Choose Liu Bei at the start, I am the only one who knows the plot of the Three Kingdoms.

Gu Rubing breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Sun Shangxiang was very supportive of him.

Soon, half a month passed.

In order to recuperate from his injuries, Sun Quan did not visit Gu Rubing and Sun Shangxiang for a full half month.

Finally Sun Jian arrived.

The first thing Sun Jian did when he arrived was to call Gu Rubing and Sun Shangxiang to the city lord's mansion.

"Father."

When Sun Shangxiang saw Sun Jian, she immediately stepped forward and saluted.

Seeing that Sun Shangxiang was in a good mood and in good health, Sun Jian was quite satisfied. At least this showed that she had not suffered any injustice from Gu Rubing.

After exchanging a few words with Sun Shangxiang, Sun Jian looked at Gu Rubing in front of Sun Shangxiang.

"King Lie, I don't agree with your request for half of the tax revenue of Kuaiji County."

After saying this, Sun Jian looked at Sun Shangxiang beside him intentionally or unintentionally.

Obviously, Sun Jian deliberately said this when Sun Shangxiang was around. He thought that with Sun Shangxiang around, Gu Rubing would be more restrained.

"Don't agree? Then don't trade in Kuaiji County anymore."

"What?"

Sun Jian widened his eyes and looked between Gu Rubing and Sun Shangxiang, only to find that they were both nodding, without any influence at all.

"Shangxiang, what do you think?"

Sun Jian was forced into a corner and asked Sun Shangxiang directly.

He hoped that Sun Shangxiang would stand on his side and reject Gu Rubing's request.

However, Sun Jian did not expect that Sun Shangxiang actually nodded.

"Father, I am just a woman and cannot decide anything. Besides, I feel that my husband did nothing wrong. Although Kuaiji County was given to you, when you didn't make any money at the beginning, my husband never asked you for anything. Now that you have made money, and a lot of money, my husband has asked you for some. Why don't you agree?"

"This……"

Sun Jian was completely stunned. What kind of nonsense was this?
And for some reason, Sun Jian even felt that what Sun Shangxiang said made sense, and that he was being a little unreasonable.

After a long time, Sun Jian sighed.

"Okay, I'll give you some taxes, but you have to pay them within half a month."

"No problem, I have plenty of time to wait for you now."

After watching Gu Rubing and Sun Shangxiang leave, Sun Jian looked at Sun Quan standing beside him.

"Father, we can't let Liu Bei have too much free time. This guy will cause trouble for us when he has nothing to do."

"Don't let him have some free time? How can you do that? Now that Cao Cao and Liu Zhang have both declared a truce, who else can cause trouble for Liu Bei?"

Having said that, Sun Jian suddenly thought of something and turned to look at Sun Quan beside him.

"You mean to let Shi Xie take action?"

"That's right, father. I heard that Shi Xie has found some hidden Xiongnu tribes. The number of soldiers and horses has reached 100,000, and there is also a lot of food and fodder. We can pay some food and fodder, or people, and let Shi Xie take action. Let him completely cause chaos in Youzhou and keep Gu Rubing busy. Maybe he will not care about our one million gold."

"Alas, this is not a million gold, it's a million a month, and ten million gold a year is going to be given to Liu Bei for nothing. How can I accept this?"

After the two made their decision, Sun Jian wrote a letter directly to Shi Xie.

After Gu Rubing returned, he sent someone to send Sun Shangxiang back, and then began to wait in the city.

Within fifteen days, gold and silver were delivered to Gu Rubing one after another, and Gu Rubing began to send people to deliver them to Zhuge Liang.

Because Yangzhou and Jiaozhou were both his own territories, Gu Rubing only sent ordinary soldiers.

The first few transports were very safe and no danger occurred.

But then Sun Jian actually sent 400,000 gold.

This was the largest sum of money Gu Rubing had received in this period of time.

However, Gu Rubing did not think much about it. During this period, hundreds of thousands of gold were delivered one after another. According to what he wanted, Sun Jian needed to pay one million gold, so four hundred thousand was nothing.

However, four hundred thousand gold is not a small amount, so Gu Rubing sent a special message to Zhuge Liang, asking Zang Ba to bring hundreds of Taishan tiger bandits and some soldiers to transport the gold.

When Zang Ba arrived, he immediately started transporting the gold.

