Chapter 41: Ten Days of Hanzhong
The million-dollar construction corps sent out to build highways has now been disbanded. Since the next section of the road had to pass through Hanzhong, they would not have been able to start construction without Zhang Lu's consent.
Obviously, although Zhang Lu acquiesced to his construction of the Changhan Expressway, he did not allow them to build the road on his territory. On top of that, it feels so unsafe for a million people to be on their own turf. In this regard, I am afraid that even if Yang Song is favored again, he can't say anything casually, and the contact person is also knowledgeable, so he did not ask Yang Song to advise him on this matter.
It didn't take long for another 50,000-strong construction corps to come to Hanzhong, hoping to build a highway to Chengdu. During this period, all the materials will be purchased here in Hanzhong County, and the price will rise by two percent.
Obviously, this is a good deal, and the biggest consumption of these 50,000 people is actually food, and Zhang Lu is not lacking in this regard. If you can make a fortune, it's really a good deal. But whether it was appropriate to let them under his rule or not, he couldn't make up his mind.
"My lord, the other party is just a person from the Construction Corps. These guys have hardly been trained, and their main duty is to pave the way for Fang Yun to repair the bridge, and they have no combat effectiveness, so to put it bluntly, they are no different from a group of homeless people. As long as we send people to keep an eye on them, and make sure that they are not armed with weapons and armor, then even 50,000 people, why fear? Yang Song's timely admonition, his statement did make Zhang Lu feel at ease.
He only recently learned about this kind of existence in the construction corps, and at that time, he also thought that Fang Yun would indeed toss, and actually set up hundreds of strong men as an army to work together. However, looking at the rapid completion of the Changhan Expressway. He didn't have a good time saying anything.
But what kind of existence is the construction corps. He already knows it very well. It is a group of workers who have not been systematically trained, and the most important thing is that they are holding iron catalpa and iron pickaxes, or other construction equipment, and the lethality is indeed a little but nothing.
If the main thing is to control them and not let them be armed, then there is really nothing to worry about......
Thinking of this, Zhang Lu also allowed their request. With their arrival, the first batch of construction supplies has also been put in place. At the same time, there are caravans that come to trade. Fang Yun really purchased materials from Hanzhong at a price twice as high as the market price as agreed.
Many families and businessmen have made a fortune, and they naturally praise Zhang Lu, and Zhang Lu himself also enjoys it very much.
With the development of construction, a large number of commodities from Yongzhou have also entered Hanzhong County, and many people do not need to travel thousands of miles, and they can buy the goods they want by walking the narrow mountain road, which is naturally rushing. Zhang Lu didn't know that this time the deal was down. The cost of purchasing materials for the construction corps was instantly earned. There is even more than half of the surplus.
Fang Yun directly bought a large number of primary products and raw materials from Zhang Lu, and sold them after processing, and the price difference between the two was very huge. The most important thing is that these goods directly suppressed the local products of Hanzhong County, causing many workshops to close down directly, and many shops complained about this.
There will always be people who will not go the right way to find Zhang Lu to come forward, but directly call friends and bring more than 100 brothers to expel these 'businessmen from other places'. No one knew that the person who took the lead was actually a person from the Han Soul Organization. But it doesn't matter anymore, Chinese people just like to join in the fun, and there are always people who want to get something for nothing.
So the next day, many merchants from Fang Yun's side were directly looted, and many goods fell directly into the hands of these looters. However, Zhang Lu didn't care, just because he happened to need to go out to preach, and the government and military affairs were handed over to the Yang family of Hanzhong, which was dominated by Yang Song.
Yang Song himself is an internal response, so naturally he will not help Zhang Lu manage this matter. And the looters who tasted the sweetness immediately became even more crazy knowing that the government would not embarrass them.
The next day, more merchants were robbed and more people tasted the sweetness, which made more people join in the robbery.
It was only on the third day that they were not armed with merchants, but with an army of 50,000 men. Although this unit was only wearing leather armor and holding cold weapons, and they didn't even have weapons of war, they exuded cold killing intent and surging battle intent, and at a glance they knew that they were veterans who had accumulated years.
The excuse for attacking Hanzhong has appeared. The emergence of this group of outlaws in Hanzhong, and the fact that Hanzhong County itself does not deal with it, can be regarded as the deliberate connivance of these lawbreakers in Hanzhong, and the merchants and even logistics troops on Fang Yun's side plunder.
Although the Construction Corps is an engineer, it is also an army establishment, and it openly robs the logistics materials of other people's armies, which can be regarded as a provocation to this army, and even more seriously, it can be regarded as a signal for war.
And Fang Yun also reported this matter directly, saying that Zhang Lu's control over the army, especially the people under his rule, was too bad, and he was not worthy of being a guard at all. At the same time, such a blatant provocation of the Fang army is regarded as a direct start of the war.
As a result, the imperial court issued an edict announcing that Zhang Lu would be deprived of his position as the Taishou of Hanzhong. At the same time, the baggage battalion troops disguised as caravans earlier brought over the weapons and equipment of these soldiers hidden in the hidden compartment under the wagon. With a simple arming, these troops can be thrown into battle in no time.
This army, of which 5,000 people, is the soldiers of the Liberation Army. Even if they don't ride horses, they can exert more than seventy percent of their combat effectiveness, and it is enough to deal with the shrimp soldiers and crab generals here in Hanzhong! Not to mention, Dian Wei also personally served as their commander!
