Chapter 40: Mountain Bandits
At the same time, in Guangling County, there are two figures sitting in the Taishou Mansion that are enough to affect Guangling, Chen Gui, the head of the Chen family, and Zhang Chao, the Taishou of Guangling, and the relocation of the Long family, they are clear, they didn't know that the other party also secretly helped the Long family, and they gathered together at this moment to discuss how to deal with Ma Chao after the Long family left!
"Lord Taishou, I would like to ask you what you think about the Long family's move out of Guangling County!" Chen Gui asked!
"Views? What can I think! Is there anything special about this? Zhang Chao asked rhetorically!
"Don't you want to know if this Long family has a connection with the remnants of Western Chu who were arrested in Pengcheng many years ago?"
"Oh? Could it be that Brother Shi Bing thinks that the long history of our Guangling is also the remnants of Western Chu? He was not curious about Chen Gui knowing about this, although the previous execution of the remnants of Western Chu was secretly carried out in Pengcheng, but as one of the great clans of Xuzhou, the Chen family would feel strange if he didn't know about it!
Shi Bing didn't dare to think so, but although the organizer of this auction was Jiang Gongzi or someone from the Hedong Wei family, I was curious why the venue was held in the Long family's restaurant, and after the event, the Long family moved their family after the New Year! There's something strange about it! ”
"There's nothing strange about it, didn't the Long family's restaurant and mansion also be bought by that Jiang Gongzi afterwards? I specially asked people to investigate the descendants of the Long family before, and the result was that this Jiang Gongzi came back from the field with Long Jun, I think they met Long Jun when he was practicing martial arts outside! ”
After listening to what Zhang Chao said, Chen Gui felt a little relieved, the reason why he said so much was to get his investigation results from Zhang Chao's mouth, all the people he sent to investigate Ma Chao before were secretly cleaned up by Ma Chao, but Taishou was different, he could check openly, and he definitely found more things than him!
"Then Lord Taishou, what do you think of this Jiang Gongzi? As far as I know, it is not without the nobles of the family surnamed Jiang in the Han Dynasty today, but there is definitely no such arrogant and domineering person! So ......"
"So what?" Chen Gui was interrupted by Zhang Chao before he finished speaking, he knew that the Chen family was the largest family in Guangling, but over the years, the Chen family had been disobeying the orders issued by the Taishou Mansion, and the number of tenants every year was also missing two catties, and the purpose was not to secretly control Guangling! So he has never had a good impression of the Chen family, but on the surface, he still has to maintain enough respect from both sides!
At this point, Zhang Chao continued, "Brother Shibing, I know what you think, it's nothing more than wanting to meddle in the restaurant business of the son surnamed Jiang, but I want to advise you, Jiang Gongzi's back is not simple, since you have cooperated, don't think about anything else, in addition to the shadow of the Wei family behind him, there is also Liangzhou, although the family of Empress Xiaowuwei has withered a lot so far, it is definitely not something that anyone can bully casually, let alone Liangzhou!" I think you know what I mean! ”
Knowing that Zhang Chao didn't want to help him, Chen Gui didn't force it, stood up and said to Zhang Chao, "That Shi Bing is too much to disturb the adult, Shi Bing farewell!" After speaking, Chen Gui left the county guard mansion without looking back!
Zhang Chao's eyes looked gloomily at Chen Gui who was leaving, and said coldly, "Old fox!! ”
And Chen Gui, who was leaving at this moment, turned around and looked at the Taishou Mansion, and said in the same expression tone, "Old guy, oil and salt don't enter, I see how long you can last, Guangling will belong to our Chen family sooner or later!" With a wave of his hand, Chen Gui said to the subordinates who followed, "Let's go, let's go home!" ”
What happened in Guangling County, Long Jun didn't know that at this time he was receiving grain from the surrounding villages, and when Zhou Hai saw Long Jun move out a box of gold, he knew what a kind and domineering young man this new family master was! Because at the beginning of the transaction, there were still some people who thought that Long Jun was young and could be bullied, and there were many difficulties in the price, but after these people were beaten by Long Jun with three punches and two kicks, no one dared to be presumptuous in front of Long Jun, as long as the other party made honest transactions, Long Jun had a kind attitude and never bullied others!
