Two hours later, the sky gradually darkened, and Li Rijing finally came to his senses. Hu Shu's lungs were weak and he couldn't speak for a long time, so he had to talk for a while and rest for a while, and Li Rijing could only listen patiently.

It turned out that this deputy general Meng was originally called Meng Biao, and Hu Shu had a good time since childhood, but later the family was poor, and the two of them were poor and crazy, and they were angry from their hearts, so they simply didn't want the family to be in tatters, and went up the mountain to become a bandit. How do you know that there were already thieves swarming outside Changshui Pass at that time, and the sixth capital couldn't kill the bandits no matter how they killed. At that time, the chief came up with a plan, but he couldn't finish it anyway, so he co-opted one of the bandits and suppressed a group of bandits. Sure enough, this trick will work wonders. At that time, the bandits were popular to kill people and set fires to be recruited, and as soon as they were co-opted, it took almost no effort for those bandits to turn against each other and kill the suppressed ones.

At that time, the situation was sudden, and the cottage was breached in an instant, and the corpses of the entire cottage were all over the field. Seeing the opportunity, Meng Biao and Hu Shu quickly killed two stragglers of the official army, changed the clothes of the official army, and escaped. The two were ready to take advantage of the situation to blend in with the official army, and it would be good to change their careers to eat the food of the official government, but the ten-captain of the two soldiers who were hacked to death did not let them go. The captain recognized the two of them at a glance as disguised, and extorted them for gold and silver. There was no way, so they had to secretly find out the gold, silver and jewelry hidden in the former cottage and secretly honor the ten-master. I thought that I could finally be a soldier this time, but this ten-division commander was insatiable and came to blackmail them as soon as he ran out of money. The two couldn't bear it anymore, so they took the opportunity to kill the ten-captain in a time when they sent troops to suppress the bandits, and by the way, they hacked to death several other soldiers of the same team to prevent revealing their identities.

Since then, because the team was cut down by them, only the two of them remained, and the fight between these two people was like a death, and the centurion at that time loved Cai, so he promoted them to be the commander of the ten. Later, Na Meng Biao would stammer, and ran to the ten-captain every day, but he and Hu Shu's team guarded the gate of Changshui Gate. Since then, Meng Biao and Hu Shu have gotten up to work before dawn every day, opening the door as early as they want, closing as late as they can, just thinking about eating and taking cards, and searching for oil and water.

At that time, Meng Biao was a man again, and he basically didn't keep the oil and water he fished, and he took the big head to give it to the centurion and the thousand-year-old, knowing that Du Chang didn't look down on ordinary things, he would supply Du Chang once he found a precious treasure. In addition, some scattered money is often used to help the brothers in the capital, who is short of money and immediately sends the money himself, and usually invites his superiors and colleagues to eat and drink, so the entire Sixth Capital likes this new Ten-Commander. Later, there was a time when the central banner where the two of them were located went out to recruit a group of tough bandits, and the battalion where the two were located played forward. The front was very smooth, and Meng Biao waited until the battle reached a critical time, taking advantage of the centurion's inattention, and plotted against him, resulting in the rout of the vanguard battalion where he was located, and the entire attack was frustrated. The centurion was the commander's favorite general, and when he heard that he was dead, he arrested all the remaining people in the pioneer battalion and prepared to cut off his head to vent his anger, but Meng Biao was angry at that time and asked the commander to give him a chance. At that time, the governor of Nadu usually benefited from him, after all, he had to spare people and spare people, so he agreed to take these people from the pioneer camp to quell the bandits.

Meng Biao and Hu Shu used to go to this mountain when they were bandits, and they knew a path, so Meng Biao took people from the trail to the mountain to the bandit's lair. The commander was worried that his wealth would be gone after he broke him, so he led people up the mountain from the front, and when he brought people to the mountain, he saw Meng Biao and Hu Shu were all covered in blood and leaning back to back, with hundreds of corpses lying next to them. After this battle, Meng Biao and Hu Shu were promoted to chief and deputy centurions.

