Chapter 138: Great changes in northern Shanxi

Prefecture.

Zhe Congyuan looked at the Yellow River, feeling full of worries.

But at this time, what he was worried about was no longer the victims, but the situation on the other side of the Yellow River.

From the south of the desert to Hedong, the year's season is not good, and northern Shanxi is particularly troublesome - in addition to natural disasters, there are also man-made disasters here! So the original small loss of harvest has also become a great year of wasteland!

It’s almost winter now. In summer and autumn, you can still bear the urge to be hungry. When it’s cold winter, if you don’t have anything in your stomach, you will have to freeze to death if you don’t starve to death!

For northern Jin, I really don’t know how to spend this winter in the third year of Tiance!

Shi Jingtang was still crying outside the border, performing his good show of frowning from a distance. Under the control of some inertia, many people in northern Jin still supported their son-in-law, feeling that the court was too harsh on the son-in-law, and that it was a bit too much to ask him to defend against the enemy and not give food and grass.

The local tyrants in northern Shanxi also kept crying to Luoyang Taiyuan to ask for food and grass, hoping that the court would provide relief for the sake of the difficulties of people's livelihood.

However, in Taiyuan, there was no grain of rice available!

All of this, Zhe Congyuan felt that the court had miscalculated!

This kind of dispute has continued until recently! Then the whole situation has undergone a subversive change!

Half a month ago, in the chaos, Zhang Jingda suddenly entered Yunzhou!

After staying in Taiyuan for a long time, he led elite troops into northern Shanxi without any notification! He then summoned military and political officials of the six prefectures in northern Shanxi and local tyrants to gather hundreds of people together, and held them accountable for their poor governance and the people's crime of dispersal!

All the local tyrants were shocked when they saw this general who was as powerful as the wind and thunder! They were like foxes who dared not move when they saw a tiger!

Although the Hedong region has been under the rule of Shi Jingtang for many years, and his local power has been mixed, Zhang Jingda himself was born in northern Shanxi and was also his hometown. It can be said that he has a foundation here. Before entering, he did a variety of work and was ordered by the king, which was justified. Therefore, once he led his troops into it, he immediately took control of the absolute initiative.

All the officials and local tycoons were trembling under his accountability. Of course, there were a few people who were ignorant of the times and had to argue, but they didn't expect that Zhang Jingda did not have a good temper this time!

"Before leaving Taiyuan, Your Majesty has promised me to do things at a cheap price!"

Zhang Jingda stared at them coldly and suddenly shouted: "You are tyrannical and tyrannical, and you are a slaughter of the people inside and form a barbarian outside. Do you really think I don't know!"

Seeing that Zhang Jingda had given them such a crime, these powerful men were about to debate, and a team of knives and axemen had already driven in, arrested the people, and executed them on the spot without any hesitation!

This meeting shocked the audience!

After Zhang Jingda was punished, he killed or removed all the prince-consorts for implicating the crime. More than 200 people were detained in Yunzhou, called "Aiding Defense", and asked them to report their safety to their families without asking them to go back. He only pardoned less than 100 people from more than 400 people, or asked them to go back to rectify the places, or asked them to inspect the states, or asked them to appease the people. After Zhe Congyuan carefully considered the news, he found that half of the more than 100 people came from Daizhou - and that was Zhang Jingda's hometown! Others were obviously also pro-courts.

Among them, a powerful man from Weizhou said he had not arrived before, and after hearing the news, he even defended himself on the fort. He did not expect that a large army would come to the fort that night, and a fire broke out, and the fort was pulled out in two days!

"The main evil is eliminated! All the accomplices are sent to Dengzhou!"

With the thunder and decisive action, in less than half a month, Zhang Jingda had already firmly held the entire northern Shanxi in his palm! He took key defense measures and focused his troops in various parts of Datong Prefecture to prevent the northern enemy. At the same time, he promoted the powerful pro-Government and resettled the people.

The wealth of the powerful families that were taken away by Zhang Jingda was confiscated and they had to save 300,000 stones of grain! Zhang Jingda scattered half of them with the people and the other half as military funds! At this time, most of the middle and lower-class people in northern Shanxi had already sent food to the west bank of the Yellow River, and the amount still in northern Shanxi had been greatly reduced. Once this batch of grain was distributed, it would be enough to help the people who stayed in northern Shanxi to spend the winter!

The people in northern Shanxi were originally full of doubts and even dissatisfaction with Zhang Jingda's amazing actions over the past half month, but as soon as the food was released, they immediately changed their minds, became grateful to the court, and cursed the powerful people who were still hoarding food and grass despite the famine. At the same time, they also became suspicious of Shi Jingtang's movements.

At about this time, Zhang Jingda found out several other secret food channels to go out of the border! These food channels were all affair between the powerful people in northern Shanxi and outside the border! Many evidences show that if the powerful people in northern Shanxi were asking for food from the court and squeezing the people of Hedong, they obtained food and grass, and then helped Shi Jingtang through these food channels.

