Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Six The Taishan Thief Zangba
The four counties and states in Xuzhou, Pengcheng, Xiapi, Donghai, and Guangling were already full of chaos due to Liu Xie's random operations, and Lu Bu's two lame men were killed or buried.
This is why Liu Xie personally brought the two teams of Guard and the Imperial Guard. If Liu Bei came alone, he wouldn't be able to stop him, so he would have had a big mess long ago.
However, in the northern part of Xuzhou, the Langya Kingdom, which led thirteen counties, seemed to have no close relationship here, at least the military farmland did not come here.
The blessing of Cao Cao was so poor that the entire Langya was sparsely populated and had completely fallen into the hands of the bandits of Mount Tai. Although Zang Ba surrendered to Lu Bu, he actually almost never missed the so-called court.
"I have a rest for a while. My general specially prepared the room for the envoy and arranged his own concubine to accompany you. You can do whatever you want."
When Zhong Ji heard this, he frowned deeply and said, "You call this going to the room? Is Zang Xuangao insulting me?"
As he said that, Zhong Ji pointed to a hole on the top of his head, and repaired the bamboo shed with leather materials. He looked at him and stood respectfully on both sides of the bed. Although his appearance was still eye-catching, he seemed to have more than thirty so-called concubines.
The personal soldiers who led Zong Ji in had not answered yet, but the two concubines knelt down. One of them said: "I am the same as Pu Liu, but I am indeed the youngest and most beautiful person among the seventy-eight concubines of my family."
After hearing this, Zhong Ji opened his mouth slightly widened.
Good guy, does Zang Xuangao have any strange hobbies?
"My adults have a total of 78 concubines. All of them died early, and they had no choice but to live a life, and they could not marry again. The adults pity our loneliness, so they accepted them as concubines and children like us as stepchildren."
"As for this house, this is the private residence of my family. On weekdays, the adult and his wife live here. Although it is simple, it is already our best house."
Zhong Ji was stunned again when he heard this, and then looked out through the doors and windows. He found that at least he could not find a better house. This room was a little bigger than other neighbors, and there was nothing special about it, not even an independent yard.
Even if you shit, you can only go to the weeds behind the house to solve the problem.
The personal soldier also said, "My adults have always eaten, lived, farmed and weaved with us soldiers. We should take care of the wrong places. I hope that the Lord will be allowed to accept the wrong places."
Zhong Ji was indeed quite shocked and hurriedly bowed to the two concubines and their personal soldiers to apologize.
"I am absent from my words. I admire the general's virtues. The emperor has also heard of the general's name for a long time and sincerely invites him. No matter what, please ask the general to reply quickly. The emperor is impatient. If this emperor comes here in vain or delays for too long, maybe the emperor will come to see the general in person."
The personal soldier smiled bitterly when he heard this. He didn't know whether it was a threat, a threat, or a threat, but he didn't dare to say anything tough to him, so he had to hold his fists and leave.
And here, it is naturally Zang Ba's nest near Chengyang.
Originally, Xia Pi had already been captured, so Zang Ba should have made a decision.
But as the confidant of the emperor, the most trusted loyal minister around the emperor, and the person who understands the emperor's will the best. He has always known the emperor's ambitions. How could the emperor allow this group of Taishan bandits to be called surrender, but in fact, the current situation of separatist rule? Naturally, he has to share the worries of the emperor.
He knew that his prestige was not as good as Cao Cao, not as good as Liu Bei, not as good as Yang Biao, and not even as talented as Xun Yu and others. In terms of courage, he was far inferior to Guan Yu and Zhang Xiu. Only loyalty and use it in his heart are the foundation of his life.
Therefore, Liu Xie pacified Xuzhou. After all the other counties had truly made the declaration, Zhong Ji volunteered to take the initiative to take over the errand of persuading Zang Ba, and said bluntly that he would surrender this bandits of Mount Tai to let them come out of the mountains, which lasted for one month. If I didn't come back, it would be their hands dead. The emperor didn't need to worry, and he used this as an excuse to force them to surrender.
