Section 17: Benevolence

Huang Zhong and others led a thousand iron armored troops to travel all the way. Four hours later, they arrived at the head of the Shen family. Huang Zhong and others hid not far from the main village, but Jin Monkey took Li Wei and two tiger soldiers who were good at climbing around the mountain led by Wen Hou. The moonlight was bright and the cliff was bright. Everything was quiet, and there was no cry of insects in the mountains. Only the slightly cold mountain breeze trembled when it blew past the bare tree heads. Occasionally, a mountain bird was awakened by the wind, flapping its wings and making a series of clear chirpings, echoing in the quiet night. Jin Monkey and others put on the gray single clothes they brought and spent an hour climbing up the back village. After a little adjustment, the five people touched the back village.

The village was very quiet, and all the houses were pitch black. Except for the patrol servants who were yawning and complaining from time to time, they could hardly see living creatures. Wenhou led the way, sneaked and walked through the mountain pass in front, pointing to the small house guarding the mountain road, nodding to Li Wei. Li Wei grinned silently, gestured to the Golden Monkey and Wen Hou, letting them watch at the intersection, and took two tiger soldiers into the house with slight feet. Wenhou looked up at the moonlight and squeezed with the Golden Monkey. After saying a few gossips, he saw Li Wei walking out of the house like a ghost. The two tiger soldiers followed closely behind with bloody long swords.

"Is it done?" Wenhou was surprised and said to Li Wei, who was covered in blood on his face and looked like a demon.

"It's done, damn it, a guy didn't know what he had eaten, and hid in a grass nest to get diarrhea, and he almost missed the net. Fortunately, my knife was fast, and it splashed my face with blood. Master Deng was displeased and scolded me again when I saw it." Li Wei complained dejectedly, and turned around and made gestures to a tiger soldier. The tiger soldier glanced around, picked a place, lit two torches, and made several gestures. Not long after, the night bird in the opposite forest flew up and flew into the blue sky in a daze.

Wenhou looked at the 1,000 soldiers who rushed up the mountain from the mountain road below, looked vigilantly at the mountain village where Li Wei and two tiger soldiers were ready to rush out at any time, and looked back at the wooden house in disbelief. He opened his mouth a few times, but said nothing. The golden monkey smiled and patted him, comforting: "Nothing strange, I think this is normal."

"It's normal? There are twenty strong men in there, but they actually... were solved by them so easily?"

"Don't say that these twenty people are sleeping soundly, even if they are awake, they are not the opponents of these three." Jin Monkey was not surprised and yawned and said, "Okay. My mission is completed. I want to hide here and sleep for a while. You still have to lead the way. Hurry up, General Huang and the others have already come up."

Wenhou had no time to say more, and led the soldiers who had already rushed up the mountain to attack the back village. As soon as he entered the back village, the soldiers didn't need to say anything, ten people rushed into the barracks on both sides, while Wei Yan and Li Wei rushed to Shen Dan's residence with their men. In an instant, the killing sounds burst out in the quiet mountain village, and screams were endless. Before the awakened soldiers could surrender, they were all killed. Half an hour later, the mountain village changed hands.

Wei Yan dragged a middle-aged man out of the backyard, pushed the disheveled man in front of Huang Zhong, and sneered: "This guy is so fast. He just went out for a day and went to his sister-in-law's bed."

This middle-aged man was Shen Yi, the second leader of the Shen family. He received an urgent letter from Shen Dan to send him last night. He arrived at Dazhai at noon today. While Shen Dan was away, he talked to his sister-in-law who had been away for a long time, and then he simply rested in the room to comfort his long-lasting sister-in-law instead of the elderly and weak Shen Dan. He wanted to satisfy his longing, but he was pulled out of the arms of the beauty in the gentle village in the middle of the night. He was wearing only a pair of shorts and shivering in the early spring night wind, shocked and scared. His teeth were knocked like drums in front of the formation.

Huang Zhong looked at the villain who stole his sister-in-law with some disgust and snorted: "I am Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng sent by Mr. Cao. If you want to die, you will be worth it. I will only give you three words. I am not in the mood to wait."

Shen Yi turned over and bowed: "God of your life, General, please spare me, I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender."

"There are two more sentences." Huang Zhong said coldly.

"I am willing to convince my elder brother to surrender." Shen Yi quickly added another condition.

