The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 425 A Way Out

Although what happened at the beginning caused the Liao people to suffer a catastrophe, but after the general recovered Liaodong, it was over after all.

However, the civil unrest in Shaanxi is an immediate matter.

Those who don't hear it don't take it seriously, and cry when they smell it.

Zhang Gong's eyes were red, and he turned his back to wipe away his tears. Yang Chun's face was cold, and Gui Yong's was even more dejected.

He has been to Shaanxi many times, and he has seen a lot of hell scenes there, which can grind humanity the most.

"Since the first month of the first lunar month, I have left home to go north, and I have been out of the country for [-] miles. I saw people scraping meat by the roadside like pigs and dogs. Many people avoided people. It is not surprising that people regard them as such.

So the bones are stunned.

After walking for another half day, I saw the old woman holding a dead child, cooking and crying.

Because he asked, "Why cry if you want to eat it?" The woman said: "This is my son, I will abandon it and eat it for others, so I would rather fill my stomach and ears." '

Because of this, the minister could not eat and drink for several days. At this time, if he could help death, he ignored the heels.

At the beginning of entering Beijing, the evil was still in the chest.

Over the next two or three days, friends and couples gather together, drink and call each other, remembering and forgetting the past.

Now that the sounds and songs are seductive, the bustling and eye-catching, those who were sad and sad yesterday are actually indifferent and irrelevant.Woohoo, ministers and hungry people, those who have experienced the feeling and taste of hunger and tasted it for themselves will still forget it as they get farther and farther away.

I want to be nine days above, thousands of miles away, and hope that I will know it without telling you, and never see it.
So it hurts, isn't it difficult? "

This is a memorial made during the reign of the Supreme Emperor.

"Yan'an Prefecture, Chen Township, has not had any rain since last year, and the vegetation has withered. In August and September, the people competed to pick grass from the mountains and eat it. The grains of chaff are bitter and astringent, and it can only be eaten for a long time. To not die.

After October, when the fluff is exhausted, the bark is peeled off and eaten.

Of all the trees, the elm is not good enough, and the bark of other trees is mixed for food, and its death can be slowed down a bit.

At the end of the year and the bark is exhausted, they dig up rocks from the mountains and eat them.Its stone name is Aoba, and it tastes fishy and greasy. If you eat less, you will be full, and within a few days, you will lose your belly and die.

The people are not willing to eat stones, and the dead will gather together as robbers, and one or two people who have a little savings will be robbed, and the plunder will be exhausted.

Yousi can't ban it.

Those who have won are also ignorant of fear, and said: "Death of hunger and death of robbers are the same. Instead of sitting and dying of hunger, why die for robbers? You have to feed ghosts." "

"The most pitiful thing is that there is a dung field in the west of Ansai City. Every morning, two or three babies will be abandoned in it. Some will cry, some will scream, some will call their parents, and some will eat their dung.

By the next morning, the abandoned son had no life, and there were some abandoned ones.

"What's more, children and lone travelers are nowhere to be seen once they leave the city.
And those who are sick also die within a few days because their faces are red and swollen, and their internal organs are dry and hot.

As a result, the pillow of the deceased was filled with foul smell.Several pits were dug outside the county seat, each of which could accommodate hundreds of people, to cover their remains.

When the minister came, there were more than three pits full, and I don't know how many of them were not enough to cover up a few miles away.If it is so in a small county, you can know it in a big county; if it is so in one place, you can know it in other places. ...

However, the minister still has something to say.At the beginning of the country, every ten households were compiled into a Jia, and the ten Jias were compiled into a mile.Today's Lijia is few and the household registration is depressed, which is no longer the same as before.

What's more, when you are on the verge of dying, even if you don't get rid of it, there are people who call it out and don't respond.

The lawsuit is bound by the strictness of the law, so it has to be strictly urged.If there are only one or two people in one household, the one or two people will definitely pay for the money and food of one household;

If one family has only one or two households, it is bound to make these one or two households pay for the money and food of the first family.

