Hearing Xu Muhe's words, the lord of Nawu Fort immediately shrunk his neck, and even took a step back.

Xu Muhe's reputation among the local heroes in Qingzhou is not very friendly.

He had already cleared more than a dozen dock forts in Qingzhou on the grounds that the battlefield was stagnant and he disobeyed orders, and the land, population, and wealth of those dock forts were all swallowed up by the Xu family.

With this benefit, no one doubts that he still wants to find a reason to clean up another dozen more.

After the first bird retreated, Xu Muhe's coercive gaze swept the audience, and the Dock Fort Lords who were still clamoring to continue to attack Quanqi Province just now immediately fell silent.

"You guys just watch here, see how our soldiers conquer Linzi City, and then you can go home separately."

Xu Muhe said coldly:

"Go back and think about what you should do, and in a month, come to Juzhou for a meeting."

Perhaps many dock castle owners dared to argue with Xu Shiyang, but now absolutely no one dared to resist Xu Muhe.

Because there are lessons from the past that show that this man's methods are ruthless, and the cruelty is not under the Tartars.

……

The battle itself was already one-sided.

After the collapse of the central front of the Northern Alliance, the new army successfully completed the encirclement of Linzi County.

About half an hour later, the Jingyuan battalion, which had outflanked the enemy's rear route, sent people to report that the mounted infantry had blocked the enemy's retreat, most of the collapsed enemy had been captured, and only a small number of people had escaped from the pursuit of the Jingyuan battalion.

At the same time, the artillery team advanced to a distance of less than 500 meters from the city wall of Linzi County, and deployed 6 general guns, 14 magic machine guns and more than 90 wooden cannons to prepare for the siege of the city.

However, only after a test shot of the general's artillery, the Linzi defenders disarmed and surrendered.

At this point, the unification war of Qingzhou Mansion came to an end.

In the Battle of Linzi, only a few Zhiyuan cavalry of the new army were slightly wounded in the scout battle, but their enemies died nearly 300 people, more than 4,000 were captured, and the number of people who escaped from the battlefield was less than 200, and some of them were destined to die due to hunger and cold or wild beast attacks.

The only good thing is that, in any case, this battle is generally in line with Xu Shiyang's idea - as few deaths as possible, and fewer deaths on both sides.

After losing most of the strong men, the Northern Alliance Wubao lord lost the ability to resist, and on June 14, the old army of the Xu family entered the county seat of Le'an, entered Boxing on the 15th, and opened the city without blood in Gaoyuan on the 17th.

So far, the Qingzhou Mansion of Qi Province has completed the unification for the first time in the thirteen years after the Great Zhou Dynasty moved south.

……

On the night of entering the high garden, the elated Xu Muhe convened all the core members of the Xu family to hold a banquet, at which he drank a lot of wine, so that after the meeting, he still couldn't sleep, and sat in the courtyard to drink tea and relieve hangover.

The other core members of the Xu family had already left, and Xu Shiyang waved his hand to let the maid and waiter temporarily retreat, and he crossed his legs to the opposite side of his father.

There was no maid to serve, so Xu Muhe had to push the teapot himself and motioned for Xu Shiyang to pour the tea.

Xu Shiyang was not polite, filled his father's teacup, and poured himself another cup - the color of this tea is good, it is the Laoshan green tea sold in Laizhou, and it is still the same taste as Xu Shiyang, but he was never willing to drink it before, because it was too expensive.

Xu Shiyang drank tea and moistened his throat before asking:

"Father, why didn't you want to give some benefits to the new dock lord that day?"

"What do you do to give them benefits?" Xu Muhe asked indifferently.

"Give them benefits, they are willing to follow us, otherwise they will ......" Xu Shiyang hesitated, and then said: "There are no permanent friends, but there are eternal interests, and without interests, they will not return to their hearts." ”

"Hmph, woman's kindness." Xu Muhe commented.

"Father, this is not benevolence and righteousness, this is human nature, and interests ......"

"I have the strength to kill them, but if I don't kill them, this is the benefit for them."

Xu Muhe said unceremoniously:

"Humanity? What is Human Nature? If the Tartars can unify the world, if the Tartars are willing to kill fewer people, I dare not say in Jiangnan, but there will be many people in the north of the Yangtze River who take refuge in the Tartars, which is also human nature. ”

"Any idea why? Because everyone is tired! Everyone wants a more stable life! For this reason, you can make a dog for the Tartars! Since you can be a dog for the tartars, then I give them a peaceful life, and they must obey me! ”

"But we can't give them a peaceful life." Xu Shiyang emphasized: "It won't be long before there will be a big war to be fought, and there will be countless wars in the future, and we need people's hearts!" ”

"Who can live a peaceful life now? The emperor of the Great Zhou is not good, and the emperor of Dajin is not good. Xu Muhe sneered: "We can give Qingzhou a hope for a peaceful life, that's enough." ”

"As for people's hearts, ......, hehe."

Xu Muhe sneered:

"Even if they obey you and are willing to live and die with you, what can they do?"

"I know them very well, and it's good to be able to withstand the Tartars for a fierce an."

"My father has seen your new army, it is very strong and strong, so my father has also thought about it, you don't need them to fight the Tartars, only the new army can be used."

"I don't want their hearts, I just want their mouths! When we wait for next month's convention, I will force them to form a new battalion, and first expand the new army to 10,000 men, and leave it all to you to train and command. ”

"Other than the old army, it's good to be an auxiliary soldier for you."

Xu Shiyang immediately shook his head: "This will definitely not work, without the leadership of veterans, the combat effectiveness of the new battalion is too poor, excessive expansion will not increase combat effectiveness, and the command will dilute the already small number of veterans to the point of uselessness." ”

"I can't just have their ding, I want everyone to work together!"

"Everyone?" Xu Muhe thought for a while and said, "That's a bit troublesome, no matter how much they get to their hearts, they won't hand over all the population." ”

"If you don't hand them over, you can't help them!" Xu Shiyang was angry, and he was also a little annoyed: "I give them benefits, but they are unwilling to cooperate, and when I don't want to give benefits, if I don't cooperate, I will make them cry!" ”

"Then why not make them cry in the first place?"

Xu Muhe asked again:

"Listen to you, Father, what you want is actually the hearts of the people, right? Then why do you want to make so many concessions to the dock lord in one move? ”

"People's hearts?"

Xu Shiyang woke up suddenly.

yes, are you going the wrong way?

What does he want the hearts of the Lord of the Dock Castle to do?

In fact, even a feudal leader would not like to be a small warlord who controls the personal rights of civilians like the lord of the dock castle.

This may be the reason why Xu Muhe is so ruthless to other families who are also the owners of Wubao.

And Xu Shiyang, it should really be the common people who should be united, or even a certain exploiting class, such as landlords or capitalists (if there is one in this era).

As long as they do not restrict the personal rights of civilians and give Xu Shiyang the opportunity to use all the manpower of Jiangbei, everything can be negotiated and everything can be exchanged for benefits.

But the Dock Castle Master certainly can't.

Because they were actually part of the semi-slave-owning class, and the personal rights of the Dock Burgers were their property, they should not be expected to cooperate well with them.

"I guess I know what I'm doing wrong."

Xu Shiyang's eyes became firm again, and he said word by word:

"Father is right about one thing, what I want is not the 'hearts of the people' of the dock castle master, and it doesn't matter if they are sincere and obedient."

"In the future, under our rule, we don't need this thing as a dock master!"