Chapter 53, The Thief Peaces

At the time of Yoshen, the army led by Zhao Meng first broke through the south gate and captured thousands of soldiers inside. As soon as the south gate was broken, the city panicked, and then the east gate attacked by Ma Yuan was also breached, and the army entered the city. The Ximen army, who learned the news, knew that it was useless to resist, so they directly opened the Ximen and let the Zuzhao army enter.

All the troops gathered together, all entered the palace, but did not see Zhao Ci and the guard troops, it turned out that Zhao Ci in the south gate has not been breached, led Wang Qing Xu Ping two generals and more than 1,000 guards to escape from the north gate, looking at the northern mountains and leaving. As soon as I came to the suburbs, the drums in front shook the sky, and a team was killed, and it turned out that Zu Zhaoqin led the army to ambush here.

"Zhao Ci, I've been waiting for a long time again, where do you want to escape?" Zu Zhao asked quietly.

Seeing Zu Zhao, Zhao Ci almost fell off the horse, he scolded for a while, and ordered someone to break through. The army rushed left and right, and it could not be concluded that Wang Qing and Xu Ping's two generals were killed in the breakout, and finally all Zhao Ci's subordinates were annihilated, and Zhao Ci was captured alive.

Zu Zhao escorted Zhao Ci into Xinchang City, and the people welcomed him with a single pulp, and they were full of joy. Zu Zhao was angry when he heard that Zhao Ci was wantonly hurting the people here, and he was originally going to escort Zhao Ci to the imperial court, but he finally decided to cut Zhao Ci here, which was a little comfort to the people.

Zhao Ci knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, saying that he was willing to follow Zu Zhao to fight the world, and in the future, he would obey his orders.

Zu Zhao smiled coldly and said, "I don't need a virtuous, unscrupulous, ruthless and unrighteous person like you by my side, you must die today." ”

When Zhao Ci heard this, his face was like ashes, and he collapsed to the ground, he hugged Zhao Meng's thigh, and said that he remembered the affection of working together before, and asked Zhao Meng to help intercede. But Zhao Meng was unmoved, just coldly and didn't say a word. Seeing that Zhao Meng didn't help him to intercede, Zhao Ci scolded, saying that he was also a ruthless and unrighteous person, and he didn't miss the old feelings at all, why did Zu Zhao keep someone like Zhao Meng by his side, and said that Zhao Meng would surrender when he saw the enemy, and when he encountered other enemies in the future, he would definitely take refuge in the enemy and help the enemy fight Zu Zhaojun.

Zu Zhao smiled coldly and said, "You don't want to use such imbecile means to divide us. If you are righteous, why did you force Ji Ling away? If you had followed Ji Ling's strategy, our army would have been defeated long ago. You have today, everything is self-inflicted, and you can't blame others. Reincarnate as a good person in the next life. Oh no, you must be a reincarnated beast in the next life, because you have done too many sins in this life, and after the N life, you will be a human again. ”

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, not quite understanding Zu Zhao's words, but they were all embarrassed to ask what Zu Zhao meant in a single scene. Zhao Ci also heard it in a fog, but he still understood that he must be reincarnated as a beast in his next life.

Zu Zhao ordered someone to push Zhao Ci out, parade through the streets for three days, and then behead him for public display. The people watched in the streets, and kept throwing stones, sticks, and mud eggs at Zhao Ci. Pity the generation of thieves who used to have good wine and food, beautiful women sleeping together, and stealing joy day and night, but now they have ended up like this.

After Zu Zhao killed Zhao Ci, he reported to the imperial court that Zhao Ci's rebellion had been quelled, and he didn't want any gold and silver rewards, but only asked the Son of Heaven to exempt the Liaodong County tax burden when repairing the palace this time, so that the people could have a chance to breathe.

When the Son of Heaven heard that Zu Zhao did not need to be rewarded, he was very happy in his heart, and agreed to Zu Zhao's request to exempt the whole county of Liaodong from paying taxes for one year. Zu Zhao announced the news to the whole county of Liaodong, and the people learned that they didn't need anyone, and they were so excited that they couldn't sleep all night, and they all boasted about Zu Zhao and thanked the Son of Heaven for his kindness. Since then, the people of Liaodong County have worked happily, and what they have earned is their own, which is their biggest motivation.

In less than a month, Zu Zhao quelled Zhao Ci's rebellion, and the other princes and generals listened to it, and they all sighed that Zu Zhao was capable, and Zu Zhao pushed the important credit to Huangfu Song in order to avoid the edge, saying that if he hadn't sent troops to attack Zhao Ci's rear, he would not have been so smooth.

Seeing that Zu Zhao was so righteous, Huangfu Song reported to the court and directly asked Zu Zhao to be the Taishou of Liaodong County, anyway, now they are also guarding the order. It's a pity that Huangfu Song's recital was stopped by Song Dian, and he resented Zu Zhao for not allowing the imperial court to levy taxes on Liaodong, which ruined an important channel for him to embezzle, so he held a grudge and suppressed the recital, and then the matter was over. Although Zu Zhao does not have the name of Taishou, he has the reality of Taishou, and he is happy to be free, these are naturally later words.

Seeing that Xinchang County was seriously harmed and the most important sowing season was delayed, Zu Zhao hereby showed the people that he would try his best to draw materials from other counties to help the people tide over the difficulties, and those who had no land and no job could go back to Liaodong County with him, and he would arrange work for them to ensure that they had food and clothing, both men and women. What he said was naturally to enter the production base of Da Oyster Bay, where the textile industry, fishery and wood industries and various construction industries are gathered, and what is lacking is people.

