The old servant of Sun Fu's family was forced by the head of the family and had to take the risk of going to Guan's house again to investigate.

The first time he came, he saw Yu Yan who was keeping warm from afar, and did not dare to approach the gate of the courtyard. This time he saw that there were twenty or thirty horses and many burly men in the courtyard. The strong man with red face and long beard who was easy to recognize was also lying next to the embers of the fire to rest.

Fortunately, Guan Yu and his party would not wear armor on their bodies even when they were on their way home, so the old servant did not see the iron armor. With his stereotype about Guan Changsheng, he subconsciously recognized the other party as a bandit.

The servants had no sense of confidentiality. Just after two seconds, they were caught by Zhao Yun, who had woken up early and had nothing to do: "Who are you? Why are you here to spy on me?"

"This... this hero, the old man is just a farmer in the village. I haven't seen anyone come back for a long time. I'm curious and took a look, but there was no malice." The old servant of the Sun family quickly sold the innocent.

Zhao Yun knew that this was Guan Yu's hometown, and it was difficult for the elderly from the villagers to do rash things, so he didn't care.

The old servant of the Sun family hurried back to report, but when Sun Fu heard this, he didn't dare to do it himself.

"There are more than twenty horses? This Guan Changsheng is a bandit, and he is afraid he has colluded with the thief army. Could it be that the Baibo thief has gradually become rampant in the past few months, so he wanted to act as an insider to fight back to his hometown to settle the grudges?"

When Sun Fu thought that a large number of white wave thieves might come from the north, snatched the rich families of these salt owls and attacked the local tyrants and divided the salt lake, he felt chilling in his heart.

A second ago, he was thinking about how to take revenge as soon as possible, but he began to think about how to protect himself first.

"Hurry! Prepare the horse, I'll go to the city to find my cousin!"

I will stay in the green mountains without worrying about burning firewood, and I cannot fight with the outlaws head-on, so I quickly called the county magistrate's cousin to bring the rescue.

Half an hour later, Sun Fu brought his cousin Sun Jing and all the yamen runners in Jieliang County. The township brave men returned and collected about 200 people. This was also the limit for the county magistrate to mobilize. Sun Jing heard that there were at least twenty or thirty horse bandits, and so many were sent out out of attention.

Guan Yu and his party came to sleep late in the middle of the night last night and had a deep sleep. So they had just gotten up until Sun Jing brought his men into the village and wanted to surround the Guan family's house.

"Listen to the white wave thief inside! The surrendered ones will not kill them! Hand over the evil ones!"

However, Sun Jing did not understand the situation, and did not dare to rush in directly, nor did he shoot arrows. He just asked dozens of archers to aim at the gate and several places where the courtyard wall collapsed.

Guan Yu and his party in the yard quickly took out their weapons and prepared for war.

Zhao Yun reacted the fastest. He had already used the food to prepare to go out for a walk. He immediately asked sternly: "Who are you! You dare to accuse someone of a thief. This is the commander of the Hedongguan Pass and returned home. I am Zhao Yun, the governor of the right-fang gate under the lieutenant. Put down the weapons and tell the whole story. You can forgive you for not being guilty. If you dare to act rashly, don't talk about you, huh..."

"Guandu... the commander?" Sun Jing was stunned for a moment, but subconsciously hoped that the thief army would be cheating, so he plucked up his courage to ask: "Since it is said that the new commander took office, why don't you go to the city to deliver the goods and come to this deserted village, can you tell me the defense letter?"

Zhao Yun did not want to cause casualties with the officials and soldiers. After all, even if someone had a grudge against Guan Yu, the soldiers were all serving the court and were innocent, so Zhao Yun cooperated to take out Guan Yu's seal and swayed in public.

"It turns out that Guan Yunchang was the name Guan Changsheng changed after he escaped! No wonder he had never heard of Guan Changsheng in these years." Sun Jing's eyes rolled around, and he looked at the dozens of horses inside wearing iron armors with cowhide belts, all with all bows, horses, swords and guns. He knew that he could not get it well with his more than 200-skinned leather armor, and even without armor. He quickly took advantage of the fact that he had not broken up and rolled off his saddle and gave in temporarily, not giving Guan Yu a chance to have an attack.

