Conquest

    Chapter 525 [Fire of the Sugawara]

    Chapter 525 [Fire of the Sugawara]

    It must be said that many times, history has a lot of interesting contingency.

    After many years and years of reviewing this history, almost all historians or scholars have experienced so many ups and downs in the Byzantine Empire this year, and in so many changes in the situation, the last step is to go. On the last strange road…Almost all scholars who study historical materials have to admit that it seems that there is really a palm in the dark to control all this development-then so many changes in the situation, if any of these conditions occur in an accidental way, will eventually lead to a completely different outcome, and ultimately lead to the Byzantine The ancient empire of this millennium embarked on another very different path.

    Especially what happened in the autumn of this year – in fact, quite a few scholars who study history have such a view: in the autumn of this year, the empire is coming to an inflection point on the future road, from the situation at the time Come, if there is no such "accident", or if this accident happens several months or half a year later, I am afraid that the future fate of the empire will not go to the final result. Even many people believe that the empire was already in all favorable conditions: the disintegration of the rebel camp, the strong foreign aid of the Atlantis empire, the temporary annihilation of the Odin empire, and so on. At that time, it was a rare respite for the Byzantine Empire. If you seize this opportunity to quickly carry out the Northern Expedition, as long as you win a few wars, all the situation will be greatly improved. Moreover, from the ability of General Adrick, who was then in charge of military affairs, the empire is entirely possible to do this.

    Can be biased…

    That "accidental" happens so sooner or later, and it happens when it is least likely to happen, one of the most subtle time nodes.

    Adric has made every effort to straighten out a war of arms, even if the aristocrat of the private army composed of the part, the regular army has reached 100,000, military supplies are also basically adequate, but also has Adric such an imperial excellent name commander-in-chief, Once the Northern Expedition begins, no one will doubt Adric's military skills.

    However, it is at this juncture that the rebellion in the southern part of the empire completely ruined the good situation…

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    The autumn wind is ill.

    In the warm south of the past, this fall seems to be particularly early. Just after the summer, the warm wind has changed into a cold wave of chilling.

    The Southern Empire has always been the back garden of the central part of the Byzantine Empire, but in the fall of this year, all the calm was disrupted by the rebellion in the north and the invasion of foreign enemies.

    Under the impetus of Imperial Capital, which urged taxes and supplies, the County Overseers and the governors in the southern counties almost blushing out the last bit of wealth in the official treasury. The southern part of the country has been flat for too long. It is inevitable that officials in some places will be corrupted. If it is the Taiping World Festival, these officials naturally have the means to deal with it. It is nothing more than the dismantling of the East Wall and the Western Wall. Not by yourself?

    At this time, the civil war of the empire not only shattered peace, but also shattered the dreams of many officials.

    In the face of Imperial Capital's order to move, in the face of empty and empty warehouses for years or more, in order to maintain their official title and status, these officials, Masters, had to wave big sticks and even swords spear. Passing the pressure on the people under the rule.

    At the same time, the various giants aristocrat in the south, facing the restrictions of the emperor's suddenly aristocrat private army, in order to win the biggest share in the future power struggle, the most generous cake, almost every aristocrat giants In the desperate expansion of their own strength, within the territory, a large number of farmers were recruited into the private army. A large number of labor forces have been forcibly included in the private army sequence, and a large number of grassroots families who have lost their main labor force have lost their main labor force in the family. The land has been reduced in production, and the income has dropped sharply. At the same time, it has to cope with the increasingly overwhelming wars. tax……No one has counted how many families went bankrupt and how many families were displaced in the fall of the country in the fall of the year. How many civilians who lost their income and land have become homeless displaced people.

    At this time, in fact, the southern counties, the traditional sphere of influence that the imperial central government firmly controlled, had already become a dangerous gunpowder bucket in the autumn of this year. With a little fire spark, it could be detonated. !

    The only difference during the period is nothing more than a day or a day later.

