"Rice bucket! stupid donkey! You bastards! It's really annoying to me!" Liang Gong, the governor of Qizhou Prefecture, slapped a pile of files on the bookcase angrily, pointed at the subordinates below and scolded angrily, but still couldn't relieve his anger, and his already bitter face became a little more hideous at this time: "How could the state government raise you stupid things? On weekdays, they are all majestic, but now they can't even catch a little thief! A month ago, you all patted your chests and promised the official that you would arrest the thief, why don't you squeak now?" The five thousand elite soldiers have been handed over to you, which is good, I see you wandering around the city all day long, making people turn over on their backs, not to mention the thief, not even a single hair on his body has been caught by you. My face in Qizhou has made you group of wine bags and rice bags clean!"

The few people below who bowed their heads and were scolded were all powerful people who flaunted their might in Qizhou City on weekdays, and they all buried their heads at this time, not daring to refute half a sentence. When Liang Zhoumu finished scolding, Wu Maoyong, the steward who led the arrest this time, was pushed out by everyone and replied: "Zhou Mu doesn't know, that thief's cultivation is extremely high, and he has come and gone without a trace." We have been working day and night to assign our men to patrol everywhere, but this huge city has its weak strength after all, and every time he drills a leak, it is really impossible to prevent it!"

"Grow the morale of others and destroy your own prestige! You all boast of your skills on weekdays, and you have encountered that thief a few times, why can't so many people trap him alone, and let him succeed repeatedly? Does he have three heads and six arms, or does he have a realm to cultivate?" Liang Gong was extremely dissatisfied with his subordinates' prevarications, and sincerely believed that it was they who were too lazy and incompetent, which caused the thief to be unable to be arrested so far.

Everyone has bitterness in their hearts and can't say it, if they say that they don't do their best, it is really wronged, for most of the past half a month, they are all getting up early and greedy for darkness, forgetting to sleep and eating, and even the casino and kiln have not been there for a long time. But the thief was so powerful that no matter what kind of net he laid, he could ransack the city every day from time to time, and then drift away. There are already seventy-seven or eighty-eight wealthy families and chambers of commerce gangs in this Qi City.

Zhang Huaide, the staff member behind Liang Gong, stepped out at the right time, bowed down and said, "What the mansion master said is extremely true. I think that there are 100 and 8 states in the heaven and earth, and the people who cultivate in the realm are all well-known figures! Either they are the chief generals of a prefecture in the prefecture, or they are the elders of the Gaozong faction, and their status is indescribably precious, so how can there be any reason to stoop to be thieves? Besides, the thieves wander around the states to steal, whether it is treasures, pills, gold and silver, or even objects of a little value, how can this be a bit of a master? This person must be a casual cultivator, so he attaches so much importance to property and cultivates. And every time he succeeds, he never dares to fight with our people head-on, and his cultivation will not be too high, but he can always get away with it by relying on his strange body skills. ”

The more Liang Gong listened, the more reasonable he felt, and said, "Master Zhang, in your opinion, what should I do?"

Zhang Huaide's cultivation qualifications are extremely poor, and he barely opened the threshold of cultivation after exhausting his family funds, and he joined the army, but he is also a greedy person who is afraid of death. But I don't want to be bitter, five years ago, the newly appointed Liang Zhoumu inspected the army, and saw that this Zhang Huaide was quite shrewd and able to speak well, and he had read for a few years, so he left him by his side. In the past few years, Zhang Huaide has also tried his best to give advice, and he has been even more relied on by Liangzhou Mu, and has become the number one person in Qizhou City. At this time, the deliberate words of greeting were approved by the lord of the Liang Mansion, and he was overjoyed, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud, shaking his head and saying: "According to the opinion of his subordinates, if you keep catching thieves according to the previous method, you will only be led by the other party." In fact, it is not difficult to catch this thief, I have three strategies here, and I can capture the thief with only one strategy. ”

"Master Zhang is so powerful, the exit is three strategies, don't say big words and flash your tongue, when the plan fails, but you are tricked by the thief, but your face is dull. "Wu Maoyong and others have always looked down on this Huaide, and only when he is an important inferior person by relying on his whiskers and slapping horses. I have been busy working for so long and have not caught the thief, there is nothing I can do, this Zhang Huaide is good, and the matter of catching the thief is as simple as having a meal, obviously ironizing the incompetence of his gang, he is very angry, and he responds sarcastically.

