Since Zhang Yuanyuan was the master of Jiazhai Village, he was even more crazy and led people to go to distant places to rob houses and houses, and hung up the banner to recruit troops and horses, and soon there were more than 1,000 bandits who came to Jiejia Mountain, and within half a year, Jiejiazhai already had more than 2,000 brothers, and his strength was strong, and he often attacked the east and west, and defeated the officers and soldiers many times.

At this time, the disarming of the village shotgun replacement is far from being able to deal with the two or three thousand officers and soldiers in Sanhe County, and Cheng Yi, the county magistrate of Sanhe, is helpless, and once again reports the bandit to the county guard Yamen, and the county guard Huo Renhong is helpless, and reports the bandit situation to the cattle all over the ground. Niu Mandi had long been dissatisfied with Huo Renhong for a long time, and used the topic to play, saying that Huo Renhong and Cheng Yi sent troops to suppress the bandits without authorization, which failed to quell the bandits, but made the bandits bigger.

Niu Mandi took the opportunity to ask the emperor for Huo Renhong and Cheng Yi, and a month later, under the holy decree, Huo Renhong was dismissed from the post of Luye County Keeper and Cheng Yi from the post of Sanhe County Governor for the crime of ineffective suppression of bandits and waste of money and food. Huo Ren vomited blood angrily, returned home and died depressed. Cheng Yi was also half dead in anger, returned to his hometown in Jiangnan Province, and closed his door to no guests for a year.

Since Huo Renhong, the county guard of Luye, went to work, Niu Mandi himself concurrently served as the county guard of Luye, and he recruited Hou Jingxian, the former captain of Huo Renhong's subordinate Zhiguo, to his subordinates and promoted him to the rank of lieutenant. coincided with the last years of Huizong, Niu Mandi was increasingly authoritative in Jiannan Road, and gradually had a heart of disobedience.

Niu all over the ground thought so, so he sent an envoy to Jiejiazhai to buy Zhang Yuanyuan, no matter how arrogant Zhang Yuanyuan was, after all, he was just a thief leader, since the master made a wish to throw an olive branch, why not do it? With the master of the strategy to do the backstage, Zhang Yuanyuan's courage also strengthened, and he lobbied around the nearby mountain bandits, and the small group of mountain bandits who did not obey would be eaten, and the large shares would try their best to fight for it.

A year later, there was a grand occasion of more than 5,000 people in Jiejiazhai, and the cattle were all over the ground and were surprised and delighted, and they were afraid that Zhang Yuanyuan would support the army and respect himself, so he tried his best to win over Zhang Yuanyuan and secretly named Zhang Yuanyuan as a guerrilla general from the fifth grade, promising that one day when the matter would begin, Zhang Yuanyuan's position would never be lower than that of the general of Huaihua of the third grade. Although Zhang Yuanyuan's power in Jiejiashan was strong, he was unwilling to grudge Niu Mandi, who held military and political power, so he accepted Niu Mandi's wooing, and according to Qiao Chongliang's suggestion, Niu Mandi was vain and wronged, and took the opportunity to defraud weapons, money and food.

Today, five years later, Jiejiazhai has more than 8,000 people, and its military strength is not weaker than that of Xuantong and Songshan counties in Jiannan Province. The local government in nearby Sanhe and other counties is simply unable to compete with Jiejiashan, but has to pay a certain amount of protection fees every year, and the government pays protection fees to the cottages, and only Jiannan Province under the rule of Niu Mandi can do such a thing.

Since the death of Huizong, Yin Guang ascended the throne, and he easily did not dare to investigate and prosecute local officials in order to make a smooth transition. Niu Mandi took this opportunity to frantically develop his own power in Jiannan Province, first installed his cronies in Jianzhou and Songshan counties, and then prepared to attack Huzhou, Lianshan, Xuantong and other places.

