The people of Qiang City...
It has been many years since he last lived a normal life. The old man was devastated. He slowly turned around and looked at the younger generations.
Finally, they don't have to suffer like him for the rest of their lives.
"Don't worry, as long as you take good care of my peppers, I won't delay your wages!" She loves money, but she is not a boss who doesn't even pay wages just to save money. At most, she feels reluctant to do so.
"Bah! Don't even think about it!" Someone on the ground, presumably the leader of the Qiang soldiers, seemed still unwilling to give in and cursed Song Wan fiercely, "You ignorant bastards! When the Qiang people unify the world, I will make you my slave, just like them! Serve me for the rest of your life!"
"Unify the world?" Song Wan was curious. She bent down and told him word by word, "Haven't you received the news yet?"
The Qiang soldier leader, feeling chilled by the stare, subconsciously asked, "What news?"
"That means the leader of your troops who sent troops to Dai Viet has been killed by me."
The Qiang soldier leader was so stunned that he couldn't believe it. He rolled back suddenly, trying to get away from the woman in front of him, unwilling to believe what she said at all.
"You lied to me!"
"Why would I lie to you?" Song Wan took Song Qi's sword and stabbed him, pressing the cold blade against his neck. "That's where I broke his neck. I used too much force and he died instantly."
Those on the earth trembled like a sieve.
After a while, Gu Wu said, "He was so frightened that he lost control of his lower body."
Song Wan covered her mouth and nose, and asked Song Qi in disbelief, "Did I scare him?"
Song Qi shook his head, "Of course not. He's just timid."
Song Wan asked Song Qi and Gu Wu to pick out the capable Qiang soldiers and keep them. As for the remaining hundreds of people, she looked at the native residents of Qiang City and asked, "What do you think about them?"
Seriously speaking, these Qiang soldiers were their genocidal enemies.
If Song Wan simply disliked these Qiang soldiers, then their attitude towards them was more of hatred.
After being enslaved for so many years, many people have already lost their blood. Even now, their hearts are still full of doubts. Can they really live truly from now on?
Many of this group of people were told since birth that they were slaves of the Qiang people and the source of all evil, and that only endless punishment could alleviate their sins.
They have lived in this corner for many years and have long believed that the east and west gates of Qiang City are the end.
"Master, do you mean that we can deal with the remaining people at our discretion?" It was the old man who spoke again.
The old man should be the oldest among this group of people. He has lived for more than seventy years and has been enslaved for seventy years.
If you were to ask who hated the Qiang soldiers the most, no one present hated them as much as him.
At that time, he was only a five-year-old child. His parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents were all killed by the Qiang soldiers. He was lucky enough to escape by being stuffed into the river by his mother.
"You don't have to call me Master. I'm not your owner. You can call me Boss or Master?" Song Wan said. "By the way, my last name is Song, Song Wan."
"As for what you said about letting them be dealt with as you please, that's right, it's up to you to deal with them." Song Wan looked at the group of fat Qiang soldiers. For the first time, he felt that there were disgusting fat people in this world. It turned out that bad guys would not be cute even if they became fat.
Song Qin traveled all the way from the capital to the northwest half a month faster than expected. However, when he arrived in the northwest with sufficient food and troops, he was told that his future brother-in-law had taken 10,000 troops to support the southwest.
That would be fine, after all, the southwest was a battlefield that Gu Yanji was familiar with, but the problem was why his own sister brought two people to sneak into the Qiang tribe's nest.
When Zhao Zhizhi arrived at Song Qin, Song Wan and the other two had already set out for seven or eight days.
He had been waiting for a long time and finally Song Qin came. Now there was enough food and grass in the northwest and there was no war. The only thing that worried him was Song Wan.
"The princess said that I should wait until you arrive before I can take people to look for her."
Song Qin was both worried and angry at Zhao Zhi, the fool. "General Zhao, don't you know how to secretly send someone to follow you?"
Zhao Zhi's eyes widened. "Is this even possible?"
He had never thought of this method.
Song Qin didn't know what to say.
