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Volume 1: Who Rides the Star Chariot to Break through the Void Chapter 438: Xu Zang Sees the Blood-Sealing Throat Dagger

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    Zhuo Shunfu's two arrows just missed Yuan Ying, but only hit his horse. The horse was injured and fell down. After Yuan Ying got up, he couldn't catch him, so he could only yell and curse angrily.  Seeing this situation, a bandit leader next to him said disapprovingly: "Brother Yuan Wu, why should you worry? It's just a dog slave who escaped." Yuan Ying glanced back: "This dog slave must be responsible for Ye Chang's mission, look at his appearance  , is going north, maybe to find Anlu Mountain for reinforcements If Anlu Mountain's 100,000 troops really enter the Central Plains, our plan will be in trouble." "Even if we stop him, the court will transfer Anlu  "Enter the mountain." Another person said: "As long as we move faster and deal with Ye Chang earlier, and then join Brother Yuan, how can our army of one million be afraid of Anlu Mountain's 100,000 people?"  If he is not at peace with Ye Chang, he may not be willing to send troops to rescue Ye Chang. "You don't understand. If these dog officials are at odds with each other, they are fighting among themselves. They are not ganging up to drink our blood against us people."  Our meat?" Yuan Ying snorted: "But what Duan Jiu said just now is right, let's take out Ye Chang first, and then meet up with the eldest brother." They were originally planning to launch troops to sweep around, but now they are temporarily  After changing his mind, Yuan Ying ordered: "Gather all the brothers together, let's attack Luoyang now." "Attack Luoyang, attack Luoyang." All the rebels raised their arms and shouted.  In Luoyang City, Ye Chang, who had been training newly recruited soldiers for a day, returned to the military camp tiredly.  Since he took over the post of Luoyang's left-behind, he left his comfortable residence in the Grand View Garden and came to the military camp. "Lu Yi has indeed died for his country" Liu Changqing endured the discomfort below, quickly caught up with Ye Chang, and whispered to  Ye Chang reported: "There is also bad news. Da Xike was trapped in Linru by the bandit army. The soldiers in Linru city are weak and cannot be guarded. He sent people to ask for help." "He can't be helped." Ye Chang felt a little irritable.  : "Now there are only 6,000 newly recruited sergeants in the city. They don't know the military orders and are unable to fight. What can I do to help him Let him find a way to hold on. If he can't hold on, just break out." The bad news is really coming one after another around Luoyang.  There are wars everywhere in Duji Road. There is civil unrest a hundred miles away from Luoyang. Even in places only twenty or thirty miles away from Luoyang, there are thieves active. Ye Chang's only way to deal with it is to kill his two hands.  More than 100 of the 100 personal guards were dispersed among the 6,000 newly recruited sergeants to serve as team officers, and the other 100 were placed beside him as the elite main force. "Why did the situation suddenly deteriorate to this point?" Liu Changqing said.  He also sighed: "Fortunately, Mr. Ye has calmed down the chaos in the city. Otherwise, if there were echoes inside and outside the city at the same time, Luoyang would definitely not be able to defend it." "There are also wise men among the thieves." Ye Chang said.  "Speaking of the leader of the thief, news just came that someone has come out and said that the leader of the thief is Yuan Ying, the younger brother of the Taizhou traitor Yuan Chao. I don't know whether it is true or not." Although Yuan Chao and Yuan Ying have many friends, they are linked to each other.  There are always people with second thoughts, and among their subordinates, there are also those who do not agree with the uprising. Therefore, in the past few days, various counties have reported changes, and documents have been flying to Luoyang like snowflakes.  If it weren't for the lack of troops in Luoyang, just arresting people based on this report would be enough to capture most of the powerful men the Yuan brothers have friends with.  "It should be correct." Ye Chang had no impression of the Yuan brothers at all. He murmured, but felt a little strange in his heart. These two people should be ordinary people in a remote place near the sea. It is said that Yuan Chao is still a minor official. How could they  To be able to create such a huge momentum and make such a big fuss is that he obviously has a deep understanding of the reality of the Tang Dynasty and is able to grasp the timing very well. This kind of person should not be underestimated.  "Taizhou people actually went to Duji and Henan roads to stir up trouble. They colluded with the cunning and powerful people from all over the country. It was definitely not a day's work." Liu Changqing also sighed.  "After all, it was because of his own loopholes that he gave the traitors an opportunity to take advantage of them." Ye Chang knew very well why Gyeonggi, Duki, and Henan Province became like this, and he also contributed to it.  In fact, this is a battle between the old-style small landowners and the emerging workshop owners and large plantation owners.  In the past ten years, Ye Chang has allowed Datang's commodity economy to develop to an unprecedented height. In order to make more profits, workshops and large plantations must occupy more land.  