But he said that I had talked to Miss Zhao about my plan. The plan is probably like this: in the future, the merchant group system will be implemented in the entire Hexi Road, and each heroic force will record the information of the merchant group in the state capital, and the people will no longer be allowed to use knives and guns on a large scale, otherwise they will be punished as rebels. As in the past, paying taxes and silver every year is in fact merely disarming them. In addition, depending on the size of the merchant group, the price of retaining a certain amount of armament is to pay a certain amount of service deposit to ensure that the people will abide by the law and no longer act recklessly. Of course, those people with lofty ideals will also be encouraged to join the Hexi Road Garrison, hire according to their talents, and strive to completely subjugate Hexi Road within five years. After I narrated, I said: The whole world is not the king's land, and the heroes of Hexi Road are all overlooked, and it is impossible for the court to let them go. I thought that a peaceful settlement of the dispute was the best way, otherwise Hexi would fall into a situation from which there would be no return.

Zhao Minzhen arched her hand and said: I naturally agree with these suggestions you made, but I'm afraid that other people won't listen to them. Because the capital they have to gain a foothold in Hexi is men and swords, how can they give up easily?

I said behind my back: Then there is no way. No court will allow a second force to control the state capital, and the duty of the official is not to be compromised.

Zhao Minzhen said: Since the adults hope that the heroes of Hexi can help to quell the rebellion, but they also hope that they will put down their swords, this is originally a contradiction!

I smiled and said: There is only one way for them to pick up the sword, and that is to join my Hexi Road Garrison. Otherwise, once they are opposed, it will not be good for anyone.

Zhao Minzhen shook his head and said: You are too risky to do this, it is equivalent to being the enemy of the entire Hexi!

I raised my eyebrows and said: But Hexi is now the enemy of the whole world! This official can take the army of Hexi Road out at any time to quell the rebellion. At that time, Hexi Road will fall into chaos, and when the official comes back again, it will attract soldiers from all over the world, and it will be easy to set foot on Hexi! This official has said all this, I hope you Zhao family understand this official's intentions. This official really can't bear to let you heroes end up in a situation of confrontation with the world, so I hope to think twice before acting! So I brushed my sleeves and entered the courtyard, and I just saw Shi Yong helping Fang Caidie to walk into the room, so I walked over quickly and went to help.

Seeing Shi Yong carefully hand Fang Caidie into the maid's arms and gently close the door, I pulled him nearby and said: It seems that she can't take care of herself yet! Shi Yong nodded and said, "But it's much better than a while ago." I whispered: Now brother, I have played a big game of chess, if I lose, I am afraid that I will have to leave here in the starry night. What are your plans? Will you stay and take care of her, or will you come with me? Shi Yong bowed his head and said: Caidie can't speak alone, it must be very boring, I ...... I can't bear to leave her!

Well, since you've decided, I won't bother you in the future! I arched my hand.

What the? What do you mean? Don't you recognize me as a brother? He wondered.

No, I'm busy with affairs, and once I fail, I won't be too deeply involved with my brothers. When Hexi is stable, brother will come to you again! I arched my hand and said: It's goodbye now, and there will be a date later! Shi Yong was about to say something, but I turned around and ran away.

So I ran out of Handan City in the starry night, and in the camp, I transferred the main force of Hexi Road to Handan to assemble, and ordered the Liyang Garrison Division to mobilize 30,000 troops to Handan. At the same time, the state capitals of Hexi were ordered to allocate grain, rice, and silver money to fund the army, and accept heroic heroes to join the garrison army. For a while, Hexi Road shook, and when I heard that I was going to gather all my troops in Handan, those heroes were shocked, especially in several big families in Handan, and they didn't know what I was going to do. Two days after Dong Zhentian's wedding, I hurriedly found him and asked him to lead 8,000 cavalry to the Beijing division to escort him.

After about ten days, the garrison army assembled in Handan exceeded 100,000 people. Some people in the rivers and lakes heard that there was a recruitment here, and they wanted to try their luck. I organized these people into a battalion and managed them separately. Xiahou Lin was newly married to Yan'er, so he ran over, he hoped to join the garrison army and contribute to the country. Although Fang Jinwen was reluctant in his heart, the Xiahou family had already divided half of it with him. So Hexi Road received 20,000 sailors from Xiahou's family, and I assigned Xiahou Lin as the chief soldier to restrain his people. After Zhao Minzhen went home, she told her father about my intentions, but the old man was naturally unwilling. However, seeing that I was assembling an army in Handan, I knew that what I said was true, so I hesitated.