Liang Gong only didn't hear everyone's words, and asked Zhang Huaide, "Will the plan come out?"

"There are not many big families and gangs in the city that have not been stolen, and we can unite with them, ambush heavy troops, and wait for the rabbits, this is the next policy. As soon as Zhang Huaide finished speaking, the others showed disdain, and Wu Maoyong took the lead in shouting: "This fucking is also calculating, that thief is very cunning, you can bite him if you hide like Wang Ba?"

"This is not a guarantee of immediate results, but it is much better than spreading our forces throughout the city and chasing the thief around, as we say, waiting for the rest of our defense, and concentrating our forces, so that there is no chance of catching him. ”

"Let's talk about medium strategies. Liang Gong felt that although this plan was feasible, he first decided that the thief would ignore his own defenses and continue to steal, if he saw that the rest of the people were heavily guarded, he simply left, where would he arrest him? At this moment, Liang Gong wanted to capture the thief, but he had another thought.

Zhang Huaide understood, knowing that the lord of the mansion did not adopt the strategy he had just made, which was also something he expected, and he was not in a hurry, so he sorted out his words before he said cautiously: "This medium strategy is that Feishu will inform General Liao of this matter and let him speed up the march and rush back." I have found out the news that General Liao has led the elite of the Qi army to the boundary of Youzhou, and if you hurry up, you will be able to return to the city in less than half a month. We only need to close the city gate during this time, strictly guard it, and wait for General Liao to come back, and then come to an urn to catch turtles, with General Liao's realm cultivation and a group of elite soldiers, the thief will be easily captured. ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, and felt that this plan was very good, although they couldn't get used to Zhang Huaide's behavior, but they also felt that this was the only way, and it just happened to relieve their own group of people from the hardships. Only Liang Gong was silent, with a tangled look on his face. The royal court set up a state pastor in each state to govern the government, and set up a state general to be in charge of the army, in order to let the two sides check and balance each other and monitor each other, so that one side would sit big and commit rebellion, so there would be many discord between the state pastor and the state. And Liao Yan, the state general of Qizhou, is fierce and domineering, and his eyes are above the top, and Liang Gong has given him good fruits to eat since he took office. Liang Gong was so pressed to be the aggrieved state pastor for three years, and finally looked forward to the invasion of the Abyss Demon Clan, and the elites of all states were sent to the battlefield. Since that day, Liang Gong has been looking forward to Liao Yan's death on the battlefield. Now that the two sides have been fighting for more than two years, they have suffered heavy losses, and they have not been able to take advantage of each other, so they simply signed a covenant, and they will not invade each other within ten years, and they will recuperate. This Liao Yan is hard-hitting, even if he is alone in the demon world, he has broken out of the battlefield stubbornly, and he has also made a lot of military achievements, and he will lead the troops to triumph in the near future. This Liang Gong finally served as the governor of Taiping for two years, thinking that when this demon king of the mixed world returns, his good days will come to an end...... Liang Gong frowned even more when he thought of this.

Seeing this, Zhang Huaide immediately restarted the conversation: "Although it is safe to catch the turtle in this urn, it is finally passive, I still have the best strategy to lure the snake out of the hole, not only have full confidence to catch the thief, but also promote the prestige of my Qizhou." ”

Liang Gong turned his worries into joy: "Come quickly!"

"In the past two years, the elites of each state have been dispatched to the abyss battlefield, and the garrison strength of each state is extremely insufficient, especially our twelve coastal states have always been not valued by the imperial court, as long as there is no major turmoil, the above will not bother. Since last year, this thief has been roaming around the coastal states, and has been robbed in seven prefectures, including the number of land, the number of land, the number of land, the punishment of the land, the strength of the land, the inferiority of the land, the health of the land, and the thief, and all of them have been arrested without success. To say that the most miserable is the thief state, the people of this state are good at thieves, they have always been the only ones who steal others, when they were stolen to the nest by others, the whole state is boiling, and they want to fight with this flying yaksha endlessly, but they were ransacked to the bottom, and even their Wang Zhoumu's private house was taken care of. On the contrary, the state was already poor and weak, and within five days of the beginning of the robbery, the government came forward to gather a thousand taels of silver and put it on the high platform, asking the thief to have mercy on the suffering of the people, and took it and left on his own. I didn't expect the thief to really leave after receiving this thousand taels of silver......"

