There were three or four wounds on Fu Zhengnan's chest, and even though he had simply bandaged it, blood was still oozing out. He himself has good cultivation, although he was injured by the sneak attack led by the Xiaoqi school team, he still has a brave spirit. The reason why he was captured was because he brought his family with him.
"The city lord, please sit down."
Fang Jie looked at the gloomy man in front of him and smiled, not a mocking smile. His smile was very sincere and clean, so clean that Fu Zhengnan didn't find any impurities even if he searched for it pickily. This made Fu Zhengnan a little strange, how could a person who can ascend to a high position have such a clean smile and such clean eyes
Just because he had been in a high position for many years, Fu Zhengnan knew very well that a clean person would not be able to reach a high position.
"Get my golden sore medicine."
Fang Jie gave an order, and then sat down opposite Fu Zhengnan. There are several plates of stir-fried cooked meat on the table, not exquisite, not extravagant, just simple. But at this time of dawn, the faint aroma of vegetables still makes people twitch their Adam's apple. There was no wine on the table, only a large plate of steaming steamed buns.
"eat?"
Fang asked.
Fu Zhengnan didn't answer. After a while of silence, he picked up his chopsticks and started eating. Fang Jie also picked up the chopsticks, and the two of them seemed to be in a competition, devouring their food. Soon, several plates of stir-fried meat and two plates of cooked meat were swept away, and only half of a large plate of steamed buns remained.
"If this is a decapitated meal, you are too stingy."
Fu Zhengnan took the towel handed over by Fang Jie's soldiers and wiped his mouth, speaking in a flat tone. The hatred in his eyes seemed to have been eaten into his stomach along with the meal, and he could no longer see the slightest bit. After eating, he suddenly understood one thing, if he loses, he loses, and no matter how resentful he is, he can't win back.
"I'll have a decapitated meal with you?"
Fang asked.
Fu Zhengnan was slightly taken aback, then laughed: "Could it be that General Fang still wants to persuade him to surrender?"
"Why bother?"
Fang Jie smiled, sat up straight, and stroked his slightly swollen belly with his palms. He ate the meal very quickly and was very full. In fact, people often ignore that the most practical time is when you are full. Because it's so commonplace, few people care about it.
"If I want to persuade you, you should also prepare a decent table. At least add a jar of old wine. I have seen that there is a lot in the cellar of the city lord's mansion. I wanted to take a jar. After thinking about it, it will all be mine in the future, so I’m not willing.”
These words made Fu Zhengnan's mouth twitch angrily, but he didn't speak.
"About seven hundred miles to the east from here is the Nanyan Seashore. The people there have not suffered wars for at least a thousand years, and the people are simple and honest. They don't pick up lost things on the road and don't close their houses at night. It's really a good place. Your brother Fu Zhengming told me, so I wrote it down. … After dawn, I will arrange for someone to find a carriage. The city lord will take your family and set off. But you can’t take any of your guards away. You have to drive the carriage yourself. Not even two silver coins will be given."
Fang Jie smiled and said, "I have a shortcoming, that is, I am too greedy. It is extremely difficult to give away something once I have it, even if I just snatched it from you."
Fu Zhengnan was taken aback, his eyes full of doubts: "What do you mean?"
Fang Jie shrugged his shoulders: "I'm not interested in saying it a second time. It's almost dawn, and I want to squat for a while. After dawn, I will open the granary in Qingyuan City and use your hoarded grain to buy people's hearts. These things are more important than chatting with you, and I have to think about how to fight Fengping next. With your lessons learned from the past, Fengping City Lord Zhu Chengtian is not too stupid, and he will definitely be more careful after knowing how you lost."
"You want to let me go?"
Fu Zhengnan's questioning tone was full of disbelief.
"You really didn't understand?"
Fang Jie asked.
After being silent for a while, Fu Zhengnan asked, "Why?"
Fang Jie shook his head: "I don't want to explain."
"Then I won't go!"
Fu Zhengnan raised his voice.
"Is this threatening me? Really powerful..."
Fang Jie said with a smile: "You are a strange person. I let you go and you still have to ask why. You can think that I am pretending to be merciful... Oh... By the way, you can think of it this way, I let you go hypocritically." It's also to buy people's hearts, so that the people in Qingyuan City and your subordinate soldiers will praise me for my kindness. Even you and I are willing to let go, let alone them? This is worse than distributing 50 catties of grain to each household. It has to work, doesn't it?"
"Are you going to send troops to chase me down on the way?"
Fu Zhengnan asked.
Fang Jie was noncommittal, got up and prepared to leave: "Having a meal with you can be regarded as the end of the enemy between us. From now on, I will take my family and be a down-to-earth fisherman on the seashore. I have a piece of advice for you... If you flee back to Dali City and plan to make a comeback, you won’t have such an opportunity next time.”
Seeing that he was about to leave, Fu Zhengnan also stood up: "Give me a reason!"
Seeing that Fang Jie didn't speak, he said anxiously: "I don't believe what you said before!"
Fang Jie was silent for a while and then smiled: "Actually, even I myself sometimes feel strange because many of my decisions are irrational. When I arrested you and came back, I still wanted to torture you to extract some information about Feng Pingcheng. news, and even news about Murong Shame. But after seeing you, I changed my mind... just because your wounds are all on your chest, and none of your wounds are on your back."
Fu Zhengnan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood. He stood up straight and bowed solemnly to the other party: "General Fang is aboveboard, I don't want to say another word, thank you!"
