Zuo Huyun is 55 years old this year, and he is 58 years old, and in this era when the average life expectancy is less than forty, he can already be regarded as an old man.

Both of them have seen the last glory of the Great Zhou in Jiangbei, and they have also seen the final end of the Western Army, which was leaned on as the Great Wall by the imperial court, followed by more than ten years of boundless darkness.

During that time, no matter which way the Tartars could bully the Han people at will, the most powerful Shihou family was nothing more than a tax collector who helped the Mughurs collect taxes and oppress the local villagers.

However, over time, they gradually got used to this breathless darkness, and on the contrary, they even began to fear that someone could break this darkness - because heroes who have the ability to break the darkness do not need tax collectors who can only exist in the dark.

This mentality probably also explains why the Eighth Marquis dared to gather more than 100,000 people to pose for a decisive battle with the Qi army, but did not dare to use the same posture against the Muguls or Jurchens.

"There are only two of you who came, do you want to play red and white at the same time?"

Xu Shiyang smiled at the heads of the left and fold families:

"No need, really, the conditions have already been told to you, if you don't accept it, join the gang on the other side, I don't really mind."

It is much better for the opposition to jump out and look for death all at once than to join you on the surface, and then continue to disgust you every day without committing small evils.

"Your Highness's words are wrong."

Zuo Huyun said with a smile:

"Although the Great Khan of Mengwu did make all of us marquis, and the world called us together, in fact, our marquis of Shaanxi Province is still a little different from the marquis of Jin Province."

Xu Shiyang sneered and asked, "Hehe, what's the difference?" ”

"When the Marquis of Jin Province took refuge in Mengwu, the Great Zhou had not yet moved south."

Zuo Huyun explained:

"The reason why the Eight Families were able to rise up was because they had colluded with the grasslands very early on to smuggle iron, grain and salt from the Mughurs in exchange for the gold and silver treasures that had been robbed."

"Most of our Shaanxi Province marquis were generals of the Western Army at that time, and before the Great Zhou moved south, there were several defeats in the northwest, and our six families had sons and nephews who sacrificed their lives for the country.

Zhe Ke Xing also says:

"The reason why my family is called the Marquis of the Han Army is because we have been loyal to the Han dynasty for hundreds of years, so we also regard ourselves as Han people."

Xu Shiyang glanced at Zuo Helin and Zhi Keshi, who were standing behind the two old men, with a smile.

These two boys seem to have figured out his temper, so they play the emotional card as soon as they come.

And this hand really works, at least Xu Shiyang can understand them a little bit.

"We can't accept the title of the Marquis of the Mughus."

Zuo Huyun continued:

"Your Highness, you are from Qi Province, before the rise of Qi State, how many people were there over there?"

Xu Shiyang didn't answer with a cold face, and Zuo Huyun didn't wait for an answer.

"Can there be one or two million people? I don't think so. ”

"But do you know how many people are in Shaanxi Province now? Not a million households! It's a household! ”

"If we don't accept the title of Tartar, will we let the Tartars make Shaanxi Province the same as Qi Province, and there will be no one in ten populations?"

"Pity our six families for hundreds of years of fighting for the country, asking ourselves to be worthy of the imperial court, but ashamed of the people of Shaanxi Province who gave birth to us and raised us, we lost the war, this is not as good as people have nothing to say, but even if we sacrifice the reputation of each family, we have to do everything possible to protect some more people!"

"According to your intentions, not only should I not punish you, but I should even reward you?"

"Don't dare, the old man said so much, just to show the hearts of our Jiangmen family in Shaanxi Province."

Zhi Kexing secretly replaced the title of the Han military marquis with the family of Jiangmen, which seemed to imply that they preferred the Jiangmen of the Central Plains Dynasty to the marquis of the Mughal people.

"Oh? Is it? Then I have heard your heart. ”

Xu Shiyang sneered and asked:

"Do you want to choose to go back and gather soldiers and horses to join the Marquis of Jin Province to be my enemy, or do you want to accept my ultimatum and pledge allegiance to the Qi Kingdom?"

"We are willing to choose allegiance."

左虎云 says:

"I just hope that His Royal Highness the Prince will allow us to keep some family children, after all, Shaanxi Province is very dangerous, there are Mengwu in the north, and there are party items in the west......"

"The Qi army can keep you safe."

Xu Shiyang interrupted him:

"It is not allowed to keep Han slaves, it is an iron law that Han is not slaves! No one can violate it! ”

"But, you have said so much, I don't make any concessions, as if I want to embezzle the family property of the heroes who protect the people."

"That's it, I'll relax the conditions for you, and you listen to ......."

Originally, the conditions given by Qi to the marquis of Shaanxi Province were:

First, the original requirement of the Qi State was that each family was only allowed to keep a maximum of one hundred guards, which could be relaxed, and the prince was willing to recruit as many as they wanted, as long as they could afford it.

However, there are limits to this too!

The restrictions are:

Civilians and above are limited to thirty guards, that is, except for their family's own sons and nephews, each family's legal armed guards are limited to thirty!

Also, the state of Qi does not accept the concept of having children in the family, commoners are commoners, and there is a minimum standard of labor treatment every month for working for the Shihou family. In other words, when the family has to pay people, they also have the freedom not to continue to work for you.

This is actually complementary to the second condition in the first place.

Han is not a slave, this is still an iron law, but relatively speaking, it is not a Han person who can be a slave.

If the prince had the ability, he could find a way to take slaves from the grasslands or the party or the Western Regions or some other place, as long as they were not Han Chinese, no matter how many men, women, and children numbered, they would be up to them.

It's just that private slaves also have to pay taxes, and luxury taxes, if you forget to pay them, you have to confiscate slaves.

The third and fourth points of Qi's conditions were combined last time, and Xu Shiyang's concession was to allow Shihou to sell part of the land to Qi at a reasonable price, rather than directly annexing it as requested last time.

Of course, this reasonable price should not be too high, and Qi allowed them to use it as capital to invest in some of Qi's industrial industries.

The same is true of all kinds of usury owed by the common people of Shaanxi Province in the past.

Moreover, which land in Shaanxi Province belonged to the Shihou family before, and which debts could be recognized by Qi State, they all had to wait for the review and investigation team of the Household Department and the Criminal Department of Qi State to be determined.

Article 5 is still uncompromised, after all, legal issues are the bottom line, Xu Shiyang does not want a gang of warlords, then they cannot be allowed to have any judicial authority.

And Xu Shiyang also temporarily added a sixth article, that is, the marquis of Shaanxi Province must accept the arrangement of the Qi government - what Zuo Huyun Zhekexing said is very good, but it cannot be fully believed, after all, the marquis of Shanxi and Shaanxi reported to the group for warmth, and the kinship between them is constantly severed.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang planned to destroy part of the die-hard Shihou family in the recent period, and migrate the remaining part to Qi Province of Liaodong Hebei Province and Yu Province to be controlled in the future.