Yang Jian, Shen Yang, and Zheng Hui also advocated advancing the city and stabilizing the situation in Tanzhou, and then they should prepare for the next stage of the offensive against Shaozhou and Hengzhou as soon as possible.

Next, Guo Liang first led more than 1,000 cavalry guards from the family affairs and the tent to enter the city, and first settled in the original Tanzhou Jiedu Embassy to investigate potential safety hazards, while the others first accompanied the three princes and the Shu envoy Changxiang Hou Wang Yong to worship on Yuelu Mountain, and officially entered the city in the afternoon.

Although the Ma family ruled Xiangtan for more than 100 years, but during the Ma civil strife, Tanzhou City experienced a military robbery, hundreds of thousands of houses were destroyed in the war, and the civilians in the city were injured and injured.

The clans and civilians in Tanzhou have more or less formed a certain sense of identity and belonging to Dachu, and the Ma family raised the flag this time to seek secession, which is unpopular.

In several tough battles, the casualties were mainly the descendants of the Ma family who had controlled them for many years, and the combat effectiveness of the township soldiers was extremely weak, and even after Ma Yin proclaimed himself the king of Hunan, many officials in Tanzhou abandoned India and fled into the mountains.

The Tanzhou rebellion was almost quickly put down within half a year, which was particularly beneficial to the people's support.

The sunset shone obliquely, and Han Qian followed the three princes into the city.

The street into the city to the Jiedu Embassy was already crowded with civilians watching the bustle, and the vast majority of civilians did not have fear in their eyes, but a kind of relief and relief after the war could be calmed down so quickly.

Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong and the fake boy around him shared a lot of eyeballs, but the third prince Yang Yuanpu is undoubtedly the most eye-catching, he did not take a more closely protected carriage, insisted on riding into the city, under the attention of all the people, through the paved stone street, into the magnificent Jiedu Embassy (Xiangwang Mansion).

The Ma family divided the Dongting Lake and Xiangjiang River areas, and at most ruled the 12 states of the Dongting Lake, Xiangjiang River and Yuanjiang River basins.

Even though some of the buildings were destroyed in civil strife, ten years have passed, and the old view has been restored.

The Tanzhou Jiedu Embassy covers an area of about four or five hundred acres, which is even bigger than Longya City.

There are three halls built in front of the Jiedu Embassy, which are the places where Ma Yin discusses matters and handles military and political affairs; There are more than 1,000 houses in the inner house, pavilions and pavilions are lined up one after another, and a small hill circle covering an area of more than 100 acres, called Lion Rock is made into a private amusement park in the house, and the scale is several times more magnificent than the Linjiang County Royal Mansion in Jinling City.

Tanzhou Jiedu envoy has long had a tradition of serving eunuchs privately.

After Li Pu, Marquis of Xinchang, led his troops into the city, in addition to taking in more than 4,000 prisoners and more than 3,000 children and daughters of the Ma clan who did not have time to flee south; In addition, more than 2,000 eunuchs and palace maids used by the Jiedu envoy were also detained.

If the hundreds of civil and military officials and their dependents and domestic slaves and maids sealed by Ma Yin in Tanzhou City are counted, it may account for nearly half of the population of Tanzhou.

For the convenience of the guards and deliberations, Han Qian, Shen Yang, Zhang Ping, and the Shu envoy Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong and others also temporarily lived in the Jiedu Embassy with the three princes.

The idlers had already been imprisoned in the prisoner of war camp, and the guards of the county king's mansion were replaced inside and outside the palace, and the huge Jiedu embassy seemed much empty.

After Han Qian and the others lived in the Tanzhou Jiedu Embassy, Ma Yin, Ma Xun's father and son and other rebellious main criminals were also directly imprisoned in the dungeon of the Jiedu Embassy.

In order to prevent people and horses loyal to the Ma clan lurking in the city to assassinate, or kidnapping Ma Yin, Ma Xun's father and son, Han Qian didn't bother to take a breath, and personally deployed the elite scouts that Jinyun Tower could still organize near the dungeon to make up for the lack of guards in the family mansion and the tent mansion.

The dungeon is located in the northwest corner of the Jiedu Embassy, and it looks like a very inconspicuous courtyard, but it is heavily guarded.

Bypassing a rockery, there is an inconspicuous portal to the dungeon.

The interior of Tanzhou City is flat, and the dungeon built by digging a few meters into the ground looks extremely damp, and the walls are mottled with old bloodstains, which makes the dungeon filled with a pungent bloody atmosphere.

All kinds of torture instruments are placed there.

Han Qian, Jiang Xu, and Yuan Guowei walked through it in person, and confirmed that there was no secret passage leading to other places inside the dungeon before returning to the dungeon hall.

