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It is very easy to kill them now, just with a knife; but they are alive, and there is no threat to the lord and our army, and they may even be beneficial to us.Therefore, the harm between the two powers is the lesser.I think it's better to keep them alive for the time being, and wait for the order of the lord. If the lord orders them to be executed, it's not too late to kill them.What do you think? "

"Hahaha! Well, it's reasonable to follow Xiaoxiao's words!" Just as Guo Jia finished speaking and waited for Li Xuan, Huan Fei and others to express their views, Li Li appeared at the door of the utility room with a smile, and strode towards Guo Jia. Come, Ma Yunluo, Zhen Shi and Li Zhi came after them.

Chapter 461

"Lord!"

Seeing Li Li walking in with a smile, Li Xuan, Guo Jia, Huan Fei and others immediately bowed and saluted.

Li Li nodded to signal everyone to get up, walked up to He Man and Chen Dao, patted them on the shoulder, and said with a loud smile: "What Feng Xiao said is reasonable. You are too reckless, even if you want to take Yuan Xi and Feng Ji To vent your anger, you don’t need to beat them to death. Naturally, you can’t show mercy to the enemy. As long as he is still resisting, it doesn’t matter if he is killed; if he bows his head obediently and gives up resistance, then killing him will be meaningless.”

As soon as Li Li finished speaking, Chen Dao and He Man immediately put away their whips, bowed and stepped aside.

Li Li looked up at Yuan Xi and Feng Ji who had fainted from the pain, turned around and said to Li Xuan, Huan Fei and the others: "These two people really deserve to die, it's okay to kill them. But as Feng Xiao said, Yuan Xi Not very talented, just a dandy, but he is Yuan Shao's son after all.

Yuan Shao in Jizhou is not a broad-minded person, he was born in a famous family, four generations and three fathers, he has always regarded himself very highly, arrogant and domineering, he has always bullied others and cannot allow others to ride on his head.Once Yuan Shao knows that Yuan Xi died in my hands, then our army and Yuan Shao will be mortal enemies. There is no room for maneuver in the relationship between the two sides.

Right now, our army is resting and recuperating. We are doing a lot of farming, building water conservancy and roads, restoring people's livelihood, improving people's living conditions, and taking multiple measures to accumulate strength.In this context, our army should not move lightly for the time being, let alone mobilize a large army to start a big war.Otherwise, the achievements we have accumulated with great difficulty before will be in vain, and the treasury will still be empty, food and wages will be in short supply, and the more we fight, the poorer we will become.Then it brought disaster to the people of Xiliang. "

Seeing the gloomy faces of Huan Fei, Xu Chu and other generals, Li Li said with a smile: "It is not appropriate for our army to attack the city and seize territory for the time being. Long-term strategy. If you encounter a local war where you only need to dispatch an army of less than [-], and you don’t need to go on an expedition, but keep fighting at your doorstep, our army can fight every day. The right is to train troops in actual combat. But our army cannot break out in a full-scale war now At least until next year's summer harvest, each county treasury will be able to pay a certain amount of grain and pay, plus our accumulation in the past two years, even if a war breaks out. We don't need to increase taxes, and we can send troops in large numbers. By then, it will be It's time for our army to aggressively attack and expand the territory again. If we can't capture one or two counties, then our army has lost its vigor and the generals of the army are incompetent, including me as the commander in chief!

Do you know how many princes there are in the Han states?Let me tell you, there are more than 20 princes, large and small, in the world today, and there are more than a dozen powerful princes.So many princes stand side by side in the world.Naturally, there are continuous wars and endless battles. If there is no situation for decades, I am afraid it will be difficult to conquer the world.so.You don't have to worry about having no battles to fight, let alone thinking that heroes are useless. The situation in the world is changing rapidly, and maybe one day, the flames of war will burn on our army.At that time, it will be the time for you to show your talents, and it will be a great opportunity for passionate men to make contributions.Hehehe! "

"Hahaha!" Driven by Li Li's hearty laughter, Huan Fei, Xu Chu, Chen Dao, He Man and others swept away their gloom and melancholy, and immediately burst into laughter.

After everyone laughed, Li Li waved his hand and said: "Okay, immediately ask the doctor to come and treat the wounds of Yuan Xi and Feng Ji, and later let them be carried into the carriage and leave with us. Go back to the room and tidy up, after lunch, we will pack up and set off, trying to evacuate the Wuji City before dark."

