Chapter 24: Aftershocks (8)

The 3,000 ambush soldiers were in chaos, as if there had been a "night terror", and the dead and wounded were all killed, and their combat effectiveness was completely lost. As soon as the morning dawned, they scattered, some returned to the fields as farmers, and some secretly robbed in groups of three or five, but Xu Qing fell into a light and effortless, and the threat of the family's forces disappeared invisibly.

Giving full play to the spirit of "it is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to become famous and learn from the overlord", Xu Qing ordered the cattle to graze, and the three-way army of Wang Shan and Chujiang attacked to exterminate the relatively large group of bandits. In addition, Qi Tai, who was stationed in Nanpi to guard the Yu family, tied up the Yu family and escorted them to the Assassin's Mansion.

The Cangzhou clan is all panicked. The smaller ones are okay, but while Xu Qing has not yet cleaned, they wantonly sell the fixed production in their hands and float to his place to survive. The larger families are not good, there are too many people in their family, and the foundation in Cangzhou is too deep, and they can't leave......

Xu Qing personally led the troops to Haixing County, and wiped out the Haixing clan on the charge of colluding with bandits and murdering the imperial court officials, and then reported a funeral for Wang Yi and settled his family. For this kind of upright official, Xu Qing doesn't like to get close, but Xu Qing still respects him deeply.

In addition, Xu Qing appointed Yan Ku, one of the four people from Chang'an, as the county magistrate of Haixing County, as for the appointment power, it doesn't matter, and then ask Liu Zan to ask, the court is not afraid that someone will be unhappy.

As for the other clans, Xu Qing seemed to have forgotten......

But how could Xu Qing forget? He just didn't think of what kind of good reason he could use to "slaughter" the clans quietly. Complicity with thieves? The clan could have put out a few scapegoats. Kill them all? Xu Qing's courage has not yet reached that point.

It is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers. It's a good idea to make an example of the monkeys. Killing chickens, this time you have to kill two, in order to be worthy of Xu Qing's "wrath". Two chickens, one by the Yu family and the other by the Xia family. The Yu and Xia families are everyone, killing one is worth ten, it's fat...... It can make money and give enough deterrence.

But this time, deterrence alone is far from enough, so Yu and Xia have to kill the two chickens with skill.

Xu Qing's struggle with the Shi clan was only because of three aspects: 1. Clean up empty and black households, and curb land annexation. 2. Reduce the officials of the clan, and remove the seals and guns of the clan. 3. Change the phenomenon of "knowing that there is a family, but not knowing that there is a court" in the local area.

So for the Yu family, Xu Qing decided to deal with the Yu family's direct line and connections in the officialdom. Move the remaining Yu family to another place, draw a piece of land according to the head, and let them re-establish Xujia Village. It turned out that all the black households where the Yu family was located were registered, and all the shops of the Yu family in Cangzhou City and Nanpi were confiscated, and finally some severance pay was taken out to work in the store.

The land is gone, the momentum is gone, the money is gone, the store is gone, uprooted! Within a day, the Yu family became civilians.

For the direct family that was cleaned up like that, Xu Qing was charged with colluding with thieves, killing those who should be killed, and changing the flow of streams...... The female dependents, sufficient officials and slaves, and the rest of the family have become subordinates.

And the Xia family, Xu Qing doesn't plan to do it with such fanfare, he plans to make a fuss about Xia Hao. After all, the Xia family still has a history of assassination in Shandong, and they can take revenge on Xu Qing in officialdom almost at any time.

It doesn't work openly, come secretly, anyway, Cangzhou is now Xu Qing's world!

Ten days ago, there was another little-known thing in the Xia family: Xia Yu, the head of the Xia family, came back...... Didn't you go to Shandong, how did you come back?

It turned out that Xia Yu received the holy decree and rushed to Shandong to take office, and when he arrived in Shandong, he found that the state where he took office already had a history of assassination, so he went to the assassination mansion to inquire, and received another will to let Xia Yu enter Beijing. At that time, Xia Yu understood in his heart that he was calculated.

The first promotion of Xia Yu's official is just to transfer him out of Cangzhou, once he is transferred, where will he be an official? Xia Yu knew in his heart, but he didn't dare to disobey his will, so he went to Chang'an. When he arrived in Chang'an, he was arranged to be a loose official who went to the court to discuss matters, and he was really "clear and innocent", Xia Yu couldn't go on, so he returned to his hometown after illness.

Xia Yu secretly returned home and strictly guarded the news of his loss, except for a few closest people who knew, the others didn't even know about Dark River. But the paper couldn't hold the fire, and the rest of the Xia family gradually heard some rumors, and the Xia family, who were not direct descendants, began to prepare for the future.

"Five thousand taels, two hundred thousand stones, for Xia Hao's head" A respected old man of the Xia family finished reading the words on the note in his hand, and his expression was numb: "Everyone, think of a way......

“……”

In addition to silence, it is still silence...... The sorrow of the sunset is nothing more than this, right?

After a long time, the old man finally understood the meaning of the people present, and sighed: "The Xia family, has it finally come to an end?" ”

"Uncle, there's no way, let's ......" said a Xia family steward: "We can't bury the Xia family for the sake of a Xia family......

There was silence again, and Uncle Xia lamented again: "It can only make my old bones lose face......"

