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Seeing Monk An's annoyed and angry face, Hu Shangwen hurriedly persuaded on the side.

"it, I want him to bring these people back!" Monk An gritted his teeth and was resentful.

"Alas! Camp Commander, the situation is stronger than people now, how can you act impulsively. Hu Shangwen sighed and said: "At present, these prisoners and hundreds, all of which have been signed by our army, then Zukuan has received cigarettes and silver, how can there be any reason to take them back?" If our army goes to deal with Nazu Kuan, I am afraid that it will lead to an internal strife. ”

"So what do you say?! These innocent people, whose homes were completely destroyed, were so cruelly captured by Zu Kuan, and now they beg us to let them go, which is really pitiful. And thou sayest, what shall our army do with them? Monk An glared and yelled at Hu Shangwen.

Hu Shangwen was silent, he groaned for a while, and then whispered to Monk An.

"Oh, is that all I can say?" Monk An frowned.

"Yes, there is no other way."

"Okay。。。。。。"

Monk An stared at Hu Shangwen's serious face, and finally let out a long sigh.

Hu Shangwen took a few steps forward, stood in front of a group of kneeling villagers, and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, please get up." Hu expressed deep sympathy for your misfortunes, and was also extremely resentful of the filthy behavior of the officials and soldiers. Hu Mou has some heart-wrenching words, and he wants to tell you the truth to all the villagers and people, and please listen carefully. ”

The people who couldn't see the end of the black pressure suddenly quieted down, but no one got up.

Hu Shangwen looked at the kneeling and silent people with a solemn face, and he had mixed feelings in his heart, and he said loudly: "Fellow villagers, you said that you want our army to let you go back, but this matter is easy, and it is nothing more than our army suffering some monetary losses. ”

When he said this, there was an immediate commotion, and the soldiers who were guarding the people next to him also looked at him with puzzled expressions.

The white-haired old man who took the lead in kneeling down immediately shouted, "Since the adults are willing to let me go back, then please give an order immediately." ”

"Please give an order immediately."

"Please give me an order, let me go back."

"I don't want to leave our homeland, so my lord ordered us to be released."

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A group of villagers shouted again, and some people wanted to take the opportunity to leave, but the surrounding Tiger Army soldiers shouted loudly, and did not dare to flee.

"Quiet! Be quiet! Listen to what the officer has to say. ”

Hu Shangwen shouted loudly a few times, and the noise and commotion below gradually subsided.

"Folks, this official can let you go back, but in this Anlu area, I'm afraid that all villages have been destroyed, do you still have a home to go back to?!" Hu Shangwen shouted with a sad face: "Take a step back, even if you go home and starve, rebuild the thatched tent, and reopen the wasteland and farm, will the thieves who are raging everywhere and the officials and soldiers who have killed good and early achievements let you go?" The official said that it is ugly, maybe I have just let you go back, and when you are still on the way back to your hometown, you may be coerced by thieves, or recaptured by the official army, so that the future fate of you, the official does not dare to think about it. ”

When Hu Shangwen said this, he paused deliberately, he glanced at everyone, and found that it was quiet below, including the white-haired old man, all the villagers and ordinary people cried softly, but no one refuted.

Hu Shangwen continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, this official also knows that since ancient times, it is difficult to leave the homeland, and it is difficult to give up the hometown. It's just that Huguang is now a place of war, the officials and the army and the rogues are fighting fiercely with each other, the swords and soldiers are endless, and the conquest is endless, how can ordinary villagers and ordinary people such as us survive in such a place! And now, our army will take you to Dengju, Shandong, where I, Lord Chifengbo, will make proper arrangements for everyone, whether it is in Dengju locally, or to Jeju Island or Taiwan Island overseas, it is a paradise where you can live a stable life. When the villagers got there, they had land to plant, clothes to wear, and endless good days, and there would be no more rogues and officials and soldiers to come to harass and fight, but it was much stronger than trying to hold on in this vast lake. “

