Seeing that Ji Ping's face was calm, but the hearts of the people around him were full of coldness, even those Zhao De's minions who originally had different intentions would never dare to think about it at this time.

Zhang Liao and Xun Di on the side had a flash of brightness in their eyes, they had always thought that Ji Ping's personality was too gentle, and they were afraid that it would be difficult to last long in this troubled world, but now they let go of their hearts.

"Big ...... The king spares his life! Zhao De's father and son offended the king, and it has nothing to do with us. When everyone was neutral, many people knelt down, these were all members of the Zhao clan, and when they saw Zhao De who was killed, they all thought of what Ji Ping said before, punishing the whole clan.

Ji Ping smiled, ignored them, and said lightly: "Except for the Zhao clan and the Zhao family soldiers, the rest of the people will retreat to the side first, but if you want to get by, don't blame me for being ruthless under the sword!" ”

Seeing that everyone was in chaos for a while, and there were nearly half of them left in the middle, Ji Ping frowned, and said, "The families of the family soldiers should also retreat." ”

The captured soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

In the end, there were only more than 600 people left, all of them from the Zhao clan, and they all looked at Ji Ping with frightened expressions.

Ji Ping looked at these Zhao clansmen silently, he had never thought of killing these people, but these Zhao clansmen were probably the most unstable elements, he had to deter them first, first punish the whole clan, and then let them go, one strict and one loose, he could beat them out of a lot of other thoughts.

However, there are still some people to deal with, Ji Ping looked at the people who retreated around, and said softly: "Now that Zhao De's father and son are dead, the life and death of the remaining Zhao clan people are decided by your mouth. ”

Zhao De is tyrannical and oppresses the people, and there must be a group of cronies and minions who must be cut off, otherwise he will move his mother, Tang Wan and sister Liu Han here, and he is not at ease.

"Wen Yuan, this matter will be left to you, Uncle Xun and I will go to see the situation in the castle." Ji Ping explained to Zhang Liao, he estimated that with Zhao Dena's virtue, it was estimated that there would be a lot of grievances in a while, so it was better to hand it over to Zhang Liao to experience.

"Wen Yuan, the sin is not as good as that of parents, wives and children, don't be too much." Ji Ping explained again before leaving.

Looking at the gratitude in the eyes of those people, he smiled faintly and walked towards the castle with Xun Di.

He is no longer the ordinary librarian in his previous life, but in this life, but only five months of life, he seems to have experienced a life.

From the young man who had to vomit and have nightmares when he killed someone, to the current understatement of life and death, he is gradually becoming cold-blooded, or growing.

He killed Zhao De, of course, to take revenge, but it was not all for his own hatred.

Those who rule peace are benevolent and righteous, and those who rule chaos are first scheming. In troubled times, if he doesn't kill someone like Zhao De, who is on the evil side, the consequences will be even stricter, not only the oppressed people who belong to him will be uneasy, but also his subordinates Zhang Liao and Xun Di will be afraid of centrifugation.

Even though Zhang Liao, Xun Di and others followed him at the beginning because he was the Son of Heaven, if they want to continue in this troubled era, they naturally have to follow a promising person who can survive, not a lord who is too soft-hearted to kill even a bully.

In troubled times, heavy means must be used to save more people. Ji Ping is familiar with history, naturally knows those lessons, the history of Liu Biao just entered Jingzhou, Gongsun Du just entered Liaodong, are like this, although the beginning of the means are ruthless and bloody, but in the middle of the Three Kingdoms, other places are chaotic, Jingzhou and Liaodong have become a refuge for many scholars and people.

Later, it was Liu Biao's age, his ambition was exhausted, his means were soft, and he stuck to a corner, so that Cao Cao annexed Jingzhou.

The place in Zhao's Fort is not small, densely built with rows of houses, and there is a large granary behind, which is full of hundreds of thousands of denier of grain, according to the people who led the way, these are all carried out by Zhao De from the big warehouse in Dongyuan County, and there are also from the people over the years.

