Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 206 Cleanup
Jia Qiang came to a room next to the main hall and saw the dragon robe at first sight.

Looking carefully, this dragon robe is exactly the one that he cut off with the 'Da Gan Sword'.

"This dragon robe is evidence of King Beijing's rebellion. It depends on whether the Supreme Emperor will give King Beijing a chance to survive!" Jia Qiang murmured.

He actually didn't want King Beijing to be alive, but he promised the Supreme Emperor to take King Beijing Shuirong back to Beijing.

Only when he searches for more evidence that is enough to make the Supreme Emperor angry, and does not want to protect the evidence of King Beijing Shuirong, will King Beijing Shuirong not be able to survive.

Of course, even if King Shuirong of Beijing was protected by the Supreme Emperor, he would still be a deposed king without any power and would be under surveillance every day.

The powerful King Shuirong of Beijing and Jia Qiang were not afraid, let alone the lonely King Shuirong of Beijing.

He searched around the palace and found a lot of good things.

In a warehouse, there are large and exquisite boxes.

These exquisite large boxes contain the most exquisite collections that originally belonged to the Prince of Beijing.

Any general who goes out will keep the spoils he collects for himself, and at most part of them will be distributed to his subordinates.

You must know that King Beijing Shuirong has prepared a huge amount of strategic materials, and has consumed an unknown amount of money, but he can still leave so much money, which shows how rich King Beijing is.

When Jia Qiang collected the most valuable loot, the battle in the city was considered over.

He took the lead. When he entered the city gate, he found that behind the city gate were bags of soil and other objects. Even if the city gate was destroyed, it would take a long time to remove the soil.

Many of these collections can only be used by the royal family, and it is illegal to put them in Jiahou's mansion.

Jia Qiang also found the bank, which contained almost 5 million taels of cash and as many as 30 million taels of silver notes.

The attack on Dali City this time was done by Jia Qiang with four summons. He took away the most valuable parts. There will still be a lot of wealth in the entire Dali City, waiting for the follow-up army to enter.

At this moment, a loud bang was heard, and the city gate was broken open from the inside.

Only then did the 10,000 cavalry accelerate and rushed into Dali City through the wide-open city gate.

He couldn't help but shook his head, Daqian was really strange.

He has prepared the use of the twelve treasure bows, and he will leave seventeen powerful archers for his family.

He thought of his youngest son Lang Li'an, and maybe he would use Lang Li'an's identity to make friends with Jia Qiang.

"My Lord Marquis asked Lang Hou to lead the army into the city!" The cavalryman came to Lang Hou and dismounted, half-kneeling and reported.

Even though King Beijing escaped from the capital, he still found a way to take away these collections.

The reason why there are seventeen is not that he only has seventeen strong and sharp archers. In fact, in the northern army over the years, he has discovered and trained dozens of strong and sharp archers.

As for what Wang Shuirong said when he returned to Beijing and Beijing, he didn't care at all.

Look at the four princes and the eight princes, why are the princes and princes still living a luxurious and lustful life for so many years? It is not the wealth accumulated by the spoils that the first princes took back from the war.

With Jia Qiang's current status, although it is difficult to find a treasured bow, as long as he reports it to the Ministry of War, which then applies to the palace, he can still apply for a treasured bow, provided that there are corresponding powerful archers.

After some time, a horse came from the city.

Seeing Jia Qiang's ability to break the city with his own eyes this time made him go from distrusting Jia Qiang at the beginning to blind trust now.

He was not worried about fraud. Although he was deeply surprised that five cavalry broke the city and then ten thousand cavalry entered. The battle could be resolved in such a short time. However, considering Jia Qiang's past achievements, achieving this was nothing. .

Twelve treasure bows are not useless. Even if he has the right to apply for treasure bows, strong archers are rare. If there are many at once, problems will be noticed.

Jia Qiang's spirit was strong. After searching for a while, he confidently collected all the most valuable things in the house.

However, Jia Qiang has no intention of displaying these collections in the open, and instead puts these treasures in an underground treasure house as a family heritage.

But without going through the Ministry of War and the Imperial Palace, he originally only had five bows. Adding the twelve in front of him, there were exactly seventeen.

This is still King Beijing, one of the four founding kings. The net worth of the other three kings is not worse than that of King Beijing.

"Leave half of the troops outside, and the rest will follow me into the city!" Marquis Lang waved his hand and ordered without being polite.

