In the chaos, the Sui army entered the cottage and quickly controlled the warehouse, the gate and other key points of the cottage, and some thieves who were unwilling to surrender learned that General Jin Er was dead, so they had to put down their weapons and surrender.

In the lobby, Jin Long endured the pain of his shoulder injury and reported the cause of the incident to Zhang Xuan, and the personal soldiers Wang Sheng and Zhang Ping also told the details of the killing of Jin Tai, and finally wept and said: "Our king is nowhere to be found, and I beg the general to spare his wife and two children, and we are willing to bear the punishment for them." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, "Since the first evil Jin Tai has been ambushed, I will no longer pursue the soldiers in the cottage, according to the rules, I will let them go back to their hometown to farm and reunite with their families, and Mrs. Xu, I will arrange for their mother and daughter to live in Beihai County and protect their safety." ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xuan glanced at Wang Sheng and Zhang Ping again, and said slowly: "You two are loyal to the Lord and deserve to be rewarded, I will reward you with fifty taels of gold each, and let you go down the mountain." ”

The two knelt down and wept, "We are willing to follow Madame and protect her safety." ”

"Alright! Whatever you want. ”

At this time, several soldiers brought Xu in, and Xu knelt down and saluted Zhang Xuan, "The guilty concubine is a general!" ”

Zhang Xuan asked her to get up, and said with a smile: "I heard that Mrs. is in charge of the accounts, and she must be very familiar with the money and grain stored in the warehouse, can you tell me the inventory of cottage materials?" ”

"General Hui, there are currently 74,000 stones of grain, 30,000 horses of cloth, 9,600 taels of gold, 250,000 taels of money, as well as copper and silver utensils, silk porcelain and other items, all of which have been accumulated by the king of my family for many years."

Zhang Xuan has long known that Wang Bo is the most accumulated wealth of the bandits, when Wang Bo was the first to set off a storm of rebellion, swept Qingzhou, and almost ransacked the official warehouses of Qingzhou counties, after many years, Zhang Xuan thought that Wang Bo's wealth was almost consumed. But he didn't expect that there were so many treasures, which really made him overjoyed.

"Thank you Madame for telling me so, I will not embarrass Madame, Madame can live in Beihai County, of course, if Madame is willing to go elsewhere. I'm not reluctant either. ”

Wang Bo has been exterminated, and his wife and daughter are no longer useful, but for the sake of their booby-trap of Jin Tai, Zhang Xuan doesn't want to embarrass them.

Xu wept and said: "I am the daughter of a big family in Zouping County, my parents, brothers and sisters-in-law are here, I want to go to them." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, and said to the soldiers next to him: "Allow her to clean up her fineness, give them another three hundred taels of gold, and arrange a carriage." Send them to Surabaya County first, and let Wei County Order arrange for them to go home. ”

Xu thanked him and left, and the two soldiers also followed the master's mother, and Zhang Xuan immediately settled Jin Long and the others, and then led everyone to the warehouse group of the cottage, they were very excited in their hearts, and they wanted to see the huge wealth stored by Wang Bo with their own eyes

It would take at least ten days and half a month to move Wang Bo's huge wealth down the mountain, and Zhang Xuan ordered Pei Xingyan and Wei Chigong to lead the army to supervise the surrender of soldiers to complete the matter. He himself led the main army to take Daoqi County back to Beihai County first.

At this point, the crackdown on bandits in Langya County, which lasted for more than a month, finally came to an end. The next step is to reward meritorious deeds, and at the same time reward the three armies, compensate for the casualties, so that every soldier participating in the battle can get benefits.

These trivial things will be done by Chang Shi Wei Yunqi and Sima Liu Ling, Zhang Xuan will not worry about it, what he has to do is to write a detailed battle report. Report the process of suppressing bandits to the Ministry of War and Yang Guang, the Son of Heaven.

In addition, Zhang Xuan also needs to send his henchmen to Beijing to deal with important people and dredge up relationships, which is a mistake that Zhang Xutuo once made, which caused him to stay in Qi County for only a short time, on the contrary. It was because of his good relationship with the imperial court that Yang Qing, the king of Xun, stayed in Xingyang County for ten years and became a veritable king of the Central Plains.

If he Zhang Xuan wants to continue to stay in Qingzhou, he has to learn from Yang Qing and open up the relationship with the court at any cost.

There is a small house covering an area of three acres in the pear flower lane in the west of Jiangdu City, although the house occupies a small area, but the house is built exquisitely, the high wall stands all around, the green trees are shady, here is the Jiangdu other house of Yu Shiji, the powerful minister of the Great Sui.

In the study, Yu Shiji's stepson Xiahou Yan respectfully put a gift list on Yu Shiji's table, although Yu Shiji was extremely greedy for bribes, but he also cared about the reputation of the Yu family, he would not let his son come forward, and his stepson Xiahou Yan became his best assistant to collect money.

Yu Shiji glanced at the gift list, two thousand taels of gold, twenty pairs of white jade, this gift list is worth a lot of money, Yu Shiji showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, and asked, "Seeking an official or exonerating?" ”

Generally speaking, most of the people who give Yu Shiji generous gifts are buying officials or committing crimes to seek exemption, and Yu Shiji guessed one or two as soon as he saw the number of gifts.

