I served as an admonisher in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 473: Killing without a knife! Su Liang's super god-level fighting style

It was afternoon and the sunlight was dim.

Outside the gate of Xihe Town, under a wooden shed.

The people lined up for more than two miles, all of them came to fill out the identity book of Xihe Town.

After the government review and approval.

They will then become citizens of the Song Dynasty, and Xihe Town will arrange assignments and accommodation for them and ensure their safety.

As for their original property, it will still belong to them.

Most of these foreigners living outside the Song Dynasty were herdsmen.

They have no fixed residence, no country, and some don’t even have a tribe. They are oppressed and plundered all year round.

Because of the prosperity of Xihe Town.

They learned about the Song Dynasty and knew about the lives of its people in recent years.

In addition, Xihe Town proposed a series of people-friendly policies and respected their customs, which allowed them to see hope in life again.

Under Su Liang's instructions, the officials and veterans below were very kind to these foreign people.

These people will be the first indigenous people of "Xizhou" in the future, and they will be relied on to build this place in the future.

……

April 8th, afternoon.

Su Liang was communicating with Liu Cun, the governor of Qinzhou, in the government office about some preparatory matters for the expansion of Xihe Town.

Xihe Town Captain Yang Hu walked in quickly and said, "Central Prime Minister Su, Prefect Liu, Xixia Zhuola and the Southern Military Supervisor Weiming Aji are here. He said he has something important to discuss with Central Prime Minister Su. Here is his visiting card."

The Military Supervision Office of Western Xia was similar to the state level of the Song Dynasty, but it had great military power.

At present, there are twelve military supervision offices in Western Xia.

Zhuoluo and the Southern Military Supervision Office were located on the border of Western Xia, bordering the Tibetan tribes and the Song Dynasty. Their headquarters was Zhuoluo City in the east of Karochuan, Beihe of the Yellow River.

Back then, Su Liang’s reputation as the “Beheading Censor” was established at the foot of Zhuolao City.

Today, the commander of Zhuolao and Southern Military Supervision Division is named Weiming Xude, a Dangxiang noble, and the Military Supervisor Weiming Aji is his cousin. He is the third in command of Zhuolao and Southern Military Supervision Division, ranking below the deputy commander.

Su Liang knew all of this.

Su Liang took the visiting card and took a quick look at it.

"This name of Aji is quite interesting. His visiting card has seven sentences, five of which are praising me. He only said that he had something important to discuss, but he didn't mention what he came for. However, his writing is not bad, better than their prime minister, Mo Zang Epang!"

Liu Cun smiled and said, "Zhongcheng, you don't know that this Weiming Aji once served as the Palace Censor and Supervisory Censor in Xixia, and he also claimed to be the Su Jingming of Xixia. Unfortunately, he was not valued by Mo Zang and Mo Zang Epang, and was sent to the border. This person likes to read our military tactics very much, and he has some strategies."

"Su Jingming of Western Xia? Then I must meet him. Let him in. Liu Zhizhou and I are waiting for him in the living room!" Su Liang said.

Hearing this, Liu Cun immediately smiled.

If Liu was the only one in Xihe Town, and a military inspector from the Western Xia Military Supervision Department came to visit, even if he did not go out of the city gate to greet him, he would have to let the officials line up outside the government office to welcome him.

But Su Liang is here, and he is a third-rank official.

Xixia was nominally still a vassal state of the Song Dynasty. Su Liang sat with him in the living room waiting, and when the Weiming Aji arrived, he had to bow and salute.

……

About a quarter of an hour later.

Su Liang and Liu Cun moved to the front hall only after they learned that Wei Ming Aji had arrived outside the government office.

Lean slightly.

A middle-aged man with a sturdy build, wearing a dark gray round-necked, tight-cuffed robe, a black fu hat, and a gold-studded belt around his waist, strode into the front hall.

His guards stood outside the door.

This person was none other than Zhuola of Xixia and the military supervisor of the Southern Military Supervisory Office, named Aji.

With a smile on his face, Weiming Aji bowed to Su Liang who was sitting at the top and said, "Weiming Aji, the military supervisor of Xixia Zhuola and the Southern Military Supervisory Department, pays homage to Su Zhongcheng. I have long heard of Su Zhongcheng's great name. Seeing him today, I can see that he is indeed an extraordinary person!"

Subsequently.

He nodded towards Liu Cun again and said softly, "Liu Zhizhou."

Liu Cun often dealt with Xixia Zhuola and the Southern Military Supervision Office. The two sides had met more than ten times and were very familiar with each other.

Liu Cun smiled and nodded.

