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Chapter 140
"Bring people up!" In just two years, Zhang Te was promoted from Yishichang to Sima, which was actually faster than Yang Zheng.

But he deserves it all.

Three or four hundred families of men, women and children were brought to the hall.

In the morning, he still looked arrogant, but now he looks like a frosted eggplant.

Some people are still wounded and have already received due lessons.

"Xiping Changshi, city gate guard, chief bookkeeper, postal supervisor, etc. are all arrested here. There are 330 people in the Guo family, and none of them escaped." Zhang Te's tone was more respectful than before.

"Not bad." Yang Zheng praised.

Looking down the hall, many men and women are wearing silk and satin, wearing gold and jade, instinctively feeling disgusted.

"Where is the master book of Xiping?" Yang Zheng asked.

No one in the hall had the courage to answer, but everyone's eyes turned to one direction.

A middle-aged man trembled all over his body, knowing that he couldn't hide his feelings, he rolled and crawled, "Little, villain is that."

"How much grain and taxes are collected by each county in Xiping this year? How many people have been killed by thieves?"

"This..." The man was dumbfounded, and looked at the people around him for help.

But the people around them all lowered their heads.

"Where is Xiping Governor Post?"

This time, they behaved well, and young people in their twenties climbed out of the crowd.

The superintendent's position is light on weight, conveying teaching orders, and inspectors belong to officials, inspecting cases, prisons, and illegal inspections, etc., which is equivalent to later generations of inspectors and inspectors.

Yang Zheng saw this person's look of excessive drinking and irregular menstruation, and felt that there was no need to talk nonsense.

But still give him a chance, "How many prisons in the western capital this year, how many criminals, how many have not been arrested?"

"Report, general, this year, the Qiang and Hu are in chaos, all punishments and prisons have been abolished, and no one has been arrested." This man is also prepared.

"What about last year?"

"Go, last year..."

"Where is the long history of Xiping..."

Yang Zheng asked one by one, but as he expected, no one was serious about it.

It's no wonder that Ye Wudai dared to fight Xiping. If the Guo family had someone useful, Ye Wudai would not have expanded to [-] to [-] people.

Guo Dun, who can come in handy, is still an unpopular branch.

"From today onwards, all of you will be dismissed from official positions, and this general will report to the governor of Qinzhou."

If the name is not correct, the words will not go well, and everything must go through a process.

Some people slumped on the ground, some cried, and some cursed.

Yang Zheng didn't bother to pay attention.

Xia Houba, the governor of Qinzhou, is his future uncle, Xia Houxuan, the governor of Yongliang, is his future father-in-law, and General Cao Shuang is his patriarch.

With such an iron relationship and such a strong backing, it would be a pity not to use it to bluff people.

"Is there any objection?"

"We are all appointed by the imperial court, how can you, a captain who protects the Qiang, have the right to dismiss us?" Someone shouted in the crowd.

Liu Heng spat, his neck was red and he was about to lift someone up.

Yang Zheng grabbed him, and said seriously: "In broad daylight, what do you want to do? Is there still Wang Fa?"

Liu Heng looked at Yang Zheng blankly.

"We are officials ordered by the imperial court, not bandits and bullies." Yang Zhenghan said with a cold face, "This general is the most fair. Since you have grievances, I will give you a ride, come here."

There was a loud sound of knives being unsheathed outside the hall, and more than a dozen disheveled soldiers entered with knives in their hands, all of them vicious.

The Guo family was frightened and cried loudly on the spot, "Forgive me, General, spare me!"

"This general doesn't mean that." Yang Zheng felt a little headache, and it's not a good thing if his subordinates are too murderous, "Prepare some carriages and send them all to Chang'an, so that the governor of Xiahou can make a decision."

The crying and begging for mercy stopped.

"Do you really dare to let us go to Chang'an?"

Yang Zheng smiled and said, "Why don't you dare? This general stands straight and walks upright."

"Okay." More than a dozen people in charge of the Guo family cupped their hands.

The others fled scrambling and crawling.

"Or on the way..." Liu Heng cut his throat.

Yang Zheng patted his head, "What are you thinking about every day?"

Guo's family also didn't want to stay in the western capital, so they tossed all night, and the next day hundreds of large and small vehicles, more than 1000 family servants and servants, headed east in a mighty way.

When this group of people left, the Western Capital City became quiet.

At noon, the treasury was also counted.

There are 13 shi of grain, [-] collars of iron armor, [-] sets of leather armor, and countless armaments such as crossbows, ring swords, spears, and large shields.

The Guo family took away a lot of gold, silver, money and silk, and Yang Zheng was not uncommon for such things.

Looking at the mountain of grain, Yang Zheng couldn't figure it out, he didn't even borrow [-] shi.

He deserves what he deserves for being rich and unkind.

There are too many poor days, and it is really uncomfortable to get rich overnight.

Thinking of the ragged and disheveled people in the city, Yang Zheng waved his hand, "Every household in the city gets a stone of grain!"

"General benevolence!" Du Yu rushed to Yang Zheng and cupped his hands.

Yang Zheng smiled, but it wasn't all about benevolence. If he wanted to gain a foothold in Xiping, he had to either get the support of the local tycoons or the local people.

