"It's true that I was careless. Brother Ye Cheng, please be more careful when you go. This time, I won't accompany you."
This is no joke. This is a riot, and if things go wrong, people will die.
Seven days later, in Nanzheng, when Ye Cheng arrived with 10,000 imperial troops, Lu Bu and Zhang Ji had already stationed in Nanzheng with 8,000 men each.
On the day Ye Cheng arrived, Lu Bu and Zhang Ji each brought their own confidants to greet Ye Cheng.
"Old Lu, I heard that you robbed the military rations that your elder brother transported to Yuzhou some time ago?"
Lu Bu sighed helplessly, "Brother Zhang, can you blame me? Xiao Tian issued the military order directly in the name of the General's Mansion." "I know, brother has forgiven me, just cooperate with him this time." As he was talking, dust rolled, and countless people appeared in front of Zhang Ji and Lu Bu, led by Ye Cheng himself.
Hand holding his demon-slaying sword, he walked majestically at the front of the team.
Behind him, there was Zhao Yu on the left and Wang Yue on the right. Each of them was holding a long spear. From a distance, they looked a bit like the old Feilong Guard.
Ye Cheng walked slowly, Zhang Ji and Lu Bu immediately greeted him, "I respectfully welcome the Duke."
Ye Cheng glanced at Lu Bu, Zhang Ji and their subordinates, and nodded slowly.
"Everyone, the situation is urgent, so I won't be polite. The cause of the rebellion in Yangpingguan is that your Majesty forced practitioners to join the army and imposed exorbitant taxes one after another. The people couldn't bear the suffering and revolted."
He paused and his tone became helpless, "Zhang Ji, Lu Bu, you all They are my old generals of Feilong Guard. Should you two know what will happen if the imperial court sends others to suppress them? " Zhang Jidao said, "I know that these poor people who rise up will be punished as traitors. Once the city is broken, there will be a river of blood and death. The people in the city will probably be annihilated."
Ye Cheng nodded, "Exactly, General Zhang. That's why I, Ye Cheng, are not here to suppress the rebellion, let alone massacre the people, but to appease the people."
Hence, in this battle, no one is allowed to be killed indiscriminately. Anyone who disobeys the order will be dealt with according to military law."
Lü Bu clasped his fists and said, "Everything will be arranged by my elder brother."
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Zhang Ji also nodded slowly, "That's it, brother."
"Okay, the tone has been set, let's go into the city and discuss countermeasures."
"Yes!"
Arrived in the city, Ye Chengxian ordered Wang Yue and Zhao Yu to camp outside the city, while he himself came to the governor's house in Nanzheng.
Due to the rebellion at Yangping Pass, the governor of Nanzheng, who was only a few dozen miles away from Yangping Pass, had long ago abandoned the city and fled. Therefore, the governor's mansion was requisitioned by Lu Bu and became a place to discuss major military matters.
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张继点了点头，「是啊大哥，咱们的老弟兄可不多了，在It's not appropriate to damage this place."
Ye Cheng nodded, "So, I want to persuade him to surrender and turn the conflict into friendship."
"Brother... those people have killed officials and rebelled. If you persuade them to surrender, wouldn't it be contrary to the imperial court's will?"
Zhang Ji asked doubtfully.
Ye Cheng looked at his look and sighed.
"If An Qing had thought about the people, he would not have set so many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes that sound ridiculous to me, let alone the people in Shu."
"That's me. , when they heard those extremely ridiculous decrees, they all wanted to kill His Majesty to thank the world. "
"I wonder what ordinary people think when they see those decrees? Let's put it this way."
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"I once rescued a little girl in the capital. The little girl went into the woods to collect medicine alone and was chased by wild wolves."
"You know, but when your sister-in-law and I went to the little girl's home, what was her home like?"
"The four sons were all sent to guard the Demon Locking Tower, and there was only an old woman left in the family."
"The people in the capital are living like this. Other places..."
"It's conceivable."
Ye Cheng smiled bitterly and spoke slowly.
After hearing this, both Zhang Ji and Lu Bu fell silent.
The problem lies with Zhao Yu and Wang Yue, the generals of the Royal Forest Army who just walked in.
Before they were their own subordinates, they were the guardsmen first.
Zhao Yu raised his hands to several people, and then slowly said, "General, I agree with your proposal."
"We are not blind, we can see many things."
"Yes, what General Zhao said is what I meant."
Since we have unified opinions, things will be easy to handle.
Ye Cheng slowly said, "In this case, everyone, let's discuss how to persuade the rebels to surrender."
Hhearing this, Lu Bu took out a document, "Brother, the rebellion at Yangping Pass The chaos was led by Hou Yin and Li Xuanfeng, the former leaders of the Yangpingguan Xiuxian Self-Defense Force. "
"These two are well-known good people in the county. Some time ago, the court imposed a protection tax of 30% of the normal harvest of the land."
"Thirty percent of the normal harvest from an acre??"
Ye Cheng looked at Lu Bu in surprise and repeated what Lu Bu had just said.
This is so ridiculous and terrible!
You must know that even if the weather is good, the grain income from one acre of land is at most only 80% of the income from one acre of land stipulated by the court.
This tax will take away 30% of the farmers' taxes. Adding in the various taxes collected previously, the tax will reach 90%!
After one year, not only has there been no harvest, but the court still owes 10% of the grain!
Now Ye Cheng understands why Yangpingguan rebelled.
With life like this, who can not rebel?
“Who proposed this tax?”
Lu Bu sighed, "Your Majesty himself and most of the court ministers were opposed to this matter, but at that time, eldest brother, you were doing disaster relief in Yuzhou..."
"No one could do anything to An Qing, she killed all the ministers who opposed her, and then..."
"Then?" In many places, the harvest was poor. "
Hence, the local people asked Hou Yin and Li Xuanfeng to take the lead in revolting."
Ye Cheng nodded. , "I want to write an imperial edict to the court."
Ye Cheng has calculated that An Qing's dragon energy only has half a year left. Now that she is struggling like this, the dragon energy will just pour out like a flood.