In August of the fifth year of Yonghe, the king of Ming entered Chang'an, and then spread the text to the world, saying: The land of China will always return to the people of China!

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The entire battlefield was filled with an aura of slaughter. These 20,000 elite cavalry really deserve to be the elite of Zhao State, although they were attacked by the rain of arrows of the Jin army's infantry and surrounded by several times the Jin army's cavalry, they still held on to the end. When Du Hong and Du Yu surrendered, they were ordered to shout, and finally let these remnants of the cavalry begin to surrender.

In this battle, 20,000 Zhao elite cavalry were annihilated, and the Jin army suffered more than 2,000 infantry casualties and more than 3,000 cavalry, and the number of casualties was lower than Zeng Hua could accept and predict, which was considered a victory.

Zeng Hua left a group of infantry troops to clean up the battlefield, and then continued to the east. He knew from Du Hong that Wang Lang and Ma Qiu had already rushed east, and it was estimated that they would not be able to catch up, and Yecheng did not send other reinforcements except for this support army. So Zeng Hua could swagger and go east with the whole army.

But as soon as I arrived in Xinfeng City, something happened.

After listening to Tanma's report, Zeng Hua's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly rushed to the scene with Di Pu, Duan Huan, Zhao Fu, Du Hong, Du Yu and others.

This is a manor in the south of Xinfeng City less than five miles, the owner is a local family, surnamed Chen, the ancestors have been Yanzhou Thorn History, serving high officials, in Xinfeng County and even Jingzhao County is quite virtuous, there are hundreds of hectares of land, thousands of tenants.

Before arriving at Chen's house, I smelled a strong smell of blood from a distance, and when I walked into the door, I saw that there were corpses all over the ground, the ground was covered with black blood, and the flies that smelled the fish gathered in piles, making buzzing everywhere. Walking into the second courtyard, there are still the same corpses all over the ground, but there are many more **** female corpses, and the death from the corpse is getting worse and worse. Walking to the inner courtyard, it is simply a hell on earth, it is full of the corpses of old people, women and children, and the corpses of women and children are mutilated, judging from the wounds, they should have been deliberately dismembered by sharp weapons. There were two iron pots in the middle of the yard, which had been kicked to the ground, so I didn't know what was inside.

People like Duan Huan and Zhao Fu couldn't help but feel sick after a long time on the battlefield, not to mention Du Hong and Zeng Hua.

Zeng Huaqiang held back the nausea that he wanted to vomit, and asked the Tanma who first discovered this place with a blue face: "Is there a living mouth?" ”

"There was a young man who escaped by hiding in a dung pit. Now that I have washed and changed my clothes, I am waiting outside. Tanma hurriedly replied.

"Go out and ask."

When he saw the surviving young man outside, he was still squatting there shivering, and he was covered in cold sweat on an August day, his face was pale, and his lips were purple.

Zeng Hua nodded, Tanma stepped forward, squatted in front of him, and asked quietly, while the young man also replied intermittently in a low voice.

Listening to Tanma's relay, Zeng Hua became more and more angry the more he listened.

Last night, after sending away Shi Bao, Shi Tu and Shi Ji felt relaxed, and they planned to have some fun under the slight drunkenness, so they took five hundred personal soldiers to run around, and soon arrived at this manor that was very conspicuous in the south of the city.

Shi Tu and Shi Ji led people to rush into the house, and without saying a word, they began to kill people for fun. After entering the second courtyard and finding out that there were female dependents, Shi Tu was furious, and began to wantonly * the woman of the Chen Mansion with his subordinates, and after * finished, he broke his stomach and severed his limbs, and watched the woman die in the blood scream for fun.

After Shi blame* the two women, he felt a little hungry, and at this time, he just happened to kill in the inner courtyard, and his subordinates searched out several grandchildren of the owner of Chen Zhuang from the hidden place in the corner, who were four or five years old. Shi Ji saw that he was in the middle of it, and hurriedly asked someone to put the pot on the shelf and cook a pot of "tender and smooth" "two-legged mutton".

It was not until the second half of the night that the two of them were satisfied with leading 500 subordinates, leaving behind the tragic souls of Yifu to return to the camp.

