Zhang Wenlong put on a suit of clothes that didn't fit very well, and also wore a cloak that the Xiliang soldiers put on him. The thick cloak and the clothes of the Xiliang soldiers made him feel extremely warm!
From time to time, you can take a sip of it, and when you drink it, you can feel the alcohol burning like a flame in your stomach.
"Sir, after passing through Yeling Town, I once saw a huge mine. The Ma family blocked that area and no one was allowed to go through.
The grassroots suspect that there should be a mining area over there!"
Since he chose to join the governor, Zhang Wenlong felt that he had to create more capital, and the Majia Mining Area was his place to give the Xiliang army a name!
"Mine?" Li Xiang remembered that on the map, the Xiliang soldiers marked this place as the Ma family's arsenal. It had a large number of blacksmith shops that made weapons. In the words of Xiliang, it was a huge arsenal.
"Do you know whether the mine is large or small?" Li Xiang asked subconsciously, without giving much hope. Although Zhang Wenlong was a scholar in a small town, because his father offended the Ma family, when he was ten years old,
At that time, the family fell into decline, and there was only an old house left behind.
How much can such a person know?
Zhang Wenlong said: "It should be a large mine. The grassroots were so hungry that there was nothing they could do. The prey in other places was almost beaten by hunters in the town. The grassroots had no choice but to go to places that were listed as restricted areas to steal.
hunting.
The grassroots people did not see the mine. At that time, they saw a large number of people with iron chains on their feet. The number was very large. There should be thousands of people in that canyon.
Only large mines can employ so many people!"
"Thousands of people, it should be a large mine. I will take you there to have a look when the time comes!" The team continued to move forward, and soon they could see an earthen wall on the slope not far away, with a west pole on it.
Cool battle flag.
This town has been captured by Xiliang soldiers. The large team entered the town immediately!
Yeling Town, usually a very lively town, now had a large number of corpses on the ground, and the military camp had turned into a hell on earth, with blood everywhere, and not a single soldier escaped.
The town gate on the other side was also occupied by Xiliang soldiers, and the wall was surrounded by Xiliang soldiers. Cheng Jushu broke down the door of the mayor's house, and the people inside knelt on the ground and trembled.
Many of them didn't know what was going on. They only heard the sound of fighting outside, and then a group of fierce soldiers led by a big man surrounded the door of their house.
The landlords' houses in the city were surrounded by Xiliang soldiers.
"My lord, my lord!" The mayor of Yeling Town, an old man in his sixties, ran to Cheng Jushu with a flattering look on his face: "I don't know what you want to do, adults. If you want money and food, I am willing."
Open the granary in the town, store the gold and silver in the cellar in the old backyard, and give everything to you, sir. I just ask you not to hurt anyone!"
"We don't hurt anyone!" Cheng Jushu was holding a huge ax that was still dripping with blood. People around him couldn't believe it when they heard Cheng Jushu's words. Can you wipe the blood on the ax before saying this?
"But there are some people who are just cheap. If they don't use weapons, they don't know what it means to be afraid!" Cheng Jushu said and put the ax on the old mayor's neck. He felt the weight of the ax and the
Bright red blood, had the old mayor ever seen such a posture before?
He is also a murderer without blinking an eye, but he always lets people around him do the killing, and he never does it himself.
This time, he felt very close to death.
"Yes, yes, yes!" the old mayor said with a trembling voice: "That's what you said!"
"General, my lord, enter the town immediately!" A soldier galloped to the side of Cheng Jushu and said.
Cheng Jushu took down the ax that was placed on the old mayor's body. He didn't actually put it on just now, otherwise the old man would have died due to the weight of the ax!
"Follow me to greet the lord!" Cheng Jushu said and glanced at the old mayor's family: "You'd better be more honest, otherwise your family may not be reunited with you until they have to go to hell!"
"I am honest, and I will be honest!" The old mayor was panicked at the beginning, but now he is a little calmer. He lowered his head and thought. The armors and weapons of these people in front of him did not look like the weapons and equipment of the nearby robbers and bandits. Listen, The accent is a pure Daqian accent, and it’s an accent from the imperial capital.
But are there any troops from the Imperial Capital to Liangzhou?
No!
