With the strength of the Black Tigers alone, let alone confrontation, it is not even enough to resist the Nanyang Army under Wang Shangde's command, after all, the difference in strength between the two is too great, so Zhao Yu must rely on external forces.

And this external force, that is, Yingchuan County.

It is undeniable that Wang Shangde's background is too strong, so strong that it caused the second damage to Nanyang County in order to repel the Jingchu rebels who invaded Nanyang County, but the imperial court ignored it, but so far it has not appointed a new Nanyang County guard to be scattered and weak Wang Shangde to control Nanyang County; The military market is so strong that ordinary generals dare not touch it, but Wang Shangde has no worries.

It can be seen that the Wang family behind Wang Shangde is definitely one of the best forces in the Jin court, so much so that the court acquiesced to Wang Shangde's various ultra viress behaviors, and Wang Shangde also appeared unscrupulous.

But this time, Wang Shangde crossed the border and sent troops to intervene in Kunyang County, which obviously offended Li Min, the commander of Yingchuan County.

Zhao Yu didn't know much about Li Min, but he learned from Liu Bi that Li Min was from the Li family, and he didn't know anything about the rest.

But Zhao Yu thought about it carefully, since Li Min was born in the Li clan and was the county guard of Yingchuan County, it was not easy to think about the forces he belonged to or his connections in the court, so he would not be afraid of Wang Shangde like ordinary people.

Taking a step back, even if Li Min is jealous of Wang Shangde, he will not stand by and watch Wang Shangde's cross-border intervention, or swallow his anger, otherwise how will he serve the public in the future? How to order the rest of the counties and townships in Yingchuan County?

Of course, Zhao Yu doesn't know what the relationship between Li Min and Wang Shangde is - if Li Min and Wang Shangde have a good relationship, won't his plan come to naught?

In fact, it doesn't matter, as long as you lure the Nanyang sergeants to cause a huge commotion in Kunyang County.

Once the Nanyang soldiers caused a huge commotion in Kunyang County and aroused strong dissatisfaction among the people, even if Li Min had a friendship with Wang Shangde and did not want to tear his face, he had to intervene.

Therefore, after Zhao Yu got the news two days ago, he conspired with Liu Bi and Ma Gai, intending to lure Ji Rong, a partial general sent by Wang Shangde, to cause a commotion in the county and arouse public anger.

As long as Li Min intervenes, the Nanyang army sent by Wang Shangde will not be able to form absolute control over Kunyang, and Kunyang will eventually return to the hands of the county commander Liu Bi, and this is like returning to Zhao Yu and the hands of the Black Tigers.

This is also the reason why Zhao Yuming knew that the partial general Ji Rong had arrived in Kunyang, but the Black Tiger Yishe and the Brotherhood Workshop were still open - he waited for Ji Rong to send someone to arrest him.

Some people may ask, if General Ji Rong does not seize the Black Tiger Yishe and the Brotherhood Workshop this time, then how should Liu Bi push the boat to the county?

In fact, Zhao Yu had already arranged it, if Na Ji Rong was a stable person, then he would send someone to report the Black Tiger Yishe and the Brotherhood Workshop.

To put it bluntly, for the sake of the overall situation, whether it is the Black Tiger Righteous House or the Brotherhood Workshop in the south of the city, they have all been abandoned by Zhao Yu.

It's just that I didn't expect that this Ji Rong Ji general is really a vigorous and resolute general, just arrived in Kunyang, before he Zhao Yu arranged for someone to deliberately leak information, the other party couldn't wait to forcibly seize the Black Tiger House, and then led people towards the Brotherhood Workshop in the south of the city, which saved Zhao Yu a lot of effort.

"Let's go join in the fun."

Smiling, Zhao Yu took out the tiger mask from his arms and put it on his face.

At the same time, Jing Nu took a wide and inconspicuous gray cloak and put it on for the young master.

At the same time, Chen Cai, the steward of the Chengnan Brotherhood Workshop, had also received the news that the Black Tiger Yishe was raided by the Nanyang soldiers.

Compared with the panic on the face of the black tiger thief who came to interrogate, Chen Cai laughed when he heard it: "Haha, has Ma Hong been arrested?" Hahaha, I still have the leisure to intercede with others......"

