Chapter Seventy-Two: A Wave of Unsettled
The huge opening and the funny ending, the blood of the eyes and the martial arts were strangled in a strong rebellion, the history may not be big, but the mantis of the eyes and the eyes is destined to be smaller.
Zhao Fu rode on his horse and watched Zheng Yuan inspect the tribes that had surrendered, and he was stunned.
The North Court is over, and this time it's really over.
In just a few days, the restoration of the Left Tent Court returned to history, and the dishonest branch that stretched out was quickly repaired, and everything still looked so good. Zheng Yuan was still busy helping Liu Anyuan and the others to sum up the spoils, and scolded those Hu people who wanted to fool the shoddy ones in the past in the nonsense that he now seemed very lame.
It took just over two months, Beiting, Hu Ren, the birthplace of this demon was subdued by Zhao Fu. Zhao Fudu felt that it was a little unreal, as if the battle of nearly 500,000 people was converted into a few thousand battle losses.
After negotiating the surrender with the patriarchs of several Hu tribes who had surrendered, Zhao Fu gathered those who had some say in their respective tribes and brainwashed them into a meeting.
"That's the way it is, Beiting will give birth to a new order under the leadership of the Lanhe Empire, and I will lead you to civilization." Zhao Fu said that he was a little embarrassed, but Zheng Yuan was translating very seriously on the side, and those Hu people were also listening carefully.
Then, there was a cheer.
As a person, Zhao Fu actually didn't like too bloody massacres, and he felt that it was inhumane.
The reason why people are human is because they can communicate, although the so-called communication is often the communication with a big stick in the hand and millions of troops behind it, but this is also communication, isn't it?
Quite simply, since then, the trade routes of the Lanhe Empire have been paved into the North Garden, unlike the previous smugglers, this time the trade between the two sides is officially recognized, and the lives and property safety of the traders are protected, but a part of the border tax is required from Ghana. These are all things that Zhao Fu thought about before, the terrain on this side of Beiting is flat, mainly grassland, and it is not suitable for Han people to build a city and live. Instead of destroying the fragile ecological environment of Beiting and turning Beiting into a northern desert, it is better to maintain the status quo and integrate trade and trade.
This was a relatively acceptable solution for both parties, as the North Court provided the Blue River Empire with high-quality horses in exchange for the Blue River Empire's fine salt, cloth, and some rare fruits and vegetables from the North Court. Of course, as for those iron tools, they were naturally forbidden to flow into the North Garden, otherwise they would have become the Hu people as the victorious party, forcing the Lanhe Empire to open up trade routes.
Then it was "cutting Pan" Zhao Fu asked those who had some teams to lead their own tribes under their own hands, especially tribes with more than 50,000 people, all of them were cut and cut, and from now on, no more tribes of more than 50,000 people were allowed to appear in Beiting.
After everything was arranged, Zhao Fu also left Zheng Yuan and his men in the royal court, first, to let Zheng Yuan supervise for a period of time, and secondly, to guard against the Holy Sect attacking again. Zhao Fu had always been curious about why the Holy Sect had just kidnapped Ahu Yu and never moved. He had been on guard against the sudden attack of the Holy Sect when he was fighting with the Left Tent Royal Court before, worried that the Holy Sect would successfully withdraw and then reflexively change from a sandpiper to a fisherman, but until now he couldn't even see the shadow of the Holy Sect, and Zhao Fu only hoped that he was thinking too much.
Zhao Fu did not stay in the royal court any longer, and the richest human gathering place on the grassland seemed to him to be even inferior to a small town in the northwest of the Lanhe Empire. Before parting, he glanced up at the west, and said in his heart, hoping that the Holy Sect would not cause trouble again.
Zhao Fu's division returned to the court, escorting all kinds of booty collected from Beiting and a herd of horses far larger than the number of their army to Lanting.
According to the tradition of the Lan River Empire, any army that has achieved great results will go to the capital to be rewarded. Although the Lan River Empire grew larger and the borders became farther away from the capital, this tradition did not change.
