Ru Tai Su? It turned out to be Ru Taisu? How could Ma Fengsun not know this person? After all, this person had just moved to Suzhou, and he unreasonably closed the shops of many merchants in Suzhou. When the disaster was at its worst and people's sentiments were fluctuating, he arbitrarily forced them to "donate" money. A lot of food.
But, why did this old guy show up here?
Wasn't he under house arrest by Zhu Su's children?
House arrest... house arrest?
Ma Fengsun suddenly realized.
Regarding the grievances between Zhu Su and this old guy, people in Suzhou Mansion have been talking about it for a while. It is said that when the old man was in the capital, he offended King Zhu Su of Wu. Therefore, the first thing the young and energetic King Wu did after arriving in Suzhou was to find an excuse to put this old man under house arrest. At that time, there were still many people who wanted to complain about this.
But later, the King of Wu tricked some merchants and scraped out a huge amount of grain to appease the people and victims. He did a better job than Ru Taisu and gave the people a reassurance, so no one mentioned it again. Mouth.
Ru Taisu, who once made great contributions to fighting disasters but is now under house arrest, is gradually forgotten by everyone. No one cares anymore.
I thought that no one in Suzhou Mansion could support the situation. Who would have thought that this river patrol censor, who had long been forgotten by everyone, would suddenly appear at this critical moment?
"The despicable kid Zhu Su actually secretly released himself from house arrest, and even persuaded this old man to collude with him!" Ma Fengsun was filled with hatred!
What he expected was good, Zhu Su did inform Ru Taisu of his plan. After all, although this old man had a bad temper and a tough temper, he still knew the overall situation.
But despite this, Zhu Su just wanted him to be in charge of the government office, just in case. If the people in the city are panicked when they see the fighting, having an official like Ru Taisu who is popular among the people can prevent the chaos from spreading. But Zhu Su didn't expect that the remnants of the Zhang family could actually pull out hundreds of dead soldiers, and even secretly hid heavy armor. Di Meng, who was leading nearly a thousand soldiers, was unsure and tried to ask for help from the Suzhou Guards. .
However, Di Meng spoke softly. Although he still had the status of a Jin Yiwei, he was just a mere school captain. Moreover, the reputation of the Jinyi Guards has not spread to Suzhou, and those Suzhou Guards soldiers who stayed in the guard camp may not listen. Therefore, Di Meng remembered Ru Taisu who was in charge of the government office, and invited the giant Buddha out. .
Yang Lu, the commander of the Suzhou Guard, is still in the west of the city. Without Yang Lu's order, Di Meng and others may not be able to mobilize the troops privately if they want to.
But it was different when it came to Ru Taisu. Ru Taisu carried the official title of River Patrol Censor, and when it came to matters related to floods and bandits, his authority was even greater than that of Wei Guan, the prince of the palace. Or the demoted official in the capital, the old firecracker who even dares to confront the prince, the one of the hundreds of thousands of families left behind in the guardhouse who dares to stroke his beard?
Even if they had the intention to prevaricate, they had no choice but to use Ru Taisu's special skill as a censor in the past: he sprayed hundreds of thousands of households in the guardhouse, telling them that if they missed something important, they would be involved. They are all guilty of missing a military plane.
Several thousand families wiped the saliva on their faces and discussed for a while, but none of them dared to take this responsibility. It would be okay to send more people to the preparation warehouse and stand still. It would be better than being completely killed. The military plane was guilty of a good crime, and finally assigned more than a thousand soldiers to Ru Taisu and asked them to follow Ru Taisu to guard the reserve warehouse.
The soldiers were full of complaints, how could they be willing to accept such a hard job on New Year's Eve? It was only because of the high official Ru Taisu that he reluctantly obeyed the order. Later, when he saw a fire in Pishi Street, he was shocked to realize that there were really thieves causing trouble in the city.
