July is on fire, the heart is in the stars, and more than a month has passed in a flash.

The heat between heaven and earth began to subside slowly, and the gradually cooler weather seemed to indicate that the most difficult days of Dengyun Mountain had also passed.

Huang Zeli is just a small role in the end, and his death only made a few more official correspondence between Huang County and Dengzhou, and did not set off too much aftermath. After all, the most important task of the magistrate now is to whitewash the peace with Taishi Cai in the court, this is the general tone and general direction, like a small group of thieves like Dengyun Mountain, break down a village, kill a few rich people, this kind of inconspicuous little thing to report to the report, isn't it clearly against Taishi Cai?

As for sending troops to suppress bandits and pacify the place, that is even more of a joke.

Today, there is no local commander who will have a choice in sending troops. In the entire Great Song Dynasty, in addition to the border passes, the local garrison can be mobilized for the most time to know the officials at the state level, this is still a small army transfer, once the number of people is thousands, it is necessary to alarm the road level pacification envoy and the economic envoy, and then go up to obtain the approval of the Privy Council, and even Song Huizong himself.

With such a big move, even if the troops are victorious, then as the initiator, your superiors and the princes of the court will have the first impression of you as an ineffective official, which will lead to local instability, unrest in the people's livelihood, and don't think about doing well in the promotion assessment. If you don't win, then the fun will be even greater, and the demotion will be punished, and the assassination and exile will only be idle.

Therefore, in the Huizong Dynasty, the officials were well versed in turning big things into small things and small things, and never making public what they could hold on to this way of being officials. For the magistrates of Huangxian County, Dengzhou Zhizhou and other magistrates, the most important thing at the moment is to quickly search for the Taoist priests in the jurisdiction all over the mountains and wilderness, and send those mages who are accustomed to pretending to be gods and ghosts to the Bianjing Street Recording Institute to teach the Daosheng Praise Guiyi (Note 1).

Poor Zou Run, who knew the inside, he and Zou Yuan, Yang Lin, and Deng Fei were worried for more than a month. In the past month or so, Zou Run has been working hard every day, strengthening the wall, building fortifications, and building the entire Dengyun Mountain like an iron bucket.

But after waiting for more than a month, I saw a notice posted outside the county seat of Huangxian County, which was nothing more than a warning to coastal villagers to be careful of pirates going ashore to loot.

That's right, the final characterization of Huang Zeli by Huang County and Dengzhou is that "the pirates went ashore, plundered away, and disappeared without a trace...... which is rare in the handiwork of Dengzhou Wang Kongmu (Note 1), who is an old official and is very handy in doing this kind of thing.

"Pirates ashore" shows that this has nothing to do with the magistrate, this is the inability of the Ping Navy to eliminate pirates, which led them to come ashore to burn, kill, and rob; "Plundered away", indicating that this was just an accidental incident, and it was completely caused by the thieves' sudden intention, not the emptiness of Huangxian County's defense; "I don't know the trace", the doorway here is even bigger, which shows that the pirates have run away, and we can't catch the murderer even if we want to, if you want to ask for the crime, you should go to the Qiu Ba of the Ping Navy, and they will be in charge of the affairs on the sea!

Wang Kongmu wrote brilliantly, and made the case clean and neat with an official document, and pushed the blame cleanly, and the magistrate of Huang County, Dengzhou, and the magistrate of Dengzhou were all overjoyed to see it, and they all praised Wang Kongmu for "having great talent and being worthy of a great responsibility", but he almost lifted this beautiful ass to the sky.

When these news reached Zou Run's ears, he really didn't know whether to cry or laugh. What should be happy is that this is a false alarm, and the fledgling Dengyun Mountain has ushered in a precious opportunity for quiet development. What is sad is that it was the riotous operation of these guys that made him know why Jingkang's shame came so violently.

In any case, the sword of Damox has been removed, and it is time to relax and relax.

