"I forgot, if the mastermind behind that incident was Xuan Degong, he would probably make two moves at the same time! Zijing, quick, let's go back! ”

Explaining in a low voice, Tao Ying immediately turned the horse's head and led the soldiers to go back, although Lu Su was a little inexplicable, he still turned the horse's head honestly and accompanied Tao Ying back to Tao's mansion, and then Lu Su caught up with Tao Ying and asked in a low voice: "Childe, what do you mean by suddenly turning back?" Which move did the Xuande Guild make at the same time? Who is behind that incident? ”

"Of course, it's my father's illness." Tao Ying replied in a low voice: "Although it is not certain whether this incident is behind the scenes, and there is no way to determine that Xuan Degong must be the mastermind behind the scenes, if this matter is really done by him, then this is definitely the best time to make my father's illness more serious or even death!" ”

Lu Su's intelligence is definitely not under Tao Ying, but he has not been like Deputy Director Tao, who has experienced in the most hypocritical and thick black place in the world, and is not as blessed as Deputy Director Tao in terms of conspiracy and trickery, but after hearing Tao Ying's analysis, Lu Su also immediately woke up and said in his heart: "Yes, if this matter is really Liu Bei's mastermind behind the scenes, then now is definitely the best opportunity to do it!" Because since Liu Bei put forward an unreasonable request of 200,000 Hu military rations and 1,000 war horses to Tao Fujun, he must have been ready to fight with the Xuzhou army, so when the Tao and Liu families turned their faces and went to war, Tao Fujun suddenly died, and Xuzhou immediately fell into a chaotic dilemma of a group of dragons without a leader, and the battle situation would be extremely beneficial to Liu Bei. ”

"Even if Tao Fujun agrees to Liu Bei's unreasonable request, letting Tao Fujun die of a serious illness at this time will also be very beneficial to Liu Bei, because after the death of the lord, even if the second son succeeds to the throne, the first thing to face will be the replacement of new and old civil and military officials in Xuzhou and various problems of internal turmoil, and he is temporarily unable to do anything to Liu Bei. At that time, if the lord has given the grain and grass to Liu Bei, then the Xuzhou army will be hollowed out, and the Xuzhou army will have no food in a few months, and the army will be chaotic if there is no food, and the son will not be able to sit in Xuzhou. ”

"If the military rations have not been given, Liu Bei can also take the opportunity to ask the son's father to repay the debt, the son is digging his own foundation, if he doesn't give it, the son will have to start a war with Liu Bei before he has sat down in Xuzhou, the situation is not only favorable to Liu Bei, but Liu Bei also has an excuse to lure the wolf into the room, pull Lu Bu or Cao Ying into the Xuzhou battlefield, and form an overwhelming advantage over the Xuzhou army! So at this time, it is definitely the best time to attack Tao Fujun! ”

After thinking about these truths, and secretly admiring Liu Bei's ability to grasp the opportunity and scheming, Lu Su admired Tao Ying's cleverness and scheming so much that he threw himself to the ground - this son, how much bad water should there be in his stomach? How can so many complex and far-reaching problems be analyzed with a little clue? I really don't know how this son is so cheeky, he can name his descendant army after a gentleman, and have the face to play the banner of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, trustworthiness, gentleness, courtesy, and frugality?

Hurriedly returned to Xuzhou Thorn History Mansion, Tao Ying first led Lu Su to find Cao Hong, the former captain in charge of the security of the Thorn History Mansion, without waiting for the confused Cao Hong to ask why he went and returned, Tao Ying split his head and covered his face and asked: "General Cao, after my father returned to the room, did he use decoction and food?" ”

"Not yet." Cao Hong replied truthfully: "After the lord returned to the room, he drank a little warm boiled water, the water was boiled in the lord's house, and there were two people, one was the maid Lian'er who boiled the water, and the eldest son who fed the lord with water, and the eldest son used a silver spoon to feed the water to the lord, so it should be no problem." ”

"Then when will my father eat and take his medication? Are there any people who have arranged for these to be watched? Tao Ying asked again.

