Delong

Chapter 196 Raising Arms (9)

Li Shu led the main force to go east, Zhang Xing took charge of the rear, and designed a plan for Xu Dalang to control the waterway according to the Baima Weinan line to plan the rear of Hebei, Wei Daoshi and Niu Da controlled Puyang and Chanyuan, and in turn shared and monitored with Xu Dalang A small pattern.

After such a set-up, Zhang Xing certainly didn't feel that he could just sit back and enjoy his fortune and play farming, but he never thought that troubles would come one after another, making people breathless at all.

In fact, the troubles in Chanyuan, Jijun, seem to have been unbroken from the very beginning.

But how?If you think about it carefully, it is only natural that there is trouble in Ji County. If there is a rebellion, it is natural to send troops to suppress it... Can you really count on the destiny to be with you, and it will be done in one fell swoop?Didn't your family believe that sooner or later there will be big waves and the situation will go badly sooner or later?So on the other hand, what if you encounter tough bones and troubles now?

Is it because the bones are hard and not chewed?
Of course, intelligence must be collected before analysis and discussion can be made.

"Is there any paper?"

In the back hall of the county government office, Zhang Xing suddenly broke the silence.

Wei Xuanding didn't say a word, got up and went to the side hall of the back hall, and took a pen, ink, paper and inkstone in person, but Zhang Xing thanked him, got up to take it, but put the pen, inkstone aside, and only picked up the paper , and then took out a sharpened charcoal pencil from the back pocket of his waist, and began to write and draw on it.

"Who is the prefect of Ji County?"

Zhang Xing asked while writing down the name he had known for a long time.

Xu Dalang and Taoist Wei wanted to speak together, but they all shut up, and after Zhang Longtou had finished writing his name, Chief Wei spoke quietly:

"It's Wang Huaidu, from the Wang family in Taiyuan... Jin land is a place where east and west are seeing each other, and the treatment is still different from that in Hebei and Dongjing. A rich family like the Wang family can always enter the house, not to mention that he is Mr. Zhang s student."

"Master Zhang is also a disciple and old official all over the world." Zhang Xing thought about it, and immediately drew a line on Wang Huaidu's place, and wrote Master Zhang, but just after finishing writing, he suddenly remembered something, but he didn't care about it right now. , can only be pressed slightly.

"Bullshit is all over the world." Taoist Wei was speechless for a while. "Master Zhang never leaves Jin. Although there are many disciples, most of them are from Jin and Guanlong... Like here in Hebei, if you want to learn more, you will inevitably go to Cui and Lu. There are only a few Hongshan, Talents from Hebei in the Black Mountains will go to Jin to study... After all, who can be born with a condensed pill that can fly around? The condensed pill can't fly for a long time and can't catch a long distance, and you have to worry about water and soil and robbers, so you can go to neighboring counties It’s good to go on a study tour.”

"So that's it." Zhang Xing nodded, and wanted to ask other questions.

Daoist Wei paused for a moment, but took the initiative to say: "In fact, I have something to do with Wang Taishou... Wang Taishou and his brothers are all under Mrs. Zhang's family. Among them, Wang Huaidu is the worst, so he came out to be an official; The public obtained the knowledge of Mr. Zhang, so he opened a school in Taiyuan to teach his children; there is also Wang Huaiji, who has a very high level of cultivation, but has a strange temperament. Then he suddenly resigned from office and disappeared from then on, and he doesn’t know where he went to wander.”

"Fortunately, Yunyou." Xu Dalang sighed suddenly. "Otherwise, these condensed pills are all in the local area. Even if we rebel, we have to support them... For this matter, we have to thank the court."

Many past events and people flashed through Zhang Xing's mind, he nodded seriously, and at the same time strengthened his previous thought.

"Indeed," Daoist Wei sighed. "But there is another story about Mr. Huaiji..."

"So, Wei Gong can talk to Wang Taishou?" Zhang Xing retracted his extra thoughts, while writing the names of the Wang brothers and Wei Xuanding, drawing circles and drawing lines, he brought the matter back.