The main reason was that Zhao Zhi used to follow General Mu. Every time he went to the battlefield, he just followed orders and killed the enemy, and rarely thought about problems for himself.
Otherwise, General Mu would not have fallen. He had no better way than to try his best to prevent the enemy from breaking through the city gate.
Song Qin did not dare to delay any longer. After a quick visit to General Mu who had just woken up, he asked Song Yi and others to stay and assist Zhao Zhi in preventing any unexpected accidents.
He brought the number of people requested by Song Wan, and together with Song Twelve, he rode at full speed to catch up with Song Wan and his group.
Qiang City.
In just three days, everything has changed completely.
The first thing was the plaque on the city gate. Song Wan had someone replace it with a new one.
She also used her mental power to block every exit, and anyone who tried to escape to report the news would be stopped by her.
Over the past three days, about five or six people came one after another, but none of them succeeded. Song Wan asked other Qiang people about these people who were stopped, and they said that these five or six people were ruffians who did evil things in the city and took pleasure in bullying ordinary people every day.
When Song Wan heard this, she understood that there was no need for these people to stay and waste food.
As for other ordinary Qiang people, it is impossible to say that they had no desire to resist at the beginning.
However, the benefits Song Wan offered were too tempting: two copper coins a day, five hundred a month, and an extra acre of land that would belong to them permanently. The latter was too tempting for them compared to the former.
Moreover, compared with the previous Qiang soldiers, Song Wan and the other two looked like three Bodhisattvas.
They just hope that days like this can last longer.
During these three days, Song Wan led everyone to repair houses, strengthen city walls, register the population, and distribute land.
According to preliminary registration, Qiangcheng now has a total of 65 households and more than 390 people.
Half of these people were willing to continue growing peppers, and Song Wan divided the land and deeds among them as agreed. The rest wanted to have their own land to live their own lives, and they also had their own houses and land.
Compared to Song Wan’s initial promise, the actual amount distributed to people was twice as much.
Most people who are willing to grow peppers have small families. They think that growing two acres of land plus the monthly income from growing and harvesting peppers is easier than growing a single field.
Most of those who are unwilling to grow peppers are the group of people who have been enslaved by the Qiang soldiers for decades. What they think in their hearts is that no matter how tired they are, the only thing they want is to break away from their past life.
The rest are those with large families. They need to eat. Working on five acres of land is tiring, but the food they harvest will be substantial.
Qiang City remained peaceful for three days.
Early in the morning of the fourth day, Song Wan was directing the chef of the only restaurant in the city to cook. He had to persuade the chef to add an extra spoonful of oil.
The civilians who had spontaneously defended the city suddenly rushed in and shouted nervously, "Boss Song! There are soldiers outside the city! Many soldiers are coming towards us!"
The person who rushed in was a young boy with a tearful face, "Mr. Song! What should we do?"
The little boy was about ten years old. Last night was the first time he slept in a bed and drank white rice porridge.
He didn't want to live like this for just one day.
Song Wan asked calmly, "Which direction?"
The young boy recalled what he had seen and quickly replied, "It seems to be in the east! It's Dai Viet!"
In fact, the people living in Qiang City still don’t know what country Song Wan is from, but no matter where she is from, a big country like Dai Viet is not comparable to their small city.
"Finally, I'm here." Song Wan jumped down from the chair. "Don't panic, we're one of us."
The young boy was confused. Are they one of us?
Song Qin was afraid that his sister would really go alone to attack the Qiang people, so he traveled day and night and finally arrived at Qiang City.
He ordered the main force to set up camp ten miles outside the city, with Song Twelve leading the troops.
He led his thousand cavalrymen to investigate the situation in Qiang City. As they approached the city gate, they saw Song Wan sitting on the wall, holding a roasted chicken. He called out to him leisurely, "Second brother! You're so slow! I've been waiting for you for four days!"
Song Qin: ...
He was so worried that he didn't even dare to drink more water along the way for fear of wasting time, but here she was eating roast chicken.
After entering the city, Song Qin discovered that compared to all his expectations before coming, everything in the city was a real blow to him.
He was very suspicious that if he had arrived a few days later, his sister might have declared herself king in Qiang City.
