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At five o'clock, the sky was just turning a deep blue, and the gates of AllBright opened on time.

The big bear who rushed back to Jintian Mansion in the starry night, hit his horse into the city, and went straight to Zhang's Mansion.

When he arrived, Zhang Chu had finished his night's work and was drinking a bowl of millet porridge with a few plates of light side dishes.

The big bear walked into Zhang Chu's bedroom familiarly, and before he entered the door, Zhang, who had an apron around his waist, chased him in with a sweat towel, "Xiong'er, your hair is soaked, quickly wipe it, go out with wet hair, and ...... you are going to be sick."

Da Xiong hurriedly took the sweat towel handed over by Zhang, bowed gratefully and said, "Thank you, old lady!"

"Hey, thank you!"

Zhang wiped his hands on his apron and said with a gentle smile: "You guys are polite!"

Zhang Chu, who was drinking porridge in the room, heard the conversation between the two and shouted: "Mother, bring some food to the big bear, he has been on the road all night, and it is estimated that he has not eaten anything." ”

"Okay, bear, go sit down for a while!"

Zhang answered, turned around and hurried to the kitchen.

......

"Prancing Horse Village?"

Zhang Chu put down the spoon, picked up the sweat towel and wiped the corners of his mouth, "What is the scale?"

Da Xiong sat opposite him eating steamed buns, and replied: "It's not small, just the subordinates have seen at least two or three hundred strong men." ”

"Two or three hundred?"

Zhang Chu nodded with a deep groan: "That scale is not small!"

Bandits are no better than gang members.

As the old saying goes, the poor are afraid of the horizontal, the horizontal are afraid of being stunned, and the stunned are afraid of dying.

Most of the people in the gang are horizontal at best.

Only a very small number of people like Li Gouzi can be regarded as stunned.

And most of the bandits are deadly......

If the gang members are pitted against the bandits, there will be several times as many gang members as the bandits, so that they can hope to win the bandits.

Zhang Chu: "Who is the big boss of Prancing Horse Village, have you seen it?"

Da Xiong nodded: "The name of the big boss of the Prancing Horse Village is Gu Xiong, last night when Liu Yunjin, the third master of the Prancing Horse Village, invited his subordinates to drink, he showed his face, he was a majestic figure, extremely majestic, and his subordinates almost didn't dare to gasp in front of him...... It feels like when you meet the helper!"

"Helper?"

Zhang Chu was a little surprised, Da Xiong was able to put him and Hou Juntang, who had accumulated a lot of power, on the same level just by seeing Gu Xiong, this alone shows what a great character this Gu Xiong is!

Even when he has seen Hou Juntang so far, he is still a little constrained in his words and deeds.

Zhang Chu thought for a while and asked, "Then what do you think, can this group of people cooperate?"

Da Xiong shook his head: "Your subordinates can only report everything they have seen and heard to you, and you have to decide whether to cooperate with them or not!"

Zhang Chu couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "You, don't learn, learn this kind of cleverness!"

Big Bear smiled innocently.

Zhang Chu picked up the spoon again, scooped up the warm millet porridge and put it in his mouth.

After drinking half a bowl of porridge, Zhang Chu put down the spoon and said in a deep voice: "You personally go to Yu Er, and ask him to come forward to negotiate with all the restaurants and restaurants on our territory, and let these restaurants and restaurants come forward to buy 100,000 catties of grain on our behalf, and raise all of them within three days...... Remind Yu Er, negotiate privately one by one, tighten the wind, and don't leave any handle!"

Da Xiong got up, "My subordinates will go to find the second brother!"

Zhang Chu waved at him: "Go!"

......

It's night.

The mule came to meet Zhang Chu alone and presented Zhang Chu with the information he had collected about Nine Wolf Mountain.

Zhang Chuping retreated left and right, and only after he and the mule were the only two people left in the room, did he open the paperwork presented by the mule.

As soon as he glanced at it a few times, he couldn't help frowning: "'Zhenjiang Knife' Gu Xiong, one of the top ten Jiangyang thieves in Wuding County?"

The mule said in a low voice: "Yes Master Chu, this person was on the wanted list of the county government six years ago, and the reward rose from fifty taels all the way to six hundred taels, and now the ranking is only below the famous 'Bloody Hand Demon' Zhang Jun and 'Decapitator' Zhou Kehua!"

Zhang Chu is not a person in the rivers and lakes, and he rarely pays attention to these things that have nothing to do with him, and he really hasn't heard of these names!

He read the documents silently, and saw "robbing the rich and helping the poor" and "killing officials and rebelling" from the small characters, and slowly sketched the image of the "Zhenjiang Knife" Gu Xiong through these small words.

After a while, he put down the paperwork in his hand, and his fingers slowly tapped the armrest of the chair, "The county government and the county government of each county, have you sent troops to strangle the Nine Wolf Mountain?"

The mule thought for a while and replied: "Four years ago, the wealthy merchants and squires of Shuangliu County paid for the county lieutenant of Shuangliu County to send troops to hang the Nine Wolf Mountain, but to no avail. ”

Shuangliu County, one of the eight counties under the jurisdiction of AllHeaven, is close to Jintian County, the hometown of the Zhang family.

After listening to what the mule said, Zhang Chu had a general impression of this "Zhenjiang knife" he had never met.

This man is not a wicked person, nor is he a good person, but a reckless person who acts entirely according to his own preferences and likes to try frantically on the verge of death!

In the eyes of the government, this person should be a-stirring stick.

Don't hang him, he often comes out disgusting.

Hang him, just the he did, and he didn't think it was worth it to send troops and money and food.

In the end, he could only keep adding his reward, hoping that a passing martial arts master would hack him to death.

Zhang Chu pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Is there any news that a famous martial arts master went to assassinate Gu Xiong?"

Six hundred taels is not a small amount, it is impossible to have a martial arts master's heart!

The mule said in a low voice with an embarrassed face: "My subordinates can't inquire about the news on the rivers and lakes for the time being. ”

Hearing him say this, Zhang Chu also felt that he was a little strong.

The rivers and lakes have thresholds, and even he is not a person in the rivers and lakes now, how can he expect the gang minions under the mule to find out the news on the rivers and lakes?

However, understanding is understanding, Zhang Chu, as a superior, should exert the pressure that should be exerted: "Since you know where your shortcomings are, you have to find a way to make up for them...... Blood Shadow Guard summed up the experience of this training, continued the training, and I will give you three more days to think about how to open the breakthrough in the rivers and lakes. ”

The mule is the old man next to him, and he knows that his hall master has always said the same, so he can only respond: "Yes, the subordinates must work hard to find a way when they go back." ”

The words are very unsubstantial.

Zhang Chu nodded, and said, "Also, Sihaitang, Firewood Gang, and Bamen Gang should also send people to keep an eye on them...... We've done it once, but we can't do it a second time!"

The mule knew that his boss was talking about the battle in the Wave Hutong, so he hurriedly responded: "Yes, the subordinates will arrange it when they go back." ”

He didn't have any pressure on that.

"Well, you go back, if you have any news, report it to me immediately!"

The mule shook it to the end: "Yes, the subordinates retired!"