"Qiqi father, it is Sun Xuanya who asks for forgiveness."

Yu Shiji frowned, Sun Xuanya is a bandit in Langya County, who was exterminated and captured by Zhang Xuan, and has been escorted to Jiangdu, and has not yet decided how to deal with it, but since the failure of the Hero Association to recruit the bandits in the world, the saint hates the bandits everywhere, and Sun Xuanya was escorted to Beijing at this time, I am afraid that there will be more than one luck.

Xiahou Yan saw his father's embarrassment, and hurriedly said: "If the father is inconvenient, the child will refuse the other party." ”

"It doesn't have to be!"

Yu Shiji glanced at the gift list again, how could he not want the generous gift of two thousand taels of gold, he groaned a little and said to Xiahou Yan: "You go and tell the other party, I will do my best, but if they are psychologically prepared, I am afraid that it will not work, at most it will save their lives." ”

"Got it!"

Xiahou bowed and retreated, Yu Shiji pondered for a moment, and asked the concubine next to him, "When is it now?" ”

"Master, it's almost time to go to court."

"Change my clothes, and I'll go into the palace."

Yu Shiji would rest in the house at noon every day, and then return to Jiangdu Palace in the afternoon, he changed into court clothes, and drove to Jiangdu Palace located outside the city in a carriage.

The reason why Yu Shiji dared to accept this gift list was because he knew that Yang Guang, the son of heaven, was in a good mood recently, Zhang Xutuo defeated the Wagang army in Liang County and Dong County, and the Wagang army suffered heavy losses and fled back to Wagang Mountain, and Zhang Xuan led 10,000 troops to exterminate Sun Xuanya and Wang Bo in Langya County, so that Qingzhou and Xuzhou were connected, and only one bandit was left in Wagang Mountain in the entire Central Plains, which was indeed exciting.

The carriage drove out of the south city gate, at this time, a group of cavalry rushed in the distance, led by Yuwen Zhihe, the second son of Yuwen Shu, Yuwen Zhihe was named the general of the tiger Benlang, commanding 5,000 troops to be responsible for protecting the safety of the dragon boat.

Yu Shiji saw that he was in a hurry, so he stopped him, "Virtuous nephew! ”

Yuwen Zhihe recognized Yu Shiji, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "It turned out to be Uncle Yu Shiji, the little nephew didn't see it!" ”

"Is there anything wrong with such a rush?"

Yuwen Zhihe was surprised: "Even Uncle Yu Shi doesn't know? ”

Yu Shiji was stunned, "What do you know?" ”

"The Holy Lord is going back to the capital."

Yu Shiji was stunned, how could he not know such a big thing?

He asked urgently, "Is the news reliable?" When was the news? ”

"It's the news that came out at noon today, it should be reliable, and the lowly post has been notified to prepare the dragon boat."

Yuwen Zhihe was in a hurry to leave, and said goodbye after a salute, but Yu Shiji felt very strange, it was rare for the saint to come to Jiangdu once, according to the original plan, at least until the autumn to return to the north, and now it has only been two months, why is he so impatient to go back?

And if it was a formal decision, he Yu Shiji would know it first, but now he didn't even know about it, there was only one possibility, it was the Shengshang's own decision, and he hadn't discussed it with the courtiers yet.

Yu Shiji shook his head, there are many things that the saint has decided on a hot head, but there are few things that are really implemented, to put it mildly, if there is no consent from him Yu Shiji, the matter of returning to the north can only be a rumor.

"Speed up and go to Jiangdu Palace!"

The carriage sped up and sped towards the Jiangdu Palace, a few miles away in the distance, escorted by a dozen soldiers

In the past few days, Yang Guang, the son of heaven, has been in a good mood, and the Sui army has won successive battles on the two battlefields of the Central Plains and Qingzhou, not only driving the Wagang army back to its old nest, but also completely sweeping away the bandits in Langya County.

In particular, it is of great significance to sweep away the bandits in Langya County, not only opened up Qingzhou and Xuzhou, but also sent people to the court to express his willingness to accept the court's recruitment, and Sun Xuanya was exterminated so that Meng Haigong lost his horns to rely on.

In the imperial study, Yang Guang couldn't help but pick up Zhang Xuan's battle report again, with 10,000 troops against 70,000 bandits, and finally completely exterminated the bandits at the cost of more than 100 casualties, and the results were so brilliant.

What particularly satisfied Yang Guang was that Zhang Xuan proposed at the end of the war report that the seized 200,000 guan money and 10,000 taels of gold should be transported to Jiangdu and handed over to the state treasury.

Although Yang Guang still can't look down on 200,000 yuan and 10,000 taels of gold, he is very satisfied with Zhang Xuan's attitude, putting the interests of the imperial court first, which is very commendable.

At this time, a eunuch reported at the door: "Your Majesty, Yu Shilang asks to see!" ”

"Let him in!" Yang Guangzheng was about to discuss with Yu Shiji about returning to Beijing. (To be continued.) )