Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 78 Change and Betrayal (Please order first!)

Beijing.

Inside the palace, in front of a palace gate, several maidservants were whispering.

"I was really tired last night. I waited all night."

"No, I haven't seen the Holy One get so angry."

"I heard that something big happened in the north."

"I know, it seems that something happened in Mozhou."

The maids all looked haggard. Last night, Emperor Qingxiang stayed up all night, cursing and throwing things, which scared them so much that they were terrified all night.

Those of them who were well-informed probably knew what had happened.

Su Yuan, the son of Su Tufeng, the former king of the northern town, captured Taiyuan, the capital of Mozhou, and captured Xu Yichuan, the Muzhou herdsman, alive.After that, the anti-flag was officially erected, and he declared himself king and announced it to the world.

This caused shock in the whole world.

There have been more than 400 years in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it is not that there have been no wars, but there has never been such a serious war that lost an entire state!

Ever since Emperor Qingxiang heard the news, he was so angry that he cursed loudly in the palace. You must know that this happened not long after his [-]th birthday, which really gave him a good "birthday".

"Look, there's going to be a big battle again." After a maid finished speaking, she caught a glimpse of a figure from a distance and immediately shut her mouth.

The other maids also bowed their heads.

Fu Chengyang came from a distance with a gloomy expression on his face.

He approached and asked, "Is His Majesty awake?"

The maid shook her head: "I haven't woken up yet. Your Majesty stayed up all night last night, and he just fell asleep now."

Fu Chengyang nodded, turned and left.

His complexion was ugly, but the reason was not because the assassination he had arranged failed.

It was his assassin who actually betrayed him.

This is the first one in "Spider".

This is really a humiliation to him.You must know that Jia Wu is a killer of the first class.There are only seven people in Azihao, and each of them is his right-hand man and his adopted son and daughter.

Now Jiawu's betrayal is absolutely unforgivable to him.

His hatred for the traitor even surpassed his hatred for a rebel like Su Yuan.Because it reminds him of some past events, past events of being betrayed.

He went to the spider headquarters, and the young man who was in charge of receiving him undoubtedly knew about Jia Wu's betrayal. When he saw Fu Chengyang, his face was very pale.

"Father, please let me go to Mozhou, I will personally get rid of Jiawu and clean up the house!"

"No, I have other arrangements for you." Fu Chengyang said indifferently, "Didn't Jia San come back? Let her go."

"A third..." The young man was stunned, "Father, her strength..."

Fu Chengyang glanced at the young man: "Are you questioning me?"

"Child dare not!"

"There will be another time, you know what the result will be." Fu Chengyang turned and left after speaking, and paused when he reached the door.

"People who despise the third class will have no good end. Have you forgotten how Su Yuan's congenital Dzogchen mother died?"

Cold sweat oozes from the young man's forehead: "Yes, adoptive father, the child understands!"

……

Mozhou, Guancheng.

This is a small city on the edge of Mozhou, because it is next to a quarry, and there are a lot of ore stored in the city.

Such a small city, usually inconspicuous, has undoubtedly attracted the attention of the entire Mozhou.

Because only this city did not surrender.

Three days have passed since Su Yuan occupied Taiyuan.

Within three days, all the cities in Mozhou surrendered one after another, and there was no need for Su Yuan to issue any letters of persuasion. As soon as the Zhenbei Army appeared, the defenders of the city would be soft and open the city gates.

They all understand that it is meaningless to stick to it, not to mention that the little salary is not worth risking their lives.Even if it is worth it, there is no reinforcements!
If reinforcements from the Great Zhou Dynasty are to come, they must first pass the "Tianmen Pass", which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.And Tianmenguan is less than [-] miles east of Taiyuan City, and it has long been firmly controlled by the Suyuan Suppressing North Army.

If reinforcements from the Great Zhou Dynasty are coming, they have to break through the barrier first, and then come to help them. I don’t know if the year of the monkey is around the corner, and when the time comes, their bones will be picked up by dogs, so what’s the point of guarding them.

As a result, the cities of Mozhou surrendered within a few days.

Only this Guancheng will not surrender.

In front of the city, the Northern Army of thousands of towns had already set up their formation, and Su Yuan seemed to be there too.

He looked at the city wall, and the scout reported:
"My lord, I have found out that it is Chen Ge who is guarding the city."

