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Chapter 116 Troubled Times

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The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand; the light will appear again, and the world will be lucky!

The Yinming Sect, the Black Tiger Gang, and the Shenshui Gate, are scheduled to take action on November 15th at the same time. It is not a coincidence that the position of the leader of the Demon Sect is scheduled to be elected on August 15th next year. At that time, the most powerful person will be elected as the leader, and the entire Hualong Continent is to openly or secretly millions of scholars with high martial arts. Dominating the world is by no means an empty talk!

On the one hand, time is urgent and waiting for people. On the other hand, countries are in a row, expanding reserves in large numbers and a large number of troops are busy fighting. Intelligence organizations and secret spies also focus on spying on military information and preventing enemy masters from assassinating their generals, important personnel and other matters. The control over the country is much weaker than usual. It is the time when the three major forces of the Demon Cult take the opportunity to invade the matter.

The reason why all major forces choose November 15th is that they follow the custom of the Demonic Sect: worship the sun at noon and the moon at midnight, and the sun and the moon are bright, which means the light is reproduced.

The Light Demon Cult was able to develop huge forces in the dark meeting. In fact, the final analysis is that the rule of various countries in the Hualong continent is based on maintaining the politics of wealthy families, and economic interests and privileges. It ignores the interests of the general public and accounts for less than 20% of the population, which controls nearly 80% of the land and wealth, and there are many special political and economic powers.

Although the number of people who have truly become slaves in name in Hualong Continent is only about 10%, in fact, the vast majority of ordinary people have become equivalent to slaves: a large number of people depend on the landlords and become tenant farmers. Even if the weather is good and the fields are good, they will only get food for their lives after paying up to 60% to 70% of the land rent; if they encounter famine and disasters, they often cannot fill their stomachs, do not cover their bodies, and die in hunger and cold. There are even tragic events in the world that change children and eat! A large number of urban populations are in a slightly better state, and they can do some small businesses to support their families, but they often encounter heavy taxes, and their lives are also quite difficult!

This situation gave the Light Cult to take advantage of the opportunity: to promote its brotherhood among a large number of lower-class people, and to act in a straightforward manner. At the same time, it proposed the tempting slogans such as dividing the land, equalizing the wealth, and a noble and humble person. The Light Cult also cherished the wealthy families and passed on the martial arts of only the people in the family and the soldiers under the control of the army to selectively spread the missionaries, thus receiving the response and support of many lower-class people. The passionate young master Xu Xiaoyao easily received support from many people when he was in Keelung City, Zhenbao Island. The real reason is that even without the melee of various countries in Hualong Continent, the big uprising of the Light Cult is a matter of time sooner or later!

The Jade-faced Langjun Xu Shaopeng is indeed a rare talent. In addition to leaving behind necessary guards, the Yinming Sect General Hall in Yulong Mountain, including the Yinming Iron Guard, Yinming Silver Guard, Baguard, and Demon Sword Guard, all tens of thousands of core disciples with high martial arts skills came out of the mountain. The two major legions under the Yinming Sect divided the routes and swept away the Longshan Mansion in the south within three days. The major wealthy aristocratic families in the Yulong Mansion, including the Yulong Secret spies, were not spared. Only a few had to escape early when they saw the opportunity!

In order to win people's hearts, Xu Shaopeng, the commander of the army, and Xu Shan, the ruler, announced that they would distribute the large amount of land and land confiscated by wealthy families to civilians and slaves, so as to fulfill the dream of farming and farming. The large amount of money collected was used to expand the Guangming Army to respond to the people of the two governments, and they killed the wealthy families and divided the land with the support of the Guangming Army... The Sima family's rule in the two governments was declared collapse!

The Yinming Sect's Guangming Army expanded rapidly to four major legions within a few days, with 640,000 people, and there were still a large number of civilians and slaves who were turning over to join the Guangming Army. Due to financial resources and military equipment, Xu Shaopeng only sent some officers who were more familiar with the methods of training to organize these people to train for local armed forces as reserve forces.

On November 19th, the Yinming Sect's Guangming Army under the Yinming Sect after a brief integration training, left behind Yinming God Fist, Xu Ling's Brothers, and the Domineering Spear. The two divisions of the Fourth Legion led by Tang Tianxiao were stationed in Longshan Prefecture and Yushan Prefecture. Xu Shaopeng personally led the First Legion, the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword. Yang Shidao led the Second Legion and the Fourth Legion. A total of 400,000 troops headed to Yulong Mansion, the capital of Yulong Kingdom, Yulong City, and the Blood-Floating Sword, which was Xuling's Brothers. Wei Wuji led the Third Legion to capture the adjacent ShiYyn Mansion from Longshan Prefecture to the north.