Sun Jian and Sun Quan stood on the city wall and watched Zang Ba's troops slowly leave.

"Are you all ready?"

"Don't worry, father. Everything is ready."

Zang Ba was on the road, and he had done a lot of escorting of grain and fodder, so he was not too vigilant as for escorting gold this time.

Halfway through the journey, an arrow suddenly shot out.

A Taishan tiger thief was shot dead on the spot.

Zang Ba immediately asked ordinary soldiers to protect the carriage, while he and the Taishan Tiger Bandits looked around vigilantly.

Then a whistle sounded.

Suddenly, countless people rushed out from all around.

The clothes on these people were tattered, and they had all kinds of weapons in their hands, including swords, spears, and all kinds of other things.

Seeing the appearance of these people, Zang Ba guessed that they should be nearby bandits.

Zang Ba immediately ordered the Taishan Tiger Bandits to kill these bandits.

However, at the moment of fighting, Zang Ba suddenly found something wrong.

These bandits looked very chaotic, but the moment they fought, their fighting power increased sharply, and they cooperated with each other very tacitly. Even the ability of a single soldier was higher than that of the Taishan Tiger Bandits.

As these people continued to rush out, Zang Ba discovered that there were actually thousands of bandits, and each of them had the strength of a second-rate general.

Upon seeing these, Zang Ba immediately understood that these people were definitely not bandits, but regular soldiers. He just didn't know who they were under. And the fact that they had such strength meant that they were the elite of a certain faction, or even a special force.

In just half an hour, all the ordinary soldiers were killed by this group of bandits, and only less than two hundred Taishan tiger bandits were still barely holding on.

"retreat."

Zang Ba knew that he was definitely no match for the opponent, and he couldn't just throw everyone here for the sake of 400,000 gold.

In the end, Zang Ba chose to leave the gold behind, and he returned to Kuaiji County with the remaining two hundred Taishan tiger bandits.

The robbers had no intention of pursuing them. After watching Zang Ba and his men leave, they slowly left with their carriage.

Gu Rubing saw that Zang Ba and his men had returned in less than a day, and their bodies were covered in blood, which showed that they had been through a fight.

"Xuan Gao, what's wrong with you?"

"My lord, we were robbed by a group of elite soldiers dressed as bandits not far from the city. We failed to keep the gold, and only 200 people from the entire escort team survived."

"Whose man is that?"

"I'm not sure, but this is near Kuaiji County. I feel like this matter is closely related to Sun Jian."

When Gu Rubing heard the news, he also had this guess, but they had been in the city the whole time. If Sun Jian had mobilized any people, it would be impossible for him not to know about it, right?
Thinking of this, Gu Rubing decided to test Sun Jian. Soon, Gu Rubing brought five people and came directly to Sun Jian.

Sun Jian was not at all surprised that Gu Rubing came, but he still pretended to be very curious.

"King Lie, why are you here? Didn't I just send you 400,000 gold? Didn't I tell you that what you want is a bit too much? I need to plan it carefully. I will give it to you in the next few days. You can't rush me so much, right?"

Looking at Sun Jian's expression, Gu Rubing sneered.

If Sun Jian came up and said that he was robbed, perhaps he would not suspect him, but seeing Sun Jian's current state, he was very sure that it was Sun Jian who did it.

Kuaiji County was completely under the control of Sun Jian. Even though Sun Jian sent relatively few people, he should have complete control over the area around the county town. His own team was robbed outside the city. How could he not know about such a big thing?

"King Wu, this is a really good trick. Why didn't I think of it before? First you generously gave me the money, and then secretly found someone to steal the money. In this way, it appears that I took the money, but in fact it all returned to your treasury."

Sun Jian burst out laughing when he heard this.

"King Lie, what do you mean? From what you said, it seems that your money was stolen? So do you suspect that I did it, or do you want to confirm that it was me who did it?"

"What's the difference?"

"The difference is, if you suspect I did it, then I won't have to give you the gold you lost. But if King Lie wants to believe that I did it, then that means I still have to give you the 400,000 gold. But that's too unfair to me."

"King Wu, you have really done yourself a disgrace. But it doesn't matter. I don't want the 400,000 gold anymore. But the money you gave me these times adds up to more than 600,000. If you give me another 500,000 gold, it will be enough for this month. Remember, I want you to pay it all in one lump sum."

