Chapter 133 Control Yangcheng
After Zhang returned to the castle, it took half a day to convince the people in the castle to open the gate before dark, send their strong crossbows and several nine-headed birds, three-eyed guns and other things, as well as the remaining flying guns and arrows, to the outside of the castle. Only some knives, guns and bows and arrows were left in the castle. Provide them with basic defense weapons.
Xiao Tianjian personally ordered all his generals, collectively met them outside Doujiabao, and personally received their weapons outside the fort. In front of the Zhang family, he ordered the Xingtian army to pull out the camp and withdraw their troops. Without saying a word, they responded to the order. They turned around and acted immediately and did not hesitate to obey. According to Xiao Tianjian's order, he pulled out the tent outside the fort and headed for the next goal.
Although Zhao Erlu and some of his men were not satisfied with Xiao Tianjian's treatment, after all, they attacked Zhangjiabao and damaged a lot of brothers. They felt that it was really too cheap for the Zhang family in Doujiabao to let them go like this way. However, they saw that Xiao Tianjian had made up his mind and did not dare to raise an objection. He was honest. He followed Xiao Tianjian and left Doujiabao.
Looking at the back of Xing Tianjun's army leaving Doujiabao, Zhang stood outside the door and his legs suddenly softened and almost sat on the ground. Fortunately, his son quickly stopped him, which did not make him stand on the ground.
"Dad! Do you think this Xiao can really keep his faith? One of his sons helped Zhang Yuanwai and asked him.
Zhang Yuanwai looked at Xing Tianjun's fading back and said, "I will be the head of Xiao at the Zhuanghui this time. Looking at his face, he is by no means a treacherous and untrustworthy person! It should be someone you can trust! And these days, we have seen that this Xingtian army is by no means a mob, and he can turn these exiles into such elite soldiers with such a strong military appearance. It can be seen that this person is by no means a general person. Maybe this person can really achieve a great thing!
What's more, I'm helpless when I do this this time. If we fight hard, how can we be their opponents? Once we tear our faces, he will transfer more soldiers and horses. At that time, I'm afraid that the hundreds of people in our Zhang family will be killed by them! So now the only stopgap is to listen to their instructions! Let's see how they behave later!
But I warn you that since I have agreed to his terms, I must do it. I also see that Xiao is a decisive person. As long as we don't provoke him, he should not be unfavorable to us! Do you all remember? ......”
These people who followed Zhang Yuanwai quickly nodded and agreed, because although they resisted very tenaciously in the past two days, in the face of these Xingtian military forces outside the fort, they were still a little frightened. They knew that if it went on like this, sooner or later their Doujiabao would be broken by them, so At present, things can be solved in this way. It can be said that they have picked up a life, and no one wants to provoke this terrible Xing Tianjun again.
Xiao Tianjian slowly marched forward with the army and explained to Tietou, Zhao Erlu and others, "Although we rob the rich to help the poor, we have to act in a little moderation!" For some rich people, we should treat them separately when necessary! This time we attacked Doujiabao because we didn't know the situation of Doujiabao in advance. Their Zhang family is not notorious in the local area, and their village is also full of their Zhang family. If we brazenly attack, although we may not be able to beat his Doujiabao, I'm afraid we will lose a lot. At that time, even if we beat Doujiabao, For us, it's not worth the loss!
Since the Zhang family's family's family is really done by themselves, we can't do things by themselves, and they have many good names. Once we do things, we will lose people's hearts and classify us with ordinary thieves, so Doing this will only be good for us to do things in the future, and there will be no harm! Otherwise, we will make too many enemies!
So in my opinion, we should also treat these rich people differently. We can't kill all those who have no great evil. As long as they are willing to listen to our control and hand over the grain to us when it's time to hand over the grain, why can't we keep them? If we have to kill them all, even if we divide their fields immediately, according to our current practice, I'm afraid we won't be able to collect a grain of more than 1,000 mu of land of the Zhang family within two years! If we do this now, we can collect 30% of the grain from Doujiabao in the summer harvest. Why don't we do it?
Therefore, our goal is only for those rich people who are not kind. The first step is to select such people, so that we can not only gain the hearts of the people, but also obtain military resources! At the same time, I don't let all the rich people regard us as our enemies, so I will do it this time!
Before we act again in the future, I'm afraid we should pay attention to it. For those rich people who have no great evil in the local area and have a good reputation, they can't take such a way! If you can't kill them all, it's better not to kill them quickly!"
Xiao Tianjian has never thought about what kind of land reform to do in an all-round way as in later generations. After all, the times are different from the times. Although the practices of later generations can be learned from, they can't be moved all over. It is still necessary to make some things in this era. Otherwise, it is not a good thing to make too many enemies, landlord class. In this era, it is impossible to completely eliminate it. After all, the existence of this class also has a relatively positive effect on them. It is still his old saying that you have to eat one bite at a time, and everything needs to take your time!
