Chapter 39: The Governor of Liaodong

Peng Chaodong looked at He Tengxiao suspiciously, not knowing what He Tengxiao was going to say.

Qiao Shaoyuan stared at He Tengxiao viciously, with a clear threat in his eyes. He Tengxiao did not directly answer Peng Chaodong's words, walked in front of Qiao Shaoyuan, walked in front of Qiao Shaoyuan, paused for a moment, and met Qiao Shaoyuan's gaze. He Tengxiao glared at Qiao Shaoyuan coldly, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly. The muscles in Qiao Shaoyuan's face twitched slightly.

He Tengxiao walked to a car behind Qiao Shaoyuan, and the two sturdy dart masters guarding in front of the car blocked in front of He Tengxiao, preventing He Tengxiao from approaching the car. He Tengxiao pushed away the two dart masters in front of him with both hands, He Tengxiao had great strength, one of the dart masters did not stand firmly, and one fell to the ground.

After the other dart master stood firm, he swung his fist at He Tengxiao's face, and He Tengxiao quickly drew his knife out of its sheath and put a knife on the dart master's neck. The blade touched the dartmaster's neck, slicing through the flesh of the dartman's neck. The dart master only felt a chill in his neck, and he retracted his fists and did not dare to make a rash move.

"Stand down!" He Tengxiao drank the dart master and cut the sack containing tea leaves on the car with a knife. The sack was cut by a sharp blade, cutting a gap.

Qiao Shaoyuan closed his eyes in pain, not daring to look at the ugly cut on the sack. The sack was cut, and the tea leaves leaked out of the sack like sand leaking. As the tea leaves continued to leak out, the iron tools hidden in the tea leaves slowly came out. There are iron tools hidden in the sack!

After seeing the iron tools in the sack, Peng Chaodong's face became ugly, he didn't expect these merchants to be so bold that they would dare to trade iron tools in the tea and horse market! What do the soldiers of Beiyuan City and the officials of the Beiyuan Tea and Horse Division do to eat! It can allow so many iron tools to flow into the tea and horse market for trading.

Peng Chaodong looked at He Yunting, He Yunting's face was pale, all thoughts were gray, and he stood in place.

"Someone! Take down these profiteers! "Peng Chaodong ordered to take Qiao Shaoyuan's caravan. Peng Chaodong's personal soldiers were ordered to control Qiao Shaoyuan and his dart master one by one.

Peng Chaodong walked up to the carts and motioned for his soldiers to cut open the sacks on the carriages.

Hiss......

Hiss......

Hiss......

All the sacks on the twenty-eight cars were cut open by Peng Chaodong's personal soldiers, and after cutting the sacks, the pro-soldiers opened the tea leaves, revealing the iron tools hidden under the tea leaves.

"Report to the Governor, this bag of tea contains iron utensils."

"Report to the Governor, this bag is also available."

"Your Excellency the Governor, this bag is also available."

After inspecting the sacks, Peng Chaodong's personal soldiers reported one after another. Eighteen of the twenty-nine cars had iron tools hidden in their sacks!

Peng Chaodong walked into the nearest car and ordered his soldiers to pour out all the iron tools in the sack.

The soldiers poured the iron from the sack out of the mouth, and the crisp sound of the iron striking sounded.

After confirming that all the iron tools in the sack were poured out, Peng Chaodong's personal soldiers lost the sack.

There are all kinds of iron tools on the ground, not only iron, iron axes, shovels, but even ready-made weapons!

Peng Chaodong squatted down to check these iron tools, first picked up a piece of iron and looked at it, the iron turned out to be fine iron! Peng Chaodong dropped the iron material and picked up a gun head, the gun head was sharpened abnormally, it was a high-quality gun head, and there were still seventy or eighty gun heads like this on the ground. Combined, there are more than 1,400 of these tips!

The sophistication of these weapons is by no means something that can be created by small folk workshops. Peng Chaodong randomly picked out three or four gun heads, neatly placed them on the flat ground to observe, the inscriptions on the gun heads have been worn off, but these gun heads are almost the same length and thickness together, and they are undoubtedly the standard weapons of the Great Zhao Zhen Army.

