Du San and Yang Laozi both stopped eating and drinking, and looked at Xu Liang vigilantly.

"You don't have to look at me like that." Xu Liang waved his hand and said, approaching the two of them as he spoke, and said cordially: "I know that people like you who lead a team and dare to create a rebellion against the court are living a precarious life, and they must have left a lot of back roads for themselves." ”

Du San and Yang Laochai had even more vigilance on their faces, Du San was silent for a while, stared at Xu Liang and asked, "We don't understand what Lord Xu is saying." ”

Xu Liang blinked his eyes, looked at Du San with the kind of eyes I knew you understood, and said kindly: "Look, you people are wandering around the northwest, although you look at the scenery, it is difficult to guarantee that one day you will be cleaned up by the officials and soldiers of the court, or let your peers kill you!" I know that your line of work is too risky, and you could die at any time. Didn't you think about leaving a way out for yourself? For example, Du San, don't you have any parents, brothers and sisters? You pinned your head to the waistband of your trousers and pulled the flag to rebel, what the hell are you trying to do? ”

Du San and Yang Laochai glanced at each other, and Du Sanqiang smiled: "Lord Xu is a funny question. We pulled the team to rebel, naturally thinking of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty and driving Emperor Chongzhen Dog down from the dragon chair, so that we could go up and sit down. ”

When Xu Liang heard this, he laughed, lightly punched Du Sanyi, and sneered: "You still want to be the emperor like this?" Don't talk nonsense! Let's be honest! You are making such a fuss, don't you just can't live a hard life, and you want to change your way of life and live a few days of easy life! ”

Xu Liang leaned his back easily, squeezed his eyebrows at Du San and said, "Let's talk about it, you have been making trouble for so many years." After conquering so many cities, you must have saved a lot of possessions, right? ”

Du San listened. Looking at Xu Liang's frowning eyes, his face gradually changed. Looking at Xu Liang, he smiled unnaturally: "Lord Xu is really good at laughing, you see that our team doesn't even have decent weapons and armor, where can we save money......

Xu Liang listened, glanced at Du San deeply, and sighed: "Du San, this official is so honest with you, but you still want to deceive this official, this is too interesting!" ”

"Lord Xu. This one...... There really is no ......."

Syllable! Xu Liang slapped the table, immediately turned his face, and shouted coldly: "You don't even have this sincerity, and you still have the face to drink my wine and eat my food!" Come on, drag it out and fight! ”

Behind Xu Liang, the two Tsing Yi guards responded loudly, and immediately hugged forward, escorted Du San away, and dragged him to the corner of the courtyard. Tied to a pillar on the back, a Tsing Yi guard flicked a few whips, and was ready to whip Du San.

Du San immediately panicked, twisted his body and shouted to Xu Liang, "Lord Xu." I really don't have the money you said! ”

Xu Liang waved his hand in disgust, and Tsing Yiwei saw this. With a fierce whip, it was whipped on Du San. Du San immediately let out an inhuman scream.

The rest of the leader of the People's Army, Yang Laochai, was so frightened that he couldn't even hold the chopsticks, and Lu Yifa's eyes were straight when he saw it.

"Lord Xu. I really don't, you're just going to kill me. Me neither...... Ah......h

Tsing Yiwei's whip slammed heavily on Du San's body one after another, and Du San screamed miserably, constantly crying and explaining to Xu Liang.

However, Xu Liang's attention was no longer on Du San, he looked at the other leader of the People's Army on the vegetable table with a smile, and said kindly: "Yang Laochai, Brother Yang, Brother Yang!" ”

Yang Laochai suddenly trembled, looked at Xu Liang in horror, listened to Du San's miserable call, his whole body was excited, and he hurriedly arched his hand towards Xu Liang and said: "Lord Xu, I am different from Du San, I still have some savings, I am willing to take them all out and give them to Lord Xu!" ”

Xu Liang suddenly showed a satisfied smile on his face, stepped forward and sat down with Yang Laochai affectionately, and said, "Look, Brother Yang's sincerity is very sufficient!" Unlike that Du San, there is no sincerity at all! This official likes to deal with honest people like Brother Yang. Say, where did you hide your money? How much money is there? ”

Yang Laochai looked at Xu Liang carefully, and said cautiously: "Don't dare to deceive the governor, the parents of the little hometown are still there, and there is a little sister, all the money I have accumulated over the years has been stored in the old family." ”

"How many?"

"Yes, there are more than 3,000 taels ......," Yang Laochai said.

