Hiding soldiers and armor, annexing land, and even occupying the imperial mineral resources are all basic operations.
It has been more than 300 years since the founding of Daliang, and it has reached this point. The country has long been in decline. Among the local officials of the imperial court, and even the powerful families, how many of them are clean?
It's just that such things are hidden and will not be exposed openly. As for the correspondence, why not burn them and leave no evidence? That would be simpler.
For people in their position, to put it bluntly, no matter how deep their friendship is, they are afraid of being stabbed in the back.
Keeping letters of communication is a kind of protection for them from being betrayed.
But this kind of crucial evidence is often hidden in top-secret places, and no one except the person involved can know about it.
But their top-secret letters were obtained by Su Qi'an. Even though Su Qi'an bribed the servants of the mansion, due to their status, they were not even qualified to enter the courtyard of their room.
This is really incomprehensible.
It is true that the servants of the mansion are not qualified to enter their rooms, but Tong Zhan's intelligence investigation company is not just for free.
It is easy for the soldiers of the Intelligence Reconnaissance Company to enter the county guard's room as long as the servants of the mansion provide cover outside.
What they are good at is intelligence investigation. No matter how deeply the county guard's letters are hidden, they cannot escape their eyes. It is only a matter of time before they are discovered. Read the book
Of course, it was impossible for Su Qi'an to tell the county guard or the high priest this.
At this time, the expressions of the two of them were no longer as calm as before, especially the high priest, who looked at Qingcheng County Sheriff with cold eyes, full of resentment.
According to his plan, it would be enough to take action directly and capture Su Qi'an. However, the Qingcheng County Sheriff was pretending to be here. Now the ship may have capsized.
The high priest stood up and was about to speak to take down Su Qi'an, when Su Qi'an said calmly.
"High Priest, I advise you not to act rashly. I can take over the county with foresight, and the same can be said for your territory."
"Calculating time, your territory should have been taken over by my people for the most part. Compared to dealing with the powerful soldiers in the county, I am better at dealing with the natives."
At this time, the high priest's eyes were wide open.
He did not doubt what Su Qian said, how the little priest's territory was taken over by him, how the natives on the territory were assimilated by him, and all obeyed his orders.
The high priest saw it with his own eyes. He really didn't expect that Su Qi'an was so ambitious and wanted not just a county, but the entire Qingcheng County.
The next move may be the same as that of Tucheng County, affecting the entire Qingcheng County.
If that were the case, how could there be any place for the two of them?
The high priest's face was livid, his hands were clenched, and he looked like he was about to explode at any time. Qingcheng County Sheriff stared at Su Qi'an with a cold gaze, and then spoke word by word.
"Su, even if what you say and these charges are enough to get rid of this county, they are just your words. The so-called correspondence can be completely forged by you."
"Hmph, even if you file a lawsuit with Mr. Zhou Mu, this county can still say that, if you want to get rid of this county, you are still young."
What Qingcheng County Sheriff said was a bit shameless, but it did have some effect.
Who knows whether the house deeds, land deeds, or even the correspondence that Su Qian produced are true or false.
Unless Su Qi'an has the ability to get the parties involved to come forward, it is a pity that the owners of these deeds have been dead for many years.
Even if he has become a slave of the mansion, can he still believe the words of a mere slave?
He is a county guard, a local official conferred by the imperial court. If such a lowly and humble servant can be trusted, it will not undermine the majesty of a county guard.
It would be a joke for a low-class untouchable to sue a local official.
If it is really done away with, wouldn't it just open up a hole for the low-level civilians who can't sue officials as long as they want to? Then is there any stability in the officialdom of Great Liang? People who don’t do it are in panic.
Moreover, Su Qi'an's physical evidence was so smooth that it was hard not to suspect that it was a forgery.
As long as Qingcheng County Sheriff insists on this point, the final result will be a suspension of salary and a fine at most. If you want to get rid of him, don't even think about it.
This is the Qingcheng County Sheriff's last insistence. If this matter comes to the end, he will definitely keep his official position, but he will lose his face.
Su Qi'an was able to capture the county without bloodshed, and even the high priest's territory. If word spread, it would definitely be regarded as a joke.
But it has come to this point, and the official position has been wiped out to the end. If you lose face, you will lose face.
As long as he is still in the position of county guard, he will always get this face back in the future.
Su Qian expected Qingcheng County Sheriff's shamelessness, so he nodded and continued.
"I admire the governor's shameless spirit. Yes, compared to losing your official position, your shame is gone. You will have time to make a comeback in the future."
"But it's a pity that I won't give you this opportunity. Sheriff, why don't you make a bet with me? Let's shoot a loud arrow to see if you have this chance."
"Su Qi'an, don't do this. Don't you just want to send a signal to request reinforcements? Do you really think that this priest is a fool?" the high priest scolded angrily.
"Haha, send a signal for reinforcements? High Priest, I'm afraid you don't understand the situation. How much territory can you control in the current county?"
"Even if we call for reinforcements, it's you, not me."
"Why, don't you two have the guts to even fire arrows as a distress signal? If that's the case, I wouldn't mind firing them for you."
