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Chapter 1138 Conspiracy (Part )

Thinking of this scene, several tribal leaders were so happy that they scratched their heads and looked at the Khan with admiration. They didn't expect that after the Khan regained power this time, he would become so treacherous that a small trick would cause the Tang Dynasty to be in a mess.

"When faced with the land that has been distributed, whether to take it back or not, the court of the Tang Dynasty will be in a very difficult situation. If it takes it back, it will offend the people; if it doesn't take it back, it will offend the nobles. It's a dilemma, isn't it?"

Zhuolibuhua thought of something: "Great Khan, but after all, Ji County only has tens of thousands of people, and the entire Fanyang only has hundreds of thousands. The Tang Dynasty has so many troops, they can suppress them, but those people may not be able to resist?"

"So, we have to leave quickly."

Shi Luodie said solemnly: "After the land of Youzhou is divided, we will head south without stopping, and try to divide all the land of Hebei Province before the Tang Dynasty sends out its elite forces. There are six or seven million people in the entire Hebei Province."

"If all these people are given land, how many troops can the Tang Dynasty send out to suppress them?"

"Even if we suppress it, how many people will be killed or injured? How can the remaining people support the Tang Dynasty again?"

This was Shi Luodie's conspiracy against the Tang Dynasty, but the target of this conspiracy was not the emperor. As long as the emperor could acknowledge on behalf of the court that these lands belonged to the people, he would not lose the support of the people, but would increase the number of self-cultivating farmers.

With such a thorough distribution, the tax revenue in Hebei will increase significantly. If the whole world can do the same, the Tang Dynasty will be safe.

But the imperial power could not do this. Officials from aristocratic families had long kept a close eye on the emperor, who represented the core of power.

As long as the emperor showed any sign of targeting the land, he would be overthrown by the nobles in an instant, and there was no time or opportunity. Now the Turks were doing it violently, and the nobles could only watch helplessly, but they could do nothing about it.

The Turks were not afraid of offending the common people, nor were they afraid of offending the aristocracy, let alone considering the overall situation and the long-term. The means and methods of the aristocracy against the imperial power were completely useless.

There is no other way except to defeat the Turks fairly on the frontal battlefield.

Now the time was becoming more and more favorable to the Turks. Every day they would capture several cities and distribute land to tens of thousands of people. It was a simple and crude but very quick process, and more and more people were getting land.

In just ten days, nearly one million common people in Youyan, northern Hebei Province, obtained land.

Attack cities, rob money and food, and divide land.

The Turks were getting more and more adept at these three tricks, and the people were very cooperative. In fact, they were also afraid that the court army could come at any time. As the news spread, countless people in the south were looking forward to the arrival of the Turks.

Shi Luodie shook his head with a wry smile. He thought that anyone would welcome a force like theirs that targeted the rich and powerful without involving the common people, and only divided the land without occupying the ruling party!

The common people must have known that the Turks would not live long, and that the land they had been given might not be able to stay, but the common people who had not been given land would definitely not have any. Rather than this, it would be better to take it before the imperial reinforcements arrived.

If the law does not hold everyone responsible, perhaps it can be preserved?

With the cooperation of both sides, the army's speed will only be faster, and the nobles will not be able to eliminate them within this year.

By next year, the entire Hebei Province will be a completely different place.

At the end, Shi Luodie stood proudly and said, "This is an open conspiracy, a conspiracy that no one can crack. Not to mention the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty, even if the Heavenly Khan Li Shimin is in power, he can't do anything about this Khan's trick."

"This is what I told you before. The land issue is the Achilles' heel of the Central Plains Dynasty. As long as we start with this sensitive issue, we can easily stir up internal disputes and win the hearts of countless people."

"By then, they won't have the energy to encircle and suppress us. Just suppressing the riots and restoring order will be enough of a headache for them."

"Ha ha ha ha."

The crowd howled like ghosts and wolves, as if they were unable to release the excitement and joy that the glimpse of the heavens brought them. Finally, they all knelt on the ground and said in unison: "The Khan is wise. There has not been a wise leader like you in hundreds of years on our grassland."

"We believe that under the leadership of the Great Khan, we will be able to restore the glory of our ancestors and the great success of the Turkic Khanate during the reign of the Great Khan Jie Li, and once again put the Central Plains dynasty under our feet."

When Shi Luodie saw this, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. Is Jie Li also a heroic leader?
He just happened to be in a good era, and the internal strife in the Central Plains made him powerful. Facts have proved that as long as the Central Plains dynasty is unified, Li Shimin, who usurped the throne and the people were still dissatisfied, only took him three years to get rid of him. Can such a person be considered a hero?
Seeing that everyone had reached a consensus and no one had any objections, Shi Luodie immediately said, "Pass the order down, follow our Khan's intention and march south immediately."

