In early July, the weather was already very hot, even in Youzhou in the north, it was unbearable heat at this time.

Early in the morning, many people in Jixian County ran out of the city after breakfast, because they heard the news that the Assassin Mansion was going to set up an execution ground outside the city to kill the Baba family and the criminals who opposed the government.

It was not only the Baba family that was executed this time, but also a branch of the Wang family in Youzhou, which sent soldiers to measure the acres of land and collect taxes, and had a fierce conflict with the officials, in which one official and three officials were killed.

This was one of the most serious vicious incidents against the government, and of course the Assassin Mansion could not tolerate this kind of behavior, so it quickly dispatched troops to disarm the Wang family, forcibly incorporated the family soldiers owned by the Wang family into the army, and put more than 100 members of the Wang family in prison to await disposal.

After many residents left the city, they saw a large number of people gathered around the fenced off execution ground, and the officials had not yet arrived, and the prisoners had not yet been escorted.

As the sun rose and the temperature became hotter, the prison officials and representatives of the nobles, merchants, and ordinary people who had been invited to watch the execution came to the stage and sat down.

Soon, the main prisoners were locked in the prisoner cart and pulled over by horse-drawn carriages, and the secondary prisoners were driven by the soldiers with shackles and shackles, and the onlookers got out of the way.

Seeing the Babal's family passing by in a prison car, a citizen on the side of the road suddenly shouted: "Stoned him to death!" ”

"Smash him!" Someone immediately chimed in.

For a while, a large number of rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, and small stones flew from both sides and smashed on the members of the Babal family.

The Baba family has been in Youzhou for decades, and the evil things they have done are too numerous to mention, and the people of Youzhou have long been eager to eat their flesh and drink their blood, but now they are just throwing rotten vegetable leaves, smashing rotten eggs, and throwing stones.

The weather was very hot, but the enthusiasm of the people was still undiminished, until the sun was in the middle and the shadows on the ground had overlapped with the benchmark, and the supervisor stood up and said loudly: "The Xianbei Baba family and the Wang family fought against the government, not only refused to pay taxes, but also injured and killed the officials, which is really the biggest evil, but so that Jun Nian has the virtue of a good life in heaven, and it is not the purpose of the government to punish them, but to deter those who still want to continue to fight against the government and resist to the end, so this time the king decided to execute only men who have the blood of the Baba family and the Wang family, The women, the housekeepers, the handmaidservants, and the grooms in the family shall be exempted from the death penalty and shall be dealt with separately."

After speaking, the warden looked at the benchmark and immediately said, "The hour has come, execution!" ”

An arrow was thrown to the ground with a loud bang.

The executioners took a sip of wine from their bowls, took a sip of the wine in their mouths, and sprayed it on the butcher's knife.

"Slash—"

The executioners slashed down with their swords, and the heads fell to the ground, and their bodies spurted blood arrows before falling to the ground.

"Okay, good kill, good kill!"

"God has opened his eyes!"

Many of the onlookers cheered, and many wept with joy.

Assassin's House.

Zhao Junsheng walked around the hall with his hands behind his back, and said to the officials and generals present: "After today's execution, Ben Jiang believes that no one in Fanyang and Yan County will dare not pay taxes anymore, and if those Xianbei nobles and scholars want to follow in the footsteps of the Ba family and the Wang family, Ben General has the means to deal with them!" Next, we have to deal with the hard bones of Yuyang County, General Zhenbei, Yuyang Taishou Feng has 5,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, this person is unruly, and it is not so easy to make him subordinate to this general, until now, the decree of the Assassin Mansion is difficult to move an inch in Yuyang County, from the Taishou Mansion to the county government below there is no one who implements the decree of the Assassin Mansion, you think that how to open the situation in Yuyang County? ”

Officials and generals exchanged heads and whispered to each other.

Zhao Junsheng saw Dongfang Chen constantly brushing his beard, and was about to ask, when a small official walked in from outside to report: "Envoy, the execution ground outside the city has been completed, and all the people of the Baba family and the Wang family have been beheaded, and the people are thunderous with joy, and most of them are so happy that they can't cry, and bow down in the direction of the Assassin's Mansion to pray for the envoy!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said to the officials and generals with a serious face: "Listen, have you heard it?" As an official, as long as you do something for the benefit of the people, the people will not forget you! Are you short of money to spend? There is no shortage; Do you lack fame? Who of you is not famous in the county? What are you missing? It's an achievement! ”

"For you, it is not difficult to be an official, but the difficult thing is how to do a good job as an official! If you are an official and mess around all day long, only thinking about greedy money, have no political achievements, do not uphold justice for the people, and do not do good deeds for the people, even if you are a very popular minister, what is the use? People will only say that you are just a straw bag, and your official reputation is not a good name, but a bad name! ”

"Alright, let's get down to business! Mr. Dongfang, what measures do you think should be taken for Feng Feng and Yuyang County? ”

Dongfang Chen was named by Zhao Junsheng, he had to stand up, walked to the middle of the hall and said: "Envoy, my subordinates have an idea that it is too poisonous, and I don't know whether to say it or not."

"It's okay to talk about it, it's up to Ben to adopt it or not!" Zhao Junsheng encouraged.

