In Dengzhou Mansion, Xiao Jiasui and a group of escorts have been over for more than a month. After arriving that day, he immediately summoned Xu Ning, Luan Tingyu, Li Bao, and others, conveyed the reorganization of the escort force and the relevant personnel appointments, explained the staffing and composition of each regiment, and then conveyed Gu Haotian's order to control Dengzhou within the year.

The generals were worried that there was nothing to do in Dengzhou, and Xiao Jiasui, who listened to it, said that he would take Dengzhou within the year, and they were all overjoyed, and immediately discussed where to start.

Xiao Jiasui had already seriously thought about the plan to take Dengzhou all the way over, and in his thinking, he would first take Wendeng, the easternmost one, and then turn back and go north to control Huangxian. Therefore, when he entered Laizhou, he asked Lehe to take intelligence officers to Wendeng first.

After returning to Dengzhou, Xiao Jiasui communicated with Yan Junqing and immediately got his support. According to Yan Junqing, Wendeng's current county magistrate is over sixty years old, but he is a native of Jingxi, and he has been thinking about returning to his hometown in the past two years, so he has not resigned yet, mainly because he is greedy for power and wants to make some oil and water before leaving office.

But it just so happened that a few days later, Lehe came back from Wendeng. According to his discovery, Wendeng County has been in trouble for the past two days, and it turned out that the three masters of Yanjiazhai in the west of the city were shopping in the courtyard in the city, and they were jealous of the second son of the county, and later they were outnumbered and beaten to death. This time it can stab the hornet's nest, and the bandits of Yanjiazhai threatened to enter the city to take revenge, and Wendeng County was far away from the city and was in the southeast corner, and there were not many soldiers and horses below, and the old county was scared to death for a while.

Within two days, Yan Junqing really received a message from Wendeng Zhixian, begging Fucheng to send troops to suppress the bandits, and proposed that he was too old to take on his responsibilities, and recommended the lord Bo Zhaoyuan to act as his agent.

Xiao Jiasui took this opportunity to take Xu Ning's mixed group south, they first raided and exterminated the bandits in Yanjiazhai, and then pretended to be bandits and killed Wendeng City, and eliminated the county and the lord of the raccoon dog with a hill, Bo Zhaoyuan and others, and then Xiao Jiasui, Xu Ning and others arrived as Dengzhou reinforcements and immediately recovered Wendeng City.

After that, they stationed in the city of Wendeng, scattered the four battalions below, and in only half a month, they went from the sea in the east to Laizhou in the west to wipe out the bandits in the county, and in the middle, in the name of bandits, some local tyrants and shoddy gentry were uprooted, and the entire Wendeng opposition force was suddenly emptied. Since then, the prisoners of officers and soldiers sent over by Liangshan Manor have also been successfully placed in Wendeng.

According to Xiao Jiasui's request, Ma Xun and Cui Ye led a battalion of infantry and a battalion of cavalry to garrison the local area, and after the place was stable, they moved to the border of Laizhou and waited for an opportunity to seize Laiyang.

On the way back to the division, Xiao Jiasui and the others easily cleaned up the hidden dangers in Muping County, and controlled the entire southeast of Dengzhou, and then returned north to Dengzhou to plot against Huang County.

At the beginning of December, when Xiao Jiasui and others were preparing to attack Huang County, Gu Haotian rushed to Dengzhou with the personal guard battalion and relevant personnel.

It has been some time since a few people parted, during which Liangshan Manor had two major battles with the imperial army in succession, Gu Haotian reported the battle, and everyone was elated, especially Xu Ning, Luan Tingyu, Xu Huang and other generals with troops, and they were even more yearning.

"You are also working hard, if the big Dengzhou is now only a small county of Huang County, you have also paid a lot of hard work, I knew that it was so smooth here, and I didn't have to rush all the way."

Gu Haotian saw that these people took care of Dengzhou steadily, but he praised it without hesitation. Then he asked:

"What are the plans for the rest of the Huang County?"

