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Chapter 1125 Show mercy
Shi Luodie heard this and asked calmly: "Thank you for your kindness, Master Lu. What do you want? Tell me."

Seeing that even 500,000 taels of gold could not impress this northern hero, Lu Yigong felt a little uneasy: "Lu just wants to buy peace. I hope that the Khan will show some mercy to Lu when he goes south this time. In this way, Lu will not go against the Khan, and the Khan will also be smooth sailing."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Shi Luodie laughed loudly, then suddenly stopped laughing and said angrily, "What a joke! If Lu had such self-awareness before attacking the city, I might have considered it. Don't you think it's too late to beg for mercy now?"

"This Khan lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in order to capture these two cities. Do you think that a few gold coins can buy the lives of our warriors of the Great Turkic Khanate?"

"Now the cities are in our control. Whether you live or die depends on my will. The cities, people, money and all the wealth on this land also belong to me. If I want something, I will take it. Do I need you to give it to me?"

"Come here, drag Lu Yigong down and chop him up, and by the way, order the army to uproot the Lu family in the two cities, leaving no one alive."

Shi Luodie's righteous words and heroic words immediately made the leaders in the tent proud and ashamed. They were secretly glad that they were almost bribed by this old guy. Then they realized that if they killed the other party, these things would still be theirs.

Why do you need to look at the other person's face, as if you have received benefits from others?

"Yes, Khan!" Upon seeing this, Ashina Moduo roared and waved his hand. Two soldiers with scimitars rushed in angrily.

Without saying a word, he dragged Lu Yigong and went out.

"and many more."

Lu Yigong said hurriedly: "Great Khan, spare my life. Lu is willing to surrender. From now on, I will follow your orders and go through fire and water without hesitation."

After saying that, he struggled to look at Shi Luodie.

Unexpectedly, Shi Luodie didn't even move his eyelids, looking uninterested, which made Lu Yigong's heart tremble suddenly. In fact, in the previous siege of Liaozhou, the Turks wielded steel knives against the noble families and showed no mercy, which made the noble families in Hebei determined to resist.

It was originally thought that the Turks would not advance further unless they conquered the south of the desert and the peninsula.

The entire Liaozhou and the southern part of the desert are protected outside Hebei, which makes everyone feel safe. The Liaohe Plain is like a smooth road connecting the southern part of the desert and the peninsula, and at the same time it is an undefended loophole. According to common sense, the Turks will at least capture one side and then advance steadily.

Otherwise, they would be surrounded by the armies on both sides.

If the retreat route is lost, the Turkic army will be trapped in the Central Plains and in danger of being surrounded. Even if the Turks advance deep into the country, at least 200,000 troops will have to be left in the Liaohe Plain to guard the rear. Another 50,000 troops will have to be left in the narrow Liaoxi Passageway that is several hundred miles long.

In the end, the number of people who can attack Hebei is at most 30,000 to 50,000. After looting, they will retreat.

For this reason, Lu used his connections to transfer some elite soldiers from the border town of Yanshan back to protect his hometown from being affected. With three to four thousand elite soldiers in a city, even ten times the number of Turks could not attack it, so their safety was naturally safe.

This is a decision that any general who knows how to lead troops would make, whether in the Turkic or Tang dynasty. Who knew that they would encounter an abnormal Shi Luodi. He led an army of 300,000, captured a city, looted it, and killed people.

They came out in full force and marched towards the next city.

Every city had to face a huge number of enemies. The Turkic people's fighting style shocked everyone. Don't you want a way out? Don't you want to return to the grassland? Do you think that these 300,000 Turkic people entering the Tang Dynasty can change the world?
This is simply a bandit-style fight, without any moral ethics.

Moreover, most of the bandits are elderly, weak, women and children who have little fighting ability, and those who can really fight and dare to fight are usually less than 30%.

From ancient times to the present, has anyone ever seen a band of 300,000 cavalrymen?
However, although no one in the world could understand the Turks' style of fighting, the 300,000 people who actually rushed into Hebei were like Sun Wukong entering Princess Iron Fan's belly, turning the entire Hebei upside down.

For a time, the northern armies in Liaozhou and Yanshan did not dare to make any moves, fearing that the Turks were trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain. If the cavalry from the two places really chased into Hebei, and the Turks made a feint and jumped back to the prairie from their defense line, it would be a disgrace.

The heavy troops of Hedong also hurried to defend the towering Taihang Mountains, fearing that the Turks would break into the Dragon's Rise. If the enemy really had 30,000 or 50,000 people, they could send troops to support them, but with 300,000, even if they sent all the troops of Hedong, they would only be wiped out.

As a result, a brief vacuum was created in Hebei, and the Turks rushed around and did whatever they wanted.

The Lu family was dumbfounded. Facing the butcher knife that the Turks were about to raise, they exerted their strong survival instinct of "a man of practical knowledge is a hero", took out their huge wealth, and decided to find a way to survive the Turks' knife first, and then think about other things.

I originally thought that paying some painful money could change my fate, but Shi Luodie didn't waver at all.

