Hearing what the potter said, the leaders of the water thieves began to cry and cry again one by one, kowtowing and begging, and a sandstorm was knocked together in the tent.

Seeing the endless noise of the water thief leaders, the potters were really upset.

"Alright, alright...... Tao will help you settle this matter. The potter sighed helplessly: "I have been a gentleman for twenty years, but I still planted my head in the hands of you bastards and ruined my reputation for a lifetime...... I don't know if I owe it to you, or if you owe it to me. ”

After a few words, I only said that these water thief leaders were red-faced, and I didn't know how to answer.

When he was young, he saw that the lord of Liu Zhai asked Tao Shang resignedly: "Lord Fujun, how do you plan to help us solve this matter?"

The pottery merchant stared at Master Liu Zhai with a smile and said, "Then Captain Liu thinks that Tao should deal with this matter?"

It was a matter of his own life and death, Liu Zhai did not dare to slack off, he lowered his head and thought for a long time, before he hesitated and said:

"Didn't the prince of the mansion want to come forward in person, persuade him with kind words, and ask Sheng Xian to raise his noble hand and let me go."

The potter smiled and looked at the owner of Liu Zhai with an expectant face, and he was very helpless.

Brains are a good thing, but it's a pity that these guys don't have any.

If Tao really told Sheng Xian like this, then if he wanted to interfere in the affairs of Wu County, it would be impossible at all.

In this world, the most useless means is to ask others!

Without any planning, without any right to speak, success can only rely on the charity of others......

"You go down first, find Zhou Tai to hand over the military power, as for your lying about the military situation, Tao will go to Sheng Xian to solve it, you can rest assured."

The potter didn't want to talk nonsense with them, he was afraid that talking too much to them would lower his IQ.

These water thief leaders had no other way at the moment, but to get up and withdraw from the tent and go to Zhou Tai to hand over the military power according to what the potter said.

Xu Rong had been by the pottery merchant's side, and when he saw that these thieves had retreated, he hurriedly said, "The prince really plans to help them solve the problem of taking merit."

The potter sighed helplessly, and said: "These people, although they are stupid, greedy and hateful, but they helped me defeat Yuan Shu after all, I now take the opportunity to seize the men and horses in their hands, and it is enough to be incorporated into the Jinling Naval Army...... Therefore, I still have to help them find a way to lied about the guilt of false deeds. ”

Xu Rong frowned, and said: "What a sin it is to take the merit, even if you suppress Sheng Xian in the name of Liu Xuan's Yangzhou assassination, he may not be convinced, we don't care ......about this matter."

The potter gently tapped on the table with his hand, and said lightly: "Then turn unreasonable things into reasonable, General Xu, do you know how Sheng Xian found out that these stupid thieves lied about their military exploits?"

Xu Rong shrugged his shoulders and said: "These stupid people lied about the military situation, saying that they had exterminated the Shanyue Sect thief Zulang, but within a few days, Zulang's soldiers rushed out of the mountain......"

The potter smiled when he heard this: "Did Sheng Xian see it with his own eyes?"

Xu Rong shook his head and said: "He is the head of a county, how can he go to the ravine to spy on the thief Kou every day...... Naturally, there is no such thing. ”

"Then how does he know that the soldiers and horses that came out of the mountains and are considered to be Zulang's army must be Zulang's people, not other Shanyue pretending to be them?"

Xu Rong was a little stunned at first when he heard this, but then slowly, he began to react.

Is this stinky boy starting to muddy the waters again?

The potter smiled and said to Xu Rong: "You go to my brother Tao Ji, he is a native of Danyang, he knows some of Zulang's situation, you inquire clearly, send a few more teams of people, pretend to be Zulang's soldiers in the counties of Wu County, remember to stay as far away as possible from the counties, as long as they can see it, and you can't harass and rob the common people, just show up for people to see...... I'm going to let overnight, there will be Zulang everywhere in Wu County. ”

Xu Rong pondered for a moment and said, "Tao Ji may not have really seen Zulang's people, and the last general may not be able to pretend to be like him." ”

The potter smiled when he heard this: "It's just that you pretend not to look like it, and if you pretend to be like it, who would think it's fake?"

