After listening to Liu Yu's words, Zhang Rui was quite disapproving, only because he heard his beloved daughter say that he had saved her life here, so he didn't want to brush his face, so he waved his hand again and again, signaling him to talk later. What the sergeant reported was that in recent days, he had found many small bandits near Songzhou City, and they left as soon as they were hit, and then came again, and there was a great tendency that the weeds would not be able to burn inexhaustibly.

And he Zhang Rui recalled his beloved daughter, but for another reason. He received an order from Song Wei from Pinglu Jiedu, ordering him to prepare more grain, grass and soldiers, and soon the army was about to arrive at the city of Songzhou. Zhang Rui was worried about this, Songzhou has suffered military disasters in the past few months, and the people are already hungry, and where can they get the extra money to support the imperial army. Zhang Rui felt that she couldn't, and because her beloved daughter Zhang Hui was scheming, she hurriedly sent someone to recall her.

After listening to the sergeant's report, Zhang Rui pulled Zhang Hui into the carriage and entered the Thorn Mansion all the way. As for Liu Yu, he was left to hang aside. A family member was already acquainted with him on the road, and he was ordered by the young lady, so he took him into the house with him.

As soon as Zhang Rui entered the house, she pulled her daughter into the study, closed the door tightly, and no one was allowed to approach. Zhang Rui said: "Song Jiedu envoy asked me to prepare at least 500,000 taels of silver, 300,000 stones of grain and grass, and your father and I can't turn stones into gold, how can this be good!?" Zhang Huidao: "This Lord Song has just been named by the emperor as 'Zhudao Xingying to recruit grass thieves', Huainan, Zhongwu, Xuanwu, Yicheng and the Taiping Army's five-way festival envoys are all under his command, and the limelight is unrivaled for a while. Father, you must not resist his orders, and you can promise him how much money he wants. ”

Zhang Rui said hurriedly when he heard this: "It's easy to promise him now, but if you can't do it in the future, you will disobey the military order and lose your head." Zhang Hui said: "Daddy, don't panic, let your daughter tell you carefully." Song Wei has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, and when he fights, he always has several good horses in advance, and he will flee when the situation is unfavorable. He just took the military exploits of his subordinates as his own several times, and reported them to the emperor with oil and vinegar, so he got his current position. Now the thief army outside Songzhou City is rampant, he Song Wei has always liked to take advantage of the fisherman, and he will never come when the thief army is there, so he will never come to embarrass his father at this time. ”

Zhang Rui said: "He can't come now, but when the thief army retreats, he always has to come over." What can I do then?" Zhang Hui smiled slightly and said, "He will never come, Daddy doesn't know, the gang of bandits who robbed me today are going in the direction of Huangshadu." There are so many ferries on the Yellow River, why do they choose Huangshadu? This Huangsha ferry is at the tip of the wind and waves, and the general ships capsize when they enter the water, which is extremely troublesome to maintain. Those people chose Huangsha Ferry to cross the river, which can only show that there are already people in the thief army who are in control of this ferry. If you want to talk about the benefits of this Huangsha ferry, there is only one, that is, the ferry has the largest water surface, which can accommodate tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to cross the river at the same time. ”

Zhang Rui was shocked when he heard this, and said: "You mean that they may send tens of thousands of horses to fight Songzhou, but there are less than 10,000 people in our house, what can we do?" "I was so anxious that I stomped my foot. Zhang Hui said: "Daddy, listen to me, the thief army is coming, although there are his disadvantages, but there are also his advantages." If you can lure them to attack Song Wei, then Song Wei will definitely flee far away, where do you dare to come to Song Zhou. Even if he came to Songzhou in the future, he would have eaten a lot of defeats, and where would he still have the face to mention money and food to your father. ”

Zhang Rui said: "Daughter, you are easy to say, but there are also shrewd people among the thieves, where can they be instructed by us, but be careful to drive the wolf before and then into the tiger." Zhang Hui said: "Daddy, don't worry, on the way back, my daughter has written several documents for you, please see." Zhang Rui took it and saw that there were three envelopes, and on the cover were written "Caozhou Thorn History Li Xu", "Puzhou Thorn History Sun Wanli" and "Yizhou Thorn History Han Yuanzhi" respectfully.

