Five days later, at the gate of Wujun City, Jiang Qin, who was appointed by Luo Yang as the prefect of Wujun, was walking out of the city with a group of people. Since Jiang Qin became the prefect of Wujun, he has been really conscientious about his responsibilities. Although for
Jiang Qin was not good at government affairs. Like Zhou Tai, he left it to Liu Xiang. However, with the efforts of Jiang Qin, the military affairs of Wu County began to gradually escape from the control of the Jiangdong family. During this time, Jiang
Qin Ke dealt a heavy blow to the power of the aristocratic families in Wu County! In addition, with the help of Jiang Qin's old partner Zhou Tai in Kuaiji, the power of the aristocratic families that had been accumulated for decades in Jiangdong area was greatly reduced!
However, Jiang Qin was not complacent because of this. When Luo Yang handed over Jiangdong to him and Zhou Tai last year, he specifically talked to them. The Jiangdong family is a stubborn disease attached to Jiangdong, and they want to solve the problems of the Jiangdong family.
It will definitely not be possible to completely solve it overnight! And if Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai want to gain an advantage in the struggle against the Jiangdong family, the most important thing is to seize military power! As long as they have soldiers in their hands, then
Don’t be afraid that the Jiangdong family will not surrender!
Because of this, the first thing Jiang Qin did after arriving in Wu County was to purge the original Wu County garrison, and then recruit a large number of new troops in Wu County. Now Wu County's troops have reached a full three thousand!
And I heard that in Kuaiji, that bastard Zhou Tai went so far as to recruit nearly four thousand soldiers and horses! Although these soldiers were all new recruits, they were enough to deal with those Jiangdong aristocratic families! These few
In the past month, Jiang Qin and Zhou Taina have been making various excuses, but the money they gained from looting many shops and manors of the Jiangdong family can just make up for the extra losses caused by the aggressive recruitment of new soldiers. And those Jiangdong families,
Facing Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai's large army, they didn't even dare to fart!
Seeing the benefits of having military power, Jiang Qin couldn't wait to recruit new soldiers. This time, Jiang Qin wanted to take the newly recruited soldiers and horses outside the city for a drill!
The large-scale purge of the Jiangdong family's power has made Wujun City feel a little deserted. After all, over the years, the Jiangdong family's power has already taken root in various parts of Jiangdong. However, Jiang Qin believes that as long as this period of time passes, by the time
After the Jiangdong family is completely eradicated, Wu County will definitely return to its former prosperity! This is Jiang Qin's belief in his lord!
Jiang Qin's group walked to the city gate in a mighty manner. The man guarding the city gate was an officer recently promoted by Jiang Qin. When he saw Jiang Qin coming, the officer quickly ran to Jiang Qin and saluted and shouted:
"Young man, I've seen the general!"
"Haha! It turns out to be Ling Cao!" Jiang Qin looked at the young officer running over and said with a smile: "What's wrong? Why do I think the gate of the city seems a bit messy?" As he said that, Jiang Qin stretched out his finger.
Pointing to the front, at the city gate in front of him, a team was passing through the city gate at this moment. However, the number of people in this team was quite large, so it caused some confusion when passing through the city gate.
Turning his head and looking at the city gate behind him, Ling Cao said with a smile: "It's nothing, General, it's just a group of businessmen who want to enter the city! They were originally businessmen from Wu County, but they haven't returned to Wu County for a long time. I don't know yet.
Wujun has been ruled by the lord, and many of the rules are different from before, so it’s a bit chaotic! I’ll get these things sorted out later! Hey! You guys, please be quick! Get the city gate out of the way! The general is leaving the city!
"The last sentence was shouted to the soldiers behind who were still shouting something with the merchants who were about to enter the city.
Hearing Ling Cao's shouts, the soldiers noticed Jiang Qin next to Ling Cao. They were all startled, and shouted at the businessmen: "Our general is here! Why don't you hurry up?"
Make way! Are you looking for death?" And those merchants seemed to be frightened. They were blocking the city gate, but now they quickly made way for Jiang Qin.
Jiang Qin finally understood Ling Cao's explanation. He was considered a native of Jiangdong and knew the tricks of the Jiangdong family. As long as they were not a caravan of their Jiangdong family, they would have to pay a lot of fees when entering and leaving the various cities and counties in Jiangdong.
The city gate tax. And those merchants are overwhelmed and are usually willing to spend part of their money to bribe the city gate officials to reduce a lot of losses. It is for this reason that the city gate officials in Jiangdong can be said to be a fat vacancy! This
It can be regarded as a characteristic of Jiangdong! After Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai arrived in Jiangdong, they naturally abolished this overbearing city gate tax. However, many of them did not know the actual situation. Foreign businessmen who had just arrived in Jiangdong still did not know the actual situation.
I don’t know, so there is bound to be some misunderstanding. This has happened more than once in the past few months!