Ma Yin, Ma Xun, father and son, were imprisoned in a cell at the east end of the hall.

Ma Yin is over fifty years old, his thin cheeks look extremely old at this moment, his sideburns are frosty white, and he looks even more gloomy than Emperor Tianyou, who is ten years older than him.

Ma Xun was still wearing a python dragon robe, but he was filthy, his nose and face were swollen, and there were several knife wounds on his body, which should have been left when he led the guards to resist Ji Zhongqi's arrest, and he was just bandaged up at this time.

Ma Yin sat in the corner of the wall like an old monk, ignoring Han Qian's arrival, and Ma Xun's eyes looked at him gloomily, and his heart was full of unwillingness.

Han Qian smiled and gave a salute: "Han Qian, the deputy commander of the army in the Dragon Bird Military Tent, has seen Du Yuhou. ”

This was the first sentence when Han Qian sent his father to Xuzhou to take up his post and met Ma Xun on the way.

I think that when I was on the bow deck of the Wuyalou Ship, Ma Xun was sitting on a high-backed officer's chair in the center, and there were more than a dozen strategists and generals standing side by side on the left and right, how majestic it was!

Han Qian thought to himself that Ma Xun never thought that one day he would become a prisoner of the order.

A trace of anger and hatred flashed in Ma Xun's eyes, burning like a devouring beast, but then it dimmed.

"Lord Han, are you going to interrogate them now?" Jiang Shu bowed slightly, leaned over and asked.

Li Pu, Marquis of Xinchang, captured the city of Tanzhou and told the three princes that the savings of the Jiedu envoy were very limited, with less than 30,000 stone of grain and less than 200,000 yuan of silk and satin, gold and silverware.

When Xinchang Marquis Li Pu captured Tanzhou City, the rebels failed to rush into the Jiedu Embassy, Jiang Xu, Yuan Guowei and they all suspected that Ma Yin, Ma Xun and his son had secrets in other places, thinking of torture, and forced these secrets to be used as the capital of the Dragon Bird Army.

In the eyes of Jiang Shu and Yuan Guowei, Feng Wenlan and Kong Zhou, the household servants, were confiscated, and the Dali Temple and the Junwangfu copied the grange and private collections of the Feng Kong family, with a discount of up to millions.

As a prince of a place, the Ma family has operated Dongting Lake and the shores of the Xiangjiang River and Ruan River for nearly 100 years, and it is impossible to be worse than the Feng family.

And like Feng Changyu, he is just a big native family in the mountain nest of Xuzhou, and after being destroyed by Han Qian, he also confiscated more than 60,000 stone grains and other goods worth 670,000 yuan from Jingyun Village.

Han Qian shook his head, he didn't think that the Ma family could have any private collections, and even if there were, there would never be much.

Ma experienced civil strife ten years ago, and his vitality was hit hard, and even if it recovers within ten years, it is still far from its heyday.

Ma's extravagant style did not change, within ten years to build a large number of palaces and pavilions for their own fun, the festival envoy palace raised nearly 3,000 eunuchs and palace maids, and in order to maintain the semi-independent status of Tanzhou did not change, Mingli privately had to pay tribute to the dignitaries in Jinling City.

Tanzhou also has to maintain a huge military garrison of more than 20,000 elites all year round, and more than 4,000 soldiers were lost during the Jingxiang War, and this rebellion pulled Shaozhou and Hengzhou into the water together, and the force was rapidly expanded to nearly 90,000 people, and the cost was even greater.

The remaining savings of the Tanzhou Jiedu Envoy Mansion were consistent with Han Qian's prior judgment, and he didn't want to be a wicked person for useless work.

Of course, Jiang Shu and Yuan Guowei want to torture the Ma family's father and son, and Han Qian will never stop them.

In fact, judging from the accumulation of the Jiedu Embassy, even if Wen Ruilin, Gao Long, Miao Yong and others did not accelerate the progress of the war to cut down the feudal domain, Han Qian and the others seized Hanshou, completely controlled the middle and lower reaches of the Yuanjiang River, and cut off the rebels' territory, at most in two or three months, they could make the rebels fall into a desperate situation of lack of food and salary.

Even if the autumn grain harvest season is coming soon, the Wuling Army and the elite of the Longque Army will be in Hanshou, which will be extremely convenient to attack the hinterland along the Dongting Lake, and it will also make it impossible for the rebels to collect grain from the local area.

However, in the eyes of the vast majority of people, they will think that the capture of Baimao City and Tanzhou City are the two most critical battles to determine the victory of the feudal domain.

At this time, Xi Fa'er, who was guarding outside the dungeon, came to report that the scouts sent to Shaozhou and Hengzhou to spy on intelligence had returned, and the rebel generals Zhao Sheng and Luo Jia, after learning the news of the fall of Tanzhou, entangled 30,000 soldiers and horses, coerced tens of thousands of dependents, and fled along the Xiangjiang River to Yongzhou in the south.