At this time, the news of the full mobilization of Hexi Road came to Cangzhou. Zheng Tianbai was surprised when he heard about it, during this period, Dou Ying's father and son and Liang Jin have been fighting on the periphery and fighting hard. The rebels had no less than 50,000 troops in the south of Cangzhou, and 780,000 horses in the north, but fortunately they did not assemble, and there were about 60,000 officers and soldiers in the two states, and they cooperated with the 20,000 horses in Cangzhou to barely deal with the enemy. I heard that the Hexi Road mobilized a counterinsurgency army, and the morale was high for a while, but Liang Jin was very worried, because Emperor Cheng had been missing for more than a month.

When the news came to Jingshi, the government and the opposition were shaken. The spies from all walks of life in Hexi reported that it was Emperor Cheng Junzhi who transferred the army and pretended to borrow the hand of Qincha. Because the jade seal is only available to Emperor Cheng, whether Emperor Cheng is missing or not has always been a matter of authenticity. Ding Yi, the secretary of the military department, heard that Yan Weiping had been arrested in Handan, and that the army on the Hexi Road was out of control, so he was worried at the moment, so he ordered the commander of the Liyang Left-behind Division to make Sima Coo not let a single soldier enter Hexi, and he did not allow the Hexi people to go south to Kaifeng. So he entered the palace through his inner servants, met with Queen Ding, and discussed the plan.

Empress Ding is the youngest daughter of Lord Ding, twenty-six years old this year, she has been in the palace for eleven years, and she has only seen Emperor Cheng less than twenty times in total. However, her goal is not this, but to cover the sky in the harem, since Emperor Cheng doesn't like herself, she simply does not allow any palace concubine to get close to Emperor Cheng. At the same time, she herself often had a misunderstanding with those guards, so Emperor Cheng hated her more and more. Now she is bent on helping her father achieve great things, so she has eliminated most of the untrusted chamberlains and maids in the harem, and even killed a noble concubine and two Zhaoyi. Now after seeing his father, he learned that Emperor Cheng's disappearance was probably true, and that the Xuanfu envoy of Hexi Road was defeated, so he proposed to do it immediately. Lord Ding naturally hesitated, because more than half of the people and horses near the Beijing Division were in the hands of the Hong scholars, in addition, there were some general soldiers and thousands of households in the internal guards who were Xie Tianguang's, and the governors of the two gates were also his disciples, and now only the secret son-in-law Xiangyang Left Behind Division commanded Tang Yishan to lead an army of 50,000 into Beijing.

At this time, however, I could not rest easy. On the one hand, the Liyang Left-behind Division refused to send troops, and various reasons were exhausted, and on the other hand, half of the heroes on Hexi Road refused to cooperate. Since the finances of the local government depended on the support of the wealthy families, they were coerced and refused to pay their salaries. At present, Handan has gathered 120,000 main forces, but the grain and grass are less than a month's expenditure, although there are 500,000 silver of the Zhao family to use, but they cannot buy grain and grass from any shop. The rice oil business on Hexi Road is basically controlled by the Fang family, so it must be Fang Jinwen's ghost. At the same time, all kinds of merchants, large and small, went to the Handan Mansion to gather people, saying that the army of Hexi Road harassed the people and affected the trade routes, and demanded that the army be mobilized immediately, otherwise they would collectively not do business, and the people of Hexi Road would not be able to live a stable life. At this time, Xiahou Lin ran over and told me that his 20,000 horses had not been integrated so far, and it was obvious that not all the water bandits were willing to recruit An. For a while, the situation became difficult to control, and even there were rumors of division within the Hexi Road army.

I thought about it for a long time, and suddenly I found the sign with the brocade guard printed on it, and wondered, can I take advantage of the chaos? quickly sent someone to invite the eldest sister of the Zhao family. She was wearing a short fight this time, and she looked very energetic. Meet and hug your fists:

My lord! I don't know what to teach this time? Now that Hexi has entered a chaotic situation, I don't know if adults have a good way to deal with it?

I immediately arched my hand and said:

Miss Zhao! To be honest, the current situation of Hexi Road has long been expected. Now I would like to ask my eldest sister a question, did the Guidart Bureau arrest a wounded man near Shijia Village last month?

She was stunned and said:

No! How could we do such a thing in broad daylight?

Are you sure not?

Why do you ask? Could it be that my Zhao family did something illegal and undisciplined and was discovered by adults?

No. I thought that the man who was arrested was Fang Jinwen's fourth brother Fang Jinquan.

No way! I saw him in the city the other day, and he wanted to give me something, but I refused!

Are you telling the truth?

Of course!