Dongfang Chen immediately said: "The envoy can first send an official letter to Feng Yu, and summon him to the Assassin Mansion in the name of Youzhou Assassin Shi to report on the military and political affairs of Yuyang County, if he comes, immediately put him under house arrest, so that Jun will send officials to Yuyang to divide his henchmen, win over a group, dispose of a group, and at the same time send a group of soldiers and horses to deter his generals, so that they do not dare to act rashly, and then remove and purge his die-hard generals!" ”

"If he doesn't come, so that Jun can send an elite small force of cavalry to be active in the border area of Yan under the banner of Feng Yu, looting their villages and sneaking up on their towns, so as to provoke Yan Guo, so that Yan Guo can no longer bear to send troops to Yuyang, if Feng Yu is not defeated, he will definitely send an envoy to ask for help, so that Jun does not have to pay attention to him, and when he loses most of his strength, he will quickly send troops to repel the Yan army, and take the opportunity to control Yuyang, incorporate the Yuyang army, and overhead the seal, at that time whether Feng Yu is dead or alive is not in the mind of the king?"

Pei Jin next to him said: "Isn't it okay to kill Feng Yu?" After all, he is the general of Zhenbei, and his official rank is still above the envoy! It was indeed too much of a slap in the face for the imperial court to let him be the general of Zhenbei as the Taishou of Yuyang, no wonder he was resentful! ”

"Hmph, who can blame this? If he hadn't supported Tuoba Pi with Ba Pa Song in the first place, why would he be here? Cao Jiao said.

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and nodded and said, "Mr. Dongfang's strategy is good!" First send an official letter to Feng Yu and summon him to report on his work in the Assassin's Mansion! ”

In the next few days, the Xianbei nobles and scholars in Fanyang and Yanjun did not dare to fight with the government anymore after hearing that the Baba family and the Wang family had been wiped out, and obediently paid taxes according to the actual acres of land.

These Xianbei nobles and scholars have all paid taxes, and those Diao people who plan to carry it to the end naturally can't bear it, so they can only grit their teeth and hand over the overcharged taxes.

So far, Fanyang and Yanjun were completely controlled by Zhao Junsheng, in order to check and balance the Xianbei nobles and scholars, Zhao Junsheng vigorously promoted some poor officials and civilians in the process of collecting taxes, and for some capable officials, they were promoted to officials, crossing the insurmountable gap from officials to officials, and these people naturally became Zhao Junsheng's diehard fans.

After several days, Yuyang Taishou and Zhenbei General Feng Yu did not come to Jixian County, but they sent someone to send a letter saying that they were sick and not good at walking, and asked Zhao Zhijun to forgive him and report on his work when he recovered.

Zhao Junsheng's face gradually turned murderous after reading the letter, "Hmph, don't pretend to be sick or come?" The decrees and military orders of the Assassin Mansion will not work in Yuyang, is he going to divide the territory? Come on, go find Bai Jinguang! ”

Soon Bai Jinguang received an order and quickly rushed to the Assassin's Mansion, "General, are you looking for a subordinate?" ”

Zhao Junsheng handed a troop transfer talisman to Bai Jinguang, "I'll give you a task, you return to the Youzhou Army garrison and a thousand cavalry to quietly cross the border between Youzhou and Yan, go to Yan to loot villages and attack towns in Yanguo, the bigger the destruction, the better, just to provoke Yan Guo, so that they can't bear it anymore and send troops to attack Yuyang!" ”

"Yes!" Bai Jinguang took the troop transfer tiger talisman and hugged his fists and turned to leave.

To be honest, Zhao Junsheng actually didn't want to use this method to deal with Feng Yuan, it was really not glorious to use external forces to deal with his own people, but this Feng Yuan was not a Han person, but a Xianbei general; And Yan Guo is now Feng Hong as the king of heaven, Feng Hong is a Han person, and the Han people unite with the Han people to deal with Feng Yu, a Xianbei person, which makes Zhao Junsheng feel no guilt in his heart.

"General, the imperial court sent an official letter, ordering the general to build a large camp for hoarding baggage in Yuyang County, and it won't be long before a large amount of baggage will be transported over one after another!" Dongfang Chen walked over and handed Zhao Junsheng an official document.

Zhao Junsheng took the official document and opened it to look at it, and after reading it, he said to Dongfang Chen: "The official document requires the general to act secretly, it seems that the imperial court is only afraid of making a move against Yan Guo!" ”

"It must be so, and my subordinates speculate that it should be within one or two months! The general now has a lot of troops in his hands, in addition to the 4,000 cavalry brought by Gao Xu from Wuchuan Town, there are 5,000 Xianbei cavalry alone, and nearly 20,000 horses and horses of the Han army, and his subordinates are worried that the emperor will let the general take these soldiers and horses with the army to attack Yan State, and at least 15,000 people can be used by 20,000 Han soldiers, but they are all foot soldiers, and they can't do field battles, they must only be used to attack the city, and they are afraid of great losses when the time comes! ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "General Ben thinks it's more appropriate to disband them on the surface, but actually get them to Tuntian, what do you think?" ”

Dongfang Chen laughed: "The general is wise! ”

At this time, Li Bao walked in quickly to report: "General, there is news from the direction of Pingcheng, General Hua has been dismissed by the emperor, and General Hua is already on the way to Youzhou at this time, according to the itinerary, they have arrived at Flying Fox!" ”

"What? How can you be dismissed? Zhao Junsheng was taken aback, and then his expression relaxed again, "It's okay to be dismissed, General Ben is going to Fanyang counties to inspect the implementation of the new policy, and by the way, he will go to greet Mulan." Mr. Dongfang, the military and political affairs of the Assassin's Mansion will be handed over to you for the time being, and if there is anything to do, send a quick horse to report to me immediately! ”