Fengxian County Summer

Today is the first time that Wei Ze has arrived and appointed Jin'an Taishou, and all the high-ranking officials of Jin'an have been summoned to discuss the matter. Of course, except for Chengxian and Zhuang counties, which were in turmoil and could not be present, the rest of the counties did not dare to be a little lazy after receiving the text, and they all hurried to come.

The internal guards in the lobby sat at the head, and Wu Jian and Zhang Jian sat on the left and right. After glancing around, the guard asked Zhang Jian in a low voice, "Is Cheng Hong here?" ”

Zhang Jian glanced at the corner and sneered: "It's here, but it's a pity that the style is not there." ”

Wei Zeqiang nodded at Zhang Jian with a smile, signaling that Zhang Jian could start.

Zhang Jian immediately stood up, cleared his throat, and said loudly: "Everyone, everyone! Today, everyone is tired of gathering in the county summer because there is a big event to announce. ”

The officials in the hall: "Please show me the Taishou." ”

Zhang Jian slapped his palms twice, and after a while, two people came up from outside the door.

"These two people here probably know and don't know, but it doesn't matter. Let me introduce it to you below, this legless person may be a little unfamiliar to everyone, but his name is probably heard by everyone, he is the pirate 'Ma Yi' entrenched on the southeast coast. ”

"The one next to him is even more famous, Fengxian Salt Merchant Dai Le, you all know it."

Zhang Jian landed on the ground with a word, and everyone in the hall was shocked, and couldn't help but point and whisper. These two people are not ordinary people, Ma Yi attacked the southeast coast and harassed the fierce and cunning official mansion gnashing his teeth, needless to say, this generation of Le Ke is doing things for Cheng Hong, who doesn't give three points of thin noodles in this Jin'an realm, I never thought that today I would become a prisoner under the stairs, what is this Lord Taishou going to do?

Zhang Jian had already foreseen the reaction of the hall, and Cheng Hong, whose eyes swept over the corner, directly read out the charges of the two:

The prisoner Dai Le, colluded with pirates to rob the good family, and gathered outlaws to fight against the government.

The criminals were righteous, gathered crowds to loot and mutilate the people, and despised the government and did all kinds of evil.

Now the evidence is conclusive, Lord Taishou felt that the two of them were guilty of heinous crimes, and sentenced the two to the punishment of Daqi, and the bodies were hung at the east gate for three days.

Wow......!

The hall was shocked again, this Ma Yi was cut and killed, but this generation of music... At this time, everyone looked at Cheng Hong who was speechless in the corner. But Chenghong was as if everything that happened had nothing to do with him, and he still sat there expressionlessly.

After Zhang Jian read out the sentence, Dai Le seemed to have lost his soul, and then his eyes were round and he struggled to stand up as if he was crazy, but the flail weighing dozens of catties on his neck and the iron chains all over his body made everything in vain.

"Zhang Jian, you bastard! You lied to Lao Tzu, you said... Whining. ”

As soon as Dai Le shouted half a sentence, he was gagged by the left and right servants, and was escorted down in a series of iron cable crashes.

Wei Ze opened his mouth at this time and said in a long voice: "Today's envoy is to let you watch these two thieves were punished by the Ming Dynasty, and the second is that the Yue people attacked Cheng County in Zhuang County in recent days. ”

Several major events have been delivered clearly, and the next time is to rip off, flatter, and complain, Wei Ze was overwhelmed by these officials, Wu Jian and Zhang Jian were even more drowsy when they listened, and in the end, Wei Ze had to order the end of the court discussion and go back to their respective homes.

Without the chattering crowd, the lobby looked exceptionally clean, but Cheng Hong, who was still sitting in the corner, attracted the attention of Wei Ze and several others.

"Cheng County Order, why don't you disperse after the deliberations are over?" Several people looked at each other and asked pretending to be nothing.

Cheng Hong didn't look at a few people, just snorted coldly: "That's it, I, Cheng Hong, boast of being shrewd, but now I am defeated in the hands of a few of you stinky boys, what else is there to disbelieve, but it's a pity that even if you have evidence, you can't help me." ”

In the face of Cheng Hong's provocation, several people were not angry, "Cheng County Order, I'm afraid you misunderstood." We didn't think about what we were going to do with you from the beginning, and now you don't matter. ”

Cheng Hong looked at Wei Ze in surprise: "It's not important?" ”

Zhang Jian sat next to Cheng Hong and said with a faint smile: "Now you must have known the Chengxian Order, Zhuang Xian Shui Ming has abandoned the darkness and stood on our side, Luo Jing was shot into a sieve in the Dai Mansion, although Meng Chao escaped, he was already a chicken that had lost its hair, and there was no more thing in your hand that could be taken out." ”

Cheng Hong's face was blue and red for a while, Zhang Jian's words were like a sharp sword repeatedly piercing his heart, and he shouted unwillingly: "So what, Wu Jun Cheng will not give up, I haven't lost yet!" ”

Zhang Jian said leisurely: "Yes, the Cheng clan of Wujun is so scary, but unfortunately it is a matter of the Cheng clan and the king of Linchuan, you are a useless person, tsk." ”

"Why?"