That night, there was a big feast in Dengyun Mountain again, except for the minions who were on duty everywhere in the cottage, the rest of the people gathered together and drank happily under the reflection of a cluster of bonfires. In the room in the back mountain, the price of running water is generally transmitted here with boiled tender chickens and fat ducks, and large pieces of pork and mutton on the pot, if it weren't for Zou Run's prohibition to kill the cow, according to the current atmosphere, he would have to turn over a cow to help the fun.

"Come on, come on, I'll give my uncle first, and two brothers a bowl. Since the two brothers hit the mountain, they have not lived a peaceful life, and they have been called by me all day long, and I feel guilty in my heart, this bowl, I will do it first as a respect! ”

In the Juyi Hall, Zou Run sighed inexplicably, raised the black pottery wine bowl, and drank it all. Zou Yuan followed, shouting that he would also toast a bowl.

"During these days, thanks to the help of the two brothers, I bought more than 30 good horses for the cottage, and even got more than a dozen sets of armor from the Liao State. Although the official army did not come, but with these things, I dare to let out the words, even if some soft-footed shrimp come, I can't climb the cloud mountain! Don't say much, I'll do it first! ”

Zou Yuan admired Zou Run's decision to invite Yang Lin and Deng Fei to the mountain from the bottom of his heart.

These two people are very familiar with each other in the Liao State, even the horses are forgotten, and even the heavy weapons of the military such as armor can be obtained, so that the combat power of Dengyun Mountain has more than tripled, how can he not be happy.

Zou Run and Zou Yuan's toasts in turn mobilized Yang Lin and Deng Fei's emotions, Yang Lin stood up and responded solemnly:

"The owner of the village and the leader of Zou are not like this, they are all brothers in the family, what kind of hard work. In the final analysis, the owner of the village is not suspicious, and the suspect does not need to use it, if it is not for the owner of the village to rest assured that the huge amount of money of 2,000 yuan will be handed over to me as a new person who has gone up the mountain, and I will go to Jizhou empty-handed, how can I get these horses and weapons? The owner of the village befriended us with his heart, and we should strive to die! ”

The price of horses in the Northern Song Dynasty has always been high, especially war horses, the closer their quality is to the northwest, the better, and the higher the price. Yang Lin took a boat from Dengzhou to Liaoguo to buy horses, which is equivalent to going directly to the manufacturer to get the goods, there is no middleman to make the difference, and the cost of sea transportation is lower, so the price of each war horse only cost less than forty yuan. As for the armor, it was obtained from the black market, the price was a little inflated, the quality of the Liao armor was far from catching up with the Song armor, and a pair of iron armor actually cost forty yuan, which made Yang Lin a little regretful, thinking that he was ineffective and wasted the public money of the cottage.

"What Brother Yang Lin said is that the owner of the village is just like the Qin King Li Shimin, who is angry, light on wealth and righteousness, and treats us with all his heart. As soon as the more than 30 horses arrived on the mountain, they were all allocated to me, so trusted, I can't wait for an official army to come to attack, so that the owner of the village and my brother can see my fiery ability and mind! ”

Yang Lin worked hard, and Deng Fei was not to be outdone, he had red eyes, and slapped his chest loudly, telling the feeling of retribution in his heart. Zou Run said seriously, went to invite them to sit down, picked up the wine jar, and poured wine for the three of them from top to bottom.

"A family does not talk about two families, and since they have come up to the mountain, it is the fate given by God, and the friendship between brothers must be cherished. As the saying goes, we see people's hearts for a long time, we move forward side by side, life and death together, although I Zou Run is not talented, but I want to lead my brothers to do a career! ”

"Good! Follow the owner of the village to make a career! Come! Let's do it together! ”

"Dry !!"

"Dry !!"

As Zou Yuan roared at the top of his throat, all the minions in the audience blushed, raised the wine bowl high, and drank this bowl of wine with beautiful meaning and deep meaning with Zou Run.

After drinking this bowl, the minions serving at the table wanted to pour it again, but Zou Run stopped him. "The meat can be eaten again, but the wine can no longer be used."

Why is that? The owner of the village has always had a large amount, but today he only drank a little, why not drink? Deng Fei was puzzled.