mousepad-d2 Chapter 66 Gold is Emperor [5]
Chapter 66 Gold is Emperor [5]
It is actually very easy to take down Huaicheng, because Huaicheng is a place of internal and external troubles, bandits outside the city are rampant, and the city is not a single piece of iron. It is obviously a small city, but it looks more complicated than the internal and external relations of aristocratic families.
Yu Jiaojiao is like a fulcrum, rushing in, some people want to win over the alliance, and some people want to get a lot of money and eat black.
Most of the bandits used to be people from the city or nearby villages. Through them, Yu Jiaojiao also got to know the officials and several big forces in Weicheng. It can be said that there is no good thing here. Being framed or having to leave, those left behind are all colluding, so Yu Jiaojiao didn't plan to cooperate with any of them, but secretly spread messages among the people to stir up public anger.
There was a famine in Weicheng just a year ago, and more than half of the relief food distributed by the court went into the pockets of officials, and the rest distributed to the common people was pitifully small, and it was mixed with sand and stones.
This was completely unimaginable at the beginning of Jingguo's founding, but now Jingguo has come to an end, Weicheng is located in a remote place, and even the officials who are sent down every year to check the performance of officials are no longer impartial and can be easily bribed, so even if The upper-level officials in Weicheng have done so recklessly, and the outside world has no way of knowing about it.
Even if the people in the city want to sue, how far can he go?Bandits are rampant now, and food is in short supply. I am afraid that people will starve to death before they have reached halfway.
So the corrupt officials in Weicheng have nothing to fear about this. In fact, they think that if they can leak some food from their fingernails to these mud legs, they are already great good people.
Many people starved to death in that famine, and those who stayed were basically lingering on their last legs. After being exploited layer by layer, most of the people didn't even have emergency money at home, and they couldn't even eat enough.
The higher-ups didn't look down on these muddy legs, let alone how they scolded themselves in private. Anyway, no matter how dissatisfied they were, they didn't dare to say it in front of him. Could it be that they still want to rebel?
But they forgot that water can carry a boat and capsize it. At the beginning of Jingguo, it was because of the desolation and injustice of the previous dynasty that he criticized the people. The people couldn't live on, so they revolted. This was picked up by the founding emperor of Jingguo. Today, Jing Guo is also walking on the old road of the previous dynasty.
The price of food is so high that ordinary people are almost unable to afford it. They look at the children who are waiting to be fed, the parents who are about to starve to death, and the wives who are crippled...
This kind of desperate situation couldn't be easier to be incited, after all, there is a possibility of survival if you fight hard, and you can only wait for death if you don't do anything.
What's more, they are not blind, can't they tell if those businessmen and officials are doing well?It's just that the education they have received since childhood told them that they can't afford to provoke these people, but when a person is pushed to a desperate situation, there will be ruthlessness in his bones.
Under such circumstances, some people will naturally sacrifice, but the number of common people is too large compared to the officers and soldiers. How can a group of people who are usually neglected to exercise can stop them? The blood not only did not stimulate them to retreat, but made them They were even crazier, even if they gave up their lives in order to bring money and rice to their relatives, so what?
Among these people, the ones who died the most were not others, but the common people. After all, their bodies became weak due to lack of food. Usually, only a few people can deal with an officer and soldier. Stampede and counterattack of officers and soldiers in a panic are the most likely to hurt them. Unlike bandits, they can be considered experienced in many battles, and they all know how to avoid attacks.
In this regard, Yu Jiaojiao has been on the sidelines, trying to gain the greatest benefit with the smallest loss. She doesn't think there is anything wrong with this. After all, if you go to the battlefield, you must have the consciousness that you can't go back alive. At least they won't die in vain. All the wives in the family Son, she will also take care of it.
I don't know why, but Yu Jiaojiao felt that he was very good at these things, although he had never studied governance or war, and almost subconsciously figured out the psychology of those officials and the thoughts of the lower class people, and then used them.
However, Yu Jiaojiao didn't care about these things. After conquering Weicheng and distributing the food, he arrested and tortured the surviving officers and soldiers, and got to know the basic situation of several anti-kings who might succeed in the current rebellion.
Now this kind of trivial matter does not require Yu Jiaojiao to interrogate herself, so she just needs to wait for her subordinates to present her the answer obtained after the interrogation.
These people don't care about the people under their rule, but in order to please the upper class, they are willing to spend their treasures to inquire about news and preferences, so the information Yu Jiaojiao got is surprisingly detailed.
She carefully screened, this is not good, there are dozens of small concubines in the family, she looks like a womanizer; of?This doesn't work either, by tricking his wife into a job, just like her father's virtue...
