After breaking the Mingsha Pass, Cheng Yuan took advantage of the water conservancy in Zhejiang County to quickly contact Yang Tao's main force.
To be precise, contact Wei Ci.
After Wei Ci received the letter, she thought for a moment and wrote a reply to Cheng Yuan.
The content of the letter is probably some precautions for the march, and some private goods are entrained by the way.
Don't look at Jiang Pengji's family background in this life, but her suppression of the gentry is more severe than in the previous life.
No matter whether you are a prince or an emperor, you must not only have talent but also wealth to do big things. How can you do without money
Sixty percent of the wealth in the world is in the hands of aristocratic families. If you don't take advantage of the war to beat the local tyrants and scrape the fat off their bodies, it will be difficult to do it in the future. Once the world is stable, the nobility will use the background to accumulate wealth again, which can be said to be endless troubles.
However, this is not a problem for Wei Ci.
In his last life, he followed His Majesty for decades, and saw with his own eyes that she had done countless bad things, and even dug countless pits for the nobles and poor families.
I dare not say that I have learned the essence of the other party, but I can still draw gourds like this.
Don't look at Wei Ci's human-like appearance, but when he has a black heart, it is also a human-faced "beast" heart.
The private goods he brought in would definitely teach Cheng Yuan a lesson.
Cheng Yuan and Qin Gong led the army to break through Mingsha Pass, and connected several important military towns along the Taiqing River, and the hinterland of Zhejiang County was open to them.
Before the invasion of Zhejiang County, the two made three orders and five orders again, not allowing the soldiers to disturb the people.
If you take the initiative to report, you will be rewarded for meritorious service.
Zhe County is Xu's territory, and people's hearts are here.
If outsiders hurt the local people, it will inevitably cause their backlash and resistance.
Jiang Pengji's military training over the years has been effective, and the political commissars of the military camp are violently brainwashed day after day. Who dares to commit crimes against the wind
Our army was victorious, and the soldiers were still in order, which made Qin Gong very emotional.
If all the soldiers in the world were like them, how many tragedies would there be less in the world
Qin Gong sighed with emotion and was accidentally overheard by Cheng Yuan.
Cheng Yuan smiled and said, "Feng Jing is wrong. If the whole world is like this, the casualties will only be greater."
Qin Gong was at a loss, was Cheng Yuan wrong
Cheng Yuan explained, "If the feudal lords are fighting each other, if they are almost the same in strength and have the same strength, it means that the war will be infinitely longer, because none of them can do anything about the other. Fighting a war requires not only the hard work of the soldiers, but also the support of the people in the rear. Rice and grain are heavy. The longer it drags on, the more people will starve to death, and the more soldiers will die on the battlefield—doesn’t that mean the casualties will be greater?”
Qin Gong understood, scratched the back of his head embarrassingly, and smiled with a bit of simplicity.
Cheng Yuan felt a little itchy in his hand.
No wonder those military advisers like to bully Li Yun so much, and co-authoring and bullying honest people is addicting.
Zhe County is home to nobles, and the population density is not comparable to that of a small place like Hejian County.
There are many nobles, which also means more money.
Cheng Yuan received Wei Ci's reply and immediately understood what to do.
He did not raise the butcher's knife against the gentry, but ordered some of the soldiers to be broken up into pieces and used the identity of bandits to rob.
Before Cheng Yuan led his troops in, Zhe County was considered a haven for the nobility in troubled times, and every family had a rich heritage.
When the army invaded, most of the little gentry planned to move to avoid the military disaster, but instead this wave of "fake bandits" was cheap.
Not robbing people, not robbing people, just money.
They took great pains to take away the neatly packed family wealth.
Of course, they weren't too sick. The jewelry on the women's family was untouched, and the accessories on the men couldn't be spared.
The small nobles were in a hurry to move and were robbed, while the middle-level nobles were not in a hurry.
There is no official in their family, but the background is not bad. As soon as the new master arrives, he will join the other party, and he is not afraid at all. But they did not escape the poisonous hands, and the "bandits" looted most of them as usual. To avoid suspicion, they raised the butcher's knife and slaughtered those who resisted.
In addition to these, the rest are the nobles who have a great career and follow Xu Peigan.
They are the most panicked.
Especially the family members of Xu Pei's ministers, if they fall into Jiang Pengji's hands, there is no guarantee that the other party will not use them to threaten their relatives.
Xu Yanxiao ushered in the second "Great Escape" under such circumstances.
As soon as I woke up that day, the courtyard changed from the usual desertedness, and the servants were busy packing their luggage.
Xu Yanxiao's position in Xu Pei's mansion is very embarrassing. A group of cousins and cousins are very indifferent to her, and her female relatives and elders even ignore her.
She didn't care, instead, she shut herself in the courtyard to be a vegetarian and filial piety to her deceased mother, reciting and copying scriptures every day.
A few days ago, she faintly heard a few maids talking about the situation outside, as if the enemy was about to attack again.
"Enemies? Which princes?"
Xu Yanxiao thought of Qin Gong subconsciously, and she had not seen him for several months. She thought of him more than before.
Now she is alone, and her close blood is gone, but Qin Gong is still somewhat familiar.
The maid hesitated and said, "It seems to be the one from Maruzhou."
Maruzhou
Is that the lord Liu Xi that Qin Gong serves now
Xu Yanxiao's calm heart lake rippled, and the slightly frowning brows slowly loosened.
When she heard the enemy attacking, she subconsciously remembered the mountain barn city a few months ago, and her heart tightened, like falling into an ice cellar.
However, Qin Gong's promise to her made her feel inexplicably at ease, and all the ambiguity and fear disappeared.
now-
Where is he
Xu Yanxiao finished copying the scriptures as usual, and reciting the contents of the scriptures in her mouth, put the scriptures into a copper pot and burned them to her deceased mother.
With a creak, the gate of the courtyard opened, and the first-class maid assigned by Xu Pei's room hurriedly said, "Miss Xiao, hurry--"
Xu Yanxiao lowered her eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"
The maid said, "The carriages and horses are ready outside, why hasn't Mrs. Xiao-"
Xu Yanxiao raised her eyelids indifferently, and glanced at the shapeless maid, the other party did not frighten her at all, but pulled her wrist instead.
Xu Yanxiao pulled her hand back, "Go and tell Auntie, I'll go after I pack my things."
The maid said, "Miss Xiao has something to prepare for, now it's important to escape, all the money and jewelry are outside the body."
Xu Yanxiao sneered and took the initiative to walk to the door.
"Forget it, let's go."
She was just an orphaned girl, and the maid couldn't say anything rude to her.
What the other party said was right. Besides this person, Xu Yanxiao, did she have anything in this yard that belonged to her
If so, what does she have to prepare
Xu Yanxiao seemed to be a little transparent with no existence, and she didn't make a sound when she was stuffed into the carriage, her head hung down the whole time.
The carriage drove to the pier, and Xu Yanxiao was put into the cabin of the big ship again.
Seeing the pier away from sight, she sighed silently, and then lowered her head to recite the scriptures for her past life, as if this would calm her anxious heart. After driving for about a quarter of an hour, the terrified cries of the female family members came from outside the cabin of the big ship, and Xu Yanxiao opened her eyes abruptly.
"... it's a water bandit—"