After listening to Song Qi's report, Song Qin had a complicated expression, but at the same time, he felt a little proud.
And the source of these emotions all comes from Song Wan.
With only two people, she broke into the enemy city alone and captured all the enemy soldiers in the city. She captured a city for Dai Viet without losing a single soldier. For this, Song Qin was very proud of his sister.
While he was happy and proud of her, he was more worried as a brother about a sister who didn't like to play by the rules, and was afraid that she would get hurt.
Originally everyone was worried that the enemy was coming to attack, but unexpectedly it was Song Dongjia's second brother. The people in the city went from resisting at first to opening the city gates to welcome them, until they heard Song Dongjia say that they brought troops here to capture all the Qiang soldiers.
As a result, all the people in the city became particularly enthusiastic towards Song Qin.
To be honest, in the more than one year since Song Qin returned home, his daughter has never been so enthusiastic towards him.
He thought that there would be a bloody storm when he arrived in Qiang City, but in the end there was only family happiness. This was completely different from the battlefields Song Qin had been to before.
The person who changed all this was Song Wan, Song Qin's biological sister.
After the more than 20,000 soldiers brought by Song Qin rested for two days, Song Wan prepared to set off, cross the Daxi Mountains, and find the Qiang tribe's base camp.
"Mr. Song, when you go to the tribe, can you spare the ordinary people living there?" Someone bravely said, "The evildoers are the Qiang soldiers and their leaders. We ordinary people just want to live a good life."
Song Wan was dressed in black, with her hair standing up in a high ponytail hanging behind her, her hair fluttering in the wind.
"Don't worry, my only targets are the Qiang soldiers and their leaders. I'll be back once I capture them!" Song Wan promised them from his horseback, "From now on, there will be no more war here, and the life you want will soon be yours."
Everyone present was shocked by Song Wan's words.
If there is to be no more war, the only possibility is to defeat the Qiang people while also defeating Daye to the point where it has no room to retreat and no troops left to attack.
If you want to achieve this, there is no other choice but to unify the world.
When they crossed the Daxi Mountain, the first thing that came into view was an endless wilderness. At the end of the wilderness was a dense forest. After passing through the dense forest and walking another 250 miles, they arrived at the place where the Qiang people actually lived.
The troops that Song Qin brought from the capital were left in the northwest, and the 10,000 people brought to Qiang City were the men left to the emperor by the late emperor.
After crossing the wilderness, Song Wan led a thousand cavalrymen who could fight one against a hundred, as well as Song Qi and Gu Wu, and went ahead. Song Qin and Song Shier led the remaining ten thousand people to cover the rear. After Song Wan and his men found the direction of the Qiang soldiers and lured them all out, they surrounded them.
That night, several leaders of the Qiang tribe gathered together to eat and drink meat.
"I don't know where Zhabu is fighting this time." The speaker was Zha'e, the leader of the third-ranked Qiang tribe in terms of strength.
"I think we should cross the Yangtze River, hahahaha!" said the second tribal leader, Zha Yi, "With the red poison powder, are we still worried that we can't take down Dai Viet?"
"Zhabu is right," Zama, the leader of the four tribes, also spoke up. He poured another bowl of wine for the two men. "When Zabu marches east, Daye will surely be unable to resist sending troops to attack the southwest. Once their army also marches east, it will be a good time for us to send troops to Daye."
"Hahahahahahahaha!" Zha'e and Zha'i laughed at the same time.
Cooperation with Daye has always been temporary. Their goal is to unify the world and make people from other countries their slaves!
"Come! Drink! For our great cause!" Zama raised the wine bowl.
"Come! Drink!"
"Don't go home until you're drunk!"
Song Wan was hiding outside the tent. She had been listening to their nonsense for half an hour, and her ears were almost callused.
In order to waste less mental energy, Song Wan handed the task of capturing other Qiang soldiers to Song Qi and Gu Wu, and stayed outside the tents of several leaders, responsible for using mental energy to block their external perception and to be able to restrain them at any time.