The other 45,000 people were subordinates of the Hu Che'er Department, the Pang De Department, and some other second- and third-tier generals. With Dian Wei's order, they were armed one after another, and then captured all these robbers.
It was indeed wrong for them to rob military supplies, but if it weren't for the fact that the Fang army itself had also removed the protective measures for the caravan, how could such a thing have happened? Therefore, these people are also considered to be intolerable by the law, but they are excusable, so they will not kill them, but they must be controlled, wait for everything to end, and then accept the punishment of the law.
It didn't take much time to clean them up, and under the rush of the elite troops, they collapsed directly as soon as they saw them. But in less than two minutes. They were all arrested.
After gathering them together and keeping them in custody. The army immediately entered the southern Zhengcheng city, the seat of Hanzhong's governance. Originally, this gate was opened, but when he saw this army killing in a mighty way, he immediately thought about closing the gate.
But he didn't want to, Dian Wei had already ridden on a war horse disguised as a caravan to transport horses, and killed it directly, slashing out with the double halberd in his hand, and killing all the defenders at the gate in a short time.
The gates could no longer be closed, and the purpose of defending the city had been lost. The guard Yang Ren even released water under the orders of his brother. This led to a large army quickly entering the city. In less than an hour, the entire Nanzheng City was declared to have fallen.
Zhang Lu has been preaching in the Taibai Mountain Dojo for the past few days, and the ancestor Zhang Daoling passed down the sect in Qingcheng Mountain, but now Qingcheng Mountain is in Liu Zhang's sphere of influence, he can't go over easily, so he has no choice but to establish a dojo in the Taibai Mountain area and preach for believers there.
Originally, he was going back today, but what he didn't want to wait for was not the frame that came to greet him, but the army from Fang Yun's side.
Zhang Lu is also the leader of Taoism, but he himself is not self-cultivation. His own combat effectiveness was limited, and he was captured in three or two clicks. The guards who came with him. Of course, they were all killed.
"Fang Yunjun is so despicable, he said that he was borrowing the road to build a road, but he actually pretended to be a way! Aren't you afraid of spreading it out and being laughed at by the world? On the way to Zhang Lu's escort, he roared angrily.
"Shut up! The people under your rule are greedy and unscrupulous, and openly rob our army's baggage troops, but they never stop it. We've given you two days to react, but the third day is waiting for more looters! Since then, we can fully assume that you have provoked the war in advance!
And you, the Taishou, have also been directly judged to be incompetent, and the imperial court has issued an edict to remove you from the position of Taishou in Hanzhong, so you just wait to go back and accept the verdict! "The soldiers who escorted Zhang Lu were just ordinary soldiers, they didn't have so much insider information, they only knew some superficial things, as well as the propaganda of the imperial court, so they naturally didn't have a good impression of him.
When Zhang Lu heard this, he immediately fell into the prisoner car, obviously realizing that he had fallen into some kind of trap. What scared him even more was that this was obviously a drama that should be combined inside and outside. This also means that there are some people under his command who eat inside and outside. This person is not difficult to guess, you only need to know who has often spoken for Fang Yun these days to guess.
A day later, Zhang Lu was escorted to Nanzheng City, where the former minister of civil and military affairs had become a prisoner of others. However, under Yang Song's operation, they also successfully took refuge in Fang Yun.
With Yang Song's help, Fang Yun's 50,000 troops divided into five routes and quickly defeated the rest of Hanzhong County. Under the combination of inside and outside, the entire Hanzhong County was easily defeated in less than ten days.
"Yang Song, I treat you well, why do you want to bear me?" When he saw the arrogant Yang Song, Zhang Lu roared angrily.
"Our Yang family can help you up, and naturally we can also drag you down in the Taishou position." Yang Song sneered.
Only then did Zhang Lu clearly understand that the existence of the family was terrible. When you are still valuable, they will continue to cooperate with you to help you, but when you lose ground or fall, they will immediately fall into the ground.
In the final analysis, handing over all military and political affairs to them is also his fault Zhang Lu. It's just that Zhang Lu is devoted to missionary work, and he really has no time in this regard. But he didn't know that if it weren't for Hanzhong's identity, how could his mission be so smooth? In the end, he's putting the cart before the horse!
The combination of church and state has many drawbacks of its own, the most important of which is that the church interferes with political independence. Because of this, even Fang Yun of the Taiping Sect was only established as the state religion, but he was not given too many preferential treatment and privileges. As a traverser, how could you not know that the enormity of clerical power often means a threat to the regime?!
"You're here, you don't need to talk nonsense, I'll just go with you." After Zhang Lu left, Yang Song was also surrounded by several people, but he seemed to have expected it, and just said something calmly.
No one likes the existence of a traitor seeking glory, today he can betray Zhang Lu, and tomorrow he can betray Fang Yun. Therefore, only a dead Yang Song can reassure the ruler, no matter who it is.
Yang Ang, Yang Ren and Yang Bai have already gone to Jinyang Military Academy to study, and after a short period of training, they will become local military sequences according to the situation. Fang Yun guaranteed the rights of the Yang family, and also gave a lot of benefits in terms of industry and commerce, which is fine......
It's better than Zhang Lu's younger brothers, including Zhang Lu, but life and death are unknown.
The next day, Yang Song was beheaded outside the city gate on the charge of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the master, and conniving at the robbery of the people, and many people in Hanzhong, especially the disciples of the Heavenly Master Dao, applauded one after another.
And Fang Yun also relied on this hand to completely win the hearts of the people of Hanzhong. (To be continued......)
PS: Hanzhong has been pacified, and the next goal is ......
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