(Ask for collection)

On the fourth day of October in the ninth year of the Great Sui Dynasty, both sides of the Yellow River have entered late autumn, or it can be said that it is the last autumn. The Yellow River Basin, the hinterland of the Central Plains, which should have been fertile for thousands of miles, is barren and desolate. Sometimes there are no crops growing in the fields for hundreds of miles, and weeds are waist-deep as far as the eye can see. Countless finches flew back and forth in the grass, and the black pressed seemed to be too many to count. The fat hares can barely jump in the fields, but they are still looking for food to fill their stomachs.

There is a giant field in Dongping County, which is hundreds of miles from north to south and east to west, accounting for about a quarter of the entire territory of Dongping County. There is a group of strongmen in Zezhong, who occupy the mountain as the king, but he is quite righteous and famous, and he never spoils the people nearby. This group of strongmen is extremely powerful, gathering tens of thousands of people to gather in the mountains, forests and rivers, and the county soldiers of Dongping County do not even dare to touch the edge of Juyeze. The name of the mountain is Liangshan, but the name of this group of strongmen is Yanyunzhai.

The big boss of Yanyun Village is said to be surnamed Li, but he is only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, but this person's martial arts are extraordinary and righteous Bo Yuntian, so he has countless heroes to assist, and tens of thousands of soldiers under his command are extremely good at fighting, and they have broken through the Great Sui town of Liyang to seize countless grains and grass, and they are the two wars that will destroy the original big boss Zhang Jincheng of Juyeze, and no one in the nearby green forest heroes is dissatisfied. It is said that the leader of the thieves was once an official in the court, but for some reason he gave up his future and was willing to be a thief. Although this man is a thief, his subordinates all respect him as a general.

After the thieves of Yanyun Village arrived in Juyeze, they swept away more than a dozen large and small villages in Dongping County, and their soldiers were unstoppable, it is said that in order to chase and kill Zhang Jin, he also went deep into Lu County to kill until the foot of Daishan, and even the famous general Zhang Xutuo, who won a hundred battles, was helpless against this team. Speaking of which, there is no one on the banks of the Yellow River who can have such a record in the green forest road, and even the famous Zhishilang Wang Bo was killed by the old general Zhang Xutuo, the general of Qi County, in two battles.

These things are known to the county guard of Dongping County.

At the beginning, when the men and horses of Yanyunzhai arrived in Dongping County and fought with the people and horses of Juye Ze Zhang Jin, Wu Xingzhi was still very happy. The two tigers competed with each other, and he waited to see the situation of both defeats, but unfortunately, he didn't expect that the men and horses of Yanyunzhai were so strong that they would kill the people and horses of Juye Ze Zhang Jin and flee in defeat. Since then, Wu Xingzhi has been worried for a while, lest the powerful thieves attack the county rule.

Although Dongping County also has more than 10,000 county soldiers, it is okay for them to scare and scare the people, let them kill thieves? Wu Xingzhi even felt that even if he carried a kitchen knife into battle, it would be more effective than those county soldiers who only knew how to escape. Zhang Sanheng, the county leader, only knew that every time he drank and had fun, he didn't care that there was such a big tumor in Dongping County. Of course, even if he wants to, he doesn't have that ability, and without a sharp knife in his hand, how can he cut off such a large tumor?

Later, Wu Xingzhi slowly became more down-to-earth, because those thieves in Yanyunzhai were much more benevolent and righteous than Zhang Jincheng, and they had never disturbed the nearby counties since they arrived in Juyeze. On this point, Wu Xingzhi still admires the big boss Li who only heard of his name but did not meet him, since people did not lead troops out to rob disgusting people at every turn like Zhang Jincheng, Wu Xingzhi naturally would not consider taking the initiative to fight. Even if he was given 50,000 soldiers, he didn't plan to fight. If you are happy to be safe, why bother to see each other?

Wu Xingzhi felt that Li Da was really a good person, and he was so well-behaved as a thief.

But yesterday morning, a group of more than 300 elite cavalry flew to the gate of the city gate of Dongping County, and the county soldiers hurriedly closed the city gate and then shrank behind the battlements of the city wall to peep into the eyes, the thief led by a bow and arrow shot a letter tied to a feather arrow into the city. The arrow hit the lintel of the arrow tower of the city gate with precision, and the arrow penetrated deep into the wood as if it pierced the human heart.

After an arrow was fired, the hundreds of horsemen and thieves shouted in unison: "Please Lord Wu of the county guard!" ”

Since Wu Xingzhi read the letter sent by his subordinates in a hurry, he sighed for more than an hour, and he didn't even have an appetite for breakfast.

"Come on, go and invite Lord Juncheng Zhang to discuss the matter!"

It was really a headache, Wu Xingzhi knew that Zhang Sanheng was also a person who didn't pay attention, but he could only find him to discuss countermeasures. After thinking about it, Wu Xingzhi ordered again: "Invite all the rich families in Yuncheng to my mansion, and say that I have something important to discuss!" ”

The order was ordered, and when his subordinates found Zhang Sanheng, the county prince, he was drinking flower wine in the drunken moon building, and a little girl who had just been broken by him and frowned slightly teased him with the charm she had just learned. It's just that this girl is too green, and there is no such soul-stirring taste between her eyebrows. However, Zhang Sanheng's favorite is this young girl like an unripe peach, he is sixty years old, and only in this kind of girl can he find back the majesty of the past. Whenever he saw the girl under him frowning and softly crying out in pain, he felt that he had inexhaustible strength in his body.

Although it was only a moment of effort, it was still enough to choke his old body. The girl got up and let him look at the red on the white silk under him, Zhang Sanheng nodded with satisfaction, and then stretched out his hand and rubbed a few handfuls on the girl's petite breasts, the girl endured the pain and smiled and got into Zhang Sanheng's arms.

