Chapter 326: Dissatisfied? One-on-one! (Thanks to [Lingjun's Incense Burner]
When Lu Yan was still fifty miles away from Huguan County, he suddenly received a secret message from Lu Lingqi.
Chuanbing handed the letter to Lu Yan and left in a hurry. Looking at him, he seemed a little afraid of what would happen next.
Lu Yan opened the secret letter in confusion, and immediately frowned when he first read it.
Increasingly, the contents of the letter made Lu Yan more and more angry. By the end, Lu Yan's face had turned livid.
Seeing that Lu Yan's face was ashen, Xu Huang asked cautiously: "Lu Qiaoqi, has anything happened in the county?"
After Lu Yan handed the letter in his hand to Xu Huang, he said with irrepressible anger, "Read it yourself."
Xu Huang had never seen Lu Yan so angry before, so he quickly took the letter and opened it to read.
"This... this... this is a bastard!" Xu Huang was shocked and extremely angry. "In order to win the hearts of the people of Hebei, my lord did not hesitate to offend the wealthy gentry of aristocratic families, open warehouses and distribute grain, distribute land, and also exempted various places from several years of
The taxes. This behavior of the Xiliang army will make all the efforts of the lord go to waste."
In addition to these, Lu Yan also knew what Ma Chao did in history.
He said with a serious expression: "Ma Chao is unruly and unscrupulous. If he is not strictly disciplined now, he will definitely cause big trouble in the future."
"If Lu Xiuqi wants to capture Ma Chao and hold him accountable, I will be the vanguard!" Xu Huang cupped his fists and asked Lu Yan to fight.
Xu Huang has always attached great importance to military discipline, and Cao Jun's military discipline has one rule: Do not disturb the common people.
Ma Chao drove the people and destroyed their homes. This was a very serious violation of discipline, and Xu Huang naturally hated it.
Zhong Yao, Ma Teng, Han Sui and others were about to come to see Lu Yan. When they walked a few meters behind them, they heard Xu Huang's words asking Lu Yan for a fight... The three of them were stunned, and then
He quickly walked to Lu Yan and Xu Huang.
It was Zhong Yao who spoke first and asked Lu Yan: "Lu Qiaoqi, I don't know what crime Meng Qi committed, why do you want to accuse him?"
Xu Huang looked at Lu Yan and saw Lu Yan nodded in agreement, then handed the letter in his hand to Zhong Yao and said: "Colonel Zhong, General Ma, take a look for yourselves."
Zhong Yao took the letter, and Ma Teng came over to read it together in confusion.
After browsing through it in a hurry, the two of them also felt a thump in their hearts.
"This..." Zhong Yao wanted to say that he had repeatedly emphasized the issue of military discipline to the Xiliang Army, but things had already happened. As Ma Chao's direct superior, it was useless to say anything else. In desperation, Zhong Yao had to bow.
He apologized and said, "My subordinates failed to convey the general's discipline properly. Please ask Lu Qiaoqi to punish him!"
"This bastard! I have repeatedly warned him to act calmly, but unexpectedly something happened..." Ma Teng was even more furious in his heart, but after all, he was his own son, so he still had to protect him.
I personally captured Ma Chao and came to question him... Please also ask Lu Qiaoqi, for the sake of my Ma family's life and death for the Prime Minister, please be kind enough to spare Ma Chao this time!"
Lu Yan took a deep look at Ma Teng, but sighed in his heart: "You are very affectionate, but your precious son, for the sake of military power, allowed you to consider a thief as his father, and killed you and the three members of the Ma family... It's sad, but
sigh."
Although Ma Chao has been full of misdeeds in history, after all, he has not done those shocking things now.
Lu Yan looked at Ma Teng and said: "Nian Zai Meng Qi is the first offender, and this time it is not too much to pursue. But you need to properly resettle the people. If the resettlement is done well, the merits and demerits will be offset; if there are still people displaced, then
Extra sin!"
Seeing Lu Yan's kindness, Zhong Yao and Ma Teng were immediately overjoyed, and they both worshiped: "Thank you very much, Lu Qiu, for showing your kindness!"
Zhong Yao, Ma Teng and others set out from Yangcheng and captured many places along the way.
People in many villages or counties fled spontaneously when the army came, leaving many empty houses.
These vacant places were enough to house the people who were driven out by Ma Chao. So Lu Yan asked them to use the resettlement of people to offset the previous crimes of destroying people's residences and driving people into Huguan City, which was basically like letting Ma Chao go.
Not only because he was worried about Ma Chao, but also to prevent the situation from getting bigger, Ma Teng hurriedly bid farewell to Lu Yan Zhong Yao, personally led a team of soldiers and horses, and headed towards where Ma Chao was.
Lu Yan's army arrived more than ten miles outside Huguan County and set up camp.
In the evening, before the camp was built, Ma Teng had already brought Ma Chao back. As for the Xiliang army under Ma Chao, they were all handed over to his deputy general Pang De to command.
After seeing Lu Yan, Ma Teng immediately urged Ma Chao to come forward and confess his crime.
But looking at the unconvinced expression on Ma Chao's face, Lu Yan knew that this guy had not yet realized his mistake.
For this kind of guy who thinks very highly of himself and has his own set of logic, it will definitely not make sense to reason. Because in their minds, your "reason" and his "reason" are not the same concept at all.
If you want to talk to him, it's just like a chicken talking to a duck.
The best way to deal with him is to suppress him directly! Start with his strongest point and make him convinced that he has nothing to say, and then you can slowly instill your set of ideas.
Lu Yan looked at Ma Chao and knew that what Ma Chao was most proud of was undoubtedly his bravery.
Ma Chao was asked by Ma Teng to kneel down in front of Lu Yan to apologize. The guy was reluctant at first. It was not until Ma Teng kicked him twice that Ma Chao reluctantly came to Lu Yan, knelt down on one knee and said
: "General, the people on the border are ignorant of military discipline. Please forgive me, Lu Qiaoqi!"
Lu Yan put his hands behind his back, stared at Ma Chao's stubborn and arrogant face with slightly narrowed eyes, and asked: "Don't accept it?"
Upon hearing this, Ma Chao's face, which had been tilted to one side, suddenly lifted up and stared straight into Lu Yan's eyes.
After a long while, he gritted his teeth and uttered one word: "The general dare not... refuse to accept it!"
The first level of official rank is overwhelming, let alone a hussar general who is many levels higher than Ma Chao, a partial general... Ma Chao now has to adopt a submissive attitude.
"A man, if you have resentment in your heart, why don't you dare to admit it?" Lu Yan drew a circle on the ground with his toes and continued: "Since you are not convinced, then this general will give you a chance!
How about if you can get me out of this circle, what happened today will be wiped out, and I will no longer point fingers at you in the future?"
Hearing this, Ma Chao opened his eyes and asked, "What if I can't let you withdraw from this circle?"
"Haha!" Lu Yan chuckled and said, "If you can't get me out of this circle, you can come and raise horses in our army from now on."
"Okay! It's a deal!" Ma Chaozhoun had never been timid in a competition. But he still felt that he needed to confirm again, "You won't break your promise, right?"
Lu Yan stood still, the breath inside his body was rolling, and he said: "A gentleman's words are hard to catch up with!"