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Chapter 229 Recruiting [-] troops first 【Order】

The first to bear the brunt was the hundreds of servants with very different spirits and spirits. These servants all had their own horses, and they followed Tang Dingwei's order.

Hundreds of family members jumped on their horses directly, looking more powerful than the regular army of the imperial court.

Yue Buqun saw this scene in his eyes, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Such a family team, if it is against the last Jianghu sect, to be honest, Yue Buqun feels that apart from a few sects, there are really few sects that can hold it.

Not to mention other things, just say that their Huashan faction is definitely not the opponent of such an elite team of servants.

These servants are absolutely different from those servants that Yue Buqun had seen with Li Huan in Fujian.

Although in Fujian, the servants and servants raised by the tyrants in those places are not necessarily inferior to the servants of the Tang family in terms of bravery.

But there is a clear difference between the two.

The servants raised by those tyrants in Fujian are nothing more than a group of rabble with no courage, and the servants of the Tang family are obviously elite soldiers in the army. Not only are they extremely brave, but more importantly, these people are proficient in military formations , even if there is only one point of strength, but through their combination, they can exert several times the strength.

Just as Yue Buqun was watching the servants who got on their horses and lost their minds, Han Le who was beside him gently pushed Yue Buqun and said, "Mr. Yue, get in the car! It's time for us to set off."

It turned out that a carriage was parked in front of them at this moment, and Han Le was looking at him.

Yue Buqun came back to his senses, a gust of wind blew by, Yue Buqun couldn't help coughing, nodded to Han Le, and then walked into the carriage.

The carriage is not big, but it can accommodate Han Le and Yue Buqun.

It can be seen that the Tang family still takes good care of these accountants who are born in literati. To be precise, most of these accountants are powerless people. Fall down and die.

The large group of people was obviously in a hurry, so naturally they couldn't let these accountants who were out of breath after walking for a few miles walk on foot, so it was said that the Tang family specially equipped these accountants with carriages.

The group of servants outside the car surrounded a dozen carriages and left the large manor of the Tang family in the dark.

These people are not in the county seat of Suidezhou, but in a large manor outside the city. Otherwise, such a big commotion from the Tang family would have alarmed many people even if it was chosen in the evening.

Looking away from the outside, Yue Buqun couldn't help but turned to Han Le with some surprise and said, "Brother Han, what are we going to do?"

From the very beginning, Yue Buqun held back his curiosity, but now he couldn't help but ask Han Le, an old man who had stayed in Tang's house for many years.

Han Le sighed slightly when he heard the words: "I don't know which family is going to be unlucky this time."

Yue Buqun couldn't help being stunned for a moment when he heard the words, a look of surprise and bewilderment appeared on his face.

Han Le saw Yue Buqun's reaction in his eyes, and smiled slightly: "Brother Yue thinks that the Tang family has almost become the number one powerhouse in Yulin Road, what is it based on?"

Yue Buqun frowned, looked at Han Le and said, "Could it be killing?"

Han Le nodded and said: "Yes, but all the forces or families that are against the Tang family have been razed to the ground by the Tang family. The families that have been directly or indirectly destroyed by the Tang family over the years are not only thirty or fifty, but also a dozen or so. gone."

Yue Buqun couldn't help but said, "So many families have been wiped out, so the local government doesn't care?"

Han Le sneered and said, "There is no evidence, and the commander of the Tang family is here, who would have nothing to find trouble with the Tang family?"

As he said that, Han Le looked at Yue Buqun with a smile on his face and said, "It seems that Master Tang Jiu is planning to bring Mr. Yue into the Tang family this time, otherwise, such an action would be absolutely impossible. Take Mr. Yue with you."

Yue Buqun cupped his hands towards Han Le and said, "It's thanks to Brother Han that you spoke well for Yue in front of Tang Jiuye, otherwise, how could Yue, an outsider, gain Tang Jiuye's trust?" .”

Han Le smiled and said, "You and I hit it off right away, and it was just a matter of a little effort for Mr. Han to recommend Mr. Yue to Tang Jiuye."

