War also has the minimum requirements for war, and if the war starts with a large-scale massacre of civilians, it will cause a serious backlash, because it is impossible for the Eastern Star Empire to admit defeat, they will just go to the end, which they cannot choose. Because Xia Xinghan's actions would make the people have a strong feeling of resistance, which was not beneficial to him, because this war was not intended to directly break through the enemy's city pass.

Considerations like Xia Xinghan do not exist in other countries, because they are not likely to start a war but only teach the other party a lesson, because it is too costly to capture a place like Pingxi Pass. Walking past the gate of Pingxi Pass, Xia Xinghan saw that the grain and grass here were piled up, the horses were herded, and a large number of siege weapons were placed in pieces, all of which were piled up together, obviously preparing, and it seemed that he was planning to fight Pingxi Pass at any time.

If it was just defense, there wouldn't be so many rushing cars, and there wouldn't be so many catapults. In terms of defense, what is more needed is a fixed trebuchet and a ballista, but here on the other side, Xia Xinghan saw a lot of ladders and rushing cars, and then a large amount of grain and grass was piled up, which was clearly regarded as the rear, and Pingxi Pass was used as the rear, it seems that Xiaohanguan was really betrayed.

Just looking at the things piled up here, Xia Xinghan made a rough estimate, probably the number of people is really around the scale of hundreds of thousands, and it is actually a military camp that stretches for dozens of miles from Pingxi Pass! With such a large area of military camp, there is nothing to say, and the situation of the people has been laid out, so it is no wonder that there will be people from the Eastern Star Empire in Pingting Pass, they have this gap, and the Cangxing Empire does not know about it! Moreover, it is also in Xia Xinghan's territory, and he must handle this matter.

After coming out of here, you will enter Changping, Changping is a huge plain city, surrounded by plains, here is endless farmland everywhere, but the farmland here is farmland reclaimed by the border, that is to say, the grain here belongs to the army, and the people can only get 30% of the income and hand over half of the 30% income to the imperial court.

The taxes of the Eastern Star Empire are appalling, Xia Xinghan rode along the fields and saw that the people were all thin and weak, the more this was the case, the more people joined the army, and then the easier it was for a country to start a war to make up for its own gap. Right now, the Eastern Star Empire has probably reached the point where it has to seek war.

The more such a country is, the more it proves the greed and unrighteousness of the royal family, although the Cangxing Empire also has the idea of starting a war, but the idea of the Cangxing Empire is biased towards great unification, while the Eastern Star is not, and the Eastern Star is more inclined to plunder than to expand the territory and open up the territory to govern the world. The biggest difference between the two is that one is a step-by-step expansion of strong soldiers and horses, organized and prepared in the future, after which they have measures to restore people's livelihood immediately, and the other is to directly plunder, so that the attacked place is full of holes, and use force to suppress and make the people there submit.

The fact that the Cangxing Empire has been so stable over the years has a huge relationship with Qin Xiaogan's Taoism. If Qin Xiaogan was a senseless monarch, it would be impossible for the Cangxing Empire to become so strong, and the Cangxing Empire could be strong because the domestic qualifications could support so many soldiers and have enough resources for the army to grow and develop. And it is not on the basis of reckless military force, although the weapons and equipment of the Cangxing Empire are not necessarily the best, they have always maintained large-scale sophisticated equipment. And not a small part, which is why the Cangxing Empire has always been able to maintain its advantage. The Cangxing Empire has always maintained armaments, which are not the best, but they must be excellent and equipped with the largest scale.

Therefore, the Cangxing Empire is not reckless, it has always been within the controllable range, so the strength of the Cangxing Emperor is really not without reason. Xia Xinghan came to other countries and found that Qin Xiaogan was really a good emperor, although he was suspicious, but he was indeed a wise monarch, after all

Although there are poor people in the Cangxing Empire, at least everyone in the country can survive. Here, it feels like it's too hard for everyone to get it.

Because of their oppression and expulsion of the people, the fertile land has been occupied, there are no civilians in the Changping area at all, Xia Xinghan can attack all the targets he finds with confidence and boldness, and the Eastern Star Empire concentrates everything together, which is called "concentrated target" in modern military terminology, and this concentrated target is the favorite target of the air and space forces. I'm afraid that you won't be concentrated in the air raids, and the more concentrated you are, the better!

After Xia Xinghan observed it, he was still not in a hurry, he planned to give the Eastern Star Empire a slump, then he needed to really hit the sore spot, just like for the Cold Sea Empire, and suddenly beat the enemy without the ability to fight back.

Xia Xinghan rode a horse and continued to walk inside, although there were green fields one after another, but he saw a lot of starvation on the side of the road, Xia Xinghan really didn't expect that there would be starvation here?!

Xia Xinghan didn't get off the horse, after all, he was not a saint and couldn't save everyone, this situation had been seen by Xia Xinghan on the battlefield. However, the situation made Xia Xinghan feel more and more that the Dongxing royal family was really running out, and Xia Xinghan could see some starving people everywhere along the way, and the pedestrians on the road were all dish-faced, and it could be seen that the people here were malnourished, Xia Xinghan looked at them, completely like a strange passerby, these people, he really had no way to save them.

