At the same time that the cavalry of the Sui army slaughtered out of the county seat, the defenders of Huiji County began to disintegrate rapidly, and it was no longer important whether Meng Xing was in the city or not, and the soldiers defending the city rushed to the city. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

They took off their armor, threw away their weapons, and ran wildly to their respective homes, even the soldiers whose homes were outside the city went to their relatives, and for a time, more than 10,000 defenders in the city were scattered like trees, and finally only 5,000 soldiers were left to follow Yang Zhifu to surrender to the Sui army.

Yang Zhifu led 5,000 soldiers out of the city to surrender, the soldiers have put down their weapons, took off their armor, and waited anxiously for the Sui army ****, the Sui cavalry entered the city and did not kill, but quickly occupied strategic places such as warehouses and official offices, which made the soldiers see a glimmer of hope.

Yang Zhifu was guided by the soldiers and came to Zhang Xuan's war horse, he knelt down and kowtowed, "The guilty minister Yang Zhifu specially asks His Highness for his guilt!" ”

The reason why Yang Zhifu was called a minister was because he had served as the Sima of Xuanyang County, and later surrendered to Meng Haigong and was appointed as a soldier to participate in the military, so he was more afraid of being liquidated than ordinary people.

Zhang Xuan said lightly: "You are indeed guilty of following Meng Haigong, but for the sake of you not being a troublemaker and surrendering to Huiji County, I will allow you to offset your merits and demerits, and I will not pursue your crimes, please get up!" ”

Yang Zhifu was overjoyed, got up and saluted again: "Your Highness Qiqi, many of these soldiers are original government soldiers, they are willing to return to the Sui army, and I implore Your Highness to accept them!" ”

Zhang Xuan looked at the 5,000 soldiers, the soldiers were also strong, although they all wore armor, but they were not messy, the military appearance was quite neat, it was indeed a pity to let them return to the field, he asked: "Are they all local children?" ”

"More than ninety percent are from Huiji County and Yuhang County."

Zhang Xuan nodded, he mostly uses local children as county soldiers, generally restricted by his father and fellow villagers, military discipline is better, and secondly, he is very close to home, and the military spirit is relatively stable, Zhang Xuan turned back to Luo Shixin and said: "Go and receive this army, and reorganize it according to the convention!" ”

Luo Shixin reported again: "Can the humble position make Xie Yun command this army? ”

Xie Yun is a tiger tooth general under Luo Shixin, a native of Yuhang County, who is cautious and meticulous, Zhang Xuan has a good impression of him, so he agreed, "Yes!" ”

Luo Shixin immediately turned around, and Zhang Xuan said to Yang Zhifu again: "Let's go to the city!" ”

Zhang Xuan immediately held a simple ceremony to enter the city, he led 5,000 ironclad troops into Huiji City, and every household placed incense tables at the door, kneeling to welcome His Royal Highness King Qi into the city.

Zhang Xuan immediately entered the county office, Huiji County did not guard too much, Meng Xing is the military and political commander of Huiji County, so how to arrange the chief political officials of Huiji County is also a big problem, the culture of the Jiangnan region is very different, just like Chengdu and Chongqing in later generations are similar to outsiders, in fact, one is Shu culture, the other is Ba culture, and it is not the same.

The same is true in the Jiangnan region, just like Wu Yue belongs to two different cultures, and the Jinling culture of Danyang County is different from the Wu Yue culture, cultural differences lead to regional differences, and there is also a special emphasis on the appointment of officials, for example, you can use northerners to come to the counties in the south of the Yangtze River to be officials, but you can't let Wu people come to Yue to be officials, and it's best not to let Yue people go to Wu to serve, which will produce some kind of subtle resistance.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan must personally appoint the Taishou of Danyang, Wujun and Huiji, which is related to the long-term stability of Jiangnan.

Not long after, Xiao Jian, Cang Cao's military officer, hurriedly walked in, bowed and saluted, "See the marshal!" ”

Xiao Jian is a descendant of the Liang Dynasty, the nephew of the Empress Dowager Xiao, about thirty-five or sixteen years old, gentle and elegant, erudite, and very shrewd and capable.

It stands to reason that the Xiao family is a famous scholar family in Danyang County, and it is slightly inappropriate to let Xiao Jian serve as the Taishou of Huiji County, but Xiao Jian also has an important identity, he is Yu Shinan's son-in-law.

The Yu family is the number one scholar clan in Huiji County, and has influenced Huiji County for hundreds of years, and even Yang Guang did not hesitate to reuse Yu Shiji in order to envelop the Jiangnan region, Zhang Xuan also knew very well in his heart that if he wanted to win the world, he must first get the support of the world's Shi clan.

The weakening of the scholars is a gradual and long process, and only after the economic and cultural development has made great progress, the imperial examination gradually matures, and the scholars can no longer monopolize the culture, they will naturally gradually weaken.

It is precisely with full understanding that Zhang Xuan will try his best to encircle the scholars of various counties and try to tolerate the alliance of the nobles in various places in terms of interests.

Huiji County is no exception, he knows very well in his heart that if he wants to govern Huiji County well, he must get the support of the Yu family, just like Wu County must get the support of the Lu family and the Gu family, Xiao Jian is Yu Shinan's son-in-law, of course, he will get the support and recognition of the Yu family.

