"What! Including the Li family in Dengzhou, more than 20 families, large and small, have internal ghosts? ”

"That's right, that's what the notice says!"

"What else is there on the notice?"

"It is said that it is the ghosts of various families, most of them are children of the clan, because they want to compete for family property, so each family is fighting among themselves, which attracts thieves to watch."

"My God, in this way, how chaotic these families are on weekdays, these are all close relatives, they can really do it!"

"What's this, if you are given tens of thousands of dollars and asked to kill your grandfather, will you do it?"

Outside the county government of Huangxian County, many people talked loudly around the notice board, and the Dengzhou family was collectively exterminated by thieves, this news made everyone boil, and the people talked about it, and regarded this big news as a conversation after tea and dinner, which lasted for a long time.

At the same time, Li Congyan mobilized more than 3,000 soldiers of the New Army to attack in all directions on the pretext of clearing out the thieves and the same party, and began to raid the families in various parts of Dengzhou.

In Huang County, Captain Wang Zuhe led more than 1,400 people of the Fifth Regiment of the New Army to run rampant through the city, and separately surrounded the four family mansions in Huang County, controlling everyone in the mansions on the spot, and not even a fly was allowed to fly out.

Wang Zuhe stood at the gate of a family surnamed Xu and said to his brigade commander: "All the suspects will be identified and escorted back to the Yamen of the Assassin for screening." All the money and grain, silk cloth, real estate title deeds, treasures, gold and silver in the mansion were registered for me, and then packed and sealed, and transported back to the Assassin's Mansion! ”

"Whoa!"

I saw that the brigade commander waved his hand and rushed into the mansion of the family surnamed Xu with a team of new army soldiers, and then there were continuous shouts and shouts from inside, which suddenly broke the previous peace.

Wang Zuhe was a little complacent at this time, and he was also a leading general, with more than 1,400 elite soldiers under his command, and he was excited when he thought about it.

Walking into the mansion, Wang Zuhe looked at the palatial mansion, and there was a trace of anger in his heart: "The family of bullshit is even more gorgeous than the Assassin Mansion, today I don't see that I will turn this place upside down!" ”

"Show me carefully, don't leave a single trace, you must open everything that can be opened, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you can't let go of a place!"

Wang Zuhe was looking around, his heart was getting higher and higher, and he was thinking about how to report to Li Congyan when he went back, so as to add a little merit to himself.

At this moment, a team of people rushed over, and the team led by them was hurrying over, and said with a forked hand: "Captain Qiqi Wang, there is an order for the assassin: before nightfall today, you must complete the search of all parts of Huang County, and transport all the prisoners and seizures back to the Assassin's Mansion within two days, without delay!" ”

Wang Zuhe took the warrant sent by the team and said: "Return to the Lord, my Fifth Regiment will not make a mistake, please rest assured!" ”

"Whoa"

"By the way, do you know how the other groups are doing?"

The team was stepping forward and whispered: "Captain Wang, I heard that Penglai County and Dengzhou City have been confiscated, and the first regiment of Captain Wang and the second regiment of Captain Wang have already transported the prisoners and their property back. The third and fourth regiments of Captain Xu and Captain Zhu also completed the raid and are said to be on their way back. ”

With that, the team saluted and left.

Wang Zuhe was a little dumbfounded, he originally wanted to take this opportunity to show a hand, but he didn't expect that his side was the slowest among the five regiments!

"Hurry up for me, within half an hour, everything will be counted and loaded!"

Wang Zuhe strode back to the front yard, and when he saw that the people of the Xu Mansion had been gathered, he shouted: "Take the prisoners away first, take them away!" ”

On this day, there was a commotion in all parts of Huang County, and in the afternoon, Wang Zuhe led the soldiers of the Fifth Regiment to assemble in the north of Huang County, and the seizures confiscated from several families were being transported all the way to Dengzhou City along the official road.

Wang Zuhe looked at the sky, there should still be time, and he breathed a sigh of relief, rode his horse to keep up with the team, and returned to Dengzhou City.

Not far away, there is a dilapidated land temple outside the city of Huangxian County, where pedestrians often come and go from the south to rest, and several old women set up a fire here, boiling some hot water every day and selling some copper coins to support their families.

Li Xichu and Wei Congrong sat next to the official road wearing fox furs, receiving the hot water handed over by the old woman, and their eyes were staring at the soldiers of the Fifth Regiment who were hurrying away.

"Eldest son, in my opinion, how can there be any thieves? This matter must have been planned by Li Congyan! ”

Li Xichu said coldly: "It must be so!" If it is really a thief, then why is Li Sisheng okay and able to escape back to Penglai County overnight? He Li Congyan thinks he has a plan, but he can hide it from others, but he can't hide it from me! ”

Wei Congrong looked at the carload of goods motionless, the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily, and then asked, "Eldest son, what should we do now?" ”

"Dengzhou is over!"

Li Xichu said viciously: "The three major families and the families of all places have been slaughtered by Li Congyan, and the entire Dengzhou is already Li Congyan's world, and we have no place here." The top priority at the moment is that we have to leave here immediately, Li Congyan seems to have let us go generously, but it is difficult to guarantee that we will not settle accounts after the autumn! ”

"So where are we going?"

"Go to Luoyang!"