Xi'an Prefecture

Today, the four gates of the Xi'an Mansion have been taken over by the imperial army. The Jingying Zhenwei Camp, led by the commanders Ren Ping and Guan Zheng the day before, finally arrived at the Xi'an Mansion.

Almost immediately, Jingying took over the four gates of the Xi'an Mansion under Li Huan's order, completely controlling the Xi'an Mansion.

At the same time, Jin Yiwei started ransacking homes in the city.

From the chief envoy to the chief envoy, down to an official in the government office, it can be said that all officials who were found to be involved in the corruption case of ink were all taken down.

Nearly [-] wealthy merchants in the city had their homes ransacked, and there were dozens of officials with names and surnames in the government office. It can be said that the prison in Xi'an is already overcrowded.

A few days passed before Jin Yiwei's arrests stopped. Of course, this was only a stop of large-scale arrests and house raids. People in Xi'an Prefecture could still occasionally see Jin Yiwei's people going out to arrest those involved in the case.

Li Huan's place of residence has been transferred from the Jinyiwei Qianhu Office to the Xi'an Fuya.

After a major cleansing, it can be said that there are no more than ten officials in the Xi'an government office. Including the low-level officials, there are only a dozen or so left.

These dozen or so people are currently leading a group of poor scholars and village elders selected from the disaster victims outside the city to deal with many government affairs very busy.

Although it looked busy and clumsy, it did not hinder the operation of the entire chief envoy's office in the slightest.

After all, these affairs are handled by many middle and low-level officials on weekdays. As for the officials such as the chief envoy and the procuratorate, at most they just make up their minds on some major issues.

Li Huan almost emptied the entire Chief Political Commissioner and Procuratorate Commissioner at once, but ensured the normal operation of government affairs to a certain extent. Obviously, after experiencing the incident in Fuzhou, he already had certain experience and the ability to deal with it. Policy.

At this time Li Huan was sitting in a side hall, flipping through the events reported by each of them.

Suddenly there was the sound of footsteps, and Li Huan looked up, and saw Gu Yuzhang, a hundred householder of Jinyiwei, striding forward with joy on his face.

"My subordinates meet the adults."

Li Huan glanced at Gu Yuzhang indifferently, nodded slightly, his eyes fell on the secret letter in Gu Yuzhang's hand and said: "What's the matter?"

Gu Yuzhang handed the secret letter in his hand to Li Huan and said, "My lord, this is the secret message from the hundred households of Jinyiwei on Yulin Road."

Li Huan raised his brows with a solemn look on his face.

Yulin Road is where Yulin Town, one of the Nine Sides, is located. There are several Jinyiwei Hundred Households in Shaanxi, and one of them is located on Yulin Road.

Generally speaking, most of the news from Jinyiwei on Yulin Road is about the Tatar invaders in the grassland. No matter how large or small the invaders are, any Tatar invaders will definitely alarm the world, and even if the scale is slightly larger, there may be Shangda Tianting shocked the imperial court and the capital.

At this moment, the news came from hundreds of Jinyiwei households on Yulin Road, could it be that the Tatars on the grassland have changed something?
Reaching out to take the secret letter, Li Huan opened it. When he saw the contents of the secret letter, Li Huan couldn't help but raised his eyebrows in surprise and said, "I didn't expect Yue Buqun to be exiled to Yulin Town."

Gu Yuzhang, who was standing by the side, couldn't help but looked up in astonishment, his face was full of surprise, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, you said that Yue Qianhu is not dead, but he is in Yulin Town?"

Li Huan nodded slightly and said: "That's right, this secret letter is a letter from Yue Buqun through Yulin Jinyiwei Baihu to report safety."

Speaking of which, Li Huan handed the secret letter to Gu Yuzhang. After Gu Yuzhang read it, his face was full of joy and said: "Master Yue is fine, that's really great."

Li Huan said with a smile: "How about Yue Buqun's fate, he escaped from the pursuit of Feng Qingyang and others, even though he was seriously injured, this luck is not comparable to that of ordinary people."

Speaking of this, Li Huan said: "Send a message to Yue Buqun so that he can heal his wounds and come back earlier."

