Chapter 150: Going to the Western Regions
Huo Guang adopted the strategy of besieging but not attacking, and has been besieging Xiuwu and Yixian, and in this way, two months have passed quickly, except for Huo Guang's defeat of Chen Dale, it can be said that there has been no achievement in two months. "Ya * Wen * Yan * Love * First * Hair"
And two months have also entered the summer in early spring, and now Emperor Wu of Han in Ganquan Palace is not in such a good mood as two months ago. Since the beginning of this year, under the auspices of Yang Ke, the Confession Order has amassed hundreds of millions of dollars for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but since ten days ago, some bad news about the Confession Decree has finally begun to appear.
A large number of merchants went bankrupt because of the order, and no one dared to do business for a while, and the counties of the Han Dynasty finally had a shortage of materials and poor commerce, and this was not the most worrying thing for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, what really made him feel bad was that since ten days ago, some officials began to risk their lives to write and began to criticize the order. And among them, there are several county eunuchs, which even more conclusively say that Yang Ke sent an envoy to accept bribes under the guise of public wealth and privately occupy the property of businessmen.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was definitely not a faint monarch, although he agreed to sue the order, but at first he did not expect to have such a great impact on the merchant class. In addition, the edict at the beginning did bring a huge amount of income to the treasury of the Han Dynasty, which made Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was used to being overstretched, feel that the money could come so quickly for the first time, which was also the reason why he repeatedly let Yang Ke go. However, more and more accusations of fraud reached the ears of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and he began to waver.
"Su Wen, is there anything going on in Chang'an City recently?" Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in Ganquan Palace watched a little bit of music and was in a very bad mood. He rubbed his eyes and asked Su Wen, who was standing not far away.
"Back to Your Majesty's words, since Tingwei took over the rights of internal history, Chang'an City is now very clean. I heard that the soldiers and officials patrolling the city had nothing to do on the streets. Su Wen said with a smile on his face, he sounded like he was praising Yang Ke, as if Chang'an City was more peaceful than before after he took over the responsibilities of internal history. But how could Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty not hear that Su Wen was saying this, the prosperity of Chang'an City was world-famous, and the desertion of Chang'an City was not a good thing.
"Are there more foreign businessmen in the two cities?" Emperor Wu of Han frowned slightly and continued to ask.
"Your Majesty, the lower officials heard from those eunuchs who returned to Chang'an to procure that it is difficult to see foreign merchants in the eastern and western cities now. Even the Han merchants are much less. Some things are already hard to come by. Su Wen said cautiously, these were actually not told to him by the eunuch who purchased them, but Sang Hongyang asked Su Wen to say so.
Su Wen is a famous traitor in history, this is not to say that everything he does is a bad thing, this kind of person is not based on the dawn of the society, for example, Su Wen is taking a big risk when he says these words now, obviously offending Yang Ke, who is in power, and his intention to do Sang Hongyang is not that Su Wen is worried about the country and the people. Instead, Sang Hongyang gave him enough benefits.
"Is that so?" Emperor Wu of Han frowned even tighter, and whispered to himself.
Emperor Wu of Han knew it very well in his heart. The importance of foreign merchants to the Han Dynasty not only highlights the status of the Han Dynasty and trades with foreign merchants, but also enables a steady flow of gold from various countries into the Han Dynasty. Historically, the Western Han Dynasty had a large amount of gold, and one of the important factors was that the Silk Road made a large amount of gold from the Western Regions flow into the Han Dynasty.
"Su Wen, you go to deliver the decree, and the general, the prime minister, the hussar general, and the imperial historian come to Ganquan Palace to see me." Emperor Wu of Han was silent for a moment before raising his head and said.
"No!" Su Wen bowed down to lead the order. When he left Ganquan Palace, he naturally went to deliver the message, but when he delivered the decree to the most powerful ministers of the four courts, he also sent his henchmen to tell Sang Hongyang the news.
When Chang'an was still suspicious. Huo Guang of Hanoi County has already appeared under Xiuwu City in high spirits. Yesterday, Huo Guang received news in Huai County that after two months of siege, the city of Xiuwu County finally erected a white flag. Huo Guang was not surprised to get this news, but felt that the time seemed to be earlier than he expected.
Now Huo Guang is not in a hurry, and he waited until dawn on the second day to bring dozens of people to cultivate martial arts. When the soldiers explained the arrival of Anyang Jun under Xiuwu City, the gate of Xiuwu City was easily opened. Then thousands of bandits and homeless people all laid down their weapons and knelt outside the city to surrender to Huo Guang.
But what surprised Huo Guang was that. The leader of these surrendered bandits was not Bai Zheng, but another bandit leader, Zhang Hu. When Huo Guang asked, he learned that Bai Zheng had disappeared three days ago, along with his younger brother and dozens of cronies. And the city was running out of food. This led Zhang Baohu to discuss with the leaders and finally decided to surrender. It is also because of this that the time is earlier than Huo Guang expected.
"The Bai brothers are gone?" Huo Guang looked back at Zhu Wu and said. Xiuwu was besieged for two months, and it stands to reason that it is impossible for so many people to suddenly disappear without moving.
"This ...... We don't know! The two of them also looked puzzled, looked at each other and said, not to mention the others, even the two generals who assisted in the siege of the city did not believe it in the first place.
