With the tragic death of Scarface Wang Sanlang, Fang Jueming Chu Tianzheng was beheaded, and the rebellious army suddenly no longer had the slightest fighting spirit.

When Zhang Xian blocked the gate with more than 1,000 infantry, he cut off the hope of the last line of escape of the rebel army. The rebels all surrendered on the spot.

Li Bashao walked out of the castle a little tired. When Yue Fei didn't come just now, he didn't feel a little tired, and he kept standing on the top of the castle and commanding his family to fight. But as soon as the crisis was lifted, the whole body suddenly fell apart. After all, he was already an old man.

However, Li Bashao didn't have time to rest, after all, there was still an army of more than a thousand people parked in front of his castle. He walked up to Yue Fei and immediately knelt down and saluted. Yue Fei hurriedly stopped him. Yue Fei said, "Old Li is famous, and Fei has heard of it. How dare you accept the gift of Boss Li. Besides, as a soldier, it is his duty to protect the hometown and the people. If you don't care if you see the rebel army doing evil, how is Fei different from the rebel army? ”

Li Bashao said with a straight face, "General Yue doesn't know, my worship is not just because the general saved my Li Bashao's family. Rather, I thanked the general for the nearly 10,000 people who had fled to me. If the general hadn't arrived with his troops, none of my people here would have survived tonight. The general's grace of life, Li Bashao will never dare to bear it. ”

Yue Fei said with a smile, "As I said just now, it is the duty of a soldier to protect the township and the people. Between Elder Li and me, there is no reason why anyone is gracious and who is gracious. My brothers," Yue Fei pointed to his soldiers and horses, "I have eaten all the food of Ying Tianfu in the past few months. The eater of the cannibal, the matter of loyalty. How can you be a ruthless white-eyed wolf? ”

Li Bashao sighed, and also pointed at the thousands of troops in the corner of Li Mansion who were surrounded by Zhang Xian, and said, "But what they have eaten in the past few months is also the grain of Yingtianfu." ”

Seeing Li Bashao's tired face and red eyes, Yue Fei suddenly didn't know what to say, so he could only accompany Li Bashao and sigh.

Li Bashao asked, "How is General Yue going to deal with these rebellious soldiers?" ”

Yue Fei said, "Fei Zheng wants to hear Elder Li's opinion. ”

Li Bashao said, "If it had been twenty years ago, I would have suggested that the general kill them all." for they are more or less stained with the blood of the people in my house. At least thousands of the tens of thousands of neighbors who fled to my Li family for refuge were killed by them. ”

Speaking of this, Li Bashao paused, he looked at Yue Fei's face, and found that Yue Fei's face remained unchanged, as if he was waiting to hear his next words.

Li Bashao touched his beard and continued, "But now that I am old, I also know that the good and evil of people are mostly created by the environment. These people may have been honest people a few months ago. Besides, people cannot be resurrected after death, and even if they are killed, it will not help. Besides, I didn't force these people to surrender, how to deal with them, I listen to the general. ”

After talking for a long time, Li Bashao didn't say anything. Of course, he also revealed his opinion. But how to deal with the rebellious army is not something that Li Bashao can decide.

Li Bashao had just met Yue Fei and didn't know Yue Fei's personality. He only knew that troubled times were coming, and many generals were desperately expanding their troops. Because with more strength, you can have one more chance to survive in the troubled times in the future.

If Yue Fei was like other generals, he would definitely take these thousands of chaotic troops for his own use. After all, these are thousands of young people, all of whom have received basic military training. They all witnessed Yue Fei's god-like bravery, and they were in awe of Yue Fei. As long as Yue Fei trained a little, he would not worry that these soldiers would not listen to him.

Therefore, although Li Bashao said a piece of nonsense, he was actually tempting, he was testing the heart of the general in front of him.

