Chapter 23: Who is the Fool?

Huangshanzhai in Zhang'an County, Huiji County, Yangzhou.

According to this, there is a temporary camp more than 50 miles to the southeast.

This military camp was not built by Zhang'an county soldiers, but by Huiji county soldiers from afar in order to exterminate Huangshan Village, and of course hundreds of county soldiers came to "assist".

When these county soldiers saw that they had repeatedly encircled and suppressed the thief village without success, and it was defeated and caught fire on the first day when the county soldiers came, many people had to sigh that the combat strength of the county soldiers was different......

Just after nightfall, a cavalry team of more than 200 men returned to the camp.

The leader of the army waited for a disgraced face to enter the Chinese army's big tent to pay the order, and at first glance, he failed to complete the task.

After receiving a report from the vanguard Zhou Junhou, the commander Yu Ze learned that a group of thieves had fled north from the Cutting Longkou Trail, and that the leader was suspected to be the female owner of Huangshanzhai, so he immediately ordered the only 200 cavalry in the camp to go to the north to search and intercept the official road.

Maybe Chen Wentian reacted and changed the road in time, or maybe the two sides were not on the same road at all, so the result was naturally that the cavalry waited empty-handed.

"This little yellow cottage owner still has some means, we are surrounded and suppressed by large soldiers, and there is an internal response secretly, and she can also lead the crowd to escape, she is really a strange woman......"

Yu Ze didn't care about the loss of the cavalry, after all, there were not many places where the cavalry could be used in Huiji County, and he finally got a meritorious opportunity but returned empty-handed.

Yu Ze just felt that it was not easy for the owner of the village to protect himself in such adversity, and when they arrived at the agreed position, the village should come out to report, and there was no prevention in the village.

What's more, the other party is still a daughter, which must have aroused Yu Ze's curiosity.

He has led his army along the way to break through four or five thief villages, and none of the owners have escaped......

Yu Ze's record is also convincing to everyone in the army, although their strength is stronger than these thieves, and it is not difficult to win, but it is not easy to achieve a small loss and almost all the thieves are captured.

Instead, he came to this Huangshan Village, because the county lieutenant of Zhang'an had planted Neiying in the village, Yu Ze didn't think much about it, and it was all implemented in accordance with the strategy proposed by Neiying.

And so it really went wrong......

"It seems that you should be cautious at all times, and you should take this as a warning!"

Yu Ze shook his head, smiled again, and then sighed in public.

When everyone in the tent heard this, they naturally nodded their heads and said yes.

In fact, speaking of which, Yu Ze did not have an official position, and the commander of the army this time should be Xie Heng, the commander of the army, just because the county guard Nie Zhen heard that the Huiji County Wangyu clan, and his head Yu Ze was well-read and familiar with military affairs, so he personally came to the door to ask him to condescend to help, and led the county soldiers to exterminate the thieves in various parts of the county, so as to calm the place.

And most of the people in the army are the children of the four surnames of Huiji, because the family marries each other, and they will not oppose it, so there is a new thing about the white body commanding the army......

Of course, this is also temporary, the county guard has already promised first, and when the head of the Yu family returns triumphantly, he will be awarded the position of the chief bookkeeper.

A small master book, Yu Ze naturally didn't look at it, but the county guard's face still had to be given.

After all, after he came, he did not commit any offence against the "people" of the Huiji, not only did he not add endowments, but he also did not apportion tasks, set indicators, and did not change officials and install cronies, this is simply a good fool...... no, he is a good official......

Therefore, this kind of small request he occasionally puts forward is naturally not easy for the four major families to refuse, and eliminating the bandits is only good for them, so why not?

Thinking of this, Yu Ze also cleaned up his mood and began to discuss the next plan, and no longer paid attention to the absconding of the owner of Huangshan Cottage......

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Huiji County Governor, San'in County Guard.

Just when Yu Ze and the others were "grateful" to the county guard, Nie Zhen was looking at the plot and plotting against them.

This is actually very normal, who let their four surnames block the way of Longwei Mansion?

Not only did they unite to control about eighty percent of the land in Huiji, as well as most of the shop industries in each county in the county, but most of the officials in the county were also their people.

Which county guard is here and can't count them?

Therefore, as soon as he arrived, he let all the officials stay in office, and then promised not to be given any levies or conscription, so that these people would love him as a good official (fool).

However, this is also in Nie Zhen's arms, what he wants is the effect of the other party relaxing his vigilance, so that it is convenient for him to act secretly.

Now that Ban Lao has led the crowd ashore and agreed to his plan to eliminate the scholars, it is time to close the net!

He has sent an envoy to the largest Yue tribe in Huiji to discuss cooperation.

Compared to the scholars in Huiji, Nie Zhen felt that these Yue people might be more difficult to deal with, after all, their plan was to train the Yue people for their use, and it was indeed very difficult to tame these rough barbarians.

Otherwise, even if the scholars here are cleaned up in the future, it will still be difficult for Longwei Mansion to fully control Huiji County.

You must know that this place will be used as a forward base for Fuzhong to unify China in the future, if there is always a threat from the Yue people, what is the base to talk about?

And it does take a long time to completely domesticate the Yue people, which is not something that money can solve.

Nie Zhen sometimes couldn't help but wonder, does the lord have such good patience? Or can the lord wait so long......?

Because he knew that the young lord would definitely not have this patience anyway......

However, this is not something he can worry about.

Before leaving, Nie Zhen had already explained to the envoy that the conditions for this first negotiation with the Yue people should be lowered as much as possible, and even more benefits could be promised, as long as he insisted on a little bit, and the target and scope of his raids in the future must be carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Fuzhong.

In this way, Nie Zhen believes that no matter how much promises are made, as long as the Yue people enter the Han city, they will inevitably forget and break all the requirements.

And once the two sides turn their faces, or even meet each other, their previous promises will naturally not count......

Before that, let the Yue people taste some sweetness.

Anyway, Nie Zhen had already regarded the county soldiers led by Yu Ze as a meeting gift to the Yue people, and promised to destroy these county soldiers, and there would definitely be no Han people to pursue them.

I believe that everything on them will be very much liked by the Yue people......

Don't look at the appearance of these county soldiers now, it's not bad to deal with thieves, but if you really have to face a disparity in strength and embattled, it is just a plate of dishes!

These county soldiers are all soldiers who have some connection with the four surnames.

This time, Nie Zhen also found a reason to screen them all, and the useless ones were naturally discarded, not only to please the Yue people, but also to get rid of a few core figures of the Shi clan, so there was no loss.

Looking at the map, Nie Zhen's eyes gradually moved south, and finally landed near Dongye County......

"Dongye County is rampant with thieves, and now it is the biggest thief in Huiji County, Lord Yu, if you have some courage, you will go and fight with him, right? Hey, hey, hey......"