Dragon-like processions weave their way across the grasslands, scouts scattered in every corner of the grasslands, occasionally driving stray horses back to their herds and intimidating hungry wolves with the sound of iron hammering. It was Zhao Fu's first major victory, and the dramatic change in the tide of battle made storytellers talk about it and the arrogant people to talk about it, but it was always a great feat that will go down in history.
The victory in the First Northern War seems to be very child's play, but I have to admit that it was the biggest victory against the Hu people in the history of the empire. The youngest general, Zhao Fu, led only 80,000 Northwest Army into Beiting, which lasted only more than two months and half to level Beihu, winning huge benefits for the empire, opening the Northern Trade Road, and providing countless fine horses for the empire...... I have to sigh that the times create heroes......
- "The Divine Emperor Benji"
Zhao Fu achieved great results for the Lanhe Empire, but Lin Haoyan, who was still within the palace walls at the moment, did not have even a trace of joy.
He just came out of the palace of long-term love, and in recent days, it is rare to have a relationship with the Empress Dowager Mei has eased, and the Empress Dowager Mei even asked about his marriage date a few days ago, and he bluntly said that he would marry Shi Yiqiu when Zhao Fu won the battle.
Lin Haoyan thought that everything was going for the better, including the battle report of the big victory over the Oliho Valley a long time ago, but today the Empress Dowager Mei told him that she was ready for the queen's candidate.
She's ready.
But Shi Yiqiu was not ready.
Lin Haoyan and Empress Dowager Mei argued with reason, but they couldn't change her stubborn attitude, and in the end, Empress Dowager Mei even made the "biggest" concession, as long as Lin Haoyan agreed to marry the daughter of the Zhao family, he could always be the emperor of the Lanhe Empire, and Shi Yiqiu could also marry a side concubine later.
Unreasonable, unreasonable! When Lin Haoyan learned that Empress Dowager Mei had even privately drafted a decree and compiled it all over the country to inform him of his marriage date, the whole person was stunned.
Lin Haoyan swung his fist in the air, and the huge sonic boom even alarmed the palace guards.
"It's okay, I'm okay."
"I told you I'm okay!"
"Get out! Get out! ”
Empress Dowager Mei's words were still lingering in his mind, and as long as he remembered it, he was upset.
"Then Zhao Qianqian is the daughter of the Zhao family, she is extremely beautiful, what's wrong?"
"She's no worse than that vixen, after all, men just like women's skin, what's wrong?"
"I have set the time, and the wedding will be held in three days, and this matter is not negotiable."
Lin Haoyan drank back the palace guards who hurried over when he heard the sound, but he couldn't drink back the little eunuch who was guiding the way with a lantern, and the little eunuch had long been accustomed to their majesty being in a bad mood for a while every time he came out of the Changqing Palace.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Queen's dormitory is not over there!" The little eunuch turned around and found that Lin Haoyan didn't follow, so he beckoned.
"I'm not going to her ...... tonight," Lin Haoyan muttered to himself.
"The little one, the little one will lead the way for Your Majesty." When the little eunuch heard this, he hurriedly turned around and followed.
"Roll ......"
"Huh?" The little eunuch didn't hear too clearly, and deliberately leaned his head closer.
"Get out!" Lin Haoyan roared, and the sound directly shook the little eunuch back a few steps and staggered to the ground.
The little eunuch injured his head and was not bumped into by a passing guard until midnight. The guard looked at the little eunuch wearing the imperial robe with some trepidation, and hurried to him for treatment after confirming that he was still alive. Fortunately, the little eunuch had only been asleep for a few days, and it was no big deal, but what would happen in the past few days was no longer in his memory.
Lin Haoyan walked out of the palace gate alone and came to the door of the dungeon on the outskirts of the city. Before the guards could shout, he knocked them unconscious.
The sound of the key shaking woke up all the prisoners in the dungeon, and Lin Haoyan opened the cell doors one after another. The people locked up here are all extremely vicious, and whoever releases them is a shock to the big guys on the road, but they still look at the scene in front of them in disbelief.
Lin Haoyan directly unscrewed a few more from the long string of keys and threw them into the cell, he didn't bother to shackle those people one by one.
