Lord Moyu was forced to open

Chapter 365 Merchant, news.

On the official road leading to Chengyi Mansion.

An army of 5000 men is marching forward.

All the cities along the way saw this undisguised army, but what surprised the chief officials of these cities was that they did not receive any news that the imperial army was about to cross the border!
Soon, someone recognized that this was the Pingwa army who had gone to Huangshan Mansion before. They wondered why the Pingwa army came here, and reported all the news to them.

Soon, Heyue Mansion received the news that the Pingwa Army was going east, and Zhao Ansheng sneered indifferently when he learned about it:

"Keep an eye on them. I want to see what they want to do. There is no intention to kill first and play later. If they act out of line, immediately pretend to be them and give them a good drink!"

Chengyi Mansion's side also received the news very quickly. As the party concerned, Zhao Cheng, the magistrate of Chengyi Mansion, only thought about it, and immediately understood that the other party might be here for his side.

He hurriedly called Huang Hu, the head catcher he sent to deal with the salted fish, over.

"Huang Hu, have you dealt with the thing that I asked you to deal with a few days ago?"

Fu Zun suddenly asked about this matter, Huang Hu, who had a ghost in his heart, suddenly felt a sudden shock in his heart, but he remained calm on the face, and calmly replied: "Hui Fu Zun, everything has been taken care of!"

Zhao Cheng immediately felt relieved when he heard the words, and then asked curiously, "How did you deal with it?"

For this, Huang Hu and the others had long been prepared, and unified their caliber, only to hear Huang Hu reply:
"We found a bottomless cliff and poured dozens of carts of salted fish into it, and there seemed to be many wolves at the bottom of the cliff, and we guessed that the salted fish would have become the food of those wolves at this time! "

Zhao Cheng frowned when he heard the words and asked, "Why didn't you pour it into the river? It must be poured into the bottom of the cliff."

Huang Hu shook his head and explained: "My lord, dead fish will float up when poured into the river. With so many salted fish, the whole river will be full by then. I'm afraid everyone will know about the trouble."

Zhao Che, who doesn't distinguish between grains and grains, suddenly realized when he heard the words, nodded and said: "Very good, since that's the case, then the government can rest assured, later you go to the cashier to get 100 taels and share with those below, and tell them Don't talk nonsense when you shouldn't say it, do you understand it!"

Huang Hu's heart trembled, and he immediately knew that this was probably a hush money, so he nodded quickly: "Don't worry, my lord, brothers will never talk too much!"

"That's fine."

He waved his hand to make Huang Hu retreat, and after thinking carefully, there should be no flaws on his side, so Zhao Cheng completely relaxed.

Over there, the [-]-level Japanese army led by Cao Yi and Zuo Hui had arrived less than [-] miles away from Chengyifu City.

The scouts ahead rushed to report.

"Report! Find out ahead, half a month ago, a group of new gangsters fell in the pheasant mountain next to the official road twenty miles ahead!
It has been proven that it should be exactly my goal this time! "

Cao Yi rode on the horse, looked at his subordinates who came back to report the news and asked aloud, "Do you have any witnesses?"

"Have!"

The subordinate replied and waved, and immediately two scouts came up with a thin man dressed as a businessman.

As soon as the skinny businessman came up, he bowed his hands to Cao Yi in a fawning manner and said, "Little man Zhou Fu, I have seen this general!"

Cao Yi lowered his head slightly, looked down at him and asked, "You told the general's Tan Ma that there was a band of newly fallen bandits ahead?"

The thin businessman nodded quickly: "Return to the general, it's exactly what the villain said!"

"Tell me everything you know."

"Yes, General!"

The skinny businessman responded and began to complain.

"That day, the little one took a convoy of goods to the next door as usual. Those of us who have been running business all year round are also very familiar with the green forests along this road, and we have taken care of everything that needs to be done. Generally speaking, we will not meet people. to what danger.

But that day when our convoy passed by the Pheasant Mountain, suddenly a group of bandits came out of the mountain..."

During his narration, Cao Yi finally knew that there was no cottage in the Pheasant Mountain, and now the bandits had only arrived within half a month at most.

