I am the prince in the heavens

Chapter 197 The Surrender of Western Chu
On the chessboard, the white pieces were scattered one after another. In this game, Zhao Kai finally won slightly!
Cao Changqing laughed and said:

"Hahahaha, what a great unity of heaven and earth, good chess! Good chess!"

The light slowly dissipated, the chessboard dissipated, the sky and the earth returned to clarity, and waves appeared on the calm Guangling River again. Cao Changqing bowed his hands and said:

"Cao lost this round, and he is convinced!"

Zhao Kai also bowed his hand in return.road:

"Accepted, I just took advantage of the right time and place."

Cao Changqing didn't lose in his chess strength, but in his own heart. Facing Zhao Kai's Great Harmony, he was really powerless to refute, and couldn't pass the test in his heart.

This game of chess is destined to be recorded in the annals of history and repeated by countless younger generations, and the two of them have become a mountain that is difficult for chess players to cross in the future.

But it is also raising the level of Go again in a disguised form.

"Xi Chu, please!"

"Aren't you planning to go back, sir?"

Cao Changqing shook his head, the restoration of the Western Chu Kingdom is like a dream, the country will not be the country, what's the use of going back?It is a blessing to be able to save the lives of these people.

"Where is the master going? If you are worried about the coercion of heaven, I can help you."

Zhao Kai could also see that Cao Changqing's transition from Confucianism to hegemony did not come without a price. He had to follow the rules of heaven, and he could not kill himself recklessly.

Cao Changqing shook his head, didn't say anything, obviously refused, the talisman was not Zhao Kai's patent for a long time.

He just turned his head and looked towards the northwest. The place he was going to was self-evident!

Zhao Kai bowed his hands and said:
"Then thank you sir, don't worry, with me here, I won't kill any more!"

Cao Changqing, like Ye Qinghong, left with his hands behind his back.

Three days later, the gate of Divine Phoenix City slowly opened. Surrounded by ministers of civil and military affairs, more than [-] Western Chu soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of people of Divine Phoenix City, Jiang Ni slowly walked out of the gate, and greeted Zhao who had been waiting for a long time. Kai submitted the letter of surrender and the jade seal of Xichu.

Since then, it has only been less than a year since the restoration of the country, and Western Chu has been subjugated again. Unlike the bloody scene when Western Chu surrendered 20 years ago, there was no bloodshed in Divine Phoenix City this time.

The corrupted Guangling Road once again returned to peace.

According to the previous promise, Zhao Kai recruited a large number of civil servants from Western Chu, and assigned them official positions in Liyang, with the original rights unchanged, and past events will not be pursued.

As for the army, after part of it was disbanded, the remaining [-] troops were also incorporated, led by Kou Jianghuai and Xie Xizhen, and the position of the military division was still handed over to Zhang Bianguan, who will soon go to southern Xinjiang to quell the rebellion, and then go north , Participated in the subsequent Beimang War and regained the grassland.

The land of Western Chu will be exempted from taxes for three years. Zhao Kai promised that if Western Chu wants to establish a country, it must build a place in Beimang by itself, and then immigrate there.

However, the people who responded were not as many as expected. After all, who would be willing to leave the rich Guangling Road and leave their hometown to live on the barren prairie?Anyway, half of the whole Liyang has the blood of Western Chu, that's enough. After a few generations, the blood will be blended, and only Guangling and Jiangnan will be left in the world.

As for the empress of Western Chu, Jiang Ni, Zhao Kai did not bring her into the harem as everyone expected, but made her the eldest princess to inherit all the wealth in the Western Chu Palace.Becoming the first princess with a different surname since the founding of the country in Liyang, can be regarded as having a legal status in Liyang. As for the fiefdom, it will be discussed later.

Zhao Kai promised that he would never interfere with her marriage. All the men in this world, as long as she is willing, Zhao Kai can marry him.

After Western Chu destroyed the country, Zhao Kai's reputation reached its peak in an instant.

The next thing to deal with is the 20 surrendered troops from the two vassal lords. For these, Zhao Kai still has some headaches. It is impossible to kill them, but if they want to collect them all, they will need too much food and grass. .

In addition, the war is not over yet, so it would be bad if these soldiers are used by someone with a heart again. No one knows how many loyal people are still among the surrendered soldiers.

In the end, Zhao Kai followed Zhang Bianguan's suggestion and repatriated all the disabled and soldiers with poor physical fitness.

This allowed Zhao Kai to have nearly 30 elite troops in Guangling Road all at once, which was only stronger than Gu Jiantang's Liao frontier army in terms of comprehensive strength.

After more than 30 troops, the troops were divided into two groups. The surrendered troops from southern Xinjiang sent troops to Qingzhou, and the surrendered troops from Qingzhou joined forces with Western Chu to pacify southern Xinjiang.

The main forces in Nanjiang and Qingzhou are gone, and even the leaders are dead. It is completely futile to resist, and it is only a matter of time before the world is pacified.

Even Zhao Kai felt that there were too many people sent out, and it was a bit like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer, but in order to seek stability, and to search for the money and food of the two feudal lords, and to prepare for the future war, Zhao Kai still agreed to the battle plan.

As for the many masters of Guanyin Sect and Dragon Palace who escaped, it is better to let the people in the Jianghu deal with it, so as to save them too much leisure, and use martial arts to violate the ban.

The follow-up matter can be said to make Zhao Kai a little anxious, after all, there are too many things to take care of.

What troubled Zhao Kai even more was that these days, the memorials from Tai'an City have been one after another, most of them are persuasion, let Zhao Kai take it easy, don't be so careless, and part of it is to let Zhao Kai return to Tai'an City as soon as possible , who presided over the government.

Of course, there is another part of impeachment of the Procuratorate. Over the past few days, the Procuratorate has inspected hundreds of officials and uncovered a lot of corrupt officials. , The Ministry of Criminal Justice can only arrest people, and the heads of many powerful and powerful people fell to the ground for a while, making many high-ranking officials in the capital unable to sit still, worrying that their heads would fall to the ground one day.

Since Zhao Kai was not in the capital, they pinned their hats on several principals of the Inspection Institute and Zhang Julu, the head of a hundred officials, who was in power, accusing them of forming cliques for personal gain, abusing private behavior, and so on.

It made Zhao Kai a little dumbfounded, he ordered these people to be killed. After all, the Inspection Institute only had the right to supervise, not to dispose of them. Without Zhao Kai's order, even Zhang Julu would not have dared to kill these people.

Faced with the big and small things in the capital, Zhao Kai directly chose to ignore them. These people either have ghosts in their hearts, or the family behind them is causing trouble, and they will be cleaned up sooner or later.

Going back is going to go back, but not now.

Zhao Kai knows very well that when the water is clear, there will be no fish. As a human, it doesn't matter if you are greedy for petty gain, but if you ignore the law and ignore human life, then I'm sorry, even the heavenly king and I can't save you.

(End of this chapter)