Yang Zheng wanted to cooperate with the Guo family, but the Guo family didn't like him at all.

The power of the people is greater, but it takes time to win their trust.

"How to deal with the Guo family's [-] slaves and tenants?" Du Yu's eyes flickered with a gleam.

It was captured keenly by Yang Zheng.

After being cheated in various ways, Yang Zheng also learned to be smart, and could read the other party's words and demeanor from the tone and demeanor.

This is actually Du Yu testing Yang Zheng.

It's normal for a good bird to choose a tree for a child of an aristocratic family, full of talents and learning.

It is useless for those who get him to not get his heart.

Friendship belongs to friendship, and future belongs to future.

There is another Du family behind Du Yu.

In fact, Xia Houxuan sent him as his long history, not necessarily without the intention of checking and balancing himself.

"Tenants and slaves remain the same, and domestic slaves are changed to tenant slaves. All of them will be transferred to the Qiang School Wei's Mansion to enrich the people's power for reclamation. In the future, Xiping will be stable, and they can be granted land and restored to private households."

A large amount of land was concentrated, the population was confined, and the people who lost their land became powerful tenants.

Compared with the tenants, the tenants lost their personal freedom, the powerful could kill them at will, and the government was powerless to picket them.

"Yes." Du Yu bowed his hands to Yang Zheng respectfully.

Yang Zheng also returned the gift.

Xiping County has more than one western capital, as well as large and small cities such as Linqiang, Anyi, Poqiang, and Longqi.

In the first four years of Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang sent Zhonglang General Pingxian and others to lure Beihe Qiang with money and silk to donate Longqi, Yungu, and Yanchi to establish Xihai County, and forced to relocate tens of thousands of Han people to enrich Xihai.

Wang Mang fell, Beiheqiang counterattacked, and Xihai County was abandoned.

In the name of the lieutenant protecting the Qiang, Yang Zheng summoned the defenders of Zhucheng to return to the Western Capital to report on their duties.

Except for Wang Mai, the guard general of the broken Qiang, who responded to the order, the two cities of Linqiang and Anyi remained indifferent.

The two cities were captured by Guo Dun at the beginning, so naturally the Guo family took over.

Linqiang has always been the residence of the captain of the Huqiang school, and it is here that Zhao Chongguo's farm is located.

The Guo family couldn't defend these cities back then, so naturally they don't have the ability now.

There are many long nights and dreams.

If these Guo family members get hot-headed and hook up with Midang, it will not be so good.

Cut the mess with a quick knife.

Yang Zheng called out nearly ten thousand Huren slaves in Jishi Mountain.

For such a long time, these people have been trained to be more obedient.

To be honest, living under Ye Wudai may not be more comfortable than living under Yang Zheng.

At least Yang Zheng didn't make them hungry.

Being able to eat and survive is not bad in this world.

More than [-] slaves were collected, all of whom were young men who followed Ye Wudai in the conquest.

Shao Tixun and others have become the best example of Hu Ying.

With meat to eat and wine to drink, the status is lower than that of Qiang zi, but compared with slaves, it is a world of difference.

Outside the city of Linqiang, the slaves lined up at the foot of the city with ring swords in hand.

But it wasn't despair in their eyes, but longing.

"Break the city, the general will recruit two thousand warriors as an army!" Shao Tidun's Hu Ying shouted among the crowd.

If you become a soldier, you are eligible to eat meat, drink alcohol, and marry a woman to have children.

The most primitive pursuit of the body constantly stimulates the slaves.

What the Northwest lacks is not kindness, but order.

A stable order, an order that allows everyone to eat and live.

So after cleaning up the leaders of the Hu people, the first thing the Hu people thought of was not betrayal, but attachment.

"Kill!" In the cold wind, the ragged slave raised his ring-sword and roared like a beast.

Suddenly, the roars merged into an ocean.

"kill!"

Yang Zheng watched everything expressionlessly from behind.

I thought it would be a big battle, but I didn't expect that Linqiang surrendered before the Hu people made a move.

The Guo family left the city dejectedly.

Lin Qiang City was so easily included in the bag.

The weather turns cold, and the sooner the war ends, the sooner next year's spring plowing can be arranged.

Yang Zheng waved his army eastward without stopping.

Unexpectedly, the defenders of Anyi City found out that Yang Zheng was leading the army to the south, and they had already disappeared.

This made Yang Zheng a little puzzled. Since he didn't dare to resist, wouldn't it be over if he surrendered earlier?
Why bother so much.

However, the most strategic value of Xiping is not these two cities, but Guiyi City in the south and north of the Yellow River.

In the first year of Emperor Yongping of the Han and Ming Dynasties, Zhonglang defeated Dou Gu and Ma Wu, the general who captured captives, and burned Dangqiang. Build Guiyi City.

And to the south of the Yellow River, opposite to Guiyi City, is the land of Longxing of the Qiang people, the big and small elm valleys.

Back then when Ye Wudai made a rebellion, Guo Jian fled and took Guiyi City calmly, with heavy troops stationed there to defend it.

After Yang Zheng took Guiyi City, he strangled the throats of Xiaoyugu.

Similarly, Midang took the city and strangled Xiping's throat.

The two allies are about to face off.

(End of this chapter)