The black tiger thief who came to summon the news hurriedly said, "Boss, this is not the time to joke? When I came, I heard a man who looked like a general say that the next one is our workshop......"

"It's a partial general."

Chen Cai corrected a sentence, and then said unhurriedly: "What are you panicking about? The leader had expected ......"

As one of the soon-to-be-promoted bosses, of course he knows the trap set by his own leader, and where would he panic because of this.

He instructed the people: "Tell the brothers, if any soldier breaks into my workshop and arrests people, no one is allowed to resist, but to surrender to me honestly and let them arrest me!" ”

As he was talking, a black tiger thief ran in with a panicked face, and said to Chen Cai in a panic: "Boss, there is a sudden army of officers and soldiers outside the workshop, and the momentum is ......."

"It's coming so fast."

Chen Cai licked his lips and smiled: "Let's go, go meet them." ”

With that, he walked out of the cubicle in the workshop.

Outside the chamber was a large hall, where hundreds of people recruited from the city were sitting at long tables, methodically sewing armor from leather or cutting whole pieces of cloth to the size of a flag.

When Chen Cai led people out of the cubicle, he happened to bump into a woman holding a stack of cloth.

When the woman saw Chen Cai, she bowed her head and saluted, and asked with a little curiosity and respect, "Steward Chen, do you have something to go out?" ”

Chen Cai glanced at the people in the workshop, and smiled quietly: "Ah, I have something to go out." ”

As he spoke, he deliberately smiled at everyone: "Don't be lazy because Chen is not there, everyone." ”

The workers in the workshop who were working all laughed, and there was a mild atmosphere.

At this time, the partial general Ji Rong had already led Ma Gai, Ishihara and others, and led hundreds of soldiers to the outside of this workshop.

I saw that Ji Rong looked up at the plaque of the workshop, nodded and said, "Chengnan Workshop...... Well, the fraternity ......."

After saying that, he waved his hand and ordered: "Pass my order, but all the stewards and officials in this workshop will be taken!" ”

"Yes!"

At the sound of the order, hundreds of soldiers poured into the workshop like wolves, frightening the local people working in the workshop.

Chen Cai pretended not to know the identities of these soldiers, and shouted: "Where are you officers and soldiers?" What are you going to do? ”

Hearing this, one of the soldiers of the uncle, the chief, or the other asked, "Who are you?" ”

Chen Cai replied, "I am the chief steward of this workshop, Chen Cai. ”

As soon as the soldier heard that Chen Cai was the chief steward of this workshop, he immediately ordered: "Take it!" ”

Hearing the order, the nearby soldiers immediately rushed forward, and Chen Cai and his brothers pretended to resist slightly, and were immediately easily subdued by this group of soldiers, and one by one they knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands.

During this period, there were also people in the workshop who resisted, shouting and trying to help Chen Cai and the others, but in the end, they were all subdued by the soldiers, or stunned, or forcibly pushed to the ground, unable to move.

Because of the fighting, the originally neat and orderly workshop became a mess, with unfinished armor all over the ground, and the originally bright cloth was trampled by the soldiers and covered with sludge.

Probably because the costumes of these Nanyang soldiers were too eye-catching, most of the people in the workshop did not dare to resist, but they were very angry and shouted questions at those soldiers.

"Why did you arrest Steward Chen?"

"What happened to Steward Chen?"

When the crowd was angry, the partial general Ji Rong strode into the workshop and said in a deep voice: "I am Ji Rong, a partial general under the command of General Wang of Nanyang County, and I came to Kunyang County in the name of the general to encircle and suppress the black tiger thieves...... As far as I know, this workshop is actually the Black Tiger Thief's real estate ......" As he spoke, he glanced at Chen Cai and the others, and said, "And these people are the Black Tiger Thief's comrades!" ”

Hearing this, hundreds of people in the workshop immediately began to talk.

"Is it because of those damn rumors?"

"The black tiger thief is not a black tiger thief, what do we have to do?"

“…… Shhh, don't talk nonsense, the black tiger thief is a vicious person, but how can they be black tiger thieves in charge of Chen? ”

"That is, how could Steward Chen be a black tiger thief."

