Jinling City, Zhu Mansion.

In the brightly lit hall, Peng Yongzhen was full of grievances and excitement in front of Zhu Mian to accuse Sun Tu of all kinds of arrogance and presumptuousness, and a lot of saliva was sprayed out between his mouth, which made Zhu Mian, who was sitting in front of him, feel even more impatient, and even his brows were deeply wrinkled.

In fact, Zhu Mian knew that Sun Tu's actions outside the West Gate were no later than Peng Yongzhen, so he already knew everything that the other party said, but he didn't interrupt because of his face. To be honest, he was also surprised by the strong combat power of Sun Tu's troops, who completely subdued thousands of Gaoyou troops with only 300 people, is this the Shandong army too strong, or the Huainan army is too unremarkable?

And now that this Huainan army is in good hands, his subordinates have suffered a big loss and don't think about how to get the field back, but they run to themselves to complain, do you really think that he, Zhu Mian, will intervene in such disputes?

But Peng Yongzhen took Zhu Mian's frowning reaction as dissatisfaction with Sun Tu, and the more he said at the moment, he became more and more energetic: "Zhu Shuai, Sun Tu's unauthorized killing is completely lawless, and he doesn't put Zhu Shuai in his eyes." This time, he must be severely punished, and he cannot be allowed to be presumptuous anymore. ”

"And what should you do with him in your opinion?" Zhu Mian was amused in his heart, and asked casually.

"At least take away his military power and take him to Bianjing for trial!" Peng Yongzhen dared to say it, and directly gave such an answer, and immediately laughed at Zhu Mian, and was about to reprimand two sentences, when he saw a subordinate come to the front of the hall and report: "Master, Sun Tu and Sun Chan are outside asking to see." ”

As soon as he heard this report, Peng Yongzhen's body suddenly shook, and his eyes involuntarily showed a touch of surprise. Don't look at it before, he seemed to be very angry, but when he saw the corpses of the beheaded Gao Youbing soldiers, he was still a little panicked in his heart, and because of this, he was afraid of Sun Tudu. Now, the other party actually followed him, which naturally made him even more uneasy.

Zhu Mian didn't care what this person thought, and immediately nodded and said, "Then invite Sun Chan to come in and speak." ”

"Zhu Shuai, Sun Tu ......" Peng Yongzhen was a little anxious when he heard it, and just wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhu Mian's words: "We can't just listen to your side of the story." Since Sun Tu dared to come, he just listened to what he had to say. These words really made Peng Yongzhen difficult to object, so he could only stand there nervously and no longer make a sound.

After a while, Sun Tu had already pulled Fan Feng to stride over, entered the hall and saluted with his fists: "The lower official has seen Zhu Shuai, and I ask Zhu Shuai that you can administer justice for my Shandong army." ”

Zhu Mian's eyes narrowed when he heard this: "Sun Xuan, this official heard that you are so imposing in the military camp outside the West Gate today, killing all sides, why did you come to let us administer justice for you?" What justice is there, isn't it just to make your own decisions? ”

Sun Tu looked at him straightly, without the slightest intention of retreating, and immediately replied: "Zhu Shuai must have listened to the slander of some people to accuse the lower officials like this, but the lower officials are wronged, the soldiers under my command obviously went to the warehouse to pick up grain according to your wishes, but as a result, they were not only asked for bribes for no reason, but also injured by Gao Youbing." As soon as the news came back, the brothers in the camp naturally refused to take a break, and I was forced to take everyone to the Gaoyou military barracks to theorize. It's just that he was a little more ruthless afterwards, and he only killed a few people. ”

Hearing him defend himself so lightly, Peng Yongzhen was anxious and angry, and shouted at the moment: "Sun Tu, don't avoid the important and take it lightly, what you do, the soldiers around you are all in the eyes, are you taking people to theorize, it is clearly revenge and lynching!" Also, you actually tied up Fan Tuanlian, it's really lawless to the extreme! Do you still have my Great Song Law in your eyes, and the law in the army? ”

Sun Tu glanced at him carefully as if he had just noticed Peng Yongzhen standing here, and then he said, "Peng Yongzhen, right?" You are really going to convict people indiscriminately, thanks to the fact that you are just a military general, if you are in the judicial yamen such as Dali Temple of the Criminal Department, I am afraid that there will be many more unjust cases, and countless innocent people will be wronged. ”

"You ......" Peng Yongzhen is just an ordinary general, and the benefits of his tongue are naturally far less than Sun Tu, and he doesn't know how to refute in a hurry, but Sun Tu sank his face and shouted: "What is the reason why you, as a ruler all the way, ran directly to shout grievances to Zhu Shuai without asking the root cause?" Say that I take revenge and lynching? Let me ask you, what is the crime of attacking the officers and soldiers in the city? I regard them as accomplices in the thieves and go to arrest them, and who will lynch these thieves as a canonical punishment? ”

These words immediately blocked the other party's mouth, so that Peng Yongzhen didn't know what to refute for a while.

Since Sun Tu dared to come, he naturally had already made a full plan, as long as he insisted that those Gao Youbing had a bad intention, then he would have a legitimate reason to go to take people and break into the camp or something. And the method of killing them was not to be ruthless in the fight, but to be directly pulled to the city gate for execution, which is also consistent with his statement.

