Become a feudal king from today

Yuanyang County.

After nearly a day's march, Zhao Xu and Chang Wei arrived here.

Ge Dong, the magistrate of Yuanyang County, came to greet him immediately after hearing the news.

Seeing Zhao Xu, Ge Dong immediately knelt down and said, "This official is guilty, please punish me."

"Get up first and tell us how much rice was burned." Zhao Xu said.

"Back to your highness, three thousand acres of rice fields were burned." Ge Dong's voice was very low, for fear of Zhao Xu's anger.

"Three thousand acres, the harvest of five hundred households is gone." Zhao Xu felt distressed.

To him, the rice was nothing, but to the people who lost it, it was his entire income that had been destroyed.

"Your Highness, please make the decision for us."

At this time, a group of people from a distance, probably thousands of people, came towards us.

Some of the people were carrying stretchers with injured people lying on them.

"Your Highness, these are the people from several villages to the south." Ge Dong said.

Zhao Xu nodded and walked over.

When they came to Zhao Xu, the people knelt down and cried.

When Chang Wei saw this, he became even more angry and cursed: "This time we did not suffer the loss of Beidi people, but we suffered the loss of our own people. I will never be able to swallow this breath. Your Highness, as long as you say a word, The last general led his men to kill Fan Yang and captured Yuan Li alive. "

"What happens after the capture? Aren't the ministers going to scold His Highness for rebelling? General Chang, don't be impatient." Liu Fu advised, and then he suddenly raised his voice, "This Yuan Lizhen is nothing. He is worse than a beast."

Zhao Xu listened to the words of the two people. He helped the kneeling old man in front of him and said: "Everyone, please get up. This time I am here to solve this matter. Don't worry, you will be burned this time." The government will compensate you for the food."

"Thank you for your great kindness, Your Highness." The eyes of the people were filled with gratitude.

The autumn harvest is coming soon, and every household is looking forward to harvesting and living a good life.

Unexpectedly, they were not robbed by the Beidi people, but their hard-earned income was destroyed by fellow Dasong people.

Zhao Xu looked at the injured again.

The injured people shed tears of grievance at this moment.

Ge Dong said: "Those people were discovered as soon as they entered the field, and those who tried to stop them were all injured."

"This king will definitely avenge you." A rage burned in his heart.

This matter is a small matter, but it is not a trivial matter.

Just imagine, these people put all their hopes on themselves and sent their children to the battlefield to support themselves.

At home, all their fields were destroyed.

If you do nothing, wouldn't these people be disappointed?

When this incident spreads throughout Yan County, he will no longer need to be the King of Yan.

It was for this reason that he came to Yuanyang County in person to appease the people.

"Your Highness, tell me what to do. We will definitely listen to Your Highness. We are not afraid of using real swords and guns." The young and vigorous people in the crowd looked like angry roosters.

They were not afraid of the Yuan family's soldiers, but they were afraid that no one would lead them.

Now that King Yan is here, they are more courageous and secretly determined to make these despicable people pay the price.

"First of all, rural soldiers cannot be abolished. They must be diligent in training and patrol frequently." Zhao Xu said.

In order to deal with Beidi, the rural soldiers in the north of Yan County were relatively well organized.

The south is more relaxed. Now that the Yuan family is playing dirty tricks, he can only organize the people and deal with the Yuan family's soldiers like the Beidi people.

Ge Dong nodded, "The official will immediately ask officials from the county government to go to the countryside to supervise the matter."

Zhao Xu nodded and said to the people: "As for revenge, leave it to me. I brought so many soldiers and horses this time not just to scare people. You can just wait for orders."

When the people heard this, they laughed one after another.

Some people shouted: "Your Highness, you must give Yuan a lesson. This Yuan Li is no better than a beast. I don't know how many people he killed to get the credit."

"That's right, there were people in our village who were slandered as bandits and killed by Yuan soldiers when they went out."

"..."

The common people said something to each other, and the more they spoke, the more excited they became.

Liu Fu sighed: "If the Zhang family is unpopular in Yan County, the Yuan family is unpopular in the entire Yan County."

Zhao Xu naturally knew this.

His decision to fall out with the Yuan family was not just about the assassination.

One of the reasons was to let the people of the seven counties see that he and the Yuan family were incompatible.

In this way, the people who hate the Yuan family will gather around him.

And just as he expected, after defeating Beidi this time and drawing a clear line with the Yuan family, people continued to enter Yan County from other counties during this period.

Of course, this is also due to his land policy and tax policy.

"Everyone, go back for now. In these few days, I will give you an explanation." The people became angry again, and Zhao Xu comforted them.

With King Yan's guarantee, the people felt comfortable.

They saluted Zhao Xu in confusion, carried the injured and gradually left.

After the people left, Chang Wei said: "Your Highness, what should we do?"

"Of course it's a tooth for a tooth." Zhao Xu said: "But we don't burn the rice, we harvest it."

Hearing this, Ge Dong pointed to the south and said, "Your Highness, the fields separated from Yuanyang County belong to the Yuan family."

Chang Wei realized it immediately, he almost forgot.

Like Yan County in the past, most of the land in Fanyang County is in the name of wealthy families.

The Yuan family is the largest family in Fan Yang, and their land property extends throughout Fan Yang.

Since the Yuan family dared to destroy Yan County's fields, they would also cause the Yuan family physical pain.

"Magistrate Ge, go collect sickles and organize Qingzhuang Ye Heifenggao to do it." Zhao Xu said, this time he brought five thousand troops and horses, plus Yuanyang's Qingzhuang, it was enough.

"Yes, Your Highness." Ge Dong smiled evilly.

…

The next night.

Fanyang City.

Yuan Li looked at the wine jars piled up like a hill in front of him, with a proud smile on his face.

These wine jars are exquisitely made, and the plates are all engraved with the word "Yan". They are the goods stolen from the merchants of Yan County.

Since returning from Yancheng that day, he had made up his mind to deal with Zhao Xu.

Yan County was barren, so after King Yan recovered from his illness, he did not pay much attention to it because he believed that in such a place, a prince would not make a difference at all.

But he didn't expect that King Yan could earn huge amounts of silver through trade.

Now he wants to cut off the lifeline of Yan County, so that it will be difficult for the King of Yan to accumulate wealth.

"I really want to know the expression of King Yan. It must be very exciting now." Yuan Li laughed loudly, and the counselor Guo Tu beside him was slightly proud.

He came up with this poisonous plan. He asked the soldiers of the Yuan family to dress up as robbers and specially select merchants who went to Yan County to rob them.

In the past, the Yuan family had no one to restrain them in Yanzhou. Yuan Li was used to being arrogant, so he only used force when dealing with the King of Yan.

He wanted to come after suffering a hidden loss from King Yan, and his simple trick made King Yan suffer enough.

In addition, he also ordered his sergeants to sneak into Nanjing, neighboring Yuanyang County, and burn the rice of the people in Yan County.

"This is called the plan of cutting off the flesh. Cutting off the flesh bit by bit. Since he, King Yan, has become a hero and cannot openly lead the troops to destroy him, we will slowly wear him to death." Guo Tu smiled sadly.

"Well, not bad." Yuan Li felt much better.

After learning that King Yan had killed his son-in-law Zhang Kang in public, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Now the two families are completely at odds.

In this case, no matter whether it is secret or explicit, as long as it can be used against King Yan, he will use it.

Just as he was feeling proud, a servant hurriedly walked in.

"Sir, it's not good. All our rice in Yuanyang was cut overnight."

"What!"

Yuan Li and Guo Tu's expressions changed at the same time.