To the east of Kaiyuan City, the twilight is all around.
Jin Yuji holds a nine-section whip in her hand, a small bow on her back, and a plum blossom dagger hidden in her body. She stands on the horse with her head held high.
She wore a mop on her head, a coat of chain mail on her skirt, and a bright red cloak on the outside. She had a slender figure and was as cold as ice. She had been in the army for several days, making her look even more heroic.
Liu Zhaosun turned back to look at Jin Yuji, feeling more and more that this girl was charming and charming, and she was not comparable to ordinary girls.
Since that night, the North Korean beauty has regarded herself as a side room of the general, and she has been inseparable from him.
She has been fighting Japanese pirates with her father since she was a child. She is proficient in bow and horse, fierce and courageous, but her family has fallen into decline and she has seen all the glitz. She can fight and kill no matter in the battlefield or in the boudoir.
Seeing such a heroic figure like Liu Zhaosun, I fell in love with him even more. He greeted me with sincere greetings and was very diligent. I had a vague intention to replace the imperial wife and help him to be in the right position.
During the fierce battle at the north gate, the general ordered Jin Yuji to guard Yang Hao and his daughter. Chosun Meiji was not willing to protect her love rival, so she hired a chubby maid to stand at the gate of the courtyard, and also asked a team of soldiers to guard her. He pretended to be a servant and rode to the north gate to help in the battle, shooting two defeated soldiers along the way.
"All the slaves fled, why don't you continue to pursue them?"
Liu Zhaosun looked at the beauty, sighed, and said after a long time:
"The soldiers suffered heavy casualties. The commander-in-chief and the coastal defense road have all died for the country. Many affairs in the city are difficult and need to be handled by this officer personally."
Liu Zhaosun looked at the city that was sinking into darkness, determined to kill as a warning to others and quell the rebellion in the city.
If not, Kaiyuan tonight will be a hell on earth.
He ordered all the soldiers at the north gate to immediately stop chasing Xianglan Banner and return to the city to be on guard.
In addition to the coats, the Xianglan Banner Zhenyi all have horses, which are mounted infantry. Even soldiers with two legs cannot catch up with them.
"After the soldiers return to the city, immediately close the four gates and kill the defeated soldiers and the rebels. Anyone who resists with weapons will be treated as slaves and killed!"
Fires were everywhere in the city, and shouts of killing continued. If no action was taken, Kaiyuan would become hell.
Liu Zhaosun was about to ride his horse to inspect the north gate when he suddenly heard someone from behind saying:
"General Liu Shen, congratulations! It's easy to protect the country, share the worries of our emperor, and be promoted to a higher rank!"
It turned out that Kang Yingqian was here.
Lord Kang had regarded him as his mortal enemy a few days ago, but now he has such a friendly demeanor. This man's face changes faster than he can turn the page of a book.
He stepped forward and patted Liu Zhaosun on the shoulder, as if the incident of him colluding with Liao Town to murder Liu Zhaosun had never happened.
"General Liu, the emperor promoted you to General last time. This time you have to be promoted to Deputy Commander-in-Chief! You insist on staying in Liaodong. Now it seems that you have far-reaching concerns."
There seems to be no precedent for a twenty-year-old general soldier in the Ming Dynasty. To be on the safe side, Kang Yingqian said he was the deputy chief soldier.
Liu Zhaosun didn't care about the general and deputy generals. He looked to the west. At this time, the sky was getting dark and the crescent moon was rising in the northwest:
"Master Xiong is about to enter the city. Tonight, he will lead Ji Town troops to camp ten miles west of the city. Tomorrow, it will not be good for him to see the mess in the city and the corpses everywhere. I invite you here because I want you to help comfort him. Refugee, I heard that you have served as a magistrate and a coastal defender, and you have lived in Liaodong for a long time, so you are familiar with the people. How can you teach me about the current situation?"
Kang Yingqian also heard about Xiong Tingbi and knew that this was a master he could not afford to offend. When he saw that Liu Zhaosun had gone astray and found his way back, he felt that the boy could be taught, so he said straight to the point:
"General Liu Shen, along the way, I saw that the soldiers under your command were killing people everywhere. I don't know why?"
