Xiang Nan is organizing everyone to resume farming and work, trying his best to bring the order of Luoyang City onto the right track.

As a result, many refugees were naturally attracted to join, and Luoyang City gradually regained some vitality.

However, when other rebels saw this piece of fat in Luoyang City, they were not willing to let Xiang Nan monopolize it, so they came to harass it several times.

Either plundering people, robbing property, or destroying farmland... For them, hurting others is self-interest.

When Xiang Nan saw this, he naturally refused and immediately organized soldiers to protect him.

In fact, there are still many young people in Luoyang City.

Liu Jin's self-proclaimed army of 100,000 men included many civilians who were young and middle-aged. Among the 200,000 residents in the city, 30% were young and middle-aged.

What's more, more than 3,000 people in Liu Jin's army were captured and are now being imprisoned, so a team can be drawn from them.

It can be said that Xiang Nan just doesn't want to rebel. Otherwise, he can pull out a huge army of 100,000 people at any time. And with his reputation, it is not surprising that he exceeds one million.

Therefore, seeing that these rebels dared to tease him, he immediately launched a counterattack.

The rebel bandits entrenched in Yanshi, Yiyang, Yichuan, and Xin'an were wiped out one by one.

The method he used was also very simple.

He and Junbao first climbed up the wall and opened the door. Once the city gate was opened, the rebels had no chance of defending, so they naturally surrendered.

After defeating these rebels, Xiang Nan did not continue to expand, but chose to protect the country and the people and resume farming.

However, the surrounding rebels have also seen Xiang Nan's power, and even if they rob again, they dare not go near Luoyang to cause trouble. Therefore, the area within a radius of fifty miles of Luoyang has become a rare pure land in troubled times.

Although we are still facing a food shortage, the sage has said that we should not worry about scarcity but inequality, and we should not worry about poverty but insecurity. Although life is difficult, it is not disturbed by war, so everyone is still very content.

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The days passed day by day.

The vitality of Luoyang City is gradually recovering, especially after autumn planting and a good harvest in winter.

For some reason, the land that has been watered with blood seems to be particularly fertile.

After the harvest, every household received grain and vegetables, and hunger was no longer a big problem. As for heating in winter, there was coal produced in Mengjin and Xin'an, which have been producing coal since ancient times.

Xiang Nan also passed down the methods of making stoves and briquettes, which saved the people from suffering from cold and exhaustion. The people were naturally grateful, and every household set up a memorial tablet for Xiang Nan.

In comparison, the life of rebels is much more difficult.

They only knew how to destroy, but not how to build. After taking the city, they knew how to open warehouses to store grain and recruit soldiers and horses. However, they did not immediately restore order and organize the people to resume farming, work and commerce.

This made the social order in chaos, farmers could not farm, workers could not work, and merchants could not do business.

Therefore, as time went by, they ran out of food, spent all their money, and without food, drink, or money, they inevitably fell into recession.

In addition, these rebels rebelled and became masters. After enjoying the pleasures of power, popularity and money, they quickly became corrupted.

From a heroic man who used to eliminate violence and act chivalrously, he became a tyrant like Liu Jin who was cruel and brutal, exacting taxes and tyranny, and lost the support of the people.

Therefore, their strength is declining. Although they will not collapse in one blow, their collapse is not far away.

Gu Hao

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As winter turned to spring, Xiang Nan continued to organize the people to resume farming, work and commerce, trying to restore order in Luoyang City.

The people also supported him more and more, and he had become the de facto Lord of Luoyang.

Not only did the rebels nearby admit this, but even the imperial court secretly sent people to hope that Xiang Nan could surrender to the imperial court.

Xiang Nan naturally agreed, after all, he had no intention of rebelling.

However, Xiang Nan flatly refused the imperial court's request for him to submit openly and lead an army to put down the rebellion.

Doesn't this mean he is regarded as Song Jiang?

Now, in the Heluo area, the rebel forces are shrinking. However, a general estimate is that there are two to three hundred thousand troops. In addition to the threatened refugees, there may not be more than a million soldiers. Attacking them will definitely cause huge losses.

And even if there is no loss in beating them, there will be no benefit. On the contrary, the more capable he is, the more likely he will be feared by the court in the future.

After Song Jiang conquered Daliao, Fang La, Tian Hu, and Wang Qing, he was killed by the imperial court with poison and wine. Therefore, he would only accept such an order unless he was crazy.

Xiang Nan humbly said to the angel sent by the court, "Pindao is an outsider. The reason why he went down the mountain is that he couldn't bear the suffering of the people. Now the situation in Luoyang has been determined. As long as the emperor sends someone to take over, Pindao will return to the mountains." , so there is no need for a reward from the court.

As for the crusade against other rebels, it is said that God has the virtue of good life. Such killing and killing is really not in line with the poor, so please forgive me."

…

Seeing this, the court couldn't do anything to him.

However, a decree was still issued, conferring Xiang Nan the title of "Fengtian Zhongyi Zhenren" with a rank of 1,800 shi, and granting him 500 hectares of land, equivalent to the reward of a marquis.

However, although there are these rewards, they are nothing more than the moon in the mirror and flowers in the water. Because whether it is eighteen hundred stones of grain or five hundred hectares of land, they are all lip service but not real. Talking about rewards, Xiang Nan can Didn't see anything.

All he can get is the false name of the so-called "Fengtian Zhongyi Zhenren", which is meaningless.

However, the imperial court's reward also recognized Xiang Nan's identity. Before the imperial court sent people to take over Luoyang City, he was the officially designated Lord of Luoyang.

Of course, if the imperial army could not defeat it and only sent a few officials to take over, Xiang Nan would definitely not hand over Luoyang City.

Anyway, the war is now in chaos, and there are bandits, refugees, and rebels everywhere. Without a large army to protect them, it is not surprising that the imperial envoys died on the way.

Therefore, Xiang Nan managed Luoyang City while watching the imperial court suppress the rebellion.

…

However, in the Heluo area, although the imperial army gradually advanced and tightened the encirclement, the rebel forces here gradually shrank.

However, the Liu Liu Liu Qi Uprising soon broke out in Gyeonggi Province.

Liu Liu and Liu Qi were originally horse farmers. It turned out that in order to ensure the supply of horses for border troops, the Ming Dynasty forced people in Yanzhao, Qilu and other places to raise horses.

Raising horses is not an easy task. Horses are not fattened without night grass, which not only consumes fodder, but also delays farming time. Once a military horse dies or fails to give birth to calves on time, horse farmers have to compensate for the losses.

Therefore, over time, the people of both provinces suffered greatly. In order to cope with Ma Zheng, poor families were even forced to sell their sons and daughters and their fields, and conflicts increased day by day.

After the anti-eunuch rebels rose up in the Heluo area, the horse farmers in the Gyeonggi area also responded positively and raised the banner of rebellion. Liu Liu and Liu Qi were originally gangsters and were good at riding and shooting, so they quickly gathered their troops.
Chapter completed!