Gu Yuzhang left in response.

Outside, Chen Yao and Du Guang came over with a stack of account books, met Gu Yuzhang, and nodded.

Walking into the hall, Chen Yao and Du Guang put the stack of account books in front of Li Huan and said, "My lord, I have finally counted it clearly."

In the past few days, Chen Yao and Du Guang have been taking Jin Yiwei to take charge of counting the proceeds from the ransacking of the house, and now they finally have a result.

Li Huan frowned upon hearing this.

I only heard Chen Yao say: "My lord, nearly a hundred families were involved in this raid, especially the Liao family, Su family, Wei family, Hu family and other local tyrants. A total of 230 million shi of grain and gold were confiscated. The total amount of silver is more than 540 million taels, and there are countless acres of fields, shops, and manors. Its value is no less than tens of millions of taels."

Li Huan couldn't help but a flash of light flashed in his eyes when he heard the words and said: "You said that the grain is 230 million shi?"

Chen Yaozhong nodded emphatically and said: "That's right, aside from the food relief from the greedy imperial court, the amount of grain copied by several families is as much as 200 million shi. The amount of relief food is small."

Li Huan took a deep breath and said with murderous intent all over his body: "It's really Zhumen's wine and meat stinks and the road is frozen to death. They have hoarded millions of shi of grain, but there are millions of people in Shaanxi who can't even eat a full meal." , and tens of thousands of people starved to death.”

Chen Yao swallowed, looked at Li Huan and said in a trembling voice, "My lord, what should I do with these things that have not been copied?"

Li Huan just pondered for a while and said: "I will personally report to His Majesty that the confiscated food will be used to relieve the victims on the spot, and the gold and silver items will be packed and transported back to the capital to be filled into His Majesty's inner treasury. , the manor, and the mine are waiting to be sold after the disaster.”

As he spoke, Li Huan glanced at Chen Yao and said, "About how many acres are there that have not been copied?"

Chen Yao hurriedly said: "Returning to your lord, the total number of acres of land is about 180 million mu."

Li Huan raised his brows. To be honest, this number is indeed a bit alarming. But think about it. Almost 200 to [-]% of the powerful and officials in Xi'an Prefecture have been ransacked and wiped out. The amount of nearly [-] million mu of fertile land is not too much. .

After all, counting hundreds of families, each family has tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. Thinking about the momentum of Yan Song, Xu Jie and others, who frequently occupy hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, these tycoons and officials in Xi'an Prefecture are far behind. .

I saw Li Huan sitting there, tapping lightly on the table with one hand, and suddenly said: "Chuan Guanzheng came to see me."

Not long after, I saw Guan Zheng in armor striding forward, walked up to Li Huan, bowed directly to Li Huan and said: "The last commander of the Zhenwei Battalion, Guan Zheng, pays his respects to the governor."

Li Huan glanced at Guan Zheng, nodded slightly and said, "Commander Guan, let's get up."

Crashing all over, the armor made a noise, the burly Guan Zheng stood up, looked at Li Huan respectfully and said, "I don't know if the commander-in-chief summoned the general to come, what's your order?"

Li Huan looked at Guan Zheng and said: "Guan Zheng, you immediately take people to the refugees outside the city, go and raise the banner of recruiting soldiers for me, and recruit soldiers for me. Anyone who passes the screening, once he joins the army, This official rewarded him with ten acres of fertile land, ten taels of silver, and five shi of grain for the expenses of settling down."

After Li Huan's words fell, Guan Zheng and the others couldn't help but show a look of astonishment, almost instinctively, Guan Zheng said: "Governor, isn't this condition too good?"

No wonder Guan Zheng reacted like this. Not to mention anything else, just ten acres of fertile land is enough to make people lose their heads and fight to join the army, not to mention money and food.

In order to survive, the refugees outside the city would choose to join the army without hesitation if they were given a bite to eat.

Therefore, Li Huan's offer of such generous conditions was definitely beyond the expectations of Guan Zheng and others.

Li Huan shook his head and said, "Since the conditions are so favorable, the screening conditions are naturally very strict."