After harvesting the grain, Zhou Hai personally went to count that the grain purchased this time had more than 300 stones, which could fully support the entire Zhuangzi to harvest in the autumn, and the people in the village were elated!
Half a month later, Zhao Yun and Xu Chu, who were already in Danyang, received a letter from Long Jun, ordering Xu Chu to take some of the soldiers who had been recruited back to the village to deal with the upcoming bandits. Zhao Yun continued to recruit troops in Danyang, for half a month, after the notice of their recruitment was posted, there were countless conscripts, but the two of them have always strictly implemented Long Jun's orders, and the soldiers are not many but fine, and the recruits are between the ages of sixteen and twenty-eight, otherwise they would have recruited two thousand people!
However, the biggest gain of this recruitment is that they actually found a wizard named Yin Zhaozi Zifu, who is a broken family, why do they say that this person is a genius? Because this person's biggest ambition has always been not to devote himself to serving the country, but to be a successful businessman! The two had already heard about it and knew that doing business brought them many benefits, so they took out some of Long Jun's business ideas and investigated it, and found that this person's insights on business were unique, so Xu Chu planned to personally take them to Long Jun and hand them over to Long Jun to deal with!
On the same day, Xu Chu marched quickly because he was anxious about the situation in the village, and he was afraid of being detected by people with ill intentions, so he went out day and night, and finally rushed to the Yangtze River after the day, planning to use the waterway to rush back to the village, although at this time the undercurrent on the Yangtze River was surging, and there were too many ice and water things, but Xu Chu gave five times more money than usual, and a chamber of commerce that often ran boats on the Yangtze River directly agreed, and rented a large building to transport people, and it took a day to transport more than 500 people.
After Xu Chu and the others got off the boat, they just walked a short distance and found a few people with weapons sneaking around on the road in front of the village. What to do near my village? ”
At first, a few people didn't take Xu Chu, a half-grown person, in their eyes and didn't plan to deal with him, but when they saw the hundreds of people densely packed behind Xu Chu, one of them got a small leader who was so frightened that he trotted to Xu Chu and lowered his eyebrows, and said flatteringly, "That, Childe and I are passing by the homeless people, because of hunger in our stomachs, we plan to go to the village to find some food, and disturb the childe to return to the village, the villain is very sorry!" ”
"Wanderers passing by?" Xu Chu raised his eyebrows and asked, "The homeless people are armed with weapons, and there is no vegetable on their faces?" What does it do? If you don't say it....." As he spoke, Xu Chu pushed the Sun-Swallowing Knife in front of this person!
The man swallowed a mouthful of spit in fright, and replied in a trembling voice, "Little.. Villain.. Really passing through... Heard.. This.. Here's just..."
Before this person finished speaking, Xu Chu slashed at the neck of another person with a knife, that person was so frightened that he couldn't even speak, only to see a flash of knife, he turned his head and found a headless corpse standing next to him behind him, just wanted to explain again, it was already dark in front of him!
After killing two people in a row, Xu Chu pointed at the other person and asked lightly, "Say, who are you?" If you don't speak, I'm sure you know the end! ”
The person who was pointed at by Xu Chu saw the corpse on the ground and looked at the blood still flowing on Xu Chu's knife, and replied with trembling limbs, "That... That one... I... We.. Be.. Be... Be... Nearby mountain bandits....prepare.. Two days later: Enter.. Offensive.. Here... While... Let's be in charge... Let me.. I.. Let's find out! Before he could finish speaking, the man himself was frightened and fainted!
Xu Chu smiled coldly and said, "That's true!" Then you don't have to go back! As he spoke, Xu Chu galloped on horseback, rushed into the crowd, slashed and killed, and killed all the robbers who came to step on the point this time.
