Chapter 115: The right time, the right place, and the right people
After learning the reason for the incident from the little boy, Seong-cheol returned to his tent. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
He now knew the approximate reason, and guessed that the people who robbed the village were directly or indirectly related to the army, if not the army.
It is obviously not enough to know this, it seems that this matter needs to be investigated again.
"Your breakfast, my lord."
The soldier walked into Seong-cheol's tent with two bowls in his hand, one with rice in one bowl and the other with a mess of stews that he couldn't tell what it was.
Rice is the staple food, the army brought a lot of it, and the rest brought some ingredients that were easy to preserve, such as potatoes and the like, as for what to eat, it all depends on the mood of the chef, what he gets, he stews.
Xingzhe turned out to be rice and vegetables, tasted it, and it tasted good. Although I can't tell what kind of dish it is, the taste is still okay, and the chef of the army also has a hand.
In fact, Xingzhe didn't know that the chefs of the army all brought one by one, and the methods of cooking things were all the same, and they could cook whatever they were given, which was the magic of the army cooks.
"Go and call Master Shangshu, and say that I have something to discuss with him."
"Yes, sir!"
Xingzhe is indeed hungry, anyway, Li Jun hasn't come yet, so let's eat first, otherwise it will be cold for a while. Xingzhe thought so, but in fact, even if Li Jun came, he should still eat.
The rice was cooked just right, chewed gently, and the elastic rice grains exuded the unique sweetness of rice, even though Xingzhe knew that it was a chemical reaction between starch and amylase, but as a foodie, Tai still took a few bites.
I can't tell what the dish is, but it tastes good. The soup is thick, but I don't know how to get into the ingredients, and all kinds of flavors are intertwined and stimulate the taste buds.
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"Little brother, what are you looking for me?"
Li Jun came, holding breakfast in his hand, and walked to his brother while eating.
"Do you know anything big about this village before?"
Robbing a village is no longer a trivial matter, and the common people will definitely report to the officials. And a high-ranking and powerful person like Li Jun is very likely to have come into contact with this matter.
"Then you're asking the right person."
"You know?"
"Of course, this case was handled by my nemesis, the official department Shangshu, as the saying goes, "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is the only way to survive a hundred battles", and I know his small actions very well."
Xingzhe was very happy when he heard it, but he didn't expect that he had guessed correctly at once, this old man really knew about it.
"Tell me about it, tell me about the cause and effect, I want to understand."
"It started a year ago, if I'm not mistaken, there was a robbery in the village, and the whole village was looted by robbers."
"Wait, how do you know it's this village?"
"The report information says the name of the village, Yinhang Village. My men are not blind, how could I not know. ”
"Bank Village? With this name, it's no wonder that robbers want to rob this place. ”
Li Jun didn't pay attention to Xingzhe's trash talk, rolled his eyes, and continued to talk to Xingzhe.
"The village was robbed, and the villagers reported to the officials, but the officials in the small place couldn't control such a big matter, so they could only report it to the capital, so this matter fell into the hands of Li Shaoqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites."
"You are all surnamed Li, and you were all a family hundreds of years ago, is it really good to tear it apart? But with the same surname Li, his name is much better than yours. ”
Li Jun turned a deaf ear to Xingzhe's complaints.
"This matter should not be difficult to solve, as long as the robbers are eliminated."
Xingzhe nodded.
"That's right, as long as you send someone to suppress the bandits, it's OK, what's the matter, didn't the official secretary do it?"
"You guessed it, Li Shaoqing, the secretary of the ministry, did not suppress the bandits, not only that, but he also helped these robbers hide the past."
"Did you take a bribe?"
"That's right, the bandit leader had long predicted that the imperial court would send someone to exterminate them, so he sent money to bribe Li Shaoqing, the secretary of the ministry, and asked Li Shaoqing to help them hide it, so that they could keep robbing."
"And after that? Have the villagers been robbed by robbers all the time? ”
Xingzhe asked through gritted teeth.
"That's right, that gang of robbers is still doing the business of robbing houses and houses, and whenever something happens, they will be suppressed by Li Shaoqing, the secretary of the ministry, and His Majesty the Emperor can't hear anything at all."
"Damn it, I'm going to exterminate these bandits, and I can't let them do whatever they want anymore."
"But we only have a hundred soldiers, and there are hundreds of people on the other side, so if we really fight, the chances of losing are very high."
Xingzhe thought about it carefully, what Li Jun said was very right, what can a hundred people do?
Frontal just?
Just kidding, you'll be beaten to death.
Positive is definitely not good, then you can only outwit, and most of the historical victory with less is outwitting.
"Let's discuss countermeasures, no matter what, we must take down this gang of bandits, even if it is to kill them."
"You have to think of a way, I'm not very good at fighting."
After all, Li Jun is a civil official, and he is good at officialdom and the governance of the country. Although he also knows some about leading troops to fight, he is not very proficient.
Seong-cheol began to ponder, and kept drawing something with his fingers on the table.
"Shoot the man before the horse, capture the thief before the king, as long as we take down the leader of the robbers first, it is equivalent to winning half of the war."
Hearing Xingzhe's words, Li Jun was surprised.
"Little brother, do you want to capture the bandit leader alive?"
"Captured alive? That's so much trouble, just kill him. Where's your den of a robber? What the terrain looks like. ”
"The robber's den is on the hill to the north, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there seems to be a hillside nearby, which happens to be very close to the robber's den."
Xingzhe nodded.
"Okay, let's go to the stepping point this afternoon to see what the surrounding terrain looks like, so that it is convenient to deploy."
Because of the huge disadvantage in numbers, Xingzhe must be very cautious in every step, and the slightest carelessness will really wipe out the entire army.
It is necessary to create enough advantages in other areas to compensate for the lack of numbers. Xingzhe is not Mr. Zhuge Kongming, who is wise and close to demons, and his soldiers are not soldiers who can know how to fight a group76, and it must take some energy to win.
These arrogant robbers don't know that Xingzhe wants to move them now, which is a very big advantage for Xingzhe, preemptively.
In order to prevent some of the soldiers under his command from having a big mouth or running out to ventilate the news, Xingzhe and Li Jun said that they couldn't tell anyone about it, and even Xingzhe went to step on the spot himself.