Xiangyang..

After more than half a year, he returned to Xiangyang. Li Chao went home directly, and his family was still the same. The old family and some older servants and mothers who stayed to visit the house were all happy to welcome Li Chao home.

Li Sixing was robbed in Jiangxia, but he was quite honest in Xiangyang. In addition, Li Chao led his army to arrive not long after he entered Xiangyang, and he surrendered immediately. Xiangyang was still well preserved.

"A few days ago, soldiers came here a few times, but they didn't dare to do anything." The old servant reported to Li Chao that everything was fine in the Li family. Before the turmoil in Hanjing, Ke Qing sent his family from Hanjing to Wudang Mountain, and Li Yuan did not capture the Li family as a hostage. Later, he tried to win over Li Chao, but he did not touch Li Chao's property.

After Li Chao Hongzhou defeated Liu Zhenghui, Li Chao's property in Hanjing was seized by Li Yuan, but he came quickly in Xiangyang and had not moved yet.

In fact, money is a trivial matter, as long as the family has nothing to do.

"When will the mistress and the little husband come back?"

The old servant bought chicken, duck, fish, meat and other dishes and came back to hold a banquet to welcome Li Chao. He also specially pulled an old yellow cow from the Li family village outside the city to slaughter it, because Zhenguan traded smoothly with the Turks, Tuyuhun, Khitan and other people in recent years, and a large number of livestock were imported into the Central Plains.

Not only are there no shortage of war horses, but there are also no shortage of plowing oxen and picking horses, but there are even many cattle that are directly transported to various places to slaughter and eat meat. The court has also relaxed its control over slaughtering of plowing oxen, and it is usually enough to report it.

"They are now in Lushan, Hongzhou. I have sent someone to pick them up and they are just here to come back for the New Year."

The old ox that plows the fields is actually better than veal. Although the meat is older, it is sweeter. With beef liver and tripe, it is really very sweet.

Li Chao originally planned to let Shisanniang and the others live in Dengzhou for a while, but Cui Yingying was worried about her family.

This time, Li Chao's losses were actually quite large. Not to mention the huge losses caused by the turmoil in the Hanjing, Xiangyang, Luoyang, Taiyuan, Yangzhou, Hongzhou and other important large pools, but also caused the entire industry and commerce to stagnate and even regress.

Fortunately, the Li family is also very wealthy, so the loss can still be afforded. Cui Yingying, Zheng Hongxian, Zhao Siniang and other groups of women were so distressed that they were dying.

Li Chao felt that after this turmoil, the new law would definitely not hinder it anymore, and the Li family's industrial prospects were broad.

After staying in Xiangyang for a few days, Cui Yingying and the others had not arrived yet, but Wang Chengen arrived with his three soldiers.

Wang Chengen also felt energetic when leading an army of 60,000 to the east pier in Xiangyang City. In the past, he just followed the emperor and became an eunuch, serving the emperor's daily life, and really couldn't feel the taste of commanding thousands of troops.

However, Wang Chengen was still a smart person. After arriving in Xiangyang, he did not directly bring people into Xiangyang City.

He first stationed three troops outside the city, and then took the officers into the city to meet Li Chao.

"The King of Yue is really amazing. Once again, he won the important town of Xiangyang without bloodshed and did not fight."

At this time, Li Chao in Xiangyang also had a lot of troops in his hands.

He originally brought eight thousand people, and there were two thousand on the boat, which was 10,000. Yangzhou did not attack, and there were almost no casualties in the water battle in Hongzhou. When he set out from Dengzhou, there were ten thousand people, but there were still so many people in Xiangyang.

Li Sixing led more than 10,000 troops to surrender, and surrendered to the 20,000 people led by Guangluqing Liu Shilong, who had been here to reinforce.

Li Chao also has more than 40,000 under his command.

Originally, according to Li Chao's intention, the 30,000 surrendered soldiers were actually not many real soldiers. He planned to speak out and send them to his hometown to send them money to his home. However, with Wang Cheng'en's army in Hongzhou before, Li Chao kept the people.

Although these people are just wasting food, from another perspective, these people have participated in the restoration of the Supreme Emperor after all. If they are put home directly, they may be used by some local guys, or they may be used by the chaotic people in the country.

If you stay here, you can at least manage one thing. One can strengthen your momentum, and the other can wait until the current situation is peaceful before you release it, which will not be easy to cause chaos.

Wang Chengen seems to be addicted to leading troops now.

When he saw Li Chao, he first proposed to integrate the surrendered troops from Xiangyang.

Wang Chengen originally planned to organize two armies, but Li Chao wanted the Huai Army to be independent of one army. Those mobs could not only improve their combat effectiveness, but also would only drag down. Therefore, in the end, the soldiers in Xiangyang were organized into three armies.

Li Chao's Huai Army had 10,000 people formed one army, and another 30,000 were organized into two armies, each with 15,000 troops.

So, Wang Chengen, the military appearance envoy, watched the military appearance of 100,000 people.

"King of Yue, those who are accused of rebellion in Xiangyang City must be cleared first."

Wang Chengen proposed to Li Chao to purge Xiangyang.

"Is this what Your Majesty mean?" Li Chao asked.

There were only two people in the study, and Wang Chengen admitted it readily. "This time, the Emperor of Supreme Restoration and the number of people involved in the rebels shocked His Majesty more than ten thousand times and was frightened and furious. When I came, His Majesty told him that those who rebels would never be forgiven and would never be merciful."

Li Chao was silent.

In fact, he was more opposed to a large-scale purge, and it was necessary to properly kill the chicken to warn him, but if it became a comprehensive purge, it would not be a good thing.

The Tang Dynasty was originally subjected to this turmoil, and the good situation was severely damaged and its vitality was severely damaged. If there was another major cleaning, it would be even more harmful to the muscles and bones.

Those people deserve to die, but killing is never the solution.

Killing all opponents is just an ideal state. In reality, very few people can do this and do it successfully. It is like the end of the dynasty, when heroes rebelled. Why are many peasant soldiers unable to succeed? In the end, the powerful nobles often seize the world?

Because many peasant soldiers do not have a long-term vision, they only know how to burn, kill, loot, and even do not know how to unite. They just kill, rob and kill and loot the officials and gentry landlords, and doing so often leads to their failure.

Why was Li Yuan successful at the end of the Sui Dynasty?

Because Li Yuan can unite all forces, no matter whether there are any differences or not, he will first find a way to join together.

Li Shimin could not kill many aristocratic landlords just because they opposed him.

After the Xuanwu Gate Incident, if he had a great purge, the world would have been in chaos. But on the other hand, in Li Shimin's view, the current turmoil was precisely because of his ruthlessness back then.

Now the emperor has decided to be tough.

Li Chao should have written a letter to object and persuaded the emperor was wrong. But in the end, Li Chao did not intend to say anything. At this moment, no matter what he said, the emperor might not listen to it, especially if he said it, the emperor was more likely to not listen to it.
Chapter completed!