Jiang Qin didn't want to get involved in these trivial matters. Ling Cao was very capable. Jiang Qin believed that Ling Cao could handle this matter well, so he just turned around and ordered: "Take your time, these businessmen, although
Although their status is low, it is also an indispensable reason for Jiangdong to prosper again! Don't be too cruel to them, hahahaha!" Although the hierarchy of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce was divided in this era, merchants became the lowest class, but Jiang Qin was a water thief.
Born in China, he doesn't really care about this hierarchy in his mind.
Ling Cao quickly cupped his fists and shouted: "General, please don't worry! I will handle this matter well!"
"Well! Okay! Let's go!" Jiang Qin said no more, nodded, waved to the recruits behind him, and then rode towards the city gate. The merchants who retreated to the side
Everyone in the team kept their heads down, as if they were very afraid of Jiang Qin's team of heavily armed military men!
"Huh?" Just when Jiang Qin was about to walk through the city gate, suddenly, a bright light flashed in Jiang Qin's eyes, but he stopped the horse from sitting down, turned his head and looked to the left, with a pair of sharp eyes.
Shot at the caravan on the side! After staring for a long time, Jiang Qin slowly raised his hand, pointed at several men wearing coarse linen clothes, and shouted: "You! You! And you! You guys give me
come over!"
"Ah?" As Jiang Qin shouted, everyone present was stunned. The three men in the caravan that Jiang Qin pointed to all looked to be of medium build, and they lowered their heads. They were listening.
After hearing Jiang Qin's words, the three of them couldn't help but trembled, as if they were frozen, and they didn't dare to move. At this time, Ling Cao also rushed over from behind and glanced at the three men.
, turned around and asked Jiang Qin with confusion on his face: "General, what's wrong?"
"Well! Call those three people over! I have something to ask them!" Jiang Qin's face was uncertain, and his hand was always pointing at the three people without any deviation.
Ling Cao followed Jiang Qin's finger and looked at the three people again. When he saw the three people, they were motionless. When he glared at them, he directly pulled out the single sword from his waist and pointed at the three people.
He yelled: "Bastard! Are you deaf? Didn't you hear the general calling you over?"
"Ah! Ah! Oops! This general! General!" At this time, the middle-aged man who had been standing in front and seemed to be the owner of the caravan finally came to his senses and hurried over to face Jiang Qinhe.
Ling Cao nodded and bowed, smiling apologetically: "I don't know how these three guys of the villain have offended the general! I also want the general to pay tens of millions of dollars! Pay attention!"
Jiang Qin's face darkened, as if he didn't have much patience, and he shouted coldly: "I don't want to repeat unnecessary words!"
Ling Cao, who was standing in front of Jiang Qin, simply put his sword directly on the middle-aged man's neck and shouted angrily: "Asshole! Didn't you hear what our general said? How dare you talk nonsense! Hey! You three!
Oh! Come here quickly!"
With Ling Cao's single sword pressed against his neck, the middle-aged man fell to his knees in fright with a plop. His face was pale and his mouth was wide open, but he could not utter a word. And the three men pointed by Jiang Qin
Two of the men trembled again, but they still lowered their heads and did not react. However, the other one seemed to have just reacted. He raised his head, revealing a face full of fear, and trotted all the way.
He ran to his employer, kowtowed to Jiang Qin and Ling Cao, opened and closed his mouth, and kept screaming!
"Uh!" Jiang Qin frowned, slowly put his hand down, and seemed to be saying to himself: "It turns out he is mute."
At this time, the middle-aged man swallowed hard, finally recovered, and stammered: "Master, sir! Little man, these guys of the little man are all, all, again.
Dumb, dumb and deaf! No, I can’t speak, I can’t speak! And, and, among the three of them, this one is the smarter one, the other three are all stupid!" After stammering a few words, then
The middle-aged man also slowly returned to normal, and at least he spoke much more smoothly.
"Oh?" Jiang Qin looked at the middle-aged man with suspicion, then at the mute who was still kowtowing and screaming, and asked again: "If it is according to what you said,
These three are mute and deaf, and the other two are stupid, so what’s the use of recruiting them as your associates? Aren’t they just free laborers?”
The middle-aged man immediately grimaced and said, "Who says it's not the case! But I can't help it! The ancestors of these three guys are all old servants of my family! The Yellow Thief Rebellion a few years ago
, all their family members died in order to protect the caravan, the young ones can’t be that ruthless and unjust people! Fortunately, although these three people are not smart, they still have some strength, and they can usually do errands of transportation.
It’s okay, so the little one took them in, which can be regarded as an explanation to his old friend!”
"Oh?" The doubts on Jiang Qin's face finally disappeared, but he smiled at the middle-aged man and said: "It's rare for a businessman like you to be so affectionate and righteous! Haha! Forget it! Ling Cao! Take it.