When the warehouse door was knocked open, a group of wet and embarrassed rabble rushed in carelessly. Most of them fell down in a hail of arrows. These people were even more delighted: Is this the legendary Taihu water bandit? This is the military merit that comes to your door!
"Fire arrows! Shoot them to death!" Ru Taisu shouted with a loud voice. The archers of the Suzhou Guard behind them were inexplicably excited, and another shower of arrows was fired towards the chaotic remnants of the Zhang family.
"The big thing is over!" Ma Fengsun was already desperate.
"God won't protect me! King Cheng, you have a spirit in heaven, why don't you protect us! Why don't you protect us!"
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"Huh? Over there...could it be the direction of the government office?"
"How come there was such a big fire..."
To the west of the city, in the building, someone among the people who were singing and dancing noticed something unusual outside the window and asked loudly.
When Zhu Su heard that there was a fire in the government office, his heart skipped a beat. Could it be that Di Meng failed?
"...Dog, go and have a look."
If the reserve warehouse is burned down, the victims in the west of the city will definitely be upset. I have spent the past few days trying to calm down the situation, but I will be in vain.
"Your Highness, could it be that..."
No one was listening to the musician's music anymore, and many people came to the east window and looked at the raging fire in the distance. The originally joyful atmosphere in the building changed, and people were suddenly panicked. Wei Guan, the prefect who knew Zhu Su's plan, came over and whispered: "...could it be that the plan failed and General Di failed to stop the thief?"
"If this is the case, why not let the banquet end early and let me return to maintain the situation!"
"No hurry, let's take a look first." Zhu Su said. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be. In the original history, there was no such rebellion by the remnants of Zhang and Chen. They were either suppressed silently or destroyed themselves. In other words, this group of people should not have much background in their hands. yes. Even though the opponent's strength is somewhat different due to his own butterfly effect, it has only been a short period of time since he began to interfere in history. In this short time, it is impossible to develop an army of millions.
With more than a thousand soldiers and dozens of his own royal guards, they would not lose to a group of thieves hiding in the dark.
The dog has a telescope in his hand, which can be used to see the distant situation clearly. After a while, he came over and reported to Zhu Su: "Your Highness, it's a happy event. There is no fire in the preparation warehouse."
"Pishi Street is on fire. And the fire has gradually extinguished. Someone should be putting out the fire."
"Pishi Street..." Zhu Su frowned at first, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that something went wrong, which led to Di Meng and his party not ambush the bandits at the originally agreed place, but fought with the thieves on Pishi Street.
But it shouldn't be a big deal, after all, there was no fire in the reserve warehouse, and it was probably Di Meng and his party who won in the end: if that group of thieves had won, they wouldn't have bothered to put out the fire. They wanted the city to be as chaotic as possible. Only when Di Meng wins will the sergeant be involved in putting out the fire in order to prevent the situation from escalating again.
After telling Wei Guan his analysis, who was still worried, Wei Guan also breathed a sigh of relief. "So, by now the remnants of thieves entrenched in Suzhou Mansion should have been wiped out."
"As the prefect of Suzhou, I should thank His Highness. I would like to thank His Highness for your hard work and efforts to completely eliminate this hidden danger for our Suzhou..."
"It doesn't matter. But the matter is not clear yet, so we still can't take it lightly..." Zhu Su said. "Seeing the fire in the city, I'm afraid people's hearts will be agitated. We'd better find a way to appease people's hearts first, and then join up with Di Meng and others."
He was a little concerned about what unexpected situation happened with Di Meng.
Wei Dian nodded, but his tense nerves were relieved. As long as the bandit troubles are eliminated, the city is now gradually stabilized. Even if the floods come again, there will be no big problems. As the prefect of Suzhou, I want to be able to relax more and speed up my next term...
Wei Guan, who was relieved, did not expect that in the river behind the building he was sitting on, there were dozens of ghost-like figures poking their heads out of the cold river.
(End of chapter)