The aristocratic families were good at forming alliances, mediating, and other sophisticated and difficult tactics that gave the royal family a headache. It was like a person with the earth-shaking talent of Zhuge Wuhou was useless in front of a simple-minded warrior. He was afraid of being killed by the reckless men in front of him who only knew how to fight and kill, and he was even more afraid that hundreds of years of Lu's foundation would be destroyed. In a hurry, Lu Yigong no longer cared about pretending to be decent, and surrendered directly, and told him all the pros and cons of the future, hoping to impress the Turks.

"Great Khan, our Lu clan has been managing Youyan for hundreds of years, and we have deep roots. Half of the county magistrates and lieutenants guarding the towns in the north are our clansmen, and the rest are mostly our followers. If you can subdue us, Hebei will surrender without a fight."

"Besides, the noble families are all of the same blood. If the Khan gets rid of the Lu family, the remaining cities and noble families will surely unite to fight against the enemy. There are millions of people in Hebei. Although the Khan's army is large, it is limited. As long as these people fight to the death, the Khan will not be able to move forward."

When Ashina Moduo heard this, he immediately stretched out his hand. The soldiers paused and looked at Shiluodie.

"Hahaha"

Unexpectedly, Shi Luodie smiled coldly: "It's just a matter of rights and interests. You people in the Central Plains have always regarded us as barbarians. How could you be willing to surrender? In the previous cities, there were also some people who were willing to surrender, but I killed them all."

"To tell you the truth, I don't trust you at all. I only trust the brothers who have fought with me. To accept you is just to seek the skin of a tiger. Sooner or later, you will fall on me."

"Take him away, chop off his head, and then behead the entire Lu family. I will see how you can be united against the enemy and how you can be united as one family."

Seeing Shi Luodie gave the order, the two soldiers did not hesitate any longer and dragged Lu Yigong to behead him.

Lu Yigong's ghost was trembling. Although he was a prisoner at the moment, he was not actually worried about his life. After hundreds of years of operation, the Lu family had a deep foundation, a mountain of wealth, and far more power than the king.

With so many cards in hand, he didn't think he would die, and he didn't think the Lu family would be exterminated. Who knew that today he would meet Shi Luodie, who was so stubborn and really wanted to kill him and eliminate the Lu family? Lu Yigong was really scared.

Keep porcelain away from earthenware jars. As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood.

If they really died today and the Fanyang Lu family was really massacred by the Turks, it would be meaningless even if the Tang army crushed these people to ashes in the future.

Usually, Lu Yigong was the local emperor of Hebei. Under the will of the head of the family, he could kill anyone he wanted, even if it meant destroying his family. Today, when the steel knife was placed on his neck, he was really scared.

Lu Yigong’s heart was beating so hard that even between his legs, a warm current was flowing out.

"Great Khan, spare my life!"

Between life and death, Lu Yigong struggled desperately and broke free from the careless Turkic soldier. He threw himself at Shi Luodie's feet and said in a panic, "Lu is willing to offer all the 2.8 million taels of gold accumulated by our ancestors. Can the Khan spare Lu's life?"

"If the Khan really can't tolerate it, Lu is willing to leave."

"To be honest with you, Khan, the court has granted the Lu family a vassal state in the Western Regions. The Lu family has long wanted to leave, but they just haven't packed up yet. As long as the Khan shows mercy, the Lu family is willing to offer all the wealth accumulated over hundreds of years, including mansions, estates, land, servants, etc."

"Ok?"

If Zhu Liao was just moved just now, then at this moment everyone had turned into wolves. Their eyes turned red and they stared at Lu Yigong as if they were looking at a gorgeous woman without clothes, wishing they could swallow him up.

Two million and eight hundred thousand taels of gold, converted into silver, would be worth forty or fifty million, an unheard-of amount.

Even Li Yan's pupils shrank and his eyelids twitched unconsciously. In his heart, he despised this man who was so confused and looked at him in a flattering manner in order to survive.

At the same time, I was secretly shocked. Two million eight hundred thousand taels of gold?

This top family is truly extraordinary. Having accumulated so much gold over the generations, they have secretly hidden it. They are truly beasts.

This was a fortune that had taken generations of people to plunder the people endlessly. If Li Shimin saw this, he would probably grab the knife and kill this shameless man, right?
What a scourge! No wonder the country is so poor and the people are so destitute.

Perhaps these aristocratic families and wealthy families were indeed meritorious officials who cared about the country and the people in the beginning. Without the achievements of a certain generation, it would have been impossible for them to suddenly become prominent.

For example, the Lu family is descended from Lu Zhi, a great Confucian scholar in the late Han Dynasty; the Wang family of Taiyuan is descended from Wang Jian, a famous general in the Qin Dynasty; the Yang family of Hongnong is descended from Yang Xi, a founding hero of the Western Han Dynasty who was granted the title of Marquis of Chiquan by Emperor Gaozu of Han for his contribution in killing Xiang Yu; the Li family of Longxi is descended from Li Xin, a famous general of the Qin State, and Li Guang, the Flying General of the Western Han Dynasty.

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