Chastity Layman

  Chapter 355 Three swords fix Saibei

  Tong Wanchengli has long been empty in the treasury.

  In order to regain Yinzhou, Liang Shidu almost emptied the Tongwancheng treasury.

  When Qin Lang came, he had to disband the Liang army, relieve the people, and appease the hearts of the people, which was actually very difficult.

   Fortunately, at the critical moment, father and son are in battle.

  Qin Lang enters Tongwan City, and the entire Xiazhou is almost determined by rumors.

  Once Liang Shidu died, the Liang family took the lead in asking to surrender, and no one else could stop Shuofang's army and civilians from returning to the Tang Dynasty.

  On the same day, a group of Qingqi rode out of Tongwan City and headed west to Wuyuan, Yanzhou, 300 miles away.

  Yanzhou Wuyuan is also built under the Great Wall, only three hundred miles away from Tongwan City.

  Xiazhou Shuofang has long been in poverty, and the mountains and rivers are exhausted.

On the contrary, Yanzhou, which is 300 miles away, is very rich. In the past, it was actually very poor, but since Qin Qiong came out of Liangzhou to govern the Liangyan states, it has changed rapidly. With the benefits of Qingbai Yanchi, Yanzhou This barren land has also become rich.

  A large number of salt merchants came here to open up wasteland and build commercial villages here to cultivate food, and the rise of Lingwu Border City also drove the economy of Yanzhou.

  Qin Qiong prepared for war and prepared for famine. Yanzhou Wuyuan City was not only repaired and reinforced, but also the salt warehouses in the city were full of high-quality green and white salt. In addition, the granaries were also full of grain shipped by salt merchants.

  In Yanzhou City, there are also fur processing workshops and milk and meat processing factories built by the Qin family, the Cui family, etc. In this small town that used to be poor, there are now more than 10,000 slaves working day and night.

  When Qin Lang's Qingqi arrived in Yanzhou in two days, Qin Qiong, the governor of Lingzhou and the marching chief of Lingwu Road, happened to be in Yanzhou city.

  When Qin Lang asked Duan Decao to send troops, he also wrote to Qin Qiong early.

   "Shuofang has fallen, Master Liang has been beheaded!"

  The son of the sledgehammer Qin Yong told his adoptive father Qin Qiong the good news.

"So fast?"

"Sanlang is really powerful, everything is in his calculations, breaking Yinzhou, beheading the capital, very smoothly, entering Shuofang without hindrance, the whole Xiazhou is determined by the spread, the false Liang has been destroyed!" When speaking , Qin Yong still couldn't help being very excited.

  As an official of the Zhenfu Department, he fully cooperated with Qin Lang this time and personally participated in the entire Pingxia War.

   It was so easy and smooth that he couldn't believe it.

   "Is Sanlang now in Shuofang City?"

   "Yes, everything is going well in Xiazhou now, but there is a shortage of money and food. Saburo asked me to ask my adoptive father for help!"

  Qin Qiong laughed loudly, "Yinxia is pacified, and my Tang Dynasty has finally ruled the world. I have already prepared money, food, cloth, salt and tea, and I can ship them to Shuofang now!"

  Although the sky is cold, the road is covered with snow.

  But in order to support Yin Xia, Qin Qiong didn't care so much anymore.

  Mobilized camels and horses, and requisitioned many sleds and ice plows, and began to transport money, grain and cloth to Shuofang.

  Qin Yong also went to the major commercial firms in Yanzhou City that day, and brought greetings from Duke Yi.

  A letter written by Qin Lang and an invitation letter, inviting these chambers of commerce to go to Shuofang to make a fortune.

  Although Shuofang is poor, he still has a three-pound nail, not to mention Liang Shidu, who was declared emperor ten years after the founding of the country.

  Not to mention other things, Shuofang unified the Wancheng palace, which is still good. This was also used as a palace in the Sui Dynasty, and Liang Shidu managed it for another ten years.

  Qin Lang intends to demolish the palace, and everything inside can be packaged and sold. Besides, there are many other things that can be sold.