Fishing in troubled waters day by day, this is really no one.

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On the shore of Taihu Lake, the potters regained the sailors under the command of the water thief leaders who were cautious at the beginning, and left these "false captains" who were originally entitled, and then ordered Xu Rong to send more than a dozen troops and horses, pretending to be the soldiers and horses of Shanyue Qu Shuai Zulang, and showing their prominence in all parts of Wu County.

After the matter was completed, the potter led his troops straight to Wu County, the seat of Wu County.

Sheng Xian belonged to the scholar literati, and was a member of the party in the past, and his literati reputation was very great, almost comparable to scholars like Kong Rong, and his relationship with Kong Rong was inextricably intertwined.

This is also the reason why the potters are greedy for Wu County, but it has always been inconvenient to grab it directly.

The potter did not want to be directly rude with the famous literati, he was a gentleman, Sheng Xian was a literati and a Confucian, everyone belonged to a genre, and they all let the high-end people in the cultural circle, and the cultural people beat the cultural people, not to let those barbarians who only know how to fight look at the jokes

Tao Gongzi's favorite thing is to convince people with virtue.

Hearing that the pottery merchant was about to arrive in Wu County with his troops, the cultural person Sheng Xian was a little overwhelmed.

He wanted to send troops to stop the potter's progress, but he didn't dare.

The military might of Jinling City is not something that the generals of Wu County under him can resist - not to mention the fact that the pottery merchant's entry into the crusade against Shanyue is still authorized by Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, and his dispatch of troops to Wu County can be said to be justified.

Sheng Xian was distraught and didn't know how to respond.

I heard that although the potter was called the Prince of Taiping, he fought with soldiers very well, and even Lu Bu was robbed of his mount.

If he is rough with himself, he is a civilian, wouldn't he even have his pants left.

But it was clear that the potter was not going to be rude to him, at least not for the time being.

The pottery merchant first sent someone to send a letter to Sheng Xian, indicating that the purpose of his visit to Wu County this time was to serve the general of Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, and to crusade against the local thieves in Wu County, and did not want to have any conflict with Sheng Xian, and asked him not to worry too much.

The name of the potter is very right, and the letter is also written very politely, so polite that Sheng Xian has no reason to refuse him.

He didn't even have a reason to calculate the potter.

Sheng Xian's fame and family background, including his literati style, did not allow him to deal with such issues without regard for morality like ordinary heroes, because reputation was more important to him than his life.

Therefore, he could only order his subordinates to open banners and warmly welcome the Taiping prince to raise troops to Wu County.

That's how the two met.

Sheng Xian ignored everything else, and asked the potter for advice as soon as they met, why did he send a group of captains from Danyang County to settle in the subordinate county of Wu County, which was as impolite as going directly to someone else's house as a guest without greeting.

Sheng Xian plans to take the lead and give the potter boy an axiomatic dismissal.

The potter was silent, and directly took out the admission document with Liu Xuan's seal from his arms.

Wu County is not your personal, it is the imperial court's, if you compare Wu County to your home, then you Sheng Xian can be regarded as a cheap tenant at most, and the imperial court has the right to let others come and rent a house with you.

It's as simple as that, you're noisy.

Sheng Xian then started the second round of Q&A.

Sheng Xian asked the potters again, what should be done with the captains who lied about the military situation and risked their military exploits.

Your incorruptible tenant used to live with me, but you lured a wolf into the house and shielded the thief, and the court did not deal with this matter

The potter smiled.

He had been prepared for this.

He took out a stack of official documents, all of which were reports brought back by the spies he had sent to the subordinate counties of Wu County in the past few days. ‘

The potter told Sheng Xian that there are now Shanyue people who pretend to be Zulang's soldiers and horses everywhere in Wujun, and Zulang has appeared in more than ten places, and it is obvious that there are other Shanyue thieves who are pretending to be Zulang, so this does not prove that the merit list submitted by the captains stationed in the school is fake, in case they kill the real thing, you will convict them because of so many impersonations, is it unfair

At the very least, it has to be argued and carefully screened before a conclusion can be made.

