Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

In Beizhou city, Lu Chengqing, the governor of Beizhou, frowned slightly.

Now Lu Chengqing is just 28 years old, and he has become the fourth-rank governor of Mingzhou.In the future, Lu Chengqing's future is absolutely limitless. Of course, this is because of Lu Chengqing's good background. He is the direct branch of Fan Yang's Lu family, one of the seven sects and five kings, the eldest son of Lu Chisong, and the son of the dignified Duke of Fan Yang.

Lu Chengqing's father, Lu Chisong, was originally named Hedong Ling of the former Sui Dynasty, and had an old friendship with Li Yuan.Li Yuan led the army to raise troops, and Lu Chisong went to Huoyi to meet the Tang army, and paid homage to the doctor of the Taiwan military department.During the reign of Wude, Shang Yitong, Prince Sheren, Shangkaifu, and Gu'an County Duke were awarded, and the prince was moved to lead Gengling, worship Zhuguo, and Fanyang County Duke.Lu Chisong is a virtuous man, smart and handsome, with gorgeous rhetoric and outstanding literary talent. No matter the elegant scholars or ordinary people, he is highly respected.

Lu Chengqing has a good father and a huge family behind him, so his career path is smoother than ordinary people.After the weak crown, in the second year of Takede, he became an official in the second year of Takede. He was a member of the examination department of the Ministry of Officials (from the sixth rank), and he became a meritorious doctor in just one year. Lang had just turned two years old, and was promoted to governor of Mingzhou three months ago.Lu Chengqing became an official at the age of 23, and in just four years, he was promoted from a sixth-rank official to a fourth-rank official, achieving a height that ordinary officials could not achieve in a lifetime.

As the saying goes, there is nothing worthy of fame. Regardless of the young Lu Chengqing, he has been trained by the Fan Yang Lu family since he was a child. He is talented and hardworking. He has become familiar with Mingzhou under his rule in just three months. five counties.Lu Chengqing's father was Li Jiancheng's commander in the Eastern Palace, and Fan Yang's Lu family behind him was a wealthy family in Youzhou. Lu Chengqing disdained corruption and devoted all his energy to governing Mingzhou.

Taking advantage of Chen Ying's reformation of chemical fertilizers, Lu Chengqing used Fan Yang's Lu family's clan strength to obtain not only a lot of original phosphate fertilizers, but also various organic fertilizers and bone meal from the grassland. The grain growth in Mingzhou is very gratifying. , this year the five counties of Mingzhou will definitely be able to overfulfill the taxation task of the imperial court.

The imperial court’s evaluation of the achievements of local officials is nothing more than the achievements of taxation, population and enlightenment. Taxation exceeds the task, and the population has increased by nearly [-]%. It's hard to be the best.As long as the three-year term expires, according to the rules and regulations of the imperial court, he needs to be promoted to a higher level. If he is not transferred to a wealthy prefecture or county, he must be transferred back to Chang'an as an official.

At that time, Lu Chengqing will be promoted to the deputy second assistant officer of the fifth prison instead of being the son of the six departments of the three provinces.Lu Chengqing hummed happily when he thought that he could become a fourth-rank upper-ranking Beijing official in his [-]s, and be named a marquis and worship general just around the corner.

Extreme joy gave rise to sorrow, just when he was intoxicated in the dream of getting promoted and getting rich, the staff rushed in with a panicked expression, and said anxiously: "Master, it's a disaster, it's a disaster!"

Lu Chengqing frowned and shouted: "He's in a panic, what does he look like!"

The staff shouted: "Those mud-legged people...those mud-legged people rebelled!"

Lu Chengqing jumped up as if someone had stabbed his ass, and screamed, "What? What did you say!?"

The staff smiled bitterly and said: "The gang of mud legs rebelled. They ambushed the officers and soldiers escorting the miners into the mountain to mine, let the miners go, and killed hundreds of officers and soldiers! They really rebelled!"