After walking for about a whole day, Xia Xinghan walked all the way and finally arrived at Hekou City. Xia Xinghan walked into Hekou City, he really couldn't believe that Hekou City was full of refugees? What happened to this Eastern Star Empire? Walking on the street, Xia Xinghan could see refugees kneeling on the street begging everywhere, and there were some refugee women who were a little bit of a little beautiful like cattle being shouted and bought and sold by a group of people on the street.

Xia Xinghan had just walked by, and then someone shouted: "Guest officer, this little young master, do you want something good here?"

Xia Xinghan looked at that person suspiciously, and he asked, "What good things?"

"I have a few little girls here, all of them are Huansha girls, fortunately they suffered a disaster there, otherwise you really wouldn't have such a chance?"

Xia Xinghan frowned slightly and said, "Luckily?"

"yes! Would you like to take a look?"

Xia Xinghan thought about it, he really lacked craftsmen, he nodded and counted: "If it's a craftsman, I want as many as you want, and I don't limit women, men can too." Blacksmiths, builders, carpenters, I want them all. If you have the craft, you can. How much is one?"

"This ...... Huansha girl, ten taels of silver, what do you see the price?"

"How much?"

"Five taels!" the other party immediately raised five fingers and said. Xia Xinghan actually thinks it's so cheap? As a result, the other party may have misunderstood, when Xia Xinghan stared, the other party hurriedly said: "Little young master, it can't be cheaper, but don't worry, the labor force is one or two, and the blacksmith or something, I count you two or two." What do you think?"

"Okay, I want as much as you want!"

Xia Xinghan said very calmly, but the other party's eyes lit up, and then Xia Xinghan said: "If you want to take a child, I want it too." I will give you five taels of silver for a pair of mother and daughter, and I will give you ten taels for a pair of mother and son. Delivery outside the city, you say the place!" Xia Xinghan calmly took out a stack of silver tickets, and the other party hurriedly rubbed his hands and said, "Okay, okay! I'll find it for you!"

Xia Xinghan didn't feel sorry for the silver, he felt that he didn't need to fight to collect enough labor.

"Wait!" Xia Xinghan took out a token, the other party's eyes were straight when he saw this token, he hurriedly knelt down and said: "Oh! distinguished guest!!I'll give you one!I didn't expect it to be a rich man, great!" Xia Xinghan said calmly: "I am very interested in your sub-people this time, I heard that there are many sub-people here." ”

"Hehe, you're right, and you've found the right person. If you want to collect sub-people, as long as you have enough money, I will package and sell them to you, and within five days, I can catch all the sub-people in the empire who have not been resold and sell them to you. But what ...... the price?"

Xia Xing smiled coldly: "The Chamber of Commerce has a big deal that needs to be done by sub-people, the more people the better, you make a price." ”

"100,000 gold, I will deliver it in five days. ”

Xia Xinghan thought for a moment, and then said: "200,000 gold, I want all sub-people, including those who have been sold, I believe you have that kind of ability." ”

The man's eyes turned green when he heard this, Xia Xinghan looked at him, and he asked in a low voice, "Not enough?"

"Three ......"

"400,000 gold!"

"Four-four-four!"

"Five hundred thousand!"

"Don't shout the price! I'll do it! I'll do it! 500,000 gold, I'll get it for you in five days!" The man was obviously trembling all over, Xia Xinghan smiled: "Concentrate people in a secret place, and then you can find me." I'm waiting for you at the Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion at the mouth of the river. ”

"Okay! Okay, young master, you wait a minute, five days! I promise in five days! All the subhumans will disappear, and they will all be in your hands!" Xia Xinghan said calmly: "If I see one, I won't give you money." ”

"Yes, yes, don't worry, I won't let any of them go!"

Xia Xinghan said in a low voice: "Especially the merman, if you bring all the money, I know that you will score the account, you can help me take care of it, I will be indispensable to you." If you do a good job, I will give you 10,000 gold alone. ”

"My dear father, alas, just look at it! I'll do this for you properly!" The snake head turned around and ran away as he spoke, Xia Xinghan knew that they dared to be so blatant, it must have a lot of power, and it could even spread throughout the entire Eastern Star Empire. Xia Xinghan really guessed correctly, these people are the biggest gang, if they do this, they can really do it.

Originally, there were not many subhumans, and they were almost slaughtered and bought and sold by humans......

Xia Xinghan was only temporary, he planned to collect everything he could now, and then talk about anything else.

Xia Xinghan walked towards Wanbao Pavilion while thinking about things, and when he arrived at Wanbao Pavilion, he found that many people were surrounding a car in front of Wanbao Pavilion, and Xia Xinghan looked at the car suspiciously. Inside the car, Xia Xinghan asked from a distance, and in front of the car, a few people in silver-white armor stopped the car, obviously a ruffian.

"Hurry up and get out of the way, the adults in the car are not something you can afford to mess with!"

"Can't be provoked? Hehehe, you can ask yourself, who in this estuary city doesn't know about our young general? Our young general wants to meet the girl in the car, and he is also doing his best to be a landlord! How many farts do you have in Wanbao Pavilion? We can do it if we want you to do business, we don't want you to do business, you are not fart!"

"Hehe, this is fresh, there are still people in the world who can't do business in Wanbao Pavilion, this is the first time I've heard of it. Hearing this woman's voice, Xia Xinghan didn't know why it was so familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere. But I can't remember it all at once. This voice is so special, because it is so charming!