"Chen Ge, I seem to have seen this name before." Su Yuan pondered for a moment and remembered, "Oh, it's the fourth son of the head of the Chen family."

The head of the Chen family in Mozhou has been arrested and sent to Taiyuan Prison. One of the sons was stabbed to death by Shen Lian, and the other was pierced through the throat by Jia Wu with an Emei stab in front of the formation.

Now this Chen Ge probably also received the news, so he had no choice but to surrender.

He looked at the closed city gate, and didn't let the Zhenbei army attack by force. It could be captured that way, but it would cost a lot of lives.

Even though the summoned soldiers were not afraid of death, Su Yuan didn't want to treat them purely as data. It would be better if there were fewer casualties.

He used the Heavenly Soldiers Talisman and chose to summon it.

dong dong dong dong!
A catapult appeared in front of the formation.

This is the result of his fourth call, a hundred old-fashioned catapults.

Because it is old-fashioned, its power is average, but the key is the large number, there are a hundred of them.In addition, the Guancheng is not big, and the city towers are generally built, which is really unbearable.

After the summoning, Su Yuan asked the soldiers to control the catapult and smash it directly at the city wall and tower.

call!call!call!
The sound of hundreds of stones flying into the sky is very emotional, and it is even more shocking when they fall down, like a rain of stones.

But this shock was like a nightmare to the soldiers guarding the city.

They really didn't know where so many catapults came from, and the big rocks falling from the sky stunned them.

Twenty or thirty guards had no time to dodge, and died immediately after being hit in the head.Others shouted in horror and went to find a bunker.

However, the gate tower made of wood couldn't bear the big stones at all, and it collapsed and destroyed after a while. The soldiers guarding the city lost their bunkers and could only run down the city.

Chen Ge was holding a long sword at this time, standing on the steps of the city wall, and hacked and killed a soldier who ran down.

He shouted in his mouth: "Whoever leaves the city wall without authorization will die! Go back! Go back and shoot arrows!"

The soldiers defending the city were stunned, shooting arrows?Outside, the catapults are rumbling and throwing stones upwards. How do you shoot arrows?Besides, with such a long distance, and the Zhenbei army is full of armor, even if they shoot someone, they can't do much harm!

Not only the soldiers understood this, but also Chen Ge himself.

But he must not allow Guancheng to be breached like this!He knew that several of his brothers died at the hands of Zhenbei Army, and he didn't want to be one of them.

He is only in his early twenties this year, and he hasn't enjoyed enough glory and wealth, how can he die!
Boom!
The catapults outside the city fired another round of salvo. This time, a stone crossed the city wall and hit the inner city. Several soldiers were unable to dodge, and were swept to the body by the stone, and immediately turned blood red.

"what!!!"

Several people fell to the ground, clutching their wounds and screaming.

This terrifying scene frightened the other soldiers. They couldn't bear the psychological defense and were unwilling to die so meaninglessly.

A small officer's eyes were fierce, and while Chen Ge was not paying attention, he grabbed the long sword from his hand and stabbed him in the stomach while the latter looked surprised.

"you!"

Chen Ge's guards also went to see the soldiers who were hit by the stones, but they didn't have time to react.

The little officer stabbed Chen Ge with a sword, and said loudly: "This bastard wants to kill my brothers, and my brothers will kill this bastard first!"

"Not bad! Kill him!"

"It's his grandma's, I've already disliked this Chen family bastard!"

The soldiers needed an outlet to vent their fear. At this time, under the leadership of the junior officer, they drew their swords and slashed at Chen Ge, cutting him into a bloody man in the blink of an eye.

Chen Ge's guards were all dumbfounded. They stood still and did not dare to move. They watched helplessly as the soldiers hacked Chen Ge to death, then ran to the city gate and opened the city gate to welcome the Zhenbei army into the city.

Seeing that the city gate was wide open, Su Yuan was happy, but also a little disappointed.

He thought the city could last a little longer, but the soldiers who defended the city couldn't take it anymore after the catapults fired four rounds in salvo.

The Zhenbei Army entered the city and took control of the city defense with ease.

The soldiers of Xiancheng also brought Chen Ge's body immediately, thinking of currying favor with Su Yuan.

But Su Yuan glanced at the bloody corpse, but he was not very interested.

After he left a thousand soldiers to maintain law and order in the city, he returned to Taiyuan.