While speaking, Li Li strode out of the door, and everyone behind him also left the utility room.

When the footsteps outside the door gradually faded away, I saw Fengji's left leg curled up in the corner moved slightly, and then his eyes opened slightly, and he inspected the entire utility room very cautiously. There was no one else besides Yuan Xi who passed out after him.At this time, he opened his eyes at ease, and whispered to himself with a pale face: "No wonder these people are all extraordinary in skill, burly, sturdy, and bold. Poisonous hands. It turns out that these people are all subordinates of Li Li from Xiliang, and the leader is actually Li Li himself. Whoops!"

While talking to himself, Feng Ji accidentally touched the wound on his chest, and the pain caused him to cry out in agony.

After whispering "Ouch" for a while, Feng Ji Fang felt the pain eased, and couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "Li Wenchang dared to take the risk himself and sneaked into the Zhen family in Zhongshan, and the owner of the Zhen family is still like him. They are close, it seems that they have colluded together. No wonder the Zhen family refused to lend the lord even a mere 300 shi, grain and grass, and [-] million yuan. It turned out that she had already informed Li Li secretly, and made up her mind to move her family to Xiliang. She had nothing to fear! So Important news, Jizhou scouts and secret agents don't know about it, but the lord still doesn't know about it, it's ridiculous!

According to what they said, they will leave Zhen's mansion this afternoon, and they will take me and Second Young Master with them.Hey, how to get out?As long as the news can be conveyed to the lord, Li Li's son will be killed in Jizhou without returning, and all of them will be killed. It will be a humiliation of whipping today! "

The sunset is infinitely good, just near dusk.

Under the setting sun, the large Zhen Mansion's courtyard was already empty, and the originally neat and orderly courtyards, waterside pavilions, roads, and corridors now looked like a mess.

In fact, as early as half a month ago, the Zhen family had already arranged for the members of the Zhen family to leave the Zhen residence one after another. Among the more than 1000 tribesmen, they either left directly via Jizhou, or pretended to enter Sili via Yanzhou as a caravan, or left Youzhou via Bingzhou and transferred to Xiliang.

Although the Zhen family is a family of officials and officials in name, it is actually a family of merchants.Before this, the Zhen family members often traveled around with the caravan and rushed to various states, but there was no such big move this time. Within half a month, almost all the Zhen family was dispatched and left Jizhou separately.Perhaps it was this abnormal behavior of the Zhen family that attracted the attention of Yuan Shao's subordinates, and then it was heard by Yuan Shao, which is why Yuan Shao sent envoys to the Zhen family to borrow food and pay.

However, the matter of borrowing food just shows that Yuan Shao has doubts about the Zhen family, and it is not certain that the Zhen family abandoned him and turned to rely on other princes.And the first time he sent Fengji to borrow food, the Zhen family did not refuse outright, but bargained, pretending to be a snake, showing a merchant's face, which made Fengji puzzled and uncertain about what the Zhen family would do. Did Yuan Shao have a different heart?So Feng Ji had no choice but to return to the barracks to report to Yuan Shao, and following Yuan Shao's wishes, he followed Yuan Xi to the Zhen Mansion again, but this time he led [-] personal guards with him, and the intention of intimidation was obvious. If it is revealed, it is clear that it is forcibly borrowing food and wages.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Xi, Feng Ji and others met Li Li who had returned from a trip unexpectedly. The first time they met, they were full of anger, and the conflict was imminent.Just when Yuan Xi and Feng Ji thought that Ju Yi, the general of Jizhou, would teach Li Li a lesson, a dramatic scene happened. More than a hundred soldiers turned around and left, seeming to return directly to the Changshan barracks in a fit of anger.

When Ju Yi left in a fit of anger, Yuan Xi and Feng Ji thought that their group had shocked the Zhen family, and it didn't matter whether Ju Yi was with them or not, it had nothing to do with the overall situation.But what happened next was far beyond their expectations. In their eyes, the weak and deceitful Zhen family suddenly launched an attack and shot and killed five hundred soldiers around Yuan Xi in one fell swoop, and sent [-] soldiers stationed at the four gates. All the guards were captured alive, and no one escaped.As a result, Yuan Xi and his party of more than a thousand people never came back, and there was no news within three days, as if the world had evaporated, and no useful information was transmitted to Changshan Camp.