"Weiming Military Supervisor, please take a seat! I wonder what brings you to Xihe Town to see me, the Prime Minister, at this time?" Su Liang asked straight to the point.

After sitting down, Weiming Aji said, "At the end of February, I was shocked to hear that Mr. Fan had passed away. I was very sad. Then I heard that bandits took the opportunity to rob Xihe Town. I was even more angry!"

"I reported this to my country's prime minister, who ordered us to kill the bandits to comfort Mr. Fan's spirit. However, there were many bandits in the Hehuang area, and they were intertwined and intertwined, so there was very little we could do."

"Recently, I heard that Su Zhongcheng came to Xihe Town and offered a high reward for the leader of the thieves. We also want to do our best to help solve the problem of thieves in Hehuang."

Hear this.

Yang Hu, who was standing not far away, couldn't help but curl his lips.

It is well known that many thieves in Hehuang are disguised as Western Xia soldiers.

Soldiers during the day and bandits at night.

They raised military funds by looting, and when they were caught they would hide in the territory of Western Xia, and sometimes they would find a few scapegoats.

However, Wei Ming Aji said that the bandits in Hehuang had nothing to do with Western Xia, and even said that he would help to eliminate the bandits.

Thicker-skinned than Yokoyama.

Su Liang smiled slightly and said, "How does Weiming's military supervisor plan to contribute?"

Weiming Aji straightened his chest.

"We are willing to join forces with your army to launch an operation to eliminate bandits in the Hehuang area, and strive to eliminate all bandits within half a year and restore peace to the Hehuang area."

"Of course, some of the bandits are from Xixia. If they escape into our territory, we will investigate and will not tolerate them. Some of the bandits are from Qingtang Tubo. I'll have to trouble you to communicate with them. What do you think?"

Wei Ming Aji had a smile on his face and looked very kind.

After hearing these words, Su Liang and Liu Cun immediately understood Weiming Aji's intention.

Their real purpose in this joint crackdown on bandits was to isolate Qingtang Tubo.

Once they have wiped out all the tribes in the Hehuang area, they will be able to attack Qingtang Tubo again.

After destroying Qingtang Tubo.

The strength of Western Xia would be greatly increased, and it would also be able to occupy an advantageous terrain.

The cavalry could rush directly to the southeast. The Song Dynasty had no natural defenses to defend and could only rely on the strength of the castle.

Because the Song Dynasty had never expanded its borders, it now planned to expand Xihe Town.

Therefore, the Western Xia subconsciously believed that the Song Dynasty simply did not bother to take over the Hehuang area.

Seeing that Su Liang was thinking, Weiming Aji continued, "Central Prime Minister Su, this is a godsend opportunity. If we unite to destroy these bandits, the northwest of the Song Dynasty will no longer have to worry about bandits, and Xihe Town will be able to develop more steadily. Our trade will also be more prosperous..."

Wei Ming Aji was very cunning and always spoke under the guise of doing things for the Song Dynasty.

Su Liang took a sip of tea and said, "Let me think about it. This important matter needs to be reported to Prime Minister Di Shu. Weiming Military Supervisor can stay in Xihe Town for a few days."

Hearing this, Weiming Aji immediately felt that there was a way.

He didn't expect Su Liang to be so hospitable and want to let him stay for a few days.

He also wanted to take a look at the commerce in Xihe Town and see what the Longyu Army of the Song Dynasty looked like.

"Thank you, Prime Minister Su. Then...can I walk around Xihe Town freely in the next few days and experience the prosperity of Xihe Town?" Weiming Aji said excitedly.

Su Liang nodded slightly.

Weiming Aji said, "Also, could you trouble Su Zhongcheng to send someone to protect me? Because of some old grudges, the old soldiers here are not very friendly to me."

This Wei man named Aji was very shameless, and Su Liang really couldn't refuse his request.

Su Liang glanced at Yang Hu and found that he had a gloomy face and clenched his fists tightly, so he had no choice but to look at Liu Cun.

"No problem, let Liu Zhizhou take care of this matter!"

Liu Cun immediately understood and said, "Military Supervisor Weiming, follow me to your temporary residence!"

Immediately, Weiming Aji bowed to Su Liang, and walked outside accompanied by Liu Cun.

At this time, Yang Hu finally couldn't help it.

"Zhongcheng, why do you want to keep him here? Why do you allow him to move around Xihe Town? He is our sworn enemy!"

Su Liang replied: "Old Xu and his men will soon be able to capture the leaders of the four tribes. After they are captured, I want to see what Wei Ming A Ji will do next."

