Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 107
After discussing with Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan, they distributed the [-] recruits to Pang Yan and Tai Shici.

In this way, the strength of Pang Yan's men is calculated. The original Liyang surrendered nearly 1000 soldiers, Sun Ce surrendered more than 2000 soldiers, nearly 800 Wang's private soldiers, more than [-] Liyang recruits, and more than [-] Wujun people brought by Ling Cao, plus This time, the two thousand new recruits from Danyang almost made up nearly ten thousand soldiers.

As for Mulan temporarily in charge of commanding the remaining [-] auxiliary soldiers in Liyang's elite, Zhu Wei allowed her to select another [-] auxiliary soldiers from the tens of thousands of Danyang households that were coerced by her.

In this way, Mu Lan can lead [-] auxiliary soldiers as a reserve army. On the one hand, when Pang Yan and Tai Shici are in charge of the battle, these auxiliary soldiers can help them with logistical support, and on the other hand, these same auxiliary soldiers can be supplemented at any time. is dying.

At the same time, Zhu Wei also asked Mulan to serve as the commander of his own soldiers. Now he asked Mulan to select about a thousand personal guards and train them specially.

Zhu Wei doesn't plan to select the personal guards around him from the elites of the various armies. Now that his family is weak, these elites should be used on the battlefield. Anyway, from now on, it seems that Zhu Wei rarely fights on the field. It's really going to be this time Time, that means a big defeat.

Moreover, to protect a general like Zhu Wei, the personal guards actually don't care about their fighting ability. The first thing they need is loyalty, and the second thing they need to train is how to defend and how to escort Zhu Wei out of the dangerous battlefield.

In this way, Mulan was directly selected from the young and strong in Lingyang County. With their families under Zhu Wei's control, the loyalty of these pro-guards naturally need not worry. As for training, take your time.

Zhu Wei felt that such an arrangement could be justified in front of Liu Yao. It was also necessary for the 1-strong army to recruit some auxiliary soldiers, let alone the personal guards.

Although Pang Yan was somewhat envious of the [-] Danyang recruits that Tai Shici sent away, but considering that he now has more than [-] soldiers under his command, he is satisfied for the time being.

As for Tai Shici's status as a guest general, but now Zhu Wei can give him three thousand Danyang soldiers and provide him with enough armor, so he is naturally satisfied.

In such a situation, Tai Shici can be regarded as the only one on Liu Yao's side, knowing that his identity is a bit embarrassing, so naturally he will not have too high demands.

Only Mulan was a little unhappy. Although she could also command Zhu Wei's personal guards, it was like placing her on the second line again, and she had no chance to directly lead the troops to fight.

But this was Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan's decision, and Mulan couldn't object.

In this way, Zhu Wei has determined the issue of military strength, and then it is time to consider the next step.

According to Wang Yuyan's plan, Zhu Wei still needs to stay in Lingyang County for at least three to six months to train troops. During this period, he can also see the effect of farming.

Then, after harvesting the grain and grass in the fields, all the people were moved to Yuzhang, and the attack on Yuzhang was formally launched.

And the spies Wang Yuyan sent to Yuzhang to spy on information also sent back some news. Now Ruo Rong is building temples, Buddha statues, and pagodas in Yuzhang County with great fanfare, and is also collecting money from counties and townships in Yuzhang County to satisfy them. various expenses.

It is said that Ruo Rong has used some trumped-up charges in Yuzhang County to confiscate the houses of more than a dozen local powerful families in Yuzhang County.

Apparently Ruo Rong has become somewhat unpopular in Yuzhang, and has been regarded as a vicious enemy by the big and small families in Yuzhang. make.

This really made Zhu Wei wonder if this Ruo Rong was really a fanatical Buddhist or a hypocritical cult leader.

Think about it, this Ruo Rong spent many years packaging himself as a celebrity, and then brought hundreds of people to Xuzhou to join Tao Qian. After cheating Tao Qian's trust, he went to Xiapi to serve as the Prime Minister. Specially responsible for collecting the grain tax and local tribute in Guangling County, Xiapi County and Pengcheng County for Tao Qian.

As a result, after Ruo Rong received the grain and tribute property handed over by the three counties, he did not send it to Tao Qian in Xuzhou, but pocketed it for his own use.

Uh, if it is said that it is really pocketed, I am really not sure.

In fact, Ruo Rong did not embezzle these grains and property privately, but used them to build temples, Buddha statues, and pagodas on a large scale in Xiapi County.

Ruo Rong then ordered that all Buddhists living in Xiapi can be exempted from corvee tax, and all Buddhists who come to Xiapi from nearby counties and counties can be exempted from corvee tax.

At the same time, Ruo Rong held several "Buddhist bathing meetings" in Xiapi.

Every time there is a grand meeting, a lot of wine and food are placed on the side of the road, and the banquet stretches for tens of miles. The poor people and Buddhist believers from many nearby counties and counties come to Xiapi one after another. There are hundreds of millions of dollars spent every time.

It can be said that Ruo Rong basically spent all the money and food on Buddhist affairs, and by the way, he also expanded his power for himself, trained fanatical Buddhist soldiers, and had nearly ten thousand soldiers and tens of thousands of people who believed in Buddha and supported him.

This is also the basis for Ruo Rong to go all the way from Xiapi to Guangling, then to Moling, Yuzhang, Huo and Zhao Yu, Xue Li, and Zhu Hao, and swallow their territory.

So now that Ruo Rong has gained a foothold in Yuzhang, he has started to play Xiapi again, trying to use a religious regime to realize his rule over Yuzhang, but it will cost a lot of money to buy people's hearts.

He took so many people all the way from Xiapi to Yuzhang, and he had already spent a lot of money and food.

Although he plundered Guangling on the way, annexed Moling, and took control of Yuzhang, it still could not meet his expenses on Buddhist affairs.

When he was in Xiapi before, Ruo Rong could be said to be generous to others. He used the money and food from the three counties of Xuzhou to meet his Buddhist needs and helped him buy people's hearts. use.

But it’s not going to work now, Yuzhang is not considered rich, and Ruo Rong has just won Yuzhang, the people in Yuzhang are mainly those rich, food, and landed gentry, powerful families, but they may not be trustworthy. Buddha's.

The people in this Yuzhang area are naturally unwilling to spend money to support Ruo Rong to build temples, Buddha statues, pagodas and other inexplicable things, nor will they use money to support Ruo Rong to promote Buddhism.

But Ruo Rong ran out of money, but still wanted to force the people in Yuzhang County to believe in Buddhism and become Buddhists.

How can this belief be forced?

As a result, the situation in Yuzhang County has become a tyranny in religious politics, and if you don't believe it, you will perish.

Perhaps it was because Ruo Rong was used to looting all the way from Xiapi to Yuzhang, so if the local wealthy and powerful gentry and powerful clans did not support him, he would directly list the crimes of ransacking property and robbing property, and arresting people as slaves.

It can be said that those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish.

The effect of doing this is not bad. Compared with Zhu Wei's act of pretending to be a bandit in Lingyang County to rob local powerful families, Ruo Rong did it more straightforwardly and without any scruples, so he quickly got a lot of money and food. You can continue to carry out his Buddhist work...

　I didn't even reach [-] collections, so I put it on the shelves. I'm really drunk, but at least I can get a full attendance!
　　
　
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