He had a headache when practicing state affairs. If this was not the nest of thieves, but in the court, or in the legal place of the court, he would have been angrily denounced these rude and tyrannical men. With his dignified imperial officials and patrol envoys, how could these civilians be so presumptuous in front of him?

But at this time he had to suppress his anger. Although he could do his best to curse the thief for a while, he would break the emperor's plan to urge him, so he had to lower his face and continue to watch coldly. (.com)

After the two brothers Lion and Dog protested, Ma Xiaotian immediately started to curse with the two brothers: "Why don't you let me go to Leiya Township? You occupy the fertile land, are I going to wait to eat the wasteland in the broken place in Xigu Village?"

"No, it's up to us two brothers to dislike you!"

"Damn it, don't think that I have to give you face to both of you when I am in the same village. I've long been disgusted with you."

"If you don't accept it, come and fight!"

"Just fight!"

The three of them picked up their fists and stepped on them. The leader next to them rushed over and pulled the three of them away. Then they tried to fight and fight, and the gangsters were in chaos and unconventional.

Jian State Affairs said to Zhu Yuanzhang next to him: "Zhu Ba, what's going on with your copycat? As the leader, don't you know how to manage it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled bitterly and said, "The people's hearts are dispersed, and the team is not easy to lead! The brothers in our village come from various villages and towns, and they are not in harmony with each other. They often make trouble for some trivial matters about sesame and mung beans. Now when they encounter big troubles, they will definitely make a big fuss. My leader can't control them."

"Then what should you do about this?" Lian State Affairs said dissatisfiedly: "Do you still want to accept the court's pleading?"

"Of course!" Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be serious and said, "We are waiting for the court's pleading day and night. It is because everyone is full of expectations for this matter that they want to make the arrangements more perfect... Otherwise... Lord Censor, I think this is the case. Let the leaders discuss it themselves today. You can go to the guest room in Houshan to rest first. When they discuss it tomorrow, I will report to you."

"Well, I have to do this, alas!" Lian State Affairs shook his head.

Zhu Yuanzhang winked, and Li Chujiu next to him quickly came over and took Lian State Affairs to the back mountain. The "room" had been prepared there, but it was actually a clean cave, specially prepared to deal with the imperial envoys.

As soon as the people were taken out, the leaders in the house immediately laughed, but although they were smiling on their faces, they were still yelling at each other. Because they had not yet gone far in their state affairs, they could not hear laughter coming from the house. That would have been all broken. So the leaders were holding their smiles on their faces, but they were talking all kinds of rough and bold words to scold them. The scene was really weird.

Lian State Affairs took Yang Hong and a group of soldiers to the back mountain with Li Chujiu. He moved into the pre-prepared cave. As soon as he entered the cave, Yang Hong ordered the soldiers: "You go out and guard the entrance of the cave, don't let someone come in. I have something to say with the Censor."

After the soldiers went out to guard the entrance of the cave, Yang Hong lowered his voice and said, "Sir, what do you think of these thieves?"

Lian State Affairs snorted: "A group of short-sighted people, fighting for small things, and making small profits, is really inappropriate. If I hadn't been the emperor's destiny, I had nothing to say with such a rough man, and I had already left with my sleeves."

Yang Hong shook his head: "I don't think so! These people are just acting."

"Oh?" After hearing this, Lian Guoshi carefully recalled what he saw and heard in the conference hall, and shook his head and said, "It may not be possible? According to what I saw and heard from all directions, there are many dirty fights among rural villagers. They may also fight for a chicken and an egg. There is no cooperation between the east and west villages, and fighting is also the norm. Why do you think they are acting on purpose?"

The saying of practicing national affairs is not empty talk, it is indeed a common folk manner. You should know that Huanglong Mountain Village is a big village with thousands of people. Not to mention that such big villages may have disagreements. Even in ordinary small villages with only dozens of households, there are often examples of villagers fighting for small things.

Not to mention ancient times, even in later generations whose quality is dozens or hundreds of times higher, there are examples of neighbors fighting for a small matter. Your dog bites my chicken, your balcony drips on my balcony, and your house throws a napkin from the window and floats into my window. It may be a reason for a quarrel.

I really don’t think that the leaders in the council hall quarreled for acting, but I just think they were vulgar: “Besides, acting must have a purpose, what’s the point of acting?”

Yang Hong raised his head and looked at the top of the Tiandong for a while, then said in a deep voice: "I feel that they are deliberately delaying the time and trying to accept the pleading as late as possible..."

"What are the benefits for them to do this?" Lian Guoshi said inexplicably.

"I don't know!" Yang Hong was limited to his own position and had certain limitations. He was not like Zhu Yuanzhang. He could only last for three months after seeing through the court's 100,000 yuan of scourge silver, because court officials like him could not understand the mood of ordinary people to rebel in order to survive. Therefore, he could not have thought that the people would rebel again after taking the scourge silver, and because of this, he could not have thought of the reason why the bandits had to delay time.

