Chapter 262 Conditions for Surrender
Specific things, Tian Cheng, Yang Qin and others stared at, took the Chinese county, Han Qian also removed the biggest stone in his heart, returned to the back house of the town general's mansion, and wanted to find a room with futon to rest, and then think about the things that need to be considered tomorrow.
The yard of the back house is not big, two pomegranate trees are planted, the early autumn in Xuzhou is not very hot, and it is even a little cool after nightfall, the branches and leaves of the pomegranate tree grow very beautifully, the guards are all guarding the yard, there is no emergency, and no one comes in to disturb Han Qian.
Han Qian didn't know where Xi Ying ran at this time, and he didn't bother to pay attention to her, looking at the light in the east wing, he remembered that it was a bedroom when he ran over to hang out just now, so he pushed the door and walked in, only to find Xi Ying sitting in front of the bed.
She took off her leather armor at this time, and she didn't know where to find a dark green skirt to change into, without a veil silk, her snow-white arms and fragrant shoulders were exposed, as white as snow, as smooth as milk, and her delicate face looked so charming and seductive in the candlelight.
Han Qian was startled, but he also subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, stood by the door, stepped into the room with one foot, but did not dare to raise the other foot, and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”
"When did you get so daring?" Xi Ying's beautiful eyes as deep as the night looked over and asked, "I don't have any blades hidden on my body, are you still afraid that I won't succeed?" Or maybe the young master really doesn't want my body? ”
Han Qian looked at Xi Ying's appearance and charming body that could make any man crazy, licked his lips that were a little dry, stepped into the room, and finally stood in front of the bookcase, staring at Xi Ying's white face, and asked, "If you have anything, let's just say it, I don't want to suffer this sin." ”
"Xi Ying is willing to dedicate his body to the young master, and the Xi clan will continue to be loyal to the young master, but as long as the young master does not recruit Feng Changyu and Feng Jin, the dog thief father and son!" Xi Ying stood up and walked in front of Han Qian, wanting to send his most delicate body to Han Qian's mouth.
"Isn't that difficult for you?" Han Qian smiled bitterly.
Feng Changyu, Feng Jin and others led more than 300 troops to retreat into the depths of the Chinese mountains, and according to the reconnaissance of the spies, they all fled into the Longqiao Village in the upper reaches of the Zhuxi River.
How dangerous is Longqiao Village and don't talk about him, from the Donglu River Valley along the north bank of the Zhuxi River into the mountain, the mountain road is the narrowest, only to allow a horse to stick to the cliff to pass, at this time don't say more than 300 soldiers, even if more than 30 soldiers guard this dangerous road, want to attack down, but also pay extremely tragic casualties.
Moreover, it is true that the battle of the four surnames is the loss of thousands of elite soldiers, but the core villages of the four of them still have two or three hundred elite soldiers to defend themselves, and they can even further recruit the brave from the subordinate villages, and it is unrealistic to suppress the four surnames through military means before the end of this year.
And Han Qian really wanted to use brutal means to suppress the four surnames bloodily, leaving no room for relaxation, on the one hand, there was not enough time, and in addition, how would he do business with the surnames of Jingzhou in the upper reaches of Yuanshui and even the people of Qianyang Ancient County in the future?
As the gateway of the ancient county of Qianzhong, the transportation links between Jingzhou and other places and the Central Plains are either bypassed from Shu or go down through the Yuanshui, which is also the value of Xuzhou's status.
Therefore, both fighting and pulling, using force to conquer and Huairou together, is a truly reasonable choice.
No matter what Feng Changyu and Feng Jin's father and son have done to the Xi clan and Xi Ying, but in his eyes, there is no difference between him and Xi Zhen, Yang Zaili, Xiang Jianlong and others.
"This is also difficult for Xi Yingqiang?" Xi Ying leaned over and asked, staring at Han Qian with sultry eyes.
Han Qian didn't undress his armor, he felt that he was going to be sluggish, but looking at this Nizi's deliberately hooking eyes, he still couldn't control his hands on Xi Yi's soft and elastic waist, and through the light Luo shirt, he really regretted that his more than two years of monk career was a godsend, and his hand couldn't help but slide down against the moving curve.
