Pei Gai and Bian Yan worked together to tide over the difficulties. However, Bian Yan's main energy is on governing county affairs, wanting to re-enforce discipline and rebuild the prestige of the government; Pei Gai is just the opposite, mainly to strengthen his own strength, under this premise, laws and regulations are not important, in a sense, he is undermining the authority of the government and prying the corner of Bian Yan.

Just after the Chen family's 7,000 grains were recorded in the account—nominally his private account, but in fact it was still handed over to Bian Yan for unified management—and the title deed was also delivered, Pei Gai summoned another person and asked him, "How is the investigation going?" ”

Zu Ti was in charge of training the troops, and Bian Yan did everything himself, so tired that everyone lost a lot of weight; And Pei should be responsible for the things are complicated, many things, as a assassin, it is inconvenient for him to come forward directly, and he must be entrusted to handle it, so he feels that his subordinates are short of manpower, and he is forced to borrow from Zu Lishang. When he was in Jiangdong, he also borrowed Feng Tie from Zu Ti and learned archery from Feng Tie for a while, but although Feng Tie seemed to be very capable of fighting, his mind was not meticulous enough to give him important tasks.

In fact, if you want to say that you can fight, Pei Gai now has a Zhen Sui by his side, the problem is that Zhen Sui is so coarse, it is impossible to send him to do something secret, he can only assist from the side and provide military support. Therefore, Pei should hand over the 500 soldiers left by Zu Ti to Zhen Sui and other subordinates, let them train well, and at the same time order them to assist Bian Yan in managing the security of the county and supervising the construction of city defense fortifications.

This time, before Zu Ti left, Pei Gai ran to borrow a person, this person's surname is Gao Mingle, originally a native of Bohai County, although he has been farming for generations, but he is very tall, eight feet, born with white skin and thin eyes, always squinting at people, and he is not a good kind at first glance. A few years ago, when Shi Le and others plundered Jizhou, he moved south to avoid chaos, and was coerced into the defeated army on the way, and became a grass coward, and then was subdued by the passing ancestors and accepted as a tribe. Pei should borrow a sharp-minded, thoughtful, and preferably talented thief from Zu Ti Shang, and Zu Ti recommended Gao Le to him - Gao Le has indeed been a thief.

It is said that Zu Ti summoned Gao Le and asked him "how the investigation is going", and the target of the investigation is the only grain merchant in Huaiyin County.

Gao Le reported that the details of the grain merchant had been investigated by the villain, and according to the envoy's plan - "He has a son, who is seventeen years old, and has no other desires than to gamble." Please make the king's order, do you set up a gambling game to lure him in? ”

Pei Cai thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "It's too slow......" and-"Qing is a thief, so why deceive?" "That's not your forte. Immediately secretly instructed Gao Le to ask Zhen Sui to ask for manpower - but don't mix that rough embryo, lest you make a mistake - find an opportunity to kidnap the son of the grain merchant, and then use the pretext of extorting money as an excuse to find a way to quietly control the grain merchant and secretly seize his property......

"After that, the grain store will be handed over to you to take care of, and when everything is on the right track, you will ...... father and son," he said, reaching out and gesturing his throat - "Don't alarm others, just say that his family moved to another county, and you are specially invited to maintain the Huaiyin industry." Is it possible? ”

Gao Le thought about it for a while, and said that I knew things such as taking hostages, seizing shops, and even murdering shopkeepers, and I promised that there would be no mistakes, but-"The villain can't operate, but I'm afraid that I will miss the king." "Pei should say that you should do the previous things first, and then I will look to see if anyone can bring in to help you run the grain store.

Pei Gai may not be able to buy grain even if he is rich now, but presumably this century-old store in the county town should have a lot of ways to buy grain, so he has to quietly occupy the magpie's nest as a new source of grain for himself. As for who to hand over to the grain store, it is really blessed by God, and soon someone will take the initiative to send it to the door.

Soon after the autumn, Pei's family sent 20,000 grains to Huaiyin - half of them were the revenue of Pei Gaidanhu's industry, and the other half was privately funded by the Donghai royal family - and it was not someone else who sent the grain, it was Lude Lu Xiu of Danhu Zhuangtou.

This Luther is also an ambitious guy, I thought that if I fell into the East China Sea royal family, I could first get up and down, make a windfall, and then use the power of the palace to make an official - I am also a person who has read books, and I shouldn't be a common man all my life. But who would have thought that first the property of the palace was returned to the Pei family, and then the head of the Pei family left Jiangdong and crossed the river to the north...... After much thought, Luther finally gritted his teeth, and I went to follow the "lord" and hit the luck to see! If people want to come out, they must take risks, and those who want to succeed without wind and waves, unless God favors them, and the stars come down to earth! I don't think I've got that kind of life......

So he took the opportunity of coming over with the grain, and expressed his willingness to follow Pei Gai and serve before and after the saddle. Pei Cai asked him: "Can you know how to operate and grow hair?" Luther patted his chest: "The villain's father also did business, and he was good at importing and exporting goods, settling accounts, etc. "Pei should say okay, I don't have anyone to use anyway, I might as well try to believe you - you go and help Gao Le's grain store. Luther frowned slightly: "If it is the lord's property, the villain should run it wholeheartedly, but this grain is ......"

