The resistance in Deguang City was very weak. After the city head was captured, most of the defenders fled into the city.
Is this going to be a street fight?
Li Xuan felt that the fighting spirit of the rebels in Eastern Xinjiang was surprisingly tenacious. "Get some prisoners to question."
Not long after, Wang Laoer came with several rebels.
When several rebel sergeants saw Li Xuan, they knelt down and lowered their heads without scolding him.
"Why did you flee into the city?" Li Xuan asked. He was worried that he had underestimated Shi Gongming.
When the two armies are fighting, the most fearful thing is to underestimate the opponent. "The villain heard that His Highness refused to surrender, so he ran away. Ugh!
Everyone looked at each other in shock.
Li Xuan said with a dark face, "Those are the Southern Xinjiang rebels!"
"Ah!" The surrender soldier raised his head in shock, "But it was said above that His Highness would not accept the surrender. So when he surrendered earlier, we thought it was a lie."
"This is the garrison's trick. He wants to strengthen the garrison's belief in resisting." He Lianrong said: "It's cunning, but before the general trend, it's like a mantis trying to use its arms as a chariot."
"The guard has been captured."
The two sergeants happily dragged Shi Huan over. "I have met His Highness."
Shi Huan knelt down and said fluently: "The villain has long wanted to surrender to Your Highness, but Shi Gongming used the villain's family members to threaten him. The villain has an eighty-year-old mother and a two-year-old child, so he has no choice...
..Resisting His Highness’ Heavenly Soldiers is a crime worthy of death!”
"You speak so fluently." Li Xuan felt a familiar feeling in his ear, and Suzaku said in his ear: "Isn't this what is often performed on TV?" Yes!
Li Xuan smiled, "What is Shi Gongming's plan?"
When Shi Huan heard this, he knew that he could not die, so he cheered up and said: "After Shi Gongming came back, he was in panic all day long. When discussing matters, it could be seen that he was suppressing his fear of His Highness...
"Is there any arrangement?"
"Yes, he recruited warriors as soon as he came back, and even sent people to the rich families to ask for money and food."
"It's interesting that the Jiedushi became a beggar." Li Xuan said disdainfully: "Originally, I thought Shi Gongming had a somewhat majestic air, but it turned out that he was Te Niang's bear."
"Hahahaha!" Everyone laughed.
Accompanied by laughter, a group of cavalry came out of the city gate. "Your Highness, the city has been cleared."
"Go in and have a look."
Li Xuan entered the city, and there were more than ten men waiting on the street in front of him. "I have met His Highness."
A demoted official introduced: "Your Highness, this is a local wealthy family."
The dozen or so people looked at the King of Qin in fear, and felt regretful as they thought of this powerful man's methods against Northern Xinjiang.
If they had sent people to contact the Northern Xinjiang Army when Shi Gongming raised his army and told the rebels what was true, they would be regarded as meritorious at this moment.
But this group of people were all lucky, thinking that if Shi Gongming succeeded, they could also get a share of the new dynasty.
Now, the piece of cake is gone, I just hope that King Qin can be lenient.
"I am alone in knowing the troubles of a large family. There are so many people, and every person in charge has this big family on their shoulders. They eat, drink, and have sex every day. You have to take care of everyone's future and everyone's happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy. It's not easy!"
More than a dozen wealthy families had tears in their eyes. "Your Highness is such a considerate person to us!"
"I know that conscience is useless to you and others, but I still hope that you will ask yourself before you act in the future: Is this worthy of your conscience?"
Li Xuan pointed to his chest, "Only by living up to your conscience can you keep your glory and wealth." He rode up to a dozen people and looked at them condescendingly. "Is there any annexation of land? Is there any illegality?"
More than ten people bowed their heads.
"I thought at least there would be a good one, but now it seems that they are all the same!"
Li Xuan shook his head, "The main reason is the indulgence of local officials, but the source of why local officials are indulgent is in Chang'an. The false emperor made deals with aristocratic families and did not hesitate to let go of land annexation. This trend has spread to the local area. You will be overjoyed and follow suit."
More than ten people knelt down, trembling in their hearts. "We are guilty!"