And so on, one mile and one county are all the same.

Then you can see that the people who are here flee without holding grudges, wandering in different places, living in a shelter without support, their permanent property is lost, and their wealth is easily exhausted. Almost!

Flee from here to that place, flee from there to this place, and flee from one phase to another, then you will become a robber if you change phases.The reason why this thief is all over the Qin Dynasty is also. "

This is the memorial of local officials when the emperor was in power.

There are too many such records, the three of them can only select a few from them and collect them.

then.

Several people started recording again, how did the court respond.

"Add three rates."

"In the spring of the coming year, the people will disperse."

"It's been a year for the poor people."

……

After decades of disasters, it was not until this year that the local government took measures, and the imperial court only sent 10 taels of silver for disaster relief.

"enough."

Zhang Gong put down his pen.

This article, which records why the refugee army revolted, seems to him to be enough.

"Then send it to the general to have a look. If the general has no objection, then we will send it to the school. All military students need to learn."

Yang Chun agreed with Zhang Gong's words.

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north town.

Li Changsong quietly embarked on a journey south with his cronies.

He is the guest of Tang Qing'an and others.

The group arrived at Fort Xining.

This place was originally under the jurisdiction of Beizhen, but Li Changsong gave it to Jinjiang Town.

Xiningbao controls the Shuangtaizi River in the north and the Daning River in the lower part, curbing the corridor between Liaodong and Liaoxi.

It is a place that military strategists must occupy.

Whether it is Liaodong or Liaoxi, whoever occupies Xining Fort will occupy a favorable position, which can be advanced, attacked, retreated, or defended.

Looking at the wall stacks of Fort Xining, Li Changsong had a complicated look on his face.

Of course he didn't want to give up Xining Fort, but the situation couldn't be controlled. Facing the oppression of King Zhongshun, he had no choice but to join forces with Jinjiang Town.

There were already people waiting in Xiningbao, and Li Changsong and his party were received, and they took them to Haizhou in person.

Li Changsong is the Jiedu Envoy of Beizhen, if it is reported that he secretly met with Jinjiang Jiedu Envoy, it will definitely cause an uproar in the court.

Marquis Ping Liao has the confidence to deal with the court's attack, but the Marquis of Jinxiang does not have the confidence.

So when entering Haizhou City, Li Changsong sat in the carriage, keeping a low profile and not attracting outsiders' ideas.

When they arrived at a courtyard, Tang Qing'an took Xie Youcheng and others to greet them in person in the courtyard.

"Congratulations to Marquis Ping Liao for his outstanding achievements and regaining the entire Liao Dynasty. I believe that the reward from the imperial court will be issued soon."

Li Changsong got off the carriage, stepped forward and said with a smile.

"Li Jiedu has worked hard all the way."

Tang Qing'an smiled.

to be frank.

Although he defeated the barbarians and regained Liaodong, he also made himself very difficult, and I believe the imperial court was also very difficult.

At present, I will not leave Liaodong to go to the capital.

The court also knew that he would definitely not go to the capital.

He is already a marquis, and with his current achievements, let alone hereditary or not, he has to be promoted to a duke no matter what.

At this point.

There is no excuse for war, and he has to go to the court because of emotion and reason.

but.

He won't go.

Even.

The imperial court rewarded him as a duke, but he did not enter the capital to face the saint. Where is the majesty of the imperial court?Where is the face of the emperor?
I believe that not only I am very distressed, but also the court is very distressed.

He didn't want to tear himself apart with the imperial court. Whether the imperial court had the confidence to tear himself apart with him now, he believed that he still didn't have it for the time being.

just.

The imperial court must reward, and after the reward, he must enter Beijing.

If this matter is not handled well, it will force the court to tear its face apart, but it is a pity that it cannot be resolved.

When he was promoted to marquis, because the barbarians were too powerful to leave easily, and there was a struggle between the emperor and the emperor, he could still find a reason.

