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"His Royal Highness King Su decided to give me the Pingyang Army's salary?"

When Qu Cheng conquered the city of the "Lu Clan" and was about to continue his army to the south, he received a message from the rear.

I have to say that this inexplicable preferential treatment made Qu Cheng feel a little puzzled, until he asked about what had happened.

"It turns out that His Royal Highness King Su wants to change the Chu people's bad habit of wanton killing and plundering after the war."

Suddenly, Qu Cheng highly praised Zhao Hongrun's punishment of those Pingyang soldiers who committed evil deeds.

Because Qu Cheng was a nobleman with the surname "Xiong's Qu surname", it was inevitable that there was a sense of hierarchy in his heart, so to be honest, he didn't care how many Chu people the Wei soldiers under Zhao Hongrun killed when they marched into the Chu State this time, because the higher the status of the nobles, the more they cared about themselves and their own family's interests, and didn't care much about other Chu people.

But it is undeniable that the quality of Zhao Hongrun and the Wei army under his command made Qu Cheng a little surprised.

He couldn't help but sigh that although Wei was small and the number of troops was far inferior to Chu, the elite Wei soldiers trained by Wei were far superior to Chu soldiers in terms of combat ability and quality.

And what made Qu Cheng feel the most was Zhao Hongrun's punishment of those Pingyang soldiers who committed evil deeds, which can be described as clear rewards and punishments.

"I believe that in this way, the prestige of that King Su in the Pingyang army will be greatly enhanced......

Qu Cheng secretly estimated.

And as it turned out, his guess was correct.

When the soldiers of the Pingyang Army learned that His Royal Highness the King Su of the Wei State decided to pay all the soldiers and generals of the Pingyang Army in order to prevent the recurrence of ugly evil deeds similar to those in the city of the "Peng clan". Almost all the soldiers of Binh Duong cheered.

You must know that in the Chu State, military salary is an extremely unfamiliar word, not to mention ordinary Chu soldiers, even if they are generals like Qu Cheng and Yan Mo, how can they receive any military salary?

Which one is not to divide the wealth of the enemy city after conquering the city?

From this point of view. Zhao Hongrun seems to have cut off the financial route of the soldiers of the Pingyang army, but the latter is not dissatisfied with this, after all, Zhao Hongrun also gave compensation accordingly: military salaries, and rewards after the war.

Under the lure of these two, the soldiers of the Binh Duong army decided to abandon their former bad habits.

After all, what they are attacking right now is the city of their Chu State, do they want to learn from those guys who have been removed from the military at the moment, for a little money, robbing their own people. And then was removed from the army by His Royal Highness the King of Wei Guosu, who had clear rewards and punishments?

Anyway, there are military salaries, and there are post-war rewards, and this money is enough to support the family, so why do such shameless things?

Not to mention, now in the Pingyang army, who is not scolding those former Pingyang soldiers who plundered and killed their own people? Although maybe they actually thought about it, but in the face of this strong wind, no one dared to raise an objection.

"Please reply to His Royal Highness King Su. Qu will definitely restrain his subordinates and never let similar things happen again. Please rest assured, His Royal Highness King Su. ”

"Okay, the small one can return to His Royal Highness King Su."

The heralds sent by Yan Mo to inform Qu Cheng's large army of the Pingyang Army respectfully took their leave under Qu Cheng's assurance, and passed on Qu Cheng's reaction to Zhao Hongrun.

To be honest, Zhao Hongrun is very relieved about Qu Cheng. After all, Qu Cheng is an ambitious and very smart person, and what he cares about is whether he can gain a firm foothold in Wei in the future with the support of Zhao Hongrun, and it is best to blend in with the Great Wei military and take some military power. Otherwise, how could he spare no effort to attack those big clans for Zhao Hongrun, and he himself did not take the opportunity to take the wealth in the city?

But Qu Cheng's reassurance does not mean that Zhao Hongrun is also at ease with the 15,000 Pingyang soldiers under Qu Cheng's command, no, just 2,000 generals Hou Bai's 2,000 Pingyang soldiers, it was later found out that more than 200 Pingyang soldiers had taken the opportunity to rob the people of their Chu State, this ratio made Zhao Hongrun very worried.

He didn't want to be affected by this group of people, the impression of the Wei people in the hearts of the Chu people, because of this kind of thing, in the end, the Chu people would put those notorieties on his Zhao Hongrun's head, after all, the Pingyang Army was the army under his command at the moment.

If this evil trend is not stopped immediately, I believe that those Pingyang soldiers will follow suit in a short time, and the bad habits made by these people are probably due to him Zhao Hongrun in the end.

After all, how many people in the world would believe that it was not the Wei people who robbed the Chu people, but the Pingyang Army, who was also from the Chu army?

The worst thing is that seeing the Pingyang army burning, killing and looting, will the Wei soldiers have any thoughts because of this?

It would be terrible if Wei Bing had a similar idea in his heart.

You must know that this trend will directly destroy a well-educated army, which Zhao Hongrun absolutely cannot accept.

Fortunately, the reward and punishment mechanism proposed by Zhao Hongrun in time can be regarded as temporarily curbing this trend in the army.

That night, Zhao Hongrun made the army enter the city of the "Lu Clan".

I remember that in the city of the "Peng family", due to the relationship between some Pingyang soldiers, Zhao Hongrun's mood was not very happy, so he was not interested in visiting the luxurious clan courtyard in Yan Mo's mouth.

However, in the city built by the "Lu Clan", because Zhao Hongrun's punishment mechanism has been transmitted to the whole army of the Pingyang Army, those Pingyang soldiers clearly understand that those who kill, burn and loot the occupied city after the war will be eliminated from the army, so there is nothing that Zhao Hongrun does not want to see happen this time.

