Three Kingdoms: I don’t want to fall in love in troubled times

Chapter 111
Remember the phrase "Everyone, come here"?

Xu Jiashu did not come alone. A little further away, he was also followed by all the young men that Bo Luojun could mobilize at this time - the soldiers of the first regiment who returned, Gan Ning who still had a hemostatic cloth tied on his head, and even the school's Those dozen Qiang teenagers
It can be said that this time it was a real outpouring of force.

Even Zhao Ang, who had been kidnapped not long ago, came here. This famous man from Hanyang County thought that he had been kidnapped by bandits until now. He was already preparing to write a letter home asking for ransom. How could he expect that the guy named Huan Jie was so polite? After she untied him, her expression immediately changed and she urged him to come here too.

Suddenly, a steady stream of support arrived one after another, and it seemed that Xu Jiashu had thousands of troops behind him!

This Han female general alone has come and gone freely, and now countless reinforcements have arrived. This group of Qiang people, who had lost their leader from the beginning, began to waver. Only the professional warriors in their early [-]s remained in order.

Ke Muzhi was a clever man. When he saw this, he shouted in Qiang language: "Surrender, our leader will not kill you!"

Hearing this, the group of Qiang people became even more restless, and some people at the edge were already running away in the direction of their own crops.

Crash and sell!

Lu Lingqi was not ready to fight, but when she heard Xu Jiashu's words, she reluctantly turned her horse's head and ran towards him.

"It was they who moved first!"

Miss Lu selectively forgot the scene where she killed Zhonghao's son with one arrow. She didn't know who was who, and she couldn't even understand the Qiang language.

Complaints are complaints. Lu Lingqi still calmed down next to Xu Jiashu.

After all, her current official title is still Acting Chief. Now that the real Chief is here, doesn’t she have to be obedient?

Xu Jiashu looked at the several corpses on the ground and was thankful that there were not many casualties. If he had come a step later, Miss Lu might have won a complete victory.

No wonder it spread out. A record of 30 people defeating hundreds of people may not be worth mentioning in the outside world, but this is Boluo Valley!

Xu Jiashu didn't know the specific population of this river valley. He told Wang Zhan before that there were hundreds of thousands of people in it, and he was just bragging about the prospects to lure investors. But no matter what, he could pull out a medium-sized soldier with a fighting strength of several hundred. There are definitely not many species.

"I understand," he first calmed down Miss Lu's temper and said soothingly, "Leave it to me to handle the rest."

As for what to do, Xu Jiashu also thought about it on the way here.

Assuming nothing happens and killing them all are impossible options - even if you don't create as brilliant a record as in the simulation, if you just retreat, Lu Lingqi's name will still be allowed to spread. Otherwise, it can be said that she can fight. Han Chinese female generals are truly unique in the world, but they are not safe.

And kill them all.
Not to mention how he could kill a tribe of several thousand people with his own few manpower, nor the moral pressure involved.

Even if it is true that no chickens or dogs are left behind, it is absolutely impossible to suppress the disappearance of a medium-sized colony out of thin air, and it will definitely cause an uproar in the entire valley.

For now, the only way is to proceed with the expansion plan and make them all our own.

After a while, Ke Muzhi returned to his own formation.

"Xiao Langguan, they said they were only dispatched to protect the traditional hunting areas of the species." The Qiang boy scratched his head and relayed what the warriors said, "They did nothing wrong."

At least according to the custom here, they are indeed the righteous party.

Unfortunately, "justice" often has different meanings in different contexts.

In Xu Jiashu's view, promoting "Bo Luo Lu" and accelerating the process of Qiang and Han integration is his "justice"!
In the rest of Liangzhou except Anding County and Beidi County, the boundaries between Qiang and Han have become very blurred.

Take Ma Teng as an example. Ma Teng achieved longevity because his family was poor, so he had no choice but to become a woodcutter and make a living by chopping firewood. Finally, he took a Qiang woman as his wife.

The spheres of influence between the two ethnic groups have been intertwined for so many years, and the production methods have gradually converged. Intermarriage between each other is also common, and it is even very common for the Qiang people to join the army - Zhang Huan, one of the "Three Mings of Liangzhou", has a Qiang and Hu army. , including Han, Qiang, and even Xiongnu, it can be said that there are everyone.

Therefore, today's Liangzhou rebellion is more about the expansion of personal ambitions of the Han people led by Han Sui, and has little to do with racial conflicts.

"Collect their weapons first," Xu Jiashu ordered. "The others will enter this community with me."

The local Zhonghao is also called Ke Muzhi.

When she was arrested, she was sitting at home enjoying the dance. The Qiang girl put on a long skirt. Although her dancing was not very good, it was enough to entertain her and relieve her boredom.

