The Xiazhou City that Li Ze saw was dilapidated. From the outside, the city wall is still majestic and majestic, but in fact, it is really gold and jade, and it is ruined in it. This is thanks to Songlang Jiangren's bitter hatred for the Tang people, after entering Xiazhou City, he looted while wantonly destroying, and when he left, he did not forget to light a fire.

Once the seat of Ansui's Jiedu Town Government, the political center and economic center of Ansui's rule, most of the city has almost become ruins.

When Li Ze stepped into the city, a whole month had passed since this battle, but the city was still cleaning up the ruins.

Seeing about a dozen corpses being lifted out of a collapsed house, loaded onto a cart and pushed out of the city, Li Ze couldn't help but sigh.

It was Li De who caused the current situation, but in fact, it wasn't Li Ze himself! Li De had a chance to stop Songlang Tsering, but he deliberately indulged all this. And the purpose is to purge the Du family and his son.

I still remember that after receiving the huge wealth sent back by Li De, the household official Ren Yan's eyes were smiling like crescent moons, and he was so happy that he couldn't find the north.

Or in that cartload of wealth, there is the property of a dozen corpses that have just been charred?

There was a feeling of depression in his heart, and a strong feeling of discomfort surged into his heart, causing Li Ze's body to shake, and he almost fell to the ground. bluffed Li Dang, who was behind him, came up with an arrow step and supported Li Ze's arm.

"It's okay." Li Ze waved his hand: "It's just a little sentimental." ”

It's easy to make a decision, without any psychological burden, even knowing the consequences of doing so. But this does not mean that you can remain indifferent after really seeing the tragic scene.

In the overall strategic plan this time, I did such a thing twice in a row.

One time was Hedong.

Once it was Ansui.

Li Ze felt that there must be a pair of eyes staring at him in the dark.

As a power holder who rules a vast territory and has countless Dingkou, Li Ze once thought that as long as he did what was beneficial to the vast majority of people and the whole, he would be able to have peace of mind and a clear conscience. But the scene he saw today still gave him a great impact.

People eventually have seven emotions and six desires.

And he is by no means the kind of guy who is out of love.

I will still oscillate between reason and emotion.

"Xiazhou, this time the loss is huge, right?" He calmed down and turned his head to look at Dai Lin, who was temporarily acting as the assassin of Xiazhou.

"Yes. There were originally 230,000 households in Xiazhou, of which 80,000 households were ordered in Xiazhou City and its surroundings. Speaking of this, Dai Lin's voice was a little choked. At that time, after the invasion of Tibet and the loss of Lingzhou, Du Shuai ordered all the rich families in other places to be concentrated in Xiazhou City, and all the grain and grass were concentrated in Xiazhou. Li Xiang, Xia Zhou, his vitality is seriously damaged, and he is afraid that he will not recover his vitality in ten to twenty years. ”

"The imperial court will have certain policy support for all parts of Ansui, believe me, it won't take so many years for Xiazhou to regain its former prosperity." Hearing Dai Lin say this, Li Ze breathed a sigh of relief, of course Xiazhou City is extremely miserable, but now it seems that the damage in other places in Xiazhou should not be too serious, 200,000 households, there should be about 500,000 to 600,000 people, after removing the loss this time, Xiazhou City can at least save more than 400,000 people.

I am afraid that most of the dead are those rich people who fled to or were moved to Xiazhou City by Du Youcai. It is the poor who will be able to escape with their lives.

This is a good thing for Li Ze.

"When the Tubo army entered the city, General Dai's family was also in Xiazhou City, are they okay?" Li Ze asked.

Hearing Li Ze ask this, Dai Lin's eyes turned red: "Xie Xiangye cares, most of the family is fine, at that time, after the Tubo people entered the city, there was chaos in the city, but there were many retired soldiers in the Xiaguan family who acted as family members, so they were not too flustered, these family members protected their families and joined Du Shuai's family, and took advantage of the chaos to kill a way out of the city and escaped." It's just that the old mother of the family, frail and sickly, does not want to burden her children and grandchildren, and insists on staying at home. ”

Li Ze was stunned for a moment: "Loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, the court will give commendation, although it is a mourning after death, I hope it can be comforted!" ”

"Thank you." Dai Lin thanked her again.

"Is Du Shuai's family okay?" Li Ze asked.

