Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

In Dou Jiande's view, Wang Shichong is dead.

Li Tang will definitely be passive, because there are many princes who want to surrender to Li Tang, such as Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, and Du Fuwei, the governor of Jianghuai. Don't they consider Wang Shichong's fate?It can be said that the news of Wang Shichong's death will soon turn into a bad result.

Dou Jiande even had a crazy idea to contact all the princes in the world and raise troops to attack Tang.

"Ling Qing, tell me, how will Luo Yi and Du Fuwei react when they get this news?" Dou Jiande said with a leisurely smile, "Will they consider turning against Tang?"

Ling Jing's eyes lit up: "It's not impossible!"

The twenty-fifth chapter of the battle for the hearts of the people

The twenty-fifth chapter of the battle for the hearts of the people

"No, no!" Dou Jiande shook his head and smiled wryly: "Since Wang Shichong and below, the Wang family has no heroic resources. I'm afraid they won't be able to delay for long. Conspiracies and tricks can only succeed for a while. I want this world. You have to be upright and upright. Those who gain the Tao will help more than those who lose the Tao. I just want to compare with Li Yuan, who has more of this "Tao", or I have more of it!"

"It is an indisputable fact that Your Majesty is the Mandate of Heaven!" Ling Jing said respectfully, "Your Majesty is naturally a Taoist, while Li Yuan is an ignorant one."

"You're wrong!" Dou Jiande shook his head and said, "My way is different from Li Yuan's. His way is the world's wealthy, seven sects and five lords, Guanlong nobles, but my way is the world's common people, billions of people."

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the 36 roads against the king, and the 72 roads of dust and smoke, looking through their background, you must be surprised to find that these anti-kings and so-called righteous people, there are not a few farmers who can't survive, but the aristocratic family has carried out a new A reshuffle of power.Dou Jiande is far inferior to Li Yuan in terms of family background and prestige, but there is one thing about Dou Jiande that Li Yuan does not have. He is from a humble family background.He knows what the people want.

Originally, the Hebei aristocratic families and local tyrants looked down on Dou Jiande. However, when attacking Hedong, in order to expand the source of troops and increase the strength to fight against Li Tang, Dou Jiande was also expanding his army.

But to expand armaments, you need armor, you need food, and you need weapons.In the era of the small-scale peasant economy, these resources, without exception, are in the hands of the aristocratic clan and the powerful.It is also impossible for Dou Jiande to obtain the support of these materials and wealth, so Dou Jiande adopted another conversion method.

Participating in the Xia army not only distributes 160 mu of military land, but for every soldier killed on the battlefield, an additional [-] mu of compensation land will be issued. These [-] mu of land can be passed on to descendants for inheritance, or can be bought and sold.Dou Jiande also has no land. Of course, when he saw that all the aristocratic and wealthy families did not support him without exception, he took tyrannical countermeasures.Directly in the name of capitalizing on the enemy and collaborating with the enemy's country, the aristocratic families and powerful families in the newly acquired land were confiscated.

On the sixth day of May in the third year of Wude, Dou Jiande's generals captured Luzhou City, beheaded thousands of gentry officials in Luzhou City, and used the confiscated property and food as military funds. All the land he owned was confiscated, and Wang Xiaohu set up a banner of recruiting troops according to Dou Jiande's will.

"Join the Xia Army and distribute one hundred acres of permanent land!"

"Another [-] acres of compensation land will be distributed to those who die in battle!"

"Forty mu more for the disabled!"

"Twenty acres of land for minor injuries!"

"Decapitate the enemy's head and take it from five mu of land!"

In fact, Dou Jiande unintentionally initiated an alternative land reform. In modern times, revolution is not an easy task.Countless revolutionaries have complained that the Chinese people are too numb, too cowardly, and have no spirit of resistance at all. No matter how much propaganda and encouragement they put in, how much effort and sacrifice they put in, they just look at them indifferently, as if they have nothing to do with them. A group of pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered will not be able to succeed in 100 years with such people in the revolution.They were wrong. The Chinese people have always had the strongest spirit of resistance. As early as the Qin Dynasty, Chinese peasants uttered the roar of "the emperor will be better than the king". Since then, for more than 2000 years, peasant uprisings have continued one after another, and one by one let them live. Dynasties that could not go on were buried in this way.

