Chapter 40: Buying Prisoners

Wang Sheng only knew how to escape, he had to escape from Shen County as soon as possible, the city gate had been broken, and the officers and soldiers of the heavenly killer would not spare him, so he took the closest more than 700 people to the east gate. There are no officers and soldiers attacking the city over there, no matter what else, the concubine who was caught in the former county order is now Wang Sheng's wife. Wang Sheng thought of this lady's tender and tender waist, and there was always a nameless fire rising.

Wang Sheng led people to the east in a panic, and more and more anti-thieves gathered behind him followed, Wang Sheng didn't care, he just ran with his head bored, returned to Gepo, and went into the mountain, the officers and soldiers couldn't dare to enter the mountain. If it weren't for the fact that Wang Sheng was a little special on a horse, no one would be able to find the head of the Ge Po thief in the crowd. This Wang Sheng is a typical farmer, but he is just a little taller, and he just grins honestly.

Yuan Shao rushed to the county government, but it was still too late, and after breaking the mansion, there were only thieves fleeing everywhere, and they all said that they didn't know where Wang Sheng was. Yuan Shao was so angry that he asked one to cut one by one, and after a while, the other two people also rushed to the county government, and when they saw Yuan Shao there, they just waited for Yuan Shao's order. The Taishou of the two counties followed the Gui as the Taishou, but at this time the atmosphere did not dare to come out, and the nine ** chaos that year was also Yangqiu to quell the chaos, and there were hundreds of officials killed. Which one of the officials these years is clean, if Yang Qiu is in a bad mood and wants to rectify whom, he can find a lot of solid evidence from whom.

Yuan Shao said: "The thieves in the city should quickly clear the light, press the captives in the south of the city, and be optimistic, this matter is responsible for the two Taishou, and they must quickly count the achievements, Wang Sheng has not seen it, I want to go to the east gate, this time it is cheap Chen Jiazi, a certain person went to Yingyang Lord to enter the city to preside over affairs, and the two adults acted according to the order." The two Taishou were naturally guarding the prisoners, counting the casualties and captures, etc., Yuan Shao went out of the city to greet Yangqiu.

Here, Chen Lin was ambushed in the dense forest in the east of Shen County, and he could only hear the shouts of slashing and killing in the city, so he could only do it in a hurry. It wasn't for a few loud shouts of "kneel down to avoid death" coming from inside the city, Chen Lin knew that the city gate must have been breached, and if it couldn't be completely annihilated, the thieves would have fled quickly. Hurriedly ordered the horse team to pay attention to concealment, and no one should make a sound, so that the scouts in front of them should have bright eyes, and report any abnormal movement in time.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the spies to report that the east gate was opened, and a team of about 1,000 people rushed away with a big man on horseback. Thousands of people, Chen Lin was very determined, and hurriedly called Zhang Ba and Cai Yang and a few people, and said: "The rest of the people don't care, you just have to pay attention to the one who is riding a horse, or capture or kill, it doesn't matter, as long as he doesn't escape." "Zhou Cang, wow, don't worry, the little thief can't run.

In a moment, the group was about to run in front of Chen Lin, Chen Lin got on the horse and signaled, and everyone did the same, drawing out a big knife: "Hugh is going to get away with one person, the one who kills the king is ten taels of gold, and the rest is one Baiwen." "The guards like to fight with Chen Lin the most, there is a reward at every turn, and everyone kills happily every time, lest someone else rob their pocket of money.

Poor Wang Shenggang was still thinking about hiding in the mountains and continuing to play with the snatched county concubine, suddenly there was a noisy shout of killing in front of him, and he saw countless cavalry rushing straight to the face, and the running thieves all ran away, Wang Sheng was still angry and looked at the rushing cavalry with his mouth open on the horse, but he didn't react. Huang Yan's horse was fast, his hand was up and down, and a head worth ten taels of gold flew up. Zhou Cang in the team snorted and shouted: "This horse is not as fast as a certain one, and it was robbed by Huang Yan again." Zhang Ba laughed, and the thief, who had been fleeing with the knife, was bumped by the horse and said, "Brute bull, come to Bibi." ”

