A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 281 Qinghe County’s roadblock, Bai’s mantra
While Li Hou was constantly courting Liu's people, news came that Liu Xiu had defeated the Bohai reinforcements in Nanluan and besieged Julu.

Liu Xiu, this is the magic man who won the battle of Kunyang. It seems that Zhao Han is about to die.

So Li Hou immediately started looking for a way out. Is there any need to look for it? Isn't this ready-made? The only choice is to take refuge in Xuan Han.

But now there are two generals in Hebei Xuanhan, who will surrender?
Liu Xiu was brave and famous, but Xie Gong was a close official of the emperor. The world seemed to be unified by the Xuan Han Dynasty. Instead of relying on Xie Gong, a close official of the emperor, he went to the feudal official Liu Xiu. Isn’t this a joke? ?
So Li Hou immediately led his men to tie up the prefect, who was discovered by Zhang Tu and was blocked by Zhang Tu. However, Li Hou had the largest number of troops and Zhang Tu could not resist, so he was defeated and ran away.

Li Hou asked people to chase him, but he failed to catch up.

But Li Hou did not force it. He took Zhao Han's Qinghe governor to Xie Gong's camp and handed him a certificate of surrender.

Xie Gong was overjoyed and immediately appointed Li Hou as the prefect of Qinghe, asking him to guard Qinghe County for the Han Dynasty.

Of course Li Hou was willing, and immediately gave Xie Gong a large amount of treasures. Both of them were very satisfied. Li Hou got the fame he wanted, and Xie Gong got the benefits of Qinghe.

After returning to Qinghe, Li Hou immediately asked his troops to go to Zaoqiang and arrest all the rebellious clan members of Liu Yi, including the Zhang family.

As a result, Zaoqiang's power has changed from one super powerful to a dominant one. Even the magistrate of Zaoqiang became Li's puppet.

Before Li Hou could be happy for a long time, Xie Gong was defeated when he wiped out the remnants of You Lai's troops in Yecheng. Even the place where he settled in Yecheng was occupied by Liu Xiu.

What to do? Liu Xiu has now become the de facto master of Hebei, and his control over Hebei is much higher than that of Liu Ziyu.

There is no other way, just continue to surrender.

Liu Xiu looked at the surrender form handed over by Qinghe County in his hand, and hesitated whether to accept it, because according to the news, Li Hou was the master of Qinghe.

If he accepts his surrender easily, Liu Xiu's influence will not be able to enter Qinghe. When Liu Xiu is weak, Qinghe will change its banner again sooner or later. Isn't this a serious concern?
However, they are eager to move south at this time. If Qinghe resists tenaciously, they will consume a lot of troops and stay here, but they will not be able to have a feast in Henan.

After weighing the situation, Liu Xiu decided to accept his surrender first and then slowly manipulate him later.

So Li Hou was appointed as the captain of Qinghe County and re-appointed as the prefect of Qinghe County.

Li Hou knew that this was the best result for him, and his anxious heart was relieved again. He would just be a captain. After all, it was not like he had never been a captain before. As long as the military power was in his own hands, did it matter who the governor was? ?

In order to suppress Qinghe County and make Li Hou surrender, Liu Xiu appointed Bai Lin's cousin Bai Cang as the prefect of Qinghe.

Using Bai's name and Bai's power to suppress Li Hou is perfect.

And just as Liu Xiu expected, since Bai Cang took office, Li Hou has been very honest and has always stayed at his mansion in Qingyang without making any noise.

Bai Cang also treated Zaoqiang as the Li family's private residence, and kept asking the county magistrates who went to Zaoqiang to take office to be safe and to be a mascot and sealer.

Marquis Li had been very worried since he knew that the prefect was Bai Cang, whose surname was Bai, and also learned through various channels that he was a member of the Bai clan and was born in the Bai clan of Hedong.

I'm afraid that a stupid young man will come and break up with him. What should I do when the time comes? If you kill him, you will be retaliated by both the court and the Bai family. I am afraid there will no longer be a place for his Li family in this world.

I don't see you, but I have offended the Bai family's Sun family. The Sun family was originally the family of the military saints Sun Wu and Sun Bin. If one family has two military saints, how can it become the leader of a county?

However, after offending the Bai family, the Sun family disappeared from the history of the Han Dynasty. Even the surviving Sun family in the Bai Kingdom declined terribly and became a small clan without any say.

Even if the head of the family who stabbed the Bai family in the back received the blessing of the Great Ancestor, became a prince, and specifically chose a fiefdom in the wild land of the south, would they still be seen today?
Even the title was eliminated for various reasons. He had never heard of any important person named Sun among this big man. The reason for this was terrifying to think about.

If you don't want to kill him, why don't you just capture him without any help? Anyway, we are all going to die, so come on, who is afraid of whom? After all, he was the one who led the Li family to the county.

However, due to the troubled times, the Li family rose too fast, had an unstable foundation, and lacked talents in the clan. In a few decades, the Li family's position in Qinghe County will be stable, and the Li family will truly become as good as the Cui family. The Qinghe clan is a prominent clan in the county.

Although the Li family is now very powerful in Qinghe, it is all thanks to Li Hou. If Li Hou dies and the Li family does not have a successor, the Li family will still fall back to the powerful power of Zaoqiang County, and will be replaced by Zaoqiang. New powerful suppression.

But the Cui family is different. The Cui family is a large clan that has existed in Qinghe since the early Han Dynasty. After more than a hundred years of ups and downs, it is still evident that it still exists on the card table in Qinghe.