"Huangxian projectile land, if you want to take it, it is actually effortless, and at the moment I am scrupling about how to do it quietly. The magistrate of Huang County is called Murong Guangzong, but he is the nephew of Murong Yanda, the prefect of Qingzhou, that is, the nephew of the noble concubine in the court

, so when he was in office, he was also arrogant, regarded Huangxian County as his own one-third of an acre, and rarely took Dengzhou Mansion in his eyes. If it is taken down in Huangxian in the name of pirates or other names, it will inevitably lead to an investigation by the DPRK and China, and it will bring us unnecessary trouble. Therefore, everyone's idea is how to deceive this guy from Huang County, and it is best to start again in Laizhou or Qingzhou and other places to create a false impression that he is not at the scene. ”

"In that case, how many of you have a plan?"

"At the moment, it is because there is no countermeasure, so I am delayed here, otherwise I would have started it a long time ago."

Xiao Jiasui replied distressedly, he had really spent some effort on this Murong Guangzong these days, but he couldn't think of any proper way.

"What are the preferences of this Murong Guang Sect?"

Gu Haotian didn't believe that this child from the Murong family could behave properly, if he was greedy, he would definitely be able to find a breakthrough.

"This Murong Zhixian is an outlier, he has been to Huang County for more than two years, and he does not see the general rich children who are greedy for money and lustful, but he is unusually high, if he has any special preferences, it is that he is very addicted to officials, and he is bent on entering the court to get ahead as an official, so there is no evil behavior on the ground in Huang County, but there are some political achievements. This time, the imperial court appointed me as the prefect of Dengzhou, and this guy was very unconvinced, and he never came to the government to visit me for several months. ”

Yan Junqing has been in Dengzhou for more than a year, and he still knows this person well, and his analysis is relatively objective.

When Gu Haotian heard this, he suddenly had a whim, and he couldn't help asking:

"If he gives him a chance to make a great contribution, do you think he will take it to himself, or will he share it with his uncle?"

"The little official said to find him something to do in Qingzhou?"

When Xiao Jiasui saw Gu Haotian propose Murong Yanda, he thought of Qingzhou.

"It's not to find trouble for him, if we disclose the information of the Qingzhou Salt Farm to him, will this guy send someone to report to his uncle for disposal, or will he personally rush to participate."

"The petty officials are saying that they used the Qingzhou salt field as bait to lure him out of Huang County?" When Xiao Jiasui saw this, he immediately fell into deep thought, and after a while he said, "In my opinion, this guy will definitely go in person, such a great achievement will be greatly discounted if he is not on the scene, if Murong Yanda is shameless, maybe he will not get any credit at all." ”

"What Director Xiao said is very reasonable, in fact, no matter what he thinks, as long as Murong Yanda's greed for merit is exposed, this guy will not go over in person."

Xu Ning looked at the New Year these days, but Huang County couldn't take it, and he was very anxious, and when he saw Gu Haotian put forward a plan, he immediately agreed with it, and the idea was also very insightful.

When everyone heard Xu Ning's words, they suddenly felt that the feasibility had greatly increased, so several people got together to discuss it, and they agreed on a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

It is said that Huang County is located on the important passage from Dengzhou to Laizhou, and it is a prosperous county second only to Penglai County, where the government is located. Murong Guangzong has been in office for more than two years, when he left Beijing to come to this cape, he also wanted to save some qualifications, and then through the operation of the imperial concubine at home, he returned to the court to be an official, but he didn't expect to stay here for almost three years, and there was no sign of returning to Beijing at all, especially when the prefect of Dengzhou chose Muping Zhixian with shallower qualifications than him, which made him feel that he had to make a move, and he couldn't wait here anymore.

On this day, when Murong Guangzong was struggling with what gifts to bring back to Beijing before the end of the year, he saw his master Nangong Shou hurriedly come over to report that Shicai had met a salt merchant in a hotel on the street, and inadvertently inquired about a piece of news, which was very useful to him.

