More than a month passed in a blink of an eye, and the New Year was approaching, Zhang Zhongping asked Du Fuwei to lead his men to Taiyuan according to Gao Buer's instructions, and sent 6,000 troops to Hangzhou.

Because the Hangzhou Assassin Mansion has not yet brought Yang Guang's holy decree, Gao Buer first gave a week's vacation to the soldiers of his family in Hangzhou, and the others were transferred to training under the command of Li Jing, and the more than 10,000 people left in Gaojiazhuang were soldiers, and the others had already gone to sea.

After another half a month, I saw Hangzhou Gu Tingshi led his entourage to hurriedly ride to Gaojiazhuang, and saw that the entire Gaojiazhuang was like a military city, there was no idler in Zhuangzi, they were all soldiers in armor, close to Gaofu, and there were soldiers wearing Xuan armor and face armor guarding around, Gu Tingshi had also been on the battlefield, and it was clear at a glance that these people must be strong pawns who had experienced a hundred battles with one enemy and ten enemies.

When everyone came to the gate of the mansion, they were immediately scolded by the soldiers to dismount, Gu Tingshi had no doubt that if he dared to take a step forward without authorization, he would definitely be splashed with blood for five steps.

Everyone dismounted, went to the front of the mansion, handed over the post, and said: "Please ask the general to inform on your behalf, Hangzhou Assassin Gu Ci brings the holy decree to see the Duke of Chu." ”

"Wait." The guard at the door spoke in a cold tone, and after speaking, he turned around and went into the house.

Good guy, they all said that I came with the holy decree, and let me wait, this Zhuangzi private army, but now the wealthy families have private armies, it's no wonder.

After a while, the guard came out and ordered a guard at the door to take Gu Ci in, while the accompanying servants were left outside the house.

The house is also five steps, one post, ten steps and one sentry, and it is heavily guarded. When Gao Buer saw Gu Tingshi coming in, he laughed and said, "It's all because the subordinates don't understand the rules, so don't be surprised by Lord Tingshi." ”

"In extraordinary times, it should be so." Gu Tingshi laughed and continued: "Guogong, Your Majesty's holy decree has arrived, and the holy decree says that you will be the leader of Jingzhou Assassin's History, and you will be fully responsible for pacifying Li Zitong's rebels. ”

Gao Buer was stunned for a moment, what tricks did Yang Guang play, and asked, "Then you are promoted?" ”

Gu Tingshi was bitter: "Because I let the old and weak who were recruited go back without permission, I was denounced, and I was demoted to the head of the Assassin's Mansion, and let your subordinates wear the crime and make meritorious contributions." ”

Damn, I said that this time the holy decree is so slow, it's all here, Yang Guang is still not sympathetic to the people's feelings, and the road is going to go dark.

Comforted Gu Tingshi and said: "You have lost my official position because of this, don't worry, I will give you back this time." ”

But don't, it's a furnace, it's better not to have it now. Although his heart was happy, Gu Ci thanked Gao Buer again and again.

Gao Buer ignored this bastard with different hearts, after all, after contact, this Gu Ci is very good at virtue, if he is still competent to be a parent official who benefits one party in the Taiping Era, he will compensate him well in the future and push him to Li Yuan.

Gao Buer no longer dwelled on this matter, and asked Gu Ci: "Is the situation of the family members of the scribe family clear?" ”

"You can rest assured that the situation of every family and servant is recorded in the government, and it is easy to find out."

"There are still those that have not been reported, and there are no statistics?"

"According to statistics, there are 8,000 people who have reported, and 3,000 or 4,000 people who have not reported."

"Good guy, this is all evidence of violations of law and discipline, does everyone have this situation?"

"Every family has it."

"Okay, I like these wealthy families to break the law and discipline, let's use this as an excuse to recruit the families of these big clans, and when these families join the army, they will form an army of their own, you are responsible for commanding, you can rest assured, I will send someone to assist you in training them, and I will command them in a unified manner."

When Gu Ci heard that he was about to be able to command an army of more than 10,000 people, he was very excited, he had worked all his life, but he didn't expect that he was still at the highlight of his life, and he was grateful to Gao Fuji in his heart.

Gu Ci immediately said: "Obey the orders of the Duke of Chu." ”

Gao Buer nodded, and said loudly outside the door: "Someone!" ”

A soldier immediately entered, knelt down on one knee and said, "My lord." ”

"Order Li Jing to immediately order 10,000 horses to follow me into the city."

"Yes."

The soldiers retreated, Gao Buer and Gu Ci went out together, and said as they walked: "Go to the city, immediately block the gates of all places, no one is allowed to enter or exit, and after all the wealthy families are all in order, you lead the officials of the Assassin's Mansion out of the city to collect the servants from each Zhuangzi, and if there is one less in that family, you will be fined 10,000 stones." ”

"Yes, but my subordinates are worried that those scholars will not be easy to obey."

"Don't worry, big fists are the last word these days, not because your fists are not hard enough."

Looking at Gao Buer's resolute back, Gu Ci deeply felt that Gao Buer's words were reasonable.

On the square of Zhuangzi, there are more than 1,000 cavalry assembled, and other soldiers and horses are assembled on the road out of Zhuangzi, Li Jing stands majestically in front of the army, there is no sound in the square, and the needle can be heard.

