Tang Ji didn't need him to say anything and gently hugged Yuan Xi's shoulders.
Yuan Xi hugged Tang Ji and got into the carriage, heading directly to a secluded place in the city.
"You're going to kill me, right?"
Tang Ji tried her best to calm her face and pointed in the direction of Yuan Xi's voice.
Yuan Xi chuckled and said: "Little beauty, how can I be willing to kill you? Today I am looking for you to sleep with me and be my wife."
"Hmph." Tang Ji shook the dagger in her hand and snorted.
"Hey, you're quite arrogant. I'll see you in bed | in the evening, and you'll be so aggressive. Haha."
"You are shameless!" Tang Ji said angrily.
"How can I get you if I'm not shameless? If a young official like you is not shameless, I will never have any fate with me."
Tang Ji silently hugged her knees, feeling confused.
Where do you go from here? She was kidnapped by robbers, and the outside world must have known about it. Who would want her to be in ruins? Even if she was not, her reputation was ruined, so who could trust her?
What's more, she is still the nominal Princess Hongnong and Yuan Xi's concubine. Thinking of this, she already doesn't know what to do, and her hands and feet feel cold.
The moment he turned his head, Yuan Xi's eyes narrowed slightly and he wanted to turn his eyes away.
Unexpectedly, the girl in front of him suddenly seemed to have changed her temper. She stared at his exposed eyes and said, "Do you really want me to be your wife?"
Yuan Xi was slightly startled and said in surprise: "Do you agree?"
"I don't agree, so what?" Tang Ji's tears fell from the corners of her eyes like broken jade beads, leaving traces on her rouged face. The girl in her arms immediately became He had a big painted face, which made Yuan Xi feel funny.
"Let's go. As long as you don't hurt me and love me, I will serve you willingly." Tang Ji said while shedding tears, her expression full of unspeakable grievances.
"good."
Yuan Xi agreed without thinking. Seeing him turn around and prepare to leave, the woman's body suddenly relaxed and her face was slumped. She seemed to be relieved and at the same time, the will to die in her heart slowly dissipated.
The era of the late Han Dynasty was really chaotic, let alone a woman, especially a sensitive emperor like Princess Hongnong. What's more, what she did today was just a woman's trick. Why wasn't she so strong before?
Arriving at Yuan Xi's mansion soon, Yuan Xi brought Tang Ji into the mansion and arranged Tang Ji to enter the original wing. At this time, Tang Ji was full of fear and confusion. She did not expect that this gangster turned out to be Yuan Xi pretending to be.
Facing the helpless Tang Ji, Yuan Xi did not pity her, but mercilessly whipped and ravaged her. In the end, Tang Ji didn't even know how she survived.
This may be one of the reasons why Emperor Taizong Xuanwu of the Jin Dynasty, Yuan Xi, asked the Grand Sima Yuan to buy a three-foot white silk as a gift to the Tang Dynasty before his death. As expected, the emperor's family was ruthless.
The eight days before the twelfth lunar month are a rare good day in the year. Many people will also rush to prepare for happy events at this time.
Guo Jia hurriedly married his fiancée in Yingchuan at this time. Because Guo Jia lives as he pleases and is bohemian, and does not accumulate any family property. Therefore, Yuan Xi and a group of civil and military officials in Qingzhou had to provide him with funds for his marriage from their personal savings.
During the three days, all the civil and military officials in Linzi celebrated lively. Immediately afterwards, civil and military officials who brought their family members had to prepare for the twelfth lunar month.
In wealthy families, it was indispensable to kill chickens to ward off evil spirits, buy food, and rush to make new clothes. There are also pigs slaughtered and raised for sacrifice.
The Governor's Office is considered to be the largest official office in Qingzhou. According to custom, Yuan Xi, Guo Jia, Tian Feng and others are supervising the servants to make wood-faced beasts and set up peach stems on the door.
Guo Jia got up and took the pen himself to draw a ferocious tiger on the peach stem.
Zhu Gongdao looked at Guo Jia's strokes and asked with a smile: "It looks like a big cat."
Guo Jia looked embarrassed and said, "Big fat man, you have no knowledge."
The others smiled and shook their heads. Gu Yong stepped forward at the right time and said to everyone: "We have purchased pigs, sheep, food and other goods. When the time comes, we will ask the Major General to preside over the ceremony."
