Ball Ball Cultivation

Han Chou grabbed Han Yuan and said, "You have already learned how to monopolize the market. Stay with me and learn more. When we leave, you have to help these people get familiar with this."

In half a month, those noble families will receive their retribution, just wait and see."

The number of war horses under Han Shu's command decreased by more than 10,000. It was not because they killed the horses to satisfy their hunger. Instead, Han Shu put on the armor of the Qiang people and led 50,000 elite soldiers to kill, injure and plunder the Tatar royal court.

This time, Han Chou escorted grain and grass to Pingcheng with great fanfare, and sent 10,000 stones of grain and grass. When he left, Han Shu gave him three full storage talismans!

One was filled with gold, silver and jewelry, one was filled with Tatar armor and weapons, and one was filled with slaughtered cattle, sheep and horses.

The storage talisman does not have the function of preserving food. Han Shu led the Han family army to kill cattle, sheep and horses, and only kept a small portion in the army. The rest were handed over to Han Chou and sent to the braised meat factory in Hancheng to be processed into braised meat.

Han Chou was in charge of gold, silver and jewelry, and purchased a large number of shops and land in towns around Hancheng.

With the help of the Tatars' invasion, the various aristocratic families in the capital were severely damaged, which would cause Dayong's economic, military and cultural development to regress by thirty years.

The eighteen workshops currently under construction have already mastered the craftsmanship, and within three months, factories will be built in various raw material production areas in Dayong.

While the family was severely damaged, they quickly built factories, recruited local civilians to work, provided jobs, and used the most peaceful way to quickly seize the market and smoothly fill the gap in the family's economic life after it was severely damaged.

Han Yuan was still directly responsible for literature. He launched ten examination books, developed and popularized the imperial examination system, completely eliminated the system of recommendation by aristocratic families, and completely broke the control of aristocratic families in the official system.

Han Chou told Han Yuan all this to let him know what he wanted to do so that he would have a goal and could move forward.

Han Xue and Han Yuan worked hard on this pure land to create their dream country.

The enraged Tatar army, under the deliberate guidance of Han Shu's hidden spies, indeed gathered elite cavalry and headed south. They were no longer satisfied with looting the border, but wanted to retaliate against the Yong Dynasty court.

After attacking Decheng and finding that the guards were vulnerable, they looted Decheng and escaped unscathed. This cavalry of less than 50,000 people quickly moved south.

In just half a month, they broke into the Dayong Imperial City. At that time, the emperor was still bedridden due to the influence of "witchcraft", and the four princes who had the hope of ascending the throne were fighting each other to the death.

The major aristocratic families still acted arrogantly, not taking the emperor seriously, and maintaining their family dignity and pride.

Aristocratic families are permanent, but dynasties are transient. The Dayong Dynasty lasted only a hundred years, but any family that can be called an aristocratic family has a history of several hundred years.

With money and their own troops, that is, armed forces, the aristocratic families competed with each other and also supported each other. So when faced with the Tatar cavalry who suddenly attacked the imperial city, they did not flee, but maintained the pride of their families and organized their own troops to stop them.

How can a noble family living in a pile of splendor compare to a hungry wolf on the grassland licking blood on the edge of a knife?

Within a few days, most of the rebellious families were killed.

Countless of those delicate, beautiful and gentle ladies from noble families and concubines in the palace were harmed by the Tatar army.

It was not until then that they regretted that they had colluded with the jackals, burned to death the Han family army that was protecting them, and indirectly killed themselves.

These noble families also knew who had colluded with the Tatars to kill the main force of the Han family army. When the disaster fell on them, the hatred in their hearts was like a leech attached to their bones, and they felt pain and nausea.

When Gu Zhao received the news that the Tatars had invaded the imperial city, he did not dare to believe it. After all, he had poor information flow. He was also helpless after learning that 200,000 Han family soldiers were burned to death in Yangcheng. After assuming that his wife and children had safely left the imperial mausoleum, he went to Jiangnan to collect food and grass.

On the way back to the imperial tomb, he encountered fleeing refugees and heard that the Tatars had already invaded the imperial city.

All this was just like a dream. His first reaction was to save people. Looking at the guard team of less than a hundred people around him, he silently retracted his steps, quickly returned to the imperial mausoleum, and stood guard by the bedside of his "wife and children".

After seven days of such torment, Gu Zhao received a letter from Han Shu via carrier pigeon: asking him to go to Pingcheng as soon as possible and lead 50,000 Han family troops back to the capital to rescue the emperor.

Gu Zhao was not stupid. He understood what it meant. With these 50,000 troops, the throne would most likely be his.

Han Shu was also rapidly integrating the army. Some of the troops now under Hancheng wanted to return to Dayong. Han Shu also wanted to place his own people in the Han family army and return to Dayong's Han family army in the form of the remnants of the army.

After two consecutive battles, many of Han Shu's subordinates were injured and disabled and had to bid farewell to the army.

Han Shu had been through life and death with these veterans, and they had a deep bond. He also wanted them to enjoy their old age with their children and grandchildren around them. So he asked them to swear an oath, become believers in the gods, and enter Hancheng to live there for the rest of their lives.

Han Chou brought their families back in the name of attracting investment, allowing them to live in Hancheng with peace of mind.

According to the huge caravans organized by county, there were 300 caravans, each with 120 people, and more than 30,000 people dispersed. In just two months, the caravans not only brought back a large amount of wealth, but also brought back nearly three times the number of women, children, and the elderly. These were all relatives of the veterans of Hancheng.

The Qiang State, one of the two major rivals of the Great Yong Dynasty in the northern border, was caught in civil strife for power and would not march south in the short term.

The Tatars entered the pass, killing, injuring and looting, but they were short of reinforcements. The aristocratic families and the imperial guard battalion fought desperately, and the Tatars were already planning to retreat.

Han Shu led an army of 50,000 to the south to rescue and block the pass where the Tatar reinforcements could advance south.

When Gu Zhao was escorted to Jiaguan by his confidants, he saw the Han family army led by the weathered Han Shu, who were all skinny. If it were not for the soldier's tenacious spirit, he would not have dared to imagine that this was the Han family army, the guardian of Dayong.

Han Shu welcomed Gu Zhao into the big tent, bowed respectfully, and thanked Gu Zhao for the 10,000 shi of grain and fodder he had sent. After they exchanged greetings, he recounted the battle of Yangcheng in detail.

Speaking of the 200,000 innocent Han soldiers who died in vain, the old general in his sixties burst into tears.

He also asked the general who was supporting outside at the time, who was also Gu Zhao's confidant, to describe some details of that day.

Li Wei, a former imperial secret guard, was Gu Zhao's confidant: "We have a 100,000-strong Tatar army behind us with sufficient food and fodder. The two sides have been fighting for a month, and both sides have suffered losses. We will do our best to retain our fighting strength, and we still have 180,000 troops.

The escorted military rations were delayed in arriving and the food supply had been cut off for three days. Suddenly, news came out in the army that the military rations had been intercepted.

The morale of the army was low and there was not even drinking water. The general ordered the blood of war horses to be taken and fed to the wounded in order to preserve the army's strength.

At that time, the army was approaching Yangcheng. If they did not enter Yangcheng, the 180,000-strong army would surely die of starvation and thirst within three days. If they entered Yangcheng, there would be a glimmer of hope for survival.

There is a Shu Lake in the eastern suburbs of Yangcheng. Even if there is no water source due to drought in autumn, people can eat some reed roots to fill their stomachs.