"The lord is about to take medicine, and he will probably eat at the beginning of the unitary hour." Cao Hong replied truthfully: "The lord's meal is made by the young man's room, and the young man's room has two cooks and two handymen, monitoring each other. As for the lord's decoction, it was prescribed by the lord's most trusted Langzhong Zhang Hang, and then sent to the lord, and then the eldest prince tried the medicine and then fed it to the lord. ”

Speaking of this, Cao Hong added, "For the sake of prudence, the humble position has also made preparations in the decoction of medicine, the prescription is prescribed by Zhang Langzhong, and the special person arranged by the last general will first ask other Langzhong to check that there are no hands and feet, and then go to the largest crude medicine store in the city to grab the medicine, and finally Zhang Langzhong will check that the medicine is correct, and then put it in the medicine jar to boil it himself." Also, every time Zhang Langzhong decocted medicine for the lord, he had to check and search his body first, and arrange guards outside the door to protect him. ”

"There is nothing abnormal in the decoction process, my father's rice and medicine have to go through my brother's hands, is my brother really the biggest suspect?" Tao Ying was a little shaken, but after thinking about it, Tao Ying ordered again: "General Cao, please take me to the room where my father decocted medicine immediately, and I will check it myself." ”

Cao Hong agreed, and hurriedly led Tao Ying and Lu Su to the backyard, and led Tao Ying and Lu Su to a room with guards guarding and full of medicinal smells, the room was very poorly furnished, only a small clay stove with a charcoal fire, a small case, a few stone inkstones, new bamboo pens, ink ingots, paper and prescriptions and other things, a middle-aged man in his forties squatted next to the stove to fan the fire, carefully tormented the medicine pot on the stove, and the middle-aged Tao Ying also knew, it was Tao Qian's most trusted Langzhong Zhang Hang, so many years, Tao Qian has always asked him to prescribe medicine, Eat the medicine he decocted with his own hands.

Seeing Tao Ying and Cao Hong coming in, Zhang Hang was startled at first, and then quickly got up, bowed to Tao Ying and Cao Hong, and called him a son. Tao Ying smiled and said: "Zhang Langzhong don't have to be nervous, I'm just here to take a look, I've worked hard for you, this kind of decoction, why didn't Zhang Langzhong ask a subordinate to do it, and he had to do it himself?" ”

"Childe doesn't know, this decoction is also very knowledgeable, especially some special medicines, one more point is not good, one point less is not good, you must know how to master it." Zhang Hang's expression was a little nervous, and he added: "In the past five years, all the medicines used by the lord have been fried by the villain's own hands. ”

"It's been five years? I really didn't pay attention. Tao Ying showed a surprised expression, and said with a smile: "My father is old and sick, it seems that Zhang Langzhong has worked too hard in the past five years, and when my father's condition improves, I will definitely show my father and ask my father to reward Langzhong." ”

"Gongzi Xie, the villain really doesn't dare to be a villain." Zhang Hang breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly saluted Tao Ying to thank him, Tao Ying picked Zhang Hang up, and casually asked some Tao Qian's illness and the drugs used, but although Zhang Hang answered fluently, his expression was still a little nervous, and he didn't know whether it was a ghost in his heart, or a normal reaction to talking to a big man like Tao Ying.

After talking with Zhang Hang for a while and not finding a flaw, Tao Ying was about to give up, but suddenly saw the prescription on the case next to him, so he pretended to ask to see what kind of medicine Tao Qian was using today, Zhang Hang didn't know what the plan was, so he quickly brought the prescription and handed it to Tao Ying to check, but Tao Ying didn't know much about traditional Chinese medicine, so he could only hand over the prescription to Lu Su, who barely knew how to know medicine, and at the same time asked Zhang Hang Why didn't he bring Lang's Chinese medicine box since he went to the clinic? Zhang Hang smiled bitterly, and Cao Hong next to him was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly replied for Zhang Hang: "Don't blame the son, it is the last general who thinks about the safety of the lord, before Zhang Langzhong enters the room in the past five or six days, he asks Zhang Langzhong to hand over the medicine box to the guards outside the door for safekeeping, and if Zhang Langzhong needs anything, let the guards send what in." ”

