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Chapter 87 The old man is not deceived

When he opened the inn room, the situation inside was terrible. The tables, round stools and other decorations were in a mess. More than a dozen people fell to the ground in a row, with blood stains on the walls and the ground. Who killed someone and locked the door? The doors and windows were all closed. Guo Shao walked to the door and smelled a very unpleasant and strong mixed smell, just like the person hanged under the eaves in front of him, not only had the smell of blood but also the stench of excrement. Even the person killed by swords and guns was not that beautiful. It seemed that because the muscles lost control, the filth in his body would flow out.

Guo Shao's heart was cold... Qingxu and these nuns were killed as spies together? He died in filth?

He stepped into the threshold, took off the scabbard and lifted the lying corpses one by one. He had never seen Qingxu, but had heard the description of a woman with a pointed chin, single eyelids, fourteen or fifteen years old. Moreover, Qingxu was not a nun, had hair.

He walked very carefully, of course he would not step on the dead body directly with his feet, but inadvertently turned around and found that there were blood marks left on the floor tiles, which inevitably stepped on the blood flowing everywhere on the floor tiles.

"We didn't kill these people..." the official at the door said tremblingly.

Guo Shao turned around and asked, "All the people you arrested are here?"

The official suddenly said, "There is another locked up there, a young lady who claims to be the disciple of Fuyaozi Chen Tuan."

"Are you still alive? Take me over now!" Guo Shao threw away his scabbard and turned around and left.

Everyone quickly left the tragic massacre scene and went to another room. This time, Guo Shao didn't have to do it himself, Luo Mengzi, who was more fat, rushed up and hit the door with his iron armor, and knocked over the door panel directly. Suddenly, the frightened girl screamed from inside.

After hearing this, Guo Shao ran up. Under the small window at the bottom of the room, there was indeed a little girl standing. She was not tall and looked a little thin, with single eyelids and pointed chin. She held a hairpin in her hand and said in a strong local accent: "What do you want to do? My master is Fu Yaozi, and my master is very powerful! Don't come over..."

I saw a thick wooden lattice on the small window behind, one of which had a gap, and there were some wood peelings on the ground below. It turned out that she wanted to break the wood with a hairpin before?

When Guo Shao heard this, he suddenly felt a big stone in his heart landing. He looked at Qingxu carefully and said, "Of course I won't want to do anything to you. I am here to save you. You don't know that I can't even care about my life in order to save you..."

"You are so strange! Do I know you..." Qingxu's back against the wall, and was looked at by Guo Shao's gaze. She seemed to be a little uncomfortable all over. From time to time, she also looked at Guo Shao, and the two of them looked at me, and they were very strange in their behavior.

Guo Shao cared about her so much about the person who had nothing to do with him... Of course, he knew what the reason was, but it still felt very mysterious. Is this the opportunity they said?

The two men and women looked at each other for a while, and Guo Shao finally came to his senses and turned to ask, "Where is the Golden Lady? Call the Golden Lady over."

After a while, my grandmother came over coldly, her face pale, but she didn't say anything. When she walked to the door, she saw Qingxu and finally said, "Qingxu, do you still remember me?"

"Master Yuzhen?" Qingxu's face was overjoyed. After all, he was a teenage girl. No matter who her disciple, he always felt safer when he saw an acquaintance, and Qingxu was not immune to the vulgarity.

Seeing this, Guo Shao silently withdrew from the room and said to the two personal soldiers beside him in a deep voice: "Look at them, don't let Qingxu get lost."

Qingxu and Jingniang said a few words when they met. When they looked up, the strange young general who had just passed was gone.

Guo Shao walked to the yard of the inn and turned around to ask the official who led the way: "Who killed the person?"

"I don't know the humble position..." the official said hurriedly.

Suddenly, he heard a "clang" sound, and a flash of sword light. Luo Yanhuan drew his sword and waved it over. Suddenly, a trace of blood flowed to the knife's face. The official was shocked, his body softened, and he was so scared that he sat down to the ground.

Guan'er said tremblingly: "Zhao, Zhao Chongtao's order..."

"Where are people?" Guo Shao asked again.

Guan'er said: "The defeated soldiers in front came to the inn. Zhao Chongtao learned that he had been defeated and went to Qingniling with General Li and others in the morning."

At this moment, a cavalry rushed to the gate of the inn and came in to report: "The general of the Shu army was named Li Tinggui. He asked to treat the captured subordinates well and surrender as long as we agree."

Luo Yanhuan laughed and said, "Can you still have conditions at this time?"

Guo Shao waved his hand and said, "I promise Wang Zhang to agree to Li Tinggui's conditions to resolve the problem early and save trouble."

Guo Shao sent people to ask Li Dazhu and two other commanders to gather on the northern route, and then divided their troops to escort the surrendered Shu army to the north of Qingniling... Guo Shao discussed with Li Chuyun and others, intending to give up the inn and occupy only the Qingniling highland, and then the main force returned to the north.

In the evening, a group of generals and officials of Shu army were tied to the inn and were taken to the inn by ropes. Guo Shao led the generals to meet him in the lobby. As soon as Li Tinggui and others walked into the lobby, they found that the generals of Zhou army looked strange. They were either angry or had no kindness, but it seemed that Li Tinggui and others were piles of wheat cakes or piles of gold and silver... They had the illusion.

"If you want to kill the general of the defeated army, you can kill him!" Li Tinggui raised his head and said angrily.