Qingcheng County Sheriff's eyes flashed. Su Qi'an was right. Shooting a loud arrow meant little to Su Qi'an. On the contrary, it was them. He could have asked for support.
The only thing he couldn't understand was why Su Qian would give them this opportunity.
I don't understand, I don't understand. Now that there is such a good opportunity, Qingcheng County Sheriff will not let it go. Su Qi'an is just conceited.
Looking around, the soldier behind him fired a loud arrow into the sky.
The sound of the arrow was so loud that the entire county could hear the harsh sound.
Not long after the sounding arrows were released, several sounding arrows rang out from different directions.
Listening to this voice, it was not within the county city, but outside the city, and it seemed a bit remote. The voice was very low, but Qingcheng County Sheriff's expression changed instantly, and he looked at Su Qi'an with a look of disbelief.
His mouth was open, wanting to say something, but when the words reached his lips, nothing came out.
At this time, Su Qi'an's long voice sounded. "Master Sheriff, the place where the arrow was fired should be familiar to you. I think it should be no problem to arrest you by adding witnesses from these places."
Su Qian's voice was very soft, but Qingcheng County Sheriff's heart felt like falling into an ice cellar.
He was very familiar with the place where the few loud arrows had been fired. It was the last backup he had left in the county.
It is the location of his money and grain warehouse, this is his trump card for making a comeback, and it is his base camp.
But with this last resort, his hopes were dashed by Su Qian.
Now he understood why Su Qi'an dared to openly attack the county.
The so-called surveillance has completely flipped. Now his every move is completely under Su Qian's surveillance.
Everything about him, even his hidden trump cards, is under Su Qian's control.
This man is really terrible.
Hearing the sound of several arrows, Su Qi'an breathed a sigh of relief.
Those places were Qingcheng County Sheriff's Qianliang headquarters. As for how they were discovered, it was probably a matter of luck.
It was Ermeng's cavalry battalion, and they accidentally bumped into it while training outside Tucheng County.
Ermeng's cavalry battalion was small in number, only about 500 people. Compared with the at least thousands of cavalry commanded by other Daliang marquises before the reform, these 500 people seemed a bit shabby.
It's not that Su Qi'an doesn't have the strength to expand the cavalry, but that Su Qi'an wants to form a heavy cavalry force.
Before gunpowder was used on the battlefield on a large scale, cold weapons were always the mainstream.
Among the many branches of the military, the most powerful is the heavy cavalry.
It can be said that it is a giant tank in the cold weapon battlefield. Wherever it passes, it is like a torrent of steel, which can destroy everything.
Heavy cavalry are powerful, but the financial and material resources required to train them are not something that ordinary people can afford.
The money spent by one heavy cavalry is enough to feed ten infantry. Even if it is as powerful as a natural cavalry power like Darong, as far as Su Qi'an knows, their number of heavy cavalry seems to be only ten thousand.
It is too expensive to support this thing, so generally speaking, if you have this kind of money, it is better to train infantry or light cavalry.
Like Daliang, there wasn't much else but a lot of money. But even so, the royal court didn't have many heavy cavalry, about eight thousand, and they were basically all on the northwest battlefield.
Cultivating heavy cavalry is not only about money, but also the purity of the horse breed is also crucial.
Only the northwest region of Daliang could produce horses suitable for the needs of heavy cavalry. None of the other states were qualified.
Since the battlefield pattern cannot be changed, we must start by cultivating military services. There are only about a hundred heavy cavalry in the cavalry battalion trained by Su Qi'an.
Don't underestimate these hundreds of people. In order to gather the heavy cavalry, Su Qi'an spent a lot of money and asked Huo Cheng to see if there were any suitable horses on the black market.
It took a long time and at least tens of thousands of taels of silver to get together these one hundred horses suitable for heavy cavalry.
In order to form the heavy cavalry, Su Qi'an's family fortune was emptied. Fortunately, this year's autumn harvest was not available. If the autumn harvest was not good, Su Qi'an was afraid that he would eat dirt.
In order to train the cavalry battalion, and especially to train the heavy cavalry formed, Ermeng took his cavalry battalion and traveled around Tucheng County.
It was God's blessing. During a training session outside the city, Er Meng discovered a money and grain warehouse hidden behind a mountain and shrouded in dense forests.
Ermeng did not alert the snake, and quickly sent a letter to report. Su Qi'an, who learned the news, immediately arranged for personnel to investigate.
After investigation, it was determined that this should be hidden by a powerful person. Later, Ermeng continued to send people to track it for several months.
It was discovered that there were at least four such hidden money and grain warehouses. With such a scale, Su Qian basically had a good judge of candidates.
He had never alerted the enemy, but was waiting for now. Su Qi'an was worried that it would be difficult to handle the situation with Er Meng's cavalry battalion of about 500 people.
Now it seems that his worries were misplaced.
Although the cavalry battalion has a small number of people, it is strong in strength and provides the best money, food and equipment. In addition, it is equipped with a heavy cavalry, so the training difficulty is more difficult than that of ordinary infantry.
If I can't get this, I'll really feel sorry for Su Qi'an's hard work and training.
