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Chapter 190: Self-reliance

Of course, He Zhigao chose to survive.

Liu Chenglin sent hundreds of mansion soldiers to take He Zhigao hostage to open the city gate, while he himself and Liu Changfeng and other powerful generals were mixed among these mansion soldiers to prepare to capture the city.

In fact, the city was not prepared at all. Lu Jin was still dreaming of tricking Liu Chenglin into the city in the name of a celebration banquet, and the Jingzhou city gate was easily opened in front of Liu Chenglin.

After occupying the city gate, one thousand armored soldiers and five thousand palace soldiers rushed in.

Liu Chenglin guarded the city gate with his patrol soldiers, and he led his elite armored soldiers to attack the governor's mansion. It was not until this time that Lu Jin realized that something was wrong. In a hurry, he only assembled hundreds of armored soldiers outside the governor's mansion to fight against Liu Chenglin.

But everyone knows Liu Chenglin's reputation in the sea. After seeing Liu Chenglin himself, the armored soldiers gathered in a hurry had already become weak. Before Liu Chenglin could call, they turned against each other.

Liu Chenglin occupied Jingzhou City with almost no bloodshed.

The governor Lu Jin, Feng Song and his two confidants, were killed by Liu Chenglin.

Gao was above the lobby of the governor's mansion. Liu Chenglin looked at the officers on both sides and some trembling low-level officials of the governor's mansion, and was really moved.

He had thought that he would one day take up the position of governor of a state with his military achievements, but he never thought that he would come at this point in time in this way.

He fulfilled his wish, but this was not what he thought. From then on, Liu Chenglin's reputation as a bearer was firmly carried on his body and could never be washed away.

He Zhigao stood in the lobby, his legs shaking like sieve. Lu Jin, Feng Song and others were dragged out of the lobby in front of him, and their heads were cut off on the bluestone floor outside the lobby. At this moment, his head was being carried by Liu Chenglin's personal soldiers in the city to parade in the streets. After the parade in Jingzhou, they would also go to Tiao County to recruit local officials there.

After Liu Chenglin sighed, he turned his eyes to He Zhigao: "He Changshi, I said earlier that if you help me open the city gate, I will spare your whole family from death. Although this city gate is not something you can cheat, I still keep my word and take your family away and leave Jingzhou for me."

"Thank you, Captain Liu, no, no, no, thank you, Governor Liu!" He Zhigao finally relaxed when he heard this. However, he couldn't stand firmly when he relaxed, and he knelt on the ground with a loud bang.

Liu Chenglin looked at him in disgust. He really didn't know how such a soft boy was taken over as the governor.

"You go to Cangzhou and tell the Jiedushi that I, Liu Chenglin, are open-minded and never sorry for him. Over the years, I have fought for him and quelled the rebellion, but it is really heartbreaking to kill me just because of some things that caught the wind and shadows." Liu Chenglin said coldly: "Tell him that he was sorry for me, not that I betrayed him. From then on, we parted ways. He walked through his sunshine and said, "I crossed my single-plank bridge. If he wanted to conquer me, someone Liu would take it."

"Yes, yes!" He Zhigao nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

"Get out!" Liu Chenglin waved his hand: "You can leave or take the food you eat on your way, but the other things cannot move at all. That is the blood and sweat of the people in Jingzhou. You rely on the people's wealth and ointment to live a life of drunkenness and dreams. Now, it's time to give it to the people in Jingzhou."

He Zhigao was about to cry without tears. His life's hard work instantly drifted away. The countless wealth accumulated had been cheaper in the blink of an eye, and he would leave Jingzhou with nothing.

But compared to Lu Jin and Feng Song, he was lucky, and at least he saved his life. At this time, he dared to say more, for fear of angering Liu Chenglin, so he killed him with one knife.

"There is another thing you tell the Jiedushi that Sun Zhi's family sent me a lot of places. If one is missing, I will kill ten of Lu Jin and Feng Song's families. If Sun Zhi's family is gone, Lu Jin and Feng Song's families will all be buried with you."

He Zhigao staggered away from the governor's mansion.

"Brother Liu, no, Governor Liu, thank you." Sun Zhi bowed and thanked Liu Chenglin.

"You and my brother, why bother thank me? If you hadn't come to report me this time, maybe I would have died in Jingzhou, so how could I have seen the scenery?" Liu Chenglin smiled and said, "Brother Sun, the position of governor of Jing, are you interested?"

"What I wish is just about to recommend myself!" Sun Zhi laughed.

"Okay, Brother Sun, I am not very proficient in civil affairs. On the contrary, you have a lot of attainments in this way. How to govern Jingzhou in the future depends on you." Liu Chenglin said.

"As for the order." Sun Zhi said: "There is nothing more than just restoring the people and providing relief. Governor Liu has become a new leader, so he naturally has to show his differences from his previous governor. With Lu Jin, a corrupt official, who is in the front, Governor Liu only needs to do better than him, and he will naturally win the hearts of the people. If the people are determined, then they will naturally unite and become sincere."

