Chapter 74: A New Situation, a New Beginning (4)
But he said that Zheng Baihu had been worried since he came out of Liu Renyu's mansion, and when he returned to his mansion, he heard Menzi report: "Master, Sun Qian is always waiting for you in our reception room, saying that there is something important to discuss." β
"yes, I see." Zheng Baihu agreed, and walked straight towards his reception room.
At this time, in the reception room, Mr. Sun Qian was carelessly holding the teacup in a daze, and when he saw Zheng Baihu, he put the teacup in his hand on the table, stood up and asked eagerly: "Then what is the matter with Lord Liu looking for you?" Didn't you tell me that I was right, and asked you for a field, right? β
"You really said it, and you really said it." Zheng Baihu said in frustration.
"Ah, really, what do you say? Promised him. Mr. Sun Qian frowned and asked.
"No, he said to buy my land for silver, and he also said that he had that business, let me join the gang, and give me dividends when I got the profits. I didn't agree, I just said that I would think about it for a day, but he said that I had a lot of tricks, and I was afraid that he would fix me. Speaking of this, Zheng Baihu couldn't help but be a little depressed.
"He looked for you first, and then it looks like he's looking for me." Mr. Sun Qian muttered to himself.
"What will you do if he is looking for you?"
"Of course I won't agree, we work so hard for something, isn't it just to buy land and pass it on to future generations. In addition, even if he, Lord Liu, also plans to pull me into the gang and do business with him, I will not agree, because we have scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants at the fourth level, and business is ranked last. β
"I admire you for being so tough, but if he takes out our handle and wants to force us to comply, what should we do?" Zheng Baihu was powerless.
"What to do? The iron-clad Jingbian Fort is the garrison of flowing water. Sun Qian said with a dark smile.
"What do you mean by that?"
"The Guyuan soldiers mutinied, the court advocated appeasement, the thieves went around killing and plundering, and the court still appeased, and then these soldiers or thieves, where there was trouble, the local officials in charge were all questioned by the court."
"What do you mean?"
"Let's find an opportunity to make a fuss with our people, stir up the movement, kill a few people, and set a few fires. Let Hong Junmen or Yang Zhitai know about this, then even if Lord Liu kills all the people under us, he may be convicted of being convicted of having no way to govern, and then be deprived of his post and questioned. β
"In that case, don't we also have the crime of lax governance?"
"Hey, we are already the most inferior military attachΓ©s, even if we go to work, it's nothing, at least our land property is saved, otherwise if you don't fight, even if the position is still there, but there is no land property, what's the point."
"I think it's a bit risky to do this, but he is a ruthless character who has killed the Northern Captives, Jiannu, and chased and killed the thieves for ten miles, and he won't take the opportunity to quell the mutiny to kill us too, right?"
"Lend him ten dares, see if he dares? Although we are unbearable, we are also serious military attaches of the imperial court, if he does not ask the above and kills us, he will also resist his life. β
I said, it doesn't have to be that way. It's a big deal, let's take the money and buy the land elsewhere, the price of the land is cheap now, what do you think? β
"No, this is our root, even if I die, I will also enter the soil here, if the field is given to others, then I will call death without a place to be buried."
"Is there any other way, can you not tear your face?"
"Are you scared!?"
"I'm not afraid, I just don't think there's any need to take the risk, after all, it's just a little field."
"Hmph, you have no eggs, if you are afraid, just go to the field obediently and give it to him Liu Renyu." Sun Mianyun suddenly changed color.
"What are you talking about! I've been friends with you for many years, and of course I'll go through with you. I just don't understand, why are you so resistant to Lord Liu's strategy? Why don't you change it? After all, he doesn't force our land, he will give us money, and dividends every year in the future. Zheng Baihu persuaded.
"I just can't get used to seeing him call for wind and rain and suppress me as soon as he came to Jingbian Fort, and I feel resentful in my heart."
Dismissive!?
Just for this?
That's right, just for this, why did you Liu Renyu rise to the position of garrison at a young age, and you are so arrogant and domineering, you don't take the head snake of Jingbian Fort in your eyes, and when you first arrived in Jingbian Fort, you didn't think about having a good relationship with the head snake, so you wanted to ask for land.
Therefore, I don't let you get what you want, you want land, but you don't give it. I will be very happy to see you fail and not succeed.
"Having said so much, I only want to ask you one word, would you like to do something with me and give me a precise word." Sun Mourning Yundao.
"I've already said that I've been friends with you for so many years, so I will naturally go back and forth with you, when are you going to do something."