Although Zhe Congyuan himself believed that some of the powerful people in northern Shanxi must have something to do with Shi Jingtang who went out of the border, there were still questions about whether these food channels existed, because these evidences came too quickly and obviously, Zhe Congyuan suspected that Zhang Jingda was framed!

Almost at the same time, the food and grass from Taiyuan were shipped out in batches and transported to Datong, but these were all military funds.

Although the six prefectures in northern Shanxi are in a bleak city, this simple social ecology is more suitable for war, especially in Datong Prefecture, the northernmost area, where almost all military key points are strictly guarded. Zhang Jingda's commanding flag is even directly inserted into Leigongkou. When the first light snow fell in winter, the situation in Hedong and Monan was completely subverted!

Hedong is no longer Shi Jingtang’s Hedong, but the Hedong of the court!

Zhe Congyuan looked at the rolling Yellow River, and a picture suddenly flashed through his mind - on the dragon throne in Luoyang, Huangdi Li Congke looked at the report from northern Jin Dynasty and couldn't stop smiling! However, Zhe Congyuan immediately came to his senses - Luoyang was victorious, but what about the prefecture?

There is also a heavy stall here!

Zhe Congyuan saw that Li Congke was planning to solve the problem of Shi Jingtang at one time this time!

Everything in northern Shanxi will be based on military and *** for at least one year in the next year! As for people's livelihood and the people, all factors that may cause chaos in northern Shanxi must be eliminated.

Before Shi Jingtang's head was sent to Luoyang, this area would become a key military force!

Zhang Jingda had already sent a notice and wanted to leave the victims to cross the river and go home.

"After everything starts tomorrow, we will notify you separately!"

In other words, the court wants the Hexi prefectures to take on this burden!

If 300,000 people are sent back, it is hard to say whether these 300,000 people can quickly become the auxiliary force for the defense of northern Shanxi, but the huge consumption is self-evident!

Moreover, the sudden surge of 300,000 residents can easily cause chaos, giving the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of!

The people of northern Shanxi who came to Hexi to eat, had the idea of ​​going home after hearing the news about Ningding in northern Shanxi.

Chinese people are already in love with the country! What's more, winter is coming, so we have to go back to celebrate the New Year! What's the point of wandering in a foreign land where there is no food or clothing and no tiles covering our heads!

Many people believe that since the court has shown loving the people, when they go home, the court cannot let themselves starve to death in their hometown.

Therefore, even if Zhang Jingda issued a ban, the victims would have a strong internal motivation to go back!

But one of Zhang Jingda's aides thought of this and added another order to sank all the ships along this section of the Yellow River from afar!

Despite his reluctance, Zhe Congyuan still issued an order: "Cut!"

From the bend of the Yellow River to the Dingnan Military Region, all the ships and rafts were dragged up and smashed with an axe. They were then moved back and sent to the victims to make wood for warmth this winter!

Looking at the wood and the "warmth" delivered by General Zhe in advance, the 300,000 victims were amused and crying.

At this time, Zhe Congyuan smiled bitterly in his heart!

The food and grass for the disaster victims have been almost exhausted, so it is impossible to spend this winter! Besides, after this winter, can 300,000 people go back?

Therefore, the most conservative estimate is that at least 300,000 people have to prepare food and grass for half a year!

This number is even more tingling for Li Congke, who controls the entire central dynasty, let alone Cher Congfen!

"hateful!"

Zhe Congyuan did not scold Li Congke. This time, the court did not let the prefectures and Linzhou be responsible for the 300,000 people alone, but let the entire Qinbei and Shuofang be responsible. However, the areas that Li Congke could effectively control were actually not as many as his nominal territory. After his decree was released from Luoyang, whether it could be implemented depends on whether the local forces cooperated.

The prefectures and Linzhou are still martial and powerful, but not rich. Yan, who is richer than the prefectures and Linzhou, all the Danzhou states responded and talked. On the contrary, the Dangxiang people controlled the difficulties and put a lot of effort into this matter!

However, why did Dangxiang people work so hard?

Zhe Congyuan is not a fool, so he naturally saw that behind the efforts of the Dangxiang people, there was another terrible force!

"General, Lord Ling asks you to go back!"

"The ship hasn't been finished yet!"

"There is an urgent matter! A guest came from Xiazhou."

Zhe Congyuan was a little awesome and immediately handed over the matter of digging the boat to deputy general Yang Ren, but his family said, "Please ask General Yang to go back together." Zhe Congyuan was a little stunned, but had to hand over the military affairs to the commander and rushed home with Yang Ren.

The horses were stomping on the road, and the first light snow in early winter in Fuzhou also started to fall.

Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. The winter wheat in Linzhou and prefectures have been planted. Snow covered, which will be a good thing for the harvest next year.

But the north wind and snowflakes, the cold will make it more difficult for people without a home to survive! A piece of snowflake fell on Zhe Congyuan's shoulders, which was very small and thin, but it suddenly made Zhe Congyuan feel very heavy.

"What should I do?"

The whole way, he was filled with worries. The lives of 300,000 people seemed to be on his shoulders! His martial arts were enough to compete with a hundred people, but no matter how strong his martial arts were, he could not produce a grain of rice out of thin air!

