In the blink of an eye, it is winter again, approaching the New Year's Pass, the northern border town of Mayi does not have a little bit of joyful atmosphere, due to the failure of Yang Guang's expedition to Goguryeo, the Turks began to harass the border pass again, just after autumn, the Turks rode on horses to get fat, just plundered Mayi, thanks to Mayi Taishou Wang Rengong has been actively guarded, strict defense, the Turks did not attack the city, but the villages outside the city were still looted, a large number of refugees poured into Mayi, The streets are full of beggars and people who are beaten from time to time to grab a steamed bun. Wang Rengong came back from the outside inspection, thinking about seeing the scene outside today, he didn't know how irritable he was, he picked up the teacup on the table and drank it, and found that there was no water.

"Hmm!" Wang Ren patted his head respectfully. Then one of his scribes came up and reported:

"My lord, the counties below have sent a document asking for relief, saying that some places have begun to die, and begging your lord to open a warehouse and release grain to save the people。。。。。。。" Before he finished speaking, he was slapped in the face.

"Open a warehouse, don't you know, Your Majesty in order to conquer Liaodong, most of our grain stocks here have been transferred, and now there are only a few thousand stones of grain stored in our warehouse, this is still a little bit of military food left behind by me with my old face begging the emperor, if it is sent down, what will our soldiers eat? If the Turks invade, how will our soldiers defend against the enemy? ”

"What about this 。。。。。。" The scribe is a local, and there are old and young people in the family, and there is not much to eat, so he is waiting to open a warehouse for relief, and when he hears Wang Rengong say this, he is a little disappointed in his heart, and he wants to persuade him.

"You're not done! Let's just say that we don't have any food in stock, and I have already sent the emergency documents to Luoyang, but the emperor has not replied yet, let them figure it out by themselves! You write back to them now, as I will, and go! But Wang Rengong's eyes were cloudy, so he had to obediently pick up the emergency document and retreat. At the door, I ran into a person.

"Yo! Mr. Lu, why do you cry and lose your face! What's wrong? "I met Liu Wuzhou, a close lieutenant under Wang Rengong, because he is sweet and kind on weekdays, and he is kind to Wang Rengong and the people around Wang Rengong, so everyone has a good impression of him.

"Oh! It's Lord Liu! Ay! It's not because of official business, the handsome man is in a bad mood, you have to be careful when you reply! Liu Wuzhou wanted the scribe to wave his hand, thanked him, and came to Wang Rengong.

"The last general will see your lordship."

"Oh! It's Wu Zhou! Sit! Wang Rengong had a natural contempt for the powerless literati in his heart, but he admired the generals under him, especially the brave ones, and when he saw Liu Wuzhou coming, his face was full of smiles.

"Adults are diligent in official duties, and I don't know what is embarrassing when I look at my face?"

"Hey! Don't you also see the dead and the homeless in the streets? Mayi soldiers and disasters have been repeated, and the people have suffered a lot! ”

"My lord, why don't we open the grain depot and send the military rations."

"No, the unauthorized use of military rations should be beheaded according to the law, and I must not do this! Moreover, our Mayi is an important border town, and now the Hu people in the grassland are eyeing our Great Sui, often looting, and sending down the military rations, and then the Hu people will invade again, I am afraid that we will be endangered. ”

"The marshal is far-sighted, and he is ashamed of himself, now that the emperor is far away in Luoyang, and now that the people are in turmoil, we have to do extraordinary things when we are extraordinary, and I have another way, that is, to borrow grain from the rich families in Hedong to raise money to tide over the difficulties!"

"What if they don't?"

"Then we will give them to 。。。。。。 in the name of colluding with the traitorous party or the Turks." Liu Wuzhou made a motion to wipe his neck. Wang Rengong nodded with satisfaction.

"Wu Zhou, that's good. After a while, I asked the scribe Lu to write a notice, asking the wealthy merchants in the city to provide grain to help the victims. ”

"Of course, if the handsome man wants to win the world in the future。。。。。。"

"Wu Zhou, how can you say such a rebellious thing? I haven't heard this today, as for the matter of raising food, you can do it! Liu Wuzhou was bored with himself, walked out by himself, and saw the scribe Mr. Lu walking towards him, his expression was still so depressed, Liu Wuzhou walked to his side:

"Mr. Lu has worked hard, I have prepared a table of wine at home, please don't refuse. A must come in the evening! Clerk Lu nodded and went about his own business. In the evening, the scribe Lu came to Liu Wuzhou's house for a banquet:

"Come on! Mr. Lu, it's been hard to be on an errand in front of the handsome, I'll give you another drink! In the future, Mr. Wanglu will cover up one or two for Wu Zhou in Dashuai. ”

"Ahh Adult please! "Scribe Lu had a cup to drink, but when he saw his face, he knew that he must have a bitterness in his heart. Liu Wuzhou saw it in his eyes and smiled secretly:

"Mr. Lu, you and I have been friends for so long, just say what you don't like! It feels better to say it. When the scribe heard this, he burst into tears like a wronged child.