Yongnian County under the rule of Mingzhou has a large-scale semi-open-pit coal mine, which can mine more than 20 catties of coal a day. It is precisely because of the large amount of coal resources mined that Mingzhou has become a well-known wealthy state in Hebei Province in a short period of time.

After all, Lu Chengqing is still young, and he is usually fine, but when encountering an emergency, he trembles involuntarily. Lu Chengqing murmured to himself, "What should I do? What should I do? If the court knows that I am dead Such a disaster happened in the boundary of the state, although I will not move my head...but it will also affect the future. Those muddy legs are really hateful. I can't make it through, damn it, really damn it!"

Lu Chengqing couldn't understand it. Normally, people in Mingzhou are living a good life now. Although they are not rich, at least they don't have to worry about starving to death.He really couldn't figure out why farmers rebelled.

Liu Shishan looked at the quiet Mingzhou City, Liu Shishan's eyes slowly turned red.As a fellow of Dou Jiande, the Liu family of Beizhou is also one of the absolute hardcore supporters of Dou Jiande. Liu Heitai brought hundreds of clans of the Liu family of Beizhou to join Dou Jiande's army. Liu Jintang, who became the champion general, and of course more of the Liu family's descendants, became one of the ten thousand bones who will be successful.

Liu Shishan looked at the big Tang character banner on the city wall, although he gritted his teeth with hatred.But he didn't really act rashly. He knew that there were only a hundred spies who had sneaked into Mingzhou city. Once the capture of the city failed, he lost the chance to seize Mingzhou.At the critical moment, Liu Shishan suppressed his inner impulse, and instead aimed at the coal mine in Yongnian County.

There are only two types of miners in the coal mines in Yongnian County. The first type is the Turkic prisoners of war, but the backbone officers of the Xia Army, the generals of the Xia Army whose hands were stained with the blood of the Tang Army soldiers.

These backbone officers of the Xia army all had a hatred for destroying their families and clans with the Tang Dynasty, and many of them were people who had been favored by Dou Jiande. They would rather die than surrender to the Tang Dynasty. These people were the ones Liu Shishan could use.

The aides hurriedly reported to Lu Chengqinghui: "According to a team member who escaped back, many miners joined the rebel army on the spot. It can be said that the strength of the rebel army has greatly increased. What should we do?"

Lu Chengqing's face was pale, and he shouted tremblingly: "Hurry up, hurry up... Hurry up and order the city gates to be closed, no one can wait to come in, to prevent the rebels from mixing into the city! Also, send someone to report to the Jinglue appeasement envoy and ask him to send troops quickly Come and support!"

The staff responded and hurried to make arrangements.

As the saying goes, a friend in adversity sees the truth, and practice brings out true knowledge.Although Lu Chengqing came from a noble background, he was also talented.The key is that he has no experience in serving at the grassroots level. Normally, Lu Chengqing can still follow the steps, but once there is a sudden change, he will immediately become an ostrich, wishing to shrink into the cracks in the ground.From the beginning to the end, he never thought that he should summon those officers and soldiers who had escaped from the rebel army and retrieved their lives from the knife of the rebel army, so as to understand the strength of the rebel army. In, it can be called a pig-like opponent.The saddest thing is that opponents like this pig abounded in the early Tang Dynasty!

Because at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan received the support of the clan's family. This support is not free, but requires a price. These prices include land, official positions, and titles.The title is okay, but it’s just nice to hear that the imperial court has given out more salaries, and the land has actually shown bad signs. However, after the turmoil in the last year of the great cause, the population in the early Tang Dynasty dropped sharply, and the land can support it for a while, but there is no grassroots Officials with solid work experience had a fatal impact on Datang.

In the Rabbit Age, there is a saying: "Call me a hero, and my son a hero."

In fact, things like tiger father and dog son are too common.

Just when Lu Chengqing panicked, Liu Shishan brought the rescued coal miners from Yongnian County back to the village of Chuxiu Mountain. The first battle was won. They all won a complete victory, easily defeated the poorly equipped officers and soldiers, and the Tang soldiers who were not vigilant, even wiped them out and rescued the miners.