"Promise me!" Xi Ying grabbed Han Qian's hand with his backhand and asked.
"The Xi clan has been training for nearly two years, I'll give you three days, and after three days, I'll send someone into the mountain to find the four surnames to surrender!" Han Qian said.
"......" Xi Ying shook off Han Qian's hand, and his body slid out of Han Qian's arms lightly, and then he walked to the outhouse, to put on leather armor again, and prepare to take the Xi boy into the mountain.
"Crossing the river and demolishing the bridge is not as fast as you!" Han Qian was not as agile as Xi Ying, but he couldn't catch this girl, and he gritted his teeth with hatred.
"Does the young master want to get Xi Ying's heart?" Xi Ying took off the skirt directly, and was still wearing a silk coat inside, while putting on leather armor, he inserted the short blade into the leather sheath on the outside of his thigh, turned around, and stared at Han Qian with hooked eyes and asked.
Han Qian muttered: "Just get the body, what do I want your heart for, can't you fry it?" If you fail to assassinate the Feng family's father and son, and die in Longqiao Village, won't Lao Tzu even be able to get a hair? ”
Xi Ying ignored Han Qian's complaints and muttering, and when the equipment was ready, he pushed the door and walked into the deep night.
When Han Qian saw Xi Fa'er guarding the courtyard, he knew that Xi Ying had already thought about going into the mountains to assassinate the Feng family's father and son, he only sighed slightly in his heart, although he finally chose more than thirty Xi teenagers to practice the art of hidden ninja, it was just an assassination under strict guards, where was it so easy to complete?
Even if the assassination succeeded, how could they escape safely from the pursuit of hundreds of people?
Assassination has always been a task that can only be accomplished by dead soldiers.
It's just that the hatred of the Xi family for the Feng family's father and son is too deep, and this is a knot that Xi Ying and most Xi teenagers must untie in order to be relieved.
Han Qian sighed slightly, stood in front of the porch for a while, and then went back to the house and slept in his clothes.
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Twelve Xi teenagers followed Xi Ying and Xi Fa'er into the mountain, and three days later, Xi Fa'er led four Xi teenagers into the Chinese city with two arrows in his left shoulder and Xi Ying, who was weak in blood loss.
The shaft of the arrow had been cut, but there was no medicine to stop bleeding on the way, and I did not dare to dig the cluster of arrows out of the flesh easily.
Han Qian washed his hands with alcohol, dug out the arrow clusters with his own hands, helped her apply the wound medicine, and asked softly, "Is it worth it?" ”
Although the assassination was successful, the eight Xi teenagers who had been trained for nearly two years were killed in the breakthrough, and Xi Ying, Xi Fa'er, and the people who escaped back were all wounded, if Han Qian made a choice, he would definitely not be willing to lose so many good hands in vain for the lives of Feng Changyu and Feng Jin's father and son.
"It's worth it. We also burned down the granaries of Longqiao Village and Guiyan Village for you, so I still don't owe you anything this time. Xi Ying couldn't help but grit his silver teeth and said.
Longqiao Village and Guiyan Village are two small villages from the upper reaches and sources of Zhugong River, both of which are only one or two hundred villagers planting valleys in the mountains to reproduce, and they are also the only two villages that the four surnames can rely on in the mountains of China.
The grain fields in the mountains are not irrigated, the harvest of planted grains is limited, and most of the stored grain is collected and scraped by the head of the village and stored in the granary, Xi Ying set fire to the granary, and it will escape into the mountains More than 300 soldiers with four surnames will be more difficult to stay in for too long, and it will be easier to negotiate terms with the leaders of the four surnames in the mountains when they send people into the mountains.
It's just that Xi Ying said this, obviously he wanted to rely on the conditions promised to him before he set off for the assassination, Han Qian hated it so much, and wanted to wait for you, a little girl, to heal from her injuries, and see who can rely on whom?