As a guy who inherited thousands of people at birth, he can be considered a kind-hearted person. He has no interest in expanding his territory. He only occasionally transports his excess supplies to Linjing County and exchanges them for Han clothing. and utensils.

In other words, they belong to the type of "admiring Wang Hua".

"Are you Yang Qiu's men?" He was not angry for no reason. He was more calm when faced with this kind of thing, and asked in fluent Chinese: "Is he finally going to bring this place under his rule? "

Hearing this, Xu Jiashu was startled.

This man is a man who has seen the world, and he might have had some dealings with Yang Qiu before.

"If so," he replied thoughtfully, "What about the big man?"

"I am willing to pay taxes to Yang Qiu." Ke Muzhi, who had become a prisoner, actually negotiated the terms. "You don't need to use any soldiers. You just need to give me a sum of money to go to Linjing County and become a rich man."

Having seen the colorful world in the southeast of Anding County, for him, this position of middle-class man, similar to that of a township chief, was really not attractive.

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Frankly speaking, this proposal is very tempting.

If a sum of money can redeem the right to rule in his hands, it can reduce a lot of troubles. If nothing else, then more than 100 professional warriors will be very coveted.

What this money buys is nothing else but the hearts and minds of these thousands of people. In the long run, what it buys is precious development time.

"Don't be impatient, Dahao." Even so, Xu Jiashu still told him, "If you have never done anything illegal, your life will be safe."

There is one thing that is more important than the benefits of redemption, and that is the majesty of the law.

For those Qiang students who have just received legal education, what they are doing now is undoubtedly the last critical lesson.

"Method?" Zhonghao sneered, "It's just a method used by Han people to kill each other!"

The example mentioned earlier was that Emperor Wen of Han abolished corporal punishment, but instead made the punishment more harsh.

In fact, it is far more than that. By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the laws accumulated in the two Han Dynasties had become so complicated that it was staggering. If you insist on pursuing them, few people will be completely innocent.

Even this Qiang man knew that if he followed the Han people's laws, he would not have to be thin-skinned.

Regarding this misunderstanding, Xu Jiashu didn't bother to explain to him. He just waited quietly for the news from the people sent out.

Under Lu Lingqi's accidental collision, the expansion stage of military conquest has long ended, but the next thing cannot be sloppy. When they led people into this medium-sized colony, the first batch of students had already brought Xu Jiashu's Word of mouth spread from house to house.

"A public interrogation will be held in the afternoon, everyone must be present!"

When the time came, less than 2000 people, men, women, old and young, came together. It was a lot, but they only occupied a small piece of flat land.

Xu Jiashu did not act in person, nor did he use the name "Little Xu Langguan", so everyone present thought it was some new trick played by Ke Mu Zhi Zhonghao, and some people even criticized him for imitating the Han people. public interrogation
The young Ke Muzhi stood in front of more than a thousand people for the first time, and he was inevitably a little timid. He looked back at Little Xu Langguan and saw that he nodded to him, and his legs stopped shaking. "Here is the first person to be interrogated publicly!"

He shouted loudly, his voice broken due to emotion, and there was even a burst of laughter from the audience.

But soon no one was laughing.

Everyone discovered that the person being pushed up was actually their leader, Ke Muzhi.

Young Ke Muzhi read aloud in Qiang several common crimes in "Bo Luo Lv" - serious crimes such as murder, adultery, and robbery, and asked the crowd below, "Who wants to accuse this person?"

No one spoke.

There are many reasons. First, this Zhonghao is indeed a good person, and he can be regarded as a leader who is relatively popular with the people. In addition to raising some dancers and buying some Han goods, he does not do anything excessive - most of the dancers are still in love with each other. Those who are willing to climb high branches; and the residual power of these years is still there. Before we figure out what happened, even if there is some dissatisfaction, no one dares to come forward.

The young man Ke Muzhi continued to read out several misdemeanors, but still received silence.

"Little Xu Langguan, what should I do?" Seeing that this Zhonghao was about to be exonerated, he felt that he had messed up the matter and couldn't help but whisper to Xu Jiashu: "He must have done something bad!"

How about just killing him, regardless of whether he was guilty or not? This suggestion kept turning in his mind.

"There is no suspicion of guilt," Xu Jiashu said calmly: "There is no accusation and no evidence, so he is innocent."

He didn't say much, he just presented in a practical way what he didn't have time to talk about in class.

"what?"

The young man Ke Muzhi was dumbfounded and turned around to confirm for the last time: "No one wants to accuse him?"

He announced the result anxiously: "This man is not guilty!"

After that, he bit the bullet and released Zhonghao in front of everyone.

