Emperor Jian'an received the fold of the Hubu Shangshu, and the thunder was furious.

How did this Yuannan do it, why is there still so much food?

In the court, he scolded the prefect of Yuannan and the prefect of Longxi, and Emperor Jian'an issued an order to exterminate the bandits in Qingtong Mountain, find out the situation of the officials in Yuannan, and in addition, the left and right servants of the household department tried to raise food.

After getting off the court, Su Muze rode back to his house, and met the helpless Hubu Zuo Shilang on Qingshui Street.

"Master Ma, where are you going?"

Su Muze smiled and stepped forward to salute.

Lord Ma, the left attendant of the household department, had a bitter face, spread his hands and said: "Where else can I go, the emperor said a word, find a way to raise food, which will stump me and Lord Li." ”

"Yes, 50,000 stone of grain, that's not a small amount." Su Muze was worried about Lord Ma's panic.

"Hey, by the way, what about Master Li? Why are you here to worry? ”

Su Muze asked casually.

Master Ma snorted and said, "Just now, the little guy in Lord Li's house came to report that Lord Li's old mother was seriously ill and asked him to hurry back to the house. ”

Su Muze laughed: "Master Ma, you are benevolent, and you can bear the burden by yourself, but it's not easy to bear that." ”

"You're saying that Master Li did it on purpose......"

Master Ma will be skeptical.

Su Muze hurriedly smiled and waved his hand: "This is not what I said, besides, I don't know much about Lord Li's mansion, you have worked together for many years, or Lord Ma understands, in this way, Lord Ma, it is better to meet by chance, let's go to the restaurant in front of us to have a few sips, and also relieve your worries."

Su Muze's words made Master Ma's heart think and think.

This Lord Li has never seen that his mother's physical condition at home is relatively poor, why did he suddenly have something to do as soon as the emperor sent a mission?

Thinking that this colleague is also lazy on weekdays, picking up those good jobs, Master Ma's heart gradually became blocked.

"Let's go, let's drink!"

The more Master Ma thought about it, the more angry he became, and waved his hand to agree to Su Muze's proposal.

What kind of food raiser, what does he care about, why should he do it alone?

Su Muze laughed: "That's right, there is wine today and drunk today, no matter how geometric he is tomorrow, besides, this food raising will not be completed in a while and a half, hasn't Lord Shangshu already brought a large amount of disaster relief food?" ”

Su Muze walked in front of him, smiling and relieved Master Ma.

While talking, the two of them came to the restaurant on the side of Qingshui Street.

Master Ma glanced at it: "Xiangmanlou? Newly opened? I've never seen it before. ”

Su Muze stretched out his hand and invited him to go in first, and said with a smile: "Yes, it was only newly opened recently, and I also came here by accident, I think the wine here is fragrant, let's go to the private room on the second floor and taste it." ”

Master Ma sniffed his nose lightly, and sure enough, there was a faint smell of wine in the air.

The two of them sat down, asked for a few side dishes, pushed the cup to change the lamp, and after a few glasses of wine, Master Ma's face turned red.

"Well, that's pretty good." Master Ma was blindfolded and praised.

"It's good, this dish is also good, the green silk fish skin, chewy, sour and spicy and refreshing, Master Ma tastes it."

"Speaking of which, it's not easy for Master Ma, there is Lord Shangshu pressing, and there is the right attendant Lord Li dragging his hind legs, these dirty jobs are all done by you alone, like this time, obviously Lord Shangshu raised so much food and brought it to Yuannan, why do you want it now? How many people can there be in a small Yuannan? ”

Su Muze picked up the wine glass, touched the wine glass with Master Ma, took a sip, and said slowly.

Master Ma drank wine, and the depression in his heart was infinitely magnified.

"That's what I said, I don't know what Master Shangshu thinks, and he doesn't know that there is no food in our household department, and now let me raise food, isn't it forcing me to beg for help? But this matter is not something that can be done by asking people to find a way. ”

Master Ma was distressed.

Su Muze looked at him sympathetically: "Alas, it's really not easy for Master Ma, come on, come on, little brother will give you a drink." ”

Master Ma picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in the glass again.

This kind of wine has a hint of sweetness when drunk, but it has great stamina.

Ma Shilang couldn't sit still anymore.

"No, no, can't do it anymore, drink it again......"

