The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 67: Nanzheng
went all the way through Shiquan County, rested in the county for a day, and went to Chenggu County the next morning.
The water flow around Chenggu County is convenient, and the main stream and two tributaries of Han River flow within the county. The land is fertile and agriculture is developed. More than 20,000 people live in it. Although the county is not large, it is a land with a large population.
Because of its close proximity to Nanzheng, its political status is relatively high. Many gentry settled here and took root and sprouted here. The furthest one was probably originated in the pre-Qin period. Even now, he is four to five hundred years old.
But today, this place where we usually live and work in peace and contentment and ignore wars, has ushered in a soldier and horse.
Walking on the small road in the middle of the field outside the nearby countryside, Zhong Yu looked around from time to time and found that the grain growth here is very good. It can be determined that this year is another good year.
It seems that this place can be a district of one county, but it can support the population of two counties in ordinary times. It is not unreasonable. You can tell by just looking at the fertility of the land here.
However, although fertile fields are good, they are the land of the nobles. Although there is a lot of food, they are all the grain of the nobles. There are many fertile fields here, most of which belong to the gentry. It is usually used to rent to tenants, collect high taxes, and only leave the farmers barely enough to starve to death. How stingy and harsh.
I walked all the way, and all the villagers I saw were yellow and thin, with only a skinny bone left in their bodies. They looked like candles in the wind at any time, and they could fall down when a breeze blows, making people feel pity.
And those gentry are really greasy faces, beautiful clothes and jade food, going in and out of servants' Jingji, riding horses and walking dogs, and they are like family children.
Compared with , what I did does not seem to be that hateful anymore. Although he had confiscated the good land of the gentry, he also planned to distribute it to some of the peasants.
Although the tax collected is high, as high as 60%, there are four layers of food left, enough for their family to eat for three. If the wife of the family is virtuous and can grow mulberry trees and weave cloth, the family can even have some surplus throughout the year. This is a day that can only happen during the Taiping period!
Chenggu County is not far from Nanzheng County. The towns of the two counties are even separated by more than 30 miles. With the surrounding plains, the two cities can face each other far away from the plains.
This is destined to not be able to capture the county seat like before, but those gentry and other county towns are still in the dark. I have enough time to slowly clean up the entire county, and then I will catch them by surprise.
So I can only make a quick battle and take the county seat first, so that the people in Chenggu County don’t have a place to stick to.
then used harsh methods to kill all the hidden dangers in the county seat, and finally left some people in the county seat, and took the rest of them to Nanzheng City. Before the news came out, they took it down. The entire Nanzheng County.
went all the way fast and quickly reached under the county seat. All the pedestrians encountered on the way were killed and thrown into the forest to cover up their whereabouts.
The gate of county seat didn't find any trace of it, but was quickly raided by his own cavalry. It was another hack, and soon the city would judge it by itself.
It's a small county town. At most two or three thousand people live in him. How long will it take to stabilize!
All the officials and the gentry who stayed in the city were killed by their own troops. After a careful search, they withdrew their troops after they found none of them.
The whole process took him only an hour, and even the people around the county town did not see the turmoil in the county town, let alone Nanzheng City, which is thirty miles away.
After the entire county was cleaned up by himself, all the guards and soldiers were beheaded to death, and the family and its servants were also killed by himself.
Without worrying about internal troubles, I left him with two hundred people. I think it will be enough to stand by an army of no more than five thousand for a period of time.
Not to mention, there are not so many troops in Hanzhong County. Even if there is, I don't have much distance from Chenggu County, and I can rush back in an hour or two, so there is not much danger that will cause my own back road to be cut off.
took the remaining 1,000 people all the way out of the city gate, looking in the direction of Nanzheng County. All pedestrians on the way were killed on the spot, thrown in a hidden place to cover their whereabouts.
Soon, two hours later, he rushed to the gate of Nanzheng County, hiding in the small woods at the gate of the county.
Nanzheng County, as a county governor, has 1,000 soldiers guarding it. Although these county soldiers are neglected in training and have not experienced wars, they can be said to be the most elite force in a county.
is not comparable to those of the county town’s guards before. From the perspective of the guarding of the city gates, their vigilance is much higher than that of the county town.
People holding weapons in all things, as long as there are more than ten people, will be drunk dozens of steps away from the gate of the city. They must surrender their weapons or someone guarantees them before they can be released into the city.
If I imagined that I had sent cavalry on a rampage, I’m afraid they would close the city gate, sound the alarm bell, summon the army in the county seat and all the servants of the family to guard the county town together!
Then just like the previous strategy, I can pretend to be a businessman, take dozens of soldiers disguised as handyman, and hide the weapons in the carriage.
When he was approaching the gate of the city, he suddenly attacked and killed the soldiers at the gate. Then the cavalry who had been preparing for a long time rushed in, and then the big deal was settled.
Such a series of actions, not to mention the county soldiers, even I feel sad to react. A Nanzheng city in this mere town, isn't it the goods that he got in his own hands?
Since I have thought of a strategy, I follow it. Sure enough, all the city gate guards are greedy~IndoMTL.com~ Seeing his caravan of two or three cars, his eyes flashed brightly, as if he saw big money beckoning to them.
didn't scrutinize too much, so he came to the gate of the city. Zhong Yu smiled and slowly approached the chief guard at the city gate, stretched his hands into his arms, pretending to take out money from it.
The officer didn't have much vigilance, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face. He exclaimed in his heart that the businessman really knew how to do things and saved his tongue.
I will definitely be good later, to be convenient for him, not to be too embarrassed, just look at him for the sake of being a man.
However, at this moment, an accident happened, and finally he took a dagger straight out of his arms and inserted it into the officer's heart in full view.
Under his stunned and wide-open expression, he was bleeding all over, falling down his majestic body.
The surrounding soldiers seemed to have heard the signal and abandoned their disguise one after another. He turned around and took out his weapon from the carriage, and slammed into the surrounding soldiers who were still stunned and could not react to the incident.
The horn of war sounded at this moment, and the cavalry not far from the city gate came quickly, but within ten minutes, they arrived at the city gate. He rushed in directly and killed the people in the city who were still far away and had no time to escape home.
At this moment, the entire Nanzheng county town was caught in the battlefield of the dead mountain and blood sea. The entire city lost its original order and became a **** on earth, and all people became evil spirits.
The evil in the depths of my heart erupted. Zhong Yu’s soldiers, the county soldiers in the city, some blue-skin rascals, servants of the great families in the city. An unprecedented battle began in such a small area, and countless civilians have been affected.