Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 355

In fact, Tongwan City's treasury has long been empty.

In order to regain Yinzhou, Liang Shidu almost emptied the treasury of Tongwan City.

When Qin Lang came, he had to disband the Liang army, save the people, and appease the hearts of the people, which was actually very difficult.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, father and son are in battle.

Qin Lang entered Tongwan City, and the entire Xiazhou was almost determined by the news.

Once Master Liang died, the Liang family took the lead in asking to surrender, and no one else could stop the army and civilians of Shuofang from joining the Tang Dynasty.

On the same day, a group of Qingqi rode out of Tongwan City and headed west to Wuyuan, Yanzhou, [-] miles away.

Yanzhou Wuyuan was also built under the Great Wall, only three hundred miles away from Tongwan City.

Xiazhou Shuofang has long been in poverty, and the mountains and rivers are exhausted.

On the contrary, Yanzhou, which is [-] miles away, is very rich. In the past, it was actually very poor, but since Qin Qiong came out of Liangzhou to govern the Liangyan states, it has changed rapidly. With the benefits of Qingbai Yanchi, Yanzhou This barren land has also become rich.

A large number of salt merchants came here to open up wasteland and build commercial villages here to cultivate food, and the rise of Lingwu Border City also drove the economy of Yanzhou.

Qin Qiong prepares for war and prepares for famine. Yanzhou Wuyuan City is not only repaired and reinforced, but also the salt warehouses in the city are full of high-quality green and white salt. In addition, the granaries are also full of grain shipped by salt merchants.

In Yanzhou City, there are also fur processing workshops and milk and meat processing factories built by the Qin family, the Cui family, etc. In this small town that used to be poor, there are now more than [-] slaves working day and night.

When Qin Lang's Qingqi arrived in Yanzhou in two days, Qin Qiong, the governor of Lingzhou and the marching chief of Lingwu Dao, happened to be in Yanzhou city.

When Qin Lang asked Duan Decao to send troops, he also wrote to Qin Qiong early.

"Shuofang has fallen, Master Liang has been beheaded!"

Qin Yong, the son of the sledgehammer, told his adoptive father Qin Qiong the good news.

"So fast?"

"Sanlang is really powerful, everything is in his calculations, breaking Yinzhou, beheading the capital, very smoothly, entering Shuofang without hindrance, the whole Xiazhou is determined by the spread, the false Liang has been destroyed!" When speaking , Qin Yong still couldn't help being very excited.

As an official of the Zhenfu Department, he fully cooperated with Qin Lang this time and personally participated in the entire Pingxia war.

It was so easy and smooth that he couldn't believe it.

"Is Sanlang now in Shuofang City?"

"Yes, everything is going well in Xiazhou now, but there is a shortage of money and food. Sanlang asked me to ask my adoptive father for help!"

Qin Qiong laughed loudly, "Yinxia is pacified, and my Tang Dynasty has finally ruled the world. I have already prepared money, food, cloth, salt and tea, and I can ship them to Shuofang now!"

Although the sky is cold, the road is covered with snow.

But in order to support Yin Xia, Qin Qiong couldn't care less.

Camels and horses were mobilized, and many sleds and ice plows were requisitioned, and they were loaded with money, grain and cloth and began to be transported to Shuofang.

On the same day, Qin Yong also went to the major commercial firms in Yanzhou City and brought greetings from Duke Yi.

A letter written by Qin Lang and an invitation letter, inviting these chambers of commerce to make a fortune in Shuofang.

Although Shuofang is poor, he still has a three-pound nail, not to mention Liang Shidu, who was declared emperor ten years after the founding of the country.

Not to mention other things, Shuofang unified the Wancheng palace, which is still good. It was also used as a palace in the Sui Dynasty, and Liang Shidu managed it for another ten years.

Qin Lang planned to tear down the palace, and everything inside could be packaged and sold. Besides, there were many other things that could be sold.

Qin Lang didn't need to keep those, what he needed was food and cloth, these things to appease the people and save the people's livelihood, he didn't need those gold, silver, jewels, palaces and buildings.

