All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 252 A few hundred dollars a month, what's the point of playing with life~
"elder brother."

In the Xiangzhou training camp, Wang Gui ran over with a happy face and said, "Finally, the troops are dispatched. We can finally leave here."

"It's actually quite nice here." Yue Fei withdrew his thoughts and smiled, "You can learn a lot here."

As he was talking, a group of fellow villagers who used to work as archers in his hometown of Xiangzhou gathered around to talk.

You come and I go, and it's very lively with all the chatter going on.

"I heard that they are going to attack Guanzhong this time." Tang Huaiyan, who is also a fellow villager, said, "The Western Army is not easy to fight."

"What's so difficult about fighting?" Wang Gui retorted, "Hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers of the Western Army were all destroyed in Huaixi. The soldiers in Guanzhong are now all old, weak, sick and disabled, and are no better than us new soldiers."

The two of them immediately started arguing fiercely about whether the Western Army still had enough strength left.

As for why these people who were far away in the Xiangzhou training camp were able to know so much information, it was naturally because of the newspapers.

The cultural level of the Song Dynasty was very high, and Bi Sheng invented movable type printing. When the technology, capital and culture were all there, the carrier such as newspapers only needed a slight push from Chen Ran to appear and spread naturally.

Naturally, there are no flyers in the newspaper promoted by Chen Ran.

The main content is the various policies he promoted, current affairs, official announcements, etc.

Of course, there must be attractive content on the back of the newspaper to retain readers.

It is not a detailed list of bathing places across the country, but a serialization of various vernacular novels that were widely circulated at that time.

These newspapers would be delivered to the training camp in large quantities every now and then, and were the best way for the soldiers to pass the time.

"What are you all doing here?" The instructor's scolding voice was heard, and everyone subconsciously stood up straight.

The most important achievement of these months of training is that the new recruits have learned to obey orders.

The instructor who was missing a hand came over and told everyone to go back and pack their luggage, leaving only Yue Fei behind.

"Dutou!"

"This is not a training session. You have already graduated and left the camp. There is no need to do this."

The instructor invited Yue Fei to walk with him, and said in a friendly manner, "Pengju, you are skilled in martial arts and archery, and you were born to be a soldier."

Yue Fei smiled without saying anything. He was not used to responding to compliments.

"Xiangzhou Training Camp, this time we are sending 719 soldiers, and I put your name first." The instructor sighed, "I will never let you be buried."

When Yue Fei was young, he became a disciple of the martial arts master Zhou Tong and learned riding and archery.

In addition, he had excellent physical fitness and was born with supernatural powers that allowed him to fire an eight-stone crossbow. He was already very outstanding before entering the training camp.

After entering the training camp, she stood out and became the focus of everyone's attention.

"Captain, there is no need to do this." Yue Fei paused and said solemnly, "There is always a mountain higher than another. Outside of Xiangzhou, there are so many heroes in the world."

"Pengju."

The instructor also responded sternly, "Remember, you are joining the army, not becoming a bandit. The heroes of the world are no better than dogs in front of the army!"

"To put it bluntly, there are only two most important things in the military. One is money and food, and the other is military discipline."

Yue Fei, who was only 20 years old, was puzzled. "Why are you telling me this? I am just a newcomer in the army."

"If you can survive the battlefield, you will definitely be successful in the future. Remember this, there will only be benefits and no harm."

The instructor quickly ended the topic and asked, "What do you think of the king?"

Yue Fei was silent.

The instructor was a little anxious. "The king has treated us well. You must not miss the past."

"Captain, you misunderstood." Yue Fei said with a smile, "Although I was an archer in Tangyin, I was just guarding the Han family."

"The king destroyed the Han family and distributed the land occupied by the Han family to the elders of Xiangzhou. He also abolished all the harsh taxes of the court, so that the elders could have food in their mouths and clothes on their bodies. They no longer had to work for the Han family. The local rogues and bandits were also swept away, and the elders could live and work in peace."

He breathed a sigh of relief. "I am not blind. I know that compared with the previous dynasty, the king is a saint to the elders. How could he miss the previous dynasty? Could it be that he misses their heavy taxes and the Han family who ran rampant in the village and bullied men and women?"

"I praise you for being the best in the training camp, not just because of your martial arts." The instructor was full of praise. "No one of your peers can see as clearly as you do."

"My family also got 30 mu of land from the Han family." Yue Fei said seriously, "It was all these years that my father borrowed money from the Han family for medical treatment, and the money was taken away bit by bit as collateral."

"Before entering the camp, I just felt depressed. It was obviously my family's land, but why did it become the Han family's? I have to farm it for them as a tenant."

"It was not until I entered the camp and attended night school and read the newspaper that I realized that these powerful people who used interest-bearing loans to annex land really deserved to die!"

This has been the case throughout the dynasties. Moneylending was used to compound interest, so that the people were burdened with debts that they could not repay, their land and property were taken away, and then they were turned into tenant serfs who farmed the land for their own families.

It's not just the powerful and wealthy, the same is true for temples everywhere.

Otherwise, where did so many so-called temple properties, which amounted to tens of thousands of acres, come from?
The common people who don't understand these reasons either work like slaves for generations, or become kings, princes, generals, and ministers.
"Those who deserved to die have all died." The instructor said with a smile, "The remaining ones who were not worthy of dying have become slaves of the meritorious soldiers. This time when you go to Guanzhong, you must perform well and strive to make meritorious deeds and be awarded a title. If you do so, your family will enjoy a good life."