"Mr. Zhang thinks too much." Wei Xuanding answered seriously. "Master Zhang opened Nanpo, and the children of Nanpo have to show respect to the Zhang family, but do you think he cares about the three brothers of the Wang family? As for the Huaitong Open House in Taiyuan, they come and go casually, and maybe they don't remember it for more than ten years." There was a poor boy surnamed Wei who went to take his courses... Really, the two house leaders had a nephew who was a classmate with me at the time. If the public likes it, it may be more confident to ask him to come forward."

"What's your name?" Zhang Xing hurriedly wrote the names of the Fang brothers again, and then continued to draw lines.

"The name is similar to mine. It should be the son of Erlang Fang Yanrang, named Fang Xuanqiao." Wei Xuanding blurted out. "Tell me in advance that I know him, but he doesn't know me."

"Actually, it's okay. After all, there are no such words as Shi, Dai, Tong, and Da." Zhang Xing was speechless, and while continuing to copy, he looked at Xu Dalang. "Write this down in advance, wait for the meeting to end, and immediately send a letter to ask Fang Yanlang in the east."

"Understood." Xu Dalang nodded and agreed.

But for a moment, he seemed to wake up to something, got up again, fetched the pen, ink and inkstone that Zhang Xing had discarded, took out another piece of paper, and carefully wrote down the matter.

"Duke Wei said Wang Huaidu is the worst?" Zhang Xing continued to ask. "Is it the worst of the three, or is it worse overall?"

"Both." Wei Xuanding insisted. "This is a waste of the family. He is timid and afraid of getting into trouble, and he will perfunctory the kind of official... I agreed to pick up Chanyuan that day, not only because the two leaders said that they wanted to have a stronghold on the opposite side, but also for me personally. In other words, there is also this reason,... but unexpectedly, he actually hardened."

Of course Wei Xuanding's useless words must be greatly discounted... Everyone seems like a waste to him, but at least it shows that this person is not particularly wise and decisive.

"Not familiar with military strategy?" Zhang Xing took the initiative to ask just to be on the safe side.

"Naturally." Wei Xuanding responded immediately. "Don't talk about Wang Huaidu, even Duke Huai Tong and Duke Huai Ji passed by together. The three of them would definitely not understand the military strategy...and if Duke Huai Ji really passed by, Niu Da might have disappeared."

"So there should be someone else in charge of military affairs?" Zhang Xing asked seriously. "Who is Captain Jijun?"

"He is a powerful man with the surname Meng who was born in Liang County. He is called Meng Shangong, and he actually has power in the Zhouqiao area of ​​Jiyin." Xu Dalang took the initiative to speak. "It's a character, but in my opinion, nine out of ten he has objections, and there's no reason to do his best... Even, I think this guy just wants to go back to Liang County when he sees our business. rebel."

"Meng Sangong." Zhang Xing raised his hand to write down the name, and continued to ask. "But if it's not the captain, who would directly intervene in military affairs in any name?"

"There is a big man named Wang Dexin in Ji County, but he should only want to rebel, so he has no reason to help the prefect?" Xu Dalang also became a little anxious.

"Don't say that these local tycoons only want to rebel, even if they don't, Wang Taishou, who has always looked down on these people, won't listen to them..." Taoist Wei interjected. "As for the imperial army in Ji County, the prefect should have the final say no matter what."

Zhang Xing's heart suddenly moved, and he vaguely grasped something, but he didn't point it out directly, but asked inexplicably while thinking: "I remember that during the three campaigns, the imperial court sent Zheng Shanye to Liyang, Ji County. Has he left?"

"I left early, I went with Qu Tuda." Xu Dalang said. "Master Zhang, after you sold water to kill someone, before arriving here, the two of you brought troops back to Xingyang together, maybe even back to the Eastern Capital..."

"Will you come back again?" Zhang Xing asked. "After all, Li Yang has a Li Yang warehouse."

"Of course there is a possibility..." Xu Dalang sighed, and finally felt helpless. "But Mr. Zhang, if you guess like this, why don't you send a spy to cross the river to investigate... What we can say now is what kind of help the prefect Wang got in Jijun, but we were rebelling before, so we don't know anything."

