Zheng Yunming's face turned red and said, "I came to Changsha for my own personal affairs. After that, he told Song Ci about Lai Wengong's affairs as it was, and said: "The white military division only said to me, if you want me and the lady of the Lai family to have this marriage, the only way to sell it to Lai Wengong is a big favor, so they used a little trick to lure the Mongolian spies lurking in Jinghu to focus their work on Changsha, and then designed to let Lai Wengong fall into the trap of the Mongols." As for how I can resolve it."

Zheng Yunming took out a folding fan from the sleeve of his robe, "Bai Junshi just asked me to bring this fan as a token to Changsha City to find someone, as for the follow-up, he didn't explain it clearly." ”

A hint of excitement flashed in Song Ci's eyes, and he liked it the most when there were lively things.

"What is needed in Dutong, Song Ci is willing to follow the power of dogs and horses." Although Song Ci's words slightly reveal some meaning of taking advantage of the excitement to add chaos, there is no doubt that Zheng Yunming needs such a first-class insight character to assist him.

He thought for a moment and said: "Tomorrow, I will leave these soldiers in the post station, and only the two of us will go to Changsha City to see what kind of Longtan Tiger's Den is hidden in this Changsha City." ”

The place Bai Yijie said was in Wuyi Lane in the west of Changsha City, some distance from the city gate. On the morning of the second day, Zheng Yunming and Song Ci walked through the market and chatted.

"I heard Mr. Liu Qianfu say that you participated in the battle of the imperial court against the Three Cave Barbarians as a staff member?" Zheng Yunming's Sandong barbarians refer to the barbarians living in the south of Jiangnan West Road, most of which are mainly Miao, Dong, Baiyue and other ethnic groups. Jiangxi Road has always been poor, the people are full of fighting spirit, coupled with the steep terrain, it has always been regarded by the imperial court as a treacherous gathering area, thieves are frequent. In order to suppress the rebellion that had been entrenched in the Sandong place for many years, Zheng Xingzhi was appeased, and he spread the curtain to the world, and Song Ci also relied on this opportunity to enter Zheng Xingzhi's shogunate.

Zheng Yunming's words brought Song Ci back to the years of bloody struggle among the beautiful mountains and rivers.

"The brutality of the three holes is unusual. They all had shaved their hair, only a strand of long hair flowed from the top of their heads, they wore linen clothes dyed blue, they wore all kinds of silver ornaments, and at their waists were Dong Man's steel swords, and they were armed with strong bows and crossbows. ”

"On weekdays, the three caves live in cottages, and each cottage has a large wooden building for tribal living. People live on top of wooden buildings, and pigs and chickens are stocked below. Whenever there was a need to discuss matters or gather a crowd to fight against the officials and soldiers, they would invite the ancestral bronze drum, beat the drum to gather the clansmen, and then hold a meeting to discuss. When the formation was carried by several strong men carrying copper drums and rushing in front, the patriarch personally beat the drum as a trumpet, and the barbarians did not care about life or death, rushed up to fight with the officers and soldiers, or hid in the shelter of trees just secretly released cold arrows, the officers and soldiers were not familiar with the geography, and they had not been trained in mountain warfare, so of course they suffered a lot of losses in the fight. Later, on the one hand, the drills of mountain warfare were strengthened, and on the other hand, the familiar barbarians were appeased and the razors were used to defeat the people, and the results were obtained. ”

Zheng Yunming asked again: "The imperial court has always been troubled by the bandits in Jiangxi, and in the opinion of the procuratorate, are the local people particularly arrogant and aggressive?" ”

"The southern part of Jiangxi is a place inhabited by barbarians, and it is said that the people are fierce and fierce, and they are still martial and fierce, and that is there." Song Ci said: "But when it comes to gathering crowds to fight against the official army? The barbarian didn't really have a brain, so he took the egg and hit it on the stone. If you weren't really persecuted too hard by the government, how could you take risks and gather all people? ”

"In the case of the Sandong barbarian rebellion, before that year, Jiangxi Road had been a drought for several years, and in some places it could be said that there was no harvest, and some people had begun to flee the famine, and some began to sell their sons and daughters. But in this case, the local government was worried that truthfully reporting the disaster situation would make the county's evaluation change from the middle county to the lower county, which would be a stain on the political performance, so it concealed the disaster and only reported it to the wind and rain. Since the wind and rain are smooth, the imperial court collects taxes according to the harvest year, how can the people still have excess grain to pay taxes? So the officials went to the countryside to lock up the escapees, robbed things, and made a miasma of smoke in the place. These three-hole brutes are easy to bully? As soon as the patriarch greeted, he gathered the crowd and rebelled. ”

"Again." Zheng Yunming gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "A few pieces of rotten wood, for their own selfish interests, they deceive their superiors and subordinates, and make a big deal. Something that could have been solved peacefully, but in the end, a large army had to be dispatched, and it took a lot of soldiers, horses, money, food, and injuries to pacify the place. However, the soldiers and horses have been damaged, and so many casualties have been added in vain in the localities, and the contradictions between the officials and the people have only been suppressed on the surface, but in fact the rift has deepened. ”

