Governor please stay

Liu Yishou suddenly regained his spirits.

"Oh, by the way, the Beijing Temple outside the gate should be withdrawn at dawn, it's weird." Thinking of that dream, Liu Yishou couldn't help but feel a chill.

The two came to the Fuya Prison, and as expected, the jailers here were all replaced by sergeants under their command.Yu Jin has led people to take over the city defense in an all-round way. As for the county soldiers guarding the city, they were sent home directly.

A row of people were tied to wooden stakes in the torture room, but their mouths were gagged to prevent them from colluding confessions and committing suicide by biting their tongues, and they were not tortured.Wang Wei felt that Liu Yishou was smart and knew he was smart.Sometimes when the subordinate finishes the work, he will feel a little uncomfortable instead.

People always need to achieve personality shaping in the midst of continuous success.

Sometimes letting the lord "show off" is also a skill of being a courtier.

"Who is this?"

Liu Yishou pointed to a middle-aged man on the far left and asked. He had a little impression of this man, and he had met him once during the banquet.However, the other party was very low-key, and was not among those who made a fuss.

It really verifies the old saying: A dog that bites does not bark.

"This is the Jinan Ning family, named..."

"Okay, the dying person doesn't deserve my name."

Liu Yishou waved his hand and blocked what Wang Wei wanted to say.

The faces of all the people who were tied to the pillars changed drastically!

With a little disgust, he pulled the rag off the mouth of someone from the Ning family, and that person shouted loudly: "General Liu, I say, I can say anything! Please spare my life!"

Liu Yishou glanced at Wang Wei and Wang Wei, his expression seemed to say: That's it?

Anyway, you should also struggle.How can you give in so quickly?

"But, I don't want you to tell me that it doesn't matter if you have an affair with Xing Gao. As you can see, I want to control Jinan County, so I need some people to sacrifice the flag and scare Xiaoxiao. It just so happens that you dance again It’s embarrassing if you come out.”

Liu Yishou said to Wang Wei: "Take it down, and behead it tomorrow. Relatives within three servings, males will be killed without mercy, but females, there are quite a lot of lieutenants and soldiers without wives, let's see who wants it."

So simple and rude?

"Liu Dudu! I will dismiss my army and distribute my land to the tenants. I just ask the governor to spare my family."

A certain man from the Ning family who was tied to the pillar shouted loudly, his tone seemed to be that of the head of the family.

"Wang Wei, come and untie him."

Liu Yishou smiled and patted the non-existent dust on the man's shoulder and said, "Knowing your mistakes can make a big difference, right?"

"Yes, yes, Governor Gao Yi, Governor Gao Yi!"

Ning's head was about to drop off.

"Wait for me in the lobby of the government office. You must explain to me clearly about the affair with Xing Gao. Be lenient when you confess, and strict when you resist, understand?"

"I understand, I understand very well! Thank you, Dudu, for your kindness!"

Ning, who had already been untied, probably because she had been tied for a long time, knelt down and begged for mercy.

Wang Wei's face was dull, he didn't understand at all why the bones of these aristocratic family members were so soft.Why was it that when I led someone to arrest them just now, everyone was still stubborn, but after Liu Yishou came, they looked like this?

"Take it down, don't embarrass him, it's not interesting to beat him up, isn't it?"

Liu Yishou walked up to the second one, pulled off the rag from his mouth, "suddenly realized" and said, "Oh? It's you, didn't you say you want me to look for Xing Gao's bad luck, and not come to you?"

"Captain, please forgive me, I am willing to dismiss the county soldiers and tenants, hand over the family property, and return to the mountains and forests."

He could see that Liu Yishou didn't care about the collusion between the people of Jinan County and Xing Gao, or he was not afraid of their troubles.The goal of this Dudu Liu has always been to control the soldiers of the county and the aristocratic family in Jinan County.

"Since you are so knowledgeable, you are the same as the one just now. Wait for me in the lobby of the government office. Wang Wei, untie him."

Another one was released, and Liu Yishou said to Wang Wei in a dispirited manner: "Ask them if they would like to dismiss the county soldiers and hand over their family property. If they are willing, let them go to the hall of the government office. Follow the rules over there."

After speaking, he walked out of the dark and damp dungeon and came to the streets of Licheng.After a while, Wang Wei also came out, sighing silently.

