Chapter 34: Sleeping in the Eye of the Storm
Qu Meng was uncomfortable by Liu He's fiery gaze, bowed his head slightly, and then said in a deep voice: "As long as Gongzi instigates the people of Sanhu Pavilion and causes larger-scale chaos, then Yuan Yin will either send troops to suppress or defend the county seat, and naturally he will not have time to patronize Zhaojiabao and Jingjiabao." ”
Liu He slapped his thigh and suddenly realized: "That's right, I only care about staring at the little army in my hand, but I have forgotten the broad masses of the people!" ”
Qu Meng rolled his eyes and pursed his lips, expressing his unacceptability to accept Liu Gongzi's practice of popping up some "weird words" from time to time.
Liu He was so energetic that he actually taught Qu Meng and said, "Little Mengzi, pay attention to the words!" It's 'initiation', not 'incitement'! We are carrying out the cause of liberation in favor of the toiling masses, not engaging in some shady conspiracy! ”
"Not a word yet! Anyway, it's to take advantage of the ignorant villagers......" Qu Meng shouted loudly in his heart.
"Without further ado, I will arrange a ten-member guard for you to send you and Deng Hai back to Qujiabao together, and you will persuade the Qu family master and Ling Zun to rush to Zhaojiabao and Jingjiabao respectively to take over the affairs of these two dock forts!"
"What is Deng Hai doing when I return to Qujiabao with me?" Qu Meng asked with a puzzled expression.
"With Deng Hai's assistance, after dawn, the Qu family signed an agreement with the tenants to reduce the rent of two percent of the land, so that the tenants and tenant farmers in other places could be stimulated to rise up and make trouble!"
"The Qu family has paid so much this time, and now you ask me to ask my grandfather and father to come out to assist you, what's the benefit?" At a critical time, Qu Meng was not polite to Liu He.
Liu He was anxious to get out of the Sanhu Pavilion, and he didn't want to worry about the Qu family anymore, so after a little thought, he replied: "As long as the Qu family can eat it, the Sicheng land of the Zhao family and the Jing family will belong to you in the future!" And nominally, the Qu family will become the only remaining family valve of the Sanhe Pavilion, and the Sanhu Pavilion can be renamed Qu Ziting in the future! ”
"Is Childe serious?" Qu Meng was taken aback by the huge price offered by Liu He at that time!
Liu He looked helpless, and said a little depressedly: "Has this son's character and reputation always been very poor? ”
Qu Meng scratched his head in embarrassment, then shook his head. It seems that although Liu Gongzi is a little insidious, he really hasn't said anything big, as long as he agrees to something, he can do what he says.
It's no wonder that Qu Meng was surprised, it was really the result that Liu He's two advantages greatly exceeded Qu Meng's expectations.
The Zhao family and the Jing family are much richer than the Qu family, and the combined income of each of these two families is definitely more than the existing land of the Qu family. Because of their secret assistance to Liu He, the Qu family not only succeeded in cutting off the two biggest scourges around them, but also more than doubled the field, which is definitely a rich return.
If you add to the reputation of the Qu family as the only family gate valve in Sanhu Pavilion since then, this time the Qu family can really be said to have gained fame and fortune and completely turned over.
Qu Meng got Liu He's promise, and he didn't care about the fatigue of most of the night, and rushed back to Qujiabao accompanied by Deng Hai.
Qu Lin and Qu Yong, who stayed behind in Qujiabao, learned that Liu He had taken Zhaojiabao and Jingjiabao overnight, and that the two great scourges Zhaoqi and Jingcheng had also been beheaded, and they immediately let out a long breath.
"It's good to die, it's good to die!" Qu Lin said.
"Zhao Qi is greedy and cruel, Jing Cheng is insidious and vicious, both are tiger and wolf hearts, but now he is dead in the hands of the jealous and hateful Liu Gongzi, which can be regarded as self-inflicted, and the way of heaven is Zhaozhao!" Qu Yong said excitedly.
