A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 325
With Wu Huaiyu's words, Tang Fengxiao's family wealth was preserved.

This Kunlun slave is also sensible. Under the leadership of the lame man, he directly took out [-] mu of land and [-] yuan of money to honor Wu Huaiyu.

The Kunlun slaves have also accumulated a lot of family property over the years, and this time it is also a hemorrhage.

Wu Huaiyu looked at the list he handed over, just glanced at it twice, and then returned it to him.

"The little one will send another three hundred slaves to Chang Shi."

Huaiyu shook his head.

"Give Chang Shi another two hundred horses."

Huaiyu shook his head, Kunlun slave wanted to add more, but Huaiyu interrupted him with a smile, "Who do you think this Changshi is?"

"You have made a great contribution this time, helping the court soldiers take down Shanlu City and Sun Da's eight thousand soldiers without bloodshed. Your property will not be touched by the court, and you will be rewarded generously."

Huaiyu picked up an official document and handed it to him, but rewarded him with [-] yuan.

"I dare not accept this little one,"

"You can accept the reward from the imperial court."

Wu Huaiyu asked them to sit down, and then boiled water to make tea.

He specially fetched a dark tea brick, pried off some tea cubes with a tea needle, washed it with boiling water, and brewed it again.

Compared with green tea, black tea is soaked in bricks, and the tea soup is bright orange and red, with a mellow and long-lasting taste. For herdsmen who are stuffed with milk and meat as their staple food and lack fruits and vegetables, this kind of tea is more popular.

Both the Kunlun slave and the cripple used to engage in smuggling trade, and tea is of course an important smuggled commodity, but the tea cakes smuggled in the past did not have this kind of black tea.

"This tea is a bit particular.

My family collects hair tea in Sichuan and returns to Guanzhong for processing. People carry horses on their backs. On the road, there are often two or three months. The tea leaves are often wet by rain, and dried in the sun when the weather is fine. The continuous drying and wetness makes the tea leaves fermented, resulting in perfect quality. Different teas were shipped at different times. At first, people sorted out the rain-fermented tea and discarded it or dealt with it cheaply. Later, they found that the tea had a unique flavor.

Later, he intentionally imitated this dry-wet interchanging process, and added a new tea-making process, so there was this different black tea. "

Poured them each a glass.

Kunlun slave picked up the teacup, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, and found that this kind of tea soup with nothing added had a strong aroma.

Take another sip and savor it, it's also quite tasty.

"Mellow, sweet aftertaste, good tea."

"If you like to drink, I will send you some tea bricks later. This tea brick is now in Baicheng, Yanzhou, and it is very popular among Turkic people. A tea brick of two catties can be exchanged for a big fat sheep."

While sipping tea, Huaiyu also got down to business.

"I'm going to let Sun Da and other generals lead them back to Shuofang City,"

Tang Fengxiao was surprised.

"I also want Brother Tang to go back with him, and Song Jiang to go too."

Tang Fengxiao was in a dilemma. Sun Da was taken down by him. Letting the tiger go back to the mountain and letting him go back with him, isn't it like a sheep going into the tiger's mouth.

"Don't worry, Sun Da has already returned to the imperial court. This time, he returned to Shuofang to instigate Li Zhengbao's rebellion."

"Sun Da really surrendered?"

"Sun Da is a smart man who knows how to choose. The court has pardoned him for his past crimes. This is a rare opportunity. How could he resist to the end? Besides, he still has family members in the Tang Dynasty."

Sun Da is a prisoner with few options.

What's more, the imperial court offered him good conditions, giving him the rank of a fifth-rank guerrilla general, and promised that if he could instigate Li Zhengbao's rebellion, then there would be a reward.

Either belong to the imperial court, appoint officials and titles, or go to mine or even behead.

As for letting the tiger go back to the mountain, you don’t need to worry too much about such things as pretending to belong to the mountain. After all, Sun Da had a family on the side of the court, and secondly, the false beams have reached this point. If there is a chance, he will not leave, and he will follow Destruction would be stupid.

You must know that Yuan Junzhang, the remaining department of Liu Wuzhou, also went back and forth with the court, but now he still led his troops to surrender.

Sun Da had no choice before, but now the court gave him another chance.

Of course, Wu Huaiyu didn't completely trust Sun Da, that's why he sent the lame man and the Kunlun slave to Shuofang City.

"You have a good relationship with Liang Su?"

Liang Sui is Liang Shidu's cousin, and the person Liang Shidu trusts the most. He is the prime minister of Liang Shidu.

This guy is greedy for money and lustful, and the current difficult situation of the pseudo-Liang Dynasty has a lot to do with him. Anyway, this guy is all about suppressing his opponents, and he only knows how to fight for power. No matter what else, many generals that Liang Guoneng fought were all defeated by this guy It's reversed.

In Liang Guo, regardless of whether you are a civil or military officer, you have to give him a gift, otherwise he will mess with you, demote you in the lightest case, or punish you in the worst case.

And as long as the money is in place, he can give you an official position regardless of whether you are capable or not.

In the past, many Shanhus led their troops to defect to Liang Shidu, but in the end they were framed by Liang Sui for treason and killed because he asked for bribes or did not give enough.