And this also made Yan Mo, who served as the guide, greatly relieved in his heart.

"It's a big inner city."

Zhao Hongrun's exclamation interrupted Yan Mo's secretly happy thoughts.

I saw that at this time, Yan Mo had taken Zhao Hongrun to the inner city of the 'Lu clan', that is, the place where the family members of the 'Lu clan' lived, not the outer city, where the slaves and farmers of the 'Lu clan' lived.

I have to say. The inner city and the outer city are simply worlds apart.

In the outer city, near the city walls, it was purely farmland and thatched huts, and it was still difficult to imagine in the ruins that this was in a city and not some village in a ravine.

But as we move closer to the city center, you can clearly see the significant changes from the road alone.

At first it was a dirt road, then a gravel road. Then there is the truth of the loess mat, wait until you enter the inner city, it is actually a road paved with green bricks, looking at the large and small counties of the Wei State, how many counties are extravagant to paved with green bricks?

Not to mention that this is still in the Chu State, where the people of Chu generally use mud bricks and mud tiles to build houses.

Further inward, the palace-style house with carved beams and paintings made Zhao Hongrun even more breathtaking.

Only then did he realize that it was not that the Chu State did not have magnificent palace houses, but that these luxurious palaces generally only appeared in the cities of the big clans.

The king believed. …… I want to compare it with here. The Sheeptongue is really nothing. ”

Looking at the luxurious courtyard in front of him in shock, Zhao Hongrun muttered to himself.

Where is the courtyard, it is simply a palace community, and the scale of the palaces and pavilions with carved beams and paintings is very grand, which is no less than the palace in the court of the Great Wei.

And between those palaces and pavilions, there are towers, water pavilions, gardens, and rockeries, all of which are available, if it were not for the clear knowledge that this is only the residence of the 'Lu clan'. And the 'Lu Clan' clan is not the prince of Chu, Zhao Hongrun really can't help but be suspicious. Did he come to the palace of Chu?

"Your Highness." Yan Mo seemed to have seen something, and reminded Zhao Hongrun.

Zhao Hongrun looked up, and saw that in front of the largest palace-like mansion in the distance, in the open space paved with blue bricks and now covered by heavy snow, there were rows of people kneeling in unison, from the side. The Pingyang Army and the Junshui Army watched over them with weapons in hand.

Zhao Hongrun looked at it for a while after approaching, and he found that the people kneeling in the front row of the line were all brightly dressed men and women, and he believed that these people must be the clansmen of the 'Lu clan', and behind these 'Lu clan's clansmen. On their knees were many men dressed in the same style, and some young women in the same costumes.

Obviously, these people must be the domestic slaves and maids of the "Lu Clan".

"Good fellow...... How many people are there?'

Zhao Hongrun was secretly speechless.

Because the people of the Lu clan alone are roughly estimated to have two or three hundred people here, and the slaves and maids of the Lu clan are even more difficult to discern the exact number in an instant.

Zhao Hongrun roughly estimated that there were about 3,000 people kneeling here, what a terrifying number, half a battalion headquarters.

You must know that the Junshui Battalion under Zhao Hongrun is only 5,000 people in one battalion.

"Lao Yu is the patriarch of the Lu clan, Lu Wen, knock on King Su."

When Zhao Hongrun approached, an old man kneeling at the front of the team immediately bowed to Zhao Hongrun.

Immediately, next to the old man, there were also some old men who were quite old, and they also saluted Zhao Hongrun, and the identities of these people seemed to be the elders of the 'Lu clan', that is, elders and the like.

"Get up." Zhao Hongrun raised his hand and made a gesture of getting up, making a group of sixty or seventy-year-old men kneel in front of him, trembling, his face full of horror, he really couldn't bear it.

"Thank you."

The old man named Lu Wen stood up tremblingly with the support of several young people behind him, with a somewhat reluctant smile on his wrinkled face, looking up and down at the young Wei prince and nobleman in front of him.

"His Royal Highness King Su, the old man is willing to hand over half of his family wealth, hoping that your army can withdraw from this city."

"Half of the family?"

Zhao Hongrun snorted noncommittally, a little unhappy in his heart.

You must know that in the last city, that is, in the Peng clan, those Peng clan people were very happy to propose that they were willing to exchange all their family wealth for the lives of the whole clan, and in the end, Zhao Hongrun gave them back one percent tolerantly, which made those people thank them a thousand times.

But right now, the clansmen of this Lu clan are only willing to pay half of their wealth?

"Is it because the Pingyang Army hasn't killed anyone here this time?"

Zhao Hongrun was a little unhappy in his heart.

After all, along the way, the Chu clan he met has been very familiar so far, especially the family of the Sheep Tongue Clan, whose patriarch Yang Tongue Tao finally secretly stuffed his granddaughter, a thirteen-year-old little Lori named Sheep Tongue Xing, into the bed where he was resting, and also very "viciously" intimidated the little girl, saying that if she didn't serve him Zhao Hongrun well, the entire Sheep Tongue Clan would die because of this.

Fortunately, the girl is very simple, I don't know what the daughter of a man and a woman is, I think the two of them slept on the couch for a night, which is considered to have "slept", otherwise, the girl has been crying, and Zhao Hongrun really has no good way.

However, this Lu clan doesn't seem to be very generous.

Zhao Hongrun glanced at Lu Wen, who proposed "half of the family wealth", with a smile.

"Ninety percent!"

Zhao Hongrun's categorical and irrefutable tone made the faces of the Lu clan change greatly, especially some of them were young and strong, and they even showed angry looks. (To be continued.) )