It Starts With A Mountain

Chapter 198

The atmosphere in the hall was dry, as if cold water was poured on the hot coals, and the temperature dropped instantly.

Liu Aji noticed the chilling atmosphere in the hall, paused slightly, and said, "My lord has such a brave general, our family is just curious about him and wants to meet him."

"It's just, it's just... this Cheng Dalei is a bandit."

"I heard. He was originally entrenched in Qingniu Mountain, and it was the prince who recruited him to his command. What about the bandits, who can defeat the Rong family, is the hero of the empire. His Majesty Emperor Ming said that this time, the Rong family can be defeated, the prince, City Lord Fang and Cheng Dalei each take one-third of the credit. Your Majesty has found such a talent for the empire, and it is the greatest credit." Liu Aji paused, then rushed to the others present: "Of course, Your Majesty will not forget your credit. "

"Haha..." Yang Long stopped laughing and said, "It's what I should do to select talents for the empire. In fact, because he is a bandit, I have also considered for a long time whether to use him or not, and finally I took the risk of using this person. ."

"I also found a great talent for the empire. I didn't let Liangyu bury the mountains."

"It should be, it should be."

Liu Aji smiled and said, "Then, where is this Cheng Dalei, can you let me see him first? Your Majesty actually wants to meet him."

"This... a vulgar person in the mountains, who doesn't know the etiquette, was a bandit again, and was afraid of offending Mr. Liu. After the training is completed in the future, he will listen to the teachings in front of Eunuch Liu."

"Okay then." Liu Aji looked very regretful and said, "Actually, I have one more thing here this time. This time the Rong family has been in chaos, and a lot of killing karma has been created in the empire. The day is still to be decided. When the day is decided, you have brave generals under your command, don’t cherish yourselves, you can send them to the capital to participate in the martial arts competition and meet the heroes of the world for a while.”

"The court seems to attach great importance to this martial arts?"

"Well, His Majesty ordered it himself."

...

After everyone dispersed, Yang Longting came to Cui Yunjian's room and screened his subordinates. Yang Longting immediately asked, "Second brother, what's the situation in the capital?"

Yang Longting's wife is Cui Yunjian's eldest sister, and the Cui family is a family with high status in the capital. In front of outsiders, both parties discuss official positions, but in private, everyone is their own person, the kind of person who can wear a pair of pants.

Cui Yunjian told Yang Longshang about the latest trends in the capital, which was probably similar to what Liu Aji said. Of course, if the same words were said separately from the two people, the underlying meanings would be completely different.

In this battle between the empire and the Rong tribe, the empire lost so badly. In the end, the Rong army came to the city, forcing His Majesty the Empire to sign the alliance under the city.

In the case of total rout, victory seems so precious. Emperor Ming, who was so aggrieved that he had been pulling his beard in the palace, suddenly discovered that there was a Youzhou in the empire, and there was also a Qingniu Mountain in Youzhou.

In fact, the strength of the quarrel between the Empire and the Rong at the negotiating table was entirely given by this battle.

Then, it is natural to reward the generals who lead the army in this battle, not only reward, but also reward them in front of everyone, so that people in the entire empire know: We also have heroes, we also have victories, and we are not Didn't lose that badly.

Thus, Yang Longting was erected as a model. And because of this, the Cui family can obtain a lot of political resources in the court.

As for the upcoming military examinations, they were beaten too badly, and they wanted to select some talents from below. This is indeed a major event for the Empire in recent years.

Cui Yunjian and Yang Long stopped talking for a long time, and there are many other small things, such as: the censor of such and such actually joined our Cui family, and I don't know who is behind it.

When so-and-so celebrated his birthday, so-and-so did not go to celebrate his birthday in person. Could it be that the two families already had a feud.

Wait and so on, Cui Yunjian's throat was dry, he took a sip of tea, and asked as if remembering something: "That Cheng Dalei... what's the situation?"

"Cheng Dalei's place...it's not easy to handle."

"Why...he doesn't listen to you, can't you still order him?"

Yang Long stopped and said, "Why don't you listen, if we met, he would have killed me with an axe."

He laughed dryly: "It's not that I don't listen at all, it's just a bandit, you know, I don't like being controlled so much."

"No, it's important that this person is in your hands."

"Well, I understand." Yang Longting nodded lightly.

...

Qingniu Mountain, Toad Village.

Now Cheng Dalei is left with about a thousand people, including Xu Shenji, Qin Man, Lin Shaoyu, Lin Chong, Liu Guan, Zhang Zhao, and Huang Sanyuan.

The materials left by the Rong tribe were used to build the cottage, and the address was still on the original Toad Ridge. As for the valley... Now there are 100,000 corpses in it, and Cheng Dalei is afraid of having nightmares just thinking about it, let alone living in it. As for the financial report buried in the valley, let's keep it first, anyway, it won't run long.

After the war, recuperate.

Cheng Dalei has not yet decided whether to bring back the brothers who have fled to the south. In other words, everyone should go directly to the south for development. This place in Youzhou is really poor, the commodity economy is extremely underdeveloped, robbing passers-by without a single penny, when I ask about it, the old lady is bedridden, the child can't get enough to eat, and the wife calls him useless all day long. , and maybe give him a few coins back.

Be a thief, and if you snatch it like this, I'm afraid that you will get richer and poorer.

The South is good, there are many beauties in Jiangnan, of course, the officers and soldiers are also more powerful.

"Lao Cheng, Lao Cheng..."

There was a sudden cry from the bottom of the mountain, and Qi Deqiang and Li Shanyan were escorted up the mountain by Liu Guanzhang.

"The head of the family, these two people said that they came under the order of the King of Youzhou and wanted to recruit us."

"Old Cheng, you definitely didn't recognize me, I'm your brother Xiaoqiang, remember that our brothers hit it off at first sight, not a real brother is better than a real brother." Qi Deqiang.

"Kill." Cheng Dalei made a gesture of slitting his throat

"Lao Cheng, Lao Cheng, you forgot me. Did you forget that we held candles and talked for a long time? Brother, I came here this time, specially ordered by the King of Youzhou, to grant you an official position."

"Don't kill them yet, chop off their hands and feet and throw them in the cesspool."

"Lao Cheng, Lao Cheng... You can't deny your brother, Lao Cheng." Qi Deqiang was overjoyed when he heard Cheng Dalei's words, then he was surprised, stretched his hand in the air, and suddenly shouted: "Cheng Zhaizhu, you May you be the lord of a city."

Cheng Dalei paused, waved his hand, and asked the men holding them to stop first.

"Black Stone, Fallen Leaves, Tiehe, Chisha, choose one of them." Qi Deqiang said loudly.