Chapter 21: Taking risks(2/2)
"Those water pirates usually camp in water moors. If we don't bring a canoe now, we will definitely not be able to defeat them.
Moreover, these water bandits are originally a scattered group. If we don't annihilate them while they gather in one place, it will be difficult to deal with them in the future.
But now, at the right moment, the rat behind him was scurrying away in a hurry, and the one who stayed in the nest was about to respond.
We can be simple and brave, carry out a night attack with weapons, go under the water stronghold, catch them by surprise, and capture and kill them in the blink of an eye."
Li Dian's suggestion is actually to advance quickly and fight quickly, so as to kill the thieves like them by surprise.
But the danger lies in taking too many risks. After all, if you want a surprise attack, you have to abandon your baggage and travel light.
But if it fails, it will be dangerous to attack the enemy's stronghold.
There is no food and the situation is unstable. If you want to withdraw when the time comes, it depends on whether the water bandits agree or not.
Under normal circumstances, Li Qian didn't need to take risks, just because he was strong and the water pirates were weak.
But Li Qian was thinking about another person, Zhang Chong, the prefect of this county.
This gentleman is from Henan County and is quite capable of winning the hearts of scholars.
Four years ago, when he first took office as the prefect, he met with local wealthy people to build a monument to Emperor Yao.
The stele describes the local customs and features, and records local moral figures. It immediately won the support of wealthy and powerful families.
In addition, Zhang Chong had a teacher-student relationship with Zhang Xun, a scholar from Dingtao in this county.
And Zhang Xun was also in the same party as Cai Yong, a great scholar in China.
They are both township party members and colleagues, and have very close ties in the political arena.
Zhang Xun is from Jiyin Dingtao, and Cai Yong is from Chenliuyu County. They both belong to Yanzhou, and they are not far apart. They have been in contact with each other since they were in their hometowns.
Later, both of them were appointed by Sangong and became Yilang. It can be said that they were close to each other.
Therefore, they did a big thing four years ago and revised the "Six Classics" outside the Imperial College.
They thought that the Six Classics were very old and contained many errors, so they wanted this version to be the original version of the world. They even left it publicly outside the Imperial Academy, allowing everyone to copy and make rubbings.
This behavior greatly offended the Confucian family. If Cai Yong hadn't been the nephew of the Yuan family, he might have lost his official position at that time.
But two years ago, Cai Yong offended someone he shouldn't have offended. He actually sealed the country and criticized the eunuchs and his ministers for their many illegal acts.
But how could such a secret message be concealed from the eunuchs who lived with the country day and night.
When they found out, they immediately framed Cai Yong and his uncle Cai Zhi for slandering Liu He, the then great king.
This is actually a reason.
Because although Liu He had enmity with Cai Yong, he had an even greater enmity with the eunuchs.
At that time, his brother, together with General Dou Wu and Taiwei Chen Fan, wanted to kill Cao Jie and other eunuchs, but failed and were killed by the eunuchs.
How could Liu He, who had the hatred of killing his brother, be the sword in the hands of these eunuchs?
But it was useless. Even if the government and the opposition begged for mercy, Cai Yong confessed himself.
In the end, he was sentenced to death and exiled to Shuofang with his family, and his uncle Cai Zhi died directly.
This was enough at first, but something happened again about the great craftsman Yang Qiu hiring a murderer to kill someone.
Now Liu Gong couldn't clean himself up at all.
It turns out that Yang Qiu is not only a native of Liu Gong, but also a member of his shogunate. He can be said to be one of our own people.
But Li Qian knew that this matter had nothing to do with Liu Gong.
Yang Qiu himself was a cruel official, and he had been convicted several times before for severe torture and indiscriminate killing.
If the country hadn't really seen him as capable and pardoned him several times, he would have been punished long ago.
But he never changed at all. This time because the leader Liu Gong was humiliated, he directly hired an assassin to assassinate Cai Yong.
If the assassin hadn't thought this was unreliable and gave up on his own initiative, Yang Qiu would have died.
But why does Lala Zaza think so much?
The reason is very simple. It turns out that Dahonglu and Liu He were the previous governor of Jiyin County and Li Qian's backer.
He, Li Qian, had been actively moving closer to Liu He before. Therefore, he came up with the idea of getting rid of the Ju Ye Ze water bandits.
But the current governor of Jiyin is Zhang Chong, and his teacher is a close friend of Cai Yong, who is also a mortal enemy of Liu He.
In other words, Zhang Chong had a grudge against Liu He, and the Li family had a relationship with Liu He, so he naturally became a thorn in the side of the prefect Zhang Chong.
Now that he did not inform the county magistrate, the prefect led his troops to cross the county to hunt for the thieves, which was a big taboo.
Because Luweize is near Chengyang County, if you want to suppress the bandits, you will definitely have to cross the county.
If the suppression of bandits is delayed for a long time, Zhang Chong will definitely receive orders, ranging from punishment to imprisonment.
But he was not willing to give up like that. His brother's death could not be in vain.
Chapter completed!