Chen Ji and Deng Long shouted in unison: "I was wronged! Sir, what I have written is absolutely not false, please be aware of it!"
Liu Xin stood up "huo" and said, "Okay, this officer will believe you once. You two are forgiven for death and life crimes are inevitable. Let's go to the forced labor with the soldiers. As for your family, I Let them go for a while, but half of the property needs to be confiscated."
After Chen Jiu and Deng Long were dragged out in despair, Liu Xin handed over the report written by the two of them to Jushou, saying: "Gongyou, according to what they wrote, they will screen the officials of the big and small in Jiangxia City. Those who persuaded Huang Zu to leave the city and surrender and those who held a wait-and-see attitude were still entrusted with their original positions. Those who persuaded Huang Zu to escape and fight were sent to forced labor."
Liu Xin understands that it is easy to build a city, but it is much more difficult to manage a city well, and the key to running a city lies in people. It turns out that the officials in the city should still have some abilities, and they should be more familiar than others in doing things, and they can't kill them all with one stick. So he used Chen Jiu and Deng Long's eagerness to make contributions to figure out the details of Jiang Xia's officials. Of course, this will not guarantee that there will be no mistakes. Among those who are sent to forced labor, there will certainly be a few who have been wronged, but Liu Xin can no longer take care of things urgently.
He attacked Jiang Xia this time and also brought some officials with the army. They were transferred from Xiangyang and other counties. Some of these people will stay in Jiangxia and serve as officials at all levels, carrying the various policies implemented by Liu Xin into effect. . Since Jiang Xiacheng had just been under his control and there were still many uncertain factors, Liu Xin deliberately kept the Korean drama and temporarily acted as Jiang Xia's prefect.
Liu Xin's action to attack Jiang Xia was too fast. Cao Yu, the prefect of Wuling, didn't hear any news at all, so he didn't make any preparations. Xu Huang and other four armies attacked at the same time, and the battle went extremely smoothly. Wuling County has eleven counties under its jurisdiction. If it weren't for the roads, it would take only one day to take all of these counties. Even so, by the early morning of the eighth day of February, the Fourth Army still surrounded Wuling City Tuantuan.
However, Cao Yu's situation is a little better than that of Huang Zulai. Cao Yu had waited for the news that Liu Xin's army had been killed two days earlier. He ordered the counties to guard against death and buy time for Wuling City. On the other hand, he recruited civilians and arranged the city defense. However, to his surprise, Liu Xin's 40,000 army came to Wuling City and did not rush to attack the city. Instead, they set up camps at various gates and key crossings, completely blocking the connection between Wuling and the outside world. Cao Yu sent people to negotiate several times, but Xu Huang and others just ignored them, neither fighting nor talking.
This stalemate lasted for four or five days. Liu Xin, who had dealt with various affairs in Jiangxia, brought Jushou, Dianwei, and Gan Ning to the city of Wuling.
Cao Yu spent a few sleepless nights in anxiety and restlessness, and finally waited for the Lord. These days, he neither understood why Liu Xin's army came here, nor did he know what Liu Xin's ultimate goal was. He sent messengers several times, and the answer was all that he would wait for Master Zhou Mu to come. But he knew that Liu Xin was doing such a big fight, and it was definitely not for fun. Liu Xin was a bad person this time!
Now, when the state shepherd came out after a thousand calls, Cao Yu suddenly felt an ugly daughter-in-law finally going to see his in-laws. Liu Xin had sent an envoy to ask him to leave the city tomorrow.
After sending off the messenger, Cao Yu's heart was very contradictory. Liu Xin took down Jiang Xia, and he already knew about the death of all Huang Zu's family. Now, Liu Xin's army came outside Wuling City again and told him to meet up outside the city. If he leaves the city, will Liu Xin take the opportunity to harm him? If he does not leave the city, will Liu Xin take the opportunity to add a crime to him
Upon seeing this, Xiao Wei Jinxuan persuaded: "My lord, I don't know who do you think Jiang Xia is stronger than Wuling?"
Cao Yu's heart tightened and said, "Wuling's military strength, population, money and food are not as good as those of Jiang Xia."
Jin Xuan said again: "So the adults think that Huang Zudu has already given the lead, what is your chance of winning against Liu Xin?"
"This..." Cao Yu hesitated for a moment, and said: "At the beginning, Zhang Ji wanted to use the road to transfer troops to Xiangyang. Everyone persuaded me to block the road and prevent him from crossing the border. But now..."
Jin Xuan continued, "My lord, now and then. When Liu Xin first arrived in Jingzhou, his foundation was not stable, so why don't adults need to look at his face to act. However, now it's different. He already occupies more than half of Jingzhou and his troops are strong. Wuling City was besieged but not attacked, and now he invites adults to meet again, because he doesn't want to completely tear his face with them, leaving them with a ray of life. Where to go, please think twice."
Cao Yu pondered for a long while, his face suddenly sinking, and said, "You asked me to surrender to Liu Xin? Humph, I will treat you as a confidant. The enemy is now, but you dare to talk nonsense. How much benefit did you get Liu Xin? !"