After listening to the narration, Zeng Hua and the others stopped talking for a long time, and finally Zeng Hua spoke: "Changjun, you take the three-box infantry army to occupy Tongguan in a hurry, and I will send you another two-box rear army in two days." Yao Jin, you led the entourage of the Liuxiang Feiyu Army and stationed in Huayin as a countermeasure. ”

Zhao Fu and Yao Jin silently took the order and left in a sad mood.

Zeng Hua then ordered: "This Chen Mansion has been buried well." Jiang Nan, you bring a group of Feiyu troops to bring the six thousand captives and the two beasts surnamed Shi. ”

Just after noon, the six thousand Zhao army prisoners were whipped bitterly by the Feiyu army's leather whip, and stumbled over, and Shi Tu and Shi Blame were also among them, but the two of them were injured, and they were carried over by several guards on a shelf.

The six thousand Zhao army captives were driven to the side of Chen's mansion, where nearly six hundred tombs had been set up densely, and they were covered with dense white spirit flags, which looked a little gloomy.

Zeng Hua stood at the front, followed by Di Pu, Duan Huan, Jiang Nan, Du Hong, Du Yu and others, in addition to the tens of thousands of people who rushed to hear the news, there were also tens of thousands of military camps and Feiyu troops, everyone looked at the new grave in front of them silently.

Zeng Hua took the wine bowl handed over by the guard, raised his hands to his head and said loudly with tears in his eyes: "Last night, there were more than 600 unjust souls in the Chen Mansion, not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster. I am equivalent to the descendants of China and the subjects of the Jin family, and I am here to pay tribute to the souls of your compatriots to rest in peace as soon as possible, and cast a peaceful and prosperous world in the next life! After that, he spilled the first bowl of wine on the ground, then threw the bowl away, and continued.

"We are a dignified seven-foot man in China, with sound hands and feet, but we can only witness the tragic death of our compatriots at the hands of the Hu people, this hatred, this pain, this shame, this humiliation, even the water of the nine rivers cannot be washed away." Speaking of this, Zeng Hua, whose eyes were red, knelt down and knocked his head three times. The people behind also silently followed behind and kowtowed three times.

After kowtowing, Zeng Hua stood up, took another bowl of wine, raised his hands, and said loudly: "May all the heroic spirits bless in heaven, and bless me to recover the twelve states of the Northland as soon as possible!" I will swear to kill Hu'er and avenge you! With that, he drank it all and slammed the bowl to the ground.

Zeng Hua walked over with blood-red eyes, and asked Shi Tu and Shi Blame, "Why did you kill the people of Guanzhong so much?" ”

Shi Tu and Shi Zhu were silent for a long time and said in dialects: "Without it, it's just for fun." ”

Zeng Hua turned around and said, "Put these two people on the pyre." After that, a few people came over from the left and right and dragged Shi Tu and Shi Zhu to the pyre that had been prepared long ago. The two of them were as dead as ashes, but they were still speechless.

Zeng Hua said hatefully: "Killing the two of you is afraid of dirtying the hands of my soldiers, and the bloody blood of the two of you is afraid of polluting my land of China and turning you into ashes, so as to eliminate the hatred in my heart." Then the order was given to raise the fire.

The fire suddenly broke out, and the raging flames immediately surrounded Shi Tu and Shi Blame, and at this time the two felt the pain and began to scream, but soon in the fire from a fire man to a piece of black charcoal, but it continued to burn.

Zeng Hua turned his head, stared at the six thousand captives, and then said word by word: "Who came to the Chen Mansion last night?" ”

No one dared to make a sound, everyone knew that as long as they stood up, there would be no good results, and the bodies of Shi Tu and Shi Ji were still burning there.

"In that case, then I'll dig a pit and bury you all!" After waiting for a while, Zeng Hua said impatiently.

The captives were immediately excited, and they began to testify, and soon pointed out all the more than 200 surviving of the 500 guards who followed last night. When everyone looked at it, most of the more than 200 people were Karma.

Zeng Hua ordered to pull the two hundred people aside, and then sent people to pull out the captives and gather them together, which was more than 1,500 people.