Zu Zhao ordered people to record all the applicants, if there are many brothers and sisters, you can go, otherwise you must stay to take care of the old and young, and the government will give appropriate funding in terms of food and materials.

The problem of the people has been solved, and there is another important problem, that is, the county order here, the original county order and the county order were all killed by Zhao Ci, and a county order must be chosen. His own people can't stay here now, and leaving anyone behind has a feeling of overkill, but don't be like Feng Xiao, Jiangdong just let him be idle, and Liu Bei just asked him to be a small county magistrate. Fortunately, Zhang Feiren was careless and not careless, and when he saw Feng Xiao's ability, he decisively recommended it, which gave the ugly person who could compete with Zhuge Wolong a chance to take the position.

Zu Zhao decided to use the method of democratic election, that is, in Xinchang County, the people elected a person who they thought was qualified to be the county commander, which was very good, with a high degree of autonomy, and the elected county commander would naturally be dedicated to the people, and the people would obey him, so it would be easier to get things done, and there would be room for negotiation when encountering contradictions, so as not to cause trouble. In these years, the people lived in dire straits, a small chaos in three days, a big chaos in five days, and they killed the county commander and rebelled at every turn.

Zu Zhao still has a problem to solve in his heart, that is, according to historical records, in 187 years, next year, Liaodong Zhang Ju Zhang Chun will rebel, they will kill the right Beiping County Taishou and Liaodong County Taishou, he is now doing the duty of Liaodong County Shou, when the time comes, those two guys will not kill themselves when they rebel, this is wronged, so he must beware, he believes that he can change history, and he must let the rebellion of the two of them be strangled in the cradle.

But the problem now is that he can't follow the example of the Yang family of the Sui Dynasty, in order to prevent someone from seeking to become a dynasty, the surname Li will be killed, which is terrible. Now he has a lot of civil and military generals surnamed Zhang De, and if they are killed together, it will really force people to rebel. He wouldn't do such a thing.

Of course, the problem now is to elect a county commander to be in charge of some things here, as for the other adjutants, then the county commander will preside over the election of the people, and when Zu Zhao finds a suitable candidate, he will naturally be transferred here to serve.

As soon as the edict came out, the people felt fresh, and they elected their favorite people to be the county commanders, this kind of thing they had never heard of before, and they couldn't believe it, they knew that officials and officials could recommend each other, and officials could also recommend and appoint capable white people to do some small positions, but the people themselves elected the candidates in their hearts, this kind of thing, except for Zu Zhao, no one was surprised and interested.

After layers of publicity and screening, the people finally found the person they thought was the most qualified to be the commander of Xinchang County. This person is thin and tall, and he looks very delicate and energetic, and Zu Zhao likes it very much. This person is a native of Xinchang County, and his surname is Liao Mingzheng. When he heard this name, Zu Zhao immediately thought of Wei Zheng and Liao Hua, and couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart.

This Liao Zheng, who used to have some assets in his family, can be regarded as a person from a scholarly family, but he is not very public, not keen on officialdom, he thinks that the officialdom is too dark now, a good official can't do it for a long time, he wants to do something for the people, and he may be impeached and removed from office before it is done, so he has not participated in any officialdom, just reading at home, but saying that there is half a room of bamboo slips at home.

Now the people hold him up as the county commander, Zu Zhao may have any ideas he can freely use, as long as it is for the good of the people. Liao Zheng felt his kindness, agreed to be a county order, and also told Zu Zhao some of the laws of the good people in his heart, which was very popular with Zu Zhao, so that he could rest assured and boldly implement, if there is anything that needs help, as long as an application is submitted, Zu Zhao will approve it quickly, and send someone to help him.

Seeing Zu Zhao so for the people, after Zu Zhao's army left, the people held hands and sent each other off, straight out of the Xinchang County boundary, and then waved their hands back, and their mouths were full of praise for Zu Zhao.

When Zu Zhao returned to Liaodong County with the army, there were already people waiting for him outside the city, all officials and ordinary people, and the people who made Zu Zhao's heart the most enthusiastic were four women standing in the front row of the team, they were Feng Luoxue, Cai Wenji, Quan Zhiyu and Chen Yuanyuan.

I really don't know who to accompany me tonight. Feng Luoxue? This is very good, but I have spent several nights with her before, but I am afraid that if I am still with her tonight, Cai Wenji will be very jealous. It's good to follow Cai Wenji, her kung fu in bed, she drools just thinking about it. As for Quan Zhiyu, didn't she go back to Silla, why is she still here, seeing that there is a sad look between her eyebrows, it can't be that something has happened, or she is afraid that she will reject her again.

Chen Yuanyuan, a good girl at 28 years old, is still a chick, it must be very cool. But now I'm afraid it's too early to sleep with her, and now there are only four women, and I can't resist it, I really don't know how the emperor Lao'er's harem three thousand coped with it, no wonder the harem battle is no less cruel than the battlefield. Those harem concubines or something, even if the emperor is able to do it well, he spoils ten a day, then the last one has to wait for nearly a year, what is the concept of a year, and the emperor is not that capable at all, sometimes he favors one person, some people have not been able to see the emperor in their lives after being elected to the palace, there are eunuchs around, it is pitiful to think about it, Nima is this a life of people, what a waste of resources. Zu Zhao couldn't help but curse a few words, but fortunately, no one heard him scold the emperor, otherwise he was afraid that he would soon be exiled to avoid the emperor's pursuit and killing order.