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In Huaxia 198, Liu Tai did not pursue the massacre in Xianglin County in mid-December, which was beyond anyone's expectations. However www.biquge.info Liu Tai also ordered that the Jingnan soldiers who were captured by the Tianci Army in Xianglin County would be punished with capital punishment if anyone who participated in the looting incident was verified!

The content page of capital punishment is very simple, Ling Chi is executed!

You must know that in the punishment of Northern Xinjiang, Ling Chi has never been used, of course, in the early days, in order to punish illegal officials, there were several cases of Ling Chi, but in general, Ling Chi This kind of punishment is very rarely used in Northern Xinjiang.

Especially when Liu Tai repeatedly revised the punishment in person, the harshest punishment is beheading or life imprisonment, and life imprisonment is equivalent to a lifetime of hard labor, which is more frightening than beheading, so these two punishments are tied for the first place among the laws of Northern Xinjiang.

It can be seen from this that Liu Tai does not like to use too cruel punishments. In this troubled era, the ancients advocated strict rule of law, while Liu Tai believed that too cruel punishment would cause a general revolt among the people, which was not conducive to the ruling class, and in the end even ended up with the result of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Tai was naturally unwilling.

In fact, Liu Tai did not want to pursue the incidents that happened in Linjun and other places, but because Sun Jian had retreated to the land of Tianxi, Liu Tai was really unwilling to spend too much money and food to continue the expedition. You must know that not long ago, Xun Yu, who was equivalent to the prime minister of Northern Xinjiang, personally sent Liu Tai a recital.

The form is more severe than imagined!

Due to the excessively long supply line, the northern Xinjiang treasury is seriously empty, and the reason why it can still support the battle on the front line at this moment is completely from Liu Tai's private treasury to transfer money and grain, if it continues, when Liu Tai's private treasury runs out of money and grain, then the situation on the front line will be worrying.

Originally, in the budget, the money and grain of the Northern Xinjiang Treasury could fully support until 200 AD, but I didn't expect that there was a very big mistake halfway, that is, I was too self-righteous to think that the people under the rule of the princes, even if they did not receive the financial support of the Tianci army, could still support the autumn harvest of the next year.

You can imagine how the truth is.

It can be said that the money and grain sent to the people exceeded the grain and grass of the headquarters of the Tianci Army by several times, and even a lot of the food and salaries of the soldiers of the Tianci Army were deducted.

But that's it, it's not enough, in fact, if Liu Tai postpones the time of going south to Jiaozhou, it can still make Northern Xinjiang breathe, but Liu Tai is too anxious and unwilling to give Sun Jian a little time to prepare, so how can Northern Xinjiang, which has already made matters worse, afford to pay astronomical amounts of money and food to support the people?

The population of Jiaozhou is not large, but the whole state combined, there are always two or three hundred thousand households, and some of them hidden in the mountains and forests have not been counted. But how many people are there in 200,000 or 300,000 households? In the simplest way, a family of three to five is at least nearly one million, right?

The most difficult thing for northern Xinjiang is not the millions of people in Jiaozhou, but the location of these millions of people in Jiaozhou is too scattered. If it is concentrated, the northern Xinjiang can barely support it, but if it is scattered, not only will it waste several times the amount of food and manpower, but the priority must also be to ensure that the front-line grain and grass are in place.

In fact, Liu Tai and others had considered that the situation would be worse than they imagined, but they didn't expect it to be so bad. But fortunately, the money and food in Liu Tai's private treasury can barely support the expenses of the front line, but it is obviously impossible to continue.

Therefore, Liu Tai can only retreat, if he does not retreat, it will inevitably cause a series of deterioration of the situation. Liu Tai didn't want to see this kind of situation, so in dealing with Xianglin County, he could only turn big things into small things and small things. Otherwise, with Liu Tai's temper, how could he have bypassed the Sun family?

Let's ask, if there is no acquiescence from Sun Jian, will the soldiers of Jingnan dare to act like this? Liu Tai didn't believe it! Therefore, if you want to investigate to the end, there will inevitably be several major wars between the two sides, Liu Tai doesn't want to fight, he is really tired, and even if he wants to fight, it won't be now, so Liu Tai can only hold back his anger.