Businessmen are profit-seeking.

They liked what Qin Lang disliked.

As a result, all the merchants in Yanzhou City became excited, and they all started to organize camel caravans, and the Tuogong guys bought a lot of grain and cloth, loaded them with salt and tea, and began to march towards Xiazhou City, which is three hundred miles away.

Qin Yong sent some people to Lingzhou, Liangzhou, Jingzhou, Lanzhou and other places to contact local businessmen and invite them to go to Shuofang to make a fortune.

From Wuyuan to the east for 160 miles, you can reach the upper reaches of the Wuding River. In the current season, the river is frozen, which is also suitable for ice plow transportation.

Qin Lang also began to organize the people of Shuofang to provide relief with work, arranged for them to build ice plows, and took the initiative to pick up the goods at the upper reaches of the Wuding River on the Yanxia border and help with transportation.

After Shuofang was pacified, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the capital of the Liang division were put into storage and returned to the fields. However, these years, the Liang division only cared about fighting and maintaining their own small court. On the one hand, Datang's blockade of Shuofang also made the small place of Yinxia more difficult.

Now it is indeed the end of the mountain. For Qin Lang, there is no need to worry about the rebellion of Liang Shidu's loyalists. The most important thing to worry about now is the food and clothing of the people.

If Datang could not properly appease these starving people after recovering Yinxia, ​​then those who could not survive would still become bandits for thieves.

Aftermath is very important.

Qin Qiong rushed to Shuofang City with a large amount of money and food, and the two met.

"You boy, why did you choose such a season to fight the war? It's freezing cold, and it's too troublesome to transport money and food."

"It just happened to be in time, one link after another, the time has come, the opportunity must not be missed, and it will never come again." Qin Lang hugged Qin Qiong for a while, and then took the old man's hand into the Xiazhou Yamen.

Qin Lang had already sealed off the West Inner City where Liang Shidu's Miyagi City was located, and now he temporarily lives in the East Inner City's former Sui Dynasty Shuofang County Prefect's Mansion.

The seized false beams and prohibited items, such as dragon robes, jade seals, etc., will naturally be sealed and sent to Chang'an.

"I just saw that your situation here is okay, not as bad as I expected!" Qin Qiong sat down and said.

"The main reason is that we didn't fight a tough battle this time. Liang Shi ran to Yinzhou and was killed by Liang Luoren, and all his troops surrendered. I temporarily placed many soldiers and civilians in Yinzhou, and Yan and Sui took over. When I came to Xiazhou, I didn’t bring many soldiers, but I brought 3000 people.”

Qin Lang didn't fight a war, so the consumption of food and grass is actually not much.

In particular, his soldiers all carry fried meat floss and fried noodles, which are easy to carry dry food, and do not require additional civilians to transport food and grass.

You must know that it is not the army that consumes the bulk of the food and grass in the war, but the civilians and livestock who are responsible for logistics.

From the perspective of the overall situation, although Qin Lang's game of chess this time is indeed too big, in fact, it is all based on small things, and there are not many soldiers in total, let alone any tough battles.

The two prefectures of Yunshuo in the north of Hedong also used Turkic Qin admonishers to lobby Yuan Xiaozheng and persuade him to launch a mutiny, forcing Yuan Junzhang to lead his troops to surrender to Tang.

Shuofang Yinxia Erzhou also used the same method. They used the Zhenfu Division to contact Liang Luoren and Li Zhengbao, a group of generals who had long been desperate for Liang Shi, and launched an internal mutiny.

The less troops sent, the less natural consumption.

Under normal circumstances, even if more than [-] troops were sent, it would be extremely difficult to take down these cities from one state to another.

But now, in just a few months, Qin Lang has already wiped out the two major separatist forces, seized the land of the four prefectures, and restored Feng and Sheng prefectures.

Before and after, no tough battle was fought, and no more than [-] troops were sent.

Liang Shidu had been emperor for 12 years from the beginning of his army to his defeat, but he probably never thought that it would end in such a defeat.