It is said that the salt merchant has been doing business in the Guangling salt field in Qingzhou in previous years, and went to Nanyang in the second half of last year. But the salt merchant was also a stakeholder

After two days of observation, he found that the new owner was not actually the person in charge, and later asked the new owner to drink. After drinking, the guy spit out the truth, but the owner behind the leak of the salt farm was a person from Liangshan Manor, and said that the old owner had been removed a long time ago.

After the salt merchant learned the truth, he didn't dare to stay for a long time, so he left in a hurry, and today he happened to rest at a friend in Huangxian County, and met Nangong Shou at lunchtime, and after a few big drinks, he told the secret. Nangong Shou knew that his master's uncle was the prefect of Qingzhou, so he thought that this was a great achievement, and hurriedly came back to report immediately after the banquet.

Let's say that Murong Guangzong was thinking about bringing some gifts back to Beijing, when he heard this amazing news, he was immediately very excited. The imperial court has recently been defeated by Liangshan Caokou one after another, and if this group of bandits can be captured and brought into Beijing at this time, it will be a great merit! At that time, it was still necessary to stay in this remote Huang County. At that moment, he immediately thought of his uncle who was the prefect of Qingzhou, so he immediately picked up a pen and paper to write a letter.

"Master, is it a letter to the clan uncle in Qingzhou?" That Nangong Shou suddenly asked.

"Oh!"

Murong Guangzong was surprised when he heard this, and then said:

"Uncle Clan is in Qingzhou, isn't it just the right time to make a move?"

"The little one dared to say bluntly, if this matter is taken by the prefect of Murong, then the lord you will at most be a credit for reporting the news, if there is an omission in Qingzhou to forget about the news, maybe even this credit may not be there. Master, you are going back to Beijing at the end of the year anyway, it is better to discuss this matter with the Murong Prefect when you pass through Qingzhou, even if the information of this salt merchant is not true, the master himself is on the scene, there is still room for design, and at least half of the credit. ”

In other words, how could this Nangong Shou say such a paragraph? It turned out that when he was at the banquet, the salt merchant once said that he wanted to dedicate this merit to Lord Murong of Qingzhou, but said that he was very greedy for merit and was afraid that he would not get benefits, so he wanted to find a proper person. At this time, he saw that his lord had written a letter to his uncle, and when he remembered those few words, he came out to stop him.

However, Murong Guangzong knew that his clan uncle was a person, and at this time, he suddenly woke up after being reminded, and immediately put down the pen he had picked up. He sat there and thought quietly for a long time, then ordered to call the county to explain, and he took Nangong Shou and some cronies to Qingzhou.

Since he left the intelligence department, he has become Gu Haotian's royal intelligence officer, so he has followed Xiao Jiasui in the city these days.

"Murong Guangzong has left the city!"

In a small teahouse outside the city, Shi Qian hurriedly came in to report.

"Who are they?"

Xiao Jiasui hurriedly asked.

"There are only two or three carriages, and I look at at most ten people."

"This is a mess!"

Xiao Jiasui said happily.

And Gu Haotian and the others were also very excited when they heard Shi Qian's reply, and Gu Haotian immediately said:

"Director Xiao, this place will be handed over to you, the overall situation of Dengzhou has been decided, and it will be of great use for us to stay, so I will accompany this Murong Zhi County for a ride. At the end of the year, if you can do something here, and go back to the manor, it seems that there will be a big change in the escort team, and you will be indispensable to the trouble of you, the military and political director. ”

Let's talk about Huang County's action plan, Gu Haotian, Xiao Jiasui, Yan Junqing and others have already had a division of labor. Because the overall situation in Qingzhou has been decided, and there are too many things on the Liangshan side, it was agreed that if Murong Guangzong took the bait, he would let Gu Haotian and the others go back with him and deal with it on the way.

At this time, seeing that things were as everyone thought, but everyone was happy, so everyone immediately moved in time and led people to follow them first. And Gu Haotian and the others didn't stay for a few days when they arrived in Dengzhou, so they hurriedly embarked on the return trip.

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