Seeing this food, Ji Ping breathed a sigh of relief, this food is enough for more than 2,000 of them to eat for two or three years, even to help the people and the displaced people, and it can be used for a long time.

What made him happiest was that there was still a complete set of utensils for building weapons in Zhao's dock, with six large furnaces and two thousand catties of refined iron, so that the eunuchs under him who were proficient in building would not lack tools.

He can also build a weapon to his fingertips.

In addition, there are some horses, cattle and sheep, there are not many horses, only more than twenty, there are nearly fifty ploughing cattle, and there are many sheep, of course, these are Zhao De's private property, that is, those clans, there are not many shares, and the rest of the tenants are naturally even more shareless.

The people are attached to the greedy Zhao De, and they are helpless, on the one hand, they have land, and they want to maintain stability in the troubled times, and now Zhao De has replaced Ji Ping, and they don't drive them out, so they naturally follow Ji Ping.

After turning around, Ji Ping sighed again and again, Zhao De is really not big among the local heroes, but he also has such a belongings, it seems that most of the rebellion of the Han Dynasty also stems from the tyranny and hidden population of the local heroes.

Zhao's Dock is not a special case, nor is it a large-scale dock fort.

Qiangzong Hao clan built dock fort, from the end of the Western Han Dynasty Wang Mang rebellion period, to the present, especially the Yellow Turban rebellion, after the imperial court allowed the local recruitment of soldiers, Qiangzong Hao clan took the opportunity to build a dock fort, gathered the clansmen tenants and attached people, according to the dangerous pass, some large dock forts even have markets, farmland, workshops, etc., forming a self-sufficient small farm economy. Closing the dock fort is a small world of its own.

The most important thing is that the population in these hidden forts cannot be counted by household registration, and they will not pay taxes to the central government, but will be exploited by the powerful to which they belong.

The history of Cao Cao's ministry was full of favor in Runan Broken Dock Fort 20, with 20,000 households and a population of 100,000, which shows the terrible power of the local tyrants, and the taxes that the central government can receive are very small, and they have to be used for disaster relief, release and other affairs, and often make ends meet.

Therefore, the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty, whether in politics or economy, was a big factor in the local power.

Of course, some of the real large-scale dock forts were built by groups of scholars with cultural accumulation, among which not only did the scholars educate the people, although there was also a certain amount of exploitation of tenants and vassals, but the dock owners and the dock people participated in labor together, shared labor and rest, sympathized with each other, and were a united community.

And Zhao De's father and son were bullying and exploiting the dock people, so he had no choice but to follow his form. Correspondingly, in the future, if you want to deal with those large dock forts, it will be more complicated, and you can't blindly use force.

Ji Ping was sighing, and at this time Xun Di said on the side: "Son, Jiguan is ten miles away, and we are waiting for the dock to break only in a moment, and now Jiguan must not know the news of the fall of Zhao's dock, so we must take the opportunity to take it." ”

Hearing Xun Di's reminder, Ji Ping was shocked, he was so immersed in the matter of this dock fort that he almost forgot about the capture of Jiguan, and hurriedly said: "What is Uncle Xun's plan?" ”

The terrain of the Keiguan Pass is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if there are thousands of troops and horses, it cannot be opened, because it is located in Dongyuan County, and now there are a hundred parts of Zhao De guarding. If he could calculate, Ji Ping was naturally unwilling to sacrifice the lives of his soldiers by storming.

Xun Di groaned: "You can deceive, ambush, or force you to surrender." Fraud, you can let the captured Zhao clan take the lead, go to the door to deceive, and take the opportunity to seize it. The ambush can make people pretend to be Zhao De's cronies, saying that Zhao's Wubao is in danger, go to Jiguan for help, and then ambush halfway. forced to surrender, the last general thought that in order to control the soldiers of Zhao De, these soldiers guarding the pass had their families in the fort, and their families could be forced to surrender. ”

Ji Ping stroked his palms and smiled: "In this way, the matter of seizing Jiguan will be handed over to Uncle Xun." ”

Xun Di took 300 people and took the order.

