Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 770 - The Southern Tang Dynasty
Southern Tang, Eastern Capital, Jiangdu Prefecture.

However, people in this city still like to call themselves Yangzhou people.

This is the most glorious moment for this city, with a population of 70 million and a wealth of the world.

The Jiangdu Mansion in the Southern Tang Dynasty was actually not that big, less than a quarter of the original Yangzhou City.Especially after being breached by the Zhou army the year before last, the number of people in Yangzhou City decreased a lot.

Because without Huainan, Yangzhou, the prefecture of Jiangdu, can basically be called a lone hanging north of the river with only one Jianwu army screen guard (Anhui Tianchang). Who knows when the Zhou people will come over and easily capture Jiangdu City.

In fact, not only Yangzhou, from the north of the Yangtze River to Huaibei, cities large and small in the Southern Tang Dynasty were caught in this kind of panic.

Last year alone, when Liu Renzhan launched the Shouzhou Qinghuai Army to attack Sizhou and Haozhou, even if the Southern Tang Dynasty was the attacker, more than 3000 people fled from Yangzhou City, and even caused troubles among the people in Runzhou on the other side of the river. panic.

Under such circumstances, the population north of the Yangtze River in the Southern Tang Dynasty was almost reduced year by year, which greatly weakened the defensive mobilization capabilities of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the north of the Yangtze River.

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In the northeast corner of Jiangdu City, this is the original sub-city of Yangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty, that is, a moon city attached to Yangzhou City. It can be regarded as the acropolis of Yangzhou. Yangzhou city.

Historically, after a few years, Yangzhou City will experience the Battle of Huainan in the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Later Zhou Dynasty, and be breached twice.

When Zhou Shizong Guo Rong appointed Li Chongjin as the governor of Huainan, more than [-] people in Yangzhou City either died or fled, and the city was too dilapidated to live in.

So Guo Rong rebuilt Yangzhou City in the southeast of this small city, which was called Zhou Xiaocheng at that time, and it was the location of Yangzhou City in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

However, in this time and space, although Zhang Zhou also captured Yangzhou City once, it was Li Cunhui who ran thousands of miles to suddenly seize the pass. When he retreated, it was also the Southern Tang court who gave the ransom money, so there was basically no damage.

Sometimes, things in the world seem to have some kind of strange connection. Now this small Yangzhou city, which was later called Zhou Xiaocheng, lived in most of the people with the surname Zhou.

And this group of people surnamed Zhou is not simple. They are descendants of Zhou Ben, King Xiping of the Southern Tang Dynasty, a famous general of Southern Wu and one of the 36 heroes of Yang Xingmi.

Zhou Ben is a descendant of Zhou Yu of the Three Kingdoms, a rare and brave general under Yang Xingmi, who broke through [-] and [-] in the battle of Ivory Lake, and even staged an empty city plan to retreat from the enemy when facing Wu Yue.

What's even more commendable is that Zhou Ben was quite loyal. After Xu Zhigao was Li Min's usurpation of the throne, the person who clearly opposed it was Zhou Ben. He also wanted to take in Yang Meng, the third son of Yang Xingmi.

After Li Min usurped the throne, Zhou Ben refused to come out to be an official. He felt guilty and died of depression. In the Five Dynasties, he was considered a rare loyal minister.

In Yangzhou, Zhou's ancestral hall, two groups of people are confronting each other.

The party with a large number of people dressed luxuriously, spoke aggressively, and there were servants holding large galleys as threats.

The party with fewer people is obviously more embarrassed. Although they look healthy, they can no longer wear silk clothes, and their hands are covered with calluses, which is obviously caused by frequent work in the fields.

"Brother, why should you be so stubborn again? It's not that the younger brother is unreasonable. This is actually the order of Sun Daling in Jiangdu County. Who made the two unworthy younger brothers dare to join the Hexi bandits?
Today, if the elder brother handed over the [-] mu of land in the clan, the younger brother can still excuse his elder brother in front of Sun Daling, otherwise, I am afraid that even the elder brother will go to jail for a while. "

In the ancestral hall, a big fat man in silk clothes sat on a round stool, surrounded by several servants holding big galleons standing awe-inspiring, quite a bit of official authority.

