Chapter 422 Similar Views

Outside the south gate of Mianzhu City, the weather is gloomy and cold.

Of the first batch of hanged bodies, only a head wrapped in black cloth is left hanging there, like a black sunny doll.

But the pairs of wooden stakes were like street lamps, with a pair every six steps.

Now the area is more than eight miles long, which has greatly broadened the horizons of the team members from Chengdu.

One li is three hundred steps, which is enough to hang fifty pairs of wooden stakes and one hundred people.

If this continues, perhaps the wooden stakes will be laid all the way to Luocheng and Chengdu.

One hundred people can fill up an area of ​​one mile. It is not easy to have this efficiency when fighting a war or fighting for a position or a city.

"I have a hunch."

Huang Quan stopped his horse at the side of the road and looked at the newly transported Xianbei corpses hanging on wooden stakes by the roadside. Huang Quan said to Wang Fu who was following him: "When the Grand Marshal returns to Guanzhong, these wooden stakes must be built to Luocheng."

Wang Fu looked at Huang Quan's profile in surprise: "Why did Gongheng say that? Recently, apart from the Xianbei people who killed people and broke the law, the number of officials who violated the law has been decreasing. How could there be thousands of more people? Is it Gongheng's idea?"

Huang Quan saw Wang Fu's sudden realization and silence, and knew that he had guessed wrong, so he corrected him immediately: "It's not what Guoshan thought. I want to train soldiers like sharpening swords. Now the sword is in the sheath, it is still so sharp, and it hurts itself without killing anyone. If it fails to kill people once it is unsheathed, the consequences will be even greater."

"This……"

Wang Fu was speechless now. After such fierce training, the soldiers who were originally a group of profit-seeking and bloodthirsty tigers and wolves would become well-trained, free-spirited and elite tigers and wolves who could cooperate skillfully after this round of training.

Huang Quan had too many things on his mind, but Wang Fu was a well-known family in Shu, and although they got along very well, it was a rare trust that he could stop at the right time when dealing with a matter involving the lives of the entire family.

As the saying goes, different times change different situations. After the army in Mianzhu was trained, many people in Yizhou gradually accepted the rule of the Grand Marshal.

When the time comes, we don’t even need to send out the army to kill someone, we can just send the prison guards.

Let’s not talk about others, let’s just talk about the Wang family.

Although the clan was large and controlled a large amount of land, mulberry fields and weaving households, it was also able to organize and recruit a considerable private army.

But two months later, the Grand Marshal ordered him to be executed. Do you dare to resist?
In a place like Shu, the big families all have their own clan soldiers, but... how should I put it, it's somewhat out of place in this chaotic world.

The clan soldiers of the big families in Shu were more like an armed force that suppressed the weaving households and protected themselves from harm by other big families. They did not have the power to invade other countries.

The small number of tribal soldiers is due to the need for mutual checks and balances...but a bigger reason is that the cost of maintaining tribal soldiers is a bit high.

The business atmosphere is strong and there is really no need to do something like this that costs money.

As for tribal soldiers, it’s fine as long as they are of a similar size and can be used.

After all, in the mountains outside Shu, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can gather thousands of mercenaries with their own armor in a few days or even a dozen days.

When the big families united, this level of power was enough to contend with the Dongzhou troops and Liu Yan and his son Liu Zhang. However, they were somewhat uncomfortable facing the sudden appearance of the Guanzhong troops.

The mountain people also knew that the soldiers from Guanzhong were not easy to deal with. No matter how much money they spent, they could not hire the mercenaries from various foreign countries who would come at their beck and call in the past.

The mountain people dare not move, the Dongzhou soldiers dare not move, and the soldiers stationed in various counties dare not move. Do they expect the soldiers from the big families to take the initiative to cause trouble?
Now we can only wait for that brave man to stand up. Only in this way can we test the true combat effectiveness of the Northern soldiers.

Otherwise, we can just wait and wait until the northern soldiers have been well trained, equipped and adapted to the climate of Shu, and then everything... will be left to fate.

