When Liu Bagou spoke, his expression was serious, but there was also a hint of temptation in the serious expression, as if Zeng Ziyun could immediately obtain glory and wealth as long as he agreed, and become a prince who was superior to others, and live a life of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and beautiful women. Surrounded by luxury living.
Li Xuan, who was above, saw Liu Bagou's expression when he spoke and doubted that his dead father was bewitched by Li Erbi with this expression. Otherwise, he was a landowner with no knowledge and had never even been to the county town. Why would Lao Cai start thinking about ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor?
But Zeng Ziyun is obviously not as short-sighted as Lear Bi. Although he is a prisoner, he comes from a general family, and his knowledge is much better than that of these country fools.
He was not even interested in hearing more about the so-called princes and princes mentioned by Liu Bagou.
Even if you asked him to be the fake emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Zeng Ziyun would not accept it. How could he be a duke or a prince and lie to children?
In your Tang Dynasty in the mountains and valleys, even the so-called 'imperial palace' where the emperor lived was just a slightly larger wooden house, and even my servants lived better than this.
Not to mention that he is a member of a fifth-grade Qian family, living in a large house with three entrances and one entrance, with dozens of servants and maids, and a wife and concubines as beautiful as flowers. On weekdays, he lives a life full of luxury and good clothing. Life.
In those days, even if he was offered the throne of Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he would not change it!
However, although his heart is full of disdain, Zeng Ziyun is also wise now. He knows that if he openly rejects the bandits in front of him at this time, they will probably put a knife on his neck and cut him severely. Go down.
He was still young and had beautiful wives and concubines waiting for him to love him, but he couldn't just die in a ravine.
Well, even if Zeng Ziyun is defeated, even if he is captured, he still has to escape. There are still great days waiting for him outside. How can he stay in this ravine and play with these stupid bandits to become emperor? The game of founding a nation.
If the Tang Dynasty was a real political power, it did not need to be too large. Even if it only had a few prefectures and counties, it could pull out an army of several thousand people. Then Zeng Ziyun was in such a dangerous situation. , will seriously consider whether to surrender.
But what about the Tang Dynasty in front of us? It can only rule over a thousand bandits and its territory is only a few miles. How can such a dynasty have a future?
I wouldn’t believe it even if I beat Zeng Ziyun to death.
Zeng Ziyun knew very well that even if he failed to suppress Huangzhu Mountain this time, it would not be long before the imperial court would send more troops to encircle and suppress him. Even because of this failure, the number of officers and soldiers coming next time might not be a few hundred, but a few hundred. There may be thousands of people or even more.
Under such circumstances, if the Tang Dynasty was not over, Zeng Ziyun would dare to commit suicide again!
So if you want him to surrender and become a prisoner, you can, but if you want him to surrender to the Puppet Tang Dynasty and become a rebel, he will never do this kind of self-destruction.
Well, he couldn't refuse directly, as this would anger the bandits in front of him, so he made a compromise choice.
He remained silent!
Zeng Ziyun didn't speak after hearing this, and was as silent as a piece of wood.
Looking at him, Li Xuan frowned slightly. Although he had never expected Zeng Ziyun to agree from the beginning, he did not expect that this man would refuse so simply, without even the slightest hesitation or consideration.
Yes, Zeng Ziyun's silent attitude has made his attitude very obvious: he is unwilling!
He didn't refuse directly but kept silent, just because he was afraid of offending everyone in Huangzhushan.
It seems that recruiting generals is not easy!
After Li Xuan frowned slightly, he was not interested in continuing to talk to Zeng Ziyun. This person's attitude was already very clear, and there was no use saying more at this time.
He immediately waved his hand and asked his men to escort Zeng Ziyun out.
Li Xuan planned to imprison Zeng Ziyun first. Maybe as time goes by, this person will slowly recognize the reality and suddenly wake up and join in the founding of the Tang Dynasty. As for now, he will imprison him first.
After sending Zeng Ziyun away, Li Xuan ordered Liu Bagou: "Although this man refuses to surrender, as a general of the Ming army, he must know a lot of information about the Ming army. When I turn around, the prime minister will find someone to learn from him."
Get all the information out of here!"
This matter is much less difficult than persuading Zeng Ziyun to surrender.
It was too difficult to persuade Zeng Ziyun to submit to the Tang Dynasty and be loyal to Li Xuan. But if you threaten him and just get some information from him, the possibility is still very high. Liu Bagou immediately said: "
I obey the decree!"
After Zeng Ziyun finished speaking, everyone turned their attention to the other ordinary prisoners.
"Everyone, please tell me how to deal with these sixty prisoners. We can't keep them locked up and waste food!" When Li Xuan spoke, he first set the tone, that is, we can't keep them in vain, otherwise
They are forced to die, capture more than 60 mouths for nothing in one battle, and capture dozens or hundreds more prisoners in the future, and are forced to eat up all their food. How can there be such a method of rebellion?
Bai Yunqi stepped forward and said: "I think I can persuade some of them to surrender. As long as they are willing to submit to our Datang Dynasty, they can be incorporated into the standing army to serve our Datang Dynasty."
"What about the remaining people who are unwilling to submit?" Wang Wenhua said at this time: "Although these Ming soldiers are ordinary soldiers, they may not all submit to us!"
At this time, Bai Yunqi said: "It's simple. If you don't want to surrender and join us, let them open up wasteland. Anyway, we have a lot of fields in Huangzhu Mountain that haven't been opened up yet. It's just right for them to open up wasteland for farming!"
Liu Bagou nodded and said: "Letting them open up wasteland is a way. These Ming troops are all military households and they usually farm. It is convenient for them to open up wasteland, but they still need to be controlled to prevent them from rebelling!"
Bai Yunqi said: "I am brave and willing to be responsible for recruiting and surrendering. I will take care of these Ming army prisoners and never let them waste a grain of food from our Tang Dynasty!"
Hearing Bai Yunqi's words, Li Xuan nodded and said immediately: "Since General Bai is willing to take on the important task, then I am sure!"
The others nodded after hearing this and said nothing more.
Only Li Xuan and Bai Yunqi looked at each other at this time, and then saw the smile of successful conspiracy on each other's faces.
Others didn't know that Bai Yunqi and Li Xuan had already discussed what they said in order to completely control the more than sixty Ming army prisoners.
For this reason, they even delayed the handling of the prisoners until Fang Dongquan and others took people to Jiguan Mountain, in order to avoid the intervention of Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.
As long as the two powerful factions, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, do not intervene, then Li Xuan and Bai Yunqi can cooperate inside and outside and swallow more than 60 Ming army prisoners in one go, leaving not even a scrap to Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and the others!
The reason why Li Xuan and others want to control these prisoners and use them for their own purposes is naturally to get rid of the fate of puppets!
Li Xuan has had enough of being the puppet emperor in this valley. He is eager to gain real power, and if he wants to gain real power in the bandit den of Huangzhu Mountain, he must have an army loyal to him!
These prisoners become the most suitable opportunity!