Lian Guoshi looked at the harmonious small mountain village, and couldn't help but question Yang Hong: "This ...... This is the very powerful Huanglong cottage you are talking about? ”

Yang Hong was speechless for a while, how did this Huanglong cottage become like this? The last time he led his troops to encircle and suppress, he also saw that the mountain was full of vicious bandits, armed with sharp spears, bows and arrows, occupying some very important defensive positions on the mountain, and the surrounding areas were full of rolling logs and stones, repelling his repeated attacks on the mountain.

Yang Hong hurriedly sank his face and said seriously: "Master Lian, don't underestimate this cottage, this is the annihilation trick used by Zhu Ba's cunning thief to show the enemy weakness, and there is a hidden evil intention." In this art of war, it is called ......"

"Hey!" Lian Guoshi interrupted Yang Hong's words, and snorted coldly: "The art of war? What kind of art of war are you talking to me about? Don't think that we scholars haven't read the military book, I can memorize the thirty-six strategies more smoothly than you. Whether the enemy shows weakness to the enemy, I will see with my own eyes and think with my own brain! ”

In other words, why is this practice of state affairs so unkind to Yang Hong? This has to start with his official position, his official position is called the Imperial History, as mentioned earlier, this is a position specially used to supervise hundreds of officials, and his job is to walk around and use his own eyes to see what the officials have done.

People who do this kind of official have one characteristic, that is, they are very distrustful of officials who are not of their own faction! In the eyes of these self-proclaimed "two-sleeved clean air", all officials in the world are corrupt officials, and only he himself is clean! All the officials in the world say lies and only what he thinks is true. Don't laugh at the officials, there are a lot of such people, not only practicing state affairs is this kind of moral surname, but also the entire Donglin Party, almost all of them are this moral surname, they look at others as **, only they are smart people! This kind of person is a typical example of reading and reading, or how to say that scholars mislead the country?

When Yang Hong heard what he said, he wanted to punch him head-on, but he didn't have the courage to beat the imperial history, so he had to suppress his anger and said in a deep voice again: "Zhu Ba is really a cunning thief, don't be deceived by him." ”

"Don't you just want to praise him so that you can hide your last failure? Hum! Lian Guoshi snorted coldly: "Don't talk nonsense, this official is to patrol the imperial history, and the emperor appointed me to this official position because this official has a pair of fiery eyes." ”

Lian Guoshi no longer paid attention to Yang Hong, and just walked towards the cottage.

It is said that there is a den of thieves in front of him, and this scholar is also bold, and he walks straight to the mountain road without a trace of hesitation. On the contrary, Yang Hong, when he stepped on the first step of the mountain road, his heart chuckled, the last time he came, it was not easy to walk on this mountain road, it was with the life of a soldier, he walked up, and when he walked halfway up the mountain, he was smashed down by a burst of rolling wood and stones.

But looking at the peaceful and peaceful appearance of the mountain, he was a little skeptical that he had really seen a ghost, so he turned his head sideways and searched carefully on both sides of the road, and finally, he found the marks left by the impact of several heavy objects on the mountain rocks, obviously, the battle a few years ago had carved an eternal mark on these mountain rocks, and it would not disappear completely with time.

"I read that right! And that's not wrong! Zhu Ba must be a powerful guy, and the current appearance of Huanglong Cottage is just a fake. Yang Hong silently muttered a few words in his heart.

As soon as they walked up the mountain road, they immediately attracted the attention of the sentries on the mountain, and a sentry with a thick wooden stick shouted: "Ah, there are officers and soldiers from the imperial court...... The officers and soldiers are coming to encircle and suppress us......"

As the sentry roared, he struck the bong, which made an empty sound that echoed throughout the hillside.

Lian Guoshi raised his head and watched the reaction of this cottage, only to see that the thieves on the top of the mountain began to get nervous after hearing the sound of bangzi, and many people ran on the top of the mountain, some men, some women, some old, some young...... The men ran back to the cave and came out again with sticks, hoes, dung forks, and other things.

Obviously, these people have not been trained, their movements are very urgent, the pace is very chaotic, the predecessors squeeze the descendants, and there are also pushes between each other, from time to time someone falls to the ground, and the people next to them quickly help the fallen ones up, and then a large group of chaotic bandits rushed to the gate of the village and stood in a pile.

Lian Guoshi suddenly sneered in his heart: Isn't this the common reaction of the rogues who can be seen at any time when they see the officers and soldiers?

When he was appeasing Wang Zuohang, he saw Wang Zuohang's army crowded like this. When I was apprehension and lit the lamp, I also saw the Liukou huddled together like this, and when I was appeasing the gods, I also saw such a scene.

