Chapter 607 Emperor Yanping passes away

Yang Mingzhao naturally didn't know that the prefect had already laid down. He even sent people to the prefectural city to inquire about the news. As a result, after more than two months of inquiries, there was no movement at the prefectural government office.

This made Yang Mingzhao a little confused.

"Why didn't the government come to suppress the bandits?"

"Don't the prefect know yet?" Chen Buyu guessed.

Yang Mingzhao said: "He is not deaf, how could he not know?"

"Why?" Chen Buyu was also puzzled.

It's right to be puzzled, they naturally don't understand the brain circuits of those officials.

Let alone Su Muye, now almost all officials in Bashu are lying down.

When the first wave of rioters came out to make trouble, they still wanted to actively respond, and they recruited soldiers from the garrison and recruited local militias to actively participate in the great cause of suppressing the rebellion.

But the successive defeats completely destroyed their enthusiasm.

The first one to start the rebellion was the Black Tiger King. He was able to withstand all the pressure and beat the government's army to flee.

It's not that the Black Tiger King was very powerful, it's just that the government's army was too bad.

When tens of thousands of soldiers and militiamen went to war, they couldn't even get enough food. How could they be expected to suppress the rebellion?

At that time, the Black Tiger King only brought hundreds of fierce old thieves to disperse tens of thousands of troops.

Later, another Nine Heavenly King emerged. The Sansi Yamen of Bashu felt that it was difficult to suppress the rebellion by themselves, so they wanted to pull the Shunan Xingdusi to suppress the rebellion together.

Ma He, the commander of the Shunan Xingdusi, did bring thousands of troops to suppress the rebellion, but he asked for money and food before the war started.

The Sansi Yamen of Bashu could only pinch their noses to give money and food, and Ma He led the army all the way forward. After marching for a year, he occupied four counties and then stopped.

Ma He continued to ask for money and food, and when the three government offices refused to give him money and food, he went to collect money and food himself.

In this way, the four counties became Ma He's territory.

In name, he was still the commander of the Shunan Xingdusi in the court, but in fact, he became a local emperor in Shunan.

As for why the court did not send troops to quell the rebellion, it was because the court forgot about it.

At first, some people in the court said that there were rioters in Bashu, but later, the civil and military officials in the court were busy fighting, and no one paid attention to the situation in Bashu.

And Emperor Yanping has been ill for the past two years, and he has been powerless to handle many government affairs.

As a result, no one in the court paid attention to the rebels in Bashu.

The court did not care, and the officials in Bashu had no choice but to lie down.

So the situation became what it is now.

Yang Mingzhao was still on guard against the government coming to suppress the rebellion at first, but later he found that not only was there no movement in the prefectural yamen, but even the three yamen in Bashu were also quiet, so he was relieved.

Of course, he still arranged people to keep an eye on the three yamen and the prefectural yamen of Kuizhou Prefecture, but he was no longer overly nervous.

In the lobby of the county yamen.

"Since the government is not coming to attack us, we don't need to rush to expand. Let's manage Taiping County first!"

Yang Mingzhao said.

"Sir, don't we continue to expand? With our strength, we can definitely take down another county!" Chen Buhan said.

Yang Mingzhao shook his head and said, "With an unstable foundation, it is useless to occupy more territory. What we need to do now is to lay a solid foundation!"

"First, recruit scholars. We still have too few scholars under our command, and there are not enough clerks in the county government."

"With enough clerks, we can formulate systems, set tax amounts, and then collect taxes!"

"For the time being, we will cancel all the exorbitant taxes and corvée, and only retain the land tax and business tax!"

"Second, build water conservancy projects. Many canals in the countryside have not been repaired for a long time, and many canals have been blocked. We To ensure that the people have enough to eat, we must ensure that they can have a good harvest! "

"The importance of water conservancy is self-evident, so next we will organize the people to build canals. "

"This does not require us to pay for food. I believe that as long as we take the lead, the people will participate enthusiastically. After all, this is related to their harvest! "

"Third, restore the operation of salt wells, tea workshops, and medicinal materials workshops, open up trade routes, and ensure that we can obtain more silver and money. "

"The salt wells cannot be stopped. Many stove owners still rely on the salt wells for food. We need to restore the production of the salt wells as soon as possible! "

"Similarly, tea and medicinal materials We also need to restore, not only to restore production, but also to open up trade routes, otherwise the tea and herbs grown by tea farmers and herbal farmers will be meaningless! "

"It's not easy for us to go to Kuizhou Prefecture, but we can go to Longnan."

