- Elite soldiers, definitely elite soldiers!

may not be as good as the 2,000 soldiers under the command of Zang Min, the "Hun Zhonglang General", or it may not be as good as the five schools of the Northern Army that brought together most of the elites of the Han Dynasty. However, the strength of these Yellow Turban Army in front of them definitely exceeds the thousands of county soldiers under the current Changshan State Minister 1!

——There are thousands of elite soldiers, and there are several fierce generals who I saw a few days ago, and the force is still above the second brother, these Yellow Turban Army are definitely something that the Zhao family cannot provoke and provoke......

Considering that the defense capability of his own dock fort could not be considered strong, after setting the tone in his heart, Zhao Feng decisively ordered that the Zhao clan should put down the bows and crossbows equipped first, and never shoot the first arrow. However, before the other party's intentions were clarified, Zhao Feng couldn't decide at all how to deal with these imposing Yellow Turban Army.

Fortunately, the Yellow Turban Army on the opposite side doesn't seem to be here to fight. Although each soldier wore battle armor and held swords and guns, he revealed a little joy in the midst of Xiao Killing.

When the whole army of the Tianping Army reached 300 paces away from Zhao's Dock Fort, it stopped advancing and began to repair. Soon, however, several large carriages that revealed a bit of joy, carrying seemingly extremely rich gifts, under the leadership of a very majestic Confucian scholar, left the ranks of the Tianping Army and continued to advance towards Zhao's Dock Fort.

There were five carts in total, carrying all kinds of cloth, wine and meat, dried and fresh fruits, and a large pile of five-baht coins that had been skewered together. The Confucian scholar at the head was not empty in his hand, holding a tray, and in the tray was a wild goose that was still alive. This posture made the Zhao family more and more confirmed:

- These yellow scarves are really here to rob relatives, oh no, they are here to ask for relatives......

Seeing this posture, for a moment, Zhao Feng's face was flushed with bright red. However, soon, this mixture of anger, helplessness, and panic was forcibly suppressed by him.

In fact, the worse the attitude of those Yellow Turban Army, the more relaxed Zhao Feng will be in his heart. On the contrary, like now, the more amiable and polite the Yellow Turban Army is, the greater the panic in Zhao Feng's heart!

In front of everyone, the Confucian scholar who walked to the door of the dock fort handed the tray containing the wild goose in his hand to an attendant behind him, bowed deeply to the Zhao people, and said loudly:

"Tianping Army Cheng Yu, come to visit!"

- Open the door, or not open? This is a problem. A matter of life and death for the entire Zhao family.

After only hesitating for a second, Zhao Feng made a decision. Based on the experience he gained on the battlefield, even one wrong decision is better than never making one.

The two thickened wooden doors, which were wrapped with thin copper sheets on the outside, were opened by the Zhao clan from the inside. After seeing the door, the Zhao clansmen with a wary look on their faces, Cheng Yu remained silent, took the tray of wild geese, and said to his entourage:

"You and all of you are waiting here. After the servant finished talking with the lord of Zhaobao, he had his own fate! ”

After that, Cheng Yu strode forward, did not squint, and under the silent gaze of the people of the Zhao clan, he walked into the dock fort.

Subsequently, the gates of the dock fort were closed.

For Cheng Yu, a Confucian scholar who was suddenly valued by Qu Shuai, the officers and soldiers of the Tianping Army have not cared too much about it. However, when Cheng Yu walked into the Zhao's Dock Fort, which was not divided between us and the enemy, these brave warriors who had never had a good impression of the scribes finally expressed some admiration for Cheng Yu.

Yes, just a little admiration, not worry.

The relationship between the officers and soldiers of the Tianping Army and Cheng Yu has not yet reached the point where he will be worried.

Therefore, in real terms, the person who is most worried about Cheng Yu's safety is actually the commander of the Tianping Army.

Zhang Yan's worry about Cheng Yu's safety is above Cheng Yu himself.

Cheng Yu is a self-confident, decisive, assertive, ruthless strategist to others and to himself. Although he mainly specialized in the Confucian way of "Spring and Autumn Prison Break"2, he was deeply rooted in the essence of the Han Dynasty's "Confucian Skin Law Bone"3. At this moment, Cheng Yu is confident in his heart, and he doesn't need to "worry" about such boring things at all.

In a rather spacious thatched hall, Cheng Yu met the current head of the Zhao family, Zhao Feng.

"I, the Zhao family, and Taiping Dao have always coexisted peacefully and have not offended each other. Now that the Taiping Dao army is on the side, can you teach me at your feet? ”

Zhao Feng's etiquette was very respectful, but the question was unceremoniously.

