Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1032 Letter from Great Wei
Chapter 1040 Letter from Wei

At this time, dozens of killers appeared around, but at this time the rebel soldiers also reacted and protected the seriously injured Liu Hu and Bai Yalisi in the circle.

Seeing that these members of the action team were gradually falling into a disadvantage, at this moment the change occurred again. A member of the action team holding a scimitar of the crescent moon rushed towards Bai Yalisi. At this time, a barbarian general with a gun yelled There was a sound, like a thunderbolt in mid-air, the spear pierced, and a sharp airflow hit it directly.

What a Zhongli Wuchang, he didn't dodge or dodge, the scimitar in his hand did the same, the scimitar whirled and flew towards Bai Yalisi, and Zhongli Wuchang grabbed the lower edge of the spear point with one hand, let out a low shout, and threw That Hu general pulled up and held it high.As soon as he loosened his grip, the General Hu fell straight down, Zhongli Wuchang raised his hand high, grabbed the General Hu in his hand, and threw it to the ground, the General Hu fell unconscious immediately.

At this time, Zhongli Wuchang's scimitar of the waning moon flew back after injuring the enemy. Zhongli's waning moon's hands were originally connected by a long thin thread, and Zhongli Wuchang took back the two knives. With some posture, he shouted: "Who else?"

Seeing this scene, Bai Yalisi's eyes dimmed, and his heart felt sad. What kind of gap is this?He mainly relied on three people for this uprising, the first was Sima Shunzai, the mastermind, and the second was Liu Hu, who was the fiercest. During the rebellion, Liu Hu beat eleven soldiers of the Wei State Security Army with his bare hands. The other person is dragging Luohe (meaning strong man in Turkic).Yanluohe was originally Kangguo Zhejie Takhan: (Turkic, also translated as "Darhan, Tarhan, Dagan", referring to tribal nobles in the early days, and military landlords with outstanding military achievements in the later period.) It is roughly equivalent to Wanfu long level.We must know that at this time Liu Hu was seriously injured and lost his combat effectiveness, while Yan Luohe even subdued an unarmed enemy with one move. What is the difference?
"Surrender, or die!" Zhongli Wuchang roared domineeringly: "Within three breaths, life and death are irrelevant!"

Before Bai Yalisi had time to react, he felt a pain in his lower abdomen, and saw a dagger in the hand of his confidant, Sima Shunzai, stabbing fiercely into Bai Yalisi's lower abdomen, the dagger did not reach the handle.

"Master Wang, the grass people are willing to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, and turn to the good!" Sima Shunzai took the opportunity to push the seriously injured Bai Yalisi to the ground, drew out his dagger, pointed at Bai Yalisi and shouted: "Hu Er, surrender!"

At this point in the matter, there was no longer any suspense. The hostages were successfully rescued. More than half of the rebels, who numbered more than 23, were killed, and half of them surrendered. None of them slipped through the net.However, only 37 people were killed in the action team, [-] people were injured, and the casualties of the rebel army were less than [-].

At this time, Ran Ming received the news of the Qiang rebellion in Wenchuan County. Fortunately, the Qiang rebellion was successfully suppressed by Zhang Yu, the Nanman school captain of Wei Guohu.However, the losses were not small. At least 6000 Han Chinese houses were burned and their property was robbed. More than [-] people died tragically, and about [-] women were raped or gang-raped.

Ran Ming urgently ordered Xie An to be the imperial envoy, and rushed to Wenchuan to appease the people and deal with the aftermath. At the same time, the supplies and medicines to rescue the suffering people were also shipped.

However, the state of Wei was not peaceful in one wave, and another wave rose again.There was a widow in Bailong Town, Hengshan County, Changsha County, Wei State, named Cuiniang, who was well-known in Hengshan County and even the entire Changsha County.Three months after Cuiniang got married, her husband was a soldier of the Annan Army and died in the Battle of the Mekong.Because Cuiniang and her first husband were barren, and because her husband died early after marriage, she was considered unknown, so the widowed Cuiniang did not receive her husband's death benefit inheritance, and her in-laws were kicked out of the house.

In order to make ends meet, Cui Niang became a half-closed door in Bailong Town.The so-called half-covered door is secret prostitution and private prostitution.But Cui Niang had a disaster half a month ago, she was actually strangled to death in the rented courtyard.

According to the rumors, he was killed by Wei Zhou Chongjiu of Hengshan County. In the end, Hengshan County followed the law and was released due to unsubstantiated investigations.Now Cuiniang's ex-husband's Hengshan Li family started to make trouble.Originally, since ancient times, the people did not fight with the officials, but the key point of Wei State's law is that it treats the people too kindly, which makes people who are interested take advantage of the loopholes.