As long as you capture Shi Yàn City and occupy the key throat of the Jinling Prefecture of Roland County, the key to the throat that must be passed by, the three prince Sima An of Roland County led hundreds of thousands of troops and several newly built reserve divisions in Roland County will not be able to directly advance eastward to help Yulong County to capture Yulong City. If the Guangming Army under the Yinming Sect overthrows the Sima Dynasty, the people of the counties under the Sima family will be all over the Yinming Sect and establish a new kingdom is no problem! If the Yinming Divine Fist Xu Ling then gains the position of leader of the Guangming Sect and integrates several other major forces in the sect, he can take advantage of the situation to sweep the world. This is the complete plan designed by the jade-faced man Xu Shaopeng!

The young leader of the Black Tiger Gang in Jiang'an County, the Golden Dragon Kingdom, Xiong Zhan also adopted almost the same strategy as Xu Shaopeng, and even more ruthless policies, killing the wealthy families in the southern part of Jiang'an County. Every family confiscated and destroyed the Guangming Army of the Black Tiger Gang, which also quickly organized four major corpses with 640,000 people. After occupying Anqing Port on the Yulong River, the Black Tiger Gang formed a navy of more than 300 warships of 60,000 people, and the young corpses of the young corps. Xiong Zhan personally led 480,000 people from the three major corpses to Longzhou City, where the Jiang'an County Guard was located to the north!

Jiang'an County is under the four prefectures, with irregular fields, covering an average depth of about 700 miles from north to south, and a horizontal length of about 600 miles. The upper left corner of the field is Jiaozhou Prefecture, the upper right corner is Longzhou Prefecture, Jiqing Prefecture in the lower left corner and Sanchuan Prefecture in the lower right corner is the surging Yulongjiang Jiang'an County is a rare fish and rice town in the Jinlong Kingdom. There are many rivers in the county, irrigating a large amount of fertile land. Not counting the hidden population, but the official statistics alone feed more than 7 million people.

With Jiang'an County, it has been responsible for nearly 40% of the taxes and 50% of the grain of the entire Golden Dragon Kingdom for many years. It is an indispensable granary and vault for the kingdom. In addition, the recent expansion of the Jinlong King Liu Cao has fought against the Later Tang Empire. The financial resources, food and grass and people used for logistics support have been even more aroused. The lower class people have already suffered a lot, and their support for the Guangming Cult is even more serious than that of the Longshan Mansion of the Yulong Kingdom. Wherever the Sun and Moon Banner representing the Guangming Cult and the Black Tiger Banner representing the Black Tiger Gang go, the people who have been resentful have spontaneously killed officials and opened the city gates to welcome them. Hundreds of thousands of troops have been in a mighty way, and they have almost never encountered much resistance to head towards Longzhou City, Longzhou Prefecture, where the capital of Jiang'an County is located in the north!

The Guangming Army under the Shenshuimen, Mount Everest County of the Later Tang Empire, occupied Yueyang Prefecture. After Kazan Prefecture, the practices of the Black Tiger Gang were very different from the Yinming Sect and the Black Tiger Gang. The practices adopted were basically similar to those of the Free Army on Zhenbao Island: unconditional release of official slaves; the private slaves gave their masters market price and gold coins to purchase them; a large amount of land from wealthy families was forcibly owned by Guangming Army at a certain price, and then distinguished urban commercial land and farm grain land, auctioned urban land, and distributed agricultural grain land to each farmer for free and reduced rent to 10%...

Many of the policies of the Shenmuemen are almost the same as those of the Free Army. It makes people wonder whether the Shenmuemen is copying the Free Army's actions, or that the Free Army is secretly presiding over the overall situation. However, according to rumors, Leng Xiangrui, the young sect leader of the Shenmuemen, is a young girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, and has nothing to do with the Free Army. Perhaps it is because her daughter's family is soft-hearted and unwilling to kill too much!

However, Shenshuimen's policy still achieved great success: not only were the support of ordinary people, but even some local wealthy families turned to the moderate policy of Shenshuimen and adopted a cooperative attitude. In a short period of time, Shenshuimen also formed an army of 480,000 people with three armies and an 80,000 naval army with Dongting Lake water bandits as the main force. It also organized four reserve divisions of 160,000 people. What is strange is that Shenshuimen did not take advantage of the situation to rush to expand outward, but only placed hundreds of thousands of troops in Yueyang Prefecture and strengthened training in Kazan Prefecture. Its real trend is difficult to measure...

In any case, the Jade Dragon Kingdom encountered real trouble. I was originally a little gloating about the situation in the Jade Dragon Kingdom. The Golden Dragon Kingdom, which had bad intentions, also encountered troubles in the Later Tang Empire, and it was not ordinary troubles, but a headache-inducing trouble!