However, this bit of difficulty is not at all under Cheng Yu's words.

"Without him, the servants and other lords are happy, and the three armies are enthusiastic to celebrate, intending to share some joy. Speaking of which, it is the rudeness of the Lord of Zhao Castle, and it is a good thing that there is no joy in the clan, but it is strange? ”

Zhao Feng suddenly turned red and wanted to be angry, but he thought that the situation was stronger than people, so he had to say viciously:

"I don't know what good things are, and I hope to teach you!"

Cheng Yu looked around and said with a slight smile:

"Please leave it right."

- It's really a brainstorm to talk to this stinky sour ding!

As a veteran soldier who has been in the army for many years, Zhao Feng is naturally extremely unaccustomed to the kind of literary and crepe conversation between scholars. Every time he says a word, he has to switch it in his head. However, the customs are like this, and Zhao Feng is not willing to be looked down upon by other scholars. Even if this scholar is subordinate to the side of the Yellow Turban Army.

"Stand down!"

Although the Yellow Turban Messenger in front of him was more than eight feet tall and looked extremely oppressive, Zhao Feng didn't feel that he was alone at all, and there would be any danger to this person. The obvious difference between the hands that are accustomed to reading books and those who are accustomed to knives and guns cannot be disguised.

Zhao Feng is confident, if the other party wants to use force, he can level the other party in one breath. After all, he was once a peak warrior of the "Hundred Beheadings" who had been killed all the way out of thousands of Xianbei nomadic cavalry with Zang Min, the "Protector of the Huns"!

When there was no one else around, Cheng Yu smiled smugly and said to Zhao Feng, who was kneeling on the straw mat:

"Recently, the surrounding pavilions and the topics, I don't know if Lord Zhao has ever heard of it?"

Zhao Feng had a gloomy face and asked:

"But do it with your feet?"

"Not bad!"

Cheng Yu briskly explained himself.

"Mere rumors are just to confuse people, and the wise will not believe them."

Cheng Yu did not argue with Zhao Feng's rebuttal, but nodded approvingly.

"Not bad. There are just rumors, but the wise do not believe it. However, when the servant released these rumors, he did not mean to let the wise man be deceived too! ”

Speaking these words, Cheng Yu's heart was inevitably a little regretful.

- If it weren't for the short time, how could an ordinary wise man not be deceived by the intelligence of a servant?

"The original intention of the servant's strategy was to make those ignorant people in Changshan Kingdom believe. As long as two or three percent of the people in the county believe, the conspiracy will be successful! ”

"If the wise don't believe it, they will naturally expose this plan!"

Zhao Feng retorted angrily. However, in his heart, he was by no means as sure as he spoke.

"In the current strife of the world, Zhao Bao wants to pretend to be deaf and dumb?"

Cheng Yu knelt down in front of Zhao Feng unceremoniously, and said lightly:

"Do you know what it means to 'catch the wind and catch the shadow'? What is 'Cup Bow Snake Shadow'?

No matter what the matter is, as long as the servants come out of the Zhao Clan's Dock Fort, Changshan will inevitably think that the Zhao family and the Yellow Turban Army are very close. The so-called sin of wanting to add to it is unexcused. With the power of the Zhao family, can he defend himself in the whole country [referring to Changshan Country]? ”

"You ......"

At this moment, Zhao Feng really had the urge to draw his sword and stab the other party to death.

ps: 1 In the Han Dynasty, there were two kinds of administrative institutions below the state level, one was directly under the central government, called "county", and the other was divided into Liu princes and kings, called "state". The supreme governor of the "gun" is called the "gunkeeper", and the supreme governor of the "country" is the "minister of the country". Changshan is a vassal state of the Liu family, so there is a "national minister".

2 Spring and Autumn Prison Sentence, also known as "Jingyi Prison Sentence", was proposed by Dong Zhongshu, a representative figure of Confucianism in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, and is a way of reasoning and judgment for judging cases, mainly using Confucius's ideas to analyze and convict the facts of the crime.

In addition to using the law, the ideas of the Six Confucian Classics, such as Yi, Poems, Shu, Li, Music, and Spring and Autumn, can be used as the basis for adjudicating cases. The core is "conviction based on the heart", that is, according to the subjective motives, intentions, and desires of the parties to determine whether they are guilty and the severity of the sentence.

3 Confucianism means that the Han people regarded Confucianism as the academic study that they respected on the surface, but when government officials performed their official duties, they still followed the Legalist methods of governing the country inherited from the Qin Dynasty.

PS again: I suddenly found that the first 59 verses were missing, so I revised the order of the following chapters again and made up for the missing chapter. Shame on this.