Chapter 40: Trimming March
The young emperor Liu Bian succeeded to the throne and changed the name of the country to Guangxi, and in 188 AD it was the first year of Guangxi.
In April of the second year of Guangxi, Qin Hua solved the external invasion of Xianbei in the north, and at the same time allowed Zhang Liao to open up the trade routes from Liangzhou to the countries of the Western Regions.
In addition to 10,000 soldiers and horses in Liangzhou who stayed in the Western Regions to build a post fortress, 30,000 Qiang cavalry returned to Qingyang City, more than 10,000 were killed or retired, and the remaining 50,000 troops all returned to Wuwei County to station.
At this time, although Dong Zhuo's power leaned towards the government and the opposition, it had not yet reached the point where everyone shouted and beaten, so Qin Hua did not immediately send troops to attack Dong Zhuo.
Qin Hua gave the army three months to recuperate, allowing them to rest after nearly a year of conquest, and at the same time, they also needed to carry out post-war pensions and rewards.
After the news that Qin Hua would pacify the north was reported to Luoyang, Dong Zhuo was intimidated by Qin Hua's military strength, and Cai Yong kept saying good things about Qin Hua (after all, he was his future son-in-law), Dong Zhuo asked Liu Bian to canonize Qin Hua as the general of the expedition to the north and settle the marquis.
For a while, Qin Hua's reputation began to be known to the world, and some people had begun to notice this Liangzhou pastor in the northwest.
By the time the canonization of the imperial court arrived in Liangzhou, Qin Hua had already completed the post-war pension work.
With the treasures of the bandits in the Western Regions and the income from the livestock of those Xianbei tribes, the payment of this pension did not have any impact on Liangzhou's finances.
On the contrary, because of the opening of the Western Regions Trade Route, Qin Hua has been able to receive some commercial taxes.
With the title of General Zhengbei, Qin Hua began to reward his generals in a big way.
Jia Xu is still a military advisor sacrificial wine, and at the same time serves as a Liangzhou businessman.
Xun Youfeng was named Changshi, in charge of the internal affairs of Liangzhou and the promotion of local officials.
Ma Teng guarded Wuwei County and guarded his base camp for Qin Hua.
Zhang Liao, Han Sui, and Gao Shun were all generals, and Liang Xing and others were lieutenants.
Only Ma Wan's position is special after all, because he is now the city lord of Qingyang City, so Qin Hua gave him the official position of protecting Qiang Zhonglang General.
At the same time, according to their respective military exploits, they were rewarded lavishly, so that everyone who was still a little poor immediately became rich, and they were naturally grateful to Qin Hua for this.
Qin Hua ordered Ma Teng and Han Sui to be responsible for assessing those meritorious low-level generals to see if they could find some military talents who were awarded generals and partial generals.
After these things were dealt with after the war, the soldiers were basically in a state of semi-vacation.
Qin Hua still knew that most of these soldiers had been following Qin Hua and Zhang Liao away from their hometown for nearly a year, and they needed to be given a little time to reunite with their families.
After dealing with the affairs of the army, Qin Hua led the officials of the Ministry of Supervision and some officials of the Ministry of Industry to inspect the counties of Liangzhou and inspect the local people's conditions.
After all, all he received was some written information, although he had set up a supervision department to inspect and a report from Nighthawk, Qin Hua still wanted to go to the local area to check on the situation of the people.
As a result, before he left Wuwei County, Qin Hua was stopped by someone.
It was an old man with messy hair and tattered clothes, he saw Qin Hua's team coming, and regardless of the speeding team, he ran directly to the center of the road and knelt down.
Fortunately, Qin Hua's riding skills were not bad, and his speed was not fast at that time, so he stopped in time.
"My lord, please do justice to me."
Seeing Qin Hua stop, the old man immediately climbed a few steps forward and kowtowed to Qin Hua.
Qin Hua immediately dismounted and helped the old man up, and asked the old man why.
This old man didn't expect Qin Hua to really pay attention to himself, looking at Qin Hua's appearance, he should be a big official, he was a little incoherent for a while, and he couldn't make Qin Hua understand after talking for a while.
At this time, a passer-by on the side couldn't stand it anymore, and stepped forward to salute Qin Hua and began to tell what happened to the old man.
