In the rainy south in March, Tong Guan sat in an empty rice shop.

He held preserved fruit in one hand and good news in the other, and in front of him was a furnace of ambergris.

After several months of war, the grain in the city was exhausted, and the grain merchants naturally began to stock up, and the price of rice was high, and there were many complaints.

The grain merchants were obsessed with making a fortune, but they forgot that the Tong Shumi had not paid filial piety. Therefore, Tong Shumi did not mind making a cameo appearance as a loyal and good man for the country and the people, and personally brought his own soldiers, and the person in charge came to the door to pick up people, and the person in charge asked and beheaded seven grain merchants in a row, and all the grain and rice they hoarded were scavenged out and sold to the people at half price.

Of course, this half price is based on the price after more than a dozen rounds of price increases by grain merchants.

As for the money sold, did Lord Tong do this loyalty in vain? Naturally, it is full of private pockets, which is counted as their own hard work.

Looking at another rice shop that sold short, Tong Shumi's heart was full: the people got the food for life, and the old man made millions, which was the best of both worlds.

The only thing that is not beautiful is the grain merchants, but who told them to hoard goods?

After the city was abandoned, the people spat on the corpse and cheered Tong Qingtian one after another?

Thinking of this, Tong Guan narrowed his eyes, took a comfortable bite of the preserved fruit, and chewed it slowly.

After all, he is also a sixty-six-year-old man, and in this era, he can be called a long life.

Although he prefers to show people in the image of iron-blooded warriors, the candied fruit in Suzhou is really attractive, and for an old man, it is a great comfort to linger on the tip of his tongue on a damp rainy day.

The preserved fruit is sweet.

Make money fragrant.

The good news is sweet and fragrant.

The good news was sent by the Xinxing sect to send a fast horse, and this army was very neat, and it seemed that he also had to learn from Lao Cao's routine of getting rid of the main force of the Chinese army - Tong Guan's army was still in Suzhou, and he had successively captured Xiuzhou Jiaxing and Chongde counties, which can be described as a noble and fast soldier.

Tong Guan saw Xin Xingzong's meritorious service, and his interest was quite high. What is the reason for this?

It turned out that Xin Xingzong's father, Xin Shuxian, was a veteran general of the Western Army, a famous civil and military officer, with military positions under the control of all and civil affairs in Huangzhou.

Uncle Xin dedicated his life to a long life, and gave birth to four good children, called Xin Xingzong, Xin Qizong, Xin Daozong, Xin Yongzong, and a nephew Xin Yanzong, collectively known as the Five Tigers of the Xin family.

The five tigers of the Xin family are considered to have grown up by Tong Guan, and they are regarded by him as real descendants.

The magistrate couldn't help but ask, why did this Xin Xingzong play so well?

However, it was said that Xin Xingzong had previously taken the lead in the Chinese army tent and grabbed the position of pioneer, and the next day he led 20,000 horses from his headquarters with Yang Weizhong, another member of the Xihe army, to kill Xiuzhou.

Xiuzhou Prefecture is Jiaxing County, the name of the guard is Duan Kai, he is a local rich family, and he is the most kind to people in his life, and he is nicknamed "a body of oil", one is to say that his family is rich and rich, and he has eaten a body of fat, and the other is that he is not slippery, and there are no shortcomings to take.

Before Fang La's rebellion, the three kings of Fang Maung waved their troops all the way over, this "oil body" immediately decided, took out half of the family property dedicated to Fang Maung, and said that "Maitreya came to the world, the whole world celebrates, I would like to use the thin wealth and power to fill the military funds, I hope that the king will be invincible, and Ming Yao Kyushu." ”

Fang Xiang is overjoyed - he once heard the elder Wang Gong Lao Buddha tell a story: said that there was a good man named Lu Su in Jiangdong during the Three Kingdoms, and the family was in a prosperous situation, just when Zhou Yu followed Sun Ce to raise troops and led troops to borrow grain from him, Lu Su had two pieces of food at home, and pointed to one of them: "What do you say about borrowing or not borrowing, this one will be sent to you." Zhou Yu liked his boldness and became friends with him, and later Zhou Yu died of illness, relying on Lu Su to take over, stabilizing the situation in Jiangdong Eighty-one Prefectures.