Each of these soldiers is extremely tall and mighty. No matter how you look at them, they feel a bit like the Xiliang soldiers that were very popular some time ago. But how could the Xiliang soldiers come to Yeling Town?
In front of Yeling Town is the Zhiqiang Fortress. There are 30,000 troops in the fortress, and it is officially winter. How could Xiliang launch a war in the cold winter.
Following the Xiliang soldiers, we walked to the entrance of the town. Along the way, we saw fallen soldiers on both sides. There were soldiers everywhere with the same weapons and equipment and the same tall stature.
The old mayor felt that his previous guess might have become true, and the Xiliang army was coming to kill him!
Soon he saw a big flag and a long black dragon coming from a distance. The Xiliang army was really coming!
Li Xiang led Zhang Wenlong to the front. Zhang Wenlong was the first person in the Liangzhou area to seek refuge with him. The most important thing for Li Xiang in employing people was loyalty or disloyalty. What's the use of disloyal people?
Loyal people, no matter how incompetent they are, can still be kept by their side or sent to some mines, that's fine!
Moreover, through chatting, Zhang Wenlong still has some talents and has some experience in local governance and logistical work.
After the Xiliang army captured the small towns and mines around Heishui County, they needed someone to control them. The candidate in Li Xiang's mind was Zhang Wenlong for the time being.
Zhang Wenlong was a local and a student from a poor family. He had little influence in the local area and could only rely on the Xiliang army, so Li Xiang planned to train him.
As long as he has the ability to put the entire Heishui County under his control, that's fine!
Zhang Wenlong didn't know how much Li relative valued him. He looked at the old man who was standing respectfully on the roadside waiting for them, with hatred in his eyes.
It was this man who ruined his family. His father and mother died directly or indirectly at his hands.
"Lord, all the big families in the town have been captured. This old guy is the mayor of the town!" Cheng Jushu said carelessly.
Li Xiang glanced at the old man and asked Zhang Wenlong next to him: "Is it him?"
Along the way, Zhang Wenlong not only told him about the surrounding environment, but also told him about the experiences of Zhang Wenlong's family.
Zhang Wenlong said: "That's him, but the person who brought me to Shantou was the steward of another family!"
When the old man heard Zhang Wenlong's words, he always felt a little familiar, as if he had heard them somewhere. But without Prime Minister Li's order, he did not dare to raise his head!
"What are you going to do? Destroy his family?" Li Xiang said indifferently: "Or, annihilate their family?"
In some important places in Zhangye, the Ma family is the strongest in the area. The Ma family has a population of about one million in Liangzhou. They use their family to control important areas.
Such a huge family, as well as the power of the Ma family in Liangzhou, made the children of the Ma family more arrogant and domineering than the others, especially in the two counties of Zhangye and Fufeng.
The mayor is a descendant of the Ma family, but he is far away from the main lineage.
Hearing Li Xiang's words of destroying the family, the old mayor knelt on the ground and said: "Sir, please spare my life. The fault lies with this old man. Please spare the family members!"
As he spoke, he kowtowed to the ground. He didn't know who the person who just spoke was, but he could tell that he had a grudge against their family.
Over the years, for the development of the family, he has killed many people and offended many people. However, he has the protection of the Ma family, and the small town's squadrons are all Ma family troops, so he has not been afraid.
But now that all the troops in the town have been killed, he has no support anymore, and if it is really as he thinks, these are troops from Xiliang, will Xiliang be afraid of the Ma family?
The heir of the Ma family, Major General Ma Jin, was beheaded by Li Xiang, the great governor of Jiuyuan, on the battlefield. The Ma family didn't even let go of a fart. What did they have to fight with Xiliang?
For the sake of his family, the mayor immediately gave in.
The mayor's surrender made Zhang Wenlong seem to have seen his father and mother kneeling in front of each other. His father's forehead was covered with blood, but the mayor did not let his father go. Later, his father was killed during a hunting trip.
The guard of the mayor's house accidentally shot him to death. There were more than a dozen long arrows stuck in his body, none of which were fatal. He died only after the blood drained out.
While my mother was washing clothes, she was accidentally touched by someone and fell into the water. It was a cold winter. When she got home, she had no money to buy medicine, and she eventually died of illness.
