1

The east is slightly white, the chicken is crowing, Shi'an don't have a waist knife, ride a thin horse, Tang Haifu told again, and made an appointment to wait at the Cizhou City Post House.

After Shi'an left, Huang Yi, Wang Hua, Xue Tao, Zhan Ping, Li Jie, and Wu Fei led 52 guards to carry Tang Nan south, bypassing Handan City, passing through Wu'an, Boyan, Taishe, Lintan, Guanglu and other places, to the northern suburbs of Cizhou.

Along the way, Dan saw the sergeants patrolling back and forth, and the people were panicked, Tang Hai stopped a group of patrol sergeants and asked: "Brother, the land of Hebei is all under Dashun, why do you patrol so frequently, could it be that there is still a war?" ”

The leading sergeant saw that although Tang Hai was lying on a stretcher, he had an extraordinary bearing, and asked, "Who are you?" What do you do by listening to this? ”

Tang Hai showed the Evil Destroying Sword and said, "I am the general Tang Hai." ”

The leading sergeant hurriedly dismounted and bowed, saying: "The little one has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, and I hope the general will forgive him." ”

Tang Haidao: "Little brother, please get up." ”

The sergeant said: "Since Wu Sangui surrendered and rebelled, many Ming Dynasty generals in Henan have also rebelled, and those Ming Dynasty dog officials in Hebei are ready to move one by one. ”

Tang Hai Zhengse asked: "Brother, Wu Sangui is capricious, how do you think my Dashun Dynasty should deal with it?" ”

The sergeant said: "Then it goes without saying, of course we have to crusade against him, this guy is killing himself, and he can't complain about others." ”

After the patrol sergeant left, Tang Hai was uneasy, and thought to himself: "Although the king is a hero, he is often willful, and the generals under his command are few visionaries.

Everyone entered Cizhou City and lived in the post house, Huang Yi invited the doctor to revisit Tang Hai, and the doctor prescribed some medicine and told him to rest quietly.

2

Bai Wang, the general of Cizhou, heard that Tang Hai, the general of the system, was coming, and knew that he was the supervisor of the imperial seal of Li Zicheng, the king of Dashun, and the people on the rivers and lakes called the "thief", holding the sword of breaking evil, and cutting off the evildoers, hurriedly summoned the generals under his command to rectify military discipline, reiterate the law, and then came to visit the post house.

"Tang Hai resigned and returned to his hometown, he was a grass people, how dare he alarm General Bai."

"General Tang is powerful in the rivers and lakes, and holding high the banner of righteousness is shocking the Ming Court, Bai Wang has admired it for a long time, and he has long had the intention of visiting, but he only hates that he has no chance, and now the general is fortunate to come to Cizhou, how can Bai Wang not visit?"

"Thank you, General Bai."

"What, General Tang is physically injured?" Bai Wang saw that Tang Hai's face was haggard, and there was a soup bowl on the table, and there was still medicine residue in the bowl, so he asked.

"To tell you the truth, Tang Hai and the guards marched to Shunde Mansion and were attacked by the people who opposed our Dashun at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain, and they called themselves the rebels of the anti-righteous army."

"These people dare to be rude!"

Tang Hai saw that Bai Wang seemed to be accustomed to it, and asked, "Is there such a situation in Cizhou?" ”

Bai Wang sighed and said: "Alas, when the Dashun military came, they severely punished corrupt officials and big families, divided the land, distributed money and grain, and the people were happy, and they were like a family with us, but after a long time, the people's desires were difficult to fill, and they became dissatisfied with us." Recently, because of Wu Sangui's surrender, the Ming court officials and those big landlords took the opportunity to fan the people to make trouble, and the Central Plains seemed to be calm, but it was actually a hidden crisis. ”

Tang Hai said with a smile: "The people are simple, well-off is safe, for thousands of years, it has been like this." Now, the people are still the same people, we are no longer the same us, we ourselves have changed, how can we force the people to remain the same? ”

