Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 659

[Chapter 659]

“General Zhong, General Chang.”

A group of people arrived at the threshing ground, and the young and strong immediately stopped training.

A man in his thirties ran over with a small step and saluted Zhongli and Chang Wei.

Then he cast a bright glance at Zhao Xu, and showed an inquiring expression to Zhong Li.

“This is His Highness King Yan who you read.” Zhong Li said with a smile.

“His Royal Highness King Yan!” The man was taken aback, and was at a loss for what to do. He was about to kneel down and kowtow to Zhao Xu.

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

Naturally, they thought of King Yan in their hearts and regarded him as a virtuous king.

Zhao Xu stopped him immediately, and said with a smile: “There is no need to do such a great gift.”

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

Zhongli said: “He is Du Jian, the chief security officer of Duling Village.” Zhao Xu nodded and asked, “Have you been training   bayonet

skills?”

Fire, reload and shoot.”

Zhong Li explained, “At the end of the day, each village sent a soldier to take charge of the training of the soldiers, and all the villagers in the village were required to participate in the training. Everyone is issued with flintlock guns.” After a

pause, he continued: “And he also asked the township soldiers to send people to patrol around the village every day, and if they encountered danger, they would let the township soldiers gather to fight against

the enemy.” If there are few soldiers from the Hao tribe, let the soldiers from a village respond; if there are too many, let the soldiers from the village lead the people to evacuate from the village, and at the same time contact the nearby villages to gather many soldiers from the village to fight against the soldiers from the Hao tribe.”

“Yes, it should be That’s it.” Satisfied, Zhao Xu then asked Du Jian to gather the townspeople to demonstrate line shooting for him.

Du Jian answered yes, turned around and left, then gave orders to two hundred town soldiers.

In front of him, the town soldiers performed three-stage shooting, marching in line formation, and simple formations, such as hollow square formation, horizontal formation and column formation.

Although the movements of the soldiers from the village are much less familiar than those of the royal army, in Zhao Xu’s view, it is definitely enough to deal with the soldiers of the noble family.

Moreover, they have only been training for a few days, so it is not bad to have such an effect.

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

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

Many people were working in the fields, Du Jian yelled at an old man in the field at this time.

The old man walked over immediately, and it was Lizheng in the village.

Zhao Xu asked about the situation of allotment of land and so on.

According to Lizheng, the land near the village used to belong to the nobles, but after the establishment of the village yamen, these fields were distributed to the common people.

Zhao Xu was satisfied with this situation.

Next, he inspected several villages, basically similar to Duling Village.

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

The most important thing is that in any village he went to, the faces of the people were full of smiles, and they were not afraid of them at all, but very enthusiastic about them.

And very supportive of them defeating the Han family and occupying the state of Qi.

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

They are afraid that the Hao family 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 ruled on one side, the people under their command did not necessarily agree with them.

After all, for the people of this era, they don’t have any concept of family and country, and they don’t care who becomes the emperor.

They follow whoever makes them live a good life.

The rich and powerful families are still in the feudal era, and they can only rely on heavy taxes collected from the land to maintain their luxurious life. They cannot only collect 10% of taxes like him.

In addition, they do not have the arrogance of officials from wealthy and powerful families, and they are domineering over the common people.

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

Furthermore, he is now representing the orthodox division of Dasong, who has become famous and defeated the soldiers of Qi State in another battle.

Seeing hope, the common people are more willing to support them.

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

Looking at it this day, he has a care in his heart.

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

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

…

Pengcheng.

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

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

Three days ago, envoys from Qi State arrived in Jinling.

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

To him, Qi State is the northern barrier of the Xie family. Once King Yan conquers Qi State, the Xie family will suffer next.

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

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

at the same time.

The second team of envoys from the State of Qi had just arrived in Xiangcheng, and they also brought the news that King Yan was going south.

“Is the King of Yan really confident in defeating the Yan coalition?” Dou Mu faced Dou Wei in Xiangcheng Palace, frowning.

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

But he didn’t expect King Yan to go south suddenly and take the initiative to attack, which made him wonder whether King Yan was holding any bargaining chips.

Dou Weidao: “No matter what it is, this battle must be fought. If the coalition forces against Yan cannot defeat the King of Yan, how can we defeat him on our own? We should immediately gather troops and go to Lucheng.”

Dou Mu After hesitating for a moment, he finally nodded.

Just like what his father said, there is no better way to fight the King of Yan except to join forces.

Otherwise, they will be broken one by one.

And now, they have at least 100,000 cavalry from Beidi to help them.

Thinking of this, he drew up an imperial decree and handed it to his father, ordering Xiao Cheng to lead the Nanliang army 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 million-strong army.

(end of this chapter)