The one called elder brother by the big fat man was a strong man with gray hair, but although he was strong, his expression was rather frightened.

The word "Hexi thief" was like a heavy hammer, hammering into his heart.

Because his two younger brothers, who were in the Longwu Army and followed King Yan to the Central Plains to worship last year, somehow betrayed the country and defected to the Central Plains Zhou State. This is a capital crime!

The big fat man looked intimidated, and he couldn't help showing a smug expression on his face. The [-] mu of paddy fields are close to the canal, and the irrigation is very convenient, the yield is extremely high, and they are still in a row.

The Zhou family was able to own such a good [-] acres of farmland in Yangzhou, thanks to their grandfather Zhou Ben, who was originally given to Zhou Ben by Yang Xingmi, king of Wu.

Zhou Ben had two sons, the eldest son Zhou Ye, and the second son Zhou Hongzuo. Before Zhou Ben died, he left the [-] mu of land and a manor to the eldest son Zhou Ye.

Because although the eldest son Zhou Ye was brave and good at fighting, he was simple, had a rough temper, and was influenced by him to be loyal to the Yang family and dissatisfied with the Li family's usurpation of power.

Zhou Bensheng was afraid that after his death, Zhou Ye would not be tolerated by Li Min, so he left most of his family property to him and asked him to work in the countryside of Yangzhou to avoid being killed.

As for the second son Zhou Hongzuo, he was quite well-known and had followed Li Min in his early years, so Zhou was not worried.

But Zhou Ben still underestimated Li Min's heart, this is not a cheapskate like his son Li Jing.

After Zhou Ben's death, Li Min not only did not punish Zhou Ye who often complained, but also treated him quite favorably.

Zhou Ye later also felt Li Min's generosity, and loyally guarded the place for the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he was an official to Jiedushi.

However, Zhou Ben's arrangement caused a considerable rift among the descendants of the two sons.

In particular, Zhou Ye did not own any family property. After he died of illness and took office eight years ago, his descendants immediately declined. Up to now, he has to live on these hundreds of acres of land.

Such a good land, how could it be possible to keep it if you don't have the right in your hand, it has long been missed.

Although the second son Zhou Hongzuo's official fortune is not bad, he has many descendants and his life is not very affluent. Naturally, some people have their eyes on the [-] mu of high-quality paddy fields that they thought should be half of the family.

"Brother, just sign this contract. As long as you sign this contract, I will guarantee that Erlang, Saburo and the others will join the Hexi bandits, and they will be suppressed immediately.

Don't expect him to come back either, that's out of the way!The great feat of going straight to Dragon City can only be achieved by Wei Huo and Li Weigong of the Great Dynasty, so why can the Hexi thief do it? "

The more the fat man talked, the more complacent he became, but the door of the Zhou family's ancestral hall was pushed open with a bang.

The Zhou family looked around in search of prestige, and at some point, there was already a sea of ​​people outside the ancestral hall.

The Zhou family ancestral hall was built outside Zicheng, next to the Guanhe River. It is very lively with people coming and going on weekdays, but it is still very rare that there are so many people standing outside like today, and you can see densely packed heads only from the door. .

What was even more strange was that there were so many people around, but few made a sound. Everyone looked at the few people who pushed open the gate of the ancestral hall with some horror and fear.

The fat man raised his eyes, and among these people, the leader seemed to be his younger brother, also the younger brother of the gray-haired man, Zhou Fengyi and Zhou Fengquan on Tuesday.

"Erlang, Sanlang, you guys are back." The fat man tried his best to put on a smile.

Among Zhou Ben's two sons, the eldest son, Zhou Ye, was extremely brave. He once killed dozens of people with a spear on the battlefield and rescued Zhou Ben.

The second son Zhou Hongzuo studied literature and could not fight with others.

The fat man is the third son of Zhou Hongzuo, Zhou Ben's second son. Naturally, like his father, he has no force.

But the brothers Zhou Fengyi and Zhou Fengquan on the opposite side are very much like their father Zhou Ye who is always murderous on the battlefield, and they are both Kong Wu's powerful killers.