"." Even Zhonghao himself didn't expect that he could actually escape. He sighed: "I didn't expect that Yang Qiu was actually a member of the Legal family!"

"Now we can discuss the redemption with Dahao," Xu Jiashu smiled and held his hand and said, "Only in terms of the amount, we need to discuss more."

Bargaining is just an excuse. The real reason is that Xu Jiashu is really short of money now.

At least until the first batch of supplies arrives in Ayang County, my grassroots team will not be able to get cash.

Zhonghao waved his hand: "It's easy to say, you keep your word, I am willing to cooperate with you!".

After the disaster, he actually developed a kind of trust in the strange Han man in front of him - generally speaking, this is called Stockholm Syndrome.
"Speaking of accusations," Zhonghao Ke Muzhi suddenly mentioned, "I know a few people who do all kinds of evil."

In addition to him as the leader, there are inevitably several big families in the tribe, and their behavior is very simple and rough.

With the strength of his many people, he would take any beautiful girl he liked home directly, and he would come to snatch the land from anyone he coveted. If anyone dared to resist, the family dog ​​would be kicked half to death.
He was unable to take care of it before, but it was different now. Before he went to Linjing to become a rich man, he didn't mind standing up and eliminating harm for the people.

The leader personally identified him, and the subsequent public trial went much more smoothly.

Young Ke Muzhi kept reading the legal provisions of "Boluo Law", and then imposed penalties ranging from fines, hard labor, and death according to the legal provisions. Several domineering Qiang family patriarchs were pulled out from the crowd and executed in public.

It wasn't until the sun set that the people who had caused public anger for a long time were purged.

"I haven't asked for your name yet," Zhonghao asked, "Yang Qiu actually has such a person under his command. In the words of you Han people, it's too late to meet him!"

In particular, the four words "suspected and innocent" were like the sound of nature to his ears at that time.

"Uh," Xu Jiashu thought for a moment, "just call me Ke Muzhi. This is my Qiang name."

Don't tell the truth, right?

This Chinese tycoon doesn't care. As long as he settles down for a period of time, he can live the beautiful life of a rich Han man with his money. He is probably willing to cooperate with whatever is asked of him now.

Hmm. Neither of them knew at this time that a son of Ke Muzhi had died in the previous small-scale conflict.

After the public trial ended that night, Xu Jiashu borrowed a small room and began to discuss the future matters with everyone, and listed a charter.

The first thing is to recruit those professional warriors who surrendered. Perhaps this is because Qiang women have a relatively high status. If others don't accept it, they will obey Lu Lingqi.

Therefore, Lu Lingqi naturally became the leader of this Qiang village. She was promoted to half a rank, which was gratifying.

The only problem is that she doesn't speak Qiang.

Xu Jiashu suddenly taught her some words such as "attack" and "retreat", and she was barely able to command.

"Retreat?" Lu Lingqi disagreed, "Why retreat? These are just chickens and dogs."

In a sense, although her speech was a bit arrogant, it was not unreasonable. As long as they did not offend a handful of large tribes, with the equipment brought out by Lu Mansion, the ordinary small group of Qiang people could indeed take advantage of it. There was nothing she could do.

The next step is to measure the land and organize the farm work. This is Huanjie's business.

At the same time as these two things, there is also the establishment of courts. With this public trial, the promotion will be much faster than before.

The construction of the school can be slowed down for a while. With the assets of the big families that have been confiscated, there is no risk of shortage at the moment.

Everyone gathered together and discovered that it only took a while for them to completely swallow this medium-sized whale!

Well, in fact, it is not considered to be swallowed by whales. Compared with the conquered people, the ratio of these nearly a hundred elites is only one to a dozen, which is not very high in the history of conquest.

"Okay", Xu Jiashu smiled rarely, "It seems that our Bo Luojun flag can continue to fly in the short term!"

"Let's go", the original Zhonghao Ke Muzhi didn't even want the money, and walked through the night with his whole family, "leave quickly!"

"Dahao, why do we have to escape?" A dancer asked, "Aren't we innocent?"

"They killed my son!" Ke Muzhi gritted his teeth, and his good impression of Xu Jiashu disappeared.

In fact, he has many sons, and it doesn't matter if one is missing, but there is something called a chain of suspicion - I know that you killed my son, even if I don't want revenge, when you know that I know that you killed my son, you In order to prevent me from taking revenge, he will strike first!

After reading too many stories about the Han people, Ke Mu Zhi Zhonghao felt that the disaster of destroying his family was not far away. How could he sit back and wait for money with peace of mind?

"Then let's go to Linjing?" another son asked, which was a place they often went to.

"No, it's too obvious there," Ke Muzhi pointed to the west, "Let's go to Ayang County!"

(End of this chapter)