Yue Fei saw that Li Bashao stopped talking, and just looked at himself with the others. He immediately said, "No one can sin without being punished." No matter how large their numbers are, they cannot be held accountable. In particular, if the army does not dare to punish the many criminals because of them, it will only turn them into a chaotic army that does all kinds of evil. Since these soldiers are brought by the generals today. Tomorrow in front of the Ying Tianfu Ya, the chaos will be shown to the public to set an example. As for these soldiers, the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped. Let them do hard labor in Yingtianfu for a few months. What do you think, Mr. Li? ”

Li Bashao clasped his fists and saluted Yue Fei again, "We listen to General Yue's disposition." From now on, if General Yue has a place to find me, he will do so. ”

Yue Fei's handling of the rebels was no different from others in the first half. Kill their generals and recruit their soldiers. This is the means used by the vast majority of generals to deal with the surrender of the army. But Yue Fei killed his generals and did not accept his soldiers. This shows that Yue Fei is not the kind of person who will do anything to expand his strength.

As for Yue Fei's sentence "No one can commit a crime with impunity", it shows that Yue Fei does not regard the current Central Plains as a troubled era, but a Central Plains that still has laws and rules.

And Li Bashao had the same idea as Yue Fei. The reason why he helped his neighbors was because Li Bashao, who had traveled all over the world, had seen the darkness of overseas countries. He knew that although the Great Song Dynasty was a mediocre monarch and a mediocre official, no officials were not greedy, compared with other countries, the Great Song Dynasty at this time was undoubtedly heavenly.

This is that although Li Bashao was dissatisfied with the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, when the Jin soldiers broke Kaifeng with iron hooves, he still resolutely let his two sons lead the militia to Qinwang. Because he understood that Jin Bing was definitely not here to save the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

These Jurchens from the bitter cold land will only regard the Great Song Dynasty as a fertile pasture, will only slaughter tens of millions of people in the Central Plains as cattle and sheep, and will only toss the prosperous Central Plains into a ruin with no people in sight.

It's a pity that Li Bashao saw this, but it doesn't mean that everyone sees this. For example, the other three families of Ying Tianfu decisively threw themselves into the Jin people. They fantasize about continuing the glory of their family under the rule of the Kingdom of Jin. But they don't understand that in the eyes of the Jin people, they are just a few fat sheep that only need to be slaughtered at the end.

Seeing a crisis does not mean that it can be broken. Just like Li Bashao, he had long seen the crisis of the Song Dynasty, but as a businessman, he was not qualified to discuss politics at all. I could only watch sadly as the Great Song Dynasty slipped from the bustling mountains into the abyss of misery.

However, Li Bashao now feels that he has found an ally.

It's Yue Fei.

In his opinion, Yue Fei was brave and invincible, but he abided by the rules, and his generals were all full of vitality, without the twilight of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers. It is an ally that can be relied upon.

Li Bashao asked in a tentative tone, "General Yue is so brave, I don't know what position he is in now?" ”

Yue Fei smiled bitterly. "Don't dare to hide it from Elder Li, I was the head of the Xuanfeng Army under Liu Hao's command two days ago. As for now, it is white. ”

Li Bashao didn't believe Yue Fei's words at all. "How could a talent like General Yiyue be expelled from the barracks?"

Ji Qian said angrily beside her, "It's not because my eldest brother Yue wrote a letter of advice to the saint and suggested that it should be all Bianliang." Huang Qianshan, that bastard, said that my eldest brother was a martial artist and talked about government affairs in vain. One day, I will beat Huang Qianshan with thirty military rods to avenge Brother Yue. ”

Li Bashao sighed again and again, "I don't know people to such a point, how can my Emperor Song not be defeated by the hands of the Jin people!" However," Li Bashao once again expressed his intentions, "Please rest assured General Yue, the little old man will never dare to disappoint General Yue." I also hope that General Yue will not leave Yingtian. ”

Yue Fei also arched his hand and said, "The ancients paid attention to good beginnings and good ends. Although Fei didn't dare to compare with the sages, he would never leave halfway until he stabilized Ying Tianfu. ”

