After hearing the Ye family master's intentions, the Cai and Li families were also quite interested, and they were originally pulled into this thief ship.

If you want to say that doing business with Shudi, it is naturally no problem, after all, both parties can benefit, and as long as it is not an important thing, in fact, the risk is not so big.

But if you want to help them deal with the imperial court, it will be completely different, they are not stupid, and now where the general trend is, they can naturally see clearly.

Originally, they had been worried, for fear that their affairs would be discovered by the court, but now they have a way to clear their name, although they will pay some price for this, but they are quite willing.

It's just that just based on the words of the Ye family master, it is really difficult to reassure them, so they proposed to see Li Hao once, and as long as Li Hao personally agreed, they were willing to participate.

Li Hao did not refuse this request, anyway, Li Hao really did not plan to cross the river and demolish the bridge this time, after all, he did not plan to serve in Yuzhou for a long time, so there is no need to spend too much energy on rectifying the local scholars, just find an unlucky egg to kill the chicken and make an example.

After the Cai and Li families got the exact news from Li Hao, they went back and began to discuss with the Ye family how to exterminate the bandits and bring the Wu family to justice.

This made Li Hao idle all of a sudden, and he could let these three families take the lead in everything, and the three of them had no objections to this, but were quite positive.

Because they also want to take the opportunity to destroy the evidence of their contact with the bandits, and find out the evidence about the Wu family by the way, so that they can not only protect themselves, but also find a justifiable reason for dealing with the Wu family in the future, so as not to fall into the hands of others.

Anyway, these guys have a lot of eyes, while hiding from the Wu family, and relying on the trust of the bandits in them, they took turns several times, and finally blocked this group of bandits in a cottage.

Of course, the three families also had some blood for this, after all, if they didn't really kill some people, how could they make the bandits believe that Li Hao was really deceived, but Li Hao would definitely not let his subordinates sacrifice for this, so they could only come by themselves.

However, after Li Hao commanded the army to surround the bandits, the Wu family also came back to their senses, and felt that something seemed wrong with this matter, why did this crackdown on the bandits become completely different from what was pre-planned, and the Ye family was inevitably too active.

It's just that the Wu family has the handle of the other three families in their hands, thinking that they don't dare to do anything to break the net, maybe they just saw that the situation was not good, so they thought about sweeping away the bandits and clearing the clues up and down so as not to be tracked down by Li Hao.

So when Li Hao was preparing for the general attack here, the head of the Wu family even went to meet with the other three families, intending to let them know the severity and not to do anything out of line, and then this guy was directly detained.

That night, the head of the Ye family came to Li Hao to inform him of the matter, and wanted to ask Li Hao how to deal with this person.

What can Li Hao say, of course, he pretends not to hear anything, and let them deal with it themselves, anyway, Li Hao's original purpose is to get rid of the bandits, and the rest of the things are all unexpected joys.

It's just that before the head of the Ye family left, Li Hao specially mentioned: "Merit should be rewarded, guilt should be punished, if you really want to deal with it, you have to be justified, don't really be found in the wrong place."

Otherwise, if I can't stop this mouth, I will have to do business, and I hope you understand what I mean. ”

"We will act impartially, please rest assured." The head of the Ye family naturally understood the meaning of Li Hao's words, and when he promised, he left Li Hao's camp.

Regarding whether they understand or not, Li Hao actually doesn't care, anyway, it's just the difference between catching one or several families, which is bearable for Li Hao.

However, it turns out that these three old foxes are really old-fashioned, although the head of the Wu family did not return overnight, but they made up a reason to get over, and then the next day somehow they were concealed by them, after all, the original relationship between the families was close, and they didn't expect them to turn their faces so quickly.

Until the third day, no matter how sluggish the Wu family was, they knew that things were not good, so they wanted to ask Li Hao to help them ask for someone.

As a result, before they could go out, they were surrounded by the people of the Ye, Cai, and Li families, and all their weapons were confiscated in advance, and these Wu family members were a little panicked.

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Originally, they all thought that they were in a catastrophe, after all, in order to keep secrets, killing people was the best means, but what they didn't expect was that the people who came just imprisoned them and did not kill them.

This made them very puzzled in their hearts, you must know that Li Hao's camp is not far from here, once they find something abnormal, they will definitely send someone to come, aren't these people afraid to tell Li Hao about it.

