Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 657
The southernmost tip of Henan Province, Donglai County.

Luo Gui, the prime minister of Donglai County, came back from the yamen, and after entering the mansion of Luo Mansion in Penglai City, he seemed a little absent-minded.

"I just received the news that the emperor's car has left Luoyang for Xijing. I heard that the emperor will not stay in Xijing for a long time, and will soon go to the south of the Yangtze River to visit Jiangdu via Jianghan. Your brothers and daughter-in-law are still in Luoyang City. I am really a little bit disappointed. Don't worry. Now Li Mi's rebel army is powerful and has captured half of the Henan Province. I don't know when they will break into Luoyang City."

The two brothers Luo Jizu and Luo Chengzong listened, "Why don't we just bring her to Donglai County, we should not have any rebels coming here for a while."

Because Donglai County is in the east and has always been the naval base for the Eastern Expedition, it has always been relatively stable here. Even the rebellions that have occurred in recent years have not affected much here.

"I also have the same idea, Chengzong, you go to Luoyang in person and bring your brothers, wives and children. The third wife's wife is a princess, so don't worry about following the emperor. The fourth, fifth, and sixth The three daughters-in-law are still in Luoyang, you bring them all, and the family members of your two uncles, remember not to leave Yan Shi and Changqing behind."

The ancestors should go down.

Luo Gui also told his son not to go to Henan, but to go to Hebei and cross the Hejin Bridge from Hanoi County to Luoyang.

"Go back quickly."

"Father, what about me?" Chengzong asked.

"If you stay here, we have to make some preparations. Maybe the rebels will come here sometime. The governor's guard is now driving outside, and most of our Donglai Dudu's soldiers are also following him, so we We need to recruit more soldiers, but fortunately we have ships and armaments here in Donglai, as long as we quickly recruit soldiers and horses and train them quickly, they should still be usable."

"Father, we can also arm the servants and tenants at home. After all, these people are our own family members, so we can use them with more confidence."

The father is very satisfied with his son's suggestion. In this troubled world, officers and soldiers are not as reliable as private soldiers.

"Okay, you take out the money and silk at home and give them a reward, get them to weave and train well."

Dad was worried.

At this time, the port was frozen, and I didn't know what was going on in Liaodong, and I couldn't go to Liaodong by sea to inform my son.

By February and March, I'm afraid the situation will be out of control.

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Luo Gui, in the name of the governor of Donglai Governor's Mansion and the governor of Donglai County, called officials, gentry, tyrants, and wealthy businessmen from the four counties of Donglai, Gaomi, Beihai, and Qi County to discuss matters.

Originally, there were [-] soldiers in the four counties, but the governor came to protect the children and went to serve the king, and almost all the soldiers and horses were taken away.

Now the rebels are coming all the way east, unstoppable.

We are about to hit Qi County soon.

Everyone didn't have a good impression of those rebels.

Although Li Mi claimed to be the Duke of Wei, he was under the command of Qi Wang Mengrang.Meng Rang is now attacking the city in the Huaixi area. Although Meng Rang and Li Mi were once officials and the other were nobles, their subordinates are still mainly bandits and refugees.

Especially now that the rapid expansion of Li Mi's team has made his subordinates a mixed bag of good and bad.

His headquarters is pretty good in military discipline, but the other troops who joined him don't have such a good military discipline. For example, Wu Guogong Zhu Can, wherever he went, was still the same old way, burning, killing and looting everywhere like locusts crossing the border. Even when he became the Duke of Wu, he didn't change his habit of eating babies.

"Everyone, the traitor Li Mi now claims to have millions of people. He sends bandits to plunder everywhere. Wherever he passes, he not only kills officials, but also does not spare the powerful nobles. I believe everyone has heard that Li Mi is very serious about defecting to him. He shouted the slogan of equalizing the land and granting the land, but where did Li Mi get the land? Isn’t it all the land in the hands of the noble families, powerful landlords and rich businessmen here?”

"Now the imperial court has dispatched Wang Shichong as the appeasement envoy of Henan, and asked Jianghuai appeasement envoy Li Yuan and Dongdu Shou Fan Zigai to work together to encircle and suppress the rebels in Henan. But we can't wait, after all, the officers and soldiers are in the west and we are in the east, so we have to Save yourself."

"Everyone who has money will contribute money, and someone who has someone will contribute people. Let's recruit people, organize troops and horses, and defend our hometown by ourselves."

Facing a rebel army like Li Mi, few gentry tycoons are willing to support them, why?Because his subordinates are composed of rioters, what they bring is not order, but looting.

No one wants the land, property, ancestral house, etc. that their family has accumulated for generations to be looted and occupied by the rebels.

This is why in ancient times, peasant uprisings often failed in the end, while uprisings led by bureaucrats often succeeded.

Peasant uprisings are often bottom-up and overthrow the entire society. Naturally, they will not deliberately give any privileges to the nobles, bureaucrats, nobles, and landlords who used to oppress them.But be it the uprising or the rebellion of those noble bureaucrats, they are targeting the person sitting on the throne, and what they want is just a change of dynasty.

So they will keep the interests of the nobles, bureaucrats, gentry and powerful people to gain support.

Li Mi is an aristocrat, but he is now commanding a complete peasant army, composed of various bandits and refugees. Those who followed him were allotted fields.

This is very attractive to those people.

But for the powerful landlords and merchants of the four counties that Luo Gui summoned, it was very bad news.Li Mi wants to equalize the land, where does the land come from?
Of course, it comes from the landlords who own the most land.

Another one is that Li Mi's rebel army attacked cities and looted land everywhere, looting and looting wherever they went, and they didn't give them any preferential treatment.

If Li Mi can really restrain his so-called million-dollar army enough to prevent those people from looting them after breaking through the city, and not taking away their money and land, then many of these people here actually don't care Who will be the emperor.

They are also willing to support Li Mi as long as their interests are not violated.

It's just that Li Mi can't do this.

So when Luo Gui called everyone here to have money and strength to form a new army to resist the rebels, no one hesitated, and everyone responded enthusiastically.

Especially when Luo Gui told everyone that his son Luo Cheng defeated Shibi Khan's 30 army in Mayi, and now he has returned to Liaodong in victory. Cross the sea and enter Donglai.

With Luo Cheng, the god of war, at the back, these officials, gentry, powerful merchants in the four counties are very confident.

Everyone actively raised money and negotiated to recruit soldiers and horses to protect themselves.

(End of this chapter)