"Lord Liu, although I am a scribe next to Dashuai, it seems to be beautiful, but in fact I am like an angry little daughter-in-law, it's difficult!" After speaking, he picked up the wine glass and poured it into his mouth, and the tears in his eyes that were difficult to hide still let Liu Wuzhou see it, Liu Wuzhou did not persuade him, and poured him one cup after another, and spit it out when he couldn't drink, Liu Wuzhou helped him push his back.

"Oops! Mr. Lu, you see this is really, wine is a good thing, but drinking too much can also hurt your body! ”

"I'm a dignified seven-foot man, but it's hard for my family to eat a full meal, I'm a man!" From the narrative of the scribe Lu, Liu Wuzhou finally knew what was going on, it turned out that the house of the scribe Lu also recruited the robbery of the Turks, although the family of six fled into the city, but all the belongings were gone, only relying on his little money in the official office to feed a large family, it was really unsustainable, and then the old mother was bedridden because of hunger, and died in a few days at home, the old mother lay on the bed with only one wish, that is, when she was dying, she wanted to eat a full meal, but the rice at home was rationed, Thinking of the old mother's expectant eyes at that time, Secretary Lu didn't know how bitter it was. When Liu Wuzhou heard the words of the scribe Lu, he said into his ear:

"Brother Lu doesn't have to worry, isn't the big boss already thinking of a way to solve it?" As soon as he finished speaking, Secretary Lu cried even more sadly.

"Humph! He also said that if he hadn't been bent on protecting the tyrant and refusing to open a warehouse to release grain, my mother would not have been sick, and she would not have begged for a full meal when she died. As a son, I am really unfilial! Liu Wuzhou comforted him while waiting for him to finish crying.

"Brother Lu, do you want revenge?" Scribe Lu looked at Liu Wuzhou, a little puzzled in his heart.

"What do you mean?"

"Now the emperor doesn't care about the life or death of the people at all, what do we want him to do with such an emperor? Why don't we raise the anti-flag now, occupy the territory, and see what the tyrant can do with me when the time comes? After listening to Liu Wuzhou's words, Secretary Lu's wine woke up for most of the time, and cold sweat fell straight down.

"My lord, this is a head-off thing! Today when I didn't come. After saying that, he put down his wine glass and was about to leave the table, but before he reached the door, he was stopped by a big man.

"Mr. Lu, why are you in such a hurry to leave! Wouldn't you like to stay a little longer? "The scribe didn't know who he was, and he couldn't get out if he walked left or right. And the murderous aura on this big man made Scribe Lu break out in a cold sweat, and he was forced into the dining room by this big man, Liu Wuzhou sneered and said to Scribe Lu:

"Mr. Lu! Why are you going to leave so soon. We still have a lot to say? I'm sorry, this is my brother-in-law Song Jingang, he is a ruffian, he doesn't know what etiquette is, please forgive me for the rudeness! "Clerk Lu felt that he would not be able to leave today.

"Lord Liu, I still have a wife and children at home, what you say will rot in my stomach, and I won't leak half a word to the outside." Liu Wuzhou poured himself wine with a smile, and looked at the scribe Lu while drinking.

"Mr. Lu, do you think I should believe you? In my heart Liu Wuzhou, only the dead will not reveal secrets, and it is up to Mr. Lu to choose whether to live or die. Scribe Lu thought for a moment.

"What do you want me to do?" Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang glanced at each other and smiled.

"I know that all the documents of Dashuai are written by Mr., and I just want Mr. Lu to change a few words on some documents." Two days later, a notice was posted at all four gates of Mayi City.

"Recently, the Turkic wars have been in trouble, and the imperial court intends to use more soldiers, but the official treasury has run out of money and food. In addition, men from all households in the city are not allowed to go out for 10 days, and they are waiting for the government to recruit them at any time. What, we have to pay for food again, and it seems that our Ma Yi is going to have a lot of trouble again. After the notice was posted, a large number of young men appeared at the city gates who were about to leave the city.

"Master Jun, my mother is sick, I went out to buy medicine, beg Master Jun to let me out!"

"Uncle, I want to go out of the city to receive the goods, and ask the uncle to do well。。。。。。。

"There is an order from the Taishou Mansion, and now the Turks are often harassed, and no one is allowed to go out. All of them will retreat, otherwise they will be killed for colluding with the Turkic foreigners. ”

In the barracks, many of the defenders of Mayi are local men who are recruited from Mayi, and they are all well-known people in Mayi, and the people's discussions will not be unaware.

