Du Yi looked up at the signboard of the wine shop, made sure it was right, stepped into the wine shop, and went straight to the second floor, Tian Dalang was already waiting at the staircase, leading Du Yi to Wang An's private room. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info entered the private room, and Du Yi saluted Wang An, who was standing: "County honor." ”

Wang An replied: "This is not Dangyang, you still call me uncle and grandson." Then he gestured to the seat opposite, "You may be seated." After Wang An and Du Yi sat down, Tian Dalang sat down beside them and was responsible for pouring wine for the two. At this moment, Wang An is in Ruoxian, in order to avoid people's eyes, Wang An left the county in the name of inspection, went to Lankouju, and then went straight to Ruoxian from Lankouju, and Du Yi, long before Wang An took office, had been sent by Wang An to Ruoxian County, responsible for intelligence collection.

Wang An and Du Yi drank a few rounds. Du Yi picked up the wine jug, poured wine for Wang An and his own wine bottle, and said to Wang An: "My subordinates are derelict in their duties, and I am here to make amends to Lang Jun." After speaking, the wine was exhausted, and although Du Yi did not call Wang An a county honor, he still used the word Langjun to express respect and humility.

After Wang An finished drinking, he asked Tian Dalang to take down the wine and said to Du Yi: "The so-called three years will not be opened, and the opening will be three years, and the plan we originally agreed on is not to fight unprepared battles, contact more green forest bandits, understand their temperament, recruit peace if you can, buy if you can, and finally exterminate it." It's just that I didn't expect that these green forest heroes would target my belongings so quickly. ”

"It's all to blame for the incompetence of his subordinates, who failed to get the news in advance, and caused Langjun to lose a lot of money." Du Yi once again gave a salute and pleaded guilty to Wang An.

"Zikuan doesn't have to blame himself, first, Zikuan has only been to Ruoxian for more than two months, and it is the most important thing to stand firm, and to find out the news is second; Second, I was to blame, knowing that there were wolves nearby, I still put a bunch of meat there, and it was strange not to invite the wolves. Wang An was relieved, "Zikuan wrote to say that the collusion between the county order and the thieves has already been resolved, and I rushed to Ruoxian, not to listen to Zikuan's words of apology." I don't care about the lost owner, why should Zikuan complain about himself, doing the things I assigned is the best reward. Zikuan should first talk about the collusion between Ruoxian and bandits. ”

"Ruoxian has not been hooking up with the Green Forest Bandits for a year or two, it has been since twenty or thirty years ago. It is not the county order that colludes with the bandits, but the wealthy families of the county, and the county order is just a middle point between the big clan and the bandits. Du Yi took out a map, spread it on the table, and pointed it to Wang An: "Lang Jun, please see, if the county is the closest county to the green forest mountain, the transportation is convenient, you can go to Jiangling by land to the south through Dangyang, you can enter Nanyang by passing through Xiangyang to the north, and you can go south to Jiangxia by water. ”

Wang An looked at the map and said: "Bandits can also go to other places to sell the stolen goods, such as Chungling and Suixian in Nanyang, and Yundu in Jiangxia." ”

Du Yi took the green forest mountain as the center and drew a circle on the map: "It is not for nothing to trade in these three places, but first, the road is far away, it is easy to have accidents, and secondly, the location of the three places is remote and the transportation is inconvenient, so there are not many merchants, and the number of transactions is not much, unless it is absolutely necessary, the bandits will not go there, and the third is that the big clans in these places are strong, and the people are aggressive, and they do not respect those bandits." ”

Wang An nodded on the map: "What benefits can the county get if you make a deal with the bandits?" ”

"Anning," Du Yi gestured on the map, "Ruoxian is the closest to the Green Forest Mountain, if the Green Forest Bandits harass from time to time, the merchants will flee from Ruoxian, and these wealthy families in Ruoxian County will be finished, and the land will not dare to plant, and there is no other livelihood, so they can only wait for death slowly." So they sent people to negotiate with the heroes of Lvlin Mountain, with the middle of Lvlin Mountain and Ruoxian County as the boundary," Du Yi drew a line on the map, "If the officers and soldiers of Ruoxian County are not more than this line, the heroes of Lvlin can go to Ruoxian to open shops, sell goods and purchase goods." As long as these green forest heroes don't cause trouble in Ruoxian, Ruoxian will treat them as serious people. It's just that the shopkeepers of these shops are often changed back and forth, and these shopkeepers are reckless and not good at management, so these shops are all closed. After that, the Ruoxian clan reached a tacit agreement with the heroes of the green forest, and some shops with rich backgrounds were responsible for the transaction with the green forest mountain. ”

After listening to Du Yi's statement, Wang An sneered: "These big clans are shrewd, the commercial taxes of the imperial court were abolished by those Confucian scholars under the guise of competing with the people for profit, and all this money went into the pockets of the big clans, and the people and the government could not get any of them. ”

Not only the county clan is exploiting this loophole, Wang An is also exploiting this loophole, the world's wealthy families are exploiting this loophole, Confucianism as their spokesperson in the court, no wonder to abolish the commercial tax, Confucianism is too powerful, and it is not a good thing for one family to be dominant. After sighing, Wang An then asked: "If the agreement between Ruoxian County and Lulin Mountain, how many people know?" ”

"Not much, only five or six wealthy families in this county know."