Zhang Xuan invited Xiao Jian to sit down, and asked with a smile, "Have you met Yu Rou in Jiangdu?" ”

At present, the head of the Yu family is Yu Shinan, but because Yu Shinan is an official in Zhongdu, he has no time to take care of the affairs of the family, and the affairs of the family are taken care of by his nephew Yu Rou, but because Meng Haigong occupied Huiji County, Yu Rou led the clan to Jiangdu by boat a few months ago to avoid trouble.

Xiao Jian bowed and said: "Back to the handsome, I have talked to Brother Rou, he will return to Huiji County in the next few days, and then he will gather all the families in Huiji County to meet." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded and smiled: "Since that's the case, I'll leave this matter to you." ”

Xiao Jian was taken aback, "Don't wait for the handsome to meet before leaving!" ”

Zhang Xuan smiled, "I really want to, but the situation does not leave anyone, I will immediately lead the army to Dongyang County, I just got the news that the Tang army has sent troops from Bashu into Yiling County, you will say hello to all the Huiji County scholars for me, and I will come to see them again next time." ”

Xiao Jian nodded silently, he thought about it and said, "Dashuai, I want Yang Zhifu to be the county leader, does Dashuai think it's okay?" ”

"No!"

Zhang Xuan said without hesitation: "Yang Zhifu can go to other places to be an official, but he can't stay in Huiji County." ”

"Why is that? I don't know if I am humble, please make it clear. ”

"This is actually a matter of principle, although Yang Zhifu is also a literati, he has commanded soldiers in Huiji County, and 3,000 of the 5,000 county soldiers have been his subordinates, I don't mean that he will rebel, but if he wants to rebel, it will be difficult to say, does Xiao Yuanjun understand what I mean?"

"Humble duty understood."

Zhang Xuan smiled again: "The imperial court will naturally send the county to come, or it won't be long before he arrives, Xiao Yuanjun will stabilize the situation in Huiji County first, I will leave five hundred soldiers to be responsible for training the county soldiers, if there is anything, you can ask General Xie for help, I will order him to do everything to help you." ”

"Thank you for your thoughtfulness!"

Zhang Xuan instructed Xiao Jian a few more words, then got up and left the county government to go back to the barracks, just arrived at the gate of the barracks, just met Li Jing who went to the warehouse to count the materials and came back, Li Jing hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Zhang Xuan smiled and asked, "Are the materials rich?" ”

"Returning to His Royal Highness, it is worthy of being a rich town, there are about 150,000 stones of grain, cloth is piled up like a mountain, the person in charge of the warehouse said that there are more than 200,000 horses, and 80,000 pieces of silk, as well as bronze, pig iron, various weapons and armor and other materials are piled up like a mountain, and in addition, he copied Meng Guang's mansion and copied 13,000 taels of gold, and three large boxes of jewelry, of which the precious Haizhu alone is full of a box, and copper coins are piled up in a cellar, and I don't know how many are lowly duties."

Li Jing sighed as he spoke, the wealth of the Sui Dynasty made him feel incredible, this is just a county, if the wealth of all counties in the world is concentrated, then I don't know how much?

Of course, Zhang Xuan knew that the strength of the Tang Dynasty was built on the incomparably wealthy Sui Dynasty, and in recent years, he has also obtained countless gold and jewelry, such as the wealth of Wang Bo, the wealth left by Yu Shiji, the wealth of Yu Wenhua and thousands of carts of gold and silver brought out from Jiangdu, the gold and gems copied from the Goguryeo treasury, and the wealth of the Wagang army.

All the gold and jewelry are concentrated in the treasury of Jiangdu, as the wealth of the country, the people of the world will need to recuperate in the future, but the operation of the imperial court and the maintenance of the army will cost a lot of wealth, and he must have enough accumulation.

"Go back and send a ship to transport all the cloth, silk, gold and jewelry back to Zhongdu, and keep the food and armor for military use, and in addition, I have an important task for you, go to the big tent and say."

Zhang Xuan turned around and walked towards the barracks, Li Jing hurriedly followed, walked into the big tent, Zhang Xuan took off his armor and helmet, changed into a light military uniform, sat down and said to Li Jing: "It's very simple, I will give you 10,000 troops, 5,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, and you lead them all the way to the south and kill all the way to Lingnan." ”

Li Jing solemnly saluted, "Obey the order!" ”

Zhang Xuan laughed, "Don't be so serious, there shouldn't be any enemies, at most some bandits, Lingnan Governor Feng Ang failed to attack Lin Shihong last year, and only fled back to Nanhai County with thousands of people, judging from the current intelligence, he has no ambition to stand on his own feet for the time being, but he can't take it lightly." ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xuan lowered his voice and said, "I will transfer Feng Ang to Zhongdu as an official, and if he has the slightest hesitation, kill him for me immediately!" ”

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Three days later, Meng Haigong was publicly beheaded by the Sui army in the north city of Huiji County, and hundreds of thousands of Huiji people watched this happy execution, if Meng Haigong's biggest regret was that the Sui army failed to return to Huiji County in time when the Sui army went south, so that he failed miserably on the bank of the Qiantang River, then the thing that Meng Haigong hated the most was that Lin Shihong did not come to aid in accordance with the covenant between the two sides, but watched his demise with a cold eye, and he only hoped that Lin Shihong would be publicly beheaded by the Sui army like him.

At the same time that Meng Haigong was publicly beheaded, Zhang Xuan had already led a large army into Dongyang County, crossed Dongyang County, and then to the west was Lin Shihong's territory, Poyang County.

(To be continued.) )