Before Yang Yanzhang could clear the city gate, he brought a few confidants directly into the city along the hanging basket.

The big families in the city were a little excited when they heard that the battle to defend the city had won, and a general who had suppressed the rebellion came outside. However, the reason why they were excited was not because they won the battle to defend the city, but because they heard that a general who had suppressed the rebellion was crooked outside.

This time, Ducang forced their money to be repaid in order to defend the city, which really caused them to bleed once, which made them, such big players, hate Ducang very much.

The general who led the army to suppress the rebellion must be of high power and trusted by the court, so they were about to go to Yang Yanzhang to file a lawsuit against Ducang. At worst, they could raise some money for Yang Yanzhang, and let Yang Yanzhang deal with Ducang directly, or participate in Ducang's book in the court.

Anyway, Ducang cannot stay in Cangyi City, otherwise if they fight a few more battles in the future, the big families will not be squeezed out.

After all, no one's money is blown by the strong wind. Although these big families are rich, they are also searched by them from generation to generation. How could they be willing to give the warehouse so easily?

"I've met General Yang."

Dozens of large households in Cangyi City were summoned. After giving their tribute and introducing themselves, several wealthy businessmen led by the leader walked forward and said indignantly: "We have an injustice to resolve. I hope General Yang will make the decision on us!!!"

"injustice?"

Originally, Yang Yanzhang was still considering whether to borrow food directly or through the process. At this moment, they looked sad and seemed to be in a huge grievance. He couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "What are your grievances?"

"Return to General Yang, we will sue the magistrate of Cangyicheng County, Du Cang."

A large household in the head was full of grief and anger. He clenched his fists and said in tears: "Du Cangyicheng County Magistrate Du Cang, who used the name of guarding the city, forced money and grain in the city and wanted to accumulate money."

"According to the Great Zhou law, this is a death sentence. I hope General Yang can make the decision with us and kill this villain."

When the master heard that the wealthy man actually sued the county magistrate, the master who brought Yang Yanzhang here couldn't help but look at Yang Yanzhang nervously.

This time, in order to defend Cangyi City, County Magistrate Du really offended the big households in the city. In addition, the money and food of the big households in the city were indeed a bit unruly.

At this time, they counterattacked without hesitation and wanted to use Yang Yanzhang to directly defeat County Magistrate Du. If Yang Yanzhang's attitude was slightly biased, then County Magistrate Du would be in trouble today.

Just when the master was a little worried, these big families directly carried five boxes of silver prepared in advance, and then opened it for Yang Yanzhang to see in front of the master.

"General Yang, your army is coming to suppress the rebellion, and the boats are exhausted. These silver is the wish of our rural gentry in Cangyi City. It is considered to be a reward for the soldiers in the army. I hope General Yang will not refuse."

It is said that it is a reward for the soldiers, but in fact it is just to find an excuse to give it to Yang Yanzhang. After all, only Yang Yanzhang's confidant is here. Whether to reward the soldiers in the army is not up to Yang Yanzhang.

Therefore, when I saw these five boxes of silver, the master's face turned pale in an instant. These five boxes of silver cost at least tens of thousands of taels. In order to defeat Lord Du, these people really invested a lot.

Thinking of this, the master was a little depressed. He didn't think Yang Yanzhang could withstand the temptation of these tens of thousands of taels of silver. From this point of view, it was probably in trouble for Lord Du.

"Hey, what are you doing? Take it back, take it back."

Yang Yanzhang looked at the silver and smiled, but he didn't smile because he was happy to see so much silver, but because he was laughing at these big investors who were basically dead. If that were the case, he wouldn't have to pay back the grain he borrowed.

After all, Yang Yanzhang likes to have sex for free, but he doesn't like to pay back the debt. Otherwise, as his prime minister's identity as a junior, he wouldn't have to go to free meals everywhere in the capital. He just ate in various restaurants and put orders on orders, and no one dared to go to the prime minister's house to ask him for the debt.

So when he was planning to borrow food from these people, Yang Yanzhang thought in his heart whether to say something to Mo Zizai after the war and ask him to return the money.

Now that I have read it, there is no need for this. Just the virtues of these people. When Mo Zizai comes, all of these people will be counted and will be cut off by Mo Zizai.

If the debt is mainly dead, then the account will be gone.

Therefore, Yang Yanzhang showed a very bright smile on his face and said to these wealthy families very politely: "We come to quell the rebellion under the orders of the prince and His Majesty. How can you pay for the army? Don't mention it again at this time."