During this period, a man who seemed to be over forty years old among the people clasped his fists and said: "This general Ji Bi, could it be that there was a misunderstanding somewhere, Steward Chen is the steward of the brotherhood, and he is not a black tiger thief." ”

Ji Rong glanced up and down at the middle-aged man a few times, and said lightly: "As far as I know, the Brotherhood ...... i.e. the Black Tiger Thief! ”

Speaking of this, he looked around at the crowd and asked in a deep voice: "I know that there must be people from the Brotherhood among you, I advise you to come forward and surrender as soon as possible......

However, the crowd across from him did not react, just looked at him with indignation.

"Hmph." Ji Rong sneered and said, "Don't think you can hide from the ground......

Before he finished speaking, he saw Ma Gai slowly walking up to him, and whispered through coughing: "The brotherhood advocates treating the brothers and sisters in the association as close relatives, loving each other, and helping each other...... In short, everyone who works in the Brotherhood's workshop is a member of the Brotherhood. ”

"What?"

Ji Rong was stunned, turned his head to look at Ma Gai, and then looked at the hundreds of indignant local people in front of him, and frowned slightly.

He originally thought that the brotherhood in Kunyang County was just a few people who were bewitched by the black tiger thief, but he didn't expect that there were so many.

After thinking for a while, he waved his hand and motioned to the soldiers: "Take this cadre away first!" ”

"Yes!"

Under Ji Rong's order, a group of soldiers escorted Chen Cai and others to the outside of the workshop.

Seeing this, the people in the workshop became more and more indignant, and several young men among them were young and vigorous, and out of indignation, they actually came forward to pull the soldiers who detained Chen Cai and others.

Several of the soldiers were caught off guard and were knocked to the ground by the boys.

"How dare you ......"

The soldiers were furious, and in turn subdued them with three blows and two blows.

One of the soldiers was still angry, and raised his fist to knock the young man who had knocked him to the ground.

But even so, he still didn't seem to be able to relieve his breath, and continued to greet with his fist.

And at that moment, only to hear a snap, a hand grabbed the soldier's wrist.

"Enough, right?"

Grabbing the soldier's wrist, Ishihara said with a gloomy face.

The soldier glared at Ishihara, and had no intention of backing down, until Ji Rong, who was not far away, opened his mouth and said "stop", and he and the rest of the soldiers did not let go of their fists.

At this time, Chen Cai, whose hands had been bound by ropes, was escorted by several soldiers and walked past Ishihara, only to see him look Ishihara up and down a few times and smile.

"What are you laughing at?" Ishihara asked Chen Cai with a calm face.

He didn't have a good face towards Chen Cai, after all, Chen Cai was also one of the black tiger thieves he confirmed.

"It's nothing, I just think the stone catcher...... Chivalrous and courageous. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a soldier beside him hit Chen Cai's right leg with the body of the spear in his hand, and urged impatiently: "What nonsense? Walk! ”

Chen Cai glanced at the soldier, stopped talking, and walked towards the outside of the workshop without saying a word, leaving Ishihara standing in place with a stunned face.

He actually ...... was actually praised by a thief for his chivalrous courage?

"Boom!"

He spat on an ugly face and looked coldly at Chen Cai's departing back.

At this time, Ji Rong walked up to Ishihara and asked, "Shi Zhutou, where is the next place?" ”

Next ......

Ishihara muttered, but his eyes were fixed on the group of local people not far away, listening to their sad conversations.

"Just because of a few rumors, I arrested Steward Chen for no reason......"

"Now that Steward Chen and they have all been arrested, what should the workshop do?"

"I'm afraid the workshop won't be able to open, right? …… Alas, it's hard to find a stable errand......"

"These abominable soldiers...... What is the origin of these soldiers? ”

"I guess it's not small, I see that the partial general of the county lieutenant Ma is also quite respectful......"

Looking at the sad faces of those people, Ishihara also felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

He knew that the local people who joined the brotherhood basically had no stable income, and most of them relied on their own meagre fields to support their families, but in recent years, due to drought, the harvest in the fields has not been good, so that the poor people in the city have lived very hard in recent years.

Although Chen Cai and the others were black tiger thieves, they founded the brotherhood and opened many workshops with the businessmen of Ye County, which really benefited the people in the county and gave the poor people in the city a stable source of income.