"Yes, we respect the Khan's order." Everyone responded loudly, then excitedly left the Khan's tent and went to their respective tribes to organize their troops.

In the next few days, the latest situation of the war in Hebei was continuously sent to Chang'an. In addition, Lu Yigong, the head of the Fanyang Lu family, and many wealthy gentry fled to the capital, and the turmoil in Hebei was finally revealed to everyone.

Three hundred thousand Turkic cavalrymen broke through more than ten cities in the Liaohe Plain, captured several strong cities on the Liaoxi Corridor, and entered the empty Hebei Road.

The land of Youzhou, with Fanyang County as its core, was submerged under the iron cavalry of the Hu people. The Lu family, which had existed for hundreds of years, was uprooted by the Turks. They paid all their accumulated wealth for generations to save their lives and escape to Chang'an.

Although these aristocratic families described the Turks as extremely brutal, committing murder, arson, rape, looting and all sorts of evil, the people of Hebei were struggling between life and death.

But a rumor suddenly emerged from nowhere, saying that the Turks did not kill the powerful families in Hebei, and not only did they not harm the people, but they also targeted these wealthy families. Every time they captured a county town, they robbed the property of the rich and powerful families.

Then all the land under their names was distributed to the poor. For example, in Ji County and Zhuo County, each person in these two places was given ten mu of land, and most households with four generations living together were able to get hundreds of mu of land.

Therefore, when the Turks moved south this time, except for the gentry and the wealthy, no ordinary people were displaced. Even in Luoyang and Chang'an, there were no people fleeing.

When the Turks invaded the Tang Dynasty, they not only did not kill the people, but also distributed the land. This was something that had never been heard of before. The people of Chang'an did not believe it at first. They thought that the Turks were all wolves, tigers and leopards, so how could they do such a good thing?
Everyone gathered together to think about it carefully. It seemed that they did not see the scene of thousands of people coming to Beijing with their elderly and children to beg for food. Some of the people who escaped were rich people driving carriages and wearing gorgeous clothes.

Suddenly, many people believed it.

Soon, everyone had a huge disagreement about the Turks. Some people thought that the Turks were too abominable, even more excessive than before, saying that it was fine if you just robbed them, but why did you always target the rich? Most of these people were from wealthy families.

There are even more people who, although they don't say it, secretly gloat over the misfortune. Seeing those nobles who usually ride on the heads of the common people and enjoy their power and wealth, now panicking like dogs that have lost their homes, they are so happy in their hearts, you have also suffered this day.

Most of the poor people who didn't have much land at home no longer felt the fear they had in the past, but also felt a little regretful. Why did the Turks go to Hebei instead of coming to the Guannei Road? If that was the case, wouldn't their families also be unable to get good farmland?

At the same time, I also had some inexplicable expectations for the Turks in the distance.
Compared to the people's different thoughts, the real upper class people were all furious. The Turks were trying to cut off their foundation. In the past, wars were always fought by the lower class people. They could be saved by offering money, loyalty, or mediation.

If one is more ruthless, one can take money from Peter to pay Paul, and make up for the losses inflicted on the Turks from the common people.

After hundreds of years of chaos, any family that was not adapted to war was basically eliminated.

All families that could survive the succession of several powers had evolved a set of extremely flexible survival rules. Some families could even rise rapidly in troubled times. Every time there was a great turmoil in the world, their families would grow dramatically and achieve a great leap forward.

But they didn't expect that these damn grassland people would let those poor guys go and set their greedy eyes on the noble and wealthy families. This was something they could not tolerate in any way.

In the Taiji Hall, the ministers rarely put aside their prejudices and past struggles for power. They all directed their attacks at Shi Luodie and prayed to the emperor to send troops immediately to wipe out this group of Turks who had intruded into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Especially the officials who came from Hebei aristocratic families were filled with righteous indignation and looked as if they were filled with deep hatred and resentment.

Li Yan sat on the dragon throne and saw hundreds of ministers in the hall. Everyone looked as if their ancestral graves had been dug up, and he was secretly frightened.

Fortunately, he adopted a roundabout way to save the country and did not show up in person. Otherwise, this overwhelming momentum would be enough to easily overthrow him, and even the Tang Dynasty might not be able to be saved, repeating the mistakes of Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty.

Li Yan was determined to use his strategy of mixing pigs with tigers. Like a weak and indecisive king, he quickly stretched out his hands and said, "My lords, please get up quickly. Our Tang Dynasty and Shi Luodie are sworn enemies. These Turks have been burning, killing and plundering in Hebei, and I hate them to the bone."

"Don't worry, my friends. Several important officials in the central government have drawn up a plan to surround them from all sides. They want to mobilize 500,000 troops from the north of the river to encircle and suppress them. We will surely be able to wipe out all the Turks."

Afterwards, the Zuo Pushe Changsun Wuji came forward and presented the drafted troop deployment strategy in the court.

(End of this chapter)