So far, the whole city of Mozhou has surrendered to him, Su Yuan, and he officially owns the whole state.

After returning to Taiyuan City, he came to Yuanzhou Mu's Mansion, which can now be said to be Bei'an Prince's Mansion.

After occupying Taiyuan, Su Yuan naturally moved the palace here.Anyway, Taiyuan is the capital city of Mozhou, located in the center, there is no reason to go back to live in Beifeng City after taking this place.

He directly used Xu Yichuan's State Shepherd's Mansion as his new palace, and moved some items from the Zhenbei Palace.

The chief housekeeper, Yang Zhen, was busy cleaning up the new palace, while Su Yuan found Shen Lian and asked about the progress of the "common people's settlement of the case".

It was Su Yuan and Lu Wuyou's idea to let the common people decide whether to keep the old officials.

Those officials thought that Su Yuan would not be able to manage Mozhou without them, which is actually a big fallacy.Because they didn't know that Su Yuan could call soldiers to manage it.

Public security and other aspects are managed by ordinary soldiers, and some government affairs can be handed over to Jin Yiwei.With Jin Yiwei's level of intelligence, it may not be possible to handle government affairs particularly well, but at least it can maintain a clean environment.

Not to mention the former officials, many of them donated money, and there is no lack of nepotism.It is better for some officials, even if they are Xiliang soldiers, to be officials.

But Su Yuan didn't want to go to extremes and beat all the officials to death.

He thinks there are still good officials in Mozhou, but they are very rare, so he let the people judge.

The people usually live in Mozhou, and they know which officials are good and which are bad.Now that Su Yuan asked them to decide, it undoubtedly greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of the people.

Although many people in Taiyuan had heard about the good policies of Beifeng City and that Su Yuan was a good prince who loved the people like a son, these were rumors after all, and no one knew the truth.

Now that Su Yuan has entered Taiyuan, the people have not been harassed since the army entered the city.Moreover, with the experience in Beifeng City, Su Yuan also quickly moved the security management and other models of Beifeng City to Taiyuan.

Soon the people found that Taiyuan is completely different from the past. The most obvious thing is that many exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous levies are no longer required to be paid, and some local ruffians on the streets were also arrested by the Zhenbei Army. Spirit soldiers patrol regularly, and the city has never felt safer.

This sense of security made the common people very comfortable, and when they learned that Su Yuan was going to deal with the original officials according to their opinions, they were even more shocked.

There has never been such a thing as the common people convicting an official.

Now that Su Yuan has made it a reality, the common people have also exploded with unimaginable enthusiasm.

For this reason, Su Yuan also specially set up a "Visiting Department", and the common people can come here to report any grievances about officials.

In order to prevent the common people from being afraid and encourage them, Su Yuan also set up reporting rewards.As long as the report is verified to be correct, the common people can get actual money.

This also caused a long line of people to line up at the door as soon as the Department of Knowledge and Visitation opened.

"Officer." A trembling old man entered the Department of Knowledge and Visitation, his actions and descriptions were somewhat reserved.

The young man sitting behind the table smiled and said, "Please sit down, old man."

There were chairs on both sides of the table. The old man was afraid to sit down at first, but he carefully sat down under the strong request of the young man.

The young man was also a member of Jinyiwei, and was transferred by Su Yuan to be the "interviewer" of the Zhifang Department, responsible for recording the reports of the common people.

"My lord, this is evidence that Xiaomin was tortured by the former magistrate of Andong County, Wang Beiyang." The old man took out a stack of paper-wrapped papers from his arms, with a sad face.

"15 years ago, Xiaomin was accused of hiding fugitives. Wang Beiyang, the magistrate of Andong County, didn't listen to Xiaomin's excuses. He beat Xiaomin dozens of boards, forced Xiaomin to be charged with crimes, and imprisoned Xiaomin for five years."

"These are the evidence collected by Xiaomin's relatives for Xiaomin, and what Wang Beiyang said himself. He said that he didn't like Xiaomin and dared to refute him in court, so he wanted to punish Xiaomin..."

While listening to the old man, the young man recorded the confession with pen and paper.After writing it down, he accepted the old man's evidence and put it in a box together with the confession.

"Old man, you should go back first. We will arrange for someone to investigate this matter. If it is confirmed, it will add to Wang Beiyang's crime. You will also get some compensation."

