Hearing Hu Yuanchong's words, Zeng Fengxian pouted slightly. If he hadn't been forced into the situation of fleeing by Su Hao, he would have been like Hu Yuanchong, afraid of making things bigger. He knew from his own personal experience that he couldn't hide from this matter, and if he wanted not to be eaten by Su Hao, he could only take a risk.

"Brother Hu, you misunderstood." Zeng Fengxian said lightly, "The junior brother didn't say that Brother Hu would directly come forward to confront the government, nor did he let Brother Hu send the family out. To deal with people like Su Hao, I'm afraid it will take a hero like the big boss to do it. ”

"You mean...... Please ask the strongman to come out and deal with Su ...... Uh, deal with that guy surnamed Su? Hu Yuanchong stammered and asked, of course he knew that the huge master Zeng Fengxian said was the famous local bandit Pang Dengkui.

Zeng Fengxian said: "That's right, what does Brother Hu think." ”

Hu Yuanchong was silent, he hadn't thought about finding someone to assassinate or warn Su Hao before, but when he heard that Su Hao had more than 200 soldiers in his hands, he gave up this idea, because such a large-scale assassination was almost a rebellion. Now that Zeng Fengxian mentioned this, he began to assess the feasibility of this method.

Yes, instead of waiting to be killed, it is better to fight back, maybe there is still a glimmer of life?

"Brother Zeng, I heard that this Chief Su has more than 200 soldiers around him, and there don't seem to be so many brothers in charge of the huge family, can he be the opponent of Chief Su?" Hu Yuanchong asked.

Zeng Fengxian said: "Brother Hu doesn't know, my brother made a special trip to visit the huge boss a few days ago and told him about it. The huge master said that people are not a problem, he can invite several other heroes in Huai'an Mansion to help, but it is really not good, and he can also invite the heroes in Yangzhou and Sizhou to come over to help, so that this surnamed Su will not come back. ”

"Are you really that sure?" Hu Yuanchong's eyes lit up, anyway, it wasn't him who was fighting. It's never too lively to watch the excitement.

Zeng Fengxian smiled and said: "Brother Hu hasn't done business with the huge boss, when has he broken his promise?" However, the huge master said that this matter is not small, and he wants to invite the heroes of several surrounding provinces to come to help, and some hard-earned money for running errands still has to be given. ”

"Wow......" Hu Yuanchong gasped, he did ask Pang Dengkui to settle the disobedient villagers for him in the past, and invited a few little minions to come over and beat people, which was the cost of more than a dozen taels of silver. Now if you deal with more than 200 officers and soldiers, and you ask strong people from several surrounding provinces to come and help. The cost is estimated to be sky-high.

"Brother Zeng, did the huge master say a specific number?" Hu Yuanchong asked.

Zeng Fengxian said: "He said, 20,000 taels of silver, pay half of it as a deposit first, and then pay half after the matter is completed." ”

"20,000 taels!" Hu Yuanchong's eyes widened, "This is too expensive, with this money, I might as well go and make up the taxes." ”

Zeng Fengxian said: "Brother Hu, don't worry, don't forget." It's not your business alone, how can you let this money go out alone? In the past few days, I have also contacted five or six family members, and they all said that they are willing to spend money to eliminate the disaster. I mean. Is it to find enough 20 households, each family to get together 1,000 taels, and join forces to invite a huge master to come forward, this cost is not high, right? ”

"That's right." Hu Yuanchong came back to his senses. It's not just his family who hates Su Hao, the powerful landlords of the entire Huai'an Mansion, who doesn't want to eat Su Hao's meat and Su Hao's skin? If everyone joins forces, please Pang Dengkui. There is not so much money spent on each household. 1,000 taels is still more affordable than confiscated fields.

He also thought of a further one, if this matter is done, no official will dare to repeat this matter in the future, so that the landlords of Huai'an Mansion can safely and boldly embezzle the fields and conceal taxes. Spend money once and keep it safe for decades, and this account can still be paid.

"Brother Zeng, you are wondering, can the huge master get this Su master? I heard that those officers and soldiers were taller than ordinary guards, and they could not be defeated casually. Hu Yuanchong asked.

Zeng Fengxian sneered, stood up and walked to Hu Yuanchong's side, attached his mouth to Hu Yuanchong's ear and whispered something. Hu Yuanchong was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "If that's the case, then Hu will be relieved." Brother Zeng, do you think this silver will be given to you now, or will you send someone to get it later? ”

No one knew what reassurance Zeng Fengxian gave Hu Yuanchong, but when Hu Yuanchong sent Zeng Fengxian out, his face was full of lightness, and the dark clouds that had shrouded the Hu family in the past few days seemed to have disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Zeng Fengxian said goodbye to Hu Yuanchong, got into the tightly covered carriage, shouted, the groom waved his whip and whipped the horses, and the carriage flew towards the next Zhuangzi.

Su Hao's intelligence network in Huai'an Mansion was very weak, and Chen Guanyu pretended to be a ghost in various villages every day, and only heard some news about the corners, and he was completely unaware of Zeng Fengxian's secret contact with big households to raise money to invite bandits.