Although the Li family in Hengshan is not a high-ranking family, it is a large family with a population of thousands of people, and most of the children in the family join the Wei army and become grassroots officers.The next big clan of a thousand people began to surround the county government, condemning the county lieutenant Zhou Chongjiu and Hengshan County magistrate Cao Zhan.

"Cui Niang, my poor child, you died so badly!"

"Officials and officials protect each other, the sky is not fair!"

"How wise is His Majesty, how could he be deceived by such a corrupt official!"

Almost all of the Hengshan Li family mobilized, including the elderly, weak, women and children, and as many as 600 people crowded in front of the Hengshan county government office. Suddenly, the entire Yaqian Street in the county resounded with mourning and music, and the smoke was lingering.The people of the country have always had a tradition of watching the excitement, so with the addition of good people, there are thousands of people, and the entire county is congested.

Zhang Chun, the county magistrate of Hengshan, Zhang Zihou, was born as a Jinshi in the imperial examination of the Wei State. He had just replaced the county magistrate of Hengshan for less than half a year.

County lieutenant Zhou Chongjiu said: "Brother Zihou, why don't I go out and give them an explanation now, at worst I will pay for that Cui Niang's life!"

"Pay for life, pay for what life!" Zhang Chundao: "You didn't kill anyone, why bother to take the blame?
When he said this, Zhang Chun was obviously a little guilty. To be honest, he already had the idea of ​​using Zhou Chongjiu to quell public anger.However, the official system of the State of Wei was changed, and the power of criminal names, prison recitations, and calculations were all vested in the criminal clerk. This criminal clerk is almost equivalent to the integration of the procuratorate and the court in later generations.The county has a criminal secretary, the county has a judge, and the prefecture has a pusher. It is under the triple management of the Ministry of Officials, Dali Temple and the Supervision Institute.Since Zhou Chongjiu was acquitted by the criminal secretary, although he is a county magistrate, he is not good at interfering with judicial justice.

"Ouch!" Zhou Chongjiu said with a headache, "Brother Zihou, how should this end?"

"This!" Zhang Chun didn't know what to do for a while.Cuiniang was strangled to death half a month ago in the small courtyard where she was temporarily living. At that time, the county captain, Zhou Chongjiu, was leading the Hengshan county government servants to cooperate with the Changsha County security team to wipe out the iron-headed bandits in Hengshan.This Hengshan iron head thief is said to be composed of stragglers from the original Jin state. He often attacked the village when the security regiment and the township were unprepared. In the past, villages were slaughtered every year. The caravan passing by Hengshan was also worried. Once encountering these thieves, at least the goods will be taken away, and at the worst, their lives will be lost.In order to exterminate the Hengshan Iron Head Bandits, Changsha mobilized [-] public security regiments to cooperate with the county government servants and township braves, a total of more than [-] people, which lasted more than [-] days, and finally wiped out the Hengshan Iron Head Bandits.At that time, Zhou Chongjiu was with the army to suppress the bandits all the way, and he had neither the time nor the motive for committing the crime, because everyone knew that Zhou Chongjiu was single now and wanted to marry Cuiniang a long time ago.Therefore, after the criminal secretary questioned the case, he directly sentenced Zhou Chongjiu to be acquitted.

However, for some reason, the death of Cuiniang was actually pressed on Zhou Chongjiu's head, which made Zhou Chongjiu unable to argue. The only murder weapon left at the scene of the crime was the belt that originally belonged to Zhou Chongjiu, but this did not explain much. A belt, which has not been used for more than three months.

While the three giants in Hengshan County were still discussing how to resolve this matter, in an inner house in Hengshan County, Li Jingzong, the ancestor of the Li family in Hengshan County, was tasting tea and chatting with a man who looked like an official. Shi Shi asked, "Xiao Langjun, is there really no problem with this matter? What if the imperial court blames us and labels our Hengshan Li clan as rebellious, what should we do?"

"Of course not! Mr. Li, don't worry!" Xiao Langjun said with a smile: "What is your crime, Mrs. Li? You neither raised the flag against Wei, nor insulted the imperial court and Jinshang. You just want to ask for an explanation. It is human nature. Cuiniang is the wife of the Li family. Although she was kicked out of the house, she did not issue a document to divorce her wife. In terms of law, she is still a member of the Li family. Now Cui Niang died for no reason. What's wrong with asking for justice?"

"It's just that the people don't fight with the officials!" Li Jingzong thought for a moment and said, "Can our Li family really get justice? Can we get back tens of millions of dollars?"