After Hu Shangwen finished speaking, the white-haired old man raised his head and said, "My lord, your words are reasonable, and the old man is also clear in his heart. It's just that if it is arranged to Dengzhou, Shandong, after all, it is still in my China, and the old decay can still accept it. If we want to be sent to overseas places such as Taiwan, thousands of miles away from the country, smoke miasma and barbarism, many poisonous snakes and beasts, and cannibalistic aborigines, if we wait for the people of Huguang to go, I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive. “

Listening to the old man's words, Hu Shangwen laughed unconsciously, and he said loudly: "Uncle, look at what you said, I really don't understand the truth." Now in Taiwan, my family Li has already opened up this wild land into a paradise with hundreds of thousands of acres of rice fields, fertile soil, and idyllic scenery. As for poisonous snakes and beasts, as well as cannibalistic natives and the like, it is pure nonsense. If you are lucky enough to go to Taiwan, there will be a large area of fertile barren land for you, and the output of the land will be much more than that of the vast land of the lake. If the old man doesn't believe it, when he has the opportunity to go to Taiwan, he can see it for himself, and he will understand that what the official said is true. “

Hearing Hu Shangwen say these words with a look of longing, the villagers below suddenly became noisy again.

"Alas, if it is Taiwan and other places, it is really as the adults said, and the little old man goes here, it is the last way out." The white-haired old man smiled bitterly: "Then I'll listen to the arrangement of the adults and go to Shandong." “

Hu Shangwen laughed and said: "My husband really understands things, very good!" It is getting late today, so please rest in this fort for a day, and tomorrow, the governor will send troops to escort you to Shandong. “

Seeing that a group of captives and homeless people had all been explained by Hu Shangwen, Monk An was also full of joy.

"Supervisor Hu caresses you very well, but it is reasonable, but I Lao An has convinced you with this sharp mouth." Monk An smiled and said, "Then tomorrow, Ben will send 800 escort soldiers, together with nearly 2,000 displaced people sent by Fan Zhibi, to Shandong Iron Dragon City." “

"Well, it's best to send it as soon as possible. After all, if the Ming army of other parts of the country keeps sending prisoners and villagers, I am afraid that the existing cigarettes and silver taels of our army will not be enough. We need to hurry up and ship it from Shandong. Hu Shangwen replied with a smile on his face.

So early the next morning, Monk An sent 5 teams of spearmen and 3 teams of shield soldiers to escort this group of nearly 25,000 captives and refugees to Shandong.

Of course, when escorting these exiles and captives, Monk An and Hu Shangwen and others still made a distinction.

That is, the thieves and captives were bound in long strings with ropes, of which the adult males were bound with thick hemp ropes, and the families of the thieves and soldiers were bound with fine hemp ropes, so that these people, who had done a lot of evil, would not cause trouble on the road or take advantage of the lack of strict guarding.

As for the captive villagers, they were not bound, but were grouped into one place according to each household, and were guarded only by soldiers.

These homes were destroyed, and the people who had nowhere to live, as long as they left Suizhou, they were unfamiliar with the place, they could naturally only regard Li Xiao's Tiger Army soldiers as dependent, and they would never dare to leave easily.

When a group of escort soldiers and 25,000 displaced people had just entered Henan, Mo Changrong, deputy commander of the Tielong Battalion, who was stationed in the county town of Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, led the general army of Tielong Battalion B and was stationed in the county town of Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, and also received a large number of prisoners and displaced people.

Since now, people like Ni Chong, deputy general of Shandong, Zuo Guangxian, Ma Ke and others have successively brought a large number of captives and displaced people to Mo Changrong, and the total number of people added up to more than 10,000 people.

The land of Shaanxi, since the early years of Chongzhen, it has been fighting endlessly, killing and killing, large and small groups of rogues are raging, so the people in the territory have been greatly reduced, like in the countryside of Xi'an, there are very few people who cultivate freely. Most of the remaining people shrank in the county and county pools, surviving for a long time.

