Zhang Wen was silent for a long time, he prides himself on being upright, but he also sees some things in the world clearly, if he is a person who has doubts about his family background in ordinary times, he will think twice. However, under the whole world, it is purely normal for a wealthy family to dominate its neighbors. Even if Zu Zhao has a bad and unrighteous family situation, now is the time to employ people, and he can only reluctantly settle down.

With a deep sigh, he said with a solemn face: "If Yuan Qing's words are true, this ancestor Zhao and I are really a little blind." It's a pity, as far as the matter is concerned, even though there are all kinds of things in this Zu Zhao's family, but Zu Zhao once repelled the thieves who committed crimes and led the crowd to crusade against the thieves, and the matter he is petitioning for today is also reasonable. It can only be said that the best ones are used, and the disadvantages are eliminated. ”

Wang Wei could see that Zhang Wen was shaken, so he continued: "If this is the case, it is also haode, as the lower official said, there may be one or two conscience people in the ancestral family, I hope this ancestor Zhao is such a person." It's just that even so, Xia Guan still has something to say. According to an old friend of Xia Guan in Xu Wu County, a few years ago, Zujiazhuang privately stationed soldiers and stored good horses. And just a month ago, Zujiazhuang pretended to be a thief, and openly recruited craftsmen to build a large number of armor. ”

He didn't finish his words, and when he said this, his meaning was already self-evident.

Zhang Wen was really surprised, as a court official, he attaches the most importance to the law and discipline, and privately casting military armor has always been regarded as a serious crime, not to mention that he had just recruited horses from Beiping County some time ago, but as a result, the whole county received less than fifty horses, and Zujiazhuang had so many good horses but they were not handed over, and the difference in his heart was clear at a glance.

"There is such a thing!"

Wang Wei nodded again and again, and said in a deep voice: "Although the ancestral family protects the territory and the people, and crusades against the thieves, there may be no dissent. But such a hegemonic party has to be guarded against. ”

Zhang Wen's face became more and more ugly, and he couldn't help but raise his palm and slap the table. Shaking his head slowly, he said, "Privately cast soldier armor, this is worth it!" ”

Wang Wei didn't say anything else, his goal seemed to have been achieved, and he just had to echo Zhang Wen's expression on the surface.

After thinking about it over and over again, Zhang Wen had already made a decision in his heart, no matter what the intentions of Xu Wuxian's ancestral family were, but he committed such a great rebellious crime, and he, as an official of the imperial court, must not condone it. As for the suppression of the rebellion in Changcheng, you can first do it according to the earlier consultation, and let Liu Zhoumu send the order to the county capital of Beiping County, and hand it over to Wen Chou's full command. And at the same time, he must also do a good job of Xu Wuzu's family.

"Alright, I got it."

After Zhang Wen said this, he let out a long sigh, his eyes narrowed into a line, and Zuihou landed on Zu Zhao's petition on the table.

There were a lot of feelings in one place.

Wang Wei said goodbye and left, walked out of the Xingyuan Palace, and returned to his detention room.

At this time, he was very proud in his heart, he was finally able to help his old friend out of this bad breath, and this time he was going to let the family surnamed Zu learn a big lesson. Satisfied, he immediately called a retinue of his cronies and instructed him: "You go to Xu Wu today, tell Zhao An, and let him collect the evidence of the ancestral family's private armor as soon as possible." This time, I gave him a big favor. ”

The entourage of cronies nodded hurriedly and responded, "Got it, master." ”

Wang Wei advised again: "Be careful on the road, don't make a leak." ”

In the blink of an eye, Chinese New Year's Eve has passed.

For Xu Wuxian and even the entire Youbeiping County, this year's Chinese New Year's Eve is only the most worrying.

The snow still doesn't stop, the weather gets colder and colder, and countless needles are stuck in the bones all the time.

God seems to have realized the drought for many years, so he turned all the rain owed in the previous years into heavy snow, and concentrated on the first month of the year to compensate for it. Several villages deep in the mountains and forests of Xuwu County have even suffered snowstorms, with houses collapsing, casualties and displacement of people and animals. As a result, more and more poor people who have no way out are wandering within the county, and once their most basic survival is in danger, they will naturally take another path.

The situation around the county is not bad, especially Zujiazhuang, which has survived in the north for so many years, and has experienced all the encounters that should be experienced, so the preventive measures that should be taken are also very thorough. Zu Zhao didn't know the situation in the deep mountains and forests, and he didn't have that much mind to pay attention to these details now.

It is stipulated that there are 24 days of training for thieves, and not a single day can be left behind. Not only did he have to be personally involved, but he also had to make occasional rounds of other village pavilions. He rarely stays at home all day, and sometimes even stays out overnight.

The pavilion teams saw that Zu Zhao was a dignified prince, and the leader of the team who was preparing for thieves this year, and they could still go in and out with other people under the cold and freezing, and they all admired it. It is precisely because of Zu Zhao's example that even if the weather is bad, even if it coincides with the New Year's Festival, all pavilion teams insist on daily training.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, after a month of preparation, the thief scout team was finally established under the personal selection of Zu Zhao.

The original intention of the scout team is the same as Zu Zhao's original idea, it is precisely because of the turmoil in the county that the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, so we need a detective team that can find out intelligence information. Of course, this is only the most superficial role of the scout team in the period of preparing for piracy, and on the real battlefield, it has always been necessary to be able to understand the enemy's movements, not only because of the combat ideas of later generations, as early as in the "Art of War" has mentioned the saying "know yourself and know your opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles".

There are a total of twenty members of the scout team selected by Zu Zhao, most of whom are the children of Zujiazhuang's own sect, and there are also capable people who have been recommended and tested by each pavilion team. He doesn't care how "elite" this team is, but "capable" is indispensable, good at clever changes when encountering problems, knows how to track, and is good at cunning words. If you choose only one of the three, talents abound; However, if the three come together, it is really a rare talent.

Therefore, the scout team is basically from Orion, and it can't be an honest Orion, it must be both a ranger and a marketman.

Although most of the children of the ancestral family are children of the family, there are also some families who are not well-off and are in a partial family. And the children born in these families are indispensable for people who are light and narrow-minded. Probably with these children as the backbone, supplemented by others, Zu Zhao would gather with the scout team from time to time to instill a more noble idea of responsibility, so as not to let these people be too slippery.

Fortunately, even in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the folk customs were still simple. The cunning of gathering the whole county like the scout team is not as good as one-tenth of the clever people of later generations. In addition, all men in the north will have a more or less "chivalrous" heart, although "chivalry" is not a good word, but it is the activity of such a group of people that has laid the spiritual concept product of combining "chivalry" and "righteousness". I have to say that Zu Zhao is quite at ease with them.

In the middle of the first month, Zu Zhao ordered the scout team to scatter to Xu Wu, Lingzhi, Sunset, Junmi and other places close to him to collect information.