Huang Zhong was still very cold. At this time, your mother still let you not surrender? The clerk was no longer surnamed Shen. What if you surrender? Seeing that his face was not good, Shen Yi suddenly felt cold sweat. He didn't dare to say anything anymore. He had one sentence left. If he was not satisfied, he would die. He was thinking hard that a woman rushed out of the inner room and knelt down next to Shen Yi. She wrapped a brocade quilt on Shen Yi who was fighting with teeth. She raised her head and said in a voice: "If the general can agree to me with a condition, I would like to hand over the evidence of Shen Dan and the mountain people to the adults."

Huang Zhong exclaimed, looked at the untidy woman who was not afraid of her face, looked at Deng Zhan and Wei Yan, and then said, "Take it out and see if it's worth the life of this beast."

The woman was about to refute, but Shen Yi pulled her a little. Then she glared at Huang Zhong, got up and hurried into the house. She took out a bundle of bamboo slips and handed them to Huang Zhong with both hands. Huang Zhong looked at the torch next to her, raised his eyebrows, and was overjoyed, and asked quickly, "Is there any?"

"Also, but the general needs to agree to my request first." The woman said calmly.

"No problem, I won't kill you."

"Not only that, I also want you to promise that Yixing (Shen Yi) will leave this mountain and be an official. The farther away from this mountain, the better." The woman pulled Shen Yi up, held his arm, looked at Shen Yi gently, turned her head and looked directly at Huang Zhong: "I also want the general to swear that he would not reveal what he saw today."

Huang Zhong smiled with a smile. He looked at the two uncles and sisters-in-law in front of him with interesting interest and nodded: "I don't have the final say whether you can be an official, but I can swear that we will never reveal your affairs."

"Thank you, General." The woman bowed her head and bowed, and returned to the house to move out a bunch of bamboo slips and placed it in front of Huang Zhong. However, when she entered the house again, she had not come out for a long time. Not long after, a maid rushed over and rushed to Shen Yi and shouted in panic: "Second uncle, lady... the lady has committed suicide."

Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, suddenly lifted the brocade quilt on his body, and rushed into the room with a beastly howl. Not long after, he cried bitterly in pain. Huang Zhong and others looked at each other, thinking that the matter was strange, but the matter was urgent, so they didn't want to ask again. He asked Deng Zhandi's personal guard to set off overnight with a roll of bamboo slips, and at the same time, he quickly arranged the defense of the copycat and counted the supplies in the copycat.

Cao Chong learned that Huang Zhong and others had taken the Shen family's big village, which not only solved the food problem, but also obtained evidence that the Shen family bullied the mountain people. He was overjoyed. Pang Tong and others were also very happy after reading the bamboo slips. In this way, it would be difficult for Shen Dan to get the support of those leaders. Jiang Gan deliberately stopped for a long time, and only then did the next morning with Wenhou, who rushed back, and entered the camp outside the city for the second time to negotiate.

The talk went smoothly. Shen Dan was shocked by the news that Dazhai was lost in the middle of the night and was even more dead by his wife. The second brother Shen Yi appeared in the Dazhai area in a puzzled way and was furious. In front of the account book for many years, facing the angry head people, Shen Dan was in chaos and was shocked by Jiang Gan without saying a few words. He withdrew from the negotiations and rushed back alone. The head people were in a group of heads. After Jiang Gan announced several preferential conditions that Cao Chong had planned, they came to the city and thanked Cao Chong.

Cao Chong looked at the heads who were impressed by the people who were worshipping the ground and was extremely happy. He held back his complacent heart and barely pretended to be calm and humiliated. He helped up the head of the subway house, Tiele's father, and said, "Everyone, you all get up. You are also bewitched by others. Since I have said that I will not pursue the matter, I will not go back on my word. Spring farming is about to be imminent, so you should go back as soon as possible. As for your losses, we will definitely clear up the property that Shenjia Dazhai has plundered from you as soon as possible. I have notified General Huang to send it back to you. If you don't have to exchange some money for the time being, you can send it to Xiangyang City for some money. My son will send someone to contact you. Every month from now on, there will be caravans coming in to receive the goods, and you can also send it to the city by yourself. By the way, check the situation in the city."

Tiexin was extremely grateful, nodded repeatedly, and said tentatively: "What Mr. Jiang said, we can come out of the mountain, and the young master will divide the land for me, but it is real?" Cao Chong laughed: "Of course it is true. There are thousands of fertile land in Xiangyang now. If you want to come out of the mountain, I will welcome you. Not only can you have fields, but you can also arrange your children to go to school or join the army."

