Chapter 423 Infighting
Ah Huang watched the black cow leave, and said to Qin Lang, "This mountain man may not be trustworthy, Saburo should be careful." Qin Lang just shook his head.
This black bull cut his face three times with a knife, the blood flowed all over his face without frowning, he is definitely a ruthless person. And he beheaded his own father in front of him, this man has the temperament of a hero. However, when he beheaded his father before, his face was full of tears, and he was unable to sit on the ground afterwards, which also left a deep impression on him.
He thinks Hei Niu is still a hot-blooded leader, brave and impulsive, but without losing blood and loyalty. Vengeance must be avenged, and he is a relatively trustworthy person.
Such a person is actually worthy of cooperation.
So not only did he not kill the barbarian king before, but he even gave him the post of magistrate of Yuecheng County first, because he thought that this kind of person was quite smart. He is a man who knows the rules and will not mess around easily again.
"This mission should be regarded as the last test for Hei Niu. If he just goes away and never returns, or if he really votes for Cao Wuzheng, it's just that I don't know people well, and I don't get in the way. It can be regarded as avoiding a hidden danger in advance. Bar."
From Yanguan to Guilin, about a hundred miles.
Fast horse can actually arrive in one day.
Da Hei Niu resigned from Qin Lang, led about a hundred people with his brother Da Buffalo, and ran to Guilin.
When it was dark, the party had already arrived in Guilin City.
On both sides of the official road in front of the city gate, a row of barbarian heads are still stuck on the pickets, which have already rotted and stink. When Hei Niu saw them, his face was cold and heartless.
When they arrived at the gate of the city, the people in the city were already tensely pointing their bows at them.
"I am Da Hei Niu, I came from Yanguan to see Cao Sima."
The defenders on the city were all Cao Wuzheng's cronies at this time, and they went to report immediately. They knew the truth about the Shanman's rebellion, and they only thought that the famous **** bull came to ask for help.
Cao Wuzheng was in the city at this time, and he was also nervously making deployments, but he didn't know that Yanguan had changed dramatically. Da Hei Niu had just led more than 20,000 mountain savages to leave Qincheng to attack Yanguan. It's just going to the strict gate, no matter how you say it, you can always hold a stalemate with Qin Lang for a while.
He also intends to use this time to make a better plan.
"Why did this guy come here directly?" Cao Wuzheng frowned, but he stood up anyway, "Bring them here!"
Guilin City Gate slowly opened.
Da Hei Niu drove into the city directly with more than a hundred brothers. When he entered the city, he saw that Guilin City was very bleak. He had been to Guilin City several times in the past, and it was very lively in the past.
As the first stop of the Central Plains into Lingnan, Guilin City is the only city in Lingnan that is more like the Central Plains. There are a large number of Han people, the control is extremely strict, and the industry and commerce are also very developed.
Especially in the past two years, with the development of the sea trade of the imperial court, the commercial ports of Guangzhou and Jiaozhou became bustling, and Guilin became more and more lively.
A large number of business group goods from the Central Plains came along the Lingqu Canal across Yuechengling, rested in Guilin, and then went straight down the Lijiang River to Guangzhou.
But now, the city gates are closed, and there are no pedestrians on the streets in the city.
A group of savages rode across the street on horseback, making the street even more panicky, where there were not many people, and people hurried to avoid it.
Da Hei Niu didn't care, and went straight to the state government.
There were quite a few soldiers stationed in front of Yamen Prefecture, but they were all soldiers of Cao Wuzheng. They didn't take it seriously when they saw Shanman coming.
The **** bull fell in front of the Yamen.
Ignored those personal soldiers, and went directly to the Yamen.
The guards only let Brother Da Hei Niu in, and stopped the rest outside the yamen.
did not follow in.
Da Hei Niu kept breaking into the government office, and after Li Xizhi left, Sima Cao Wuzheng temporarily took over the state government office and acted as the governor.
So he couldn't wait to move into the governor's office.
