Chapter 473: The situation deteriorates

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Nong Zhigao led the tribe's children to flee in a hurry, and their self-confidence was inflated to attack the city and seize the land, Nong Zhigao did not listen to Huang Shimi's dissuasion, and attacked Shenglong City with a wave of his hand.

Thang Long City is the capital of Cochin, the Li royal family in front of them did not react at all, and when they reacted, Nong Zhigao's morale was at its peak, and after several battles, they all ended in failure, and the Li royal family contracted their forces to prepare for a protracted battle with Nong Zhigao, and Nong Zhigao's decision to attack Thang Long City gave them a chance.

A small country, their rich people all live in a city, most of this city belongs to the capital, the emperor of the Jiaozhi State Li Boli gathered everyone and said: "You don't keep it, anyway, Nong Zhigao came in and robbed not only our Li family." ”

Now everyone panicked, if Thang Long City is broken, it means that they will also become prisoners, whether they are big officials or rich people, they will contribute their own private soldiers, tell them the benefits, the soldiers also swore to protect their families, and the plot has come to a big reversal under the unity.

When I went, there were almost 10,000 people, and when I came back, it was less than half, Nong Zhigao was distressed! These people are all their own team, and one less one dies, but the more this time, Nong Zhigao knows that he has to be a little stronger.

The only thing that can give Nong Zhigao a little comfort in his heart is that the surviving soldiers are bulging in their arms, although most of the casualties on this expedition are killed, but the survivors are not sad because of the dead and wounded.

"King, let's go back to Yongzhou to rest for a while, and then secretly accumulate strength in order to plot for the future, the king will see how this goes."

Nong Zhigao bit a piece of dried meat in his mouth, swallowed his stomach forcefully, and said with concern: "What else, we can still go there without Yongzhou, and we won't even have a habitat if we lose Yongzhou." ”

Huang Shimi said: "I'm not afraid of failure once, I'm afraid of losing confidence, this time back to the tribe, we have to reorganize the discipline of the soldiers, if they are obedient, we won't lose so badly." ”

"Do you think they will listen? It's not that I underestimate the enemy, the main thing is that I overestimate them, and those who can give up their opponents when they see gold and silver treasures on the battlefield, do you think they will be disciplined? Nong Zhigao smiled bitterly.

Huang Shimi said: "I'm afraid the king doesn't know yet, the soldiers have already begun to discuss the next plundering place in private, if this is the case, the destruction is just around the corner." ”

Nong Zhigao was scared out of a cold sweat, he and Huang Shimi's thoughts are the same now, rest and recuperate first, and use the money from this robbery to buy a little weapons and armor for the soldiers, he thinks so, the people under his hands don't think so, they have already tasted the sweetness, and it is the same with or without themselves.

"It's someone else or most people, a few people's words are easy to say, you can appease or use force, if most people's words, I'm afraid it's a little difficult to suppress it."

Huang Shimi did not comfort Nong Zhigao because he was worried, and said to make matters worse: "Almost everyone agrees to rob the richer Wuzhou, and for the time being, we still have the main purpose of returning to Yongzhou, and then curb their thoughts." ”

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, most of the students in the school returned to Lujia Zhuangzi, and they brought all kinds of local products to each other, and even Lu Zifei and many teachers received gifts.

For nearly a month, Lu Zifei didn't do anything, just accompanied his family and children, Pei Peipei was crazy when he saw Lu Junyan and Lu Xueqi with jealousy, so Lu Zifei had to be that hard farming cow.

The good times didn't last long, Zhao Zhen urged him to return to the capital one after another, and he also knew that if he continued like this, it would be really too much, and when he was about to return to Beijing, a letter from Guangnan West Road came.

As he thought, Nong Zhigao returned, and now the remnants of their defeated army have returned to Yongzhou, Shen Kuo said in the letter that those soldiers have become addicted to robbery, and they have already shown their disobedience to Nong Zhigao's orders, looking at Nong Zhigao's meaning, for the sake of his own authority, he will definitely meet the soldiers' requirements.

Lu Zifei called Lu Ziyun, let him read the letter, and asked, "Who is the Guangxi Transshipment Division and the commander?" How they are people. ”

Lu Ziyun said: "The Guangxi transfer envoy is called Xiao Gu, born in Jinshi, by the way, he and Bao Fu Yin are in the same department, politically he is a very tough person, if you are in more detail, brother, you have to ask Lord Bao, the commander of the Guangxi command post is called Qi Yun, a very ambitious Zhao Kuo, and the only information that can be collected for the time being is this." ”

Lu Zifei said: "You go and call your sister-in-law over and tell her that I have something to ask her to go out." ”

"Brother, are you talking about the third sister-in-law?"

"Do you think the other two sisters-in-law can do anything other than her?" Lu Zifei said angrily.

Pei Peipei is a career-oriented woman, she understands that even if she gives birth to a boy, she is not qualified to inherit the assets of the Lu family, not to mention that the eldest son has already been born, although Lu Zifei once said that it is not necessarily the eldest son who inherits the family business, what Pei Peipei is doing now is to increase the capital for her children.