"You, my previous letters always reminded me not to take risks, but you ended up taking such risks!" Qin Qiong shook her head and sighed.

Qin Lang's actions this time were indeed quite adventurous and radical, but as it turned out, he couldn't say much.

"It's all a chain reaction, or it's all what people want, and it can be knocked down with a light push. I can't help it standing on the side!" Qin Lang can only explain it this way.

Qin Qiong sat on the warm kang, flipped through the data Qin Lang handed over, glanced at it a few times, and then closed it.

"I don't need to look at these things. I know that Yinxia's situation is very bad now. Tens of thousands of people are starving. Now that the court is finally here, we can't just ignore it. We must appease these people. The Zahu tribes in the mountains and on the Gobi Desert must also be resettled, otherwise the newly recovered Yinxia will still not be stable."

Of course Qin Lang understood this.

As far as the common people are concerned, they don't really care who becomes the emperor. As long as someone can make their lives a little easier, not to mention food and clothing, they can barely survive, and most of them will not rebel.

"Grandfather, I entrust these to you because you are the governor of Lingzhou, the commander of the military affairs of Lingyan Xiayin Prefecture, and I am now the deputy governor of Yanran, the governor of Fengsheng Yunshuo Prefecture, and the commander Zhufan, this Yinxia Erzhou is your territory, Grandpa, and I will hand it over to you now."

Qin Qiong froze for a moment.

"But you are also Hetao's appeasement envoy. The north of the Guanzhong Lingbei Great Wall belongs to Hetao, and Yinxia is also within your appeasement. This Shuofang was recovered by you, and it is better to leave it to you to preside over the aftermath."

Qin Qiong is not shirking responsibility, but just wants his son to get the credit he deserves.

The destruction of Yinxia is a great achievement, the achievement of destroying the country.

Qin Qiong is already the prime minister, and he doesn't want to take credit for his son.

This is also the reason why Qin Qiong advocated letting his son Qin Lang personally preside over the plan after Qin Lang proposed the Pingxia plan in a letter with him.

He is an envoy, and he is an extremely human minister, so there is no need to fight for this military merit, but Qin Lang just lacks military merit, and he is also young, so it is more suitable for him to give this credit.

Of course, Qin Qiong also believed that Qin Lang was beyond everyone's expectations this time. After such a big event, Hetao probably couldn't keep him anymore.

Originally, Qin Lang was only sent by the emperor to temporarily replace Yu Sheshe, appease the surrendered Turkic tribes, and take the opportunity to insert nails in Fengzhou to restore his power, but who would have thought that Qin Lang would still have the ability to do so many things in the cold winter months? It happened that such a record was astonishing, even earth-shattering.

Set up the three surrendered cities and set up the three armies, controlled Fengsheng actually, and planned to recover the land of Yunshuo in Daibei.

This action made people dazzled. It can be said that even if someone in the court wanted to grab credit, it was too late to make a move.

When everyone was amazed, Qin Lang had already finished his work.

No one was able to catch Qin Lang half of the credit.

He is the only one who deserves this credit, and there is nothing he can do about it because others are envious and jealous. It is too fast, and there is no time to react.But next, there must be someone who wants to grab some soup.

Even if it was Qin Qiong himself, he might be transferred back to Chang'an.

They can't let their father and son guard everything except the Great Wall, from Lingwu to Daibei. Even if Sheng Mingru is today, he probably has to think about it.

Adjustment is imperative.

But Qin Qiong still hopes that Qin Lang can do a better job of dealing with the aftermath before the arrival of Chang'an, so that his achievements will be more dazzling.

"I heard that Jieli sent troops to the south?" Qin Qiong asked again.

"It's just a small bravado. Xieli sent a few people out to scare me, but I didn't want to scare me too much. The arrangement was already made over there, and Xieli's people didn't take advantage of it. So now they all retreated in desperation, and now Xieli is sending people to Chang'an to sue me!" Qin Lang said disapprovingly.

(End of this chapter)