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Chapter 472 Full Bloom

The head of the Rongyang Zheng family vomited blood and died on the spot. How could he bear the fact that his ancestors' foundation was destroyed in his hands in an instant?

The other noble families were also vomiting blood. They had been pretending to be poor before, but now they were really poor!
There were a few stubborn ones who were ready to organize their own soldiers to rebel. Li Qingyuan gave an order and the soldiers rushed forward and killed all the other party's family members.

wrong!

They didn't kill them all, the women were left behind to serve as camp concubines!
There has been no record of this thing called Ying Ji in history books. After all, it is not glorious. However, there is a term in later generations that I believe everyone is familiar with.

In fact, Li Qingyuan wanted to do this when he was in Luoyang, but the area around Luoyang was almost all Dugu family's territory, so he couldn't do it too drastically.

But people in the Central Plains don't have so many concerns. I have already done my best by not confiscating all of your properties. What's wrong with taking some of your land?
The reason why the Tang Dynasty was invincible in history was because of the military system. In the Tang Dynasty, you couldn't be a soldier if you wanted to. Anyone who could serve as a soldier had hundreds of acres of fertile land in their family. As long as you made meritorious service as a soldier, you could immediately get your own land. This is equivalent to if you serve as a soldier now, you would be given 5 million yuan as a resettlement allowance immediately. If you die, you can directly arrange a hereditary iron rice bowl for your son. If it were you, would you rush for it?

The main reason why the Tang Dynasty declined from its peak during the An-Shi Rebellion was that the military system was abolished, because all the land that could be divided was divided up, and the rest was the private property of the aristocratic families. In the Western Regions, it was still possible to continue to receive rewards by expanding the territory, but in the Central Plains, Hebei area was a disaster area for the aristocratic families, and there was really no land to be squeezed out.

So!
Unequal distribution of benefits will naturally lead to conflicts, and everyone at the time was fooled by the aristocratic families into thinking that it was caused by the emperor's favoritism, so the once prosperous Tang Dynasty fell into decline!

The reason for such a situation was that the power of the aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty was too strong, so strong that even Li Shimin, known as the Heavenly Khan, or Li Longji, known as the Half-Emperor of the Ages, could not suppress it.

Here we must especially mention Wu Zetian, who is known as the only female emperor in the world. In fact, under the suppression of Li Shimin and Li Zhi, the aristocratic families had begun to gradually show signs of fatigue. As a result, after this eldest sister came to power, not only did she allow the aristocratic families to rise in power, but she also ceded large tracts of territory. Otherwise, the Tang Dynasty would not have declined so quickly!
It can only be said that Wu Zetian benefited from the gender bonus in later generations, otherwise the bad things she did would be even worse than those done by Cixi!
The combat effectiveness of the soldiers who were rewarded with land went through the roof. They could strike six times in one second, which was the limit of the human body. In less than three days, almost all of Henan region was taken care of!

If you send soldiers to fight or suppress bandits, they can only run fifty miles a day at most. But as long as they take the atlas to the corresponding county, they can immediately allocate five hundred acres of land to themselves?

Each of these soldiers burst out with speeds comparable to those of innate masters, and traveling four hundred miles a day is no problem at all!
Moreover, with these soldiers setting an example, it was extremely easy to recruit subsequent troops. In just one day, tens of thousands of people came to sign up for the army, so that Li Qingyuan had only 80,000 troops under his command when he originally set out on the expedition. After deploying 50,000 troops, he still had 200,000 troops left.

These 200,000 are all combat soldiers, completely different from the previous auxiliary soldiers!

Of course, those auxiliary soldiers have now become super elite combat soldiers. After all, the reason why the auxiliary soldiers have no combat effectiveness is partly because of the lack of training and equipment, and partly because of the lack of fighting spirit and morale. You can only get two full meals and three hundred coins a month, why are you risking your life!
Just shouting a few times would be considered worth the wages!

But this time, these auxiliary soldiers were actually allocated land. Although each person only had a few dozen acres, the King of Tang said that as long as they fought bravely next time, they could also receive a share according to the combat soldiers' share.

For ordinary people, five hundred acres of land is an ancestral inheritance that can be passed down directly. It is almost equivalent to owning three buildings and dozens of storefronts on the street in a second-tier city in modern times!

So now these soldiers have only two words for Li Qingyuan!
loyalty!

What else can you ask for besides loyalty?

Do you know why Yue's army would rather freeze to death than demolish houses, or starve to death than plunder?
As long as you abide by military discipline, you can get compensation even if you die, and your family will immediately become prominent, allowing your descendants to compete for the position of Brahmin in the county!
But if one disobeys military discipline and is deprived of his military household status, then all the original rewards will be taken back. Even if one can survive, the family that was once considered a powerful force will instantly become a servant. In this kind of situation, anyone with a normal outlook on life will know what to choose, right?

All forces were originally arguing. Although everyone knew that Li Qingyuan was a tyrant when they saw his policies, the aristocratic families and Buddhists in the world would never tolerate such a devil to rule the world. It can be said that the reputation of a certain person in Henan has become extremely bad. The horror story that Li Qingyuan is the reincarnation of the devil and eats a hundred virgins and children for every meal is spread everywhere in the world!
Actually, it can’t be considered a story?
After all, thirty years ago during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was a tradition to use children and young girls to cook?
Besides, even among the rebellious princes now, isn’t there a guy named Zhu Jie who likes to eat people?
But!
Although words and public opinion can confuse right and wrong in the future, in the current situation it is obviously not as useful as the steel knives in the hands of Li Qingyuan's soldiers!

Seeing that Li Qingyuan's troops were growing stronger and stronger and had more and more soldiers, all parties dared not stand idly by any longer, but immediately dispatched their own troops to carry out guerrilla tactics by dividing their forces into various places.

Time travelers always think that they can crush the ancients by traveling back in time, but in fact, IQ is something that is innate. It’s not that the ancients didn’t know many things, but that they never thought of them because of misconceptions in their thinking.

It would be useless to fight with the descendants of Mohism with a large army, so the various forces simply divided their troops into small groups of several thousand people and began the cannibalization strategy.

The armies under the command of Li Yuan, Dou Jiande, Xiao Xin and others directly divided into hundreds of groups and attacked Li Qingyuan's territory. In a short while, the whole Henan province was in chaos. By the way, those noble families whose land had been seized also immediately began to act as guides. The territory that had just been conquered instantly returned to the period before liberation. Li Qingyuan's regime immediately looked like it was about to collapse!

This made Pegasus Ranch, which had originally been preparing to surrender, immediately start to feel melancholy again. As long as there was a slight possibility, Shang Xiuxun naturally did not want to let the ancestral foundation be destroyed in his own hands, right?
Instead, the Song family sent a reply letter, saying that Song Yuzhi's carriage was already on the way!
Obviously, the reason why the Song family is qualified to become the number one family in the world today is that Song Que's vision is indeed much better than most people.

(End of this chapter)