"Also, let him visit Xihe Town and see that we are going to expand the city. He will feel that we will not expand our borders, which will be beneficial for us to take action. He will not see any secrets when he walks around Xihe Town. Instead, he will become more and more helpless because of our prosperous trade!"

"Yes, I understand!" Yang Hu's gloomy face turned into a smile.

Su Liang looked at Yang Hu.

"Yang Hu, you are a military general. The duty of a military general is to obey military orders unconditionally, not to ask questions and have emotions. Think more about things, do you understand?" "I understand." Yang Hu stood up straight and said very seriously.

Su Liang seemed to be scolding him, but in fact he was giving him some advice.

The Western Army has many young generals, but most of them are unlikely to become commanders. The problem is that they are too emotional and don't like to use their brains.

……

Early the next morning.

Aji, a man named Wei, put on Han Chinese clothes, disguised himself as a businessman, and wandered around Xihe Town.

He originally wanted to wear the Xixia official uniform, but was stopped by Liu Cun.

Although he was protected by Xihe Town's chief, Yang Hu, the one-armed Old Joe also greeted the veterans.

But there was no guarantee that some old soldier would suddenly lose his temper when seeing his Xixia official attire.

A stone hit him on the head.

After Yang Hu received Su Liang's instructions, he took Wei Ming Aji to the prosperous area of ​​Xihe Town, and from time to time informed him of the expansion plan of Xihe City.

Weiming Aji felt that it was his strategy that made Su Liang particularly satisfied, which led to his current treatment.

While strolling around, Weiming Aji felt waves of shock in his heart.

The goods in Xihe Town were richer and cheaper than those in Songxia Market, and he had never even heard of many of the items.

In addition, it was the delicious food of the Song Dynasty that made him want to stay here for a month.

……

late at night.

Not long after Su Liang fell asleep, he suddenly heard Liu Sandao's shouting from outside.

"Boss, Commander Xu is back!"

Su Liang immediately sat up and said as he put on his clothes, "Quick, let Old Xu in."

Soon, Xu Mang pushed the door open and walked in.

Seeing that his face was red and his forehead was covered with sweat, Su Liang quickly brought him a towel and poured him a cup of tea.

"Come down for a while, wait until the sweat on your body subsides, then talk. Sanda, go get some food!"

"Okay." Liu Sandao went out immediately.

Su Liang treated Xu Mang like a brother.

Xu Mang drank several cups of tea, and after his complexion returned to normal, he said excitedly: "Boss, the brothers have successfully completed the mission. The leaders of the four tribes have all been captured alive by us and are now imprisoned."

"We interrogated them on the way. Although we didn't put it into writing, we got the basic information out of them. They definitely wouldn't dare to lie."

When Xu Mang interrogated these tribal leaders, he naturally did not rely solely on his intelligence and wisdom like Bao Zheng did. He followed the laws of the Song Dynasty and never resorted to lynching.

Xu Mang learned a set of interrogation methods from the Imperial City Bureau that were so cruel that they made people live a life worse than death.

Few people can sustain without telling the truth.

"This looting incident was organized by the two most powerful tribes, Conago and Yogong. The Nazang and Achailuo tribes were forced to participate, but they also shared the property."

"The masterminds behind these two tribes are not only the Yeli tribe of the Dangxiang people, but also the Liao Kingdom."

"Cona Ge and Yogon explained that at the beginning of this year, the Liao Dynasty court sent secret envoys to give them a large amount of money and property, asking them to disrupt the situation in the northwest of the Song Dynasty, and preferably to make Song and Xia fight each other. Then, when Fan Zhongyan was seriously ill, the two tribes were also recruited by the Yeli tribe of the Dangxiang tribe, who promised them huge benefits and also asked them to cause chaos in the northwest. The Yeli tribe of the Dangxiang tribe intended to replace the Mo Zang clan, but the Xixia court was unaware of these tribes looting Xihe Town..."

Su Liang nodded.

The leaders of these four tribes were captured. Xu Mang had countless ways to torture them, and also countless ways to verify whether what they said was true.

Those four people would never dare to tell a lie.

Su Liang thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow, you will order these four people to write a confession. Don't write it truthfully. Let the most powerful one, Tso Nago, say that they were ordered by Xixia Prime Minister Mo Zang Epang to rob property and replenish military supplies. Let the second most powerful Yogon tribe say that they were ordered by the Yeli tribe of the Dangxiang tribe. As for the remaining two people, let them say that they were ordered by Tso Nago and Yogon."

"Boss, this is a great idea!" Xu Mang said excitedly.

