Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 99: Surrender to Surrender ([-])
Liu Ting heard this, but just snorted coldly: "Master, how I lead the troops, it's not up to you, the defeated future, to comment."

Gao Wushi saw that the two of them were talking more and more deadlocked, so he had no choice but to change the topic: "Cao Da is in charge, and the life and death of Bailixia are all in your mind at this moment. The longer you delay, the more dangerous Bailixia will be."

Cao Gan sneered and said, "Did I delay? You said you wanted to hear my story, but didn't I tell you the whole story?"

"Okay then, let's get down to business." Gao Wushi shrugged: "I can try to cover up the matter of you letting Zhang Lian go, but how did you run from Jiang Manqing's place to Beidi and act as a thieves?" here?"

Cao Gan looked at Gao Wushi suspiciously, and asked in disbelief, "Can you cover up the matter of letting Zhang Lian go?" Not to mention Cao Gan, even Liu Ting looked suspicious, thinking to himself : Mr. Gao should just say this casually, right?Or is it just to stabilize the surnamed Cao with words first, and there is no real plan to do this at all?Yes, it must be so.

Gao Wushi looked indifferent, and said: "Some things may be serious and troublesome to you, but they are very easy and simple to me. For example, the matter of Master Cao letting Zhang Lian go. According to your thoughts, you probably think that 'the matter involves treason, and the crime is a family strain', right?"

Liu Ting and Cao Gan reached an agreement for the first time, and asked in unison: "Isn't it?" Then they looked at each other, and turned their faces away in disgust at the same time.

"So you are only suitable for fighting against the enemy." Gao Wushi said bluntly: "And I dare to say that as long as Master Cao himself never mentions this matter in the future, the whole court will not know about it, let alone talk about it." , even if they heard about it, no one would be willing to pursue it."

Gao Wushi said this resolutely. Cao Gan couldn't help but fell into deep thought after hearing this, while Liu Ting couldn't help asking: "Why is Mr. Gao so determined? This is... this is..."

He knows it even if he doesn't talk about high pragmatism, but it's nothing more than the phrase "the matter involves conspiracy, and the crime is family strain".

Gao Wushi sighed, and asked Liu Ting, "Brother Zishou, let me ask you, do you think your father is willing to make this incident known to the whole world?"

"My father?" Liu Ting asked in surprise, "Does this matter have anything to do with my father?"

"Of course there is a relationship, and the relationship is not small." Gao Wushi explained: "Earlier, your father and Yu Gong jointly defeated Zhang Lian. How did your father report to the court? He said that the minister led his troops to destroy Zhang Lian's personal guards and killed all Forget it, Zhang Lian may have died in the rebellion. Brother Zishou, your father’s way of reporting victory is everywhere in our dynasty. Normally, it is naturally insignificant, but it is based on Zhang Lian’s true personality. On the premise that Zhang Lian is dead or cannot be found everywhere, once there is conclusive evidence of Zhang Lian's successful absconding, then your father's performance has the intention of deliberately deceiving the emperor... Do you understand what I mean?"

Liu Ting's face changed greatly in shock: "My father only said that Zhang Lian might have died in the rebellion, but he didn't say that he was definitely dead. Why did he deliberately deceive the emperor?"

Gao Wushi originally intended to scare him, so he shrugged his shoulders when he heard the words: "My father may just want to add some glory to his military exploits, look more beautiful, and it is normal to do nothing. But you have to know, once Zhang Lian's absconding is exposed , all relevant people, etc., cannot escape responsibility. What will everyone do at this time? They only think of pushing the responsibility to other people, and your father, as one of the chief generals, himself said something about Zhang Lian. If he died in the rebellion, then others will find an opportunity to shirk responsibility and say, 'I wanted to investigate in detail, but General Liu said he was dead, so I don't have much trouble'—you see, your father That's how it was sold."

Liu Ting's eyes were a little dull, and he murmured: "How could this be... No, those civil servants would definitely say that! What should I do? What should I do?"

Gao Wushi added another dimension, and continued: "Besides, your father will not be the only one who will be unlucky at that time, for example, Mr. Yu, he will be in even greater trouble, because he reported that Zhang Lian has been punished by him. Think about it, if someone suddenly proves that Zhang Lian has run away, what will happen to Yu Guild?"

Liu Ting said in a daze, "I'm afraid that he will be accused of deceiving the emperor."

Gao Wushi nodded, and said affirmatively: "So Mr. Yu must be very angry with the person who leaked this matter... The rest of the officials involved, no matter whether they are civil or military, even the elders and ministers who were in charge of the court at that time, said It’s going to look like that too.”

Liu Ting shuddered and thought to himself: That would be a big trouble. The military leaders in the southern provinces would offend most of them, not to mention many civilian officials. Members, Liu Xianmo said that he offended a group of people, even if there was only one person, he would not be able to offend them!Look at the last time he only offended a mere magistrate of Tongzhou Prefecture, and almost lost his official position. What if he offended the old man?I'm afraid I will lose my life!
Liu Ting is so majestic on the battlefield, and his level of political struggle is completely unable to pass, so frightened by Gao Wushi, he tremblingly asked for advice: "Mr. Gao, what should I do about this matter...?"

Gao Wushi waved his small hand and said, "It's okay, I will help you to arrange it. Brother Zishou, you don't need to worry."

Turning to Cao Gan again, he said, "Do you have any questions about Master Cao?"

Cao Gan also recovered from the shock, and the way he looked at Gao Yushi changed: "No, no, Mr. Gao... Cao has nothing to say about his family background, he is really convinced."

He paused, and said: "Actually, after Cao was framed by Jiang Manqing, because he was a general, he thought that no one would speak for me, so he didn't think much, and took my brother and fled overnight. Oh, by the way, we were not in the south at that time, because Japanese pirates invaded Huaibei at that time, so all Jiang Manqing's troops were transferred to the governor of Fengyang, and I was in Xiapi..."

After listening to his narration, Gao Wushi knew that at that time he followed Jiang Manqing in Xiapi to exterminate the Japanese pirates. Since there were many armies from south to north to outflank the Japanese pirates who were heading straight towards Xuzhou from the sea, fleeing south was like throwing themselves into a trap, so he had no choice but to go to North fled.Later, Cao Gan and his brothers fled all the way to Bazhou along the canal, and married a wife by accident. Unexpectedly, his wife was from an unusual family—Cao Gan’s father-in-law was actually one of the famous thieves leaders in Bazhou. It was precisely because of Cao Gan's ability that he married his daughter to him.Later, his father-in-law was assassinated during a fight with another family's thieves, and Cao Gan became the master of their thieves team as his son-in-law.

However, Cao Gan was an outsider after all, and he thought that he would not be able to survive in Bazhou, or even if he did, he would have no future, so he took his wife and team to "open up a base" - he quickly defeated and annexed the people who had been entrenched in Baili. A group of thieves and thieves with a size of about two hundred in the gorge has become the new master of Baili gorge.

Because Cao Gan knew that if the thieves wanted to survive, they could not bully the local people too much, so the management of the thieves in Bailixia was quite strict.It is also because of this that although the robbers in Bailixia have been active for several years, the government originally wanted to exterminate them, but in the past few years, the vicinity of Bailixia has become more stable, so the matter of suppressing the thieves has gradually been delayed. When it came down, Cao Gan led a large gang of thieves to escape for several years, until this accident happened.

After listening to Cao Gan's words, Gao Yushi gradually came to a conclusion: this person can still be used, the only trouble is the feud between him and Liu Ting who killed his brother.

(End of this chapter)