In Anling City, Gao Huan was discussing the military situation with Li Erhu, Guan Yi and Guan Er, and Ruyi was playing with handkerchiefs on the couch in the inner room and listening boredly. The sergeant outside the door reported: "Report to the general, the people of Nanpi Taishou have arrived." ”

"Oh? It's pretty fast! Hurry up, please. Gao Huan said in surprise, he thought that this Tian Shu might not buy his own account with a shelf.

Gao Huan sat in front of the desk, and Tian Shu's henchman Tian Rong stood below, Gao Huan was very unhappy, and secretly scolded: Damn, Tian Shu came to talk in person, but I didn't expect to send someone to perfunctory me. His face was not good, so he said very coldly: "Why don't you come to your family?" In the name of the imperial court, I asked him to come and discuss the matter of Anling. ”

"If you return to the general, my family is a little unwell a few days ago, and the doctor said that it is not suitable to travel, so it is okay to send a villain to discuss with the general." Tian Rong replied without being arrogant or humble.

"Can you be the master of your family?" Gao Huan looked at Tian Rong, his tone full of doubts. Tian Rong leaned over and replied: "A little bit of a villain can call the shots." ”

"Hehe, then I'm going to transfer your Nanpi garrison now, can you call the shots?" Gao Huan immediately asked.

"This ...... The villain has no military power and cannot be the master. ”

"Then I want to levy 8,000 stone of Nanpi and silver military rations, can you call the shots?" Gao Huan chased after him.

"This ...... The villain also has no financial power, but the villain can go back and discuss it with my family. Tian Rong replied with a smile on his face.

Looking at Tian Rong's disgusting smile, Gao Huan was so angry that he couldn't go up and punch him three times. I underestimate He Liuhun too much, really because I am a vegetarian, and I have been mixed up all these years of hard fighting? Okay, let's see!

"In this way, since you can't do some things, bring a letter back for me to give you Taishou, you go down to sit and rest first, and then call you when I finish writing." Gao Huan said expressionlessly.

Tian Rong bowed slightly, did not salute, and retreated, not to mention Gao Huan himself, Li Erhu and Guan Yi and others were annoyed, Li Erhu said: "General, you can tolerate it too much, Tian Shu's small curtain is so arrogant and domineering, but think about how powerful he is in Nanpi, in my opinion, I don't want to fight any Anling, I will destroy Tian Shu first, just to give those who want to rebel against us a dismount." ”

What Li Erhu said also makes sense, but Gao Huan feels that what he needs to do now is to reduce his losses as much as possible and preserve his strength, in troubled times, the majesty of power has sometimes fallen to the point of worthlessness, only military power and strength can make people kneel at your feet, if Tian Shu didn't rely on his own soldiers and money and food, he would dare to do this with Gao Huan, who represents the authority of the central government? This Gao Huan is the same as Spiegel in his heart.

"What you said also makes sense, but for Tian Shu, don't worry, I have a plan in my heart to let him kneel and worship me in the future." Gao Huan said to everyone confidently.

Gao Huan sent Tian Rong away, and before leaving, he deliberately let Guan Yi take Tian Rong to see his army lineup and momentum, and what he wanted was for him to go back and report to Tian Shu.

Since Tian Shu refused to send troops, he shirked the money and grain in every possible way, and only sent 300 buckets of wheat bran to deal with the matter. Gao Huan naturally didn't want to be angry with him, because as long as Tian Shu remained neutral and didn't sneak attack behind his back when he attacked Anling, it was only a matter of time before Gao Huan made a move, and it was only a matter of time to solve Tian Shu's Nanpi.

Anling's thirty-six separatist forces, the largest is the Li family entrenched in Anling City, they have more than 3,000 troops under their control, and the next Yangxin, tired of the county to form an alliance, the three raised troops in Anling have nearly 8,000 people, but even so in front of Gao Huan's wolf-like regular army, this grass platform team is not enough to see at all, as soon as the Li coalition army was killed, nearly 2,000 people were killed, and the rest of the people retreated to Anling City, not daring to come out.

