Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 552

The twenty-fifth chapter of the battle for the hearts of the people
"No, no!" Dou Jiande shook his head and smiled bitterly: "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 the "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.

(End of this chapter)