No matter how much responsibility Gao Furui has for Li Ru's mistakes, at least at this moment when the military situation is in full swing and the situation is out of control, Gao Furui really can't find it.

Obviously, he has no intention of taking responsibility, and he is very shrewd, and he runs very fast when he sees that the situation is not good, and Zhao Ning does not see this guy.

After taking down Li Ru, the assassin of Yunzhou, the officials of the Assassin History Mansion gathered in front of the gate, and their eyes were full of fear when they saw Zhao Ning, and many of them trembled with their hands and feet.

Zhao Ning didn't look at them squarely, strode forward with his hands in his hands, and in the respectful avoidance of the officials, he stepped into the threshold of the Assassin's Mansion from the crowd and went straight to the lobby.

Waiting for Zhao Ning to sit down in the position of the chief official of the public hall, with his head down, the officials of the Assassin's Mansion who followed him followed him step by step, according to the size of the official position, stood in the public hall in front and back, left and right.

From Zhao Ning's point of view, there was a scene of wheat bowing its head under the strong wind.

Although Zhao Ning didn't have a good impression of these officials of the Assassin's Mansion, he couldn't talk about how much he hated them.

According to the report of Chen Yi and others, because the first powerful Fang family in Yunzhou was destroyed in the seventh year of Qianfu, and the assassination of the history was assassinated by the Tsing Yi swordsman, and then the Yun family, the Changhe boat line and other forces supported the righteous path and restricted the power, before Li Ru arrived, most of the officials of the Assassin Mansion were still harmless to the people.

In this world, as long as officials do not oppress the people, do not persecute the common people, and do not disregard people's lives, even if they accept bribes from businessmen or embezzle some stolen money, they can be regarded as good officials.

And when officials make a lot of money and eat a lot of brains, they can still remember to do something practical for the people and really seek some benefits for the people, that is, the master of Qingtian.

After all, they are the ruling class that holds power, and they can still be expected to be clean and unsuccessful?

Family officials may not be greedy for money, because they are not so short of money, and they do not need to accumulate wealth to bribe officials, but as long as they have real political achievements and their official reputation is not bad, they can naturally be promoted by relying on the strength of the family.

For many families, fame is as important as profit. In normal times, they will not do anything that hinders the reputation of the family, otherwise not to mention that the people are unhappy, the family law will not be able to bypass the first.

It does not mean that the officials of the family must be better, without the persecution of the poor forces, the officials of the family are only afraid that they will also be tired and develop in the direction of empty talk and metaphysics, not pragmatic things.

Relying on the interests of the family, as long as it does not hinder the people, does not ruin the reputation, and can be promoted while lying down, why should we go to great lengths to do things? Isn't it uncomfortable and uncomfortable to drive the petty officials from poor families to go around and work hard?

However, the poor officials have no background, and they have done practical things and have political achievements, and they do not necessarily have to be promoted to the rank of official, they urgently need to accumulate wealth to open up relationships and bribe officials.

In addition, many poor officials were poor when they were young, and before and after holding power and prominent people, on the one hand, they were self-aggrandized, and on the other hand, they did not want to live a hard life in this life, so they could not wait to take bribes and make a lot of money, and even did not hesitate to take the lives of the common people and the lives of the people.

Li Ru is a humble official, and he has a strong personality and a tough hand - including accumulating money.

After he became the assassin of Yunzhou, the officials here were all affected, and the Hanmen power was in full swing before the National War, so these officials intensified.

The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, and the root knot of everything lies in the "up". The way of the world is like this, and so is the way of the world.

When the water is clear, there are no fish, Zhao Ning does not hate these officials who rise and fall in the sea, no matter what their background, even if they are corrupt and take bribes. As long as they can keep the bottom line, Zhao Ning will not smash their jobs.

The officials standing in the public hall trembling didn't know what Zhao Ning thought, and they were all worried.

The power of the camp manager in the north of Bianliang is too great, and he holds their net worth and future, and Zhao Ning dealt with Li Ru, the assassin of Yunzhou, as soon as he came, and his majesty was terrifying, and no one knew how Zhao Ning would treat them.

"The Hu people invaded, the war situation was eroded, and the society was in danger, at this time, what the general wanted to see was to work hard for the country and guide the people to tide over the difficulties with the soldiers of the three armies.

"As an official of the imperial court, when the country is in difficulty, if you can't even do your best to protect the territory and the people, and resist foreign enemies, what face do you have to call yourself Qi people?

Zhao Ning looked around at the officials in the hall, and everywhere his eyes went, Mo said that no one dared to raise his head to meet his eyes, even if his body sensed his gaze, many people trembled because of the strong coercion.