Liu Zhaosun looked at Kang Yingqian in surprise. Could it be that this master also knew how to be compassionate?
"The Zhenfu soldiers are suppressing rebels in the Qing Dynasty and killing Jiannu slaves. Your Excellency, please don't ask questions knowingly."
Kang Yingqian had just begun to expect something from Liu Zhaosun. When he heard that he opened his mouth and shut up another official, putting himself on the same level as him, he was immediately angry.
After all, he had been supervising the army all the way and was a high-ranking scholar. He, a junior general, dared to be so rude.
However, he didn't want to meet this warrior. After all, he had soldiers in his hands, and he had taken advantage of him.
Kang Yingqian pondered for a moment, then lowered his voice and said:
"I have something to say, I wonder if I should say it or not?"
Liu Zhaosun glanced at him and said calmly:
"If you have anything to say, please tell me."
Kang Yingqian stroked his beard, glanced around, and stared at Jin Yuji.
Liu Zhaosun glared at him and said angrily:
"These are all confidants. Don't worry. If you have anything to say, just say it!"
Kang Yingqian, a veteran like him, certainly didn't trust his confidants. He looked back and said with a smile:
"Many things in the world are bad because of this confidant. Of course a confidant is a confidant, but I am afraid that the following words from my mouth will reveal a heinous crime. Will General Liu Shen really want them to listen?"
Liu Zhaosun saw that his smile was quite captivating. He thought he was going to say something shocking, so he said to the servants:
"Back off!"
Several servants rode their horses and retreated slowly. Jin Yuji snorted, leaned forward, and whispered into Liu Zhaosun's ear:
"Officer, this bad old man is so cruel!"
After saying that, he gave Kang Yingqian a hard look.
Kang Yingqian snorted and refused to argue with this barbarian woman.
"Okay, let's talk."
Liu Zhaosun looked at Kang Yingqian. If he couldn't tell him anything, he would continue to lock him up and sell him to Seoul as a male prostitute.
Kang Yingqian looked around and saw thick smoke rising from all directions in the city, some houses were still burning, and the shops on both sides of the streets were dilapidated.
"Liu Zhaosun, I know your intentions. You want to take advantage of the chaos in Liaodong to seize chestnuts from the fire and lay down your foundation in Kaiyuan."
"You make friends with the eunuchs and at the same time place your subordinates in the Zhenfu Division. What you are doing is not small."
When Kang Yingqian said this, he suddenly lowered his voice and smiled at Liu Zhaosun:
"Want to imitate Li Chengliang's old story and become the King of Liaodong?!"
Civil servants are civil servants, and they always like to have wild imaginations. When they are county magistrates, they long for the chief assistant. When they first came to Liaodong, they destroyed the barbarians in three years and pacified Liao in five years.
Liu Zhaosun said coldly:
"Eunuch Wei and I cherish heroes. You think too much."
"hero?"
Kang Yingqian didn't expect that Liu Zhaosun would classify the middle officer as a hero, so he couldn't help but find it ridiculous. He laughed for a while before continuing:
"Kaiyuan has thousands of miles of fertile land and is close to Songliao. The fields are most suitable for farming. You have made a good calculation and want to occupy land here. However, you must also know that Li Chengliang has been operating in Liaodong for many years. Liao Town is intricately connected. Do you think you can occupy Kaiyuan City? , can we gain a foothold in Liaodong?"
Liu Zhaosun looked at Kang Yingqian seriously, wondering what the old man was up to.
"If you want to establish yourself here, what are you still missing?"
"Your and Nurhaci's heads?"
Kang Yingqian laughed twice and said with a serious expression:
"Fields and title deeds,"
"The fields are outside the city, and the title deeds are in the homes of wealthy families. If you have no fields or land, even if you occupy Kaiyuan, it will be a tree without roots. You cannot stand in Liaodong."
Liu Zhaosun looked at Kang Yingqian with a smile. Looking at this old official with a gray beard, he was really ruthless. He suddenly felt that this person was a bit interesting.
After all, Liu Zhaosun is just a twenty-year-old young man. Although he has the blessing of time travel, he is usually busy charging into battle and has no time to think more.
