The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Although Xun Qian's letter arrived late, the good news was better received.

The first to come was the Wei County Herald.

Wei County is the first destination of Jiang Qin. In Wei County, as soon as Yu Du appeared, his eldest wife, along with his eldest son, the thieves and Xiaoshuai, opened the door to offer the city to surrender. On Xunzhen's order, Jiang Qin sent people to send Yu Du's eldest wife, youngest wife and his eldest son and youngest son to Ye County.

In recent years, Xun Zhen has annihilated many rebellious rebels, and was hated by many rebels. For example, Wu Concubine was always thinking about assassinating him. In his heart, he has deep sympathy for these rebels. He must know that in his previous life he and these rebels belonged to the same class, but in this life, he is a gentry, who holds power, wealth and public opinion. A member of the class, the contradiction between the ruling class and the ruled class is irreconcilable, and at the same time he knows that the rebels cannot succeed, so he cannot abandon his class identity to help the rebels, so he can only abide by the The identity of this class is against them. If he can't destroy them, he will be destroyed by them. Therefore, he has no mercy for the suppression of the rebel army, but on the other hand, because he has deep sympathy for the rebel army, Therefore, after the surrender of the Rebels, he will not kill them all, but will try his best to settle them.

This is true for He Yi and Li Xiang, for Zuo Xu and Huang Qian, and of course for Du's wife and son.

After Yu Du's wife and son arrived in Ye County, some county officials suggested that they should be imprisoned first, and after the rest of Yuancheng, Wu'an and other counties were also reinstated, they would be executed together with Yu Du. Class struggle is life and death. As county officials of a class with vested interests, they have deep hatred for the peasant rebels who are trying to overthrow their rule. Some officials have long suggested to Xun Zhen: "Yu Po is useful now, so you can stop killing him for the time being, and wait for him to be useless. At that time, it is better to kill them as an example." Now they propose to kill the wife and son of the poisonous.

Xun Zhen rejected the proposal.

He said: "The reason why the people rebel is because they lack food and clothing. The people lack clothing and food, and the fault lies with the prefect. How can I punish the people who lack food and clothing because of the fault of the prefect? Virtue, you can win a hundred victories, is there anything? Punishment is used to fight, Virtue is to guard it'. Now that poison is brought down, soldiers are killed, this is two thousand stones, when virtue is guarded, and morality is used to educate them, how can it be abused?"

The theory of punishment and virtue is a ruling thought that has existed since ancient times. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. There are two words punishment and virtue in oracle bone inscriptions. "Keeping it" comes from "Wei Liaozi", "Virtue but punishment" comes from "Shangshu". The former means that the Yellow Emperor can win a hundred battles by punishing virtue, and the latter means that he is virtuous to the people, but punishment is the most serious. Those who must respect punishment, that is, cannot abuse punishment.

Xun Zhen is now the prefect of the county, ruling thousands of miles of land, and advocating the doctrine of punishment and virtue is in line with Confucianism, which is irrefutable.

His remarks sounded high-sounding, in line with his previous declaration at the court meeting that he would govern the county with morality and be a wise prefect. Obviously, he was determined to be a "benevolent lord". The county officials have no idea about this. The words are correct, although some people disagree, and there are also those who use him to kill the military marquis and expel the county officials as a comparison, but because they can't refute them in words, they have to listen.

Xun Zhen demarcated a district in the county to live in for Yu Du's wife and son.

It didn't take long for Yu Du to know about this.

Seeing that Xun Zhen treated his wife and son so favorably, Yu Du was very grateful, and all the previous anxiety was gone, and he worked even harder to recruit Xun Zhen to surrender.

After Wei County was surrendered, according to the arrangement Xun Zhen had arranged before Jiang Qin and others set off, Chen Bao took out the order, and he was on the ground to guard the Wei order. Li Bo and Jiang Hu also served as Wei Cheng and Wei Wei respectively. Wei County is a large county, and its strategic position is relatively important. It is not only a barrier to the east of Ye County, but also to the south of Neihuang, Fanyang and other counties in the south of the county. Righteous obedience.

Leaving Wei County and marching northeast, forty li is Yuancheng.

Yuancheng heard that Wei County had surrendered, and Yu Du had personally recruited to surrender. Before Jiang Qin led his army to the city, he opened the city gate and surrendered. According to Xun Zhen's order, a county official in the army served as the commander of Yuancheng, and Jiang Qin left him with 200 county soldiers.

From Yuancheng to the south, travel a hundred miles, it is Yin'an.

Yin'an is to the east of Neihuang and Fanyang, adjacent to Dongjun, and then thirty miles to the east is Dongjun. Wei, Fanyang, and Neihuang have all descended, as have the yin-an guards. In Yin'an, there is a clan's family, whose ancestor was a subordinate officer of Sikong in Zhou Dynasty. Because of his official position, he was very famous in Wei County. According to Xun Zhen's explanation in advance, Jiang Qin, Liu Bei and others went into the county in person and visited the county. its clan.

Yin'an occupied the territory for the thieves for several months, and thanks to Xunzhen's merits, he was able to recover. Like the nobles and surnames in Wei, Yuancheng, Neihuang and other counties, Yin'an's soldiers and people were also very grateful to Xunzhen. Thinking that Jiang Qin, Liu Bei and others would come to visit with gifts, I was especially moved.

After staying in Yin'an for two days, another county official who brought Xun Zhen's order to guard the Yin'an order, such as Yuancheng County, Jiang Qin also left him with 200 county soldiers.

Out of Yin'an and heading west for several dozen miles is Fanyang. Fanyang has already descended. Xuankang, Li Xiang, and Chen Wu entered the county with decree, and were appointed as the chief, chief, and captain of Fanyang. Jiang Qin left them a hundred followers, and continued westward with the remaining troops.

A few dozen miles to the west is Neihuang, where Jiang Qin was stationed for a day.

Inner Huang Ling Li Qiong and Huang Wei Zhang Fei went out to meet Huang Qian, who was in the army, and showed Xun Zhen's order to them. In addition, Jiang Qin brought another order from Xun Zhen to Li Qiong and Zhang Fei.

Li Qiong originally had 3,000 works, nearly 2,000 were killed, injured and scattered on the night of the Neihuang Rebellion. There were still thousands of people. One was to help recruit surrender and betrayal, and the other was to help divide the thieves and soldiers. Xun Zhen allowed him to No troops were stationed in Neihuang. Li Qiong was still responsible for the security of Neihuang, but there were too many people, so Xun Zhen gave Li Qiong another order, ordering him to compress the system and only allow him Retaining 600 people, and these 600 people could not all be stationed in Neihuang, ordered him to divide 200 people to Fanyang and return to Chen Wu.

Among the thieves, only Li Qiong has been appointed by Xun Zhen, and even Yu Du has no official position. Li Qiong is very grateful to Xun Zhen for treating her in a different light, and she is unwilling to accept Xun Zhen's order. The reason is that even if he doesn’t want to, it’s useless. The counties of Wei, Yin’an, Fanyang and other surrounding Neihuang are now under the control of Xunzhen, and more than a thousand soldiers and horses led by Jiang Qin are still stationed outside the county. .

After supervising Li Qiong to complete the downsizing of the episode, and after he distributed the 200 people to Fanyang, Jiang Qin did not go further south.

Further south, there was only Li Yang. Li Yang had descended with Li Qiong long ago. He followed a county official in the army with two hundred county soldiers, and took Xun Zhen's order to bid farewell to Jiang Qin. Shou Li Yangchang.

At this point, all the counties in the east and south of the county have been restored.

Jiang Qin led the rest of the righteous servants and the army soldiers, and watched and escorted the surrendered soldiers gathered from various counties to go north to Ye.

After returning to Ye County and handing over the surrendered troops to Xu Zhong, Jiang Qin kept running, and then led his troops westward to collect the last two counties of Lufu: Sheguo and Wu'an.

The country's recovery was smooth, but there was trouble in Wu'an.

The guard in Wu'an County is a "rebel" with ideals and integrity. He is the rest of the Yellow Turban Army and will not surrender.

In desperation, Jiang Qin had no choice but to supervise the siege of the city.

Watching the soldiers on the front line storming the county town, Jiang Qin said in his heart, "It's fine if you don't surrender at Wu'an, I originally planned to complete the mission given to me by Ming Bus here, but if you don't surrender at Wu'an, it just saves my trouble. "

The "task" that Xun Zhen gave him was naturally to ask him to find an opportunity to remove all the ears, eyes, and minions of the Zhao family from the county soldiers. After many divisions, the county soldiers still remained under Jiang Qin's tent. There are only four hundred people, and the Zhao family's ears, eyes, and minions in the army are among the four hundred people. Jiang Qin Chuan ordered to go, and ordered Yi Cong who was attacking the city to retreat temporarily, only urging the soldiers of the county to keep attacking.

There were more than 1,000 defenders in Wu'an City, but only 400 soldiers were able to capture the city.

Jiang Qin did nothing more than to send those eyes, ears and minions of the Zhao family to death.

It's just that his hand is too ruthless. On the battlefield, swords and spears have no eyes, and four hundred people are attached to the city to attack more than a thousand guards. It is conceivable that the ears, eyes, and minions of the Zhao family are difficult to survive, and they are implicated by them. There are bound to be quite a few county soldiers who have lost their lives, but as long as Xun Zhen's order can be successfully completed, let alone less than four hundred county soldiers involved, eight hundred county soldiers, eight thousand county soldiers, and Jiang Qin will not. mind.

After two hours of violent attack, nearly half of the army soldiers were killed or injured, and the rest really had no courage. Some of them turned around and fled back to their own formation. Jiang Qin had already prepared the swordsmen and axemen who were guarding the formation. The county soldiers beheaded them on the spot, and then urged the rest to continue attacking the city.

At the end of the day, the entire army of the four hundred county soldiers was destroyed.

He rested for one night that night, and the next day he changed his righteousness and went into battle. Yesterday's siege was too tragic, and the defenders in Wu'an County also suffered heavy casualties. Finally, they couldn't resist, and the city was breached. Jiang Qin led his troops into the city, beheaded all the prisoners, piled them into a temple, and built them outside the city.

Liu Bei, who came to Shanglu under Xun Zhen's order to serve as the chief of Wu'an, couldn't bear Jiang Qin's cruel killing, but Jiang Qin was an old man under Xun Zhen's tent and the main general of the army this time. He did not want to offend him. people, and therefore did not speak out.

He did not speak out, but Xun Zhen was shocked when she heard the news.

Xun Zhen was not angry that Jiang Qin killed prisoners and built the Jingguan, but that Jiang Qin was angry that hundreds of county soldiers were buried with him in order to kill the eyes, eyes, and minions of the Zhao family. He sent an order to the army, severely reprimanded Jiang Qin, and ordered Jiang Qin to bury the fallen county officers.

Jiang Qin was terrified when he received the order. For the 400 county soldiers who were killed in battle, he originally just asked people to dig a big hole and buried the matter hastily. With the order of Xun Zhen, he quickly ordered Yi Cong to dig out the body of the county soldier~www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Re-buried with thick burial.

Liu Bei saw his unease, and said to him in private: "You are a native of Duke Ming's village, and you have made great contributions to conquering several states from Duke Ming. Duke Ming has relied on you as his confidant, and he will not die because of the death of four hundred Wei soldiers. I blame you, the reason why I sent you to bury the deceased in order to prepare estimates, it should be for the Wei and the rest of the county soldiers to see, so you don't have to worry about it."

With Liu Bei's comfort, Jiang Qin felt a little relieved.

Liu Bei took the opportunity and said to him again: "The Duke of Ming is preaching virtue, and it seems that it is not appropriate to build a Jingguan in Wu'an. If you can remove the Jingguan, bury the dead of the thieves, and announce to the county people, saying, 'The thieves have been killed. If it is destroyed, it will not be pursued in a ruthless manner. I think it will definitely be praised by Duke Ming.”

Wu'an was one of the first counties to be occupied by the Ministry of Poison. It was occupied by thieves for more than a year. Many people from the county, including surnames and gentry, were related to the thieves, or were forced to do so. Formed a family of marriage with the thief soldiers, or once served as a small official in the thief soldiers' army, or had to send treasures to the thieves soldiers Qu Shuai and Xiaoshuai against their will in order to protect themselves. When Wu'an was recovered, they were all very uneasy, fearing that the new guard would be punished.

Although Liu Bei did not have this intention, Gao Su did. Gao Su was the "shouwei" appointed by Xun Zhen, and like Jiang Qin, he was also an old man under Xun Zhen's account. Liu Bei also didn't want to play against him, so he took the opportunity to persuade Jiang Qin to dispel Gao Su's idea.

Jiang Qin agreed, so he ordered the Jingguan to be withdrawn and ordered to bury the dead of the bandits. At the same time, Zhangbang County said that those who were forced to "attach bandits" would not be held accountable. This move not only calmed the hearts of the people of Wu'an County, but also got Xun Zhen's approval.