Peng Chaodong stood up and looked at Qiao Shaoyuan, Qiao Shaoyuan's expression remained calm.

The discovery of so many smuggled weapons in the tea horse market was of a bad nature. It is imperative to rectify the tea and horse market in Beiyuan, not only to rectify the tea and horse market in Beiyuan, but also to thoroughly investigate the source of these weapons and iron weapons. Iron tools are important strategic materials, if these iron tools flow into foreign races, how much more blood will be shed by the Great Zhao soldiers?

Thinking of thoroughly investigating the source of these weapons, Peng Chaodong couldn't help but feel a little helpless. Once such a huge arms smuggling case is thoroughly investigated, how many people will be involved behind it? Seeing that Qiao Shaoyuan has been very calm from beginning to end, the proprietor behind this arms smuggling case will naturally not be a small fish and shrimp. The resistance to a thorough investigation of this case is no less than the resistance he had had in the first place to rectify the Ganzhou Tea Horse Market.

Peng Chaodong ordered his own soldiers to take away the relevant personnel involved in this matter, and He Tengxiao's Pingshan Fort Army was no exception, and was taken away by Peng Chaodong's personal soldiers.

After Peng Chaodong's personal soldiers took the people involved, they left He Tengxiao alone.

"The Governor has always had a question." Peng Chaodong walked slowly and said to He Tengxiao.

He Tengxiao didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Peng Chaodong's gourd, so he smiled and said, "Your Excellency, it's okay to ask, your subordinates know everything, and they can't say anything." ”

Peng Chaodong walked to the front of the corridor and stopped, turned his head sideways to look at He Tengxiao, and said his question: "How did you block the attack of tens of thousands of Liao troops with the strength of hundreds of remnants of Pingshan Fort?" ”

The Governor laughed, where did his subordinates have that ability. The Liao army besieging Pingshan Fort was only a few thousand, and the siege was only two days, and the Liao army was longer than the field battle and shorter than the siege. The subordinates were just lucky, and they barely held Pingshan Fort for two days with the advantage of geographical advantages. He Tengxiao said, "The Governor entered the town of Shaanxi with 800 iron horses thirty years ago, and wiped out hundreds of thousands of Liukou in Shaanxi, that is a great achievement. ”

Peng Chaodong shook his head and did not continue to discuss this topic with He Tengxiao. It was true that he rode out of Shaanxi with 800 iron, but the so-called hundreds of thousands of rogues he faced were just homeless people who did not have much combat effectiveness.

Moreover, the Peng clan is the premier clan in Gongchang Prefecture. As soon as Peng Chaodong arrived in Shaanxi, he recruited 8,000 children of Gongchang Mansion based on the 2,000 township warriors of Gongchang Mansion and founded the Qin Army.

It is not difficult to deal with hundreds of thousands of rabble with an army of 8,000 strong, as long as they are not mediocre. Didn't Xie Xuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty defeat the million-strong army of the former Qin with 80,000 Beifu soldiers? And He Tengxiao's hundreds of remnants faced the iron weapons of the Liao army, which was known for its ruthlessness and good fighting. In addition to the geographical advantage, He Tengxiao's command ability, as the chief officer of the city, is also a factor that cannot be ignored.

Peng Chaodong and He Tengxiao walked to the school grounds, and a group of bad horses came into their eyes.

He Tengxiao thought to himself that these should be the horses that the tea and horse trade government exchanged from foreign people these days. He Tengxiao looked around, and there was not a single good horse among the hundreds of horses. The tea and horse trade system of the Great Zhao Empire is really rotten to the roots.

"When the Governor finishes rectifying the tea and horse market in the Northern Plains, the Governor will receive several times as many good horses as these inferior horses." Peng Chaodong looked at a group of horses not far away and said, "I want to expand the cavalry of the Qin army, you are a cavalry background, you should know that it is not a day's work to build a capable cavalry." ”

Cavalry is not only expensive, but also requires a long period of training cavalry, and it is difficult to create an elite cavalry that is good at fighting without three or five years of effort. He Tengxiao was full of suspicions, what was the purpose of Peng Chaodong pulling himself here to watch the horse and talking to himself?

