Chapter 348 People’s hearts are in doubt, and the way of heaven is temporarily empty.
Songzhou is right on the edge of Bianzhou, and the two places are connected by land. It is only about three hundred miles from Junyi County, where it is governed, to Songcheng County.
Both states are wealthy places. The land has been developed for thousands of years and is very fertile. The transportation is developed and river transportation is convenient, supporting a large population.
As for any famous figure, a few decades later there was a man named Zhao Kuangyin who served as the military governor of the German army here.
It was also because of this that after becoming emperor, the country was named Song.
Now, Zhao Kuangyin's grandfather, Zhao Jing, is still the governor of Zhuozhou. His father, Zhao Hongyin, is still in a liquid state, let alone peeing and mud.
There were 360 states and more than 1,500 counties in the Tang Dynasty.
But there are only about 40 towns that can really be called vassal towns, that is, there are only about 40 military governors.
The remaining three hundred or so states are either defense envoys, observation envoys, managerial envoys, or simply team training or something like that.
Songzhou belongs to the most common type, which is an ordinary civilian state, with no governor and only a governor.
There is no mention of equality or dignity here. There is only one reason. The head of the family is responsible for the entire family. Everything such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, and even social status are all dependent on the head of the family. Waiting for him to come back before eating, that is
It's natural.
Li Yunze asked lightly, "Who are you?"
He built a local team through team training. It would definitely not be able to go out to fight, but it is capable of protecting his hometown.
Everyone in the house has been waiting for a long time. The head of the family has not returned yet, so no one can eat first.
As soon as these words came out, the defenders on the city wall were immediately shocked.
Zhang Rui, who was silent for a while, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It's not that he doesn't want to surrender, it's that he can't surrender."
At this time, his daughter Zhang Hui came to the study with soup, "Aye has worked hard for the people, let's have a bowl of ginseng soup first."
However, what puzzled him was that Li Yunze outside the city had no intention of attacking the city at all.
The wealthy and powerful country gentry in Songzhou were basically all defeated. When the soldiers rushed into each house, they didn't even know that the city had been breached.
The civil servants of the Tang Dynasty were not the so-called scholars in the Ming and Qing Dynasties who only made money besides kowtow.
However, it was obvious that Zhang Rui could tell that the team trainers guarding the city no longer had any fighting spirit. If the Xuanwu Army attacked at this time, they would basically be able to break through the city in one battle.
After dinner in silence, Zhang Rui left his sons to go to the study to discuss countermeasures.
"Zhang Hui?" Li Yunze raised his eyebrows slightly. He had seen this name when checking Zhu Wen's information.
"The little girl's name is Zhang Hui, and she is the daughter of the governor of Songzhou."
Seeing the soldiers outside the city begin to line up and slowly approach the city gate, Zhang Rui stood up in a hurry, "Go back to the house quickly and call on everyone to flee quickly!"
The atmosphere during dinner was a bit solemn. After all, there was a large army outside the city besieging the city. In this era, it was common for the whole family to go to the grave together.
What about Songzhou City? The life and death of the gentlemen in the city is none of my business. The division of land is the most important thing.
The governor and the governor have mutual names.
Zhang Rui sat down on the bed, his eyes empty and desperate.
"Yeah, yeah." Zhang Hui could hear the impatience in his father's words, but he still said, "It's better to surrender."
Before the Zhang family was taken away, they all looked at Zhang Hui with pleading eyes, begging her to serve Li Yunze well and find a way to get them out.
He finally figured it out now, Li Yunze could conquer the world with this move!
"Your Majesty." The confidants around him stamped their feet eagerly, "I hope you can quickly call on all the families in the city to send out men to guard the city."
The current governor of Songzhou is Zhang Rui, a typical Tang Dynasty civil servant.
He looked up and saw that Zhang Hui was still there. He looked confused and said, "Is something wrong?"
"Then Li Yunze robbed people by force, killed people and property, and even took away the fields, and then distributed them to the mud-legged people in the head of Guizhou. All the gentry and celebrities in Songzhou are in the city. What if I surrender them?"
It’s enough.”
Although they were far apart, the cheers from outside when dividing the fields could still be heard clearly, and they were so harsh.
The reason is simple, he knows he can't escape this time.
The next day, when Zhang Rui, who had dark circles under his eyes, went up to the city wall, he was shocked to see many people outside holding long ropes and wooden stakes, measuring fields piece by piece.
For these people, Li Yunze just waved his hand and asked the soldiers to take them away and deal with them, leaving them useless.
After Li Longji's restructuring, when a state was established, the boss of a state was the governor.
After the measurement is completed, a person dressed as a clerk will issue the document on the spot and use a big seal.
Zhang Rui really couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it and patrolled the city wall until it got dark and torches were lit all around. Then he went down to the top of the city and went back to the Governor's Mansion to rest.
With this team training, they were able to barely protect the people when they were attacked from all directions.
The defenders immediately became commotion, and they were only able to be calmed down by suppressing them and generously distributing rewards.
Zhang Hui hesitated for a moment, but still chose to speak: "Yeah, Xuanwu's army is so powerful that even Huang Chao was wiped out by it. There are only more than 10,000 people in Songzhou City to defend the city, how can it withstand it?"