Dai Lin shook her head, "Orphans and widows. Whether it's Du Shuai or I'm wearing someone, we have all been in the army for decades, our hands are covered with blood, or it is God's punishment for us, the heirs in the family are not prosperous, Du Shuai has three sons, but in the end, only Du Liang is an adult, but this time, they are all together and sink into the sand. Du Shuai is the branch, leaving only Mrs. Du and Du Liang's widow and a pair of children. After Du Shuai was gone, I led the army to break through and finally brought Du Shuai's body back, but Du Liang had no bones, and in the end he could only make a clothed mound. ”

Seeing that Dai Lin was a little speechless, Li Ze couldn't help asking, "Is there something else going on in the Du family?" ”

Dai Lin smiled bitterly: "I know that the Du family's own branches, even if there is no backbone, but the Du family's other branches scattered in Ansui still have strength." And the Du family still has a lot of assets in Ansui, such as land, farms, mountains and fields, etc., after the war, the Du family branches have poured into the city of Xiazhou, to open a clan meeting to elect another patriarch, but the actual meaning is to divide these things, Du Shuai father and son are gone, only Mrs. Du is left with a female stream, who is suffering, Dai intends to help, but this is the Du family's family affairs, it is really inconvenient to interfere. ”

Li Ze sneered: "These people's wishful thinking is inevitably too loud. How could Li allow these people to bully orphans and widows? Doesn't this chill the soldiers? ”

"If there is a master in charge, then everything will naturally be easy to say." Dai Lin nodded repeatedly.

"Now that you have become a civil official, what is the inconvenience?" Li Ze asked: "If you still want to lead troops, you can say that I will make arrangements." ”

"No, Dai was promoted in his early years, but he was unlucky, and he never got a Zhongjin Shi, and later followed Du Shuai, abandoned literature and martial arts, and now he is a civil official again, but he has also returned to his original face." Dai Lin shook his head.

"That's the best!" Li Ze also smiled and said: "Now that Xiazhou is in ruins, all kinds of ruins are waiting to be rebuilt, just to focus on civil affairs and restore the economy, you have been in Xiazhou for many years, you are familiar with the situation, and it is most suitable to do this assassination history." The civil and military complement each other, but the next focus of Xiazhou is governance, and the history of Dai Thorn has to worry a lot. ”

"Being able to do something for Xiangzi is Dai's wish."

"I heard that your son is very brave, if you are willing, can you transfer him to my personal guard battalion? After two years, you can be a town commander when you release it! Li Ze asked.

"The child is stupid, it is his great luck to be favored by the Xiangye, the lower official thanked him here, and immediately asked him to pack his bags and report to the Xiangye's personal guard camp."

"It's not in a hurry, let's talk about it after I come back from Lingzhou, his original position also needs to be handed over." Li Ze said with a smile.

As they spoke, the group had arrived at the place where Du Youcai used to live.

The former festival town mansion has now become a large white land, here, is the hardest hit area of the Tubo soldiers, the carved railings and paintings in the past, the golden wall is brilliant, and now it has turned into a cloud of smoke and smoke. A few surviving houses, standing among the ruins, loom in their former glory.

A large group of heavily armed soldiers poured in, but the large group of Du clan people who were arguing and shouting in the house were startled, don't look at their dancing happily before, but at this time, when they saw the black armor these people were wearing, they immediately wilted.

If it was Dai Lin's people, they could still jump, but when they looked at these people, they knew that they were Zhenzhou soldiers and horses, where did they dare to show their teeth? Zhenzhou soldiers don't care what status you Du Shi has in Ansui, you will never be soft when you should clean up, a certain part of these people has already suffered this loss.

Li Ze walked into the house along a path that had been improvised from the rubble.

Everyone in the house was a little stunned for the first time, and no one thought that the first thing Li Ze did when he entered the city was to arrive here.

After a moment of sluggishness, several people who looked old and respected walked out and threw their hands towards Li Ze to the ground.

"Du's second bedroom..... I've seen Xiangye! ”

"Du's three-bedroom..... I've seen Xiangye! ”

"Du's four-room ..... I've seen Xiangye! ”

Li Ze put his hands behind his back, ignored these people, looked past these people, and looked at an old lady standing in the middle of the room, and behind her, there were several women who were also full of filial piety, as well as a man, a woman and a pair of children.

Seeing Li Ze looking over, the old woman bent down and squatted down and bowed.

Li Ze retracted his gaze, stared at the people in front of him who were embarrassed and straightened out, and snorted: "Li came to worship Du Shuai, and there are other things to discuss with Mrs. Du, and there are no one to do, so let's all withdraw!" ”

The Du family was stunned, and the oldest person in the second room was about to speak, but Li Dang waved his hand, and a group of guards rushed up, pushing and forking, and cleared these people out of the house in an instant.

Li Ze stepped forward, put on three pillars of incense in front of the spiritual seat of Du Youcai's father and son, bowed his hand, and then turned around: "Mrs. Du, Du Shuai's father and son are the National Death Festival, the court does not dare or forget, Li has already been on the book, please make Du Shuai the king of the county, please make Du Liang the prince of the country, and Du Liang's title will be downgraded by his son." ”

Mrs. Du's tears fell, and the woman behind her was even more mournful, and a pair of children hugged one of the woman's legs, and they also cried.