March 26 of the fourth year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, it is advisable to: travel, Nacai; Don't: Bathing.

Early in the morning, Sun Tu met with a subordinate sent by Zhu Mian and invited him to a banquet at night to discuss the next matter of going south to break the thief. After listening to the other party's statement and looking at the decent invitation, he responded with a smile: "Since Zhu Shuai has an order, this official should go on time." ”

It's just that after the other party left, Sun Tu's eyes showed a rather playful look: "Are you finally going to take action?" Let's find out! ”

At noon, in several military camps outside the city, the generals who stayed behind also received a warrant, the content on which was very simple, but it made the hearts of the generals beat wildly - after dark, raid the four gates! These eight characters alone made these generals who had long been worn out by reality a little uneasy.

But since this is a military order from their boss, they dare not disobey it, so they quickly arrange it immediately. As a result, there have been a lot of movements in the various military camps that were calm a few days ago, and even some of the heavy weapons used to attack the city have been moved to the front.

In the afternoon, after dealing with some military and political affairs at hand, Sun Tu summoned the merchants in the city headed by Su Mao, and talked with them secretly for a long time before letting them leave.

At the same time, the generals who had already entered the city also began to make moves, and many of their henchmen and soldiers who had brought them into Suzhou were already dressed in ordinary clothes, hiding all kinds of weapons and quietly going out, and hid in a mansion near Zhu's mansion.

All forces began to secretly plan their actions on this day, but surprisingly, the Shandong army, which now controls the overall situation of Suzhou, did not intervene, as if they were not aware of the constant undercurrent inside and outside the city. However, those ordinary people, after feeling the strong pressure of the mountain rain, have all shrunk back into their homes and closed their doors, it is not dark this day, the streets are clean, and there is no half of a figure in sight.

Under such circumstances, Sun Tu came to the gate of Zhufu slowly under the escort of one hundred and ten personal soldiers. However, just like he blocked Zhu Mian's 10,000 pro-troops outside the city, when he wanted to bring people in, he was also given down by the guards, and they only allowed four or five people to enter with Sun Tu.

In this regard, Sun Tu did not show the slightest dissatisfaction, but just smiled and said: "Since this is what Zhu Shuai meant, the lower officials should obey it." Wu Song, Luda, Yue Fei, Tang Feng, the four of you can go in with me. Without looking at the guards again, he entered the door with his head held high.

When Sun Tu came to the front of the meeting room located in the courtyard of the second entrance, everyone else had already arrived, and all kinds of wine and food had already been prepared. However, everyone from Zhu Mian down did not drink, and after seeing Sun Tu coming, their eyes fell even more together, with envy, jealousy, and murderous intent that could not be hidden.

In this regard, Sun Tu didn't see it, gave Luda and them a look, and after letting them stay outside, he smiled and hugged his fists and entered the door: "It seems that Xia Guan is a step late, and I hope Zhu Shuai won't be surprised." ”

"Hehe, Qianli, you are busy with military affairs now, and you are in charge of all the affairs in Suzhou City, so you are naturally busier than me, and you should be later, come, sit down and talk first." Zhu Mian smiled reluctantly, and pointed to the empty seat in front of him. "Then the lower official will be disrespectful." Sun Tu didn't shirk, walked a few steps to the seat full of wine and food, and sat upright.

A general next to him smiled again at this time: "Sun Zhanzhi came late today and told me to wait, although Zhu Shuai doesn't blame you, but I am a little unhappy, so I have to punish you, and ask you to drink three cups of yourself as an atonement." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, please General Sun, you drink three cups of ......" These words immediately attracted the echo of others, and many people shouted.

In the face of this request, Sun Tu did not make any move, but smiled lightly: "The lower official has already accompanied Zhu Shuai, so this punishment will be waived." You should also know that alcohol has always been forbidden in our army, and although there is no war now, you have to take precautions. If you really want to punish the wine, just wait for the chaos to be quelled. ”

Seeing that he hadn't even touched the wine glass, and his attitude was extremely resolute, those generals were intimidated by Sun Tu's momentum, and they didn't know what to say for a while. Zhu Mian's eyes flashed coldly, he could see that Sun Tu was preventing himself from poisoning the cup, so he didn't say more, just raised his glass and said: "Since that's the case, let's have a drink first, and then talk about business." ”

The generals hurriedly raised their glasses in response, but only Sun Tu sat there with a smile, still not even raising his hand, looking so out of place. But in the face of other people's strange eyes, he was at ease, as if this was a matter of course.

Seeing that Sun Tu was not on the road, Zhu Mian quickly changed his words, put down the cup and said: "I called you here today to discuss how to continue to expand the results of the battle and go south to level the thieves. I don't know what you think? ”

"Zhu Shuai, the last general thinks that the top priority is to raise the supply of grain and grass in the army first, as far as I know, there is still a lot of grain in warehouses and people in Suzhou, and all of them should be requisitioned for the use of our army." One of the generals immediately proposed.

