Chapter 68: A two-pronged approach
The sudden surrender of the Chen brothers was undoubtedly an opportunity for Zhu Houzhao. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
They are like two scholars in chess, completely suffocating Mo Shanlin to the top of the handsome position.
Zhu Houzhao was still stationed under Qishan Mountain, and confronted the horse bandits on the mountain. And he has verified the true strength of the Mo family in Huizhou from many aspects, and deeply feels that he himself is seriously insufficient in strength at this time.
In fact, so far, the biggest beneficiary of the Chen brothers' anti-water is Mo Yanei.
This returning family gentleman is fighting the hardest and hardest with every relative in the family who holds power, big or small.
Among these relatives, the most headache for him is undoubtedly the third uncle Mo Shanlin. No matter where they are, those who hold the power of the military will have a lot of right to speak, and the Mo family is no exception.
Fortunately, Mo Fenglei, the inland patriarch, was stumped by an overseas emergency, and fortunately, Mo Shanlin's pigtail had been personally delivered to Mo Yanei's hands by Zhu Houzhao.
Greedy for ink!
The gloomy events that exist in both government departments and enterprises have also appeared in the Mo family.
Mo Shanlin is not a good bird, and a bad bird with a lot of ambitions.
This undoubtedly gave Mo Yanei, who had already regained forty or fifty percent of his power, a reason to become famous.
The disaster is just around the corner.
But this is not something that Zhu Houzhao is worried about, one Mo Yanei, one think tank Yang Shen, two people are enough.
What really troubled Zhu Houzhao was the thieves and pirates under Mo Shanlin. In addition to the five or six thousand elite Huizhou government troops actually controlled on the surface, the scattered number of other large and small horse thief groups reached a terrifying 20,000 people.
Three religions and nine streams are all-encompassing!
In other words, as long as Mo Shanlin is willing, he can pull up an army of more than 30,000 people at his fingertips! Moreover, the individual combat capability of this army is definitely stronger than that of the guard army, and I don't know how many.
30,000 people, compared to the huge number of 2 million troops of the Ming Dynasty, is just a drop in the bucket. But in the interior, especially in Jiangnan, which has not heard the sound of swords and war drums for a long time, it is enough to conquer the city.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao is very melancholy at the moment.
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Moshanlin Mansion.
Mo Shanlin, who looked reckless, laughed with the information sent back from the capital, and the happiness on his face could not be concealed at all.
It is very clear in the intelligence that in recent years, none of the sons and daughters of the princes and magnates in the capital have gone to the Nanzhi subordinate area for training, so the identity of the sons and daughters of the garrison Zhu Shou and the magnates has basically been ruled out.
But this still can't be a reason for Mo Shanlin to get rid of the obstructive Zhu Shou, because no matter what, the person who can get the holy decree may be an existence in the eyes of the emperor, even if he is not a son of a powerful person.
But there is a more important one. It was this piece of information that gave Mo Shanlin the courage to do so.
Recently, the emperor in the capital has not issued a holy decree at all!
False proclamation, or exaggeration. But no matter which name you use to describe it, it's enough to rob your family and exterminate your family!
If this information falls into the hands of Jia Lian or other scheming people, something else will definitely be seen.
In fact, the holy decree was not issued from the bright face of Beijing, which was an insurance for Zhu Houzhao to protect himself. But anyone who is smart can see some hidden meanings that are not very deep.
The Holy Decree does not go through the cabinet, and it can only explain one problem, that is, the person who receives the decree is the absolute confidant of His Majesty the Emperor!
It's a pity that such information fell into the hands of Mo Shanlin.
As a result, Zhu Houzhao fell into the embarrassing situation of Xiucai encountering Bing Youli and couldn't explain it.
In just two days, a carrier pigeon flew to the hands of the horse bandits stationed on Qishan.
"Hehe, those two stupid brothers of the Chen family really think they have hugged their thick thighs! It turned out to be just a stunned young man who came out of nowhere! Liu Liuhe laughed, and the previous wavering vanished in the blink of an eye.
"Aren't there often people at the foot of the mountain coming up to persuade them to surrender these days? It's time for us to take a stand! Liu Liu was not a fool, he quickly found a way to easily deal with the officials and soldiers under the mountain from here.
That night, Zhu Houzhao was in the camp thinking about the large amount of information sent in recent days, and he had a terrible headache.
Suddenly, a guard reported that someone on the mountain had asked to see him.
Zhu Houzhao immediately came to the spirit, and he still wanted to try the realm of surrendering without a fight.
"What does Liu Liu have to say?" Zhu Houzhao ordered all the people, and even the Chen brothers were put on the table by him.
The person who came looked very honest, and he was not a shrewd character at first glance.
"The head of my family said that I won't send people up the mountain tomorrow!" As soon as this thing came up, he said in a thick voice.
it! Zhu Houzhao was blinded, Liu Liu took the deflated calf and sent such a person down just to disgust me?
"Gone?"
"Oh, and also, the head of my family asked me to give this to the Chen brothers so that they can take a look." As he spoke, he took out a crumpled crumpled piece of paper from his arms and threw it directly to Chen Ergou.
Chen Ergou opened it and glanced at it, his face changed slightly.
Zhu Houzhao saw the clue, but did not express it.
Chen Ergou clenched his fists and looked struggling. If you get on the wrong boat, you will drown!
But after Chen Fugui glanced at it, he pushed Chen Ergou very indistinctly. With such a push, Chen Ergou immediately made up his mind and took the initiative to step forward and give the paper to Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao glanced at it and smiled faintly.
"Kill him!" Chen Ergou said: "I'll do it to show my heart!" ā
Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said: "There's no need for that, I still know if you suspect people don't need to use people!" ā
turned to the messenger on the mountain and smiled: "The two armies will not fight each other, and this garrison is a personable person." Let you go back today and bring a message to Liu Liu, and you will tell him some high-level secrets, and Mo Shanlin may not be able to touch it even if he jumps on his feet. ā
After finishing speaking, Zhu Houzhao glanced at Chen Ergou intentionally or unintentionally, with a gentle expression.
This man returned to the mountain and told in detail what he had seen and heard in the official barracks.
"That's what he said?" Liu Liu was a little incredulous, he had done a lot of this kind of thing to sow discord, and there were many successful ones, but it was difficult to solve it so lightly.
Especially the sentence from Zhu Houzhao, the meaning is not profound, and Liu Liu can easily understand it.
It's just that the status of Moshan Forest is too low, and he can't get in touch with the real secrets. But in Liu Liu's heart, Mo Shanlin is a big man who can touch the sky with his hand, and the people who dare to blatantly take in their group of bandits can not reach the sky?
So it's a pity that Liu Liu easily regarded Zhu Houzhao's words as a big thing to confuse the public, and his purpose was nothing more than to appease the hearts of the Chen brothers.
Maybe at this moment, the heads of the Chen brothers have been hung on the Yuanmen, and they have become the souls of the dead under the knife.
The other party lost two generals at once, even if the Chen family brothers did not die, that little garrison had to get manpower to guard and supervise them, and there was a lot to be done!
After walking around the table twice, Liu Liu made a bold decision: "Rob the camp tonight!" ā