Zhang Jian looked at Cheng Hong, who was almost crazy, sighed, and left a sentence: "I heard that the Cheng County Order is known as the 'Four County Orders', should you know that there are other four orders?" ”

"Words cannot be exhausted, rules cannot be broken, blessings cannot be enjoyed, and momentum cannot be exhausted."

The empty lobby was left with only Cheng Hong's hoarse howl.

With the beheading of Ma Yi and Dai Le, the action of clearing the remnants of the Meng, Luo, and Dai families and confiscating the property of the three families began vigorously. It really responded to the people's sentence 'Three families fell, and the government was full'. The three houses were full of land, land, salt, shop, and house jewelry, and everyone present was shocked. In addition to these, there were also a large amount of salt purchased by several companies before, and Rao is county summer officials also checked and counted for two days before they were thoroughly counted and registered.

At the same time, the battle report of Zhuang County also came back, Wu Yue confronted the enemy in the northwest of Zhuang County in the past few days, and yesterday night took advantage of the enemy's retreat when the pursuit was successful, not only defeated the enemy army but also captured dozens of people, this time can be described as a double happiness.

September 26, 45th year of the Taiqing Dynasty

Wu Yue won the victory class from Zhuang County, and the Taishou personally led the officials of the county office out of the city to greet him. After an impassioned speech, everyone returned to the county summer amid the cheers of the people.

The banquet in the mansion has already been prepared, and Wei Ze pulled Wu Yue with a smile and said, "When my cousin returns from victory, I will specially set up this banquet for you to catch the wind, so hurry up and enter the banquet." ”

After three rounds of drinking, Wei Ze couldn't help but ask about the battle in Zhuangxian, "Cousin, there is a war with the Yue people here, what is the combat power of the Yue people?" ”

As soon as he heard Wei Ze ask about this, Wu Yue's face became solemn: "This time in Zhuang County, I fought with the Yue people, looking at their team is disorganized, their clothes and armor are thin, and the siege equipment is even simpler, when I arrived in Zhuang County, more than 1,000 thieves did not dare to approach a small county town. ”

Hearing Wu Yue say this, Wei Ze couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said happily: "I didn't expect the Yue people to be so unbearable, it seems that this time the chances of pacifying Yanshan Yishan are very great." ”

Wu Yue shook his head and said: "I don't think it's that simple, the reason why I was able to defeat them this time was because I had insight into their advance and retreat, and I faintly felt that there was an indescribable sense of difference among these Yue people's team." It's like some of them in the same army who only know how to run, and some of them are extremely fierce, although the armor and weapons are not as good as ours, but once they enter the mountains and forests, they are like fish in water, they rely on the terrain to maneuver with us, so that our army can not find it, cannot catch up, and cannot fight, and wait until we are tired and then come out to attack. I wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, but in the end I gave up, I really don't know how many more Yue soldiers like this there are. ”

Wei Ze muttered: "Then my cousin estimates how many soldiers and horses will be needed to pacify the Yue people in the two mountains?" ”

Wu Yue thought for a while and replied: "This is not a matter of many people and horses, if the Yue people are willing to go out of the mountains to fight with us, it is not enough to worry, but if they are all hiding in the mountains, we want to encircle it, it is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack, and the manpower, material resources and time consumed will be incalculable." ”

"It seems that if you want to calm down the troubles, it is difficult to use them blindly."

After Wu Yue's analysis, Wei Ze's idea of using force to suppress the chaos was completely shattered, Zhang Jian smiled on the side at this time: "This matter is not done overnight, when force is used, force is used when it is appeased, and when it is appeased, it will be appeased, so that there will be no dilemma." ”

Cheng Hong's matter has not been completely resolved, and the Yue Ren matter has to be put aside first, after all, in the hearts of several people, this Yue Ren is much more difficult to deal with than Cheng Hong, and how can he be distracted.