Zhou Cang and Zhang Ba's two violent tempers only rushed to the place where there were many people, Chen Lin was not far away, not moving at all, just watching from a distance, six hundred cavalry raided less than a thousand anti-thieves, what is there to fight. Cai Yang was going to go, but when he saw Zhou Cang and Huang Yan rushing out early, he hurriedly protected Chen Lin. In just a quarter of an hour, Zhou Cang, Huang Yan and the others ran back in a hurry, just about to grin and ask for credit. Cai Yang shouted loudly: "Zhou Cang Huang Yan, as the eldest young master's guard, you and the two of you should not leave an inch, and swear to protect the safety of the eldest young master, how can you take half a step away, you can be convicted." Cai Yang was furious.

Huang Yan hurriedly dismounted and knelt down: "Young Master, a certain dereliction of duty, you should not commit it again in the future." Zhou Cang's reaction was slower, and when he saw Huang Yan like this, he hurriedly followed suit. Chen Lin couldn't imagine that Cai Yang was so loyal, and he couldn't bear to cold the hearts of Huang Yan and the others, so he hurriedly said: "This time there is also a certain word to kill Wang Sheng, get up, no wonder you two." Huang Yan Zhou Cang got up and returned to Chen Lin with an expressionless face. It didn't take long for the horse team to be all gathered, and more than 30 people were folded, and the people led by Wang Sheng really had some skills, and Chen Lin would also be annoyed by the casualties, and this time he took the initiative to fight for the purpose of actual combat training.

Chen Lin was about to return when he saw a horse flying out of the city, and the person who came was sent by Yangqiu: "Gongzi Chen, Yangqiu asked if he had seen Wang Sheng." Chen Lin: "Wang Sheng is dead, is Lord Yang outside the city or inside the city, and is he going to go to recover his life?" Knowing that Yangqiu had entered the city and was running errands in the county government, Chen Lin hurriedly returned to the city and went to restore his life.

In the Shen County Mansion, Yuan Shao has already retreated to the side, at this time it is Yang Qiu sitting in the right position, and the two counties are in the same position, Chen Lin: "Lord Yu, Chen Lin has reinstated his life, and set up an ambush in the east of the city in the name of Lord Yuan, and he really intercepted the anti-thief Wang Sheng, and has now been killed by someone." He turned around and shouted outside the house: "Bring Wang Sheng's head up", Huang Yan strode in, offered Wang Sheng's head, and bowed his head and withdrew. When Yang Qiu saw it, he hurriedly ordered two anti-thief captives to be taken in, and identified that it was Wang Sheng.

Yuan Shao reacted the fastest: "Congratulations to my lord, I will put down the rebellion of the Gepo thieves in a war." Chen Lin and the others reacted and hurriedly said hello, even people who don't smile like compliments, and Yangqiu is no exception. Yangqiu was modest: "The original contribution is indispensable, and after returning to Luoyang, the official will truthfully report to the Son of Heaven to know." The two Taishou adults are also, and they will help each other, and the official battle report will state the merits of the two Taishou adults. and Chen Gongzi gathered the township to help, Chen Gongzi was righteous, and the official admired him. In short, after a lot of credit, everyone has a share, and Yang Qiu ordered the two guards who were to guard the prisoners and statistics to report the battle situation.

In this battle, more than 6,300 enemies were killed, and there was even the head of Wang Sheng, the head of the anti-thief; more than 7,800 thieves were captured; More than 1,400 of its own county soldiers were killed in the battle, and more than 900 were wounded; A total of eighty-one people were killed and wounded by the imperial forbidden army; Recovering Shen County, countless seizures were made. As for Chen Lin's side, Yang Qiu didn't even ask, but fortunately, Chen Lin didn't care.