Li Changsong followed Marquis Pingliao into the hall, and after taking his seat, secretly observed Marquis Pingliao's expression.

In the courtyard.

He didn't say that casually.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see the current stalemate between the two sides. Marquis Ping Liao's attitude and what methods he will adopt are all guesswork.

Tang Qing'an knew Li Changsong's reason for coming.

With the defeat of the barbarians in Jinjiang Township and the tiger's dominance in Liaodong, as the Jiedushi of Beizhen, Li Changsong is of course more concerned about the thoughts of his neighbors.

This is also the reason why the two met quietly.

"How about the imperial court's rewards, I have always been Ping Liaohou of the Great Zhou, and Jinjiang Town is also holding high the banner of the Great Zhou.

It’s just that there are too many young people in China, and there are many people who are hostile to me. Even Liaoxi has a loyal and obedient king, hahaha. "

Tang Qing'an laughed.

Li Changsong couldn't laugh.

The city of Beizhen is broken and has not been completely repaired, and there are only 8000 soldiers. There are also [-] troops newly sent by the imperial court, which were detained by King Zhongshun, and they could not even defend.

If the Jinjiang army rebelled, Beizhen would bear the brunt and would be unable to resist.

King Zhongshun has the geographical advantages of the Liaoxi Corridor, and has more than [-] soldiers in his hands, plus the two barbarian Baylor, Yue Tuo and Shuo Tuo, and their thousands of barbarians.

There are also more than ten Hongyi cannons purchased from Macau, all placed in Ningyuan City, and even Jinzhou did not make a big move.

It is backed by Shanhaiguan, with mountains to the north and sea to the right.

You can see King Zhongshun's thoughts.

Use Ningyuan City to guard the Liaoxi Corridor, backed by Shanhaiguan, and fight against the Jinjiang Army if it rebels.

The outcome is unknown.

But Beizhen will definitely not be able to keep it.

So Li Changsong didn't want Marquis Ping Liao to rebel.

What's more, his younger sister is married to Ping Liaohou's second younger brother, Liu Chengmin, the commander of the Jinjiang Army. With this relationship, he hopes that Jinjiang Town will maintain the status quo.

He couldn't rest assured about the words of the messenger, he had to meet Marquis Ping Liao in person.

"The civil unrest in the country has been calmed down, and more attention will definitely be placed on Liaodong. The pressure that will be faced after Ping Liaohou will increase. Are you prepared?"

Hearing Li Changsong's temptation, Tang Qing'an didn't take it seriously.

The public grievances and civil disturbances accumulated over decades are not so easy to settle.

The prosperity of a country is bound to lead to prosperity.

Prosperity of government inevitably leads to harmony among people.

If the Great Zhou had surplus food, there would be no barbarian rebellion, nor would there be civil unrest in Shaanxi.

Ming Dynasty in history.

With Zhang Juzheng's reforms, he continued his life for the Ming Dynasty. Without Zhang Juzheng and without reforms, how could the Great Zhou prosper?
Since the government is not prosperous, the country must be poor.

Knowing the things collected so far, combined with the reference in his own mind, and adding his own thoughts, Tang Qing'an does not think that the Great Zhou can quell the civil unrest.

At least.

It is impossible within three to five years.

This is also the reason why he tried to deploy in Japan first.

He didn't dare to jump to conclusions about whether the civil unrest would overthrow Da Zhou, but he took advantage of these three to five years to at least get in touch with Tokugawa Tadacho.

Support him to protect himself, fight against his second brother, and prevent the Japanese shogunate from stabilizing.

As for myself.

Of course Tang Qing'an cherished his life.

If Dazhou really prospers the people and becomes prosperous and strong, then he is definitely not an opponent that he can defeat, and entering the customs in vain will only corrupt the country's situation.

That's why he wants to open up overseas. If he can't beat Da Zhou, he will leave a way out for himself.

(End of this chapter)