    Of course, if you look at it later, if the *** happens in the evening months or even half a year, the situation will be greatly different…

    So, I have to say that this is an accident.

    An "accidental" that completely changed the future destiny of the Byzantine Empire.

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    Effendi County, Bode City.

    A name called "Ivan" became the direct trigger of this "accidental".

    Ivan is a farmer who lived outside Bode City for generations. The ancestors had some fields because of the military exploits, but after all, they did not really enter the ranks of aristocrat. After several generations, they have become ordinary farmers.

    In the autumn of this year, although the autumn grain was collected, but the county overseer’s grain taxation order was conveyed, the wolf-like soldiers had almost robbed all the autumn food in Ivan’s family in order to get the war tax. .

    If it is in previous years, perhaps Ivan can barely struggle to endure – in addition to farm work, Ivan has the skills of a carpenter. In the past years, if the farmland was short, he could go to the city to find some carpenters. , barely make ends meet.

    And this year, because of the war in the north, the commercial road cut off, the south of the original economy has been on the verge of collapse, many handicraft families have gone bankrupt, the city everywhere can be seen unemployed people, he a small carpenter, and do not find the work, and the last only choice, want to live, there is only one road: Sell the home of

    And occupying another important role in this "accident" is the city guard of Bodø City.

    The guardian master family aristocrat was born, a small Baron's title is not enough to make him rich, but the official position of the city guard gave him a chance to make a fortune. The city of Bodø was not a rich place, but it did not hinder the problem of keeping money. The deficits, vacancies, and false accounts in the official treasury are the best means for every local official.

    But in this year, under Imperial's strict reminder order, there were many officials' reminders.

    The official library in Bode City has already been in short supply, and almost all the rats in the warehouse are unable to survive. If it is in previous years, nothing more than a large "loss" on the accounts. But this year, such a fool is not going to pass.

    The city guard Master had to issue a tax increase order. Such taxes are almost three times more than the statute's statutory tax.

    The heavy taxation forced farmers to sell the fields, but it has become the road to the wealth of the city. He began to buy land for bankrupt farmers at a low price. This autumn, the city guard almost jumped into the largest landlord in the area.

    Another interesting factor is that Adric ordered the mobilization of local garrison troops from the southern counties to the Imperial Capital.

    However, such a simple order has become a nightmare for local officials!

    In the south, the local garrison army has long been abandoned. For many local officials, the garrison is another way to make a fortune: eat empty.

    The original garrison of the county in Bodø County is a battalion, a warrior plus an auxiliary soldier, and there should be more than 600 full compilations. But in fact, these six hundred garrison troops exist only on the books and on paper. Every year, most of the military scorpions are in the pockets of the city guard Lord.

    However, once the above order was down, it immediately made the city stunned.

    How does this army on paper pull Imperial Capital?

    As a last resort, the city guard Lord can only temporarily recruit soldiers in the city.

    There are many people in the city, and there are countless families who are unemployed and bankrupt.

    The Ivan, who was nowhere to go, simply went to the army. I only want to earn a little army to support the young and old at home.

    It can be said that such a situation is almost a common phenomenon in several counties in the south. In the fall of this year, almost all of the garrisons in the southern counties were temporarily recruited in the rush, and a lot of hearts squeezed dissatisfaction and even It was a bankrupt young man who hatred and became a soldier of the empire.

    And they put on military uniforms, trained hard, endured almost harsh military training, meager military squad, ready to be transported to the front of Imperial Capital to fight, for the empire to bleed, while their families, their wives, children, parents and elderly, but The home suffered from a more severe squeeze of official uniforms.

    In this case, if there is no problem, then it is called a ghost.

    Put it in the city of Bodø.

    If, the city guard Lord had not been so corrupted in the past, the deficit is not so too large. Then, when you deal with the above call, you don’t have to pay taxes.

    If the city guard Lord didn't make a hard time at this time, when the masses went bankrupt and sold the land, they used the conscience to buy land at a low price almost in a blackmail manner, forcing the underground people to have no way to live. go.

