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Chapter 278 Business
After the autumn harvest was over, Hu Fen sent someone to ask for the autumn tax to be handed over.

Xiping Jincheng is under the jurisdiction of Liangzhou.

So Hu Fen's request is very reasonable and legal.

But how could Yang Zheng give it?
He asked Zhang Chen to write a tearful book about the poor, and said that this year, he was attacked by various tribes in Hexi, and there was no harvest, and his family couldn't get rid of it.

At the end of the letter, he also asked Hu Fen to send 100 million shi of grain to relieve Xiping's distress...

Zhang Chen looked like an honest person, and after finishing writing, his face flushed.

I don't know if I was shocked by my own shamelessness, or I really can't stand it anymore.

Yang Zheng smiled wryly, "Isn't this forced?"

The messenger returned with the letter.

A few days later, he ran back again.

Holding a large pile of bamboo slips, it is written how much Xiping garrisoned, and Hehuang how much garrison... how much grain should be handed in, clearly and clearly.

Calculated more carefully than Yang Zheng.

I have seen a thick face, but I have never seen such a thick face.

Yang Zheng couldn't help admiring Hu Fen's brain circuit, eating my food, gaining muscle and strength, and then slashing me with a knife?

Yang Zheng suddenly remembered a famous saying, good brothers have a knife in their ribs.

Hu Fen's posture is full of stabbing and killing, and he even thinks of himself as a fool.

Yang Zheng asked Zhang Chen to write back again, saying that Xiping has been so difficult for so many years, and Deng Ai, a rebellious minister and traitor, is still eyeing him with a knife.

I, Xiping, did collect some food, but I also want to eat and drink myself?
If you brother Hu still misses the old relationship, you might as well be tolerant and tolerant, owe it first, and then repay it twice when I recover that year.

Zhang Chen was panting heavily while writing.

I have to say that his literary talent is really good.

The writing is full of emotion and emotion, and Yang Zheng couldn't help but sigh for his own poverty after reading it.

In the end, in order to express his sincerity, Yang Zheng sent two carts of salt hoarded in the treasury of Xidu to Wuwei.

I thought that was the end of the matter.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, the messenger came to Xidu for the third time...

Yang Zheng himself didn't know how to reply.

But this time, Hu Fen didn't want food, but people!

In the battle of breaking the Qiang, more than [-] people were captured, and there were eleven generals from Yongliang.

At the beginning, one Yang Xin was chopped off, leaving ten people.

These are valuable assets.

The captives are all elite soldiers trained by Deng Aixin, and the generals are all people with family background.

Go back and drink some water, eat some meat, and raise it for ten and a half months, and then you will be a good man again, and you can chop yourself with a knife if you scream.

It turned out that Hu Fen went around for them.

He didn't mention it, he almost forgot.

"Where are these people?" Yang Zheng asked the guards around him.

The guards shook their heads one by one.

In the end, it was a personal guard who found out that these people were devoting themselves to the infrastructure construction of Xiping.

Repair bridges and roads, build houses, renovate the land...

It's not hard to find someone who knows what they're doing.

Yang Zheng led the messengers to find them.

Under the autumn sun, all of them are shirtless and working in full swing.

Many people brought their families to Xiping with the help of Xuanyi Division and Jiu Camping.

Li Te waited for the Di people, and even the whole tribe moved here.

"The people are down there. You can bring back as many people as you can persuade them to go back." Yang Zheng smiled kindly.

The messenger looked at Yang Zheng, then at the vicious Liu Heng, Lin Sen and other personal guards behind Yang Zheng, and said in doubt, "Really?"

"Of course it's true." Yang Zheng smiled more gently, "Look, someone didn't tie them up with a chain or rope, did they?"

Only then did the envoy believe it, walked into the crowd, coughed, and shouted loudly: "Deng Inspector Hu Inspector takes you back!"

The busy crowd gradually quieted down.

The envoy thought that everyone was moved, "Deng Inspector Hu Inspector will take you back!"

The tone is quite exciting.

However, the soldiers looked at him with some inexplicable expressions.

Three points of disgust, three points of resistance, three points of resentment...

Being neighbors with Deng Ai, Yang Zheng naturally had to send people to make unannounced visits from time to time.

To the Sima family, he was a loyal dog. To the imperial court, he stabilized the place, built water conservancy, built docks, and vigorously developed farmland, which made an indelible contribution to the stability of the Northwest.

The Wubao built by it sheltered the people in the northwest after a hundred years of chaos.

However, he was only sorry for the soldiers under his rule.

