Outside Chang'an City, Bashang Military Camp, which is the temporary residence of the Han army of Fuquan, is now, but it is about to stage a bloody scene.

It was almost noon, and a wooden stake had been erected in the open space in front of the Han army's camp, and a person was tied to the stump. The man's sideburns were messy at the moment, his expression was sluggish, and his face was sloppy, although his clothes were a little dirty, but it could be seen that it was a expensive robe, obviously his previous identity was not ordinary, this person was Zuo Chang, who was snatched by Fuquan and was about to be beheaded.

Opposite the wooden stake, Fu Quan led the Han army under his command to look at the person who was about to die, at this time, Zuo Chang was tied up for one day, after he was forcibly caught here by the Han soldiers from the threshold car, it can be said that the water and rice are not exhausted, and now he is tired and hungry, and he is worried that his head will be taken by Fu Quan to sacrifice the flag.

"Fuliuchuan, let me go quickly, Your Majesty personally ordered me to enter Beijing, if you kill me today, it will suffer a catastrophe one day!" When death was approaching, Zuo Chang was still roaring, trying in vain to make Fuquan afraid, so he let him go.

Of course, Zuo Chang didn't dare to use the eunuch background behind him to scare, because he knew that the Fu family, the Song family's relatives group and the eunuch group were in the same boat, and it was undoubtedly stupid for him to use the name of the eunuch to scare. If he can't say this, Fu Quan will be even more angry, from the fact that he has collided with eunuchs in the court several times, and several eunuchs have died because of him, it can be seen that he is not afraid of eunuchs at all, so Zuo Chang only wants to use the emperor to deter Fu Quan at this moment.

In Zuo Chang's thoughts, even if he is punished, he should be punished by the emperor, after all, he was recruited into the Beijing division by the chariot, if Fuquan dares to ignore the emperor's orders now, if he does it to himself, a crime of disrespect and disrespect, he has to let his relatives finish, no matter whether he is a famous general or not, no one can keep it, just like the famous generals in the history of the Han Dynasty who have not had a good ending over the years, this is Zuo Chang's biggest reliance.

"Calamity? Hard mouth! Someone, seal this fang's mouth! Fu Quan glanced at Zuo Chang and said coldly: "Your Majesty ordered me to quell the rebellion in Liangzhou, but I can act cheaply, and I embezzle military funds, so that the soldiers and generals have no heart to fight, and there are several other sins, which makes Liangzhou have the chaos now, and your crimes are so great that it is not a pity to die a hundred times!" Kill you today, Your Majesty knows, and will not stop you, do you think you still have a way to live? ”

Zuo Chang, who was finally stuffed with a strip of cloth in his mouth by the soldiers, looked at Fuquan with an angry face, his eyes were full of resentment, as if he was going to swallow Fuquan alive.

Obviously, he only needs to go to Jingshi to escape the catastrophe, why did he encounter Fuquan here to have this accident? As long as he went to the capital division, took out the money he had saved, asked someone to find Zhang Changshou and Zhao Changshou to intercede, and bribed His Majesty with the money to buy his life, with the precedent of spending money to atone for his sins that is common in the Han Dynasty, he will definitely not die, but he didn't expect to meet Fuquan now, and now, if he doesn't die, he has to die......

At this time, Zuo Chang knew that what Fu Quan said was true, the chaos in Liangzhou has developed to this day, and the war has eroded to this point, and the emperor even gave Fu Quan the opportunity to act cheaply, that is, he didn't care what he did, as long as Fu Quan did not rebel and helped the Han to quell the chaos in Liangzhou, as long as anything did not exceed the emperor's tolerance bottom line, Fu Quan could do anything, such as killing him, the culprit who caused the chaos in Liangzhou to erode into what it is now.

"The hour has come, come and execute!" Fuquan looked at the sky, waiting to see the red sun on the horizon. When he arrived at the place, he said to the left and right.

Jia Xu behind him led a few soldiers and said, "No! ”

"Hmm! Not! Hmm...... "Looking at the few people who slowly walked towards him, Zuo Chang's face was full of horror, shaking his head with tears in the corners of his eyes, as if he was eager for them to let him go, but no matter how he begged for mercy, he couldn't stop the movements of the three people at all, today, he would die, and there was no chance at all.