Uncle Xia reluctantly scraped together eight hundred taels of silver, and was ready for the biggest concession of the Xia family to visit Xu Qing. What is ridiculous is that one of the three majestic families actually scraped together 800 taels of silver and sold the concubines and prostitutes in the family.

In the end, in order to get Xia Hao's life back, Uncle Xia emptied the Xia family's tribes, sold his wealth, and moved out of Cangzhou with the Xia family. It's just that there are still some people who are unwilling to move away, that is, those people who are not descendants of the Xia family, they don't need to move away, thinking that people like them can't get the protection of the Xia family anyway, it's the same everywhere.

Dimensionality Reduction Strike!

The Yu and Xia families, one of them is broken, the other is far away, and the rest can no longer be called a family, at most and at most, they can be called a big family. Xu Qing was not ambiguous, and the wasteland allocated to them was relatively fertile. The families that originally attached themselves to the Yu and Huang families either ran away with them, or turned to the Huang family.

Almost two-thirds of the Cangzhou forces went, and Xu Qing took away the "tiger teeth". Because in addition to the remaining small fish and shrimp, it is the Huang family. The vacated market and idle shops were almost all taken into the pocket of the Huang family, which of course played a role in the relationship between Xu Qing and Huang Shimei.

There are only ten shops left, Xu Qing did not give them to the Huang family, but temporarily closed them, and what is the use of these ten shops? Temporarily press the table not to watch.

The Huang family has a great benefit, so naturally they have to express themselves, and take the rest of the clan to clean up all the hidden hukou population one by one. Xu Qing was shocked by the simple statistics and statistics, there were more than 6,400 empty households and more than 1,700 black households.

What is the concept? When Xu Qing arrived in Cangzhou before, there were only more than 10,000 households on the books, but now half of them are empty, that is, there are only more than 6,000 real households in the hands of the official family, and they can't collect a grain of rice. The vassals controlled by the Shi clan account for most of the entire Cangzhou, what is this concept?

Money! How much oil should this group of families be rich and flow?!

To Xu Qing's disappointment, although the family had a large population, the money in their hands was really pitiful. Because the rent they collect is basically grain, and they refuse to lower the price a little, even if they open a grain store, they can't get much money. Coupled with the consumption of the war, the family's money is also stretched.

confiscated so much grain, Xu Qing put it in his hand for nothing, it was piled up in the warehouses in Cangzhou City, and then sold it all for a penny, how much was sold!

When the market price of grain is scarce, it costs four or five dollars a bucket, and it is simply given for nothing when a penny is spoken.

Snapped! How lively is it? On the first day, three men were crushed on the spot...... With this low-priced grain, there is no need to deduct and tremble before the autumn harvest. How much else can you do without worrying about eating? The house can finally be repaired, and I can finally plan to buy a piglet to raise and hatch another litter of chicks......

Even the beggars in Cangzhou City exchanged a copper coin that they usually hid in their navel for a large bucket of grain.

Xu Qing had no business, made a lot of money, and also won the hearts of the people of Cangzhou. The Huang family's acquisition of the market is booming. The people were happy to eat and finally had a hukou. Inside and outside Cangzhou, everyone's face was filled with a happy expression. As for the large number of families who disappeared, who remembers?

Cangzhou Xu Qing also has all in his hands. After Nanpi Lao County ordered Yuyao to be withdrawn by Xu Qing, it became Zhao Lu, Cangxian County was Qin Shi, and Haixing County was Yan Ku. Of the four counties in Cangzhou, three counties are managed by Xu Qing's protégés, and to put it bluntly, they are all their own families. Only Huanghua County ordered Zhan Zengneng to occupy his original position, and he did not receive the impact of the Cangzhou chaos.

After there was no one to make trouble, there was really little to do in the history of the assassin, Xu Qing simply put down the matter of the history of the assassin, handed over the army to Niu to eat grass and others, and handed over the government affairs to a few of his protégés, and began to concentrate on accompanying Xun Xue'er. It's just that Xun Xue'er is pregnant, Xu Qing is young and strong, energetic, and has no place to vent for a while, so she can only fight thugs. Gun.

Women during pregnancy are particularly sensitive, and it is said that pregnant women's sense of smell and hearing is several times higher than that of other periods. This is not? Xun Xue'er also discovered Xu Qing's abnormality...... Xun Xue'er made up her mind, and a small plan to "frame" Xu Qing began to start.

At the end of June, Cangzhou was governed in an orderly manner, the people had no lawsuits, the city had no disputes, and the cows grazing and Xiaoru's wedding were finally on the agenda. Xu Qing chose a house in Cangzhou City, which was not a mansion, but it was also clean and spacious, and it was definitely enough for a small couple to live, and there was enough place for them to toss. The point is that it is closer to the Thorn Mansion.

Xu Qing, as the "master" of two people who eat grass on the cow, naturally wants to hold a lively wedding, and besides, this is the second big happy event since Xu Qing arrived in Cangzhou, and this happy event does not need Xu Qing to hold it carefully.

Drink, drink heavily, drink until you get drunk, drink until the world spins...... This is also the first time that Xu Qing has volunteered to get drunk.

After returning from the banquet, Xu Qing sprinkled a big bubble of urine at the gate, stumbled back to the bedroom, and the remaining reason reminded him that Xun Xue'er was pregnant, and stumbled back to the study. Drill into the bed, huh? Wrong......

Soft, fragrant, familiar scent? Can't remember who it was...... It's so fragrant, it's so soft, it's so slippery......

No, I can't help it!