Yuan Xi thought of the thinly dressed villagers in the countryside, "Money and food are scarce, so officials and families should keep everything simple."
Tian Feng nodded in approval, "The fields in Qingzhou are barren and materials are scarce. It can be said that there is a lot of waste waiting to be done. As state officials, we should set an example and practice frugality."
Yuan Xi felt depressed. He was used to enjoying comfort. He really couldn't live such a miserable life. He has always felt that public expenditures are frugal, and as long as private individuals have money, they can live a more comfortable life.
Emperor Taizong Li Shimin also thought so, but Wei Zheng pushed back with the example of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, and Mr. Yuan was also persuaded by Old Man Tian.
Thinking of Qingzhou, especially the placement of Qingzhou soldiers and military households, Yuan Xi felt a headache and said helplessly, "Mr. Yuan Hao, how are the Qingzhou soldiers and military households doing?"
"The last amount of grain borrowed from Jizhou has been shipped. Together with the money the master borrowed from the Zhen family, it can last until February next year."
Guoyuan added: "Young master asked me to distribute the winter clothes that I purchased and quickly made. Each of the military households can get one piece. With their own clothes, they should be able to survive the severe winter."
Yuan Xi knew that without more than three years of recovery, Qingzhou would not be able to use troops on a large scale, and the more than 100,000 Qingzhou soldiers would become decorations.
To obtain money and food, we must restore production in Qingzhou, or - plunder to support war with war. Thinking of his big plan, he was troubled and didn't know whether what he was doing was right or wrong.
Yuan Xi Mansion.
Early the next morning, when Yuan Xi woke up, he found that Tang Ji was no longer there.
Turning his head, he held Diao Xiuer, who was sleeping soundly, in his arms. Looking at her delicate and angelic face, Yuan Xi bit his tongue. This Xiuer was really a troublesome woman. If she had been replaced by another man, she would have been a disaster. I'm afraid I can't control myself, but fortunately, she is her own now, and she will be hers from beginning to end.
Picking up her hair and gently sweeping it between the wings of her nose, Diao Xiuer wrinkled her lovely nose, then muttered, turned her head, turned her back to Yuan Xi and fell asleep again.
Yuan Xi hugged her curled up body and took a deep breath. Is this little fairy here to torment him on purpose?
Put the hair on her face again, scratching it and then sliding it between her nose.
After Diao Xiuer took two breaths, she made a sound of "Ah...ah...". Diao Xiuer rubbed her eyes and then suddenly covered her mouth.
Yuan Xi smiled, pulled out his hair, and said, "The sun is shining on my buttocks, and the little lazy boy can't get up yet."
In Wenwen Township, the Tomb of Heroes, Yuan Xi felt that he had to learn the Pure Heart Curse. Otherwise, I probably won’t want to do anything in the future.
The north is whimpering, and the mountains are dotted with white spots.
A large convoy was driving on the official road in Feiguo, Taishan County. There were more than a hundred carriages loaded with goods, more than 200 servants and grooms, and more than 200 armored soldiers carrying weapons.
Beside the mountain road, two middle-aged men stared at the motorcade without blinking, carefully writing down the subordinates in the motorcade. After the convoy passed, the two middle-aged men walked to the mountain trail. After taking out the horses, they drove their horses quickly regardless of the steepness of the mountain road.
What the two middle-aged men didn't notice was that after they left, several more athletic young people appeared beside the mountain road. These young men had been following the convoy in front of them covertly, and one of them separated and ran backwards quickly.
Just over two miles behind the convoy, Xu Chu was riding on horseback with more than a hundred tiger guards, waiting for news from the scouts ahead.
Xu Chu painted his beard slightly yellow with dye, and his face was covered with sticky ointment. He felt so uncomfortable that his heart was on fire.
The young scout came to Xu Chu and said, "Boss, Cao Song's convoy has indeed been targeted. According to their itinerary, they will enter Feiguo County tonight. They will probably be able to reach between Feiguo and Nanwuyang tomorrow. , I will definitely sleep outdoors at night.”
"Sir, it seems that group of people will attack Cao Song's convoy tomorrow night." said a Tiger Guard deputy general.
Xu Chu glared and said sternly, "Did you forget what you ordered?"
The deputy general was glared at by him and realized that he had mentioned a military title. He quickly apologized and said, "Yes, big boss."