Therefore, most of the officials and soldiers sent by Ni Chong and other ministries were captives and homeless people who had participated in the bandits, but there were very few people who were taken captive from all over the countryside like Huguang.

When Mo Changrong was about to escort the captives back to Shandong, a soldier suddenly came to report, saying that he was reinforcing the deputy chief soldier Cao Bianjiao, who had just defeated the thieves and captured more than 10,000 thieves and their families.

Hearing that it was Cao Bianjiao coming, Mo Changrong's face suddenly showed a solemn look, and he immediately ordered the soldiers to lead the way, and he and the director of Tielong Battalion B, Fu Qimo, went to meet him outside the city in person.

The reason why Mo Changrong attaches so much importance to Cao Bianjiao is actually because he just received another flying pigeon biography from Li Xiao two days ago.

In the letter, Li Xiao told him that if Cao Bianjiao, who was sometimes coming to the aid of the deputy commander-in-chief, he should be treated favorably, and in addition to giving him two taels of silver, he could also support a batch of swords and armor for him, as well as give him a valuable gift personally.

Mo Changrong, who had followed Li Xiao since he was in the Liaodong Sentinel Cavalry, admired Li Xiao extremely and obeyed his words. Therefore, at the moment, I firmly remembered Li Xiao's instructions.

Although Mo Changrong didn't understand why Li Xiao deliberately wooed Cao Bianjiao like this, Li Xiao, as a superior, had his own reasons for doing this, and Mo Changrong only needed to carry out the order with peace of mind.

And the reason why Li Xiao attaches so much importance to this Cao Bianjiao is also because in the history books he read in his previous life, the tragic fate of such an outstanding military general as Cao Bianjiao made Li Xiao very emotional.

Cao Bianjiao, Shanxi Datong, the nephew of the famous general Cao Wenzhao of the Ming Dynasty, was twenty-seven years old, with courage, excellent martial arts, he served in the army with Cao Wenzhao as a teenager, and since he joined the army, he has been fighting against the Liukou, pacifying many riots, and is very important and loved by the emperor.

With a series of hard work, he was successively appointed as a general, deputy commander-in-chief, governor, governor, and commander-in-chief. At that time, they were called Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, who were the big and small Cao generals of the Ming Dynasty, and both of them were outstanding generals who had a good command of the army and dared to fight. After Cao Wenzhao died in the eighth year of Chongzhen's battle, Cao Bianjiao took over the rest of the department, and was more reused, and his prestige became higher and higher.

It's just that the final outcome of such an outstanding young celebrity Cao Bianjiao is very tragic.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Cao Bianjiao, who was the governor of Zuodu, was martyred in the Battle of Songjin. In this battle, most of the Ming army collapsed, all the armies fled, only the change Jiao personally led his subordinates to rush to the Jin army array, through a group of elite white swing teeth, straight to the Huang Taiji army, after the arrow shot Jin Daxu, scared the enemy chief Huang Taiji, and rushed to the army to retreat to Lixu, before escaping the catastrophe.

It's a pity that in the end, due to the strength of the lonely and poor, and there were traitors who defected to the enemy, resulting in the fall of Songshan City, Cao Bianjiao's army was defeated and captured, he was loyal and unyielding, scolded the enemy chieftain, and was finally killed by the order of Huang Taiji, ending his heroic life.

Mo Changrong led a group of soldiers and soldiers to the outside of the city, and saw from a distance that at the forefront of the captive homeless team that could not see the end at a glance, a group of ironclad elite horsemen, guarding a young military general wearing a six-petal phoenix-winged helmet, wearing bronze armor and mountain pattern armor, wearing a bright red cloak on his shoulders, with a strong figure and a resolute face, Mo Changrong thought in his heart, this person should be Cao Bianjiao who Lord Li let him entertain himself.

"The last general will guerrilla Mo Changrong and meet General Cao."