Throughout the whole incident, Yuan Shao's indecisive and indecisive character was fully revealed.He was quite suspicious but his methods were soft, and his decisiveness and decisiveness were not enough, and he was not bold enough, which delayed the opportunity. Only then did Li Li succeed, and the huge Zhen clan calmly evacuated Wuji City.If it were Li Li, once he knew that there was a change in his family and family, he would immediately mobilize soldiers and horses to besiege his mansion, and order all the passes to strengthen security and strictly check the passers-by.

In the final analysis, Yuan Shao of Jizhou has not yet fully acquired all the counties and counties of Jizhou, nor has he managed the entire Jizhou as impeccably as an iron bucket.Only the Black Mountain Bandit generals were able to disturb Jizhou, full of loopholes, and Yuan Shao sent troops to suppress the bandits twice, but failed to complete his success, until now he is still confronting the Black Mountain Bandits.

It is precisely because of this that Li Li and his party sneaked into Jizhou without any danger. They were lucky enough to get acquainted with the Zhen family consortium, and they tried every means to persuade the Zhen family's head, the Zhen family, and the old patriarch Zhen Yi to agree to rely on Li Li and move the family to Chang'an.

However, in this world, misfortunes never come singly, but also good things come in pairs.

The whole family of the Zhen family attached themselves to Li Li. For Li Li, the original intention of the trip to Zhongshan had already been achieved, and it could be regarded as a complete success.However, Li Xuan, Guo Jia, Huan Fei, and Xu Chu married four daughters of the Zhen family, and even the Zhen family, who had been widowed for many years, was very excited and devoted himself to Li Li.In this way, Li Li and the others really took a group of beautiful women from the Zhen family, except the young Zhen Mi, into one pot, gaining both money and talent.This move can be described as an unexpected joy and a bumper harvest!

In addition, Li Li also coerced and abducted Guo Jia, urging him to submit, and he was successfully taken under his command.Afterwards, he met Zhao Yun unexpectedly who was returning to Changshan for the funeral, so Li Li made many plans and carefully arranged to put Zhao Yun into the urn step by step, prompting Zhao Yun to quickly change from the initial hostile and guarded heart to a sincere and sincere service to him.

Things have progressed to this point, Li Li's trip to Jizhou has been fruitful, and he has made a lot of money, which is definitely a worthwhile trip.

Chapter 462

Chapter 462

In the evening sun, Li Li stood on the tower of the south gate of Wuji City, leaning on the top of the wall to look at Wuji City, thinking a lot.

Looking back at the incidents and incidents that happened before, it is true that two old sayings have been fulfilled: "There is nothing wrong with hard work; nothing is difficult in the world if you put your heart into it."

Many things that seemed impossible to succeed in the past have now been realized one by one. The trip to Jizhou seems to have been accomplished, and it is time to leave.

"My lord, the last batch of maids and servants of Zhen's mansion have left the city, so we should go too."

Suddenly, just as Li Li cleared his mind and was about to go downstairs, Li Zhi, who had been standing beside him watching the evacuated people downstairs, walked gently to his side and reported in a low voice.

Li Lixin nodded, with a slight smile on his face, he patted the bluestone crenel under his palm, and said softly: "Zhang Ji made very reasonable arrangements. The collateral clansmen started to evacuate half a month ago, and then arranged for the old servants and trusted maids of the Zhen family He left Zhongshan Kingdom with his subordinates, and left the direct clan members until the end, and left with me until today. In addition, the old patriarch Zhen Yi did not want to leave the ancestral house, and was willing to live in this secret room under the city wall. With a group of old slaves taking care of thousands of maids and followers who voluntarily went home for us, they will be sent out of the mansion until tomorrow afternoon.

All of these arrangements are reasonable and seamless, as expected of a family with 200 years of background, they do things impeccably and just right! "

While talking, Li Li turned his head and cast his eyes on the "bloated" tower at his feet, which far surpassed the other three city gates.

The south gate tower and the several miles long city walls on both sides were all funded and built by the ancestors of the Zhen family more than 100 years ago, and the entire project was fully responsible for the Zhen family.

