"According to the Tian Decree promulgated by Yin in Henan, those who wantonly trample on the official wheat will be punished as a ghost salary of three years old, and if there is any resistance to escape punishment, they will be beheaded immediately. Those who harbor and resist are guilty of the same crime. ”

Yang Pei's voice in asking for the punishment of the four pro-soldiers in accordance with the law was not high, but it was loud, and it seemed like thunder in everyone's ears.

Under the rule of Yin in Henan, there were originally millions of people, but since Dong Zhuo moved to the imperial court, coerced the people into the customs, and after several exchanges of troops in the eastern and western parts of the country, Henan has become a ghost with thousands of miles of red land and no people.

The current Henan Yin, even after going through the initial stage of recruiting displaced people and settling down the head of Qian, is only 50,000 or 60,000 households under his rule.

It's really white bones exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles!

However, in this situation where the original population did not exist at all, Henan Yin, who returned all the ownerless fields to the government, also had thousands of hectares of abandoned fields under his rule.

According to the lease of cattle seeds, the Yin of Henan Province organized the displaced people into tunhu, and according to the lease of cattle seeds, he formulated a ratio of 46 to 55 percent of the income between the government and the people, organized the tunhu to carry out the maximum rehabilitation and development of these abandoned fields, and issued a series of decrees to strictly protect the crops and grain.

Just like those laws that protect agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry by "entering the mountains and forests at the right time, and not entering the ponds", the field decree promulgated by Henan Yin is an additional law.

Therefore, Yan Xing's personal guards trampled on the official wheat, and according to Henan Yin's field order, he was to be punished with hard labor, and with armed resistance, it was a death penalty of beheading.

After listening to Yang Pei's words, Yan Xing suddenly groaned, his eyes were deep, as if he was weighing something.

Seeing that the general sitting on horseback did not speak, and his attitude did not look like he was about to reproach Yang Pei just now, the guards who were tied up suddenly became anxious.

"General, we didn't mean to trample on the wheat fields."

"It is true that a hare suddenly appeared in front of the horse, startled the war horse, and then stumbled on the wheat field!"

The bound guards shouted loudly, and then the cavalry on the periphery carried a hare that had been shot through the body by an arrow and presented it to Yan Xing as physical evidence.

Looking at the officials and guards who insisted on each other, Yan Xing was silent.

The land of the Three Rivers under his rule, which originally belonged to the Han Empire, was originally a densely populated and fertile hinterland of the Central Plains, but after many wars, the population of Hedong County was left to be more than 500,000, the population of Hanoi County was about the same, and the population of Henan was the smallest, only 50,000 or 60,000.

This is still the total population under the rule after recruiting and accepting tens of thousands of displaced people from Sanfu and tens of thousands of people who have migrated and fled. In other words, although the land of three rivers now has a population of more than one million, it is actually just the population of a Henan Yin in the past.

The population has plummeted and the land has been abandoned, which is the way to decline and fall in a world of great contention. Therefore, under Yan Xing's rule, the population of households was strictly controlled, and the development of land and the protection of crops were strengthened.

Among them, the edicts under the rule of Henan Yin are the strictest, which is also acquiesced by Yan Xing.

But because of the trampling on the wheat field and killing his four personal guards in public, Yan Xing felt that it was too harsh.

Not to mention that these are all tigers who have followed their own battles for a long time, just in the case of the foundation of the grassroots, rewarding the achievements and forgetting the mistakes and gathering the hearts of the people are the principles that the superiors urgently need to abide by when punishing Zang or not.

"You are waiting for the war horse, are you really frightened by the hare? Can there be witnesses? ”

Yan Xing, who was silent, got off his horse and asked.

"Yes, yes."

As soon as the tied up guard heard Yan Xing ask, he immediately nodded hurriedly and said yes, he turned around and shouted, and in the cavalry team on the periphery, soon several more horsemen got off their horses and came to Yan Xing to salute, and their words were chiseled, acting as a witness for the reason for the surprise of the guards.

Yan Xing asked the escorted officials again:

"What they say, but what they say, is the truth?"

"This!"

Several officials who escorted the guards listened to Yan Xing's questioning, looked at each other, and did not answer for a while.

They saw the guards stepping into the wheat field and trampling a field of wheat, but they did not see the hare startling the horse.

Even if he saw it, it could be regarded as a war horse that was frightened by a hare and strayed into a wheat field, or immediately the knight saw the hare, and saw that he was happy to hunt, and ignored the wheat field and hunted the rabbit on his horse.

It's also hard to say. After all, the results of these two events are the same, but the reasons are very different, which is indeed debatable.

But it was the general's personal guards who committed the crime today, and in the final analysis, they just wanted to stop the general's personal guards and announce Henan Yin's Tian Order, and they didn't want to arrest and arrest the general's personal guards.

It's just that these pro-soldiers are arrogant and raise weapons to surround them, which will cause this scene where it is difficult to ride a tiger now.

"It's the truth."

Finally, one of the officials couldn't resist the pressure and began to nod, and the other officials quickly nodded and acknowledged.

"Okay, Yang Qing, I have made a decision on this matter, I don't know what you think?"

Seeing that the escorted officer admitted that his own soldiers trampled on the wheat field because he was frightened, Yan Xing smiled slightly, turned his eyes to look at Yang Pei with a serious face, and asked out loud.

Yang Pei's eyebrows moved when he heard this, bowed down, and said meticulously:

"Everything is up to the general!"

