Yuan Shu was brought in blindfolded, and a filthy rag was stuffed in his mouth. He stuffed him with rags, because after he was caught, not only did he refuse to hand over the jade seal of the country, but also scolded him non-stop, Zhang Fei thought he was irritable, so he stuffed him with a rag. But after Yuan Shu's mouth was stuffed with rags, he still opened his eyes wide and stared at Zhang Fei deadly. Zhang Fei was so angry that he simply blindfolded him.

Liu Xin waved his hand, asked people to remove all the rags that were on Yuan Shu's eyes and stuffed in his mouth, and said in a deep voice: "Yuan Shu, you are so bold, you dare to call yourself the emperor in vain, don't you know that this is a great crime to wipe out the nine clans?" ”

Seeing the light suddenly, Yuan Shu felt a stinging pain in his eyes, and after getting used to it for a while, he saw that the person who spoke was Liu Xin, who was sitting at the top, and couldn't help sneering: "Liu Xin, the winner, the prince, the loser, Kou, since it has fallen into your hands, I have nothing to say, if I want to kill, I have to listen to the king!" It's just that you want to get back the jade seal of the country, dream about it! ”

After Yuan Shu returned to the mansion yesterday, he waited anxiously until dusk, thinking that the Han army's siege would come to an end temporarily, but he heard the news of the city being broken. Yuan Shu also knew that Lujiang City had been surrounded by the Han army, and it was impossible to escape from the city, so he had to follow General Yang's advice, first find a safe place to hide, wait until the wind passed, and then flee to Hebei to join his half-brother Yuan Shao.

Under the arrangement of General Yang, Yuan Shu abandoned his wife and children, and only took two personal soldiers to a private house near Taishou Mansion. It is foreseeable that after the Han army enters the city, Yuan Shu, the Taishou Mansion, will soon become the temporary residence of the Han army's commander. However, General Yang is well aware of the fact that the most dangerous place is the safest place, and the houses near the Taishou Mansion will definitely not be subject to too much scrutiny. Moreover, General Yang also stuffed a large sum of gold and silver into the family, asked them to find a few sets of cloth clothes for Yuan Shu and the two personal soldiers to change, and hid in the firewood room behind the house.

Things turned out to be as General Yang expected, after the Han army entered the city, they only did a brief search around the Taishou Mansion and went elsewhere. But where there are advantages and disadvantages, the Taishou Mansion has become a temporary command post for Zhang Fei and others, and the surrounding security forces have naturally increased a lot, and at this time, it is impossible for Yuan Shu to leave this private house and run to other places.

What made him even more depressed was that Zhang Fei actually came up with an ingenious order, as long as he couldn't catch Yuan Shu for a day, the people would have to stay at home and not be allowed to go out for a day. This order is very inhumane to the common people, especially to those who do not have much food at home, and it is even more fatal.

The family didn't happen to have much food in stock. When Yuan Shu and the others hid behind the pile of firewood and grass and listened anxiously to the movement outside, the old and young of the family also gathered around to look at the table full of gold and silver and discussed. These gold and silver are really tempting, but they can't be exchanged for food, and Yuan Shu usually extorts from them, so as soon as several people in the family put it together, they reported Yuan Shu. When Zhang Fei asked the family what reward they wanted, the family actually offered not to pay for gold and silver, but only food, obviously frightened by Zhang Fei's order.

With a "snap", Xu Chu, who was standing behind Liu Xin, stepped forward, raised the horsewhip in his hand and whipped it down fiercely, and Yuan Shu's face suddenly had a blood mark, like an ugly centipede lying on the ground.

Xu Chu shouted: "Let's see if you dare to say such a rebellious thing!" ”

Yuan Shu grinned in pain, but he couldn't understand what was wrong with what he said just now.

Seeing Yuan Shu's dejected appearance, Liu Xin smiled and said, "Yuan Shu, your thinking is outdated. Now is not the era of the victor and the prince and the loser, the law now is that the winner takes all. If you are defeated, everything you have will be mine, and what is dead or alive will be mine! To put it mildly, you are really not as valuable as the women in your family now, and they may be rewarded to my soldiers, and if the lord is satisfied, he may be able to eat and drink. As for you fathers and sons, you will be working with those slaves every day with half hunger! ”

Yuan Shu is the son-in-law of the Yuan family, and he thinks he is noble, and he and his half-mother, Yuan Shao, who is just a concubine, look down on him, and even more look down on Liu Xin, who is a Han family relative from a side branch. However, Liu Xin wanted to humiliate him and reduce him to an even lower slave, which made him more uncomfortable than killing him.

These words made Yuan Shu angry and angry, and shouted loudly: "Soldiers can be killed, but they cannot be humiliated!" Liu Xin, if you have a kind, you will kill me! ”

"Smack", there was another blood mark on Yuan Shu's face, and the two blood marks were staggered, like a "cross" word for death sentence was drawn on his face. Yuan Shu glanced at Xu Chu angrily, and suddenly understood that it was he who called himself "I" and committed disobedience.