"How did Zikuan learn about these situations? You must know that the crime of banditry is exile, can they trust Zikuan? "Who wants to put the handle in the hands of a man who has only known him for more than two months, and will not be slaughtered in the future?

"None of these big clans can believe it, when they introduced business to their subordinates, they deliberately arranged some thieves and thieves, and dragged their subordinates onto the thief ship."

"This is a good thing, the reason why I chose Ruoxian in the first place is because it is close to the Green Forest Mountain, which is convenient for us to deal with the bandits in the Green Forest Mountain. Now they take the initiative to pull the wide on the ship, which can be described as twice the result with half the effort. ”

Du Yi smiled bitterly: "Since Ruoxian Ling was put in prison by Taishou for the crime of gangsters, almost all the big clans in Ruoxian County were involved, and in order to avoid the limelight, they did not dare to buy goods from unknown sources for the time being. But the bandits had a lot of things on hand that they wanted to get rid of, so they approached their subordinates, hoping that they would take over the goods. ”

Wang An thought for a while: "Why do these people fancy Zhongzi Kuan?" ”

"This is all thanks to the jade crystal that Dong Xian gave to Lang Jun, and his subordinates, as the treasure of the town store, placed it in the most conspicuous position in the store, and placed it for ten days in a row. If the big clans and businessmen in the county have all gone to see it, their subordinates also vaguely told them that this is a gift from Dong Duwei to the lord's family, and they think that their subordinates have someone in Chang'an; If something happens to his subordinates, it is equivalent to implicating the main family in this case, and the main family will have to save people in order to get rid of the crime. That's when he planned to pull his subordinates to participate in this matter. Du Yi explained.

"These people have a good idea, but this matter is also beneficial to us, although Zikuan promised them that if the money is not enough, they can go to Lankouju to get it." Wang An agreed, since someone is willing to lead the way, why bother to run around like a headless fly. Wang An then asked: "Is there an eyebrow for the Lankou gathering?" ”

"I already have some clues," Du Yi replied, "my subordinates have also had business dealings with some mountain kings in Green Forest Mountain during this time, and they have also helped some criminals to send them to the mountains to join the gang, and of course our people have also been installed among them." According to the information they obtained, the robbers of Lang Jun were led by a mountain king surnamed Wang, plus a gentleman of Liu, and gathered some small cottages, with a total of about 3,000 people. ”

"Mr. Liu's origin, do these people know?"

Du Yi shook his head: "I don't know, these mountain kings don't know anything about Mr. Liu's origin, Mr. Liu is only familiar with the bandit prime minister surnamed Wang, and he usually stays in his camp when he has nothing to do, and doesn't deal with other people." ”

It seems that the key to the key thing is Mr. Liu, have you ever offended someone surnamed Liu, Wang An thought about it in his heart, it seems that there is no one.

"Where did you get the trebuchet?" Wang An asked. Trebuchets are only equipped by the army, because trebuchets require a lot of ox tendon, and the ox tendon is controlled by the imperial court, where did the bandits get it? Not only do you have trebuchets but you can operate them, and that's the key.

"It was made by Mr. Liu's entourage with the help of the bandits, and a total of five planes were built, and they were all burned when they retreated."

"The king of the mountain surnamed Wang? Is this person called Wang Kuang or Wang Feng? Du Yi mentioned the bandit leader surnamed Wang several times, and Wang An was also very concerned about this person. Because more than 20 years later, the heroes on the Green Forest Mountain are led by Wang Kuang and Wang Feng.

"This person's name has not been found out yet," Du Yi replied, in fact, Du Yi also felt strange, the will of the imperial court was to ask Wang An to quell the bandits in Dangyang, but Wang An asked Du Yi to focus on the green forest mountain, and after contacting these green forest heroes, Du Yi realized that many people had gathered on the green forest mountain, and if someone annexed these small cottages in the future, it would be difficult to say what the consequences would be. Du Yi bit his tongue to get rid of these distracting thoughts, and continued: "However, due to the large amount of wealth obtained from this raid on Lankouju, the king of the mountain surnamed Wang plans to celebrate his birthday in a few months. ”

"Is this reliable?"

"Reliable," replied Du Yi without hesitation, "this man has sent invitations to many mountain kings, and some of the smaller cottages intend to sell some of their looted property in exchange for gold and make gifts in order to prepare congratulatory gifts. ”

"They're going to sell you the stolen goods?" Wang An asked.

Du Yi nodded. Wang An was robbed of money and grain, and now he has to pay to buy it back, which is really a humiliation.

"Buy, why don't you buy, as long as you can win their trust, what is this money?" Wang An laughed. "I'm planning to ship goods from Nanyang to make up for the loss, since these bandits are willing to sell the goods, they can also save me a lot of freight, why not?"

Wang An suddenly stopped laughing and asked, "If Zikuan doesn't accept this deal, will anyone else in Ruoxian dare to take over?" ”

Du Yi said: "No. If it is strictly investigated, none of these businessmen in Ruoxian County will be able to get rid of the crime of gangsters. Now that the disposal of the Taishou Mansion has not come down, they dare not commit crimes against the wind. ”

"Zikuan can tell the Ruoxian clan that you can come forward to trade with the green forest heroes on their behalf, but you are short of money and need to borrow money from them, whoever pays the money will make a profit, and the proceeds can be shared with them. We don't eat alone, we earn money. ”