He continued: "What you have done before, whether you should be punished according to the law, someone will naturally come to judge. What I am going to tell you is that I will be in charge of Yunzhou, and I will not rub sand in my eyes, and I will act according to the law.

"Those who have meritorious service will be rewarded, those who have done wrong will be punished, those with outstanding intelligence will not hesitate to be promoted, and those who are vegetarian will never be tolerated! As long as they contribute to the national war, they will be treated equally. ”

"From now on, Yunzhou will pass the military law of 17 prohibitions and 54 beheadings, from the general to the official service, and there will be no exception! Now, tell the general, who has any objections?"

For Zhao Ning, a great cultivator in the middle of the Wang Extreme Realm, the officials who were in awe, listened to the tone set by Zhao Ning, who was in charge of Yunzhou, and knew that nothing could escape the eyes of the other party, and they didn't even dare to look at each other and show each other.

At the same time, they bowed down and promised: "Abide by General Zhao's instructions, and never dare to disobey in the slightest!"

"Good. Zhao Ning bowed slightly, "Drum gathering!"

"Yes!"

Borshu's vanguard army has landed and captured Xihe City, Yunzhou is only dozens of miles away, the battle has begun, and Zhao Ning must immediately dispatch troops.

If Zuo Xian Wang Borshu is determined to forge ahead, it is not impossible to take advantage of the night to surprise Yunzhou. The primary contest in the army contest is the actual combat strength, and the primary meaning of the art of war is the word "strange", and surprise is the most commonly used strategy.

And if Zhao Ning wants to hold Yunzhou, it is impossible to sit back and watch the other party's vanguard army consolidate the results.

"What's the matter with Cangcao?"

"The lower official is in the ......"

"Immediately bring someone and carry 100,000 taels of silver from the treasury to the front of the General Hall, you have three quarters. ”

"The subordinate obeys!"

Although Zhao Ning has been fighting in Jindi before, he has always paid attention to the overall situation of the national war, on the one hand, the war in Jindi was smooth, and Chalahan did not even capture the Jingcheng Pass, on the other hand, Zhao Ning never regarded himself as an ordinary general.

What he seeks is victory in the national war, and it is impossible to only pay attention to the battle in hand and the enemy in front of him, and from the day he is reborn, he is at a different height from others, and it is basic to look at the overall situation.

Even if he has just arrived in Yunzhou at the moment, because there is a product building and the Changhe boat, he is also well aware of the military and civilian conditions here, knows what happened to the Yunzhou garrison, and also knows how the Assassin Mansion treats the rebels.

The 60,000 troops of He Ping, the defense envoy of Xihe City, are undoubtedly the elite of the Yunzhou Theater, and now this part of the soldiers is on the way to rout, and the only soldiers and horses that Zhao Ning can use in his hands are the more than 100,000 soldiers outside Yunzhou City.

Half of these soldiers were rebels.

The so-called righteous army, of course, refers to the temporary team formed by local heroes, righteous people in the rivers and lakes, and rural villagers after the outbreak of the national war.

They have poor armaments, no status, and abandon their families and careers to fight for their country, but their treatment is very miserable. In Chen Jinghe's eyes, they are only afraid that they are no different from livestock, otherwise, they will not even be supplied with spring clothes and robes.

What is the mood and morale of these soldiers, Zhao Ning knows with his knees. If it weren't for their enthusiasm and innocence, they wouldn't be in the barracks right now.

Now that Xihe City has been lost, the defense has caused heavy losses to the new army, and Yunzhou needs to rely on them desperately to preserve, and the first thing to solve is the morale problem.

......

Bringing a few cronies into the city with torches, Geng Anguo had the power to gallop on the streets of Yunzhou for the first time in his life, which made him look at the world a little differently.

Once upon a time, he was still a bandit entrenched in Shuibo Liangshan.

In the mouths of storytellers, they are big bowls of wine, big mouthfuls of meat, big scales of gold and silver, free and easy green forest heroes, living an envied life, and having the capital to be feared.

Seeing the injustice, he drew his sword to help, killed people in anger and acted chivalrous, and the dragon saw the head but did not see the tail, like a fairy.

It's a sweet dream.

For the ordinary people who are oppressed by the powerful and rich on weekdays, dare not speak out, and can only bow their eyebrows and make a living, this kind of willful and unrestrained can unscrupulously kill dog officials, cut off the heads of bullies without scruples, and shout and rob the money of the rich and unkind, and the big officials can't help their lives, which is simply the most ideal state in the world except for being officials and landlords.