Because the last time this merchant delivered goods was half a month ago, he had never met this bandit at that time.

And this bandit is a little different from other bandits, that is, they have no rules at all!

The so-called rules are the unspoken rules agreed between the green forest and the merchants in the Song Dynasty, that is, as long as the merchant is willing to pay money and pay protection fees regularly, then any green forest that keeps the rules can't kill him, otherwise he will be killed by the green forest. Comrades ridiculed.

Because most of what you do like this is a one-shot deal, and it won't last long.

Not only can you only eat it once, but you also cut off other people's business.

It is a market-destroying behavior that is boycotted by the entire green forest.

Of course, there are always some people who will not follow this form, and such people are generally called wild bandits without rules.

They are the kind of bandits that businessmen are most afraid of encountering. Once they encounter them, they will have no way of life. They want money, and they also want to kill people. They kill people purely for the sake of killing.

Generally, when encountering such unruly wild bandits, as soon as their news is revealed, most of the local businessmen will tacitly raise a sum of money to suppress them.

Even if more money is paid, everyone is willing to do so. If such wild bandits are not eliminated, none of us can do business with peace of mind.

This skinny businessman escaped with great difficulty. After returning to Fucheng, he immediately followed the usual practice and wanted revenge. He called all the merchants in the city to collect money to deal with this bandit.

But what he didn't expect was that when the big guys in the factory hated wild bandits, they all shirked and refused to get involved when they heard that the wild bandit Yejishan wanted to get rid of.

How could he be reconciled to this, he lost the goods of a convoy, and dozens of guys, not to mention the goods, he paid hundreds of taels for the settling expenses of these dozens of guys. silver.

He simply hated the bandits from Yeji Mountain.

But no matter who he was looking for, he was unwilling to come forward to solve this wild bandit together. In the end, he got the news that this wild bandit had something to do with Fu Zun, and it only appeared after Fu Zun came to take office.

Although there is no connection on the surface, everyone is not a fool, and there is no disaster or disaster. A wild bandit suddenly appeared, and there must be someone behind it.

The bandits supported by the big households in the city have long been on everyone's table, and everyone knows it in their hearts.

Now the one that popped up out of nowhere, without a doubt, must be under the hands of the new Lord Fu Zun.

As there is no conflict of interest at present, they don't want to offend the lord.

Now the businessman was desperate, didn't he even have hope for revenge?
Just when he was thinking like this, he suddenly heard the news that the Pingwa army was coming here.

And as people in the shopping mall, they knew the news that Feiyun Trading Company's goods were robbed near here some time ago.

After thinking about it for a while, he realized that the opportunity had come, and hurriedly came to the side of the official road to guard, just to wait for Cao Yi and others. As expected, he finally got it today!
"So, how much do you know about this bandit?"

Cao Yi asked.

The skinny businessman immediately replied:

"Since I wanted to take revenge, I have been collecting relevant information.

Through observation during this period of time, I found that they would go down the mountain to collect supplies every three days. General, you also know that we are in business. The most important thing is to have eyesight and calculation ability. If we look at the three-day consumption, the minimum number of people on the other side's mountain is more than 300 people and less than 500 people.

As for their supplies, according to my observation, most of the staple food is flour, and there are a lot of spirits!

Judging from these materials, most of the people in the cottage should be people from the area near the northwest. I noticed when they robbed the convoy that although these people were all bandits, they moved in an orderly manner, not like Ordinary bandits go straight to people's vital organs with fierce moves.

I've only seen this happen to one person! "

Cao Yi squinted his eyes, then asked, "Who?"

The skinny businessman glanced at Cao Yi and the others and finally affirmed firmly: "Soldiers in the army!"

Cao Yi's eyes slowly returned to normal, and he asked meaningfully:

"How to say?"

The skinny businessman said: "We merchants traveled all over the world. When we started our business a few years ago, we transported grain to the east of the river for the sake of Yanyin in exchange for the Yanyin issued by the imperial court.