But now......

Looking at the messy ground, and then at the indignation and sorrow on the faces of those people, Ishihara suddenly understood, and understood why Ma Gai didn't want them to follow the soldiers of the Nanyang Army before.

Although Ishihara didn't know Wang Shangde, and he didn't know that most of the troops under Wang Shangde's command were composed of Beihai people and Nanyang people, but from the attitude of those soldiers towards the people in the workshop, he also felt that these soldiers did not have any hometown feelings, and the people of Kunyang were at best just fellow countrymen in Kunyang County in their eyes, nothing more.

Unlike them, they don't look up and down with the local people, they meet many times on weekdays, and even greet each other.

At this time, Ishihara suddenly felt that he led these Nanyang soldiers to seal up the Black Tiger Yishe and the Chengnan Workshop, which may have been a mistake.

Just when he was hesitating whether he should continue to inform Ji Rong of the workshops related to the Brotherhood, Ma Gai walked over and said to Ji Rong lightly: "In addition to the Black Tiger Yishe and the Chengnan Brotherhood Workshop, there are also Huang Brothers' Cloth Workshop, Huang Brothers' Dyeing Workshop, Li's Cloth Workshop, Chai's Grain and Oil, and so on......"

"Captain Ma?"

Ishihara looked at Ma Gai in surprise, watching Ma Gai inform Yu Jirong of all the workshops related to the Brotherhood.

"So many?"

Ji Rong frowned and asked Ma Gai, "Which one is the closest?" ”

"The Huang Brothers." Ma Gai said indifferently.

Ji Rong nodded and said, "Then, then go to the Huang Brothers' Cloth Workshop." ”

As he spoke, he ordered the soldiers who were still staying in the workshop and said, "Everyone listen to the order and go to the Huang Brothers' Cloth Workshop!" ”

"Yes!"

With an order, Ji Rong ignored the people who were still in the workshop, left the workshop with hundreds of soldiers, and went straight to the Huang brothers' workshop.

At this time, Ma Gai said to the people in the workshop: "Wait...... Let's go home first. ”

"Lieutenant Ma."

Seeing that Ma Gai turned around and wanted to leave, someone immediately called out to him and asked, "Workshop...... Can it only be turned off? ”

Margai paused and left without saying a word.

As soon as he left, the people in the workshop complained as if the floodgates had been opened, some complained that the Nanyang soldiers were unreasonable and arrested the Chen Steward and others in their workshop indiscriminately, and some even complained that Ma Gai and other county guards stood by and let those soldiers come nonsense.

Probably because there was no way to vent the indignation in their hearts, they looked at Ishihara and the other county officials with indignant and even angry eyes, seeing that Ishihara and the others had troubled scalps, they hurriedly left the workshop and followed Ma Gai.

"Lieutenant Ma."

Walking quickly out of the workshop, Ishihara called out to Ma Gai, who was walking in front of him without hurrying.

Hearing the shouts from behind, Ma Gai stopped and waited for Ishihara to catch up.

I saw Ishihara hurrying to catch up with Ma Gai, and after some words and stopping, he couldn't help but ask, "Why...... Why did Lieutenant Ma tell the soldiers about the workshops that worked with the Brotherhood? ”

"Are you accusing me?" Magai asked calmly.

"Don't dare to ......" Ishihara clenched his fists and explained: "The humble position is just a feeling, I feel that the county lieutenant Ma actually does not support the actions of that general Ji Bian, however, the county lieutenant Ma told them about those workshops......"

After glancing at Ishihara a few times, Ma Gai suddenly asked, "Do you regret it?" ”

“……”

Ishihara opened his mouth.

At this moment, there was some movement behind him, and he turned his head to see the hundreds of people coming out of the workshop in the south of the city.

"It's hard to say......"

He looked at those people, shook his head and said, "The Black Tiger Thieves are undoubtedly the right thing to do in the name of the Brotherhood to develop their power in the county and sweep away their strongholds, but ......"

Ma Gai also glanced at the people and said lightly, "It seems that you understand." …… I know you've always had doubts about the county government indulging individual black tiger thieves in the city, but now you should understand, right? It's not that the county government appeases the thieves, but the price is too great. ”

After that, he sighed slightly: "After today, I'm afraid that the county will have resentment......