He has the courage of ten thousand people, holds the incorruptible blade of King Kong, and the sky and the earth are arbitrary.

This is what everyone wants to be.

Therefore, there are always many people who listen to Mr. Storyteller's story of the green forest, and the more bloody and brutal it is, the more people listen to it.

But most people just listened, and they really let them ignore their parents, wives and children, abandon their stable life, and go to kill people with knives and go up the mountain to kill people, but they dare not and will not do it.

So they just listen to the book, and after listening to it, they brag about it, and there will be no real action.

To be a man, you must first distinguish between dreams and reality.

But Geng Anguo is different.

Sitting up and walking without fear is the basic quality of a good man, so he went to Liangshan.

When he arrived at the cottage, Geng Anguo realized that the reason why the dream was beautiful was because it was not reality, and the reason why the dream was a dream was because it could not reflect reality.

The reality is a different story.

The biggest reality Geng Anguo saw was that the so-called Green Forest Villa was just a bandit nest after all.

There is no fertile land on the mountain, but everyone wants to eat, what should we do?

The heroes choose to rob.

In fact, there are hundreds of miles of water at the bottom of the mountain, there are fish in the water pool, everyone can fish, and there are many prey such as pheasants and hares in the mountain, everyone can hunt.

But if you go fishing and hunting, what is the difference between it and fishermen and hunters?

Everyone went up the mountain to be a hero in the green forest, arbitrary and chic, not to be a farmer and a fisherman. If it's just for fishing, why do you want to go to Liangshan?

Moreover, the farmer and the fisherman could not eat meat, drink wine in a large bowl, and divide gold and silver in a large scale, and the only way to achieve this was to rob.

Snatching other people's money into your own pocket is very refreshing, compared with the hard work of farming, fishing, and running business, the action of "grabbing" is both time-saving and labor-saving.

By saving time and energy, everyone can have more days and nights to drink and eat meat.

For those who have the ability, it is not difficult to rob this guy, at least it is better than enduring the wind and sun, facing the loess with his back to the sky every year.

When he arrived in Liangshan, Geng Anguo's errand was to rob the road.

The brothers who acted together called themselves heroes, and Geng Anguo also shouted like this, but he knew deep down that he was a robber.

Since he is a robber, he will inevitably get his life on his hands, even if Geng Anguo didn't want to do this, but he couldn't withstand the resistance of the other party, and sometimes the resistance was very fierce, so he was desperate with him.

When it comes to working hard, right and wrong are no longer important, and there is no place for morality and etiquette.

After the first killing, in the place where the corpse was destroyed in the deep forest, Geng Anguo stood for a long time.

He remembered that the sun was so bright that day, the dense foliage could not hide it, and he wanted to hide in the shadows, but he was always exposed to broad daylight;

He remembered that the mountain breeze was very cold that day, and although it was a hot summer day, it made him feel cold to his bones, and his legs couldn't help but tremble, and he seemed to be unable to stand;

He remembered that the mountains and forests were exceptionally quiet that day, so quiet that it made people's scalps tingle, always worried that a ghost would rush over, and the wails and curses of the merchant when he was dying always lingered in his ears and refused to disperse, and it was particularly clear and piercing in the silence.

Geng Anguo asked himself over and over again: Is this businessman a wicked person?

If so, then if you kill it, you will kill it, and you are doing the right thing for heaven and eliminating harm for the people.

But what if not? Wouldn't you have wrongfully killed a good person?

A person who kills a good person must be heinous and should be cut by a thousand knives.

If you really kill good people, what is the difference between you and those dog officials in the fish and meat town, bullies who oppress the good?

Even if Shang Jia is a wicked person, is he already evil enough to be killed?

If Shang Jia is a wicked person, are his men and the guards of the caravan all wicked, and should they all be killed?

He went to Liangshan in order to live freely and freely without being angry with the big dogs, but was it to kill good people? A robber who kills people regardless of good or bad can still say that he is doing the right thing for heaven?

The next time you rob the road, shouldn't you ask the other party if they are good people before you do it?

But who would say they were wicked? Who would think they were wicked?

Judging the character of the other party according to their words and deeds, can we avoid accidental injury? But in the face of a group of bandits who want to rob themselves, which bloody man will be merciful and kind?

That day, there were too many unsolvable problems in Geng Anguo's heart, just like the residue of wine and meat that he vomited while holding on to the trunk of a tree after he killed someone.

But when Geng Anguo told these problems to his cottage brothers who cared about him when he saw that his face was not good, the other party didn't care at all: What we are doing is killing people and selling goods, and we can't eat if we think so much?