Wu Yue smiled slightly, turned his head and praised Zhang Jian, "I heard that Dao Zhen eliminated all the minions of Cheng Hong's men in one fell swoop, it's really amazing." ”

Zhang Jian: "It's nothing remarkable, it's all about taking advantage of the trend, how can it be compared to Ziyuan to solve the crisis of the two counties." ”

Seeing that the two were admiring each other, Wu Jian couldn't help but hold back: "This time I have a lot of credit." ”

Looking at Wu Jian's smug look, Wu Yuemeng's face pulled the elder and reprimanded sharply: "Capture the thief head alone, it's so majestic!" How many times have I said that as a commander-in-chief, you can't easily risk your life, not to mention the danger of death, once there is a good or bad, it will endanger the overall situation, and you won't weigh it yourself? I won't let you go this time, even if you are lucky enough to win, and I will write to my father at my leisure, so that you will not be allowed to fight again next time. ”

Wu Jian was scolded by Wu Yue, and the joy on his face disappeared in an instant, and he turned his head to change his face to cry and howl: "Big brother, don't! I don't dare next time, don't tell my father, if my father knew, he wouldn't let me out of Linchuan! ”

Wei Ze and Zhang Jian looked at each other and smiled, don't look at Wu Yue's angry appearance, but the two of them knew that this was an elder brother's worry and love for his younger brother.

Zhang Jian hurriedly said: "Ziyuan, this time the situation is also excusable, since Zili has already known that he is wrong, let's bypass him this time." ”

Wu Yue also sighed helplessly: "If his reckless problem is not changed, I am really afraid that he will suffer a big loss in the future, and the soldiers will fight and die in danger, and it will be too late to regret it if something happens." ”

The things on the outside are over, and the things on the inside should have a result. Now Cheng Hong's minions are gone, but how to deal with Cheng Hong and the others is difficult. Just like Cheng Hong himself said, now Wei Ze and they can't help him even if the evidence is conclusive.

The Great Chu Law Assassin has the right to supervise and recommend the county commanders in the state, but he does not have the right to deal with the crime, if Cheng Hong stabs Shangshutai, no matter what the outcome is, it will be harmful to Yuezhou. It is not cost-effective to completely offend the Cheng family for the sake of a Cheng Hong.

Zhang Jian pondered for a long time and said: "The only way to do this now is to use the evidence in our hands and Cheng Hong as a bargaining chip, and then make peace with Cheng." ”

Wei Ze was unwilling: "In the end, I can't touch this old dog, it's really unwilling." ”

Wu Yue also persuaded: "Shizi, the forces of the DPRK and China must not be careless, Daozhen is right, for the sake of a Cheng Hong and Cheng clan, it is not cost-effective." ”

Wei Ze nodded and said, "I understand, but even if we don't stab this matter into the Tiancheng Clan, will we be able to calm things down?" What if we end up handing everything over and they turn their backs?"

Zhang Jian said: "Everything in this world has a price, we cut off the Cheng family's financial resources in Jin'an, of course they will not give up, just one Cheng Hong's weight is far from enough, even if the surface is kind for a while, it is difficult to ensure that we will not be stumbling behind our backs, so we have to come up with one thing, so that the Cheng family will accept this matter willingly." ”

When the three of them heard this, they couldn't help but wonder, they really couldn't think of anything in this Jin'an that could make the Cheng family value it so much.

Zhang Jian didn't sell Guan Zi and said in a deep voice: "Salt drying method." ”

"What!"

The reactions of several people were expected by Zhang Jian, and Zhang Jian explained in questioning eyes: "I know that this salt drying method is a method of huge profits, but it is of no use to us. The conditions required for this method are all over Yuezhou, only Jin'an is feasible, if we hide it, we will one day be known by outsiders, rather than carrying useless treasures to make people worry, why not exchange it for real profit? In this way, Cheng has nothing to say, and can divert the attention of the world. ”

Wei Ze frowned.

Wu Yue also frowned.

The hall was deadly silent.

Wei Ze's gaze met Zhang Jian's determined gaze.

"I understand the principle of seeking to give up. Of course, we can get our hands on such things, but this... Ay. ”

Zhang Jian said: "Shizi, useless things are waste, and it is cost-effective to use waste to get the Cheng family to no longer interfere in the great interests of Jin'an." ”

Wei Ze still hesitated a little and turned his head to look at Wu Yue.

"What does my cousin think?"

Wu Yue said decisively: "I think what Daozhen said is reasonable, and it should be interrupted and constantly suffered, not to mention that at this time, it is worth it if this matter can be settled smoothly." ”

A trace of bitterness appeared on Wei Ze's face, nodded lightly and sighed: "Since my cousin has no objection, then so be it." ”