Gao Huan's army surrounded Anling in all directions, the water could not be drained, and even a bird could not fly over, so it was surrounded for more than ten days, and the two sides were consumed like this, and the Li coalition army thought that Gao Huan would not attack the city for the time being, so he sent people to climb out of the ditch at night and went to Nanpi to find Tian Shu for help. Gao Huan learned that the defense in the city was lax, so the next night, he personally led the death squad to raid the city gate, and after opening the city gate, the army quickly occupied the entire Anling City.

Seeing that the Li coalition army was destroyed by Gao Huan in a few clicks, the other large and small forces in Anling were so frightened that they surrendered one after another, and within a few days, they all handed over the surrender letter and hostages to Gao Huan. Gao Huan did not kill in Anling, but appeased the people and opened a warehouse to buy people's hearts. just sent the Li brothers and others to Changle to be detained.

Thirty-six forces converged with Gao Huan's army in one place, plus Gao Yue and Gao Zhongming, who had cleared away the bandits, led reinforcements. Gao Huan had nearly 18,000 men and horses under him at this time, and he was now preparing to go north to Nanpi to meet the arrogant and domineering Tian Shu. First of all, he wrote a letter to Tian Shu, the content of which was nothing more than that he would lead the army to Nanpi in the near future, hoping to meet with Tian Gong in the city, which was obviously a naked threat to Tian Shu.

It's a pity that Tian Shu is a man with great ambition and talent, and he can't recognize the reality, so he actually wanted to raise troops to resist Gao Huan's army, and he also contacted Li Taishou in Fuyang County further north to start an incident together.

Gao Huan saw that Tian Shu had gone crazy and couldn't communicate normally, so he privately contacted Tian Shu's relatives and minions, those people were much more sober than Tian Shu, and under the temptation of heavy money and the deterrence of soldiers, they all broke away from Tian Shu and went to Huan's side, and in the end, the concubines around Tian Shu fled with money, and they were tied up by their subordinates to see Gao Huan.

When Li Taishou of Fuyang County heard the news, he hurriedly dropped his baggage and withdrew to Yingzhou.

In Nanpi City, Gao Huan sat in a high position, Li Erhu and Guan Yi sat on the left, and Gao Yue and Gao Zhongming sat on the right. Standing at the head was Gao Huan's staff Shuzuo, and there were more than a dozen local warlords in Anling and Leling who went out with the army. The house was full of people, but this Tianshu was tied up like a rice dumpling and had to be brought in.

Gao Huan looked at the official document in his hand carefully and carefully, as if he couldn't see Tian Shu in the audience. These are the household registration registers and official treasury details after the entire Jizhou was pacified. I don't know, I was shocked when I saw Gao Huan, now I actually have a population of 300,000, more than 30,000 taels of gold and silver, and nearly 600,000 stone in grain stocks, not counting the concealment and concealment of local forces. It's really rich.

Tian Shu saw that Gao Huan was not good for himself for a long time, so he made frequent small movements in front of him, looking left and right, and whispered to the people of more than a dozen local forces: "The tie is too tight, please loosen the binding." ”

Gao Huan threw the roster in his hand on the stage, pretending to be surprised and asked, "What's the matter?" How did you tie up our guests? How did you do it? He turned his head and said to Tian Shu in the audience with a smile: "Tian Taishou stood up and spoke, how bad it is to kneel like this." As he spoke, he asked the sergeant to set up a chair for Tian Shu in the middle of the main hall and let him sit down.

Tian Shu saw that this chair only had three legs, where could he sit on people, and said a little angrily: "General Gao is a little too deceitful, although I was defeated, but I am also too guarded, and the official residence is four grades, you treat me like this?" After that, he turned his head in anger and couldn't bear to be happy.