Fang Xiang put himself into the story, thinking that it was a coincidence, wasn't it? My brother Fang La is like Sun Ce, and my three kings are like handsome and unparalleled beauty Zhou Lang, this Duan Kai gave half of his family property, isn't it Lu Su?

He didn't want Sun Ce and Zhou Yu to be ominous cases of dying in the prime of life, and because of his erudition and beauty, he was bent on promoting this "oil" with the style of Lu Su, and wrote a letter to his brother, giving him a great reputation, and trying his best to protect this person to guard Xiuzhou.

Duan Kai is a person, interesting and pragmatic, but his courage is not strong, a few days ago I heard that Suzhou was captured by the Song army, and the three kings of his benefactor Fang Maung were defeated and died, three souls and six spirits, and he was half frightened, and he secretly thought to himself whether to make some furniture, come and leave one by one?

It's a pity that the military funds were donated before, and all the floating wealth was taken out, and now the rest is mostly houses and acres, how to clean up in a hurry? Just hesitated for a moment, but unexpectedly Xin Xingzong made meritorious contributions, drove his subordinates to hurry up, and there were horses galloping in the city to report, and hurriedly went up to the city to take a look, only to see the flag on the road covering the sun, and the army came mightily.

Not long after, Xin Xingzong's soldiers came to the city, personally went out of the horse, drank the city and called the formation, did Duan Kai really fight with him? Hurriedly shouted: "No need to attack, no need to attack, I have surrendered." ”

Immediately ordered to open the city gate, personally holding the incense lanterns and candles, let people lead the sheep and carry the wine, nodded and bowed, to welcome Xin Xingzong into the city, and said: "The villain is a good citizen of the Great Song Dynasty, there is a loyal heart in the chest, and the ambition to serve the country is hidden in the heart, just because the thief is powerful, in order to protect the people, he has to bend down and surrender, and since then he has been sleepless every night, washing his face with tears, looking north all day long, and finally looking forward to the heavenly soldiers today!" ”

He asked himself if this was more appropriate, who knew that Xin Xingzong's splitting hand was a horsewhip, knocked him to the ground, pointed and scolded: "Incompetent rats, grandpa doesn't care if you want to serve the country or treason, why don't you dare to go out of the city to fight with grandpa?" Hmph, this soft bone has the credit for sacrificing the city, but the credit for grandpa's beheading has been lost by you! ”

After that, he took a sip and marched into the city.

The other four of the five tigers of the Xin family are also young people in their twenties and thirties, all of them are arrogant and arrogant.

Duan Kai was stupid, but Yang Weizhong, another main general, couldn't see it, dismounted and helped him up, so he comforted him, and still asked him to return to the place.

According to Duan Kai's original idea, he wanted to inform the officers and soldiers of the detailed military situation in Hangzhou, the methods and foundations of Fang La's heavy generals, and now seeing Xin Xingzong's attitude, where are he willing to speak? Just learn that saw-mouthed gourd and make a fortune for him.

Xin Xingzong took Jiaxing lightly, and did not delay much, and sent troops the next day and went straight to Chongde County to kill.

Yang Weizhong specially persuaded whether to wait for Tong Guan's army to arrive before sending troops, but Xin Xingzong laughed and said: "Only loyalty is false!" You don't see the three of Wu Song, leading thousands of Qingzhou troops to the famous city, I said at first that they have some skills, today I know that the Fang La army is such pustus goods, you and I don't take the opportunity to make contributions, when will you wait? ”

In fact, the two of them are both the chief generals of the Xihe Army, if you talk about the title, Yang Weizhong is higher, but Xin Xingzong is a serious disciple of the Western Army generals, but Yang Weizhong's background is much more complicated-

His real name is Kang Jiong, his ancestors were captured into Liao when Song Renzong, became a Han of Liao, and only left Liao to return to Song at the age of 20, and joined the army in Huanqing Road as a Xifan person, changed his name to Yang Weizhong, and became a general with martial arts and merits.

Who knew that the defenders of Chongde County heard that the Song army was coming, and they also abandoned the city and fled to Hangzhou, and the soldiers of Xin Xingzong went to the next city without blood, becoming more and more arrogant, and wrote a good news report to Suzhou on the one hand, and set off to fight Hangzhou on the other.