Many miners learned that Liu Shishan's "real" purpose was to avenge King Xia, and many miners expressed their willingness to join Liu Shishan's team, which more than doubled Liu Shishan's team.Not many enemies were wiped out in this battle, and most of the captured weapons were unusable, which is really not worth mentioning, but this is Liu Shishan's first battle, and it is of great significance. The traitor soldiers who were quite disturbed were all morale boosted, thinking that the officers and soldiers of the Tang army were nothing to be afraid of. This psychological advantage was very important for their next battle.

Liu Shishan didn't say much. After returning to the cottage, he ordered all the seized weapons, shackles and other things to be melted down, and the weapons were rebuilt to prepare for the next big battle.

At this time, the smuggling teams of Hu merchants brought Liu Shishan only [-] horizontal knives made of high-quality steel, [-] cavalry bows and arrows, and [-] spear heads. These weapons made Liu Shishan cheer. What they lack now is weapons!The list of some new recruits of officers and soldiers was recorded, registered and compiled, and then weapons were issued, and simple training began. In short, they were very busy.

Although the flag was won, Liu Shishan's soldiers were very weak at this time, and their weapons were seriously insufficient, so there was still no chance of storming Beizhou City.

As Dou Jiande's former capital, the Beizhou Army, the people here, especially those loyal to Dou Jiande, may have been purged, so Beizhou can only outsmart them, and they cannot be defeated.

While Liu Shishan was thinking about how to outsmart Beizhou City, Lu Chengqing, a pig teammate, began to do a disservice to him.

On June 28, the sixth year of Wude, which was the third day of Liu Shishan's incident, Lu Chengqing couldn't sit still. He was worried that Li Shentong, his immediate boss, would be dissatisfied with him, so he decided to wipe out these mud-legged people first. .

Under Lu Chengqing's coercion and lure, the gate of Beizhou city finally opened. He Changsheng, the captain of Beizhou Zhechong, led an army of [-] troops consisting of two infantry regiments, one Yue cavalry regiment, and town soldiers and government servants. Yu people drove out from the city, ready to enter the mountain to suppress the bandits.

Lu Chengqing didn't know that at this time his opponent Liu Shishan had grown to more than [-] people, and among them, there were as many as [-] people in the grassroots army at the level of Guangxia Military Colonel. The traitor is simply a meat bun beating a dog!

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Dai Yuanxiang has been the governor of Beizhou since the fourth year of Wude.Later, the Tang Dynasty moved Beizhou out of more than [-] people, and reduced the original Beizhou from Zhongzhou to Xiazhou. Dai Yuanxiang, the official fourth-rank Beizhou governor, was reduced by one level.Perhaps in order to take care of Dai Yuanxiang's emotions, Dai Yuanxiang was transferred from the position of Governor of Beizhou to Captain Zhechong of Mingzhou.

Captain Zhechong of Shangzhou was a fourth-rank official, and Dai Yuanxiang was transferred at the same level.The point is that although the captain of Zhechong and the governor of the state are at the same level, the civil servant in charge of a state's civil affairs has much more power than Dai Yuanxiang, the captain of Zhongzhou Zhechong.There are five regiments under Zhongzhou Zhechong Mansion, each regiment has 200 people, a total of [-] soldiers and horses.However, the Tang Dynasty was especially important to the military. Even if they wanted to embezzle, the supplies and armor of the army were all stipulated, and there were a few less, which was clear at a glance.Dai Yuanxiang didn't dare to stretch out his hand either.

When he just left Mingzhou City, Dai Yuanxiang had a faint feeling.Because he didn't meet any people along the way.

It is the hottest time of June now. It is the most normal thing for the common people to hide in the shade of the trees to enjoy the cool, or set up nets by the river to catch fish. Dai Yuanxiang felt that something was wrong when he did not see normal common people. up.

