Become a feudal king from today

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When a group of people arrived at the threshing floor, the young men immediately stopped training.

A man about thirty years old ran over and saluted Zhongli and Chang Wei.

Then he glanced at Zhao Xu and showed an inquiring expression to Zhongli.

"This is His Royal Highness the King of Yan that you are talking about." Zhongli said with a smile.

"His Royal Highness King Yan!" The man was startled and immediately felt at a loss. He was about to kneel down and kowtow to Zhao Xu.

Although the royal army rescued them from the bullying of the wealthy family, they knew that this army belonged to King Yan.

They naturally felt grateful for King Yan and regarded him as a wise king of the world.

Zhao Xu immediately stopped him and said with a smile: "There is no need to perform such a grand ceremony."

Looking at the man, he motioned to Zhongli to introduce him.

Zhongli said: "He is Du Jian, the security chief of Duling Village."

Zhao Xu nodded and asked, "Have you been training bayonet skills?"

Du Jian shook his head, "In addition to bayonet skills, we are also training formations, flintlock reloading and shooting."

Zhongli explained on the side, "In the end, each village sent a soldier to be responsible for the training of rural soldiers, and all villagers in the village who were over thirteen years old and under fifty years old were required to participate in the training, and everyone was issued a flintlock rifle. ”

After a pause, he continued: "And we also asked the rural soldiers to send people to patrol near the village every day. Once danger is encountered, the rural soldiers will be gathered to fight against the enemy."

"If there are few wealthy soldiers encountered, let the rural soldiers from a village deal with it. If there are more, let the rural soldiers lead the people to evacuate from the village. At the same time, contact nearby villages to gather multiple rural soldiers to fight against the wealthy soldiers."

"Yes, that's how it should be." Zhao Xu was satisfied, and then asked Du Jian to gather the soldiers to demonstrate line shooting to him.

Du Jian said yes, turned around and left, then gave orders to the 200 rural soldiers.

In front of him, the village soldiers performed three stages of shooting, marching in line formation, and simple arrays, such as hollow square formations, horizontal formations, and columns.

Although the actions of the village soldiers were much stranger than those of the royal soldiers, in Zhao Xu's opinion, they were definitely enough to deal with the soldiers of the wealthy family.

Moreover, they have only trained for a few days, so it is good to have such an effect.

Then he and the two of them went to the farmland outside the village.

It was already March, and the wheat in the fields was so green that it could reach people’s knees.

Many people were working in the fields, and Du Jian shouted at an old man in the fields.

The old man came over immediately. He was the leader of the village.

Zhao Xu asked about the situation of dividing the fields and so on.

According to Li Zheng, the fields near the village used to belong to wealthy families. After the village government was established, these fields were distributed to the common people.

Zhao Xu expressed satisfaction with this situation.

Next, he visited a few more villages, which were basically similar to Duling Village.

Zhongli basically established two systems of government and military affairs in the countryside.

The most important thing is that in any village he went to, the people's faces were filled with smiles. They were not afraid of them at all, but were very enthusiastic.

And he strongly supported them in defeating the Han family and occupying Qi.

Many people also directly expressed to him that they would like their children to join the royal army and support their war.

They are afraid that the wealthy will take back everything they have gained.

This made Zhao Xu feel relieved.

However, this also reflects a situation from the side.

Although the powerful clans are divided into one side, the people under their command may not necessarily agree with them.

After all, for the people of this era, they have no concept of family and country, and they don't care who becomes the emperor.

They will follow whoever can make them live a good life.

The wealthy and powerful families were still in the feudal era and could only rely on heavy taxes collected from the land to maintain their luxurious lives. They could not only collect 10% of the tax like him.

In addition, they do not have the arrogance of officials from wealthy families and powerful families, who dominate and dominate the people.

In contrast, the poor people at the bottom will naturally choose to support them.

Furthermore, what he now represents is that the Dasong Zhengtong Division has become famous and defeated Qi soldiers in another battle.

When people see hope, they are more willing to support them.

In the evening, Zhao Xu and others returned to Dongping City.

Looking at this day, he had some concerns in his mind.

As long as this war mode is maintained, the food and grass problem will be solved, and grassroots management will also be established.

When the time comes, officials from Yanzhou will be able to easily take over the occupied territory.

…

Pengcheng.

When Zhao Xu was inspecting the countryside, an army was setting off from the north gate of Pengcheng and heading towards Lucheng along the official road.

This is exactly the 100,000 soldiers and horses that the Xie family has hoarded in Pengcheng.

Three days ago, the envoy from Qi arrived in Jinling.

Xie Duan panicked when he learned that King Yan's army suddenly moved south.

For him, the State of Qi was the northern barrier of the Xie family. Once the King of Yan conquered the State of Qi, his Xie family would be the next to suffer.

Immediately, he ordered the 100,000 troops stationed in the same city to march towards Lucheng.

At the same time, troops and horses were dispatched from Jinling and Bozhou to Lucheng to support Qi.

at the same time.

The second team of Qi envoys had just arrived in Xiangcheng and also brought news of King Yan's southward journey.

"Is the King of Yan really confident that he can defeat the Yan coalition?" In the Xiangcheng Palace, Dou Mu faced Dou Wei and frowned.

After the alliance, they all breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that King Yan was just a turtle in the urn and could be captured sooner or later.

But he didn't expect that King Yan would suddenly go south and launch an attack on his own initiative, which made him wonder if King Yan had any chips in his hands.

Dou Weidao said: "No matter what it is, this battle must be fought. If the Yan coalition cannot defeat King Yan, how can we defeat him by ourselves? We should immediately gather troops and go to Lucheng."

Dou Mu hesitated for a moment and finally nodded.

Just as his father said, there is no better way at the moment than joining forces and fighting the King of Yan.

Otherwise, they will be defeated one by one.

And now, they have at least one hundred thousand cavalry from Beidi to help them.

Thinking of this, he drafted an imperial edict and gave it to his father, ordering Xiao Cheng to lead the Nanliang army and go to Lucheng.

At the same time, he sent someone to inform the Beidi cavalry stationed in Wuguan and dispatched with them.

This time, he did not believe that King Yan could withstand their millions of troops.