Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 423 Infighting
Ah Huang watched Hei Niu leave, and said to Qin Lang, "This mountain man may not be trustworthy, Sanlang should be careful." Qin Lang just shook his head.

This black bull slashed his face three times with a knife, blood flowed all over his face without even 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 felt that Hei Niu was 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 also specially conferred the post of county magistrate of Yuecheng County on him first, because he thought 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.

In fact, it can be reached in a day by a fast horse.

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 mountain barbarian heads were still stuck on the pickets, which had 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 trusted soldiers and horses at this time, and they immediately went to report. They knew the truth about the Shanman's rebellion, and they only thought that the famous big black 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 2 mountain men 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 planned 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!"

The city gate of Guilin slowly opened.

Da Hei Niu drove into the city 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 have become lively, and Guilin has become 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 of the city.

A group of savages galloped across the street on horseback, making the street even more panicky where there were not many people, and people rushed to avoid it.

Da Hei Niu didn't care about it, and went straight to the state government office.

There were quite a few soldiers stationed in front of the state government office, but they were all Cao Wuzheng's personal soldiers. They didn't take it seriously when they saw Shanman coming.

The big black cow fell in front of the Yamen.

Ignore those personal soldiers and rush directly to the yamen.

The soldiers only let Brother Dahei Niu in, and stopped the rest outside the yamen.

Did not follow in.

But the big black cow kept breaking into the yamen hall, and Sima Cao Wuzheng temporarily took over the state yamen after Li Xizhi left, acting as the acting governor.

So he couldn't wait to move into the governor's office.

When the big black bull broke in, Cao Wuzheng stood up with a look of hesitation and wanted to ask him why he came here privately?

As a result, the big black bull 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 piercing sound.

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 big black cow just gritted his teeth and replied.

Several soldiers of Cao Wuzheng pulled out their swords in exclamation, and the Hei Niu brothers, with sullen faces, stepped forward with their knives and axes, chopping melons and vegetables, and immediately those people fell in a pool of blood in disorder.

The big black bull stepped forward and pulled out his own 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 barbarians 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 100 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 Prime Minister Xuan's Qingqi will also arrive!"

A group of savages rushed out fiercely, with iron axes and broadswords, light bows and fast horses. These mountain savages 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 Manzi's hand from a distance.

Outside the city gate, there was another fierce battle.

Seeing more and more soldiers gathered, Da Hei Niu held up Cao Wuzheng's head and roared loudly, "The rebel is Cao Wuzheng, Sima of Guizhou, and I am Da Hei Niu, the leader of the [-] Villages of Yuecheng Man. In Yanguan, he was recruited by Prime Minister Qin Xuan and attached to the imperial court. Now, under the order of Qin Xuanshuai, he came to kill the rebel Cao Wuzheng. If you are sensible, get out of the way quickly, otherwise, you will be the Cao thief attached to the party! "

This roar sounded like thunder.

The soldiers at the north gate of Guilin were stunned.

The big black bull then roared again, "Qin Xuanshuai's [-] relatives will arrive soon, if you don't want to become Cao's traitor, and if you don't want to kill all the people, put down your weapons and get out of the way!"

Some people are dubious.

But many insiders looked at the big black cow and Cao Wuzheng's head, and they were terrified and dared not speak.

"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.

Anyone who can read and write knows that this flag must be the flag of Qin Lang, the Xuanfu envoy of Jiangnan and Lingnan.

Just at this time, one hundred Fuli Wolf Guard Qingqi and one hundred Silver Saddle Tielu Qingqi approached.

"Qin Xuanshuai's pro-army has arrived!"

Holding a flag in one hand and a big knife in the other, the big buffalo rushed to the steps of the city. No one dared to stop the soldiers along the way.

The four-character banner of Daitian South Tour is flying in the wind on the north gate.

Two hundred Qingqi roared loudly outside the city.

"Open the city gates!"

The big black cow ordered.

The soldiers guarding the north gate finally panicked.

They hesitated again and again, and finally put down their knives and arrows, removed the gate bolt, and opened the gate.

Two hundred Qingqi roared in.

The big black cow stepped forward carrying Cao Wuzheng's head.

"The Cao thief has been killed, and Guilin has been sent down!"

Qin Yong was wearing bright armor, he reined in his horse and came up to him, sized up the man's head a few times, but couldn't tell if it was real or not, 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.

Cao Wuzheng's three thousand soldiers and horses 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 big black 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?

Amid the orders to kill only the Cao thief 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.

The most terrified are these Guilin officials and soldiers.

"Cao Wuzheng is the only one who conspired against and caused chaos. You were just deceived and coerced. Now that you have regretted your mistake, 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, they were not considered official imperial officers and soldiers, but at most they existed in the nature of local soldiers.

Guilin City has been taken over by Qin Lang's army.

After Cao Wuzheng was killed, some of his backbone members were actually brought under control, but they didn't make much noise.

"It's useless to kill people." Qin Lang casually flipped through some official documents and files in Guizhou. He sent people to control and protect these things at the first time.

These are all good things. The court needs 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 court also relies on these files to manage the place.

If these things are damaged, everything such as household registration, fields, mountains and forests, taxation officers, etc. will have to be reorganized.

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 there are many household registrations in Guizhou.During the Daye period, there were 510 Yongxian counties with [-] households. Even after the chaos of the Sui Dynasty, the household registration did not decrease much. Being involved in the melee, on the contrary, many people from Lingnan and Jiangnan fled to Guizhou for refuge.

In the whole of Lingnan, Guizhou actually has the first household registration.At the time of Daye, Nanhai County, where Guangzhou was located, also had fifteen counties, with a household registration of just over 7000, while Jiaozhi County, where Jiaozhou was located, had nine counties and a household registration of [-].

In contrast, Lingling with more than 6000 households, Hengyang with more than 5000 households, Guiyang with more than 4000 households, etc. Guizhou is indeed the core of the entire region.

Before the imperial court divided Lingnan into East and West, the capital of Lingnan West was also chosen in Guilin, the entire three south of Wuling, Guangdong set up the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Annan set up the Metropolitan Protectorate, although Guangxi failed to set up the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, but Guizhou Governor's Mansion was also retained.

Guizhou is the core of the west of Lingnan, so Guizhou cannot be chaotic.

The killing spree will only cause more chaos.

Qin Lang picked up his pen and began to play a tribute 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, such as setting up [-] or [-] autonomous Jimi counties along the Wuling Mountains.

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 [-] or [-] 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)