To say that the historical Liu Heita rebellion dealt a heavy blow to the Tang Dynasty, especially in the "Cambridge History of Qin and Han Dynasties", which described Liu Heita's power as "the most serious new challenge to the Tang Dynasty regime."The main reason is that Li Yuan is too afraid of Dou Jiande. Even if Chen Ying reminded Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng also listened to Chen Ying's words and pleaded with Li Yuan many times not to kill Dou Jiande, but Li Yuan called himself an orphan because of Dou Jiande. As a widow, not killing is not enough to deter disobedient ministers, so he resolutely arrested Dou Jiande on trumped-up charges and let Dou Jiande be executed.

Although Dou Jiande was killed, Li Yuan was not at ease. Not only did he agree to Chen Ying's request, he transferred more than [-] young men from Hebei, and then relocated tens of thousands of households. At the same time, he imposed heavy taxes on Hebei.Li Yuan's original intention was good, that is to drain all of Hebei's wealth. In this way, Hebei people who have no money, no food, and no iron will not be able to rebel if they want to.

However, it was precisely because of this that the root of the chaos in Hebei was planted.

Do not suffer from widowhood, but suffer from unevenness.

Hebei people were taxed heavily by the court, so they naturally complained.In particular, most of the elite officers under Dou Jiande's command were sentenced to hard labor for various crimes, which caused Xia Jun's soldiers to complain and resent.After Liu Shishan rescued these officers of the Xia Army, when these suffocated generals saw Liu Shishan, maybe they knew what was going to happen the moment they saw Liu Shishan.

After learning about Liu Shishan's Chuxiushan cottage, an altar was set up to commemorate the spirit of Dou Jiande.Gao Yuan, the former general of Gao Yaxian's command, heard that Liu Shishan had rebelled in Guangping County. In order to show his determination, Gao Yuan slaughtered his cattle on the spot, called a group of Hebei heroes to talk and drink, and made a plan together. More than 100 people.So Gao Yuan took these more than 100 people to join Liu Shishan!

Then Dou Jiande's general Wang Xiaohu's son Wang Fuchun, Cao Zhan and Dong Kun, who were lucky enough to survive, all followed the trilogy to capture Liu Shishan.

In just three days, Liu Shishan had more than [-] troops under his command.

When Liu Shishan, Wang Fuchun, Cao Zhan, Dong Kun, Gao Yuan, etc. were discussing how to destroy Mingzhou City, they suddenly heard that Dai Yuanxiang led more than a thousand troops to put down the rebellion.

As a matter of fact, any one of Xia Jun’s veteran generals can completely defeat Dai Yuanxiang, who is not good at military affairs, with the same number of people. Liu Shishan set up a game when he was mentally unprepared, and Dai Yuanxiang led his troops More than a thousand soldiers of the Tang army.They plunged into Liu Shishan's ambush circle.

Taking advantage of the hazy sky, Dai Yuanxiang suddenly felt something was wrong. He felt a vague figure moving in the woods outside the camp. He rubbed his eyes and finally saw clearly. Tens of thousands of people came out of the trees densely, javelins densely Like reeds, spears like forests, and thousands of undressed men standing in front of the formation holding rattan shields and scimitars.

Liu Shishan slowly uttered four words: "Surrender, or die!"

Dai Yuanxiang only struggled for a long time before choosing to put down his weapon and surrender.Now that the camp is surrounded on all sides, he has no hope of breaking through, nor can he wait for reinforcements to resist. The whole army will die, and there is no other way.

After Dai Yuanxiang dispatched troops, Lu Chengqing felt a little uneasy. He wanted to use the way of practicing pens to force himself to calm down, but the effect was not satisfactory.

Just when Lu Chengqing threw away his writing brush in an atmosphere, the staff quickly rushed into the study and said, "Your envoy, I'm overjoyed, I'm overjoyed!"

Lu Chengqing said angrily: "Where does the joy come from?"

The staff laughed and said, "Master Dai, Captain Dai is back! They successfully defeated the rebels and captured hundreds of prisoners!"