Not to mention how he fought Hangzhou, only that Tong Guan nodded again and again after reading the good news: "Xingzong dares to fight lightly, and he is worthy of being a tiger!" It's just that the thieves in Hangzhou are huge, and they can't let his 20,000 people become a lone army, and they will pass on the order of the marshal, and they will send troops on the same day, teach the soldiers and horses of Hedong and Qinfeng, and go to Taicang, Jiangyin, Jiading, and Changshu, and the rest will go straight to Hangzhou with the marshal. Wu Song, Lu Junyi, and Du Bai also urged him to send troops to fight Huzhou and Xuanzhou, so as not to rescue Hangzhou from these two thieves. ”

An order was transmitted, the three armies were moved, and the current army was divided into three routes: one route was led by Tong Guan, and the main force was killed to Hangzhou in the south, one route was led by Ma Gongzhi, the main general of the Qin Feng soldiers, and the commander of the Hedong soldiers was Ji Jing, and the east went to fight Jiading and other places, and all the way was Wu Song's three leading Qingzhou troops, and they were attacking along the Taihu Lake to Jinling in the west.

Speaking of Wu Song alone, according to Tong Guan's meaning these days, he really recruited more than 3,000 strong and strong, all of them were issued with Song army clothes and armor, and the soldiers of the headquarters were a total of four or five thousand people, and they went out of Suzhou to the west, and at dusk, they arrived at the shore of Taihu Lake, only to see hundreds of boats competing on the lake, but it was Lao Cao who got the return of exploring the horses, and led the brothers and the soldiers and horses taken away, and came out of Xishan Island to meet Wu Song.

When the brothers met, Wu Song and the others put Tong Guan's words and deeds together, and said Tong Guan's various arrangements, Lao Cao listened and looked at Lu Jiang, and laughed: "Tong Guan's behavior is really expected by Mr." ”

It turned out that they left Suzhou and guessed how Tong Guan would behave, and Lu Jiang said what he wanted to Cao Cao, which was the same as what Tong Guan actually did. Bian Xiang, Shi Jin and others heard and witnessed it on the side at the time, and now they look at Lu Jiang again, and they can't help but take a look.

said to everyone: "For my brother's expedition, I went incognito, and borrowed Li Dunzi's identity for this moment." Now you and other brothers, as well as these soldiers and horses, all go to Huzhou and Xuanzhou with my family to fight, but I want to select a few brothers and go to Fangla with me to be a spy. ”

Wu Song, Lu Junyi and the others were all shocked: "Brother, why bother to venture into that wolf and tiger's den?" ”

Cao Cao smiled proudly: "Last year, I fought with Ah Gu and other male lords, and I can maneuver freely, and I did the things that changed the world in Fusang Island, and I am invincible. What's more, I am in the dark, and he is in the light, and nothing is wrong. ”

He pretended to make big remarks to appease his brother's heart, but Wu Song shook his head and frowned: "There is nothing foolproof in the world, why should my brother go to stand under that dangerous wall?" When you want to be a spy, let me and other brothers, is there no fine one who can do it? ”

Lao Cao knew that he was caring, and he didn't show the majesty of being a brother, so he thought for a moment, and told the truth: "Let's tell you the truth, now the Jurchen is strong, like the rising sun, the Liao State is also a hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff, as well as Western Xia, Tubo, etc., I want to restore the majesty of China, the long is seven or eight years, the short is two or three years, and I want to meet these foreign races." ”

This is what he often said, and now these brothers have been nurtured by him, and their vision has long been extraordinary, and they all nod their heads in agreement when they hear it.

Cao Cao continued: "Therefore, Fang La's rebellion damaged my Huaxia strength, and I had to help the imperial court and quickly pacify it. However, under Fang La's command, there are some great talents, but they are far better than those stupid beetles in the court, that is, Fang La himself, and I also intend to use them...... Therefore, this trip to be a spy is to make it defeat quickly, and the other is to retain its vitality and strengthen itself, neither of which can be planned in advance, but can only act at the opportunity, so Fang said, I have to go. ”

Wu Song and the others nodded silently, with a look of surprise in their eyes: Cao Cao wants to quickly defeat Fang La to protect the national strength, everyone has already known it, but at this moment, it is not enough for Cao Cao to defeat Fang La, but he also wants to swallow the essence of his power in one bite. This kind of greedy ambition, when you think about it carefully, really deserves the true character of the hegemon.