When they heard the land split, the people were very excited. When they heard that they were in the army, they hesitated. Pang Tong looked at it and couldn't help but smile and said, "Don't worry, the young master did not let you become a scholar's family, but built a special military system for you separately. If your children join the army, it is limited to three years. If they feel that they don't want to join the army again in three years, they can take the military merits they earned, and they can also be arranged by the young master to be a small military officer. With the skills like Tiele, there is no problem going back to Fangling to be a county lieutenant."

Then Pang Tong explained to the heads in detail the draft of the newly built military system of Cao Chong according to the consul system in his previous life. When the heads heard that they had been in the army for three years, they could freely choose after three years, and they could return to their hometowns to enjoy the treatment of half of their lifetime taxes. Those who are capable can also enter the government to be a military officer. They were all very happy. Tiexin immediately pushed Tiele, who was a little shy and excited, to Cao Chong and said, "Please accept the dog son. Since he met the young master, he has been determined to follow the young master. The young master rewarded his sword, and he couldn't even let me touch it."

Cao Chong smiled, and pointed at Tiele and said, "It's okay if you are willing to join the army, but if you want to be under Master Deng, I'm afraid it depends on whether Master Deng accepts you. How about it? Do you want me to talk to you about your relationship with Master Deng? It may not necessarily work."

Tiele blushed and repeatedly thanked him. Cao Chong waved his hand and asked someone to take dozens of good steel knives. Each of the knives gave him a hand. After each knives appreciated the knife in his hand, Pang Tong laughed loudly: "Young Master came in a hurry and failed to bring gifts to you. I was a little sorry for these knives. These knives were not respectful, but only expressed the kindness of the young master. The young master also said that if you have the opportunity to go to Xiangyang, you must let the young master fulfill his friendship as a landlord and express your gratitude to you for such support."

When did the heads see such a polite government? He did not expect that the grand prime minister and son would not speak to them like this at all. Not only did he forgive their crimes and meet their requirements, but he also gave them gifts. He fell to the ground with gratitude. Cao Chong comforted them for a while, and then Kuai Qi set up a banquet in the county government and entertained the heads. During the meal, Pang Tong and others explained Cao Chong's new policy in Xiangyang and tried their best to encourage the mountain people to come out to settle down.

In addition to writing poems and writing essays during the meal, Cao Chong did not forget to demonstrate, and asked several tiger soldiers to perform their superb martial arts. The shining sword light and powerful shouting not only stirred up the courage of the young people, but also surprised the heads. It was not until the performance was finished that they put down their hearts that were hanging in their throats. On that day, everyone parted happily, and early the next morning, the heads scattered with their own people.

Cao Chong rewarded the Shen family's village to Tiexin and added some weapons to him. Then he brought his men out of Fangling and joined the Wenpin Fair in Zhushui. Within a day, Huang Zhong arrived with a thousand iron armored troops. When he saw Cao Chong, he immediately stepped forward with Wei Yan to pay a visit.

"Please ask for help. This time, the two generals will be the first contribution to the successful resolution of Fang Ling's war." Cao Chong was very happy to see the reborn 1,000 iron armored troops, and hurried forward to help Huang Zhong and Wei Yan up.

"It's the brave young master, it's Mr. Feng Chu who is extremely intelligent, and General Deng's Tiger Soldiers and Jinhouzi and others have made great achievements first. We are just sitting and enjoying the success." Huang Zhong said with a smile, praising the others first, and then pulling Wei Yan and saying, "If we have minor achievements, it's also the contribution of Wen Chang. If it's not for him to change the plan. We will not be able to complete the task so successfully when attacking the Shen Family Village."

"Where is it? Yan changed the military order of the Prince, and asked the Prince to punish him." Wei Yan smiled and looked at Cao Chong's face. Cao Chong smiled and said, "It's a good change. If it weren't for the Shen family's village, Shen Dan wouldn't be defeated so easily. If the army was outside, the king would not accept the order. What's more, it was my order. As long as you complete the task, I will not restrict you as to how to complete it."

Wen Pin, who had been smiling and silently, smiled and said, "Young master is free and easy, and the generals are both wise and brave. No wonder they solved the war in Fangling in three or four days without bloodshed. Pin was worried about it and worried for a few days."

Everyone laughed when they heard this. Cao Chong knew in his heart that his battle would spread throughout Jingzhou like the last time Wancheng persuaded surrender. He passed it to Xuxian and Yecheng. He bowed to Wen Pin. He was very grateful. Wen Pin understood it and called everyone on board.
Chapter completed!