"Really?" Tao Ying was also a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said to Zhang Hang: "Zhang Langzhong, don't blame, General Cao is the captain of my father's account, responsible for my father's safety, although some things have been done a little too much, but I also do my duty for my father, and I hope Zhang Langzhong will not mind." ”

"No, no, no." Zhang Hang hurriedly waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "The villain also understands that General Cao did this for the sake of the lord, so the villain will definitely not mind." Tao Ying was at the end of the charge, and said a few words of apology, at this time, Lu Su had already handed the prescription back to Zhang Hang, and gently shook his head to Tao Ying to indicate that it was okay, Tao Ying completely let go of his suspicion of Zhang Hang, and Zhang Hang said goodbye, and led Cao Hong and Lu Su to the young man's room to check.

After walking more than a dozen steps out, Tao Ying suddenly stopped again, closed his eyes and carefully calculated. Seeing Tao Ying suddenly stop, Cao Hong and Lu Su couldn't help but be confused, and couldn't help asking, "Childe, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Just now, it seems that something is wrong, but what is wrong there? Why can't I remember? Tao Ying replied with a deep frown.

"Childe, since you found out that something was wrong, you will understand it when you go back and take a look?" Cao Hong reminded with a smile.

"That's right, I should go back and take a look." Tao Ying found that he had drilled the tip of the horns, and couldn't help but smile embarrassedly, and then Tao Ying hurriedly led Cao Hong and Lu Su to turn their heads back, and re-entered the room where Zhang Hang was, and glanced at the room at will, Tao Ying immediately understood that the situation was wrong. Then Tao Ying ignored Zhang Hang, who came to salute, strode to the room and picked up an object, checked it with his hand, and then checked it by the way, Tao Ying immediately showed a smile, turned to Zhang Hang with a kind smile and asked, "Zhang Langzhong, this thing should have been taken out of your medicine box, right?" ”

Seeing the objects in Tao Ying's hands, and seeing Tao Ying's kind smile, Zhang Hang spun around for a while, his crotch was hot, and a stream of water gushed out, and he dared to say a word? Tao Ying didn't force him, and asked the guard at the door to confirm that this thing was taken out of Zhang Hang's medicine box, Deputy Director Tao smiled even more happily, and asked Zhang Hang with a kind attitude: "Zhang Langzhong, I can't see that you don't look amazing, in fact, you are not small, you dare to secretly put mercury in my father's medicine, so that my father's condition continues to worsen." ”

"Childe! Spare your life! Damn the villain! Damn the villain! But the villain is also forced! Obviously, it was not spy material Zhang Hang was recognized by Deputy Director Tao in person, and he was slightly intimidated, and immediately his legs weakened, and he crawled in front of Tao Ying, desperately kowtowing and begging for mercy............

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That night, the news from Tao Qian's mansion made Mi Zhu and Mi Fang brothers completely relieved, and this news was that Tao Qian's condition suddenly worsened, it was difficult to get out of bed, and the situation was still very critical.

In fact, for the Mi Beijia brothers, the bigger good news is still to come, that night, Uncle Liu's special diplomat Jian Yong at this stage came to visit, bringing great news to Mi Beijia, Tao Qian has promised to supply Uncle Liu with 200,000 Hu military rations and 1,000 war horses, to help Uncle Liu Huang reorganize the army, resist the invasion that Cao Boss and Lu Xiaoqiang may come at any time.