    If this man named Ivan did not join the army to pick up the knife spear…

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    Things happen on a certain day in the fall. This man, called Ivan, has changed his identity from a bankrupt farmer, an unemployed craftsman, to an ordinary sergeant of the Imperial Guards.

    And something more interesting happened.

    On this day, the county soldiers who were receiving emergency military training in the city of Bod, suddenly received an order to go out to calm down a battle.

    After Ivan’s team of soldiers went out of the city, they were surprised to find that this so-called “fighting” was actually to guard the Master’s own private affairs.

    In the process of a large number of mergers and acquisitions, the Chengshou Master naturally has a lot of strong buying and selling activities. The dispute over this day originated from a land sale. The guards in the Lord’s house in the Lord’s house bought the land in the village outside the city. Because the bid was too low, they were rejected by the farmer. The farmer’s rejection was very simple. The two sides had already said the good price, and the manager’s On the other hand, I suddenly proposed a price reduction. The reason is: Nowadays, the land is sold everywhere. Since there are more people selling, the natural price should be pressed down again.

    The two sides had fierce contradictions for this. In the fierce friction, the management of the city government directly ordered the people under the hands to injure several villagers, causing the villagers’ anger, and the angry villagers will be responsible for this. And his men are surrounded by the village. Under the confrontation between the two sides, they sent people to quietly return to the city for help.

    When I rushed to the place where the accident happened, Ivan’s anger found that this was the village where he lived, and he was injured among the villagers, including his own wife.

    What makes him more sorrowful is that in the push of mulberry and friction, his son, who is less than eight years old, was trampled and seriously injured in the chaotic crowd!

    It is conceivable that at that time, a twenty-nine-year-old man was angry when he saw his wife being injured, his son being trampled to death, and his land being bought by people.

    However, this man still has a weapon in his hand!

    Then, the angry Ivan, after being intolerable, finally chose to use his own weapon to vent his anger and hatred.

    Just when he used the knife in his hand to directly pierce the thing, the scene could no longer be controlled.

    What surprised everyone was that the team of soldiers who were sent immediately changed on the spot and refused to execute orders to the villagers.

    At this time, Ivan, an ordinary farmer who has been struggling to survive for more than 20 years, a little carpenter, when he was full of anger, said that it might be the loudest in his life. speech.

    In the face of dozens of soldiers in the hand holding the weapon, he threw the body of the pipe that he was dying on the ground, stepping on the other’s head, with a hoarse voice, with a strong place. Accent, said something like this:

    "The official Master said that he wants money and food, I gave it, and went bankrupt, and finally the food was collected!" The official Master said that people should fight, I went, put on the military uniform and slashed the sword, and went to the battlefield to fight for them! The official Master said that I want to buy my land, I sold it, just to change the money for a living meal! ! But even so, they still don't give me a way to live! I lived for twenty-nine years old. I only killed chickens in my whole life. My heart is very soft. In the village on weekdays, I am watching people killing sheep and killing pigs. I can't bear it! ! But today I killed someone! Just because I can't stand it anymore! I want to live, all I want is to live! Have a breath, have a meal! ! I handed over all my food, my family, handed me this life to fight for them, and gave my land to them! They are still not satisfied, but also killed my son and wounded my wife! ! Yes, I killed him! A knife killed him! I just want to live, if they don't let me, then I just kill them! ! ”

    Finally, he threw away his sword and looked at dozens of county soldiers in front of him: "You caught me back to sin, I don't resist! But if it is tomorrow, they will grab the food in your house and kill the children in your family. By the time, you will not have a way to live! ”

    After that, things turned sharply!

    The dozens of county soldiers on the spot collectively changed, and the team leader of the team began to try to use their majesty to force the soldiers to execute orders, but they were hacked to death by fierce soldiers.

    As for the housekeepers of several city gates brought by the management, they were also killed by anger, and the body was hung in the village.

    After calming down, these dozens of rebellious county soldiers simply elected Ivan as a Chief.