Guan Zheng lifted his spirits and looked at Li Huan.

Li Huan said slowly: "Remember, the recruits must come from good families. Those who have parents and brothers are selected for selection. You must choose honest people."

Guan Zheng couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard the words, he was not a fool, he naturally knew that if he really selected soldiers according to Li Huan's requirements, then the soldiers selected in the end would definitely be the best.

But soon Guan Zheng said with a bit of worry: "My lord, it is not difficult to choose this kind of soldiers. As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward, not to mention that the lord has given such a good condition. Tens of thousands of people can be selected casually, but what should we do with those who steal, rape, play tricks, hooligans and the like?"

Li Huan rewarded the relatives of these soldiers with fertile land, gold and silver, and food, which would inevitably attract the prying eyes of many ruffians among the refugees. Those ordinary people's homes would not dare to provoke those ruffians.

Li Huan said indifferently: "This matter is simple. Once the news of recruiting troops is sent out, with such good conditions, those local ruffians will be the first to respond. When the time comes, the commander will separate these people into a separate battalion. They will be restrained by military law and disrespect orders." Let’s just kill them. Let’s save them and these people to scatter among the people and harm the people.”

There was a bit of excitement in Guan Zheng's eyes, and he immediately bowed to Li Huan and said: "The last general takes orders, so let's do it."

But when he turned around, Guan Zheng hesitated and looked at Li Huan and said, "My lord, I wonder if there is a limit to the number of recruits?"

Li Huan smiled slightly and said, "For one place in Xi'an Prefecture, you are allowed [-] places."

Seeing Guan Zheng leaving excitedly, Li Huan smiled a little.

Shaanxi Province has produced strong soldiers since ancient times. Not to mention other things, the strong Qin Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty all based on Shaanxi Province, and then conquered and unified the world.

According to the plan in Li Huan's mind, Li Huan planned to recruit 25 young men in Shaanxi. After all, if the Beijing camp was full, there would be a full army of about 20. The gap is as much as [-].

Now that there is a catastrophe in Shaanxi, if Li Huan really recruits [-] young adults as he wishes, then according to the generous conditions he gave, it will be enough to benefit [-] households and hundreds of thousands of victims.

As for the conditions he promised, whether it was food, acres of land, or gold and silver, to be honest, Li Huan didn't take a single cent of silver with him from Beijing, and now thanks to the blessings of these Shaanxi officials, everything he needed was ready.

One hundred thousand young and strong people need millions of mu of fertile land, one million taels of gold and silver, and 50 shi of grain to settle down. However, Li Huan confiscated nearly 200 million mu of fertile land, more than 500 million taels of gold and silver, and even more grain in Xi'an Prefecture alone. More than 200 million stones.

Not to mention recruiting [-] young adults, even doubling the number would be an easy task.

It's dark and night is falling

Between the continuous mountains, a Great Wall stretching for thousands of miles is located between the mountains and rivers, blocking the barbarians on the grassland, forming a series of checkpoints, and serving as a barrier for the Central Plains.

Sanlangkou is one of the many checkpoints under the jurisdiction of Yulin Town.

Because of the size and importance of these checkpoints, the nine border towns will assign soldiers to guard them. Even if they cannot prevent the Tatars from invading, they can at least serve as a warning.

Once the bonfire is ignited, it will inevitably spread in all directions at an extremely fast speed, causing the nine border towns to respond.

And the soldiers stationed in Sanlangkou on weekdays are a hundred households with hundreds of people.

This number is already quite a lot, because Sanlangkou is an extremely important checkpoint, which can accommodate a large number of soldiers and horses to pass through.

A hundred households stationed here, unless they are attacked by surprise, otherwise, relying on the checkpoints, they may not be able to block the attacking Tatars and persist until reinforcements arrive.

On this day, Tang Ping, the official of Hundred Households, greeted all his subordinates to gather at the pass, and a strong smell of wine came to his face. Several jars of old wine had been opened at this moment, and a strong smell of wine came to his face.