"The fourth training, we only have 700 young and strong, which is obviously not enough! But we don't need too many troops now. Recruiting too many young and strong will affect the people's farming!"

"So I decided to recruit another 800 young and strong, to make up 1,500 people, to establish the Taiping Army, uh, the Taiping Army is the name of our army. "

"In addition to recruiting young and strong into In addition to the five-man army, we also need to form peasant soldiers, just like the soldiers in the garrisons, who farm during the busy farming season and train during the slack season! "

"We train in villages, with 30 to 50 young and strong men in each village. Once we need to fight against the imperial army, we can gather tens of thousands of troops at any time!"

"And if the Taiping Army needs to expand in the future, we can also select people from the peasant soldiers!"

"In addition to these, we also need to build our own forging workshops to forge weapons and armor. We don't have the ability to forge iron armor for the time being, but we can use rattan armor!"

"besides……"

Yang Mingzhao said a lot of things in a row, and everyone below nodded repeatedly when they heard it.

Occupying Taiping County does not mean that they can worry about everything, and the next thing they need to do becomes more.

However, although there are many things, everyone feels very motivated.

They are now an entrepreneurial team. During their business, they all have great enthusiasm for their next career.

And now they have achieved certain results, which has made them even more enthusiastic.

Therefore, they all felt very excited next time, except for Wu Zheng, and Wu Zheng even felt a little bored.

But Wu Zheng did not leave. It was because he didn't want to leave, but he really couldn't leave.

He can ignore Yang Mingzhao's nonsense, but he cannot ignore Yang Mingzhao's safety, so he can only follow Yang Mingzhao's nonsense.

With the team and territory, Yang Mingzhao and others calmly developed silently.

Just as they were developing, Emperor Yanping finally failed to block birth, old age, sickness and death, and died on November 8, 20th year of Yanping.

Emperor Yanping passed away, and Crown Prince Chen Zhaojun ascended the throne and appointed the yen name Jianxing.

One generation of emperor and another generation of ministers, and the new emperor ascended the throne, immediately made drastic adjustments to the court.

Unfortunately, all Emperor Jianxing's actions will eventually be futile.

Maybe it is because God is going to destroy Darong.

In the first year of Jianxing, Longyuan, Longxi and Longnan were severely drought, and the land was barren for thousands of miles, and all the seeds were gone. Most people were in exile, and the epidemic caused by hunger and the death was twelve or three.

Under the severe drought, bandits rose up everywhere, sweeping hundreds of thousands of hungry people and looting money and food everywhere.

In just a few months, the land of the three provinces has become a place of chaos.

The first year of Jianxing, that is, the fourteenth year of the star and moon, in mid-July.

Among the vast mountains, Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi stand on the peaks, overlooking the hills of Longyuan, thousands of miles away.

Everything you see is yellow.

Since the beginning of autumn last year, there has been almost no rain in Longnan. There has been no snow in winter, no rain in spring, and only a light rain in summer.

Not to mention food, even the weeds have withered.

Many rivers are broken, and some rivers even dry up directly.

Yang Zhengshan turned his head and looked deep in the mountains. There were green patches between the overlapping mountains, but he also looked listless!

"Husband, when will it rain?" Yu Qingyi said with a heavy heart.

Yang Zhengshan raised his head and looked at the sky that was clear, "Three months later! Haha, a light rain!"

His face was quite ugly because he had sensed that the drought would last for three years.

That means this is just the beginning.

A three-year drought may have some light rain during this period, but it will not help at all.

Most people can't even resist this year, let alone the severe drought in the next two years.

"Do you want to take care of it?"

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

"How to deal with it? You and I are just humans, not gods!" Yang Zhengshan said with a little dullness.

He can only sense the celestial phenomena, but cannot change the celestial phenomena, and cannot call the wind and rain.

As for the spiritual spring water in the space.

Don’t joke, there is a lot of spiritual spring water in the space, but that is relative to people. For thousands of miles of naked earth, the spiritual spring water in the space can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket.

The problem in Longnan now is not that there is no water to drink, but that there is no rainwater to irrigate the farmland and no food to fill the hunger.

Not to mention himself, even the court can do nothing about such a drought.

At this time, a large number of hungry people were pouring into the Wanshan Mountains because there was still food in the Wanshan Mountains.

Leaves, bark, grass roots, etc., will all become food for the people to fill their hunger.

"Let's go!"

Yang Zhengshan turned around and walked towards the forest.

Yu Qingyi looked at the dry earth with some concern, but finally left helplessly.

Yang Zhengshan did nothing, but he still sprinkled a lot of spiritual spring water in the mountains.

