Lian Dan turned his head sideways and said, "Find a painter and let the painter make a portrait!" Even if it's digging three feet into the ground, I'm going to get her out! As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Hu Cao of the county government and said, "Zhou Zong! ”

"The lower official is here!" Hu Cao Zhouzong hurriedly came out of the queue and bowed to Lian Dan.

"Did you find any suspicious women during the city-wide search?"

Zhou Zong thought about it, shook his head, and said, "Return to the general, the lower official...... Xia Guan did not find any suspicious women in the city! ”

"Rubbish!" Lian Dan said fiercely with a gloomy face: "Give you another ten hours, if you can't find the fugitive assassin within ten hours, I want your head!" ”

When Zhou Zong heard this, his legs were so frightened that he almost sat on the ground. He lowered his head, and his body trembled.

Lian Dan glared at him fiercely again, and walked out of the dungeon of Taishou Mansion.

He returned to the lobby of the Taishou Mansion, sat in the middle, and said to the entourage on the left and right: "Go, find Liu Xuan and Feng Yi to see me!" ”

"Yes! Checkmate! A lieutenant stepped in and strode out.

It didn't take long for Liu Xuan and Feng Yi to be brought in by the school captain.

Entering the lobby, the two bowed their hands and said, "The villain sees General Lian!" ”

Lian Dan's gaze swept over Liu Xuan and Feng Yi, and said slowly: "I heard that you have made great contributions in the battle to defend the city?" ”

Liu Xuan arched his hand and said: "General Lian has won the award, and the villain does not dare to take credit." ”

Lian Dan smiled indifferently, picked up the teacup in front of him, took a sip of tea slowly, and asked casually: "As far as I know, during the defense of the city, many big families in the city refused to send strong men from their families to participate in the defense of the city, but is there such a thing?" ”

Liu Xuan and Feng Yi glanced at each other, not understanding too much what Lian Dan meant by asking. He cleared his throat and said, "In the early stage, there were indeed not many strong men who participated in the defense of the city, but later, there were more than 20,000 strong men defending the city. ”

Lian Dan laughed out loud and said, "Liu Xuan, after what you said, the barbarian army has already retreated, right?" ”

"Yes." This is a fact, and Liu Jiu can't hide it.

Lian Dan asked unhurriedly: "When the battle with the barbarian army was the most intense, these strong men were greedy for life and afraid of death, and did not dare to participate in the defense of the city, and when the barbarian army retreated, they all came to the ability, scrambling to defend the city, and so on, they are all brazen people, Liu Xuan, Feng Yi, do you think you should deal with these people like this?" ”

Liu Xuan frowned secretly, those people who fought to defend the city later were indeed not very kind, but people are not afraid of death, this is also human nature, and he can fully understand people's practices.

Now that Lian Dan wants to punish these people, Liu Jiu feels that there is a bit of a fuss.

He pondered for a moment and said: "General Lian, during the siege of the barbarian army, it caused a lot of damage to the defense of the county city, and many places need to be cleaned up and repaired. ”

Lian Dan blinked, stared at Liu Yi for a moment, turned his gaze, looked at Feng Yi, and asked, "Feng Yi, what is your opinion?" ”

Feng Yizheng said: "The villain thinks that what Bo Sheng said is very true. ”

"Oh." Lian Dan responded lightly, and said quietly: "It's just a labor service, such a punishment is inevitably too light, right?" In the opinion of this commander, such brazen people should be punished with capital punishment to set an example, Liu Xuan and Feng Yi, what do you think? ”

Liu Xuan and Feng Yi were shocked, and their faces were shocked. Just because more than 20,000 people did not participate in the defense of the city in time, they must all be killed?

Feng Yi hurriedly said: "General Lian, although they have had it, but, but the crime is not to death, right?" ”

"Yes, General Lian, I hope General Lian will think twice!" Liu Jiu followed along.

Hearing that both of them opposed his opinion, Lian Dan straightened his waist, and a cold light shot out of his eyes. For a moment, Liu Xuan and Feng Yi both felt a chill emerge from the soles of their feet and spread to their whole bodies.

Soon, Lian Dan sneered and said slowly: "Okay, the opinions of the two of you, Ben Shuai already knows." ”

Hearing this, Liu Xuan and Feng Yi breathed a sigh of relief. Before they could speak, Lian Dan changed his words and said, "This time Ben Shuai went to Hanzhong City and was attacked by assassins, do you two know the origin of these assassins?" ”

"The villain doesn't know."

"These assassins, all from the green forest army in the Zhushan area, there are more than 100 of them, openly against the imperial court, rebellion, endangering the people, the crime is unforgivable, this marshal ordered you two to lead the righteous army in the city, go to Zhushan to exterminate the thieves, there must be no mistake!"

"Yes, General Lian, the villain obeys orders!"

"Zhang Ting!"

"The subordinates are here!" A lieutenant stepped forward and saluted Lian Dan.

"You lead your soldiers and soldiers to cooperate with the rebels to fight, and you must annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop!"

"Subordinates obey!"

Lian Dan looked at Liu Xuan and Feng Yi with a smile, and said softly: "Okay, you two go back and prepare, and leave early tomorrow morning!" ”

"The villain retires!" Liu Xuan and Feng Yi bowed their hands and then exited the lobby.

When the two of them left, Lian Dan sneered and said, "I don't know what is good or bad." ”

The number of the Green Forest Army in Zhushan is not much, but the combat effectiveness is very strong, especially the leader Ma Wu, who is brave and good at fighting, and has high martial arts.

Don't look at the righteous army under Liu Xuan and Feng Yi, there are more than 1,000 people, but most of them are wounded soldiers, among which there are hundreds of seriously wounded, and they can't even move, let alone go to war.