Gao Huan scolded in his heart: You have become a lonely prisoner, and you are still playing with me! But with a smile on his face: "Who, treat our guests like this, although Tian Taishou is now captured by us, but we treat him preferentially, so many gold and silver treasures in the Taishou Mansion are shared by you." ”

Tian Shu's heart hurt when he said this, and he thought to himself: My money, my woman, and my rights have all been robbed by Gao Huan! I still have to suffer this kind of anger here, and I can't die of hatred. Thinking of this, Tian Shu closed his eyes and actually held back two drops of horse urine.

"What is this saying, why is Lord Taishou still crying, is it thirsty? Someone came to show the tea to Lord Taishou. Gao Huan ordered, Gao Yue went out with a spirit in his heart, brought in a bowl of water after a while, and fed it to Tian Shu personally, Tian Shu was tied, unable to move, and refused to drink water. Gao Yue didn't say a word, let the sergeant press Tian Shu, pressed his head himself, opened his mouth and poured water into it, and Tian Shu almost choked to death in a few clicks.

Gao Huan waved his hand, Gao Yue let go of him, and Tian Shu scolded while coughing vigorously: "He Liuhun...... Ahem, what are you...... Ahem, I'm a member of the imperial court......"

"You still dare to call yourself a court official? I came to Jizhou on the orders of the emperor to suppress the rebellion, but not only did you not support me on my orders, but also wanted to remain neutral and sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. Over the years, you have endangered one party, your subordinates have corrupted the law, disobeyed the orders of the central government, and it is really hard to write about the number of offends you have done, and people and gods are angry, even if you are beheaded all over the house, it is not enough to take the blame" Gao Huan said angrily. This tiger doesn't wield, do you think I'm Pikachu?

Until now, Tian Shu still has illusions, thinking that Gao Huan really doesn't dare to do anything to himself, he is wrong, he is very wrong, he still can't see the situation clearly, so many people are present at present, if Tian Shu wagged his tail and begged for mercy to change his past, maybe Gao Huan would still think that he was cowardly and cowardly and spared his life, the more strongly he resisted at this time, the easier it was to be caught by Gao Huan, and Gao Huan was the best at killing chickens and monkeys.

"General Gao, even if I have all kinds of crimes, you have to escort me to Luoyang, let the Yushitai and the Criminal Department take the blame, and it will not be your turn to deduct my hat." It's a cough that is good and the waist is hard again.

Gao Huan was furious when he heard this, and immediately said to Li Erhu and the others: "Come on, drag me out, behead!" When Li Erhu heard this, he didn't say a word, and led the sergeant to drag Tian Shu out.

Tian Shu was anxious now, and shouted all the way: "You killed the court officials in vain, and I won't let you go as a ghost...... only to hear a snort outside the tent, and after a while, Li Erhu came in with Tian Shu's bloody head, and everyone couldn't help but look at Tian Shu's dead head in a cold sweat.

Gao Huan smiled slightly when he saw this, put down his pen, walked off the stage and said to everyone: "You don't have to panic, I said a long time ago that the imperial court is determined to punish this Tian Shu, and we are not to blame for the other people who have abandoned the secret and kept their duties. After hearing this, everyone secretly wiped a cold sweat.

Seeing this, Gao Huan said slowly: "But the generals, county guards, and masters of our team have other arrangements. The official positions of the seventh and sixth grades remained unchanged, but all of them were concentrated in Changle for office and residence. All actions can only be carried out with my consent, and if there is a violation, I don't want to say more about this Tian Shu's example. ”

Then, in spite of the opposition of the local scholars, Gao Huan forcibly carried out land inspection and population inventory throughout Jizhou, and found hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, 70,000 or 80,000 displaced people without hukou and tenants who were hidden, which was equivalent to the labor force and income of one more county in Jizhou. Gao Huan also announced that due to the wars and disasters in recent years, the taxes and forced labor of the common people in Jizhou could be reduced by half, which was a bolt from the blue for the landlord class, who could only rely on the income of the Lulu and the Grange.

The situation, which had just stabilized, suddenly became delicate.