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Chapter 194 Wang Mang's New Deal ([-])

Three years later

Three Years of Emperor Dihuang
Chang'an (Chang'an)
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The democratically elected emperor Wang Mang brought a group of officials big and small to pray for the gods to bless the Daxin Dynasty.

"Heaven! Please send down divine punishment and punish those rebels!"

Wang Mang knelt under the prayer platform, crying constantly, hoping that God would help him wipe out the rebels.

"Damn rebels, I curse you, you all die!"

"I curse you, you bastards without king or father!"

"The emperor and the ministers, the emperor is the leader of the ministers, if you dare to rebel, then you have no father, you are deceiving the emperor, and you are the barbarians who do not understand Chinese etiquette!"

Wang Mang, who had nothing to do with the rebels, could only curse the rebels.

Over the years, the rebels could not be killed no matter how they suppressed them.

As soon as the officers and soldiers left, the rebels hid in the mountains, and then the officers and soldiers started fighting among themselves in order to compete for property.

As soon as the officers and soldiers left and went to other places to suppress the rebellion, the rebel army came out of the forest to redevelop.

The Red Eyebrow Army in Kanto fought more and more, and they couldn't kill them all.

If one Red Eyebrow Army was killed, two refugees would join the Red Eyebrow Army, and if two Red Eyebrow Army soldiers were killed, four refugees would join the Red Eyebrow Army. The harder Wang Mang's army killed, the more rebels there would be.

After cursing the rebels, Wang Mang began to pray for immortality.

After some crazily pretending to be gods and ghosts, Wang Mang suddenly stood up with a "ha" and shouted to the startled officials: "God said, I, Wang Mang, will be promoted to immortality. After I become immortal, I will use Immortal art can call the wind and rain, can kill all the rebels, and let those rebels surrender quickly, otherwise they will perish when I ascend to the immortal."

Wang Mang has nothing to do with the rebels, he can only use this kind of nagging to intimidate the rebels, trying to scare the rebels into surrender.

A group of officials, big and small, looked at the emperor Wang Mang with a lot of thoughts in their hearts. They were all thinking about how to run away after making the last sum of money, so they must not be buried with Wang Mang.

The soldiers who had not been paid for a long time had no loyalty to the new dynasty, and only wanted to rob and make money when they went out to suppress the rebellion. As for Wang Mang's country?
Hehe... Whoever loves to protect who the fuck should protect, anyway, if the country dies, it will die!

At this time, Jing Zhaoyin reported: "Your Majesty! There is a famine in Guanzhong, and people eat each other!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

Cannibalism was only happening in the heavily exploited counties of the Kanto region before, but now it even happened in Guanzhong in the Gyeonggi region.

At the feet of the emperor, people are eating each other!
"People can't afford to eat, why don't they eat bark and grass roots?"

Wang Mang really didn't have any leftover food to help the people. The country had already been emptied by the Liaodong royal family and the gentry, and the wealth he had just obtained by relying on the excessive issuance of currency was also lost by his coquettish operations over the years.

There was no surplus food to help the people, so he could only persuade the people to eat bark and grass roots.

In order to prevent people from knowing how to eat the bark and grass roots, the emperor Wang Mang also seriously explained: "Grind the bark into powder, crush the grass roots, put them in water and boil them, and finally drink them as porridge."

"Officials from all over the world, according to the method I said, teach the people to eat bark and grass roots, so as not to starve to death."

After Wang Mang taught how to eat the bark and grass roots, he asked the national teacher Liu Xiu (Liu Xin) gloomily: "I heard that there is a prophecy that has been very popular in recent years. If you say 'Liu Xiu should be the son of heaven', the national teacher can know Who spread this prophecy?"

Before Wang Mang himself usurped the throne, there were countless Confucian scholars who studied ancient literature and classics to build momentum for him, and they also made Wang Mang prophecies such as "Wang Mang is the Son of Heaven".

Now Liu Xiu (Liu Xin) also has such a prophecy, which makes Wang Mang very afraid.

"Maybe it's just a misrepresentation by the Confucian scholars." Liu Xiu (Liu Xin) swallowed her saliva. As Wang Mang's reform failed, these Confucian scholars who studied ancient Chinese classics also gradually broke with Wang Mang.

"It's best to just misrepresent it." Wang Mang snorted coldly, but the suspicion in his heart became heavier and heavier.

