After Yang Guang returned to Chang'an, seeing that there was no hope of conquering Goguryeo again, he turned his attention to the country, although the national rebel army rose up, but only Dou Jiande in Hebei and Zhai Rang in Henan Wagang were on the scale.

Therefore, Yang Guang sent troops to Hebei and Henan to quell the rebellion, and on the other hand, he ordered the assassins and county guards in various localities to recruit government soldiers to quell the chaos nearby.

Hangzhou is far away from the Central Plains, since the Du Fuwei uprising was suppressed by Gao Buer, the surrounding environment is relatively calm, but a team of 30,000 people led by Li Zitong, the rebel army of Changbai Mountain, gathered in Hailing County, with the intention of occupying the capital of the river and controlling Yuhang.

Hangzhou Thorn Shi has also been preparing for this, but the population of the jurisdiction is young and strong, and the wealthy families of the scholar clan are unwilling to go out, so Gu Thorn Shi has no choice but to find Gao Fuji to discuss countermeasures.

Gao Buer only received a letter from Li Yuan, because there were also sporadic uprisings in Shanxi and its surroundings, and Dou Jiande in Hebei was also a great threat, but the situation was similar to that of Hangzhou, where young and strong people were scarce, and they could not organize a large army.

Gao Buer replied, asking Du Fuwei to lead 4,000 elite cavalry to Taiyuan to assist Li Yuan, and at the same time told Li Yuan to take the initiative to attack, secretly expand his strength through the pacification army, and send all the northwest army under Li Yuan's command as a last resort.

At the same time, he wrote a letter to Zhang Zhongping, ordering him to send 6,000 troops back to Hangzhou in case of emergency. Zhang Zhongping was in the northwest these years, because of the war and disasters, the number of displaced people in the grassland in Guanzhong was as high as 340,000, and he took the opportunity to quickly expand the army to 40,000 and became a hegemon of the grassland.

In less than five days after the arrangement was made, Gu Tingshi came to the door.

Manager Qian took him to the living room, and Gao Fuji and the two greeted each other and sat down as guests.

Gao Buer smiled and said, "I heard that Lord Thorn Shi is busy preparing for the battle, I don't know how I have time to come to the Humble House today." ”

Gu Tingshi smiled bitterly: "The Duke of Chu smiled when he saw it, these days, the officials have only gathered a team of more than 3,000 people in the township, and there is no comparison with the more than 30,000 people in Li Zitong's thief army, so I implore the Duke of Chu to help." ”

"Lord Thorn Shi is modest, I heard that you even took a fourteen-year-old man to join the army, and only one livestock was left in each family, and the rest were also requisitioned by you.

Gu Tingshi secretly said in his heart: "You lie to the ghost, I'm not blind, along the way, you Zhuangzi is young and strong, plus the shipyard and the left-behind personnel of each workshop, there are no less than seven or eight thousand people who can go into battle, and I am embarrassed to say that there is no one, and there are two thousand regiments of brave people who are retained on the surface, if you are armed, it will be a team of 10,000 people immediately." The world is in chaos, and you gate lords are still full of ghosts and fools. ”

But he said: "The court has come to a strict order, if you can't keep Hangzhou, the lower officials will be in danger of raiding the house and destroying the door, and the lower officials are also helpless." The north of the imperial court was in turmoil, and we couldn't send a large army to the south, so let's figure out a way by ourselves, seeing that the thief army had descended, there was no complete strategy, so we went to the door to ask the Duke of Chu to help. ”

"There are many families of scribes in Jiangnan, they have people in their hands, I heard that there are several big families who even have weapons and armor, you go to recruit them, you don't even need to prepare weapons, how good, why are you willing to go far."

Gu Tingshi looked at Gao Buer's careless appearance, and said anxiously: "Okay, my Duke of Chu, those are people's private personnel, all of them are domestic slaves, servants and other personnel, and they are not included in the national law to be recruited." ”

"It's all here, do you understand the urgency of the matter."

Gu Tingshi said angrily: "Didn't you say I didn't go?" Good guys, they all joined hands and formed a team of more than 8,000 people, saying that self-protection is a problem, and they really can't draw out manpower. ”

Gao Buer said awe-inspiringly: "Carelessly on your side, you give them a hard one, will they also rebel?" Is there any royal law? ”

You are the biggest gate lord clan in Hangzhou City, okay, and you are embarrassed to talk about others. Gu Tingshi despised Gao Buer very much in his heart, and he was shameless to lie. He still complained bitterly: "I also want to be tough, there are a total of 3,000 old and weak soldiers in Hangzhou Mansion, why don't you lend me 10,000 people, and I will give them hard breath once?" ”

Damn, seeing that the world is in chaos, and the reserve strength is too late, who will delay that effort. Gao Buer also cried and said: "You know this, two years ago, on the orders of His Majesty, I armed Zhuang Ding to cooperate with your government to quell the Du Fuwei Rebellion, which has been greatly damaged, and has not yet recovered, and this year I have taken in one or two thousand disaster victims for your government, and you say that I still have the strength to spare." ”

This is directly shameless, is it good for you to take in more than 20,000 disaster victims, and there are many young and strong, and now they are all gone, the ghost knows what you think in your heart, Yang Guang's faint monarch is also sad enough, his subordinates are this kind of heroes who hide a large army, and it is really hell if you don't fall.

Gu Tingshi saw that Gao Buer was alive and dead and didn't let go, so he rolled and said: "You are the emperor's own prince, the thieves are attacking, Hangzhou City will definitely not be able to defend it, you can see what to do." Once Hangzhou is lost, when the time comes, His Majesty will ask for the guilt, and the lower officials are afraid that it will not be good for you. ”

Gao Buer saw that Gu Thorn Shi was really out of luck, touched his chin and said, "If I am out of someone, will you pay for it?" ”

Gu Tingshi howled: "You cut it, cut it, eat me, and pay the military salary." ”

"You have two taels of meat, no." Gao Buer said disdainfully: "It's okay to let me out, but can you make sure that the Hangzhou Mansion doesn't listen to me?" Don't mess up, when the time comes, you will give me a hat that exceeds my authority, and I won't be able to eat and walk around. ”

"Don't worry, I can ask Your Majesty, just say that my Hangzhou government is unable to ask for thieves, please ask the Duke of Chu to arm Zhuang Ding to assist, you can rest assured, although it is assistance, I listen to you, you have the final say, and I can write you a guarantee."

"You are giving power to each other privately, and passing it on is enough for you."

"Now many places are doing this, and if it doesn't rely on you wealthy families, the government won't have the strength to quell the chaos."

"That's okay, you go to the book, I'll hurry up and prepare here, and you can ask me clearly, the number of strong men in these scholars and scholars who live in Yuhang."

"You want to?"

"Of course, pull Zhuang Ding, keep them unused, let them stab them in the back, you go back and immediately release people under the age of eighteen and those over fifty years old into their homes, the old, weak, sick and disabled are not enough to give the officers and soldiers shame money."

You are a full man who doesn't know that a hungry man is hungry, who wants to be that wicked person, it's not forced. But then again, if you giants let go, why would the Great Sui world be like this. Although he despised Gao Buer's approach, it was the uncle who had a big fist, and Gu Tingshi got Gao Buer's letter and immediately went to write a recital.