Around Kaiyuan, there are 500,000 to 600,000 acres of fertile farmland, and millions of acres of uncultivated land.
If Liu Zhaosun wanted to recruit refugees and train troops to farm, he would need a lot of land. Where would this land come from?
Seeing an opportunity in front of him, Liu Zhaosun's eyes gathered together, he thought for a while, and said calmly:
"I had considered this matter when I was in Shenyang, so I wanted to turn all the soldiers into military households at that time to facilitate the distribution of fields later. This time, the Jin army besieged Kaiyuan. In the east area of the city, there were countless killings and many civilians were killed. A lot of land will become ownerless and can be directly converted into military land. Besides, Mr. He and Mr. Ma both died for their country, and there is also land under their names. Mr. Ma and his family are dead. They had promised to rent it to I have 30,000 acres, I have calculated it all, and when I add it all up, I think we have 50,000 to 60,000 acres."
After the Kaiyuan battle, Liu Zhaosun's surviving soldiers were only 4,000. It is estimated that more than 1,000 wounded soldiers will die in the next few days. 50,000 to 60,000 acres of land should be enough.
If they occupy too much at once, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the surrounding forces, and Liao Zhen will definitely fight them desperately.
"Hahaha, 60,000 acres? How can that be possible? Do you want your subordinate Qiu Badu to drink the northwest wind?! Please note that this generous salary is not your turn."
Kang Yingqian laughed for a while as if he had heard a great joke. Regardless of Liu Zhaosun's aversion to the word Qiu Ba, he continued to laugh:
"Hahaha, Xiong Manzi is coming. He is a person who accepts death and has a hot temper. Back then, when he was checking the Huanglin soil register in Jiangxia, he had a fight with the prefect over three acres of land."
"If you don't take it now, you won't be able to take it when Xiong Manzi comes. It only benefits the big households. Fifty thousand acres is certainly not enough. General Liu, you don't just want these three thousand soldiers and horses, right? Next time Jiannu comes, How to resist?”
"The land in Kaiyuan is concentrated in the hands of big households,"
After Kang Yingqian said this, he looked around, approached Liu Zhaosun, and lowered his voice:
"If you want land, you have to kill someone!"
"Kill, who?"
Liu Zhaosun already knew the answer, but he didn't want to say it himself.
"Hahaha, who do you want to kill?"
Kang Yingqian looked disdainful, despising Liu Zhao and Sun Bailianhua's style.
"General Liu, you really don't know?"
"Don't say anything inappropriate. I don't know, I just don't want to say it."
Kang Yingqian laughed loudly, feeling that his second son had the flavor of an ancient sage, but now was not the time to be a gentleman.
"Tonight, withdraw all your soldiers and let the defeated soldiers continue to rob and rob the big households. Tomorrow, go into the city to quell the rebellion and rob the defeated soldiers of their money. At this time, the big households have been slaughtered, which is just the time for Li Daitao to be killed and the money to be stolen." , the fields are all there, and there is no proof of death, what can Xiong Tingbi do..."
Liu Zhaosun was breathing rapidly and felt his heartbeat speeding up.
Kang Yingqian's expression remained unchanged, as if the life and death of tens of thousands of people could be used as a ladder for his promotion, trampling on the ground without mercy.
Mr. Kang stepped forward and patted Liu Zhaosun on the shoulder, conveying to the young man the courage to kill in a big way.
"Occupied the land and burned the land deed. Xiong Manzi has not been in Liaodong for a long time. Many officials are ready to cause trouble for him. When he leaves, Kaiyuan will be ours. When the new army is trained and the slave capital is established, If I can’t defeat you, Liao Town will not dare to provoke you..."
Liu Zhaosun looked at Kang Yingqian in surprise. What he had never thought of, this old man said in just a few words.
Why aren't you the supervisor sent by the emperor to Liaodong?
Flying a red flag to rebel against the red flag, failing to properly supervise the army, and inciting me to separate and dominate, this is a terrible act!
No wonder the world is about to perish and the people are rebelling.
He looked up at Kang Yingqian and said righteously:
"Are we going to rob only the big households? What about the other people? Kill all those who don't pay?"
"Besides, among the big families, there are also people who are usually good to others. If we kill these people together, what will the living people think and how will they view me? How will I gain a foothold in Kaiyuan in the future?"