Now that the newly appointed prefect understands practical matters, Li Hou is also happy. He knows that he is stable. Even the Bai family has recognized his status. Is he still afraid that the Li family will be unhappy?

However, after Bai Cang became the prefect, he did not do anything. After appeasing Marquis Li, he immediately contacted the other wealthy families in Qinghe. In addition to the Cui family, there were also the Liu family, the Wei family, the Zheng family, and the He family. Wait.

Cui, Liu, Wei, Zheng, and He are all large Qinghe families, while the others are relatively small families.

Before Bai Cang came, they were dominated by the Cui family. After Bai Cang arrived, they turned against the Bai family at an extremely fast speed. After all, Li Hou was their biggest enemy.

As for why Li Hou did not liquidate them, it was because the Li family alone was not enough to govern Qinghe. He wanted to raise the Li family, but he did not want to declare war on all nations and destroy the Li family. Qingyang, Taishou Mansion
"Master Fu, your Majesty appointed the envoy to check the land area and population, right?"

Qinghe Chief Shi Cui Zhen asked Bai Cang respectfully.

Bai Cang looked at him with a smile: "What, are you scared?"

"Hey, look at what you said. As the saying goes: an upright person is not afraid of a slanted shadow. Although I, Cui Zhen, am not a good person, I have never done anything evil."

"Oh? Really? But I heard that your family has recently added more than ten acres of land. Tsk tsk. I'm afraid more than half of the land near Qingyang is named Cui."

Cui Zhen said awkwardly: "Master Fu, isn't it true that some people can't afford to eat, so they have to sell their land in order to eat? My family's reputation is pretty good, and the villagers believe in me, so they are willing to sell their land to me.

If I don't accept it, those people who don't have enough to eat will starve to death, or find another owner. If Marquis Li takes his fancy, I'm afraid they won't be able to pay one-tenth of my price. This is also for those people. Good people.

It's not that I, the Cui family, forced them to sell their land. Mr. Fu, I can honestly say that my Cui family has the best reputation in Qinghe. This is obvious to all. "

Bai Cang saw the proud Cui Zhen and said with a smile: "If it weren't for the fact that your Cui family's work is in my eyes, how could I recommend your son to enter the Bai family academy.

But annexation is annexation. There is nothing to say about it. Qinghe is so big. If you have more land, the common people will have less land. Not everyone is as easy to talk to as your Cui family.

You have read so many classics, I believe you understand this truth, but as a member of the family, you have to do it as a last resort, but now if your Majesty wants to prosper the Han Dynasty, you must have population and land.

If everyone is like you, taking land and people and not spitting them out, will this big man still pay taxes? Does the central government still have soldiers that can be mobilized?

Are the Huns still on guard? Is South Vietnam still suppressing it?

If we all just focus on sweeping away the snow in front of our door like you, when the aliens invade the Central Plains, how can there be any eggs under the overturned nest?
People, if they want to survive, they must have a long-term perspective, and the same goes for families, and they must have a long-term perspective, otherwise the decline will begin today. "

Cui Zhen listened to Bai Cang's words, pondered for a long time, and saluted: "Today I know why Bai can sit and stare for a long time. It turns out that it is because he is not limited to immediate interests. You are right. Now the man has come out of the troubled times. .

The people are not alone, and this is the time when they need to be united. If they continue to focus on themselves as before, then China is probably not far from being destroyed. Even if there are thousands of acres of fertile land, the Cui family , what else does it have to do with it?

It was just cultivated for foreigners. Thinking of this, I just feel cold all over. I am afraid that in a hundred years, I will not even be able to enter the ancestral temple. "

Bai Cang stroked his beard: "Da Shan, if you can listen to what I say and consider the current situation, your Cui family can flourish for at least another hundred years."

Cui Zhen knelt down sincerely this time and said: "The ancients said: A promise to the Bai family is worth a thousand gold. Now it seems that a single word to the Bai family is worth a thousand gold. Today, thanks to the advice of the master, Cui family can avoid a big disaster. Please Pay homage to Cui Zhen."

Bai Cang did not refuse Cui Zhen's kneeling: "This world is composed of thousands of people after all, and the largest number of them are the common people. As long as you do more good deeds, although blessings have not yet come, disasters will be far away.

The reason why I tell you so much is because your Cui family has a good reputation in Qinghe and the people are convinced. "

"Cui Zhen is taught."

With the help of the Cui family, a wealthy family in Qinghe, Bai Cang believes that Qinghe's task of inventorying the land and real population can be completed.

The biggest obstacle in this is Li Hou, the stumbling block.

Xindu County, Xindu City

The temporary residence of Bai Li, the governor of Jizhou.

It has been three months since Bai Li arrived in Xindu. Xindu was conquered by Liu Xiu with force. The captain of Xindu was a general appointed by the imperial court from elsewhere and had no local roots.

The powerful locals in Xindu also declined as Liu Xiu conquered Xindu. As for the new powerful families, they had not yet grown up and had not yet established a stable foundation.

Therefore, it only took three months for Bai Li to complete the inventory of Xindu County, and he prepared to attack one county after another.

Just like Xuan Guogong implemented the New Deal in Dongjun, he also promoted it county by county.

Bai Li received a letter from Bai Cang, the prefect of Qinghe, in which he told him in detail how to persuade Cui and some specific situations in Qinghe County.

This made him have a certain understanding of the situation in Qinghe, and he also knew that in order to complete the inventory task of Qinghe County, the first person to solve was Li Hou, the captain of Qinghe, and the most important thing was Li's base - Zaoqiang. county.

(End of this chapter)