When the officers and soldiers heard the word "raiding", they were also overjoyed, and the raiding of the house was done by the officers and soldiers, which means that there is a lot of oil and water to be fished. So at that moment, everyone was brave, and everyone rushed into the houses and began to loot. For a while, people shouted and neighed, and chickens and dogs jumped very lively, but it was the people in the village who were tied up in a string and detained in the open space at the entrance of the village, and could only watch the officers and soldiers search around their homes.

Li Wenyuan and Zong Luohu returned to the mountain, stood on the mountain tower and watched the smoke rise from the village below, Li Wenyuan said: "The big thing has been done. Then he stretched out his hand and pressed Zong Luohu's shoulder without looking at it and said:

"After this matter is over, I will hand over all those in the city who collude with the county order to do evil things, and the soldiers are no exception."

Zong Luohu did not speak, and his hands pressed on the fence of the walled wall were a little bloodless due to excessive force. After a while, Zong Luohu took a deep breath, turned to a long sigh, and asked Li Wenyuan: "General Li, you have been in the official mansion for some time, what do you say are the people to these cool officials?" ”

Li Wenyuan also looked at the village not far away, and he was also annoyed in his heart. Although the previous plan was just to force the county order to do this kind of thing, I didn't expect that the county order could do such a ruthless thing. But Li Wenyuan also knows that if he regrets it at this time, it is unrealistic to start from scratch and find another strategy.

In order not to let these people be meaningless victims in vain, Li Wenyuan secretly made up his mind and decided not to make any changes.

"The leader of the sect doesn't know anything, and the husband is also reasonable. It is the law of managing the people's affairs, managing the people's government, and managing the people. To put it bluntly, to the officials, the people are like cattle and horses. If you are willing to obey and contribute, you can also enjoy a full meal. But if they refuse to obey, or if the officials want to feast their friends, they will naturally be slaughtered and become a meal on the plates of the officials. ”

Zong Luohu said: "Then why is it that all the prosperous times of the founding of various dynasties are governed by Qing officials? ”

Li Wenyuan said: "No, the leader of the sect is a little reluctant to go to the end. It is not that all dynasties were clean officials when they founded the country, but because of these clean officials, they can unite as one and create a prosperous era. ”

Zong Luohu had something to say, and the sentry pointed to the village below the mountain and said, "The officers and soldiers have retreated, and the villagers have been tied. ”

Li Wenyuan said: "Sect leader, it's time for us. ”

Zong Luohu nodded, turned back to his brothers in the cottage and said, "Little ones, take care of your home, I'll go to the county seat to do some trivial things and go back." ”

Li Wenyuan and Zong Luohu put on makeup this time, pretended to be peasant men who picked baskets and sold goods, dressed in coarse cloth clothes, and hid some small items prepared in advance in the baskets. When they reached the gate, two soldiers stopped them, and one of the leading men said, "Stand still, you two." What for? ”

Li Wenyuan bent down, said with a smile: "Two military masters, my two brothers are farmers in the south of the city, and they want to go into the city to sell some mountain goods. ”

The soldier lifted the curtain on the basket and saw that it was indeed some seasonal mountain goods, and then said: "What kind of mountain goods are sold, I don't think you two are good people, go to the side and let me interrogate and interrogate." ”

Zong Luohu also smiled and arched his hand at this time: "Master Jun, you are doing well, we are both honest farmers, why do you bother, please raise your hand and let the two of us live." ”

"Hmph, no one who walked from the city gate here dared to say that he was not an honest person, whether you two were honest people or not, what the two of you said didn't count, what Lao Tzu said." The soldier in the lead was about to rush the two men to the side to search their bodies. If he really searched his body, he would definitely find the small objects in the basket, and these small objects prepared in advance must not be lost.

Li Wenyuan saw that the soldier's gaze was constantly sweeping around his waist, and he understood a little in his heart, and hurriedly put down the flat burden on his shoulder, took out half a hanging money from his waist and stuffed it into the soldier's hand and said: "Master Jun, why bother on such a hot day, you can use these broken money to buy some herbal tea to cool off, these days the two of us have to collect some mountain goods next to them to sell in the city, Master Jun, what is convenient for you?" ”

The soldier took the money, and his face was much better: "Well, you peasant also know the rules, and I can't do unreasonable things, so you don't have to check when you enter and leave the city gate these days, and you can leave quickly after selling it out early." ”

Li Wenyuan bent down and said yes, while picking up a flat shoulder, and pulled Zong Luohu into the city.

Not long after entering the city, Li Wenyuan saw at a glance that a few people were sitting at a tea stall next to him waving to him, and they were the few dead soldiers he had raised. So he took Zong Luohu and walked over, asked for two nights of tea, and sat down with those people.

"How? Where are those villagers being held, and is there any news? Li Wenyuan asked in a low voice.

"The head of the family, this time the county order did not put them in the refugee shelter, but posted a notice saying that a group of anti-tax mobs had been captured and that they would be killed in three days, and they were all directly locked up in the county jail." A man replied in a low voice.

Li Wenyuan was drinking water, and he was stunned when he heard the reply of his subordinates. This time, the county order is a little unsophisticated, why don't you play cards according to the routine, so that your actions on your side must be accelerated, otherwise you can only collect the corpses of those people. At that moment, he made a decision in his heart, so he said to Zong Luohu: "Sect leader, the plan has changed, let's go to capture Hulu first tonight." ”

Zong Luohu was also worried about those innocent people in his heart, and he had no objections at the moment, nodding his head and saying good.

Li Wenyuan asked his men to disperse, and at night they went to the courtyard where Hulu was hiding to capture Hulu. He turned to Zong Rahu and said:

"Sect leader, the person who will be captured tonight is Ashina Hulu, the son of the Western Turkic Khan. In order to keep a low profile in the territory of the Great Sui, he did not bring many guards with him, and now there are only three Hu people around him. Among them, there is a tall man, called Batu, who has the best martial arts among them, and the other two are just Hu people with some brute strength, and Hulu's martial arts are not as good as Batuk, but as the son of the Great Khan, the comparison is not bad. Let's do this, my subordinates will entangle the two Hu guards, the leader of the sect, you must entangle Hulu, it is best to catch it, it doesn't matter if he can't catch it, just let him not get out and escape, as for Batu, I will deal with it. ”

Zong Luohu nodded and said, "Well, according to what General Li said, I will definitely not let Hulu escape." ”

"Then please ask the sect leader, tonight's incident is about the lives of a hundred and ten innocent villagers, we can only succeed and not fail." Li Wenyuan said solemnly to Zong Luohu.