It turned out that the old man was a farmer in a nearby village, with a family of four, a son and a daughter in addition to his wife.
Originally, under Qin Hua's new policy, their lives began to gradually improve, but they didn't expect to suffer a catastrophe.
The local county magistrate fell in love with his daughter, and the county magistrate's reputation was not good, neither the old man nor his daughter was willing.
Unexpectedly, when this person saw that the other party refused, he actually sent someone to snatch his daughter away, and injured their family.
His son had his legs broken, and the old man was knocked to the ground.
Originally, they didn't dare to make a noise when they saw that the man was powerful, but they didn't expect that his daughter's body would be sent back the next day.
The old man's wife also hanged herself.
Suddenly, the old man had to stand up, but he was illiterate and had no way out, so he didn't know what to do, so he could only see the official's appearance as he did now, and he stepped forward to ask for help.
This county also has power in the local area, and the county magistrate doesn't want to take care of things, how dare those low-level officials take over.
So no one paid attention to the old man at all, and sometimes he was annoyed by the old man and would let people beat him, so the old man would be what he is now.
Qin Hua was extremely angry when he heard this, he thought that he had done so many things before, and he didn't dare to ask for the luxury of not closing his house at night and not leaving the road behind, at least this kind of thing would not happen.
Unexpectedly, it still happened, Qin Hua immediately turned his head and asked the officials of the Ministry of Supervision.
The man quickly called for a local prosecutor.
Through that person, Qin Hua learned that the original county man was a son of the Liu family, although he had no fief, he also had acquaintances in Luoyang.
The Liu family's children cannot be tried by the government, and they need to be reported to Zong Zhengqing in the Nine Qings, who is specially used by the Han Dynasty to try the cases of the children of the Han royal family.
The county magistrate saw that the other party was just an ordinary farmer, and the county magistrate was an old friend who he had worked with for many years, so he didn't want to care about this case.
"Hmph, the Liu royal family is difficult to protect itself, and a side branch of the down-and-out household still dares to be powerful?"
Of course, this sentence was said by Qin Hua in his heart, and he was not so arrogant as to openly say that the Han family was not.
"Someone, bring that Liu Xun over."
As soon as Qin Hua gave the order, four soldiers who were trapped in the camp went to arrest the county magistrate under the leadership of the local supervisors.
When Liu Xun was escorted by the soldiers of the trapped camp, he kept shouting that he was a child of the royal family, and even if he wanted to punish him, he could only be convicted by Zongzheng.
Qin Hua didn't talk nonsense with him, and directly pointed at the old man and asked Liu Xun if he had done those things.
Liu Xun didn't quibble, he admitted it in one mouth, and just asked Qin Hua to send him to Luoyang for conviction.
Hearing that this person confessed, in front of the crowd that came to watch more and more, Qin Hua pulled out his Cangming sword and cut off Liu Xun's head.
The sudden change frightened the onlookers and screamed again and again.
Qin Hua didn't care, he shook the blood on it, and inserted the sword into the sheath.
After doing all this, Qin Hua pointed to Liu Xun's leader and said, "Hang this head above the city gate to show the public, if there is a repeat offender, this person will be the end, even if it is a child of the royal family." ”
The old man suddenly saw that his great revenge had been avenged, and he didn't react for a while, and then he came to Qin Hua and kept kowtowing.
Qin Hua hurriedly helped him up: "This is my fault, it is my lack of strict governance." ”
Hearing Qin Hua's self-blame, the old man wanted to kneel down again, but was pulled by Qin Hua.
Turning his head to the people around him, he said, "Go and confiscate Liu Xun's property, take 10,000 yuan from it to compensate this old man, and then find a famous doctor to treat the old man's son." ”
After the man received the order to leave, Qin Hua said to the other person: "Find out those who have beaten the old man, and each person will have fifty rods." ”
After speaking, Qin Hua looked at the old man: "Old man, are you still satisfied with this arrangement?" ”
"Satisfied, satisfied." The old man didn't expect Qin Hua to avenge himself and help him so much, so he couldn't help but kneel down again.
Seeing that he really couldn't stop him, Qin Hua could only helplessly get on the horse and leave.
Afterwards, someone asked who Qin Hua was, and when he learned that this person was the pastor of Liangzhou, his reputation in Liangzhou, especially in Wuwei County, was improved again.