Pei Gai smiled: "Although it is still in someone else's name, it will be mine sooner or later, so what do you have to worry about?" "It can't be long-term to borrow chickens to lay eggs, and every year or two, I must find an opportunity to justifiably classify the grain store as the industry of Thorn Shi himself-"If the business is good, I will guarantee you as an official." He didn't know how many blank checks he had written, he didn't use his brain, he was very familiar with it, and he came as soon as he opened his mouth.

Luther was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed: "All thanks to the grace of the lord!" ”

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Pei should be an assassin, and it is inconvenient for him to come forward with many private things, but this does not mean that he usually does not show up much; On the contrary, since returning from the tour, Pei Tingshi has been on the streets for two days in three days.

Of course, it is inconvenient to wear a hat and a shirt on the street, and the barefoot girl shakes the fan, Pei should wear a full set of official clothes seriously, Sanliang Jinxian is as majestic as a mountain, and the green ribbon is as bright as a river, but he still holds a three-foot green bamboo in his hand, and he does not ride a horse, and orders the servants to walk on their shoulders - of course, it is the newly bought slave maid, not Pei Lin and Pei Du, those two have other important responsibilities.

The dignified Assassin Shi Daren, as if he stayed in the yamen all day long, was depressed, and he wandered around the county town when he had nothing to do, and soon the county citizens were also used to it, and when they saw the flag umbrella fluttering from afar, they hurriedly avoided the road. Pei Tingshi casually pointed to the people and summoned the head of the family to come out to ask, but he didn't ask about the people's livelihood and the year, but only asked if there was anything to wander in the wilderness of the city. But when asked, he didn't go, at most he found a few restaurants to have a meal or two of wine and food - it is estimated that there is nothing to play in this small county town, as for the outside of the city...... The thieves are still gone, maybe they don't dare to go far.

The big guy took the initiative to ignore his recent trip to the county. In short, no matter how you look at it, this is also a gentleman of a family - plus he is young, and there are not many hairs on his chin - people of insight all shake their heads and sigh. Of course, some people didn't care, and helped to explain, saying that don't drive Bian Gong to be strict and square, he can govern the county, the governor of a state, shouldn't be in charge of too many local trivial matters, so idle is idle, what's wrong with shopping? What's in your way?

After a few days, the county seat was probably too small, and the streets and alleys were almost all over, and Lord Thorn Shi simply ran to the construction site of the city. After a month or two of labor, the Huaiyin city wall has basically been repaired, but the moat has not been dredged yet, and the sheep and horse walls are still damaged. In addition, the original plan was to build 20 flints in Wuli and one fort along the Huaishui River, and the construction has just begun. Pei should run to the construction site for three days and two ends, the bamboo cane pointed, calling people to come and ask, no matter astronomy and geography, folk proverbs, everything I want to know, it is best to have a short family, or thrilling, or fragrant stories, he listened to the most attentive.

As for why Pei Gai did this, in addition to himself, even Bian Yan didn't know, and after asking several times, Pei Gai said casually: "If you want to govern a state, you must not know its customs, and you must not know its customs." "I'm going to inquire about customs, in order to collect information for the long-term governance of Xuzhou, anyway, the general affairs are entrusted to you, and I will report it to me if there is something."

It was mainly because after this period of private operation, he finally roughly gathered enough grain for a year, and his mood was slightly relaxed. He instructed Pei Du and Zhen Sui, saying that 500 soldiers in the city alone are not enough, so you try to go to the four towns and eight fields, and even the north bank of the Yangtze River, find the honest and obedient one, and summon a few hundred more people to come over - rest assured, we have enough food to eat.

But nearly half of the grain was in his private account, and only Bian Yan knew about it, and he refused to disclose it to Zu Li. Bian Yan has no objection to this, he has always felt that he has to accumulate in Guangling for two or three years, and it is best to take down the Linhuai State and even the Xiapi Kingdom, and then train 3,000 guards and 5,000 field soldiers, so that Zu Ti can rest assured that he can go out to fight. Before that, it was better to pretend that there was not enough food and grass, so that Zu Ti could temporarily rest his desire to go west.

In this autumn and winter, news of the Central Plains came one after another. First, in September of that year, Jia Kai and others officially supported Sima Ye, the king of Qin, as the crown prince, established a platform in Chang'an, and called on various feudal towns to send troops to the king. Sima Ye also specially wrote a sincere letter to Jianye, hoping that Sima Rui could send troops north as soon as possible to echo it, but Sima Rui, Wang Dao and others ignored it.

They really couldn't take care of it, and the Du Tao rebels were newly attached to the Fu Mi Department of the Pingliu people, and their momentum was even hotter, and the entire Jingzhou was shocked three times a day. After Wang Cheng's resignation, after repeated consultations and exchanges of interests within the Jianye regime, it was not until near the end of the year that it was finally decided to appoint Wang Dun as the governor of the conquest and lead the army to quell the chaos - the low efficiency of the government can be seen from this. So Wang Dun summoned Wuchang Taishou Tao Kan and Xunyang Taishou Zhou to visit and so on, and advanced in multiple ways to suppress Du Tao.

Pei Gai is very curious about this Du Tao, because whether it is Tao Kan or Zhou Wan, they are all first-class celebrities in Jiangnan, even so, it will take several years to completely quell Du Tao's rebellion - is this guy really that powerful? It's a pity that he refuses to go north to Yuhu, and he refuses to go back to his hometown Shuzhong, but he will only beat his own people...... 8)