"The rules are very simple, kill me, and you can get out." Lin Haoyan finally opened all the prison doors, and he threw the last few keys into the last cell along with the long string, except for one in his hand.
Prisoners were already unshackled, and they rushed to the largest door, only to find it locked.
The key is in Lin Haoyan's hands.
All eyes were on Lin Haoyan, whether it was the prisoners who were still trying each other's keys to unlock the shackles or the prisoners who had already rushed to the door of the dungeon and already saw the lock.
They were a little curious about why this man wanted to "rescue" them out, and they were also curious about the man's self-profess, but they really heard the words and saw the key in his hand.
Click, the people in the last cell were all unshackled, and all the keys were used, except for the one in Lin Haoyan's hand.
"It's a no-death order." Lin Haoyan threw out a few more bright tokens.
The prisoners didn't know what this person was crazy about, but judging the situation, there was only one person on the other side...... Still empty-handed......
Unless the key is also a weapon.
"Kill!" As if premeditated, some of the prisoners picked up the swords of those guards, and some directly carried shackles and rushed towards Lin Haoyan.
"Well done." Lin Haoyan nodded with satisfaction.
The dungeon was airtight, and some of the torches were used as weapons by the prisoners, so the dungeon began to get darker.
And in the darkness, a pair of scarlet eyes opened, and the wildness that had been hidden for many years was liberated.
Lin Haoyan could certainly use the key as a weapon, and he pinched one end of the key with three fingers, and the other side successfully slid into the throat of a prisoner who rushed towards him.
The key was pinched by Lin Haoyan at his fingertips, and he accurately dodged countless combined blows sideways, and then used the key to break the throat of the incoming offender with great precision. The key wasn't some special weapon, he just didn't want to get his hands dirty.
"Phew" Lin Haoyan tried to avoid the attack, but he was still splashed with blood, he didn't pursue that ultimate style of play, he shook his hand and put away the key.
Then came the real killing, the scarlet light dancing in the darkness.
"Fierce wolf" and "wolf king" and other titles with fear and surprise came out of the mouths of some elderly prisoners, this was the previous generation of rivers and lakes buried with them, but it was re-staged in this small dungeon.
The killing in the dungeon was until early in the morning, Lin Haoyan lowered his head, looking at the corpses all over the place, and his bloody clothes, he wanted to leave here with heavy steps.
"Huh?" He found out that there was another fish that slipped through the net.
The man was stuck to the door of the dungeon, holding a key in his trembling hand and constantly flipping the heavy lock in front of the door.
Lin Haoyan realized that the key had already slipped off because of blood.
"Zuo Zhongren, it's you." Lin Haoyan suddenly remembered this person's name.
"Greatly...... I beg the adults to let me go......"
"You are still so cowardly, I was ordered to kill you before, but you left your wife and children and fled, they" Lin Haoyan pretended to reminisce and smiled, "They all died miserably." ”
"Don't you hate me?" Lin Haoyan walked towards him step by step.
"No, I don't dare to hate my lord."
"I'm already tired, you have a chance, you can kill me here and avenge your wife and children." Lin Haoyan was already about to walk in front of him.
"Adults laugh, adults laugh."
Click, the lock finally opened, and the left man was ecstatic, but he suddenly smelled a heavy smell of blood.
Fresh blood, mixed with clumps of blood, the smell of blood in different people.
He turned his head and saw a pale face.
"Don't you really try?" Lin Haoyan was already standing beside him, the day's slaughter had greatly overdrawn his newly relieved body, and now his steps were vain, his face was pale, and it was difficult to keep his hands clenched.
A huge, extreme panic filled Zuo Zhongren's body, he had already opened this last lock, and as long as he pushed open this prison door, he would be free, but Lin Haoyan had already come to him.
"Ah" Zuo Zhongren suddenly shouted, grabbed the key that had turned dark red and stabbed Lin Haoyan.
With a bang, the head of the person in the left center was roughly pressed against the wall by Lin Haoyan, and he was already dead.
After today, the Lanhe Empire has one less cell for death row inmates.