After entering the house, my family had already closed the door tightly, and the tense and cautious atmosphere surprised Zhe Congyuan!

After entering the hall, Zhe saw several familiar figures from afar - Yang Ren's father was there too! However, there were a few strangers, but they didn't look like Dangxiang.

Apart from the core figures of the Zhe Yang family and those strangers, there was no idle person in the hall waiting for him!

After Zhe Congyuan and Yang Ren met his father separately, Zhe Silun pointed to the guest and said, "I have met guests from Liangzhou."

Liangzhou?

Zhe Congyuan and Yang Ren were slightly surprised!

Although Liangzhou has always been the hometown of China, everyone knows where it is now!

Tiance Army!

Could it be that the people sent by the Tiance Army?

How could the Tiance Army send someone here?

Zhe Silun's expression was very solemn, but he was very polite to those guests. He introduced Zhe Congyuan: "These are all distinguished guests from Liangzhou. This is the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor of Liangzhou and the grandson of Lu Jialing."

Deputy Privy Councilor!

Zhe Congyuan and Yang Ren were even more shocked!

The Prefecture Linzhou was the outpost of the Later Tang Dynasty facing the Khitan and did not border the Tiance Army, so it was not like Shuofang who was against the Guangshe spies in Liangzhou. In terms of position, Zhe Congyuan had no obligation to understand the situation of the Tiance Army in detail.

But the Tiance Army has been so powerful in recent years!

The popularity of the sound is as powerful as a tiger swallowing the world, so the world cannot be ignored. In addition, Zhe, the Yang family has children in Shuofang, so they know a lot about the situation of the Tiance Army.

Zhechengyuan knew how big the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor was, and he had also heard of Zhechengyuan, a man named Lu Jialing! Tiance and the Later Tang Dynasty were equally great powers, and so on, Lu Jialing's status was far higher than Zhechengyuan!

However, the other party was a foreign minister after all, so Zhe Congyuan and Yang Ren were not easy to kneel down, so they just bowed.

Lu Jialing also returned the courtesy and said with a smile: "You don't have to be polite. Yang Xin, Zhe Congshi and two of them worked in Ganlong for many years. In the battle of Beiting, they even shocked the barbarians and became famous all over the world. Now they are ranked as generals. With their merits and reputations, they are just around the corner! We are all a family, so there is no need to be polite."

Zhe Congyuan and Yang Ren were shocked at the same time. They looked at each other and couldn't understand what a big man like Lu Jialing suddenly came to Qinbei for!

Zhe Congshi (Xu Congshi) and Yang Xin were acting in Liang, so they naturally could not have known that the qualifications of these two younger brothers were originally good. Zhe Congshi and Yang Xin’s achievements were caused by the sudden change in their original qualifications and their encounters. But when they set out that year, they were not a big figure in Fulin. The original intention of entering Liang was that Zhe Yang and the two families asked them to experience it. Who knew that the development of the situation later exceeded their expectations!

Especially in the Battle of Beiting, the Tiance Tang Dynasty defeated the Khitan and severely damaged the Uighurs, and made a big blow to the children of the Han family! Even in the Central Plains outside the Tiance Army, there were countless Han people cheering loudly for this! Since the Middle Tang Dynasty, the Han people have not had such a prestige for many years!

Therefore, Yang Xin, who played a key role in the Battle of Beiting, had long been heard throughout the Central Plains with the victory of Beiting! Although Yang Xin's name was too ordinary, Xu Congshi changed his surname again, so not many people thought of Qin Bei and Zhe Yang's family, but the Zhe Yang family knew very well!

After hearing this news, the mood between the Zhe Yang families was extremely contradictory!

On the one hand, the Battle of Beiting was from Hank Hu. From the perspective of the entire Chinese, no matter what, it would be a good thing. Even if the Tiance Army and the Later Tang Dynasty had conflicts in the future, the Han history books would definitely write a lot about this battle. Zhe Congshi and Yang Xin will also be revealed in history! The Zhe Yang family also had a glory! The core figures of Zhe Silun and the Yang family also regarded these two children as honored. Even Yang Xin's wife, who stayed in her hometown, was very pleased after hearing about this, and felt that it was worth it to be hard for her husband over the years!

But after I was excited, I thought about it again, and all the insiders of Zhe Yang and the two families felt cold on their backs!

They also have some understanding of the Tiance Army. The status of Zhe Congshi and Yang Xin now in the Tiance Tang Dynasty has exceeded the status of all the Zhe Yang family in the Later Tang Dynasty! As for their reputation, they are even more powerful than the ancestors! As Lu Jialing said, with their achievements and age, as long as they do not make big mistakes in the future, they will definitely become the pillars of the Tiance Army - no one doubts this!

But if such a thing comes to Li Congke one day, what would the court think about the Yang family?

Although Zhe Silun and Zhe Congyuan themselves had no intention of betraying the Later Tang Dynasty, if such a thing happened, they would have jumped into the Yellow River without even being disturbed by others, and they would have jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it out!
Chapter completed!