These spiritual springs can make the grass and trees in the mountains grow more lush, and perhaps some people can survive on these plants and trees.

The two of them wandered around the edge of Wanshan Ridge for a long time, leaving behind a large amount of spiritual spring water.

But they left after all.

Faced with such a great disaster, they also seemed powerless.

Yang Zhengshan has some kindness, but he is not a saint. At most, he only does things within his ability. No matter how much he can, it will exceed his ability and beyond his psychological range.

In his opinion, it is enough to do your part in the face of such natural disasters.

There are so many sufferings in the world, he is not a living Bodhisattva who saves suffering.

After going deep into Wanshan Ridge, and walking out of Wanshan Ridge, they entered Bashu.

Well, they passed by the west of Taiping County. They had heard of traitors in Taiping County, but how could they think that their own son was rebelling!

So they missed it like that.

If they meet Yang Mingzhao, it should be interesting.

Unfortunately, they plunged into the steep mountains and ridges in western Bashu.

The two went south all the way, left Darong from Yunling Town, entered the Dongyu Dynasty, and then continued to go south from the Dongyu Dynasty, entering the Yilan Dynasty, the affiliated dynasty of the Temple of War.

The Yilan Dynasty and Darong have different styles. The biggest feature of the Yilan Dynasty is the pagodas that can be seen everywhere.

"Would we go to the Martial God Temple to see it? It is said that there are countless masters in the Martial God Temple and their martial arts are prosperous."

The two walked in the mountainous areas east of the Ilan Dynasty, Yu Qingyi suggested.

Yang Zhengshan glanced at the surrounding grass and trees with his eyes and said casually: "Aren't you afraid of being beaten to death when you go to the Martial God Temple?"

"What are I afraid of with you?" Yu Qingyi was very confident in Yang Zhengshan.

“Haha~~”

Yang Zhengshan felt very happy about Yu Qingyi's praise.

However, he still said, "Forget it, we have a bad relationship with the Martial God Temple. If the masters of the Martial God Temple besiege us, it will be troublesome!"

Back then, they helped Xue Qiaoer, Grandma Xue and others block Chai Wujie of the Temple of the Martial Gods. Although it has been fifteen or sixteen years since this incident, if they encounter Chai Wujie, they might be really killed by the Temple of the Martial Gods. Siege.

Yu Qingyi said, "It is said that the Temple of the Martial God has two kinds of spiritual fruit trees! We have the light spiritual fruit, and we don't know what the other one is!"

"Well!"

Lingguo is still very attractive to Yang Zhengshan.

"Then let's go and have a look!"

"Go and see. If you have the chance, just grab it and run away!" Yu Qingyi said with some excitement.

The longer I came out to play, the more I became more and more relaxed.

The originally hidden temper of the Jianghu has gradually recovered, and his desire to do things is getting stronger and stronger.

To put it simply, Yu Qingyi just wanted to find someone to fight!

The martial artists in the martial arts world probably have this bad habit. If they don’t fight for a few days, they will feel itchy.

In the past, Yu Qingyi had to worry about her identity and put those habits in her heart. Although she is old now, her temperament is becoming more and more casual, and those habits in her heart have emerged again.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the excited Yu Qingyi and couldn't help laughing.

Whoever said that an old couple would get bored with each other? He felt that Yu Qingyi was still very beautiful, which still made him feel moved.

After spending more than 30 years together, I still don’t feel bored, but sometimes I feel some throbbing in my heart.

"Let's go, my husband will take you to the Martial God Temple for a break! If they dare to attack us, my husband will definitely beat them all over the ground!"

"Husband is mighty!" Yu Qingyi said with a smile on her face.

“Haha~~”

Yang Zhengshan suddenly felt like he was taking a girl to copy it, a long time ago.

Then, the two walked towards the direction of the Martial God Temple.

There are many spiritual spring spaces here without animals and plants. The two of them collected the animals and plants they encountered while rushing to the road.

They have found a lot of good movement along the way.

I didn't encounter wild spirit fruits, but I encountered several precious medicines.

At this time, the Lingquan space had changed a lot. There were already a lot of plants and trees between the mountains, and they looked lush and green. Although there were no tall trees, they were no longer as desolate as before.

On the southern central plain, on both sides of the river, it has become a grassland.

Trees grow slowly, but weeds and shrubs grow very fast. As long as there are enough seeds, tens of thousands of acres of land can turn into a green grassland in a few months.

Yang Zhengshan moved most of the animals to the foot of the mountain, and the plain had become vibrant.