Hearing this, Sun Jian looked at Gu Rubing. He was a little confused as to what Gu Rubing was trying to do.

Five hundred thousand gold had to be taken out at one time, which made Sun Jian somewhat unhappy.

Looking at Gu Rubing's leaving back, Sun Jian reacted immediately and hurriedly chased after him.

"Is King Lie preparing to leave?"

"Yeah, I think Kuaiji County doesn't welcome me at all, so why am I staying here for so long?"

"In that case, why don't I treat King Lie to a meal in three days and send you off."

"Since King Wu is so enthusiastic, I will naturally give him this face."

The morning after three days.

Gu Rubing looked at the 500,000 gold that appeared in front of him and immediately knew what Sun Jian was thinking. It was obvious that Sun Jian still planned to make this last deal.

However, it was impossible for Gu Rubing to satisfy Sun Jian, and by doing so, Sun Jian fell into his trap.

Gu Rubing arranged for Zang Ba to start sending the gold to Zhuge Liang, and at the same time nodded to Zhao Yun beside him.

Zang Ba, along with two hundred Taishan tiger bandits and some ordinary soldiers, slowly left the city.

On the city wall, Sun Jian looked at Sun Quan.

"Have you found out? Is Liu Bei still in the room?"

"Yes, father. Liu Bei should be waiting for your dinner tonight. The 500,000 gold will definitely be recovered. In addition, Shi Xie's reply has also arrived. He has begun to increase troops to the border. The war will start in a few days. By then, Liu Bei will have no time to care about us."

"it is good!"

Zang Ba walked slowly outside the city, without even a hint of vigilance.

The deputy general looked at Zang Ba with some worry.

Gu Rubing did not blame them for the last time the gold was lost, but that doesn't mean he won't blame them this time. Zang Ba looked like he didn't care at all about the escort this time.

"General, isn't it a little too quiet around here? Should we slow down and be more alert?"

"Don't worry, just keep moving forward."

Looking at Zang Ba's appearance, the deputy general sighed and could only be more careful in secret.

Not long after, an arrow suddenly shot out.

Then several hundred second-rate military general-level bandits suddenly rushed out.

These people had a clear target, which was the ordinary soldiers who were responsible for escorting, while the Taishan tiger bandits were blocked on the periphery by them.

The deputy general commanded the Taishan tiger bandits and wanted to provide support, but the defense line formed by those bandits was very solid, and no matter how he commanded, he could not break through it.

The deputy general had no choice but to look at Zang Ba again.

However, what the deputy general did not expect was that even with a powerful enemy at the doorstep, Zang Ba still looked indifferent and was even too lazy to give orders.

"General, the enemy is already here, can you quickly organize everyone to fight?"

The deputy general looked at Zang Ba and even suspected that Zang Ba was in league with those bandits.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Don't worry, someone will take action."

"What do you mean? General..."

However, before the deputy general could finish his words, he saw a man dressed as a soldier, holding a silver spear, stabbing at the bandits.

Wherever the silver spear passed, those second-rate military general-level bandits were killed or wounded.

A few gunshots flashed by, and the bandits were defeated and killed, leaving only three alive.

"This……"

The speed was so fast that the deputy general had no time to react and stared at the scene with wide eyes.

Killing hundreds of people with just a few shots, is this something a human can do?
Silver gun?

The deputy general suddenly thought of something.

In Gu Rubing's camp, there is only one person who possesses such strength and whose weapon is a silver spear, Zhao Yun, Zhao Zilong.

"General, is it General Zhao?"

"You're not that stupid. Do you really think that after we suffered a loss once, the Lord will still let us go with such a small number of people?"

Zang Ba patted the deputy general on the shoulder and then walked to Zhao Yun's side.

"Zilong, are these the only three alive?"

"Yeah, but that should be enough."

Zhao Yun nodded and then walked up to the first person.

"Who are you?"

"Bandits."

Zhao Yun swung his sword and killed the man, then moved on to the next person.

"Who are you?"

The man looked at Zhao Yun and immediately shouted, "We are bandits."

Zhao Yun swung his sword and was about to chop at the man.

Zang Ba immediately grabbed Zhao Yun's arm.

"Zilong, this is not how you interrogate someone. There are only three people, and you almost killed two of them in a blink of an eye. This won't work. Let's ask the captain of the roving crossbow army to come over. They should be the most proficient in interrogation." (End of this chapter)