    In fact, at the time, the thoughts of these people were very simple: they knew that they had committed the crime of killing the officers and killing the management of the city government. However, the group was indignant at the time, and among the soldiers, almost everyone was a bankrupt displaced who was forced into the army after being oppressed.

    After calming down, in fact, Ivan himself and many county soldiers did not really think about rebelling. After all, in the southern part of the Byzantine empire, they had a lifelong shun, and they had no such concept in their minds.

    However, at that time, everyone’s thoughts were very simple: since the killings were all killed, and one would not do two, in any case, in the future, it would be necessary to be arrested and pleaded guilty. It is better to simply avenge the revenge! Go to the city and kill the culprit Master! Even if you ask for a crime in the future, you can count it as a revenge.

    So, dozens of county soldiers took the weapon and rushed back to the city – even this time, they did not have the idea of ​​fighting for rebellion, just thinking about going back to the city to kill the abominable master.

    However, the following situation is completely out of the expectation of a group of farmers who just wore military uniforms and only received military training for less than a month.

    Their move into the city was unusually smooth, and even they fell into the city gate, and they did not encounter even a really powerful resistance. The defenders in the city had almost no resistance, and they chose to give in, let the dozens of people sneak into the city of Bode, and smashed into the city shoufu, slashing all 16 of the Guardian Masters, and the rest of the family servants A glimpse.

    In the end, when I opened the warehouse in the Chengshou Master's house, I faced the money and food that was full of warehouses, facing the land deed that was almost filled with more than ten boxes…Suddenly caused even greater anger!

    The defenders in the city of Bode, the six hundred soldiers recruited in the rush, no one is willing to do things to Ivan and others, the officers ran away in the first time.

    I don't know who made the suggestion first. Soon, six hundred soldiers also collectively changed and joined the ranks of Ivan and others. The wealth of the master guard in the city gate was found by a hundred people. air.

    Over the next two days, the 600 people are still in the bones or farmers of the "reverse bandits", in the vent of the anger of the heart, but by the fear of the bones occupied, some of them chose to flee out of the city in search of a way to live, but most of them still stay in the city, waiting for the coming official to destroy Because there is a wife in the home and the youngest, would rather stay in place waiting to be caught killed, also do not want to involve the family.

    But something stranger happened.

    After waiting for a few days, the officers who came to annihilate them were slowly disappearing.

    Later, these talents suddenly realized!

    Where is the official army to annihilate them in Effingwit?

    Most of the garrison troops have been rushed to the Imperial Capital Osgiliath. There is a shortage of troops in the county. Even some of the remaining soldiers are just like theirs. They are all in order to cope with the above-mentioned transfer and the farmers who are temporarily recruited.

    Later, some of the people who had previously fled, but returned to Bode City one after another. After the escapers left, they spread the news of Bodø City to other places, and within a few days, Effinte County There have been several moves to kill the official rebellion! The return of these fleeing people also brought back some people who were willing to join the team of Ivan and others. Many of them came to Bode City after killing officials in other places.

    In the city of Bode, the team of Ivan and others is like a snowball. It has quickly broken through 3,000 people. Most of them are the former soldiers who have been transformed in other places, and there are many bankrupt farmers. Handicraftsmen, as well as emigrants, joined the team of Ivan.

    Finally, in more than ten days, County Overseer of Effendt County, after doing its best, organized an army to come to the chaos, which is a 600-person battalion, which is only from the capital city of Effingwit. There is an army that has been transferred from a regular local garrison.

    The battalion of 600 people went to Bo City Gorazde to counter the rebellion, but at that time, the entire Evenvitte county, most of the army was temporarily recruited, and sporadic mutiny everywhere, so that County overseer Lord did not dare to trust the army, in order to ensure the control of the Army, County Overseer and the superintendent had to personally lead the trip and walk with the army to ensure command of the military.

    It is conceivable how much combat power can such an army have?