Lu Jiang was the first to react and took a deep look: "The lord's far-sightedness and strong mind are impressive, and this is the capital of the real hero!" Xiaosheng can follow Jiwei and show his skills in his chest, which is really a blessing for three lives. ”

Taihu Sijie sighed silently, this smart man who taught himself a few crookedly, not only knelt to sign the contract, but now he has also learned to lick and roll...... Fortunately, these are all good men, and there is only such a smart person......

Seeing Wu Yong's face full of high spirits, he walked out and waved at Lao Cao: "Brother Lu's words tell the bottom of my brother's heart." If there is no brother, a hundred years later, the world will know Wu Yong? ”

Li Kui and Niu Gao tensed their nerves at the same time, and glanced at each other: Look! The smart people in the team have begun to speak, if we speak slowly, how can Qingzhou poets and poets have face?

Niu Gao's chest straightened: "Brother Lu said it quite well, and Brother Ang said it quite well." ”

Li Kui hit the snake with the stick: "I'm the same, follow my brother to sweep the Quartet!" ”

The two clapped their hands and high-fived and laughed.

Is it so rolled? The four heroes of Taihu Lake groaned in unison, their eyes showing despair.

Cao Cao waved his hand to stop the other brothers who seemed to be eager to try, and said warmly: "A good man and three gangs, if you are not born and die as a godbrother, how can you do great things for your brother?" You say that you are lucky to meet your brothers, and you brothers are brothers, why don't you favor God? ”

In a few words, all the heroes couldn't help but feel excited, and they felt that the most proud thing in their lives was to be Lao Cao's brother.

Lu Jiang swept his eyes, took in everyone's thoughts, and couldn't help but sigh secretly: It's really the overlord!

Applauded and smiled: "The lord's words are in line with the avenue - the so-called Tao has more help, more help is the best, and the world is smooth." ”

Cao Cao smiled modestly: "When we have achieved the great things we have planned, it is not too late to drink and talk happily." Now the matter in front of me is that I asked a few brothers who Tong Guan, Liu Yanqing, Fang La and others didn't know to accompany me to be spies. ”

When everyone heard this, some of them collapsed their expressions - not to mention Wu Song, who had official status, it was Bian Xiang, Ma Ling and other generals, but Liu Yanqing had also met at the beginning. Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, Yang Zaixing, and Wu Yong were even more bitter, although they had no official status, they had stayed in Suzhou with Wu Song and others for ten days, and many generals of the Western Army recognized them.

Cao Cao pointed and said: "Fan Rui, Tang Bin, Liu Tang, San Ruan, Shi Dalang, Yang Chun, Chen Da, Yu Baosi, Taihu Lake Four Heroes, you fourteen people went with me - all carefully remembered, I came from Shuibo Liangshan, and was ordered by the brother of Chao Gai, the king of Tota, to come to Jiangnan to help kill the enemy, and met the four heroes of Taihu Lake on the way, and they were like-minded with each other, and they all wanted to contribute to the great cause of the Holy Father!" ”

The four heroes of Taihu Lake didn't expect that the four of them were also selected, and they were suddenly ecstatic in their hearts: Mr. Lu and other smart people, rolling and licking, still can't follow his brother's side to do things, what is this called? It's called God loves stupid kids!

Li Kui shouted: "Brother, why don't you bring an iron bull?" I also know Shi Bao and Monk Deng as brothers. ”

Niu Gao sighed and said, "Have you forgotten that when your brother beat Tian Hu, you went with me to show your face?" ”

Li Kui was dumbfounded, suddenly his eyes rolled, and he said with a smile: "I remember that my brother once brought a copper mask, and I went to find someone to make one-brother, fourteen people are not good, bring an iron ox, make fifteen, isn't it perfect?" ”

There is a division of teaching: only for the official general to recruit Fang La, and to be an anti-thief army. This is to go to Hangzhou for a long time, and the pride is to the sword Lingyun.

I'm late to go home today, so I won't divide the chapters.

(End of chapter)