While enjoying it, suddenly someone outside knocked on the door in a hurry.

"Who!"

Zhang Sanheng asked angrily.

"My lord, Lord Wu, the county guard, please go over and discuss the matter, 100,000 are in a hurry!"

The servant outside the door said eagerly.

"What's the matter?"

Zhang Sanheng frowned and asked.

"Junozawa...... A letter has been sent from the thief in Junozawa! ”

"What!"

Zhang Sanheng sat up from the bed violently, and the thing that had just been picked up by the girl immediately softened.

The wealthy families in Yuncheng successively received invitations from the county keeper and invited them to the county guard to eat and drink. It didn't take long for the news of hundreds of thieves flying in the early morning to spread all over Yuncheng, and none of those rich people were stupid, this kind of thing was to think with their butts that they also knew that today's wine not only had to be eaten, but they were afraid that they would have to pay their own money to buy it.

They were reluctant, but they could not disrespect the orders of the county guard.

For a while, the heads of the few wealthy families in Yuncheng took a carriage to the county guard's mansion, and this kind of scene has not appeared for a long time since Zhang Jincheng died.

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Wu handed the letter to Zhang Sanheng and motioned for him to take a look. After Zhang Sanheng's result letter was unfolded, he couldn't help but exclaim: "It's a good handwriting!" ”

Wu Xingzhi's brows furrowed slightly, and he said in his heart At this time, do you still have the heart to read the words of the thief?

But it's no wonder that although Zhang Sanheng is the county of Dongping County, the highest military official in the county, he is really a literati, originally a staff member of Zuo Zhenwei's general Yu Wenshu, or because he is a cousin of Yu Wenshu's wife, he later asked Yu Wenshu to come out as an official, and in the past six or seven years, he has also mixed into the position of Jun Cheng. Speaking of which, it is inseparable from the care of the Yuwen family.

So Zhang Sanheng, who thought he was not shallow, cared about the beautiful and neat handwriting on the letter paper at first sight, and he was greatly appreciated at a glance, he had never seen this handwriting, the font was horizontal and vertical, skimming like a leaf, like a knife, and neatly aligned, how to look at a stroke and how to make people admire. So much so that Zhang Sanheng only cared about reading the words, but he didn't pay attention to what was written in the letter.

"Good word!"

Zhang Sanheng stroked his beard and praised: "At a glance, you can see that this word is from everyone's hands, and it is worth collecting!" ”

It is no wonder that Zhang Sanheng praised it so much, Li Xian wrote this letter in order to make it easy for people who read the letter to read it, and did not use his favorite cursive script, but used Song characters, Zhang Sanheng naturally had never seen it. There are five kinds of calligraphy, and each font is named according to the surname of the calligrapher according to a different style. There is only one exception to this font, and that is this Songti character. Song character is a font created by Qin Hui during the Huizong period of the Song Dynasty. Based on the thin gold font of Huizong, he synthesized the strengths of various schools to create this typeface that was suitable for printing at that time.

It's just that because Qin Hui's reputation is too bad, he named his font after the dynasty.

Qin Hui actually has great talent, and he is very confident in his calligraphy, he has said more than once: "Fame and wealth are all passing clouds, but my Qin character is a hard-won industry." ”

Wu Xingzhi coughed and asked, "Lord Zhang, what do you think of the things mentioned in the letter?" ”

"Things?"

Zhang Sanheng was taken aback for a moment, then came to his senses, blushed and read the letter from beginning to end.

"Are the thieves of Junozawa crazy!"

After reading the letter, Zhang Sanheng stood up from the chair violently and slapped the letter on the table with a snap. The letter fell to the ground fluttering as the palm of his hand lifted.

With this beat, the heads of dozens of rich families sitting below trembled neatly, and someone who was familiar with Wu Xingzhi leaned forward and picked up the letter and looked at it, and immediately turned pale. His hands trembled and he sat back in his chair, and for a moment he was speechless in fright. Seeing him like this, everyone's hearts were cold, and someone took the letter from his hand and began to pass it on, but whoever the letter came to became dumbfounded.

"Two million!"

Zhang Sanheng said angrily: "Those thieves in Juyeze, do you think that my Dongping County was built on Jinshan!" ”

The richest man in Dongping County is a distant branch of the Pei family, and it is the person who picked up the letter closest to Wu Xingzhi. His face was pale without a trace of blood, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Does Lord Juncheng have a way to deal with it?" ”

Zhang Sanheng was stunned for a moment, and roared again: "Where did my special mother go to find so much money!" Are the thieves in Yanyun Village poor and crazy! I was in a hurry, so I led my troops out to fight him to the death! I am a great Sui general, how can I bend down and bow to the thief? ”

forced the literati to scold his mother, which shows that Li Xian's asking price is indeed higher.

"If it's 100,000, even if it's ...... Even if it's 200,000 yuan, we can barely make it up, and the two adults who spend money to buy a safe province are laborious, and the children of the villagers in the province are bleeding and dying, but these two million guan ...... Even if we exhaust all the possessions, we won't be able to scrape them together. ”

Pei Shisheng, the head of the Pei family in Yuncheng, sighed sadly.

Wu Xingzhi sighed and said, "This is not the key, the key is...... The head of the family surnamed Li still did not allow us to collect money from the people, and the letter clearly stated that if he knew, the city would be ruined, and he would kill all the rich and wealthy people. Even Zhang Jin, who eats people's hearts alive, died in his hands, and that person didn't just talk about scaring people. ”

He glanced at Zhang Sanheng and said: "Lord Zhang once followed Marshal Yuwen to fight in the south and the north, and he was skilled in using soldiers. ”

Zhang Sanheng opened his mouth, and finally turned into a long sigh.

"Let's talk about money."