"Master Kang, as a supervisor, not only cannot care about the common people, but also harms the common people for his own selfish interests. Aren't you afraid that the emperor will be angry and arrest you in the Zhenfu Division?"
Kang Yingqian smiled coldly and pointed to the southwest, which was exactly where the capital of the Ming Dynasty was:
"That's the capital, have you been there?"
"Afraid? I'm just afraid that I don't have pension funds."
"When I enter the Zhenfu Division, I will be taken care of by General Liu Shen, Shen Lian, and Eunuch Wei will protect me. I have nothing to fear."
"Liu Zhaosun, if you are afraid, take your soldiers back to the pass and watch them become bandits and eventually starve to death."
Speaking of this, Kang Yingqian suddenly increased his speaking speed and said angrily:
"Thanks to you, Eunuch Wei sent a message to several censors to impeach me. He said that I had embezzled the Emperor's internal money and had nothing to do with the fish and meat. He also said that I played music every night. It's ridiculous! It's impossible to return to Beijing now. No, I can only stay in Liaodong, in the den of wolves like you."
"So you chose me, and I am also ambitious?"
Kang Yingqian glanced at Liu Zhaosun and said meaningfully:
"Liu Zhaosun, I have been watching you for a long time. You look like a wolf but not a wolf, a tiger but not a tiger. From a distance, you look a bit like a dragon..."
Liu Zhaosun was stunned for a moment and waved his hand to interrupt Kang Yingqian. He was not interested in the appearance of dragons and tigers.
I was a little touched when I heard that Wei Zhongxian stood up for him.
It seems that Eunuch Wei is indeed a figure like Guan Gong Yue Fei.
He remembered that he just said a few words about Kang Yingqian in front of Wei Zhongxian. Unexpectedly, his eldest brother immediately stood up for him and impeached him.
This brother is worth it.
"I have been supervising the army for many years, and I know clearly what is going on in Liaodong. The ones who can gain a foothold in Liaodong are either tigers, wolves, or leopards, such as Gaohuai Nurhaci, Yang Hao, and Xiong Tingbi."
Liu Zhaosun looked at Kang Yingqian coldly. This little old man was very courageous. He would compete with his father-in-law Yang Hao and bet on himself.
However, he said that by dividing the land among local tycoons, he could obtain hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land in one go, which was still very attractive to Liu Zhaosun.
For a moment, he was actually quite moved.
However, after careful consideration, Liu Zhaosun still rejected Master Kang's kindness.
"I will not let my subordinates do such things that harm the country and the people."
Kang Yingqian wanted to scold Liu Zhaosun for his benevolence as a woman, thinking that this warrior had just killed so many people on the battlefield, but now he was pretending to be benevolent and righteous, even killing several wealthy families.
But I heard the senior officer continue:
"At least, I won't let the soldiers do it."
Hearing this, Kang Yingqian's cold face immediately showed a look of joy again:
"I know what the general means. He is afraid that the soldiers will get into bad habits. Okay, let the wolf soldiers do it."
There are more than 300 surviving wolf soldiers at the east gate. These soldiers are fierce and good at fighting. They are not under the control of Jiannu. It is perfect to use them to massacre big families. When the time comes, directly blame Jiannu or Liao Town. If it doesn't work, just These Guangxi barbarians were also slaughtered.
Kang Yingqian looked at Liu Zhaosun expectantly, waiting for his order to lead the wolf soldiers into the city.
Kang Yingqian knew in his heart that after the Battle of Kaiyuan, those Qiu Ba and others were obedient to Liu Zhaosun's orders.
If he can gain a foothold in Kaiyuan, Liu Zhaosun may not become a figure like Li Chengliang within ten years. It is not too late for him to join him now.
The Lord Supervisor turned into a counselor at this moment, with a proud look on his face. He took out a paper fan from his sleeve and waved it twice in the biting cold wind. He looked a bit like Kong Ming Guo Jia.
"No, not even wolf soldiers."
"I will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, let alone sit back and watch people suffer. What you are talking about is all evil. What I want to take is the high road! I have made up my mind. I will behead all the rebels tonight!"