Seeing Gao Fuji riding over, Li Jing and the sergeants immediately shouted in unison: "Wind! Wind! Gale! ”

Gao Buer nodded and said, "Target Hangzhou City, go." "Say goodbye and go first.

When he came to Hangzhou, Gao Buer immediately sent people to take over all the city gates, and when everything was ready, under the leadership of Gu Ci and the officials of the Assassin Mansion, the army soon surrounded the families living in the city.

Gao Buer said to Gu Ci: "Let's start with Zhu Youxiao, Zhang Siwen, and Lu Xiaoqian. ”

Gu Ci led Gao Buer to the Zhu family first, and at the gate, he met Zhu Tianluan, the contemporary patriarch of the Zhu family.

is worthy of being a wealthy family, and when he saw Gu Cilai, he immediately asked in a loud voice: "My Zhu family has always been law-abiding, what is the reason why Gu Tingshi sent troops to trap him?" With such soldiers and horses, why not go north to King Qin, what is the reason for coming to surround the old man? Do you still have the royal law in your eyes? If you can't give the old man a satisfactory answer today, then Gu Tingshi has to ask the Jiangnan literati if they agree. ”

Gu Ci glanced at Gao Buji with an indifferent face beside him, and said: "The head of the Zhu family said that he laughed, because I had a bad errand, and the assassin history has been dismissed, and the current assassin history is the one next to me, the Duke of Chu Guo. ”

When Zhu Tianluan heard this, his eyes were shining, staring at Gao Buer, he had also heard a little about this idle Duke of Chu, but because Gao Buer was young, he relied on his identity and did not have anything to do with Gao Buer, but he heard that Zhu Youxiao, the nephew of the side branch, had a good relationship with him.

Anyway, Gao Buer's identity as the Duke of Chu was there, and Zhu Tianluan had to bow to Gao Buer, his tone was not as blunt as before, and said: "Little Lao'er is closed to news, I don't know that the Duke of Guo is in charge of Hangzhou, and I still look at Haihan where I can't go, and I don't know what instructions the Duke of Guo is coming." ”

Gao Buer happily hugged his fists and said: "It's not a big deal, it's that the thief Li Zitong is about to attack, Your Majesty has come to the will, let me recruit troops to defend against the enemy, and now the situation in the villages, towns and cities The head of the Zhu family must also know that the young man is almost gone, so he wants to borrow some people from the house, you can rest assured, there is definitely a loan and a return." ”

I believe you're a ghost. Zhu Tianluan scolded Gao Fuji for being hypocritical in his heart, but he also knew that this posture would definitely not work if no one was out, so he asked: "I don't know how Guogong is going to return the law?" ”

"Simple, after the thief army is broken, you will choose the prisoners first according to the number of people, how about it?"

"What if I don't have anybody?"

Gao Buer said with a smile: "Your Zhu family has a big business, it is impossible to not do a single illegal thing this year, you know, in this special period, His Majesty has full authority to me, so... ”

"How about five hundred people from my Zhu family?"

"Gu Changshi, look at the account book, can these five hundred people be counted?"

Gu Ci didn't look at Zhu Tianluan's threatening eyes, took the official account and private account of the population registration from the attaché, glanced at it, and said to Gao Buer: "Returning to China, there are 1,100 people in the Zhu family's young and strong family, and 800 people who have not been registered. ”

Hearing this, Gao Buer looked at Zhu Tianluan with a smile, to see how he decided, if he dared to have one less person, he immediately ordered someone to rush into the house to get money and grain.

The two confronted each other with a stick of incense, Gao Fuji's deep affection remained unchanged, Zhu Tianluan was indeed like a deflated ball, and said with a pale face: "Can't the prince of the country raise his noble hand?" ”

"One less person, pay a fine of 10,000 yuan, if the head of the Zhu family comes out, I will recognize these five hundred people."

Zhu Tianluan was supported by the people around him, raised his arm and said, "The Zhu family has 1,900 people." ”

"Okay, the head of the Zhu family is arrogant, and he himself is also a good talker, and he will definitely make up for the lack of personnel afterwards."

Take someone to the next house. On the way, Gu Ci asked: "Grandpa Guo, do you really make up for the vacancy for him afterwards?" ”

Gao Buer's face was not red and he was out of breath and said: "There are no prisoners of war left in this battle, those who surrender and those who are captured immediately enlist in the army, and there are no prisoners, so I."

I can't spare any energy to make it up to him. ”

Gu Ci had a deeper understanding of Gao Buer's shamelessness, thought about it and said, "Aren't you afraid of offending the scribe group and being criticized by them?" ”

"Let's go, I can't drop a piece of meat."

Fuck, I want to be so cheeky, I also want to be shameless, how can this be shameless? It's just no skin. Gu Ci shouted in his heart.

With the Zhu family taking the lead, the rest will be easy to do, and overnight, there will be a team of 12,000 more people in Gao Bushou, Gao Buer searched the treasury poorly, and did not find all the armor and weapons, under Gu Ci's high opinion, he once again forced the wealthy family of the scholar clan to take out their private collections, and only then did they reluctantly arm this team.

Gu Ci admired Gao Buer like the water of the Yangtze River, this is willing to cut his body, to the death of these wealthy families, there was just a message on the market that was not conducive to him, he backhanded people to print a kind of thing called a small poster, specifically to disclose the black information of the wealthy families, those wealthy families are not clean, and finally the two sides reconciled, and the wealthy families no longer dared to secretly do anything.