The weather is cold, and these border soldiers like fine wine the most, but they don't have many opportunities to drink fine wine on weekdays.

So looking at their own Shangguan Tang Ping at this moment, many soldiers showed a bit of surprise, and of course more people focused on the wine jar.

Tang Ping laughed loudly and said: "Today, the official accepts to marry a concubine, and the official is very happy, and specially ordered someone to send a few jars of fine wine to share with Brother Zhong."

Hearing what Tang Ping said, everyone reacted and suddenly remembered that Tang Ping really married a charming concubine today.

Immediately, the little banner official smiled excitedly: "Thank you for the wine, my lord."

"Thank you sir!"

Immediately, all the people stopped hesitating and started to drink their wine bowls one after another. There are not many opportunities like this, and such good wine is rare. If you miss it, you will really miss it.

It can be said that among the hundreds of soldiers, except for a few who did not drink, almost all of them drank a large bowl of fine wine.

As night fell, outside Sanlangkou, a group of soldiers and horses were indistinct, an unknown number, slowly approaching the Sanlangkou checkpoint.

Aliha, who was the leader, walked with Tang Dingli, and several elite members of the Tang family, Ding Hu, stood beside Tang Dingli.

After a pause, Aliha looked at the looming lights in front of him, and knew in his heart that Sanlangkou was in front of him.

He also broke into the pass from Sanlangkou to carry out looting, so he is no stranger to Sanlangkou.

Similarly, Aliha also knows that the defense of Sanlangkou is very strict, especially the nearly [-] soldiers on the border, almost most of them are old soldiers who have survived many battles, and their combat power is extremely amazing. If you want to break through the checkpoint, you may have to pay a painful price of hundreds of lives.

At this moment, Aliha looked at Tang Dingli and said, "Brother Tang, are you sure we can pass through Sanlang's mouth without any loss?"

Tang Dingli nodded with a smile and said, "Brother Aliha, don't you believe me, brother?"

Aliha chuckled and said, "It's not that I can't trust Brother Tang, it's really..."

At this time, the lights flickered suddenly at the checkpoint ahead, and the lights flickered a few times regularly, and Tang Dingli, who was watching the scene in the secret passage, immediately smiled and said: "Okay, we can set off, the front pass has been settled by my Tang family." gone."

Aliha was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then a smile appeared on his face, and he said to Solnit who was beside him: "Sonnit, take the warriors of the clan and go ahead and have a look."

Upon hearing this, Solnit excitedly greeted more than a hundred elites from the pot and went straight to Sanlang's mouth.

At this time, at the Sanlang Pass, the Datong Shop, which was originally used for the rest of the soldiers on the border, now exudes a strong smell of blood.

Tang Ping, who was dressed in armor, held a long knife in his hand, followed by several servants, and in front of them were the corpses of frontier soldiers who had been hacked and killed in a coma.

Nearly a hundred soldiers on the frontier did not die at the hands of the Tatars, but at the hands of their own superiors.

A servant's eyes flashed with ferocity, and a sharp knife flashed across the neck of a sleeping old soldier, blood spurting immediately, the sleeping old soldier twitched violently, his confused eyes opened, and when he saw When he saw Tang Ping, who had a stern look on his face, his eyes were full of disbelief.

"My lord, there are a total of 86 people, all of them have been killed, and there are still a few people on duty outside."

Tang Ping nodded slightly, and said to one person: "Tang Zun, you go and send the signal, and the rest follow me to take care of those people."

At the pass, a few old soldiers who hadn't drunk not long ago were leaning against the lee with cold knives and guns in their arms, chatting casually.

Suddenly, old pawn Qin Zhuang frowned and said, "Old Xu, do you smell a bloody smell?"

The rest of the old soldiers were all taken aback when they heard the words, and then sniffed, and immediately heard Xu Ling clenched the long knife in his hand and said in a low voice: "It is true that there is a strong smell of blood coming from the pass."

With the help of the lights, several old soldiers showed doubts on their faces.

At this moment, Tang Ping came over with several servants.

When they saw Tang Ping, several people from Qin Zhuang hurriedly got up and greeted Tang Ping, "My lord, why are you here?"

