After rebirth, I tortured the scum and strived to become the empress

"Master Liu, my master is very satisfied with the gift sent by the master and asked me to collect it. I wonder if Master Liu likes the gift that my master personally selected?"

Fang Zhengqing seemed not to see Liu Su's murderous eyes, and asked Liu Su heartily if he liked it?

"In this Liujiabao, I can decide your life or death with just one word. Aren't you afraid of death?" Liu Su asked back.

"Haha, I don't dare to hide it from Master Liu. I am indeed not afraid of death, but the housekeeper of the Master seems to be very afraid of death?" Fang Zhengqing seemed to think that Liu Su was not angry enough, so he deliberately stirred up trouble.

"Very good!" Liu Su stared at Fang Zhengqing, "Come here, pull him down!" He ordered the guards standing aside.

"Yes, head of the family." The guard controlled Fang Zhengqing, and then asked as usual:

"I dare to ask the master of the house, should he be beaten to death with sticks or tortured slowly in the water prison..."

"Pull it down and give him food and wine! Throw it out after he finishes eating." Liu Su said reluctantly.Although he wanted to kill the talkative Fang Zhengqing in front of him, he still suppressed the anger in his heart.

Because the spy reported back the treatment his housekeeper received from Shen Qingjun, and Housekeeper Liu was "sent" to the castle by Shen Qingjun.

He is a dignified master, and he cannot be less generous than the young woman Shen Qingjun!Moreover, Shen Qingjun was not provoked by him and did anything insane. There was no way he could let a junior who was several rounds younger than him compete.

"Ah, you gave me wine and meat and then threw them out?" The guard was shocked. Is the head of his family mad?Said the wrong thing?

During the more than 100 years that the Liu family has been domineering in Wuwei County, the guards have formed the mindset that anyone who disobeys the family leader will die a good death.

"Yes, send him out immediately after giving him wine and meat!" Liu Su said again, his tone already impatient.

"Yes, Master." The guard quickly accepted the order and did not dare to ask again!

"Thank you very much, Master Liu, for the money." Fang Zhengqing saluted before being pulled down. He couldn't lose his emissary's demeanor...

He turned around and smiled, knowing that he had won the bet!

In fact, since he came to Shen Qingjun, he has been looking for opportunities to perform. As a newcomer and a bandit, he must have merit in order to gain a foothold in front of his lord and colleagues!

He surrendered to Shen Qingjun because he was eager to get ahead!Therefore, he has been carefully seeking opportunities to make meritorious deeds, and today he seized the opportunity...

In fact, he has also analyzed Liu Su's character during these days and believes that this person can be considered a half-hero, although only half.

But there should also be ambition. What is ambition? It means that even if he is narrow-minded, he can still be patient and pretend to be kind in front of outsiders!

You won't kill someone in disrepute just because of a few bad words or objects!In other words, killing people justly!This is why he volunteered to go on a mission!

Although he was a bandit before, he was a bandit who could use his brain and weigh things. Otherwise, he would have been destroyed by others long ago. How could he have become so big that Shen Qingjun would bring an army to destroy him.

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"Su'er, write a letter to King Beigong for me, asking him to come to my aid... As long as he is willing to come, I, the Liu family, will send him [-] war horses and [-] shi of grain as a reward..." Compared with last time Liu Su offered even greater conditions.

"Furthermore, my Liu family can give him the war horse provisions in advance, and allow us to plunder places on the way to send troops. At the same time, after the event is completed, our Liu family will share the military power with him equally..."

After Fang Zhengqing was pulled down, Liu Su, who knew that the provoking plan failed and could not inspire Shen Qingjun to send troops, finally decided to make great efforts to invite foreign aid.

"Father? This...did our Liu family give too much? Share Wuwei equally? Why should we divide the territory that our Liu family has worked so hard for generations to divide? Are the conditions we offered too big and too superior? ?”

Liu Su was shocked by his father's generosity and asked Liu Su puzzledly!

"In my opinion, the most they can do is allow them to plunder the village."

Liu Su supports the Qiang people in plundering places. In Liu Su's view, when the Qiang people plunder villages, they only steal some wealth and people, but the most important land cannot be moved away. If the people are gone, they will be left behind. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the land happened to be taken over by one’s own family?

The Liu family won't be infamous if they get the land. As for those who were killed during plunder or were snatched as slaves, he did not consider them.

For more than a hundred years, the Liu family has been able to own [-]% of the real estate in Wuwei through the 'tacit understanding' with the Qiang people... As the young family head, he is also very familiar with this.

"Su'er, don't care about these given things. As long as our Liu family is still there, we can earn back the food and horses from the Qiang people in less than a year..."

