Looking at these kneeling soldiers on the ground, how to deal with them, Lin Yuyan also had a numb scalp when he thought about it, these soldiers were all young and strong brought out by the bandit army, if they were all slaughtered, not only would they be too benevolent and righteous, but also caused the martial arts to lose thousands of strong laborers, but if they were not killed, what would they do?

Lin Yuyan thought secretly, but he still asked Xiang Ying, the commander of the capital of Shuyang, who had just rushed over next to him, and Xiang Ying, the commander of the city, "How are our casualties?" How's the battle going? ”

Xiang Ying, the commander of the capital of Shuyang, stood up and replied: "Just a rough point, our army is a victorious division, chasing these scattered bandits, no soldiers lost their lives, but more than a dozen soldiers were careless, and they were injured a little bit by the way of these guys." ”

"Good!" Lin Yuyan nodded, glanced at it and said: "Take care of the injured soldiers, and inform the Shuyang Army and Shushui Yi from top to bottom, after pacifying the Thornyang bandits this time, the soldiers will ask for merit to the imperial court and recover the Thornyang land they have obtained, and every Shuyang soldier who participates in the war will have a share!" ”

"Good! Good! Good! Good ......" Hearing Lin Yuyan's promise, the surrounding officers and soldiers of the Shuyang Army and the righteous servants of Shushui all applauded.

Xiang Ying saluted and thanked Lin Yuyan and said, "The last general will thank His Royal Highness for the reward!" ”

"Xiang Duwei is wrong, these are not what I rewarded you with the soldiers of Shuyang, but the military exploits of the soldiers themselves!"

"Got it!" Xiang Ying heard this, nodded, and understood what Lin Yuyan meant.

Seeing that the matter here was over, the Yang Ling Huang Decai stood up and said: "Your Highness, this time in the battle of Jianyang, roughly calculated, the Shuyang army killed more than 1,000 bandits and killed more than 2,000 people. ”

Once again, the conversation was brought to the pawn.

Lin Yuyan nodded, and then walked to the side of the soldiers who were beaten by the old clan, Jing Yi stopped to remind Lin Yuyan of the risk, but Lin Yuyan shook his head and decided to go over.

The clansmen of the old clan, looking at the old decay, but the strength of the hand is really not small, these soldiers on the side are all bloodstained on their bodies, falling to the ground, seeing Lin Yuyan coming, they are all like frightened birds, getting up from the ground and kneeling on the ground.

Lin Yuyan looked at a more shrewd young man and said, "This son didn't ask why you rebelled, but only why you didn't fight back when you were beaten?" ”

Fight back?

Who knew that Lin Yuyan's words frightened the young man and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The grass people are wrong, the grass people are wrong, the grass people will never dare to rebel again!" ”

Lin Yuyan held him up, and only then did he know that in this person's heart, Fang Cai's sentence meant to ask for sin, so Lin Yuyan waited for this person to calm down, and then decided to ask another question: "There is no land at home?" ”

The soldier raised his head and looked at Lin Yuyan, his eyes seemed to be because Lin Yuyan did not mean to ask guilt in this sentence, and he also returned to his usual color, but his tone was still whimpering, looking at Lin Yuyan and nodded, and said, "There is no field at home......"

"Is there no food either?" Lin Yuyan asked again.

The pawn nodded again and said, "The grain has been eaten up in the spring......

"How many people are in the family?"

"Dad died in Gou's field a few years ago, and there is only one mother left in the family, as well as three brothers and two sisters......"

Immediately, the subordinate kowtowed to Lin Yuyan and said, "Official, I was wrong, I was wrong...... Some time ago, I heard that Xiao Chang'an gathered bandits, and the villain was thinking of taking his family to take refuge in Shuyang, but there was really no food at home, and a family of six people would starve to death on the road when they came to Shuyang, and when the bandits came to Jianyang, they were coerced by the villain's family, and the bandits attacked the official army, and the villain was purely forced to helpless, please spare the villain's life, spare the villain's life......"