Bai Wang was stunned for a moment, and said with an embarrassed smile: "What General Tang said is that only after the founding of Dashun and the founding of the country, the soldiers have indeed grown a little arrogant. ”

Tang Hai asked: "How does the king deal with Wu Sangui's matter, is there any news from above?" ”

Bai Wang said: "We really don't know, but many big landowners in Cizhou before spread rumors that Wu Sangui supported the Ming Dynasty prince Zhu Cihong as the new monarch, amnesty the world, whoever kills a righteous army, a reward of 100 taels of silver, and a person who captures a Dashun official, worships the marquis, which makes people panic, fortunately, I found out in time, the day before yesterday, more than 70 leaders were beheaded, and now the people of Cizhou are much more stable." ”

Tang Haidao: "The general must remember that to fight the world, he needs a sword, and if he can govern the world, he needs benevolence and righteousness, for thousands of years, the people regard officials as parents, and one day those of us who are officials can turn around and regard the people as parents, then the world will be the same." ”

When Bai Wang heard this, he forced a smile and said: "General Tang has unique opinions, Bai Wang admires!" ”

In the next few days, Bai Wang feasted every day, and there were five or six tables at one table, chicken, duck, fish, and meat. On this day, Tang Hai didn't want to go, but said: "The general is busy with official business, Tang Hai has been disturbing for a long time, and he is very uneasy, the tea and rice in the firewood room of the post house are complete, Tang Hai and the guards are eating some toilet there, don't dare to disturb." ”

Bai Wang didn't follow, and said: "What did General Tang say, the thieves on the rivers and lakes back then made Bai Wang very respectful, and now we are both ministers of Dashun, and we should accompany the wine in the morning and evening." Besides, when General Hong returns from Beijing in a few days, you will be leaving for Daba Mountain again, and you will not know when you will meet in the future. Bai Wang didn't say a word, and forced the new Yicheng Wei Xin to set up a few tables of wine banquets in the lobby and forced Tang Hai to sit down. When all the guards saw Tang Hai sitting, they all sat down with a smile, praising Bai Wang's righteousness.

"General, about Wu Sangui, is there any news from the capital?" Tang Hai was always worried that Li Zicheng, the king of Dashun, would miss the important event for a while, so he couldn't help but ask again.

Bai Wang said with a smile: "There is no formal news, but I heard that the king is preparing to ascend the throne, I guess the king will definitely adopt General Tang's yin and yang strategy." ”

Tang Hai listened, felt a little more relieved, and asked again: "Is there any military order from above to kill less and kill carefully?" ”

Bai Wang said: "Yes, it is said that it is necessary to treat the generals well, and it is forbidden to kill and plunder." ”

Tang Haidao: "If so, it's best." ”

3

After recuperating in the post house for more than ten days, Tang Hai got up in the morning, Tang Hai was physically and mentally comfortable, moved slightly, did not feel unwell, and said happily: "I have recovered from my injuries and will go for a walk outside today." ”

Huang Yi and Zhan Ping listened to it, and were overjoyed, Wang Hua said: "I heard that there is Helan Mountain thirty miles west of the city, the scenery is beautiful, and the general likes the landscape, why not take a visit?" ”

Tang Haidao: "Yue Fei wrote: 'Driving a long car is broken, Helan Mountain is lacking, and the strong men are hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Hun blood. 'The ancients had great ambitions, and since I have come here, I should go and enjoy it. ”

Xue Tao said: "The weather is just right today. ”

Tang Haidao: "Huang Yi, you go to Yicheng to borrow five or six horses." ”

Huang Yi said: "Okay, I'll go." ”

After a while, Yicheng Wei Xin hurriedly came, Huang Yi followed behind, Wei Xin said: "The general is going to Helan Mountain?" ”