"However, although we don't need money, our army's food and grass are a little short of food and grass when we arrive here for a long distance. If you are willing, please prepare some food and grass for our army."

Seeing the bright smile on Yang Yanzhang's face, these wealthy people were immediately overjoyed. They thought that Yang Yanzhang was happy only to see these silver coins. They felt that the matter of overthrowing Ducang was 80% stable, but what they didn't know was that Yang Yanzhang smiled like this every time he went to the capital to hang out.

Although it hurts them to provide food and grass for the 5,000 army, they didn't care about so much in order to bring down Ducang. After a few leading big-name households looked at each other, they all nodded silently in agreement.

Then a big man took a step forward and said, "General Yang, the food and grass matter is no problem, but this guy from Ducang..."

"The matter of County Magistrate Du is simple."

Yang Yanzhang said very readily: "The prince's army is right behind, and it is estimated that he will be able to arrive in Cangyi City within a few days."

"You can take all the silver back and wait until the prince arrives in Cangyi City in person, and you can give these to the prince directly and ask him to help you avenge your grievances."

Yang Yanzhang was afraid that these big families would not die, so he dug a big hole for these people without hesitation. After all, Mo Zizai's personality is that no one can take as comfortable as others give it to him.

What's more, the main purpose of these big investors to give money was to defeat Ducang, which had defended Cangyi City. In this way, Mo Zizai, who was extremely short of money, would be even less psychologically stressful when he started.

While digging a hole, Yang Yanzhang comforted these big households and said, "Don't worry, please wait patiently for a few days, just a few days. When the prince arrives, he will definitely wait... and solve this matter. Don't worry too much."

When he was distracted, Yang Yanzhang almost told the truth, but these big investors did not notice anything abnormal. After all, although Mo Zizai's reputation outside was very bad, the specific people did not know. They only knew that Mo Zizai was greedy for money and bloodthirsty, and was a foolish monarch, so he didn't know anything else.

So after learning that Mo Zizai would come, they were suddenly a little excited, greedy for money and bloodthirsty, which are all good things.

When Mo Zizai came, they sent the money. Mo Zizai cut the Du Cang with one hand and everyone was happy.

Thinking of this, their eyes at Yang Yanzhang were filled with gratitude. This is a good person. Not only did they not accept their money, they also showed them a clear way. Nowadays, good people like this can't even find them with lanterns.

But no matter how grateful you are, you must not give them a penny extra, so they thank you very much, but in fact they did not express anything.

Even the food and grass that Yang Yanzhang and they asked for were all stuck to Yang Yanzhang's standards. Some people even saw that Yang Yanzhang was easy to talk to, and quietly lowered the food and grass standards to one level, and sent it to Yang Yanzhang with inferior products as good ones.

As a result, Yang Yanzhang didn't even go tolerate them and directly cut off the few people who were inferior to others.

After this incident, those people immediately understood that although Yang Yanzhang was easy to talk, he was not a purely good person. If he dared to fool him, he would also be a murderer, so he would never dare to cheat on food and grass issues again.

Yang Yanzhang left a few people to accept the food and grass sent by these big households, and he himself returned to the city to deal with the prisoners.

"Yang Shuai, the number of people has been counted."

Zheng Anmin, who was chasing the defeated soldiers, reported to Yang Yanzhanghui: "In this battle, our army killed more than 10,000 people from the Yu Wang army, and captured about 23,000 prisoners. A small group of defeated soldiers fled into the dense forest. In order to prevent accidents, the soldiers did not chase them."

"Um."

Yang Yanzhang nodded, not caring about the outcome of the battle, but asked, "Where are our casualties?"

"casualties……"

Zheng Anmin spoke with a subtle expression: "Twenty-seven people were killed in our army, forty-two seriously injured, and the rest were all safe."

To be honest, when Zheng Anmin learned about the results of this battle, he even suspected that the statistics were wrong. Not to mention the big victory, the combined deaths and serious injuries were less than three digits, which was simply outrageous.

But Yang Yanzhang was not too surprised by this result. The Red Flame Dragon Knight is now in the bone-making realm per capita, and each of them is wearing the most exquisite equipment. If he has more than three-digit war losses against these ordinary armies under King Yu, he has to consider whether he is incompetent.

"You bring the guards to keep the prisoners of war. After the food and supplies are collected, I will take the rest of the people to attack Xiangcheng."

"I'll stay with Yiwei's men?"

