Chapter 313 Prime Minister Wu Jiangnan Begs Fang Lalu Master Lingyin to Persuade Fang
Chapter 313 Prime Minister Wu Jiangnan begs Fang La, Master Lu Lingyin persuades the abbot
The army crossed the river in a mighty and mighty manner.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, plus the accompanying auxiliary soldiers and civilians, can be said to be endless as far as the eye can see.
Li Yunze left behind the Ruan brothers and led the navy to blockade the river and maintain the logistics supply line.
Then the troops and horses were slightly repaired, and the troops were sent straight to Runzhou.
The person stationed in Runzhou was Lu Shinang, the privy envoy under Fang La's command.
Lu Shinang was originally a wealthy man in Shezhou. After the Fang La uprising, he took the initiative to serve and contributed money and food, and was awarded the position of privy envoy.
It is said that this man was familiar with military literature and was good at using a snake spear that was eight feet long.
Under his command are twelve heroes who are famous in Jiangnan, called the Twelve Gods of Jiangnan.
There really is no one else with this name.
As the army marched over, Li Yunze naturally wouldn't do anything to cut off the food road, nor did he send anyone to pretend to surrender.
It's just a matter of besieging the city with a large army, building siege equipment and preparing to attack the city.
As a veteran on the battlefield, Li Yunze has extremely rich combat experience.
The Runzhou City in front of him was not an indestructible city, and its defense capabilities were average in his opinion.
There are naval forces blocking the river and just knocking it down.
The process of siege was uneventful. The Central Plains Dynasty had already become proficient in siege tactics. Even if Li Yunze didn't go to C4, he could just set up a trebuchet and cooperate with many siege equipment, and soon
Then he conquered Runzhou City.
The so-called twelve gods of Jiangnan were all killed in one battle in the city.
As for Lu Shinang, when the city was broken, he boarded a boat and tried to escape by water.
Unexpectedly, they encountered the navy of the Ruan brothers. After the ship was hit and sunk, it was completely submerged.
Lu Shinang's army, which was said to be tens of thousands, was actually basically composed of people from all over the country. After the city was breached, most of them surrendered.
After Li Yunze ordered people to screen them, the people each received some money and food and went home.
The whole battle was a good one, it was a crushing battle based on strength.
Li Yunze didn't care about it, it was just an appetizer, not even a warm-up.
After that, the army continued to send troops and successively recovered Huzhou, Xuanzhou and other places.
Fang La's Changzhou garrison could not withstand the pressure and took the initiative to surrender the city.
Then the army laid siege to Suzhou, recaptured this famous city within two days, and also eliminated Fang La's brother Fang Mao and a group of named generals.
After that, it’s Fang La’s last home base, Hangzhou City.
In the original work, many Liangshan heroes were killed on the battlefield along the way, most of them shot to death by random arrows.
But it was different at this time. Li Yunze provided a large amount of armor and equipment for his soldiers and horses.
Not only are there so many that even the Death Soldier Battalion can wear armor, but they are also of excellent quality and have super defensive capabilities.
Many sergeants were shot like hedgehogs, but they were still able to jump around.
During the war, Li Yunze was not idle in terms of people's livelihood.
Every time he regained a place, Li Yunze would reorganize the local government and arrange for the accompanying imperial students to do things.
At the same time, a group of retired veterans divided their fields and became officials in the local area and village elders in the countryside.
All land, whether government or local, will be collected and redistributed.
Not only can the common people be distributed fifty acres of land per head, but they are also exempted from tax for at least three years.
Of course, this kind of thing will definitely not go smoothly.
When the local gentry, landlords, and powerful people came to ask for land deeds, Li Yunze would assign them the title of Fang La spies and hand them over to the Xin family, who served as guards and defense envoys in various places.
The powerful gentry were extremely sad and angry. They wanted to go to Bianliang City to find officials to punish Li Yunze, but they did not know that Li Yunze also had the final say in Bianliang City.
Li Yunze has done a lot of things like cracking down on the powerful gentry and distributing acres of land, so he has long been rich in experience.
He would be able to tell immediately who was working on it and who was doing it perfunctorily.
No matter who dares to undermine his plan to stabilize the world, he will be in trouble.
Even three members of the Xin family were killed by him because of this incident.
The Xin family has a large population, and the remaining people were in a panic and did not dare to mess around. They could only express their stance to Li Yunze in an aggrieved manner. This was what they did when they were in Guanzhong.
Li Yunze was too lazy to pay attention to them and only replied, 'From now on, anyone who dares to reach out will be beheaded.'
When the army besieged the city of Hangzhou, Li Yunze came to the foot of Feilai Peak.
In front of him was the most famous Lingyin Temple in the south of the Yangtze River.
This place is backed by the North Peak, facing Feilai Peak, with the West Lake next to it, and further away you can see the famous Qiantang River tide.
There are many trees on the mountain, and the tall pines are full of greenery.
The surface of the lake at the foot of the mountain is like a mirror, with microwaves rippling and willows circling the embankments.
Li Yunze couldn't help but praise, "It's really beautiful mountains and clear waters, a beautiful scenery in the world."
He was lamenting how beautiful the scenery here was, but the many monks from Lingyin Temple around him were looking at the large group of Taoist priests not far away in panic as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
The Taoist priests all had kind faces and seemed to be very talkative.
But what they were holding in their hands was not mahogany swords, but real sharp swords, which made the monks’ eyelids jump.
The abbot of Lingyin Temple proclaimed the name of Buddha, stepped forward and said in salute, "The Prime Minister has come to suppress the rebellion of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. We deeply respect him. The small temple is willing to donate 30,000 guan of money and 30,000 dan of food to the army to help the Prime Minister."