By the way, the Liu family also monopolizes the transactions with the Qiang and Hu people in the north. Every transaction is a huge profit, among which salt is the most profitable. The Qiang people do not produce salt, but salt is necessary for humans and animals!Without salt, any animal has no strength.

Random Liu Su said meaningfully: "As for sharing Wuwei equally, I am just talking about it as a father. To rule the territory, you have to rely on strength. The Qiang people don't have that ability. So what if my Liu family gives it away? In the end, I won't take it back! Wuwei!" It doesn’t all belong to my Liu family, so I can’t lose any of it.”

"Father is wise!"

……

After Shen Qingjun and Liu Su gave each other gifts, they both found out that the other party was not someone who could be easily angered. Therefore, the war returned to its starting point and became a stalemate. They each used external moves, hoping to win with external moves!

Leaving aside the Liu family's letter to the Qiang people asking for help, Shen Qingjun also gave Huang Gong an order during this period, ordering him to step up efforts to induce the Huangsha Valley soldiers to surrender.

After receiving Shen Qingjun's order, Huang Gong selected dozens of loud soldiers and shouted loudly outside about the benefits of surrender——

If an officer surrenders, he will forget the blame, retain his original official position, and be rewarded with land ranging from [-] to [-] acres depending on the size of the official position...

Any soldier who surrenders will be rewarded twenty guans and five acres of land!Those who are willing to stay and serve in the army will be treated as regular soldiers, and those who are unwilling will be sent home!

It has to be said that the reward offered by Shen Qingjun is very attractive to both the officers and soldiers in Huangsha Valley.

Moreover, as the Duke of Wuwei, she has the ability to fulfill her promise, and the possibility of breaking the contract is very small. Coupled with the increasingly bad environment in the valley, it has really tempted some people to surrender!Whether an officer or a private...

It's a pity that the person who was lured to surrender was not secretive and was discovered by Liu Jue before the incident happened and was suppressed in time. Liu Jue, Liu Su's sworn brother, was most likely a loyal member of the Liu family. Shen Qingjun didn't even think of trying to persuade him to surrender. Because of this The kind of people basically can't persuade them to surrender.

Even if Liu Jue is a profit-seeking and unjust person, there is no way that Liu Jue will be able to do anything without huge and generous conditions.

And even if he offered generous terms, Shen Qingjun promised that he would definitely burn bridges. Instead of breaking the promise later, it would be better not to promise it in the first place.

Facts have proved that Liu Jue was indeed a die-hard loyalist of the Liu family. Afterwards, he personally blocked the entrance of the valley with his cronies, and ordered his soldiers to dig into the cliff, climb to the top of the valley, and dump human and animal excrement out.

<divclass="contentadv">Because there is a small slope in the valley that is not that steep, I can barely climb to the top of the mountain by digging a few places with tools. However, the terrain outside the valley is steep everywhere, but Huang Gong cannot stop it...

Of course, the gentle slope in the valley is only a small section, so even if there are people climbing up to dump excrement all the time, it still cannot keep up with the output of the people and horses in the valley. However, although this is a drop in the bucket, it at least alleviates the situation of coexistence of human excrement.

Liu Jue also ordered that a certain number of horses should be killed for meat every day, which would be used as military rations to supplement the food in the valley, and also reduce a lot of output pressure in the valley. After all these measures, it seems that it can last for a few months!

"Hey." Shen Qingjun took Huang Gong's report, frowned and sighed!Then he raised his eyebrows and praised:

"This Liu is definitely someone Liu Su can safely let him train and master in secret. His ability and loyalty are beyond words. He is much better than his sworn brother named Liu Ming!"

'But that hero is my enemy!I want to win quickly, but I can't! ' Shen Qingjun thought.

Seeing that there was no progress in Huangsha Valley and Liujiabao in a short period of time, she was considering whether to retreat or launch a forceful attack...

Of course, this forceful attack was not on Liujiabao, but on other counties controlled by the Liu family, because at the beginning she used the method of attacking Huanglong directly, and other counties ignored her.

The advantage of attacking the county town under the control of the Liu family is that it can not only weaken the strength of the Liu family, but also restore a wave of blood for yourself...

The downside?It might get a bit of a bad reputation and be boycotted by a lot of people!

As a landlord, he openly led troops to attack the county and plundered the people, and his reputation was probably not much better.

Although those county towns are not under her control, they still belong to her in name, and after taking over the county towns, she is only planning to seize the Liu family's property or the property of people related to the Liu family!

But the rumors don't care about this... Although the Lord holds an army, he can't point his sword inwards!Otherwise it will scare others...

