Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 819 Mercy (please subscribe!)
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Happy times always pass quickly.

In a flash, more than three months passed.

During these three months, Li Yan turned nearly a thousand girls into young wives, completed another thousand beheading, and planted hundreds of seeds of life at the same time.

Some people may think that there are too many women, too tired.

But Li Yan didn't feel this way at all.

Li Yan likes this kind of life, and really wants to continue living like this forever!

However not.

During these more than 100 days, the rectification movement has become very popular and everyone is in danger, secretly begging the people in the discipline department not to find themselves on the head!

At this level, the purpose of the rectification movement has basically been achieved. If it continues, it may damage the foundation of Dazhong.

Moreover, in the recent period, those who were punished, gouged out doors and robbed holes to see Li Yan, wanted to intercede with Li Yan, wanted to tell Li Yan that they really didn't make mistakes on purpose, and they really didn't respect Li Yan!

To say a word of conscience, people are not sages, who can do nothing wrong?

There are a lot of people who were affected this time. In fact, what they committed was unintentional mistakes, or because they were too self-inflated and forgot who they were for a while, not many of them really wanted to challenge Li Yan, the emperor. What's more, if they really said that Li Yan was lustful and licentious, they were just telling the truth. From Li Yan's point of view, this was no big deal.

The point is that many of the people affected are really close to Li Yan. They have made great contributions to Li Yan and shed blood and sweat for the establishment of Dazhong. Li Yan also has true feelings for them.

Therefore, seeing that the fire was almost over, Li Yan walked out of the harem, and then issued an amnesty, ending the rectification movement.

Of course, Li Yan did not deny what Wen Huanzhang and Chai Jin had done before. He just promulgated some amnesty policies on this basis to show his "kindness".

After experiencing this rectification movement, all the courtiers have become more disciplined for a long time, whether it is Li Yan's old brothers, or Li Yan's father-in-law and uncle.

The king is the king, and the minister is the minister. There is a difference between the king and the minister, which cannot be surpassed!

The emperor is a high existence, the majesty of the emperor is sacred and inviolable!

Looking at the civil and military courts, whether it was true or false, they all showed great respect to him, Li Yan secretly sighed, and thought: "This should be the so-called lonely family!"

Reining in his mind, Li Yan gave the servant a wink.

Seeing this, the servant said loudly: "If you have a copy, you will play early, if you don't have a copy, you will retreat!"

Xu Guanzhong listened to the words, came out, and then reported: "Your Majesty Qi Zuo, Marshal Yue has sent news that Li Cheng has led the people to surrender. In addition, the former Song general Kong Yanzhou led tens of thousands of Song troops to surrender, and sent some people to join him. Zhong Bandit responded internally, but Zhong Xiang was unprepared, and was captured and killed by the indirect guests sent by him. After Zhong Xiang died, hundreds of thousands of Zhong Bandits, led by Yang Yao, Xia Cheng and others, transferred to the Dongting Lake area. , Set up a village near the lake, combining soldiers and farmers, they widely cut wood such as pine, fir and camphor in Ding and Li areas, built large cars, buildings and ships, strictly fortified, land farming and water warfare, not only gained the advantage of water warfare, but also gained the prosperity of silkworms, and their strength is growing day by day Yue Fei was afraid that it would become bigger, so he wanted to transfer all the shipyards in the southeast for him to build warships suitable for fighting in Dongting Lake, and then put down the bell bandits in one fell swoop."

In the end, Li Cheng did not choose to unite with Zhong Xiang, but chose to surrender to Dazhong. If he didn't want to be eliminated, he had to accept the recruitment. Li Yan himself was born as a bandit. As long as he accepted the recruitment sincerely, his fate would not be too bad. Therefore, it was no surprise that Li Cheng chose this way.

As for Li Cheng, although he has some problems with national righteousness, he is still a general. Li Cheng in his previous life was the bravest and most powerful among the generals who surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin, and his orders were very strict. Recruiting such a person can be of some use.

Compared with Li Cheng, Kong Yanzhou gave Li Yan a headache.

This Kong Yanzhou is just a prostitute, he is not good at fighting, he is an expert in making money and stealing merits, and he is bold enough to raise thieves for his own use. The key is that his character is not good, no, it should be said that he is not as good as a beast!

Kong Yanzhou had a concubine who bore him a daughter. His daughter was so beautiful that he couldn't help but salivate!

But this is Kong Yanzhou's biological daughter, and Kong Yanzhou wanted to occupy her, but he was afraid that others would call her a beast.

Ever since, Kong Yanzhou came up with a poisonous plan.

This poisonous trick is that Kong Yanzhou tortured his concubine every day, forcing his concubine to admit that his daughter was not born to him and his concubine, but the concubine stole her life.

The concubine couldn't bear Kong Yanzhou's torture, and finally could only admit that his daughter was born with someone else.

Afterwards, Kong Yanzhou happily took his own daughter as his concubine.

People like Kong Yanzhou are undoubtedly very shameless, and they dare not use them.

But Kong Yanzhou made another contribution, not only leading tens of thousands of horses to surrender to Dazhong, but also killing Zhong Xiang.

This made Li Yan a little embarrassed.

After thinking for a while, Li Yan sighed secretly, and then said: "The Ministry of Officials rewards Li Cheng, Kong Yanzhou, and their leaders at their discretion. As for Yue Fei's request to allocate a shipyard to build ships, he is allowed to play, but officials cannot compete with the people." Let the local government and the shipyard say that the government buys the ships they build at [-]% higher than the market price, and the money is allocated directly by the Ministry of Households."

Although Kong Yanzhou was an out-and-out bastard, as an emperor, Li Yan could not act according to his own preferences. He had to be rewarded for meritorious deeds and punished for demerits.

Of course, Kong Yanzhou had better not do anything out of the ordinary in the future, otherwise, there will never be a good end.

Li Yan asked again: "What's going on in Shu?"

Xu Guanzhong reported: "Lizhou Road, Chengdufu Road, and Tongchuanfu Road have all been recovered now. Only Kuizhou Road still has some resistance forces. Wu Jieli issued a military order, saying that it must be handed over to the officials by March next year at the latest. A complete Shu land."

Li Yan was very happy when he heard the words, and then asked: "Wu Jie is not facing any difficulties, right?"

Xu Guanzhong said: "Yes, after the army has penetrated into Shu, it is now difficult to transport grain. It is extremely difficult to transport army grain with human shoulders on the rugged and difficult road for thousands of miles. Water transport, the situation is better, but the water transport is upstream, and the grain ship must be moved step by step along the towpath dug out of the cliff by the tracker, so that the grain ship can move forward, and the water transport is also affected by the high water level of the season. under the constraints, so it is also very difficult."

In the Song Dynasty, the Sichuan area was divided into Lizhou Road, Chengdufu Road, Tongchuanfu Road, and Kuizhou Road in terms of administrative division.

Among the four roads, the poorest area is Kuizhou Road. Where to go to fight, the biggest problem is to transport food and grass.

Hearing this, Li Yan asked, "Do you have any solutions?"

Xu Guanzhong shook his head and said: "There is no other way but to increase the number of civilians. Wu Jie has ordered that another one million civilians will be recruited with high salaries to help the army transport food."

After hearing this, Li Yan sighed secretly, thinking: "This is the only way to go now, in the future..."

Thinking of the future, Li Yan turned his head and asked Bai Varhan: "How is the development of the train? Can it be put into use?"

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(End of this chapter)