only have I read it, but I feel quite emotional in my heart." Xu Guanzhong said.

"Oh, brother Xu, can you tell me what you think?" Du Yu asked.

Xu Guanzhong shook his head and smiled, and said: "My experience may not be very wise, but I really want to know how Brother Shi thinks about the rise and fall of this dynasty."

"How about reading to brother Xu the words I learned when I was young?" Du Yu said.

Xu Guanzhong made a gesture of invitation.

Du Yu smiled and twirled his beard, and said: "The peaks and mountains are like clusters, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are outside and inside Tongguan Road. Looking at the Western Capital, he hesitates. Sadly, in the places where the Qin and Han Dynasties traveled, thousands of palaces and palaces have been made of soil. Prosperity, people suffer. Death , the people suffer."

(End of this chapter)