Tang Haidao: "My injury has healed, I have been stuffy in the post house for so many days, I want to go out to breathe, and I hope that Brother Wei Xin will dispatch a few good horses." ”

Wei Xin said with a smile: "The general is healed from his injury, congratulations, the general wants to go out of the city, the villain should make proper arrangements, no need to worry, wait for the villain to prepare some dry food and water, and then send a few capable post men to accompany him." ”

Tang Haidao: "No, don't say that I'm fine now, even if I am injured, I have so many guards to take care of me, how can I trouble Brother Wei Xin." ”

Wei Xin insisted: "Don't say that the general is a hero of my Dashun Dynasty, just with the name of the thief of the mighty rivers and lakes, Wei Xin also worships with all his heart, and it is really Wei Xin's blessing to be able to follow the general." ”

Tang Hai said with a smile: "That is the case, there is a lot of work." ”

Wei Xin said: "Wait a minute, general, I'll go and prepare the horses." ”

"This post is so detailed, let's go on a trip, and he will also report it to General Bai Wang," looking at Wei Xin's back as he left in a hurry, Huang Yi said with a smile.

Tang Hai asked, "How do you know that he wants to report to General Bai." ”

Huang Yidao: "When I went to him just now to explain the intention of borrowing horses, he ordered his subordinates to report to General Bai." ”

Tang Hai smiled: "General Bai takes too much care of me Tang Hai!" ”

Wei Xin prepared food and water, brought horses, brought four people, Tang Hai also brought Huang Yi, Xue Tao, Wang Hua, Li Jie, a group of ten people went to the west, to the foot of Helan Mountain, but saw that this mountain is about dozens of zhang high, mostly made of pebbles, winding for more than ten miles, although there is no spiritual peak and ravine, but also broken jade tiling, snow condensation.

Ten people dismounted on foot, walked a journey, saw the mountain people cooking smoke, the mountain farmers diligently cultivated, Li Jie whispered to Huang Yi, Xue Tao, Wang Hua said: "This scene is quite similar to my family, at this moment, I want to come to my father to farm on the mountain, my mother to cook at home, in the future by the king's reward, I will let the two elders enjoy peace of mind, never let them suffer and tired." Huang Yi, Xue Tao, and Wang Hua also said: "What I said is that when we go back, we should also honor our parents and let them suffer again." ”

When Tang Hai heard this, his heart ached secretly, and in front of a house on the road, the peasant couple was about to go out, and his wife smiled and said, "Where did you come from, what are you doing here?" Tang Haidao: "We are passers-by, seeing that this mountain scenery is good, we came to play." The wife laughed and said, "You are so strange, what is so beautiful about this ordinary mountain!" The husband said, "What do you know, the people in the city do not work for crops, they have nothing to do all day long, and if they do not come to the mountains to move their muscles and bones, will they not be idle!" As they spoke, they locked the door and went down the hill with their farm tools.

Huang Yi and the others were tired, sitting in front of this farmhouse and eating food, Tang Hai walked alone to a big stone, although Wei Xin was also tired, but he didn't dare to stay away from Tang Hai, so he had to follow.

Tang Hai remembered the beautiful scenery when he was with his brothers in the past, but today he was alone on this Helan Mountain and was teased by the farmer, he suddenly felt lost, and he was sad for a while, picked up a red stone from the ground, and inscribed a poem on the green cliff:

Thousands of troops are killed thousands of miles away, and hundreds of warriors return in a hundred years.

Covered with glory and unrecognized, a pile of fame and a pile of ashes.

After finishing the question, he laughed to himself, Wei Xin sent a pot of wine to Tang Hai and comforted: "The general has made great contributions to the Dashun Dynasty, and he has made great achievements, and he will definitely go down in history in the future." ”

Tang Hai took the wine jug, drank bitterly, wiped his mouth, and said with a smile: "Qingshi? What is Qingshi? Wei Xin was stunned and couldn't answer, Tang Hai said to himself: "Yes, although I am a commoner today, after all, I am a recluse, and the future historian will not miss me when he writes." Fu wrote:

Honghu ambition is hated for thousands of years, and Huanglong's dream is empty for ten thousand years.