Syllable! Xu Liang immediately slapped a pair of chopsticks in his hand on the table, glared at Yang Laochai and said, "Brother Yang, you have to think clearly." Xu Liang pointed his finger at Yang Laochai and said with a sarcastic smile: "I heard that Brother Yang began to rebel with others when he fought the Apocalypse for seven years!" After four or five years of rebellion, he actually saved 3,000 taels of silver? This official has entertained you today with more than that! ”

Fine beads of sweat appeared on Yang Laochai's face, he stared at the table of dishes in front of him with puffed eyes, and said with a wry smile: "Adults are really good at laughing, this meal in front of me is only five or six taels of silver!" ”

Syllable! Xu Liang slapped the table again, glared at Yang Laochai and shouted: "Whether this wine and food is worth it or not depends on the dishes, but the people who accompany the guests!" This official is a dignified court and a third-grade official, and the governor of a province will personally fill you with wine today, nagging, isn't this face worth three thousand taels of silver?! ”

Yang Laozi was dumbfounded.

Xu Liang turned his head and scolded at the Tsing Yi Wei who was whipping Kusan: "Didn't you eat? Hit me hard! ”

When Tsing Yiwei heard this, he put on a hideous face, and the long whip snapped, and Du San's screams sounded even more terrifying.

The muscles on Yang Laochai's face throbbed again and again. Xu Liang stared at Yang Laochai and said coldly: "Brother Yang, this official is very dissatisfied with your answer, give you another chance to say it again." ”

Yang Laochai lowered his head and was silent.

Xu Liang looked at Yang Laochai with a faint gaze, and after a while, a Tsing Yi guard came over and reported to Xu Liangyu: "Lord Yu, that Du San has fainted." ”

Xu Liang didn't reply, shook his hand and said, "Wake up, sprinkle salt, and fight!" ”

"Yes." Tsing Yi Wei walked back as ordered.

Yang Laochai trembled all over, and when he looked up, he saw a Tsing Yi guard carrying a bucket of water pouring it from head to foot on Du San, who had fainted! Then another Tsing Yi guard held a salt bowl in his hand, and with a cruel smile on his face, he was about to withdraw salt from Du San's bloody body!

"I say!" Yang Laochai finally collapsed, and said to Xu Liang: "I hid all the things I have looted from the rebellion over the years in the mountains behind my hometown. ”

"How many?" Xu Liang asked.

Yang Laochai shook his head. said: "I haven't counted it, I put it back and forth more than a dozen times." ”

Xu Liang clapped his hands with a smile. Said to Yang Laochai: "Brother Yang is worthy of being a refreshing person!" Come, eat and drink! When you're full, I'll send someone to pick up something from your hometown! ”

Yang Laochai smiled helplessly. looked at Du San, who was screaming like a beast, lowered his head, and bit the chicken leg he grabbed fiercely.

Xu Liang watched with a smile on the side.

After Yang Laochai had eaten and drunk enough, Du San, who was tortured there, had already fainted again.

Xu Liang didn't even look at Du San, and ordered a Tsing Yi guard squad leader to take someone back to his hometown with Yang Laochai to get money. Before leaving, Xu Liang stared at Yang Laochai viciously and said, "Brother Yang, if you dare to deceive the official, I will chop you and your whole family to feed the dogs!" ”

Yang Laochai was trembling again. Looking at Xu Liangqiang and smiled: "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

Xu Liang snorted lightly and said to the captain of the Tsing Yi Guard: "When you get to the place, arrest his parents and little sister together!" ”

Yang Laochai almost fainted.

After the Tsing Yi guard escorted Yang Laochai out, Lu Yifa, the prefect of Pingliang, walked to Xu Liang's side, looked at Xu Liang, and whispered: "My lord, you do this, let Governor Hong know about them." Wouldn't it be too much? ”

Xu Liang snorted lightly, looked at Lu Yifa, and asked, "What's the matter?" Too mean, too shameless? Hum. Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers in the court are eager to get rid of me, what else do I want those hypocritical Qinggao to do? The official's goal now is to ask for money. If you want people, you want territory! ”

"Uh......" Governor Lu nodded in agreement. He smirked at Xu Liang.

"By the way, where are those prisoners of war now?"

Lu Zhifu thought for a while and said, "It's still locked up in the barracks." ”

Xu Liang nodded. Chao Lu prefect said: "This official gives you a task." ”

Governor Lu immediately stood upright and said respectfully to Xu Liang: "Please give orders to the governor!" ”

Xu Liang Zhengse said: "The five thousand prisoners of war, you arrange for someone to investigate and investigate, and select some recruits who have just joined the gang not long ago. You told those recruits that the governor of Shaanxi, Lord Xu Liangxu, was willing to give them another chance to be reborn. The Patrol Department of the Governor's Yamen was willing to accept them. ”

When Governor Lu heard this, he understood what Xu Liang was thinking, and replied loudly, so he went down to implement Xu Liang's task.

Xu Liang walked into the courtyard again, looked at Du San, the leader of the People's Army, who was already dying, and said to Tsing Yiwei: "Okay, don't really kill you!" Throw them back in jail and keep them under strict guard! In addition, call a doctor to come and treat his wounds, so as not to die!" ”

Xu Liang wandered around the yamen of the Pingliang Prefect for a while, and then returned to the Xu Mansion in Pingliang Mansion to rest.