Lin Yuyan sat on the ground, and then supported the soldier who kept kowtowing and said, "I won't kill you, anyone who surrenders here won't be killed!" ”

Suddenly, the surrounding soldiers who heard this knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Thank you, thank you, thank you, ......."

Lin Yuyan waved his hand, then asked behind him, "Where is the Thorn Yang Order?" ”

The Yang Ling Ying De replied: "Your Highness, the Thorn Yang Order is counting the number of soldiers in the rear......"

"Call him here." Lin Yuyan said directly.

Then someone went to call the Thorn Yang Order, and after a short time, the Thorn Yang Ling was led over, and saluted Lin Yuyan: "Your Royal Highness the Sixth Prince, a great victory!" Great victory! ”

"This son has eyes to see ......" Lin Yuyan looked at this Thorn Yang Ling and said, then patted the land around him, and said to Lu Yuan: "If the Thorn Yang Ling doesn't dislike the soil on the ground, he will sit here." ”

"Your Highness doesn't care about this matter, how can your subordinates take care of it!" Immediately, Thorn Yang Ling Luyuan sat next to Lin Yuyan, and he happened to be face to face with the soldier.

Lin Yuyan looked at the Thorn Yang Ling and sat down, and also looked at the soldier and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"The sinner has no name, but only a surname, and he is the eldest in the family, and others call me the greatest." The pawn replied.

Immediately, Lin Yuyan grabbed the sleeve of his coat with his hand, and the latter was terrified, for fear that his dirty clothes would be disgusted by this big official, and wanted to withdraw, but it was obvious that the hand that grabbed his sleeve was very powerful, and he couldn't break free when he knelt at all. Worried that the family would starve to death on the road to Shuyang, so they didn't move away, what do you have to say about the Thorn Yang Ling? ”

When Lin Yuyan said this, Thorn Yang Ling didn't hear any other meaning, but only heard the meaning of reproach.

At that moment, Thorn Yang Ling Lu Yuan confessed: "The subordinate is wrong...... The subordinate is wrong......"

"Humph!" Lin Yuyan snorted coldly, "I'm afraid that you are now verbally admitting your mistake, but you don't know where you are wrong!" ”

Then he said to everyone: "If I am a commoner, if there is no land outside my home, no grain storage inside, and I am in trouble, what do you think I will do?" ”

There were people everywhere, but no one dared to answer.

Lin Yuyan smiled, and then asked and replied to himself: "My son will also rebel!" But it's not a rebellion against the court, it's a rebellion against you corrupt officials and cannibalistic old clans! ”

Hearing this, Thorn Yang Ling immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, the subordinates are absolutely not greedy for the public interests of the imperial court!" ”

"No?" Lin Yuyan asked rhetorically, and then said to everyone: "According to this son, officials who see the suffering of the people and do nothing are greedy!" Official! Unclean! Government official! ”

Then he looked at the Thorn Yang Ling and said: "After this battle, Thorn Yang is like Shuyang, it is my son's military administration, and when the time comes, I will reward them one by one, and I will be held accountable one by one!" ”

When Thorn Yang Ling heard this, he knelt on the ground and buried his head in silence.

Lin Yuyan stood up, and then asked the descendant, "Everyone who has been beaten and scolded by the old clan has stood up for me!" ”

Hearing this, more than a dozen soldiers here stood up one after another, but their faces were blank, and they didn't know what this official who was ruthless to himself was going to do.

Lin Yuyan turned his head, and then glanced at the elders of those old clans with a stiff expression: "Someone in the old clan has beaten someone, and he will stand up for me!" ”

The old clan looked at each other, but no one stood up.