"Don't know?" Lian Guoshi was a little dissatisfied and snorted coldly, "You don't know why they were delaying time. Just saying that they were delaying time is too arbitrary, right?"

"This is not arbitrary, but...this is really what Mo Jiang feels." After all, Yang Hong is a military officer, and his speech is really not smart. It is not easy to say what he thinks clearly. After thinking for a long time, he still doesn't know what to say.

"Hmph!" The one who looks down on the most in the practice of state affairs was a military officer like Yang Hong, so he snorted coldly: "If you don't have any ink in your stomach, don't pretend to have a world in your sleeves. I can't tell you why, because a warrior like you is not suitable for brains. When it comes to recruiting a scribbled village, I don't need your opinion, I just need to protect my safety."

"Sir, you must believe in the generals. Zhu Ba is not sincere in accepting slaughter. The leaders in the village act under his guidance. They must have wanted to delay time... They don't want to be really involved. The generals are 70% sure!" Yang Hong said anxiously.

"Don't talk!" Lian Guoshi turned his head and climbed onto a bed prepared for him in advance. He saw that the bed was made of thatch, soft and clean, and seemed quite sincere. Lian Guoshi pointed to the bed and said, "Look at this bed, although it is simple, it shows that Zhu Bayi's gang is very sincere in greeting us. If he had no intention of being slaughtered, how could he treat us so politely?"

"This... this is a false preface!" Yang Hong said anxiously: "Mr. Censor, you must listen to the last general this time. We should go down the mountain and return to the city overnight and ask General Du to bring troops to suppress the enemy as soon as possible. This is the best strategy. If time is delayed, it is exactly the intention of the bandits to delay time. They may be playing with some demon moths."

I really wanted to sneer at Yang Hong when I practiced state affairs, but seeing that he was solemn and urgent, there was no falsehood in his eyes, and he couldn't help but be moved. A confused light appeared in his eyes. Why did Yang Hong insist on saying that Zhu Ba was not sincere? Did he really see something I couldn't see? Are the thieves really using some tricks?

Just as Lian State Affairs came to this point, a soldier who was watching outside the cave suddenly ran in and reported: "Master Lian, General Yang, a woman asked for a meeting and said she was General Yang's old friend."

"What?" Yang Hong almost doubted something wrong with his ears. Where did the old friend come from in this thief's nest? And it's a woman?

He quickly came out of the cave, and heard strangely when he practiced state affairs, and followed Yang Hong out.

I saw a weak figure standing in front of the cave. It was a young woman. Although she was wearing a simple linse cloth, her white face, her shady skin, and her pitiful temperament made people know at a glance that she was born as a rich lady.

This woman is Zhang Yingxian. She smiled at Yang Hong and said, "General Yang, do you still remember the little woman? The little woman bought you Zheng Yanfu's neck head for several thousand taels of silver!"

How could Yang Hong forget about this? The battle to destroy Zheng Yanfu is one of the few glorious deeds in his life. Of course, it is vivid in his mind. He twitched the corner of his mouth slightly and smiled: "Of course I remember, huh? Why are you in Huanglong Mountain Village?"

Zhang Yingxian held a sneer on the corner of her mouth: "General Yang is so noble that he forgot about it... Last time you brought a manager from the Ma Mansion, named Ma Qianjiu, to encircle and suppress Huanglong Mountain Village. Did you forget? At that time... it was the Ma family who paid money to ask you to take my head on my neck."

"Oh, this matter...is something happened!" Yang Hong answered without thinking. He was not afraid of admitting, because admitting such a thing would not cost him much.

Zhang Yingxian continued to sneer and said, "I don't know how much money you have collected from the Ma family when you entered the mountain this time. If the village where the little girl is located is being polite, you will not be able to get the money. You must hope that we will not accept the scruples and fight with the officers and soldiers."

Yang Hong shook his head and was about to say, "This time the money is confiscated..."

But before he could say his words, the face of Lian's state affairs standing beside him had changed drastically. A clean and energetic face was full of anger and said angrily: "Okay, Yang Hong! You strongly encouraged me to say that Zhu Ba was hiding evil intentions, acting delayed the time, and asked the court to lead troops to suppress the attack. It turned out that he had collected other people's money and wanted to take the head of this woman... For this little profit, you completely ignored the emperor's plan to pacify..."

Yang Hong was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized and shouted in his heart: No, I shouldn't have talked nonsense with this woman. This woman was obviously instigated by Zhu Ba and deliberately said these nonsense at this time. When she heard this, she must have thought of going wrong... Damn, I was hit by Zhu Ba's trick again!
Chapter completed!