However, a little uneasiness just rose in his heart, and he was expelled by four strong men holding big galleys around him in an instant.

Moreover, when he came this time, not only did he bring a warrior with a big gall, but he also got the support of Jiangdu county magistrate, and he also pinched Zhou Fengyi's brother to seek refuge with Zhou.

He was about to say a few words to redeem the timid stretch just now, when he heard a faint and cold voice.

"Just now, you dog slave was talking about the Hexi thief, right? In the next life, remember to cut off your tongue at birth, so as not to be killed again!"

next life?Murder?The fat man was puzzled for a moment, and suddenly saw the speaker.

As if struck by lightning, he raised his hand after shaking for a while, but couldn't say the word "Zhouren" out of his mouth.

The silver-white flying fish uniform was the symbol of Zhang Zhou's Jinyi personal guards, and the reason why Zhang Tie wanted to send a few Jinyi guards to return Zhou Fengyi's brothers to the south was to beat Li Jing's face and destroy the illusion of the Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, as soon as the captain in Jinyi, who was wearing a silver-white flying fish suit, finished speaking, he was already bullying him. Before the four thugs behind the big fat man could react, the meteor hammer in Captain Jinyi's hand flew out.

The big fat man let out a scream of 'ah', and his chubby face immediately turned into a pile of rotten meat

A thug holding a large gallbladder was just about to strike, when there was a bang, a crossbow arrow pierced through the air, and a stream of bloody arrows shot out from the thug's neck.

The people of Yangzhou outside the gate were stunned. It's not that they haven't seen murder before, but it's too overbearing for Zhou Guo's Jinyi guards to go directly to the border of the Southern Tang Dynasty and kill people if they disagree with each other.

People at this time still have a strong sense of locality. Although the big fat man who was hammered and fainted is not attractive, and he is not of the same class as ordinary Yangzhou people, the people outside the Zhou family ancestral hall still feel extremely humiliation.

They didn't have the guts to rush forward yet, but they tightly surrounded the Zhou family ancestral hall and did not disperse, with indignation shining in their eyes.

Guo Zhao looked at the Yangzhou people in front of him without fear, but he jumped onto a stone pier instead.

As a captain in Jinyi, of course he knew what he was doing, and all of this had been planned long ago.

If he is beaten to death by these Yangzhou people now, his family will be supported by the emperor.If the job is done well, how can it leave a mark in the history.

"Since the first year of Shaoming, there has been no Tang Kingdom, only the Southern Tang Kingdom of the Great Zhou Dynasty. This Southern Tang Dynasty is the subjects of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty are also the people of the Great Zhou Saints.

This person uttered wild words, daring to insult the present with the Hexi thief, that is a death penalty.

A certain family not only wants to kill him, but if anyone dares to say this, they will kill him! "

The people of Yangzhou became even more angry. In their view, the ruler of the country changed Tang to Southern Tang because he was bullied by the ruler of Zhou, and they did so out of desperation. The Southern Tang court has always promoted it like this.

This made everyone in Nantang feel extremely aggrieved, and what Guo Zhao said now is simply adding fuel to the fire.

Several strong men from the Southern Tang Dynasty clacked their hands. They looked at Guo Zhao with hatred, as if they were going to come up and beat him up in the next second.

The rest of the people were also excited. They cursed loudly, and the atmosphere finally became heated. At this time, only a small spark is needed, and it can be ignited immediately.

But at this time, Guo Zhao's eyes did not look at the angry and roaring people of Nantang in front of him, but at a two-story restaurant in the distance.

He had already found out that the county magistrate of Jiangdu County, Jiangdu Prefecture, the eastern capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was in this restaurant.

If he comes, he will make a great contribution and leave his name in history.

If he didn't come and he was beaten to death by the Southern Tang people, then the army would have an excuse to go south.

Didn't Li Jing say that Liu Renzhan in Shouzhou is a domineering feudal town and he can't control it, but now the imperial army was beaten to death in Jiangdu Prefecture, it depends on how you explain it!
(End of this chapter)