Jin Xuan hurriedly knelt to the ground, bowed his head and said, "What the general said and every sentence from his heart is for the sake of adults, so please be aware of them."
Cao Yu sneered, and shouted, "Here, I'll push him out!"
The generals hurriedly interceded, and Cao Yu spared Jin Xuan, beat him twenty sticks, dismissed his official position, and expelled him from the prefectural palace.
In the past few days, although Liu Xin’s four-way army has not attacked the city, there are a lot of books that shoot into the city every day. The different endings of Jiangxia officials can be clearly written on it. Everyone standing in the Wuling Prefect’s Mansion, Where to go, my heart is doing my wishful thinking.
The Jiangxia officials who were on the side of Huang Zu are now sent to participate in some forced labor, and they have been there for six years. In the past six years, no matter how much hardship they have to endure, it is not bad to be able to come back alive by then. Most of them are the pillars of the family. In six years, even if they can come back alive safely, who knows what the family will be like? In such an era, a family has no male owner, and it is not far from decline. Perhaps by the time they came back, their own women would have run away with others, and their children might have become slaves to other people's homes. In six years, what will happen, and which one can tell clearly.
Seeing Jin Xuan escape from death, he was driven out by Cao Yu, no one in the civil and military dared to come out to persuade him to surrender. But each of them had their own minds for a long time, and they were even more reluctant to come forward and help him with any ideas. Cao Yu asked for a long time, but all the civil and military officials didn't say a word.
Cao Yu was furious when he saw this: "I have been raising you for so long, and I can't even take out an idea. A bunch of trash! Get out of me!"
The officials had to leave the prefectural palace in anguish.
In fact, Cao Yu didn't think about leaving the city to surrender, but he was afraid of losing his power, so he only lowered his head. From now on, he would no longer have the final say on matters in this Wuling city. People always have this kind of sex, some like money, and some like coloring. And Cao Yu is undoubtedly the kind of person who has an infinite desire for power. He has become accustomed to the days of calling for the wind and rain and killing the heart in Wuling. Now he wants to let him be sent down, and it is really more uncomfortable than killing him. . It must be impossible to fight, and Jiang was not reconciled. Cao Yu hesitated and couldn't make up his mind. He still wanted to wait and see.
However, if he waited, the officials under his command could not wait. After leaving the prefectural palace, everyone gathered at Jinxuan in the name of visiting Jinxuan.
Although Jin Xuan suffered a round of chaotic sticks, the soldiers who executed the execution were merciful, only hurting some flesh and blood, but did not move their muscles and bones. Even so, his ass was still blooming, and he couldn't sit down. Jin Xuan had to lie on his head, looking at everyone, with tears in his eyes, and said: "If it weren't for everyone to help today, Jin has already..."
The county prime minister Linpu said: "General Jin does not have to be polite, everyone is a colleague, and we take it for granted. Now that the army outside the city is under pressure, we should help each other to tide over the difficulties together."
Jin Xuan sighed and said: "I have tried my best, but the prefect will not listen to Jin's words, Wuling City will only be broken overnight, so please do it yourself."
Chang Shi Hu Xin said angrily: "Liu Xin came to occupy the righteousness this time. He is a state animal husband, and he is not a past governor. It was originally his duty to replace the prefect. Cao Yu didn't know the current affairs and found his own way of death. Do you still want us to die with him?"
Lin Pu hurriedly said: "Hu Changshi is silent, silent, be careful that the wall has ears."
Hu Xin turned his head to look at the officials and said, "I believe that the people in General Jin's family will not go out and talk nonsense. If any of you is willing to die with Cao Yu, you can tell him now."
Everyone said in unison: "I have listened to the orders of several adults."
Hu Xin looked at Lin Pu and said, "Master Lin, is there anything else to hesitate? It's better to die him than to die as a family!"
The next morning, there was a drumbeat from the military camp outside the city, and a group of horses and men filed out at the gate opening. The team came to the city not far away to tie their feet, riding a flying horse in the middle, shouting at the city head: "Listen to the people in the city, my lord Jingzhou Mu Liu has come to the city, please Cao Tai Shou speedily Out of town."
Suddenly a white flag was erected on the head of the city, and a group of defenders swarmed out as the city gate opened. Liu Xin was surprised, but saw a man escorted in front of the team of defenders, who was forced to kneel on the ground. I saw a line of officials dressed up from the defenders came out of that team, came to Liu Xin, knelt down together, and said in unison: "The prefect of Wuling Cao Yu refused to surrender. I have been captured by me. The military and civilians welcome Master Zhou Mu to enter the city."
Liu Xin didn't expect this result to happen. He only thought that it would be the best policy to force Cao Yu to surrender. He didn't expect that his subordinates could not stand the pressure first, and even captured him and sacrificed the city. He couldn't help but laughed and said: "You guys, please. Liu said that for all those who can surrender on their own initiative, they will never blame the past, and they will never break their words. You and others will be restored to their posts without worry."
All the officials in Wuling declared their thanks, and they stood aside, and everyone's faces were full of joy.
As soon as Liu Xin urged the horses, he wanted to lead the team into the city. Jushou hurriedly stopped and said: "Lord, wait a minute, should you send someone into the city to find out, so that no one will deceive!"