  Qin Lang doesn't need to keep those, what he needs is food and cloth, these things to appease the people and save people's livelihood, he doesn't need those gold, silver, jewels, palaces and buildings.

  Businessmen are all profit-seeking.

  They liked what Qin Lang disliked.

   As a result, all the merchants in Yanzhou City became excited, and they all began to organize camel caravans and Tuogong guys, purchased a lot of grain and cloth, loaded them with salt and tea, and started to march towards Xiazhou City three hundred miles away.

  Qin Yong sent some people to Lingzhou, Liangzhou, Jingzhou, Lanzhou and other places to contact local businessmen and invite them to go to Shuofang to make a fortune.

  From Wuyuan to the east for 160 miles, you can reach the upper reaches of the Wuding River. In the current season, the river is frozen, so it is also suitable for ice plow transportation.

  Qin Lang also began to organize the people of Shuofang to provide relief with work, arranged for them to build ice plows, and took the initiative to pick up the goods at the upper reaches of the Wuding River on the Yanxia border and help with transportation.

After Shuofang was pacified, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the capital of the Liang division were put into storage and returned to the fields. However, these years, the Liang division only cared about fighting and maintaining their own small court. On the one hand, Datang's blockade of Shuofang also made the small place of Yinxia more difficult.

   Now it is indeed the end of the mountain. For Qin Lang, there is no need to worry about the rebellion of Liang Shidu's loyalists. The most important thing to worry about now is the food and clothing of the people.

  If Datang cannot properly appease these starving people after recovering Yinxia, ​​then those who cannot survive will still become bandits for thieves.

  It is very important to deal with the aftermath.

  Qin Qiong rushed to Shuofang City with a large amount of money and food, and the two met.

   "You boy, why did you choose such a season to fight? It's freezing cold, and it's too troublesome to transport money and food."

   "It's just just in time, one link after another, the time has come, the opportunity must not be missed, and it will never come again." Qin Lang hugged Qin Qiong for a while, and then took the old man's hand into the Xiazhou Yamen.

  Qin Lang had already sealed off the West Inner City where Liang Shidu Miyagi was located, and now he temporarily lives in the former Sui Dynasty Shuofang County Taishou Mansion in the East Inner City.

   The seized illegal objects of the pseudo-beams, such as dragon robes, jade seals, etc., will naturally be sealed and sent to Chang'an.

   "I just saw that your situation here is okay, not as bad as I expected!" Qin Qiong sat down and said.

"The main reason is that we didn't fight a tough battle this time. Liang Shi ran to Yinzhou and was killed by Liang Luoren, and all his troops surrendered. I temporarily placed many soldiers and civilians in Yinzhou, and Yan and Sui took over. When I came to Xiazhou, I didn't bring many soldiers, but I brought three thousand people."

  Qin Lang didn't fight a war, so the consumption of food and grass is actually not much.

  Especially his soldiers are all carrying fried noodles with dried meat floss and these easy-to-carry dry food, and no extra civilians are needed to transport food and grass.

  You must know that the bulk of food and grass consumption in wars is actually not the army, but the civilians and livestock responsible for logistics.

  From the perspective of the overall situation, although Qin Lang's game of chess this time is indeed too big, in fact, it is all based on small things, and there are no soldiers in total, let alone any tough battles.

  The two prefectures of Yunshuo in the north of the Hedong Dynasty also used the Turkic Qin admonishers to lobby Yuan Xiaozheng, persuaded him to launch a mutiny, and forced Yuan Junzhang to lead his troops to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

  Shuofang and Yinxia Erzhou also used the same method. They used the Zhenfu Division to contact Liang Luoren and Li Zhengbao, a group of generals who had long been desperate for Liang Shi, and launched an internal mutiny.

   Fewer troops are dispatched, so the natural consumption will be less.

  Under normal circumstances, even if more than 10,000 troops are dispatched, it is extremely difficult for a state to take down these cities.

  But now, in just a few months, Qin Lang has already wiped out the two major separatist forces, seized the land of the four states, and restored the two states of Feng and Sheng.

  Before and after, there was never a tough battle, and no more than ten thousand troops were sent.