Dou Jiande has already repaid the sweetness of dividing the land and expanding the army.You must know that even at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the land price in the Tang Dynasty was not low.One mu of yield, even in Hedong, is worth more than 400 mu.Calculated in this way, their lives can be exchanged for more than [-] yuan worth of land. These propertyless tenants and refugees suddenly went crazy.

At the beginning, they naturally didn't believe that Dou Jiande would have such a good heart, but after testing, these civilians who joined the army got the land deeds issued by the government at that time, and now, the people of Hedong went crazy in an instant.Two days later, Dou Jiande's general Cao Zhan's troops captured Huizhou after a bitter battle and broke open the gates of the three towns in southern Shanxi.So far, Dou Jiande, who has marched westward with an army of 30, has expanded to 1000 horses and has [-] cavalry.

Seeing that Xia Jun was like locusts crossing the border, sweeping away all the aristocratic clans they passed, the officials and gentry in the whole Hebei were terrified.

Dou Jiande's division made a simple and rough distinction between the aristocratic clan and the common people. Those with more than [-] mu of land were considered powerful and were targeted for suppression.

Just after the three towns in southern Shanxi were conquered, Dou Jiande's army went all the way to the north. At the same time, the tyrants in Bingzhou were frightened. Those who own more property die faster, this is their experience.Large tracts of fertile land are being sold like they don’t need money, and they are all discounted at [-]%. But whoever buys a large tract of fertile land at such a critical moment is purely kicked by a donkey because they think they are dying too slowly.

The news of the loss of tranquility in the three towns in the east, south, and south shocked the Li Tang court in Chang'an, Guanzhong. It is not that the Tang Dynasty has not lost battles, such as Xue Ju's defeat of Li Shimin in Qianshuiyuan, and Zong Luohou's troops went straight to Chang'an. Jingyang City inside and outside, like Liu Wuzhou's defeat of Li Yuanji, almost took down the entire east of the river. In fact, losing the city and land is not a rare thing for Datang.

However, Dou Jiande is different this time.

Wherever Xia Jun went, there were scenes of husbands sending off their wives and fathers sending their sons off to the battlefield.

Farmers long for the land they need to live on, and now they finally own the land. If they don't want the land they got to fly away, they can only follow Dou Jiande to the dark.

Hedong is the place where Li Yuan started his family. When the Hedong family and clan were killed by Dou Jiande's army and their blood flowed like a river, the imperial court called for Chen Ying to go to Hebei, and Li Xiaogong's Shu army to go north.At this time, Li Yuan was also in a dilemma.

I want to ask why Li Yuan is in a dilemma?

The answer is actually quite simple.

Because Li Xiaoer was too disappointing, he was defeated twice in a row and lost all face.At this time, Li Shimin's reputation was far worse than that of Li Jiancheng, and even worse than that of Li Yuanji.This broke the balance that Li Yuan had worked so hard to achieve.

Dou Jiande played this move very beautifully in Hedong, and it caught Li Yuan by surprise.However, this incident was mixed for Li Yuan. There were as many as 43 families and powerful clans in Hedong who supported Li Jiancheng, and more than half of the officials from the Hedong clan under Li Jiancheng's command.

Dou Jiande's massacre in Hedong is on the one hand to eradicate Li Jiancheng's direct lineage. Once Hedong is really lost, Li Jiancheng will only have Jingzhao Webster to rely on.In contrast, Li Shimin still has the Zheng family of Xingyang and Shandong Haoqiang to rely on.

Wrong Dou Jiande's weakening of Li Jiancheng's wings, this aspect does not affect their father-son relationship, and can also achieve the purpose of balance.Isn't Li Yuan in a dilemma?

In fact, Li Yuan didn't really want to lose Hedong.As long as Chen Ying led his army to storm Hebei, even if he couldn't take Hebei, he only needed to force Dou Jiande back to help, and Li Yuan's goal would be achieved.In fact, in his heart, he was more inclined to Chen Ying's surprise attack on Hebei.

Facing the angry ministers, Li Yuan took a gentle approach: "I will think about it!"

"Think about it!" is actually a very famous diplomatic rhetoric in later generations, which can be interpreted as, I will not think about it at all.

Chen Ying didn't think too much about it at all. He led more than [-] steps under his command and rode a water transport boat all the way down the Yellow River.

Only two days later, that is, the ninth day of May in the third year of Wude, the army under Chen Ying's command had already arrived at the city of Liyang.