The Tiger Guard scout continued: "There is a trail. I can wait there first."
Xu Chu nodded and ordered to march, and soon more than a hundred riders disappeared into the cold wind.
In a military camp outside Feiguo County, several generals of the Xuzhou Army were warming themselves in front of a fire plate.
A deer-headed, rat-eyed, short-statured general said with a smile: "The people below have returned from inquiring. Cao Song will spend the night in Fei County tonight. They will travel to the vicinity of Fengpoling tomorrow night. It is a God-given opportunity. If you don't take it now, you will wait for it. when?"
"Zhang Kai, don't be impatient. This treasure is actually so easy to get. They have soldiers to escort them." Another Yamen general said.
Zhang Kai sneered, "Wealth can be found in danger. Of those two hundred people, one hundred are ours. We and our brothers have more than five hundred, so why should we be afraid of him."
The Yamen general hesitated, "I don't know if it's worth it to have to flee to a foreign country for this."
The man named Zhang Kai snorted, "Damn it, a hundred cars are full of money and silk, enough for us to last for three lifetimes. After we get it, we will flee to the Jianghuai area. No matter how powerful Cao Cao is, he can't find us." "
Hearing this, several other generals smashed the pottery bowls in their hands and said, "It's done!"
The next day at dusk.
Cao Song sat on a carriage covered with blankets and piled with a small heater. Although Cao Song is no longer young, his "ambition" as a man is still there. He is resting comfortably on a concubine.
Another concubine kneaded Cao Song's thighs and said, "Master, I've been traveling all day and I'm exhausted. Why don't you stop?"
Cao Song stretched his waist and said, "Okay, I'll ask them to stop right now." After saying that, he ordered the groom to call Ying Shao, the prefect of Mount Tai.
Ying Shao, who had a beard and an ordinary appearance, received Cao Cao's order and went to Langya, Xuzhou to escort Cao Song to Dongjun. This journey went smoothly. Tao Qian originally joined forces with Yuan Shu and Gongsun Zan, but his allies lost one after another. However, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao expanded their territories during this period, causing the situation of both parties to reverse.
Tao Qian hesitated at this time. He had to withdraw from the alliance between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shu, and chose to make amends with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. Tao Qian was very polite to Cao Song. When he learned that Cao Song was going to Dongjun, Tao Qian asked Langya to send more than a hundred soldiers to escort him.
Ying Shao was summoned by Cao Song and came to the carriage and asked, "Master Cao, why do you want to stop?"
Cao Song yawned and said displeasedly, "It's getting dark, why don't you stop to rest and prepare to spend the night?"
"My lord, I don't know. Nanwuyang, which is still two hours away, is under my jurisdiction in Yanzhou. We can speed up our journey and rest there."
Cao Song was a little unhappy, "Everyone has been exhausted after traveling all day. How can we travel at night?"
Ying Shao said worriedly, "Sir, your wealth of more than a hundred cars is really eye-catching. There are still many remnants of thieves in Xuzhou and Yanzhou. It is really dangerous. It is better to rush to Nanwuyang and rest. There are our soldiers there, but Send more manpower to protect the Lord all the way to Dongjun."
Because he wanted to enter Langya, Tao Qian's condition was that he could not lead more soldiers. Therefore, Ying Shao only brought more than a hundred people with him. There are soldiers of Cao Cao's army stationed in Nanwuyang.
Cao Song snorted coldly: "Didn't the bandits be wiped out by Meng De? Are these two hundred soldiers just for show?"
With that said, at Cao Song's insistence, the team set up camp on the spot and buried pots to make rice.
At night, the soldiers who kept watch came out, and the rest fell asleep.
Several Yanzhou soldiers were also gathering around the fire to do their homework.
"Do you think Zhengdan will give out meat?"
"It seems there will be. I heard that each person also has a can of wine!"
Several soldiers smacked their lips, looking yearning. Suddenly, several figures emerged from behind.
"Woo!" Several Yanzhou soldiers were strangled with ropes around their necks, and gradually they died.
Then there was chaos in the convoy camp. After the Xuzhou soldiers killed the sentry, they began to kill the remaining Yanzhou soldiers. There was chaos in the camp for a while.
From a distance, a troop of more than 300 soldiers and horses came. Cooperate with those soldiers and horses. It was Zhang Kai and others who led the troops.