In a cautious and cautious manner, Deng Kui ordered the reconnaissance battalion to strengthen its vigilance, and released scouts within ten miles of his own activity area, which was called "night without collection" in the terminology of the time. The veteran Xu Guangzu also rushed to hear the news, he walked around the team every day, inhaling with his nose from time to time, and then said to Su Hao and Deng Kui: "The old man thinks this smell is wrong, there is a fishy smell in the wind, could it be that there will be a big fight in the near future?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Deng Kui's muscles tensed, and his eyes looked around, eager to find out the opponent hiding in the shadows immediately. However, Su Hao looked helpless, patted the old gentleman on the shoulder and said: "Uncle Xu, if you want to eat seafood, just say it, this is close to the East China Sea, if there is no fishy smell in the wind, it will be evil." ”

Xu Guangzu said embarrassedly: "What to say, can the fishy smell I smell be the same thing as the fishy smell of seawater?" Believe it or not, ......, but getting a few big yellow croakers to drink at night is really something special. ”

Although it is said that the grass and trees are all soldiers, things still have to be done. On the one hand, it is to prepare basic information for the future excavation of the Huai River into the sea, and on the other hand, it is to carry out land clearance and thoroughly investigate the evil deeds of the powerful landlords who conceal the acres of land.

Huai'an Mansion sentenced Tian Younian to stay by Su Hao's side and work with him to check the taxes of the landlord's family. At the beginning, Tian Younian was still a little worried that the work would be resisted by the landlords, but under the obscenity of more than 200 officers and soldiers of the survey battalion, the landlords everywhere they went were obedient and did not dare to make a mistake. In the past, everyone found it difficult to promote the work of clearing the zhangzhang, but at this time it was carried out very smoothly, and the taxes paid by the landlords have reached tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the fields that have been confiscated and returned to the public have also reached more than 10,000 mu.

With these extra silver and official land, Huai'an Province's disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction work will be financially secure, which means that those people crowded into Huai'an will be able to be resettled quickly, social order will be greatly improved, and people's lives will be greatly improved. As a local official, how can you not rejoice when you see this situation?

"Director Su is really eloquent, this land clearance, how many officials have failed to do it in the past, as soon as Director Su made a move, he immediately succeeded, Tian really admired it." Tian Younian sat in the sedan chair, opened the sedan curtain, and said to Su Hao, who was walking with the soldiers outside.

These days, he had invited Su Hao to ride with him in a sedan chair, but Su Hao refused. He also tried to get out of the sedan chair to walk with Su Hao, but he didn't go far and his feet couldn't stand it. Under Su Hao's persuasion, he had no choice but to move forward in a sedan chair half-pushed and half-on-the-spot.

Hearing Tian Younian's words, Su Hao smiled slightly and said, "Tian Tong's judgment is serious, Su Mou just came down on an errand on the orders of the Han Governor's Mansion." Other officials couldn't do this before, just because they were selfish and didn't dare to offend Haoqiang. Su is a certain piece of public heart, and it is naturally easy to run errands. ”

"That's, that's." Tian Younian replied insincerely, Su Hao said that the previous officials were selfish, including Tian Younian. In fact, he was also out of helplessness, these powerful landlords bought off the officials at the grassroots level below, and there were some unfathomable backers at the top, except for two hundred and five like Su Hao, who would provoke them like this.

"Tian Tongju, in fact, this matter has just begun. The reason why we were able to go so smoothly was because these powerful landlords did not expect us to be so tough, and they were not ready for the moment. When they come to their senses, we're going to be in big trouble. Su Hao said to Tian Younian.

Tian Younian said: "Since Chief Su thought of this, then he must have thought of a countermeasure, right?" Su thinks that how will these heroes make trouble for us? ”

Su Hao looked up at the front and said, "They will definitely go to the capital to complain and find their relationship to put pressure on Huai'an Mansion." However, we are moving very fast now, they will go to complain, and then wait until the pressure in the capital turns down, and some of the water will not quench their thirst. I thought they would use some violent means, which was the simplest and most effective way to do it. ”

"Violence!" Tian Younian only felt a little unstable under his buttocks, "Master Su is saying that they will kill officials and rebel?" ”

"It is possible to kill officials, but it is not possible to rebel." Su Hao said with a smile, "They are just trying to keep their family wealth, and it is impossible to rebel for this." ”

"That'...... If they really want to kill the officials, Chief Su, can these officers and soldiers you bring protect our safety? Otherwise, let's find a town to stop, and I will write a letter back to Huai'an Mansion and ask Huai'an to send thousands of officers and soldiers to protect us, right? ”

"I'm afraid it's too late."

Su Hao suddenly stopped, and Tian Younian's sedan chair also stopped at the same time. Tian Younian poked his head out of the sedan chair and found that the whole team had stopped, and the soldiers had raised their spears one after another and formed a small defensive circle.

To the east, there was a commotion, as if thousands of troops were rushing towards it. (To be continued......)