If the Western Xia Prime Minister Mo Zang Epang wanted to prove that he had not wrongly instructed the Nago tribe, the best way would be to destroy them; and once Mo Zang Epang learned that the Yougong tribe was instructed by the Yeli tribe of the Dangxiang people, civil strife in Western Xia would break out.

This move.

Not only could it destroy the two largest tribes that plundered the Song Dynasty, but it could also cause civil strife in Western Xia.

It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone, killing people without using a knife.

……

The next day, it was nearly noon.

Weiming Aji was just about to take a look at the Longyu Army training in Zhennan when Yang Hu suddenly came in front of him.

"Military Supervisor Weiming, I just received news from the government office that on the night of February 23, the leaders of the four major tribes that looted Xihe Town have been captured alive by the Longyu Army of the Song Dynasty. They confessed some things that you might want to hear. Do you want to go and take a look?"

"Ah? Caught?" Weiming Aji was horrified.

What he and Su Liang were talking about was the matter of joining forces to catch the thief. Now that the thief has been caught, how can they continue to talk?

Immediately, he trotted towards the government office in the north.

A quarter of an hour later.

When Wei Ming Aji ran to the front hall of the government office.

Su Liang, Liu Cun, Xu Mang, Liu Sandao, Qi Fei, and one-armed Lao Qiao were all in the hall.

And everyone looked gloomy.

Su Liang said in a deep voice: "Weiming Military Supervisor, please read the confession of the murderer we caught, and then give me an explanation!"

Wei Ming Aji was worried.

He quickly took the confession handed over by Liu Sandao and read it carefully.

After he finished reading it, beads of sweat covered his forehead and his legs began to tremble.

"Su...Su...Su Zhongcheng, this...this is absolutely a false accusation. My country's prime minister and the Yeli tribe would never associate with these foreign bandits!"

Xu Mang stepped forward and said, "If it is a false accusation, their confession cannot be so accurate. When did your Yeli tribe contact them? Who was the contact person? And the content of the appeasement is very detailed. Do you dare to arrest them and interrogate them?"

Wei Ming Aji was a little scared.

Based on his understanding of the Yeli tribe, the latter could really do such a thing.

As for whether Mei Zang Epang would do such a stupid thing, he couldn't say.

Weiming Aji thought for a moment and then asked, "Is it possible that the real culprits of the looting are not these four tribes?"

Hearing this, One-Armed Old Joe stood up.

"I have been in the northwest for nearly twenty years, and in Xihe Town for several years. I know these tribes very well, and there is absolutely no way I am wrong. Moreover, what these four people said about what happened that night all matches up!"

"Snapped!"

Su Liang slammed the table heavily.

"Weiming Aji, is your Xixia court so despicable? You dare to do it but not take responsibility? If you want to fight, the Song Dynasty will definitely accompany you!"

Wei Ming Aji suddenly panicked.

"Central Prime Minister Su, this... this... there must be a misunderstanding. How could we possibly want to provoke a fight? Can you allow me to take these confessions back and investigate them? I... I will definitely give you a definite explanation!"

Weiming Aji had a sad face, fearing that Su Liang would drag him out and chop him to death.

Su Liang said slowly: "Okay, then you should return quickly with your guards. I will only give you ten days. If you don't give me an explanation after ten days, you should know what the result will be!"

"Yes, yes, I...I will definitely do it!" Weiming Aji ran away.

"Pfft!"

He tripped over the threshold and fell to the ground, then quickly got up and ran outside, fearing that Su Liang would change his mind and kill him.

After he left, Su Liang and others laughed out loud.

Qi Fei and Yang Hu looked at Su Liang, their eyes full of admiration.

They used to think that killing enemies on the battlefield was the most satisfying thing, but Su Liang's strategy of "killing without a knife" could not only cause civil strife in Western Xia, but also solve the problem of two large tribes at once, which made them feel even more satisfied!

It turns out that war can be fought this way.

As for Xu Mang and Liu Sandao, they had already witnessed Su Liang's various magical operations and regarded today's events as just a routine event.

immediately.

Su Liang said: "Next, we will observe Xixia's reaction first, and then pay attention to the movements of the Nazang and Yogong tribes. We still have to avenge this grudge."

"As for what happened today, you can tell the people of Xihe Town to ease their mood. The rest of the things will proceed according to the original plan."

"Yes, sir!" Everyone bowed.

Although the Liao Kingdom was also involved in this looting incident, Su Liang was not prepared to cause trouble for the Liao Kingdom immediately.

There will always be a war between the two countries, but definitely not now.

(End of this chapter)