And the matter of Doujiabao soon spread in the local area. Some of the small and medium-sized rich people who usually basically relied on self-cultivation and did not do much evil did more or less relieved. When they heard that Xing Tianjun pointed to them, these people did not wait for Xing Tianjun or their own tenants to do it. Quickly post to Xing Tianjun, indicating that they are willing to follow the control of Xing Tianjun, and ensure that they will pay food to Xing Tianjun on time in the future. They only ask Xing Tianjun not to kill them all.
For such ordinary rich people, Xiao Tianjian is not difficult for them, but set a rule, that is, as long as they agree to serve Xing Tianjun, it is not enough to pay grain alone. They must choose the young and strong nephew of the family to join Xing Tianjun and work for Xing Tianjun. Those who agree to this can avoid being punished by Xing Tianjun here. Pull it up, otherwise, they'd better roll it up now and get out of here. The farther the way, the better.
For Xiao Tianjian's request, these ordinary rich people thought about it over and over again. Although they understood that this was Xing Tianjun's conspiracy, they could not get rid of their relationship with Xing Tianjun from then on. At the same time, it was also equivalent to sending hostages to Xing Tianjun as a pledge. In the future, it would be equivalent to tie them to Xing Tianjun's chariot. They did not agree, but It is to think that their family business is under the control of Xing Tianjun. If they don't agree, they can only get out of here immediately, and this business will belong to Xing Tianjun. Therefore, even if they don't want to, they don't want to leave their huge family business and escape. In the end, they have to agree to Xing Tianjun's request and choose nephews from the clan and send them to Xing Tianjun as soldiers.
And Xiao Tianjian's subordinates are a little disapproving about this matter. In their opinion, the descendants of these rich families are absolutely not as good as the soldiers they recruited from the exiles before. With such people, it is better not to use them, and Xiao Tianjian is with them in private. After explaining his plan, the guys smiled, so they collectively passed Xiao Tianjian's arrangement.
In this way, in less than 20 days, the Xing Tianjun attacked Zhuangbazhai on both sides of the Qinhe River, pulled out more than 30 Zhuangbao on both sides of the Qinhe River one after another, and the rest of the small villages fell looking at the wind, and soon controlled the whole two sides of the Qinhe River in the hands of the Xingtian Army, thus making the Xingtian Army establish an eastward The defense line based on the Qinhe River isolated Yangcheng County.
As soon as the incident along the Qin River ended, Xiao Tianjian once again waved his army north and launched an attack on the northern part of Yangcheng County. This operation can also be said to be a revenge operation. Through the exploration of Feng Gouzi's men, Xiao Tianjian turned his target to those after completing the sweep of both sides of the Qin River. A rich man who was once active in this action of the officers and soldiers to suppress the Xingtian Army. At the beginning, when they heard that the officers and soldiers were coming to suppress the Xingtian Army, many people donated money and people to provide food. They organized seven or eight hundred townships for Yangcheng County, intending to help the officers and soldiers to fight. As a result, these old rich people were surprised. The officers and soldiers Even without even entering the boundary of Yangcheng County, they were defeated by the Xing Tianjun, and the seven or eight hundred townships they finally organized were suddenly attacked by the Xing Tianjun in Taipingzhuang and fled. The food and money they gathered did not fall into the hands of the officers and soldiers at all, but gave them cheaply to Xing Tianjun.
And their action also gave Xiao Tianjian a good word to clean them up. After cleaning up the Qin River, he immediately led his troops to the north of Yangcheng County. He didn't give these old money a chance to explain at all, and directly killed them.
In the spring of Yangcheng County in the eighth year of Chongzhen, for these large local families, it was more sad than any other year. The original calmness of Yangcheng County was completely broken in the imperial and military's progress. These old rich people miscalculated. When they learned the news of the failure of the officials and army, they knew that It was difficult. Two or three of them had property in other places. After learning that the Xing Tianjun sent troops to attack their Zhuangzi, they immediately wrapped up their belongings and abandoned Zhuangzi and escaped from the boundary of Yangcheng overnight. The remaining old money could not give up the property left by their ancestors and hurriedly recruited Zhuangding to enter the Xing Tianjun. Resist.
However, in the face of the attack of the Xingtian Army, which is basically almost armed to the teeth, these Zhuangzi, who are fighting separately, can't resist the fierce attack of the Xingtian Army at all. Coupled with the advance propaganda of the Xingtian Army, many poor households in the north of Yangcheng are unwilling to work hard for these old rich people at all, and the government in Yangcheng County is too busy to take care of themselves. I have the ability to take care of the life and death of these old money outside the county! Therefore, after the attack operation was launched by the Xing Tianjun, Zhuangbao was quickly conquered one after another under the front of the Xingtian Army. These old rich people who were reluctant to escape, the killings, and their Zhuangzi land were also all pocketed by Xiao Tianjian.
The whole month-to-month operation basically ended at the end of April, that is, in just over a month, the whole Yangcheng County was basically under the control of Xing Tianjun, and even its area of influence extended to a long distance in Qinshui County. Only one county town remained in the hands of the government. So far, the area south of Qinshui County, east of Jiang County, and about a hundred miles west of Qinhe River fell under the control of the Xingtian Army.