Sheng Xian gritted his teeth angrily, and he asked the potter: How can you conclude that there is no true ancestor among these fake thieves

The potter asked him rhetorically: Then how can you conclude that among these people, there must be a true ancestor

After some strong words and shameless words, Sheng Xian almost fainted.

But he really had no reason to refute the potter.

Sheng Xian miscalculated from the beginning.

He wants to give the potter a horse, so it is better to come up and compare the potter directly, so that the winning situation will be greater.

But he just messed with the person surnamed Tao, isn't he looking for death?

Sheng Xian wanted to question the potter again, but when he saw that the potter interrupted him, he turned against the guest and asked him about another matter.

"Xiaozhang Gong, it is said that in recent years, Sun Ce of the Sun clan has been in Fuyang County, which is subordinate to Wu County, Ding is worried about filial piety, but after Tao entered Wu County, he sent people to Fuyang to look for Sun Ce's traces, but found that this person and his relatives have long disappeared, Sun Jian was the assassin of Yuzhou when he was alive, Sun Ce's mourning period has not passed, if his family relatives want to move from Wu County, it must be necessary for you to personally cover the road to start the journey, whether you dare to ask Xiao Zhanggong, Sun Ce himself is no longer in the realm of Wu County, this matter, How should you explain to Liu Tingshi?"

Sheng Xian's face turned red when he heard this, but he was still unconvinced: "Although Sun Ce's mourning period has not yet arrived, his clan elders have all joined forces, and the relocation of the Yanju clan is a matter of discussion among the clans, not because Sun Ce himself is not filial, even if Sheng is the county guard, what reason is there to stop it"

The potter looked at Sheng Xian with a smile and said, "Reason, then I'll tell you a reason!" Xiaozhang is in charge of whether Sun Ce is filial or not, Tao doesn't care, his father was killed by him, and it has nothing to do with us...... But do you know that Sun Ce's father Sun Jian is a vassal of Yuan Shu, in the past, cholera Jiangnan, killing Jingzhou Assassin Shi Wang Rui, Nanyang Taishou Zhang Zhi, Yuzhou Assassin Shi Kong Ling's actions, all these two people, the Sun family is a disaster, Sun Ce is within your jurisdiction, you don't want to control him, but instead the tiger returns to the mountain, if there is a disaster in Jiangnan in the future, you are the culprit! ”

Sheng Xian's face was flushed by Tao Shang's anger, but he couldn't say anything.

Sun Ce's father, Sun Jian, is a vassal of Yuan Shu, and this matter is known to the world, and Yuan Shu and Sun Jian have continuously set off bloody storms in the south of the Yangtze River, and Sheng Xian also knows about this matter.

But it is precisely because of this that Sheng Xian did not dare to provoke the Sun family at will.

Although Sun Ce was in Wu County to Sun Jian's filial piety, it did not mean that the soldiers and horses under his command were lost, his cousin Sun Ben replaced Sun Ce at this moment to lead the Sun family army under Sun Jian's command, if he stopped Sun Ce at will and did not give Sun Ce a guide, once he was retaliated by Sun the next day, the consequences of Sheng Xian can be imagined.

Not all literati are iron-clad.

The pottery merchant seemed to see what Sheng Xian couldn't say, and then said: "It seems that what Liu Tingshi said is not wrong, Jiangnan is troubled now, and you seem to be a literati who can't deserve to be the head of this county." Xiaozhang Gong, you let Sun Ce go, Liri he sent troops to Jiangnan, the lives were devastated, even if you are a hundred deaths, don't atone for your crimes, for the sake of your old man, Tao will not embarrass you, you take the initiative to give office, hand over the authority of Wu County, Tao is the master of Liu Thorn History, this page is turned over, how"