Lin Yuyan sneered: "What? Have the courage to hit someone, but don't have the courage to admit it? ”

Immediately, Lin Yuyan instructed his own Zongwei: "Jing Yi, Ji Wu, Chun Yuqi, you take these beaten people to identify the old clan one by one, and the old clan of Thornyang who was identified will all be taken down by me!" ”

Hearing this, everyone was shocked, especially the old clan, who immediately stood up and said, "Is Your Highness the old clan who wants to humiliate my Thorn Yang?" ”

However, soon, the sixth son of the emperor said again in the face of the old clan's mantra "yes and what".

Shuyang's side was a little surprised, and there was no other look revealed.

But the old clan of Thorn Yang jumped out like a nest and said one after another: "Your Highness, my old clan of Thorn Yang can also be regarded as the hero of this battle, helping His Highness defeat the bandit army, but now His Highness is so unclear about right and wrong, the rebellious bandits don't care, but they are here to humiliate the old clan of Thorn Yang who have made meritorious contributions to us!" "Your Highness is such an old clan who doesn't want to see Jianyang, we must go to Wancheng to complain to the imperial court, Your Highness is loyal and treacherous, it is unreasonable."

There are even old clans who directly joked: "Your Highness wants to deliberately rectify the words of our old clans, come and come...... The old man has lived for most of his life, so let the blood of the old man appease His Highness's denial of not hiding from my old clan of Thorn Yang! ”

Saying this, many people suddenly stood up and begged for Lin Yuyan's death.

In this regard, Lin Yuyan smiled, and just beat the pawns, I am afraid that none of these old clans will not contribute to it, and then said: "Jing Yi, lead people to take down these old clans!" If there are not enough manpower, the Yang Army and the Shuishui Righteous will be dispatched! ”

Hearing this, an old clan elder stood up and shouted to the old clans behind him: "O clansmen of the old clan of Thornyang, this blind prince has taken a fancy to the fields of our old clan of Thornyang, and wants to exterminate our old clans, pick up the guys in your hands, and protect the ancestors of our clan!" ”

After the patriarch said impassionedly, he didn't find that a single clansman dared to move, but the Shuyang Army, the Shuishui Yicong, and even the young Zhuang of Shuyang picked up the guy and waited strictly against these old clansmen.

Lin Yuyan squinted his eyes at this clan elder and asked, "If we hear it wrong, this clan elder is instigating the rebellion of the old clan of Thorn Yang, Jing Yi, take it!" If you resist, kill it directly! ”

Then he looked at the old clan of Jianyang, and said sharply: "The old clan of Jianyang can't even keep the foundation of their ancestors, and they handed it over to the bandits in vain, and even the bones of their ancestors were thrown on the wilderness, and they dare to rebel, do you think that the knife of my Shuyang Army is not bright enough!" ”

"Linghuang De, give this son the weapons in the hands of these old clans!" Lin Yuyan said towards the Yang Ling on the side.

The situation of the old clan of Jianyang is similar to that of Shuyang, the weapons brought from Jianyang were all thrown to the bandits at the gate of the barracks, and now these are all in the hands of these surrendered bandit soldiers, I didn't expect that this matter would give birth to such a change.

Yu Yan, the commander of the Thorn Yang Governor, immediately made a choice: "The Thorn Yang Officers and Soldiers originally obeyed His Royal Highness's military orders!" ”

Hearing this, Lin Yuyan smiled, and if so, it was a single resistance of the old clan of Thorn Yang.

Lin Yuyan shook his head and said with a smile: "This son originally thought that after the Thorn Yang Rebellion was pacified, he would come to investigate the responsibility of the Thorn Yang bandits, but now it seems that he has to investigate it now......

