Turbulent Times Chapter 1243: The usual tricks of a powerful family

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Daxi had good intentions and didn't know anything about military affairs, so the five thousand elite soldiers were beaten to pieces by the five thousand men under Yang Jishan's command.

As for Pei Hongce, he couldn't support himself alone, and he fought and left. In the blink of an eye, he had already lost four games, from the suburbs all the way to the bottom of the Luoyang city wall.

After Yang Guang received the urgent military situation in Luoyang, he ordered the soldiers and horses from all walks of life to advance separately, supply supplies along the way, and gave a heavy reward, and must arrive in Luoyang before the end of this month.

But these troops had been fighting in Liaodong for more than a month, and it was fine if they were exhausted. The main reason was that the army did not receive rewards, and their morale was low. Most of the troops along the way could not speed up.

Where Wang Junlin led the tiger, iron hammer, iron spear, and whirlwind four battalions, a total of 65,000 people took the boat all the way, but they were full of energy. According to the speed, Wang Junlin and his party must be the first to reach Luoyang.

However, although Wang Junlin deliberately selected ships with a value of less than 500 shi, when he passed Huainan and reached the counties of the Central Plains, the water level of the canal dropped, making it difficult for ships to continue to pass.

Wang Junlin had already made preparations, and led 65,000 horses off the boat on the way, and took the Dasui official road from the vicinity of Pi County.

More than 60,000 soldiers galloped on horses, and the torrents rolled over the official road. Yang Guang organized the people to build the official road over the years. I don’t know how many people died, but I have to say that the official road built is flat and straight. From Pi County on the south bank of Laishui to Ji County near Luoyang, there is no obstruction for more than five hundred miles.

Except for a few narrow sections over the mountains, the width of most of the official roads can run parallel to six horses. According to the current marching speed, within five days, Wang Junlin will be able to lead his troops to Luoyang.

When they heard the news that the officers and soldiers were about to pass by, the people near the official road had long avoided it. It is already late July, but no one has harvested the wheat in the fields. When the yellow wheat ears were hit by the rain, new malt sprouts immediately grew from the tips of the ears.

Flocks of birds were singing and jumping in the wheat field. When they heard the sound of people and horseshoes, they flapped their frightened wings and fled to the distance like a cloud of smoke.

During the march, Wang Junlin often saw all kinds of voles, hamsters, and small animals with short tails whose names he didn't know, dragging their round bellies, waddling around

Crossing the official road, at the moment when the horse's hoof is about to turn it into meat sauce, it rolls into the roadside field ridge.

"I've never seen someone who ruined things like this. It's all caused by that dog emperor...that dog thief Yang Su." The purple-faced king Xiong Kuohai, who was ordered by Wang Junlin to lead his own soldiers, followed Wang Junlin , There was a lot of abuse along the way.

Although Xiong Kuohai is the master of the Taihang bandits, he also touched a plow stick when he was a child, so he knows how hard it is to be a farmer. Right now, the people in this place don't harvest the good wheat, but let it germinate in the ground, feeding house sparrows and mice. Isn't this a prodigal act?

"If you don't collect food, what will the government pay next year's rent, and what will the common people chew on? What a crime!" Luo Shixin also cursed.

Wang Junlin sighed, and said: "There is no way, all laboring men have been conscripted by the imperial court to Liaodong, either to serve as soldiers, or to be labor servitors, most of them still exist in Youzhou now, and these common people's families are full of women and children. , I have the thought of harvesting autumn, but I don't have the strength!"

Of course what Wang Junlin said was true. In the past two years, Yang Guang conquered Goguryeo twice, and transferred most of the young and strong from the counties north of the Yellow River, and the remaining half became rebels and refugees. The aristocrats had many servants, and they bribed the government to hide their tenants. They were able to take away the grain, and took the opportunity to annex the fields of some common people who had not returned from Liaodong. Ordinary farmers could only watch their wheat rot in the ground. ?

"Report, my lord, an urgent report from Luoyang." On the first day of marching sixty miles at a stretch, Wang Junlin ordered to set up camp to rest.

"My lord, Pei Hongce was defeated again, and the crown prince ordered him to beheaded. After that, none of the defeated soldiers dared to enter the city, and all led their troops to surrender to Yang Su."

Wang Junlin's expression remains the same, and now history has changed because of him. Originally, it was Yang Xuangan who conspired against him, but now he has become his father, Yang Su, and his momentum is even greater. One-quarter was surrendered soldiers, and the remaining quarter was elite soldiers that Yang Su had secretly trained secretly over the years.

"Among the officials who have taken refuge in Yang Su's command, who are those who come from aristocratic families or have elders in their families who are important ministers in the court?" Wang Junlin is not worried about how many people Yang Su has gathered now. It sounds scary, but if it is not for elite soldiers, although there are many people, it can scare others, especially if it can scare

Yang Hao and the others in Luoyang City couldn't scare Wang Junlin, and the more people there were, the more food and grass they needed, and there would be more problems.

What Wang Junlin was more worried about was that some aristocratic families would take refuge in Yang Su, because any aristocratic family could provide Yang Su with a lot of food and financial support, and even an elite army, and it could also cause a vicious chain reaction.

"My lord, among the officials who have taken refuge in Yang Su, there are quite a few who come from powerful families and families of important officials in the court. Yu Rou, the son of Yu Shiji, Lai Yuan, the son of General Lai Huer, Pei Shuang, the son of Pei Yun, the royal censor, Zheng Yan, the son of Dali Qing Zheng Shanguo, Zhou Zhong, the son of Zhou Luohou, and more than forty honorable descendants."

Wang Junlin's expression suddenly became extremely strange when he heard the words. Among the officials who took refuge in Yang Su, almost all the seven officials of the current dynasty were included, and some of their fathers and elders were even popular in the court.

What is the situation, Wang Junlin thought for a while, and he understood why this situation happened - this is a common trick used by powerful families and nobles, not putting all eggs in the same basket.

Yang Su's reputation is so great that only Wang Junlin can compare with him in today's world. Now that the Sui Dynasty is in troubled times, and there are Turkic cavalry invasions in the north, it can be said that the Sui Dynasty is in danger. Who dares to say that Yang Su can't change the dynasty?

"Have these aristocratic families and nobles considered the way out?" Wang Junlin sighed, his expression was full of sarcasm and surprise, but he suddenly felt that Yang Guang was very pitiful.

If the Great Sui was destroyed by Yang Su, except for a small number of loyal Chinese and military officials in the court, they would just change to another emperor and continue to be officials. Yang Su will definitely let them continue to be officials in order to stabilize the world and to govern the world official.

But Yang Guang is different...

"On the 24th of July, the prince of the supervisory state, Yang Hao, thought that the war was unfavorable, so he ordered Pei Hongce to be divided into five horses in the city and died tragically. Wen Hong, the general who resisted Yang Su outside the city, died tragically. They sent Li Mi to persuade the generals easily, and the generals led their troops and surrendered to Yang Su directly." Shen Guo'er didn't know Wang Junlin's emotion and continued to report.

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