Chapter Ninety-Eight: External Forces Intervene
"General Zheng Bao, how do you feel about being a prisoner now?" Zhou Yu looked at Zheng Bao, who was tied up with five flowers, kneeling in front of him, and he opened his mouth to ask Zheng Bao to find out the whereabouts of Zheng Qian, the head of the Zheng family. Because Zhou Yu learned that Zheng Qian had disappeared after returning to Jianye County on the way to Changsha County, he was a little worried that something was wrong in Yangzhou City, and no one was alarmed when he left the city during the day and entered the city at night - Zhou Yu wanted to secretly find out the black hand behind it. Zheng Bao is the young head of the Zheng family, and he must know the whereabouts of his father Zheng Qian, if he refuses to answer, he can only use heavy punishment.
He underestimated this Zheng family a little, but he didn't expect to prepare so many backhands to deal with him, and it seems that the water bandits in Changsha County must also be a trick. But I don't know how many real killer moves there are!
"Hmph-Zhou Yu, you don't dare to kill me now, you must still be thinking about what else our Zheng family has behind, right? Haha - what if you catch me? In the end, you have to let me go obediently, my Zheng family has been in Yangzhou for many years, how can you be a rootless yellow-mouthed child who can shake it! Acquaintances quickly let me go-" Zheng Bao was pressed to the ground by Zhou Yu's soldiers and couldn't move, but he didn't have the slightest consciousness of becoming a prisoner, and still put his score of the eldest young master of the Zheng family in front of Zhou Yu.
"Gong Jin - it seems that this kid really doesn't know whether he lives or dies, I really think that we will put him in the eyes of the Zheng family, according to my Dian Wei's temper, it is better to give Zhou Tai a military order, as long as the people who catch the Zheng family, regardless of the old and young, do not stay, I want to take a look at this second Zheng Bao, do you dare to be arrogant! Looking at this bastard, he got angry-" Dian Wei strode up as he spoke, and kicked Zheng Bao's heart, which made Zheng Bao almost out of breath!
"Cough, cough, cough—" Zheng Bao couldn't breathe for a long time.
"Fengxiao, Zhongde, what do you think should be done with this Zheng Bao? Anyway, I look at him as a waste of firewood, and it's a waste of food to keep it, so it's better to kill it! Zhou Yu really looked at Zheng Bao boringly, the person he hated the most was something that was not steamed and cooked, and had a hard mouth, it was better to kill such a useless person.
"Gong Jin - slow down, slow down! It's better to take this General Zheng Bao into custody first, and wait for interrogation before publicly beheading-" Cheng Yu suddenly smiled secretly, this smile appeared on Guo Jia's face It was normal, but there was a little gloomy feeling on Cheng Yu's face when it appeared on a serious face.
"Okay—come on! Take Zheng Bao into custody for me, and wait for the public trial of the Taishou Mansion—"
The rest of the people present were confused, only Guo Jia and Zhou Yu heard the meaning of Cheng Yu's words, he wanted to use Zheng Bao as a bait to uproot all the Zheng family's resistance forces in Yangzhou, so as to stabilize the situation in Yangzhou in one fell swoop.
After a busy night, the matter of Taishou Mansion can be regarded as dust. The fire in the Taishou Mansion was arranged by Guo Jia in advance to confuse the enemy, and in fact, the Taishou Mansion did not suffer much damage at all. They estimated that there would be assassins to assassinate Zhou Yu, and judging from the number of unknown people who entered the city during the day, someone would definitely attack the Taishou Mansion at night, so they planned to lay an ambush to take Zheng Bao in one fell swoop.
"Gong Jin - didn't you take Jiang Qin to Changsha County to supervise the war? Why did you come back all of a sudden? Could it be that something special is going on? "Waiting for the Taishou Mansion to be cleaned up, Zhou Yu, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, and Zhang Zhao are sitting in a side room, and they all feel that something big must happen when Zhou Yu comes back, otherwise he will not give up his itinerary because of a small person like Zheng Bao.