"This matter should be done sooner rather than later, and it is necessary to take advantage of the fact that they have not yet gained a firm foothold and are not familiar with Jingbian Fort. But since he summoned you, he will summon me as well, so I'll wait until tonight. When the time comes, we will raise fire as a trumpet and kill people and set fire to the city, so that they will be dizzy. β
"Okay, okay, no problem, I'll set fire to the east, and you can set fire to the west." Zheng Baihu suggested.
"Very good, very good, when we get him down, our land will be saved." Sun Mianyun saw that Zheng Baihu was willing to help, so he smiled happily.
"Hey, hey, it's this reason, it's this reason." Zheng Baihu responded.
Just as the two of them were agreeing on countermeasures, a disciple suddenly came to report, saying that Liu Renyu sent Liu Renjie to Sun's mansion to invite Sun Mournyun, but no one was found.
Liu Renjie asked the doorman of the Sun Mansion and learned that Mr. Sun Qian was here in Zheng Baihu, so he immediately came here to find Mr. Sun Qian.
I finally found someone.
"Then Brother Zheng, I'll go first, I expect that he Lord Liu also wants my land, so naturally I won't agree to him." After Sun Mianyun finished speaking, he bowed his hand and left the Zheng Mansion by himself.
After Zheng Baihu and Sun Mianyun left the Zheng Mansion living room, the two black shadows dressed in black on the beam of the room glanced at each other, and then tiptoed and quietly disappeared into the darkness.
When Sun Mianyun came to the gate of Zheng's mansion, he saw Liu Renjie and the carriage.
When Liu Renjie saw Sun Mourningyun, he took a step forward and bowed his hand and said: "On the order of Lord Liu, I have come to invite Lord Sun to speak in the garrison mansion. Please get into the carriage. β
"No, no, our old grandson has been riding horses for most of his life, and he is still used to riding horses, so he won't enjoy these Taixi things." After Sun Mianyun finished speaking, he didn't wait for Liu Renjie to reply, so he rode on his own horse and walked away.
"This guy is so rude!" Liu Renjie muttered, followed behind Sun Mianyun with a look of displeasure, and went straight to the garrison mansion.
When Sun Mianyun rode a horse to the gate of the garrison mansion, he saw Liu Renyu, who had been waiting for a long time.
Liu Renyu was a little surprised to see that Sun Mournyun did not take the special carriage assigned by him, but he immediately adjusted his mood and greeted him with a smile: "Lord Sun, Liu is a newcomer, and he is not familiar with the customs and customs in the fort, so I specially invite you to come here to talk and ask you about the situation." β
When Sun Mianyun heard this, he secretly sneered in his heart: "You have sent someone to find out the situation in the fort, and you still say such things." β
However, when he got off the horse, he bowed his hand with a smile on his face and said: "My lord came out to greet the lowly position, the lowly position is really frightened, if you have anything to ask, the lowly position will definitely tell the truth." β
"Very good, very good, let's go in and talk." After Liu Renyu finished speaking, he led the way first, and Sun Mianyun followed up.
As the two walked, they asked, "Master Sun, I specially sent a carriage to pick you up, why don't you take it?" β
"I've been riding horses for half my life, and I'm used to riding horses, so I'm not used to riding in a carriage, please forgive me." Sun Mournyun arched his hand.
"It's okay, it's okay, Master Sun is a tiger general after all, and it's normal to be unaccustomed to riding in a carriage." Liu Renyu said with a smile.
When the two of them walked to the living room, Liu Renyu showed Sun Mournyun the mirror with some pride, but although Sun Mournyun was a little surprised to see this thing, he didn't care and said: "This woman's thing is also." β
Liu Renyu frowned when he heard this, and he was very displeased.
Subsequently, Liu Renyu said what he said to Zheng Baihu again, and when he said it, in addition to the temptation, he also listed the things about Sun Mianyun's forcible occupation of people's land and false military salaries.
As a result, Sun Mianyun, like Zheng Baihu, did not express his position immediately, but only said that he would think about it for a day and then reply.
Liu Renyu had no choice but to let Sun Mianyun go back.
Liu Renyu looked at Sun Mourningyun's distant back, and his face was cloudy.
At this moment, Chen Danqing walked into the hall, and when he saw Liu Renyu, he knelt down and said: "My lord, the spider man under the lowly subordinate has just sent back the information, it is about the conspiracy of Zheng Baihu and Sun Qianzong, please take a look." β
"Oh, yes! Bring it up to me and show it. Liu Renyu said with interest.