Li Xichu said: "Now I can only go to Luoyang. Li Congyan sold illicit salt in Dengzhou and ran rampant, and this time he started killing again, let's go to Luoyang to sue! ”

Wei Congrong looked embarrassed and said: "But Li Congyan is the prince and the assassin of Dengzhou, we have no power and power, and there is no real evidence, will those dignitaries in Luoyang believe our words?" ”

Li Xichu looked very confident and said: "Look at it, there are people in Luoyang City who want to put Li Congyan to death, even if we don't have evidence, there will be people who are willing to make a move!" ”

Wei Congrong was skeptical when he heard this.

Two days later, Dengzhou Thorn Mansion.

In the house, a large iron basin crackled with charcoal, and a clay pot hung from the brazier, and a pot of fat mutton was gurgling in it. The aroma of the piping hot mutton soup bakes the room hot.

Li Congyan, Wu Conghan, Li Ren, and Li Wei sat around the brazier and ate heartily, and several people took a sip of wine glasses from time to time, envious of others in this cold winter night.

Wu Conghan picked up a piece of fat mutton and ate it in his mouth, maybe the mutton was too hot, Wu Conghan raised his neck and poured it in his mouth for a while before swallowing it.

Then Wu Conghan wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and said, "Lord, there are a total of seven hundred and eight prisoners escorted back from various places, most of them are women and children, how to deal with these people?" ”

Li Congyan took a sip of hot wine and said: "Pick out some men who oppress the people and do more evil on weekdays from these people, and after a few days, they will be regarded as the internal rectification of collusion with thieves, and it can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people." As for the rest of the women and children......"

This is also a difficulty in Li Congyan's heart, according to the "convention" at this time, it is completely possible to send those women and children together, and the workshop is the most common place to go, but this kind of practice is obviously not acceptable to Li Congyan.

After thinking for a while, Li Congyan said: "To be honest, there is no need to exterminate these women and children in the current situation, just let them all go after a few days." Give them some money for the journey, and then participate in the division of land according to the family's household. ”

"Whoa!"

This time, the Assassin Mansion completely eradicated the entire family in Dengzhou, harvested at least 14,000 hectares of cultivated land, and at least distributed land to tens of thousands of households, so Li Congyan also had a sense of wealth.

Next to him, Li Ren grabbed a piece of lamb ribs, and while holding it directly with his hand and gnawing it, he asked vaguely: "Our big army, how many have been captured this time, and has the Assassin Mansion counted?" ”

Wu Conghan said with a smile: "Although there are no too thin numbers, there are some general data. ”

Li Congyan was also in a good mood, and said with a smile: "Then let's talk about it first, I have a good mental preparation." ”

"Whoa!"

Wu leaned forward in a matter-of-fact manner, and then lowered his voice and said: "This time, a total of more than 3.8 million yuan of money, more than 2.4 million stones of grain, more than 170 real estate, and more than 14,000 hectares of cultivated land have been confiscated. ”

After speaking, Li Congyan and the others looked at each other silently, and then they burst into laughter, and the sound almost toppled the roof.

After laughing, Li Congyan wiped her tears and said to everyone: "It's okay now, we can live a good life for a while." By the time of next year, I'll be able to show my strength too! ”

"By the way, where are those people from the three great families now?"

Li Ren forked his hand and said: "Enlighten the Lord, the three major families secretly gathered people and horses are concentrated in several dock forts, these people after hearing the death of these family masters, they are scattered, yesterday I took people to inspect a few dock forts one by one, only to see these rabble swept the money and grain in the dock fort, the dock fort was burned, and now it is gone. ”

Li Congyan nodded and said, "There are a lot of these people and horses, and they are a hidden danger. If these people can't survive in the cold winter, most of them will go to the grass to become a coward, and it seems that the various units of the new army are going to move. ”

Li Ren and Li Wei were both bright-eyed, and they looked a little eager to try. And Wu Conghan looked at the two with a hint of envy.

Li Congyan smiled and said: "This time, the Pingding family has obtained a bumper harvest, and the brothers have worked hard, so everyone from the three of you or below will be rewarded!" ”

"The soldiers of the New Army are rewarded with two pounds of money and 100 catties of food each, and the officers of the New Army are rewarded with more than 10 catties of food at each level. The rewards of the officials of the various departments of the Assassin Prefecture refer to the standard of the team, and the rewards of the various departments to join the army refer to the standard of the captain. As for the three of you, each of you will be rewarded with ten pounds of money and two hundred pounds of grain. ”

"Thank you, Lord!"

Although the money is not much, it is also the three of them for more than half a year, and Wu Conghan, Li Ren, and Li Wei are also full of joy.

Li Congyan was a little emotional, and said: "Although the Assassin's Mansion has gained a lot this time, the use of the Assassin's Mansion will be very large next year, and these seizures will be of great use, so I can only give you such a small reward for the time being." ”

The three of them said they didn't mind, but Li Congyan said, "You don't mind, but I can't bear it." Well, isn't there more than 170 properties left? ”

Li Congyan pointed at Wu Conghan and said: "Distribute all these more than 170 properties, together with the previously seized properties that have not yet been sold, and the three of you, together with the generals of the various departments and the new army, everyone will have a share!" ”

Wu Conghan, Li Ren, and Li Wei were ecstatic when they heard this, this is a heavy reward, a set of real estate!

Li Congyan secretly said in his heart: "These properties will not be sold for a while and a half, and now there is no family, and no one can afford to buy it, but it is better to have a welfare subdivision!" ”

Several people were in a good mood, and after drinking a few glasses of wine, Wu Conghan asked, "Lord, did the Assassin Mansion immediately start dividing the land?" ”

Li Congyan said: "You can make some preparations for the division of land, but before the division of land, there is still one thing to do. ”

"What?"

"Bandits!"