They never thought that Li Hao had already known about this and acquiesced to the actions taken by Ye, Cai, and Li.

Of course, the premise of Li Hao's acquiescence is that this display is already facing the end, because the people who infiltrated the bandits in the early stage of Ye, Cai, and Li have successfully gained control of the walled gate.

That night, the three tribes took the lead and killed it, and at the same time set fire everywhere in the bandit village, stirring up the bandits' lair.

Then Li Hao personally led a large army to attack, suppressed the bandits' counterattack in one fell swoop, and successfully dispersed the bandits.

At this point, this war is almost over, all that remains is to catch those scattered bandits one by one, and Li Hao will hand over this matter to Ye, Cai, and Li to do, so that they have a space to clean up.

Anyway, in the end, the evidence they sent was also sufficient, which completely pointed to the fact that the thief rebellion was related to the banditry in Jingzhou, and that the Wu family colluded with Shu and the remnants of Emperor Lu to support the bandits, intending to set off a thief rebellion at the junction of Yuzhou and Jingzhou, with the intention of endangering the safety of the imperial court.

The evidence contains documents related to the bandits and the Wu family, Shu Di, and the remnants of Emperor Er, as well as the armaments of Shu, and the evidence is very complete.

Especially after Li Hao compared the documents about the Wu family, he found that the handwriting was indeed from the Wu family, and it was not deliberately imitated, it was obviously really intentional.

However, Li Hao still called someone over and asked: "Now that I have given you the opportunity, is this beginning and end cleaned up, if someone else finds out any problems, then I can't help it." ”

In the face of Li Hao's question, the three of them looked at each other twice, and then the head of the Ye family replied: "Everything is already safe, the situation on the Wu family's side has been discovered, the head of the Wu family originally wanted to let the bandits leave, but because our army attacked too quickly, in the end, the leader of the bandits could not escape and fell into the encirclement."

At that time, the bandits may have thought that the Wu family was deliberately framed, and suddenly backhanded the Wu family, resulting in the tragic death of the head of the Wu family and a group of guards. ”

Li Hao didn't expect them to do this again, not to mention that this story was made up smoothly, and after revealing this so-called testimony, Li Hao turned a few pages and looked at it.

And when Li Hao looked at it, the head of the Ye family said again: "I am deeply grateful to the Lord Longen, if the Lord has something to do in the future, we will definitely die." ”

Forget about this kind of talk, Li Hao believes that he can indeed call them when he opens his mouth, but to say that they can kill them is pure fooling people.

Of course, Li Hao didn't plan to debunk it, as long as everyone tacitly understood it, and then let them go down and get busy.

Li Hao himself arranged for someone to send the evidence back to Pingyu and asked Wang Hui to come and investigate the matter thoroughly.

After all, this matter has already involved Shu and the remnants of Emperor Er, Li Hao is only in charge of military affairs, and he has to be the judge of this matter, so this matter has to be passed by him.

This is also the reason why Li Hao called the three of them for questioning, if these three people still need some time, Li Hao can also help them delay it a little longer, but since they are so confident, then Li Hao is too lazy to delay.

After Wang Hui received Li Hao's report, he was also shocked, he really didn't expect that there would be the figure of Shudi Gongsun Shu and Emperor Yu's sin in this matter.

When even if he led people to Anyang, Li Hao personally went to pick up people outside the county, and then was grabbed by Wang Hui and asked: "I have already seen everything you ordered people to send back, but I didn't expect this matter to be related to Shu Di and Emperor Er."

And I didn't expect that the Wu family would be such a person with evil intentions, and they would hide it so well, and they had never let me find out in the past few years under my jurisdiction. ”

Li Hao replied: "The county guard is busy with official business, and they haven't done anything unusual in the past, so it's normal that they haven't noticed it for a while.

If it weren't for the weaker strength of the bandits this time, and the Wu family was exposed by mistake, I'm afraid it would have been difficult for me to find out. ”

"It's also a skill to be able to fight, you just came to Runan for a few months, and you can integrate soldiers and horses to exterminate all the bandits, this is not an easy task, I will truthfully report this achievement to Your Majesty." Wang Huixian praised Li Hao's ability and promised to give Li Hao a meritorious service.