I see! Thank you big sister! I don't know, can I be willing to go with my younger brother to verify some things, my younger brother has no guards around him, so I trouble my eldest sister!

Uh-huh! But let me remind you, the Fang family actually has a little young master, named Fang Wenzhong, who was born of fornication with someone when the first master of the Fang family was alive, and he is in his twenties this year, although Fang Jinwen has never admitted it, but everyone in Handan knows it.

Oh! That's him! The one who was arrested must be Fang Wenzhong! But those people are wearing yellow turbans, dressed as dart masters, not noble dart boards, but who are they?

She was taken aback and said:

No way! Recently, I heard that the children went out to inquire and came back to say that there was a group of people who occupied the Hungry Ghost Ridge, and they always dressed up to look like the people in the dart game, so during this time, the people in the dart game were often misunderstood as bad people, and we ruined a few of our businesses! We're still looking for it, but it's a pity that the Hungry Ghost Ridge is steep and can't be entered by ordinary people. Therefore, the matter of investigation has been put on hold again and again, and when the adult asked today, the little woman dared to guarantee that Fang Wenzhong must have been caught by those gangsters and entered the Hungry Ghost Ridge!

That's it!

I touched my chin and thought that if I could find out what was going on in Fang Wen, maybe I could use this as a handle to make Fang Jinwen obedient, and I could also increase my relationship with the Zhao family. So I arched my hand and said:

Eldest sister! Since this matter is related to the Zhao family, it is better for you and me to work together to solve this Hungry Ghost Ridge, firstly, in addition to a major trouble for you, and secondly, it can let the official figure out whether that person is Fang Wenzhong, maybe you can use this to get the help of the Fang family, which will be beneficial to you and me. If he succeeds in the future, the official will also sponsor you, how about it?

She suddenly hugged her arms and said disdainfully:

Feed! I made a statement at the beginning, you little brother, how can you not trust me at such a tense moment?

I then laughed and said:

The situation is urgent, so let's get ready to go!

So I called an order, ordered the Hexi Road Garrison to send 5,000 men and horses, and called Xiahou Lin, he also brought a hundred good hands, Zhao Minzhen also brought 300 swordsmen, so the group set off, looking at the hungry ghost ridge and leaving. The people in Handan didn't know what these people were doing, and there was no one to receive the merchants who had gathered. So they really started to go out of business, but just one morning, the prefect of Handan, at the behest of my departure, put them all in prison, confiscated their goods, and encouraged the common people and those who did small business to open the market, and the government provided the supply of goods, which barely lasted for a while.

We went on an expedition for three days, and at night we arrived at Hungry Ghost Ridge. So I told the general to choose a place to camp, and the men and horses were set up to prepare for the attack tomorrow. In the evening, I was in the big tent, with Xiahou Lin and Zhao Minzhen, as well as Fang Caiyun, who was traveling with me, to discuss what to do. Fang Caiyun was naturally very cold to Zhao Minzhen, so I asked Miss Zhao to sit on the left-hand side, with the staff general on the lower hand side and Xia Houlin and his wife on the right-hand side. Zhao Minzhen arched his hand and said:

It's better to lead a few people to go up the mountain to investigate at night!

Xiahou Lin shook his head and said:

No way! You are a woman, no matter how strong your martial arts are, your family is condescending, and you have a secret whistle, how can you easily get it? I don't think it's better, so let me take a few dozen brothers tomorrow and take the lead first, and you will respond in the back, and if anything happens, withdraw immediately.

No way! It's too dangerous!

Fang Caiyun pulled his arm and said. Xiahou Lin stroked her little hand and said:

Where is there no danger in fighting? Why, don't you believe in your husband's abilities?

Zhao Minzhen looked a little ugly when she looked at them, so she stood up and said:

I'll please, I'll go first in the first battle!

Xiahou Lin also stood up and said:

No! I'll come first!

I had no choice but to stand up and say:

Don't be impatient, you all need me to think carefully tonight, and then do it tomorrow!

