Chapter 225: Waiting
Qi Weng is sick, it's a heart disease.
Although he never underestimated Chang'anjun at the beginning of the fight, he still didn't expect that after the initial courtesy and humility, once he grasped the authority in his hand, his methods would be so vigorous.
Qi Weng originally thought that Chang'anjun was a foreign feudal monarch and had no experience in governing the local area, so it would take a long time to rectify the county officials who had accumulated shortcomings for a long time. But who would have thought that Chang'anjun's inconspicuous squint-eyed fat man Feiping only spent two days to drive away the five centurs from the family of the county magistrate through coercion and inducement, and held a sand tide, streamlined the county guards, and promoted many chiefs and military chiefs to military officials.
In this way, the county magistrate has a new look, and it is no longer a local force with the intertwined forces of various heroes, but a private armed force pinched in the hands of Chang'an Jun......
In addition, Chang'anjun also reorganized the 1,500 clansmen of the wealthy families, although the nominal command was still handed over to the children of each family, but the few heads cut off in the northern suburbs that day showed that these 1,500 people had been firmly encircled by Chang'anjun's military law. In the following days, a few more Ding Zhuang who wanted to escape home were beheaded, their heads hung on the gate to deter everyone, in order to set an example, and the corpses were sent to their respective clans, and those headless corpses made the heads of the families tremble.
Their anger rushed to Gong Zhongyin, who killed people without blinking, but they didn't dare to show a trace of hostility to Chang'anjun behind him, and they had to be busy choosing the best people in the clan to fill the position of the dead.
"Regret shouldn't be......" Qi Weng has been worried these days, and Chang'anjun's strength in Qi County is getting stronger and stronger, and the more uncomfortable he becomes.
"I shouldn't have handed over the clan to Chang'anjun so easily, didn't I hand the sword to him?"
Yes, the Qi clan is suffering now, and the sword they lent to Chang Anjun is now behind their own back, forcing them to continue to cooperate.
That's why Qi Weng is worried, what he is most afraid of is this feeling of being choked by the neck. As the saying goes, the store bullies the customer, the customer bullies the store, as the chief, the most jealous county official is strong, in that case, the family will have no room for continued development.
In the past, whenever there was a county official who wanted to make some political achievements in the local area, the Qi family would unite with other families to squeeze them out, or bribe the county government of Jinyang City to transfer the county official away.
But now the mountain of Chang'anjun, with their strength, can't be moved away no matter what!
Seeing that Chang Anjun trained the county guards day and night, and sent soldiers to Xixiang to take over the local security, if this continues, when the thieves are exterminated, Chang Anjun will completely control Qi County, and no longer need to rely on the Qi clan to govern the city, and their Qi clan will slowly be marginalized and lose their past status in the county.
"What can I do about it?" Qi Weng summoned his two sons to his side again and asked what they thought.
By this time, Qi Zhongping's idea of "disobeying the yang and the yin" and secretly sabotaging the plan to suppress the thieves no longer worked. Chang'an Jun introduced the military law of Zhao to Ding Zhuangzhong, announcing that "in wartime, the soldiers fled, and the commanders sat together; Even the pawn fled, and the commander sat down ......" means that if any unit flees by itself in battle, the general of the unit will be beheaded by the company!
Qi Weng can imagine that once the soldiers of his family escape, not only will he be caught by Chang'anjun's people and his head will be cut off, but the eldest grandson Qi Kun, who is responsible for leading them, will also be sitting, and if he is not careful, he will affect his own family.
So the eldest son Qi Mengming came up with another idea: the Qi family gave up the posture of the two ends of the first rat and completely fell to Chang'anjun!
"It's better to marry a daughter and take Chang'an Jun as a concubine!"
Qi Zhongping glared at his brother: "Brother, how could you take the initiative to give your daughter to someone else as a concubine?" β
"What about being a concubine? At least it's the side room of the son, not better than the wife of the chief? β
Qi Mengming is very calm, although the Qi family has a long history, it has not been a doctor for several generations, at most it is a local tyrant in the county, and his daughter can marry a son as a concubine, Qi Mengming is not ashamed, but proud.
Qi Weng thinks it's good, at least he can have someone by Chang'anjun's side, and it can also show that they support Chang'anjun wholeheartedly.
But this plan soon fell through, in the face of Qi's hints, Chang'anjun was unmoved, but only mentioned that he already had a heart, and he had a marriage with the daughter of An Pingjun of Qi State, and before marriage, he would not accept concubines......
"What an infatuated son!" Qi Zhongping scolded when he learned about it, he felt that Chang Anjun was looking down on the Qi family and an insult to the family.
"I'm still to blame for this, I'm too impatient."
Qi Mengming didn't think there was anything about it, although he was yellow, he still didn't give up, his daughter couldn't send it in, and he still had a son.
He said to Qi Weng: "Since Chang'anjun has controlled Qi County, it is in vain for my family to secretly resist, it is better to take refuge wholeheartedly and help Gongzi win this battle against thieves, so that Kun'er can also be trusted by Chang'anjun." Chang'an Jun is a big man, his mind must be on the Handan court, how can he stay in Qi County for a long time? When the time comes, maybe Kun'er will be able to be his guard, and my Qi family's status in Qi County will continue unabated! β
"My brother is also almost fifty years old, how can he be so naΓ―ve."