Seeing this posture, Du Hong hurriedly persuaded: "My lord, God has the virtue of life!" Please also ask adults to only kill the culprit, and don't have to involve the innocent! ”

Hearing someone pleading, more than 1,500 people quickly knelt down and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Heaven has the virtue of a good life? They take pleasure in killing, cannibalism as a habit,* abduction, and do all kinds of evil, why don't they talk about the virtue of a good life in heaven at any time? Now that we have to punish them severely, what should we talk about the virtue of a good life? Does that make sense? Zeng Hua almost roared, and he pointed to the many Qihu soldiers and said, "Ask them, which of them does not have the blood of my people on their hands?" ”

Hearing this, Du Hong was speechless, and his younger brother Du Yu stood up and knelt on the ground and said: "My lord is right, this Hu Xi has done a lot of evil along the way, killed thousands of people, and his subordinates witnessed it with their own eyes when they were with the army. Speaking of this, Du Yu paused and continued: "My lord, I can kill him, but there are more than a dozen Qiang, Di people, and a few people from the Central Plains, please forgive them and give them a chance to change." ”

Zeng Hua stepped forward to help Du Yu and said: "I have been saying that the people of Qiang, Di, Xiongnu and the Central Plains are either the descendants of Yan and Huang, or from Jiuli, they are all Chinese people, with the same root and the same origin. However, the Hu is a different race, and naturally we are not treated as human beings, but only pigs, sheep and animals, which already contains the heart of the Chinese nation. Today, Qianhu is the main culprit, but these dozen or so people are accomplices, helping foreign races to kill my compatriots, and even their ancestors will be disgraced because of this. ”

Speaking of this, Zeng Hua said loudly: "Benevolence only gives to those who are kind and keep-wise, and punishment must be for tyrannical and murderous people." Promoting good and punishing evil is the way of heaven. ”

When Du Yu heard this, he stopped talking, but just gave a deep salute.

Zeng Hua gave an order, and 1,500 heads rolled down. Zeng Hua then ordered 1,500 corpses to be burned, and then built five mounds of earth with their heads and piled them in front of Chen's grave. Zeng Hua then ordered Zhen Pu to write a monument, writing all the atrocities of Qianhu and today's words in one fell swoop, and the final ending is using Zeng Hua's sentence: "Benevolence only gives to those who are kind and keep-wise, and punishment must respond to tyrannical and murderous people." Promoting good and punishing evil is the way of heaven. ”

Zeng Hua sent an order to Che Yin and Nan Zheng to urgently transfer a group of experienced "storytellers" to gather the atrocities of the Qianhu in Guanzhong and the Central Plains, combined with the Han, Qiang, Di, and Xiongnu that Liangzhou had been propagating before, and the Han, Qiang, Di, and Xiongnu were all Chinese people, and the Qianhu were of a different race, and they were propagandized everywhere in Guanzhong, so that the people of the Han, Qiang, Di, Xiongnu and other ethnic groups could have a deeper understanding of the various evil deeds of the Qianhu, and also let them know what to do.

After issuing the order, Zeng Hua whispered to Zheng Pu: "We need to let the people know hatred, only when they know hatred will they know who is the enemy and who is the comrade-in-arms." Moreover, with hatred and a goal, they have sharpness, and we need this kind of sharpness in our new base. I just don't know how many innocent people have been hurt by this hatred? ”

Zheng Pu smiled coldly: "Adult's benevolence can tell the world, but there is no need to worry too much. Hurting the innocent? As long as he can protect my Chinese people, how many innocents he hurts? They are innocent, so we were not innocent when our Chinese people were killed? ”

Zeng Hua knew that Zhen Pu was quite cold-blooded because of his previous experience, especially for the Qiang Hu who destroyed his homeland. In the past, he regarded the Qiang, Di, Xiongnu and other Yirong people as Hu people, but later, after Zeng Hua's enlightenment and long-term influence, he pointed the contradiction directly at the white-skinned, high-nosed, deep-eyed, and bearded Hu people, and the others were "internal contradictions among the people".

Within a few days, Zeng Hua gathered the infantry army that cleaned up the battlefield and the infantry army transferred from Nanzheng, together with the left and right guard battalions and the eight-compartment flying feather army, and continued to march eastward.

On August 15, Zeng Hua's army arrived in Zheng County, and at this time he received a good report from the former army general and Liangzhou assassin Shi Ganrui. Gan Rui took advantage of Zeng Hua's soldiers to go out of Guanzhong, and quietly led the four-compartment infantry army to take Weixing County to govern Xingjin, and then waved his army north, and then took Shangluo County and Shangxian County in the south, and then advanced west to Guanzhong to pass Lantian Pass. Now the troops are stationed in Luocheng (now Shang County, Shaanxi), and there are no other requirements, just soldiers and horses.

