After hearing the words of the governor who was still a child, Commander Xu, who had received a letter from Lieutenant Gao in advance, breathed a sigh of relief.
I am living on free wages, but at least I am not so immoral as to eat half of it.
Not to mention that you can still scrape together seven or eight hundred on your own. Although I can't say that they have been trained for a long time, they are definitely much better than some peasant soldiers.
After all, this was the Song Dynasty, and it was common practice to promote culture and suppress military power. The status of military generals was similar to that of Hui Sunzhi.
So even if you want to eat or get cards, you have to be cautious like a thief, for fear of being caught by those civil servants.
When Commander Xu patted his chest with great confidence, he said that he could easily pull out the elite No. 788.
After Gao Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, he asked Commander Xu to go back and gather his troops, as long as he could raise seven hundred.
Before noon the day after tomorrow, we rushed to the dock of Wangting Town at the junction of Changzhou and Suzhou to meet us.
"Please rest assured, the governor, that I will definitely do it. If the governor does not give me any further instructions, I will leave now..."
By the time Commander Xu, whose back was almost soaked with sweat, had just left the cabin, he was stopped by a guard.
The guard twitched his lips with a smile on his face at Commander Xu, then took out a badge and thrust it right under Commander Xu's nose.
With just one glance, Commander Xu's face turned gray. Fortunately, the guard came to his ear and whispered for a while.
With lingering fear on his face, Commander Xu nodded his head like a kowtowing insect before he walked tremblingly onto the pier. However, on the way back, there were two more people beside him, none other than the notorious Imperial City Detective Sigan.
The reason why they follow him closely is naturally to supervise and prevent Commander Xu from messing around and getting a bunch of wild sword players to get through.
The so-called wild people include but are not limited to farmers who cultivate the land, idle men in the city, refugees in the countryside, and some bandits who gather in the mountains and forests.
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Yang Douzhi came to Gao Zhang's side and watched Gao Zhang place the chess pieces on the map in front of him.
There are seven chess pieces on the boundary of Changzhou, and five chess pieces are placed in Huzhou below Changzhou.
But now there are twenty chess pieces placed in Suzhou City. Even Kunshan and Changshu have two chess pieces each, and there are five chess pieces in Mudu Town on the border of Suzhou.
The Taihu Stone was fished out of Taihu Lake, and how could the Zhu family and his son not have some water strength in their hands?
After seeing this scene, not to mention Gao Zhang, even Yang Douzhi, who had thought Gao Zhang was making a fuss out of a molehill before, couldn't help but feel a little toothache at the moment.
It would be fine if the Zhu family and his son did not rebel. If the father and son really wanted to rebel, they could really catch the court off guard.
You know, the whole of Suzhou is already their Zhu family's voice, and it has even radiated to nearby states and counties.
"The commanders of Changzhou and Huzhou can gather 1,200 people, plus the 1,000 sword players from Hangzhou. I'm afraid it will be insufficient to suppress the rebellion."
"Dong Zhuangyuan, how about this Xiuzhou and the ones in the south..."
"No, Xiuzhou is sandwiched between Suzhou and Hangzhou. Suzhou is so rotten, and the Zhu family and his son have already reached out to Hangzhou. Do you think Xiuzhou can be any better?"
"I'm even worried that the commander of Xiuzhou will wear the same pants as the Zhu family father and son."
Yang Douzhi kept talking for a long time before persuading him.
"...You have already made a lot of arrangements, Lord Zhuangyuan. We don't think it will reach that point."
"But what if?" Gao Zhang turned his head and asked Yang Douzhi.
"As the saying goes, don't worry about victory, think about defeat first. We can only take into account all possibilities as much as possible and be able to formulate corresponding countermeasures."
"Only in this way can we at least remain invincible. After all, I don't want to disappoint the officials on my first business trip."
Yes, since I have the opportunity to come to Jiangnan, I will naturally try to get rid of the Zhu family and his son who caused turmoil in Jiangnan, the most important place of wealth in the Song Dynasty.
That would be equivalent to cutting off the power that Quan Huan Tong Guan and the treacherous prime minister Cai Jing had here.
Even going one step further, I will try to find ways to settle here so that I can have more help besides Bianliang, Tokyo.
It's better than being unable to do anything without the support of Master Hunjun.
Then again, I don't know if Cai and Tong, the two sleeping dragons and phoenixes, have successfully completed their mission.
However, considering the task I gave them, even a fool can complete it easily and satisfactorily.
So thinking about it, I don't think there will be a problem, but the biggest question is whether the Zhu family and his son will really leave their base camp and base in Suzhou because of this.
When they came to places other than Suzhou, whether they were here to explain or apologize.
As long as he leaves Suzhou, he will have all the means to defeat both father and son.
Yang Douzhi looked at the champion scholar in front of him who was concerned about the country and the people. After rolling his eyes for a long time, he came closer.
"Master Zhuangyuan, do you want our family to send news to Tokyo?"
Gao Zhang thought for a while and said seriously to Yang Duzhi.
"This is your duty, but I think it's best for you to wait a moment.
Let's wait until Cai and Tong come back. After all, they are the deputy governor who personally took risks and went to Suzhou City to find out what happened. "
"The Number One Scholar is wise, our family understands."
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Fang La looked at Wangting Town not far away and couldn't help but look at shopkeeper Zhang.
"You said it was Suzhou before, then you said it was Wangting Town, and now you told Fang that your boss is in Wuxi..."
"Shopkeeper Zhang, please tell me the truth. Where are you waiting for Fang at your house? Or, why did you deceive Fang here?"
Behind Fang La, Fang Baihua had quietly placed her hand on the handle of the knife at her waist, looking warily at the shopkeeper Zhang's men who formed a faint encirclement around them.
The two brothers and sisters never expected that the generous shopkeeper Zhang would accompany them all the way, and they only told them when they were less than ten miles away from Suzhou City.
His boss should still be in Wangting Town, north of Suzhou. When he arrived at Wangting Town, shopkeeper Zhang said it should be in Wuxi.
This horse riding is simply treating people like monkeys, so Fang La naturally doesn't want to do it again.
But the problem is that shopkeeper Zhang is still smiling and doesn't care about the anger of the Fang brothers and sisters.
"To tell you the truth, Lord Fang, the reason why I said I was in Suzhou is mainly because I am worried that Lord Fang, you think Zhang is deceiving you and are not willing to follow Zhang."
"But now that we are not far from where my boss is, there is no need for Zhang to continue hiding it from Master Fang.
As for my boss's search for the owner of Fangyuan. To be honest, I don’t know for sure, so I would like to ask Master Fang to ask my owner in person. "
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(End of chapter)
