Chapter 37: Suppressing Bandits (7)
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Mojian Mountain is high and dense, and there is a thick fog, which is not really visible from a few meters away, and there is a different kind of beauty between the hazy and hazy.
The new army barracks are set up around the foot of Mojian Mountain, and when the recruits get up early for training, they can't help but take a few more glances at this beautiful scenery.
In Cao Wei's handsome tent, Zhao Gu and Cao Wei met with Qin Qiong, who went down the mountain overnight.
After listening to his words, Zhao Gu smiled and said, "So, your brothers all agree to Zhao'an?" Now you're coming down the mountain to negotiate terms with us? ”
Qin Qiong nodded solemnly: "That's right, please tell me your conditions." ”
Zhao Gu and Cao Wei glanced at each other and asked, "General Cao, the imperial court should have a specific charter for Zhao'an, right?" ”
Cao Wei nodded and said: "Indeed, my Great Song Dynasty has always persuaded people with reason, as long as the bandits in Mojian Mountain are willing to accept Zhao'an, the imperial court can exempt them from their previous mistakes, allow them to return to their hometown, and pay severance pay." In addition, for the major leaders, the imperial court will also give them official status according to their ability, and those who are not suitable for being officials will be given money. ”
Qin Qiong smiled when he heard this, and said, "That's really good, then I'll go back to the mountain now to report the news, and you guys will rest for a few days, and I will inform the results soon." ”
"Okay." Zhao Gu and Cao Wei sent Qin Qiong out of the tent and watched him leave.
"Joining the army, what is your idea?" Cao Wei couldn't help but ask at this time.
Zhao Gu shook his head: "It's not that I'm making up my mind, it's the bandits on Mojian Mountain who are making up my mind, I'm just pushing the boat down the river." ”
"What do you mean?" Cao Wei asked.
"I can't guess it thoroughly, but I vaguely feel that this matter is too strange, if the leaders of Mojian Mountain really want to accept Zhao'an, how can they only let Qin Qiong pass the word in the middle? And Qin Qiong seems to be quite eager, which is also very weird, even if he thinks about Zhao'an again, he won't go back and forth twice overnight, right? Zhao Gu said.
Cao Wei frowned when he heard this: "Could it be that the bandits in Mojian Mountain are unwilling to recruit An, so they are playing tricks with us?" This Qin Qiong looks a little tendoned, just afraid that he will be used as a gunman? ”
"I don't know, it's just that General, don't underestimate Qin Qiong, although he has some tendons, not everyone can take advantage of him."
The two of them talked, and soon went their separate ways, no matter what the bandits on Mojian Mountain had in mind, with these five thousand new troops here, they would have enough confidence.
Besides, Qin Qiong, after he returned to the Mojian Mountain Valley, he was about to enter the Juyi Hall and report to Wang Xiongxin, but he didn't want to get close to the Juyi Hall before he was covered by a cloth bag that suddenly fell from the sky, followed by a pain in the back of his head, and he fainted directly.
I don't know how long it took, until a scoop of cold water was poured on his face, and he woke up.
Qin Qiong tried to move his body, but found that he couldn't move at all.
He looked up and found himself locked in a cramped room, and as the fifth master in the cottage, he quickly realized where this was.
"Who took me to prison?" Qin Qiong yelled outside the room.
Torches lit in the passage of the cell, and the gloomy face of the big boss Wang Xiongxin fell into Qin Qiong's eyes.
"Big boss, why are you? What do you mean by that? Qin Qiong was puzzled.
Wang Xiongxin smiled coldly and waved his hand, Li Maogong and several other masters walked into the house, and everyone stared at Qin Qiong together.
"Guys, what is this for? Everyone is a brother in a cottage, what can't you say well? Why did you tie me up? Qin Qiong also realized that the situation was not good at this time, and hurriedly asked.
Li Maogong squinted at him, walked out with his hands behind his back, and said, "Qin Qiong, just say it directly, what benefits did the imperial court give you, and you want you to trick our brother into going down the mountain?" ”
"I didn't." Qin Qiong blushed suddenly: "Don't you know who I Qin Qiong is?" How could I do such a thing? ”
Li Maogong asked, "Then why are you so eager for us to accept Zhao'an?" Even at the expense of the big night, you have to go down the mountain. ”
Qin Qiong said: "That's because the imperial court really has the heart to recruit peace, and I just want to let the brothers have a good way out." ”
Saying that, Zhao Gu said all the conditions for recruiting an that Cao Wei said, and assured that this was said by Cao Wei, the son of Lu Guogong in the court, and there would be no falsehood.
When several masters heard this, their eyes showed joy and a faint sense of emotion.
But I heard Wang Xiongxin cough: "Until now, do you still believe his nonsense?" The imperial court wants soldiers and food, why is it so kind to us? ”
The people in charge are people who don't have much knowledge, otherwise they wouldn't have been fooled by Wang Xiongxin into getting on the thief ship, and when they heard their two sides insisting on their own words, they couldn't tell who to believe for a while.
Li Maogong also said at this time: "What the big boss said is good, our brothers killed people and set fires, and did a lot of evil things, why should the imperial court treat us with high officials?" If the imperial court really did this, what else would those scholars read? It's good to go up to the mountain to be bandits for a few years, and then you are still worried that the court will not arrange official positions for them? ”
When everyone heard this, they felt justified, and their faces became gloomy.
Qin Qiong didn't know what to say at this time, and his anxious tears were about to fall. He knew very well the temperament of his brothers, and if they really didn't believe that the court would recruit them, they would definitely fight against the court to the end.
Thinking of that situation, Qin Qiong shuddered suddenly, with these eight hundred bandits, how could they be the opponents of the official army?
Especially in the official army that suppressed bandits, there are also capable generals like Zhao Gu and Cao Wei, where do the bandits have a chance of winning?
He had the heart to persuade a few more words, but Wang Xiongxin directly interrupted him.
"Qin Qiong, don't talk nonsense, we have the heart to give the officers and soldiers a little bit of power, if you really want the good of the brothers, go down the mountain to find out the situation of the officials and soldiers, and then pass this information up the mountain, and give us an internal response within the officials and troops at any time, waiting for the opportunity."
"You're going to deal with the officers and soldiers?" Qin Qiong asked in surprise.
"That's right." Li Maogong smiled, obviously this plan was what he came up with.
"I don't do it." Qin Qiong tilted his head and swore that he would never do this kind of thing.
Li Maogong sneered twice: "It's okay if you don't do it, then Huzi and Shishi's parents and siblings, we can't guarantee that they will be absolutely safe." ”
"How can you do such a thing? Are not the tiger and the stone also your brothers? How ruthless are you? Qin Qiong only felt dizzy, regretting that he was blind, and he actually called Wang Xiongxin and Li Maogong brothers for several years.
These two Huzi and Shi Zi are the people who have been with Qin Qiong for a long time, and they can be regarded as his old team, these two people's whole family lives in the cottage, and they usually do some cooking work in the cottage, and they don't want to be used to threaten Qin Qiong at this time.
Thinking that his good brother's family might be killed because of him, and that arresting them was also the brother he had trusted the most, Qin Qiong felt more and more angry.
Li Maogong sneered: "What's so ruthless about this, the two of them were arrested by the official army with you, and the ghost knows if they have betrayed us now." ”