In fact, if the Liu family's raising of private soldiers had not been exposed, not only would their treachery be clear, but their treachery would also be clear...

Otherwise, she can guarantee that if she had not had this incident, she would have sent troops to attack Liu, and there would definitely be a mountain of people scolding her!There are many people who openly and secretly resist her!

Among these people, she definitely included some of her retainers, some of the powerful military families who were bullied by the Liu family, and many aristocratic families in the Wei Dynasty. This was why she had to work hard to establish the justice of her war before sending troops.

The emperor needed reasons and excuses to kill people and confiscate their homes. The Liu family also needed Qiang thugs if they wanted to annex the land, not to mention her?She also needs a reason to attack the Liu family!

Of course, if she hadn't discovered that the Liu family was raising private soldiers, she might not have sent out troops so quickly!

She is not willing to retreat!After all, there may not be a good excuse to send troops to control the Liu family in the future, because the political rules of the Wei Dynasty do not punish anything twice!

Even if she goes back without punishing the Liu family now, in the eyes of the world, the matter of the Liu family raising private soldiers will be revealed, and the Liu family will use all means to clear this matter.

She wouldn't be surprised even if she turned black into white and said that the people in Huangsha Valley were an excuse for her to send troops and framed her.

It’s so common for politics to turn clouds around, confuse right and wrong, and mistake deer for horse!

You can't kill a snake with a stick, the snake will follow the stick...

Therefore, it can be said that Emperor Shao Wu held the crown prince ceremony a quarter in advance, completely disrupting her grand attack and annihilation plan!

Although after this battle, she can also use Wuwei City as the center to control half of the townships and counties west of Tianshui County, the Liu family's home base, so that Wuwei can be equally divided with the Liu family from east to west. If not, the Qiang people in the north should be added. It should be a tripartite force. Three points of martial power...

It’s not like getting nothing!

But she could do her best to get rid of all the sages of the Liu family and gain control of the Qiang people, but because others were willing to give up halfway, she was unwilling to do so!

Just when she was hesitating, the war seemed to be taking a turn for the better?

"Lord, we have captured a group of Qiang people. They are suspected to be the leaders of the Qiang reinforcements invited by the Liu family. May I ask, lord, how to deal with this?" Shen Yan walked into the commander's account and reported.

"The Qiang reinforcements invited by the Liu family? Where are they being held? Let me go and have a look!" The war was not progressing, and Shen Qingjun, who was feeling depressed, was about to leave when he heard Shen Yan coming to report, so he decided to go and have a look.

"Where was this Qiang leader discovered by you?" Shen Qingjun asked when he came out of the tent:

"In the past, your Majesty would handle these matters before reporting them to me. This time you came to ask me for my opinion on how to deal with them. Is it because the Qiang man caught has a special status?" she guessed as she walked.

"Lord Mingjian, that's exactly what it is! I caught this man in the mountains twenty miles away, but we have been paying attention to him a few days ago. We have been preparing for four or five days to catch him!"

"Oh? Careful words." She also became interested after hearing what Shen Yan said.

"Yes, in fact, the first one who discovered something strange was the spies I placed in Lingwu City." Lingwu City is a large city under the control of the Qiang people. Murong Wugong was stationed in Runan County to guard against the Qiang people.

"Five days ago, the spies I placed in Lingwu City discovered that the Qiang people in Lingwu City seemed to be welcoming a 'big shot', and they became interested in him."

"Originally, the spy thought that the Qiang people were going to attack Runan County, where General Murong was stationed, so he sent some leader to supervise the battle and quietly warned General Murong."

"Unexpectedly, that group of people only stayed in Lingwu City for one day, and then quietly pretended to be a caravan and left the city in the middle of the night. Fortunately, my people kept a close eye, otherwise they would have hidden it..."

"It's a good thing they didn't pretend to be a caravan. In this case, my subordinates felt something was wrong. They also arranged for people to follow them quietly all the way. They found out that this group of people had been heading towards Tianshui County, so they reported it to me!"

"I also felt that there must be something fishy about this group of people. After some arrangements, we captured this group of people in a valley."

"When they first found themselves surrounded, they resisted fiercely because they had armor hidden on their bodies. But after they found themselves heavily surrounded and we even brought crossbows, the young man in the lead was very concerned about his life and simply surrendered. .”

"I brought this group of people to the camp, and before they started to torture them, the young man who was leading them was a weakling who cherished his life. He just saw that he was taken into the military camp."

"I didn't even have time to use the torture. Knowing that there was no possibility of escaping anyway, he was so frightened that he said everything."