The 30,000 to 50,000 Qiang soldiers who stayed in the tribe did not expect that they would be caught in their sleep. They did not make any sound during the whole process. Song Qi, Gu Wu and Song Qin who followed behind tied three to five people each, like the candied haws sold outside, with several tied to a stick.
“Who are you!”
Finally, someone woke up. Song Qi sighed inwardly, it was good that he woke up. It would be more convenient to inject the muscle softening powder, at least it would reduce leakage.
"Don't ask who I am. Come here." Song Qi brought over a bowl of water mixed with muscle softening powder, pinched the man's jaw open, and placed the bowl on his shoulder. "Drink it quickly! It will help you get going!"
When he heard this, he wanted to resist even though he was tied up tightly. He didn't want to die!
The person on the ground struggled so hard that Song Qi wasted half a bowl of food. It was really bad luck.
"Don't move! Otherwise I will kill you with one knife!" Song Qi threatened him. If the princess hadn't said that it would be useful to push these people back, he wouldn't have been so patient in forcing them to drink medicine.
After such a threat, the Qiang soldiers under Song Qi's charge were completely silent. After all, they didn't have much blood in their veins and didn't want to die yet.
After all the Qiang soldiers were captured, Song Qin came over personally to remind his sister that it was time to take action.
After receiving the hint, Song Wan immediately went into the tents of several tribes where they were drinking and eating meat.
Looking at her anxious look, Song Qin suddenly had an inexplicable feeling. It seemed that his sister's anxiety was not about catching the Qiang leaders as soon as possible.
He guessed correctly. Song Wan was so anxious because if he didn't hurry up, the barbecue would be finished by them!
The three men were drunk and had no idea that there was already a woman in the tent.
Song Wan brought a plate of intact barbecue from the side, sat below the leaders of the four tribes, and learned how to tear the meat with his bare hands, and took two bites first.
Zama drank a bowl of wine and lowered his head to take the wine jar, but a pair of slender white hands took the jar away first.
He was immediately filled with rage. Who on earth was so ungrateful as to steal his wine?
Zama looked over and saw a young man with red lips and white teeth sitting next to him, imitating him in drinking and eating meat.
This seemed to be Song Wan's first time drinking alcohol. She held the jar, took a sip, and threw it away. She never wanted to take a second sip because it was so unpalatable.
"Who are you?" Zama was sure he didn't know him. "You're not my soldier!"
"Of course I'm not your soldier!" Song Wan put down the half-gnawed bone and wiped his mouth carelessly. "I'm telling you, from now on, I'm the boss here!"
Zama laughed at her naiveté and said, "Where did this little girl come from? She's so ungrateful!"
Song Wan didn't deliberately lower her voice. As long as she spoke, one could tell whether it was a man or a woman.
"I am Princess Xiaoyao of Dayue." Song Wan didn't waste any words with him. She took advantage of his unpreparedness and knocked him unconscious with a punch.
As for the other two, they were sleeping sounder than pigs long before she came in because of drunkenness and the effects of her mental power.
When Song Qin came in, he saw Song Wan stepping on Zama and eating meat with big mouthfuls.
"Sister, are you hungry?" he asked helplessly.
Seeing her second brother coming in, Song Wan slowly freed one hand and found a piece of barbecued meat from the plate that she hadn't touched before and handed it to him. "Second brother, try it. The meat grilled by the Qiang people is quite delicious."
She wasn't hungry, she just smelled the fragrance and felt greedy.
Song Qin looked at the steaming barbecue in front of him, twitched his lips, and finally accepted his sister's kindness. He imitated her movements, tore off the meat and started eating.
This scene reminded Song Qin of his childhood, when he and his sister often climbed over the wall without telling their parents and older brother, and caught birds flying in the sky to roast and eat.
I originally thought that there would be a tough battle when I arrived at the Qiang tribe’s lair, but it turned out to be an unexpected and easy victory.
"By the way, sister, where did you get those muscle softening powders?" Song Qin thought of this and asked after putting down the meat.
"Before you even reached Qiang City, I asked the barefoot doctor there to prepare it." Song Wan gestured to Song Qin with a bone that had been chewed clean in her hand, with a faint row of tooth marks still on it. "There are about three wine jars."