The small demon in the temple is big.

Although Tang Fengxiao is based in Shanlu, he has been able to go smoothly in Shuofang all these years because he has established a relationship with Liang Zhen and fed him well. Even his smuggling and other transactions have always been directly given to Liang. It's done.

It is with Liang Sui's support that he can have what he is today.

Li Zhengbao is the number one general under Liang Shidu's command, but his relationship with Liang Sui is not very good. Li Zhengbao is closer to Liang Luoren, Liang Shidu's cousin.

Wu Huaiyu sent Sun Da back to instigate Li Zhengbao, but he actually had two preparations.

If Li Zhengbao knows the current affairs, he will naturally instigate him to rebel. Whether it is ambush or mutiny, it will be of great use.

And if Li Zhengbao is ignorant of current affairs, Sun Da will lose nothing if he loses, and he can even ask Tang Fengxiao to sue Liang Zhen at that time, and report that Li Zhengbao and Sun Da intend to surrender to Tang for rebellion.

At that time, Liang Sui's hand was used to kill the general Li Zhengbao who refused to surrender, and even implicated Liang Luoren to kill people with a knife.

Let Liang Guo be in chaos again.

Go up to the army to attack and plan, and the soldiers are deceitful.

Sun Da is a pawn.

It wasn't just Sun Da who put it back this time.

All the captured officers, as long as they are willing to go back, will let them go back. Of course, there will definitely be some who have surrendered and let them go back.

Go back to help instigate their other Liang Guo officers, and even lurk in secret.

If so many people are sent back, whether Master Liang uses them or not, they are still a threat.

Business is over.

Keep drinking tea.

Tang Fengxiao's wives and concubines are all Han Chinese, but his children are all black without exception, but compared with him, Tang Fengxiao is bright black, and his children have become matte black.
I have to say that the genes of Kunlun Nu are still very strong.

Back then, Tang Fengxiao's father bought some Kunlun slaves, both male and female. Originally, although ordinary nobles and powerful men also kept Kunlun slaves to show their strength, they generally kept them.

The Kunlun slaves will be matched with men and women, so that purebred Kunlun slaves can be born, and they can be sold at a good price in the future to increase their value.

Tang Fengxiao's father is considered a different kind. He actually took pleasure in the black wife of his Kunlun slave. Although this kind of behavior is not illegal, it is not an orchid, but a Kunlun slave.

Old Tang has a strong taste, and he likes the female Kunlun slaves at home very much. Anyway, each of them has been lucky. These female Kunlun slaves have given birth to him many children, but no matter how similar they are to him, he never takes these children. As the Tang family.

He was still a domestic slave since he was a child, and has been engaged in slavery.

Tang Fengxiao has many black brothers and sisters. He is the lucky one, because he saved Lao Tang's life from the tiger's mouth, got his name, and was able to follow Tang Fengyi into the Xiaoguo Forbidden Army.

Wu Huaiyu heard about his family, and couldn't help but think of a certain president of the beautiful country who had six illegitimate children with female black slaves, but he refused to admit it to death. He locked them up since childhood and picked cotton all his life. Let your own son set them free.

It is said that Old Tang was a romantic man, and he had reaped countless harvests in his life. Not only the Kunlun slaves in his family gave birth to him, but also all other young slaves were lucky.

However, Old Tang never admitted any of the children born to these lowly servants. They were born to be born to servants, and they were still only the property of the Tang family.

Tang Fengxiao is quite sad.

But it's really not easy for this guy to work hard to get to the current business.

Wu Huaiyu intends to take him as an outside spy of the Six Doors Criminal Division.

Before Sun Da left, Wu Huaiyu specially summoned him once, made him a pot of tea, and chatted for a while.Sun Da is also a greedy, lustful and cruel guy,
At the beginning, because of the failure of the rebellion, he threw himself into the beam alone, and he couldn't even take care of his parents and wives in his hometown. It has been seven or eight years.On Shuofang's side, he also remarried, took concubines and had children, and even took over many other people's wives and daughters during the period.

This time in Shanlu, some concubines and children who followed him were captured, and Shuofang still had his wife and children there.

"I will replace wine with tea, I wish you a smooth trip,"

When Sun Da was facing Wu Huaiyu, he was very honest, and he quickly picked up the teacup and drank it in one gulp.

Huaiyu handed him a notice.

The other general of the Baichi command army in Yanzhou was dismissed from the fifth rank.

Yanzhou used to have only one commanding military mansion, which was still located in Lingzhou, but now a new mansion has been added, and the two commanding military mansions are located in Wuyuan and Baichi counties of Lingzhou.

This other general is a deputy in the Commanding Army Mansion, his rank is neither high nor low, at least he has entered the fifth rank of the real job, and the guerrilla generals assigned to him are also fifth rank, at least Sun Da can be regarded as Tonggui.

Wu Huaiyu used Zhang Ju, Liu Min and other Liang generals who had voted for the Tang Dynasty as examples. For example, Liu Min is now the long history of the Dudu Mansion, and he is on the fifth rank, so he is doing well.

