After solving these problems, Hou Shigui returned to the room and continued to ask Yu Wenhao:

"Tell me, how did those two prison guards die?"

There are also a lot of brocade guards in the house, and there are two people sitting on the side with pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Yu Wenhao also knew that Hou Shigui would always try the truth, so he confessed:

"I killed both of them."

"Why did you kill them?"

Hou Shigui asked.

Yu Wenhao lowered his head and muttered:

"The family spent a huge price to push me to be the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, not only to share the fruits of victory, but also ......"

But it turned out that the Yuwen family spent a lot of energy to recommend Yuwenhao as the coach of the Southern Expedition, not so that they could produce a god of war when they were victorious.

It's for something real, money!

Although there are many smoky places in the south, poisonous insects breed, and few people are willing to set foot in them, but there are also many treasures.

And among them, the precious ones are the barbarians who have not yet been civilized.

Yuwen's family's abacus was that when Yuwenhao went south, he would capture those barbarians and sell them in the Central Plains, and since the canal had been opened, it would not cost much to transport them by boat.

And they are all barbarians, just give a mouthful of porridge and hang their lives.

In addition, its quantity is large, and the price is sold at a low point, and some of the big families and dignitaries in the Central Plains are rushing to buy it.

Although Yuwen's calculation was good, it encountered obstacles at the beginning.

The first overseer sent by Yang He was not their people, and it was useless to pay bribes, so selling Nanban was also an obstacle to the use of their hands.

So the Yuwen family asked Yuwen Hao to kill the prison army, and the second prison army was not their person.

After killing the second overseer, they paid a great price and persuaded the major families to recommend a person they had chosen to be the overseer.

didn't think about it, but Yang He overrode public opinion and recommended the emperor Liu Xuan as the supervisor.

Liu Xuan is the emperor, and his identity is there, and they dare not harm him.

But the Southern Expedition has been carried out so far, and even the capital has not been earned, how can the people of the Yuwen family be willing?

So he instructed Yu Wenhao again, let him delay if he can, and defeat if he can, and go not to kill all the Nanban.

Yu Wenhao wanted to refuse, after all, he had led the army to the south for a year, and the sergeants were more or less homesick.

And this is obviously a winning battle, as long as you raise your finger, you can pinch all those Nanban to death.

But the family has written and advised one after another, and even his parents, family members and relatives have written or advised, or threatened to cut off relations with him.

Yu Wenhao was forced to be helpless, so he agreed.

Next, what the Yuwen family did, not only Hou Shigui listened, but even the Jinyi guards in the house couldn't stand it.

As a result of embezzlement of military salaries, the non-commissioned officers of the Southern Expedition did not receive military salaries for half a year.

In the court, the princes and Yang He thought that the amount allocated by the imperial court to the Southern Expeditionary Army, just eating this item, could make the Southern Expeditionary Army eat dry, and there would be materials and meat every day.

But in Yu Wenhao's mouth, the ordinary soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army, not to mention meat, can't even eat dry, they can only drink gruel every day, and even most of the soldiers they reported to die in battle were poisoned because they were hungry and unbearable, so they went to steal those poisonous mushrooms or poisonous vegetables in the south and ate them and died of poisoning.

There were even several cases of low-level soldiers being starved to death in the barracks.

Hearing this, Hou Shigui interrupted:

"Impossible! My teacher won't watch this happen! ”

Hearing this, Yu Wenhao glanced up at Hou Shigui, his eyes were still gloomy, but he asked:

"Commander, how well do you know your teacher?

Liu Laohe, although he is an unborn Confucian, he does not believe in the way of Confucius and Mencius, but believes in the way of Lao Zhuang.

The commander was in Liu Laona, how much did he learn the way of Lao Zhuang? ”

"What do you mean?!"

Hou Shigui doesn't know much about these things, he only knows that Confucius and Meng and Lao Zhuang are not all the way.

The two philosophies are also diametrically opposed, but I still don't understand what this has to do with the teacher's blind eye to what happened to the soldiers.

Yu Wenhao did not answer Hou Shigui's question, and continued:

"In addition to food, the clothes and bedding have never been changed, it is rainy in the south, and the clothes on the sergeants are soaked by the rain, so they can only ......"

Under Yu Wenhao's telling, the money allocated by the dynasty to the Southern Expeditionary Army, military clothes and food salaries, all fell into the pockets of Yuwen's family!

The soldiers lacked food and clothing, and many of them died of disease, all of whom were reported as war damage.

Then he used this to exaggerate the difficulties of the Southern Expeditionary Army, and repeatedly pleaded with Yang He, asking the dynasty to continuously allocate money to strengthen the equipment of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

Of course, these allocated silver coins ended up in the pockets of the Yuwen family, and not even a penny went to the southern expeditionary army.

But under such circumstances, Yuwen Hao was stunned to be able to lead such a group of demoralized troops to defeat the Nanban coalition army and flee in all directions, thus ending the victory of the Southern Expedition and forcing the Nanban to the point of exhaustion.

Just after the Manchu Dynasty thought that after this great victory, the victory of the Southern Expeditionary Army was a foregone conclusion.

When the remaining remnants of the army were defeated, and they could only be solved by destroying the withering and decaying, the Yuwen family sent a few angry people to Yuwenhao.

At every turn, he took the family's carelessness to talk about things, and said that Yu Wenhao felt guilty, and it happened that at this time, those Nanban who were forced to the end of the mountains and rivers actually sent a few carriages of gold nuggets.

said that as long as Yu Wenhao was willing to let them go, they would tell the place where the gold mountain was hidden.

Yuwenhao refused to do it, but Yuwen's family was willing.

After those clansmen hurriedly reported the matter, several heavyweights came to the Yuwen family, including Yuwen Hao's three masters, who were also the patriarchs of the previous Yuwen family.

The three masters thought that Nanban was cornered and only wanted to survive, so he didn't care too much, but only had the gold and silver property of those carriages in his eyes, so he agreed to Nanban's request.

Immediately afterwards, the Nanban said that he was worried that the Central Plains people would rebel, and asked the Central Plains people to go to their Nanban resort and make a blood alliance in a valley specially used to worship their ancestors.

The people of the Yuwen family are naturally not stupid, that valley is low-lying, surrounded by cliffs and highlands, but it is an excellent ambush place.

I also sent someone to inquire, but I heard that the valley was really the holy land of those southern barbarians.

No matter what tribe or ethnic group of Nanban, they have to send people to this holy place every year to worship.

Throughout the ages, in order to compete for this holy land, the southern barbarians fought with each other, and the number of dead and injured was countless.

This is definitely a place that is holier than life, and the Southern Barbarians have a rule that they are not allowed to use force in the Holy Land, otherwise all the tribes will attack it.

In addition, there are only a few thousand people left in Nanban, no matter how ambush you are, you can still ambush 100,000 people?

That piece of land was cut down by the Nanban again, there is no dense forest, can he still come to burn the company's camp?

So the three masters ignored Yu Wenhao's opposition and agreed to the matter of the blood alliance.