"Hehehehe~~~"
After hearing this, Li Yunze, who had his hands behind his back, immediately burst into laughter.
A large group of Taoist priests on the side also laughed, and their eyebrows became more and more beautiful, and their smiles were charming.
"Don't you see, Qiantang Lake, the splendor of King Qian is gone now. There are piles of gold and pearls in the house. When the luck is exhausted, I will break the simple call. The officials from all over the country scatter their children, and the palaces are left to entertain the idlers. The rise and fall of sorrow and joy can last for only a moment, so why worry too much
Yu Yu. There are huts everywhere in the mountains and rivers, but I love Lingyin Feilaigu the most.
The green beards and pine trees a hundred feet tall disturb the laughing willows and cattail trees below. Thousands of people gather to eat in the high hall, ringing bells and beating drums to make noise in the afternoon."
After reciting a poem, Li Yunze clicked his tongue and said, "Scholar Dasu has a very accurate vision. He has long known that you have piles of gold and pearls in Lingyin Temple."
Having said this, Li Yunze turned to look at the bald and sweating abbot, "May I ask the abbot, where did the gold and pearls in your temple come from? Could it be that the soil and water here are good, and they can grow if planted in the ground?
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"This, this, this," the abbot, who was sweating profusely, stammered in explanation, "This is all a joke made by the Dasu scholar. It is a joke. The small temple is a pure place of Buddhism, where did the gold and pearls come from?"
This man was so disrespectful that Li Yunze was too lazy to pay attention to him and simply turned around to admire the scenery around him.
The kind-looking Taoist priests over there walked over in groups carrying sharp swords.
In the past, Lingyin Temple was naturally not afraid of these bullshit.
Not only are there warrior monks in the temple to protect the temple, but there are also many tenants of the temple fields at the foot of the mountain who can mobilize.
Not to mention that they can correspond with the big shots in Bianliang City and have close relationships with local states and counties.
But not now.
Not to mention the North Peak, even the entire city of Hangzhou was surrounded by the army.
Behind the group of fierce Taoist priests, there were fully armed soldiers!
If a monk dares to come out, his legs will be broken immediately and he will become a sweeping monk.
The abbot, who was anxious in his heart, hurriedly said, "Prime Minister, Prime Minister! The small temple is willing to offer one hundred thousand guan, one hundred thousand guan!"
When he said this, the abbot's heart was bleeding.
That's a hundred thousand dollars of wealth, and they would have to borrow money for a long time to earn it back.
That's right, just like the Daxiangguo Temple in Bianliang City was the largest private creditor in the northern part of the Song Dynasty, the largest in the southern part of the Song Dynasty was Lingyin Temple.
There is no need to elaborate on the specific origin. Anyway, just like the Daxiangguo Temple, it has accumulated astonishing wealth through erosion year after year.
Su Dongpo has made it clear in his poems: There are piles of gold and pearls in the house!
Li Yunze ignored him and directly looked at Lu Zhishen.
Lu Zhishen, who looked like the real Skanda alive, walked over carelessly, raised his hand and put a slap on the abbot's shoulder, "Don't say anything. It's useless no matter how much you say. Everything in the temple belongs to the prime minister."
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The abbot looked blankly at the ferocious strong man in front of him, "May I ask this elder, how do you call him? Where do you place orders?"
"The religious name of the Sa family is Zhishen." Luda chuckled, "The abbot of Daxiangguo Temple is also the great monk Zheng of the Song Dynasty."
"Master Monk Zheng?!"
The abbot was dumbfounded. The great monk had to be an accomplished monk to do this. The guy in front of him had no trace of an accomplished monk. He could clearly be a strong man cutting paths as soon as he took off his cassock and carried a knife!
"Abbott, you're in trouble." In these days, Lu Zhishen didn't know how many temples he had paid money to. He really saw this kind of look too many times. "We practice Buddhism.
How can you judge people by their appearance?"
Abbot ‘w(?Д?)w’
What he said was really high-level, and he sounded a bit like an eminent monk.
But then Lu Zhishen immediately changed the subject, and said in a familiar voice, "All the acres of land in the temple will be handed over, and only fifty acres will be left. All monks who have not given ultimatums must return to secular life immediately. All property in the temple can only be kept
Leave a year's worth of food for each person, and the rest
All the IOUs in the temple were confiscated. All the IOUs in the temple were burned and all were invalid."
Lu Zhishen said many measures in one breath. Looking at the completely dumbfounded abbot, Lu Zhishen had seen a lot.
He persuaded Haosheng with sincerity, "Be honest and obedient. Just do as the prime minister tells you. If you don't obey,"
"Ahem~~~"
Over there, Li Yunze had to remind him loudly again, "This is the official intention. The host is Cai You, Cai Xianggong, the deputy prime minister of the province."
Although I have never seen the Nine Heavens Xuannv running out to help Song Jiang, the world in the original work is quite strange after all.
Just in case, Li Yunze asked Zhao Ji, Cai You and others to take the blame for many things.
If it were an ordinary parallel world, where would there be so much nonsense, we would just get rid of it all with a fire.
It would be nice to leave some grain and a broken bowl.
Uh~~~Monk? Broken bowl? Start with a bowl?
Lu Zhishen quickly responded, scratching his head and motioning to the Taoist priests over there, "The Taoist friends over there are all responsible for the work. If they are obedient, they will work lightly; if they are disobedient, they will work harder."
Some."
Speaking of this, Lu Zhishen seemed to have remembered something, "Last month at that so-and-so temple, the abbot would rather die than hand over the land and IOU, and then he really died. Oh, it was the fellow Taoists who helped him pass away."
Hearing this, the abbot of Lingyin Temple couldn't bear it any longer. He immediately heard a "clack" in his throat, his eyes turned white and he fainted.