Huzhou County Shou Su Changlin's father Su Dingfang once served as a Jiannan Provincial Economic Envoy, and Su Junshou's father-in-law was Qiu Jie, the Duke of Lu Guo, Niu Mandi was not good to attack Su Changlin directly, so he could only slowly try it, and Su Changlin himself had an ambiguous attitude, and he wanted to refuse to welcome back, so that Niu Mandi could only hold a wait-and-see attitude. Although Jin Dazhong, the county guard of Jiangzhou, was disobedient, he was looked at by the gold lord behind him

Song and his henchmen don't drive Li Ziming and the two of them are in the air.

In this way, Luye City, Jianzhou, and Songshan are completely in the hands of Niu Mandi, most of Jiangzhou is in their own hands, and although the rest of the counties are not in their hands for the time being, then take your time, and you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Then he contacted Lord Yun, the deputy envoy of Liaodong Economic Strategy who was unwilling to be lonely, and then got on the big ship of King Pingxi, it was a matter of time before it became a success, but he never expected to be intercepted by Tang Jiusheng.

In the afternoon of that day, more than 50 minions patrolling the mountain at the foot of Jiejia Mountain suddenly saw an official boat coming from the direction of Zhangjia Ferry on the Lushui River, waving a big red royal flag. The bare-chested patrol leader saw Wang Qi, this surprise was not trivial, there was only Tang Jiusheng in Jiannan Road, the prince, could it be that someone from the Wei Wangfu was coming to the cottage?

When the official ship was about to dock, the patrol leader finally saw that the king flag was a big Jiannan, and the puzzled patrol leader couldn't figure out what kind of king this was, so he simply ordered more than 50 little minions to wind their bows and arrows, and prepared to open their bows and arrows if they didn't agree with each other. On the bow of the ship stood an official in official uniform, with five or six attendants behind him. The official had thick eyebrows and big eyes, a dark complexion, and a lark on the complement of his official uniform, which was obviously a fourth-grade official.

Standing on the bank of the river, the leader of the mountain patrol drew his waist knife and shouted: "Who is here?

Behind the official on the bow of the ship, a military attache flashed out, dressed in a seven-grade uniform, holding a knife on his waist in his left hand, and shouted loudly: "Don't be rude! This is Lord Gu Anyuegu, the chief administrator of the Jiannan Palace, who is now the special envoy of the King of Jiannan, and has come to see your Lord Zhang Dazhai on the order of the Lord Niu of Jiannan, please report!"

The leader of the patrol mountain was confused, he knew that the Jiannan Dao was full of cattle all over the ground, what the hell is the king of Jiannan, what kind of ghost is the king of Jiannan?

The military attache wearing the uniform of the seven-grade military attache said loudly: "The king of Jiannan is the king of my family, and he has recently created the country of Jiannan, and established himself as the king, the master of your family was originally a guerrilla general of my family's prince, and now our Lord Gu is ordered by the king of Jiannan to canonize the lord of your family, and ask him to come quickly to meet the envoy of the palace!"

When the leader of the mountain patrol heard him say this, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent the little minions to ride back to report to the lord of the village, and at the same time welcomed all the big and small officials on this official ship off the ship and "protected" them. It's called protection, but it's actually surveillance.

Gu Anyue, the envoy of the Jiannan Palace, didn't mind at all, and had a good conversation with the patrol leader by the river. Half an hour later, Qiao Chongliang, the owner of the second village of Jiejia Mountain, led more than 100 people to ride a high-headed horse and ordered someone to carry a sedan chair down the mountain to greet Gu Anyue. When Qiao Chongliang saw Gu Anyue, his face was full of smiles, and he first made a gesture to kneel down, but was stopped by Gu Anyue.

Then Qiao Chongliang bowed again, and apologized again: "The master of my big village is hunting in the back mountain, and he is not in the village, so he doesn't know that the envoy is coming, so he is not welcome! Xiao Ke has already sent someone to report to the master of the big village, so he has to come down to greet him himself, and I hope that the special envoy will forgive us for the sin of simplity!"

As the saying goes, don't stretch out your hand and don't hit people with smiling faces, not to mention that Gu Anyue is asking for help on this trip?