  The Liang division has been the emperor for 10 years from the start of the army to the defeat, but I am afraid that it will not have such a defeat in the end.

   "You, my previous letters always reminded me not to take risks, but you ended up taking such risks!" Qin Qiong shook her head and sighed.

  Qin Lang's actions this time were indeed quite adventurous and radical, but as it turned out, he couldn't say much.

   "It's all a chain reaction, or it's all what people want, and it can be knocked down with a light push. I can't help it standing on the side!" Qin Lang can only explain it this way.

  Qin Qiong sat on the heated kang, flipped through the data Qin Lang handed over, glanced at it a few times, and then closed it.

"I don't need to look at these things. I know that Yinxia's situation is very bad now. Tens of thousands of people are starving. Now that the court is finally here, we can't just ignore it. We must appease these people. The Zahu tribes in the mountains and on the Gobi Desert must also be resettled, otherwise the newly recovered Yinxia will still not be stable."

  Of course Qin Lang understood this.

  For the common people, in fact, they don’t care who becomes the emperor. As long as someone can make their lives a little easier, not to mention food and clothing, they can barely survive, and most of them will not rebel.

"Grandfather, I entrust these to you because you are the governor of Lingzhou, the commander of the military affairs of Lingyan Xiayin Prefecture, and I am now the deputy governor of Yanran, the governor of Fengsheng Yunshuo Prefecture, and the commander Zhufan, this Yinxia Erzhou is your territory, Grandpa, and I will hand it over to you now."

  Qin Qiong froze for a moment.

   "But you are still Hetao's appeasement envoy. The north of Guanzhong Lingbei Great Wall belongs to Hetao, and Yinxia is also in your appropriation. This Shuofang was recovered by you, and it is better to leave it to you to preside over the aftermath."

   Qin Qiong is not shirking responsibility, but just wants his son to get the credit he deserves.

  Ping Yinxia is a great achievement, the achievement of destroying the country.

  Qin Qiong is already the prime minister, and he doesn't want to take credit for his son.

   This is exactly the reason why Qin Qiong advocated letting his son Qin Lang personally preside over the plan after Qin Lang proposed the Pingxia plan in a letter with him.

  He is an envoy, and he is an extremely human minister, so there is no need to fight for this military merit, but Qin Lang lacks military merit and is young, so this credit is more suitable for him.

  Of course, Qin Qiong also believed that Qin Lang was beyond everyone's expectations this time. After doing such a big thing, it is estimated that Hetao can no longer keep him.

Originally, Qin Lang was only sent by the emperor to temporarily replace Yu Sheshe, appease the surrendered Turkic tribes, and take the opportunity to insert nails in Fengzhou to restore his power, but who would have thought that Qin Lang would still have the ability to do so many things in the cold winter months? It happened that such a record was astonishing, even earth-shattering.

  Set up three surrendered cities and three armies, controlled Fengsheng actually, and planned to recover the land of Yunshuo in Daibei.

  This action is dazzling. It can be said that even if someone in the court wants to grab credit, it is too late to make a move.

   While everyone was amazed, Qin Lang had already finished his work.

  No one was able to come in time, and took half of the credit for Qin Lang.

  He is the only one who deserves this credit, and there is no way for others to be envious or jealous. It is too fast, and there is no time to react. But next, there must be someone who wants to grab some soup.

  Even if it was Qin Qiong himself, he might be transferred back to Chang'an.

  We can’t let their fathers and fathers guard everything except the Great Wall, from Lingwu to Daibei. Even if Sheng Mingru is today, he probably needs to think about it.

   Adjustment is imperative.

  But Qin Qiong still hopes that Qin Lang can do a better job of dealing with the aftermath before the arrival of Chang'an, so that his achievements will be more dazzling.

   "I heard that Jieli sent troops south?" Qin Qiong asked again.

"It's just a small bravado. Xieli sent a few people out to scare me, but I didn't want to scare me too much. The arrangement was already made over there, and Xieli's people didn't take advantage of it. So now they all retreated in desperation, and now Xieli is sending people to Chang'an to sue me!" Qin Lang said disapprovingly.

  (end of this chapter)