Tensions suddenly rose inside Tanzhou, but the outside world could not sense it yet.
With hundreds of miles of mountains and rivers blocking the way, it was extremely inconvenient to scout for the enemy and transmit information. Han Qian was in Yingyu Village (Zhongfang City) and could not notice the internal changes in Tanzhou for the time being.
Xi Zhen was killed by the Tanzhou army on the banks of the Lujiao River. Feng Changyu and Feng Jin were successfully assassinated by Xi Yin, who led the young Xi family into the mountains. The chiefs of the four surnames who are currently trapped in Longqiao Village, according to the original history of the governor, Xiang Jian
Long, Bing Cao, Yang Zaili, and Xi Xunqiao, the son of Xi Zhen, were the main ones.
They may have thought that Tanzhou would be furious at the fall of Yingyu Village, and expected that Tanzhou would be thunderous and send troops to attack the Han family and his son. They initially did not agree to Han Qian's surrender conditions and even detained Feng Xuan and Feng Zhang.
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However, Han Qian was not anxious either.
Even if Han Qian cannot know the internal changes in Tanzhou in time, in his opinion, even if Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang are returned, it will not play any role in confusing Tanzhou, so there is nothing to worry about for the time being.
Tanzhou only has 20,000 troops and horses. They will not further expand their army until they break up with Jinling. However, with only 20,000 troops, how many troops do they dare to mobilize to cross Chenzhou and attack against the Yuanshui River?
Xuzhou?
At present, Xuzhou already has nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses. Even if Tanzhou deploys double the elite soldiers and horses to attack against the current, what is the chance of winning, or how long the war will have to be delayed, to win Xuzhou?
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It is not easy to counterattack Yuanshui.
Otherwise, Ma Yuan, a famous general of the Eastern Han Dynasty more than 900 years ago, would not have regretted Hutou Mountain in the Yuanjiang River; it is also impossible that in the past 8900 years, the central government of several dynasties has condoned the control of people with native surnames in Xu, Chen and other states.
The military and government gained power.
Even if Ma Yin, the governor of Tanzhou, was a figure like Yang Mi, the God-blessed Emperor, Han Qian believed that he would find it difficult to make this determination!
Therefore, Xuzhou still has time to confront the chiefs of the four surnames for a while, and Han Qian can first free up his hands to deal with the Fanzhai forces previously controlled by Feng Changyu and his son.
Feng Changyu, Feng Jin and his son were assassinated in Longqiao Village. A group of more important people such as Feng Xuan, Feng Zhang and Gao Bao actually surrendered to Han Qian. The Feng family was almost in collapse at this moment.
Even if the other three surnames could gather thousands of elite soldiers, they did not dare to act rashly at this time, let alone concentrate their troops to attack the heavily guarded Yingyu Village and rescue the chiefs of the four surnames who were trapped in the mountains in the middle.
In the previous attack on Yingyu Village, the Feng family and his son drew the largest number of troops from Jingyun Village to which they belonged. Almost 80% of the 600 village soldiers were removed. Almost all the key members loyal to the Feng family were transferred away, and only a hundred were left in the end.
The village soldiers stayed behind in Jingyun Village.
At this time, the Feng family did not have a core figure with enough prestige to step forward and mobilize more young men to defend Jingyun Village.
Although Feng Changyu still has a few concubines left in the village, these concubines have always been the targets of Feng Jin's suppression. They lacked ability and prestige. When they learned that Feng Changyu and Feng Jin were assassinated in Longqiao Village, they all thought about it.
There is a fight for position, but there is no one who can be used.
None of the remaining village soldiers obeyed them, and even the guard general had old grudges with Feng Changyu's concubines.
At this time, even if Han Qian attacked by force, he was sure to go up the Chepi River and knock down Jingyun Village.
In early July, Xi Chang and Zhao Qi led 300 elite soldiers from Chepixi into the valley south of Jingyun Village. Under Gao Bao's instigation, the last 100 or so soldiers from Jingyun Village finally tied up Feng Changyu.
More than seventy of Feng Jin's wives, concubines, and concubines came to Yingyu Village to surrender to Han Qian.
Han Qian did not embarrass Feng Changyu, Feng Jin's wives and concubines, several of Feng Changyu's concubines, and Feng Jin's two young sons, but reduced them to civilian status. At the same time, he also removed more than 300 people from Feng's close branches from the mountains.