"Ugh! Did you hear that? The imperial court is about to send troops out again, and I heard that Lord Taishou has already raised gold, silver, money and food from the people, and we are going to war again. ”

"I don't think so? It must be that this old fellow wants to take advantage of the opportunity to make money, and I heard that several wagons have been transported out during the night. ”

"No, it won't! I don't think Wang Dashuai is such a person. You must know that if it weren't for the great commander in the past few years, the Turkic barbarians would have invaded the city a long time ago. ”

"It's hard to say, the situation is unstable now, and he's an old man who is almost sixty years old, isn't it right to think about himself?" Under the instigation of well-intentioned people, the hearts of the people of the Mayi garrison began to fluctuate. And Liu Wuzhou also began to woo the rich and powerful families in the Mayi area in his own mansion.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the notice on the street has been posted, now that the imperial court uses troops frequently, and the money and food are greatly spent, I will borrow food from you on the orders of the Taishou, and I hope you will be generous and don't be stingy." After Liu Wuzhou's words were finished, the rich and powerful people present all shook their heads and sighed. One by one, they all said that in recent years, there have been either natural disasters or military shortages, and there have been years of taxation and servitude, and their own family funds are about to be emptied. Liu Wuzhou saw their performance, unhurriedly picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and suddenly smashed the wine glass to the ground, with the sound of the wine glass breaking, a large group of soldiers walked in, distributed around the guests, Song Jingang stood at the door with a bright big knife, everyone didn't know what would happen, and they were nervous and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Don't worry, hey! I know all of your difficulties, but it's just that the military order is difficult! Also, if it is really because the court wants money and food to save my life, then I Liu Wuzhou is duty-bound, but who knows that now the court is having a hard time, and there are still people who use it to collect money, which is really sad! When the crowd heard him say this, they were a little overwhelmed.

"Come, bring people." Immediately, someone escorted the scribe Lu up.

"Say! Tell us everything you know! ”

"The handsome man saw that the court was troubled and wanted to leave a way back for himself, so he took this reason to get some money for himself。。。。。。" After listening to the words of Scribe Lu, the people present were all human spirits and knew that there was a drama in it. pretended to be confused and silent, Song Jingang knew that he should add to the fire.

"General, now that the tiger and wolf are in the society, the officials are greedy, why don't we just turn it around!" After speaking, deliberately made a loud noise of the big knife, the squire present knew Liu Wuzhou's intentions, and the stone fell to the ground in his heart, and it was agreed at the moment to promote Liu Wuzhou as the master, and patted his chest to ensure that he used his connections in Ma Yi to help Liu Wuzhou stabilize the hearts of the people in Ma Yi after killing Wang Rengong, and divide the civil and military officials under Wang Rengong. Liu Wuzhou was very happy, and made a blood alliance with the people present, and agreed that after the success of the major event, he would be rewarded for meritorious deeds.

The next day, Ma Yi Taishou Mansion, Wang Rengong heard the discussion outside in his official office, and even a woman knelt down in front of the Taishou Yamen, begging Taishou to be gracious, not to pull the people to arrest her husband again, saying that her father-in-law, husband, and son have all been heard from because of the expedition to Liaodong and the digging of the canal, and now there are only women left in the family, so they immediately sent someone to find the Lu scribe, and the Lu scribe has not yet arrived, Liu Wuzhou came first.

"Wu Zhou, what the hell do you say is going on? I just asked the scribe Lu to write a notice to let the rich families in the city bleed money and food for disaster relief, how did it become that they were asked to contribute money and food to help the government send troops to fight the Turks, and also, what is the matter of letting all the men in the city register? ”

"Dashuai, I'm about to report to you!" Liu Wuzhou came to Wang Rengong's side, and while Wang Rengong was unprepared, he directly wiped Wang Rengong's neck with a dagger, Wang Rengong covered his neck with one hand, and pointed at Liu Wuzhou with the other:

"Dashuai, go with peace of mind! In the future, I will think of you at the Spring and Autumn Festival. After Liu Wuzhou killed Wang Rengong, he summoned the military officials under the command of the Taishou Mansion of Ma Yi, took the Lu scribes, and took him as a witness, saying that Wang Rengong intended to use the emperor's imperial decree to fill his own pockets, and said that Yang Guang was poor in military force and brutalized the people, and coerced the officials under him to rebel with him with the assistance of Song Jingang and others, and sent people to envoy to the Turks, promised heavy profits, got a large number of war horses, established himself as the Taishou of Mayi, named Song Jingang as the generalissimo, recruited soldiers, and the scribes of Lu were the Taishou of the county of Mayi, and formally fought against Yang Guang.