So they all went out, and I looked at the nearby terrain, and to be honest, I couldn't understand it without the help of the generals. However, after looking at it for a long time, it seems that there are rocks and trees on all sides, and there is really no feasible path, only a winding stone road leading to the top, which can only be attacked. I shook my head helplessly, yawned, blew out the lamp, and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, someone poked my quilt. I opened my eyes and saw a man in black standing in front of me, and I was about to ask when he turned and went out. So I quickly put on my clothes and shoes, and ran out, only to find that everything was normal in the barracks, and the person was nowhere to be seen. So I was puzzled and prepared to go back to the big tent, but I found that the guards on both sides were standing still, and tried with my hands, but they were angry, and they seemed to have been pointed. So I looked back again, and someone in the darkness beckoned me, and I followed. He walked in front of me along the way, dodging the guards and beckoning me. I unconsciously followed out of the barracks and into a small forest in front of me. The man in black then pulled down the mask, and when I saw it, it was a face I didn't recognize, but there was a scar on the right side of his face, which was very conspicuous. However, on his shoulder, a piece of the spear head was clearly exposed, the clouds opened and the moon was bright, the spear head flashed, and I was stunned and said:

It turned out to be you! What do you want me to do?

Hahaha! Looks like you remember me!

It's you! It was you who conspired with Wang Fu that night, in Cangzhou, I won't forget you! You're a thief too!

Hahaha! You're wrong! I did not conspire with Wang Fu. But you, who knew that you would become a minister today, should have killed you when you were in Bohai! It's a pity that I have had a relationship with you several times, but I have never ended up in today's situation!

You want to kill me? Why?

What's the use of asking so much? Tell you, your talisman is gone, he was called to Xiangyang by his accomplices, and you should obediently leave your life now!

Wait a minute! If you show me your face, why don't you tell me, why did you kill me? Could it be that you have a relationship with the people in Hungry Ghost Ridge?

You're really long-winded! Well, there is not much time, the story is free, what I can tell you is that my name is Xiang Zhongquan, and you can come to me directly after you die!

You are the center! All right! You know this jade plaque!

As I spoke, I motioned for him to put down the pistol and took out the jade plaque from my bosom. He was stunned and said:

How did you get it?

Then you don't care!

No way! Tell me! What's going on!

Do you want to know?

Not bad!

Well, follow me to Hungry Ghost Ridge, naturally there is an answer!

Less kidding! I don't have the time to talk nonsense with you!

That's what you don't dare? Just the two of us, now, do you dare to go up?

Hum! How don't you dare? If you play tricks, Lao Tzu will stab you with a shot! Walk!

With that, he pushed me and walked down the path of Hungry Ghost Ridge.

At this time, the wind is roaring, and the moon is sometimes hidden and sometimes shining overhead. We walked three or four miles one after the other, and finally arrived at the trail of Hungry Ghost Ridge. He pushed me and said:

You're ahead of the curve!

I spread my hands and smiled:

Alas! I thought you were in the same group as the people of Hungry Ghost Ridge, but now it seems that this is not the case!

Less nonsense! Come on!

I walked slowly more than a hundred steps, and when I looked up, it was very dangerous. There was a large stone rock overhead, which half-covered the path. I thought about it, there should be a dark sentry here. So I shouted with all my might:

Feed! Anyone? We're here to worship the mountain!

I'm going to die! What are you shouting nonsense?

He yelled angrily and kicked me for. I got up and said:

I don't shout, what if they release the arrows? It's okay if you're good at kung fu, I don't want to die so early!

When he heard this, he had to puff up and carry me forward and said:

Let's go!

As a result, we walked more than 3,000 stone steps one after another, and I was really tired, so I sat on a nearby stone and gasped for breath. He said with a gun:

Feed! You kid, don't play tricks, spend a while, it's dawn! Get me up!

As he spoke, he carried my shirt, but I was like I had no bones under my feet, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't stand up. He shook his head and said:

It's so hard to be played by this kid of yours! Now you can't go up and down, if you don't get up again, Lao Tzu will pierce it with one shot!

Whatever! I can't!

I leaned to the side of the stone and waved my hand in disdain. He was so helpless that he had to sit on the side with a gun and get angry. After more than two moments, he jumped up and pointed his gun at me, and I had to get up and climb step by step. After walking more than 500 steps, I finally reached the top, where a winding path led to a wooden bridge and a huge cottage opposite. Looking at the banner waving over there, he gasped and foamed:

Feed! Are you sure this is a rebel, not a bandit?

I shook my head and said:

How do I know? Anyway, don't you know?

You!

His hands trembled angrily, but he stood for a long time without seeing anyone. So we walked to the gate of the cottage again. After walking about 300 steps, we found that the gate was empty, and when we pushed the door, the courtyard was empty, and there was no life at all. He coughed and said loudly:

In Xialiangzhou to the middle of the whole! Something to worship the mountain!

I shouted three times in a row, but no one answered. Confused, he still pushed me and walked to the lobby. As soon as we approached the lobby door, we smelled something unpleasant. So he used a gun, and the door opened, and the room was filled with corpses! He covered his mouth and nose and leaned in, and I stood in the doorway and didn't dare look inside. After a while he ran out, gasped a few times and said:

Grandma's! Fucking damn it! At least seven days! You kid did a good thing, Lao Tzu remembered!

