Liu Huangshang's original intention was just to ask Li Hualong to pay attention to Chai Guozhu, if it's okay, it doesn't matter, if something happens, it needs to be contained.

But Liu Huangshang didn't expect that Li Hualong was a person who particularly distrusted military generals, and felt that they were all born two or five boys, who were unreasonable, shameless, and only knew how to kill, so they treated military generals badly, Liu Huangshang didn't say it, but as soon as he said this, Li Hualong immediately regarded Chai Guozhu as an enemy.

How can you easily believe in the enemy?

So Li Hualong directly rejected Chai Guozhu in the air, and at this critical moment, Li Hualong felt that he had to send someone to take the initiative to motivate the army, and the best candidate was of course Chai Guozhu.

First, you can rely on Chai Guozhu's strong combat effectiveness to increase the probability of victory, and secondly, you can also take this opportunity to test Chai Guozhu's loyalty, if Chai Guozhu is loyal enough, he will definitely fight to the death, and if he can win at that time, he will be able to remove Chai Guozhu's suspicion.

But if Chai Guozhu really has a problem, Li Hualong doesn't mind getting rid of Chai Guozhu's hidden threat.

After all, military generals can't be trusted.

Li Hualong's side was intensively preparing for a sudden counterattack, thinking of teaching a hard lesson to the sailors of the Zhennan Army, and on the other side, the team of the working group led by Xie He finally arrived in Ningbo Mansion.

Zheng Ying had been looking forward to support for a long time, but when he saw that there were only more than 30 members of the working group and more than 200 guards in the "support", the whole person was not good.

"Mr. Xie, the handsome only gave me more than 200 people? What's the use of that? Three days ago, I just pressed down another big household riot, and now it is the time when there is a shortage of manpower, and if this continues, I can't even get out of Ningbo Mansion, there are too many big families here, too bad. ”

Zheng Ying looked at Xie He anxiously: "Can you tell the marshal that it's good to give me two or three thousand people, at least I can defend the Ningbo Mansion, right?" I have only 5,000 brothers I can trust, and the rest of the troops are not very reliable. ”

Xie He didn't say anything, just smiled, and then took out a warrant and handed it to Zheng Ying.

"What is this?"

"The commander's order."

Zheng Ying was stunned for a moment, quickly opened it and took a look, and after reading it, he looked at Xie He in surprise.

"Dashuai asked me to fully cooperate with you?"

"Yes, General Zheng, I came here to help you solve the problem of chaos and lack of troops, you can rest assured, as long as you fully cooperate with me, within a month, you can achieve initial results."

Xie He said to Zheng Ying very confidently.

"What are you going to do?"

Zheng Ying was confused.

"It's very simple, General Zheng, tell me, where are the most unfriendly people to us in the entire Ningbo Mansion you occupy?"

"That's naturally in Yin County."

Zheng Ying opened his mouth and said: "Yinxian is the hometown of the Shen thief, there are several big families who are very wary of us, after we raided five large households, some people rose up to make trouble, and what is even more hateful is that those farmers who have been favored by our distribution of land actually participated in this matter." ”

Xie He nodded.

"Then how did General Zheng handle this matter?"

"Well, the troops were transferred back to defeat the regimental training, all the guards of the big families were killed, the houses were convicted, and the farmers were punished according to the severity of the circumstances, and the land was basically confiscated, but there were still people who made a mess in such a punishment, I really don't understand what those farmers think!"

Zheng Ying's face was full of anger, and he seemed to be very angry in his heart.

"Isn't that simple? They have been tenants for generations, and they have been vassals of large households for generations, and they have become accustomed to it, and they may not be able to adapt to it when they suddenly get their own land.

These peasant households are accustomed to being threatened, accustomed to being coerced, and as long as one person is agitated, many people will blindly follow them, regardless of right and wrong, even if we have allocated them land. ”

Xie He said coldly.

"Is there any truth to this? My family used to be tenants, but this ...... It's hard to imagine. ”

Zheng Ying shook his head.

"No matter how unimaginable it is, it is the case, for farmers, this is not called revenge, this is just trying to survive, they are used to exchanging the minimum price for their own survival, they are used to it, you want them to abandon their centuries-old lifestyle to help you, it's too difficult."

Xie He opened his mouth and said: "This is like a goat that always eats grass, you put a piece of meat in front of it and invite it to eat, can it get used to it?" ”

Zheng Ying said no.

"So force it to eat until he can get used to it."

Xie He finally stunned Zheng Ying.

"Huh? Forcing sheep to eat meat? ”

"Yes, forcing sheep to eat meat, this is similar to the official forcing the people, compared to the officials forcing the people, it only forces a few people, what we want to force is not just a sheep in a small village."

Zheng Ying looked Xie He up and down.

"Mr. Xie, what are you doing when the marshal sent you here?"

Xie He took a deep breath.

"I have come to relieve General Zheng of the calamity."

Subsequently, Xie He asked Zheng Ying to provide the villages around Yinxian County with the most fertile land, the largest number of large households, and the most hostile village to the Zhennan Army.

Xie He assessed how difficult this village was to deal with, and found that it was the most difficult to deal with, so he decided that it was it.

Some others said that they should choose a slightly simpler place to try their hands, but Xie He refused.

"If you want to fight, you have to start fighting from the most difficult place, clean up the most powerful ones, there are some small fish and shrimp underneath, we have soldiers in our hands, knives, guns, cannons and crossbows, what are we afraid of? It's them who should be afraid! And not us! ”

After unifying his internal thoughts, Xie He asked Zheng Ying for help.

"What? A ruffian and a street idler? What do you want them to do? What is there to find in that kind of person? The streets and alleys are all over, and it took us a lot of effort to clean them up! ”

Zheng Ying obviously doesn't have a good sense of these guys.

Xie He nodded with satisfaction.

"Okay, it's this group of people, General Zheng, find me dozens of people, the most fierce and stubborn ones who do the most bad things, I'm of great use!"

Zheng Ying couldn't figure it out at all.

"What good can they do? If you don't want to find a serious job to do, you know that I will kill them all sooner or later! ”

"Don't! Don't kill them all! You've killed them all, how can I find the bad luck of those big guys? Ordinary people don't have that kind of guts. ”

Xie He hurriedly stopped Zheng Ying's idea.

"Trouble with big dealers? Why am I getting more and more confused? ”

Xie He shook his head.

"General Zheng, have you forgotten the commander's orders? Fully cooperate with our working group, don't worry about the rest, when the time comes, I will naturally hand over to you a very obedient Ningbo Mansion. ”

Looking at Xie He's sworn look, Zheng Ying was even more puzzled, and he decided to follow Xie He all the time to see what Xie He was going to do.