Chapter 480: Unlucky Neighbor
Shi Shouxin has always been safe in doing things, and there is no slightest noise in the execution of these more than a hundred people. {http:
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Friends uploaded and updated} so that in later generations, everyone thought that when Li Chongjin went to the fire, more than a hundred loyal soldiers followed him, and some soft-hearted people could not help but cry for these loyal and righteous people...
After Dong Zunhui disarmed the Huainan army, he immediately set up a military court to punish their crimes. Li Chongjin's family, subordinates, and misdemeanors were pardoned, and those with serious crimes were compensated for their mistakes by labor.
After hearing about this, the people still tightened their belts and saved some food from their mouths. They ignored the hunger of their children and sent it to the Great Zhou Rebel Army. People must be complacent, and Zhou army saved everyone's lives, so everyone should know how to be grateful.
Dong Zunhui looked at the pale and thin people, and the greedy children drooling around them. After fighting for many years, he couldn't help crying. Dong Zunhui immediately ordered a portion of the share from the military rations. Each of the people in Yangzhou City would give each person a hu of rice, which would be reduced by half under the age of ten.
After the people got this food, they often fainted from hunger, but did not make fire and cook, but kept most of them as seeds. The people were also grateful. They all ran to the edge of the military camp. Although they had no authority to see Dong Zunhui, they also kowtowed to the military camp to thank the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty for their righteous deeds.
Originally, the soldiers complained because of the decrease in share of each meal. Seeing the grateful look of the people, they all felt unbearable and took the initiative to save some of their rations and give them to those malnourished children.
The people ate the relief grain sent by the Zhou army soldiers. They watched Dong Zunhui ordered people to transfer urgently. They were grateful to Dong Zunhui. Everyone had no other ability, so they could only provide him with tablets of immortality and pray for him every day.
On this day, Shi Shouxin came to Dong Zunhui's tent and said to him: "Master, the people are suffering too much. This morning I went to the porridge site in Yangzhou City to inspect and found that some people have sold their children and daughters. When I asked about the food for relief, they said that the family had too many people and they could eat too little. It was also a burden for the children to stay at home. It would be better to sell them to others as slaves and servants. They could also make a living!"
Shi Shouxin was also from a poor family and was very touched by this. In order to pull them into adulthood, his mother had no choice but to drown her newly born sister with her own hands! Now, Shi Shouxin saw those poor families who sold their children and daughters. He would think of the difficult days in his family, and he couldn't help crying.
Dong Zunhui looked at Shi Shouxin with a sympathy face and hurriedly said, "Stop! Stop! Your army has donated some of the food yesterday. If you mobilize soldiers to donate export food, the troops will be hungry, which will greatly affect their combat effectiveness!"
Shi Shouxin suddenly knelt down, kowtowed at Dong Zunhui, and said loudly: "Master, you have always been resourceful, so I will give these people an idea! Especially the taxes for this and next two years. If you can, you will be exempted!"
Dong Zunhui sighed, but shook his head and said to Shi Shouxin: "I made an agreement with Fan Zhi and others that day not to interfere in their civil affairs. I can only try my best to persuade them about taxes, hoping that they can give me a face. As for helping these people, our military rations are really limited!"
Shi Shouxin beat him hard: "It's better to be the emperor than to be the general. Why are he subjected to so much restraint?! It's a pity that these Yangzhou people would rather stay in Jiangnan and not come back and suffer this war in vain!"
When Dong Zunhui heard this, he was stunned. He then laughed and said, "Shuo Trust, my good brother, you said this just well!"
Seeing Shi Shouxin, Dong Zunhui was very surprised. He smiled and said, "Although we don't have any extra military rations, we have a good neighbor! The Tang State is so rich. It is also a vassal state of our Great Zhou. We can't be polite to him! Pass my order. Immediately order the Huaihe River standby fleet and go south immediately; order Song Yanwo to gather the main force of the navy to advance eastward; at the same time, we are sent to the entire army to push all the sampans into the Yangtze River, and let's have a big exercise!"
"Big exercise?" Shi Shouxin asked in surprise: "Can this work?"
Dong Zunhui laughed: "Don't worry!"
A few days later, thousands of sails competed, and the huge majestic exercise of the water and land forces of the Later Zhou Dynasty began! After hearing about this, Li Yu, who was sitting in Jinling Prefecture, no longer cared about enjoying flowers and reciting poems, so he quickly sent Zuo Pushe Yan Xu, his younger brother Li Congyi, Duke of Jiang Guo, Feng Yanlu, and others to bring a large number of military supplies to Yangzhou to visit the imperial court.
Li Yu knew that the imperial army had basically not suffered any losses, and was afraid that they would take advantage of the situation and go south to plunder it from Jiangnan. So this time he sent a large amount of military supplies, hoping to win the favor of the generals of the Later Zhou Dynasty.
Dong Zunhui was naturally very happy after receiving these food, cloth and money. He immediately ordered people to expand the scope and content of relief and provide relief to the poor people in the surrounding areas. Of course, Dong Zunhui was also ready to hit Nan Tang, a wealthy neighbor who could easily take out so much military supplies. If he didn't hit them, he would be a little disappointed!
So Dong Zunhui ordered people to bring Yan Xu, Li Congyi, Feng Yanlu and others into the tent, and said with a tense face: "Say, why are your kings in private contact with my traitors of the Great Zhou Dynasty?"
Hearing this, Yan Xu, Li Congyi was so scared that he was so cold that he almost suffocated. The two kowtowed repeatedly, but could not say a word of explanation. At this time, Feng Yanlu was not afraid of danger and said slowly: "The Grand Marshal only knows that Li Chongjin has made friends with me in the Tang Dynasty, but he doesn't know that we have participated in the rebellion!"
As soon as this said, Yan Xu was so scared that he fell to the ground on the spot. Li Congyi was also frightened and shivered. However, Dong Zunhui became interested and couldn't help but step forward to ask.
Feng Yanlu still said frankly: "The envoy sent by Li Chongjin that day lived in my house, and even the words of our king were conveyed to the envoy through me.
At that time, the king of my family said: "A real man is eager to rebel. Although there are precedents and people can understand it, the success rate is not high, and you have lost the opportunity to succeed. On that day, Li Yun rebelled and the court fought north, and you did not seize the opportunity to rebel. Now when the court has finished packing up Li Yun, you rebel with thousands of mobs to fight against the elite soldiers of the Great Zhou. Although our Southern Tang has soldiers and food, we will never participate in such a thing that will be defeated!"
It is because my country ruler was loyal to the Great Zhou Dynasty and did not provide material support to Li Chongjin. He also sent someone to Beijing to warn His Majesty that the general could easily win! General, what is wrong with my Tang Dynasty?!"
Dong Zunhui frowned slightly. The ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty dared to question themselves, and they were desperate! So Dong Zunhui snorted coldly and said in a deep voice: "Even if you are right, now all the generals in the army are advising me to take advantage of the situation to cross the river and seize the Southern Tang Dynasty! What do you think about this?"
With Dong Zunhui's question, the scene became tense again...
Chapter completed!