As he spoke, he half-crouched down and kept retching for a while. I looked back at the other rooms, and found one room with the window open, and a dark shadow faintly passed through it. So he grabbed him by the arm and pointed to him:

See! Someone!

As soon as he heard this, he picked up his gun and rushed quickly. I immediately followed, and watched him roll over and enter the window, followed by the sound of soldiers fighting inside. As soon as I ran to the neighborhood, I heard an oops, and a man flew out of the window, and fell heavily on all fours. When I took a closer look, it was Xiang Zhongquan. When he was swearing incessantly, the door was suddenly kicked open, and forty or fifty people rushed out of it, all wearing green robes and black gauze hats, and the weapons in their hands were all average, all of them were narrow-bladed official knives. I looked around and said:

It turned out to be the Inner Guard! Disrespectful, disrespectful! Under the order of Nie Chenghai, I have seen all the brothers!

Those people were stunned, and out of the back came a man in his twenties in a red robe, and as soon as he spoke, I heard that it was a eunuch. He said with his hands behind his back:

It turns out that Your Excellency is Lord Nie! Disrespectful, disrespectful! This seat is Feng Ruyi, the general manager of the four products of the Great Inner and the commander of the internal guards, and he has long heard the news that the saint has obtained a young hero in Cangzhou, and now when he sees it, he is indeed the dragon and phoenix among the people! Why, the officers and soldiers under this mountain are not led by adults?

I nodded:

I don't know that the inner guards have already controlled this place, how disrespectful, forgive my sins here!

How dare you? It's just that the internal guards do things, and they have always been reluctant to make a noise. My lord, you are busy with official business, so it is naturally inconvenient to stay for a long time, so I have to wait for him to talk about it in the capital on another day, and I hope that the adults will understand!

Where? However, the people on this Hungry Ghost Ridge caught an injured man earlier, and this official sent troops for this person this time. If the adult has already saved this person, I hope that the adult can deliver this person to the next person, and it will be a matter of the official's heart!

Oh? Is it? But it's not a secret, when I came here three days ago, this cottage was already like this, and I also wanted to find out, but it coincided with adults! Now the internal guards have been checking for three days, and they have not found any clues, so they are just planning to leave. Since the adults intend to verify here, this seat will not bother again, little Dezi!

Yes!

Order: Guards, withdraw!

Be!

Lord Nie, this seat will go down the mountain, and the things in the side room will be left to the adults! Leave! Let's go!

Without waiting for me to react, Feng Ruyi hurried down the mountain with the inner guards. From that room, many people came one after another, and it was estimated that there were at least a thousand people. Xiang Zhongquan and I sat on a stone mill in the courtyard and watched the guards leave. After a while, the cottage lost its popularity again. Exhale the airway to the middle of the whole body:

Brat! Why didn't you just expose me in front of that man or woman? Aren't you afraid that I'll take your life now?

I looked up and smiled:

Where? If you were really a bad guy, you would have done it halfway. What's more, the so-called commander of the Inner Guard just now, God knows which one? Didn't you just get beaten all over the ground looking for teeth? There are so many masters, if it's not good for me, you can still deal with it!

You! Attaboy! Do you really think I won't kill you? Then you'd be wrong! I went up the mountain with you for the jade plate. Now that there is no one to prove, you have no choice but to accept your fate!

As he spoke, he raised his gun.

Feed! Your boss is not small, don't be so angry! I know, you must have a jade-related task, and now that this incident is very strange, don't you want to find out before you do it? I'm just a little kid, and I can't run, so why are you in a hurry? If you want me to say, among the thousands or hundreds of internal guards who just went out, there must be someone I am looking for, and that person is the key clue to hold this jade plate! Well, do you think what I'm saying makes sense?

Anyway, I just received the jade medal, and I don't care about anything else!

However, now you didn't receive the jade card, but someone else collected it for you, and caught the person who sent the card, and now the brand has accidentally arrived in the hands of me, the third-grade official of the imperial court. You say, "Should you take care of it?" As far as you are concerned, this incident may well be a matter of life and death for all of you! And I'm an insider, should you weigh it? I'm going to look around, and when the officers and soldiers come up, you can say that they are my guards, and I brought you up.

So I jumped into the hut. He held the gun, gestured for a long time, and finally said a sentence in his mouth:

Grandma's! I really can't kill you! Good! You wait! Lao Tzu won't serve you!

With that, he turned and ran down the mountain.

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