Chapter 746 Digestion

Chapter 746 Digestion

Chapter 746 Digestion (Part )

Amidst the heavy snow and wind, the city gate slowly opened.

The people crowded outside rushed forward and scrambled to get in.

The gatekeepers had to knock and beat the soldiers before order was restored.

There are a lot of people and the queue is very long. We have to check each person one by one, which is time-consuming and laborious, making people impatient.

"Qi San, where are you sending this cartload of juicy winter vegetables?" Sergeant Li Zhi knocked on the carriage and asked.

There was a whole cart of turnips, which had obviously been picked not long ago and looked pleasing to the eye.

Being able to eat a bite of fresh vegetables in winter is something that even a god would not want to exchange!
"Send it to the palace. Lord Liang has been holding banquets for several days, and winter vegetables are hard to find. The price is very high, and I can make a little money too." Qi San said with a smile, wearing a straw raincoat.

"You really made a profit." Li Zhi sighed and said, "Not only did we divide the land, but we also got winter vegetables on it."

"Thanks to Liu Ji." Qi San said.

After saying this, both of them laughed.

Pingyang actually has a very large population.

During his first attack on Chang'an, he captured 80,000 men and women.

When attacking Luoyang, Xingyang, and even conquering the grassland tribes, they brought back a lot of people.

Adding in the men and women sent back by generals from other towns, Pingyang really had a prosperous population.

King of Jinan Liu Ji was captured in Wenxi and was sent to Luoyang in prison. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be beheaded in public.

His accumulated wealth was confiscated, and real estate such as manors and land naturally had to be dealt with: years ago, Lord Liang selected 1,200 brave men from the 20,000 elite soldiers from various counties who followed him to the expedition, and turned them into palace soldiers.

This Longxiang Prefecture is located in Xiping City, northwest of Pingyang.

Seven or eight years ago, Liu Cong appointed his son, Jinan King Liu Ji, as General of the Western Expedition and built Xiping City for him to live in.

The city is not big. Functionally, it is a military fortress built to protect Pingyang and serve as its outer barrier.

Liu Ji held a court position, but he also often lived here.

When Liu Cong went south to attack Hedong, Liu Ji led his army to follow him, but was defeated and captured. The garrison in Xiping City was also buried on the banks of the Sushui River.

Shao Xun decided to make use of it.

After checking Liu Ji's property, he found that it could accommodate a group of soldiers from Longxiang Prefecture, so he began to implement it.

Overall, the soldiers of Xiping Longxiang Prefecture really made a lot of money because everything was "hot".

The farmhands are ready-made servants of Liu Ji's family, so just divide them up.

The land is ready and even grows crops on it, and has never been left idle.

The houses were also ready-made, as many were left behind by the Xiping City garrison troops who died in the battle.

If you are not married yet and don't mind, you already have a wife and children - the soldiers of Xiping who died in the battle left behind countless orphans and widows.

In fact, I don’t really mind.

I am happy to be a father and have children for free. This is labor and I have earned money.

As for the biological child, why not just give birth to another one? It's no big deal.

In troubled times, the reunion of broken families is the norm.

After all, after a brutal war, countless people died, and the government would encourage widows to remarry to increase the population. Therefore, it was very common for widows to marry with their ex-husband's children, and this could not be viewed with normal worldly thinking.

Qi San doesn't mind.

From being the youngest in a family, a poor soldier with no property to share, he suddenly had a wife, a son and a daughter, a fairly decent house, five or six acres of garden, 150 acres of arable land, a little money and livestock.

Being a middle-class person in Pingyang, isn't that better than going home and working as a farmhand?

In fact, he had thought about it a long time ago. His parents were old and only had a few years left. After they died, his brother and sister-in-law would definitely kick him out. What would he do then? There were only two ways out.

One is to become an independent household and wait for the Wei County government to allocate the abandoned land to him, but he is not sure how long he will have to wait.

The second is to work as a farmhand for a noble, which is tantamount to selling oneself.

He didn't want to sell himself, nor did he want to open up new land. Wouldn't it be good to take over? At least he would have no worries about food and clothing, and he would have a wife to warm his bed.

"Can anyone in your family speak Jin dialect?" Li Zhi asked again as the convoy moved slowly forward.

"No." Qi San said nonchalantly, "Do I need to learn it?"

The two men looked at each other and laughed wickedly.

"This Xiongnu woman is quite diligent." Qi San added: "She got up early to pick these vegetables. I didn't even do anything."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhu was filled with envy and said, "Well, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me when I tell you this. When we attacked Chihong Ridge, I was afraid of death when I saw the rain of arrows coming, and I hid for a while and didn't catch up. You rushed in pretty fast and killed two people."

Qi San smiled proudly.

In this world, you have to risk your life to fight. Those who want to take over can line up from Pingyang to Hedong, and can just become a government soldier?

It was because Lord Liang was magnanimous and would reward those who had made contributions that the soldiers really fought hard, not for anything else, but just for the wealth and honor.

This wealth may not be worth mentioning in the eyes of big shots, but for those who have nothing, their whole lives have been changed.

From now on, he will settle down in Pingyang.

If the Xiongnu women and adopted sons in the family dared to say bad things about Lord Liang, they would be slapped in the face.

If the Hu people in Pingyang make any unusual movements, just grab your weapons and kill them.

Perhaps this is what Mr. Liang intended.

Duke Liang slept with the queen, the general slept with the concubine, and he slept with the wife of a Xiongnu lieutenant.

Lord Liang is truly the heaven for us warriors. In the future, we will definitely send him to Luoyang to sleep with the Queen once more.

When the snow gradually stopped, Qi San waved goodbye to Li Zhi, entered the Daxia Gate, handed over a cart of winter vegetables to the official of the Imperial Household who came to deliver the vegetables, collected the money and left.