"Don't think about the law.
Blame everyone." Li Xuan pointed to the dozen or so people, "First, all the land that was illegally annexed will be spit out and interest will be paid according to the time."
"yes!"
This time, the wealthy people are going to vomit blood.
"Secondly, if there is a murder case in hand, there is still a way out to surrender. If you conceal it and fail to report it, if you are found out, you will be severely punished!"
"Your Highness, spare your life!"
Immediately, six people turned pale and begged loudly for mercy. Li Xuan waved his hand, and someone went over to capture the six people. Then he went to the official house.
Han Ji followed him in, "Your Highness, actually, there are very few powerful men in the world who don't commit murders."
"What do you think?" Li Xuan asked calmly. "I think we can let bygones be bygones."
"Those who commit crimes in the future will be punished again?" "Yes!"
For some reason, Han Ji felt a little warm on his back. Li Xuan sat down and Jiang Heer came in to clean up.
"Your Highness, would you like some tea?"
Li Xuan shook his head and said: "What you want to say is that Gu should win over the powerful in the world instead of showing favor to the people?"
Han Ji lowered his head, "After all, these are the people who control the place. If we offend them severely, local governance will be very troublesome in the future."
Local officials and local clans are now a complementary structure. The number of local officials is not enough to manage their own jurisdictions.
There is another key issue. At this time, the smallest governance unit is not a village or a county, but a clan.
The clan dominates everything and the officials have no control over it.
Therefore, the government simply left the local governance power to the wealthy families and just supervised it themselves.
In Han Ji's view, Li Xuan's original goal of curbing those powerful men in Northern Xinjiang had been achieved... The soldiers and people of Northern Xinjiang regarded him as a god.
But now he is facing the whole world.
If you continue to use such ruthless tactics to deal with powerful families, you will lose more than you gain.
"The so-called governance of the world means that the emperor is at the top and conveys his intentions to his ministers. From the ministers down are the officials from various places, and the officials from various places join forces with the local noble families...
This has been the governance pattern for thousands of years.
"I just want to ask, why do you govern the world?" Li Xuan pointed at Han Ji, "Think about it carefully." Han Ji resigned.
After going out, he found He Lianrong. "Why do you want to govern the world?"
This question also stumped He Lianrong. He rubbed his bald head and said, "The purpose of governing the world... depends on the emperor's ideas. If he is a male ruler, the purpose of governing the world is to accumulate money and food to prepare for expansion.
.If you are a mediocre prince, the purpose of governing the world is to prevent big troubles..."
Han Ji scratched his head and smiled bitterly, "But what is your highness's purpose?"
"The poor monk remembers that His Highness once said that governing is for the people." Helianrong rubbed his increasingly smooth head, "For the people?"
"There is no contradiction between serving the people and being kind to the rich people!" Han Ji said: "At most, the rules should be stricter so that the rich people don't abuse the people too much..."
"But Your Highness's problem is definitely not that simple."
Both of them were a little puzzled. "I've met Master Ning."
Ning Yayun is here, and the handsome old man is a sight wherever he goes.
"Why are you two looking so sad?" Ning Yayun asked casually.
Han Ji's eyes lit up, "The headmaster came just in time."
"What's the matter?" Ning Yayun had just walked around the city and felt refreshed. Han Ji said what Li Xuan had said before, and finally said: "Does the headmaster know what His Highness is thinking?"
Ning Yayun was startled, then smiled, "I don't know, but there is a way."
"I still want to ask for advice." Han Ji handed over his hand. "Go and ask!"
Ning Yayun shook her tail and walked away.
Han Ji smiled bitterly, "His Royal Highness is becoming more and more dignified. If he doesn't tell me, how can I dare to ask again?"
The emperor's governing philosophy and goals are what his subjects want to know most.
Then just do what you like.
This is the instinct of a courtier, and there is no limit to whether he is a virtuous person or a cunning woman.
The King of Qin didn't have the habit of selling things off. He didn't say anything. There was only one possibility, and that was that his governing philosophy and the current situation were far different from what everyone thought.
...