"Yang Qianhu, you said that this cottage is very powerful, hehe......" Lian Guoshi sneered: "I see...... It's no different from other rogues, just a rabble. ”

Yang Hong shook his head: "Master Lian, don't underestimate the enemy, Zhu Ba must have deliberately arranged some villagers to pretend to be soldiers, and the real elite soldiers in the cottage must be hiding now and not coming out." ”

"Humph!" Lian Guoshi didn't listen to Yang Hong's words at all, he raised his head and said loudly to the bandits on the top of the mountain, who were "dancing with their teeth and claws" and in a mess: "Don't you put down your weapons yet?" I am patrolling the imperial history to practice state affairs, and on the orders of the emperor, I have come to give you a chance to reform and ask the head of the cottage to come out to see me. ”

The words of practicing state affairs are really upright, and people can't find the slightest fault. His waist was straight, and his eyes did not flicker. It is said that although the scholar has many problems, this upright person is not pretending, he is sure to be an upright person. The so-called life does not do bad things, he is not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night, he sits upright, acts rightly, and carries the emperor's order to appease the thieves, in his own opinion, what a glorious task, so this is really full of energy, and it can't be faked.

The bandits on the top of the mountain were forced by his righteousness, and actually took half a step back neatly.

There was a period of complacency in my heart when I practiced national affairs, hum, my generation has a strong iron backbone, and the evil demons can only retreat.

I saw a slight disturbance in the group of bandits, and for a while no one dared to come out to practice state affairs, and no one threw stones or arrows on the mountain road, and the group of people who practiced state affairs walked through the mountain road in such an open and honest manner, walked to the gate of the cottage, and stood in front of a group of bandits.

Lian Guoshi couldn't help but turn around and snort coldly at Yang Hong behind him: "You originally reported that in order to attack this mountain road, you lost nearly a hundred soldiers, you see, this official does not need a single soldier, just need to be upright, you can come up." ”

Yang Hong really had no way to argue, so he had to scold in his heart: You are coming as a messenger, and Zhu Ba deliberately let you go up the mountain, do you really think that you can walk up with righteousness? Fool! If you have the ability, you can bring the army and see if you can go so easily.

At this time, there was a surge in the group of bandits, the crowd split to both sides, and a young man came out in the middle, Yang Hong looked at it, and vaguely recognized that this was Baishui Zhuba, who had fought with him. I saw Zhu Ba wearing a coarse linen dress, and the clothes were very clean, but the texture was not very good. He didn't wear gold or silver on his body, and he didn't show half of his luxury.

Yang Hong was secretly vigilant in his heart, you must know that he had also seen many bandit leaders, these leaders generally relied on the burning and looting of their subordinates to gain a lot of benefits, so they always wore high-end clothes that they had robbed, and their clothes and belts were also inlaid with gold and jade, lest they be mixed with ordinary minions. But this Zhu Ba is different, he has been the king of the mountain for many years, but he is still so simple, it can be seen that he is a pragmatic person, this kind of person is generally good at buying people's hearts, has great ambitions, and is extremely difficult to deal with.

But Lian Guo's view is different from Yang Hong's, as soon as he saw Zhu Ba's business, he sneered in his heart: Hmph, he is another flat-headed commoner, a big old man who has not studied.

The two have different opinions, and their eyes are naturally different, and the subtle changes in their expressions all fall in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes. His heart was like a mirror, and he quickly figured out the difference in thinking between the two officials. Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Yang Hong, but shook his head at Lian Guoshi, and said in a voice pretending to be surprised: "You are here to appease us?" ”

"Exactly, this official has the emperor's order, and he has come to give you a chance to mend your ways!" Practice state affairs with a shelf.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, tears flowed down his eyes: "Let's ...... Finally, the envoy of the imperial court came...... The thousands of brothers in our village have long had good thoughts and want to surrender to the court, but they have no way to do good! ”

The large group of thieves behind Zhu Yuanzhang threw away the weapons in their hands at the same time, knelt down together, kowtowed to the sky and said: "The sky has eyes, the court has finally come to appease us, and we can be good citizens again......

Hula-la-la, the mountains are full of thieves.

Seeing this scene, Lian Guoshi didn't feel much surprised, since the rain in the spring, many rogues surrendered to the government, and most of them put on such a posture when they saw the appeasement envoys of the imperial court.

Lian Guoshi couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, although he behaved righteously, in fact, he was also a little worried, in case these thieves were really vicious, as Yang Hong said, they couldn't be appeased, and they might lose a small life, now it's so smooth, God bless Daming, God bless his little life.

"Since you have a good heart, it would be better......" Lian Guoshi said in a tone: "Why don't you go out of the mountain with me and go to the city to be cared for?" ”

"About this...... Zhu Yuanzhang made a gesture of welcoming guests into the mountain gate with both hands, and said: "Please enter the village to rest...... Let's talk about ...... in detail."

"Good!" Lian Guoshi didn't expect to say a word casually, so he said that the thieves really went down the mountain, and all thieves were cared for, they all had to talk about some small conditions, which was a reasonable thing, since the thieves were willing to talk, it couldn't be better, it was better than not having to talk about it. Lian Guoshi put the shelf of the imperial court envoy, paced square steps, followed Zhu Yuanzhang, and walked towards the stockade.