Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 399 393. Homecoming
"What the hell are you doing? You are so careless!"

The next day, a small captain of the Han army scolded the Han soldiers on Meng Huo's ship.

This is normal. Anyone who comes to check the cages in the morning and sees the keys to the prison van thrown on the ground, and the prisoners who are supposed to be kept in close custody have changed their sleeping positions in the van, will have such a reaction.

"If the prisoner escapes, you will all lose your heads!"

The team leader continued to curse, and Meng Huo, who had been awakened long ago, just watched coldly. Do you have to wait until I escape before you lose your heads? If I wanted to, you would all have died here last night.

However, when Meng Huo thought of his brother's humble appearance and his wife's tearful eyes, he finally decided to put his family first and put aside the feud with the Han people for the time being.

However, what Meng Huo didn't know was that the Han army captain scolded his men, asked them to tie Meng Huo up again and keep the key, and then he rowed a small boat to the shore.

"General Bao, I have followed the orders of the Grand Commander. Yesterday, I asked a few of my trusted brothers to loosen the shackles and hang the key next to Meng Huo.

When we checked today, we found the key had fallen to the ground, and Meng Huo had successfully retreated into the prison van, but he did not escape, and instead allowed us to imprison him there again."

The team leader reported to the black-faced general on the shore that this man was Feng Xi's trusted general Bao Feng.

Bao Feng had already been arranged by Feng Xi to advance on the water on the ship escorting Meng Huo and others. Bao Feng personally led a hundred people both by water and by road, hanging near the escort fleet.

Feng Xi asked Bao Feng to test Meng Huo a few more times to see if he had the desire to escape. If so, he would be killed immediately. If Meng Huo was still honest after multiple tests, he would be escorted back to Jingzhou according to the original strategy.

Following Feng Xi's instructions, Bao Feng asked the team leader to conduct the first test yesterday. Meng Huo was definitely capable of escaping, but he did not do so, which surprised Bao Feng a little.

After all, Bao Feng had seen Meng Huo's bad attitude, but he didn't expect that he could control himself now.

"Don't let your guard down. Travel normally for the next two days, and then pretend to be careless in a few days to give him a flaw. As long as he moves, we will respond immediately."

Bao Feng was worried and decided to try a few more times according to Feng Xi's suggestion. Like last night, the Han army was fast asleep, but if you think about it, how could there be no one on guard in the Shenwu Camp led by Feng Xi himself and participated in the Battle of Yiling?

If Meng Huo really dared to escape from prison, he would be discovered immediately, and then Bao Feng, who had been lying in ambush nearby, would personally lead people to kill him.

Meng Huo thought he had bypassed a whole ship of Han troops, but in fact he didn't know that he was just a trap. He only bypassed his own life, as well as the lives of his brother and his wife.

Later on the road, Meng Huo was tested four more times at Bao Feng's instruction, but since Meng Huo had made up his mind, he never had any bad thoughts again. In fact, Meng Huo was annoyed the last two times, and pointed out the flaws that the Han army deliberately left in front of him, forcing the Han army to cancel the test.

Since Meng Huo was obedient, Bao Feng followed Feng Xi's order and handed Meng Huo over to Huang Quan after he was escorted back to Jiangling. Although Feng Xi said that Meng Huo would be forced to do hard labor for 20 years like an ordinary laborer, Meng Huo had a special status, so at least he had to be watched closely by some spies. At the very least, he had to be watched for two years until Meng Huo's influence was completely gone.

Huang Quan naturally understood the priorities and immediately appointed a few spies to take turns monitoring Meng Huo's family, and then incorporated Meng Huo into the labor team as usual.

There are many bridge and road construction projects in Jingzhou now, so Meng Huo must be very busy.

A few days later, Feng Xi returned to Jiangling with the elite troops of the Shenwu Camp who had been on an expedition to the south, and the southern expedition came to an end.

It was already the end of 223 AD, and less than half a month would be 224 AD.

In the original timeline, Zhuge Liang was still recuperating after the defeat at Yiling. But now the Han Dynasty, with its strong army and powerful horses, defeated the dying Wu under the command of Feng Xi within a year and suppressed the restless Nanzhong, which bought a lot of time for the Han Dynasty to deal with Cao Wei as soon as possible.

Feng Xi returned home after being away for half a year and met his wife Guan Yinping whom he had not seen for a long time. Now Feng Yuan and Feng Zhen are almost one year old and can barely walk a few steps on the ground with the help of a nanny. As for speaking, they naturally cannot do it yet.

Guan Yinping has completely recovered to her pre-pregnancy state. Apart from showing her maternal love when taking care of her children every day, she spends the rest of her time either practicing martial arts or archery, looking like a strong woman.

After Feng Xi returned to Jiangling, he spent a day with his family. The next day, he hurried to the meeting hall. He needed to know whether any accidents had occurred while he was away, or whether there were any matters that he needed to handle.

"Gong Heng, Yuan Zhi, has anything happened in Jingzhou or the other two states during the months I was away?"

Feng Xi rushed into the governor's mansion in a carefree manner. Huang Quan, who was handling government affairs, and Xu Shu, who was in charge of military affairs, both raised their heads because of Feng Xi's noise.

"Xiu Yuan, why are you so anxious? What's the emergency?"

Huang Quan was no longer surprised by Feng Xi's behavior of questioning him as soon as he returned to Jiangling. However, nothing had really happened in Jingzhou in the past few months, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner according to Feng Xi's plan.

The people's livelihood in Jingzhou developed rapidly. At Feng Xi's request, in addition to improving agricultural planting methods, he also encouraged commerce and the circulation of goods, improved the tax law, and enriched Jingzhou's granaries. The food and economy were so abundant that they could not be accommodated. For this reason, Huang Quan had to build several new warehouses.

The muddy and difficult-to-travel dirt roads in Jiangling City were also transformed into brick and stone roads. This was because Feng Xi would not be able to fuse cement or anything like that in the future, but he would still be able to make bricks. Therefore, under Huang Quan's arrangement, the main roads in some areas of Jiangling were turned into neat brick roads, and the gaps were filled with clay. Compared with the previous dirt roads, they were indeed much easier to travel on.

As for military issues, they were in good order under Xu Shu's arrangement. Now the Jingzhou army has been trained. Although many of them are the old Jingzhou army during Guan Yu's time, they have been reborn. After Feng Xi's new tactics and methods of warfare, their combat thinking has been improved.

As for the Shanyue people in Jiangdong, they had been used for training by the young men who stayed in Jingzhou, such as Ma Su and Liu Yin, in the past few months, and they had been almost wiped out.

(End of this chapter)