"Meng'er, Liu Gongzi sent you back to the Qu family overnight, what else is going on?"
"Childe asked me to come back and ask my grandfather and father to go to Zhaojiabao and Jingjiabao to preside over the affairs of the fort."
"What?!"
When Qu Lin and Qu Meng heard this, they suddenly felt incomprehensible.
"That Zhaojiabao and Jingjiabao have now fallen into the hands of Liu Gongzi, how can he be willing to let out the meat in his mouth again?" Qu Xing, the chief housekeeper of the Qu family, asked the doubts and incomprehensions in his heart for everyone.
"Gongzi is going to immediately send the group of people in Fengxiang City away, and then our Qu family's soldiers and Shen Xi army will join forces to control the Zhao and Jing forts, and in the future, the nominal controller of these three dock forts will be the Qu family, while Deng Hai and Chen Gui will take the team as an independent force to secretly support our Qu family's status and rule in the Sanhu Pavilion."
Qu Meng then told several core members of the Qu family about Liu He's lucrative conditions.
Everyone listened to Liu He's conditions, and their faces were all happy, but Qu Lin frowned and remained silent.
After a while, the old man with a white beard said slowly: "Liu Gongzi's city is really bottomless! He asked the Qu family to come forward to end the situation of the separation of the three households in the Three Household Pavilions, but he attracted the attention of the strong people in Fengxiang City, and at the same time supported Deng Hai and Chen Gui, a new group of new forces, resulting in a new situation in which the three forces checked and balanced each other. In the future, if there is a dispute between the three parties, he will have to mediate, and in fact he has become the real controller of the Sanhe Pavilion. ”
Qu Lin was scheming in the end, and he was not blinded by Liu He's favorable conditions, but he sensed Liu He's true intentions from Qu Meng's words.
"This Liu Gongzi is really terrible!" Qu Yong couldn't help but sigh.
"Hmph, it turns out that this guy still hasn't been well-intentioned!" Qu Meng said angrily.
"Father, big brother, are you going or not?" Qu Xing asked with some concern.
"Go! Why don't you go? Immediately put the wine and food of the rewarded soldiers into the carriage, and Qu Yong and I will go to Jingjiabao and Zhaojiabao! Qu Lin said without hesitation.
"Father, but ......" Qu Yong was a little puzzled, since he knew that Liu He was using the Qu family, why did his father rush to go?
"You all have to remember one sentence: it's not terrible to be used, it's terrible that you don't have the value to be used! I think that this Liu Gongzi seems to have the ambition to swallow the sky, coupled with his illustrious background and family background, he can't say that he will soar to the sky in the future! Since our Qu family has already cooperated with it, we can no longer hesitate at both ends of the end, and push the opportunity to come to the door vigorously. ”
"After Qu Yong and I left, Qu Meng will preside over the overall situation in Qu Jiabao, and Qu Xing and Deng Hai will assist from the side, if anyone dares to make trouble while I and Qu Yong are away, they will be severely punished by family law!"
Qu Lin's words were quite harsh, which made everyone in the room awe-struck and nodded one after another.
In the early morning, Qu Lin, the head of the Qu family, personally led a convoy full of wine and meat to the gate of Jingjiawu Fort, which was dozens of miles away, but the scene in his eyes was beyond the imagination of this wise old man.
The whole Jingjia Fort was quiet, and the field outside the fort was clean, and there was no trace of bloodshed after the battle; On the walls of the fort stood guards with upright postures and dressed in Jingjia costumes; Smoke was already rising from the castle, and no chaotic sound of burning and looting could be heard.
If it weren't for Qu Lin seeing some familiar faces on the wall of Jingjiabao who had been stationed in Qujiabao for a few days, especially Chen Gui's embarrassed face, he would definitely think that his grandson Qu Meng had made a big joke with him, and nothing had happened in this Jingjiabao at all.