"You're Mo Guerrilla, get up quickly." Cao Bianjiao's majestic and calm voice immediately sounded in Mo Changrong's ears. After speaking, Cao Bianjiao jumped off the horse, walked over with a smile with a horsewhip in his hand, and then helped him out.

After Mo Changrong got up, Cao Bianjiao said: "Mo Guerrilla, this group of captives and homeless people has already been brought by this soldier, so please check the number of people, and exchange it for silver taels for our army." It is a pity to say that the officers and men of our army fought bloodily, but to this day, they have not been paid for two months. “

Mo Changrong hurriedly said: "Chief soldier Cao, don't worry, a certain family will start to count, and then pay the full amount of the silver taels to your army." “

Mo Changrong then counted the number of prisoners and displaced people with Qi Mo, the director of B, and several civil officials.

After a short time, Mo Changrong finished counting, and immediately reported to Cao Bianjiao: "Report to General Cao Bing, this batch of prisoners, there are 5,324 adult men, 3,825 women, and 2,332 old and weak people, of which the total price of men is 15,972 taels, the total price of women is 7,650 taels, and the total price of the old and weak is 2,332 taels, and the total price is 25,954 taels. ”

Cao Bianjiao snorted, his face was slightly satisfied, after all, this number was not much different from his rough statistics. He smiled bitterly, and then said to Mo Changrong: "With this batch of emergency money, in addition to making up for the military salaries owed by our army, it can also provide more than 6,000 people of our army, almost half a year's military funds." Please don't guerrilla substitute for this soldier, thank you for your family Chifeng Bo Li. ”

Mo Changrong said with a smile: "General Cao is polite, my family Master Li often says that the Ming army from all walks of life is a family, and they should be watching and helping each other, but they don't have to see each other like this." By the way, Lord Li once instructed that if General Zeng escorted the prisoners, in addition to buying silver for your army, Lord Li also had 300 pieces of fine armor and 1,000 fine swords, which were given to General Cao Bing. ”

When Cao Bianjiao heard this, his face suddenly showed great joy, but he immediately asked suspiciously: "A certain family has never intersected with Chi Fengbo, and has never had any dealings, how can Master Li treat a certain person so well?" ”

"Chief Cao, this matter is ordered by Lord Li, and I don't know about it, so I just do things according to the rules."

Cao Bianjiao sighed, he groaned slightly, a smile appeared on his face, and he said loudly: "In this case, Cao Mou has thanked Chi Fengbo again." It's rare for Lord Li to have such kindness. ”

Soon, Mo Changrong brought the full amount of silver, as well as the armor and swords given to him, out of the city, which were accepted by Cao Bianjiao and his entourage.

Seeing the extremely beautiful and sturdy full-body armor made of stainless steel, as well as the sharp, thick and heavy fine sword, Cao Bianjiao and his subordinates were overjoyed and praised continuously.

Cao Bianjiao knew in his heart that if according to the market price, Li Xiao's batch of swords and armor were quite valuable. Just such a well-made full set of stainless steel armor is afraid that it will be worth thousands of taels of silver.

At this time, Mo Changrong held a top-grade Qingfeng sword with extremely well-made workmanship and bright red tassels, held it high above the top, and dedicated it to Cao Bianjiao: "Master Li has an order in his letter to give this excellent sword to Cao Zongbing." ”

Cao Bianjiao took it with great joy, brushed the ground, and pulled out the sword from the sharkskin scabbard engraved with classical ornaments.

With a roar, he slashed away with a sword, and a small tree next to him snapped.

Looking at the edge of the sword, it was almost undamaged, and the entire sword was still cold and awe-inspiring, full of a terrifying momentum.

"What a sword! Such a good sword is not an exaggeration if it is worth ten thousand gold. Cao Bianjiao admired again and again, then sent the sword into the sheath with a swipe on the ground, smiled at Mo Changrong and said in a deep voice: "Your Lord Li's thoughts, Cao's heart is self-evident. I also asked Mo Guerrilla to tell Master Li that in his future, if Chi Fengbo is useful to Cao, Cao should serve with all his heart! ”