Zeng Hua continued to march into Tongguan, gathered Zhao Fu's troops who had already arrived here, and then left Zhao Fu and the four-box infantry army to guard Tongguan and Pujin Pass, and ordered Yao Jin to lead the six-box Feiyu army to Huayin as a countermeasure, and ordered Yang Su to lead the five-box Feiyu army north to Fengyi County to rectify the northern counties, and Lu Zhen and Du Yu were with the army as deputies. Then, on August 25, he led the escort camp and the Sanfang Feiyu Army back to Chang'an.

The first thing Zeng Hua did when he returned to Chang'an was to write again in Guanzhong and all over the Quartet.

"The Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan ascended the chicken head in the empty tong, the king of the Zhou Dynasty Wen listened to the phoenix in Qishan, the non-son Qin Huan was enshrined in the Qin Pavilion, the Han Dynasty Gaozu set the mandate of heaven in Chang'an, and the land of Guanlong is the land of China for a long time. There is also the Han family according to the Guanzhong to back the world, Weiyuan Siyi, no matter Xia Yi at the end of the world, all know what the Han people want. In the first year of Mourning Yuankang (291 AD), the Jin Dynasty was in turmoil, and the sea collapsed. The Qianhu used foreign races to steal Kyushu, the land of China, and poisoned the Chinese people. All my Chinese men, but those who have hot blood, are all ashamed and hateful. Lying on the salary to taste the gall, grinding and toughening, only trying to destroy the fierce Hu and restore the rivers and mountains. Now Chang'an has been recovered, Guanzhong Longxi has been decided, and it can be said that the world says: the land of China will always return to the people of China. In this way, we will encourage our Chinese compatriots and continue our ambitions! ”

As soon as the article came out, the world was shocked again, and there were countless responders.

The second thing is to recruit troops and select the elite from among the nearly 100,000 "rebel army", these people have high "revolutionary enthusiasm", and they have to find a way to toss them. After a rigorous selection, more than 36,000 sergeants were selected, and the rest were either sent home or assigned to the local Ochichong Prefecture. More than 11,000 sergeants were selected from the tens of thousands of surrendered troops and border garrisons, and the rest of the homeless were returned home, and the homeless were placed as people as they wished. In this way, a total of more than 47,000 non-commissioned officers from Guanzhong were selected, first organized into the 14-compartment infantry army, and then the veterans were transferred from the Liangzhou infantry army in the customs as the backbone, with non-commissioned officers and officers who were promoted through meritorious service, and the rest were made up for the lack of personnel in the six-compartment Liangzhou infantry army in the customs. In this way, Zeng Hua had more than 60,000 infantry troops in 20 boxes near the Sanfu area, stationed in various places, and stepped up training.

The third thing is to open the treasury of the official warehouse, and send Shi Bao and other Qihu nobles to collect the money and grain they have scraped to appease the people everywhere. While killing a small number of dissidents, while showing great favors to the people, it seems to be an old routine in history to recover a place, and Zeng Hua can just copy it. However, Zeng Hua will not be a complete fortune boy, and his "treachery" has long hidden half of the money and grain as a reserve.

At this time, Mao Muzhi of Tianshui Longxi also sent good news. Since mid-May, although Mao Muzhi and others have taken the border garrison army in Longxi, Tianshui and other places to attack the city due to the lack of food, it seems to be like a bamboo. However, Zhao Liangzhou's assassin Shi Shi Ning and Anxi's general Liu Ning colluded with Wang Zhen of the Wang clan of Luoyang Tu have been resisting, first recovering Shangqi, and then retreating to Qingshui in Luoyang County, then retreating to Luoyang County, and finally retreating to Dulu in Anding County, where they were finally annihilated by Le Changshan and Jiang Nan. Shi Ning was captured, Liu Ning surrendered, and Wang Zhen fled to Liangzhou. This is also the reason why Jiang Nan and other cavalry Shanshan are late. On the contrary, the Qiang people in Longxi, Tianshui, Luoyang, and Nan'an did not react and were very "convinced". This is mainly due to Shi Hu's good work in the early days, and the slightly famous Haoqiang among the Qiang people has been moved out of Qinzhou by him and all the clansmen, one moved to Sanfu, and most of the more than 100,000 people moved into the Central Plains. Therefore, although the current Guanzhong Diqiang and other clans are numerous, they have not formed a strong enough tribal force, and there is a lack of people with enough prestige to lead them, so they can't do anything, so Zeng Hua has taken advantage of it. What made Zeng Hua take advantage of it even more was that Shi Hu had migrated to the seventeen surnames of the Qin Yongwang clan and the eastern part of the country, and all of them were used as examples of military service and incorporated into the military service hometown, which greatly weakened the powerful power of the Han nationality in Guanyou, so there is no military force in the Guanlong area that can really threaten Zeng Hua.