It seems that after looking around, Yu Jiaojiao found that he couldn't find a force to turn to, why was this so, after being angry at the beginning, Yu Jiaojiao knew the reason.
The defense against men and women in the previous dynasty was not considered strict. There were even female officials above the court. Although the official position was not high, she was at least an official.
Since ancient times, men have always inherited the family business, but this monarch has only one child, and because the queen almost gave birth to a child at that time, he did not intend to let his wife have another child, and wanted to pass the throne to his daughter.
His infatuation is infatuation, but his ability is indeed mediocre. On the 'Demon Empress', after Jing Guo established the country, she put a lot of shackles on women. Even a princess must be filial to her mother-in-law and her husband after she gets married.
After these rules have been passed down for a hundred years, people gradually take these rules for granted, and those noble officials in the upper class basically regard women as playthings.
Yu Jiaojiao frowned deeply, a little disappointed.
Although she knows that this kind of thinking is the mainstream nowadays, in her mind, these people are considered to be the best in the world, and they have read a lot of books. They should know that they also came out of women's stomachs, so why can't they give it to them? The respect the other party deserves?
Of course, she didn't expect everyone to understand this truth, but in her original idea, there should be one or two that are sensible.
This made her a little unsure of what to do next.
When bandits have no future, they marry at the mercy of others, take refuge in anti-kings, etc. After they get a cover, they will have no worries for the rest of their lives, but these anti-kings are really...
Yu Jiaojiao knocked on the table, and for a moment had the idea of going back to be a bandit again, after all, staying in the mountains is free and unfettered.But Tang Hua obviously didn't like that kind of environment very much. She lived more comfortably in this official mansion these days than anyone else. She could make dozens of requests non-stop in the eyes of the original maid, who seemed to be making things difficult for her. People even suspected that she was in the same group as the officials who were killed.
However, she never scolded anyone harshly, she simply had high requirements for the quality of life, so much so that the maids in the mansion couldn't help complaining in private, the emperor probably didn't have as many things as her.
Yu Jiaojiao looked at the confession information of the former officials in his hand, and finally made up his mind.
Forget it, living in the mountains and forests is not suitable for her.
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Yu Jiaojiao decided to rebel and become the king herself. Compared with other rebels, her disadvantage is undoubtedly great. The identity of a woman alone is enough to discourage those who want to take refuge, but the people in Weicheng and the bandits , but convinced her.
The common people don't care who is the emperor above, they only know that Yu Jiaojiao kept them alive, and the grace of saving lives cannot be erased by just one gender.
What's more, marrying a concubine is something only high-level people can do. It is not easy for ordinary people to marry a daughter-in-law. When they marry back home, they support each other and live. On the contrary, there are much fewer prejudices than the upper-level people, so they accept this kind of career. Quickly, and Yu Jiaojiao sent people to brainwash them again, so the whole Weicheng was basically monolithic.
Yu Jiaojiao knew that the rule could not be maintained by relying on the gratitude of the people. After all, this kind of sentiment would fade one day. There is a saying that if you have milk, you are a mother. She started from this point to discredit other anti-kings and elevate herself. Well, those businessmen are the most eloquent, and I don't know how they brag in private. Looking at Yu Jiaojiao is like looking at the reincarnated saint, which makes her quite speechless.
However, she did not stop the spread of such messages. After all, as a woman, she is at a disadvantage. If she wants to succeed, she needs to "deified".
In this way, Yu Jiaojiao expanded step by step, devouring other territories to strengthen herself, but every time she broke through a city, the first thing she looked at was not the food, equipment or gold and silver in the city, but to gather the craftsmen first to prevent them from running out of the city .
Her subordinates thought that she had a big picture. After all, only craftsmen could make weapons, paper and farm tools, but in fact she just wanted to keep craftsmen who could make jewelry, but she also knew that it would be easy to be criticized. That's why I caught all these craftsmen and pretended that I valued them very much.
In fact, she disliked that the jewelry in these stores was too ugly, so she planned to draw pictures by herself so that people could make clothes, jewelry, or food according to her own ideas.
At present, these craftsmen are not taken seriously, they are regarded as cunning craftsmen, and they can't even compare with the status of businessmen, so Yu Jiaojiao's move is on the contrary. People, or things that benefit the army.
Yu Jiaojiao held what the craftsman called the Sky Thunder, looked at the blasted land, and thought with a delicate expression:
It would be great if this kind of thing could really be placed in the sky, and it would be better to have more colors, so that even in the dark night it would definitely become extremely beautiful, and Tang Hua would definitely like it.