For Zu Yan, Xiao Yao admires his talent and despises his character!

Because no one is perfect, although Zu Yan's character can definitely be described as inferior and bottomless, when he was in Yecheng before, he was greedy and perverted the law, framed Zhongliang, and killed Hu Luguang, needless to say, just now he is even more for survival, so he surrendered to Xiao Yao with more than 20,000 defenders, and when he heard that Xiao Yao let him continue to be an official and satisfied his desire for power, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Xiao Yao to express his loyalty, knowing that Zu Yan was a selfish person!

But even with such a notorious deed, it still can't hide his outstanding ability to govern!

After Zu Yan became the servant of Qi for only a few months, the political atmosphere of the Qi court was completely renewed, and many talented people were reused, so that after the sudden killing of a big man like Hu Luguang and the extermination of the whole clan, there was no turmoil in the Qi court, and even Gao Wei's rule was more stable, which shows that this Zu Yan does have two brushes in governance!

And now there are few henchmen in Xiao Yao's hands whose ability to govern government affairs can be comparable to Zu Yan, a ruffian like Huang Wenyuan is actually the most educated, so I know how good the level of Xiao Yao's subordinates can be! Therefore, in order to better integrate the northern Xuzhou, a place that has been ruled by the northern regime for more than a hundred years, into the rule of Xuzhou as soon as possible, Xiao Yao can only reuse Zu Yan, a talented and virtuous person!

However, Xiao Yao has actually taken precautions against Zu Yan, that is, when the garrison on the North Xuzhou side is directly commanded by himself, and the power that Xiao Yao gave to Zu Yan is mainly the administrative power on the North Xuzhou side, in charge of the affairs of the people's livelihood, and the military power is in his own hands, so he is not afraid of what waves Zu Yan can make! Moreover, Zu Yan is only an official position of the Taishou of Lanling County, and Xiao Yao is not a mediocre and incompetent person like Gao Wei, so even if Zu Yan, a master of party competition, wants to carry out a political struggle in Xuzhou, he has no chance at all!

In addition, there is another very important reason, that is, this Zu Yan is now in his sixties, and in this era when the average life expectancy is less than forty years old, he is already considered to be a high lifespan, so Zu Yan, an old guy, has not many years to jump on, and even if his ambition is unpaid and he wants to dominate the political arena, he has already died first!

And in order to make Zu Yan more loyal to him, Xiao Yao also specially sent him a pair of reading glasses! When Zu Yan brought this pair of legendary and incomparably precious glass treasures, although the appearance is a little peculiar, but it can make his eyes that are about to see things clearly, the name of the glasses can see things again, Zu Yan excitedly knelt and bowed to Xiao Yao, and swore to Xiao Yao that he would serve Xiao Yao wholeheartedly and die!

After completely encircling Zu Yan to serve his loyalty, Xiao Yao set his sights on the group of Qi army prisoners with more than 20,000 people, after all, this time Xiao Yao went around such a big circle, instigating the people to make trouble, besieging the city, playing psychological warfare, and persuading him to surrender, so that he could take Lanling County without blood, and the main goal was this batch of free labor! And because of his previous experience in dealing with prisoners of war in Xuyi County, Xiao Yao is now more handy in handling it!

Of the more than 20,000 prisoners of war, Xiao Yao first distinguished between Han and aliens, and treated them differently, and all the aliens were sent by Xiao Yao to do the hardest and most tiring work, like digging coal, mining, and digging canals, while the Han people only sent them to open up wasteland, farm land and have children! In this way, this Qi army can start to develop jealousy and suspicion within them, so that they can no longer unite to resist!

Then use national righteousness to brainwash those Han prisoners of war in Qi State, and use a large number of cases to tell them that only in a country ruled by the Han people can the Han people be the masters of their own country and not be oppressed by foreigners!

In the end, he drew a big pie for them, and used the successful case of Huainan's labor reform town to tell these Qi army prisoners that as long as they are loyal to Xiao Yao, do not gather people to rebel, work hard, and accept three years of labor reform, they can live a stable life of food, housing and land cultivation on the territory of Xuzhou under Xiao Yao's rule!

And Xiao Yao's requirements for soldiers are also very high, not that you can become a soldier when you think of Xiao Yao's army, so these people don't have to worry about being suddenly pulled to be a soldier like when they were in Qi State, and then they die on the battlefield and no one collects their bodies!

As for those alien generals who have heads and faces in the army, Xiao Yao deliberately singled them out, at first they thought that Xiao Yao was going to kill them to deter everyone, so they were all trembling with fright, but Xiao Yao said that he wanted to release them all back to Qi State, which made them all a little stunned!

And Xiao Yao also gave them a letter, a letter to Gao Wei, the emperor of Qi, the content of the letter is very simple, it is peace talks!

Yes, peace talks, Xiao Yao, as the assassin of Xuzhou and the victor who had just taken North Xuzhou and captured more than 20,000 people in Qi, took the initiative to propose an armistice and peace talks to Qi!

At the beginning, not to mention Zu Yan, these generals of Qi State were a little puzzled to understand why Xiao Yao would give up the attack and take the initiative to propose an armistice and peace talks when the momentum of his army was so strong, even Huang Wenyuan and Lu Guangda, Xiao Yao's subordinates couldn't understand, you must know that the next door to Northern Xuzhou is Qingzhou, if Qingzhou is also taken in one fell swoop, then the entire East China south of the Yellow River will all belong to Xuzhou!

Facing the questions of his subordinates, Xiao Yao just smiled and said: "The meat in the pot, you can eat it whenever you want, but you have to eat it when it is suitable!" Now we have just taken Xuzhou, and I became the Xuzhou Assassin History, I believe that there are many people in Jinling City who are very jealous, wishing that I can't do this Assassin History, so our most important task now is not to blindly expand our territory, but to develop Xuzhou, as long as our strength is improved, then all those who oppose us can only be helpless against us! ”

Then looking at this group of subordinates who looked at each other, Xiao Yao pretended to hate iron and scolded: "And you, as my most trusted subordinates, the first thing you want to do now is to improve your cultural quality and management level, do you think I want to let Zu Yan, a talented and virtuous villain, continue to be an official, but there is no one in my hands who can appoint him, and you will only fight and kill on the battlefield, I can't reuse you!" You must know that in the future, we will conquer many places, and we will govern many places, if you do not improve your own management level, do you just want to always be a general who leads troops into battle, and does not want to become a party leader? ”

Sure enough, Huang Wenyuan, He Fu and Li Nong were all coaxed by Xiao Yao's big pie, and even Lu Guangda was moved to say that he wanted to learn how to govern the place, not an ordinary general who can only fight and kill people, but like Xiao Yao, he wanted to become a thorn in charge of military and political power!

So, under the effect of handling the personnel relations of the management and various measures, Xiao Yao quickly dealt with the affairs of Northern Xuzhou, and also divided and disposed of the more than 20,000 Qi troops, and even because the general firm carried out a lot of projects in various counties and counties in Xuzhou, these prisoners of war were still a little insufficient, so Xiao Yao couldn't help but wonder whether to suspend the peace talks with Qi first, start a war with Qi first, capture Qingzhou on the Shandong Peninsula, and then capture a large number of free labor to come back, Help yourself develop Xuzhou!