Tang Ping smiled slightly, stepped forward and said: "I can't sleep, so I came out for a walk..."

"puff"

Immediately after a muffled groan came out, a sharp blade sank into Qin Zhuang's body. Qin Zhuang looked at Tang Ping with a grinning face, and then at the dagger pierced into his body, with an expression of disbelief on his face. With blood gushing out of his mouth, he said in a trembling voice, "My lord, you..."

At the same time, several servants who followed Tang Ping also shot together.

Accidentally and mentally, several old soldiers were almost killed on the spot. Only Xu Ling, who was one step behind, realized something was wrong and avoided it in time. Seeing the situation was not good, he rolled down the mountain pass and disappeared into the night.

Seeing this situation, several servants tried to catch up, but Tang Ping called out a few people and said: "Escaping from him alone will not hinder the overall situation, and it will be enough to label him as a deserter. He is a deserter. Whatever you say, no one will believe you."

Talking about it, Tang Ping said solemnly: "The next step is to welcome the people in the pot to enter the customs."

Soon there was a rush of footsteps, and Tang Ping and the others greeted Solnit and others into Sanlang's mouth.

Looking at the corpses of several soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who fell on the ground, and looking at the blood on Tang Ping's body, Solnit immediately understood what was going on.

Especially when Aliha, who got the news and led the brigade, saw the nearly 300 veteran soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who had been hacked and killed in the pass, Aliha couldn't help laughing loudly, patted Tang Dingli on the shoulder and said: "Good brother!" , In the past, no less than two or three hundred people died in my pot in order to get into San Lang's mouth, but I didn't expect it to be so easy with your help this time."

Tang Dingli said with a smile on his face: "The inside of the pot is a friend of our Tang family. Isn't it right to solve problems for friends?"

Aliha was taken aback for a moment, then nodded and said: "Yes, Hu Libu and the Tang family will always be friends and help each other."

Tang Dingli stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Aliha, this time we entered the customs quietly without disturbing anyone. It won't be long before we can easily ambush the grain transport team, and then you and my two families can share the grain equally."

Greed flashed in Aliha's eyes, and he said excitedly, "Let's go."

Yulin Road

On the dry land, smoke and dust billowed, and a group of cavalry scattered to patrol the four directions, obviously an outpost of the army.

On the official road, a long motorcade came winding.

Thousands of soldiers are escorting hundreds of carts slowly coming at this moment, the entire convoy is several miles long, this team is the relief food allocated by the imperial court, which is as much as [-] shi.

Hundreds of carts creaked and moved forward slowly, and there were as many as 2000 people in charge of transporting food, plus the escorting army, there were almost [-] people in total.

A guerrilla general in the lead was riding a war horse covered in travel and dust, and kept asking the returning sentry for news ahead.

As a guerrilla general, Zhen Wei can be regarded as a middle and upper-level general in the frontier army of Yulin Town, but because of his upright temper, even with amazing military strength, he made a lot of meritorious deeds , but after being promoted to guerrilla general for more than ten years, his official position has never been changed.

This time Zhen Wei was sent to escort the relief food allocated by the imperial court. This task was not a good job, so it finally fell on Zhen Wei.He was sent by Tang Dingbang to escort the food.

Zhen Wei was upright, so he didn't say anything. After receiving the general order, he led a group of men to escort food all the way to Suide Prefecture.

At this time, Zhen Wei frowned and looked at a soldier beside him and said, "What's the matter, what is going on with Tang Ye, the chief banner officer? Didn't I say that someone must report the news in half an hour? It's been almost an hour, why hasn't there been any news. Does he still have military law in his eyes, or does he think that the officer dare not kill him?"

The soldier coughed lightly and said, "My lord, Tang Ye is also the person who commanded your lord..."

Zhen Wei snorted coldly when he heard the words: "So what, since you are under the general's command, you must abide by the general's orders."

[Second delivery, I didn’t break my promise, it’s been the last two days, see if there is a monthly pass, I’m asking for a monthly pass, fully booked, and I’m asking for a reward. 】

(End of this chapter)