"Good!" Yan Xing immediately became serious and said in a solemn voice:

"This general personally stepped on the wheat field with his own soldiers and horses, and he should be punished for committing a ban, but because he was a frightened horse, he often followed the army and had meritorious service in several battles, so he was not punished as a three-year-old ghost salary, but only punished him for the damage of the official wheat."

Hearing Yan Xing's verdict, the eyes of the bound guards immediately lit up, but before they had time to rejoice, they had already heard the voice behind Yan Xing.

"Of course, the Dharma is also the end of the rule. How can a servant, a person who is the foundation of the people, or a soldier in the army, break the law and commit a crime against the officials, and raise their arms to resist stubbornly, this is a great crime and must not go unpunished. The herald ordered that these four people strip off their clothes and armor, lose to hard labor in the army, punish them for hard labor, and make meritorious service for their crimes! ”

As soon as Yan Xing's order arrived, a guard immediately stepped forward, stripped off the clothes and armor of the four guards who were bound, and escorted them into the baggage rear team of the chariot and cavalry team.

Seeing Yan Xing's solemn order, and the four soldiers with red stripes being escorted down, the other cavalry who were watching were suddenly shocked, and when they looked at Yang Pei and other officials under Henan Yin, their faces were a little more jealous in addition to being gloomy.

Yan Xing didn't look at the changes on the faces of the other cavalrymen, and when the four offending guards were escorted down, he continued to order:

"Shall the whole army, the grain of the whole army, the treasure of the country, and the life of all the people be destroyed? If there are those who pass through the wheat field, the officers and men in the army will all dismount, help the wheat to pass, and the horse trampling will be killed! ”

After this military order was issued, the team restarted and set off. It's just that the soldiers in the entire cavalry and baggage team were shocked, especially the knights riding on both sides of the road, and they were even more careful to control the war horses, and they no longer dared to gallop away as before.

Seeing that the whole team had become cautious and walking, Yan Xing's mood had also returned to the state just now, he drove the war horse, looked at Yang Pei who was following him, and said with a smile:

"Kong Qu, can this general's disposition be repaid?"

Hearing this, Yang Pei bowed slightly on the horse's back and said calmly:

"The law, the gang is always also. The general should be with the people, not lightly! ”

After finishing speaking, Yang Pei didn't speak again, Yan Xing chewed the deep meaning of his words, and then realized something, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked.

What a Yang Kongqu, it's really a strong order!

···

Luoyang City, Henan Yinguan Temple.

"Brother-in-law, I didn't expect that among your subordinates, there is also a strong order!"

"In front of the general, he personally held the general's guards, and wanted to carry out the law, if I hadn't been on the spot, I'm afraid that no one else would have been able to stop him!"

Yan Xing came to the wing room of the official temple, talked with Pei Qian, and couldn't help but laugh about Yang Peilai again.

Although after the incident of trampling on the wheat field by his own guards and almost being killed by Yang Pei on the spot, there was no incident of other sergeants violating the law along the way, but Yang Pei's incident still left a deep impact on Yan Xing, so when he interviewed Pei Qian alone, he brought up the old matter again.

Pei Qian saw that Yan Xing did not reproach, but faintly appreciated, he also smiled and said:

"Although Kong Qu doesn't care about human feelings, he is really a person who is honest and good!"

Yan Xing nodded and said approvingly:

"This is also my brother-in-law's wisdom in choosing talents!"

Pei Qian has always been humble, and immediately pushed and pushed, and the two talked about some political affairs in Henan, and then Yan Xing mentioned another thing in his heart.

"Brother in-law, the residence of the Cai family needs to choose an exquisite courtyard in the mansion. Don't let the officials of the mansion disturb her! ”

Pei Qian was also very concerned about this matter, and hurriedly nodded in agreement.

The Cai family in Yan Xing's mouth is naturally not Cai Yong, who has died, but Cai Yong's daughter Cai Zhaoji, that is, Cai Wenji, who is known to the world in later generations.

Cai Zhaoji, talented, has extraordinary talents in the fields of calligraphy, music, rhythm and poetry, and can be said to have inherited Cai Yong's family learning, so Yan Xing and others are honored as "everyone".

But in troubled times, human life is like duckweed, and even the talented Cai Zhaoji is equally difficult to escape the tragic fate of ordinary women in troubled times.

In the third year of the first peace, Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Zhang Ji led the Guanxi soldiers and horses to attack Yingchuan and Chen Liu, plundering goods and robbing women along the way, and Cai Zhaoji, who was in Chen Liu's hometown, was unfortunately captured by the Qianghu cavalry in the Guanxi soldiers and horses, and brought to the Xiliang army.

After the drastic changes in the Chang'an court, the Qianghu cavalry attached to Li Guo and others was also scattered and scattered, Cai Zhaoji was born duckweed, after several tosses, was humiliated, and fell into the hands of the Southern Xiongnu.

It wasn't until Yan Xing helped Hu Chuquan ascend to the position of Shan Yu, and Hu Chuquan married his deceased brother's daughter Aqige to Yan Xing in order to consolidate Hedong's strong reinforcement, and Cai Zhaoji was able to use the identity of Leki as a dowry to return to the land of the Han family with Aqige's brigade.

Originally, there were a large number of slaves, maidservants, craftsmen, and musicians who were married, and Yan Xing did not know that there was also a daughter of a famous man among these people.

But Cai Zhaoji's attainments in music and rhythm are really superb, coupled with her true feelings, the music reveals a strong sense of homesickness and indignation, which has attracted the attention of Aqige, who is also uprooted from her hometown now, and recruited her to her side as her personal maid.

And because of this, Yan Xing was able to discover the ill-fated talented woman around him.