After listening to Zhang Gong's words, everyone talked about it one after another, and they all gritted their teeth, saying that Gongsun Du was really a villain, and he actually treated innocent people like this, and someone directly suggested raising troops to recruit him and directly erase him from this era. However, some people hate and hate, and their minds are still sober, and now they are sending troops to Gongsun Du, whose name is not justified, and there is no name for the teacher, and the Gongsun family is huge, and it is the biggest powerful in Youzhou, and now offending them is not good for our army, and it is not recommended to make things bigger.

Zu Zhao saw that everyone's discussion and scolding slowly subsided, and then he said quietly: "It turns out that you were forced to do this helplessly. For the sake of your benevolent and filial piety, I will spare you from dying today. From now on, you will be deducted from your military salary for March, your post as commander of the middle battalion, reduced to the guard of the battalion gate, and another 50 military sticks, can you object? ”

"General Xie is gracious, Zhang Gong has no objection." Zhang Gong said.

"Then it's settled. Come on, bring them in. Zu Zhao suddenly shouted outside.

Everyone was puzzled, who Zu Zhao was going to bring in. I could only hear a messy of footsteps outside, some light and some heavy, front and back, many of which were clanging sounds, as if there were some metal accessories on the body.

Everyone looked out of the door in a daze, and Zhang Gong looked at the outside with puzzlement, and when the door opened, he saw a group of old and young people coming in outside, Zhang Gong was a real man, and he had never frowned in the face of the sword and sword shadow, but his face was full of tears at the moment, because what he saw was his own group of children walking in.

Zhang Gong's family saw Zhang Gong, and they were also surprised and excited, after being a little stunned, dozens of people in the family cried together, so that many people present also killed and cried, Zu Zhao looked at it with sour eyes, and couldn't help but think of his family.

After Zhang Gong's family was in pain, they all knelt down and bowed to Zu Zhao and thanked him, and Zu Zhao hurriedly got up to help them up and said, "Gongsun Du is unkind, how can I be unjust." You have followed me for many years, can I not understand your heart? In fact, I have long known that Gongsun Du is playing ghosts, in this Liaodong region, except for me and Wen Chou, I also have a discord, and I am an enemy of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and the rest is a contradiction with Gongsun Du. When I searched the map from the two small parts, I saw the secret routes marked on it, and I knew that only the five of you commanders knew these routes. So, once again, I want to tell you that in fact, I have been sending people to spy on you since I caught you. ”

The five commanders looked at each other and said, "The general thinks about the overall situation, and this is inevitable. ”

Zu Zhao saw that they could understand, so he didn't sell cheaply, but said to Zhang Gong: "Although you were forced, you have finally let go of your sins, and what should be punished must be punished." ”

Zhang Gong said: "The general rescued my family, and gave me no death, Zhang Gong has nothing to repay, I am willing to listen to the general's punishment, no complaints, in the future, Zhang Gong must saddle the horse and follow the general." ”

Zu Zhao said with a stern face: "This penalty will deduct you from your military salary and salary for three months, but now your family is again, and the military salary and income for these three months will be paid as usual; Removed you from the post of commander of the middle battalion and demoted to the guard of the gate battalion, but now it is the time for important people in the army, and you still act as the commander of the middle battalion; Now the situation is uncertain, the world is unpredictable, you fifty military sticks first a few times, and then wear the guilt and make meritorious service, if there is merit, the fifty military sticks are exempted, if you are wrong again, the old and new sins are counted together. ”

"General Xie, Zhang Gong must strive to make meritorious service for his crimes, in order to thank the general for his great kindness." Zhang Gong bowed and thanked him.

Everyone had no objection to Zu Zhao's decision to punish but not to punish, they knew that all this was no longer a tribute, and there was no Niang Chen Dazuo. Later, when Zhang Gong and the others learned that Zu Zhao had personally asked Gongsun Zan for help with supplies, they all felt that Zu Zhao was definitely worth following, which strengthened their determination to follow Zu Zhao. In the future, it will be used to kill the enemy.

Let's say that after Zhang Gong took his family out, the next thing was the punishment of the fine work, now everything is known, and there is no need to interrogate them, some people advocate killing, and some people advocate continuing to be locked in prison.

Zu Zhao told Liang Xizuo that he had investigated their backgrounds and knew that they had no family, were single, and had been going east and west to do some extremely dangerous intelligence work for Gongsun Du. Now Zu Zhao gave them two ways, one was to let them go back, as for whether Gongsun Du would kill them or continue to send them to other places to do such work, he didn't care. The second is that they stay here for Zu Zhao's use, they can easily remember the route, and they are not chaotic in the face of danger, Zu Zhao needs such a person. They can choose whether to leave or stay.

The two looked at each other, thinking that Gongsun Du had been letting them do such espionage activities, and if they failed, they would fight and kill, but if they succeeded, there was no reward, and after Gongsun Du got the information, he only made a small fuss, and did something that threatened others to obtain small benefits, and felt that the information he had worked so hard for him was used by him so easily as a small fight, which was really not worth it. Now that Zu Zhao didn't kill them, he still wanted to keep them, so he was naturally grateful in his heart, and suddenly knelt on the ground, promising to stay and conspire with Zu Zhao to conspire with him.

Everyone happily settled this incident, and everyone was much more determined to follow Zu Zhao. Zu Zhao was very happy to see that everyone was happy to follow him, and the next stage was the stage of steady development of his own outfit, all kinds of agriculture, animal husbandry and metallurgy must be developed, and the army did not have war horses, armor, weapons, etc., so it could not be called an army.