Although he didn't fully understand it, he vaguely felt that this was a huge event, big enough to destroy everything!
When he finally came to his senses, he was shocked to see that the surroundings were in chaos, and even the city gates were opened.
Not to mention siege, not even the siege equipment was built.
If, like Li Yunze at this time, he came personally with more than ten thousand elite soldiers, those regiment trainers would naturally be vulnerable.
"It's too late." A frustrated Zhang Rui shook his head repeatedly. "If they had had the intention to send the clan's children to the city wall early, they wouldn't have happened today."
I looked over and saw that she was a pretty girl.
Zhang Hui, who was confused in his heart, bowed and left. After leaving, he still didn't understand, 'I'm going to die, so what do I care about the squires and celebrities?'
More than 20,000 people were all gone in just one encounter?
When the news of Li Yunze's army came, basically all the powerful local families in Songzhou hid in Songzhou City, which was protected by tall walls.
When we arrived at the Governor's Mansion, we saw that all the Governor's family who had fled had been captured.
When Li Yunze rode into the city, everything was over.
Although it is far inferior to that in the early Tang Dynasty, it is still possible to mount a horse and kill people with a sword, and to govern a place when dismounted. It wears Confucian robes to sit and talk about Taoism, and takes off Confucian robes to convince people with virtue.
After pondering for a moment, Li Yunze waved his hand, "Keep her here and lock up everyone else."
Zhang Rui managed Song Prefecture fairly well, at least he managed to preserve the people under his rule in these troubled times.
In the past, there were only rumors, but now it has been confirmed by someone.
Therefore, all the powerful families in Songzhou were basically in the city at this time.
But his sons were useless. In addition to cheering themselves up and saying that they would be able to hold on, their ideas were either to write a letter to the court to scold Li Yunze for retreating, or to marry his sister to the bosses of various nearby vassal towns in exchange for reinforcements.
Unexpectedly, the well-fed and drunk regiment trainers took the initiative to line up and shouted to the defenders in the city from outside the range of their bows and crossbows, "Li Jiedu has divided the fields for us~~~ Each person will be divided into twenty acres."
, it’s all Yongye fields, not Kou-divided fields! If you don’t go home to divide the fields, then you won’t have any.
The local gentry of a powerful family still have the traditional concept that it is up to the Guizhou leaders to have to fight and die, and they can just eat, drink, play and enjoy themselves at home.
At this point, Zhang Rui sighed and waved his hands repeatedly, "You don't understand, go ahead, go ahead."
Anyway, after all, it's either pointless moral criticism of Li Yunze or the traditional technique of marrying to win over allies.
"Okay." Looking at his beautiful daughter, Zhang Rui forced out a smile, picked up the ginseng soup and took a sip.
Zhang Rui was so disappointed that he drove his sons out and sighed in his study.
The combat effectiveness of group training is not strong, but there are many people.
On one side is a world-famous and powerful army, and on the other side are farmers who have just put down their hoes. Is there any other way out without surrender?
Of course, this is mainly because the nearby big towns are busy with their own affairs and have not sent out the main force.
Zhang Rui frowned when he heard this, "What do you want to say?"
Familiar relatives, friends from the same village and even enemies outside the city have begun to divide their fields. What are you doing just standing there on top of the city?
Watching them divide all the land, and then you will no longer have a place to stand?
These young people who had just put down their hoes rushed down to the city gate like crazy, opened the city gate and ran out in a swarm.
"How could this happen?" On the top of Songcheng County, Zhang Rui looked stupidly at the regiment trainers who had been sent to resist the invasion of the Xuanwu Army. At this time, they were happily setting up camp with the Xuanwu Army to boil water and cook rice.
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Moreover, the news about the land allocation in Bianzhou had already reached Songzhou.
They are all fellow villagers, and many of them even have relatives living in the city, so the credibility of their words is naturally very high.
They had money, food, and people. If they mobilized, they could gather an army of troops, and they would not be dragged away because of the land allocation outside the city.
Over there, Li Yunze's army advanced very slowly, and even took the initiative to divide his troops, intentionally or unintentionally, to drive the powerful families towards the prefecture city.
Looking at the Zhang Rui family kneeling all over the yard, before Li Yunze took off his helmet and could say something, Zhang Hui, who was not far away, looked up and called out, "Please forgive me and my family, Li Jiedu. This little girl is willing to do what she wants."
The horse repays Jiedou for his great kindness."
Zhang Rui staggered and almost fell to the top of the city.
When a county is established, the head of a county is the prefect.
After all, Li Yunze deliberately designed this situation to catch everyone in one fell swoop. How could he let them escape so easily?
Even if there were 20,000 pigs, they wouldn’t be able to catch them all in one day!
Zhang Rui was very angry and scolded the team coaches for not doing their best for their hometown.
Open your mouth, respect equality when you keep your mouth shut, and so on. Solve your own basic necessities, food, housing, and transportation first before talking about these things.
Controlling Songzhou is not the end, but the beginning.
For most emperors, it was enough to control a place, gain the allegiance of a powerful family, be able to collect taxes, money and food, and get the manpower support of a powerful family to warm the bed.
But it's not enough for Li Yunze.
This is just a skin change, and the cycle will start again in two or three hundred years.
So Li Yunze has a lot to do, and the first thing is to uproot the local local snakes!