On the border of Hedong, I have seen people similar to them. Those frontier soldiers all acted in an orderly manner, with fierce eyes. They always like to use alcohol to numb themselves when they are on the border all year round. Except for food, it belongs to where the alcohol is sold. Best of all, nearly every soldier in the army is a drunkard.

Moreover, most of the soldiers in Hedong and Guanzhong mainly eat pasta, so I guess, this bandit is probably a deserter who fled back from the border of Hedong, and the deserters are checked very strictly by the court. , Once caught, it will be executed on the spot!

This also explains why they are the power in the hands of Zhifu Zhao. In Chengyi, only Zhifu Zhao has the ability to let them enter Chengyi Mansion without anyone noticing, and no one has stopped them yet. "

Cao Yi fell into thinking after hearing this, but the skinny businessman became a little worried at this moment: "General, could it be that you dare not deal with them because they may be under the prefect of Zhao?"

Hearing this, Cao Yi raised his head and smiled slightly: "You don't have to worry about this, we don't care about your prefect Zhao, I'm just thinking about a problem.

Since the opponent is from the army, it may not be so easy for us to attack from below the stronghold that occupies a defensive advantage. How to minimize casualties. "

Hearing this, the skinny businessman immediately brightened up and said, "This small thing can help!

Some of the people who delivered supplies to him were bribed by me, otherwise I wouldn't know so much news, and when the younger one asks him to put something in those drinks and rice noodles, the generals can easily go up there! "

Cao Yi was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Can it be done?"

The skinny businessman nodded affirmatively: "Yes!"

Cao Yi immediately showed a smiling face. It is naturally excellent to be able to solve the problem with minimal casualties.

"Then let's do this. When was the last time they collected supplies?"

"Just tomorrow!"

Then prepare first, let's not rely on the past, wait for news from you, it's only ten miles away, and it's gone in a blink of an eye. "

"The little one understands, but the little one has a request!"

The skinny businessman made his own request. Compared with Cao Yi, not only did he not feel disgusted, but he even showed a smile. A person who suddenly appeared to help him unconditionally is always easy to be suspected. If there is no request, there will be a problem.

Now that they are asked for it, they can explain it.

"But it's okay, as long as it's not too much, we can solve it, and I can promise you everything."

The skinny businessman was overjoyed when he heard the words, and hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Don't worry, general, it's definitely not a problem to embarrass you, it's just a trivial matter for you."

Then he stated his conditions:

"When the caravan was robbed back then, the young one was almost hacked alive by the leader of the opponent. If it wasn't for a few guys who happened to block it, even the young one wouldn't survive.

The little one's request is very simple, when the time comes, the little one wants to kill the other party's bandit leader in order to avenge that knife! "

Upon hearing this request, Cao Yi immediately laughed and agreed, "Hahahaha, I thought it was something, so it was just this request.

Can!no problem!At that time, Ben will let a few brothers control him, and you can chop as many times as you want! "

The skinny businessman was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Thank you, General! Thank you, General!"

……

The plan was made, and the businessman quickly went back to prepare to go.

But as the saying goes, you must not have the heart to harm others, and you must not have the heart to guard against others.

Cao Yi still played tricks, and immediately someone followed the businessman quietly, and a newcomer had to be a little wary of anyone.

The army walked forward for more than ten miles and set up camp in the same place.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Yi also immediately sent scouts to the direction of Yeji Mountain.

Although the businessman had given the general information, it is more reliable to find out the specific news by himself.

Furthermore, we must know the terrain well, otherwise what should we do if there is an accident?
In this way, everything started to be prepared, but the bald headed family and others in the pheasant village were still drinking and eating meat, unaware that the danger had quietly approached.

In Chengyi City, Zhao Chengqun has been paying attention to the movements of Cao Yi and others, although he doesn't know the specific situation.

But he is still very clear about the general movement of where the Pingwa army has gone.

Soon he received the news that the Pingwa army had stationed more than 20 miles away from Chengyi City, which made him a little puzzled.

But they didn't know the reason, but they also passed the news to Xiangyeji Village to make them more vigilant.

Night is coming soon.

Everything has gradually fallen into silence, waiting for changes to happen...

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(End of this chapter)