"Good! Good! As soon as he listened to Jian Yong's introduction, Mi Fang, who had always looked at Tao Ying unpleasantly, suddenly laughed wildly, patted the case and laughed and said: "As long as Tao Qian is willing to give, I have already figured out the military food stocks in the five counties of Xuzhou, which was at most barely supported until next year's autumn harvest, and now with Zang Ba's thousands of mouths, and given the 200,000 Hu military food, even if there is no food cost for the march and war, at the latest in March and April next year, he Tao Ying Xiaoer will have to cry his nose!" Xuande Gong's plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle is really too clever! That's smart! ”

Unlike Mi Fang's excitement, Mi Zhu's reaction to the news was completely unexpected, and he asked in surprise: "Agreed?" How can it be? Mr. Xianhe, how did Tao Ying'er answer you? What was the attitude at the time? ”

"The second son of Tao has a very kind attitude and speaks very sincerely." Jian Yong replied truthfully: "Tao Er Gongzi said so, my lord Xuande Gong has a great grace to the five counties of Xuzhou, and has resisted foreign enemies for Xuzhou for so long, and now it is even more to resist Cao Mengde and Lu Wenhou to invade Xuzhou before being forced to expand the armament war, so it is incumbent on me to supply grain, grass and war horses, and I can't refuse it in any reason, and let the next lord return to the lord, the 200,000 Hu military rations and thousands of war horses required by the lord must be given in full, but the number is too large, and it takes a little time to prepare to raise." ”

"Tao Yingxiaoer, is it really so refreshing?" Mi Zhu couldn't believe it, and hurriedly asked, "Mr. Xianhe, has Tao Ying made it clear how much time he needs?" ”

"Within a month, I will be supplied with 50,000 yuan of staple food and 500 horses, and the remaining military rations and horses will be supplied in full within two months." Jian Yong replied truthfully.

Tao Ying needs time to prepare grain and grass, of course Mi Zhu has no doubts, because Xuzhou's military grain is not hoarded in a city in Xuzhou, and the most important granaries are also in Xiapi and Tancheng, and it certainly takes time to transport such a huge amount of grain and grass, so after a little calculation, Mi Zhu quickly nodded and said: "Although it has taken a long time, it can't force Tao Ying'er onto the cliff and make Xuande Gong bear the infamy of persecution too much, so I also ask Mr. Xianhe to persuade the lord and promise Tao Ying'er this preparation time." ”

"Of course." Jian Yong nodded, and said: "Mr. Zizhong, Mr. Zifang, in the next night, in addition to telling you this one thing, there is also a message from the lord to bring to you, the lord said, although he asked for a large amount of grain and grass for the sake of the people of the five counties of Xuzhou, but it may also make Tao Fujun and Tao Gongzi misunderstand and anger them, so Xuande Gong hopes that the two gentlemen are prepared, must pay attention to your safety, if there is an accident, I hope that the two gentlemen will quickly go out of the city and take refuge in Xiaopei." ”

"Please return to Xuande Gong, thank him for his concern, and please rest assured that we will take care of ourselves." Mi Zhu thanked him.

"Yes, please ask Xuande Gong to let go of a hundred hearts, our brother has already been ready." Mi Fang also said: "Our brother has three hundred families in this house, all of them are loyal and strong in martial arts, and there are also five hundred soldiers in our brother's business shop in the city who can be ordered at any time, and at the same time, our brother also has some cronies and generals lurking in the Xuzhou army, and he has some troops. When necessary, not to mention protecting our brothers from the city, even if you open the city gate to accept Xuande Gong into the city, there is no problem. ”

Jian Yong was waiting for this sentence, and then Jian Yong told the Mi Zhu brothers that he would return to Xiaopei tomorrow, and proposed to leave, but the Mi Zhu brothers did not stay, and personally sent Jian Yong out of the house, and the Mi Zhu brothers quickly returned to their secret room, and continued to discuss how they did Erwuzai and betrayed Tao Qian's father and son.