"I don't know if Shangguan is here, Sun Jing, the subordinate Jieliang County Magistrate, heard that foreign soldiers suddenly came to the village, and were afraid that they were scouts of Baibo's thief, so he came to investigate, misunderstanding, misunderstanding!"

Guan Yu then showed up: "Oh, who reported it to you?"

Sun Jing sweated on his forehead: "It's just that the villagers in the village, please don't be surprised, they are also careful."

About sneering: "Will I still take revenge on those people?"

Of course, Guan Yu also knew Sun Jing, because before he killed the Yan Xiao tyrant and the powerful, seven years ago, Sun Jing was already a county magistrate in the county. Guan Yu also vaguely heard that the Sun family and the Yan Xiao family had some relationship, but because he was still white at that time, he didn't know the inside story of the county's senior management, so it was hard to determine how much common interests Sun Jing and the local Yan Xiao had.

Seeing Sun Jing surrendering, he had no excuse to make a ruthless move, and he turned to the topic indirectly: "Yesterday in Anyi, Prefect Fan told me about the military situation of our county's resistance to the Baibo thieves. He said that Jie Liang, as one of the three major counties of our county's wealth, has become increasingly deserted in the past two years, and the salt profit is becoming increasingly rare. The military supplies and food coordinated by the county are also quite insufficient, so I came to investigate and deal with it!

Since County Magistrate Sun is here, I will give you three days to attract all the salt and salt owners in the county. I will lead the troops to check it out myself!"

Sun Jing suddenly complained: This... Hedong County has also changed several lieutenants, and he has never seen anyone dare to use force to uncover the private salt interests of Yuncheng Salt Lake.

Moreover, this not only involves Jieliang, but also several wealthy families in the county, Anyi and Yishi County in the south!

The salt production in Yuncheng Salt Lake is very high, and it needs to supply most of the salt in Shanxi and Shaanxi. The output of Anyi is mainly supplied to Bingzhou; while the salt of Yishi is sold to Henoi and Luoyang; because Jieliang is close to Puyang and the waterway can directly lead to Chang'an, the entire three auxiliary places around Chang'an eat Jieliang's salt.

Not to mention anything else, just Sun Jing's cousin who was killed back then had 30% of the supply channels for salt needed in Chang'an City. The world was in chaos, and the salt administration had long been slackened, and everyone sold it privately.

Even the prefect Fan Ling has been in office for more than a year, he has been obediently taking part in the interests chain, not to mention the previous commander.

.The so-called strict investigation, in the end, is to draw at most half of the total profits of all private salt vendors in the three counties, and then it blocks its mouth. The commander with a smaller appetite and a weaker strength may not be able to get three points.

Sun Jing quickly thought in his mind: "Does Guan Yunchang really want to turn over the table in business, or do he rely on his strong soldiers and horses to pay more money? If he just distributed more money, it would be better to pass it. The person was under the low eaves and had to bow his head.

If he wants to completely break it up... he will have to fight to the death with him! Even if he is not a Baibo thief, he would rather be a Baibo thief and present the salt lake to the thief army. It would be less than Guan Yun!"

As a powerful householder, the Sun family would not normally want to be a thief. Why do you want to be a thief if you have an official? He is also afraid of beating the local tyrants and sharing the salt lake.

But if you encounter an extreme situation like "the officials want more ruthless than the thief", then the thieves will have no choice.

At worst, we can talk to the thief about conditions, such as giving away Jieliang County or even giving away Hedong County to see if Guo Taiguo Daqu can agree to let Xiancheng's military officers continue to guard their original territory.

If Guo Qushuai could agree, Xiancheng would be Xiancheng.