But then he mentioned again: "It's just that in your opinion, will Shu Di and Emperor Erdi have other chess pieces in Runan that we don't know, after all, since they have already laid out, do they pin all their hopes on the Wu family." ”

Li Hao replied: "I also think this matter is strange, but judging from the existing evidence, there is indeed no evidence that there is no trace of other people's involvement, but this subtle investigation ability is not what I am good at, maybe there are some things I haven't discovered." ”

After listening to Li Hao's words, Wang Hui nodded lightly to show his understanding, it is true that Li Hao's age is so good at fighting, and it is normal to be a little worse in other aspects, if everything can be done in all aspects, then it is strange.

Then he said: "Okay, then this matter will be handed over to me for review, and you can rest assured that the follow-up soldiers and horses will be settled." ”

After clarifying the responsibilities of both parties, Li Hao handed over the things in his hand and began to arrange for his soldiers to return to their respective stations.

After all, they were all temporarily reorganized, and now it took more than four months from the wartime preparations to the final end, and it was finally completed from September last year to the new year.

Naturally, they should be put back, but before they leave, the reward that should be given must be enough, and there is also a pension for the victims, otherwise it may not be very active to call it later.

Just in this regard, Li Hao has always been generous, mainly because he does have money on hand, and he has seized a lot of money from the bandit camp this time, so there is no need to do things in a hurry, which is criticized.

After all the rewards were handed down, every soldier who received the reward was overjoyed, and then went home with such joy.

While Li Hao was dealing with military affairs, Wang Hui was also investigating whether other families had intervened in this turmoil, but in the end nothing was found.

Of course, it can't be said that there are no clues at all, at least the Wu family came forward to point out that the Ye family, the Cai family, and the Li family have all been involved.

But they couldn't produce evidence for this, and the Wu family was originally arrested by the Ye family, the Cai family, and the Li family, so in the follow-up testimony process, the Ye family pointed out that the Wu family deliberately stole and framed the stolen goods.

Moreover, the Ye family, the Cai family, and the Li family suffered a lot of losses in this crackdown on bandits, and according to his investigation in the army, many of the tough battles were fought by the three families on their own initiative, which was completely different from the behavior of the Wu family, so it was difficult for people to doubt their position.

So in the end, Wang Hui could only end the matter, and sent someone to report to the capital, and he returned to Pingyu with Li Hao.

Now that Li Hao has come to Runan to do the big things he has done, all that remains is to wait for the battle of Shu to begin, and Emperor Wen will definitely levy soldiers and horses from various states and counties, and then he can take the initiative to ask for help.

In this vacancy, Li Hao had nothing to do except train soldiers and horses, so Li Hao sent someone back to Jiaodong to send back his loot this time, and by the way, he could see if he could take Qu Lengjun to his side.

After all, after leaving for such a long time, Li Hao is now sixteen, and he feels that his body has developed better and should be able to withstand the test.

And if he really participated in the battles of Shuzhong and Longxi in the future, I am afraid that in a few years, I will not see Qu Lengjun many times.

Of course, you can also take Qu Lengjun with you to fight with the army like Cheng Shi took Xiao Yuanyi, but whether it is Shudi or Longxi, they are all fighting hard battles, and taking Qu Lengjun over, Li Hao is somewhat uneasy, so think about leaving her in Jiaodong.

When the battle of Longxi is over, even if there are some battles to be participated in by yourself, it will not be too intense, and then Qu Lengjun will be able to follow all the time.

The journey back to Jiaodong was quite smooth, and the Liang family had no intention of blocking it in this matter, and Qu Lengjun also wanted to see Li Hao, so he returned with the convoy.

Li Hao was naturally extremely happy to get the letter, and for this reason, he also deliberately asked Wang Hui to take a few days off, and was ready to accompany Qu Lengjun for a few days.

Outside Pingyu City, Li Hao saw Qu Lengjun, who had been absent for almost a year, and could see that she should have lived well in Jiaodong, and she seemed to be plump compared to before, but it looked better.

In Qu Lengjun's eyes, Li Hao seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and couldn't help but say distressedly: "I haven't seen you for a long time, why have you lost weight like this?" ”

Li Hao was stunned by these words, thinking that he had also looked in the mirror during this time, although he did look thinner, but it was because he was taller, and it was not exaggerated to this extent.

I thought that only when a mother looked at her son, would there be this illusion that I thought you were thin, but I didn't expect this wife to look at her husband.