Yang Qiu ordered to reward the three armies, and even Chen Lin was given two pigs, and later Zhou Cang exhaled stingy, only two pigs. After Yang Qiu ordered the reward for the three armies, he said: "Now that nearly 8,000 thieves have been captured, what do you think should be done?" After speaking, he looked at everyone. Zhao Qian and the others bowed their heads too tightly and did not speak. I think I don't want to accept these thieves, if I make trouble in the future, it will be a disaster. Yuan Shao was ruthless and raised his head: "It's just a thief, there is no food in the army, kill it as soon as possible." If it had been before, Chen Lin would have immediately refuted it when he heard this, but now Chen Lin has seen more and is much calmer, and he is unwilling to directly offend Yuan Shao. gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound, thinking that Yang Qiu must still ask the three people who didn't make a sound, and then he will talk about it.

Sure enough, Yang Qiu asked the two Taishou masters again, and they both said that it was good to kill them, and asked Chen Lin again. Chen Lin didn't want to kill the captives like this, these people were just honest and ignorant people not long ago. So Chen Lin said: "Wang Sheng is bold and reckless, killing officials and attacking the county, the crime deserves death, but the people are so ignorant that they only know blind obedience, and now they have surrendered, if they don't spare their lives, it will appear that I am gracious." Chen Lin saw that as soon as he finished speaking, although Yuan Shao didn't speak, his face was full of disdain.

Yangqiu is a harsh ruler, but he is still a person who loves the people, and when he heard Chen Lin say this, he also nodded, shook his head again, and said: "It's just that let it go like this, I'm afraid that it will be the opposite, how about it?" The two Taishou said yes again and again, and Zhao Qian frequently glanced at Chen Lin. Chen Lin knew what he meant, and sighed secretly in his heart, human life is like a mustard, so he said: "Lord Yang, you can't just let it go like this, why don't you make all the captives slaves, and the Chen family will buy them with a thousand taels of gold and be slaves on the Chen family's farm." In this way, it not only shows the benevolence of my court, but also Lord Yang can explain this thousand taels of gold to the court, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds. After Chen Lin finished speaking, he looked at Yang Qiu nervously, and Yuan Shao and Zhao Qian looked at Chen Lin like fools.

Yang Qiu was also shocked when he saw Chen Lin like this, and saw Chen Lin's expectation and sincerity on his face, and thought in his heart, this does not violate the law of the Han Dynasty, it is natural for these thieves to be slaves, if it is not for the long distance and waste of grain and grass, they will definitely be pulled to the border of Bingzhou or Youzhou. Since Chen Lin bought it for a thousand taels of gold, it is cost-effective, let Chen Lin worry about it. So he agreed, but Yang Qiu confessed that he could only provide Chen Lin with a day's food and grass.

So Chen Lin left the county government under the pretext, he was not an official, he was too lazy to care about Yangqiu's affairs, and hurriedly took the token to deal with the prisoners. Chen Lin didn't go to the prisoner camp immediately, but returned to the camp first. said to Cai Yang and a few people: "Yuan Benchu wanted to kill the prisoners, and I bought nearly 8,000 prisoners as slaves with 1,000 taels of gold." Cai Yang immediately knelt down: "The eldest young master is righteous, and he will be worshipped." Chen Lin didn't care about this, and ordered: "Huang Yan took people to Pegasus back to Anyang and told Grandpa that he would bring money to bring Lord Yang back to Luoyang to restore his life." Now that Lord Yang only provides one day's food and grass, these more than 7,000 captives will definitely make trouble when they run out of food, and I will go out with gold before I go out. Zhou Cang immediately went to the nearby county seat to buy food, and bought as much as he could. The daily food provided by Lord Yang was made for two days and distributed to the captives to eat, and those who were full of food were going to make trouble. Cai Huyuan was responsible for spreading a message in the prisoner camp, saying that the officers and soldiers wanted to kill them, but the son of the Chen family bought them for one person and one tael of gold and survived, and Cai Huyuan had to be more secretive in this matter. ”

Chen Lin found Zhang Ba and said that he would borrow the Zhang family nursing home first, so that Zhang Ba would not be in a hurry to return to Anyang, and said to Zhang Ba that he had bought thousands of prisoners, and Zhang Ba agreed in one breath. Chen Lin and the others were busy dealing with the prisoners, handing over to the officers and soldiers, arranging guards, and so on, and they were very busy.