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At the south gate of Danyang County, on both sides of the official road, countless people stretched out their heads to look around, discussing, as if they were waiting for something.

Danyang Taishou Xu Zhirong stood at the front of the crowd, looking like he was in his thirties, with a slight beard on his face, although his expression was rigorous, but his shrewd eyes turned back and forth from time to time, occasionally flashing with cunning.

Xu Zhirong straightened his body, he had been waiting here for half an hour, and even asked the people in the city to come out early in the morning to wait with him, he bluntly said that the imperial court sent officials and soldiers to Danyang to suppress bandits, and he should welcome them.

Hearing the suppression of bandits, the people were interested, the bandits in the Guanshan area were serious, they had been miserable for a long time, and now they were finally waiting for the rescue of the soldiers.

"It's coming, it's coming."

I don't know who shouted in the crowd, and then everyone looked into the distance, where the dust and smoke were billowing and the horse's hooves were thundering, like a wild beast galloping forward.

What's going on, why are there so many people? I didn't send anyone to tell me......

Su Heng crouched on horseback, and at a glance saw the crowded flow of people and the open official road at the south gate of Danyang County.

Although he knew that his itinerary might not be able to hide from the bandits in Guanshan, but the journey that was supposed to be fifteen days was rushed by him in two days, which could be regarded as a surprise to those bandits, but now that there are so many people gathered at the gate of this city, there will definitely be many spies of the bandits inside, wouldn't it leak the news of the arrival of his army?

"Danyang is too guarded by Xu Zhirong to welcome Mr."

As soon as Su Heng came to the city gate, the leading official was respectful and bowed, and the official lowered his head and couldn't see the expression on his face, but his posture was full of pose, so that people couldn't find fault with it.

Looks like a whisker slapper......

Although Su Heng does not have an official position, after all, he is a close minister under Zhao Jinyu, the ninth prince, and Zhao Jinyu was recently adopted as an adopted son by the queen.

Su Heng sat on the back of the horse, looked at Xu Zhirong carefully, and did not smile because of the latter's flattery, but asked in a somewhat stiff tone: "How did you know that I would come today?" ”

Not caring about Su Heng's tone, Xu Zhirong raised his head and smiled flatly: "From the first day Mr. left Shouyang, I will know it below." ”

Do you want to say that my journey is under your control......

Su Heng continued to have a gloomy face, but he turned over and dismounted with Qin Yongyi, and continued: "Why did you let these people watch on both sides of the official road with great fanfare, didn't you inform those bandits that we had come. ”

Faced with the questioning, Xu Zhirong immediately pretended to be panicked: "Sir, I'm doing this here to save you." ”

Save me? Su Heng felt a little funny and asked, "Oh? Then you can talk about it. ”

Xu Zhirong looked serious and asked, "Mr. did not hesitate to use his talents to instill and speed up the march this time, but in order to directly send troops to Guanshan, he was taken by surprise?" ”

Hearing Xu Zhirong's words, Su Heng couldn't help but nodded, he did have this plan, and he wanted to take advantage of this time difference to directly send troops to Guanshan to suppress the bandits and destroy them in one fell swoop.

Xu Zhirong showed an expression that I knew, and said, "Sir, do you know how many bandits there are in Guanshan?" ”

Su Heng looked at him suspiciously, thought for a while and said, "I heard that there are no less than 10,000 people. ”

Xu Zhirong sighed slightly, shook his head, and then said with a rare and serious expression: "Mr. just heard about it, let me tell Mr. that there are no less than 100,000 bandits in Guanshan!" ”

No less than 100,000! There are 100,000 bandits in a small Guanshan?

If Su Heng was still very calm before, then now he was shocked when he heard Xu Zhirong's words, 100,000 bandits, is this a rebellion?

Su Heng thought that he had planned to attack by surprise before, but now he was stopped at the gate of the city by Xu Zhirong, speaking of which, he really saved his life, otherwise he would take 20,000 recruits to fight with the 100,000 bandits, and if he didn't do it, the whole army would be wiped out.

I finally understood why the princes didn't fight for it, and this seemed to be a beautiful bandit......

Alas, after all, the news came too slowly, without his own intelligence source, Su Heng was a little annoyed, this time he miscalculated, from recruiting troops to going out of the city, he only thought of a quick word, but he didn't have time to inquire about the situation in Guanshan in advance, and almost wiped out the whole army.

100,000 bandits, although there are a large number of people, but after all, they are all poorly equipped rabble, if the imperial court really wants to ruthlessly exterminate it, it is not difficult to do so, it is estimated that the two armies and four battalions in addition to the military camp, just send one over to easily eliminate this rabble.

But the problem is that several princes are all human spirits, although they have the ability to suppress bandits, but the price they pay is not small, even if the benefits obtained after the bandits are rich, but compared with their efforts, the two are also proportional, not a cost-effective deal.

"Since there are 100,000 bandits in Guanshan, why do so few people know about it?" Su Heng threw out his own questions again, it seemed that in addition to Xu Zhirong and several princes, even Chang Maoqing, the second-rank member who supervised the imperial history, did not know much about the details of Guanshan.

Xu Zhirong didn't think about it, and immediately replied: "Because the Guanshan bandits usually hide very well, most of them are hidden in the deep mountains, and the people who block the road and rob on weekdays are all those old faces, and they are very shrewd, they are very measured when robbing, they don't kill people casually, they all rob ten and leave three, so things have not been big." ”

Speaking of this, Xu Zhirong looked left and right for a while, and then said softly: "In addition, I heard that the big boss of Guanshan will give some of the property he robbed to several princes in Beijing every year......

The prince actually joined the robbers to share the spoils? No wonder none of the princes in the court took the initiative to come out to suppress bandits and make military achievements.

Thinking of this robber robbing the property of civilians, and then dividing it to those princes every year in exchange for his own safety, Su Heng felt a chill in his heart, if this Dachu is delivered to these people in the future, will the country still be the country?

Seeing Su Heng's gloomy face, Xu Zhirong said again: "Xiaguan said so much for the good of Mr., so it is better for Mr. to leave this matter alone, just eliminate a small group of bandits, and then go back to Beijing to make a business." ”

Hearing Xu Zhirong's words, Su Heng calmed down his chaotic mood and said coldly: "I am not related to Lord Xu, why did my lord tell me so much?" He also advised me to leave as soon as possible, I am afraid that the adults have also reaped a lot of benefits from this. ”

Xu Zhirong was stunned for a moment, thought about it, did not evade and quibble, but said frankly: "Xiaguan is a Danyang Taishou, and this robber will indeed give a lot of gold and silver every year to honor Xiaguan." ”

"However, Xia Guan has a clear conscience when he accepts these stolen goods!"

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