Although the battle of Li Zhai is over, the matter of Ying Tianfu is not over. Li Bashao invited Yue Fei and the others into the castle hall, and in front of everyone, he loudly announced, "General Yue's ability, I think you have all seen it. We need General Yue's protection. We can escape the slaughter of Fang Zhao and Chu today, but we may not be able to escape the blades of other rebels tomorrow. We need General Yue to protect us. ”

When Li Bashao said this, he deliberately looked at the faces of those small and medium-sized families who had fled to the Li family, and found that they looked at Yue Fei with a little expectation, without the slightest look of panic when facing the other officers.

Li Bashao especially understands the thoughts of these family heads. In troubled times, it is not the ordinary people who are frightened, anyway, the common people have almost no property, and the rebels and displaced people will not be able to do anything about them, at most, they will join the gang as homeless people. As for a wealthy and powerful family like Li Bashao, there is nothing to be afraid of. Because where their influence is, no matter which force needs the support and allegiance of these great families. As long as you look at the right wind direction and don't stand on the wrong line, the big family can basically survive the troubled times.

The most tragic thing is such a small and medium-sized family, most of them are craftsmen, doing all kinds of small businesses, in the peaceful and prosperous times, getting up early and greedy for night, working hard for half a life, finally saving a family business, living a worry-free life. But when the world is in chaos, they become fat sheep in the eyes of everyone.

The rebels wanted to rob their property, the invaders wanted to rob their property, and even the original ruler wanted to rob them. But they don't have the ability to protect themselves. can only resign himself to fate, despairing to see his half of his life's hard work come to naught in an instant. After each change of dynasty, a large number of new families will rise, and the rest will be all destitute ordinary people. Because most of the small and medium-sized families can't survive the troubled times. Even if they survived, they would have nothing and be destitute.

The ruler has always had a strange idea, that is, he wants to concentrate all the wealth in his own hands, and he wants the common people in the world to be poor, and stuttering is the greatest gift to them. So they don't allow the existence of small and medium-sized families at all. Do everything possible to deprive these smarter, harder-working, and relatively more order-bound middle classes.

One dynasty after another, the attitude of the rulers towards small and medium-sized families has not changed at all. In the peaceful world, they are plucked fat sheep, and in troubled times, they are fat sheep to be slaughtered.

These small and medium-sized families in Ying Tianfu are still lucky, because Ying Tianfu has the odd number of Li Bashao. When the rebels rose up, they were allowed to hide in the house. Therefore, they have no objection to Li Bashao's statement. They really need the protection of an army. This army must be able to protect them without sacking them for their wealth. And right now, this General Yue is their best choice.

When these people fled to Li's house, they basically packed all the valuable and easy-to-carry things from their homes into packages and brought them to Li's house. Most of them were gold, silver and jewelry, and they were placed on the floor of the Li family's hall, and some untied packages shone under the light. When Yue Fei led Ji Qian and the others into the castle just now, several people were all smacking at the packages piled on the ground. However, no one was like the other rebels, and their eyes changed when they saw these yellow and white things.

From this point, it can be seen that the group of generals under General Yue are at least not robbers.

Therefore, these small and medium-sized family heads not only did not oppose Li Bashao's proposal, but also worried that Yue Fei was unwilling to protect them. After all, Yue Fei is not a local. Most of his brothers were not natives.

Therefore, some family heads saw that Yue Fei was noncommittal to Li Bashao's proposal, and immediately shouted, "General Yue, please don't leave our Ying Tianfu." General Yue needs money, we pay money, we need manpower, we pay manpower. ”

Li Bashao laughed, looked at Yue Fei and said, "General Yue, can you bear to disappoint these people?" Just now, General Yue himself said that he must start and finish well. ”

Yue Fei looked at the people in the hall and said loudly, "Thanks to the importance of all the villagers, Fei dares not to serve his life!" ”