"It is inevitable to send agents to cross the river to investigate, to search for acquaintances in the Ji County government to contact the local tycoons, and to provide Fang Yanlang with a contact channel. It is also inevitable to go downstream to inquire about the situation and prepare to dispatch our water power. Because the matter is likely to be caused by many factors." Zhang Xing continued to use charcoal pencils to scribble on the notebook while analyzing seriously. "Remember it too."

"Yes." Xu Dalang immediately wrote down these few items.

Zhang Xing waited for the other party to record his orders one by one, and then continued: "Actually, we are not guessing at random, but trying to collect the known information as much as possible to find the key to the matter... And to keep it from you, Since you said that Wang Huaidu is just a mediocre official figure, but at the same time he is still the king of a county, and he is uncompromising about military and political affairs, I thought of an interesting place, and then I became suspicious..."

Xu Dalang and Taoist Wei Qiqi were sitting solemnly.

"I don't know much about military strategy. Why do you say that when our [-] troops were sent here to rescue Niu Da, the officers and troops of Ji County had to withdraw for no reason?" Zhang Xing asked seriously. "If you want to prepare a navy, you don't need to withdraw from the siege, right?"

"Of course I was frightened by the crowd of [-] people." Taoist Wei blurted out, but immediately he was a little uncertain, and turned to look at Xu Dalang for proof. "Are you scared?"

"It must have been frightened by the [-] people." Xu Dalang thought about it, and then suddenly came to his senses. "But why are you scared? This doesn't match up with the previous firm siege and the subsequent decisive increase in troops, right? Besides, it's like a navy... What Zhang Longtou said is right, it doesn't look like it's just relying on our side Intelligence can make a change?"

"I actually think there should be only one possibility." Zhang Xing said calmly. "The one who chose to withdraw the troops, and the one who asked the troops to surround them again, is not the same person... Moreover, according to Duke Wei, the one who ordered the retreat must be the prefect Wang. In other words..."

"In other words..." Wei Xuanding suddenly leaned forward in his seat. "Information is not intelligence, internal response can not be mentioned, that is, if there is really a person who is proficient in military strategy and has a firm will to issue orders in Jijun, he may not be able to gain the trust of Wang Taishou if he is at the bottom; Wang Taishou is disgusted... Wang Taishou himself does not want to have a bloody fight with us!"

"An indirect trick?" Xu Dalang also blurted out. "Separate these two people!"

"The countermeasure is not accurate." Zhang Xing answered seriously. "I probably have some conjectures, but I still need to send a detailed investigation to make a clear conclusion... But no matter what, I can talk to Wang Taishou. Hello everyone, how about me?"

If this is said in front of Xiong Bonan, it will definitely cause confusion, and if it is said in public, the impact will not be good... It is all righteous, how can you talk about business with the high officials of the court?
But the three people sitting here are all talking about something practical, and the bottom line is more flexible, so the two of them nod their heads, like chickens pecking at rice.

"Let's stop here for today." Zhang Xing finally stood up. "Xu Dalang, work hard, and carry out these trivial matters well. When the secret agents come back, I will meet you in person... If there is any situation, you should come to me as soon as possible."

"Yes." Xu Shiying responded quickly, and said with a correct attitude.

In this way, the crowd dispersed half excitedly and half helplessly, and Zhang Xing naturally went to a courtyard in the north of Puyang City... That was the place where Qu Tuda, the general of Zhonglang who was stationed here during the Three Expeditions, was stationed there. One of the family's other businesses here was taken by Zhang Xing without shame during the whole army reward stage after the successful uprising.

In fact, Puyang was the first big city where the three poor high-ranking officials moved in when they raised righteousness. Wei Daoshi and Li Shu also received their own houses in a grand manner. Otherwise, where would Wei Daoshi get new clothes?

This seems to be an unavoidable situation at present, because on the other side, Xu Dalang, Shan Dalang, Wang Wulang, including the Zhai brothers, simply unified the public property and official property of some cities into something that does not distinguish between public and private. .

That is, Zhang Xing, who insisted on checking accounts and rewards, barely kept the official treasury.