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Liu Bei and Mi Zhu brothers were inevitably happy too early, Jian Yong left Xuzhou in the early morning of the second day, outside the four gates of Xuzhou City, suddenly posted a notice with the same content at the same time, the list said: "Liyang Hou, General Andong, Xuzhou Shepherd Assassin Shi Tao Qian, told the officials and people of the five counties of Xuzhou: the crow has the righteousness of feeding, the sheep knows the grace of kneeling milk, the lady is born between heaven and earth, and it should be based on loyalty and righteousness. It's for the sake of gratitude. ”

"First Xuzhou was in trouble, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Liu Bei (Tao Qian gave Liu Bei the official position) not far away, waved the army to rescue, forced Cao to leave the game, and then stationed in Tun Xiaopei, to help Xuzhou million surnamed life police against strong enemies, Xuzhou began to be safe, although Qian Qian was a good horse with a thousand horses, 104,000 grains, 6,300 silk cloth, 800 cars, 10,000 weapons, it is still difficult to repay the great favor of the public in case of 10,000. Today, the locusts in Yanzhou rise, the grain is 50,000 yuan, Cao Lu is exhausted and the truce is not enough, I am afraid that there is a desire to invade Xuzhou again, Xuande Gong can not write to Yu Qian, and then ask for 200,000 grains and 1,000 good horses, thinking that they are ready for war. ”

"The amount of money and grain is large, although Qian is dedicated to repaying Liu Bei's great kindness, but Xuzhou is broken, unable to raise, humble and refuses to ask, but Liu Bei's grace is in front, if he refuses to lead the world to laugh, the people scold, and know that Liu Bei's food is not for himself, but for the people of Xuzhou to resist the enemy, Humility is repeated and can not be answered. The treasury of Ranzhou County is empty, the grain is scarce, my cronies and children, although they enthusiastically donate, scatter their family wealth, and help me buy grain and horses to repay Liu Bei's great kindness, but a drop in the bucket, the money and food are far from each other, and there is nothing to be done, but I can only turn to the people of Xuzhou for help, and hope that the officials and people of Xuzhou will feel Liu Bei's grace, read the feelings of rescue, and follow the generosity of Qian's son and nephew, donate money and food, and repay Xuande Gong's great kindness in action. After donating, if the money and grain are still insufficient, Qian can only distribute the money and grain to the counties and states and forcibly collect it to thank Liu Bei for his kindness! ”

In order to prove that his family has indeed donated generously and actively raised donations, next to the list of words, a list of pledges by Tao Qian and his son, Chen Deng and his son, Cao Bao, Cao Hong, Lu Su and Zang Ba and others was also posted, and the donation location was announced. At the same time, this list and this list were also copied in many copies, and fast horses were sent to the remaining four counties of Langya, Donghai, Guangling and Xiapi, and posted on the gates of each city, calling on the people of Xuzhou to actively raise donations, and also announced the news that they were ready to forcibly collect money and grain to repay the debts of Emperor Liu's uncle.

It is conceivable that when I saw this list, the expression on the face of our Mi Beijia brothers was wonderful, it was like opening a dyeing shop, there were any kinds of colors, blue and white, black and red for a while, and finally it became the color of dead ash, because the Mi Beijia brothers knew very well that the people of Xuzhou would react after seeing this list.

"Liu Bei, a straight thief!" Mi Beijia's side, a Xuzhou citizen immediately scolded, "God-damn dog thief!" If we Xuzhou people want to gather 200,000 grains for him, we are not afraid to kill him! Now it's going to snow, where are we going to get food? All given to this dog thief, what do we eat? Could it be that all the people of Xuzhou will starve to death? ”

"Too greedy, too greedy!" Another citizen also scolded, "Liu Bei wants to be a dog thief or not?" Tao Envoy Jun has given him more than 100,000 grains and countless cloth horses, he is still not satisfied, how much more do you want? 200,000 grains, he went to grab it! If you don't donate, I resolutely don't donate, let alone give! ”

"That's right, not a single grain will be given to this dog thief! We can't eat enough for ourselves, and we give him so much food, what are we going to do? Do you all want to starve to death? ”