    Moreover, when the news of the soldiers in various districts changed to kill the rebellion of the officers, it has already spread throughout the Effinwit County. Among such a ruling army, from junior officers to soldiers, several people are willing to be these officials. Master selling life?

    Among them, Ivan and others have had the same experience, and there are not a few.

    Thus, in a field of equal judgments, a battalion's flat rebel army, before the war, turned over half of the game, causing the official army to collapse, the County Overseer and the superintendent in order to suppress the subordinates, the result was transformed in the chaos The soldiers killed.

    The death of County Overseer, coupled with the demise of the last established army in the entire Effinvert County, led directly to the situation in Effingwit and could no longer be controlled!

    The collapse of the official army, the news passed back, immediately caused the city of Effinwitt’s capital to be in chaos. The remaining hundreds of defenders immediately announced the transformation and no longer accepted the command of the officers. After they expelled the officers, they sent people. I got in touch with Ivan.

    The next situation…Within a few days, four of the six larger cities in Effingwit had military changes, killing or expelling local officials.

    The fire of this rebellion, a thousand miles!

    The entire Effinite army, within less than half a month, is no longer owned by the Empire!

    At this time, even if Ivan and others were slow, they finally understood a reality:

    It turns out that those official masters who ride on their heads to do their best are just the tigers of paper, the beasts of clay sculptures! I thought that the heavy mountain that was pressed against my head was actually just a layer of window paper, and it was broken!

    The government has long since disappeared to annihilate its own strength! In the southern counties, where are the officers who can rival their own side?

    Under such circumstances, Ivan and others who originally started for the simple "revenge" conviction immediately had new ideas.

    The transformed local army in Effingwit has expanded rapidly, and a large number of displaced people, bankrupt farmers have joined the chaos. Ivan and other nine leaders of the mutated army, named "General", each pulled up a team, the largest one is Ivan Commander, which is nearly 30,000, and the smallest, There are also tens of thousands of people.

    Soon, the rebellion went beyond Effingwit and spread to neighboring counties. In less than a month, the three southern counties were already reneging on the flag, and many local garrisons were changing and responding. Ivan et al.

    The three southern counties lacked their strength and were unable to levy. They could only succumb to self-protection in several major cities. But between the countryside, it is no longer controlled by the empire. In some small cities, even if someone yells a "terror of Ivan", the garrison will be transformed immediately, and the officials will run away.

    The most dangerous and fatal problem for the Byzantine empire is that as the snowballs of the rebellion get bigger and bigger, more and more people join the ranks of the South, which was originally a slap in the face of some mud-legged farmers* **, finally developed into an uncontrollable grassroots resistance against the *** rebel army.

    This is nothing more than a surprise to the Byzantine Empire. As more and more people join the rebel army in the South, there are some elites who may not be able to live in their previous lives. Or have their own ambitions. Many of these people have received higher education. They have farther and brighter insights than the original Yiwan and other people, and have more talents and minds.

    After many people joined the "Ivan of the Terror", after the influence of these elites, they directly made the blind army of the program, and quickly had their own banner and program!

    Overturned

    "Overthrow the rule of the tyrannical Krenma family!"

    "Restoring the elders system and returning to the people!"

    “The three southern counties are separated from the Byzantine Empire autonomy!”

    What's more, even among the insurgents, the banner of "Tulip Family descendants" was erected to recruit the Quartet talents. Don't ask, after all, there are some declining aristocrats joining the rebel army.

    There are also some insurgents, and there are even smarter moves. They started sending people to contact foreign aid, and established other offensive and defensive alliances with other insurgents. They even sent people and some places to aristocrat.

    It is even said that there are still insurgents who actually sent messengers to Sabred City, which is far away from the chaos of the northeast, and some even sent messengers to the north of the empire and contacted some of the military regions of Governor.

    Between the ten months, an urgent urgency newspaper in the south, the snow flakes were sent to Imperial Capital Osgiliath.

    The original empire had a glimmer of life, as if in the fall of this year, it was just fleeting, and the future of the empire was quickly shrouded in a thicker haze…

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