Zhang Rui asked, "Daughter, what do you mean by this?" Zhang Hui said: "Daddy, in my letter, I strongly invite these three Assassin Shi Masters to send troops together to attack the flank of Wang Xianzhi and the Huangchao thief army. Zhang Rui said: "Hey, these people are all old slippery heads, how can they listen to your command." Zhang Hui said: "My daughter has already told them in the letter, Daddy, you have played the emperor, and you want to unite the four states to encircle and suppress the thief army." Zhang Rui sighed: "If there is chaos today, the princes are all self-respecting. Even if you use the emperor to suppress these assassins, they will only send thousands of troops and horses out of the city to fight the autumn wind, so they will not really do things for you. ”

Zhang Hui smiled: "As long as they can send troops out of the city, that's enough." You must know that Wang Xianzhi, Huang Chao and others, the state and county they want to win the most are not our Song Prefecture, but Yunzhou, an important town in Ludi. Seeing that the defensive direction of Cao, Pu, and Yi was all towards Songzhou, the thief army was overjoyed, and then pulled out the camp and went north to attack Yunzhou. And the city of Yunzhou is the only way for Song Wei's army to go south to Songzhou, and he will have to fight without a fight. ”

Zhang Rui looked at her daughter, only to feel that her deep eyes couldn't even see through her father, and said, "Daughter, you are really a clever plan." At that time, Song Wei is only afraid that he will be defeated, how dare he come to my Songzhou to loot money again, Daddy, I will do it according to what you say, write the excerpt of the letter, and send the letter. ”

Zhang Hui smiled: "Daddy, don't worry, my daughter has to remind you." This time, my daughter went out of the city and found that the people's livelihood inside and outside Songzhou City had withered, and the people could not bear the suffering, so Dad might as well adjust the tax rate lower, otherwise it would be a big mistake to provoke the people to rise up and the sergeants to mutiny. Zhang Rui heard the words and said yes again and again, and called Beijia, Changshi, Sima and Lushi to join the army and others, and ordered Zhang Hui's suggestions one by one.

Zhang Hui said again: "Today, the little brother named Liu Yu said that there is something important to report, why didn't my father listen to him?" Zhang Rui said disapprerovingly: "A twelve or thirteen-year-old child knows something, but he just thinks it's funny to watch the sergeant's report, so he just imitates nonsense." I see that he is kind to you, so I don't care about him like him, otherwise I would have been blasted out a long time ago. You don't have to worry about him, I've asked my servants to fetch him some rare sweets and honey cakes. Children, just coax. Zhang Hui smiled: "My daughter should take a look at him, even if it's nothing, thank him and ask for it." ”

Zhang Hui met Liu Yu under the guidance of the people in the house, and saw him sitting at the table angrily, looking at the exquisite sweets and pastries in front of him, and refused to eat a bite.

Zhang Hui smiled and said: "Brother Yu, who bullied you and made you angry like this, my sister will settle accounts with him!" Liu Yu heard Zhang Hui call himself "Brother Du", he looked very affectionate, and most of the anger in his heart had already disappeared. Liu Yu said: "I really have something important to report to Master Shi, I don't believe you called Mr. Yue Sheng to sigh Mr. Yue, he knows me, he will definitely believe me, this is a token he gave me." As he spoke, he pulled out the short dagger given to him by the oil seller Yue Daxia from his waist, and the blade was shiny and very sharp. Several subordinates were shocked when they saw this, and said, "Ah, he wants to assassinate Miss, come quickly!" and some people rushed up to avoid the short dagger in his hand.

Zhang Hui shouted: "Whatever you are yelling about, give it to me." This little brother saved my life, and he will never harm me! Little brother, if you have anything to say, it is the same as my sister's, and my sister believes you!" Liu Yu saw that several of his subordinates had already left the house and closed the door of the house, so he said: "Sister, someone asked me to inform you that Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao's army will come to attack Songzhou in the next few days, so you should be vigilant." ”

Zhang Hui was shocked when she heard this, and said, "I expected the thieves to come, but I didn't expect them to move so fast!" She asked Liu Yu carefully, and Liu Yu told Han Bushou in detail about Han Bushou's lurking in Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chaojun, and told Zhang Hui what Han Bushou had told him word for word.