November 20th, Jade Dragon King's Court

My dear friends, today's situation is really in danger of destruction of the country, no matter what countermeasures, even if you are whimsical, you will not blame the Lone King! The Jade Dragon King Sima Yuan's face is unstable and his mind is unstable. The civil strife initiated by the Demon Sect is different from the invasion of foreign enemies, no matter how strong the foreign enemy invasion is. Even if the people share the same hatred of the enemy, even if the price is higher, there will always be a time to win, and the civil strife is purely internal affairs. If the Demon Sect's confusing set of things that are confusing to gain power, it will shake the foundation of the kingdom's rule, and the wealthy families, including the Sima family, will die without a place to bury them!

Your Majesty, I think that those farmers are just tempted by the demon sect with immediate benefits, so they will rebel. If they can make profits, they can appease me. I suggest that I order the temporary exemption of the tax on farmers for two years in exchange for peace of mind in the exchange for peace of mind of the people. The recent income of the Land Act has improved greatly, and there should be no major problems with exempting the tax on agricultural tax for two years. Lin Yuanzhi, the Minister of Revenue, received the instructions of the left prime minister Murong Ming, and made a speech first.

Well, there are some reasons, this plan is feasible. The Jade Dragon King Sima Yuan knew that he should definitely take the initiative at this time, otherwise the people behind him would not dare to speak. Moreover, the Land Act, which has been implemented for less than ten days, was sold at a price of 30% cheaper than usual under the vague threat, but the first batch of land auctions in hundreds of towns in three counties was enough to be 45 million gold coins, which is equivalent to the tax revenue of the Jade Dragon Kingdom in the past year. The tax of farmers only accounts for less than 30% of the fiscal and tax revenue of the entire kingdom. In this situation, it is difficult to find or not.

The method of auctioning land to make money is due to the light of the Free Army. The "Yulong Land Law" is basically a replica of the "Land Law" of the Free Army! At the same time, it is also due to the light of the Nangong Family. Originally, I knew that the Nangong Family had a close relationship with the Free Army. The Jade Dragon King Sima Yuan had already moved on and turned against the Nangong Family and wanted to confiscate the huge industry under the rule of the Sima Family. Unexpectedly, at the time of the land auction, the Nangong Family, which had a close relationship with the Free Alliance, was the most generous buyer. In many prefectures, big towns, and Yulong City, which were now under the rule of the Sima Family, spent a total of six million gold coins to buy a large amount of land!

With the reputation of the Nangong family never doing a loss-making business, it has led a large number of merchants and even wealthy families to buy land for auction, which has enabled the Sima family to successfully raise a large amount of gold coins. Although I don’t know what the Nangong family intends, Sima Yuan has no reason to deal with the Nangong family. If he attacks such a generous cooperation wealthy rich, he is afraid that the wealthy rich in the merchants and wealthy counties under the Sima family will be frightened and escaped openly and secretly, and take away all the funds. This will hit the financial and economics of the Jade Dragon Kingdom no less than being destroyed by several legions! Perhaps even if the battle is temporarily won, the Jade Dragon Dynasty established by the Sima family will be not far from the collapse period!

My brother thinks that Lin Shangshu's words are only to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and do not involve the core issues at present. How to deal with the aggressive attacks of the Demon Cult? Sima Chengdao: The 160,000 troops of the Guangming Army have already reached the city of Shi Yàn. Although Shi Yàn is urgently deployed to guard two reserve divisions, it will only take a few days to train. I am afraid that it is not an opponent of the Yin Ming Demon Army who is fearless. It depends on how many hours it can last. The main force of the Yin Ming Demon Army is only 120 miles away from my king. Now there are only direct divisions of the Guards in the city, with a total of 240,000 troops of the First Division and the Imperial Guard Army. It is very difficult to defend the outer city walls on all sides.

Isn’t there still 80,000 guards in the city? Sima Yuan said in surprise

My brother did not dare to count the guards, secret spies and the guards of the palace in the city. Sima Cheng continued: The Demon Cult is everywhere. The Yulong City originally had a population of more than 1.3 million. Recently, many refugees have fled in. How many people are deceived by the Demon Cult, and how many are spies of the Demon Cult. It is really difficult to distinguish between 80,000 guards and secret spies in the city to prevent the people in the Demon Cult in the city from cooperating with the outside world. Besides, it may be difficult to let the guards go to the battlefield to fight bloody battles. The combat power is also worrying.

What good plans does Brother Wang have? Do you really need to issue an emergency conscription order to solve the problem? Sima Yuan was a little anxious! He originally thought that more than 200,000 people were stationed in Yulong City, and a large number of Yulong secret spies and the great inner guards with great martial arts skills, it would not be so easy for the Demon Cult to capture the huge Yulong City. When the three preparatory divisions of Wuling County arrived, the safety of Yulong City would be basically worry-free, but now it seems that there is a big problem!