Chapter 21: Aftershocks (5)

It's muddy, it's turbid, it's messy, it's stirred, this is the puddle of water in Cangzhou. The temporary armistice agreement reached by the Huang family and the other families and the assassin has begun to become scorching, and in the blink of an eye, it is about to turn to ashes.

Xu Qing didn't know that the families were planning him behind his back, he was thinking, should he have a direct showdown, or use another delaying tactic to return to the state of warm water and take his time?

When Xu Qing was entangled, someone from Chang'an came. The person who came also brought a letter from Liu Zan on the way, to be exact, a letter and a punishment sheet. That letter was Liu Zan's private letter to Xu Qing secretly.

In the letter, Liu Zan praised Xu Qing for doing a very good job. Liu Zan himself is the general manager of southern Hebei, and he was also made unable to hold his hands, stretch his legs, and be bound tightly. Now Xu Qing is hot in Cangzhou, and he hit the family with a big ear scraper, which makes him so unhappy.

The style of the punishment sheet is completely different, although it is also from Liu Zan's hand, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he severely reprimanded, scolded Xu Qing for disturbing the people and damaging the face of the court, and then fined Xu Qing three months of silver to see the after-effects.

Xu Qing smiled slightly, March Silver, trivial, anyway, the entire Thorn Mansion is mine, and you can take as much as you want.

On the surface, Liu Zan is playing the "Eighty Board" against Xu Qing, but in fact, he is very supportive of Xu Qing. Xu Qing couldn't help but think that with the support of the imperial power and the old iron pressure array, if he couldn't make a big deal, cough cough, and do a big reform cause, then he would not be a man!

The four people who came from Chang'an are Yan Ku, Zhao Lu, Wei Xian, and Han Zibang (starting from Qi Tai, with Qi Chu, Qin Yan, Zhao Wei, Han and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States as the surname, easy to remember, right?) These four people were not selected by the Jinshi, but they were quite capable in secular affairs, and they were selected by Xu Qing.

Xu Qing selected about ten people as his protégés, gave the protégé a sticker, and agreed to see him in Cangzhou, but he didn't expect that only four people came. But it's okay, after all, Cangzhou is too far away, "poor mountains and bad waters". In addition, the release of Beijing officials has never been favored. With a stroke of his pen, Xu Qing arranged the four people to some key positions in the Assassin's Mansion, and with only one excuse, the original people could be emptied, or even emptied.

Among the four people, only one Han Zibang Xu Qing doesn't like it, look at that name, heheda. It's just that Han Zibang is more talented in terms of calculation, and he can be regarded as the best among the people of the Tang Dynasty, Xu Qing is not hypocritical, and sent him to serve in the household in order to prepare for the future cleanup of empty households.

As for dealing with the family, Xu Qing made two preparations. On the one hand, through the Huang family, the so-called apology is released, and it doesn't matter how effective it can be. The key is on the other side - recruiting and training solidarity soldiers.

Solidarity soldiers, also known as local regiments and militia regiments, are soldiers that can be formed on a large scale by local governments in addition to state soldiers. The unity soldiers choose one out of ten good households, which is between the government soldiers and the mercenaries, and can be regarded as a militia. At the time of service, only pickles were issued for body rations and were exempt from taxes.

Usually working at home, farming, allowing you to hold bows and arrows, when you encounter something in the place, you can participate in the defense of the place, and you can also listen to the call of the assassin at any time. Ten households and one person, which is a relatively heavy ratio, and the people of Cangzhou will definitely complain.

The proportion is light, and it is useless, and besides, if you draw people according to your household registration, you have to go through layers of government, and the quality must not be guaranteed. So Xu Qing decided, simply, to recruit volunteers. Under the banner of unity soldiers, the garrisons of the three counties except Cangxian County were asked to independently recruit 500 unity soldiers.

As long as there is no urgent war, many people prefer to be united soldiers than government soldiers, as long as there is no urgent war, they spend a lot of time working at home, and they are exempt from paying taxes without delaying farming. Now that all the autumn grain has been put into the field, we can take advantage of the slack to engage in collective training.

Once the three counties recruit five hundred united soldiers, they will have the ability to resist the attacks of ordinary bandits, and even if the private soldiers of all the clans in the Cangzhou territory are in turmoil together, it will not make Xu Qing's hands unbearable.

Sun Tzu said: "Those who are good at fighting are invincible, and they will not lose the defeat of the enemy." This means that a man who is good at using a soldier must first establish himself in an invincible position at the beginning, and then he can seize the enemy's weakness and strike at it.

The unity soldiers have been trained, and the threat of the private soldiers in the hands of the family to Xu Qing is basically cleared. The power came out of the barrel of the gun, and the private soldiers were no longer threatened, and the influence of the family in Cangzhou plummeted. When Xu Qing really exterminated the private soldiers and bandits, the people would not be coerced and lured by the bird family, but by the coercion and lure of the bird government.

It's a pity that the family didn't give Xu Qing the opportunity and time to do that. As soon as the order to recruit unity soldiers began, before the recruitment began, Cangzhou began to be in chaos. Bandits have reappeared in large groups to plague the villages, erect jams on the roads, and even worse, gather on the edge of the county town to harass the county seat.

In the Assassin's Mansion, two more letters appeared on Xu Qing's desk:

"The Cangzhou bandits are all dispatched, the movement is unknown, and the reason is unknown."

"Adjust the tiger from the mountain, draw salary from the bottom of the kettle, and don't move lightly."