"Of course, the laws of the State of Wei stipulate that in addition to death, the murderer must also compensate the family members of the deceased." Xiao Langjun said with a smile: "Zhou Chongjiu is a Hengshan county lieutenant, but he also came from the army. This person has no relatives and is alone. With a whole body, he still has [-] acres of fine paddy fields under his name, even if he only gets [-]%, it is worth tens of millions of dollars!"

Hearing this, Li Jingzong was determined. As a clan born and bred in Hengshan County, the Li family has thousands of people, but the family land is not too many, because the Wei state has just been unified, and the Li family has no idea about the Wei state. Policies, fearing that the clansmen will be subject to corvee and heavy taxes, so many people are underreported.In fact, the population of Wei State has now exceeded the 2000 million mark. Except for newborn babies, almost one-third of the population has changed from the original recessive population to the dominant population.However, although members of the Li family have become a dominant population, they have no land to take.

After all, under the rule of the Jin State, the population of Hengshan increased a lot, and the yield per mu was too low at this time, and the land that could support one person in later generations required almost sixty times the land at this time.For the more than 300 mu of paddy fields under Zhou Chongjiu's name, it is the fat in Li's eyes.

Stimulated by interests, Li's protests in the Hengshan County Government became more and more intense, and his behavior became more and more extreme.At first they were just normal petitions, and slowly evolved into riots and civil uprisings.Finally, under the stimulation of someone with a heart, the Li family rushed into the Hengshan county government and killed the "murderer" Zhou Chongjiu.Zhang Chun, the magistrate of Hengshan County, was severely injured. Even the criminal secretary who acquitted Zhou Chongjiu was beaten to death in the chaos.

When the prefect of Changshui County reacted, the entire county became anarchic, and local hooligans also took advantage of the chaos. Some of them robbed shops and raped women from good families. At that time, Hengshan County became a city of crime, with at least a hundred people. Nearly a thousand people were killed or injured. Naturally, the prefect of Changshui did not dare to conceal this matter, so he had to report the situation to the central government.

In the Taiwu Hall of the Imperial Palace in Yecheng, Wei Emperor Ran Ming was preparing to hold a ten-month court meeting. Just after the civil and military officials had a face-to-face meeting, and before they had time to enter the political discussion process, Ran Ming caught a glimpse of an official wearing a blue military official uniform He was arguing with the eunuch on duty at the door.Soon Zhongchang Attendant You Yi hurriedly walked around to inquire about the situation, and after a while, he returned with a livid face and came back with a scroll in his hand.

What a big deal!

These days, the courtiers are all good at observing words and expressions, and they know that something is wrong when they see You Yi's gaffe.But this time the Prime Minister Wang Jian felt that something was wrong. He was the first Prime Minister of the Wei State. Now, not only the Xiangyuan slave rebellion broke out during his tenure, but also the Qiang rebellion. Being criticized, although this does not implicate him as the prime minister, it is difficult to add to his re-election.Now this is because the Anxi Army is not doing well in the west, or is there a country in the south that is raising troops, or is there a rebellion by the Yi people, or a natural disaster such as a flood?
Ran Ming slapped the scroll on the imperial case, Ran Ming felt a little absurd at this time, the people of Wei State dared to attack the government, beat and seriously injured the county magistrate, the county lieutenant died tragically on the spot, a county was corrupted, and hundreds of families were destroyed thousand.Ran Ming couldn't help but reflect on himself. Where did he go wrong? Is Wei's law too progressive, or is there a loophole in the law?Or are the officials below corrupt, forcing the people to rebel?
Thinking of this, Ran Ming couldn't help but get a headache.

Ran Ming calmed down quickly, and handed over the difficult issues to the cabinet. Once the cabinet handled them well, he would be credited. If they failed to handle them well, the cabinet would take the blame for the emperor. "Prime Minister, look at this matter, how should we deal with it, it is best for the cabinet to come up with a charter as soon as possible, I am tired, retreat!"

Constantinople, the capital of the Roman Empire, was originally named Byzantium and was originally a Greek colony of the Roman Empire.Later, Emperor Constantine moved his capital to Byzantium in order to avoid the senate's arrest. On the basis of Byzantium, Constantinople, a cosmopolitan metropolis, was built.

Today's Roman Empire is no longer the Roman Empire that swept the surrounding area back then. The Roman Empire's system adopted the political form of one emperor and two vice-emperors (both Caesars), so it also laid hidden dangers for civil wars.In this case, everyone wanted to be an emperor, so in the history of the Roman Empire, there were many emperors who were soldiers. Now, both Constantine, the former emperor Julian, and the current emperor Jovian are all soldiers. The emperor, they all have the support of the military, become the emperor.