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It was also fortunate that there were not many defenders of the Xia army in Liyang City, they did not block the tidal flats, and Chen Ying was able to land smoothly.However, when he went ashore, Chen Ying encountered a lot of trouble.

It's okay for fully armed soldiers to go ashore, but the luggage, provisions, equipment and armor that accompany the army are very troublesome.In this era, there is no machinery, and all transportation depends on people. When Chen Ying came to Liyang, he found that there was not even a young man around Liyang, and only the old, weak, sick and disabled remained in all the villages, which was really useless.

Brought by a group of soldiers outside Liyang City, some [-] or [-] villagers and clan elders came to Chen Ying for no reason. These villagers and clan elders all looked at Chen Ying anxiously.According to Xia Jun's propaganda, Chen Ying became a ferocious demon. He had to drink the hearts of two children every day and suck the brains of living people every night, otherwise Chen Ying would not be able to perform magic.They are not stupid, they still have basic eyesight, they can easily tell who is good and who is bad.

These old folks were flattered and thought in their hearts: "The group of Tang soldiers who came here are not fierce at all, but very friendly. As for Chen Ying, there is no rumor at all."

The more modest Chen Ying behaved, the more awed these Liyang village elders became.On Chen Ying's "Wan'an" wheeler, Chen Ying asked people to set up seats for all the elders in the village, and then served a meal, of course it was not a delicacy, but an ordinary meal for soldiers.

White flour steamed buns weighing half a catty, and stewed horse meat. These old folks muttered as they ate, "Is the sun coming out from the west?"

Liyang is a strategically important position, and has always been a battleground for military strategists. Over the years, there have been many generals in the past, or they are some grassroots-like people who came to plunder for a good name to borrow food, and their eyes are golden when they see money. , Seeing a woman's eyes are red.There are also young men recruited to serve as soldiers, and many young men took Li Yang away, but few of them came back.Like Chen Ying, not only did they not ask for food from them, nor did they recruit strong men, they also felt strange.

In fact, Chen Ying discovered that Li Yangqing had fled and disappeared without enough manpower. It would definitely not be easy to unload these materials in a short time.Fortunately, Zhang Zhongjian called on his gang of pirates to help out a lot. At this time, the pirates were hard-pressed to survive. They were strong and able to endure hardships.

What's more, Chen Ying didn't let them work for nothing, and paid more than [-]% of the normal porter's salary. Instead, these pirates worked with enthusiasm.

When these village elders and clan elders had almost finished eating, Chen Ying asked with a smile: "Fathers, folks, I wonder where all the people in Liyang have gone?"

A benevolent old man Qiqi Ai said: "Some of them went to fight with King Xia, and some of them fled with him!"

In ancient times, war was the key reason for large population migration. The Guanzhong area in Tang Dynasty was the most densely populated place in the world.The population of Chang’an City alone was over a million. During the Anshi Rebellion, the people fled the war and left their homes. When the enemy came from the east, they could only flee in two directions, west and south. Some fled to Hanzhong and Bashu, but the Shu road went south. Therefore, more people fled to the northwest, pouring into Liangzhou, Ganzhou, and Suzhou layer by layer.

Now Hebei was annexed by Dou Jiande in one fell swoop, but with the arrival of the Tang army, Liyang has become the top priority, so these young adults can smell the smell of gunpowder in the air, so they pack their bags and travel to other places.

The key point is that Xia Guo's general in charge of defending Li Yang is Dou Jiande's Wuwei General Liu Ya. Liu Ya's real name is Liu Mute. He stutters and speaks very hard. In order to avoid being ridiculed, he rarely speaks.But as the so-called dumb knows, he is actually very smart.

When Liu Jintang's defense of Xingyang City fell, he guessed that Chen Ying would lead his army northward to attack Liyang.He knew that it would be very difficult to defend Li Yang with the [-] soldiers under his command alone, so he thought of a clever plan.Learn from the strategy suggested by Zhang Bin and Zhang Mengsun to Shi Le during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, to strengthen the wall and clear the country.

It's just a pity that Chen was in urgent need of rescuing Luoyang, so he didn't care about Li Yang.However, Liu Ya did not waste the time Chen Ying gave him.He quickly bewitched the people to leave their hometown, and he sent people to spread Chen Yingwei's demonization in the countryside.