"What the captain said is very true."

Yue Fei frowned slightly. He felt that if he simply wanted to take Guanzhong, it would be an exaggeration for the king to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops when the elite troops of the Western Army had been wiped out and Guanzhong even began to run out of food.

Then he laughed and shook his head, "How can I know what the king is thinking?"

Chen Ran set up training camps in every state in the area under his control to recruit and train new soldiers.

The main source of these people is children from farming families, and military merit and titles are very attractive to them.

After all, as long as you work hard, you can get land. For the farmers in Middle-earth, nothing can be more attractive than land.

This is called catering to one's needs. As for the source of farmland, by the time of Zhao Ji in the Song Dynasty, the situation of land annexation had become very serious.

Their royal relatives are fine, they are mainly after money.

However, the literati still adhered to the tradition of thousands of years, constantly annexing land, constantly converting peasants into serfs for their own families, and still followed the path of the aristocratic families.

Two-thirds of the land in the world belongs to the families of scholars and officials.

Chen Ran had only one thing to say about these fields: "Confiscate them all."

Of course, even if he was the reincarnation of Zhang Bairen or Sakyamuni, it was impossible for the scholars and officials to listen to him and hand over all their land.

There is only one way to get their land, and that is to take advantage of it.

After the army's cleansing, too much local land was confiscated.

Chen Ran first distributed a portion of it to the local people in an effort to win their hearts.

The remaining land was first rented out to the common people, or used as military settlements, or cultivated as serfs by members of the powerful families who had not been sentenced to death, and the remaining land was reserved for use as rewards for the soldiers' titles.

This kind of thing was directly reported in the newspapers, with endless publicity, and basically everyone knew about it.

This is also the reason why the new recruits in the training camp were so excited when they heard that they were going to the battle.

Killing a level 1 armored warrior would give him 100 acres of land! !
Even the new recruits are eager to go to war.

Historically, the Song army at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty was so weak that thousands of people were chased by a dozen cavalrymen.

It’s not that they don’t know that they have a lot of people and that one person’s urine can drown the Jin people. They know it very well.

The only reason is that it's just a few hundred bucks a month. What's the point of playing with life~~~
The officials and literati of the Song Dynasty were not even allowed to have enough food to eat, so who would work for these things that rode on their heads and pulled shit?
Your life is your own, and you should run away when you see the enemy.

As for the officials and scholars who were killed, captured and abducted by the Jin people, the soldiers and the people could only spit and say "It's what they deserve!"

Chen Ran set out from Bianliang City and arrived in Luoyang City very quickly after a few days.

At this time, the area around Luoyang had become a super military camp.

The scale of the military camp was so large that it was even built next to the Zhao Song Imperial Mausoleum.

The number of new soldiers sent by each state was basically around a thousand.

At this time, he controlled nearly a hundred military states, which meant nearly a hundred thousand troops.

Add to that the more than 100,000 imperial guards who arrived one after another, as well as an even larger number of civilians, hundreds of thousands of people gathered here, it was a spectacular sight.

There was no shortage of money, food and military supplies. Chen Ran confiscated so many gentry homes and the most seized items were money and food.

In addition, there are female relatives.

After all, most of the men were punished, while the women were mostly slaves of the titled soldiers.

The imperial guards of Bianliang City liked female servants. After all, these women were always in high positions and it was difficult to see them even once.

Soldiers from villages and towns prefer male servants, because the prettier the ladies are, the less likely they are to work in the fields.

The huge scale, coupled with the even larger storage of supplies, made the entire Luoyang city extremely bustling.

At night, under the illumination of countless lights, it was even brighter than any other night market in Tokyo.

After resting for a few days, the army began to march out one after another.

Although Chen Ran had a plug-in, he couldn't do what was done in some novels, where he led hundreds of thousands of troops as if they could fly collectively and set off together to reach their destination.

Hundreds of thousands of troops were mobilized. The vanguard troops in the front had already passed Mianchi, but the rear troops were still staying in the camp and had not moved.

Chen Ran did not follow the vanguard army, that was the job of the vanguard officer.

He commanded the central army and led the veterans who had participated in the Battle of Huaixi to march westward.

In order to deal with the Iron Harriers and Bubazi of Xixia, as well as the famous Jin general Wanyan Loushi who was good at surprise attacks.

This time, Chen Ran brought all the infantry armor and the divine arm bow he had collected.

He even brought more than a hundred heavy crossbows!
The Song Dynasty had advanced technological advantages, but it failed to make use of them and eventually became a prey of the Jin people.

Chen Ran would not do such a thing. When there is a need, he would use it without hesitation.

In addition to the ones he had summoned craftsmen to make over the past few days using the segmented production method, he now had more than ten thousand sets of infantry armor!

When we go to the battlefield, we must let these Tartars see what technological suppression is!

These technical equipment were all on the ship, traveling with the navy to Sanmenxia.

We can only go there and then transfer to land. After all, large ships cannot pass through there at all.

On this day, while on the march, a messenger from the vanguard army came on horseback to report.

"Your Majesty, Shanzhou City has surrendered!"

Chen Ran was also mentally prepared for this. After all, it was a long tradition for scholars to surrender to the Tartars. "The governor of Shanzhou was quite sensible."

However, the messenger said, "Your Majesty, the one who surrendered was the garrison commander. He led his troops to destroy the family and property of the prefect and other civil officials who insisted on defending the city."

Chen Ran'(⊙.⊙)'.

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