Zeng Hua replied to Mao Muzhi, officially merging Tianshui County, Nan'an County, Longxi County, Luoyang County, Wudu County, and Yinping County into Qinzhou, making him a veritable Qinzhou assassin history. Then let him recruit border soldiers, expand the team, continue to run Qinzhou, and allocate a large amount of grain and grass for him from the Sanfu granary. Zeng Hua divided Guanzhong Yongzhou into only three counties: Jingzhao Yin and Fufeng, Feng Yi, and Anding, and he faked the history of Yongzhou.

Next, Zeng Hua began to count household registration, check the amount of land, and prepare to implement the equalization system, taking advantage of this idle time to lay the foundation for next year's bumper harvest. The system of equalizing fields implemented this time is a revision made on the basis of the old system of equalizing fields practiced in Liang and Yizhou, and has drawn some lessons and lessons.

For middle-aged men and Ding men over the age of eighteen, each of them is still given 80 acres of grain fields and 20 acres of miscellaneous fields, but some supplements have been made. Twenty acres of grain fields and twenty acres of miscellaneous fields are Yongye fields, which can be passed on to descendants and will not be recovered, and the rest will be endowed with fields, which will be recovered by the government after his death. The old man, the sick and the disabled were each given 40 acres of land, and the widows and concubines were 30 acres. According to the local climatic conditions, ten acres of mixed fields are planted with soybeans and vegetables, and ten acres must be planted with cotton, hemp or mulberry. The Yongye Tian inherited by each male is counted in the amount of Yongye Tian he has granted, and the deficiency is made up, and the field is given as usual.

The agronomy that had been set up in Nanzheng as early as now was moved to Chang'an, and then the experts of the Guanlong agricultural class were invited to enrich the agronomy and train agricultural talents. Then, according to the Liangzhou regulations, agricultural assistance offices were set up in various counties and counties in Guanlong to help and guide the people in various places to cultivate and harvest. and paid money to "ransom" the subordinates and slaves in the hands of Haoqiang, and aided Liangzhou to grant Tian Jia to collect and redeem for five years to become civilians.

Taxation is still the case in Yanliang Prefecture, and the number of acres of land, fertile land and income of the year are the standards for taxation. This trick is very poisonous, those tribal slaves of large families have been "ransomed" by the government in the name of virtue and politics, there are hundreds of acres of empty land but no one cultivates it, and they have to pay corresponding taxes every year, isn't this deliberately embarrassing the big families? Later, when they were in distress, the government stepped forward and paid for the fields in their hands, and then brought them to live in the county and county cities. It's cheap, but it's better than nothing.

Zeng Hua ordered the establishment of county schools and county schools in Guanlong Yanliang Prefecture, and invited a small number of scholars from all over the country to take it as an instruction and accept qualified children to enroll. Then he secretly sent Fan Zhe and other members of the Holy Church to set up village schools all over the country and accept young children to enroll.

Zeng Hua and his subordinates are all diligent in political affairs, honest and trying to govern people, after the abolition of the pseudo-Zhao harsh and extravagant, lenient and frugal, the law is fair and strict, the rule of officials is clear and effective, the etiquette is re-educated, and the benevolence is extensive, and the people of Guanlong gradually return to their hearts.

Zeng Hua moved the Zhaoxian Pavilion from Nanzheng to Chang'an, and then sent a message to Guanlong, Yiliang and other prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Jin Dynasty, and recruited talents on a large scale. Jingzhao Yin Gao Lu Chief Mao Shou, Feng Yi County Huang Baiqiang Chief Bai Li, Fufeng County Hao Qi Xu Qi, Feng Yi Zhang Ju and other local heroes have been like-minded. Zeng Hua even ordered the counties and counties in Guanzhong, and Dasuo was a person named Wang Meng.