"Look at your bad face, is something wrong?"

Lu Zifei raised his head and said: "You urgently need to go to Guangzhou now to shrink the industries near Guangzhou, I'm afraid something will happen." ”

Pei Peipei said: "Our stall in Guangzhou is big, I'm afraid it won't work for a while, except for Qiongzhou, Guangzhou has the most assets, how far do you want to shrink." ”

Lu Zifei thought about it and handed the letter to Pei Peipei, and asked her to look at herself while saying: "It is unlikely that Nong Zhigao will go north, the biggest possibility is Guangdong, maritime trade has made Guangzhou stop enough rich people, if he is really like Xiao Kuo said, then Guangzhou will be dangerous." ”

Pei Peipei said: "Is there Wuzhou between Guangzhou and Yongzhou? The imperial court will not be indifferent to Nong Zhigao's behavior! Besides, isn't Cao Feng in Guangzhou? With him in Guangzhou, it can be said that it is foolproof! ”

Lu Zifei said: "The Zhuang people can't be underestimated, Nong Zhigao almost broke through Shenglong City This is proof, he definitely dares to attack Guangzhou, Fengzi has 10,000 people in his hands, and the weapons and equipment are not sophisticated, so he may not be Nong Zhigao's opponent." ”

"Then at the beginning, a thousand of you attacked so many countries, and the Japanese who were still fighting surrendered on their knees."

"That's because of the existence of explosives, these are two concepts, you have worked hard, and you are the only one who can help at home."

Pei Peipei hugged her husband and said softly: "I have always been very grateful to you for trusting me so much, I am in charge of the family's money, this is my honor, we are husband and wife, no need to say hard work." ”

Nong Zhigao's defeat in Jiaozhi was a bit fast, which made Lu Zifei never expect that after rushing back to the capital, he was the first to visit Bao Zheng and ask Xiao Gu about his personality to see if he could be reliable.

Bao Zheng said: "Why are you interested in asking him today, we also corresponded a few years ago, his personality is a bit similar to mine, he would rather bend than bend, so he can't come back from the place for a long time, you two should have no intersection!" ”

Lu Zifei told Bao Zheng his suspicions, and Bao Zheng said with a smile: "The Nong family has always asked for canonization, and in order to appease them, the imperial court gave Nong Zhigao a prefect, just their little people, if they really rebel, Xiao Gu will kill them all." ”

I don't know where they come from this feeling of superiority, Bao Zheng is no exception, maybe it is the strength that Da Song has shown in recent years that has given them confidence, Lu Zifei saw that Bao Zheng took this as a joke, and he didn't want to explain anything.

"Uncle, do you know this person? Is there anything you know about him. ”

"Is Guangxi under the jurisdiction of the Emperor? I don't know much about this person, but I do know that he can't be trusted. ”

With this information, Lu Zifei hurriedly went to the high Gongfu again, and the answer he gave was the same as Bao Zheng, Qi Yun was an unreliable person, at this time Lu Zifei was not in a hurry, he knew that what should happen would definitely happen, and it was useless to make more efforts by himself.

Back to the police department, dealt with a few official documents, distraught he came to the Kaifeng Mansion Public Security Bureau, Jia Dian saw him when he was surprised and said: "When will your old man come back, in the entire Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that you are the old one has such a privilege." ”

"I just came back today, did I see what happened last time, on the way back, I heard that someone was still discussing that matter, find their den as soon as possible, and clean them all out at once, I really don't want to come back a second time."

Jia Dian said: "I have already arranged it, all of them are in plain clothes, and now I have a little eyebrows, give me a little more time, and I will give you a satisfactory answer." ”

Lu Zifei looked at Jia Dian and said: "You haven't seen the essence of the matter yet, if no one is behind them to support them in this matter, do you think they can be arrogant until now?" Not only did I find out the person behind it, but the emperor also wanted to know who was directing all this. ”

This can't be blamed on Jia An, after all, he has only been in politics for two years, not on Lu Zifei's boat, he is probably still struggling at the bottom!

"There are a lot of them, and after our blow, they are more cautious, in order to solve this hidden danger at one time, we don't dare to push too hard, and now we have gathered some information, so wait."

Lu Zifei said: "Openly confronting the yamen, this is related to the emperor's face, although the court doesn't care about it, but there must be a lot of people who are secretly paying attention, and if you can't solve the case for a long time, it will be the biggest stain on politics for you." ”

Jia Dian said: "They don't have rules to speak of, but we do!" ”

"When necessary, you can take some extraordinary measures, even if others know about it, they won't say anything, there have been many cases like this in the Criminal Department before, we are doing the same work, what are you afraid of."

The first month is over, and the imperial court finally attaches importance to Nong Zhigao, because he broke through Andezhou, and the Great Song Dynasty, who has not used soldiers for several years, realized that the war was about to restart, so the atmosphere of the imperial court also became heavy, and war was one thing that Zhao Zhen and the courtiers were afraid of