They moved out and arranged farmhouses for them near Zhongfang City where they could settle down and make a living.
The Fanzhai controlled by the Feng family is roughly located south of Qianyang City and in the Haoyun Mountains more than fifty miles deep on the south bank of the Yuanjiang River. It also occupies a large area in the south of Qianyang County and the northwest of Langxi County. There are large and small Fanzhai.
There are more than 100 villages, with a total of nearly 12,000 indigenous people, more than one-third of whom are village slaves directly controlled by the Feng family.
There are more than 150,000 acres of cultivated grain fields in more than 100 villages, but the canal and water conservancy facilities built in the mountains are extremely weak, with only more than 10,000 acres of irrigated land, and almost all of it is in the hands of the Feng family - fortunately in Xuzhou
The climate is mild and humid, and even though most of the land cultivated in Baifanzhai is dry land, the harvest will not be too bad.
For ordinary households, Han Qian only assessed new land taxes and relieved them of their previous corvee obligations to the Feng family.
As for the Fan slaves and Zhai slaves who had previously been completely dependent on the Feng family, Han Qian moved them all to China, Qianyang, and Linjiang, and each household was given ten acres of grain fields and ten to twenty acres of uncultivated wasteland for their cultivation.
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As for the 50,000 acres that the Feng clan directly controlled in the south of Qianyang County and the north of Langxi, in addition to setting aside more than 3,000 acres as grain fields to accommodate the hundreds of dependents of soldiers from Jingyun Village who had joined him, they also set aside 20,000 acres.
It was distributed to ordinary households who lacked land; the remaining 20,000 acres were used to resettle the 200 descendants of Tanzhou and more than 500 of their dependents, as well as the nearly 2,000 refugees stranded in the mountains in the northern part of Langxi County.
The Feng family's treasury in Jingyun Village was all transported to Qianyang City from Chepixi as last year's autumn grain supplement.
As the main tributary flowing into the Yuan River in Haoyun Mountain, Chepi Stream is extremely turbulent and has dark shoals and rapid bays, making it difficult for large ships to pass. The most common ones are awning boats with a load of 300 stone.
It took forty awning boats and made ten trips to transport the Feng family's warehouse to the warehouse in Qianyang.
Han Qian couldn't imagine that the Feng family only had 600 village soldiers all year round, so what was the purpose of keeping 60,000 shi of food in the village.
It was not until the end of August that Xiang Jianlong, Yang Zaili and Xi Xunqiao saw that there was no movement in the direction of Tanzhou, so they led more than 300 village soldiers who were so hungry that their eyes were green, they walked out of Zhongfang Mountain and surrendered to Han Qian.
At this time, Han Qian no longer stayed in Zhongfang City, but escorted Xiang Jianlong, Yang Zaili, Xi Xunqiao and the main leaders of the four surnames back to Qianyang City for disposal.
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In late August, a hint of autumn can already be felt in Qianyang City. During the night banquet, Zhou Yourui strummed the strings of the piano, which had a sad feeling.
No one in Qianyang City has yet understood the secret of the four surnames' attack on Yingyu Village, so everyone had their own reactions to Han Qian's return after his victory.
Those who flatter and flatter will naturally go the extra mile, but Xue Ruogu was in a depressed mood and kept drinking. It was not late at night and he was a bit drunk.
If it weren't for Li Tang and Qin Wen sitting on either side of him blocking him, he would probably have said a few sarcastic words to the proud Han family and his son, and ridiculed the dozen or so officials who were crazy about flattering the Han family and his son. They were really shameless.
Perhaps Han Qian was tired of the flattery of these people, so he suggested to his father Han Daoxun to end the night banquet early. Xue Ruogu felt a stone falling in his heart and wanted to escape early.
"Master Xue, Master Li, Master Qin, the three of you have very little to say today. Please stay with the military supervisor for a while to talk." Han Qian stared at Xue Ruogu and the others and said.
"Young Master is very proud of the spring breeze. He captured the chiefs of the three surnames and returned home with great victory. Xue searched his guts and couldn't think of any words of congratulations. Please also ask Young Master to let Xue go." Xue Ruogu stood in front of the case with his head held high and said.
