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Chapter 848 Chapter 867: Helpless Yuan Tiangang
Since ancient times, fighting has cost the most money, but Yuan Tiangang is planning to make money by fighting. His idea is crazy, but it is not crazy at all.

In the past, wars cost money because the strengths of the two sides were similar, and it took too long to fight back and forth. Soldiers and horses were outside, and a lot of food and grass were consumed. Moreover, when going out to fight, soldiers had to be paid more. It is a subsidy, so it will cost a lot of money.

But the situation is different now. Yuan Tiangang has so many [-]th Gaijia mortars. Attacking any country is the kind of destruction and quick conquest. If you conquer a country and rob them of their money and food, you will have money .

Because it is now a public ownership system, private merchants no longer exist, so he can only increase the agricultural tax, and then choose the country to go to war - Wa country.

Yuan Tiangang is an anti-Japanese hero. He hates Japan. That kind of hatred is unimaginable to ordinary people. This time, he personally led a navy of [-], brought [-] mortars and [-] large covers, and mobilized [-] warships. Ship, conquer the country of Wa.

Yuan Tiangang was lucky, he didn't encounter any big storms, and soon landed on Wa Island. After landing, his order was very simple, to kill anyone he saw, no matter men, women, old or young, because this time, he was planning to exterminate the entire family!
Over the years, the population of the Wa country has risen to more than 100 million, and its national strength has improved. However, it has no power to resist the Tang army with mortars and [-] covers. After the Tang army landed, it was divided into three groups. Push forward, carry out carpet cleaning, kill anyone you see, leave no chickens or dogs behind, the country of Japan is undergoing a catastrophe.

Although the population of more than 100 million is large, it cannot withstand such a massacre. The lord of the Japanese kingdom asked to surrender several times, but Yuan Tiangang didn't bother them at all. His order was only one word - "kill"!
The fifteen armies of the Wa Kingdom were all destroyed. Although the people also organized resistance forces, they were completely vulnerable. The artillery bombardment caused the entire fleet to sink to the bottom of the sea. Next, Yuan Tiangang led his troops back to Wa Island to continue the massacre.

For more than three months, Yuan Tiangang killed from south to north and from north to south in the Wa Kingdom, and confirmed that there was no living person in the entire Wa Kingdom. Only then did he leave a devastated island, and when he returned home, the boats were loaded with loot from the Wa Kingdom. For the money and food that came, the country of Japan is rich in silver, but unfortunately Li Hao has cheated most of the silver, and Yuan Tiangang only brought back 1500 million taels, which is enough to last for a while.

After Li Hao heard the news, he couldn't help being speechless. He didn't expect Yuan Tiangang to be so ruthless that he actually killed all the dogs and dogs of the Japanese country. More than 100 million people were all killed, which is very courageous.

But Li Hao didn't feel how pitiful the Japanese people were, because it was impossible for him to sympathize with the Japanese people. He could also understand Yuan Tiangang's hatred for the Japanese people.

After Yuan Tiangang returned home, he rested for a while, then mobilized the navy again and went to Liuqiu to attack Li Hao. There was still an army of [-], [-] warships, [-] mortars, and [-] guns.

Upon receiving the news of Yuan Tiangang's attack, Li Hao immediately mobilized his army and made preparations. Five hundred warships were dispatched, and each warship was equipped with dozens of cannons. It is not comparable to mortars. There are more than [-] cannons on [-] ships. Tsk tsk tsk, he is looking forward to Yuan Tiangang's arrival now.

One and a half months later, Yuan Tiangang's fleet arrived at Liuqiu, but before approaching Liuqiu Island, they encountered Li Hao's fleet, and the two fleets met on the sea, lined up and rushed towards each other .

However, the two sides were still ten miles away, and Li Hao's fleet had already fired. Huge shells roared and fell on Yuan Tiangang's fleet. Even if only one shell hits, the ship is basically destroyed. There is no way , the power is too great, and these ships are all wooden ships, the defense is extremely low.

Yuan Tiangang was stunned. Although he knew that Li Hao had cannons, he didn't expect to have so many, because the cost of cannons was too expensive. He built mortars precisely because he couldn't afford cannons. Although his There are many mortars on the ship, but the range of the mortars is only about three miles, which is incomparable with the cannons, which is very embarrassing.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Yuan Tiangang quickly ordered to turn around and retreat, but it was not easy for a huge fleet of 15 ships to turn around. It took 15 minutes to successfully turn around. However, during these [-] minutes, his Nearly half of the fleet has been lost, there is no way, Li Hao has too many cannons, and the bombardment density is so wide, it is really terrible.

"Chasing!" Li Hao ordered to pursue, and all the ships pursued with all their strength, and bombarded them with the cannons at the bows. They chased until evening, and destroyed nearly a hundred ships on the other side. Li Hao then ordered to stop the pursuit and return to Liuqiu.

Seeing Li Hao's fleet leave, Yuan Tiangang heaved a sigh of relief, but he was also extremely annoyed. He came here with a vow, but he didn't expect that Li Hao's warship was equipped with so many cannons. It was impossible to fight this battle. , The navy suffered heavy losses, out of 100 ships, there are now only more than [-] ships left, and it is estimated that when they return to Chang'an, those ministers will be yelling again, and it is a headache to think about it.

