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"His Royal Highness Prince Su has decided to give me military pay from the Pingyang Army?"
When Qu Cheng conquered Lu's city and was preparing to continue his march south, he received news from the rear.
It must be said that this inexplicable preferential treatment made Qu Cheng feel a little puzzled. It was not until he asked what happened that he suddenly realized it.
It turns out that His Highness King Su wanted to change the Chu people's bad habit of killing and plundering wantonly after the war.
Suddenly, Qu Cheng highly appreciated Zhao Hongrun's punishment of those Pingyang soldiers who had committed evil deeds.
Since Qu Cheng was born a nobleman with the surname of Xiong, he inevitably had a sense of hierarchy in his mind. Therefore, to be honest, he didn't care how many Chu people the Wei soldiers under Zhao Hongrun killed when they marched into Chu. Because of his status
The higher the nobles are, the more they care about themselves and their family's interests, and don't care much about other Chu people.
But it is undeniable that Qu Cheng couldn't help but be a little surprised by the quality of Zhao Hongrun and the Wei army under his command.
He couldn't help but sigh that although the Wei State was small and its army was far inferior to the Chu State, the elite Wei soldiers trained by the Wei State were far superior to the Chu soldiers in terms of combat ability and quality.
What impressed Qu Cheng the most was the way Zhao Hongrun punished those Pingyang soldiers who committed evil deeds. It can be said that rewards and punishments are clear.
I believe that in this way, the prestige of King Su in the Pingyang army will be greatly enhanced...
Qu Cheng secretly estimated.
And the facts proved that his guess was correct.
When the soldiers of the Pingyang Army learned that His Royal Highness King Su of Wei had decided to give all the soldiers of the Pingyang Army general pay in order to prevent the recurrence of ugly evil deeds like the Peng clan's in the city, almost all the soldiers and generals of the Pingyang Army were worried.
Cheers.
You must know that in Chu State, military pay is an extremely unfamiliar term. Let alone ordinary Chu soldiers, even generals like Qu Cheng and Yan Mo have never received any military pay?
Who doesn’t divide the wealth of the enemy city after conquering it?
From this point of view, Zhao Hongrun seemed to have cut off the financial resources of the Pingyang Army generals, but the latter were not dissatisfied with this. After all, Zhao Hongrun also provided compensation accordingly: military pay and post-war rewards.
Under the temptation of these two, the soldiers of Pingyang Army decided to give up their bad habits.
After all, the city they are attacking now is the city of Chu State. Do they want to be like those guys who have been kicked out of the military at this moment? They robbed the people of their own country for a little money, and then were kicked out by His Highness King Su of Wei State who has clear rewards and punishments.
army?
Anyway, there are military pay and post-war rewards. With this money, you can support your family, so why do you do such shameful things?
Not to mention, who in the Pingyang Army today is not cursing those former Pingyang soldiers who looted and killed their own people? Although I am sure they have actually thought about it, but in the face of the current strong wind, no one dares to raise objections
.
"Please reply to His Highness Prince Su. Qu will definitely restrain his soldiers and never let something like this happen again. Please rest assured, His Highness Prince Su."
"Okay, if you are young, you can report back to His Highness Prince Su."
The messenger sent by Yan Mo to inform Qu Cheng's large Pingyang army, with Qu Cheng's solemn assurance, respectfully said goodbye and left, passing Qu Cheng's reaction to Zhao Hongrun.
To be honest, Zhao Hongrun was very relieved about Qu Cheng. After all, Qu Cheng was an ambitious and smart man. What he cared about was whether he could gain a stable foothold in Wei with the support of Zhao Hongrun in the future. It would be best if he could blend into the big army.
The Wei army should have some military power, otherwise, how could they spare no effort to attack those big clans on behalf of Zhao Hongrun, while he himself would not take advantage of the opportunity to seize the wealth in the city?
But being reassured about Qu Cheng does not mean that Zhao Hongrun is also reassured about the 15,000 Pingyang soldiers under Qu Cheng's command. No, just the 2,000 Pingyang soldiers under the command of the 2,000-man general Hou Bai.
It was discovered that more than 200 Pingyang soldiers had taken the opportunity to rob the people of their Chu country. This ratio made Zhao Hongrun very worried.
He didn't want this group of people to affect the impression of the Wei people in the hearts of the Chu people. Because of this kind of thing, the Chu people would most likely put those bad names on Zhao Hongrun's head in the end. After all, the Pingyang Army was currently
The army under his command.
If this evil trend is not stopped immediately, I believe that those Pingyang soldiers will follow suit soon, and I am afraid that Zhao Hongrun will have to pay for the bad habits of these people in the end.
After all, how many people in the world would believe that the people who looted the Chu people were not the Wei people who had always had grievances, but the Pingyang army who also came from the Chu army?
The worst thing is, watching the Pingyang army burning, killing and looting, will the Wei soldiers have any thoughts because of this?
It would be too bad if Wei Bing had similar thoughts in his mind.
You must know that this trend will directly destroy a well-qualified army, which Zhao Hongrun absolutely cannot accept.
Fortunately, the reward and punishment mechanism proposed by Zhao Hongrun in time was able to temporarily curb this military atmosphere.
That night, Zhao Hongrun sent his army to the city of the Lu clan.
I remember that in the city of the Peng clan, Zhao Hongrun was not in a happy mood due to some Pingyang soldiers, so he had no interest in visiting the luxurious clan mansion that Yan Mo said.