"You should have been allowed to rest after a night's hard work, but what I'm going to say now is also important, and I need them to help me analyze it. On my way to Changsha County, I received a report that there was an abnormality in the Shanyue clan, they were reorganizing their armaments and attacking Yangzhou, and Zheng Qian, the head of the Zheng family, had mysteriously disappeared in Jianye County, but the military report from Changsha County still kept coming, but there were no too fierce battles. So I expected that there must be a black hand behind this matter, the purpose is to make me Zhou Yu unstable in Yangzhou, and the water bandits here in Changsha County are just to play a role in harassment. Zheng Bao, including the Zheng family, can only be a chess piece in someone else's hand, I can only think of one person who can have such a big spending, and that is - the Yuan family! Zhou Yu told everything he knew, and he guessed that one possibility was that someone from the Zheng family had taken the big ship of the Yuan family, otherwise how could a local force be able to withstand such a big storm.
"How can you see-" Zhang Zhao didn't understand Zhou Yu's meaning, his strength was no longer scheming, but in the internal affairs of the people's livelihood, and he really couldn't see through these illusory things.
"Could it be related to Han Xuan? Only he can catch the line of the Yuan family, but what is the benefit of the Yuan family making a move at this time? Besides, Gongjin, you are far away from Luoyang, and with the general He Jin and the ten permanent servants Zhang Rang helping in the court, it shouldn't be a big problem! Yuan Feng and Yuan Kui are old foxes in the court, and the rebellion of the Taiping Sect has already made the capital bloody inside and outside, they have no time to estimate Zhou Yu's petty fights, and now Zhou Yu's growth cannot become a threat to them. So it's not so much the Yuan family intervening, only the Yuan family brothers will hate Gong Jin to the core, right? It must be his two brothers who are getting in the way-" Cheng Yu met Zhou Yu in Luoyang, he knew very well the hatred between Zhou Yu and the Yuan brothers, and when Zhou Yu left the Yuan family, he thought of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.
"Well-it seems that there are masters behind the Yuan brothers! In this way, Yangzhou has become a firefighting that blooms everywhere and keeps Gongjin busy with his life - hehe, but in my opinion, it is really a trick to carve insects. Gongjin, what do you think? Guo Jia saw through at a glance that this person who could devise such a plan must also be a master, and he had a feeling of excitement that there was finally something worth doing himself.
"Fengxiao, you are still so lazy - I came to ask you to give me advice, not to let me give you ideas." In fact, judging from Zhou Yu's current conversation, the purpose he needs to do is to stabilize Yangzhou and quell the wars everywhere. And the other party is to provoke war and stir up his own unsafe life, even if he doesn't let himself be burned, he can disgust himself.
"Alas - it seems that I, Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao, are the ones who have endured hardships, so let's listen to my plan first? In terms of the current war, the opponent's strategist is also a half-hanger, if it were me, I would lead two elite troops, constantly jumping on the ground in Yangzhou, so that the enemy could not figure out my line of the army, and every time I appeared, I would be surprised. Gather many bandits and bandits to disturb the enemy uninterruptedly, so that Yangzhou is always tired of running for life, and Yangzhou will be chaotic in March. It's just that this Yuan family brother's conspirator has no capable people under him, and he just hopes for water bandits, bandits, and foreign enemies. If you want me to break it now, it is to let General Zhou Tai lead 500 troops to arrest the Zheng family first, and first cut off the root of Neiying; Gong Jin can give orders to all counties and counties to try their best to suppress bandits, as long as they catch bandits and bandits, they will kill them regardless of whether they are fornicated bandits; Changsha County let General Jiang Qin garrison without going to war, so that the Jinfan thieves had no chance, and the water bandits were not the opponents of the Changsha County soldiers at all; If the Shanyue tribe is left all the way, first take a look at the situation without moving; If you want to completely solve the problem of Shanyue, you still need to find a competent person to go there. Guo Jia sorted out this mess smoothly in a few words.
"Well-Guo Fengxiao is really Guo Fengxiao, and it's not bad to notice! It's just that it's best to send a person who can speak well to appease this Shanyue matter first, and wait for the chaos of the Taiping Sect to pass, and I will personally go to Shanyue! Zhou Yu considered that the time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion would break out on a large scale in the near future, and he now only had 5,000 elite soldiers, including 1,000 cavalry, 2,000 infantry, 1,000 archers, and 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers.
"Gongjin - I, Zhang Zibu, am willing to go to the mountains for a walk!" Hearing Zhou Yu speak, Zhang Zhao hurriedly recommended himself to ask for help.