Gas. Qiao Chongliang invited Gu Anyue to sit on the sedan chair again, and everyone hugged the mountain. After walking for more than an hour to arrive at the cottage, Zhang Yuanyuan had already greeted the envoy at the gate of Dazhai.

When Zhang Yuanyuan saw Gu Anyue, he hurriedly stepped forward and slammed to the ground, "Guerrilla General Zhang Yuanyuan, see the special envoy of the Jiannan Palace! The special envoy is coming, why didn't he send someone to report it two days earlier? Let us make preparations as soon as possible and do our best to make the friendship of the landlord! With such a sudden visit, the small one has no time to prepare, and he is caught off guard, so he is a little slower, I hope the special envoy will not be surprised!"

Gu Anyue got off the sedan chair, supported Zhang Yuanyuan with a smile on his face, and laughed: "Oh, Master Zhang Dazhai, oh, no, General Zhang, you're polite, this incident happened suddenly." That's why the prince sent me to visit temporarily, hoping it didn't disturb General Zhang!"

Zhang Yuanyuan snorted, "What did the envoy say, Lord Gu is a distinguished guest, and I can't invite you to come to the village! Please, please, p Both sides have their own hearts and minds, and they are not embarrassed.

Gu Anyue followed Zhang Yuanyuan and others to the village, while looking left and right, this Jiejia cottage is really quite meteorological, this Zhang Yuanyuan and Qiao Chongliang must have worked hard to run this cottage. Look at the big and small minions who welcome the left and right sides, tall and mighty, thin spirit, swords and guns, majestic, and really majestic. At the entrance of the walled area, there are fortifications such as rejecting horses and rolling wood, stones, bows, crossbows, and bunkers.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, I came to a mountain plain, which was a martial arts arena covering an area of several acres, paved with bluestone slabs. Further ahead is the main building of the cottage Zhongyi Hall, three floors, occupies more than 20 zhang of the place, quite spectacular, one zhang high gate upstairs hangs a golden big plaque, on the book three big characters, "Zhongyi Hall".

Zhang Yuanyuan let Gu Anyue into the hall on the first floor of the Zhongyi Hall, the hall is seven or eight zhang deep, two rows of small seats are set up on both sides, in the middle is a tiger skin chair, there is a large gold plaque hanging above, writing five big characters: "Holy Bravery, Righteousness, Zhiren", is the standard of being a robber as the thief said.

There were chairs on the left and one on the right next to the tiger skin chairs, obviously for Gu Anyue and Qiao Chongliang. Zhang Yuanyuan pretended to give in again and asked Gu Anyue to take a seat. Gu Anyue tried his best to refuse, "The master of the village must not be, you are the master of the village, you should be on the throne, how can someone in my valley take the lead?" Zhang Yuanyuan sat on the tiger skin chair. Gu Anyue and Qiao Chongliang sat down on the left and right.

Zhang Yuanyuan smiled and asked, "Lord Gu, I don't know what you are doing in my cottage this time?"

Gu Anyue arched his hand and said: "Gu came this time on the order of the prince of Jiannan and canonized General Zhang as the general of Huaihua and the Marquis of Yujiang. In the future, Yujiang will be General Zhang's fiefdom, and Yujiang is the largest county in Jiannan, which shows the importance that the king of Jiannan attaches to General Zhang! However, at this time, Yujiang County was besieged by 5,000 thieves from Lianshan County, and General Zhang needed to personally go out to recapture the fief!

When Zhang Yuanyuan heard this, he was displeased, and said in his heart, "Didn't you just let me be cannon fodder and fight the soldiers and horses of Lianshan County?" And said that it was as if I was taking advantage of a big advantage, who would I play with as a fool? Zhang Yuanyuan was angry in his heart, and he opened his mouth and said, "Damn it!"

Gu Anyue saw that Zhang Yuanyuan's face was ugly, and when he opened his mouth, he couldn't help but change his face.

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