Big Hei Niu broke in, Cao Wuzheng stood up unhesitatingly and wanted to ask him why he came here privately?
As a result, the **** cow directly reached out to the back of his head, took off a big iron ax from his back, and threw it fiercely.
The heavy iron ax pierced through the air, making a sharp sound of piercing the air.
Cao Wuzheng was caught off guard, and it was too late to escape.
The iron ax hit Cao Wuzheng's chest, and the ax blade cut in half.
Cao Wuzheng was thrown into the air by the huge force, and landed on the big table behind, spurting blood from his mouth.
"you!"
"Blood debt!" The **** cow just gritted his teeth and replied.
Several soldiers of Cao Wuzheng drew their swords in exclamation, and the Hei Niu brothers, with sullen faces, stepped forward with their knives and axes, chopped melons and vegetables, and immediately those people fell in a pool of blood in disorder.
The **** bull stepped forward and pulled out his axe, and then chopped off the head of Cao Wuzheng who was still alive. He carried Cao Wuzheng's head in one hand and the iron ax in the other.
The state government is in chaos.
No one expected that the two savages would dare to be so aggressive.
When they rushed all the way to the gate of the state government office, there was also a lot of blood here, and more than a hundred barbarians here also mercilessly killed all the guards at the gate.
"What should we do now?" Hei Niu asked his elder brother, shaking the blood from the knife.
"Go to the city gate, I believe that Xuanxiang's pro-army Qingqi will also arrive!"
A group of barbarians rushed out ferociously, with iron axes and broadswords, light bows and fast horses. These mountain barbarians are all tribal elites, and they are also proficient in riding and shooting.
Caught off guard, no one in Guilin dared to stop him.
Some soldiers became even more panicked when they saw Cao Sima's head in the man's hand from a distance.
Outside the city gate, there was another fierce battle.
This roar sounded like thunder.
The soldiers at the north gate of Guilin were stunned.
The **** bull then roared loudly again, "Qin Xuanshuai's three thousand troops will arrive soon, if you don't want to become Cao's traitor, don't want to copy and kill all the people, immediately put down your weapons and get out of the way!"
Some people are dubious.
But many insiders, looking at the **** cow and Cao Wuzheng's head, were terrified and did not dare to speak out.
"Brother, take out the banner given by Xuan Shuai!"
The big buffalo quickly pulled out a flag from its arms and unfolded it, but it was the flag with the words Dai Tian Nan Xun.
Everyone who can read knows that this flag must be the flag of Qin Lang, the envoy of Jiangnan and Lingnan.
At this moment, a hundred Fuli Wolf Guard Qingqi and a hundred Silver Saddle Tielu Qingqi approached.
"Qin Xuanshuai's pro-army has arrived!"
The big buffalo rushed to the steps of the city with a flag in one hand and a sword in the other. No one dared to stop the soldiers along the way.
The four-character banner of Daitiannan Tour is flying in the wind on the north gate.
Two hundred Qingqi roared loudly outside the city.
"Quickly open the city gate!"
The **** cow ordered.
The soldiers guarding the north gate finally panicked.
They hesitated again and again, and finally put down their swords and arrows, removed the gate bolt, and opened the door.
Two hundred Qingqi roared in.
Da Hei Niu stepped forward carrying Cao Wuzheng's head.
"Cao thief has been killed, and Guilin has been sent down!"
Qin Yong was dressed in bright armor. He reined in his horse and came up to him. He sized up the man's head a few times, but couldn't tell if it was true or false. But since Guilin City had already entered, it should be correct.
"The leader of the Black Bull really keeps his word."
An hour later, Qin Lang arrived.
The three thousand Cao Wuzheng troops in Guilin City were all disarmed and did not resist much.
Although Cao Wuzheng was ambitious, his death was too sudden. His subordinates had no leader, and when they heard that Qin Lang had arrived, the **** bull who led tens of thousands of barbarians had joined the imperial court and became Qin Lang's vanguard. Understand that the situation is over.