"Bastard! This idea of ruining wealth and sending away God is your so-called best strategy, and you dare to instigate this official to do such a shameless thing!" Liang Gong didn't wait for Master Zhang to finish speaking, he was already very angry.

"The adults are angry, even if the villain has the courage to come up with such an idea to damage the prestige of the adult, let me talk about it carefully. Zhang Huaide hurriedly leaned over to forgive, and when he saw that Liang Zhoumu had calmed down a little, he said: "Combined with the analysis of the situation in the thief state and the inferior state, the thief must be a master who eats soft and does not eat hard." Since there is already a precedent for the inferior state, we might as well make an unbearable posture to show weakness to the enemy, and also follow the example of the inferior state to put its property on a high platform and ask it to leave. But we quietly ambushed the master, and when he took it, we took it in one fell swoop. ”

Liang Gong's expression was greatly stretched, and he stroked his beard and said: "This plan is very good, but the thief is well-informed, if we ambush the soldiers and horses, it is inevitable that the news will leak." ”

"The little ones have a plan. There are not many soldiers, we only need to ambush eight Xuanjing masters near the high platform, and when the thief takes the treasure and relaxes his mind, he will attack together and kill him by surprise. If he can't win the battle, he only needs eight people to besiege him, and wait for the Huang Realm masters on the periphery to lead the soldiers and horses to come to help, and then ambush on all sides, even if the thief has wings, it will be difficult to fly. ”

"There are only three people from the Xuan Realm in our state capital now, how can there be as many as eight?"

"The heads of the Jiang, He, and Hu families, and the leaders of the Sea Snake and Shui Jiao gangs are all from the Xuan Realm, and the lord of the mansion only needs to invite them to discuss major matters in private, and this matter can be done. ”

"They are all old foxes, how can they contribute to the state capital?"

"These families all have Xuan Realm in charge, and although they have not been looted by the thief, their affiliated forces have been plundered a lot. If the adults tell them that there is a way to catch the thief, not only can they recover their lost property, but they can also earn other benefits from the thief, how can they refuse to help?" Zhang Huaide had already expected that the Liangzhou Pastor would ask this question, and said confidently.

"Master Zhang's high opinion!" Liang Gong was overjoyed, and hurriedly called the housekeeper, explained the matter of inviting people to the banquet in detail, and said to Zhang Haide: "I have to trouble Master Zhang to arrange this matter of posting the notice." ”

"Rest assured, adults, the content of the notice has already been prepared, and it is enough to have people post it. In addition, there is still some effort to prepare this property, preferably in large quantities and miscellaneous categories, so that it is difficult for the thief to collect them, even if he has a treasure like the Qiankun bag, he can't pack it and flee in an instant. ”

"It's still Master Zhang who is thoughtful, then it's up to you to handle this matter together. ”

"The small ones will do it, and they will definitely live up to the trust of adults. Zhang Huaide bowed down and looked at Wu Maoyong and the others with a smile as he left.

Wu Maoyong and his group of people had a fire in their stomachs at this time, but they could only stand aside honestly and wait for Liang Zhoumu's instructions.

Liang Gong took a few sips of tea before he said slowly: "Steward Wu, you have not been in the Xuan Realm for a long time, and when the time comes, you will besiege the thieves, don't drag everyone back." ”

Wu Maoyong clenched his hands into fists and said resolutely: "My lord, please rest assured, even if I fight for this old life this time, I will leave that thief behind." ”

"If only you had this determination. Liang Gong explained to the others: "A few of you will be responsible for gathering the people and horses in the city, and when the time comes, you will obey the orders, and don't leak the news!"

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Wu Maoyong and his entourage came out of the state capital, walked to a secluded place, and saw that there was no one around, so one of them leaned into Wu Maoyong's ear and asked softly: "Boss, do you really want to do your best for Lord Liang this time?"

"I'm really stupid, even if I catch the thief this time, the credit is also Liang Gong's, counting the lack of virtue, how can it not be the turn of our brothers. It's better not to catch it, and wait for General Liao to come back, hum...... We'll see!"