"Cao Ying's retreat from the army is the credit of our second son, what does it have to do with him Liu Bei's annihilation of thieves? It was the second son who sacrificed his life for righteousness, jumped into the oil pot by himself, and moved Cao Ying, the soldier who Cao Ying retreated, has something to do with him Liu Bei annihilating the thief? Why should you repay him? Even if we want to repay it, we will repay the second son! ”

"That's right! Don't give a single grain to Liu Bei to destroy the thief! If the second son wants food, even if my whole family has to starve to death, I will give the seeds and grain to the second son, because it was the second son who saved our lives and saved us in Xuzhou, and we have to repay the second son! What kind of thing is Liu Bei, why should I give him the food I have worked so hard to grow?! ”

"Shameless thief, I used to think he was a good person, but now I can see him clearly! Yanzhou has sold all the grain for 50,000 yuan, and he dares to ask for 200,000 yuan with one mouth, if these grains are exchanged for five baht money, the pile can be piled up as high as Mount Tai, and he is afraid that the grain and five baht money will bury him alive? ! ”

In the angry scolding of the angry discussion, an even louder slogan sounded in the crowd, "Liu Bei destroys the thief, get out of Xuzhou!" Liu Bei annihilated the thief, get out of Xuzhou! Liu Bei annihilated the thief, get out of Xuzhou! Folks, we must shout, Liu Bei annihilates the thief, get out of Xuzhou-! ”

With Xuzhou Wumao taking the lead in stirring up trouble, the crowd of onlookers in Xuzhou soon sounded a neat angry slogan, "Liu Bei destroys the thief!" Get out of Xuzhou! Liu Bei annihilates thieves! Get out of Xuzhou! Get out of Xuzhou-! ”

There are more and more people shouting this slogan, men, women and children, whether it is the people who are farming, or the soldiers who resist guns and eat food, or the merchants who carry the goods, or the officials and soldiers wearing satin Confucian shirts, they are all raising their arms and chanting with angry faces, and they are all shouting the same slogan, "Liu Bei destroys the thief!" Get out of Xuzhou! Get out of Xuzhou-! ”

Hearing these angry voices, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang's brothers turned even paler, and their minds were completely blank, and they couldn't understand how much bad water Tao Qian's father and son had in their stomachs, how could they come up with such a short-lived idea of lacking morality and short-lived, and actually transfer Uncle Liu's extortion to the people of Xuzhou, and easily destroy the image of Renjun that Uncle Liu Huang had worked so hard to manage? What Mi Zhu and Mi Fang brothers don't imagine even more is that if this list and the reaction of the people of Xuzhou let Uncle Liu Huang know, what will Uncle Liu Huang be? Is it angry or stammering?

Also I don't understand how much bad water is in Deputy Director Tao's stomach and Lu Su, just on the city wall above the heads of Mi Zhu and Mi Fang's brothers, Tao Ying is looking at the angry reaction of the people of Xuzhou with a smile, and Lu Su next to him is so impressed that he receives it: "Son, I really convinced you, how can I come up with such a wonderful idea, and forcibly transfer the anger of the people to Liu Bei, so that all the anger and anger are sprinkled on Xuande Gong's body?" ”

"Actually, it's not difficult, if you have been in charge of real estate, and it is said that the Wenzhou real estate speculation group has raised the price of real estate, you may come up with a better idea." Deputy Director Tao replied with a sentence that Lu Su absolutely couldn't understand.

Then, Deputy Director Tao looked at the lost Mizhu brothers in the crowd with a smile, and said with a smile: "Wait, this is just the beginning, I not only want the people of Xuzhou to see Liu Bei's true face, but also let the two Erwuzai also see through the true face of this hypocrite, and by the way, I have to settle an old feud!" ”

Note: Where did Zhang Hang hide the mercury? Deputy Director Tao also relied on the clues found by that anomaly? Because I found that my friends like to guess and analyze, I deliberately didn't answer it in this chapter, but there are logical hints, and friends are welcome to guess the truth, and in the future, Pure Wolf will solve the mystery in the plot.