Walking in front of Zuo Chang, after Jia Xu nodded to the left and right soldiers, several people immediately stepped forward to untie Zuo Chang and move him from the stake to the ground. Then he was tied up again, and then ordered him to kneel, with his head facing west, to atone for the sins of the Han soldiers who died in the chaos in Liangzhou in the west, and to tear off the clothes behind him, leaving the back of his wide neck, and to make a good chopping target for the executioners behind.

"However, in the spring and July of the second year of Zhongping, there was a Han criminal minister Liangzhou who assassinated Shi Zuochang, sat on the crime of theft, embezzled military funds without a plan, and was afraid of death and cowardice, missed the fight, framed the chief, and all kinds of negligence and auxiliary crimes...... As a result, the rebels rose one after another, Liangzhou lost land, and the people were killed. Tell His Majesty the Imperial Court for his trust, and the hearts of the soldiers and the people will be assured, the time has come, and they will be cut immediately! ”

Jia Xu finished reading the beheading confession he wrote according to Fu Quan's request, and threw the confession in front of Zuo Chang, just when Zuo Chang looked up at the confession and wanted to intercede again, a soldier immediately pressed him to death, and then when he struggled, the executioner who had already shown a sharp broadsword behind him immediately cut off the long knife in his hand.

Suddenly, a human head jumped high, and when he volleyed into the air, his ignorant eyes begging for mercy seemed to be asking why he wanted to kill him and why he did it so early.

Perhaps, Fuquan asked him to kneel in the west and behead him, so that he could regret Liangzhou, atone for the people of Liangzhou, and apologize to the Liangzhou soldiers, after all, he is the biggest person responsible for the chaos in Liangzhou now.

"Someone come, teach this thief the head of the head, teach Sanfu and Liangzhou, and tell him along the way, the Han reinforcements and even the money and food rewards are available, so that all the armies will encourage them to pacify the traitors in Liangzhou!" Looking at Zuo Chang, who had rolled a lot of distance on the ground in front of him, Fu Quan said sharply, and then, several knights took Zuo Chang's head, got on their horses and went west.

After those knights left, Fu Quan turned to the Han army soldiers who had watched the beheading incident and said: "Zuo Changqi thief, corrupt nature, afraid of death and cowardice, such thieves must be killed!" This expedition to Liangzhou, I don't want to see someone repeat the mistakes of this person, if it is investigated, his crime is the same as this crime. ”

As soon as these words came out, the Han soldiers on the field were all silent, they knew that this was the first admonition after Fu Quan came on the way, and he had been appeasing them and conniving at them, and it was his first fire as the main general, and this gang burned up, burning them off guard.

The meaning of Fu Quan's words actually reveals two meanings, the first is that he does not want anyone to embezzle military spending, and the second is that when he fights, he does not want anyone to fear death and cowardice. These two points, in Fu Quan's view, are the top priorities of this expedition to Liangzhou.

Anyone who has studied the process of the first three Hanqiang wars knows that these three Hanqiang wars were all careless at the beginning of the Han army, and many soldiers were afraid of death and cowardice, so that the traitors were less and less afraid of the Han army when they did not have an advantage in strength and military strength at the beginning, and their strength was getting bigger and bigger, which eventually led to a loss of control.

Of course, there is also a reason why some Han troops are afraid of death and cowardice, and this reason is the tradition of embezzlement of military funds that the Han army has from top to bottom. The wind of corruption in the Han Dynasty, to this day, can be said to be extremely prevalent, even the well-known bachelor of this dynasty, the great Confucian Ma Rong, during his high position, has been corrupt, used for his own profligacy, the great Confucian is like this, not to mention others.

The reason why the military budget is embezzled, resulting in the Liangzhou soldiers will have no heart to fight, the reason is also very simple, as we all know, since the revival of Guangwu in this dynasty, the military system is mainly based on recruitment, but conscription soldiers are rare, which undoubtedly leads to military spending money has become the main source of an army's combat strength.

To put it bluntly, the soldiers recruited are the same as the mercenaries of later generations, they fight for money, and only with money will they have motivation, and without money, their morale will obviously decline.

There is a good saying, "people die for money, birds die for food", this is the truth, but if the military funds that the Han army values very much are embezzled, there is no need to expect them to have any motivation to fight, naturally at the beginning, because of the corruption of the generals led to the corruption of the army, and the corruption of the army, can it guarantee that they can go to quell the rebellion?

