Chapter 345 Qin Thief is here!
Twenty miles north of Taiyuan City, the west bank of the Fen River.
Liu Tingzhao, the deputy of the Prince of Jin's mansion, sat under a big tree with a cushion, holding a celadon tea cup and savoring the tea. From time to time, he looked at the endless fields in front of him.
This field is a private field in the King of Jin's Mansion, with a total of more than 6,000 acres, and all the wheat is planted.
In late September, this large wheat field is already golden and looks very beautiful under the sunshine.
In the wheat field, there are a thousand royal houses lined up along the Fen River and buried their heads in harvesting wheat.
The autumn is ripe and the wheat is harvested.
The purpose of Liu Tingzhao coming here was to supervise the autumn harvest and to collect all the food in the fields as soon as possible, because the court could fight with Qinchuan at any time, and wars would be a possibility, and any change of minds could be possible.
"That person surnamed Qin will not suddenly come out to grab food."
Liu Tingzhao subconsciously looked towards the westward Loufan.
Last year, the robbery of the Jin Prince's Mansion in the Loufan Valley is still vivid in my mind.
Until now, the royal family cannot do anything to the Qin surname. Even the fields in Loufan Valley have fallen into the hands of the Qin surname.
That guy is a greedy wolf!
"Go and call the mule and carriage, and transport some of the food back first."
Thinking of this, a manager who was directing the village households to work not far from Liu Tingzhao Dynasty shouted.
"Hey, follow my father-in-law's instructions."
The manager showed a flattering smile on his face and ran away with his waist.
Liu Tingzhao glanced at him casually, then continued to pick up the celadon tea cup, blew the hot tea carefully, and took a sip.
"Um."
Liu Tingzhao, who was full of fragrance, leaned comfortably on the back of the chair and closed his eyes.
At this time, a black dot suddenly appeared in the direction of Mengshan to the west, followed by the faint but rapid sound of horse hooves.
Liu Tingzhao, who was awakened by the sound of horse hooves, opened his eyes and looked at the knight with some displeasure.
The visitor was as if he had gained and lost his heart and tried his best to beat the horse with a horse whip. The horse ran towards the farmhouse that was harvesting wheat by the Fen River, as if he was crazy.
Liu Tingzhao frowned, his face becoming more and more unhappy.
He could barely see the man's appearance clearly, not the guard of the royal palace, but the soldier of the new Shanxi general Wang Zhong.
These new soldiers were so scared that they dared to fight in front of their grandfather.
If he doesn't punish him, I'm afraid he doesn't know who Eunuch Liu in Taiyuan City is.
"Go, cut him off and bring him over for a question."
Several guards of the royal palace beside Liu Tingzhao said lightly, then continued to lean on the back of the chair and closed their eyes to rest.
"yes."
Several guards turned over their horses and stopped them in the direction of the knight's journey.
The knight did not come to Liu Tingzhao, and seemed to have not noticed several guards, and rushed straight to the farmers who were harvesting wheat.
"Run, Qin thief is here! Run, Qin thief is here..."
When the distance was still far, the knight opened his throat and shouted loudly.
Hearing this, the farmers in the fields raised their heads and looked at him in confusion.
Liu Tingzhao suddenly bounced up from the Grand Master's chair and blurted out, "Take it serious?"
The knight seemed to have heard nothing, and just turned a corner, shouted and passed by the merchants, and then ran straight towards Taiyuan City.
Liu Tingzhao turned his head and looked at the direction of Mengshan to the west.
At this time, a thick smoke suddenly rolled in the big tiger ditch at the foot of Mengshan Mountain. The sound of horse hooves seemed to be accompanied by the sound of shouts of killing and screams.
"It's really here." Liu Tingzhao's face changed drastically.
"Hurry, take the horse, hurry up, where is the mount? Where is the grandpa's mount?"
Liu Tingzhao was trembling like a headless fly, and he accidentally kicked a tree stump and fell a dog to eat it.
The servant of the royal family who was feeding the horses with Platycodon quickly led the horses over, and finally pushed and pulled them to let him sit on the saddle.
Liu Tingzhao whipped down his horse, and his mount was suddenly spreading his hooves and running towards Taiyuan.
Those guards and managers with mounts, including those who had mounts, also followed behind to run for their lives.
The farmers in the fields also reacted, and they threw down their work and scattered in a hurry.
At this time, the cavalry in Dahugou also became clear.
At the forefront were about a hundred Ming troops, who were sent by Wang Zhong to Mengshan to explore Qinchuan's movements. When he went there, there were about 300 people, but now there were only about 100 people left.
Chasing behind was a cavalry with the banner of "Zhou", about a thousand people whistled out of the valley and chased them reluctantly.
As if he had noticed the situation here, the cavalry suddenly turned around and rushed towards the fleeing royal palace farmers.
Liu Tingzhao looked back and looked at him, and his face turned pale and trembled continuously.
The mount under his crotch suddenly jumped high and leaped over a ridge of fields. When it landed, it suddenly shook. Liu Tingzhao, whose legs and feet were weak, tilted and fell to the ground.
The guards and managers of the royal palace seemed to have not seen it, and they passed by Liu Tingzhao in the blink of an eye, and ran away in the blink of an eye.
Liu Tingzhao struggled to get up from the ground and limped behind him.
The cavalry had seen him and quickly assigned several knights to chase him.
Liu Tingzhao shivered violently and collapsed to the ground.
He was completely desperate because he had no mount and could not escape in the wilderness.
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The general of the 1,000 cavalry was a lynx. The reason why he used the character "Zhou" was because his real name was Zhou Sancha.
Seeing a large group of people harvesting wheat by the Fen River, Bobcao decisively gave up the hundred Ming army defeated soldiers and turned to the group of people.
Qin Chuan told him that the most important thing about this expedition was food and the people.
Under the command of Bobcaoer, the 1,000 Guandi Army divided into two and surrounded the fleeing people from both sides.
Two legs will definitely not be able to run better than four legs, and there is nowhere to hide in the vast farmland, so the people were quickly driven back.
When these frightened people were driven into a bunch, the bobcats came out, glanced at them, and then learned Qin Chuan's tone, and said in an old-fashioned manner: "My fellow villagers, we are not bandits, but the army under General Loufan Qin."
"Everyone knows that General Qin's army never oppresses the people. Not only that, General Qin also took in more than 100,000 hungry people, gave them food and planted them in fields, so that they could live in, and afford their wives."
"I'm here this time to take everyone to Loufan, Lan County, Kelanzhou and other places to give everyone a full meal and give the fields to farm."
"Don't worry, all these fields are only 30% of your rent, there is no additional quotation, nor is there any corvee service."
"Now, everyone will collect the wheat from the fields of the King of Jin Mansion first. The general will take out half of the food and share it with you, because you have worked hard to grow these foods."
"Go, go and harvest wheat."
Speaking of this, the bobcat waved his hand and signaled his subordinates to send the farmers back to the wheat fields.
Most of the farmers were so scared that they were at a loss, and some even collapsed on the ground and cried loudly.
But many people calmed down.
They began to realize that this was not a bad thing for them.
News about General Loufan Qin treating the people well and taking in hungry people has long spread throughout Shanxi.
Those farmers who had calmed down took the initiative to return to the fields and picked up sickles to continue to harvest wheat. Some people also looked to the west from time to time, with hope on their faces.
"Leave two hundred people here to protect the people, and the rest will follow me to clear the counties and towns around Taiyuan."
Chapter completed!