As a result, the south gate tower after completion was huge and strong, and the scale of the building far exceeded the other three gates, and the inner side of the city wall was connected to the huge mansion of the Zhen family.On the other hand, the north side of the city tower is integrated with the South Garden of Zhen's Mansion, making it impossible to judge whether the city tower was built too big, or the South Garden of Zhen's House was built in violation of the law.

Today, the last batch of descendants of the Zhen family and the deceased members of the family have all evacuated from the south gate. Only the 75-year-old old patriarch Zhen Yi insisted on staying in the mansion, unwilling to leave the ancestral house of the Zhen family.The Nanyuan where he lived was built in the south gate tower. There were not many houses. There were a total of ten rooms in the two courtyards. It was very dark and was lit by oil lamps.

At noon, when Li Li and Mrs. Zhen went to bid farewell to Zhen Xi.Before leaving, under the guidance of Mrs. Zhen, he had personally seen the mechanism secret room built in the city tower, and it was really extremely hidden and strong.Just the organ stone door that opens the secret room is a piece of granite about two feet high, seven feet wide, and three feet thick.It weighs ten thousand catties.

In addition to the front door, the Chamber of Secrets also has a back door built at the foot of the city wall.Integrate with the city wall.The stone gate can only be opened from indoors, which can lead directly to the outside of the city.In addition, there are twelve old servants of the Zhen family in the secret room. These people have been servants of the Zhen family for generations, and their children are the first batch of collateral clansmen of the Zhen family who evacuated Jizhou, and they are as hard to leave their homeland as Zhen Yi.Willing to accompany the old patriarch to die here.

This scene touched Li Li greatly, and it made him realize for the first time that in this era, there is no true love between people and intrigues everywhere, but it is usually invisible.When people's hearts and loyalty are truly tested, they will fully reveal themselves.

Extending from this to the pre-Qin period, many veterans who followed the monarch for a lifetime were willing to die when the monarch died of illness or sudden death.

Li Li, who is the soul of future generations, has been deeply influenced by human rights ideas of later generations, and he no longer believes that there is such a thing as "life and death go hand in hand" between people.Because this word is easy to say, and it comes out as soon as the upper and lower lips touch; but there are no people who can really do this kind of thing.Even for loving couples who vowed to live together forever and share weal and woe, let alone when life and death are at stake, even when encountering disasters or encountering difficult problems that are difficult to solve, it is very likely that when the disaster comes, they will fly apart and fall apart.

Therefore, the scene where the twelve old servants of the Zhen family voluntarily accompanied the old man Zhen Yi to die together shocked Li Li and made him sigh.

Moreover, according to Mrs. Zhen, there are actually more than 100 clansmen and old servants who are willing to die here with Mr. Zhen, both male and female, including more than a dozen concubines of Zhen Yi.However, after repeated consideration, Mr. Zhen only left these twelve old servants with an average age of over 60 years old, and the others were not allowed. He kindly persuaded them to follow the family caravan to Chang'an.

Everyone in the later generations knows the style of the ancients, and Li Li naturally knows this sentence, but he has never seen it with his own eyes. It was not until he went to the secret room of the Zhen family to inspect the true meaning of the style of the ancients.

"Boom!"

A burst of crisp footsteps interrupted Li Li's thoughts and emotions, which made him wake up quickly from his trance, and then turned to check.

"Husband,,, Wenchang, hurry up, everyone is waiting for you outside the city!" Mrs. Zhen stepped up the tower quickly with a panicked look, and said in a panting voice.It's just that she was about to call Li Li "Husband" at the very beginning, but when she saw Li Zhi standing beside her, she immediately changed her words, her cheeks were flushed when she spoke, she didn't know whether it was because she was shy or tired from going upstairs too quickly.

"Well, I see, let's leave immediately." Seeing Zhen's anxious expression, Li Li nodded in response.

However, when he saw Mrs. Zhen let out a long sigh, he couldn't help feeling suspicious. He had a faint feeling that Mrs. Zhen's rushing up the tower was not simply urging him to go downstairs, but because he had something to hide. look at yourself.

"Why are you in such a hurry? I have a horse called Hualiu, which can travel thousands of miles in a day when it meets mountains and rivers. I have already let you go first, and Zicheng and I will arrive later." After the divorce, Li Li was not in a hurry to go downstairs, and said with a nonchalant smile.