"The trial is over?"

"There's nothing to judge, every bone is as soft as something."

It was only after Wang Wei spoke that he realized that Liu Yishou might have known such a result long ago.

"The land snakes in Jinan County are very powerful. They temporarily succumbed. After we leave, although those tenants got the land, they would lose it very quickly. If there is no government to support them."

Liu Yishou looked at the starry sky and thought of many things.

The owner-peasant and the emperor are the real parental relationship.Owner farmers pay taxes, while aristocratic families take advantage of various loopholes in court rules to evade corvee and taxes, forming their own system.

However, if the emperor wants to govern the place, he is limited to the technical conditions of ancient times, so he can only rely on the aristocratic family.The reason why the Qin Dynasty collapsed so quickly was because the county system at that time was too "advanced", concentrating imperial power, human and financial resources in the hands of the emperor unprecedentedly.

This is like saying that there is only one boss in a company, and all the others are wage earners who don't have any shares. So how loyal are these wage earners when something happens to the company?This is the disadvantage of not having a powerful family.

As another example, the transition from chaos to order in the Northern Wei Dynasty was accomplished when Emperor Xiaowen reached a compromise with the northern family.Its transition from rule to chaos was also due to the fact that the power of the aristocratic family grew stronger, causing the people to live in dire straits.

One body with two sides, success or failure is just a blink of an eye.

"Judging from the performance of those people just now, Xing Gao should have succeeded. The soldiers of Jinan County will not come back again. This is a good thing for us, and of course it is also a bad thing."

The interior has been infiltrated into a sieve, and every move of the soldiers of Jinan County is naturally under the surveillance of Xing Gao. It is obvious what will happen in the end.

Of course, Liu Yishou was able to successfully ambush Xing Gao precisely because he was not a power in Jinan County, so he belonged to Xing Gao's "black hole of intelligence".It was Xing Gao who believed too much in the news from Jinan County that he lost his sense of proportion in the most critical place.

In short, this person is quite powerful, and Liu Yishou was lucky to win last time.

"Write a memorial to Yuan Ziyou, saying that in the land of Qingxu, the government has disappeared, and Qingxu Xingtai on my side will temporarily manage government affairs and uniformly deploy materials to fight against Xing Gao."

"My lord, do you want to adjust the taxation of the owner-peasants?"

Wang Wei seemed to understand Liu Yishou's train of thought.

"That's right, in order to buy off the tenants, the Jinan County family set the land rent lower than the imperial court. Of course, this was also set up by the prefect Lin. The government collected [-]% of the rent, which is unreasonable!

When we adjust the land rent back, the benefits of owning the land will be revealed.Those tenants controlled by the aristocratic families, as well as the county soldiers, seem to be monolithic, but they are actually vulnerable! "

It turns out that the breaking point is here!

Wang Wei nodded and said, "I will take care of this matter."

"Also, Xing Gao brought the refugees from Hebei to the south to oppress the locals, but many of these family members in Jinan County are willing to cooperate with him. Do you know why?"

Liu Yishou asked Wang Wei a question that was difficult to answer, or that he hadn't thought about.

"Things are not static, and Xing Gao is the same. Ge Rong in Hebei is gone, and the land is rich and wasteful. There are not many people who are willing to go south to follow Xing Gao."

Liu Yishou looked at the stars in the sky and said with emotion.

The Hebei Rebellion lasted for several years, the population dropped sharply, and the land problem was no longer prominent.Now Ge Rong is gone, Dading, Hebei.In order to resume production, the local aristocratic family will also slightly reduce exploitation and oppression.

At this time, how many people are still willing to listen to Xing Gao's flickering, and become refugees going south to Qingxu?

"My lord is saying that Xing Gao may also change his strategy, focusing on winning over Qingxu's local aristocratic family, supplemented by pleasing the refugees?"

"That's the case, so I can't deal with the family in Jinan County like I did with the family in Dongping County, because the enemy has also changed its strategy.

I heard that the troops of Li Yuanzhong and Feng Longzhi have arrived in Qingxu, it's time to contact them and fight together. "

Wang Wei thought for a while, then took out a letter from his pocket, handed it to Liu Yishou, and said, "Yuan Ziyou, write a letter to let the lord take us back to Luoyang Suwei. Worrying about Mrs. Yuan talking about it, I didn't show it to the Lord."