Su Muze picked up the wine glass and stuffed it into his hand again: "Hey, Master Ma laughed, I can't catch up with your amount of wine, you just should relax and relax, otherwise your spirit will collapse too tightly." ”

Ma Shilang couldn't resist his persuasion and drank the wine again.

At this moment, a burst of Venus rose in front of his eyes, and the sky was spinning, and Ma Shilang couldn't help but put his head on the table.

"Lord Ma, Lord Ma?"

Su Muze pushed him.

Ma Shilang only vaguely responded.

"Master Ma, you haven't said it yet, what is the situation over there, Lord Shangshu is so poor, is it because there are too many victims, or is it some other reason?"

Ma Shilang turned his head and reluctantly raised his eyes to look at Su Muze: "Disaster victims, that, that's too much, Shang, Lord Shangshu are all about to support, and they can't support it......"

"And where's our spare food?" Su Muze approached Ma Shilang and asked.

"No, can't say ......"

Those are military rations, in case of war in the border cities.

Su Muze sighed and said, "It's just a casual thing, isn't it for Master Ma?" If you don't secretly transfer some out of there and make up for it later, it's also unaware, and you might as well give the emperor an errand, right? ”

Su Muze followed the temptation, Ma Shilang really thought about it in his heart, and then said: "No, it's too obvious, what if it's exposed?" It's a little too close to the Gyeonggi camp to hear any movement. ”

Su Muze hooked the corners of his lips, sat back in his seat, and said softly: "Master Ma has worked hard, go to sleep, and when you wake up, you will be in your own home." ”

As Su Muze said three times in a row, Ma Shilang fell asleep completely.

Su Muze raised his hand, and two men in indigo shirts came in.

"Send him back, and the other flying pigeon will pass the book, and the military camp grain depot is near the Gyeonggi camp, and the situation in the south of the country is grim."

Two men whispered in response, and one of them picked up the horse squire and sent him back to his own palanquin.

Su Muze turned around and walked out of the Xiangmanlou and walked towards the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion.

On the second day, Ma Shilang woke up, and he didn't know why he was drinking, and he seemed to be vague about who he was drinking.

Shaking his heavy head, he resigned himself to his fate and got up to collect food.

Hubu Shangshu sent out the fold and the letter to Su Muze, and lay back on the collapse with confidence.

This Zhizhou of the former south, who was a little clever, separated him from Su Muze, and took him to run among the victims every day, looking compassionate, but in fact he was just restraining him.

Tobe Shangshu sighed deeply.

This Yuannan is corrupt and festering, it is really unimaginable.

I don't know what happened to Su Muzhe?

Su Muzhe sent Chen He and Li Yan to sit at the foot of Qingtong Mountain every day, and let people broadcast with loudspeakers, telling the people nearby and the people on the mountain that the imperial court had sent grain over, and as long as they surrendered, they could be dealt with lightly.

For ten days in a row, day after day.

Moreover, Su Muzhe also learned to make porridge and rice from the grain and distribute it to the nearby people, and these people no longer had extra food to help the bandits above.

On Qingtong Mountain, the big boss and several brothers are together.

"This little general is the little general Su who went deep into the enemy army in the border city and took the head of the other party's leader, right? I heard that he values affection and righteousness, and if he says so, should we talk to him? Besides, we don't have enough food. ”

Because of the support of the people down the mountain, they didn't store much food.

One of them nodded violently: "What the eldest brother said is, don't say that people are just consuming us like this, if we run out of ammunition and food, we will have no right to speak at all." ”

Several others also fell into deep thought.

Next to the big boss, a white-faced scholar-like man shook his fan gently, looking at the faces of several people, a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes.

"Strategist, tell me, what should we do?"

The big boss turned his head to look at the military advisor.

Their brothers are just thieves who occupy the mountain as kings in Qingtong Mountain, robbing vehicles coming and going, and they have no culture, except for the big boss who also knows his own name, the others don't even know a word.

Later, there was a drought in Longxi, and the brothers on the mountain had nothing to eat.

He was originally born in Xiucai, but he was forced by local officials to rob his sister as a concubine, and his parents went up to fight hard and were beaten to death by the county order.

He had no way to ask for help, and with the help of the villagers that night, he escaped, passing through Qingtong Mountain and was caught by a few big bosses.