From this point of view, those civil servants who can only play tricks, including Jiangren, seem to be more reliable than these heroes, but these heroes are the real hope for the rebellion.

But to be honest, Zhang Xing and Li Shu are also the hope of rebellion, but even if the two of them took the house, they both performed much better than some leaders and some chiefs... After the two got the house, they unanimously took the maid , The servants were dismissed, and some confidant leaders and soldiers were invited to stay together.

For example, Zhang Xing let Jia Yue and the two hundred soldiers occupy most of the mansion, leaving only a small backyard for himself.

But on this day, Zhang Xing, who had gone to the county government for a boring meeting, returned here, only to find that the two hundred soldiers who should have arrived here at noon and were supposed to be resting at this time were probably carrying their luggage and packing their bedding dejectedly. .

"what happened?"

Zhang Xing was naturally at a loss... Is there anyone in Puyang City who can force his own soldiers to move?

"It's Mrs. Dou and Miss Bai's family, Xu Dalang mentioned it when the food was released and brought it here." Jia Yue came up to meet him, although his expression was still cold, he almost couldn't wait to explain. "We're not here. She and her servants and maidservants occupy the back half of the entire house. All the things that were placed when we entered the city were thrown out, and only our front yard is left... Everyone says that Bai's daughter is your relative. , and said that this house belonged to the Bai family, and we dare not fight for it."

Zhang Xing was stunned, came to his senses, then stretched out his hand and pointed, but he said simply: "Go in, release all the servants, and hand them over to the leader of the key, and let him go to grant and garrison the fields; the maidservants leave two for her, and put them together in the My small courtyard... the rest ask clearly. The locals return to their hometowns to find their parents. Those who are not locals and are willing to release their slave status, I will be a matchmaker for rebel soldiers to be their wives. The general sent all the dirty clothes..."

Jia Yue was taken aback by Zheng, and hesitated for a while: "That's the daughter of the Bai family!"

"So what if she is the queen?" Zhang Xing, who was impotent because of Chanyuan's siege, couldn't help but get angry.

"What if you resist?" Jia Yue nodded, took two steps, and turned back again.

"Use weapons and kitchen knives to kill." Zhang Xing said sternly. "Without weapons and kitchen knives, you two hundred soldiers, regardless of gender, can't pull out your hair? She is a prisoner! Not some noble lady! And you are rebels!"

Jia Yue nodded again, walked two more steps in, and then looked back: "Strict military discipline, try not to violate female family members, shall we?"

"Isn't this nonsense?" Zhang Xing was speechless. "Why are you talking so much today?"

"Isn't this a famous woman from the Bai family!" Jia Yue responded, nodded again and again, walked two steps in, and then turned back again.

"Do I have to do it myself?" Zhang Xing was the first to get angry.

"No." Jia Yue asked seriously. "It was just said that the Bai family's daughter will be placed in your small courtyard...Aren't you afraid that your good friend Bai's daughter will find out?"

President Zhang breathed out: "It's because I didn't speak clearly. I'll go in with you now, move my luggage out, and find me a place to live in the back courtyard."

Jia Yue then nodded again.

Immediately, there was a burst of chicken and dog jumping.

And it's not unexpected, these servants and maidservants are all unwilling to leave the Bai family and Mrs. Dou. Obviously, slaves belong to slaves, but they also know that being a slave of the Bai family is more important than being an ordinary slave. Sons and wives of good families in the eastern region are much more comfortable.

But Zhang Xing was not used to them, and announced on the spot that the men would be forcibly dragged away from the farmland, and the women would be dragged into the side yard for centralized control, and they were going to open a serious clothes washing yard.

This also aroused the extreme anger of Mrs. Dou, who should be regarded as a serious cousin of Bai Yousi.

It was fine when the male servants were being dragged away, but when the maidservants cried into a ball and were about to be dragged away, this Mrs. Dou, who was born in the Bai family, finally showed her demeanor as a female of the Bai family.

