"Well..." Zhu Su touched his bare chin and fell into deep thought.
If it is as Luo Guanzhong expected, then the Taihu water bandits will become even more extraordinary.
According to the first guess, it means that the Suzhou officialdom, at least in the Suzhou Guards Station, has hidden informants for these Taihu water bandits. Only then can they avoid its sharp edges and preserve their strength.
It is a disaster for the enemy to detect the movement of the army so easily. Not to mention the officials of the Suzhou Prefecture or the generals of the guard station, it is very likely that they have been mixed in with the spies of the gangsters.
According to the second guess, there is an extremely difficult reactionary force entrenched in Suzhou, where the people's hearts are already unstable.
Regardless of the possibility, it is extremely terrible bad news for Suzhou, a major tax town in the Ming Dynasty.
The rain has not yet come, but the wind is already filling the building!
"Come here! Go and call Duke Chang and Monk Yao here. Just tell them that I have important matters to discuss with them!" Zhu Su, realizing that something might be wrong, immediately ordered. The matter was important and he needed to discuss it carefully with others.
After a while, Chang Mao, wearing only a robe, appeared outside the door. Before anyone entered the room, a voice was already heard in the room: "I was thinking of taking a bath and taking a rest. If His Highness calls us for something urgent, could it be that he wants us to go directly to the Suzhou Guards Camp and take out the commander of the bird?" A bird's head on your neck?"
"Brother Chang is really impressive!" Zhu Su praised first. "But it's not the right time yet. We have something important to discuss, Big Brother Chang Mao." After saying that, he nodded to Yao Guangxiao, who was behind Chang Mao.
After explaining Luo Guanzhong's surrender to the two people, Zhu Su told the two possibilities.
"What? The dignified commander of the first guard was actually infiltrated as a spy?" Chang Mao was furious. "Your Highness, Fifth Prince, it is better for us to take the head of the bird commander first and take over the military power of the Suzhou Guard..."
"Brother Chang, you can't do this." Zhu Su quickly stopped Chang Mao who was about to open the door. "You and I are here to represent the attitude of my eldest brother and even the imperial court. Nowadays, the people in the DPRK are already panic-stricken. If you and I kill local generals without any reason, wouldn't it cause even more panic in various places?"
"This... twists and turns make me so irritated! It's so suffocating!" Chang Mao stamped his feet, turned around and sat back in his chair, sulking.
"Your Highness, I'm afraid there is more to this matter." Yao Guangxiao, who had always maintained a thoughtful expression, opened his mouth leisurely at this time.
"No matter what the possibility is, the background of this group of water bandits is too strong." The black-clothed monk's eyes flashed. "This group of Taihu water bandits cannot be just ordinary desperate bandits."
"It must have a great background!"
"What's the background of a group of thieves..." Chang Mao said. Zhu Su over there suddenly thought of something and his eyes widened.
Luo Guanzhong even said "Ah" with a look of surprise on his face.
"Monk, what do you mean?"
"This group of people is probably the remnants of Zhang Shicheng?"
"Your Highness, this must be the case!" Yao Guangxiao said firmly as he twisted his rosary beads in his hand. "I heard that when Zhang Shicheng was stationed in Suzhou, he had nothing to do with the people. He has been running Suzhou for a long time and has done many things to benefit the people."
"To be able to be so elusive, you must have been in business for ten years! And in Suzhou Guards, there are many former soldiers under Zhang Shicheng who surrendered in the past. If anyone can detect the secrets of the army, it must be a remnant of Zhang Shicheng. !”
"Furthermore, does Your Highness still remember the rumor that Magistrate Wei said?"
"Is this the rumor that the water bandits are the wronged souls of Zhang Shicheng's army and are coming to seek revenge on our Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Su suddenly realized. "This rumor must have been deliberately spread by these water bandits!"
Just like the so-called "Chen Sheng King of the Great Chu" and "The One-Armed Stone Man with One Eye, Provoking the Yellow River to Rebellion", before any rebellion, there is always a way to come up with some "prophecies" to win over the people.
This rumor is undoubtedly a "prophecy" spread by the remnants of Zhang Shicheng!
"So, this group of water bandits are the remnants of Zhang Shicheng's men. Are these remnants planning to seize Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty?" Chang Mao was surprised and happy, gearing up. "This group of people really dare to attack the city without knowing the heights and heights of the sky?"
"It's still unknown." Yao Guangxiao shook his head. "But they have a plan, and it must be a done deal."
"The remnants of Zhang Shicheng..." Zhu Su tapped the folding fan in his hand. As vengeful as he is, he has not forgotten the experience of being tied to a horse and kidnapped in a very humiliating way, and howling in bed for more than half a month in extreme pain.
That group of people called Lao Zhu the "fake emperor." Lao Zhu has uprighted the country. Who can call him a "false emperor"?
It must be these remnants.
Either the remnant of Chen Youliang, the remnant of Zhang Shicheng, or the remnant of Fang Guozhen...
Anyway, in Zhu Su's opinion, they are all the same!
"This is really a coincidence. His mother opened the door to a coincidence..." Zhu Su's eyes flashed with coldness.
"What do you mean, Your Highness?" Yao Guangxiao was startled.
"What a coincidence!" Zhu Su slapped his folding fan in his palm.
"Uh..." Yao Guangxiao's mouth twitched. Although he was confused about what Zhu Su was referring to, he still did not answer Zhu Su's embarrassing joke. Luo Guanzhong over there had already spoken: "But when King Cheng was defeated in the past, most of his capable men had either surrendered or died. And now our Ming Dynasty is flourishing."
"Who would be so dizzy that they would try to hit a stone with an egg..."
"Why not?" Zhu Su sneered. "On normal days, these thieves would have no chance."
"But now, I have secretly mobilized southern soldiers to conquer Yunnan, but the northern expedition has also returned without success."
"The DPRK is unstable again..."
"Nowadays, there are still people in Suzhou who miss Zhang Shicheng, but if time goes by, the people will gradually forget their old kindness..."
"If these people want to achieve great things, these days are their only chance!"
"It's enough to lure them into taking risks!"
Zhu Su sneered. All of the above, except for the defeat of the Northern Expedition, were all "unexpected situations" that occurred because I showed off my identity as a time traveler to Lao Zhu.
This also explains why Suzhou experienced turmoil that had never happened before in history.
In history, Lao Zhu progressed step by step. This group of insects hiding in the dark could not find an opportunity to take advantage of, so they could only be beaten to death in a corner by the vast wave of time. But now Lao Zhu intends to make progress and is eager to speed up the pace of cleaning up the country.
This gives this group of people an opportunity to take advantage of!
In the past, they were pretending to be evil in order to provoke Zhu Tiezhu, which is enough to show that these people have never given up their evil intentions!
"It seems that there is no way to avoid being lazy during this trip to Suzhou."
Zhu Su complained in his mouth, but his expression was gearing up and eager to try.
I have always regretted not being able to avenge my previous kidnapping, but now it’s just the right time! Old and new grudges are settled together.
He has never forgotten the appearance of the pair of bastards who kidnapped him and dragged him imagelessly behind a horse!
"It's just that the enemy is in darkness and we are in the clear. How to deal with these bird thieves?" Chang Mao asked aloud.
"To deal with thieves hiding in the dark, the only way to deal with them is to alert the snake and lure the snake out of its hole..." Yao Guangxiao replied enthusiastically.
"First of all, I have to wait..."
(End of chapter)