The nearest Baibo Army occupied the area is near Linfen. From Linfen, exit the Fen River, enter the Yellow River and then flow downstream from Puyangjin to the Kuang River. After a few dozen miles of surfing, you can reach Jieliang. As long as Sun Jing wants to lead the way, Baibo Army will still come very quickly.

After making this plan, Sun Jing endured the humiliation and took Guan Yu to be polite, and then invited him to drink and greet him. He said all the good things. He took advantage of the drunkenness to test Guan Yu's bottom line and sent a local salt owl to come forward and proposed to share a large amount of profit to Guan Yu. The reason why Sun Jing didn't say it was because he was afraid that Guan Yu would catch his handle and took the opportunity to attack.

Guan Yu was indeed furious and immediately ordered Zhao Yun to tie up the salt owl who tried to pull him into the water. In a few days, in the name of trying to corrupt the commander, he found out some other evidence of the crime, and then made the justice and punishment clear.

If Sun Jing hadn't done his best on the surface and had never tried it personally, I'm afraid that Guan Yu would have made all Sun Jing an excuse to kill him.

Sun Jing squeezed a cold sweat: "Guan Yu! This is shameless. He hated the entire Yan Xiao power of Jie Liang. He wanted to uproot us! Forget it, he had to secretly cooperate with Baibo thieves. Taking advantage of Guan Yu's trip to visit, his troops were still in Anyi, so we still have a chance. I heard that he has thousands of cavalry. If he transfers the army, we will never have a chance to get out of the thief."

He immediately secretly sent his messenger to Linfen to contact Bai Bojun.

...

In Jieliang County, Guan Yu returned to the inn after the banquet and made a list of people who went to the city and even the village in the south of the city to visit his friends' old age, and brought them back to the inn to entertain the past with wine and meat.

Zhao Yun also attended the banquet today. He was more careful and worried when he saw this: "Brother Yun, I see that local military officers are mostly colluding with Yan Xiao, and they are not pure and good people. Brother pressing forward step by step, aren't they afraid that they will be anxious?

I asked me to tell you that my lord had given me the order, and I was just staying in Hedong for a few months, so why bother such a big deal? It’s time for me to go back to Anyi overnight and send troops to reinforce me, right?”

Guan Yu drank and twisted his beard: "Zilong thought that my more than 20 cavalry would not be able to fight against Sun Jing's confidant in the city? I knew that those salt ox-tycoons bullied men and women, and they had long hated them, but they were a little covered in official skins, so I couldn't do it rashly. This was to show the enemy as a lie, and wait for him to take action!

However, it’s better if you want to mobilize troops. After you leave the city, I will make a noise and say that you will lead the troops back in two days. In this way, there will be less time left for Sun Jing. If he doesn’t take action, I can force him to take action."

Zhao Yun sighed: "For personal grudges, why should you take risks like this?"

Guan Yu was proud and confident: "You are wrong - I am the chief lieutenant, he is the county lieutenant. If you really fight, it's not that I rely on more than twenty cavalry and have hundreds of enemies, but as long as I kill Sun Jing, the rest of the township heroes will naturally surrender."

This is not a battle between the two armies, but Shangguan suppressed the rebellion and killed the rebellious subordinates, ordinary soldiers would not go all the way to the black.

Zhao Yun followed this idea and then felt relieved. He was still very confident about Guan Yu's ability to attack and kill the generals.

"Since that's the case, I will ride back to Anyi alone and come to pick me up within two days."

Guan Yu and Zhao Yun were exactly what they expected. That night after Zhao Yun left, Sun Jing immediately couldn't sit still when he heard about Zhao Yun going back to bring reinforcements.

"Forget it, I can only eliminate Guan Yu first and then defend the Jieliang County. Zhao Yun's cavalry cannot attack the city. As long as I defend it for a day or two, Guo Qu's reinforcements will arrive at Jieliang from the water."

In order to save the great profits of the Salt Lake, Sun Jing gathered all the money at hand, including four or five hundred people, and sent all the servants and long-term workers with hoes and his own tenant farmers. In the middle of the night, he personally surrounded the inn where Guan Yu lived with these people.
Chapter completed!