"Zhang Xing! You are also an official of the imperial court who once entered the palace, and you are the guest of the Bai family. How can you do such dirty things once you are a thief?" Madam Dou shouted, and rushed out of the room directly, blocking herself. In front of the maidservant, she was actually holding a knife in her hand. There was even a very obvious glow on the knife, which aroused half a foot of knife light. I don't know how she got it. "Such an attitude is even inferior to that country tycoon Xu Dalang!"

Besides, Jia Yue knew that Zhang Xing had a good friend from the Bai family, so how could these soldiers not know?Seeing this scene, they, who were already intimidated by the halo of Bai's daughter, backed away again and again, not as agile as they were when they caught the male servants before.

Not only that, here in the suite, after being forced to retreat by the Bai family, almost everyone turned their heads to look at Zhang Xing.

Zhang Xing had no choice, and he was too lazy to explain, and he didn't want to spoil the other party...he still wanted to fight!Still thinking about saving Chanyuan!Who has the time and thought to get married with you here?

You are a prisoner, you kicked your nose in the face, didn't you?

I am making a revolution!

So, this imposing leader simply stepped forward and went into battle in person.

But with just one step, the gray-white zhenqi on Zhang Longtou's body bloomed all over his body, and then he was immediately surrounded by white qi from the outer periphery, covering most of his body, as if he was suddenly in a cloud.Then, as soon as he stretched out his hand, he abruptly pulled off the weapon with the blade in his hand, and grabbed it with his backhand.That's not to mention, holding the knife in his left hand, he stretched his right hand directly towards Madam Dou's bun, who was stunned as if she was frightened, and actually pulled her hair.

Then, a knife swung across.

That action is very similar to selling water to kill Zhang Han.

Of course, no one was killed, no matter how scumbag Zhang Xing was, he would not kill a female prisoner of war who did not cause any harm. With a wave of the saber, the shiny and unique bun of Bai's girl was completely cut off, and then thrown away to the ground.

A few pearl hairpins were added to the hair, and they scattered all over the place for a while.

So far, the compound courtyard, which was originally a mess because of women crying, shouting, waving swords, and soldiers fleeing, was instantly silent.

After a while, Lady Bai herself plopped and fell to the ground.

She never expected that the other party would dare to grab her head and use a knife, and even cut her hair in a bun.

Of course, no one else thought of it either.

In the silence, this scum who actually cut the hair of a woman himself, and it was a scum who cut the hair of a lady and a sister-in-law in a certain sense, turned around and calmly told the maidservants: "I am also reasonable, let's Take a step back each, and allow four of you to take care of your wife. Just the four of you, immediately help your wife in... The rest of you immediately go to the side yard to wash clothes. I promise it's just laundry! After a while, then Who……"

Halfway through speaking, Zhang Scum suddenly froze, and Fu looked coldly at Madam Dou who was kneeling on the ground with a knife in his hand: "Madam Dou, prefect Liu and Madam Sima have already left, right? Why don't you go?"

Mrs. Dou, who seemed to be a little bald, looked up at the other party, and she opened her mouth silently.

Zhang Xing sneered: "Don't you think that you can take advantage of my relationship with Sisi to cover up here so as to avenge your husband? If that's the case, do you think I dare not kill women? Daughter of the Bai family So what? Do you want to bury the lives of many brothers for your dignity? Madam Dou, see the morals of the world clearly!"

Madam Dou finally shook her head, her words trembled, and she became even more bald: "I had this idea, but it didn't work out! Zhang Sanlang, are you going to kill me just because I have this idea?"

"I'm not a saint today." Zhang Xing smiled and just waved his hands. "Madam, please rest in the house, don't bother me anymore, I will find an opportunity in a few days, and I will send Madam to Taiyuan Yinggong as soon as possible..."

Mrs. Dou struggled to get up, but fell down and sat back down, but two maidservants hurried forward to help her wife up, and the other two maidservants who had been pointed out before hurriedly picked up the scattered hair and hairpins on the ground, and then hurriedly Follow up.

Although the rest of the maidservants couldn't help crying and crying, but what if they lost their support, they could only move into the side yard collectively.