At this time, Zang Ba didn't even wear shoes, but just rolled his trouser legs in the fields with barefoot and carried his guards in the fields. He used his sharp sickles to cut off the weeds that had grown in the crops, threw them into the bamboo house behind him and kept them home to weave straw sandals for the women, while saying:
"Do you know who it is just asked Xiao An to take away that person?"
The personal soldiers who were weeding with him naturally said, "The court sent Zhao'an to Zhao'an, who else could it be?"
"This is not bad, but this person has a very high status. He is the confidant of today's son, Guanglu Xunqing, and Zhongji."
"What green?"
"Guanglu Xunqing is one of the nine ministers, and it can also be said that he is one of the nine people with the most respected status in the court except for the three dukes and several generals with heavy titles."
"Good, brother, this emperor actually sent such a big official to us. Can you be a big official this time? This emperor will definitely give you a lot of rewards, right? Our brother can make a fortune again this time. Brother, please ask for more food."
"Haha, I don't know the reward, and the envoy didn't say it, so there shouldn't be much."
"What? No reward? No reward is considered sincerity. If you speak verbally, what's the use of being appointed as an official? Why is this emperor so stingy?"
"Zhong Ji said that the emperor meant that most of us moved out of here and went to farm outside. If we were tired of war, the civil garrison would be divided by the head of the people. Each man said that we were not a refugee, and there were ten acres of land. However, when there were wars, we had to go to labor service and were willing to fight. There were no taxes. Each person had twenty acres of land. The war brought his own military rations and distributed them by himself. The land of the military garrison was not allowed to be traded and merged. However, if you don't want to fight, you can give up the military garrison and transfer it to the civil garrison. If something happened at home, you should borrow money from the head of the headquarters. If you don't pay it back within ten or two years, you don't have to go to jail. You have to be incorporated into a suicide camp. If you make a contribution, you will be considered a piece of money."
After saying that, all the personal soldiers around him who heard this stopped their work and stared at him blankly.
"Each... each person has twenty acres? Isn't paying back the tax? This emperor is not lying to us, right?"
Another man said, "That's the emperor. If you don't joke, how can you still lie?"
Zang Batou did not raise his head and continued to work, "Zhong Envoy said that now there are farms everywhere in Xuzhou except Langya, especially on both sides of the river. Almost all military garrisons have been stationed. They are all the same standards. We can just send two spies to explore it and we can't deceive people."
"I'm so masturbating. I'm really paying twenty acres per person? Isn't paying taxes? This will not change in the future, right?"
"The envoy said this, it should be impossible to be wrong. If all Xuzhou places are really stationed, they should not be able to change, especially military stations. If this changes, then unless he doesn't want the country."
"What if I die in battle? Who will plant the land?"
"If you die in battle, the land will be left to your family for thirty years. You will not pay taxes or send troops for thirty years. You can make up for your son or younger brother in thirty years."
"There is this good thing, so of course we have to do it, brother."
"Yes, brother, we have to do this. This military camp must be less than that of the civil camp. If we can't do it well, everyone wants military camp. If we promised it later, we won't have anything to do with us."
Zang Ba smiled and said, "What do you mean is that we should accept the imperial edict from the court?"
"Come on, wouldn't you be a fool if you don't?"
But at this moment someone asked, "Brother, we have all cultivated farms, brother, what are you doing?"
"I should be left to you as the General of the Central Army and take care of your farming."
"That's it, what else can I hesitate about?"
"Yes, brother, what else is there to hesitate about this."
Zang Ba nodded and said, "Okay, since you all say you do it, then let's do it, but... the emperor wants to surrender to us, the entire Taishan bandits, I agree, but Sun Guan, Changxi and the others may not be happy, and they have to discuss it with them."
Chapter completed!