Later, he joined the gang, and he had no home anyway, and he hated the officials and the court to the core.

The drought is getting worse and worse, and the relief grain sent by the imperial court has also been sold at a high price by the black-hearted county order, except for those rich merchants, other ordinary people can only wait to starve to death.

Under the planning of the military division, several of them broke into the county office, killed the county commander, avenged the military division, and took out the food and distributed it to the people.

Later, the banner of Tianxingdao was erected.

There is no shortage of enthusiastic young people in the vicinity to devote themselves to them, and the team is getting bigger and bigger.

The military advisor actually knows the art of war, and he leads people to practice day and night every day, and those soldiers sent by the government are not their opponents.

Until Su Muzhe came, after the first few exchanges of troops, the military advisor came up with an idea to not move the troops, so they were consumed.

However, now that there is no food, they are a little unable to consume it.

Hearing the big boss ask him, the military advisor shook his fan and said, "Isn't surrendering tantamount to admitting that we have committed trouble?" If we surrender now, we will fall into their divisive scheme, and the people will not speak for us at that time, and even think that we are using them to steal food, which is not cost-effective. ”

The rest of the people looked at each other, and one of them plucked up his courage and asked, "Strategist, what is collusion?" ”

Strategist......

His face darkened, but he still gritted his teeth and explained: "It's that the people in the government are colluding with each other and covering each other." ”

Several people nodded silently.

Yes, in the past, they sent silver to the county order, and the county order told them to ask for more, and if they sent it to Zhizhou, they would be able to rob for a few months without being surrounded and suppressed.

Complicit, that's what you're talking about, right?

The big boss shrunk his neck, and never dared to say this to the military advisor.

Otherwise, the military advisor would still think that he was also complicit with the government.

"Then what should we do, we can't run out of food, right?"

The military advisor thought for a while: "We can exchange food, a few people took advantage of the night to kidnap the local people, and one person exchanged for a bag of grain." ”

"Huh? Isn't that right? "The big boss was the first to object.

They are all rich businessmen who rob, and they have never felt sorry for ordinary people.

"Hey, the people support us, as long as we explain our intentions to them, besides, it is clear in the daytime, Su Muzhe dares to put the people in danger, and if he doesn't agree to our conditions, the people will resist first."

The big boss had no idea, so he had to listen to the military advisor, and sent a few people to the town at the foot of the mountain quietly overnight and woke up a few families.

By dawn, Su Muzhe sat at the table at the foot of the mountain as before.

Chen He and Li Yan haven't come back yet, he needs to delay time, and besides, he still has to figure out the reality on the mountain.

There was no movement for ten days, and the little soldier with the horn turned on the horn as in the past and began to repeat it, and every day he was able to memorize these words, and he was able to read them aloud with emotion.

But today, he was only halfway through it, and he couldn't read it anymore.

Halfway up the mountainside, a group of people came down, and the two leading people were escorting several young men, including a child of eleven or twelve years old, who came down from a distance.

"General Su, what our big boss said, he has heard what you said in the past few days, but he has to think about it, but when he is thinking, he has to eat enough, so bother General Su, bring the food up, we won't let General Su Xiao suffer, exchange these hostages, how about it?"

As he spoke, the man with a scar on the right side of his face pushed several people forward.

"General, help, general......"

Several people suddenly shouted in fear.

Su Muze wrinkled his eyebrows, angry in his heart.

What he has always heard is that the mountain bandits in Qingtong Mountain are relatively conscientious and have never bullied the common people, why do they do such a thing now?

"How? Give it or not, General Su. ”

Scarface said viciously.

Su Muze squinted slightly: "I don't know where your big boss is, let's talk about it when you come out, such as what kind of food does the big boss need, a little more rice, or a little more white flour?" ”

When Scarface heard this, he was overjoyed and couldn't help but look at the bend in the mountain road behind.

The big boss raised his feet and was about to go out, but was pulled back by the military advisor: "Why are you going?" ”

"Didn't he say negotiation?" The big boss looked puzzled.

The military advisor hated iron and said: "Can't you see that he is a trap?" It's trying to test how many of us we have, how many troops we have, how can you go out and tell him how much? ”

"Huh? So what to do? The big boss asked innocently.

"One person for five bags of rice, five bags of flour, go and talk to him." The military advisor commanded the little minions beside him.