After returning to Chang'an, the officials were indeed dissatisfied with Yuan Tiangang's failure to conquer Li Hao. Although Yuan Tiangang treated the enemy cruelly, he would not punish the courtiers excessively as long as everyone did not make mistakes. In order to restore his dignity, Yuan Tiangang Tiangang decided to destroy Abbas, after all, Abbas is now one of the two major threats to Datang.

However, due to the failure of the naval battle, a large number of mortars and 1500 large covers were damaged or lost. It must be added that it will cost money again. The 700 million taels of silver just robbed from the Japanese kingdom were immediately used up to [-] million taels.

Two months later, with mortars and rifles replenished, Yuan Tiangang set off with an army of 20 to conquer Abbas. After leaving Yumen Pass, he fought all the way from Xizhou to Dawan. He was unstoppable, after all, he had the most advanced arms.

Naturally, Tubo couldn't just watch Abbas being destroyed. At the same time, they also felt that this was an opportunity. Maybe they could take the opportunity to destroy the Tang army, and then they could invade the Tang Dynasty.

So Garqinling personally led an army of 30 troops to attack from the rear, first cut off Yuan Tiangang's food and grass, and then flanked Yuan Tiangang's army with Abbas' army back and forth.

Yuan Tiangang had long expected that Tubo would play tricks behind his back. This was just a flaw he deliberately sold. As soon as the Tubo army arrived, Hou Junji appeared behind the Tubo army with an army of [-]. The formation of the Tubo army was in chaos, Hou Junji and Yuan Tiangang attacked the Tubo army back and forth.

Seeing that the Tubo army was in danger, the Abbasid army rushed to attack with the whole army, stepped forward to rescue, the two sides fought, and Yuan Tiangang had the most advanced weapons. All the armies of the two countries were wiped out, and Garqin Mausoleum was killed in battle.

Yuan Tiangang sent Hou Junji to the territory of Tubo to capture Tubo. After all, Tubo lost 30 troops, and there were only a few troops left in the country.

Osman, the caliph of Abbas, did not expect the Tang army to be so powerful. Although there are still 20 troops left in the country, he heard that the Tang army possessed the god thunder that destroyed the world, and directly blasted their more than 20 troops to run around. Unable to resist, he planned to escape, and fled to Egypt with only 20 troops, and went to Egypt to dominate.

However, Yang Fan suddenly launched a mutiny, personally killed Osman, and imprisoned all members of the royal family and nobles of Abbas. When Yuan Tiangang arrived, Xiancheng surrendered.

Outside the city, when Yang Fan saw Yuan Tiangang, he bowed his head and saluted: "Master, this apprentice has completed the task you gave me."

"Well, Fan'er did it beautifully." Yuan Tiangang nodded in satisfaction.

It turned out that Yang Fan was Yuan Tiangang's apprentice. When he went out to study art, he said he met a strange person, but in fact he met Yuan Tiangang.

After destroying Abbas and Tubo, Yuan Tiangang was full of ambition and returned to Chang'an. The ministers of the court were stunned. Complacent, he enjoyed the feeling of being praised.

Now that Tubo and Abbas have been defeated, the next step is to send people to spread the Tang culture and absorb the aborigines of these two places into the people of the Tang Dynasty.

The problem arose immediately, the system of Datang is now public ownership, not to mention the conflict between these two places and the religious culture of Datang, the way of life of this public ownership is not suitable for them, so these two places almost every day A conflict broke out, and the chaos was extremely chaotic. Yuan Tiangang sent troops to suppress it, but the effect was not great. The barbarians are all like this. , extremely uncomfortable.

The riots seemed to be contagious, and soon thereafter, riots broke out in the Central Plains. The reason was simple, and the people began to starve.

The current method of paying agricultural taxes is based on the village as a unit, and the tax is paid by the government, and the remaining grain is used as rations by the whole village.

However, in recent years, the grain output of the Tang Dynasty has been unable to increase for some reason, and Yuan Tiangang has increased the agricultural tax. The farmers cannot eat enough every day, and they have to go to work in the fields hungry. compulsory.

Farmers can tolerate everything, but they can’t accept being hungry. How good their life was in the past. They had fields at home, and the harvest was high. The agricultural tax has been raised, and they can barely afford enough food and clothing. Fortunately, all the fields have been taken away, and they still have to go hungry, hungry every day, and have to go to work in the fields. They can't bear it anymore, and some people with ulterior motives Agitation, riots broke out in many places.

Yuan Tiangang continued to review the memorials until late at night. Since he took power, there have been many reports. Even if he is busy until late at night, he may not be able to finish his work. , White hair has started to appear on the head.

"Alas..." Yuan Tiangang walked outside the Ganlu Hall, looked up at the stars in the sky, suddenly felt very melancholy, and muttered to himself, "What did I do wrong, shouldn't it be like this, what did I do wrong... "

(End of this chapter)