The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 59 Hello, Mr. Feng

Chai Rong did not reply to Li Jing, and he was confident that Da Zhou's army would definitely capture the land of Huainan in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

After hearing that Yangzhou's defense was extremely lax, Chai Rong sent Zhao Kuangyin, Han Lingkun and others to attack Yangzhou.

Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to achieve. Zhao Kuangyin didn't have time to guard his old father's coffin. He just let him, Zhao Xu and Zhao Kuangyi, guard the coffin.

Zhao Kuangyin and others led the troops to Yangzhou, and the relationship between Han Lingkun and the others was relatively good.

"Brother Zhao, why didn't you keep a vigil for uncle, and why did you insist on participating in the attack on Yangzhou? Even if you ask, His Majesty will allow it."

On the way, Han Lingkun asked in puzzlement.Filial piety is also very important in this era. Zhao Hongyin passed away not long ago.

According to the usual practice, Zhao Kuangyin, the eldest son, wanted to guard the spirit for him, but Zhao Kuangyin went away at this time.

"Brother Han has been loyal and filial since ancient times. How can we delay state affairs because of my father's death? As generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty, you and I must put state affairs first and live up to the emperor's grace. My father's spirit in heaven will understand."

Zhao Kuangyin ran forward as soon as he patted his horse after speaking, and Han Lingkun also hurriedly followed.

Here, Zhao Xu and Zhao Kuangyi were guarding Zhao Hongyin's spirit, because they could not transport Zhao Hongyi's body back because of the war.

"Second Uncle, take a break, I'm here, don't worry." This Zhao Kuangyi is still a young man.

His official position is not as high as that of his nephew, and his heart is also very kind, which is completely inconsistent with the cruel and merciless Taizong in history.

Maybe it's because he hasn't come into contact with some power things yet, and hasn't been tempted by real power yet.

"Xu'er, it's okay. You haven't rested for a few days, you go to rest first. Your eyes are bloodshot. Second uncle is fine."

Sure enough, Zhao Xu's eyes were indeed bloodshot, not only because he didn't have a rest, but more because of sadness.

"Brother is on the front line now, you just listen to the second uncle and go to rest for a while, and you will come to guard later, and the second uncle will go to rest, okay?"

Now that Zhao Kuangyi said so, Zhao Xu could only nod his head. He was indeed a little tired. He didn't expect that he would fall asleep when he returned to the back hall.

Zhao Kuangyin and the others soon arrived at the city of Yangzhou, and it was already midnight when they arrived. Zhao Kuangyin ordered everyone to rest where they were.

When it was almost dawn, as soon as Tang Jun opened the city gate, Bai Yanyu, who was waiting at the side, rushed into the city with hundreds of elite cavalry.

Several people guarding the city gate saw the murderous cavalry, trembling with fright, they didn't dare to move, so they could only stand there stupidly.

When hundreds of cavalry rushed over, they were so frightened that they peed their pants, and the hundreds of cavalry encountered almost no resistance in the city.

Seeing that Han Lingkun immediately ordered the brigade's soldiers and horses to enter the city and quickly occupied Yangzhou City, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't believe it went so smoothly.

Moreover, all the officials in Yangzhou were captured while they were asleep. This was the smoothest battle in a long time.

Zhao Kuangyin, Han Lingkun and the others immediately ordered the soldiers not to harass the people in the city, and offenders would be punished severely. This order was issued by Chai Rong.

Chai Rong knows that it is easy to capture a city, but it is not easy to win the hearts of the people of this city.

So he gave every general the order that after occupying a city, they are not allowed to harm the people in the city.

The generals of the Great Zhou implemented this order very well, so the people of the original Tang Kingdom did not have any resistance to becoming the people of the Great Zhou.

Zhou Jun quickly took over the city defense, but at this time a fire suddenly broke out in the south of the city, and the generals rushed over immediately.

There are many private houses here, and the fire is very big. Many people are already busy fighting the fire, because it is their own house.

Zhao Kuangyin didn't say a word, and immediately asked his soldiers to help put out the fire, and he simply saved some houses.

After some understanding, this guy was sent by Jia Chongfang, the envoy of Yingtun, the eastern capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty. When this guy heard that Zhou Jun had entered the city, he immediately ordered to get angry.

But he ran away. Everyone was busy fighting the fire after setting the fire, so they had no time to pay attention to him, so he could escape calmly.