Zhang Xing finished tidying up the chicken feathers, thought for a long time, and then promised with the guards who had not yet dispersed that if Mrs. Dou could not leave within a year, he would directly marry the maidservants to the maids from Hebei who were all alone now They are alone... This is a really helpless move, because he really can't guarantee military discipline, and he can't guarantee that a sergeant will go over the wall and do something.

It is true that military discipline can be strictly enforced if something is done, but considering the current world, it is probably the best choice out of desperation to forcibly release slaves and make betrothals against the personal wishes of these maidservants.

This is true for them, and I am afraid it is also true for these soldiers.

An inexplicable trouble was solved by shaving the bald head with a quick knife, and then there was nothing to say overnight, and in the next few days, feedback from all sides came in continuously, but it was always a bit confusing.

Fang Yanlang wrote back, saying that his nephew Fang Xuanqiao was now in the Guanlong area with his father Fang Yanrang...the latter was working as a county magistrate...but even so, he still had a channel to talk to Wang Huaidu, because he himself was very close to the other party. Familiar, a communication letter in the name of his brother Fang Yanrang has been delivered along with the reply.

That's fine.

But the crux of the problem is that the spy who sent across the river to reconnaissance on their own did not see or hear the leader of the army except the county guard Wang Huaidu, Zheng Shanye did not come back, and the people who besieged Chanyuan were also local soldiers from Ji County.The results of testing the local tyrants and low-level officials in Ji County are also very consistent-they are very interested in rebelling with the Dragon Gang who has done great things, but they have never heard of any special characters in Ji County. Instead of Wang Huaidu to lead the army.

This made it difficult for Daoist Wei to understand, and it also made him and Xu Dalang fall into some kind of complete helplessness... How can this save Niu Da?Do you really want to wait until Zhou Xingfan and the Lu brothers from the downstream bring the boats and try to fight the siege by water?Will it freeze before the ship arrives, or break the city first?

However, unexpectedly, Zhang Xing was a little more confident in his heart, because this result verified his own thinking.

"I'm going to cross the river myself to do the final reconnaissance...by the way, I'll see if I can resolve this matter quickly, so as not to delay the transfer of winter clothes to the front soldiers."

On the second day of November, the weather turned cold. On the same day when [-] people from the Dragon Gang poured into Dongping County, they cooperated with the internal support of the ancestral family and easily captured Yuncheng, the county seat. Zhang Xing, who wanted to hide his family's reputation but could no longer hide it, made a suggestion to Xu Dalang and Taoist Wei.

"It's fine to transfer the winter clothes." Wei Daoshi, who unexpectedly didn't change into new clothes, was silent for a moment, and immediately objected with a dark face. "I can do it without you, but if you die in Hebei, will Li Shu say that I harmed you, and then kill me to buy Wang Wulang and Mr. Zhou's hearts?"

"Third Brother Zhang is a body of gold..." Xu Dalang also tried his best to persuade him, speaking much better than Taoist Wei who can't speak.

"What is your cultivation level?" Zhang Xing was puzzled and asked Xu Dalang a question. "Can't you keep me safe?"

Xu Shiying was startled for a moment, but didn't say anything.

"What about you?" Zhang Xing was expressionless, unable to ask further questions. "When I met you on the river that day, it was just a few superficial cultivation of the main channel. You should have been a master of the strange scriptures at that time... Later, I watched the sea of ​​bitterness and learned the two strange scriptures, and killed Zhang Han. Sell ​​water to pass through the second channel of Rendu, and then continue to open the two channels of Yangwei and Yinwei after the incident... What is your cultivation level after the incident?"

Xu Shiying calmed down, and told the truth honestly: "On the day of the incident, I barely condensed the pill, and I still can't fly smoothly."

"That's what I guessed." Zhang Xing ignored Wei Xuanding's strange eyes and continued to look at Xu Dalang. "So, it's just a big river. You had a lot of troubles and couldn't send me across it, but now you can't personally protect me?"

Xu Shiying bowed and saluted: "Xu Da would like to follow Third Brother Zhang once, and never let Third Brother encounter any mishaps."

PS: Good night everyone... I was surprised to find that I actually updated 15 words this month...

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