At the city gate, Qin Mi, a famous local scholar in Mianzhu, stood with his hands behind his back, watching the carts of supplies entering the city with a calm look in his eyes.

Sometimes, when something we expected happens, we feel uncomfortable and terrified.

For example, Ye Gong loves dragons. Also like Qin Mi in front of him, he has found that his thoughts have become the source of his own pain.

He repeatedly rejected the invitations from Liu Yan and Liu Zhang, father and son, and when the Kingdom of Liang was established, he even refused the high position of prime minister.

The reason why he rejected Liu Yan and his son was because he looked down upon them.

Qin Mi had looked down upon Liu Yan ever since Liu Yan instructed his fake son Zhang Lu to split Hanzhong and block the passage.

Later, when the emperor's ceremonial guards and carriage were built, they were burned down and the look of fear and trepidation made me sick. I wanted to become emperor but didn't dare to.

The troubled times have arrived, and as a scholar with ideals and ambitions, Qin Mi naturally has some ideas.

For the future monarch, the worst cannot be lower than Guangwu.

Liu Yan and his son looked evasive and shifty, and it was obvious that they lacked the courage to gamble big.

As a result, a Grand Marshal came, whose standards were far superior to Guangwu in all aspects.

At least the strictness of his military discipline is much better than that of Guangwu.

As a native of Mianzhu, Qin Mi was very grateful for following his personal moral conscience.

But the problem was that the Grand Marshal was devoted to commanding the army, and even this famous scholar who was famous in Xizhou and lived in seclusion in Mianzhu was blind to it and didn't see it. How could Qin Mi remain calm?
He doesn't lack that little salary, nor does he lack any official position. What he lacks is a sense of recognition.

How would the scholars and fellow villagers in Yizhou view him if he ignored his existence like this?

The bigger problem was that Qin Mi found that the Grand Marshal was too busy every day, running around in various military camps, and he didn't even have time to hold banquets or enjoy himself.

This forced many people gathered in Mianzhu to just wait and do nothing. With so many people watching, they could be considered to have an insight into the character of this Grand Marshal.

The most terrifying thing is that in the nearly one month since the northern troops entered Shu, this Grand Marshal has never summoned the famous prostitutes in the city, let alone the wives and daughters of the guilty officials.

Occasionally, there were women at banquets, and they were also musicians or kabuki actors.

According to the people at the banquet, the Grand Marshal gave money to the dancing girls and musicians just for watching the dance, and did not take any of the money himself. The military officers and ministers under him also looked capable and not interested in women and focused on their official duties.

Qin Mi only felt that the Grand Marshal was holding back a fire in his heart, and he would attack Shu as soon as the army was reorganized and trained.

After coming to this conclusion, Qin Mi could no longer sit still.

If he actively seeks to be a government official, he will be laughed at by others to some extent...but what if those who laugh at him are all hanged on roadside stakes in the future?
Qin Mi saw Huang Quan and others riding horses slowly approaching in the distance, and immediately turned around and hid in the crowd, leaving only the back of his head wearing a small gilded crown.

This back of the head is very conspicuous among the crowd of faces.

Huang Quan happened to see it and instinctively felt that there was something wrong with this onlooker.

Wang Fu was chatting with Huang Quan. Seeing Huang Quan distracted, he followed Huang Quan's gaze and happened to see Qin Mi climbing the city wall and lowering his head to get into the carriage. He immediately said, "This is the scholar Qin Mi from Mianzhu, Qin Zichi."

Huang Quan was from Langzhong, Baxi, and like Gan Ning, he moved here from Jingzhou.

Huang Quan was a member of his father's generation who migrated to Shu to escape the Factional Persecution, so his native place could be considered Yizhou. He was also related to the Dongzhou soldiers. Considering the marriage relationship between Liu Zhang and his son and the Huang family, Huang Quan, who was orphaned and poor at a young age, was promoted rapidly.

But Huang Quan also has a weakness, which is that his network of contacts is far inferior to that of Wang Fu and other scions of prominent families in Shu.

This shortcoming is actually an alternative advantage at the moment.

(End of this chapter)