Early morning.

Zhang Xutuo sat cross-legged in front of several desks, eating a simple breakfast.

A bowl of mutton soup cakes, a bowl of sencha.

Footsteps were heard outside the door.

The person who came bowed and reported, "Juncheng, Luo Cheng is back." ”

"Hmm." Zhang Xutuo raised his head, "How much grain have the local powerful landlords in Zhangqiu County scraped together?" ”

"Eight hundred stone of grain, five hundred pieces of money, and a thousand horses of silk." The report said truthfully, "They have already gathered all the money, grain, and silk and sent them to the county office, and they have piled up a lot of money, and what they said is true and very positive." ”

"When did the powerful landlords in these places become so active in suppressing bandits?" Zhang Xutuo sneered.

"There's nothing wrong with this, Wang Bo and Wang Yong almost broke through the county a few days ago, and they openly rebelled, if this is successful, this Zhangqiu City will be turned into white land."

"You see that things are still too superficial, bandits are rampant, although there is a threat to these people, but these people are not a strong place, there are many slaves and families in each family, and even the manor house is strong, and the thieves will not gnaw these hard bones under normal circumstances."

"They scraped together so much money and food, but they named it to give it to Luo Cheng's township group, don't you think it's strange?"

"These people are too ignorant of lifting, Luo Cheng is just leading a township group, although he has the merit of rescuing and protecting the county, but if you really want to suppress the bandits, you have to rely on us. They didn't give us the money, but gave it to Luo Cheng. "The song is dissatisfied.

"Hmph, carving insect skills, I thought no one could see through it. This is just a simple killing with a knife, Luo Cheng led the Xianxiang group into the city to clean the Sanya, which offended many people. Now some people can't look down on Luo Cheng and want to borrow a knife to kill people. ”

Zhang Xutuo had already gained insight into the thoughts of those people.

"Ah, damn it, why are these people so bad? Luo Cheng just kept the county seat, and he also saved them. ”

"So what, forget it, you can call Luo Cheng over."

As soon as Luo Cheng entered the city, he also heard the news.

When I arrived in front of the county office, I was even more surprised when I saw the mountain of money and grain.

"These are for us?"

The fourth child with a team of township soldiers was counting the handover, and came over excitedly, "Isn't it, finally those big dog families still know how to be grateful, and they are interested." Xiao Wu, 800 stone grain, 500 yuan, 1,000 pieces of silk, and hundreds of pieces of cloth, and a lot of wine, meat and vegetables, which are generous enough. ”

Luo Cheng didn't believe that these people were really so generous.

After all, this is not a little bit, even if the money is collected by the big families in the county, it is not a lot.

"Do you have any requirements for donating so much money?"

"That is to say, I am grateful to us for repelling the bandits and keeping Zhangqiu, and I also said a lot of praise for you and our township group, saying that if the two kings are not eliminated as soon as possible, they are afraid of endless troubles, so they are willing to raise some money and food to strengthen the army and pay for the army, and they hope that we can send troops as soon as possible to go into the mountains to exterminate the bandits."

"Oh, I see."

Luo Cheng is also a smart person, and he thought of many possibilities at once.

They also said that if we could destroy the two thieves, we would have to raise more money and food to reward and thank us. Old Five, when do you think we should send troops? ”

Luo Cheng said with a smile, "Since the things have been delivered, let's accept them first, count them and register them, and put them in our warehouse." And he took out some of the cloth that had been sent and made a new set of clothes for each brother, and as for the money, he gave each man a hundred dollars. ”

"And the reward?" The fourth child is a little distressed about the money.

One hundred, even if the new recruits are not counted, there are more than 200 old men, and they have to be more than 20 at once.

"It's all the kindness of the villagers, of course, we will reward everyone."

"Then when are we going to send troops?"

"Didn't Jun Cheng come, it's not your turn to call the shots."

"But we can ask Ying to fight."

Luo Cheng was too lazy to pay attention to him, and he was simple-minded.

However, the enemy's sugar-coated cannonballs came over, and Luo Cheng did not refuse, he ate the sugar-coated first, as for the cannonballs, he could keep them first, and maybe he could take them back when he could take them again.

Entered the county office.

Luo Cheng first went to meet the county commander Zhang Yichen.

After not seeing him for a few days, Zhang Yichen seemed to be a lot haggard, but his spirit was very excited.

Seeing Luo Cheng, he happily came over to hold his hand.

"Shicheng, I'm finally back, and now I can't live without you for a day."

"Envoy, what's the matter?"

Zhang Yichen has been very busy these days, since Luo Cheng cleaned the Sanya, and then encountered bandits to attack and take advantage of the situation to take down the county Cheng, Zhu Bo, Si Zuo, and Ling Shi, there is only one official left in the entire county government.

The officials were all cleansed.

For the first time, he really grasped the power of Zhangqiu.

It's just that not long after the excitement of being in power, he sensed something troublesome.

First of all, although Wang Bo is from Zouping, Wang Yong is from Zhangqiu, and secondly, the two thieves are under the banner of rebellion under his Zhangqiu County, and now they are still in Changbai Mountain.

When he thought of the rebellion under his rule, he just didn't think about the tea and the rice didn't smell good.

Regardless of the reason, he has a great deal of responsibility anyway.

It's not a big deal to get out a few thieves, but if there are thieves, it's a serious dereliction of duty.

It's not good, he will lose his position as a county magistrate who has just been in power for a few days, and even his head may not be guaranteed.

After thinking about it, he felt that there was only one way to save it.

That is, before the news reaches the top, the two thieves will be exterminated.

As long as the two thieves are exterminated, he can atone for his sins, and maybe he can talk about merit or something.

"We must go into the mountains as soon as possible to exterminate the bandits."

"Don't worry, Zhang Juncheng has arrived with eight hundred county soldiers, and with him, the two thieves are just hand-to-hand."

"No, no, no." Zhang Yichen shook his head again and again.

"Shicheng, I think about it, these two thieves can't be exterminated by Zhang Juncheng, you have to exterminate them, and we can only calm them down in Zhangqiu County."

"Why? The county battle array is experienced, and the county soldiers are strong and strong. ”

Zhang Yichen pulled Luo Cheng to sit down, and personally poured him a cup of tea.

"That day, Wang Bo shouted rebellion under the city, right?"

"Well, there were quite a few people who heard about it at the time."

"Shicheng, do you understand what rebellion means?"

"Of course I do."

"But do you know how serious the consequences are for a bunch of rebels in our county? If this matter spreads out, then not only I, the county magistrate, may lose my official position, but more people will be implicated. You are the head catcher in this county, Wang Bo and the others came because you tortured Fan Hu and others to cause them to collude, this matter is really going to make a big trouble, and you can't get out of it. ”

Luo Cheng couldn't cry or laugh, "Things can't be counted like this." ”

"But sometimes, when it gets big, especially if there is such a thing as a rebellion, there are not so many things above, even if they exterminate the rebels, but in the end, they always have to bring a few unlucky ghosts out, maybe we are this unlucky ghosts."

"What does the envoy mean?"

"I have changed my mind in front of Jun Cheng, saying that there is no such thing as rebellion, Wang Bo and the others are not anti-thieves, just a group of bandits, and I have also given a gag order to others. In addition, we have to take the lead in exterminating the two kings before the county sends out troops. The wealthy families in the county are also very supportive of this, and have raised a batch of money and food, I hope you can help me with this, this is also a favor for yourself. ”