And borrowed Du Kang to get drunk all night and sleep in the portrait of Yanling.

After writing, he threw away the stones, stopped climbing the mountain, and walked down the mountain with a big laugh.

4

At night, Cizhou City was as silent as death.

When Wei Xin settled Tang Hai and the other fifty-nine people, he was already a child, he was so tired that he was physically and mentally exhausted, he fell on the bed, stretched his waist, and suddenly felt a lot more comfortable.

Although he hadn't washed yet, Wei Xin was too lazy to get up, lying down, and fell asleep for a while, snoring softly.

Suddenly, a dark shadow broke through the window.

Wei Xin is a native of Liangwan Town, Shuifu County, and has followed Bai Wang for many years, and is deeply respected. The years of fighting in the east and west have developed Wei Xin's decisive, resolute and cautious character.

"Who?" Wei Xin was extremely vigilant, and although he was asleep, the subtle sound of the comer's feet landing on the ground still woke up the long-defeated rebel soldier.

The black shadow removed the veil, graciously came to the table and sat down, and asked gloomily as he poured water and drank, "What's wrong with him?" ”

"You are?" Wei Xin was a little nervous, thinking that the person who came was an assassin of the Ming Dynasty, because recently there were often assassins loyal to the Ming Dynasty who assassinated Dashun officials, and now he saw that he had no malicious intent, so he was relieved.

"The general urgently needs to know his every move, but he hasn't seen your return for a day, so I have been specially ordered to ask you why."

Wei Xin said apologetically: "He went to Helan Mountain today, and began to smile in fashion, and then somehow suddenly became depressed, and wrote two melancholy poems in a row, I have been with him all this way, walking more than ten miles of mountain roads, and the end of the general returned to the post house when his back and legs hurt and tired, and he saw that it was too late, for fear of disturbing the general's rest, so he did not report. Wei Xin walked to the door, gently pushed open the door and looked out, and saw that there was no one, so he approached and whispered: "Tang Hai's every move is under my control, please rest assured General Bai." ”

When the visitor heard this, he stood up and put on his veil: "Great, since this is the case, I will go back to restore my life, so as not to worry the general." ”

5

"Brother Wei Xin's family can be in the city?" Early the next morning, after Wei Xin accompanied Tang Hai to dinner, the two were drinking tea and chatting, and Tang Hai asked casually.

"The villain's family has been living in their hometown in Shuifu County, and the villain only brought them in last month, and now they live temporarily in the city's West Market Street."

"Ling Zun and Ling Tang are here?"

"Yes, there are five children living there, including the daughters."

Tang Hai gently checked the blanket containing the money, and there was a sound of silver colliding with each other, and then said with a smile: "Since the elders are here, Tang Hai should go to visit, go, brother, we have nothing to do after dinner, just go out for a leisurely walk." ”

Wei Xin said: "My father and mother are all rough people who work in the township, how dare they work as generals!" ”

"Look at what you said, thanks to Brother Wei Xin's hospitality for many days, although you and I are first acquaintances, we are better than brothers, my brother's parents are here, how can Tang Hai be rude?" After Tang Hai finished speaking, he drank the tea in the dry cup, stood up and walked out.

Wei Xin saw that Tang Hai had brought a lot of silver, and guessed that he would give some to his family, so he was secretly happy, so he didn't call his entourage, and took Tang Hai to the street alone.

