All the words that King Yizhou had to say were blocked in his chest. He stared at Yin Li who was sitting firmly on the horse across from him with wide eyes. The other person looked back at him expressionlessly.
At this moment, King Yizhou remembered that something was wrong. Why was Yin Li here?
I didn't see him when he returned to Beijing. Didn't it mean that he was impeached and therefore went out to patrol in Beijing to hide from the limelight?
King Yizhou thought of all the unreasonable things, but he never had the chance to speak out. He slowly fell down under Yin Li's gaze.
The princes of Xin'an County and Xinping County screamed, supported the fallen King of Yizhou, raised their heads and were about to surrender, but the soldiers who were already red-eyed did not listen to them at all, and Yin Li did not raise his hands to stop, so he put them down.
The rebels who wanted to surrender were cut down with swords the next moment.
Obviously, Yin Li did not recognize their surrender.
Prince Xin'an's eyes were about to burst. He turned to glare at Yin Li and shouted: "Yin Li, I have surrendered, you still dare to kill me..."
Before he finished speaking, a knife was slashed from behind, cutting off half of his head. He fell down before he had a chance to finish his words.
Prince Xinping trembled his lips, glanced at his father in his arms, and then at his eldest brother lying next to him. Tears and snot were flowing from his face. He could only touch a knife himself, and finally closed his eyes and committed suicide.
Yin Li sat on his horse and watched all this. When all the rebels were wiped out, he raised his hand to stop them. The Western Army and the officers and soldiers of the Governor's Mansion stopped together.
Yin Li stepped forward on his horse and looked condescendingly at the Zizhou governor who was covered in blood and holding a sharp sword, "Master Su is so brave, I will report it truthfully."
The governor of Zizhou, with a pale face, opened his lips and smiled, expressing his understanding.
Yin Li then glanced at the officers and soldiers of the governor's office, told the Western Army to gather the bodies of the Yizhou King, his father and his son, and left.
The defeated deserters of the King of Yizhou still have to be dealt with, otherwise, these people will become bandits in the future and cause harm to the neighbors.
Waiting until late at night, when everyone was quiet, he wrote down the military information of the death of Prince Yizhou and his son in the rebellion and handed it to his subordinates, saying: "Hurry back to Beijing early tomorrow morning."
"yes."
"Keep the bodies of the three kings of Yizhou and his son until they arrive in Maozhou and buy a good coffin to bury them."
"yes."
"Send the order and ask all the prefectures and counties to cooperate in retreating the rebels. We will advertise to all places that all surrendered troops will not be killed, but will only be recruited into the Western Army to serve. If they dare to cause trouble in the countryside, once their place of origin is found out, the whole family will not be slaves."
"yes."
Military orders were passed down one after another, and with the help of Yang Heshu and Tang Zhihe, the military disaster caused by King Yizhou was slowly put down. Except for a small number of deserters who were still hiding in the mountains and unwilling to come out, most of the deserters came out and surrendered.
Some of them stripped off their clothes and began to turn into refugees and run back to their hometowns, or they continued to be refugees.
Most of the private troops of the King of Yizhou were gathered from the refugees. Now they have become refugees again. Apart from their complexion being a little rosier and their bodies being stronger than the average refugees, there is nothing special about it.
the difference.
Tang Zhihe could certainly see the difference when such people flowed into Yizhou City, but he didn't say anything. Instead, after confiscating the Yizhou Prince's Mansion, he made some case files on the refugee lands that had been previously occupied by the Yizhou Prince.
, the judgment was issued, and the judgment was returned to the refugees or the county government.
Then use the part that belongs to the county government to settle the refugees. The first ones to be recruited are the stronger ones. They have land and household registration. As long as they are not extremely evil people, they will not kill people or do illegal things.
thing.
On the contrary, in order to cover up the fact that they are deserters, they are more well-behaved and kinder than ordinary refugees.
Yang Heshu saw Tang Zhihe's bold operation and couldn't help but said after being silent for a while: "You are brave enough."
Tang Zhihe bared his teeth at him and said, "After this wave of achievements, you and I will definitely return to Beijing. The refugees under your jurisdiction have settled down early, but there is still chaos under my jurisdiction. I have to finish it before I can go back in peace."
Yang Heshu was silent for a while and then said: "You can't do this. If you give priority to these deserters and refugees, then the refugees who have been waiting before will definitely have opinions, and it will be chaotic in the long run."
Isn't this causing trouble for the next person?
Yang Heshu taught him how to replace fertile land with work. The people who were allocated fertile land first had to build roads, bridges, and water conservancy projects. Anyway, they were well-fed by King Yizhou and had a lot of strength.
"It happens to be winter now. The land you gave them is said to be fertile land, but it has been abandoned by the King of Yizhou for several years. The winter wheat will not be able to catch up in time, so it is better to repair the water conservancy..."
Yang Heshu taught him, "These refugees don't have seed farming tools. They have to prepare these things after spring, but you will be gone by then, and the successor will not know what kind of person he is. I mean, you take the opportunity to prepare all these, and then use
Work-for-relief, so that they have enough food for the winter, so that the seeds distributed will not be eaten."
When people are hungry, they don't care whether they are seeds for next year. They will eat them when they are extremely hungry.
"But you can't leave no way out for your successor. You must give him something to do so that he can accumulate merit," Yang Heshu said: "When the time comes, you can submit a letter to allocate the fertile farmland in King Yizhou's fiefdom.
Some came to serve as county governments, and many Yizhou officials were implicated this time, and they took away all the farmland they had occupied from the refugees."
"There are so many fields under the name of the county government. When your successor takes office, he is not stupid and knows how to settle the refugees. He has already achieved such a great achievement just after taking office. I think he will not begrudge new grains or farm tools. He will use them
This batch of refugees have been settled."
Tang Zhihe was a little itchy, "Then I will arrange for this group of refugees to leave? Leaving such a big hole in office..."
Yang Heshu said calmly: "You have occupied a sunny avenue, and you must leave a single-plank bridge for future generations to walk on. Otherwise, you will have finished the road, and those who will come after you will have no way to go, and then they will have to torment those under your control."
They are the common people, and they are the ones who endure the hardship."
"Refugees don't only appear when there are major disasters. Heavy taxes and more labor will also produce refugees. So you are not only doing this for the next county magistrate, but also for the people under your jurisdiction."
Tang Zhihe couldn't help but ask him, "What if a corrupt official comes here and takes all the land and money I took back for himself or gives them to the wealthy people in Yizhou?"
Yang Heshu smiled and said: "Are you blind? Or do you think Uncle Tang Shi is deaf? The person who can take over you at this time will not be too bad, at least he cannot be stupid."
Tang Zhihe touched his chin and asked, "Then who do you think will take over my position?"
Yang Heshu shook his head, "It's hard to guess. It's possible that He Qing and Zhou Lingfeng are the ones in our current period. Xie Hengliang in the previous period? Or Liu Yi, the eldest grandson of Liu Shangshu now."