However, Sun Jian's actions laid the groundwork for the future destruction of the Sun family, which no one could have imagined, this kind of trivial matter of plundering was unbearable in Liu Tai's opinion, but for the princes of the late Han Dynasty, it was the most normal thing. Just imagine, both sides are enemies, and if one side loses the territory, it will always be a little unwilling, right?

Unwillingly, he naturally wanted to get back some interest, but due to the different circumstances, Sun Jian chose to rob, which is a normal thing, but what Sun Jian didn't expect was that it was because of this indulgence in looting that Liu Tai really held a grudge.

Huaxia 198, December 20.

Liu Tai ordered the three armies to return to Huacheng.

Among them, Zhao Yun was left in Jiaozhou by Liu Tai because of his guilt, commanding the 100,000 Tianci troops stationed in Jiaozhou, and always guarding against the possible counterattack of the Tianxi Sun clan. In fact, during this period of time, Zhao Yun's experience with the marquis has received the sympathy and goodwill of most of the generals of the Tianci Army, so that it has paved the way for Zhao Yun to ascend to the throne in the future, which is indeed a bit surprising.

As Liu Tai's most important general, Zhao Yun will naturally be recalled to Huacheng at that time, and the incident in Jiaozhou will naturally not last long. In fact, Liu Tai's series of methods against Zhao Yun are not severe punishments at all, they just confuse the sight of others and let Zhao Yun get out of the quagmire.

In 198, Sun Jian, who retreated to Tianxi on December 25, officially declared his vassal to Liu Tai, and prepared a series of necessary measures and handed them over to Liu Tai on the way back. And Liu Tai did not embarrass Sun Jian too much because of the incident in Xianglin County, agreed to Sun Jian's request, and added Sun Jian's title to the Marquis of Wanhu, which is equivalent to Sun Ce, and the original position of general of the town army was naturally canceled.

Of course, after the cancellation, Liu Tai still has to arrange an official position for Sun Jian, after all, now that the Sun family has withdrawn from Middle Earth, it should be regarded as a foreign domain, Liu Tai should be appeased, and Tianxi also needs Sun Jian to expand the territory for the Han Dynasty, how can Liu Tai easily destroy the relationship between the two sides?

The sealing of Sun Jian's official position made Liu Tai embarrassed, after all, Sun Jian was the general of the town army before this, and he could be regarded as a very human minister, since it was a reward, it couldn't be lowered, right? But if it is sealed, the rest of the prince will be worthy of Sun Jian.

But now that he is crowned a prince, in the future, Sun Jian will make greater contributions to the establishment of Tianxi, and even establish a country and a state, how will Liu Tai be rewarded? After thinking about it, Liu Tai gave Sun Jian a position as an envoy to the Western Festival. The Jiedu envoy is not among the many official positions of the Han Dynasty, and it can be regarded as a novel official position.

And the corresponding Tang Dynasty festival envoys, the rights are not particularly large. But Sun Jian is different, Sun Jian, the envoy of the festival, is a real first-class member in Liu Tai's setting, completely controlling the vast area of Tianxi, and even has the right to mobilize Lu Bu and Yuan Shao.

Of course, whether or not Lu Bu and Yuan Shao can be mobilized is Sun Jian's own problem, but at present, Sun's power in Tianxi is indeed the largest, and Yuan Shao and Lu Bu are a little weak compared to them, but now Yuan Shao's power in Tianxi is getting bigger and bigger, especially in the competition for territory with behemoths like the Guishan Dynasty, and has achieved huge benefits, making its future development unpredictable.

As for Lu Bu, he is a little negative, since he occupied an area in the southwest of Tianxi, Lu Bu seems to be fascinated by the local situation, and he lives a life of wine pond and meat forest every day, and his power has not yet been consolidated, so he is in a hurry to enjoy happiness, and Lu Bu's future is very bad.

(To be continued)