The two of them turned around and came to a house, Wei Xin stepped forward and knocked on the door, a woman opened the door to greet him, Wei Xin said, "This is General Tang." He said to Tang Hai again: "Shan Jing'er." ”

Tang Hai met with E'er, and then entered the house to see Wei's father, Wei's mother, Wei Xin's children and others. Everyone sat down, and after a few words of greeting, Tang Hai took out a few ingots of silver and handed them to Wei's father and said: "Uncle and aunt have just come to Cizhou, and they must need to settle down. ”

Wei Xin's parents are both farmers from the countryside, and they have never seen such a big silver ingot, so they don't know what to do for a while, and they look at their son with straight eyes. Wei Xintui said: "It is a great honor for the villain to be able to come to see his father and mother, and now he has given such a big gift, and the villain dares to accept it?" ”

Tang Hai smiled: "You and I are brothers, this is what I gave to my uncle and aunt, how can you say that you won't accept it?" Tang Hai pushed the silver to Father Wei. Wei Xin was overjoyed and nodded at his father, and when Wei's father saw that his son agreed, he carefully accepted it.

"Uncle, aunt, virtuous brother and sister, you can go on your own, I have something important to discuss with Brother Wei Xin, and I have to talk about it alone."

Wei's father, Wei's mother, and Wei's wife saw this, and took the child back to the room with interest.

Wei Xin secretly thought, Tang Hai has something important to talk to me?

"Cough, cough, cough," Tang Hai coughed a few times, and then asked with a smile: "Brother, ask you something, General Bai asked you to monitor me day and night, what is the matter?" ”

Wei Xin was taken aback and embarrassedly denied: "Surveillance? What a thing. Suddenly, I heard footsteps from behind, and when I looked back, I saw Huang Yi, Wang Hua, Zhan Ping, Li Jie, Wu Fei, and Xue Tao rushing in, and all six of them had a bright sharp knife hanging from their waists.

"Huh? General, what are you doing here? Wei Xin was frightened and asked Tang Hai.

Tang Hai said lightly: "I'll ask you first." ”

I have heard that Tang Hai is shrewd, the people in the rivers and lakes are called thieves, and he is fierce, how many powerful and corrupt officials have died in his hands, and today I finally saw his means. It's just that he was ordered by Bai Wang to monitor him, how secret is this matter, can he know about it?

Wei Xin is also a person who has been over for nine lifetimes, and he is not afraid of death, but before he dies, he must understand that he can't be a fool.

"Surveillance? Who's spying on you? If the general can make it clear, Wei Xin will die without regrets. ”

Huang Yi sneered: "Last night, you said to me in person: 'Tang Hai's every move is under my control, please rest assured General Bai.'" 'Why, just forgot?' ”

Wei Xin was shocked: "You were the one last night?" "It was dark at night, Wei Xin didn't see the appearance of the person who came, and he didn't expect to be the person sent by Tang Hai. Wei Xin was puzzled and asked Tang Haidao: "You, how could you send someone to deceive me?" ”

Tang Hai said: "It's not a secret, Baiwang and you have been quite enthusiastic in the past ten days, Tang Hai is very grateful, but yesterday I was going to Helan Mountain to play, but you asked someone to report to Bai Wang, this matter is intriguing." Looking back on these days, I have difficulty moving, and every time I ask Huang Yi and them to go to the street to buy some small things, you send someone to accompany you, such thoughtful care, you can't help but make people suspicious. Also, yesterday on Helan Mountain, the weather was hot, you unbuttoned your shirt, I saw that you had multiple knife wounds on your body, guessing that you should be a battle-hardened veteran, how can a meritorious general like you be only a small post inheritance? Moreover, when you were with Bai Wang, your speech and demeanor were quite casual, how could you, a small successor, be so close to General Guoyi? I guess you must be his lieutenant or staff general or something, and it is only because I am here that he sent you to be the post keeper, so that you can keep an eye on me. After thinking about it again and again, I ordered Huang Yi to sneak into the room late at night to deceive you, but I didn't expect that you and Bai Wang were really bright people in the open and dirty ghosts in the dark, so I ordered the six of them to come out of the wall in the middle of the night and hide in the hotel opposite the post house. ”

"You are too shrewd, no wonder so many heroes on the rivers and lakes died at your hands, Tang Hai, I have heard that you are very principled in killing, whether you are good or evil, whether you are right or wrong, regardless of interests, you are a really good man, what, do you want to attack my whole family today?"