At this time, there were no defenders on the city wall, and the gate was still closed.

Seventeen warriors and masters are left in the mansion. Even if there are warriors or martial arts masters who want to enter the mansion, no matter which direction they come from, they will be discovered by the warriors and masters and killed immediately.

It was a huge iron rod. It first shattered the middle part of the city gate, and then stirred back and forth, completely destroying the city gate.

But Wu Qi's breach of the city made him aware of the gap between himself and Jia Qiang, and he did not want to conflict with Jia Qiang.

If there is a chance to take credit, he will not let it go.

It is the general's right to embezzle the spoils of war when he is outside.

Ten thousand cavalry marched in small steps, and after a period of time, they finally arrived at the gate of Dali City.

Outside the city, Lang Hou watched the five cavalry enter the city, easily and effortlessly breaking through the city defense that he had not broken for three months.

If Jia Qiang's plan is ruined, he will be in even more trouble.

The dignified emperor was worried about millions of taels of silver, but any prince had tens of millions of taels of silver.

He also found twelve treasure bows and some fine warrior weapons.

He hesitated whether to let the army rush into Dali City and cooperate with the five cavalry inside.

Lang Hou restrained his troops and horses. If he followed him into the city at this time, he would be suspected of stealing credit.

Before he could make a decision, he saw Jia Qiang's 10,000 cavalry approaching Dali City at a small pace. Jia Qiang's 10,000 cavalry were not in a hurry, and he did not want to make a rash decision.

It's just that now that the soil has been forcibly smashed out of a channel, it is not as simple as removing it.

When we entered Dali City, this city in the south known for its beautiful scenery was filled with the smell of blood.

Looking around, wherever you can see, there are corpses.

Lang Hou led his men and horses towards the center of the city.

At first, he thought that the place where he saw the most corpses was where there were the most corpses. But when he came to the main street leading to the Central Palace, he and his sergeants were shocked.

Many sergeants couldn't help but vomited. These sergeants had also gone through three months of brutal war, but the scene in front of them was really unbearable.

Nearly 100,000 people died on this street, and the bodies were not intact.

The horse's hooves and boots were walking on the street. Because there was thick blood under their feet, the sound they made was a strange sticky sound. Combined with the smell of blood in their mouth and nose, it was like walking in hell.

Marquis Lang thought he had been through war for a long time, but now his scalp was numb.

After passing through this nightmare-like street, he saw Jia Qiang standing in front of the palace.

Beside Jia Qiang, two people were tied and kneeling aside, guarded by several sergeants. He took a closer look and saw that one of them was Wang Shuirong of Beijing.

At this time, Wang Shuirong of Beijing no longer looked like a prince. His face was originally young, but he looked much older, as if he had aged ten years all of a sudden.

His eyes had no focus at all, and his whole person was dull.

Lang Hou brought people closer, but did not let him have any reaction.

"Jia Qiang has met Shibo!" Jia Qiang stepped forward and said with a smile.

"I don't dare to take it seriously, Jia Hou, we are still friends on the same level!" Lang Hou did not expect Jia Qiang to be like this, so he got off his horse and said quickly.

"Li'an and I are good friends and classmates, Shibo, you're welcome!" Jia Qiang replied with a smile.

"Jia Hou, it's Li'an's blessing to be able to make friends with Jia Hou!" Lang Hou felt Jia Qiang's kindness and said with a smile.

"I only brought 10,000 cavalry this time. Dali City still needs Shibo's help to clean up, comfort the people, and capture the remaining soldiers!" Jia Qiang continued.

This time Lang Hou was sure that Jia Qiang was really kind. It seemed that he was causing more trouble for him, but in fact he was giving him a share of the credit.

With this credit, even if he receives some criticism after returning to Beijing, it will not have much impact.

"Thank you Jiahou!" He bowed and thanked.

He immediately issued an order for the sergeants to begin sealing off Dali City and find out household registrations to count the people one by one.

He has more experience in this area than Jia Qiang, and the arrangement was very smooth.

Jia Qiangxiao looked at his arrangement and learned from it.

The military's comfort to the people and the civilian comfort are two different concepts. The military's comfort is the use of force to intimidate the people into a state of 100% obedience.

Those who disobey orders will be arrested directly, and those who are unlucky will even be killed directly.

With a few lives, the rest of the people can be made to obey military orders 100%. This is the way the army comforts the people.

It didn't take long for messages to be sent to the palace one by one.