"Your Majesty!" At this moment, Da Sima reported to Wang Mang: "The Green Forest Army has surrounded Wancheng, and the second county of Nanyang Yingchuan is in danger!"

"Suppress! Immediately dispatch all the people to suppress!" Facing the second county of Yingchuan, Nanyang, which was close at hand, Wang Mang would never allow it to be occupied by the rebels.

Langya and other counties that are far away, Wang Mang has no way to take back, but Wang Mang does not want to give up the nearby areas.

……

Three months later
Four Years of Emperor Dihuang
Outside the gate of Wancheng

Heroes from all walks of life in the green forest gathered together. Facing this fortified city, they had no choice but to wipe out the counties around Wancheng in three months, and beat down the entire Nanyang to the county seat, Wancheng, an isolated city.

However, before attacking Wancheng, the heroes had disagreements.

"There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two masters in the country. We must elect an emperor to lead us. We can no longer hold meetings and discuss before every battle as before. This is a waste of time. In an emergency, what should we do? "Someone in the rebel army persuaded like this.

The Green Forest Army is a loose alliance, composed of dozens of bandit forces, large and small, and several powerful forces, forming a massive uprising army.

The thieves didn't want the emperor they elected to be too strong, which would make them lose their freedom, so they elected the incompetent and mediocre Liu Xuan as emperor one after another.

But the tyrants elected Liu Yan as emperor, because Liu Yan and Liu Xiu brothers were their commanders-in-chief, leading their private soldiers to revolt.

The tyrants donate money and people, and let the two brothers of the Liu family take the private soldiers from their manor to conquer the world and rob the government of the new dynasty and other tyrants. Thirty percent.

At this moment, the two brothers Liu Yan and Liu Xiu are just wage earners of the tyrants, but they are elected as emperors (managers) by the tyrants (shareholders).

Among them, the Yin family allocated a hundred family private soldiers to Liu Yan and Liu Xiu brothers to lead, and the other tycoons also allocated about a hundred family private soldiers to the two brothers, and gave the two brothers a lot of money for recruiting soldiers. They have invested so much in the two brothers, so naturally they want to see returns, and one of the two brothers must be the emperor.

In the end, the bandits of the Green Forest Army were more powerful than the tyrants of the Green Forest Army, and the minority obeyed the majority. After voting, the waste Liu Xuan was elected as the emperor, and the great Han was rebuilt.

Later, in order to compensate the tyrants and prevent the tyrants from breaking up and going it alone in a rage.

Liu Xuan, who was elected by the bandits as emperor, was reminded by the bandit leaders to confer titles on the two brothers Liu Yan and Liu Xiu. Rewards were given to the armies of the two brothers as appeasement.

Finally, after discussion and decision, the next battle plan is as follows:
[Elected Emperor Liu Xuan personally led the main force to attack Wancheng and used Wancheng as the temporary imperial capital.

Liu Yan, as a powerful representative, followed Liu Xuan to attack Wancheng.

The bandit leader Wang Feng Wang Kuang led the elite Green Forest Army to capture Kunyang City, the passage between Nanyang Basin and the Central Plains. Relying on the strong defense of Kunyang City, they resisted Wang Mang's army. After Liu Xuan captured Wancheng, he led the main force to support Kunyang City. Yang, annihilated Wang Mang's main force in one fell swoop.

At the same time, Liu Xiu, as the representative of the powerful, led three thousand light cavalry (some were court cavalry who surrendered, and some were recruited cavalry recruited by the two brothers with the money sponsored by the powerful) to support Kunyang City at any time. 】

"When I come back, I will marry you! Lihua!"

Looking in the direction of Xinye County in the distance, Liu Xiu muttered to herself, and then according to the order of the elected emperor Liu Xuan, led [-] Qingqi to Kunyang City, ready to fight Wang Mang's hundreds of thousands of troops at any time.

Kunyang City is a military fortress, and one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it. This is the confidence that the tens of thousands of Green Forest Army dare to defend Wang Mang's hundreds of thousands of troops head-on.

However, this is still not the most critical.

The key is……

Wang Mang has not paid his military salary for a long time. The 42 Xinmang army has almost zero loyalty.

The military salary has long been scooped up by the royal family of Liaodong. Now Wang Mangkong has 42 troops but can't pay the military salary, so that the army is becoming more and more difficult to control.

(End of this chapter)