Yuan Ziyou asked him to bring his troops back to Luoyang?

Liu Yishou couldn't help but asked back: "Did he eat too much?"

Chapter 176

What happened in Jinan County is nothing special.The tricks played by those aristocratic families were played badly by the Tian clan and Daiqi during the Warring States Period, but it was just a game of "small fights in, big fights out".

At the beginning, in order to buy people's hearts and prepare for public opinion and popular support to replace the Jiang family in Qi State, the Tian family called the grain they lent to the farmers in Da Dou, and when the farmers returned the grain, they called it Xiao Dou.Once back and forth, the farmers who borrowed grain naturally benefited a lot.

As a result, the Tian family gained the reputation of being "good at giving", and by the way, used loans to control many farmers.

The aristocratic family in Jinan County also played the same game, making the rent of tenants lower than that of self-cultivating farmers, telling the self-cultivating farmers that it is a burden for you to have land, why not sell it to us and be a tenant for our family, and pay less.

Such shenanigans are not worth mentioning.After Liu Yishou came here, he quickly took over the administration of the government, and promulgated a new law. The government only collected [-]% of the rent, and the tenants could redeem their land by "paying in installments" on the premise of their own will. It will be distributed by the government.

The price of the land is determined by the government, namely Liu Yishou.Of course, since there are too many lands that need to be bought, it is difficult to allocate them completely in an instant, so families who are eager to join the army can be allocated first, first come, first served.

All of a sudden, the poor people in Jinan County, who had no interest in Liu Yishou and the others, immediately began to join the army and actively cooperate with the government in various tasks!At the same time, many people spontaneously provided information to Liu Yishou and the others.

For example, which one had an affair with Xing Gao, which one was planning to do something behind the scenes, no one is stupid these days, can you get the benefits for free, do you feel at ease?

However, when things in Jinan County were progressing smoothly, Liu Yishou also encountered unexpected troubles.

In the study in the backyard of the Licheng government office, Liu Yishou frowned, looked at the three letters on the table, and let out a long sigh.

The first letter was a request for help from Yuan Ziyou. It said that Yang Chun was defeated by Chen Qingzhi, the leader of the Liang army in Suiyang, and lost 10 horses.Now Luoyang is only using a Xingyang line of defense in front of it. Whether it can withstand it is really a big question.So I hope that Liu Yishou will bring his troops to guard Luoyang.

The second letter was a battle report. The scouts sent by Liu Yishou wanted to get in touch with the prefect Lin who led the army, but in the end they found the battlefield where the county soldiers fought. In the abandoned Liangzou city, there were dead bodies everywhere, which was extremely terrifying.

So they brought back the battle report, speculating that the army soldiers in Jinan County who went on an expedition had suffered an accident and the entire army was wiped out.

The third letter was just received today.Li Yuanzhong, Feng Longzhi and others have been marching in Hebei, coming from the north.They are now stationed in Liaocheng on the north bank of the Yellow River, not far from Fufencheng.

There are only [-] soldiers under their command, but they are all elite soldiers, and they are private tribes from their hometown. There are many clansmen among them, and they are very united.

This letter is probably worried about being intercepted, so I didn't say much about it, but said that I hope to reply as soon as possible, and then Chen Yuankang will come to Licheng to discuss the specific battle plan.

Obviously, the situation in Qingxu has deteriorated to the point of overturning. Li Yuanzhong and others have no intention of playing tricks with Liu Yishou. Now it is not about whether to join forces, but how to join forces to form a joint force instead of being defeated. Destroy them one by one!

"Prefect Lin is really doomed. This is a typical example of local households teaming up to kill foreign households."

After Liu Yishou thought about it for a while, he understood the key points. The family members of the aristocratic family always had a lot of fun with this trick of borrowing a knife to kill people.As an outsider, the Qiu Lin family was a Xianbei outsider who moved south with Emperor Xiaowen, and Xing Gao, who was born in a Hebei family, was born to be at odds.

Because the state of Wei lost the legitimacy of ruling, the Lin family would also lose control of Jinan County. This was a price Xing Gao couldn't afford, and Lin Yuan had to fight hard with Xing Gao!

But the other aristocratic families in Jinan County, after learning that Ge Rong was destroyed, knew that it was impossible for Xing Gao to continue his original routine of suppressing Qingxu by following Hebei's force, because the refugees in Hebei all followed Ge Rong Rong's downfall, and settled down locally.