"In order to protect his family, a man stands in front of them and suffers swords and swords. He can escape alone but never abandons his family. This alone is worth letting you go. If a man doesn't understand If you dare to spread your wings to protect your family, then you are not a man. Even if such a man is defeated, he can still stand upright. Die like this, live like this.”
After saying these few words, Fang Jie turned and left.
Looking at Fang Jie's back, Fu Zhengnan shouted after a while: "People like you will suffer!"
Fang Jie paused for a moment, then smiled: "Because I am strong enough, you will still be defeated next time, so I am not afraid to let you go."
Fu Zhengnan was stunned, speechless for a long time.
When Fang Jie walked out of the City Lord's Mansion, he didn't think about whether he was right or wrong, because in his opinion, there was no such thing as wrong. Perhaps this is what makes Fang Xie different. He is cold, but... never heartless.
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Fang Xie arrived at the granary at dawn, saw that Wei Xiting was still busy with his people, Fang Xie didn't bother him, and found a high grain pile to sit and lean against, squinting his eyes slightly. At this time, he thought of the big dog. On every sunny day, the big dog would find such a pile of grain and sleep late. He always seemed so slovenly that he would rather snore and drool in such a place than lie in a comfortable big bed.
At the beginning, Fang Jie always had a hard time understanding why Da Quan had such a habit, but later he realized that there was no deep meaning to it at all, but Da Quan thought it would be more practical.
He took a straw from the grain pile and held it in his mouth, watching the red sun gradually rise in the east. The sun shines down and coats everything with a layer of gold, which is very gentle.
The white lion Hunchao leaned beside him, leaning against Fang Jie's side with its huge head and rubbing it from time to time.
Fang Jie stretched out a hand to caress the head of the white lion, looking for another kind of warmth from it.
There were only a few people coming over until dawn. Although the Black Banner Army beat gongs and drums last night and walked through the streets to tell them that if they stayed at home honestly, they could receive fifty catties of rice tomorrow morning, but they didn’t People really dare to come. After the frenzy last night, the people had already calmed down, and they all wondered if they would be hung up and beaten until their skin was torn apart if they really went to collect the food.
The people who came first were called by the inspecting soldiers who knocked on the door. If they were not afraid of being killed if they refused, they would not come.
But the people who came were surprised to find that the soldiers of the Black Banner Army didn't make things difficult, they just asked them to write down their names, and then distributed fifty catties of grain without deducting one or two. This made the people very surprised and pleasantly surprised. This kind of good thing was the first time they encountered it in their lives. But the people who received the rice could not go home immediately. The soldiers of the Black Banner Army politely asked them to stay in the open space outside the granary. Others can go back first with rice.
Because the person who received the rice went back and said, more and more people began to gather at the granary. By the time the sun dazzled the eyes of those who could not keep their eyes open, the people who received the food had already formed a long queue.
At this time, another group of people gathered in the open space outside the granary. Most of these people were the rascals who took advantage of the fire last night, and a small half of them, about three or four hundred people, were Qingyuan City soldiers in armor.
Fang Xie saw that the people had gathered almost before he reluctantly left the grain pile. He stepped up to the top of a granary and faced the people against the breeze.
"Leave everyone just want to tell everyone a word, and please remember this sentence."
Fang Jie paused for a moment and said, "A man cannot stand without faith."
He looked at the people below and said: "I said before, as long as everyone waits quietly at home, you don't need to do anything to distribute 50 catties of grain to each household. I did it, and I have no regrets or hesitation. Because this is what I promised. If what I said, there is no need to doubt whether it is true or not."
"The general is a good man!"
Some people couldn't help shouting: "The general keeps his word! We believe in you!"
Fang Jie waved his hand to signal the people to be quiet: "But I also said that there are some people I will definitely kill! These people..."
Fang Jie pointed to the soldiers in armor: "They are all good soldiers, and they still resisted after the city was broken. They are all qualified soldiers, and they fought to the end in order to show their loyalty to Fu Zhengnan. I am not stingy in praising them, but It does not mean that they should be pardoned, because I said that if there are still people who resist with armor and lead soldiers after I enter the city, they will be killed."
As soon as the word "kill" was uttered, the soldiers of the Black Banner Army immediately swung their knives and chopped it down. Without any hesitation, hundreds of heads were chopped off.
"these people!"
Fang Jie pointed at those rascals who took advantage of the fire and robbed: "Even robbing, killing and bullying my own folks, it's disgusting, so I have to kill them too."
"don't want!"
"Forgive me!"
Immediately, some of those rogues wailed. The Black Banner Army killed people too directly and simply before. They were all terrified. Only then did they realize that they might also die. But their wailing was so short, because the soldiers of the Black Banner Army didn't even give them a chance to shout a second sentence.
Another few hundred heads fell.
"I just need to remind everyone to remember one thing today. I will keep my word. Listen to me, and you will benefit. If you don't listen, follow the rules... In addition, there is one more thing to tell you. Starting today, All the land under the rule of Qingyuan City, I will distribute it to each household to plant, and distribute it according to the population. If you want more variety, you can rent it from the Black Banner Army. I want half of the rented grain, and the rest is your own."
"If someone obstructs it, no matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a famous family or a big family..."
Fang Jie said calmly but resolutely: "You can come and tell me at any time, who won't let you farm and harvest food steadily, you are responsible for saying his name, and I will be responsible for cutting off their heads."