Now they want to build a variety of wrong, what they lack is all kinds of metals, and this era is relatively developed metallurgical technology is the mining and utilization of iron ore, and now Ma'anshan iron ore has been started, but the scale is not large, completely unable to meet the demand, and even to build arrows are not enough, how to fight.

The word county guard was promoted, Zu Zhao began to act as the county guard of Liaodong, Zu Zhao vigorously developed various occupations, and he also managed to expand the chamber of commerce, and spread the caravan directly to the Western Regions, which also brought him more varieties of food production and other goods exchange, greatly enriching the variety of life in Liaodong.

Zu Zhao has always made the best use of things, and he has arranged everyone who has the ability to be in an important position. Chen Youzhi, the cold-faced silver gun, was responsible for the formation of the special forces he envisioned, and Chen Youzhi, Feng Luoxue and Zu Zhao took turns to train them. Feng Luoxue was in charge of the assassination project, and Chen Youzhi was in charge of the cooperative combat ability and individual combat ability, and Zu Zhao naturally let them know the importance of their existence and understand the various tasks he would face in the future.

Su De and Cai Wenji were in charge of commerce and taxation and other clerical work in the county, and Ma Yuan became the northern governor of Liaodong County, directly under the control of Zhang Yuan and Zu Zhao, and the rest of the individuals were given positions to which they adapted. Especially the members of the ancestral family, Zu Zhao naturally handed over some important management powers to them, and the growth of the family was very beneficial to himself. Everything is arranged, the next thing to do is to train, breed, plant, expand the terrain, but this has to be someone, so Zu Zhao has been studying how to let more suitable people come to Liaodong, he and his subordinates have discussed many times, and established a series of reward and incentive mechanisms, hoping to attract more people.

At that time, it was the period of corn planting, Zu Zhao ordered all counties to vigorously plant corn, and there should be no surplus land, and he stressed that the corn grown by the people in the jurisdiction of Liaodong County should be reduced by half on the basis of the original reduction of taxes, and the people could trade freely at that time and no longer collect any taxes. If other people from other places come to Liaodong County to cultivate wasteland, not only will they not be taxed, but the official family will be responsible for distributing the Chinese grain, and they only need to pay a small amount of land rental fees when they receive the goods.

Under such a reward system, the common people responded one after another and vigorously planted, and many previously idle mountain fields were developed. Most of the people from other places, especially the refugees displaced by the Yellow Turbans, flocked to Liaodong and received government grain for cultivation.

Zu Zhao was overjoyed, and special water conservancy officials went to various places to take charge of water conservancy restoration, and the military and civilians cooperated to greatly develop water conservancy, so that planting would not be affected by water shortage.

Then when Liaodong was developing greatly, Zhao Ci of Jiangxia County raised an army against the Han Dynasty, killed Qin Jie, the Taishou of Nanyang County, and the army went all the way north and directly invaded Liaodong, and soon, many counties in Liaodong County were occupied by thieves, and the grain reserves of the county were all occupied by them, and most importantly, Zu Zhao's water conservancy project had not yet been built, and the wine was destroyed, which made him extremely angry.

Other local county guards are insufficient, they have retreated, not daring to resist, so that the thieves are getting bigger and bigger, and when they enter the Zuzhao jurisdiction, there are already tens of thousands of troops, and many people continue to respond, because the thieves occupy a lot of grain and grass, and those who can't eat enough are even more refuge, in order to have a bowl of rice to eat.

Zu Zhao was furious and reported to the court as a county guard, hoping to lead troops to exterminate the thieves. The imperial court also knew that the thieves had rebelled, and now since Zu Zhao took the initiative to ask for war, the imperial court immediately worshiped Zu Zhao as a rebellious general, and sent 15,000 troops for him to call.

With the imperial court military horses and his own Liaodong army, Zu Zhao had an army of 30,000 people, which was on par with the thief army. But this is all his army, can not be all on board, now the northern forces are eyeing Liaodong, have to guard, the county Gongsun Du DC has always wanted to add to the chaos, so Zu Zhao can only lead part of the army to attack.

Zhang Yuan took the initiative to ask for his life, willing to be the vanguard and lead 500 troops first. Zu Zhao refused his request, Zhang Yuan was a very mature general, he had to guard the rear, and he couldn't let the northern barbarians take advantage of the situation. Zu Zhao made Ma Yuan the vanguard, worshiped the Soviet Union as the military, and the army set off mightily. Chen Youzhi also wanted to go out together, but Zu Zhao asked him to stay in the county government and manage the affairs of the whole county, that is, to do the county guard.

Chen Youzhi knew that the task he left behind was no better than marching to fight and see him off, and finally agreed that he would definitely deal with the affairs of the county, and now Liaodong County is where Zu Zhao's base camp is located, and he must not let the internal chaos be clear, and if there is a rebellion in the north, he must also have support, if Zu Zhao has an accident there, he must also take advantage of the situation to make judgments and support. It was precisely because he was an all-round talent that Zu Zhao left him in the county government and was responsible for all scheduling.

After the distribution was completed, Ma Yuan took the lead as the vanguard, Zu Ping was responsible for escorting the grain and grass, and Zu Zhao and Su De led the army to the war zone in the future, which was bound to quell Zhao Ci's rebellion in one fell swoop. Zhao Ci also knew that Zu Zhao sent troops to suppress him, and he had already prepared for battle, just waiting for Zu Zhao's army to arrive, then he would fight it out. Moreover, he had already set up an ambush on the way through Zuzhao's army, and he had to give them a dismount first.