“……”

Ishihara opened his mouth, and finally nodded silently, as if agreeing with Magai's words.

On the same day, Ji Rong, a partial general of the Nanyang Army, led 500 soldiers, and after seizing the Black Tiger Yishe and the Chengnan Workshop, a total of nine workshops related to the Brotherhood were sealed, and more than 200 people suspected of being related to the Black Tiger Thieves were arrested.

However, Zhao Yu was not in a hurry at all, he even mixed in with the crowd of onlookers.

I have to say that this incident is actually quite lucky.

If this Nanyang army arrives in Kunyang at the beginning of this year, it will undoubtedly be a catastrophe for the Black Tigers, and it is difficult for Zhao Yu to lead the crowd to abscond to Luyang again, seeking the protection of Liu Wei, Ding Wu and others, and escaping with the influence of the two.

But now, not to mention that Liu Bi, the commander of Kunyang County, and Ma Gai, the county lieutenant, are his people, and there are his black tiger thieves up and down in the county government, and in the city, more than half of the shops and nearly three-quarters of the workshops are related to his brotherhood, and more importantly, at least more than half of the people in the entire Kunyang county town have a good impression of the brotherhood.

In this case, why did Ji Rong sweep away the power of his Black Tiger Crowd?

He just seized nine related workshops.

Of course, that's what he said, but Zhao Yu was also distressed in his heart.

It's not that I'm sorry for what was destroyed when the nine workshops were closed down today, but that I'm sorry for the shutdown of all the workshops related to the Brotherhood in the future.

"Send a message to all the businessmen in Ye County, it's almost over, if it hasn't been seized today, it will be temporarily closed from tomorrow......"

"Yes!"

Under Zhao Yu's order, the next day, all twenty or thirty workshops in Kunyang County were closed.

For a time, the people in the city were full of grievances, and the local people who had lost their jobs because of the closure of those workshops, instigated by some people, united to protest in front of the county yamen, demanding that the county government restrain the Nanyang soldiers, and relieved the stewards and officials of the Black Tiger Yishe, the Chengnan Workshop and the remaining nine workshops.

In just half a day, the people's grievances became more and more intense, and although the county government came forward to appease, the effect was not satisfactory.

Under the anger of the people in the county, Liu Bi pushed the boat down the river, wrote down the story of Nanyang's reckless behavior in Kunyang County, causing resentment among the people in the county, and sent people to Yingchuan County overnight.

A few days later, Li Min, the warden of Yingchuan County, was furious when he learned of this.

At the same time, in Pheasant County in Nanyang County, the Black Tiger Thieves sent here also began to secretly spread rumors about the Jingchu rebels. In the name of the Jingchu rebels, they encouraged the local people to join the rebels, and even posted notices clearly exposing the rebellious intentions all over the city.

Of course, this move attracted the attention of the county government of Pheasant County, and the county government immediately sent county officials to search for the whole city, but the people who spread the rumors have long since disappeared.

Jingchu rebels, this name is not unfamiliar in Nanyang County, because Wang Shangde and Jingchu rebels have been in a stalemate for nearly ten years, from the initial 30,000 or 40,000 troops to the current 100,000 troops, and Nanyang County was also destroyed in the war because of the fighting between the two sides, and a large number of people from Nanjun and Wannan fled to Wanbei.

Among them, there are also many people who have settled in Pheasant County.

Therefore, when the Black Tiger Thieves spread rumors in the city in the name of the rebels, the matter immediately became the talk of the whole city after dinner, although the local people only dared to discuss it in private.

"Did you hear that? There seems to be a party of the Jingchu rebels in our county, instigating people to defect to the rebels and rebel and cause chaos......"

"Shhhh

A similar conversation took place at a tea stall.

On this day, when two locals whispered about the Jingchu rebels in the city, at their adjacent table, a man with a hat glanced at them quietly, and his face under the cloak showed a little surprise and astonishment.

"Who is taking the name of my rebels?" …… Tell the messenger at once!'

The man with the hat pulled the hat, took out a few coins from his arms, paid for the tea, got up and left, and disappeared into the alley in a blink of an eye.