After his soldiers took out the hose from their waists and splashed water on the person to wake him up, Xu Chu looked at the person gloomily and said coldly, "Go back and tell your thief chief, if he is not afraid of death, he can continue to come!" These corpses are their examples, get out of !! ”
Hearing this, the thief soldier was directly frightened, and he didn't even dare to restrain the corpses on the ground, so he pushed aside the crowd and ran outside! Because the soldiers heard Xu Chu's words before, they didn't have a hard time for him, and let him out!
At this time, Xu Chu shouted loudly, "Collect the corpse, pick up the weapon, and follow me back to the village!" ”
"No!"
When Xu Chu led the troops into Feiyu Castle, he saw Long Jun leading Zhou Hai to stand at the door waiting for him! Xu Chu hurriedly dismounted and ran all the way to Long Jun, knelt on one knee and clenched his fists, and said loudly: "Subordinate Xu Chu has seen the lord!" ”
Knowing that the purpose of Xu Chu's move was to let the soldiers behind him know who the lord was, Long Jun stepped forward to help Xu Chu and said softly, "Get up!" Zhongkang! It's been a hard trip! ”
Xu Chu, who was helped up by Long Jun, replied with a smile: "Thank you, lord!" Then Xu Chu walked behind Long Jun and whispered to Long Jun, "My lord, these are the first batch of soldiers that Zilong and I recruited in Danyang, there are five hundred people, including ten maids and attendants, and fifteen miscellaneous servants!" Oh, by the way, my lord, we also found a business wizard for you in Danyang! ”
"Oh? Business wizard? Long Jun didn't feel anything at first when he listened to Xu Chu introduce the people brought back from this trip, after all, the treatment he gave was still very generous, but when he heard that there was a business wizard, his eyes were different, what he lacked most now was not people, but talents, all kinds of talents, he didn't know much about Danyang, he only knew that Danyang soldiers were one of the strong soldiers of this era, so he asked Zhao Yun to go there to recruit soldiers, what he didn't expect was that this recruitment, Xu Chu also brought him back a big gift!
Hearing Long Jun's question, Xu Chu replied in a low voice on the side, "This person's name is Yin Zhaozi Zifu, and he is the son of a broken family in Danyang, but because of this, the Yin family feels that doing business is insulting, so they expelled this person from the family, Zilong and I met this person in the rented guest house, and we have also secretly investigated, no problem!" ”
Long Jun nodded reassuringly, he knew that Zhao Yun was doing things safely, and Xu Chu also listened to his words, so if they said that there was no problem, then it was really no problem! Then Long Jun pointed at Zhou Hai and Xu Chu and said, "Zhongkang, you hand over the soldiers to Zhou Steward, and I will order someone to prepare the residence!" The rest of the people will come back to the mansion with me, and remember to bring that Yin Zhao over to me to see!" ”
"No!" After Xu Chu responded to Long Jun's orders, he turned around and whispered to Zhou Hai on the side, "Then trouble Manager Zhou, help me arrange these brothers!" ”
"Young Master Xu, you're welcome!" Zhou Hai hurriedly replied, he just felt that his new master was extraordinary, but he didn't expect that Long Jun was so domineering, a farm with only a few dozen households, at this moment, actually recruited five hundred soldiers, and listening to the subordinates of the owner just now, there were still a large number of soldiers behind, how dare he slack off!
"Hmm!" nodded, and then Xu Chu walked in front of the Danyang team and shouted loudly, "All the soldiers followed Steward Zhou to find a place to live, and the attendants and miscellaneous servants followed me back to the house to see the lord, and decided to stay!" ”
"No!"
After watching the handover of the two, Long Jun took Xu Chu and the miscellaneous servants and attendants who came over, and went back to the main house first, and on the way back, he found that there was a person among these people who was not very old, dressed ordinary, but full of energy, and he guessed that this person was Yin Zhao!
Before Long Jun could ask, he heard Xu Chu whisper to him in his ear, "Lord, when I was back to the village just now, I found a group of ghostly people five miles outside the village, and I killed six people, I think these people should be those bandits in Jiujiang!" ”
Hearing Xu Chu's report, Long Jun frowned and said in a low voice, "When you go back to the house, you are explaining this matter to me in detail!" ”
"Understood!"