Under this frenzy, first the peasants and semi-owners were wiped out, and then the small landowners.  "And small landowners are mostly rural tyrants and clan leaders. In villages where the imperial power is weak, their speaking role is more effective than that of the imperial government.  When they realized that they were threatened, or became ambitious and wanted to join this feast that started due to the prosperity of the commodity economy, the current power structure of the Tang Dynasty became their enemy.  They could only achieve their goals by overthrowing the Tang Dynasty.  Of course, these are all things he concluded after the fact. If he could have anticipated this in advance, he would have made more adequate preparations to reduce the losses caused by this rebellion and maximize the benefits from the destruction of the old system.    He can understand this kind of thing in his own mind, but he cannot tell others. Therefore, Yang Guozhong is the best scapegoat.  Yang Guozhong's exploitation and plundering was indeed one of the reasons why the people participated in the rebellion. However, when Yang Guozhong thought about it carefully, he would definitely be very depressed: his plundering of the people was only slightly better than that of Li Linfu and others. Why did the people become so poor during Li Linfu's time?  He could afford it, but when it was his turn, the people rebelled?  It was getting late at this time. After the two discussed the matter for a while, Su Yuan walked in quickly and saluted Ye Chang: "Mr. Sir, everyone is here." "Okay." Ye Chang became energetic.  , stood up: "It'll be good when they arrive." When he said this, his expression became very happy, and he couldn't help but smile.  In the past few days, Liu Changqing has followed Ye Chang and has never seen him smile like this. "What's wrong?" Liu Changqing asked.  "There are people coming from Chang'an City." Ye Chang slightly said excitedly: "Since I know that I have to stay for the Eastern Capital, why would I place all my hopes on others?" "Chang'an CityChang'an City has sent reinforcements?"  Liu Changqing was very surprised. Various previous reports showed that there were not many sergeants in Chang'an City, and most of them were taken away by Cheng Qianli. Where did the reinforcements come from now?  "Since the eighth year of Tianbao, I have been retiring from the army." Ye Chang said with a smile: "Jiannan Town, Anxi Town, Beiting Town, plus the Liaodong Marching General Office, each have hundreds to two thousand people each year.  There are more than 40 sergeants over the age of 40 who have retired. Most of them have returned to their hometowns, but some have joined major chambers of commerce, especially in charge of guarding the track. There are more than 2,000 such people in Chang'an and Luoyang alone.  It's urgent. I asked Li Yuan to recall them to the army. They are all elite soldiers who have fought many battles. With this manpower, Luoyang will have no worries." As he said this, he walked towards the outside. Li Yuan led the way. After a while, they arrived.  Above the military camp.  Liu Changqing looked towards the school grounds and saw a dark sky with more than a thousand people standing silently.  Their ranks were very neat, and they did not look like retired sergeants at all. The Forbidden Army exercises that Liu Changqing saw were nothing more than that.  Liu Changqing couldn't help but feel a little surprised.  He didn¡¯t know that although these retired veterans had withdrawn from the military membership of the imperial court, it did not mean that they gave up their usual drills.  Ye Chang raised them as low-level reserve officers. Their treatment was no worse than that of low-level school guards in the imperial army, and he also kept them training.  This was one of Ye Chang's trump cards. It was originally planted to prevent the court from turning against him, but he never thought of using it this time.  "Stand solemnly" Liu Changqing was thinking about it when he heard someone drink, and the veterans all stood up straight, then crossed their hands and saluted Ye Chang.  "I've seen the Duke." The voices of more than a thousand people were uniform and unified, like thunder and tide, making Liu Changqing's ears rumble.  Liu Changqing perked up and was about to praise Ye Chang, but was pulled gently by Li Yuan.  He was stunned for a moment, and then he saw Ye Chang taking two steps forward and walking straight in front of the sergeants.  "Brothers, the country is in trouble today. Ye feels ashamed and has to rely on the help of brothers." Ye Chang's deep voice rang out.  "I am willing to die for the Duke," all the veterans responded in unison.  They were speaking from the bottom of their hearts. Before they met Ye Chang, frontier soldiers often served for decades and died in a foreign land. Their families did not know about it. Too many of their comrades had died in battle.  The family still had to pay taxes and perform corvee service for them. During the eleventh year of Tianbao, Ye Chang did not hesitate to offend the powerful officials of the court and the important generals in the border towns. He colluded with these people to expose the skinning and blood sucking of the veterans.  This triggered a huge trend, and was even regarded as one of the important reasons for Tianbao's eleventh year coup.  "All pensions are the same as in the army, and so are all the rewards." Ye Chang said again: "Brothers, you don't have to worry about the future. If anything happens, I will take care of your parents, wives," Ye Chang said again.  "I am willing to die for the Duke," all the veterans said in unison again.  Liu Changqing felt vaguely that something was wrong. This matter was a state matter. How could Ye Chang bear everything on his own?  However, when he thought about the monarchs and ministers in the imperial court now, he knew very well that if this were not the case, how would it be possible to recall these retired soldiers.  The imperial court would never pay this amount of money. In recent years, Li Longji would rather spend hundreds of thousands of guan on building a glass greenhouse, hundreds of thousands of guan on buying a clock, and millions of guan on building a glass crystal palace.  They are also unwilling to spend more money on building roads and caring for the people.  After discovering that the bank's investment in road construction was a profitable business for the court, Li Longji and Yang Guozhong were eager to outsource all construction projects to Andong Bank. "Thank you so much," Ye Chang said with a crossed hand to the soldiers.  salute, and then ordered: "Each team elects a team leader and team leader, and then Mr. Liu will send you the armor from the arsenal." Liu Changqing responded, and Ye Chang turned around and whispered to him: "That arsenal.  Border, hold our armyLet's go, things should be done quickly rather than later. Send it out today and they can practice it tomorrow. In addition, the matter should be kept as confidential as possible.  " "When they entered the city" Liu Changqing was surprised. "They came in pretending to be victims of the disaster who had fled into the city.  Liu Changqing nodded and immediately understood. In the past few days, the number of victims fleeing into Luoyang City has been increasing every day. Half of the designated shelters for victims in the city have been filled, and a full 80,000 or 90,000 people have entered the city. These  There must be some thieves among them, but at the same time, they can also cover up some of Ye Chang's arrangements. Liu Changqing suddenly thought that Ye Chang went to see those unsightly recruits during the day, maybe just for the eyes of those informants:  The soldiers in Luoyang are weak, let's attack Luoyang. "The soldiers in Luoyang are weak. Taking advantage of Ye Chang's lack of preparations, attack Luoyang first, or at least surround Luoyang first." Khalid spoke in very authentic Tang Dynasty Mandarin, his voice was a little hoarse because of anger.  Da Shi Ren, who has always been active as a Da Shi merchant, has met many people in and outside Chang'an and Luoyang. No one would have thought that this Da Shi Ren, who came all the way to the Tang Dynasty to make a fortune, would actually be friends with people outside Luoyang.  The thieves colluded together. Therefore, Khalid and his Da Shi accomplices became the best informants of the thieves. "Khalid, are you serious?  " "Really, I saw with my own eyes that Ye Chang recruited more than two thousand to three thousand people to act as soldiers and practiced outside the city for a day. Those recruited were all scoundrels, gangsters and drunkards. In short, they were the least suitable.  He recruited those who acted as soldiers." At this point, Khalid's mouth twitched, thinking of the flood outside Talos: "Unless Ye Chang digs out the embankment of the Luo River and removes the floods in the river.  All the fish and shrimps have become soldiers, otherwise he would never have sufficient troops." "Ye Chang has always been cunning, Khalid, you have experienced it personally, do you think this could be his trap?  " Yuan Ying was a little reckless at first, but when facing Ye Chang, he had to be cautious. His question made Khalid laugh: "I don't think it is a trap, but it seems like a bluff, just like you  "As said in Sun Tzu's Art of War" In the eleventh year of Tianbao, Khalid, a prisoner, escaped from the prisoner of war camp in Ximachang and followed the Yuan brothers. He shouldered Ziad's mission and spent a year  After returning to Dashi by sea for a long time, he resolutely refused the Caliph's invitation and returned to Datang. While bringing a lot of wealth to the Yuan brothers, he also helped them find a way to deal with Ye Chang and Datang.  Therefore, the Yuan brothers trusted him. When they heard that this was Ye Chang's bluff, Yuan Ying nodded: "In that case, I am 90% sure Khalid, you go back to the city and continue to inquire about the news.  .  " "Okay, if necessary, I and my people can act as internal agents for you.  "Khalid said. "No, no" Yuan Ying shook her head repeatedly. "What?  "My brother has a saying, which he came to after studying Ye Chang's behavior.  "Yuan Ying said: "My brother has always thought that although Ye Chang has no vision and lacks the capacity to accommodate others, he still has talent, so he cannot be ignored.  " "What words?  "Khalid was shocked. He actually looked down on the Yuan brothers, but at this moment he vaguely felt that he seemed to have underestimated the brothers. "Every time Ye Chang acts, he seems bold, but in fact he has something hidden in his heart.  Holding a sharp dagger, as long as the enemy is not careful, the dagger will see blood and seal the throat.  Therefore, to deal with Ye Chang, we must also hide a dagger Khalid, you are our dagger, you cannot use it easily."
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