They no longer need to move to Qingxu!

Many things seem to be accidental, but in fact there is an inseparable necessity in them.

"It's really nerve-wracking how to choose."

Liu Yishou couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Of course, going to Luoyang is an act of death, but this is not a way of "backtracking in time".Because once Xing Gao is powerful, even if he and Li Yuanzhong can't handle the opponent, returning to Luoyang is a good way out.

Moreover, sooner or later Xing Gao will have to fight Chen Qingzhi of the Northern Expedition.This was Yuan Ziyou's order, which was explained both internally and externally.

It's just that Liu Yishou felt very unwilling.Trading the future for the momentary stability of the present, even if it is a last resort, makes people feel sad.

Returning to Luoyang, it is inevitable that they will be controlled by Er Zhurong. It is easy to get on the pirate ship, but difficult to get off.

What will happen next?Well, with Yuan Ziyou's arrogance and recklessness, he will definitely get rid of Er Zhurong in a whimsical way, and who will be able to borrow his strength at that time?

Just thinking about it makes Liu Yishou feel chills down his back.

But Yuan Ziyou, whose mind is smaller than the tip of a needle, you can't ignore him. If this guy goes crazy and declares the army of Dongzheng Qingxu as rebellious, it will be difficult to make use of it later.

"Let's meet with Lao Kang first. The 200 people he gave back at the beginning are really very useful."

Liu Yishou put away the three letters. He had a crazy idea in his mind, which was not very mature yet and needed to be brewed.If the bet wins, Qingxu's strategic situation can be changed.

……

A day later, Boping City to the east of Licheng sent a report saying that Xing Gao's army had been found to the east of Lepan Mountain.So Liu Yishou asked Han Xian to take the Death Battalion as the rear team, and asked Yu Wentai, who had just arrived in Licheng, to lead the newly recruited soldiers from Jinan County to be the front team, and lined up on the official road between Lepan Mountain and Boping City. Box car array.

And he himself and Yu Jin led the most elite troops to ambush on the slope of Lepan Mountain, accompanied by Fang Xiang who had just been appointed as the prefect of Jinan County by Liu Yishou.

This scene is like a reversal of time and space, returning to the previous scene.The slight difference is that the people who led the troops down the mountain changed from the former prefect to Yu Wentai and Han Xian, and the people who led the troops on the mountain changed from Fang Xiang to Liu Yishou and Yu Jin.

"The soldiers in Jinan County are quite brave. Not to mention the elders in Jinan, many of their children died at the hands of Xing Gao. Our army will surely win this battle."

Liu Yishou looked down the mountain and said expressionlessly.

Fang Xiang glanced at him, then at Yu Jin where the old god was present, and found an excuse to escape.After he left, Yu Jin smiled and said: "The battle that happened not long ago actually appeared at the same place. Xing Gao is playing with us."

Isn't it just sending someone over on purpose to "give" a big victory?

"The previous time, I was not sure whether Lin Yuan was good at fighting, or Xing Gao deliberately let the water go. The recruits who have never cooperated before the battle today, if Xing Gao can't beat Yu Wentai and Han Xian, then I probably will I can figure out how he uses his troops."

Liu Yishou felt that Xing Gao was also a very interesting person knowing that this road was not easy to walk and that it was easy to be ambushed, but he deliberately walked this road, but he certainly didn't know that he and Yu Jin fought the whole way in the last battle. Watched it again.

The battle finally started, and Xing Gao's army rushed fiercely, once breaking through the formation of vans, causing a big gap.But the follow-up was weak, and the people who rushed to the front were gradually pushed back by Han Xian's death camp.Then Xing Gao's army went to raid Boping City...

On the slope of Lepan Mountain, Liu Yishou and Yu Jin looked at each other in blank dismay. Although it was the expected ending, Xing Gao's play was so fake that it made people speechless.

"Look, it's exactly the same as last time. According to the rules of the game, we should launch an ambush now, and then these people will be defeated and retreat all the way. Then we have gained the confidence to go out of Jinan County, and we will attack appropriately in the future. And then...no more."

Liu Yishou shook his head, how should I put it, no matter how good the routine is, once it is seen through, it will be like that.

"Order the general attack, don't play with him anymore."