Seeing that Xi Ying's injury was not a big deal, Han Qian stood up, walked out of the bedroom, and said to Feng Xuan, Feng Zhang, and others who were waiting in the small hall outside: "You can go into the mountain and tell the four chieftains and leaders that if they pretend to agree to my conditions just to get out, thinking that they will be safe and sound after returning to their respective villages, then it is a big mistake, and when the time comes, please don't blame me for being ruthless, and attack their villages one by one to exterminate their clans!" ”
Feng Zhang was originally Feng Changyu's nephew, Han Daoxun and Han Qian entered Xuzhou, he was selected together with Gao Bao and incorporated into the four-surname fleet, responsible for escorting, and traveling between Jinling and Xuzhou.
During the Jingxiang War, Feng Zhang and many children with four surnames made military achievements, and when he returned to Xuzhou, he and many people were awarded honors.
Because of the opposition between the four surnames and Qianyang City, they did not seek an official position in Qianyang City, but after the disbandment of the fleet of the four surnames, they all returned to their respective villages.
Feng Zhang and more than a dozen other people were just small leaders or the most ordinary village soldiers in each village before, but after they had meritorious deeds, they were unwilling to be like puppets anymore, completely sent by the four chiefs.
As people with official status, they also had a reward to buy a farm house, and even hired people to open a new village, which in fact lifted their previous personal attachment to the four chiefs.
This time, the four surnames gathered more than 1,300 soldiers to attack the Chinese city, but Feng Changyu, Xiang Jianlong and others were worried that Feng Zhang and others might be co-opted and bought by the Han family's father and son, so they excluded these "dissidents", but they trusted Gao Bao.
Feng Changyu, Xiang Jianlong and others didn't think of the accounting of military merits in the Jingxiang War and the division of middle and low-level officers, and even Feng Zhang and others returned to Xuzhou to buy a farm house and open up a new village.
Han Qian invited Feng Xuan, Feng Zhang and others to come to the Chinese city (Eagle Fish Village) this time, mainly wanting to split the Fanzhai controlled by the four surnames into sixteen townships, and asked Feng Xuan, Feng Zhang and others to serve as township inspectors to promote the reform of the field tax.
Each village has four to eight villages, each of which retains 30 to 60 households, and also accommodates 20 to 40 households who have moved in in the past two years and a small number of Tanzhou descendants and their dependents.
The surplus villagers all moved to the Zhongfang City and the vicinity of Wuliuxi or Qianyang City. The people of Xuzhou are all combined into one volume, and they are no longer divided into two nationalities.
Feng Xuan, Feng Zhang and others were originally small local households in Xuzhou, even if they bought a farm house and opened up a new village after returning to their hometown, the field tax reform would not touch their interests, and serving as a township inspector could be regarded as a formal official.
It's just that Feng Xuan is fine, Feng Zhang and others have been under the rule of Feng Changyu and other chieftains for a long time, and if they want to resist all of a sudden, they have a lot of scruples in their hearts.
Moreover, the resistance of the households in Zhuzhai was strong, and Feng Zhang and others did not gain enough prestige to appease them in a short period of time.
The best way is to make the four chieftains and leaders trapped in Longqiao Village surrender, and Feng Xuan and Feng Zhang are also willing to go to the representative Han Qian Longqiao Village to negotiate with Jianlong, Yang Zaili and other chiefs.
In order to calm the situation in Xuzhou as soon as possible, Han Qian gave Xiang Jianlong, Yang Zaili and others preferential conditions, and only needed to agree to cooperate with the implementation of the new land tax policy, support the Tuke nationality, and give up control over Fanhu.
As long as they are willing to be loyal to the Xuzhou Defense Embassy and no longer have the intention of rebellion, Han Qian will even give them more than 30 large and medium-sized merchant ships currently owned by Qianyang City for free, and they will monopolize the trade with Fanzhai in the upper reaches of the Yuan River to ensure that they can maintain the luxurious life they used to live in Xuzhou.
Of course, if they wanted to move their clan away from Xuzhou, Han Qian would not stop them.