When Chen Danqing received the order, he held the information in both hands and handed it to Liu Renyu.
Liu Renyu read the information at a glance, and said with a smile: "These two really don't know the height of the sky, play this with me, and laugh to death." Danqing, let me ask you, are the background checks of the two of them clear, and are there any competent people in their background? β
"The lowly people who spent a lot of money to buy them have asked, Zheng Baihu and Sun Qian don't have any powerful backstage, you just have to clean them up, and no one will speak for them."
"Yes, are they ready for incriminating evidence?"
"It's all ready, Zheng Baihu's charges include embezzlement of military land, military service, and stealing and selling military horses; Sun Qianzong had false military salaries and forcibly occupied people's land. There are human witnesses, physical evidence. β
"Very good, let them toast and not eat and drink, I want to clean them up. You go and prepare, and when I send troops to take them down, you will bring human and material evidence to testify against them. β
"Yes, my lord, let's go and prepare." After Chen Danqing finished speaking, he said goodbye and left.
After Chen Danqing said goodbye and left, Liu Renyu called: "Renjie." β
No one answered outside the door.
"Renjie, Renjie!" Liu Renyu called twice, but he didn't see Liu Renjie, who was inseparable on weekdays, and when he was a little strange, he suddenly saw Liu Renjie walking in from outside the hall.
"Where have you been, why aren't you waiting outside the door for me to summon you?" Liu Renyu asked.
"The humble position has been waiting outside the door, but suddenly the door came to report, saying that Zheng Baihu went and returned, and there was something important to report, and the humble position saw that you were still talking to Mr. Sun Qian, so he went to talk to Zheng Baihu and asked him to come in and say, how do you know that he heard that Mr. Sun Qian is here, so he must wait for Mr. Sun Qian to leave before he is willing to come in and talk to you."
"yes, he's a smart guy, haha." Liu Renyu said with a smile.
"What do you mean, sir?" Liu Renjie felt that his general's words were strange, and he was puzzled.
"Look at it." Liu Renyu handed over the information to Liu Renjie.
Liu Renjie hurriedly looked at it, and suddenly realized: "Then Zheng Baihu thought that he was afraid that the matter would be revealed and killed by us, so he specially came to lose his sincerity, but he was sold by someone." β
"You burn this information, and then go and call Zheng Baihu."
"Yes." Liu Renjie responded and went to summon Zheng Baihu.
But he said that Zheng Baihu, who was still waiting in the side hall, was pampered on weekdays, and after a long time, he was very sorry for his life, and he liked comfort and didn't like to take risks.
He thought that if Liu Renyu put down the mutiny, he would kill him by the way, maybe he would kill him by the way, this would not be worth it, after all, he is now clothed and fed, and his life is very nourishing, he doesn't want to die, he wants to live well.
After thinking about it, the more he thought about it, the more scared he felt, so he planned to stay out of it.
At first, he still wanted to remain neutral and not help each other, but he was afraid that Liu Renyu would not know his position, thinking that he had colluded with Sun Qian and killed him by mistake.
"Zheng Baihu, why did you go and come back?" Liu Renyu said with a playful smile.
"My lord, there is an important thing to tell you this time, and Sun Qian is ............." Zheng Baihu revealed the conspiracy and plot that he and Sun Qian had only seen.
"Well, that's good, that's good, you've been plotting for half an hour, and you've only been talking to me for a quarter of an hour before you're done."
How could it be!? How would he know!?
Zheng Baihu was extremely frightened in his heart, and suddenly remembered the rumors about Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi, could it be that Liu Renyu also had such a spy who specialized in spying on private affairs.
Thinking that all his actions might be under the supervision of the spies sent by Liu Renyu, he suddenly sweated like rain, and said in a panic: "The humble position is confused for a while, so please bypass the small one." β
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, you are not guilty, only merit, all the conditions I told you will be fulfilled, in addition, I will clean up Mr. Sun Qian, copy the money and food obtained from his family, and I will share thirty percent of you." Liu Renyu said with a smile.
"Thank you for your kindness." When Zheng Baihu heard that not only would there be no trouble this time, but he could also make money, he couldn't help but smile.
"Well, you just wait in my mansion, and when I arrest Sun Mianyun, you will testify against him. Alright, you can go to the side hall and wait. β
"Yes, sir." Zheng Baihu received the order. happily went into the side hall and waited.
"Renjie, go and call all your uncles, we have something to do." Liu Renyu said.