After Xun Di left, Ji Ping asked Zhang Liao to take He Hou, Tang Wan and others over and live in Zhao De's original house.

The conditions in the fort were much better than in the valley, and although he didn't care much about them, he always wanted his family to live comfortably.

The Zhao clan, in addition to Zhao De's father and son, there were thirteen other people who usually acted for the tiger and were beaten to death by the people who suppressed their hatred.

The rest of the people with good reputations stayed, the old women and children stayed, and some people with bad reputations but not guilty to death were expelled, but Ji Ping let them bring food and soft belongings.

After all, he is not the kind of ruthless and ruthless person, but this alone makes the people deeply feel that Ji Ping is benevolent, far stronger than Zhao De before.

Early the next morning, the soldiers helped the eunuchs and palace maids move into the dock fort, and as for the soldiers, some of them were still stationed in the same place, and some of them moved to the vicinity of the dock fort.

Now that Zhao's Dock and Jiguan are under control, the rest of the surroundings are scattered people, and basically Ji Ping controls this Shaoting for dozens of miles.

With Zhao's dock in hand, Ji Ping and the generals' families finally have a place to live.

Now that there is a Kei Pass in the east of Shaoting, it will not be attacked by Hanoi County, and the only thing to worry about now is the protection of Dongyuan County in the west.

It's just that although Ji Ping now has 1,700 troops, plus the 800 Zhao family soldiers who have been recruited, a total of 2,500 people, it seems a little overstretched to divide the troops to garrison Dongyuan County.

Because he also has to reserve enough mobile troops, strengthen training, and prepare to do something in the great chaos in Luoyang at the beginning of next spring.

Therefore, for the time being, he could only think about building a defensive fortress on the road at the west entrance of Shaoting, and Dongyuan County, which was more than fifty miles away, was really beyond the reach of the whip.

Although the current territory is very small, it is still safe for the time being, and Ji Ping began to plan the next step of the battle of Luoyang.

In the Battle of Luoyang, his main purpose was not to destroy Dong Zhuo's army, but to take advantage of the chaos and save more people.

But during this period, it was inevitable to fight with Dong Zhuo, for the sake of today's plan, the biggest problem is that his troops are too small, and it is too late to recruit troops temporarily, not to mention that fighting with Dong Zhuo's Qianghu soldiers with new recruits is just a futile death.

He thought to himself if only there were thousands more battle-hardened soldiers. As soon as this idea came to him, he himself felt funny, this should be regarded as a fantasy and a fool's dream.

At about dusk, Xun Di came to report that he had captured Kei Pass and was garrisoned.

After eating at noon, Ji Ping was about to go to Jiguan to have a look, when suddenly Zhang Liao came to report, saying that it was the commander of Xiaopingjin Pass, that is, Tang Wan's brother Tang Fangcha sent a message.

Looking at Zhang Liao's face full of joy, Ji Ping estimated that it must be good news.

He wondered a little in his heart, what other good news could there be at this time? Could it be that Dong Zhuo is dead? Or was Yuan Shao killed by Dong Zhuo? Lu Bu was killed by Dong Zhuo? Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo?

Tang Fang did bring good news, Dong Zhuo was naturally not dead, Yuan Shao and Lu Bu were fine, but Huangfu Song sent someone.

If it weren't for the news from Tang Fang, Ji Ping would have almost forgotten that he had made a secret edict in the palace to ask Huangfu Song for help.

Because after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, Huangfu Song, who controlled 30,000 elite soldiers and sat in Sanfu, was still as in history, and there was no movement, and Ji Ping had already given up on this path.

Unexpectedly, Huangfu Song finally acted, although he did not take 30,000 elite soldiers to attack Dong Zhuo, but he united with Jingzhao Yin Gaixun and secretly sent 5,000 elite soldiers to secretly support.

As soon as he heard the news, Ji Pingdang couldn't stop smiling, this was unintentionally a charcoal in the snow for him at this time, it seemed that the sky still favored him very much.

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