Except for Ying Shao who escaped under the protection of a few soldiers, more than 50 members of Cao Song's family were caught by the Xuzhou rebels in a panic. They were tied up and pushed to the middle of the camp.
Zhang Kai and other rebels first checked the goods on the carriages, confirmed that they were correct, and loaded them again.
"What should we do with these people? Kill them or let them go?" asked the Yamen general.
Zhang Kai was also hesitant. After robbing Cao Song's wealth, he would definitely flee to another country and be wanted by Cao Cao. It doesn't matter whether Cao Song is killed or not.
The Yamen general looked at Cao Song and others in the middle of the camp, especially the female relatives. He smiled lewdly and said, "Brothers, we haven't eaten meat for a long time. Why don't you feel comfortable before we argue?"
Zhang Kai didn't want to be troublesome, but when he saw Cao Song's somewhat pretty concubine among the female relatives, he couldn't help but ignite evil fire.
Zhang Kai stepped forward quickly, kicked away Cao Song's son Cao De who was blocking him, then picked up Cao Song's concubine and went straight into a tent.
The Xuzhou rebels saw their leader doing this, and after discussing it, they all walked towards the female relatives with grins.
Looking at the Xuzhou rebels who were laughing lewdly at the women, and looking at the weeping women at home, Cao Song cursed at the top of his lungs: "Beasts, beasts, aren't you afraid of God's retribution!"
Although Cao De's hands were tied, he struggled to push away a Xuzhou rebel who rushed towards his wife, "My eldest brother is Cao Mengde, and I will not let you go!"
"Cao Cao is nothing. No matter how powerful he is, can he come here to save you?" A rebel soldier drew his sword and slashed at Cao De.
But the Yamen general stopped him quickly, "What are you doing! You didn't say you wanted to kill them."
"I know, it's just to scare them."
As the Xuzhou rebels continued their dehumanizing activities.
Xu Chu and fifty tiger guards squatted on the hillside in the distance. They witnessed the atrocities of the rebels, but in their eyes there was only indifference like the cold wind in the air.
The Tiger Guards, who have been rigorously selected and trained, are pure killing weapons. In their minds, there is only mission. Furthermore, this kind of behavior is not uncommon in times of frequent wars, as was the case with the Xiliang Army.
Half an hour later, the cries, screams, and lamentations of the Cao family's female family members finally gradually became fainter. Cao Song and others were also tired of scolding, and they were all weak and slumped on the cold ground with eyes blank.
Zhang Kai walked out of the camp with a proud look on his face. He looked at Cao Song and others with contempt. He was from a humble background and hated those powerful men.
"Captain Zhang, do you really not want to kill them?"
Zhang Kai thought for a while and finally shook his head, "When I think about it, this matter is really strange. I sent that letter a month ago, telling me to wait for Cao Song to go to Yanzhou, and bringing a lot of money with him, and also asked me to arrange for people to enter. We still don’t know who the person who escorted Cao Song’s motorcade was.”
One of Zhang Kai's men, Uncle Du, understood and said, "Is there someone who wants to use our help to get rid of Cao Song?"
Zhang Kai's eyes were sinister and cunning, "We don't know that person's plan, so we don't want to do this completely."
Uncle Nadu and several leaders also agreed, "If we leave the station without authorization, Cao Cao and Tao Qian will definitely know that it was us who did it. It doesn't matter whether we kill or not."
Zhang Kai looked back at the tent behind him and said with a lewd smile: "Besides, let them live and let them wear green hats until they die."
All the rebels laughed one after another. After gathering their carriages and horses, they headed back.
Because of Yuan Xi's actions, history did not move in the original direction after all.
After the rebels walked for a quarter of an hour, the camp beside the official road was silent, with only the whistling north wind in the air.
Cao De struggled to crawl in front of Cao Song. He turned around and tried to untie the rope from Cao Song.
Suddenly, there was the sound of horse hooves, and about fifty horsemen rushed to the camp.
Cao Song and others looked at the intruding knight in horror. They were all dressed in black, and even their faces were covered with black cloth. What's more important is the cold blade in the hands of the knight in black.
With a whistle, more than fifty knights in black dismounted. They ignored the screams of Cao Song and other family members, as well as the dozens of captured Yanzhou soldiers, and killed everyone on sight.