He could run away but he didn't have any scruples. The people in the city, people like this only care about themselves and don't care about the people. Why did Li Jing choose such an idiot.

The people's houses were saved, but they looked back to see that it was not the Tang army that helped them, but the Zhou army.

This makes the people a little scared, after all, they are not from their own country, and besides, every time there is a war, the army is not burning, killing and looting.

Zhao Kuangyin saw the fear in the eyes of the people, and sighed, the wars of the Five Dynasties made the people so afraid.

"To my fellow folks, Yangzhou is now my territory of the Great Zhou. Are you a citizen of the Great Zhou? According to the order of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Zhou, you will be exempted from taxes for one year, and you can go home."

In fact, Chai Rong didn't say anything about tax exemption, but Zhao Kuangyin reported it to Chai Rong afterwards, and Chai Rong would definitely agree.

Although there are a lot of taxes in Yangzhou, for a hero like Chai Rong, unifying the world is his ultimate goal.

When the people heard this, not only did they not rob them, but they also exempted them from paying taxes. How could such a good thing happen, but it happened right before their eyes.

It seems that Dazhou is still better than Datang. Although Datang charges us less taxes, it is still necessary.

You see, Da Zhou directly exempted us, and we will be citizens of Da Zhou from now on.That's the way people are, they're never satisfied.

In the past, the tax in the Southern Tang Dynasty was indeed very low, but compared with the one-year exemption in the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was weak.

Kneeling in front of Zhao Kuangyin on the spot, he said Long live the Great Zhou.

Then Han Lingkun and Zhao Kuangyin began to eliminate deserters in the city and restore order in Yangzhou City as soon as possible.

Fortunately, there were not many deserters from the Tang army, so order was quickly restored, and Yangzhou City was quickly restored.

But at this time, they caught a person, and this person was caught in a temple.

There are monks in the temple, but this guy is said to have been hiding in the temple for many days, which can't help but make people suspicious.

So Zhao Kuangyin waited for a few people to go to the temple immediately, but they were pilgrims pretending to be pilgrims.

Sure enough, they found him in the firewood houses of the monastery, but he didn't look like an ordinary person as he said.

The whole person looks like a tattered dress, but there is no trace of dirt on his face, which makes Zhao Kuangyin very suspicious.

Moreover, he spent a lot of money to buy a young monk in a firewood house to live here. Coincidentally, this young monk actually used the money to gamble.

What's even more coincidental is that the monk's luck was surprisingly bad, and he lost all at once, and the unlucky monk left angrily.

He also felt a little hungry when he heard the cries on the street, so he walked into a restaurant and started to eat and drink.

But he forgot that he had lost all his money, and he didn't realize it until he had finished eating and paid the bill, and it was all over.

You are a typical overlord's meal, and the restaurant beat him up, but this guy's hair actually fell out at this time.

His bald head was exposed. It turned out that the family wore wigs and was pretty good at makeup. The monks drank and ate meat, which was even more serious.

So everyone sent him to the yamen, and after some questioning, the guy said everything, including his sneaking.

One of them is about the fact that Zhou Jun occupied Yangzhou City because someone gave him a sum of money and asked him to hide in the firewood room of the temple.

And asked him to help find a set of worn-out clothes. After finishing it, there will be a lot of money in the future. The money-grubbing monk Hua agreed.

This made Zhao Kuangyin murmur. When the city was broken, only the officials of the Southern Tang escaped. Could it be that he was an official of the Southern Tang.

This guy kept saying that he was a rich man in the city, and his house was robbed by rebels, so he ran to the monastery to hide.

Originally, this statement was also true, and everyone believed it, but Zhao Kuangyin looked at this person and felt very familiar.

But I don't have much impression of him, "Since you are a rich man in the city, you can go back. Now that it's back to normal, you can go back."

The person behind him immediately pretended to be grateful:

"Thank you, my lord, next time, Mr. En must be grateful to Dade, thank you very much."

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin's mind exploded. He heard this sentence many years ago:

"Thank you, my lord, for cultivating me. I must be grateful to Dade. I am very grateful." The same voice, I will never forget it.

So it was you, Zhao Kuangyin stared at the person in front of him;
"So it's you, Feng Yanlu, Master Feng, how are you, Master Feng!"

(End of this chapter)