"What a bunch of sticks!" Li Xuan was drinking tea.
In his ear, Suzaku said: "Your thoughts are very dangerous at this moment." "I know."
"There are also emperors in that world who are too deviant, and they eventually become tragedies. I don't want you to become a coffee table."
"You can't die alone!"
"I think your dream is very difficult to realize. The resistance is too great." "Everyone has to have a dream, otherwise, what's the difference between it and salted fish?" "Xiao Xuanzi, after all these years, you still haven't changed in your bones! "It's easy to change a country, but it's hard to change one's nature."
"This road is not easy to walk."
"I like to go to places where no one has walked. Besides, who said that? There are no roads in the world. When there are more people walking, they become roads."
"Hey! Mr. Lu's words."
Li Xuan put down the teacup, "It's not easy for people to live in this world. In this case, you have to do something that will shock future generations."
"Shi Huan said that Deguang City can hold on for at least ten days." Shi Gongming encouraged his subordinates.
In the past two days, there have been some rumors outside, saying that the King of Qin personally led an army to attack Shi Gongming, and what he said...
...
"I will only take care of Shi Gongming's family, as well as the generals and police officers. Let the rest be forgotten."
"Really?" "Of course it's true."
"Then I really have to find a way to send a message to the second son in the army, telling him not to resist and kneel down when he sees His Highness's army."
...
"The military must isolate internal and external communication for a while."
Shi Gongming said with murderous intent: "Whoever dares to send word in will be killed." "Yes!"
Seeing the listless appearance of his subordinates, Shi Gongming slapped the desk and said, "Everyone, please don't forget the pride we had when we were waiting to raise the army." "Yes!"
Shi Gongming knew that this was a group of hobgoblin, "Let's find out where Shi Zhongtang's reinforcements have arrived. Also, if they come quickly, we can let them rescue Deguang City."
"Yes!" Everyone excused themselves.
Shi Gongming sighed, drank tea, and thought about the current situation. At some point, he fell asleep lying on the table.
——You traitor, why don’t you kneel down?
In the dream, a general wearing golden armor pointed at Shi Gongming and shouted, "King of Qin?"
"It's Gu!" "I'm willing to surrender!"
"I can't tolerate a traitor like you! If I don't kill you, how can I convince the people of the world? Come on!"
"exist!"
Li Xuan pointed at Shi Gongming and shouted: "Kill him!" The sword flashed.
"ah!"
Shi Gongming woke up suddenly, sweating profusely. His eyes were red and he looked outside blankly.
There is no knife and axe-hand, no King of Qin, only the autumn sunshine shining on the steps outside.
There is still moss on the gaps between the steps...
Before he started the army, he remembered that there was no moss on the steps. No, there was, but he shrank back after being trampled by people coming and going. How long had it been?
Shi Gongming covered his forehead, "How few people have come to see me recently?"
"Ms. sir!" Xie Zhong is here.
His face was calm. After he came in, he looked at Shi Gongming intently. "Lao Xie, what's the matter?"
Shi Gongming rubbed the corners of his eyes.
Xie Zhong spoke.
"Deguang City, fell. "What did you say?"
Wei Ming, who was on his way, shouted immediately.
The scout who came to report wiped the dust from his face, "Deguang City was destroyed by the Northern Xinjiang Army."
Wei Ming's face looked uncertain. "How long can Huizhou hold on?"
He raised a question, and the generals were discussing it. Some said half a month, and some said it was a fortified city after all, a month. "That's enough!"
Wei Ming called his subordinates to stop. He was hesitating.
yes
Slow down and wait for the battle situation to become clear before launching, or speed up.
It only takes a few days to reach Huizhou from here, and within five days, you can reach the outskirts of Huizhou.
But he was worried...inexplicably worried. So, just slow down?
But when he thought that Shi Zhongtang might use this to deal with him, Wei Ming couldn't help but sigh secretly.
"Hurry up and hurry up!"
At the foot of Huizhou City, a large army gathered.
Shi Gongming stood at the top of the city and said with a smile: "Where did King Qin come from?" "This man is quite thick-skinned!" Jiang He'er muttered. Li Xuan spoke.