Liu Xin laughed and said, "You dare to call him a 'scholar'? If you are really not afraid of death, why didn't you rise up and resist when you were caught? Locked in prison and humiliated, why don't you kill yourself? It means that you don't have the guts at all! Yuan Shu, let me ask you, where is the jade seal of the country? Where is Liu Bang? As long as you are honest, I will let you live! ”

Yuan Shu also laughed and said, "Liu Xin, after making trouble for a long time, it turns out that you are still for the heirloom jade seal." Yes, the heirloom jade seal was hidden by me, and it is in this Lujiang City, but you will never find it......"

Before his words fell, he heard General Yang say: "Lord Liu, if the villain hands over the jade seal of the country, will you let my family go?" ”

Liu Xin knew that this person was the most important strategist under Yuan Shu, and he thought that he would be loyal to Yuan Shu, but he didn't expect him to jump out at this time to turn against the water, and couldn't help but turn to Yuan Shu and say, "Yuan Shu, have you heard, you have now betrayed your relatives." ”

"Hmph, the jade seal is my ......" Yuan Shu suddenly saw Xu Chu raise the horsewhip in his hand again, and hurriedly changed his words, "I hid it myself, how do you know!" ”

General Yang ignored him and continued to say to Liu Xin: "Lord Liu, when Yuan Shu was hiding the jade seal, the villain happened to meet him, so he knew where the jade seal was hidden. It's just that I don't know if Lord Liu can promise to let go of the villain's family. ”

Liu Xin bowed his head and said: "Okay, Liu will promise you, as long as you can hand over the jade seal of the country, I will pardon you for your innocence, and from now on you will be reduced to a common man, and you can be a rich man with peace of mind." ”

General Yang didn't expect Liu Xin to not only let go of his family, but also himself, so he couldn't help but be overjoyed, thanked him repeatedly, and said: "The jade seal is hidden in a mouse hole behind the firewood house of that family, and the villain is willing to lead the way to get it." ”

Yuan Shu heard that General Yang really said the whereabouts of the jade seal, and couldn't help but scold: "General Yang, you guy who betrays the Lord and seeks glory, you must not die well......

Liu Xin shouted in a deep voice: "Yuan Shu, the ants are still stealing, not to mention that he wants to save his whole family, is there anything wrong with this?" General Yang handed over the jade seal of the country, and Liu will never break his promise and will definitely exempt him from the death penalty. Now there is another opportunity in front of you, as long as you tell Liu Bang's whereabouts, Liu will be exempted from your capital crime! Weigh it up for yourself. ”

A trace of weirdness flashed on Yuan Shu's face, and he said triumphantly: "Liu Xin, you only know now that you feel sorry for your son, what did you do earlier." Haha, haha...... To tell you the truth, Liu Bang has already been stabbed by me, you want to find him, go to the underworld to find it! ”

Liu Xin was hesitating to put on a grief-stricken look, but heard General Yang say: "Lord Liu wants to listen to his nonsense, when your subordinates began to attack the city, Liu Bang disappeared, as if he was taken away by Liu Bei." The villain also sent people to search in the city, but the situation was too urgent at that time, and many people could not be mobilized for a while, so their whereabouts were not obtained. ”

Yuan Shu saw that his lies were exposed again, and he scolded again, and the foul language was a hundred times worse than just now, just like a street scoundrel, where is there still half of the demeanor of a child of a family.

Liu Xin was already impatient, waved his hand, and said: "Come on, take Yuan Shu down first, and when the jade seal is taken and verified to be correct, he will be beheaded on the street, and his corpse will be violent for three days, and his three clans will be destroyed!" ”

Yuan Shu openly proclaimed himself emperor, and committed the crime of usurpation, according to the rules, he wanted to punish his nine clans, and even Yuan Shao was among the punishments. But if there is chaos today, it is obviously unrealistic to punish the nine clans, and Liu Xin does not like to kill on a large scale, otherwise he will not let General Yang go easily. Yiqi three clans, Liu Xin has already made a few ruthless efforts, and it is also thousands of lives, and many of them are innocent.

Hearing Liu Xin's order, Yuan Shu, who had been shouting that Shi Ke could not be killed, turned completely white with a brush, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down, and his body fell to the ground as soon as he was weak, and was dragged out like a dead dog by several guards.

The next step is nothing more than to dispose of those old Yuan Shu and those scholar families in the city who support Yuan Shu. For Zhang Xun, Chen Ji, Le and other Yuan Shu generals who died in battle, the disposal of their families is much simpler. The men were sent to Xiangyang and sent to the engineering team to be used as hard labor, and the women were either used as official maids or slaves for rewarding meritorious soldiers. And Ji Ling, Lei Bo and other generals who are still fighting outside, their families are also controlled, as for how to deal with it, it depends on the next performance of these generals.

It is not difficult to deal with those scholar families in the city who support Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu vigorously expanded his military strength in Lujiang, Runan and other counties, and could not have done it without the support of a large amount of money. And the phantom secret spies planted in various places have long collected the information of these scholar families, who is out of the family, who is funded, all of them are clearly recorded, just waiting for the autumn to settle the accounts today.

Not all of the scholar families who supported Yuan Shu were voluntary, and many of them were forced, but Liu Xin couldn't control them. Although the war did not last long, the cost of the war was still very staggering because of the large number of troops used. For example, a large amount of dry food for war readiness, such as the pension of the wounded and wounded, and for example, the consumption of arrows and stone bullets, all this requires money.