The army's representatives were ordered to rest here for one night and continue northward to the capital the next day.
The troops returning this time consisted of only over 2,000 representatives, and the real army was still stationed at the front. The leader was General Anyi Qiao Yunxin.
Qiao Yunqing went out of the city in person to reward the army. The two brothers hadn't seen each other for half a year. When they met again, they both felt that everything had changed and they were no longer the same.
With the repeated calls of "big brother" and "second brother", the little sense of strangeness disappeared completely.
"Brother, you're back?"
When Qiao Yunqing saw Qiao Yunxin, she smiled and said, "When I got the news, I thought I had heard it wrong, but I didn't expect it to be true."
Qiao Yunxin looked Qiao Yunqing up and down, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that, apart from being a little thinner and darker, there was no other change in him.
"The south is stable now. I have to go back to Beijing to report. I heard that there was a turmoil here a while ago. How is it now?"
"As you can see, it has all calmed down. It's not a big deal. All that's left is to spend time to deal with it."
"Well, where's my mother? Why can't I see her?"
"She went for a stroll. You know, she can't sit still. She heard there were some vagrants in the mountains, so she took them for a stroll. I don't think she'll be back today."
Qiao Yunxin was stunned for a moment, then he understood immediately. The two brothers couldn't help but smile at each other, obviously remembering the time when Qiao Xin took them to the mountains to dig out the bandits' lair.
The two brothers talked by candlelight, wishing to pour out all the pain of missing each other for the past six months.
Before parting, Qiao Yunxin patted his brother's shoulder in front of all the officials in Yuncheng and sighed: "It may seem peaceful here, but it may not be safe. I see that you don't have many people around you, so I will lend you 200 guards.
When the situation is stable, you can let them come back. Don't worry, these people will not eat for nothing. The 5,000 dan of food I left behind is enough for them to eat for three months. "
"Brother, I won't be so formal with you. I'm really short of manpower right now."
"Hahaha, good, now we are brothers. I came back in a hurry this time and didn't prepare anything. After I deal with the affairs in Beijing, we brothers will find time to have a good chat."
Qiao Yunxin's experience invisibly eliminated the hidden crisis for Qiao Yunqing.
With such a brother who supports him unconditionally and holds great power, those forces who want to stab him behind the scenes will naturally think twice.
They heard that the three brothers of the Qiao family had a very good relationship, but hearing about it was one thing, and it was never as impressive as seeing it with your own eyes.
The two brothers tacitly agreed not to send anyone to look for Qiao Xin.
It's not that I'm not worried, I'm just afraid that it will ruin Qiao Xin's interest in fighting crime and eliminating evil.
As for Qiao Xin, he first asked Master Wu to go to the government office to get the geomancy map of Yuncheng, and then sent people to mingle among the disaster victims for a few days. Finally, he got a clear picture of the bandit dens near Yuncheng.
Master Wu's life these past few days has been more exciting than the entire first half of his life combined.
I watched as Qiao Xin took less than half a day to destroy the largest bandit den on Wulong Mountain with zero casualties. I watched the guards carry the boxes down the mountain one by one.
He stroked his mustache, his eyes sparkling.
"The old lady's method is still good. This is a business with no investment. We found 100,000 taels of silver and so much food in this bandit's den alone.
If the old lady continues to suppress the enemy like this, not only can she train a team of elite soldiers for you, but she can also solve the food problem. It's like killing two birds with one stone, very good!"
Zhang Yun also sighed, "That's right. If I hadn't asked around myself, I wouldn't have known how hard life was for the people of Yuncheng in the past.
There are 20 to 30 bandit dens of all sizes in this place, and they all come down the mountain to rob people at any time. It would be strange if such a place could develop. "
"Don't be sentimental. Arrange for people to pack up quickly and make sure the news doesn't leak out. The rest of you can take a break for two hours and move out when it gets dark. We have to hurry to the next big village."
"Don't worry, old lady. Just leave this little matter to us."
Qiao Xin nodded in satisfaction and said no more. She found a place to close her eyes and rest.
Rather than robbing bandits, she actually wanted to rob the noble families.
It would be more accurate to say that the world is ruled by aristocratic families rather than by the royal family.
The royal family would change generations, with a new dynasty occurring every few hundred years at most, but the aristocratic families would be passed down from generation to generation.
Don't tell her that the aristocratic families are innocent. Whenever there is a natural disaster, the aristocratic families always take the opportunity to take action, annex land on a large scale, and hide the population.
Is there any man-made disaster behind any natural disaster that does not have their shadow?
They plundered the people's assets, so they should not blame others for robbing their assets one day.
Although the chaos in the last twenty or thirty years of the previous dynasty caused serious damage to many noble families, they were still better off than ordinary people.
Although the flood and the indiscriminate massacre by the rebels caused heavy losses to most of the noble families in Yuncheng, many of them still fled to the neighboring Nanliang.
According to the style of the aristocratic family of having three burrows, Qiao Xin had reason to suspect that these large and small bandit dens might be their supply bases to conceal their tracks.
If they don't take advantage of the opportunity to rob the other party before they turn around, they will have no chance when the other party reacts later.
Qiao Xin always acted stealthily every time. She chose to act in the middle of the night, wearing a mask, and getting rid of the bandits in a quick and decisive way.
No drag at all.
The common people living within a ten-mile radius of the bandit’s den would like to escape from these places forever, so why would they go there specifically to see what was happening?
Even if they knew, they would applaud secretly. How could they help the bandits to tip off?
While Qiao Xin was clearing out the banditry through thick and thin, Qiao Yunqing, in the name of public security, strictly controlled the people entering and leaving the city.
When the relief team sent by the imperial court passed by Yulong Mountain, the originally small team had more than 200 people and more than 50 carts of food overnight.
With the tacit cooperation between mother and son, the noble families in Yuncheng were kept in the dark, and the looted materials were transported into the city openly.
Master Wu was happily counting the items in the warehouse. He was so happy!
With these supplies, there is no need for me to beg for help from the adults and ask the wealthy and powerful families for help.
He really didn't expect that the old lady would first send them an unimaginable fortune. How could these bandits grow so big without someone supporting them?
Now that all the dens have been destroyed by them, even if the other party finds out in the future, they can't say anything! They can only swallow their anger, otherwise they will be charged with colluding with bandits.
Now they have soldiers and food, and they are very confident!
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