The Imperial Official Gao Shan spoke in Donghai dialect with a thick accent, and kept issuing orders: "The newly arrived winter vegetables should be transported to the East Palace for storage. Send someone to guard them. Don't be careless."

"Yes."

"There are many fake Han people in Ningshuo Palace with ulterior motives. Don't let them handle everything. Lord Liang's safety is the most important thing. Can you afford to take responsibility if something goes wrong?"

"Yes."

"You are so clumsy. If you are transferred to another place in the future, you will be seeking death if you offend a noble person."

"Yes."

Everyone nodded in agreement, while secretly complaining in their hearts.

When one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven.

This Gao Shan rose to prominence by relying on his uncle Liang's relationship. He could clearly speak some Luoyang dialect, but he refused to do so. He deliberately spoke with a Donghai accent and bossed people around.

What? Donghai dialect is the elegant language of Dajin?

But there are so many guards, palace maids and servants from Donghai and Lanling in this palace that they have become a huge force, and there is no way to deal with it.

The newly harvested winter vegetables were quickly sent to a corner of the East Palace for temporary storage. If nothing unexpected happens, they will be available later today.

The East Palace is not far from Yunlong Gate. The main hall is Yanming Hall, which covers an area of ​​more than one hectare. It was once the residence of Liu Yi, but Liu Can never lived there.

After the four guards of the Eastern Palace were transferred away, Liu Yi's situation became increasingly difficult, and many "supernatural legends" emerged, such as the four gates of the Eastern Palace breaking down for no reason, blood raining down on the Eastern Palace, etc., which were quite ridiculous.

It was the first month of the fourth year of the Shengui reign (320), and the eldest and second sons of Duke Liang were already and years old respectively, so it was impossible for them to continue living in the harem. Finally, Duke Liang decided to let them temporarily live in the Yanming Palace.

The palace servants saw the two young masters when they were carrying winter vegetables.

They were surrounded by seven or eight people, all of whom were sons and nephews of generals or meritorious officials who died in battle. They accompanied the young masters in studying and practicing martial arts, and now they were practicing archery.

The martial artist stood aside, giving instructions from time to time.

The officials who taught classics and history also arrived, and seemed to be waiting for them to shoot the last few arrows before returning to the Yanming Main Hall to study.

The palace servants moved carefully and cautiously, then returned to Yunlong Gate.

At this time, another group of people arrived and brought thousands of sheep. The leader was named Wang Shen, formerly Liu Hanzhong's eunuch, but now he had no position and just did odd jobs.

"Where did it come from?" Gao Shan asked with a bit of a nose in the air.

"From the families of Shizhong Bu Tai, former Zuo Sili Chen Yuanda, Sikong Zhu Ji, and Da Si Nong Zhu Dan." Wang Shen lowered his head and answered respectfully.

These people, like Jinan King Liu Ji, were identified as fake officials who could not be pardoned.

Chen Yuanda died of illness, but his family could not escape the blame. This man made great contributions to the Xiongnu and was a hero to the enemy and an enemy to us.

Zhu Ji went to Guanxi, but his family couldn't escape either.

Zhu Dan was once a general of the imperial guards of the Jin Dynasty. After being "optimized" by Sima Yue, he defected to the Huns in a fit of anger and led them to attack Luoyang. His crime is unforgivable.

Shizhong Bu Tai could have been saved, but he refused to surrender and even cursed Shao Xun, so he was sent to Luoyang and beheaded, and his wife and children were also enslaved.

These four families were all powerful Xiongnu nobles with considerable wealth.

Food, livestock and money were confiscated and used to cover the expenses of Ningshu Palace.

The manor, land, farmhands, farm tools, oxen, etc. were registered. If nothing unexpected happened, they should be organized and exchanged with other people to set up Longxiang Mansion and house 1,200 soldiers.

The benefits of conquering the enemy country were too great. Many of the officials in Pingyang were liquidated. Land, housing and other things were ready-made, and the soldiers could move in directly with their bags. It was a seamless connection and there was almost no resettlement cost. Previously, Shao Xun had cleared abandoned farmland in Puyang and other places to resettle the soldiers, which was actually a considerable expense because you had to bear the living expenses of the soldiers for the first two years.

While pacifying Pingyang, he was digesting the newly acquired land bit by bit in his own way - when many people were unaware.

"Lord Liang has ordered that the sheep be sent to the imperial garden and raised there for use at any time. You are the one who does this. I don't need to teach you, right?" Gao Shan said with a cold snort.

The conqueror's face is so ugly.

Lord Liang might be a little more polite, but the same cannot be said for the small figures below who have risen to high positions. The famous eunuch Wang Shen had never suffered such humiliation before, and he almost fainted for a moment.

But he held back, replied respectfully "yes", and then left with a group of palace servants to drive the cattle and sheep away.

At the same time, I was secretly annoyed. I thought to myself, when my daughter becomes pregnant with Lord Liang’s child, I will show you how I will deal with you.

Gao Shan had no idea what Wang Shen was thinking, so after looking around, he returned to the Taiguan Mansion.

The Taiguan Mansion has a subordinate small warehouse that receives grain, meat, fruits and vegetables sent by the Shaofu, and it is now full.

Gao Shan was quite satisfied after seeing it.

Today is New Year's Day, and Lord Liang is going to hold a grand banquet for his generals in the evening. Many dishes have already been prepared in advance.

Everyone around him looked at him with awe, which made Gao Shan very happy.

Since following Mr. Liang, my life has been getting better and better.

This small group of people will one day replace the people in Luoyang and become the masters of the world.

The emperor also needs to gather the people and has ministers who follow him, and he is one of them.

(End of this chapter)