A ruthless person is ruthless to himself, and of course he is ruthless to others.

In history, at the age of nearly 70 years old, wrapped in a blanket and rolled down the cliff, with a mere ten thousand people, they broke through and cut off the generals, creating a military myth.

However, after the victory, in order to show his achievements, he piled up the heads of the enemy army and his subordinates together to build a Jingguan...

"You, you...do you want to disobey?" the messenger screamed.

The sound is especially harsh in the silent crowd.

But the crowd slowly dispersed...

For more than half a year, many prisoners have gotten used to the life in Xiping.

Eat enough, wear warm clothes, stay with family members, marry two Qianghu wives for those who have no family members...

Yang Zheng also promised that after two years of labor reform, no, reform, he would grant them the status of waiting to return.

If they want to join the army, the door of the army is also open for them.

The difference in treatment between Xiping soldiers and Nan'an soldiers is visible to the naked eye.

And what do they have when they go back?
Continue to accompany Deng Ai to die, and then have another battle against Qiang?
Deng Ai's defeat made many people lose confidence.

The messenger watched the captives go away in a daze, leaving only floating dust...

Yang Zheng said regretfully: "Oh, everyone has their own ambitions. Isn't it the same to join the army in Xiping and Yongzhou and Liangzhou? Everyone is a soldier of the Great Wei! If the envoy has nothing else to do, please come back. The envoy prepares a load of salt and sends the envoy on the road..."

There are not many other things in the West Sea, but the most salt, which is almost endless.

Just a small salt lake can dig millions of stones of salt.

Liu Heng probably made a mistake, jumped out and said with a smirk, "Your subordinate obeys!"

"You bastard, don't scare the messenger."

"I would like to see Hu Qi, Fan Zhen, Huangfu Kai, Yao Kehui and other generals." The envoy did not give up.

But it can be regarded as grasping the key point. The soldiers are unwilling to go back because they are still acting like cows and horses when they go back.

Generals are different.

At least they are from local tyrants.

Just looking at Huangfu Kai's name, one could tell that he was from the Huangfu family in Chaona County, Anding.

Anding, like Dunhuang, is a relatively special place in the northwest, and there have been many people.

"Come here, bring everyone." Yang Zheng didn't mind.

"Wei!" The soldiers took the order and left.

After a while, nine people were brought to the scene.

Li Te's father, Li Mu, had defected to him, and Yang Xin wanted to die by himself, no wonder others.

"Hu Inspector Deng Inspector Order is coming down to pick you up." The envoy asked cautiously this time.

Among the nine people, eight looked at him with wide eyes, and then at Yang Zheng.

Only Huangfu Kai lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

All of this was seen by Yang Zheng.

A whole summer's work made them tanned.

Some of them still had marks on their faces from whippings, which were punishments when they escaped and were caught many times.

"Really, brother sent you to pick me up and us?" Hu Qi said in a crying voice.

The envoy looked at Yang Zheng, "General Yang, my general asks you to take into consideration the past friendship..."

Back then in Guo Huai's Yongliang army tent, everyone regarded Yang Zheng as a thorn in the side, and only Hu Fen pleaded for him.

During Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, the Battle of Yuzhong, Xia Houba was trapped in Yuzhong, and Yang Zheng went to Minshan to ask the Qiang people for help, which was also the food and grass for Hu Fen's support.

Now that he has come to this point, Yang Zheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

And it's useless to keep these people, they have their own family backgrounds, they won't defect to themselves, killing them will make the families behind them support Deng Ai and Hu Fen even more.

His reputation among the people of Yongliang will also decline.

Not all tyrants are hostile to Yang Zheng.

In the post-Three Kingdoms period, enemy generals who were rarely killed were captives.

Unless Lu Bu and Guan Yu are at this level.

Wen Qinwen Yuan and his son rebelled against the country, defected to Soochow and surrendered to Sima Zhao.

After experiencing the battle of breaking the Qiang, these people were already afraid of Yang Zheng.

Letting them go will also spread this fear among the Yongliang army.

"It's okay to let them go. You have seen the situation in Xiping. They are suffering from hunger and cold. I hope the messenger will tell Governor Hu to support 100 million shi of food." Yang Zheng said loudly.

The messenger opened his mouth wide and looked at Yang Zheng in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe it was true.

No matter how you look at it, these nine people are not worth 100 million shi grains.

Yang Zheng also felt that he had opened his mouth too much, and said with a dry smile, "You go back and report to Governor Hu, the price can be negotiated."

Isn't there a saying that is good?Depending on the asking price, pay back the money on the ground.

(End of this chapter)