"This statement is deeply loved by me." Liu Chenglin nodded and said, "Over the years, the so-called mobs and bandits who were defeated and killed in the Henghai Sea, most of whom were forced to survive were good people, just like this Anling Incident. However, in the past, I was just a general who could not be the leader, and could not speak, and could only act according to military orders. Now that I have the power, I naturally have to change everything. I can't control other places, but Jingzhou has to start changing from now on."

"I understand, the first thing next is to provide relief to the victims, appease the people, and let them return home. Jingzhou is actually not as short of food, but was swallowed by those black-hearted people." Sun Zhi said: "The second step is to try to reduce the impact of this disaster. Liu, whether it is Lu Jin or He Zhigao and Feng Song, has a huge fortune. After confiscating their property, Jingzhou will be safe in finance for a while, and it would be better to exempt the taxes of the people of Jingzhou this year. I dare to assert that this matter alone is enough to make Jingzhou people recognize you, Liu."

Liu Chenglin nodded in agreement.

"The second is to reorganize the army." Sun Zhi continued: "After the disaster, the reorganization of the troops in the palace so that they could have a bite of food, but it actually reduced the burden on their families. For example, those who followed the governor to enter Jingzhou City this time should be rewarded more. Even those who were summoned later might as well pay some salaries to win their hearts."

"Can."

"From my understanding of Zhu Shou, he must be a consolidating his army to attack." Sun Zhi said: "Henghai suffered a great loss this time in Chengde, and hundreds of miles of Dezhou became an unmanned land. Li Ze's trick made Zhu Shou unable to cross the unmanned land of this hundreds of miles of unmanned land to attack Yizhou, but Jingzhou is different. He can't do anything to Chengde, but he will never let you go, governor Liu, otherwise, he, the governor of Henghai, will become a joke."

"The soldiers come and the generals stop them, the water comes and the soil is flooded, the matters above civil affairs belong to you, and the matters in the war belong to me." Liu Chenglin sneered: "Unless Zhu Shou comes to attack himself, others come to cause trouble for me, that is to seek death."

"You are the number one strong general under Henghai." Sun Zhi smiled and said, "In this way, I have nothing else to say. If the governor had nothing else, I would have to do things. Now the officials below were all worried and didn't know how to deal with themselves. They needed me to comfort them, or they were not clean, but the water was clear and there was no fish, and the people were observant, and after all, people still needed people to do things. Without them, they would really not find so many grassroots officials to manage their affairs."

"I understand what you said, but these people used to being used to being fish and meat in the past, it's okay for you to use them. We will not pursue the past, but we will do things for me in the future. If you dare to do it like before, don't blame me for being ruthless."

"Of course." Sun Zhi smiled and clasped his fists to retreat.

"Changfeng, Jingzhou will be yours after you don't want to take the opportunity." Liu Chenglin looked at Liu Changfeng and said with a smile.

"Thank you, young master." Liu Changfeng smiled happily.

Then Liu Chenglin rewarded the generals under his command one by one, promoted the officers, and discussed with everyone how to reward the soldiers, the soldiers of the government, how to train the soldiers recruited next, and how to deploy defenses after the army was reorganized and formed to attack Zhu Shou in Cangzhou. After all the matter was met, it was already after noon.

Even though he was hungry and thunderous, everyone didn't care, or they didn't notice this at all. Liu Chenglin killed two Qu Changs, so he naturally needed to replenish people. Therefore, the positions that were vacant need to be replenished. In order to deal with Zhu Shou's subsequent counterattack, Liu Chenglin also needed to expand the army and strengthen his strength, which was also an excellent opportunity for those soldiers in the palace.

Liu Chenglin's army originally had a thousand soldiers. After killing Yang Yi, Cai De and his confidants, dozens of people were missing, but he took over hundreds of soldiers in Jingzhou. Liu Chenglin decided to expand his soldiers to three thousand and deal with the difficulties in front of him first.

The kitchen was sent to the kitchen, and everyone discussed it while eating, slowly improving the details. Until late at night, the extremely tired people dispersed.

Only Liu Chenglin and Liu Changfeng were left in the room.

"Changfeng, go home." Liu Chenglin whispered.

"Ah?" Liu Changfeng didn't react, "Go home?"

"Yes, go back to Shiyi. First, go see my father and ask clearly what happened to Li Ze and Qiaoer's marriage? Then go see Li Ze again."

Liu Changfeng looked at Liu Chenglin and said in embarrassment: "Young Master, what did I say when I saw Li Ze?"

"Tell him that everyone in the world knows that he proposes marriage to my sister, and because of this incident, I have become like this now. So, no matter what he thinks, whether it is just a plan of discord or really interested in Qiao'er, he must marry Qiao'er. He marry Qiao'er, and that whole Henghai is Qiao'er's dowry. If he dares not marry, let him prepare to welcome my army!"
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