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" The old man was so excited that he wanted to kneel down.

The young man hurriedly stopped him and said, "You don't need to thank me, this is the order of Prince Bei'an."

The old man nodded, with tears in his eyes: "The king of Bei'an must be a god-man who came down to save us ordinary people..."

Like an old man, all the people who came to Zhifangsi were grateful to Su Yuan. It can be said that in just a few days, Su Yuan gained the infinite love of the people.

Those who hate him are basically those who are in jail, and some street gangsters.In the past, these people often idled and made troubles on the streets, but now the soldiers under Su Yuan will not be used to them, and they will be arrested if they dare to make trouble.

In this way, in just a few days, Taiyuan City became quiet, and the common people welcomed the beginning of a new life with great peace of mind and joy.

But Su Yuan's liquidation of those powerful families and corrupt officials has not yet ended.

Taiyuan City Prison.

Led by the jailer, Lu Wuyou came outside a cell.

There was a person sitting in the cell, and when he saw him coming, he immediately stood up and stared at him straightly.

"You go first." Lu Wuyou said to the jailer.

After the jailer left, Lu Wuyou and the people in the prison looked at each other speechlessly.

After a while, it was Lu Wuyou who spoke first: "Father."

"Don't call me that! You are no longer from my Lu family!" The old man in the cell yelled roughly.

This old man is the old man of the Lu family.

On the day of the military rebellion in Taiyuan, he hid in the Lu family's underground secret room. He thought he could escape the search of the Zhenbei army, but he was caught because of Lu Wuyou's informant, which made him not to mention how angry he was.

Apart from him, only a few sons knew about that secret room. In order to keep it a secret, he didn't even tell his wives and concubines!In the end, one of the sons betrayed him, how could he bear it.

In the past few days in prison, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, wishing he could beat Lu Wuyou to death with a few sticks.

Now that Lu Wuyou was in front of him, while he was angry, he also began to think about some practical issues.

Lu family, what should we do?
Old Master Lu looked at the silent second son, and suddenly said: "Lu Wuyou, if you still treat me as your father, promise me one thing."

"Let you out? This—"

"No." Mr. Lu sneered, "That traitor Su Yuan won't let me go. Look at how he knows Zhang Yuandong and those people in Beifeng City. Caishikou asked about beheading, I guess we old bastards, It's not going to be any better!"

"..."

"What I asked you to promise me is that you leave a way for your brothers! You don't need to treat me as a father, but you brothers, your nephews and nieces, you have to let them go!"

"...Sorry, I can't agree." Lu Wuyou shook his head, "If they are innocent, no one will embarrass them. If they are guilty, I have no right to pardon them."

"What are you talking about? You bastard!" Mr. Lu slammed his fist on the cell door and roared in a low voice, "Bastard! Are you really going to kill the entire Lu family and make the Lu family die? You are not alone!"

Facing his father's fury, Lu Wuyou remained calm.

He looked into his father's eyes and said, "Father, have you ever thought about how many people you killed and how many people the Lu family killed. You may not remember clearly, but I remember clearly."

"Eight years ago, in order to get rid of your competitors, you hired someone to set fire to the Li family who opened the bank. All 45 members of the Li family were burned to death that night and choked to death, and none of them survived. The elder brother was also involved in this incident. He was responsible for leading people Block the gate of Li's house so that no one can come out, right?"

"..."

"Also, after the Lu family bank released the silver loan, they sent people pretending to be robbers and thieves to ambush the borrower on the way back, ambush and rob the silver, and take it back to the bank. The borrower had to sell his property to repay the loan... ...You have done dozens of things like this."

Hearing this, Mr. Lu's face turned blue and white, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If you don't deal with others, they will deal with you! The weak eat the strong, what do you know, kid!"

Lu Wuyou sighed: "I really don't understand, but I know it's wrong. So I want to change, and it's because of my luck that I have the chance to realize my ideals and ambitions when I meet a master like King Bei'an. .”

"Master?! He's just a traitor!"

Seeing that his father was furious and began to curse, Lu Wuyou didn't want to say any more.

He turned to leave, and said one last thing before leaving: "Father, this is the last time I will see you. You can rest assured that the Lu family will not die, and the prince will not hurt those innocent children of the Lu family. But the old Lu family will disappear , those children will only live as ordinary people."

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