Qi Zhongping said: "Haven't you heard an old saying? The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook; The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden; The enemy country is broken, and the ministers are dead! Chang'anjun can use my Qi family for a day, and treat each other politely, and when he completely controls Qi County, eighty percent will kick us away, and then it will be good if the family is not ruined, and you still expect to be able to be next to the big tree of Chang'anjun? Besides, once Qin Zhao starts a war, the Qin army will arrive, and then Chang'an Jun will have to flee in a hurry, how hard we try to take refuge in him at this time, and how miserable the suppression will be after Qi County belongs to the Qin State! β
Qi Mengming spread his hands: "Then what do you say?" Now what can my Qi clan do except obey orders? β
"Wait! We just have to wait! β
Qi Mengming was stunned: "Wait, what are you waiting for?" β
Qi Zhongping lowered his voice: "Wait for a good show of tigers and wolves!" β
Qi Weng's drooping eyelids opened suddenly: "Let's hear it." β
"The tiger is Chang'anjun, and the wolf is a pack of thieves."
Qi Zhongping said with a smile: "Now Chang'anjun has hundreds of county soldiers, 1,500 families from all over the country, I heard that he also recruited one or two hundred young people in Xixiang who are familiar with water and terrain, but Ah Weng, do you think these people are enough to exterminate water thieves and bandits at the same time?" β
Before Qi Weng could speak, he asked himself as if he was answering: "Can't!" β
"Not to mention the vast smoke of Zhaoyu Qi, the radius of two hundred miles is full of grass, the water thieves are haunted, I don't know where they landed, and I don't know when they attacked Liju, their nests are even more difficult to find, the Zhao army is coming, the water thieves can flee to the counties of Qin on the west bank, and the Qin army is the same, this is also the reason why the Zhaoyu Qi water thieves are difficult to be exterminated for so many years, unless Chang'an Jun has been chasing people to the west bank of the lake to destroy the den of water thieves, otherwise the thief problem will definitely not be eliminated in the short term."
"Let's talk about the thieves in Ershan, in the past few years, because the group of thieves harassed the fields, abducted and deceived the concubines of the subordinates to flee, my Qi clan and the Wen clan also joined forces to attack, but the head of the group of thieves Wei Yao is a Wei military soldier, rough military arts, the clan Ding was defeated, and now he is quite popular in Nanxiang, and there are many thieves in Nanxiang, this is a big problem that plagues the chief of my county, and now, this problem is placed in front of Chang'anjun...... With hundreds of newly trained county soldiers and more than 1,000 clansmen who are mixed with each family and have no fighting heart, don't say that they will completely destroy the group of thieves in the mountains, maybe they will be defeated by the old skills of Wei Sickle! β
If Chang'an Jun is a foreign tiger who wants to devour them all, then the thieves of the Ershan Mountain are a hungry wolf that has been entrenched for a long time, biting the power of the chief, then Wei Yao calls himself a thief, often goes to Nanxiang Haochang's house to steal grain, but does not rob the ordinary people, what is even more odious is that Wei Yao continues to attract the poor people who have been annexed by the elders and have no land to join, and those Wei people who were exiled from the east of the Wei River many years ago and became subordinate concubines also went to vote.
The power of Ershan is getting bigger and bigger, there are more than 1,000 henchmen, and with such a big thief on the side, the Qi family is also unable to sleep and eat, and now it is just taking the opportunity to suppress the thieves to let Chang'an Jun and them both lose, isn't it right?
Qi Weng thought about it, and he could only hope for it.
"Then just wait......" he sighed and rolled over, feeling that his time was short, and the future of his family was uncertain.
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The Qi clan decided to wait, but they didn't know that Chang'anjun was also waiting, waiting for an east wind that would delay the future.
Time flies, seeing that the middle of May has arrived, the county pawn and Ding Zhuang have been training for a month, but the results are still not great, although the county pawn is more orderly, but the rush to kill is still soft, no murderous spirit. Ding Zhuang had just learned to distinguish between the golden drums and the flags, and even the real weapons were not distributed to them, and they only fought with wooden spears every day.
On this day, Qi Zhongping, as before, rode a horse to inspect the fields outside the city after eating, but as soon as he walked out of the north gate, he realized that the situation was not right today.
Those county officials who should have been in the west appeared here today, lined up on both sides of the road, and 1,500 Ding Zhuang were also specially assembled, standing in the open space next to the northern suburbs road under the scorching sun, and they didn't know what they were waiting for.
Qi Zhongping was very surprised, could it be that Chang Anjun decided to send troops, he thought that it would be delayed until June, but now that he hastily sent troops, the probability of failure will be greater, he was overjoyed, and just wanted to find someone to ask, but then his eyes widened.
But I saw smoke and dust billowing on the road in the north, and an army of cavalry to open the way was slowly heading towards Qi County! Most of the knights were armoured, with spears and swords, nearly half of them had bows and arrows, and their horses were good horses.
After dozens of horses, there is a steady stream of soldiers, looking at it, I am afraid that there are thousands of people, the same military appearance is clean, well-equipped, by no means the county soldiers, Ding Zhuang can compare, they can see the queue to greet them, swallow their saliva.
And Qi Zhongping's attention was on the banner after that, just like the banner of the Taiyuan County soldiers!
Just one glance made Qi Zhongping's hands and feet cold, he never expected that what he was waiting for was not a tiger and wolf fighting, but an east wind borrowed by Chang An Jun from Handan and Taiyuan......