A group of knights in black killed with extremely neat techniques. They used the long, narrow and sharp tip of the ring-headed knife to pierce the heart of the person who was lying on the ground. With another pull, a life suddenly disappeared.
Cao Song screamed in fear, but the tip of the knife still stabbed his chest mercilessly.
The entire massacre lasted for half an hour. Everyone in the camp, including the women who were ravaged to the point of dying, had no breath at all.
Back in a mountain col in Fei Country, Zhang Kai and others were driving a carriage. Although they did not say anything, they could not hide their excitement. The amount of goods in this hundred carts was not small.
A rebel soldier riding a war horse at the front was also fantasizing about the expenses after receiving the goods. Another rebel soldier was reminiscing about Cao Song's concubine's amorous feelings just now.
"Whoosh!" A cold light instantly penetrated the rebel soldier's eyebrows. When the people behind him saw him falling off their horses, they didn't react.
The sound of "tick-tock" horse hoofs sounded, and the fifty Tiger Guards rode towards the more than 400 Xuzhou rebels.
All the Tiger Guards were elites in the Jizhou army, and had gone through various rigorous trainings, reaching the level of generals. They were not at the same level as the Quexuan soldiers that Tao Qian had surrendered.
The horses don't stop, and everyone in the tiger guards can shoot their bows left and right. Although it was a mounted shot, the accuracy was no worse than shooting on the ground.
The rebels panicked and hid behind the carriage.
After a group of tiger guards shot four rounds of arrows, they drew out their specially made sabers and halberds, and chopped down the insurgents while galloping.
Zhang Kai couldn't help cursing, and he had indeed been tricked. He quickly asked his men to form a pile of carriages to resist the impact of the cavalry.
More than fifty Tiger Guards attacked the rebel army from beginning to end. Then kill him from the end and back again.
Zhang Kai bitterly asked his subordinates to resist again. Without waiting, the Tiger Guards rushed over again and pushed the carriage forward to resist.
Just when Zhang Kai thought he had secured his position, the sound of horse hooves sounded again. This time, we came from the direction of Cao Song’s camp. The Xuzhou rebels were shocked, thinking that reinforcements from the Yanzhou Army were coming.
Xu Chu led fifty tiger guards. After cleaning up the traces, he quickly rode up and attacked the rebel army with the other half of the tiger guards.
Xu Chu did not use the iconic knife, but a short knife. He took the lead and split open the heads of several rebels.
After this impact, the convoy was immediately in chaos and could no longer organize an effective defense.
Fighting individually or in small groups is Tiger Guard's strength. They each cooperated to kill the Xuzhou rebels.
Two-quarters of an hour later, the rebels finally could not withstand the attack of the shadow guards. More than two hundred people were killed, and the remaining soldiers fled towards Philadelphia.
Zhang Kai yelled and scolded and snatched a war horse. He knew that all four hundred people would be killed if this continued, so he took advantage of the chaos to escape from the tiger guards and fled in the opposite direction towards Cao Song's camp.
Xu Chu's sharp eyes saw a general fleeing in the opposite direction, so he chased after him.
Zhang Kai fled in a hurry. When he heard the pursuers behind him, he took out his bow in a panic, turned around and shot an arrow randomly.
Xu Chu didn't pay attention at all. After getting closer, a short knife came out and hit Zhang Kai's head to pieces.
By the time Xu Chu rushed back, more than a hundred remaining rebels had surrendered. Xu Chu signaled his lieutenant to wait for an opportunity, and he led forty cavalry to pursue the fleeing rebels.
The deputy general took the initiative and gathered together more than a hundred disarmed soldiers. Then fifty tiger guards got on their horses one after another.
Some of the rebels didn't know what was going on, but some woke up in shock, "They are going to kill them all! Brothers, run away."
Before he finished speaking, the tiger guards rushed forward and killed more than a hundred Xuzhou rebels in a matter of seconds.
After Xu Chu returned, a group of tiger guards began to clean the battlefield again, piled the corpses of Xuzhou rebels together, poured grease on them, and began to burn them.
In this battle, more than ten Tiger Guards were killed, and the remaining Tiger Guards, led by Xu Chu, marched towards Mengshan. Except for the gold, silver, pearls and jade that each person can carry, the rest of the property will be buried in a mountainous area, and then return to Qingzhou via the trail.