Song Ci said: "This time to quell the chaos in Sandong is not so serious, as soon as I went to the locality, I immediately reacted, this time the counterinsurgency actually has to deal with the local economy first, and then the military issues of suppressing thieves and pacifying." I asked the pacification envoy to urgently write a recital, truthfully report the disaster in southern Jiangxi to the imperial court, and then urgently dispatched a lot of relief food from other places. Regardless of the Han Dynasty, they unified the relief of the local victims, and sent people to post notices everywhere, as long as they lay down their arms and pick up their hoes, they were considered good citizens, and only those who resisted to the end were the enemies of the government. Sure enough, this trick had an effect, and after seeing the notice, the barbarians who gathered in the village threw down their weapons and went home to receive relief food, and only a few stubborn people continued to make trouble. ”

"At that time, I led my troops to go deep into the enemy's lair, and broke the remaining thieves in one fell swoop, and the rebellion of the Three Caves was put down. Then, on the one hand, we arranged for the people of the Han Dynasty to step up production, and on the other hand, we set up Yixue, strengthened education, established Yicang, and renovated roads, so that the local situation could be stable for a long time."

The two came to Wuyi Lane while talking, and in front of the fifth courtyard at the entrance of Wuyi Lane were two shops, which were furnished with large and small wooden barrels, wooden bowls, wooden basins and all kinds of wooden products, obviously this was a wooden product shop, and an old man sitting on a stool was squinting at the two of them while driving away flies with a boring whisk.

When Zheng Yunming didn't know how to be good, Song Ci smiled slightly, took the paper fan from Zheng Yunming's hand, and handed it directly to the old man without saying a word.

The old man took the fan and looked at it, and suddenly laughed.

"These days are all weirdos, who come to the place that sells barrels and don't buy barrels, but give me a fan, alas"

As he spoke, he stood up and walked to the back of the store.

After a while, a young man with a short stature and a somewhat rat-like face walked out, looked the two of them up and down, and bowed in front of Zheng Yunming: "Grass people Gu Xiao, give the deputy capital a salute." ”

"That's it." Zheng Yunming stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "What advice does the little brother have?" ”

Gu Xiao looked around, but did not find any suspicious traces, and said to Zheng Yunming: "The people who are all in charge are currently resting in the Liangjia vegetable garden on Mashi Street in the west of the city. However, if the capital had notified the Changsha government and sent officers and soldiers to lock it up, it would have been impossible, because I was afraid that before the officers and soldiers left the yamen, this group of people would have fled long ago. ”

Song Ci said: "According to your plan, what should you do? ”

"Only the three of us will go over to see the situation first, and then say, do you have any personal soldiers with you on this trip?"

"How many people are there?"

"These shackle thieves are not alone now, there are more than 20 people in this gang, and each of them has some skills."

Zheng Yunming frowned: "I didn't bring many people, but I was afraid that I would get away with a few one-on-one captures." ”

"If that's the case, then there's another way." Gu Xiao rolled his eyes, turned his head and shouted, "Come on!" ”

A thin young man ran out, Gu Hao muttered a few words in his ear, and the young man turned around and ran out of the alley.

"As a last resort, I have to rely on a little external force." Gu Xiao smiled at Zheng Yunming and said, "Dutong is well versed in the art of war, so he naturally knows that when our strength is not enough, it is the most convenient way to rely on the strength of others. ”

Zheng Yunming wondered in his heart, what strength in Changsha City was more reliable than the officers and soldiers of the government?

Gu Xiao said: "We must be careful when we go, the thieves are all well-informed rats, and if they are slightly alarmed, this round-up plan will not be successful." ”

The three of them then set off and headed straight for Mashi Street.

The Liang family's vegetable garden was originally the private vegetable garden of the Liang family, a large family in the west of the city, and the Liang family was engaged in silk and grain business, and the family accumulated a huge amount of wealth, even his family's own vegetable garden also covers a lot of land, which grows all kinds of seasonal vegetables.

But since the proprietor of the Liang family was killed by the Red Jacket Army when he ventured into business in Xuzhou, the Liang family's fortune has been ruined. Now the Liang family's mansion has long been sold, and the Liang family's vegetable garden has been unattended for many years.

Gu Xiao led the two of them along the corner of the wall all the way cautiously, came to the back of a broken wall, and carefully poked their heads out to look.

I saw more than 20 people standing or sitting among the ruins and weeds, anxiously waiting for someone to arrive.

Zheng Yunming and the other three didn't dare to make a sound, so they ambushed behind the broken wall.

I only heard a fat man sitting on the fallen stone tablet say: "The third brother has been gone for so long and hasn't come back, that guy can't speak doesn't count, right?" ”

A middle-aged man who was resting on the lintel said: "Old Eleven is too anxious, the north side is now out of 10,000 bounties and 1,000 taels of silver to buy this formula, and now the formula is still in our hands, are you still afraid that the guy will regret it?" ”