It was Zhu Mian, who was also stunned by Sun Tu's remarks, and unconsciously looked carefully at the young general in front of him again, and looked up to him a few points higher. Originally, he only thought that Sun Tu could rise so quickly by relying on some luck and good leadership, coupled with the big backer of Tong Guan, but today he found that this person was not only extremely bold, but also thoughtful, far more difficult to deal with than he judged.

"No wonder Taishi Cai and the others have always been unable to take him, this person is really not a good stubble." After secretly making a judgment in his heart, Zhu Mian said with a straight face: "Sun Xuan, even if what you say has some truth, it is not a reason for you to break into the Gaoyou army camp at will and kill at will, this matter must be dealt with severely, otherwise it will not be able to convince the public." ”

"The lower officials understand, and the lower officials are also willing to be punished." Sun Tu's response was beyond the expectations of others, and just when they were stunned, they saw him and said: "But at the same time, Xia Guan still has something to say, this matter is far from being as simple as it seems on the surface, and there are people with greater crimes behind it, and I ask Zhu Shuai to give me justice to the Shandong soldiers." ”

"Huh? What do you mean by that? Zhu Mian was already faintly aware of the uneasiness, but he could only ask out loud, after all, even if he didn't ask this sentence, Sun Tu would finish speaking.

"Zhu Shuai doesn't know something, today's contradiction is actually caused by someone's selfishness, and someone gave Fan Tuanlian benefits and asked him to send someone to attack my Shandong soldiers, which caused this disaster. Therefore, if you really want to talk about it, the lower official is guilty, but that person is the culprit. Sun Tu said, and then looked at Fan Feng, who was still in a trance beside him: "Fan Tuanlian, don't you tell Zhu Shuai the real information, let him know right from wrong?" ”

It was only at this time that Fan Feng, who had been in a daze from the beginning of entering the door, suddenly came to his senses, and immediately knelt down with his knees weak, and then exchanged tears, with a look of remorse: "Zhu Shuai, Peng Xuanzhi, the last general will be guilty." It was only because the last general was greedy and instigated by others that he would send people to fight with the brothers of the Shandong Army, which not only caused his brothers to be convicted and killed, but also disgraced our officers and soldiers......"

"This ...... What the hell is going on? Peng Yongzhen was really dumbfounded, he never thought that this subordinate of his would actually explain according to Sun Tu's intentions, the two were obviously enemies before, and this identity changed too quickly.

Zhu Mian's brows furrowed even tighter, and he guessed what the other party wanted to say. But there was no way to interrupt anymore, so I only heard Fan Feng continue: "The last general sent people to fight the Shandong army because of the request of Wang Kaiwen, the granary manager. As far as he said, this was because the Shandong soldiers refused to share the benefits with him, and they also asked for a lot of food, so they wanted to teach them a lesson. He promised me another 500 yuan, and promised that in the future, the military rations allocation would give priority to my Gaoyou army, so I was confused for a while, and made such a thing to ......" said, and slammed his head again, begging for mercy, and I really regretted it.

After listening to this story, Peng Yongzhen was really speechless. He thought that this was just a conflict caused by the conflict between the soldiers of the two sides, but now it seems that the water is much deeper than he wants. At this time, he regretted his decision, why do you have to bother with this idle matter, it's not easy to clean up now.

It was Sun Tu, who took another step forward at this time and looked directly at Zhu Mian: "Zhu Shuai, there are indeed people on the other side of the granary who openly ask for bribes from my brothers, and because they refuse to do so, they have not allocated the grain. This matter really puzzled the lower officials, didn't Zhu Shuai have already made an order to allocate grain, why did they dare to disobey the order so much? And not only did he refuse to allocate food, but he also instigated others to attack my Qingzhou soldiers, and asked Zhu Shuai to uphold justice for our soldiers! ”

Zhu Mian's face was completely dark, he really wanted to slap the defeated Wang Kaiwen to death, he did make it difficult for them to make things difficult on food, and took this opportunity to provoke the relationship between the Shandong Army and other officers and soldiers, but what did he do? This is clearly to give people a handle, and now Sun Tu directly came to the door to ask for an explanation, and he has become extremely passive.

If he really punished Wang Kaiwen severely according to what Sun Tu said, how could he have Zhu Mian's face? But if he doesn't agree, Sun Tu will definitely not give up, but how is this good?

Just when Zhu Mian was in a dilemma and didn't know what to do for a while, Sun Tu took another step forward and said in a cold voice: "Zhu Shuai, my Shandong soldiers have come from thousands of miles to help the court and help Jiangnan pacify the anti-thieves. But now what they are doing is too chilling, I am afraid that as soon as the news comes back, the soldiers will rush to Jinling to ask for an explanation. If that's the case, even if I, the ruler, come forward, I may not be able to suppress the big guy! ”

What does it mean to be domineering?

This is the real domineering!

Sun Tu has already directly threatened Zhu Mian, the first person in Jiangnan, with his subordinates, which can be regarded as completely ignoring the other party!