No one would be foolish enough to serve a dead man.
What's more, among these people who experienced the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, who hasn't voted for several protagonists?
Amidst the orders to punish only the Cao bandits and leave the rest alone, these people happily put down their weapons and waited here for Qin Lang's arrival.
Qin Lang entered the city.
Those who are most frightened are these Guilin officials and soldiers.
"Those who plot rebellion and cause chaos stop Cao Wuzheng, you are just deceived and coerced, now that you regret your mistakes, then the original envoy will forget the past and forgive you all."
Everyone is happy, and everyone is happy.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Too cheap for those people!"
In the governor's mansion of Guizhou, Qin Yong said to Qin Lang with some dissatisfaction. The final result of the disposition was indeed relatively light. The officials were all temporarily retained for appointment. As for the soldiers in Guilin, Qin Lang was an officer above the team leader and stayed for the time being. The rest All the soldiers were disarmed and sent back to the fields.
Because these soldiers should have been disarmed and returned to the fields when they were attached to the imperial court before, so they are not considered official imperial officers and soldiers, at most they exist in the nature of local soldiers.
Guilin City has been taken over by Qin Lang's Yabing army.
After Cao Wuzheng was killed, some of his backbone party members were actually brought under control, but there was not much movement.
"Killing is useless." Qin Lang casually flipped through some official documents and files in Guizhou. He sent people to control and protect these things immediately.
These are all good things. The imperial court wants to manage the place, and these household registration files are the most valuable information. Just like merchants in later generations scramble to master the big data of users, the imperial court also relies on these files to govern the place.
If these things are damaged, everything such as household registration, fields, forests, taxation, etc. will have to be rebuilt.
Judging from these files, although Guizhou experienced the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, from Shi'an County in the Sui Dynasty to Guizhou in the Tang Dynasty, it has actually been relatively stable in recent years. Although it is a little poor on the books, its foundation is not bad.
The most valuable, of course, is that Guizhou has a lot of registered permanent residence. During the Daye period, there were 15 Yongxian counties with 54,517 households. Even after the chaos of the Sui Dynasty, the household registrations did not decrease much. , did not get involved in the melee, but instead caused many people from Lingnan and Jiangnan to flee to Guizhou for refuge.
In the whole of Lingnan, Guizhou actually has the number one household registration. At the time of Daye, Nanhai County, where Guangzhou was located, also had 15 counties, with a household registration of just over 37,000, while Jiaozhi County, where Jiaozhou was located, had a household registration of 30,000.
Compared to Lingling with more than 6,000 households, Hengyang with more than 5,000 households, and Guiyang with more than 4,000 households, Guizhou is indeed the core of the entire region.
Before the imperial court, the south of the Five Ridges was divided into east and west, and the capital of the west of Lingnan was also chosen in Guilin. The entire south of Wuling had three roads. Guizhou Governor's Mansion was also retained.
Guizhou is the core of the west of Lingnan, so there should be no chaos in Guizhou.
The killing spree will only cause more chaos.
Qin Lang picked up his pen and began to play to the emperor. In view of the current situation in Lingnan, he asked the emperor to accept his suggestion and give appropriate appeasement to the Wuling Man.
Guizhou is so important, and Li Xizhi has great prestige here. After killing Cao Wuzheng, he asked the emperor to send Li Xizhi to serve as the governor of Guizhou. Responsible for Changping warehouses, salt and iron taxes, money and grain.
He also asked the imperial court to set up about ten commanding army mansions in Guizhou and its surrounding areas, select soldiers from the mansions, or set up three or five commanding army mansions, and set up another 10 or 20 battalion training camps to fight against the mountain barbarians and the soldiers. Other savages and barbarians in Lingnan were selected and compiled to strengthen Guangxi's armed forces and strengthen the deterrence of slang and barbarians.
Before the emperor sent people, he would temporarily stay in Guizhou to appease the barbarians and the local Han people.
(end of this chapter)