"Oh, Old Man Qu, why are you here in person? The lord thought you were going to Zhaojiabao! Chen Gui, who was in charge of watching and waiting at the gate of the fort, saw Qu Lin arrive with the convoy, and hurriedly ran down from the fort and personally welcomed Qu Lin into the fort.
Liu He, who hadn't had time to close his eyes all night, saw Qu Lin's eyes a little black, and his originally black and white eyes were full of bloodshots.
"Childe has worked hard all night, he looks quite tired, and he needs to pay attention to his body!" Qu Lin is very good at talking, and when he opened his mouth, he didn't ask about the doubts in his heart, but cared about Liu He's body.
Liu He was indeed very tired, turned his head to Chen Gui and said: "Chen Gui, you tell the Qu family master about the specific situation here, and the next thing will be under the orders of the Qu family master, and the envoy will go to rest for a while!" ”
"The rest of the matter is the head of the Lao Qu family! If there is anything that is difficult to decide, save it up and solve it when I wake up. By the way, if it weren't for the big event that Yuan Yin led his troops to attack, the rest of the trivial matters would not disturb the good dreams of this son! ”
After Liu He said this with his eyes half-closed, he yawned and walked to the back hall. "Alas, it's really exhausting, and it's trapped people like a horse!"
Looking at Liu He's back, Qu Lin was a little speechless. Just now he just said politely, Gongzi really treats himself as an outsider, so he doesn't care about anything, and he starts to be a shopkeeper?
However, Qu Lin was mentally prepared on the way when he came, and he was very much looking forward to showing his skills at such a critical time, so he immediately devoted himself to controlling and managing the internal affairs of Jingjiabao.
After Chen Gui's introduction, Qu Lin learned that Liu He had sent away the three masters of Fengxiang City and the group of strongmen he brought. When Shao Dong left, he was full of joy, not only happily helping Liu He clean up Qujiabao inside and outside, but also acting as a porter for free and moving hundreds of corpses away.
Shao Dong did take his brothers to do a big cleaning, not a "big cleaning". Liu He gave Shao Dong fifty percent of the gold and silver found in Jingjia Fort, and distributed a considerable number of weapons and horses in the fort to Shao Dong, these benefits were enough for Shao Dong to return to Fengxiang City in style.
In order to win over Shao Tong, Liu He also promised that Jingjiabao would provide a batch of grain for Fengxiang City at a low price every year in the future, provided that when Jingjiabao encountered danger, Shao Tong had the responsibility to lead his troops to the rescue.
In addition to tempting Shao Tong with these benefits, Liu He also scared Shao Tong that he had received a secret report, and Yuan Yin, who was stationed in Danshui County, had already known about the upheaval in Sanhu Pavilion, and was preparing soldiers and horses to clean up the bandits who suddenly appeared in Sanhu Pavilion.
Shao Dong didn't intend to occupy Jingjiabao when he came, but now that he has gained many benefits and Liu Gongzi's promise, he naturally knows each other very well and takes his brothers to quickly evacuate Jingjiabao.
As soon as Shao Dong led people away, Liu He immediately sent people to inform Tian Chou and Zhu Biao on the Zhaojiabao side. Liu He's conditions for Zhu Biao were the same as Shao Tong's, although Zhu Biao was a little reluctant in his heart, and felt that it was a pity that the warm quilt had to be let go, but Shao Tong was gone, and he couldn't say anything if he didn't leave, so he hurriedly left Sanhu Pavilion with his people.
The strongmen of Fengxiang City have left, Qu Lin and Qu Yong, the two "land snakes" who are good at managing the dock fort, have arrived in time, and the pressure on Liu He's heart has suddenly decreased, and how to deal with Yuan Yin now has a plan, so Liu Gongzi can finally sleep peacefully.
It's just that when Liu Hegongzi fell asleep peacefully, a civil upheaval with him as the eye of the storm and about to sweep the entire Nanyang County was brewing and fermenting rapidly!