At this point, although Meng Biao's methods are damaged, he still looks like an officer and soldier. Since then, he has not only used his position to make a lot of money and befriend his bosses, but also secretly contacted several gangs of bandits outside the Guan, and used them to kill many people he was not used to. Later, Meng Biao was promoted to the head of a thousand households, and he even hooked up with a certain high-ranking official in the Western Army, which was even more secret, and even Hu Shu didn't know about it.

The other commanders of the left and right banners were aware of Meng Biao's collusion with the bandits, but there was no evidence, and the chief at that time did not believe it, so they were ready to plot to send troops to eradicate Meng Biao, and by the way, they also wanted to kill Hu Shu together. Unexpectedly, there were people in the left and right banners who leaked this matter to him secretly. Meng Biao took the lead and framed the commanders of the left and right banners for colluding with the bandits to bully the merchants, but they all received the benefits a long time ago and favored Meng Biao, so they positioned the two commanders as capital crimes, and they were dragged and hanged within a few days. Meng Biao took the opportunity to bribe the Western Army, and promoted his cronies in the left and right banners to the commander of the thousand, and when the opportunity came, he sold the old commander who had supported him all the way to the high position, and was arrested and imprisoned by the city lord as a typical example of corruption, and he took the opportunity to be promoted to the deputy general, and by the way, his brother Hu Shu for many years was promoted to the commander of the Zhongqi Commander, and took care of the old department for him.

Later, because he betrayed the old commander too badly, he couldn't protect him in the background of the Western Army, and although Meng Biao was in charge of the sixth capital, he was never able to be further promoted to the commander. Meng Biao always thought that he didn't send enough, so he tried his best to squeeze it, collected heavy taxes on the merchants, and colluded with several big bandits outside the customs to threaten the merchants to only take the road of Changshui Pass, which made the people angry and settled the matter. Several chambers of commerce teamed up to buy off the commanders of Meng Biao's left and right banners and prepared to murder him, relying on Hu Shu to find out and save his life. As a result, Meng Biao was annoyed, feeling that the left and right banners were never his henchmen, and knew that he was in charge of the entire capital as a deputy general, and the army was not satisfied, but no matter how he dealt with it, he could not be promoted to the rank of commander. I had to be ruthless and use various excuses to dismiss the left and right flag soldiers. Hu Shu conspired with the left and right banners to persuade Meng Biao after the incident, the tax collection was too heavy, the heavens were angry and resentful, the collusion with the thieves was not convinced, and the matter was too lenient. Meng Biao felt that he was almost able to become the governor at that time, and he definitely wanted to go further, where could Hu Shu's words be listened to!

As a result, Hu Shu was angry in his heart, and he led people to reduce taxes without authorization to appease the people, this move was not discovered by Hu Shu's conscience, it was indeed angry and resentful, at that time, Meng Biao had already collected taxes to various market towns in the vicinity, and the inns and brothels were barely operating. Hu Shu reduced the tax on selling vegetables and utensils at that time, and those inns and shops reduced their costs before they could barely survive.

That Meng Biao knew what Hu Shu had done, and thought that Hu Shu and him were no longer of the same mind, so he decided to take the lead and get rid of this brother. As a result, Hu Shu has been in the army for many years, and he also has a few friends, who got the news first, and fled overnight, but was still caught up by Meng Biao's killers. Not long after that, Meng Biao vigorously dismissed and drove out dissidents, and even squeezed out many people's family funds on the grounds that they would not be laid off if they paid enough money. Now Meng Biao openly buys and sells officials, and in order to divide the chamber of commerce that is the enemy of him, he openly sells the post of deputy general to a chamber of commerce, and let them take turns to be deputy generals, and the current deputy general Huang is the person of the chamber of commerce. And his lineage does not have a commander in the middle of the banner, and he is in charge of it himself.

This is Meng Biaowai's collusion with bandits, bribing high-ranking officials of the Western Army as the backstage, controlling the whole capital, bullying the previous governors (their own commanders), and oppressing

The crime of all the merchants!