"Forget it, if you don't see it, you won't be there, and then a wanted warrant will be issued, and these two people are wanted nationwide." Huo Guang didn't reproach Zhu Wuzhi and Zhu Wu, in fact, he knew in his heart that the people of the Mo family could go out of the city that day, so Bai Zheng was likely to use the same method to go out of the city, and concealed it from Zhu Buzhi and others.
Then Huo Guang let thousands of prisoners all press into the camp to guard, for so many chaotic people, Huo Guang also felt that it was really a little tricky, to say that it was simple to kill all these thousands of people, but after all, this is thousands of labor, but to interrogate and convict one by one, there are too many people, even if Du Yannian is exhausted to death, it is difficult to complete this matter.
"Your Excellency, your subordinates have an idea, I don't know what your superiors think?" Just when Huo Guang was in a dilemma, Du Yannian gave Huo Guang an idea.
"Tell me about it." Huo Guang suddenly became interested.
"Your Majesty, the county seat of Shanyang has been burned down, since the monarch has pacified the rebellion in Hanoi, then the sixteen counties of Hanoi County must not be missing, and this county seat of Shanoi needs to be rebuilt, it is better to let these people build the county seat of Shanyang, and after the city of Shanyang is built, it is not too late to consider the whereabouts of these people at that time." Du Yannian's idea was to let these thousands of people rebuild Shanyang City.
"Well, that's a good idea. It was so decided, but the matter still needs to be decided by His Majesty, and then I will write to present the matter. Huo Guang nodded with satisfaction. In this era, it is not a simple project to build a city, plus these people are all guilty, and the conditions for building Shanyang will be difficult at that time, and when the city is built, I don't know how many people will die.
Huo Guang entered Xiuwu and went to Xiuwu County. Just when he stepped into the gate of the county office, the soldiers who entered it first suddenly ran to Huo Guang to report and found a pair of bamboo slips in the county office, on which were written the words 'Anyang Jun personally opened'.
The Bai brothers left, although Zhang Baohu and others looked for the county office, they did not go through the county office, but Huo Guang arrived, and his soldiers turned over the county office, and this letter was found in a more conspicuous place.
"Good guy, everyone is gone." Huo Guang took the book slip in a cloth bag outside, and said secretly in his heart. He estimated that it must have been left by Bai Zheng, but he was also curious about what this guy would say to him.
Just when Huo Guang opened the bamboo slips left by Bai Zheng, Bai Zheng and his entourage of fifty or sixty people had already crossed Wangwu Mountain in the northwest of Hanoi County and entered Hedong County. At this moment, Bai Zheng was wearing a brocade robe, and the cronies behind him were also well-dressed, and at first glance, he thought it was a wealthy old man, escorting him outside.
"Brother, with so much money, where are we going to go and have a good time? Now that we have a new identity, few people in the world can recognize us! Bai Bing asked excitedly. This time they left Xiuwu and took with them a large amount of gold and silver possessions, even the horses were one man and two horses. And before leaving, Bai Zheng also used the official seal pressed by Xiuwu County to arrange a new identity for his group. Now, even if Bai Zheng and the others want to pass through the pass, there will be no obstacles.
"Be careful, it's not a mistake, the big man is no longer suitable for us people. Let's go to the Western Regions, where we can live better than we do now! Bai Zheng looked at the northwest and said, no one expected that the ultimate destination of his selection for this line of people would be the Western Regions.
"The Western Regions are good! I heard that those dancers in the Western Regions are all water snake waists, and their kung fu in bed is even more top-notch. A young man close to Bai Zheng said with his eyes shining.
"You kid thinks about women all day long, and when you get to the Western Regions, I'll find you ten or eight dancers from the Western Regions, and I won't squeeze your kid dry!" Bai Zheng also said with a smile. Most of them don't have any families, in fact, they go everywhere. With the strength and money of their group, they can indeed enjoy glory and wealth when they go to the Western Regions, and even establish a small force.
"In charge, do you think Huo Guang will kill Boss Zhang and those brothers? That's nearly 10,000 people! "Not every one of these people only knows how to enjoy, and there are still people who are worried about those former comrades-in-arms who are still trapped in martial arts.
"It's hard to say, if Zhang Baohu took the initiative to open the city and surrender, Huo Guang would not kill them. But if Zhang Baohu resists stubbornly, it is estimated that these people will die. Bai Zheng said in a deep voice, as soon as he thought of this question, Bai Zheng couldn't be happy. Although it seems that they have a good future prospect, in reality they are deserters in this war, and they are real losers.
"I haven't been able to understand, why is this Huo Guang so calm, he has been surrounding us for two months, and it seems that he plans to surround us forever?" One of them asked puzzled, this question actually bothered the vast majority of bandits.
"You don't know that we are just his pawns in Huo Guang's eyes. If he keeps us, he can stay in Hanoi, and he needs time to put Hanoi in order and make it his personal sphere of influence. When everything is arranged for him, that is, when the chaos in Hanoi is calmed down, I am afraid that at that time, Hanoi officialdom will only recognize Huo Guang! Bai Zheng said with a sneer, he really broke Huo Guang's true intentions, and he didn't know how Huo Guang would feel if he heard Bai Zheng's words? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )