The sun was shining high, and the heat was so intense that even the air seemed to be boiling. From a distance, even the ground was shaking due to the intense heat, flashing with vague light.
The soldiers were already covered in sweat, and the sweat was flowing continuously. Although they had taken off their armor, they were still wet. Their eyes were sore from the sweat. They did not dare to open their eyes. According to the military order, in fact, they
It is not possible to remove their armor, even in such a harsh climate, but the Taiwei still ordered them to remove their armor and travel lightly. The main reason is that the heat here is different from that in the Central Plains. Earlier, there was still a biting chill here.
, but by this moment, it was already unbearably hot.
In such a hurry, many of these elite soldiers would die, and Han Xin was unwilling to let these people suffer too many losses.
These soldiers are elites specially selected by Han Xin from various places. They will have to bear heavy responsibilities in various places when they return. It would be a pity if they died on the way for no reason.
They had arrived at Xiting Kingdom. Liu Xiang and Zhou Bo had already said goodbye and left the battle. Han Xin did not even raise his head to look at them.
All the princes of the country saluted Han Xin, but none of them got a return gift from him.
Of course, Liu Xiang did not dare to resent this.
During this expedition, both Liu Xiang and Liu Xian participated in the battle with Liu Chang. This was the first time that the two of them went into battle to kill people. When they charged into the battle, Liu Xian was injured and had an arrow in his arm. However,
Both of them were experienced with swords and fire. Liu Xiang drew his bow and shot arrows, and captured four heads. Liu Xuan was even better. He charged in armor, with sixteen swords and seven prisoners. Liu Chang was surprised and called him "
"My family is a tiger", Liu Xian returned to the country after leaving the Xiting Kingdom, and Liu Xiang also returned to the country at this moment.
The two of them have changed a lot. War is indeed the most powerful thing that can change a person.
Han Xin sat on the chariot, closed his eyes and rested, silent.
Han Xin looked at Zhou Yafu with a disappointed look in his eyes and cursed: "Go and have a look at the former army!!"
"Chao Cuo then wrote another letter, saying that he wanted to build the royal tomb. The officials were shocked. Sixteen people resigned from their posts. Shangqing Lu Chong led people to attack Chao Cuo's carriages. When the matter failed, he committed suicide immediately."
Zhou Yafu probably knew something in his heart. The purpose of the Taiwei's gathering of these elites was to cultivate young talents. His words just now seemed to be telling them not to just indulge in military affairs, but to study more. It's just that the Taiwei has never been a good person.
He can speak well and be sarcastic about everything he says.
"What's going on? How come there are so many sinners? Is there someone in Chang'an who is plotting a rebellion?"
This smile doesn't look very friendly.
"Although this idiot Yafu doesn't know the art of war, he can see these things clearly. Chao Cuo must be divided according to family property, and he can't arrest them. This family property is not their money, it should be the cultivated land he owns.
Well, the Han people are not allowed to cultivate farmland privately. These people are not officers and soldiers who have made meritorious service, nor are they wealthy families who have inherited the title of their ancestors. Where do you think their farmland comes from?"
Zhou Yafu and others were not familiar with him, but they quickly returned the greeting. This person could actually call Han Xin "King". Anyone who can call Han Xin "King" cannot be disrespectful. He is not an ordinary person. Feng Jing, who is a poisonous person, just because he had no intention of calling Han Xin
As a king, Han Xin directly humiliated him and called him "a defeated general, shameless", which meant that he was not qualified to call himself a king. And now Han Xin has no objection to this person calling him a king, so this person must be very powerful.
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Lu Qing no longer looked as strong as before. He stood beside Han Xin with a smile and a flattering face. He was like a villain. He arranged a place for the army and supported Han Xin to rest. At this moment, he was following Han Xin.
Behind him, he sat on one side of Han Xin while he was eating and served him personally.
No one dared to accept Han Xin's words.
The moment he saw the Emperor of Han Dynasty, the Taiwei suddenly felt bad. His mind was filled with the image of Liu Chang arrogantly waving goodbye to him, and he even had a toothache just thinking about it.
"What gift did you bring me?"
Lu Tazhi shook his head.
Zhou Yafu pondered for a moment, and then said: "It seems that Chao Cuo is responsible for the scale of the mausoleum guarding this time. Is he afraid that he has arrested everyone according to the family property?"
"Teacher, have you dealt with the drug problem? I thought you would be back in half a year, but I didn't expect it would take so long. Does it still take so long for such a trivial matter?"
Han Xin didn't reply, just stared at Liu Chang and laughed.
Han Xin smiled disdainfully, "Have you ever seen people eating each other?"
Lu Tazhi's face darkened and he hurriedly explained: "Prime Minister Zuo. I am not blaming Your Majesty. I have also followed Your Majesty since I was a child."
Han Xin ignored these generals and just sneered and said: "How can you manage an army if you are so stupid?"
Zhou Yafu has always wanted to catch up with the Taiwei. His progress was very fast. Even Zhou Bo couldn't compare to him when discussing the war with him. His ability to run the army, decide strategies, and charge into battle was second to none. Xia Houying
Both Zhou Yafu and Chai Wu once lamented that "it's not as good as it is", but after climbing to such a height, when he looked at the Taiwei, he was no different from before. He even felt that the Taiwei was even more terrifying, and could not imagine that his true abilities were not as good as Zhou Yafu's.
I don’t know, the last people who had such an idea were Cao Shen, Peng Yue and the others. This made Zhou Yafu very disappointed. How could he get close to the height of the Taiwei?
This ungrateful brat fought his own battle, fought heartily, and then threw the troublesome problem to himself, patted his butt and ran away!
Everyone also knows the Taiwei's mean character. Even if he is scolded by the Taiwei, he will not retaliate. You must know that this Taiwei is not scolded by everyone. Those who can be insulted by the Taiwei are all.
Great people, such as Chai Wu who said goodbye in Beiting Kingdom, Zhou Bo who stopped in Hexi Kingdom, and Xia Houying, Zhou Yafu, Lu Tazhi who accompanied him, etc. The rest of them are qualified to be insulted by the Taiwei.
None, just like Liu Xiang just now, he was ignored without even a glance.
Zhou Yafu looked at Han Xin with some disbelief in his eyes, "How do you know?"
"Lieutenant!! There is a difference between a king and a minister!!! How dare you insult him?!"
The soldiers were very excited and changed their formation again.
But when Guan Jiangwuyang and others were despised by him, they still acted like a king and knelt down to worship him, which was even more outrageous.
"Then do you still feel sorry for these people?"
When the Taiwei led the army to Longxi County, from a distance, he saw the county guard here leading his officials to come out to greet him.
The victorious army approached Chang'an, and the former army had already seen the emperor's yellow cover.
"What did you say??"
"What happened?"
Seeing the scene of the master's kindness and his son's filial piety, all the ministers were moved. Seeing the two people's cordial words in low voices and Taiwei Chunchun's teachings, His Majesty's face became more respectful. The ministers couldn't help but sigh, what a touching master-disciple relationship.
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Han Xin glanced at the person kneeling on the ground and said, "It's Lu Qing. She has made some progress. Get up."
Zhou Yafu pursed his lips and looked at the soldiers walking in front, thoughtfully, but he still felt incredible.
Lu Tazhi was immediately speechless.
Not only Zhou Yafu, but also several surrounding generals were looking at the captain blankly at this moment, not understanding what he meant.
The army is still advancing slowly. In the distance, many officials can be seen running around, and a group of people are being escorted by them. They are old and young, and their clothes are ragged. Some people's shoes are worn out and they are naked.
Feet, there are cries everywhere, and the cries are sad to hear. As the army advances, there are more and more people like this. In the end, basically everywhere you can see them.
The "poor man" was crying loudly.
"Yes, they bought it. If there are 200,000 people in a land, the tax will be calculated as 200,000 people. They seize the land and turn the people in the land into their own tenants. These tenants are hidden by them. For example, they
Thirty thousand tenants were hidden this year. Naturally, these 30,000 people were unable to pay the tax. So what should we do? Of course, we collected it multiple times and shared it with the remaining 170,000 people. These 170,000 people could not pay it.
, will go bankrupt and become new tenants, and the tax of 200,000 people will be passed on to 100,000, 50,000, or 30,000 people. The tax that should be collected once a year will be collected five times, six
Times, even twenty times, thirty times.”
Zhang Buyi suddenly cursed: "A dog from the Lu family actually dared to assassinate the three great men of Han Dynasty?! They should be cooked and killed!!"
In Zhang Buyu's view, this clearly showed that His Majesty was not taken seriously.
Zhou Yafu asked cautiously: "Why is the Taiwei so interested?"
"How are things going in the DPRK?"
"Teacher! You are finally back. I have been looking forward to your return for a long time!"
Han Xin looked at the powerful men in the distance with interest, glanced at the aggrieved Lu Tazhi, and asked, "Tazhi, do you think these people are pitiful?"
Lu Tazhi asked in a low voice: "Zhou Taiwei and others also respect Taiwei very much, but they have never seen them behave like this. Why did the governor do this?"
Han Xin's tone was a little cold, he would never forget that day.
However, this is also the Taiwei's character that cannot be changed for a long time. No matter who he faces, he is always like this. He dares to be arrogant towards Emperor Gao, even if he is caught, he dares to say that the more the better, and he has a straight-up contemptuous attitude toward other ministers.
.Shame and Guan Jiang Wuyang are in the same group, which is simply outrageous.
Everyone was shocked, and Lu Tazhi took a deep breath.
Lu Tazhi frowned, "I don't like Chao Cuo. He is extremely utilitarian and doesn't care about anything else. Such a person in the temple is a great misfortune to the people! I don't know why Your Majesty would let him.
Such a person serves as the third official. He has arrested many people for unworthy crimes, and now he is tormenting the people like this."
As the chariot drove forward, all the officials waiting with the emperor in the distance could not help but lower their heads. Even the arrogant Chao Cuo also lowered his head hurriedly.
Zhou Yafu hurriedly rode away. After a while, he hurriedly came back and reported: "The former army encountered officials escorting powerful men, but the officials did not dare to make things difficult and hurriedly got out of the way."
Lu Tazhi was shocked.
"I don't care about these things. It's just that you people can't fight, so naturally you should read more books, know a little bit about the truth, and understand right and wrong. If you don't even know these, then you are useless."
Zhou Yafu and others looked at this scene with some astonishment.
But everyone was trembling and did not dare to answer the question.
Liu Chang stepped forward hurriedly, Han Xin also got off the car, and the emperor and his ministers paid homage to each other.
There are not many people who can make Chao Cuo so fearful, Taiwei is one of them.
Some people were also here to "welcome the king's army". When the army arrived, everyone shouted long live and the officials cheered. The county governor Lu Qing left many officials behind him and ran to the Taiwei's car on foot to straighten his clothes.
, suddenly knelt down in front of the Taiwei's car, almost lying on the ground, with his palms above his head, "Your Majesty!!"
Lu Tazhi curled his lips, looked at Zhou Yafu aside, and whispered: "Look, it is absolutely wrong to let this person be the third prince."
"He's got that straight face. Hehe, he left the bad thing about his body poisoning to me, and led the people across the river to escape in the middle of the night. I chased him for a long time but couldn't catch up. I could only watch him run away. I thought
What big thing is he rushing back to do, and is it just for this little thing?"
"I"
Zhang Buyi said slowly: "Lu Qing is from Qi. He first joined the army with the Taiwei. He heard that he had served as a personal soldier of the Taiwei, observed his tactics, followed the Taiwei to fight everywhere, and after he got the title, he fought against the Taiwei.
, it’s definitely different.”
But in front of the ministers, Han Xin would still give Liu Chang some face. After all, he was the emperor of the Han Dynasty. It might be a bit inappropriate to pick up his shoes and chase him as soon as he got off the car.
"Probably bought it."
"Hehehe"
Zhang Buyu said and turned his head away from looking at him.
When a powerful Han Changhou with three thousand fiefs knelt in front of the chariot without any image, the officials in Longxi couldn't help but tremble.
"Hehehe"
When you get to Chang'an this time, let's see if Mr. Nai doesn't hang you up and beat you!!
"I dragged my family with me, was forced to leave home, and lost all my property. If Chao Cuo came to handle this matter, there must be many wronged people among them. Why wouldn't we feel pity for them?"
Today's county governors are quite valuable, and are more valuable than later prefectures. Because there are still relatively few counties, it is not an ordinary person to serve as a local county governor. In the era when the county was the country, he could be called a local emperor, especially
This is especially true for Lu Qing, the hero of the founding of the country and the Chehou of the Han Dynasty. He was deeply favored by the emperor and was specially sent by him to the disaster-stricken Longxi to help the local restoration of production. He completed it in less than four years.
The renaissance of Longxi has great power and no one can stop it, but such a person is now covered in dirt, and it seems that his whole face is buried in the dirt.
Lu Qing opened his mouth wide and was stunned. It seemed that Lu Tazhi's head could fit inside.
Han Xin looked at Zhang Buyi coldly, his expression gloomy and terrifying.
"Although you are His Majesty's teacher, if you dare to be disrespectful to His Majesty again, I will fight for your life right now!! Five steps of blood will be splattered!!!"
Zhou Yafu hurriedly looked at the chariot, "Lieutenant."
"Yafu."
Zhang Buji looked at the astonished people and shouted: "I still don't want to thank you for your teachings!"
Han Xin suddenly spoke.
"Hehehe"
Lu Qing stood up in a hurry and greeted many generals with a smile.
"It's really hard to explain in words what the king doesn't know about the temple. Previously, the ministers impeached the princes, and Chao Cuo wrote a letter calling for reform. Although he never mentioned reducing the vassal state, the policies he proposed were all about reducing the vassal state. The princes were extremely dissatisfied.
There was even a conflict between the princes and the prime minister. While Chao Cuo was cutting down the vassals, he was also engaged in guarding the tombs. He used the cultivated land he owned as a measure. Regardless of his reputation, he would all be sent to guard the tombs. He was unscrupulous.
If you are soft-hearted, you will be arrested by him. The temple will be in chaos, and the place will be even more so. Chao Cuo will mess up the world."
Only one person stood up. He looked furious, put his hand directly on the hilt of the sword, and glared at Han Xin.
He stood on the shore and cursed at the departing ship, but Liu Chang just waved his hand at him proudly.
"Oh, then why say more?"
At this time, Zhang Buyu, who had been silent all this time, said displeasedly: "What does this have to do with Your Majesty? Your Majesty cherishes this man's talents and gives him the opportunity to display his talents. If he does something wrong,
Those are all his own problems and have nothing to do with His Majesty!"
"The former military just paused for a moment, can't you see it?!"
The other generals looked at the Taiwei with some surprise. When did the Taiwei start to care so much about government affairs? This is the time when the Taiwei talked the most, and he actually talked about these powerful things?
Everyone suddenly realized that there was such a connection. No wonder this man respected the Taiwei so much.
Han Xin was not afraid, and he said: "The Lu family is a prosperous clan. Many relatives have no titles and have never held official positions, but they occupy a large amount of land because of the reputation of the Lu family. These people have been eradicated. How can they
Aren’t you in a hurry?”
The generals were riding horses, guarding him on his left and right.
Zhou Yafu was much calmer. He just watched with cold eyes, "I'm not a sinner. I went to Anling. I've seen it several times in the past, but never on such a scale."
Han Xin moved from the position of the Central Army to the position of the former military.
"Um?"
Lu Tazhi looked into the distance in horror. This was the Chinese army. The front army was so far away. How could he be clairvoyant? How could he tell that the front army had stopped?
Everyone lowered their heads and did not dare to look at the Taiwei. Only Zhou Yafu frowned and pondered for a long time, and finally sighed helplessly.
"I heard that six assassins made an agreement to assassinate Chao Cuo not long ago. The matter was reported, and Tingwei arrested more than a hundred people, all related to this incident."
There were many soldiers who came back with them, and Liu Chang also received them one by one. This was not the first time that Zhou Yafu and others had experienced such a situation. There was nothing rude about it. The soldiers were going to the school grounds, while the Taiwei and a few others were going to the school.
Returning to the palace with His Majesty, Liu Chang suddenly noticed the prison car in the distance. There was a man with disheveled hair standing in the prison car, looking extremely embarrassed. Liu Chang asked suspiciously: "Master also brought back prisoners.
?Didn’t you say that King Baicheng and others should be imprisoned in the West Courtyard?"
The prisoner suddenly raised his head and looked at Liu Chang eagerly.