Zhang Wenlong remembered these one by one. No one dared to help him openly, because even if he gave him a bite of food, he would be punished by the mayor.
It took a gentleman from Zhangye city to live in the town for a period of time to help him, so that he could spend that period of time. With the help of that gentleman, he grew up to the age of fifteen. The gentleman warned the town before leaving.
The elder of the family made the mayor stop targeting him openly.
But secretly he still kept making small moves, and he kept these in mind.
"Get up!" Li Xiang said to the mayor: "Look who is next to me!"
In the northwest, Prime Minister Li would usually call himself me, but when he comes to Liangzhou, he is the governor of Liangzhou, so he calls himself his own official.
The old mayor raised his head and saw Zhang Wenlong riding on the big horse. He didn't recognize it at first glance, because in his eyes, Zhang Wenlong was an ant that could be crushed at any time. He didn't kill him before because he didn't want to offend Zhang Yecheng.
An adult.
After looking at it for a few times, I suddenly remembered this face. The Zhang family used to be a large family in the small town, but their population was not very good. Especially after Grandpa Zhang Wenlong died, the family's property began to be annexed by other families.
"Zhang, Zhang, nephew!" The mayor didn't know what to call him. Zhang Wenlong's father was killed by his order, and his mother was also pushed into the water by others. This was the revenge of killing his father and his mother. At this time, the old mayor's face
The smile on his face is very ugly.
"No, no!" Zhang Wenlong said goodbye again and again: "The common people don't dare to bear the title of nephew. My lord, you'd better enter the city first!"
Li Xiang smiled and said to Cheng Jushu: "Jushu, take good care of his family, and investigate how many jackals, tigers and leopards there are in this town. I will act like a Qingtian master today and manage it well."
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"Don't worry, my lord, no one can escape from my hands!" Cheng Jushu said with a wide grin.
"Let's go!" Li Xiang led the Xiliang army into the town. The old mayor almost sat down on the ground, he knew it was over!
He could clearly see the hatred in Zhang Wenlong's eyes just now. He regretted why he didn't kill this kid in the first place!
On the other side, the people from the big families in the city were also trembling. The aura exuded by the soldiers outside, any one of them was a top expert in their town.
Judging from the armor, this is not the armor of the major forces in Liangzhou, and the ethnic groups in the north do not have such sophisticated armor.
They didn't dare to resist, and the other party just stood guard outside and wouldn't let them go out.
Li Xiang was taken to a huge courtyard with the word "horse" on the door number.
"Is the Ma family so big in Liangzhou?" Li said to Zhang Wenlong: "In the Qiang chariot fortress, the largest yard is also the Ma family's yard. In this small town, the largest yard is also the Ma family's yard. Tsk tsk tsk!
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Zhang Wenlong said from the side: "Sir, the Ma family has been operating in Fufeng County for four hundred years. The only wealthy families in Fufeng County are all related to the Ma family. If the surname has nothing to do with the Ma family, they will slowly disappear.
Zhangye is better here, it was only acquired by the Ma family a hundred years ago, otherwise it would be even more terrifying for you, sir."
"It seems that if you want to conquer these two places and want to govern them, you can't do it without shedding some blood!" Li Xiang likes such hard work. If there is no hard work, how will he get gold and silver from these people.
Such things as murder and arson are not suitable for his current status. The reward of ransacking a house is no less than murder and arson.
As long as you copy more, you will get a lot!
Zhang Wenlong didn't know what Li Xiang was thinking, so he followed what Mr. Han said about Zhangye, Fufeng and other places: "Mr. Han once said that if you want to govern Zhangye and Fufeng, you need to start from the countryside and solve it from the root. Just remove this big tree
Cutting down the tree crown is of no use.
As long as the roots are there, it can continue to grow!"
"Indeed!" Li Xiang nodded, then laughed: "Then chop off all his roots!"
On the other side, soldiers from Xiliang entered various major families and gathered all the important people in one place. The lord wanted to judge these people, and at the same time, they also had to clean up their belongings.
At the same time, Cheng Jurong continued to move forward with a large force. There was a small town more than forty miles away, and the town there needed to be captured.
Good news came from other directions, and according to the plan, it would take about ten days to reach Heishui County.