The previous letter was handed over by Dark River, and the latter letter was written by a woman, which was sent by Huang Shimei.

"Hmph......" Xu Qing slapped the letter in his hand on the table, and said with a long breath: "It's okay to clean it up once......"

"Brother Xu, what's wrong?" Xun Xue'er came out with a bowl of ginseng soup, scooped a spoonful with a small soup spoon, and fed it to Xu Qing.

"It's nothing, some people make trouble...... Xu Qing never talked about business with Xun Xue'er, took a sip, took Xun Xue'er in his arms, and moved one hand around.

There is a small warehouse in the Thorn History Mansion, which contains many ginseng medicinal materials left in the past, Xu Qing can eat Xun Xue'er's fine tonic soup every day, tonic medicine, one night after another, the spirit is not good, G2 Bang hard.

After this bowl of ginseng soup, Xu Qing's evil fire began to rise again, and his eyes glowed green. If it was before, Xun Xue'er would have endured the shame and asked Xu Qing to ask for it, but now, she touched her lower abdomen and whispered in his ear: "Brother Xu, this month's sunflower didn't come......"

When Xu Qing heard this, his head exploded, and the "work" in his hand quickly stopped, and he exclaimed: "The sunflower didn't come...... What the?! You ......"

Geranium is a menstrual event, and if the menstrual event does not come, isn't that pregnancy?

Xun Xue'er nodded, smiling silently. Xu Qingle was happy, the evil fire in his heart was gone, and he hurriedly hugged Xun Xue'er, and put his face very pure close to Xun Xue'er's stomach, wanting to listen to the fetal movement.

Xun Xue'er laughed like a silver bell and said, "Brother Xu, I don't know if it's true or not......

"Really, what I uploaded can still be fake!" Xu Qing pursed his lips and listened to the side of Xun Xue'er's stomach. Inside, it's just a small life. And it's my blood that flows slowly from that little life!

"Upload?"

"yes, I've uploaded several G's!"

"Brother Xu said something that Xue'er didn't understand......"

"Don't talk about you, no one can understand me." Xu Qing felt the breath of life in Xun Xue'er's body, and felt infinite emotion.

Child! Blood! Multiply!

Passing on genes is perhaps the primordial desire of all living things. Hope. This desire. Wang, made Xu Qing feel his connection with the world more strongly, a down-to-earth feeling, throughout Xu Qing's body, and a sense of epiphany collided in Xu Qing's mind.

The original Xu Qing subconsciously regarded the crossing to the Tang Dynasty as a dream, although the dream was very real, Xu Qing still felt that one day he would suddenly wake up. When you wake up, everything around you disappears, and you revert back to being a miserable student who has nothing. This kind of drop is suffocating......

Xu Qing only had an epiphany today, this is life, it is never a dream! Hyundai, can't go back! Knowing this, Xu Qing felt an inexplicable smoothness in his heart, and secretly swore:

Buy a house, buy a big house! Be a landlord, be a landlord! Earn a huge family business and give birth to a group of sons, and a big family business is easy for children to become children?! It's okay, just be a gentleman, Lao Tzu is going to spoil his sons!

Go, my little tadpoles, you don't have to struggle under the covers, writhe on the walls, live with the sweat on your hands, and become human!

Occupy the world!

The bold words filled Xu Qing's heart, and suddenly disappeared again, and he was buried deep by Xu Qing.

"Xue'er, I love you......" Xu Qing said with emotion.

"Brother Xu......" Xun Xue'er put down the ginseng soup and snuggled next to Xu Qing.

Xu Qing didn't speak, kissed Xun Xue'er's forehead, and said in his heart: "Families, there is another reason to deal with you, I have to rely on you to earn an inheritance for my son......"

Reports of bandit attacks from all over the country quickly reached Xu Qing's desk, and the county town was in an emergency, asking Xu Qing to send troops to sweep away the bandits. In the first two days, Xu Qing only said that each county organized people to defend on their own. On the third day, the state soldiers stationed in the counties were allowed to assist in the defense. On the fourth day, the bandits besieged Haixing County, and the county commander Wang Yi took a strong man to resist, but was hit by a stray arrow and unfortunately died.

The county commander of Haixing County is dead, and Haixing County is in danger!

Xu Qing was furious and sent troops to suppress the bandits. Because Qi Tai led a part of the soldiers to Nanpi to control the Yu family, Xu Qing only had more than 3,000 people in his hands. However, Xu Qing still gathered all the people, and there was a great tendency to fight to the death with the bandits. The people talked a lot, and they all said that Xu Tingshi was a good official, and he wanted to rejuvenate the people in the sea regardless of the danger.

Everything was developing according to the family's expectations, and Xu Qing couldn't help it. All kinds of private soldiers on the ground in Cangzhou gathered 5,000 people, 3,000 people attacked Haixing, and after the death of Haixing County Commander, 3,000 people ambushed between Cangxian and Haixing, ambushing and supporting the troops, which was considered a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

The other 2,000 people made a detour to ambush Cangxian, waiting for Xu Qing to lead his troops out of the city, occupy Cangzhou City, capture Xu Qing's family, and force him to surrender. In this way, it is a plan proposed by Lu Jing to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle.

Once these two strategies were proposed, almost all the clans unanimously agreed. They really can't bear this thorn history, they must get rid of it quickly! And Lu Jing also wants to take this opportunity to get rid of the "strict" boss Wang Yi and take advantage of the situation.

Also, the most important thing is that the big feud between him and Xu Qing will be avenged once and for all.