Guo Zhiyi bought a lot of food on the street and returned to his home, and asked his wife to carefully hide the silver in his hand. The children were very happy to see www.biquge.info food, and the family had not seen so much food for a long time.

Guo Zhiyi asked the children to bring food to the hall to eat, and only the husband and wife were left in the house. Looking at his wife's puzzled gaze, Guo Zhiyi explained: "Don't worry, this silver came from the right way, and it was rewarded to me by the commander." ”

"Why did the commander reward you with money?" Madame felt that this was a bit of a surprise. Something out of the ordinary must have happened.

"I am going on a long trip on an errand, and it will take a few days to return, and the commander has rewarded me for encouraging me to be diligent in my official duties." In order not to worry his family, Guo Zhiyi did not say what he was going to do.

"Isn't it dangerous?" Madame knew that there was no silver taken for nothing, otherwise such a good errand would not have fallen on Guo Zhiyi's head.

"It's not dangerous, it's just a little farther through." Guo Zhiyi comforted his wife, and at the same time cheered himself up.

The whole family happily finished a sumptuous lunch, Guo Zhiyi returned to the yamen of Jinyiwei, handed over the work to his boss, and the command made the work efficiency of the adults still very high, and had sent someone to notify Guo Zhiyi's boss, prepared an excuse for his trip, and allocated funds. Everything went very well.

Guo Zhiyi selected ten loyal and capable Jinyi guards as his assistants among his soldiers, most of whom were also as unsuccessful in Jinyiwei as Guo Zhiyi, and when they heard that they had the opportunity to be promoted, they happily participated in the operation regardless of the danger. Early the next morning, Guo Zhi and his entourage secretly left the capital and went straight to Shanxi.

At this time, Shanxi is calm on the surface, but there is an undercurrent underneath.

The fighting in Shanxi almost stopped, and the thieves in Shanxi, except for Zhang Chu, either surrendered or fled. Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, personally led the army to win one victory after another in the suppression of thieves in Shanxi. But at this time, Hong Chengchou couldn't be happy. News had come from the court that the emperor had received the impeachment of him for suppressing the thieves, lost Yuncheng and the Yellow River crossing south of Shanxi, and drove a large number of thieves to Henan with his neighbors as beggars. Hong Chengchou understood that this must be the ghost of those Shanxi businessmen, and according to the Jin merchants who had a good relationship with Hong Chengchou, they reported to him that the life of the Jin merchants was now unbearable.

Caravans that went out of Zhangjiakou to trade in the steppe were often attacked by the Mongols, and now they were basically unable to get out. And this time, the security army directly occupied the Yellow River crossing and did not leave, cutting off the trade route to the south of the Yangtze River at once. The wrong way to make money is like killing parents, of course, these businessmen can't just stand still, some of them are looking for connections in Beijing to impeach Hong Chengchou, hoping that the emperor will order him to step up the suppression of thieves. Some directly approached him and begged to send troops to open up trade routes as soon as possible.

Hong Chengchou was also anxious in his heart, for the war in Yuncheng, he played a lot of Spring and Autumn brushwork in the twists and turns, and extricated himself on the grounds of returning to Taiyuan, but this is not a long-term solution, only by taking back Yuncheng can he wash away the stain.

It is in his own interests to recapture Yuncheng, and it responds to the call of the merchants, Hong Chengchou also hopes that this day will come as soon as possible, but it is not easy to recapture Yuncheng. This Yuncheng is guarded by the security army. For the security army Hong Chengchou already has a psychological shadow, against other thieves Hong Chengchou is a success, but against the security army is a fight and a loss. The security army was there and did not run away, Hong Chengchou knew the terrifying defensive ability of the security army, but he did not dare to send troops to recover the area occupied by the security army. But there is no way to go on like this, Hong Chengchou is thinking about how to defeat the security army every day. Hong Chengchou, who was depressed in his heart, decided to watch the situation of his team, and walked around by the way.

Hong Chengchou was the first to arrive at the camp of Cao Wenzhao, whom he trusted the most. Cao Wenzhao welcomed Hong Chengchou into the camp and followed him to inspect the situation of the soldiers.

The two came to Cao Wenzhao's Chinese military tent, Hong Chengchou sat down at the top, and Cao Wenzhao carefully stood aside to listen to Governor Hong's instructions.

"Your soldier is in good condition, it seems that you are very attentive, I am very happy at this point, I don't know how the crackdown on the thieves in Henan is now?" During this period, Cao Wenzhao always led the team to encircle and suppress the thieves in Henan, but because the thieves ran away when they saw the official army, Hong Chengchou never fought any big battles. Therefore, Hong Chengchou did not receive a report in this regard.

"The thieves are getting more and more slippery now, and when they see my team, they have fled far away, and I have organized many sorties without catching a large number of enemies. If you want to eliminate the thieves, you need to cooperate with many parties.

"I'll figure it out. The generals will definitely be able to eliminate the thieves as soon as possible. Of course, Hong Chengchou also understands this truth. But how long is it difficult to cooperate with each other in the Ming officialdom. It's already a shame not to tear down the stage for you.

"But I found a bad situation, the thieves ran away when they saw my cavalry, but they attacked more and more of the other officers and soldiers, and they became more and more ruthless. The combat effectiveness of the thieves increased a lot at once, and a few of the officers and soldiers suffered their losses. "Cao Wenzhao is still more realistic, and he can say whatever he wants.

"A bunch of rice buckets, even those stragglers can't beat them. Hong Chengchou thought of the report about the failure of several officers and soldiers, and he was angry and scolded outside the outside, regardless of the image.

"It's not entirely to blame the generals, I found that after the thieves were beaten to Henan, the weapons and armor were more abundant and of better quality. We seized some of the thieves' weapons, and found that they were better equipped than those of our officers and soldiers. Cao Wenzhao didn't want to get the result of speaking ill of his colleagues in front of the governor, so he tried his best to excuse the other generals, and hurriedly signaled the officers to go and get some captured thief weapons.

Hong Chengchou looked at the thief weapon in front of him, and the trouble in his heart increased a little. The weapons of the thieves are obviously much better than those of the officers and soldiers, and this good sword may cost the officers and soldiers several more lives on the battlefield. In this regard, Hong Chengchou has no one at all. The manufacture of weapons in the imperial court was in the hands of officials at all levels, and cutting corners was a common occurrence. Coupled with the deduction of the craftsmen's wages, the craftsmen could not even eat enough, so they were in the mood to make weapons seriously.

This one security army is enough to give Hong Chengchou a headache, if the other thieves are no longer cannon fodder who rush up with farm tools in their hands to send them to death, then the situation of the officers and soldiers will be even more difficult.

"Where did these weapons come from? How can a thief have the financial resources to equip such a good weapon? Hong Chengchou can still see a deeper level when he looks at the problem, so he directly raised two key questions to Cao Wenzhao.

But Cao Wenzhao couldn't answer either of these two questions. Cao Wenzhao still didn't care much about things other than the war, so he could only stand there and just open his mouth and couldn't speak.

Hong Chengchou knew that he would not have any useful answers after asking for a long time, so it was better to figure out a way by himself. So he left Cao Wenzhao's camp sullenly, and he was going to go to his master Zhang Shaotang to see if there was any way to restrain the security army. (To be continued.) )