"It's just that Ben Gongzi has held the old clan accountable for beating the pawns, and these old clans can't hold their breath and want to stand up and rebel, so now these pawns kneeling on the ground in front of them, civilians, have no land or food at home, can they only wait for death...... They are all people, tracing back to the roots, the glory of the old clan is just brought by the ancestors in the past hundreds of years, don't you know that these civilians are all Chinese people, all descendants of Yan and Huang! ”

"Let me ask you, why did the bandits rebel? I don't think it's just these old clans annexing the land and occupying the people's fields, as a grave for the ancestors to bury their bones, as a hunting ground for their descendants to have fun, and forcing these today's bandits and good people of the past to death. Just ask you, the old clans, don't you feel ashamed of the behavior that is close to "cannibalism"? The ancestors buried in the ground of thousands of acres are not afraid that their souls will be gnawed by thousands of starving souls under the Nine Springs! ”

Suddenly, the patriarch of the old clan beat his chest and stood, looked up to the sky and cried: "What kind of sin is this...... This blind prince curses our ancestors who have contributed to the martial kingdom so much! ”

However, those who are slightly clearer than them are the old clan leaders behind them, and when they heard these words, they all buried their heads deeper, and they didn't dare to look at the officials and soldiers on the side of Shuyang, or even those soldiers who knelt on the ground.

As for the soldiers kneeling on the ground, most of them were crying secretly when they heard Lin Yuyan's words, and there were also some people who waited for those old clans of Thorn Yang with vicious eyes.

Thorn Yang Ling Lu, who had been kneeling on the ground, raised his head slightly, looking at the surrounding movements, only to know that the spearhead of this highness was already aimed at Thorn Yang, not only the bandits of Thorn Yang, but also the official government of Thorn Yang, and the most important thing was the old clan of Thorn Yang, and this spearhead was the public opinion represented by these soldiers.

Thinking of this, Thorn Yang Ling sighed without a trace, and only then did he continue to maintain his original posture and not get involved in the struggle between the sixth son of the emperor and the old clan of Thorn Yang.

If so, the two thousand Qingzhuang in Shuyang took out some of their manpower to supervise the Qingzhuang of these old clans, Jing Yi, Ji Wu and Chun Yuqi and others all took down those old clan leaders who were disrespectful to their Royal Highness.

Lin Yuyan looked at these pawns who stood up because they were beaten and scolded by the old clan, and also said: "You remember, you are the pawns of this son, these old clans who were defeated in your hands, like lost dogs, fled to Huaiyang, you can defeat them on the battlefield, and you don't need to swallow your anger at this time, how they beat you, how to fight back, because you are the pawns of this son, not theirs!" ”

Hearing this, Huaiyang Ling Huangde, Xiangying, deputy lieutenant Yi Ji, and deputy lieutenant Xiao Kun all looked at each other, and they had heard of this Wancheng's behavior before, but when they saw this son with their own eyes, they knew what it meant to be arrogant.

However, seeing that this son is arrogant and domineering, he is facing the old clan of Thorn Yang, these people are inexplicably happy in their hearts, probably because these people are all from the poor family, and the hatred for these old clans is subconscious.

However, even if His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince of the Emperor said impassionedly, these soldiers who stood up did not dare to make the slightest move, for fear that the official in front of them was testing them, and the more important reason was that the object of this official asking them to do it was the old clan who usually rode on their heads, and these soldiers seemed to have a natural fear of the old clan, especially on the occasion in front of them.

Seeing that no one was moved, Lin Yuyan had to name and emphasize again: "Why, don't you dare to fight back after being beaten by these enemies?" Think about your relatives who starved to death because these old clans invaded your fields, and now you have a chance to give them a breath, if I were you, I would definitely come out, so that at least one person would slap him, and greet the old faces of the clan leaders of these old clans, and if he is lightly beaten, this son will be punished! Big, you start first! ”

He was also a little stunned when he saw that the official had called his name, but he soon opened his mouth to Lin Yuyan and asked: "Lord Guan, I have no grudge against him against other old clans, I want to fight this one, the leader of the clan, my family's land was occupied by his family, my father was originally sent to the Gou family to work for a long time and died of exhaustion, and my father's family of eight was also forced to die by him!" ”

Looking at the clan leader who was shutting down the big fingers, he looked like he was full of fat, and in the face of the big accusations, he denied that it was not me, and it was inconvenient to scold this big man for being a pariah.