Guo Shao asked: "Who is Zhao Chongtao?"

A general of Shu army behind Li Tinggui said, "I am."

Guo Shao said: "Take it out and peel it off."

After hearing this, Li Tinggui was furious and cursed: "Who promised me not to kill prisoners? I'm fartful when I speak? I'm defeated and I'm not willing to die. I'm so kind to cut me down!"

Guo Shao said coldly: "You don't have to pay your life to kill your opponent in the battle formation. Killing unarmed people has to pay your life. Killing people to pay your life to pay your life to kill you." After that, he waved his hand, "The rest are all imprisoned."

At this time, Zuo You, who was sitting by the table next to him, found the magnet from somewhere. He held the magnet and leaned towards the pile of coins placed on the table. The coins were immediately stained with the magnet. Zuo You said: "It's really iron coins. Shu Kingdom lacks copper, and lattes are cast coins... It's not easy for us to take these coins back."

Guo Shao stood up calmly, neither treating the surrendered generals of the Shu army nor saying that he would kill them, but only dealt with one person. He came out of the back door of the lobby, called Luo Yanhuan forward, and said in a deep voice: "Take people to force the Shu army generals, and ask them to send people back to get money to redeem their lives... Don't have iron coins, use them for birds! Please ask for gold, silver, gems, and silk; let Zuo You do this with you so that he can calculate what level you need, and it is clear that the actual price is not deceptive."

Luo Yanhuan said: "This group of soldiers of Shu army are imprisoned soldiers. The imprisoned soldiers of Shu are also quite numerous and are often rewarded by the emperor of Shu. Thousands of prisoners are captured, and each person is not enough to squeeze out any of them."

"Okay, you and Zuo You are fully responsible for this matter." Guo Shao said.

Li Chuyun said: "If the Shu people really use money to redeem people, we will let them go like this? Especially if they let go of the Shu army general without saying a word, it is hard to say that they can be stabbed into the court..."

Guo Shao pondered for a while: "Brother Li said very well. I have seen two days of sending people to Tokyo to report and ask for instructions on how to treat prisoners of war... First, go to Fengxiang to tell the envoy of the Guest Province, Zan Jurun, without hiding it, just say that he has squeezed money and he has a share."

Li Chuyun said: "The soldiers of the Shu army should be fine, but if the military generals issued an order to arrest them and returned to Tokyo... Then we will collect the money but not follow the rules? It is said that the bandits in the Green Forest will abide by the rules."

"Zan Jurun will report the blackmail in the army. We have already requested the imperial edict first, and the officials and the court should follow the situation. If they want to be arrested, they will be arrested. They will have to be inferior to bandits... not following the rules." Guo Shao said, "If you blackmail the money, get rid of those who are 'depleted' in the chaos, you will also pay some at that time."

Li Chuyun sighed and said, "I have agreed to the soldiers before the war to share the money. For the sake of the present, I can only do this. Why don't you hand over this matter to the last general? How can the people I sent to tell Zan Jurun?"

Guo Shao simply nodded and said, "Then Brother Li will do it."

Li Chuyun found a Dutou in the guards and told him to go to Fengxiang to see Zan Jurun first. He repeatedly reminded him: "The remaining troops of the Shu army were besieged in Qingniling. The generals were afraid of death and were willing to surrender if they asked to redeem their lives. Our generals were afraid that the lonely army would be attacked by Shu reinforcements again, so they wanted to fight and decide quickly, so they reluctantly agreed."

A group of cavalry took the seal from the Hujie Army Guo Shao, and climbed Qingniling early the next morning and headed straight towards Fengxiang.

Zan Jurun asked the news in detail, and thought about it for a long time in the inn, so he began to write secret reports. In order to make the matter clear, he also wrote about Wang Jing's army and Xiang Xun army plundering wealth in Qin Fengchengjie City, and then discussed that the imperial guards did not occupy the city, so they blackmailed the reinforcements of the Shu army. As for the imperial guards, it was quite strange that the Shu army took the initiative to ask for money to redeem people.

After writing the secret memorial to the Privy Council, Zan Jurun sealed the lacquer with burnt lacquer, and sent a messenger to deliver it directly to Tokyo.

At this time, the Zhou monarchs and ministers in Tokyo were celebrating because the battle against Shu was successful... If Wang Jing and other troops continued to stalemate in Qin Feng, the Zhou army could not easily start a war against the Southern Tang; only after the situation was clear could the Southern Tang be attacked to avoid high-intensity combat on both sides.

The Privy Councilor Wei Renpu did not think that the army was doing some plunder and extortion was nothing. As long as he won the Shu Kingdom, he could avoid other things. The suggestion reported to the emperor was: the surrendered soldiers of the Shu army in Qingniling were dealt with by the left wing of the Hujie Army; Qin Feng's ordinary Shu army surrendered troops were still left and left, and those who were willing to leave were let go, so as to win the hearts of the soldiers, officers and people in Qinfeng's area. The emperor agreed and immediately approved it, and then asked the civil servants to write an edict to appease Qin Feng's surrendered troops.

Wei Renpu also suggested that no matter whether Wang Jing's troops plunder Qinzhou and others, they would send people to commend him, and issued an order to move Wang Jing to settle Qinzhou and to deploy the western edge of the capital. The matters discussed by Privy Councilor Wei Renpu were very appropriate and were quickly implemented.
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