Han Qian, Yuan Guowei, and Jiang Xu hurriedly left the dungeon of the West Courtyard and rushed to the front hall of the Jiedu Embassy.

Han Qian saluted with the three princes and everyone, walked to Shen Yang's head and sat down after the long case, and saw Wen Ruilin sitting between Chai Jian and Li Chong, and smiled in his heart, it seems that Wen Ruilin has made great contributions and has been completely regarded as a descendant of the Marquis of Xinchang.

Han Qian asked Shen Yang in a low voice, "Lord Shen, do you know that the rebels in Shaoheng and Heng have fled south?" ”

Shen Yang nodded and said, "I just talked about this. ”

At this time, Zheng Hui stood up and saluted the three princes and said:

"The rebels of Shaoheng and the two roads are coercing tens of thousands of families to flee south, and the speed must be quite slow, and we will lead the Shuibu battalion to the south of the Xiangjiang River, and we should be able to intercept it and annihilate it in Yongzhou."

Zheng Hui is the main battle faction, especially the battle of cutting the feudal domain is so smooth, the rebels have no power to fight back, there is no reason to let Zhao Sheng, Luo Jia two rebels go south to join the Qingyuan army, he advocates leaving a small number of soldiers and horses in Tanzhou City, and the other water battalion infantry can immediately gather 20,000 elites to pursue south, and should take advantage of the victory to pursue.

The third prince and Xinchang Marquis Li Pu were also eager to try, and they all wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and earn full military achievements.

Han Qian sat behind the desk and looked at Shen Yang and Yang Jian.

Yang Jian sat as firmly as Mount Tai, obviously he had already figured it out in his heart, the third prince wanted to send troops to pursue, and the Lou Boat Army and Water Battalion sent warships to cooperate, but there was no need to express any opinions.

Shen Yang's expression was slightly condensed, as if he had not yet figured out some tricks, and seemed to be worried about sending troops to pursue immediately, and there were some unpredictable risks.

Of course, the military conference convened overnight was attended by major generals such as Li Zhihe, Zhou Yan, Zhou Shu, Gao Chengyuan, Zhang Feng, and Zhang Han, as well as Chai Jian, Li Chong, Zhang Ping, Wang Lin, and other accompanying officials.

Now Zheng Hui is very interested in expressing his attitude first, if others agree, it is fine, if they are opposed, they have to think carefully about the wording to not be offensive.

Seeing the smug appearance of Li Puchun, Marquis of Xinchang, who seemed to want to speak, Han Qian guessed that he had not yet figured out some key points, so he coughed lightly, intercepted his words, and smiled with Zheng Hui: "Lord Zheng should stay to assist His Highness to sit in Tanzhou and go south to pursue the military merits of defection, Lord Zheng can't take it all over anymore!" ”

Zheng Hui was slightly stunned, at this time in the main hall, the one who could lead twenty or thirty thousand soldiers and horses to chase south was Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang.

Yang Jian's status is high enough, but as the commander of the water division, he is not the right person to lead the army south.

However, he listened to the meaning of Han Qian's words, and it was not to fight for the opportunity for Xinchang Hou Li Pu to lead the army south, after all, Xinchang Hou Li Pu's military merits at this time were not inferior to him, and Han Qian should have suggested that the generals below should have more opportunities to perform or stand alone.

In effect, this would reduce the size of the force used to pursue southward.

Luo Jia, Zhao Sheng still have more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, although people are panicking, but they can gather 20,000 elites, why should they reduce the scale of their troops?

Isn't this an increase in the risk of using troops for no reason?

Xinchang Marquis Li Pucha's ability to observe words and colors is extremely strong, now everyone has a lot of meritorious deeds, and he is in a good mood, even if Han Qian does not advocate him to lead the troops, he is not annoyed, people can't be too greedy, so he asked Han Qian with a smile: "Lord Han thinks that the military merits of chasing and fleeing from the south should be taken into the bag?" ”

"Zhao Sheng and Luo Jia fled south, and most of the kings of Yuzhang County in Yuanzhou have been reported at this time, and they should soon send troops and horses into Hengzhou, and we will select a general to lead five or six thousand elites, enter Shaozhou first, and wait until His Royal Highness meets with the king of Yuzhang County, and then discuss the strategy of fighting Yongzhou in the south, which may be more appropriate." Han Qian said.

Now there is a good opportunity to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and Han Qian actually suggested slowing down the pursuit of Zhao Sheng and Luo Jia, and everyone was stunned.

Where is this a little like Han Qian's style in the past?

Yang Yuanpu also looked at it with doubts.