The next day, after the commander of the patrol division stationed in Zhenyuan City, Tietou, left 3,000 patrol divisions and artillery battalions to continue to garrison Zhenyuan, he himself took 2,000 men and horses of the patrol division into Pingliang City. After meeting Xu Liang in Xu's house, he accompanied Xu Liang to the barracks.

Lu Yifa, the prefect of Pingliang, and several officials from the prefect's yamen walked over with a stack of documents. Governor Lu smiled at Xu Liang and said, "Your Excellency, according to your orders, the lower officials have selected about 3,000 people from the 5,000 prisoners of war, and these 3,000 people have been carefully investigated, and they are all people who participated in the rebellion for the first time, and they have absolutely no experience of fraudulent surrender." ”

Xu Liang nodded with satisfaction and praised: "Lord Lu has worked hard. Are these 3,000 people willing to join the Patrol Division? ”

Governor Lu laughed and said: "My lord, these people were originally worried that they would be beheaded, but now they have the opportunity to change careers and become an official soldier, where is there any reason not to agree." The lower officials have all asked, and occasionally there are a few crying and shouting to go home, and the lower officials have already thrown these people back. ”

Xu Liang nodded, and said to Tietou: "Ah Tie, you go and collect these three thousand people!" ”

"Yes." Iron Head rubbed his hands and waved his hand behind him, and the captain of his own patrol department led people to collect the three thousand people.

Governor Lu then asked, "My lord, what are you going to do with the rest of the prisoners of war?" ”

"Buried." Xu Liang said briefly.

“……”

Governor Lu really wants to slap himself! secretly scolded himself for being stupid, with Xu Liang's usual way of treating prisoners of war, it was troublesome to pull them out and cut off their heads one by one, and dig a big pit and bury all their brains in it, which is the consistent style of Lord Xu.

Xu Liang walked casually in the barracks, and Governor Lu followed behind him and said, "My lord, I heard that the war in Xihao is not going well!" Governor Hong gathered 50,000 troops and surrounded Xihao, but the people's army, under the command of Li Dusi, a friend of the Red Army, stubbornly defended the main road into Xihao, and the officers and troops returned from several attacks in vain. The war is in a stalemate. ”

Xu Liang snorted lightly and sneered: "Why, this time, even Cao Wenzhao, the always brave Liaodong general, can't rush in?" ”

Governor Lu said with a wry smile: "The road into Xihao is an uneven mountain road, which is very unfavorable for cavalry attacks, and General Cao can only stare dryly." ”

"What is the strategy of the Trilateral Governor, Lord Hong?"

Governor Lu took out a military report from his arms and presented it to Xu Liangdao: "In the morning, I received a military report sent back by Governor Hong, saying that it was intended to besiege the people's army in Xihao without attacking, cutting off its grain and grass, so that the people's army would be cut off from food and grass, and it would be self-defeating!" ”

"That's a stupid idea!"

Xu Liang sneered.

Admiral Tietou of the Patrol Division interjected and said, "Young Master, if we pull the artillery battalion over, two rounds of artillery will be able to blast the entrance open." ”

Xu Liang glared at Tie Tou and scolded: "The Flying Eagle Cannon is the magic weapon of our Liang Army, it is expensive, and it should be used at the most critical juncture. At present, the Red Army Friends and Li Dusi are holding Governor Hong and Cao Wenzhao, and it seems that it will not be ten days and half a month, and it is impossible for these two people to come back from Xihao. Taking advantage of this time, the official is about to do something! ”

"Oh." When Tietou heard this, he nodded obediently, knowing that Xu Liang had other plans, so he didn't say more.

It took four days for the Patrol Division to collect 3,000 civilian troops and deal with other prisoners of war, and Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao were really dragged in Xihao, and Hong Chengchou did not return to Pingliang at all in four days, but just sent someone to send an order to Pingliang Mansion to transport grain and grass to Xihao! Xu Liang was happy to be idle, and ordered the patrol department to send back to Chang'an City more than 1,000 war horses collected in the first battle outside Zhenyuan City, ready to be used in the next step of resuming the cavalry of the Liang army.

After another two days, the team that escorted Yang Laochai, the leader of the People's Army, to collect money finally returned to Pingliang City. Three carriages stopped in the front yard of the Xu Mansion in Pingliang City, and the carriages were filled with all kinds of boxes, large and small, wooden, iron, copper, painted, and unpainted, there were as many as ten kinds.

Yang Laochai, the leader of the People's Army, and his parents and sisters were cowering aside, and the Tsing Yi guards opened the various boxes one by one. Suddenly, the front yard of the entire Xu Mansion suddenly brightened up a lot, and the agate jade, pearls, silver treasures, gold bars, treasured calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry, etc., were so bright and shining that people could hardly open their eyes.

Yang Laochai looked at all this as if he had been stripped of his flesh, and collapsed to the ground in pain, muttering to himself.

Xu Liang was also shocked! He guessed that most of the leaders of these people's armed forces had accumulated over the years to hide some family property, but he didn't expect them to be so rich! It's so rich! (To be continued.) )