"How can so many be produced in three days?" Song Qin didn't quite believe it.
"Second brother, haven't you heard the saying?" Song Wan wiped his hands and said, "Money makes the world go round!"
"I don't have anything else, but I have the most banknotes!" This time when he went out, Song Wan specially packed a lot of silver banknotes that he had not used before.
Song Qin: ...
After controlling all the Qiang soldiers, tribal leaders and deputy leaders, daybreak arrived.
When the other Qiang people got up early and came out of their tents, the first thing they saw was the tied-up Qiang soldiers all over the ground. They screamed in fear.
Overnight, they were about to be wiped out.
Everyone was extremely scared, fearing that these people would wield knives and kill people if they were in a bad mood.
There are a few wealthy people who think of using gold, silver and treasures to save their lives.
Song Wan said that of course the more the better, so she doesn't have to search one by one.
What she didn't expect was that the small Qiang tribe actually had a lot of gold, silver and treasures. The treasures of these people added up to more than the two dukes' mansions she had looted.
"Lady, this is all my money. Could you please be so magnanimous and let me go?" He didn't even dare to mention his family, for fear of displeasing the person in front of him.
"When did I say I'd release them after receiving the money?" Song Wan stepped on the stone and put his hands on his hips. "Alright, tie up these cowards and take them back with the Qiang soldiers!"
The kneeling people on the ground all widened their eyes in disbelief when they heard the result. One of them simply ignored it and shouted angrily at Song Wan, "How can you go back on your word!"
"You took the initiative to hand over the money in your home! I didn't force you." Song Wan was too lazy to waste time talking to him and directly ordered Song Qi and others in front of everyone, "Except for them, there is no need to search anyone else."
After saying this, he turned to the common people of the Qiang tribe and said, "The Qiang city outside has been captured by me. As for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses that you attacked Dai Viet, as well as the leader and deputy leader, they have all been annihilated."
Everyone was very desperate when they heard the news. The last bit of hope was gone. It seemed that they were next in line.
"But," Song Wan changed the subject, "as long as you don't cause trouble or make any trouble, I can spare your lives."
"From now on, you will be incorporated into Dai Viet and renamed the Dai Viet Qiang people," Song Wan emphasized loudly. "You can choose to continue living here or move to Qiang City. Anyone who wants to oppose or resist will be forced to go to various cities and work day and night to cultivate land and grow crops for Dai Viet, just like them."
After hearing this, the rich people who had handed over the silver regretted it deeply.
Now, not only have I lost my life and wealth, but I have also lost my personal freedom.
Those who did not pay the silver were secretly glad that they did not use the silver to save their lives. As for them, it would be fine if they were incorporated into Dai Viet. After all, for them, as long as they did not suffer any losses, it did not matter which country they belonged to.
In this way, he conquered the entire Qiang tribe and obtained a large amount of treasure. On the way back to the city, Song Wan felt refreshed.
When you have money in your pocket, you want to spend it. When Song Wan saw that the Qiang City was still in tatters on the surface, he waved his hand and took out 100,000 taels of silver to repair it.
Song Qin asked her, "Sister, are you not going to hand over these gold, silver and treasures?"
After hearing this, Song Wan immediately stared at him with a wary look, "Second brother, those are all mine."
"I know, second brother just wants to remind you that you don't feel bad about using your own money to build the city?" Song Qinyan said.
Song Wan: "Of course I'm not that stupid, so I only took out 100,000 taels to repair Qiang City."
Song Qin felt that there was something wrong with what she said, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
"As for whether other cities are conquered or not, that is none of my business."
After hearing this, Song Qin finally understood what was strange.
"Sister, do you regard Qiang City and all those gold, silver and treasures as your own property?"
"Isn't it?" She had conquered Qiang City, so it should belong to her. "I didn't even take their lair."
There are too many people there and it's difficult to manage, so let A Yu take care of it.
Is this a question of whether or not to do it? Song Qin really regretted raising his sister to be so naive over the years.
He was even more thankful that the person sitting on the throne was not someone else, otherwise, based on her behavior, others would definitely think that their Song family was going to rebel.
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