As far as the current combat effectiveness of the rebel army is concerned, it may not be able to defeat the Zhushan Green Forest Army.

Lian Dan asked the two of them to go to exterminate the Zhushan Green Forest Army, which was tantamount to giving the two of them an impossible task.

But if Zhang Ting and the 1,000 cavalry under his command cooperated in the battle, then it would not be difficult to exterminate the Zhushan Green Forest Army.

It's just that Lian Dan sent Zhang Ting, but he didn't really intend to let him fight with the righteous army, on the contrary, he wanted Zhang Ting to lead his troops to exterminate the Green Forest Army and the righteous army.

In fact, Lian Dan had already given Liu Xuan and Feng Yi a chance.

At present, the Taishou Wang Xun and the Duwei Tang Heng of Hanzhong County are dead, and it is the time to employ people, if Liu Xuan and Feng Yi can be reused, Lian Dan will not mind promoting the two of them.

It's just that the performance of the two of them made Lian Dan very disappointed.

He proposed to severely punish the 20,000 strong men who were greedy for life and afraid of death in the county town, but Liu Xuan and Feng Yi were strongly opposed, which can only show that he and himself are not all the way, since they are not all the way, for him, Liu Xuan and Feng Yi naturally cannot be called 'worthy of reuse'.

can't use it for himself, but he has made great contributions, and he can't be rewarded, so let them both die together, and it's a hundred.

In fact, Liu Xuan and Feng Yi failed to understand Lian Dan's true intentions.

Lian Dan said at the beginning that the big families in the city refused to donate strong men to participate in the defense of the city, and his real purpose was to borrow this matter to knock on the gate lords of the scholars in Hanzhong City, and defraud the money to make a windfall.

If it is replaced by an old fritter like Wang Xun, he will definitely beat the snake with the stick, and follow Lian Dan's words, but unfortunately Liu Xuan and Feng Yi are not people who will spend their minds on this.

To put it bluntly, Lian Dan's cognition is correct, Liu Xuan and Feng Yi are indeed not the same people as him.

Liu Xuan and Feng Yi had just left, and Lian Dan was about to call Zhang Ting to his front to speak, when Hu Cao Zhouzong hurriedly walked into the lobby and reported a very important news to Lian Dan, the Ye family had an extra female dependent, Miss Xia Ruoyan.

Zhou Zong, who reported to Lian Dan, was emotional, and his voice was a few points higher than usual, and even Liu Xuan and Feng Yi who were walking in the courtyard could hear it clearly.

The two glanced at each other and shook their heads secretly, it seems that even the Ye family will be involved in the assassin matter, as long as Lian Dan is still in Hanzhong City, Hanzhong City will never be peaceful.

When Lian Dan in the lobby heard Zhou Zong's report, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Ye family?" ”

Zhou Zong bowed down and said, "It's the Ye family of Ye Khotan!" ”

"Oh!" Lian Dan has served in Yizhou, so he naturally knows Ye Khotan.

Here in Hanzhong County, the Ye family can be regarded as the number one Dashi family, and even in the entire Yizhou, the Ye family is also very famous.

Lian Dan rubbed his chin and said suspiciously: "Miss Ye Family's cousin? ”

"Exactly, her name is Xia Ruoyan!"

"When did she come to the Ye family?"

"According to the servants of the Ye family who reported the news, Xia Ruoyan was the Ye family who arrived yesterday."

"Yesterday?" Lian Dan narrowed his eyes. He was assassinated yesterday, and Xia Ruoyan was exactly the Ye family who arrived yesterday. The one who is on the run is a female assassin, and Xia Ruoyan is a woman. Isn't that a coincidence?

He asked, "Is this news from Lord Zhou reliable?" ”

"Reliable! Absolutely! Zhou Zong said hurriedly: "The person who reported to me was an old family servant in the Ye family for more than ten years, and he was very trusted by Ye Khotan. ”

"It's better to be like this." The Ye family not only has deep roots in Hanzhong, but also has a network of relationships in the court, such as the Ye family and Kong Yong, who have a deep personal relationship.

Kong Yong is the fourteenth grandson of Confucius, who has made great contributions to Wang Mang's usurpation, and has won Wang Mang's trust.

Even so, Wang Mang also authorized Kong Yongke to enter the palace at any time to face the saint and participate in the court.

So the Ye family is not so active, they really got into trouble, and Lian Dan couldn't explain it to Wang Mang.

But then again, if you can really catch the handle of the Ye family, and it is still a fatal handle, then Lian Dan can make a lot of money at one time, gold, silver and jewelry, inexhaustible.

Lian Dan's eyes lit up, and he shouted sideways: "Lin Yu, Ming Yue!" ”

With his words, the two captains stepped out of the ranks, saluted Wang Mang, and responded in unison: "The subordinates are here!" ”

"Immediately gather your two troops and horses, and follow me to Ye Mansion!"

In the Han Dynasty, the lieutenant was the military attache second only to the general, but the general was not permanent, while the lieutenant was a permanent official position, and his position in the army was very prominent.

Lin Yu and Ming Yue wanted to raise troops, of course, they had to go to the barracks first.

Liu Xiu, who was standing at the gate of the Taishou Mansion and was talking to Liu Xuan and Feng Yi, watched Lin Yu and Ming Yue get out of the Taishou Mansion in a murderous manner, both turned over their horses and whipped away, Liu Xiu looked puzzled, and subconsciously asked, "What's the matter?" Did something happen? ”

Looking at the backs of Lin Yu and Ming Yue, Liu Xuan smiled helplessly and said, "It seems that the Ye family is going to be unlucky!" ”