Chapter 12: The Cruel Times

Faced with the threat that Lu Xiu dared to resist the threat of killing the whole family after breaking the city, the group of soldiers defending the city, who had completely lost their fighting spirit after the death of the main general He Gen, suddenly put down their weapons one after another and arbitrarily chose to surrender.

And the people in the city, after seeing the guards and soldiers on the city wall surrender one after another, couldn't help but panic one by one, and many people's houses even heard a lot of children's cries and noises.

"Brothers, follow me into the city!"

Lu Xiu shouted loudly, gently slapped the buttocks of the horse under his crotch with the whip in his hand, and rushed into Wuqi County, which had completely given up resistance, with Li Yinsu and several hundred generals in the army.

Walking in the city, Lu Xiu looked indifferently at the people in the houses next to the street who were looking out of fear from the windows, looking at their faces full of fear and anxiety, and there was no emotional fluctuation in his heart at all.

"Except for the extreme thrill of near-death and the excitement of killing, I still can't really empathize with ordinary human emotions."

Lu Xiu was silently thinking about his emotions in his mind, and at the same time, he rode his horse and quickly headed towards the most prosperous and wealthy area of Dongcheng in the city.

"General Lu, how will we treat the people and wealthy families in this county? Whether to suppress it directly or make them hand over some of the money. ”

Seeing Lu Xiu's silent appearance all the way forward, a hundred people behind Lu Xiu who were quite heroic in the battle just now boldly asked Lu Xiu about the next treatment of this county town.

"Huh?"

"Just follow the conventions in our army, after all, if our red-robed rebel army wants to get the support of the people in the future, it must not cause chaos in the rear, and the method set by Lord Hu Ke before is very good."

"All the armor and weapons found in the county must be confiscated, and anyone who dares to keep their armor privately and not report it will be beheaded."

"In addition, all the grain, weapons, gold, silver, cloth and silk in the county government are confiscated, and the rich families in the city who have connections with our army will not be killed, and those who have a good reputation among the people will not be killed, and the rest will all be confiscated from the family's assets."

Lu Xiu was awakened from his contemplation by the hundred-person general, and he was not angry, but turned his head and explained in detail to the hundred-person general the next way to deal with this county seat.

It is a matter of life and death for tens of thousands of people in a city, and if you don't pay attention to it, you don't know how many families will suffer in vain, even if Lu Xiu is not a person who cares about the people, he doesn't want to cause some senseless tragedies because of a momentary misaccount.

Although he couldn't feel emotions, with Lu Xiu's experience in his previous life and his own IQ and emotional intelligence, it was quite easy to simply substitute himself into thinking in dealing with things.

"Yes, my subordinates obey."

The hundred-person general who asked Lu Xiu about the specific handling of the matter couldn't help but breathe a long sigh in his heart for a while after hearing all of Lu Xiu's usual practices.

As a subordinate, what he is most worried about is that Lu Xiu will make adjustments to the normal handling of this county town due to the three fires of the new official, after all, as a military general, there is a high probability that the adjustments made in governance and management are almost all wrong moves.

Although Lu Xiu couldn't fully guess the psychological activities of his subordinate, he could also understand a thing or two, so after saying this, Lu Xiu no longer spoke, but directly led Li Yinsu and a few others to Dongcheng County to start understanding and receiving the resources and wealth that could be obtained by taking this county seat.

"Except for the Guo family and the Li family, the two families that have contributed to our army's entry into the city, there are only five families with a better reputation among the remaining wealthy families."

"Leave these seven families untouched, and the rest of the families will be beheaded by the widows, the elderly, and the men, and the young women will be distributed to single brothers in different positions in the army according to their appearance, and the younger girls will all be temporarily adopted and sold as slaves and maids to the rich families in the rest of the county."

After entering the county office, according to the information from the mouths of those county officials who surrendered, coupled with the collection of information from the dispatched sergeants, Lu Xiu finally decided on the way to deal with the rich households in the city after an hour.

As for Lu Xiu's way of dealing with it, although Li Yinsu couldn't bear to let so many people's lives and deaths be decided like this, he never refuted a word after all.

In an era of chaos in the world, and in the camp of rebellion, Li Yinsu, who has read some books since childhood, understands the necessity of Lu Xiu to do this, if he can't rely on iron and blood to suppress the hearts of those chaotic people in the county, and hopes to simply spread benevolence to influence the rich people in the city, it will simply be the beginning of a rebellion.

After deciding on the way to deal with it, in addition to leaving a hundred guards to stay in the county office, the remaining four hundred people in the army will all take their soldiers and start to go to the homes of rich families to raid their homes and loot property.

After such a few hours of chaotic fighting, there were as many as three or four hundred people who were beheaded and beheaded within the time limit, and more women were unified to the county government by their respective hundred people, and they were distributed on the spot under Lu Xiu's gaze, as for the young girls who were left behind by the raided families, they were temporarily placed in the courtyards of the seven surviving families, and were left for sale later.

In the evening, Lu Xiu, who was sitting on the yellow rosewood chair in the original county master's study, finally finished handling all the arrangements, stood up, but when he got up, he saw Li Yinsu standing next to his desk with a troubled expression on his face.

"Are you still sad about the fate of those ladies today?"

Lu Xiu looked at his junior sister Li Yinsu's depressed and unspeakable expression, and almost immediately understood the reason why she was depressed.

After all, unlike her own indifferent feelings, her junior sister has a kind from the bottom of her bones towards ethics and morality and various feelings in the world, so even if she fully understands that such a way of dealing with it can be regarded as benevolent in this era of turmoil in the world, she still can't help it, and she still feels sad that she has witnessed these tragedies.

"These are troubled times, and you have to get used to it sooner or later."

"The reason why I didn't let you avoid such a cruel scene today is that I want you to get used to this troubled world that has gradually begun."

"In the future, the world will only be more chaotic and miserable, and the people will be more miserable and displaced, and maybe even a few years later, one of our thoughts is the life and death changes of countless dawn people, these senior brothers can't teach you, you need to get used to it."

"Get used to this chaotic era of cannibalism, go down step by step, and sharpen your ability to live in the world."

In the deep words, Lu Xiu and Li Yinsu stood with their backs to each other, like a secluded mountain.