Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 134 The Perfect Full Stop
"Li Yu! Li Yu! I swear to kill you!!"

Lin Renzhao, who was already slightly paralyzed, was holding a big knife in one hand and clenching a fist with the other. His whole body, as well as all the trusted soldiers he brought out, were all shrouded in great sorrow and indignation.

As much as I loved my country before, I hate it now.

"General, my condolences."

Lin Renzhao raised his head and glanced sideways at Feng Wei who was speaking.

"My three tribes have been annihilated and my whole family has died. You want to express your condolences to me?"

"This... General, you must calm down. This must be Zhao Guangmei's conspiracy. Even if the Nationalist Party takes action, it must be forced by Zhao Guangmei. You must calm down. What we do today is for the sake of heaven and earth. The righteous way is for etiquette and enlightenment, to bring order out of chaos, and for the awe-inspiring righteousness. Aren't the two words life and death already ignored? To eliminate demons and defend the way, there must be sacrifices."

When Lin Renzhao heard this, he was so angry that he felt happy: "Mr. Feng said it is so easy. The person who died is not your family."

Just as he was talking, he suddenly saw a cavalry approaching with iron hooves. Everyone was a little wary and had their own thoughts, but saw that the knight just threw a bag from the ground and said: "There are still a group of heads here, my Highness said, These are not worthy of being sacrificed by him, so you can handle it on your own."

Then, he whipped his horse and whipped his horse and drove away.

Looking at the bags full of bags on the ground, and thinking that they should also be full of heads, everyone was really scared for a while and didn't dare to open them.

It was Feng Wei who stepped forward first and opened the bag. Then, he fell to the ground with a loud cry and cried bitterly.

"Mother~, son~, ah~ damn it, you damn Zhao Guangmei, Li Yu, I, I, I~, poof~!!"

But a mouthful of old blood spurted out directly, and his body went limp and he lay on the ground.

Already mentally and physically exhausted, I have been struggling to hold on under tremendous pressure.

I thought I was going to die, and I wanted to use my life to leave a good name and qualifications to future generations.

As a result, now, the whole family's little inner defense has been defeated in one fell swoop.

Descendants?

How can he have any descendants?

It turned out that although his family members had already been sent to the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhao Guangmei's first condition after the peace talks with the Southern Tang Dynasty was that the Southern Tang Dynasty must unconditionally arrest and extradite these Huainan tycoons, as well as all the family members of Song Dynasty officials in the Southern Tang Dynasty. .

No matter what the reason is, as long as the person is an official or wealthy person in the Song Dynasty, but his family members live in the Southern Tang Dynasty, he will be punished as treason, and his family members will be killed first in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and then he will be killed in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Li Yu and the others even killed Lin Renzhao's family members. Do they still care about this?They started arresting people without even hesitating, and Feng Wei's family members had always been the focus of attention of the officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty. They were somewhat of a hostage in nature, so they naturally chopped off their heads as soon as possible. Sent to Zhao Guangmei.

In fact, in the Song Dynasty, there were quite a few officials who sent their families to live in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Zhao Guangmei used to think that there were more officials in the Huainan area. Now, with the cooperation of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he actually killed them and found out that this number was It's actually so shocking.

Especially for those middle-level officials above the seventh rank and below the fifth rank, their children will not develop well if they stay in the Song Dynasty. They have no ability to pave the way for their children. The soldiers in the Song Dynasty are too strong. Especially now that Cao Bin is also strictly investigating corruption.

So they gave their wives and children all the money they had collected through corruption in the Song Dynasty, and asked them to buy land in the Southern Tang Dynasty and become big landlords. After all, the Southern Tang Dynasty was very good to the big landowners. To be honest, at least it was better than in the Southern Tang Dynasty. It was much more comfortable to be a middle-level official in the Northern Song Dynasty. The current middle-level officials in the Northern Song Dynasty were really hard-working.

Even if the Song Dynasty annexed the Southern Tang Dynasty in the future, and they would be transformed by then, who would care where these lands came from?Cao Bin couldn't catch them anymore, so the illegal income naturally turned into legal income.

Of course, there must be no indiscriminate killing. Those who really go to the Southern Tang Dynasty to buy land and become landlords and those who go to the Southern Tang Dynasty to do business and make money must be distinguished. Moreover, the Southern Tang Dynasty is a vassal state of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is indeed impossible for there to be no circulation of people.

Therefore, Zhao Guangmei felt that the conditions he offered to the Southern Tang Dynasty were very reasonable. In addition to doubling the annual coins and demanding 500 million copper coins or war compensation equivalent to silk and cloth in one breath, he only deliberately and strongly They requested that embassies and even embassy streets be set up in both countries.

Is it convenient for the political, economic and cultural exchanges between the two countries? Of course, the embassy of the Song Dynasty would not be polite when meeting Li Yu in Jinling, but if the envoy of Jinling was in Kaifeng, then naturally he would have to kowtow in circles, or at most give a Fourth-grade official treatment.

As for who the ambassador will be sent in the end, that is a matter that Zhao Kuangyin and the civil and military ministers will consider. Zhao Guangmei only considers the business of the business.

The Song Dynasty Commercial Bank will also forcefully settle in Jinling City, directly use the war compensation money as capital, and start large-scale land enclosures for mulberry planting, mining and color improvement, and even large-scale forcible mergers and acquisitions of cloth and silk shops among the private sector. The dyeing workshop was managed by Han Lingkun, Zhao Kuangyin's sworn brother and the previous commander of the Guards Department, who was personally in charge of Yangzhou.

As for whether the commercial bank pays taxes in Jinling and how much taxes it has to pay, well... these issues are put aside for the time being and let Li Yu and the others talk directly to Han Lingkun.

If you can collect it, you are considered great.These are almost the entire contents of the peace talks for this war. As a price, the Song army will gradually withdraw from Tuzhou and return to the north of the Yangtze River. However, before leaving, a fire was set off to destroy the entire Tuzhou City, especially Tuzhou City. The Caishiji camp outside was burned to the ground.

At this point, the Southern Tang Dynasty had almost completely lost its natural defense against the Northern Song Dynasty, and the bones of the main war faction had been completely shattered. Except for Shabi, there should be no one who would be the main war faction in the Southern Tang Dynasty anymore. At the same time, the Song Dynasty also used embassies and trading houses to The branch exercised dual control over Nan Tang, both politically and economically.

He also had to give the Song Dynasty coins.

This Li Yu is really a good person!
Zhao Guangmei was reluctant to beat him.

In fact, with the formal signing of the peace and equality treaty, this war that started inexplicably and ended inexplicably has been considered over. Chuzhou's side is just the ending.

The [-]-strong army retreated. If they wanted to fight against the small Fengjiabao, it would just be a matter of kicking them.

But Zhao Guangmei believes that violence cannot solve everything, and the ending must be beautiful.

So there is the present scene.

The next priority is to attack the city, but the highest priority is to attack the heart.

On that day, a mutiny broke out in Fengjiapu. Soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty directly took control of the senior members of the Feng family. However, these senior members of the Feng family did not resist at all and surrendered smoothly.

Then, Zhao Guangmei became nervous.

They were stunned and stopped the soldiers of the three armies from allowing anyone to enter the fort. They just sent a hundred and eighty people to symbolically walk around the fort to take over the fort, and then let the prisoners inside come out one by one to register.

"I stress again, most of the so-called rebels in Wubao were kidnapped by the Feng family. They are all poor people, all villagers, and all our subjects of the Song Dynasty. They are not criminals. , not even prisoners, but victims who were harmed by these rebels, do you understand?"

As he said that, Zhao Guang Meicang blankly pulled out his sword and cursed: "They say that the military discipline of our Song Dynasty is poor, even your mother, if it weren't for your previous military discipline being so poor, how could this war be fought like this? How could they? Are you surrendering now? I don’t care how you fought in the past. Anyway, I am the one who makes the decision now. This battle is over. The next two will be rewarded based on merit. I will report to my elder brother that within two months, the commercial bank will issue additional shares. All soldiers who have made meritorious service in this battle, and those who have made meritorious service in the Battle of Jinghu a few days ago, will be able to share the profit shares, which will be held by your family members. However, I have said something ugly in front of you, who dares to burn, kill, and loot for me again? Don't blame me for turning against you."

"Remember, anyone who dares to take advantage of me, the people of the Song Dynasty, as long as someone reports it, the war achievements will be immediately invalid, and the stock claim will be invalid; anyone who dares to hurt others or steal money will be tried in a military court; anyone who dares to do so without any reason If you commit murder and cause trouble, the three armies will face you, and I will personally chop off your head to enforce military discipline!"

The tough battle has clearly just begun.

In Cao Bin's absence, Zhao Guangmei actually didn't know how to enforce military discipline. He didn't know what it meant to be impartial, so he simply ordered someone to set up a small bench. With a stinky face as if everyone owed him [-] million, he leaned on Qianlong Jian was sitting at the door of Fengjiapu with his back straight, his handsome eyes scanning Song Jun's body all the time.

Watching them register the people in the fort, then form a team, ask them about their place of origin, classify them by county, and then turn around and go next door to collect money, which is not much, only a hundred cents for each person.

After receiving the money, he turned around and Song Jun cooked dumplings for everyone to eat together. After finishing, he sent you home.

The rebels were so flattered that they all became like puppets, and they were all stupid.

Is this still the same Song army that burned, killed, looted, committed all kinds of evil, and even cooked people alive and drank them?

If I had known that you would give money to dumplings instead of killing people, we would have surrendered a long time ago. Why are we still trying to fight those people named Feng?

Then someone immediately corrected him: "Ah! The burning, killing and looting you are talking about were all from the Zhou Dynasty. What does it have to do with the Song Dynasty? I have long said that the officials of the Song Dynasty and His Highness the King of Qin were all Good people, no, they are all saints!”

His Highness the King of Qin doesn't look very friendly. He looks fierce and fierce to everyone he looks at.

While eating dumplings, someone shouted: "Long live the Song Dynasty! Long live the official family, long live His Highness~!"

Then, those surrendering soldiers who had just surrendered and who should have been extremely anxious, started cheering crazily and shouting with excitement, as if they had not lost the battle, but had won a great victory. Same.

Seeing this, Zhao Guangmei showed a satisfied smile while eating the same dumplings as the soldiers.

After everyone had finished cheering, he stood on the high platform and said: "Everyone, please be quiet. Now I have better news for you."

"From now on, all of you will be classified as military households. Regardless of whether you had land in your name before, it will definitely be gone in the future. But it doesn't matter. The entire Chuzhou, and even the entire Huainan, will undergo a great land revolution, like Those like the Feng family who directly participated in the rebellion will naturally have their land confiscated. As for other powerful people, the trading houses that can buy it will try their best to buy it. In the future, they will contract the land according to the rules of the trading company. No. Pay taxes.”

Then, the cheers in the camp got louder and louder, and lasted for more than half an hour before they finally subsided, and the battle across the river finally came to a perfect end as the cheers fell. .

(End of this chapter)