Obviously, they can't, and the biggest reason why "Liangzhou Sanming" was able to order their soldiers to use their lives later was that they did not embezzle military funds. And at the same time, they shared weal and butter with the soldiers, so that the Han army, which gradually lost its fighting spirit because of the embezzlement of military funds, once again ignited the fighting spirit that the Han soldiers should have, and it was precisely because of this that the Han army, even if there was an unfavorable situation, would not have some of the defeats in the previous Han and Qiang wars.

Therefore, after hearing about Zuo Chang's various crimes, especially the two points of embezzlement of military funds and fear of death and cowardice, Fu Quan moved his mind to kill. For him, this aspect can give a warning to these foreign guest troops brought by himself, so that they can enter the state in advance, after all, in order to appease the army, but he has made a lot of efforts, and there is no serious military discipline, which makes many soldiers indulgent, but it also makes them a lot less dissatisfied with the fact that they can't return to their hometowns after pacifying the Yellow Turban Moth thieves in Taiping Road, and today, they should restrain themselves and understand what kind of general they are.

On the other hand, it is natural to bring confidence to the Liangzhou soldiers who are still in Liangzhou, their morale is not high, and they have no money, and with the head of the Liangzhou assassin Shi Zuochang, who was originally the culprit, but did not suffer because of this, they will naturally understand what kind of character they will be.

Jia Xu took the confession sent by the soldiers, he threw the confession just now, in fact, it was just to attract Zuo Chang's attention and help the executioner execute, and he didn't really want to give this confession to Zuo Chang, after all, this confession that Fuquan asked him to write is actually Fuquan's talisman, just to give an explanation to the emperor.

Regarding this notice, Jia Xu knew that Fuquan had summoned the garrisons from all over Liangzhou and ordered them to send people to gather on the right side of the wind to discuss the matter of quelling the chaos. At that time, the representatives sent by the generals will be coerced by Fuquan, the new general, to sign this notice, either actively or passively.

As for those who dare not sign, the generals they represent will even be transferred by Fu Quan for various reasons, this is not only Fu Quan's life-saving move to ensure that he kills Zuo Chang from punishment, but also the first fire for the new official of Fu Quan.

After all, first of all, there is a joint letter from the generals of Liangzhou, even if the emperor will kill him because of Fu Quan's unauthorized advocacy of killing him without a capital crime, now he has to consider whether Fu Quan is doing the right thing, whether he should move Fu Quan, after moving Fu Quan, will it make the situation worse, after all, Fu Quan's move has already won the heart of the Liangzhou soldiers, but he has to consider a few points.

When they arrived at the generals in Liangzhou, if they didn't even dare to sue Zuo Chang with Fuquan and kill Zuo Chang, then they obviously didn't trust Fuquan, the new supreme military governor of Liangzhou, which means that they might not listen to their orders or even betray themselves at some moments, and this kind of person Fuquan naturally can't stay.

On the contrary, even if those soldiers still have doubts about themselves, but with this joint letter, in some ways, they are already in the same camp as Fuquan, and after getting into the car, it is obviously difficult to get out of the car.

Of course, as for some people who did not come in person, but asked their henchmen to come, they naturally did not sign. In this case, will they not join the Fuquan camp because they did not sign, and will it cause them to betray Fuquan, but Jia Xu thinks it is difficult.

After all, those who were sent to meet Fuquan in person were the henchmen of the generals from all over Liangzhou, and their signatures already represented the meaning of the generals from all over Liangzhou behind them to a certain extent, if those generals dared to betray Fuquan, I am afraid that after the betrayal, no one would dare to believe them, once no one believed that they wanted to have a way out politically except for traitors, it was obviously impossible.

But once they rebel against the Han, their families and relatives will be affected by this, and they who did not unite with Han Sui, Bian Zhang and others in the first place, will they still rebel against the Han now? It is obviously impossible, therefore, as long as their henchmen sign, even if they are unwilling, they can only give in in the end, especially when Fuquan's power is much more powerful than theirs, so they dare not and will not appear in this situation.

This is the first step for Jia Xu to help Fu Quan want to master Liangzhou, he was born in Liangzhou, he naturally knows the temper of those Liangzhou arrogant soldiers, only at the beginning to give them a horse, and then after the stick, give radishes to make them happy can make them submit.

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