"How could Tang Hai kill innocent people? I just want to ask you, what are you spying on me, if you are a wicked person and have malicious intentions towards me, you will not dare to tell the truth, Tang Hai has no choice but to kill you, if you are a good person and have no evil intentions towards me, you will naturally tell me all, why did I kill you? ”

Seeing Wei Xin bowing his head and being silent, wandering, Tang Hai replied: "If I kill you, I will never harm your family, but now the world is still not peaceful, the family has no backbone of you, in this troubled world, or killed by others, or by adulterers**, this, Tang Hai can't protect them!" ”

When Wei Xin heard this, he was shocked into a cold sweat, it didn't matter if he died, it just affected his father, mother, wife and children, so he bowed and said: "General, although Wei Xin is dirty, he is not guilty, these are all arranged by General Bai, Wei Xin is just acting on orders." ”

Tang Hai got up and returned the salute, and said with a straight face: "But ask Brother Wei Xin to tell Tang Hai the truth, Tang Hai will never embarrass you." ”

The two sat down, and Wei Xin said: "Yes, Wei Xin is the deputy general under General Bai, and General Bai also respects the general, just because the general said 'The people are still the same people, we are no longer the same us, we have changed ourselves, how can we force the people to remain unchanged?'" General Bai suspected that the general had betrayed the king, and that he had another plan to leave Beijing this time, so he ordered me to pretend to be a general to monitor the general, and at the same time wrote a note and sent it to Beijing to wait for the king's secret decree. ”

"In other words, if the king secretly orders me to behead me, you will behead me, and if the king does not pursue my sin of gaffe, you will let me go?"

"Exactly."

"It is calculated that if there is an order from the king, it should be here in the next day or two."

"Yes, according to the distance, there should be news today and tomorrow, the general can take the guards out of Cizhou today, I will not stop it, I just ask the general to spare the family. Wei Xin is not filial, he finally overthrew the Ming Dynasty, and he is about to take his old father and mother out to enjoy a few days of happiness......" Wei Xin pleaded with a choked voice.

Tang Haidao: "Leave? Tang Hai is a man who avoids swords and fears swords, I want to see what the king does with me, Wei Xin, the secret decree is here, how about you show me first? After reading the secret decree, I have my own opinions, and I will never affect you. ”

Wei Xin said: "As long as the general doesn't hurt my family, Wei Xin will obey the order." ”

"Thank you, Brother Wei Xin, if you keep your word, Tang Hai will never break his word."

Wei Xin called his parents and said: "Dad, mother, there has been chaos in the city recently, you have to go to the streets, these sergeants have the right to stay at home to protect you, whatever items you need, let them go out and buy them." ”

Father Wei asked in surprise, "What's wrong?" ”

Tang Hai said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just that there have been thieves making trouble in the past two days, and it will be fine in two or three days, and everything of you will be arranged by the six of them." ”

After explaining, the two left with a smile, and when they walked to no one's place, Wei Xin asked with a smile: "General, you come out with me alone, aren't you afraid that I will regret it?" ”

Tang Hai laughed and said, "What are you afraid of, Tang Hai is dead!" Besides, the king himself allowed me to go into hiding, and he will not blame me for the crime of gaffe, maybe he will reprimand him Bai Wang for making a big fuss and making a fuss about nothing, before the king's order is reached, I am still a dignified general, and he Bai Wang dares to touch me? You Wei Xin dare to touch me? ”

When Wei Xin heard this, he was terrified, this thief is really terrible, and the only hope now is that the king issued an order not to pursue this matter, in that way, as if this matter had never happened, everyone was happy, otherwise, it will definitely lead to a bloody fight.