"But if you gather the scattered cavalry from all over Liaodong and train a little, a capable cavalry can be achieved overnight." He Tengxiao was figuring out Peng Chaodong's intention in saying these words, and Peng Chaodong continued to say next to him, "The Liao army is known for its cavalry, and the best way to deal with cavalry is to develop its own cavalry, to use cavalry to control cavalry, and to use both infantry and cavalry. ”

After Peng Chaodong said this, He Tengxiao finally understood. Peng Chaodong wanted to win him over to join the Qin army.

Although the Qin army is known as one of the strongest armies in the Great Zhao Empire, in the final analysis, the Qin army is just a guest army in Liaodong. If you want to gain a foothold in Liaodong, it is the local wealthy families in Liaodong who are more worthy of reliance. Peng Chaodong put down his body as a governor and threw an olive branch to him as a small thousand households, if he joined the Qin army, his treatment would naturally not be low.

He Tengxiao had no intention of leaving the He family to join the Qin army. He tried every possible way to break away from the He family and serve as a thousand households in Pingshan Fort, just to gain relative freedom and control his own destiny. What about joining the Qin army, he has no foundation in the Qin army, and joining the Qin army is not only Peng Chaodong, but only the Qin army?

He Tengxiao, whose soul came from hundreds of years later, cherished his freedom very much, and this kind of life was not the life he wanted.

He Tengxiao's thoughts wandered, his eyes were foggy, and he thought about where he should go in the future. Maybe he's just a rootless duckweed on this plane.

"To build a powerful cavalry that is comparable to the iron cavalry of the Liao army, can Teng Xiao be interested?" Peng Chaodong's gaze fell on He Tengxiao.

He Tengxiao's thoughts were pulled back by Peng Chaodong's deep voice.

He Tengxiao met Peng Chaodong's gaze and replied: "The Governor's martial arts are world-famous, and in time, the Governor will definitely create a powerful cavalry that is comparable to the iron weapons of the Liao Army. Teng Xiao came from a humble background and only wanted to live in the world, and he didn't want anything else. ”

Building a cavalry that could compete with foreign cavalry was once the dream of many in the Empire. Wu Tingzhen's hussar battalion and He Fangxiong's cavalry battalion were all short-lived, and they were equal to the Liao army's iron cavalry on the battlefield. But in the end, it was defeated by the Liao army, Wu Tingzhen, and He Fangxiong's dreams were trampled on the battlefield by the iron cavalry of the Liao army.

The surviving veterans of the Xiao cavalry battalion followed He Tengxiao, and also hoped that He Tengxiao could bring out a powerful cavalry to recast the glory of the Xiao cavalry camp in person. He Teng also dreamed that one day he would be able to bring out a strong army like the cavalry battalion, as iron as the cavalry battalion. However, it was not up to the Qin army to realize this dream.

It is unreliable to rely on the strength of others to realize one's ideals. The most tangible dreams are to be won through their own step-by-step efforts.

Hearing He Tengxiao say this, Peng Chaodong knew that He Tengxiao was unwilling to join the Qin army, and he was not strong, but he didn't believe that He Tengxiao really only wanted to survive in the world, and there was nothing else to ask for.

"Do you have words?" Peng Chaodong diverted the topic.

"The subordinate has just reached the age of weak crown, and he has not yet written a word." He Tengxiao replied truthfully.

"Then the governor will give you the word." Peng Chaodong walked into the hall, and He Tengxiao followed Peng Chaodong in.

Peng Chaodong laid out the rice paper, picked up the pen and ink, and wrote two words on the white rice paper - Yunji.

"The situation is both gorgeous and talented, and the clouds are empty. It's only when you're young that you're famous. Peng Chaodong recited a poem of magnolia by the former Huang Ji, and after the recitation, he put down the pen in his hand: "He Tengxiao, the word Yunji." ”

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