The Huang Chao Uprising in the late Tang Dynasty swept over half of the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and even the Tang capital Chang'an was taken down.

At first, Huang Chao defeated everything and was invincible. In the end, he ended up being defeated and killed.

A battle without strategic guidance, no matter how many times you win, you will lose once and it will be over!

Similarly, there is Li Zicheng. After Li Zicheng lost to the Wu Jin coalition, he was defeated and had no chance to turn around.

Li Zhongyi saw it very clearly. It was easy to defeat the Khitans several times by chance. It was impossible to decide the world with one battle.

As long as the Khitans adopted the strategy of withdrawing without fighting, the Han army might not only consume money and food, but also suffer a crushing defeat due to ambushing or cutting off the food route.

This is also the biggest dilemma faced by Emperor Wu of Han in his later years!

The Han army comes, the Huns leave! The Han army retreats, the Huns come!

The repeated grassland guerrilla warfare dragged the powerful Han Empire to exhaustion and was unable to fight again.

Since it was impossible to achieve his achievements in one battle, Li Zhongyi needed a strategy of accumulating strength. In the Han Dynasty, the eleven states of Youyan were in hand, and the Khitans could not go south directly, but could only choose to attack the North China Plain from Taiyuan or harass the Qin and Xia areas in the northwest.

All fools know that after Li Zhongyi pacified Jiangnan and Shu, the Liu Han regime in Taiyuan would be the next goal.

Therefore, the Yinxia area was in chaos, and the rumors that all the tribes in the grassland were wanted by the Han army to eliminate them, which made people panic.

Li Zhongyi understood very well. Yelu Xiuge could not watch him take Taiyuan and completely close the door of the Khitans to advance into the Central Plains.

The northwest is unstable, so why do we attack Taiyuan?

Taiyuan is not down, and the Khitans are as stable as Mount Tai!

These are common military knowledge, and it is impossible for Li Zhongyi or Yelu Xiuge to understand!

The Taiyuan War is about to break out.

However, Li Zhongyi did not go directly to attack Taiyuan, but raised his butcher's knife high and killed all the troops of the northwest barbarians who did not want to surrender, making them blood flow into a river.

The Shajiao tribe with 70,000 people killed only women and children, which greatly shocked the northwest tribes.

On the grassland, don’t talk about benevolence, righteousness, morality, etiquette and shame. Li Zhongyi has the ability to kill them all, so they can only lie on the ground and obediently surrender.

One day, when the Han Empire declined, they transformed into the most brutal enemies to worship the empire.

Yinzhou, against the sunset, is full of people everywhere, and the not-so-spacious streets are crowded.

The Han Dynasty's generals in the Western Expedition ordered that the elders and patriarchs of the grassland tribes must arrive at the Yinzhou General's Mansion before sunset today.

Song Yunxiang said that those who did not come first will be regarded as rebellious and the whole clan would not keep the whole family.

Therefore, those who are afraid of extermination of the clan, think about getting some benefits, want to see the beauty of the tribes, and have ulterior motives, all the elders and patriarchs of the tribes with ulterior motives.

With so many wealthy and soldiers coming, the prices in Yinzhou market have actually increased by more than 50%.

Li Zhongyi was an emperor who attached great importance to the price of people's living things. There was just a little sign of rising grain prices in Yinzhou City. The royal grain store had already sent a letter to ask the grain stores in nearby cities to send grain to Yinzhou.

The official grain business has long stipulated that if the market's grain increase exceeds 50%, some people must lose their heads.

There must be rats in the official commercial institutions, which is impossible to ban them. A little greedy and capable of doing practical things is still a good shopkeeper.

"Does of large granaries have been built here. The grain harvests from various places cannot be eaten for a while will be transported to Yinxia states to stock up and prepare for waste." Li Zhongyi explained with a smile, "There was also a system of grain storage in the former Tang Dynasty, but grain merchants disliked the long road and were unhappy to transport it to Yinxia and other places."

Zhang Xuexian has read many historical books. Li Zhongyi said that the road is long and profitable, and she understood it after a moment of thinking about it.

Food is the most important thing for the people. In a year of great disaster, if the grain merchants who are not locally powerful dare to sell sky-high food, the local officials will take action.

"Husband, why are you willing to send food to you now?" Zhang Xuexian asked at the critical point.

Li Zhongyi gently shook the folding fan and said with a smile: "Because, the national grain store can only be run by your husband. If there is no grain in Yinzhou, a large number of people will lose their heads."

Zhang Xuexian understood it. It turned out that the five grain shops that he went in one after another were all private property monopolized by the government.

"When I first entered Kaifeng, some gentry were dissatisfied and insisted on hoarding goods in private. Humph, as a result, they were all cut off their heads, and their wives and daughters also entered the Jiaofangsi." Li Zhongyi's words were quite obscure. Zhang Xuexian understood as soon as he heard that the men had a great disgust towards the gentry.

In Li Zhongyi's view, most of the small landlords with less than 200 acres of land rely on thrift, flexible minds and a home.

The squire is different. Except for a few squires, almost everyone can be killed!

In the era of small peasant economy, at least half of the economic foundations of the dynasty, except for nobles, senior officials and royal families, were dug up by the gentry.

After Li Zhongyi came to power, all the unprecedented policies of "competing for profit with the people" caused the most damage to the gentry, which was also a fundamental factor in his low reputation among the people.

In the countryside, there are countless scholars who say bad things about Li Zhongyi.

So far, the power of public opinion has always been in the hands of scholars, and the gentry is the backbone of scholars. It can be imagined that the reputation of Li Zhongyi, the founding emperor, has been completely destroyed.

However, Li Yong knew that the emperor's reputation on the grassland was really not bad. This was mainly because, even if the emperor's tribe suffered losses, he would give sufficient compensation.

Let’s talk about Pochao’s family. Over the years, after following the general Song Yunxiang, the Western Expedition, participated in five or six tribe-destroying battles. The soldiers who lost in each battle were allocated and strong slaves to replenish them. The population not only did not decrease, but increased by 20,000 people.

People in the grassland like to look at real interests and do not like various verbal promises.

Zhang Xuexian was very energetic, but her legs were impatient and traveled far away. After walking for only two streets, she shouted that she could not walk anymore.

Li Zhongyi was a man who loved women, so he led Zhang Xuexian into a teahouse. The two of them sat into the private room of the teahouse, while enjoying the crowd while enjoying the crowd.

At this time, someone actually came over and wanted to buy Zhang Xuexian from Li Zhongyi and marry her as her husband.

Li Zhongyi is not a person who kills indiscriminately. As long as he doesn't want to steal it clearly, he will be in the mood to be funny with that person.

"How much are you planning to pay?" Li Zhongyi ignored Zhang Xuexian's rolling eyes and asked the man with a smile.

"Ten thousand coins." The man raised a finger, which was quite expert, "This is a market that has never been born."

The implication is that if Zhang Xuexian had given birth to a baby, she would not be so valuable.

Li Yong sighed secretly. Just looking at his appearance and clothes, he knew that this person was either the patriarch or the elder's favored son.
Chapter completed!