Neither Jia Qiang nor Lang Hou stayed in the palace. They only found tables and chairs outside the palace to sit and rest.

Although the royal palace in Dali City is only a temporary palace, ordinary officials cannot stay in the palace. Neither Jia Qiang nor Lang Hou wants to live in the palace just for temporary pleasure.

"I didn't expect that there would be so much food and grass in the small city of Dali!" Lang Hou said as he sent an account book to Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang looked at the account books and found that there was so much food and grass in Dali City that it could supply almost 200,000 troops for a year.

Marquis Lang handed the remaining account books to Jia Qiang one by one, and Jia Qiang also checked them one by one.

There are also a large amount of gunpowder, arrows, swords, guns and other ordnance in the city, and their quantities are extremely astonishing.

In addition, some property was recovered from several military camps.

Marquis Lang was deeply impressed by Jia Qiang's share of the credit, so he issued a death order not to be greedy for property, but to hand over all property.

For this reason, he dispersed all the soldiers around him and supervised each other to avoid the embezzlement of property as much as possible.

The corpses in front of the palace were cleaned up, and the property and weapons collected from various places were delivered to the palace.

Before dark, the city of Dali was finally cleaned up.

The reason why it was so fast was because of the large number of people.

Lang Hou led an army of nearly 100,000 men and Jia Qiang's 10,000 cavalry. With such a large army, the small city of Dali could be cleared very quickly.

Although it was dark, several bonfires were lit in front of the palace, illuminating the door.

Under the firelight, the ordnance was better. Although the ordnance was valuable, it was not property after all.

Those gold and silver are particularly eye-catching. The gold and silver sparkle under the firelight with a seductive light, making those who see them intoxicated.

"The statistics of the property are out, please ask Jia Hou to take a look!" Lang Hou glanced at the property counted by his subordinates and handed the account to Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang looked at it and saw that it was only worth more than two million taels of silver. Supplies such as food, grass, weapons, and horses would not be converted. These would be handed over to Da Gan.

"The 10,000 cavalry brought to me will be divided into 30%, and the rest will be distributed by Langhou through negotiation!" Jia Qiang thought for a while and said.

"How can this be done!" Lang Hou was startled and quickly waved his hand to refuse.

"These sergeants have been following Shibo for three months, and they must have an explanation. I don't think the Ministry of War will give them much money anymore!" Jia Qiang explained with a smile.

Lang Hou was silent. He had a bad start this time.

It would be fine to receive some rebuke in the court, but if the reputation of him mistreating the sergeants spreads out in the army, it will be difficult for him to lead the army in the future.

"Lang owes Jiahou a big favor!" Langhou said with his head lowered.

Jia Qiang smiled, this is what he needs. Among the forces represented by Lang Hou, Lang Hou is one of the highest status and has great influence.

Being on good terms with Lang Hou means that he is close to the Lang Hou family, which will bring him great help in the court.

He didn't need to care about this before, it was not bad to be a lone minister.

But after he gained the status of a cabinet minister, he discovered that Emperor Jingwen seemed to intend for him to enter the cabinet.

If he really wants to enter the cabinet, he must have a greater say in the military.

The right to speak here refers to the support of the top brass in the military, not the support of all sergeants in the army.

His 100% loyal generals have been scattered all over Daqian. Now, due to the short time, they have not been able to reach the upper echelons of the army and enter the core of the army in the capital.

Therefore, he needs to have some senior military officials who support him in the government, which will be beneficial for him to enter the cabinet.

Besides, it was only two million taels of silver, and he took the bulk of it. He really didn't like this small profit.

His 10,000 cavalry received 30% of the two million taels of silver, and they were extremely happy. Fighting with Jia Hou, there was not much danger, but the harvest was huge.

The remaining nearly 100,000 sergeants shared the remaining 70%, which may not seem like much, but you must know that they took the credit this time, and it would be good to get some benefits.

The collection of corpses and street cleaning did not end. The collection of corpses was carried out by the army, and the rest of the cleaning was left to the people.

The army gave them some food and summoned a group of people to join in the labor.

Jia Qiang and Lang Hou were both writing letters and hurriedly sent them back to the capital for 800 miles to report the victory.

Although Dali City was captured, the war was not completely over. However, the subsequent battles were all small-scale. Without the command and support of Beijing Wang Shuirong, the remaining rebels were just a ragtag group.

(End of this chapter)