In the war with the Persian Empire for more than 20 years, the Roman Empire had more victories than defeats. At this time, Jovian began to reflect. In fact, the Roman Empire was also in turmoil at this time. The southern Arab colonies were everywhere against the Roman army. The rebels, the entire Arabian peninsula is almost anarchic, not only the Arabian peninsula, but even the Egyptian colony is about to come.

The Goths in the northwest were also descendants of the Huns, and they were all eyeing the Roman Empire. Under such circumstances, the Roman Empire could not concentrate all its strength against the Persian Empire.What's more, Jovian controlled only the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Western Roman Empire only maintained nominal unity. Regardless of finances or personnel, including the army, he, the nominal Roman emperor, could not get involved at all.

In this context, Jovian began to look for allies, especially he already knew that in the east of the Persian Empire, there was a powerful Serisian country that had been unified again. As long as he could form an alliance with Wei, he could flank the Wei army The Persian army won the war, even if he ceded most of Persia's territory and Wei, he would not hesitate.

Especially when he heard that the Wei mission had arrived in the Arabian Peninsula, Jovian was in a better mood. He even increased his appetite a lot.Due to the large increase in appetite, his physical health also began to improve.However, it didn't take long before he received a secret letter from Earl Bailey. The content of this secret letter caused him great fear.

Bailey's letter described in detail the heroic, well-trained, and well-equipped guards of the Wei State Mission.

"Dear Your Majesty the Emperor: For the future of the Roman Empire, I feel that I should advise you to carefully consider the issue of forming an alliance with the State of Wei. Through close observation, I found that the Wei State Mission has a thousand cavalry guards. Their combat effectiveness is really Too strong. Your Majesty the Emperor, you also know that our control in the Arabian Peninsula is very weak, those are full of barbarians, bandits and robbers, it is simply a corner forgotten by God.

The Wei State Mission landed from the Kaaba, and then took advantage of the Hijaz area. In 32 days, it crossed the Arabian Peninsula for more than 87 miles. It experienced [-] battles and killed [-] enemies. More than [-] people were captured.His own loss was less than three hundred.When I first received this information, I couldn't believe it, I thought I was dreaming.In fact, after Alex's proof, this record is actually real.God, I'm afraid our Rome did not have such a brilliant record during the time of Constantine the Great.

I couldn't believe that their Janissary cavalry each had three horses, they were like monsters wrapped in steel.The attitude of these Wei Guo Imperial Guard cavalry is extremely arrogant and domineering, and each of them exudes a strong murderous aura.I have seen them camping with my own eyes, a Wei State mission whose number is almost equivalent to one of our Roman legions. When their generals ordered to stop advancing, all the missionaries who heard the order came to a sudden stop.

My Majesty the Emperor, you read that right, yes, their entire mission, regardless of whether they are civilian or military personnel, can all follow orders and prohibit them.Better than our best Roman army.

There is another situation, Your Majesty, you must pay attention to. In the northeast of our Roman Empire, the Attila people (descendants of the Huns) are said to be descendants of the Huns, one of the old enemies of the Seres. More than 300 years ago, the Huns Empire was the state of Wei The largest empire in the north, their territory is larger than our current Roman Empire, but this powerful Xiongnu Empire was wiped out by the Han Empire at that time. Except for the Huns who surrendered, the rest of the Huns moved westward .Because these Huns were afraid of being completely wiped out by Wei Guo.Your Majesty the Emperor, can you imagine?How fierce are those Atiti people?The most combative Goths in our Roman Empire were not the opponents of the Attilans, but the fierce Attilans were driven to Europe by the Seres of Wei.

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After reading this long secret letter, Jovian fell into deep thought.Until late at night, Jovian still did not fall asleep. At dawn, Jovian fell asleep for half an hour. Now the Roman Empire is in a precarious state, and the Roman Empire is almost surrounded by enemies. Persians, Slavs, Arabs, There is no easy character to relate to.At this time, the core area of ​​the Roman Empire was established on the Greek colonies, and the Greeks were not martial, and being aggressive and advocating force was regarded as a manifestation of rudeness, ignorance and barbarism.The Roman Empire regarded military affairs as an art, paying more attention to the perfection of combat and the contest of wisdom between the two sides, rather than the outcome of the war.Jovian is getting old and has not recovered from his injury, so he is already physically and mentally exhausted.Jovian looked worriedly at the pile of documents, his head was in a mess.

(End of this chapter)