As soon as his voice fell, he immediately got the approval of many people, and they all shouted for food and money, but when they said this, their eyes were looking at Sun Tu. And Sun Tu still had that indifferent smile in this situation, without any expression, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

Until Zhu Mian couldn't help but ask him by name: "Qianli, now that Suzhou is in charge of all the affairs, what do you think of the grain and grass?" Only then did he speak: "Well, in fact, the lower officials have already checked, and the anti-army grain and grass seized by our army after capturing Suzhou is only 20,000 stones, which is not enough for people from all walks of life to divide ......."

"What about the folk? I've heard that the Su family, the Huang family and other big grain merchants have hoarded no less than hundreds of thousands of stone of grain, as long as we requisition these, it will be enough for an army of 100,000! Someone immediately cut off Sun Tu's statement and questioned him.

Sun Tu stared at him: "The people's grain is the hard work of the merchants, are you going to spend money to buy it, or do you want to just let it go and grab it?" ”

"Of course, it is to temporarily let them supply the officers and soldiers, and as for the remuneration or something, it will not be too late to talk about it after the war!" This one did not hesitate to give his opinion.

Sun Tu sneered: "Ridiculous! In this way, doesn't it chill the hearts of all the local gentry, and now there are too many people in Jiangnan who are attached to the anti-army, and finally there is a Suzhou common man who abandons the darkness and turns to the light, but you plan to embezzle their property, is this not enough for us to make enemies? ”

"General Sun, you are being alarmist! When did the thieves actually rely on those ordinary people? Didn't I wait for the soldiers under my command to fight with a knife and a shot? Another general immediately objected.

In exchange, Sun Tu smiled disdainfully: "Your Excellency is a certain regiment training on Jingxi Road, right?" After the other party subconsciously nodded, he threw out another question: "But I don't know what merits your army has made in this battle of thieves?" He actually dared to make a big fuss in front of me, saying that all the thieves need to be officers and soldiers can do! ”

These words immediately blocked the other party speechless, and also made the other generals who wanted to say something stopped. Because as Sun Tu said, none of these guys have made any contributions on the battlefield, and the men and horses of Gyeonggi Road have some credit for defending Wuxi City, but then they gave up Wuxi City, and they don't have the face to do anything in advance.

In just a few words, Sun Tu was already overwhelmed by the audience, his eyes quickly swept over the generals, and then he said: "I won't hide it from you, this time my Shandong army was able to successfully take Suzhou In addition to the brave battles of our army, it is also because of the cooperation of the people in the city, so in my opinion, the role of those people who are despised by you on the battlefield is still above the tens of thousands of troops!" ”

"You ......" The generals' faces suddenly turned pale, and they all seemed to be unconvinced, but with their eloquence, they really couldn't say Sun Tu.

Zhu Mian's face was even darker, he wanted to use the momentum of everyone to suppress Sun Tu first, and then kill him. Unexpectedly, he was actually beaten by his tongue, and his words were like knives and swords, and the generals were speechless. Immediately, he said coldly: "General Sun is really domineering, just because you are lucky to have won a few victories, don't you put the heroes of the world in your eyes?" ”

"Don't dare!" Sun Tu actually wanted to take out the famous words of Senior Brother Broken Water Flow, and said that I am not targeting one person, but to say that everyone here is garbage. But he couldn't offend everyone to death after all, so he smiled and said: "The situation in Jiangnan is complicated and erosive, and the reason why the rebels can make such a huge noise in just two years is because they have bewitched the people." If we don't reflect on it, we would have lost this battle by five points without fighting. Therefore, in my opinion, treating the people well and working together with the military and the people is the foundation to quell this rebellion. ”

These few words made several of the generals look different, and they all agreed with each other when they thought about what they had encountered.

And Sun Tu took the opportunity to say: "In addition, this official has recently learned a piece of news, the anti-army is widely distributing a document and raising a banner, only saying that they raised troops because the traitors in the DPRK and China are in power, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, where corrupt officials are rampant, causing the people to live in poverty...... They also said that what they have to do now is to kill the culprit, the big corrupt official Zhu Mian! Speaking of this, his eyes were like lightning, shooting directly at Zhu Mian.

Zhu Mian was so angry that his body shook violently, he really didn't expect Sun Tu to be so bold that he dared to say such things in front of himself and so many people. Suddenly, he couldn't care about anything, and shouted: "Sun Tu, you are so bold!" It seems that the information that Ben Shuai got before was really good, you have already colluded with Fang La's anti-army, you really deserve death! As soon as he spoke, he waved his hand and smashed a wine glass to the ground with a crisp sound!

In an instant, the door of the hall that had been tightly closed suddenly opened, and dozens of soldiers in armor and knives had rushed in like tigers and wolves......