After hearing what Yang Yanzhang said, Zheng Anmin hesitated a little. The Red Flame Dragon Cavalry gathered together with only 5,000 people. Now he left another thousand, and only 4,000 people were relying on the attack on Xiangcheng. Isn’t this force a little too small?

"What? Is there a problem?"

Yang Yanzhang thought that Zheng Anming was afraid that he could not suppress the prisoners, so he spoke, "You don't have to worry too much when guarding these prisoners. If you dare to be in chaos, you can kill them directly."

"Although these prisoners are large, they are already scared. As long as you act carefully, there will be no big problems."

"The last one is not worried about the captive."

Zheng Anmin shook his head. He had done things with less and more, so he was not very worried about this. "I think that if 4,000 people attack Xiangcheng, is there a small number of people?"

"Our Red Flame Dragon Cavalry are cavalrymen and are not good at siegeing cities. If there is one thousand people missing..."

"You don't have to worry about this."

Seeing that Zheng Anmin was worried about this, Yang Yanzhang explained: "If we set out in the afternoon and travel at full speed, we will be able to arrive in Xiangcheng in the second half of the night at most."

"Xiangcheng must not have received news of the defeat of Cangyicheng so soon, so there will definitely be no tight defense. So if you are lucky, you will be able to take Xiangcheng tonight."

"And even if we can't take it down, there is no big problem. We just need to surround Xiangcheng and wait for the prince's army to arrive, and there is no need to attack."

Yang Yanzhang's purpose was to let King Yu not run away with treasures, so as long as he could surround Xiangcheng and not let King Yu run away, his purpose would be achieved. As for whether he could capture Xiangcheng, he did not force it.

After hearing what Yang Yanzhang said, Zheng Anmin nodded with some clarity. With the strength of the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry, it might be a bit difficult to attack Xiangcheng, but if the target is replaced by besieging Xiangcheng, Zheng Anming can guarantee that the people in Xiangcheng will die.

"Since that's the case, there will be no problem."

Zheng Anming bowed and said, "I'll go and place those prisoners now."

After he left, Ducang and the officials of Cangyi City happened to come over, but seeing Ducang's face was a little depressed. It was obvious that the master told him about the previous incident.

However, after seeing Yang Yanzhang, he did not mention those things, but forced a smile and asked: "General Yang, how are you going to solve these prisoners?"

If Yang Yanzhang's army left like this, then Cangyi City could not really suppress these people.

"Don't worry, Lord Du, I have already made arrangements at this time."

Yang Yanzhang understood what Ducang meant, so he spoke, "After we set off, I will leave a thousand people to guard these prisoners, and I guarantee that there will be no problems for them."

“So very good.”

Du Cang nodded with confidence and said, "Otherwise, when General Yang leaves, these five prisoners will suppress them. If something happens to cause trouble, it will be another trouble."

"That certainly won't."

Yang Yanzhang and Ducang moved forward side by side, deliberately distanced themselves from the people from the county government behind, and then said, "I think Lord Du is worried, but I am worried about what I said to those gentry before?"

"this……"

Seeing Yang Yanzhang telling his thoughts so directly, Du Cang was slightly embarrassed.

He was indeed worried about this. After all, Mo Zizai was notorious. If he listened to the slander of the gentry after he came, he would have no way to rest even if he could keep an eye on his eyes.

Although he believed that he was loyal, who could tell the truth, but who cares? In history, there were few loyal ministers who were killed by backhand? Do you still care about him more?

So after hearing the master talk about Yang Yanzhang with those gentry, he became full of pessimism. It was just because Yang Yanzhang said this, so he couldn't find Yang Yanzhang to ask. Unexpectedly, Yang Yanzhang mentioned this matter himself now, which made him unable to guess what Yang Yanzhang was going to do.

Yang Yanzhang glanced at the county officials who were a little far away from them, and was sure that they would not hear him. Then he said softly: "Although the prince is ruthless, he is not a person who is indifferent to right and wrong."

"Mr. Du defends Cangyi City, this is a great achievement. The prince can only praise him, so he will definitely not blame him."

"As for those gentry and wealthy families, please pay more attention to it. It is best not to let them leave Cangyi City before the prince arrives."

"Don't let them leave Kurai City?"

Du Cang was stunned when he heard the last sentence. He looked at Yang Yanzhang hesitantly and asked, "What does General Yang mean?"

"I have nothing to do, Lord Du just does it."

Yang Yanzhang showed a bright smile and said, "I have to attack Xiangcheng here, so I won't talk to Lord Du. After I come back from Xiangcheng, if Lord Du has any questions, I will answer them one by one."
Chapter completed!