The Emperor of the Song Dynasty already hated Li Yongxuan deeply. He refused to comply with the decree and supported the troops. Most importantly, without saying a word, he took it upon himself to distribute the land in Henan to the soldiers and the people, and actually offered to exempt it from tax for three years.

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Li Yongxuan bribes people's hearts and his ambition is revealed.

How could Emperor Song not see this, and how could he agree to supply Li Yongxuan with food and grass?

He ruthlessly tore the memorial written by Li Yongxuan into pieces and threw it on the ground. Still unresolved, he stepped on it a few more times.

Seeing the emperor's rage, the maids and father-in-law nearby did not dare to breathe, they were so scared to death.

Fortunately, Emperor Song slowly calmed down after a while.

He summoned several confidants to discuss countermeasures.

Someone suggested that Li Yongxuan be promoted to a higher position and be deceived into the capital, where he would then be questioned!

Someone suggested that it would be better to attack Jincheng first and lead the troops to take over. If Li Yongxuan dares to raise troops to resist, it will be a rebellion, and everyone in the world will find it and punish him.

The Emperor of the Song Dynasty thought it was reasonable, and immediately ordered another pacification envoy to be sent to Jincheng to take office. At the same time, he ordered the Sichuan and Chongqing envoy Yu Jie to lead his army to accompany him for protection.

He heard that Jincheng has been developing very well recently and can also produce large quantities of artillery and musket equipment.

If Jincheng can be held in hand, the Song army's combat effectiveness can be greatly improved.

Soon, Li Yongxuan got the news from Concubine Yan Guifei, so he sent someone to detain the imperial envoy.

Now, it was time to capture Guanzhong, and he didn't want to fall out with Emperor Song yet, so he could only think of ways to continue to delay time.

Although Yan Guifei was a Mongolian craftsman, she admired Li Yongxuan's character and abilities very much.

No one has ever known why Concubine Yan Guifei, as a Han Chinese, helped the Mongols to harm the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty.

She didn't know it herself, but her master had taken refuge with the Mongols and sent her to Song Emperor Zhao Yun's side to help the Mongols...

However, over the years, after hearing that the Mongols were burning, killing, and looting in the Central Plains, Concubine Yan began to doubt her life.

Is it right for her to help others in this way?

Yan Guifei asked herself, at a loss.

Maybe it was because she really admired Li Yongxuan, or she wanted to atone for her sins, that Concubine Yan often helped him.

In short, if there is any situation on Emperor Song's side, Concubine Yan will inform Li Yongxuan as soon as possible.

Therefore, Li Yongxuan specially changed the teleport point in Lin'an to a place where Concubine Yan often went, and would teleport there from time to time to check on the situation.

The place he chose was so large that even if Concubine Yan set a trap, she would not be able to pinpoint Li Yongxuan's location, let alone when he would appear there.

Li Yongxuan attacked Chang'an, and all the prefectures in Jingzhao surrendered, and Luoyang gradually became an isolated city.

Kublai Khan thought that Luoyang City was in dilapidated condition and people's mentality changed, so he finally decided to order the Mongolian army to evacuate Luoyang and go north to avoid being surrounded by Liyingwaihe and completely falling.

Although Tongguan is still in the hands of the Mongolian army, the east, west and south of Luoyang are all occupied by Li Yongxuan's troops. With Luoyang's broken city walls, it is almost impossible to withstand the fierce attack of Li Yongxuan and artillery.

Besides, there are definitely not a few soldiers and civilians in Luoyang City who want to surrender, so how can they defend it?

If you insist on holding on even though you know you can't hold on, you will only lose manpower, material resources, and financial resources in vain, which is meaningless.

Li Yongxuan led his army westward, took over Luoyang, and took advantage of the situation to recover Henan Prefecture, Songzhou, and Shaanxi Province.

At this point, the entire Henan was recovered and fell into the hands of the Song people again.

Among them, the Song Army occupied the territory of Tangzhou, Shouzhou, Sizhou, and Suzhou, and the other state capitals were all under Li Yongxuan's control.

The Mongolian army withdrew from Luoyang, and nearby state capitals surrendered one after another. The Mongols had even given up on Luoyang, so why would they care about their life or death?

After three days of rest, Li Yongxuan continued to lead his army on the expedition.

In just over three months, he recovered all Jingzhaofu Road, Fengxiang Road, Yanyan Road, Qingyuan Road, and Lintao Road, connecting Henan, Jingzhao, Sichuan and Chongqing together.

In order to restore Guanzhong's vitality as soon as possible, Li Yongxuan continued to divide the land equally, tax exemption for the first three years, and levy a 10% tax after three years.

At the same time, he evenly divided the land in Lizhou, implemented tax exemptions, encouraged production, and continued to expand the army to be ready for war, with the total number of troops reaching 300,000.

Soon after, Emperor Song received news from the front line and went berserk.

He originally thought that by cutting off Li Yongxuan's supplies, he would be able to force Li Yongxuan to bow his head. What he didn't expect was that Li Yongxuan actually went deep into various parts of Henan alone and drove out the arrogant Mongolian army.

The Song Emperor's plan to use the Mongolian army to consume Li Yongxuan failed. Instead, he allowed Li Yongxuan to take the opportunity to expand, and his troops grew to more than 100,000.

The Song Emperor then wanted to use the gold medal to send Li Yongxuan's class teacher back to the court, but the imperial envoys did not see Li Yongxuan for several months.

In desperation, Emperor Song decided to send people to capture Jincheng first.

Unexpectedly, the three groups of people he sent were all detained. Until now, they have not reached Sichuan and Chongqing, let alone Jincheng.