Zhou Yourui glanced at Xue Ruogu in surprise, then turned to look at Han Daoxun without saying a word. Han Qian smiled and said nothing, but just like that, it was even more frightening.
She wanted to say something, but she thought there was no place for her to say anything in such an occasion.
"The four surnames are in Xianfu. The New Deal will soon be extended to Langxi and Tanyang counties. Mr. Xue has nothing to say?" Han Qian took off the sword from his waist, threw it on the long case in front of him, and stared at it.
Xue Ruogu asked.
"Xue is stupid and has nothing to say." Xue Ruogu said.
The other officials looked at each other in confusion. Some thought of saying a few words to suit the wishes of the Han family and his son, but Han Daoxun waved for them to leave first. Looking at the elite soldiers of the Han family on both sides of the hall, they thought that the Han family and his son had surrendered to the four surnames. What should happen next?
The government offices in the state were purged of officials who disobeyed them.
This was not a matter that they should interfere with, so everyone filed out.
Zhou Yourui put down the piano and said to Han Daoxun: "What music do you want to listen to? Yourui can play it for you and the young master?"
"Miss Yourui, please step aside for a moment." Han Daoxun said.
Zhou Yourui glanced at Xue Ruogu worriedly, then walked out of the hall with the piano in her arms. At this time, she saw the armored soldiers in front of the corridor closing the doors and windows. Her heart tightened and she wanted to run back and break in, but she was dragged away by the two piano masters who were accompanying her.
He said: "Miss Zhou, we don't dare to get involved in this matter! Let's go, let's go!"
All the irrelevant people left. Han Daoxun, Xue Ruogu, Li Tang, and Qin Wen said, "Master Xue, please sit down and talk."
Xue Ruogu was drunk and stood there with his neck stiffened and said: "If you don't want Xue's blood to be splashed five steps today, my lord, then please let Xue leave Xuzhou."
"Dad, there are really some strong-willed people in this world who are not afraid of death! However, it's so boring if everyone in this world is as greedy for life and afraid of death as I am," Han Qian sighed with his father and then said to Zhang Ping,
"Now, would you please Mr. Zhang, please explain your majesty's strange plan to Mr. Xue, Mr. Li, and Mr. Qin?"
Zhang Ping initially thought that even though he was a military supervisor sent by the imperial court, he might not be able to fool the four surnames easily. Unexpectedly, Han Qian arrived in Xuzhou two years ago and immediately laid out Gao Bao as a chess piece.
Han Qian has been deliberately trying to win over Feng Zhang and others and alienate the relationship between Feng Zhang and others and the four surnames, but Gao Bao has always kept it secret.
While escorting the ship, Gao Bao kept searching for treasures from Jinling to please Feng Jin. He even bought two beautiful prostitutes from Jinling who had been trained and mastered all kinds of prostitutes but were still virgins and presented them to Feng Jin.
After the Jingxiang War, Gao Bao returned to Jingyun Village and quickly became Feng Jin's most trusted direct descendant.
If Feng Changyu and his son were not very wary of people outside the foreign village, Han Qian would have been able to arrange the dead men to be with Feng Changyu and his son.
Zhang Ping stood up and asked Xue Ruogu, Li Tang, and Qin Wen, who were shocked and suspicious, to sit down and explain in detail how Han Qian and the third prince Yang Yuanpu were summoned by Emperor Tianyou last year after the Feng Wenlan case, and made a plan to conceal the truth.
Details.
Xue Ruogu, Li Tang, and Qin Wen were so shocked that they didn't know what to say for a long time.
"This is His Majesty's secret decree. Please take a look at it, Sir Xue!" Han Qian took out the secret decree and asked Xi Rong to take it to Xue Ruogu, Li Tang and Qin Wen for them to read.
In his heart, Han Qian wanted to keep Xue, Li, and Qin out of control, and arrange for his people to be placed in the main official positions in the five counties of Xuzhou, or to arrange for those who only know how to protect themselves and follow the trend. In the future, if he really wants to separate Xuzhou, he will not
There is no resistance, but apart from his father's difficulty, if he does not let Xue, Li and Qin know about the conspiracy, and does not allow Xue, Li and Qin to participate in controlling the power of Xuzhou, how can he make God You trust him?
Don’t have any intention of seeking Xuzhou?
God bless me, before I die, Han Qian is fine and I really don’t want to arouse his suspicion.