Seeing Sun Dazhen carefully put away the confession and put it in his arms, he bowed and retreated a long way before turning around and leaving.

"This guy is as honest as a civet cat in front of Chang Shi." The cripple turned out from behind.

"There will never be a shortage of smart people in this world,"

Sun Da was indeed quite arrogant before, but that was because the troubled times gave these guys the conditions to be arrogant. Now that he no longer has the capital to be arrogant, he naturally becomes honest and obedient.

This kind of person is actually quite dangerous, just like a chameleon, there is no loyalty at all, but it is still okay to use it, just be careful.

"Chang Shi asked me to inquire about it. I have already inquired clearly. Duan Shen does have a sister. She is eighteen this year. She has not been married or engaged. It is said that this Duan Qiniang is good at reading poetry and prose. One condition is to marry a poet."

"Are you kidding?" Huaiyu didn't expect such a woman to exist in this world.

"It's true. In fact, I know Mr. Duan quite well. I've even met his girl several times. She's not pretty, but she's definitely not bad. There were many people who wanted to propose marriage to the Duan family before, but Duan Qiniang always asks the other party to write a poem on the spot, if she can’t do it well, or if she doesn’t do it well, she doesn’t want it, anyway, she hasn’t met one that satisfies her so far.”

"What do you think of Duan Shen?"

"A handsome guy, quite capable. Although he is Duan Decao's grandnephew, he is able to move freely in this fortress because of his extraordinary ability. The trade in Yansui, especially the smuggling, is all he said In the end,

What Chang Shi may not know is that Duan Shen has a slave hunting team of more than a thousand people, well equipped and very sturdy.

This slave hunting team not only catches and sells slaves and smuggles slaves for Mr. Duan, but also those who dare to do smuggling in Yansui and do not cooperate with Mr. Duan will often be killed by "Mountain Hu" or "Turk" within three months. Liang Qi, "horse thief" and others robbed, even murdered and robbed. "

"You mean Mr. Duan's personal armed force did it?"

"It's obvious."

Huaiyu nodded, it seems that Mr. Duan is indeed very cunning and ruthless.

"Miss Duan admires Chang Shi, I think it's true, that girl should be fine, but Mr. Duan has to be careful, this guy may look like a harmless man on the surface, but this guy is very fierce on the road .”

"This guy has been very busy lately,"

"What are you busy with?"

"Many of the population of the territory captured by the Xiazhou Governor's Mansion fell into the hands of this young master,"

"Sold into slavery?"

"Well, Xiazhou soldiers basically sold all the spoils they captured to him,"

"How much does Mr. Duan give Duan Decao?"

"I don't know about that. I heard that Duan Decao got half of it."

Wu Huaiyu admired Duan Decao a lot, no matter whether he used this to defile himself or said he was really greedy for money, this is really bold.

It's not easy for him to be handsome, even at his age.

When Wu Huaiyu turned around, he wrote a secret memorial to Li Shimin, reported it truthfully, and suggested to the emperor that Duan Decao was getting old, and now he was a little unable to do what he wanted.

That young master Duan Wu Huaiyu also played directly. This guy has been in Yansui these years, and he has managed a huge network of influence through Duan De's uncle's influence.

After sending out the secret letter, Wu Huaiyu opened the latest issue of the Beijing News sent by Chang'an Laiji and watched it. There are still many things worth improving in this Beijing News.

Yamaga County was captured, and [-] soldiers and horses surrendered directly, which can be said to have really shocked the government and the public.

But Tang Jun actually released more than 100 false Liang officers, which was also unexpected.

A large number of puppet Liang officers were released here to leave, while the Tang army's offensive did not stop over there, and they were still sweeping fiercely.

Along the Hongliu River, keep advancing.

When encountering fortified castles, they ignore them and focus on sweeping the countryside, moving people and livestock, trampling and destroying crops and young crops.

Not even the canals were spared.

The flames of war never stopped, and almost none of the Liang troops in the castles dared to fight. Occasionally, some of them were bold, but when they left the city, they were either beaten with bruised noses and swollen faces, or captured.

Liang Jun in some small castles even surrendered directly.

Wait until early June,
Yang Gongren, Wu Huaiyu, Su Lie, Duan Decao, Fan Xing, Liu Min, Liu Lancheng and other soldiers and horses have joined forces by the Wuding River and surrounded the eastern and western cities of Shuofang.

Although the east and west cities are tall and strong, there are still many castles on the periphery.

However, when the Tang army came several times, Liang Shi didn't even have the courage to go out of the city to fight, so he dared to close the city and retreat.

Fortunately, the Tang army did not intend to attack the city at all this time, and they did not even carry the siege equipment. This time they went to the city of Shuofang, but they also divided up their troops to sweep the countryside and were busy demolishing and relocating the people.

Seeing Liang Jun's cowardice, many generals couldn't help suggesting to use local materials to build siege equipment, and directly destroyed the fake Liang.

However, no matter whether it was Yang Gongren, Wu Huaiyu, veteran Duan Decao, Fan Xing, etc., none of them paid attention to these voices, and everything was proceeding according to plan.

According to the plan, they will retreat soon.

(End of this chapter)