Obviously, several imperial envoys were detained by Li Yongxuan's people, and Li Yongxuan clearly wanted to rebel.

The more Emperor Song thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and he wished he could capture Li Yongxuan and cut him into pieces.

What rights does Li Yongxuan have to detain imperial envoys, divide the land equally, promote tax exemptions, and win people's hearts?

After discussing with several confidants, Emperor Song decided to send a navy to take over Jincheng.

He wanted to see if anyone dared to stop him and raise troops to rebel.

Soon, Li Yongxuan received the exact news and decided to fight back.

Originally, he wanted to regain Hedong, Hebei, and Ludong as soon as possible. The problem was that Li Yongxuan had neither money nor food and grass, so how could he send troops?

If it weren't for his super perceptual ability, Li Yongxuan would have been heavily in debt long ago when he bought a lot of gold and silver treasures from Luoyang and Chang'an.

Since the Song Emperor wanted to cause trouble, it would be better for Li Yongxuan to simply go to the south of the Yangtze River, loot and fall into his hands, rather than let the Mongolian army plunder.

Li Yongxuan made up his mind to personally lead an army of 150,000 to the east.

Recently, he asked Guo Jing to train troops in Luoyang, and Wang Jian to lead the army to garrison Chang'an to guard against the Mongolian invasion. Fan Yongji was still garrisoned in Bianliang, and managed Henan, Lizhou, and Jincheng. Everything remained as before.

When Kublai Khan and Wu Liang got the news together, they felt as if they were facing a powerful enemy.

They wanted to confront Li Yongxuan head-on, but they were never able to do so.

Every time Li Yongxuan attacked, he would avoid the main force of the Mongolian army. He would only attack cities with weak defenses.

He would not divide his troops for garrison, but would only allocate fields to the soldiers and people, give them tax exemptions, and let them defend the city. He never exploited or oppressed them.

On the contrary, the Mongolian army slaughtered and looted, and did not treat the people of the Central Plains as human beings.

I would like to ask, will the soldiers and people of the Central Plains under the brutal rule of the Mongolian army lean towards the Mongols or towards Li Yongxuan?

This is also the reason why Li Yongxuan's power can grow rapidly.

The people under the Mongolian rule wished that Li Yongxuan would lead an army to attack the country as soon as possible so that they could live a stable life and avoid living a humble and humiliating life in the shadow of the Mongolian army, fearing that they would be killed every day.

Even if the land is not divided and there is no tax exemption, they are still willing to help Li Yongxuan, at least his life safety can be guaranteed.

It was also very helpless for Kublai Khan and Wu Liang to join forces. Every time they attacked a city, they encountered fierce resistance and had to pay a heavy price before they could capture it.

But Li Yongxuan was different. Before his troops attacked the city, the soldiers defending the city couldn't wait to surrender. How could they fight such a battle?

The Mongols were originally few, and now they do not have three million people. They had to enslave the foreigners and rule them with iron and blood.

If it were not for fear of the suppression of the Mongolian army, the soldiers and people under his rule would have surrendered to Li Yongxuan long ago.

Soon, Li Yongxuan led his army to attack Xuzhou. The defenders of Pengcheng killed the Mongolian defenders and surrendered. The surrounding Jeju, Tengzhou, Yizhou, Pizhou, and Haizhou surrendered.

Either the Mongol defenders abandoned the city and fled, or they were killed by the defenders and surrendered to Li Yongxuan's men.

Li Yongxuan's eastern expedition was unexpectedly successful.

Originally, he only robbed the Song Emperor in the name of the Eastern Expedition, but he did not expect that so many cities would surrender voluntarily.

So Li Yongxuan asked the surrendered defenders to flee south, and he led the army to pursue them.

They pursued him all the way from Xuzhou to Sizhou, Suzhou, Shouzhou, Yangzhou, and to Lin'an. Everywhere he passed, people took the initiative to join him.

Li Yongxuan went all the way south, and within two months, he reached Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

He led his army to station outside Lin'an City, and was filled with emotion when he looked at this prosperous city.

Since the Southern Song Dynasty established its capital in Lin'an, it has become the center of political governance. Taxes and tributes paid to the court from various places will be concentrated here. Scholars come here to take exams. Big landowners and big businessmen who fled from the north also come here.

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Soon, Lin'an became prosperous.

In order to satisfy the vanity and pleasure of the emperor, princes and nobles, the imperial court recruited a large number of migrant workers to expand the city, build palaces, more than doubled the city area, and built it into a large city with a surrounding area of ​​more than 70 miles.

Skilled craftsmen from all over the country were also recruited to produce a variety of luxury goods for the royal family.

These craftsmen are actually handicraft slaves, do not have any personal freedom, and live a very poor life.

Other craftsmen engaged in handicrafts such as woodware, bambooware, lacquerware, and paper, as well as some bricklayers, plasterers, etc., also have a hard life.

In order to make ends meet, some craftsmen had to walk around the streets, mending pots, sharpening knives and scissors, hooping barrels, repairing shoes, etc. Their lives were insecure and they often suffered from hunger.

There are also some small businessmen who operate on a small scale. They carry peddlers' poles and shake peddler's drums to attract customers. Although they can earn some small profits, they are often extorted by the government and live a precarious life.

In addition to the above people, there is also the most discriminated type of labor in Lin'an City, which are the cleaning laborers who sweep the streets and empty toilets, and the laborers who collect corpses and carry coffins.

Their jobs are the hardest, dirtiest and most tiring, they get the least wages, and their lives are the poorest.

On the streets of Lin'an, every winter in the twelfth lunar month, there are often a large number of unemployed homeless people sleeping on the streets, crying from hunger and cold, and finally falling to death on the roadside, ending their miserable lives.
To be continued...