Seeing this, Lin Yuyan directly instructed the Thorn Yang Order, who was still kneeling on the ground: "Thorn Yang Order, make a note, the Yi clan, remove the name from the old clan of Thorn Yang!" ”

Thorn Yang Ling Lu Yuan didn't raise his head, and directly responded with a "yes", that is, he was silent, and now Lin Yuyan was doing something to Thorn Yang's old clan, and this Thorn Yang Ling who was caught in the middle was afraid that it was not easy to show too obviously.

Seeing Lin Yuyan's signal, he said to the figure standing up behind him: "Second brother, follow me to help my father and my father's family vent their anger!" ”

Suddenly, the two of them walked towards the clan leader, and Lin Yuyan signaled to the Zongwei who grabbed the clan leader to let him go, and handed it directly to the two brothers, and specially instructed "life and death aside".

Soon, seeing that the big man took the lead, there was nothing to do, and these soldiers who stood up also mustered up the courage, and the local people in Jianyang for a long time had a deep relationship with these old clans, and many of them had a great enmity of killing their fathers or destroying the family, and these old clans used a lot of unsavory means to annex civilian land, so they had the courage to take the lead, and they also mustered up the courage to move towards the old clan leaders who were caught.

"A certain is a small Chang'an ju deputy lieutenant Qiangyuan, and now I ask His Highness to allow a certain clan leader and his clan elder to kill the clan leader of the Xuan clan, and a certain wish to be driven by His Highness for the rest of his life!"

Suddenly, a figure who was originally in the middle of the soldiers stood up and said to Lin Yuyan, these thoughts are active, and through the conversation between Lin Yuyan and everyone, it was judged that Lin Yuyan was the identity of the prince of Wuguo, so he brought up this matter.

"Little Chang'anju Deputy Lieutenant Qiangyuan?" Lin Yuyan looked at the figure who claimed to be the deputy lieutenant of Xiao Chang'anju, and he was hit by an arrow in his left leg, so Lin Yuyan guessed that he didn't run away because of this.

Yu Yan, the commander of Jianyang, came out to identify him, and replied to Lin Yuyan: "Your Highness, this person is indeed the little Chang'an Judu Lieutenant Qiangyuan!" ”

Lin Yuyan nodded, then looked at Qiang Yuan and asked, "As the deputy lieutenant of Xiao Chang'anju, why do you want to help the bandits?" ”

Qiang Yuan's face was stunned, but he still said truthfully: "I am good friends with Ge Bao, and Ge Bao said that he would kill in Jianyang to help me wash the blood of the Xuan clan, so I did something with him." ”

Lin Yuyan said: "Others, I can forgive, but you, as a soldier of the imperial court, assisted the bandit army in rebellion, this matter cannot be forgiven!" ”

Qiang Yuan knelt on one knee and said: "Please Your Highness agree to this request, so-and-so is dead, and he is also willing, here, so-and-so is willing to do something...... As an internal response in the bandit army, or to persuade Ge Bao to surrender to the official army, please ask Your Highness to promise me this matter! ”

Lin Yuyan frowned and asked, "What grievances do you have with the Shen clan?" ”

A look of pain flashed in Qiang Yuan's eyes, and he slowly spoke: "A certain person is a person from Thorn Yang...... Born in an old clan! More than ten years ago, the Qiang clan is also one of the many old clans in Thornyang, and the clan is good friends with the clan, who knows, the clan leader of the clan of the clan fell in love with the mother, and the property of my Qiang clan, so he bought the water bandits on the water, killed the father, occupied the mother, and embezzled the property of the Qiang clan, the water bandits saw that I was still in infancy, so they secretly let go and adopted me, a few years ago, when they were about to die, they told me about it, I don't resent the water bandits, only this clan, I will take revenge! ”

"How could such a thing happen?" Lin Yuyan didn't expect that there would be such a fight within the old clan, so he asked the clan leader of the clan to ask about it.