However, in this city built by the Lu family, Zhao Hongrun's punishment mechanism has spread to the Pingyang army, making those Pingyang soldiers clearly realize that killing, burning and looting the occupied city after the war will be
Will be kicked out of the army, so there is nothing Zhao Hongrun doesn't want to see happen this time.
This also made Yan Mo, who served as the guide, feel greatly relieved.
“What a big inner city.”
Zhao Hongrun's exclamation interrupted Yan Mo's secretly rejoicing thoughts.
At this time, Yan Mo had brought Zhao Hongrun to the inner city of the Lu clan, where the members of the Lu clan lived, instead of to the outer city, where the slaves and farmers of the Lu clan lived.
I have to say that there is a world of difference between the inner city and the outer city.
In the outer city, the area close to the city wall was purely farmland with thatched houses. It was so dilapidated that it was still difficult to imagine that this was within a city, rather than a village in a valley.
But as it gradually moves closer to the city center, significant changes can be clearly seen from the roads alone.
At first it was a rotten dirt road, then it was a road paved with gravel, and then it was a road made of solid loess. When you entered the inner city, it turned out to be a road paved with blue bricks. Looking at the counties of Wei State, there were several
Luxurious enough to be paved with blue bricks?
Not to mention that this is still in the Chu State, where people generally build houses with mud bricks and mud tiles.
Further inside, Zhao Hongrun was even more amazed by the palace-style house with carved beams and painted beams.
Only then did he realize that it was not that there were no magnificent palaces and houses in Chu State, but that these luxurious palaces and palaces generally only appeared in the cities of big clans.
"I believe it...Compared to this place, the Yangyu clan is really nothing."
Looking at the luxurious manor in front of him in shock, Zhao Hongrun murmured to himself.
What kind of courtyard is that? It is simply a complex of palaces, and the palaces and pavilions with carved beams and painted buildings are very grand in scale, no less than the palaces in the Wei Dynasty.
And between those palaces and pavilions, there are all kinds of pavilions, waterside pavilions, gardens, and rockeries. If he hadn't clearly known that this was just the residence of the Lu family. And the Lu family was not the princes of Chu, Zhao Hongrun would really have thought.
I wonder if he has come to the palace of Chu State.
"Your Highness." Yan Mo seemed to have seen something and reminded Zhao Hongrun.
Zhao Hongrun looked up and saw row after row of people kneeling in front of the largest palace-like house in the distance, on the open space paved with blue bricks and now covered by heavy snow.
From the side, Pingyang Army and Junshui Army were watching them with weapons in hand.
After Zhao Hongrun approached and looked around for a while, he found that the people kneeling in the front row of the team were all well-dressed men and women. He believed that these people must be members of the Lu clan, and behind these people of the Lu clan, there were many people kneeling.
There are many men wearing the same clothes, and some young women wearing the same clothes.
Obviously, these people must be the Lu family's domestic slaves and maids.
Good guy...how many people are there?
Zhao Hongrun was secretly speechless.
Because there are roughly two to three hundred members of the Lu family here alone, and the exact number of domestic slaves and maids of the Lu family is even more difficult to discern in an instant.
Zhao Hongrun roughly estimated that there were about three thousand people kneeling here. What a terrifying number, half of the battalion.
You must know that the dredging camp under Zhao Hongrun only has 5,000 people per camp.
"Lao Chan is the patriarch of the Lu family, Lu Wen, and I'm going to see King Su."
When Zhao Hongrun approached, an old man kneeling at the front of the team immediately knelt on the ground and saluted Zhao Hongrun.
Immediately, next to the old man, there were a group of older men who also saluted Zhao Hongrun. The identities of these people seemed to be the elders of the Lu family, that is, elders or the like.
"Get up." Zhao Hongrun raised his hand and made a sign of getting up, causing a group of sixty or seventy-year-old old men to kneel in front of him, trembling and frightened. He really couldn't bear it.
"Thank you."
The old man named Lu Wen stood up tremblingly with the support of several young people behind him. There was a forced smile on his wrinkled face, and he looked up and down at the young Duke of Wei in front of him.
noble.
"Your Highness King Su, I am willing to hand over half of my family wealth and hope that your army can withdraw from this city."
Half of the family wealth?
Zhao Hongrun snorted noncommittally, feeling a little unhappy.
You must know that in the last city, that is, in the Peng clan, the Peng clan people very readily proposed that they were willing to use all their wealth in exchange for the survival of the entire clan. In the end, Zhao Hongrun graciously gave them 10%, which made the group of people
Thank you very much.
But right now, this Lu clan is only willing to hand over half of their family wealth?
Is it because the Pingyang Army has not killed anyone here this time?
Zhao Hongrun felt a little unhappy.
After all, all the Chu clans he has met along the way have known each other very well, especially the family of the Yangyan clan. The patriarch of the family, Yangyu Tao, finally gave his granddaughter, a thirteen-year-old girl named Yangyu Xing, to his family.
She secretly stuffed him into the bed where he was resting, and threatened the little girl very "viciously", saying that if she didn't take good care of him, Zhao Hongrun, the entire Yangyan family, more than a dozen people, would die.
Fortunately, the girl was very innocent and didn't know who the girl was. She thought that the two of them slept on the couch all night, which would be regarded as "sleeping". Otherwise, the girl kept crying, and Zhao Hongrun really had nothing to do.
However, this Lu family does not seem to be very generous.
Zhao Hongrun looked at Lu Wen who offered half of the family wealth with a half-smile.
"Ninety percent!"
Zhao Hongrun's categorical tone, which did not allow for refutation, caused the faces of the Lu clan to change drastically, especially some of the young and strong clansmen, who showed angry expressions. (To be continued.)