The clan leader of the Zhuang clan replied only to promises, and the preface did not match the afterword, and after Lin Yuyan said a few words, it was determined that Qiang Yuan's previous words were true.

"Is there any evidence?" Lin Yuyan looked at Qiang Yuan and asked.

"Yes!" Qiang Yuan replied and replied, "The water bandits once left a letter of trading with the Zhuang clan, and they are still in the Jianyang Mansion. ”

Lin Yuyan glanced at the clan leader of the Zhuang clan, then looked at Qiang Yuan and thought for a while: "I will temporarily take the Zhuang clan into prison, if you can help the Shuyang army to break the gangsters, your treason will be dealt with lightly, if the evidence of the murder can be brought to me, I will definitely sentence the Zhuang clan to death, and the executioner will be executed by you!" ”

Qiang Yuan confirmed: "Your Highness is determined at a glance? ”

"It's hard to chase a horse!" Lin Yuyan responded.

Qiang Yuan knelt on the ground again and said to Lin Yuyan: "Your Highness, I want to lead some people back to Jianyang now, come up with evidence, and help Your Highness exterminate the bandit army!" ”

Hearing this, Yuyang Ling Yingde reminded on the side: "Your Highness, this strong hill is a bandit after all, and his words cannot be taken seriously, in case the tiger returns to the mountain......

Lin Yuyan stopped the Yang Ling and continued, then looked at Qiang Yuan and said, "I believe in him......"

Qiang Yuan also heard this, and immediately kowtowed to Lin Yuyan, and said: "Your Highness, I need to choose a few henchmen to return to Jianyang together, if I go back alone and have injuries on my body, I am afraid it will be difficult to gain the trust of the bandit leader Ma's ......"

"Okay." Lin Yuyan nodded.

Seeing this, Qiang Yuancai finally reminded: "Your Highness also needs to be careful of some of the Ma bandits in this pawn, the backbone of the bandit army is them, most of them are the supervision of the people on weekdays, and they are also the henchmen of the Ma clan, so they can't be let go!" The people have been coerced for a long time, and as long as His Highness asks the people to report it, he will be able to catch those diehards of the Ma family! ”

Hearing this, while questioning Lin Yuyan's bold use of people, he nodded his head, just by virtue of these words, most of the former little Chang'an Judu Lieutenant Qiang Yuan was already determined to defect to the official army.

Sure enough, after these words, there were a lot of bandits, pounced on one of them, and after overpowering him, they confessed to Lin Yuyan's side: "Official, this person is the bandit who supervises us on weekdays!" ”

Seeing this scene, Xiang Ying, Yi Ji, Xiao Kun, and even Lu Yuan and Yu Yan on the side understood that these two thousand soldiers were afraid that their hearts had already returned to His Royal Highness the Sixth Emperor, who was only sixteen or seventeen years old.

The land property of the old clan of Jianyang, the labor force of 2,000 soldiers, and the chess pieces that will be used as the internal response of the bandit army, compared to the old clan that constantly brings trouble to His Highness and the official army of Shuyang, this is undoubtedly a good deal!

What's more, what His Royal Highness the Sixth Son of the Emperor chose to abandon was the old clan that gave up the "responsibility of defending the land", the old clan that was "unkind to the rich", and the old clan that "abandoned the bones of the ancestors".

"What the heart desires, ......"

For some reason, Thorn Yang Ling looked at Lin Yuyan and suddenly thought of a sentence he had seen in a book.

However, what touched Xiang Ying, Yi Ji, Xiao Kun, Yu Yan and others more deeply was that this sixth son, who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, was less and less like an ordinary child who had not yet reached the crown by virtue of his behavior.

"The mind is terrible......"